Summer

Hello everybody

This last Summer it was quite event full. It was consisted with a lot ups and downs as well. The down have been very hard and made me question a lot lot lot things , where is God when it hurts?Why is this things happens to me? I think I have learned to handle stress better these past few months than I have before.

First of all, I got gallbladder surgery in January ..That was good , because I know now it was not ulcer . I have did self medication , Why didn`t work this medicine? I have took ?of course It was not ulcer. In other hand I miss my English test for Graphic Designer .

Then ,after one month, I travelled to Japan for " holidays " for 2 weeks .It was fun and good. But I received bad news fm my home in Brz, my father pass away. and I didn`t know how to cope ...the weather in Brz was terrible hot and my family want to bury him in 12 hs. My mom told me It was not necessary to rush. She understood my situation and when I get time I will see his grave when I came back to Brz for my sister's wedding.For Asian, it is not good you not going to see your old folks when they died. They will judge you and blame you.

The good thing is my family totaly understand ..my absence.

Living far has your consequences.

After ... I am running a patchwork lessons at Scarborough Baptist Church, I have to prepare lessons...and I have to go Bible College,studing New Testament and I have assignments to do and I have to do my usual housewife routine.( daughter, husband,house, supermaket, shops, dentist, optomestrist...)

I am so depressed because a lot bad things happened in a small lack of time . I don`t know until now. How I could survive? I feel guilt over sins because I understand I am not perfect and I have my limits.

" We all have shadows and skeletons in our backgrounds. But listen, there is something bigger in this world than we are and that something bigger is full of grace and mercy, patience and ingenuity. The moment the focus of your life shifts from your badness to his goodness and the questions becomes not "What have I done?" but "What we can do?" release from remorse can happen; miracles of miracles, you can forgive yourself because you are forgiven, accept yourself because you are accepted , and begin to start building up the every places you once tore down. There is grace to help in every time trouble. That grace is the secret to being able to forgive ourselves. Trust it " The Ragamuffin Gospel pg 117 Brennan Mannnig

and I love it , and I feel better ...the "Grace" is my secret to heal myself

GBU

Maru

Today`s Sunday Service Message

" The Father's love is revealed in the Son`s"

GBU

Culture

Hello everybody



This year is driving me crazy and sad. Last year it was so fast and I have a lot things to do . I still learning English but now at Bible College and I chose other way to improve my English and I still settling down. It is complicated when your background is from Brazil ( Latino) and your face looks like Asian and I have lived almost 5 years in Japan and now I live in Oz ( Australia) . Sometimes, I don't know how to act. Asian or Western way? Which identity I will settle?But I am happy being a citizen of heaven.



In Japan , they don`t kiss each other.. they don`t hug each other ..they don`t show emotions. They are always preocupied about outside and they always nodded or bow down their heads.But, I love kiss ...specially the children and grandmas. I remembered when I kiss a old Japanese lady's cheek. She was freaking out and She was paralysed. Then I started not touch people too much.



In Brz we not kiss one time, but three time and it is not enough, we have to hug and sometimes shake our hands firmly and we always say to each other ...."Oh it is lovely to see you!" and for any age, could be young, teenagers, old people....



In Oz I always confused =P I don`t know wich one is right or wrong? In here we have so many cultures...Like I know we never give the left hand to compliment Arab people .This is not polite to them.

Today at Sunday service, I didn't kiss or hug someone. Sometimes, I shaked the hands and I could tell I kiss only three person and I hug them very firmly ( all elderly and lovely ladies).

I fell so good when I got the feed back.



GBU

Did you know?

Funny things I didn't know

• The onion is named after a Latin word meaning large pearl.


• Approximately one billion snails are served in restaurants annually.


• Botanically speaking, the banana is a herb and the tomato is a fruit.


• The world's oldest existing eatery opened in Kai-Feng, China in 1153.


• The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910.


• Chop-suey does not come from China. It was created by Chinese immigrants in California


• The word "Checkmate" in chess comes from the Persian phrase "Shah Mat", which means "the king is dead".


• There are more than 600 million telephone lines today, yet almost half the world's population has never made a phone call.


• The dollar symbol ($) is a U combined with an S (U.S.)


• The white part of your fingernail is called the lunula


• Emus cannot walk backwards


• Pinocchio is Italian for "pine head."


• There are six five words in the English language with the letter combination "uu." Muumuu, vacuum, continuum, duumvirate and duumvir, residuum.


• The pupil of an octopus' eye is rectangular.


• An animal epidemic is called an epizootic.


• Other than humans, black lemurs are the only primates that may have blue eyes.


• The two longest one-syllable words in the English language are "screeched" and "strengths."


• A Chinese checkerboard has 121 holes.


• Giraffes have no vocal cords.


• All porcupines float in water.


• In Chinese, the words for crisis and opportunity are the same.


• The smallest mushroom's name is "Hop-low."


• The poisonous copperhead smells likefresh cut cucumbers.


• Anne Boleyn had six fingernails on one hand.


• Bananas do not grow on trees, but on rhizomes.


• Cat's urine glows under a blacklight.


• Vincent Van Gogh comitted suicide while painting Wheat Field with Crows.


• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.


• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.


• QANTAS, the name of the Australian national airline, is a (former) acronym, for Queensland And Northern
  Territories Air Service.


• Almonds are members of the peach family.


• A bear has 42 teeth.


• The original story from Tales of 1001 Arabian Nights begins, "Aladdin was a little Chinese boy."


• Other than fruit, honey is the only natural food that is made without destroying any kind of life! What about milk, you say? A cow has to eat grass to produce milk and grass is living!


• Xmas" does not begin with the Roman letter X. It begins with the Greek letter "chi," which was used in medieval manuscripts as an abbreviation for the word "Christ" (xus = christus, etc.)


• "Hara kiri" is an impolite way of saying the Japanese word "seppuku" which means, literally, "belly splitting."


• The term the "Boogey Man will get you" comes from the Boogey people,who still inhabit an area of Indonesia. These people still act as pirates today and attack ships that pass. Thus the term spread "if you don't watch out the Boogey man will get you."


• At McDonalds in New Zealand, they serve apricot pies instead of cherry ones.
  The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."


• Chicago is closer to Moscow than to Rio de Janeiro.


• Original copy of the Declaration of Independence is lost. The copy in Washington D.C. is what is referred to as a holograph. That is a term for a handmade copy of a document and is not the same as a laser produced hologram.


• Singapore is the only country with one train station.


• There are only four words in the English language which end in "-dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


• Mickey Mouse is known as "Topolino" in Italy.


• A cat has 32 muscles in each ear


• An ostrich's eye is bigger than it's brain.


• The oldest word in the English language is "town"


• The sea wasp is half an inch long at best and more poisonous than any other jellyfish known to man.


• Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.


• Cinderella's slippers were originally made out of fur. The story was changed in the 1600s by a translator.


• It was the left shoe that Aschenputtel (Cinderella) lost at the stairway, when the prince tried to follow her.


• Cinderella is known as Tuhkimo in Finland.


• There is a word in the English language with only one vowel, which occurs six times: Indivisibility.


• Japan is the third most densely populated country in the world. First is the Netherlands, followed by Belgium


• The "D" in D-day means "Day". The French term for "D-Day" is "J-jour".


• Female orcas live twice as long as male orcas. The larger numbers of female orcas in a pod are because of the female's longer lifespan, not because the males have collected a harem.


• Most spiders belong to the orb weaver spider family, Family Aranidae. This is pronounced "A Rainy Day."


• Avocado is derived from the Spanish word 'aguacate' which is derived from 'ahuacatl' meaning testicle.


• The second longest word in the English language is "antidisestablishmenterianism".


• Native speakers of Japanese learn Spanish much more easily than they learn English.


• Native speakers of English learn Spanish much more easily than they learn Japanese


• New Zealand kiwis lay the largest eggs with respect to their body size of any bird.


• Cockroaches' favorite food is the glue on envelopes and on the back of postage stamps


• Dr. Seuss pronounced "Seuss" such that it rhymed with "rejoice."


• Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.


• The term "Mayday" used for signaling for help (after SOS), it comes from the French term "M'aidez" which is pronounced "MayDay" and means, "Help Me"


• Grapes explode when you put them in the microwave.


• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.


• In Casablanca, Humphrey Bogart never said "Play it again, Sam."


• Sherlock Holmes never said "Elementary, my dear Watson."


• Captain Kirk never said "Beam me up, Scotty," but he did say, "Beam me up, Mr. Scott".


• Duelling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are registered blood donors.


• The most sensitive finger is the forefinger.


• Mr. Spock's (of Star Trek) blood type was T-Negative


• A dragonfly has a lifespan of 24 hours.


• A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.


• Venetian blinds were invented in Japan.


• Rabbits love licorice.


• Panama hats come from Ecuador not Panama.


• Seoul, the South Korean capital, just means "the capital" in the Korean language.


• Elvis had a twin brother named Jesse Garon, who died at birth, which is why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother


• Horses cannot vomit.


• Rabbits cannot vomit.


• Dalmatian dogs are born pure white, they don't start getting spots until they are three or four days old.


• Marijuana is Spanish for 'Mary Jane.'


• The Australian $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 notes are made out of plastic.


• Virgina Woolf wrote all her books standing.


• Coca-Cola was originally green.


• Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury.


• Hawaiian alphabet has 12 letters.


• Men can read smaller print than women; women can hear better.


• There are only 12 letters in the Hawaiian alphabet.

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George

Hello everybody

When you become a mum, one of the exciting thing is your child start talking their first words. Sometimes father and mother expect the first word is dad or mum.
I used to work in a company where we have a co-worker called George. He was our handyman. Everything I need it . I called him.

- George , could you check the inventory?
- George, could you fix the back door? it is stuck.
- George , could you buy my lunch at hungry's jack?
-George, could you go to bank and discount this payment?
-George...George..George...George ...

So everything my daughter need it ..small to big things...She was hungry or need to change her nappies she called = george..george..george..

It was frustrating but very cute and funny and everyone laughed and we got good memories.
GBU

My little trip

Hello everybody

I have been away for last three weeks .I have already came back from Japan . It was a good to spend time with my friends. It was a pleasant time, specially I was with my little daughter.

My hubby couldn't come with us . I was upset and I missed him.

I visited my old neighbourhood and my daughter visited her ex- classmates. Everything looks the same except for some new buildings and some shops were closed I think it was because the economic crises has hitten hard Japan. Some of my friends lost their jobs.

In Japan all Cedar trees started the polinization. They call "cafuncho" . It is a kind polen allergy.

So, I got polen allergy. My eyes started to itch and my nose was running non stop.

And the strange thing it was the weather ...It is spring but 5 times it was snowing. It was fantastic to watch in front your window the flock of snow coming very slowly and melted in your warm hand. In cold weather the japanese people like hidden inside kotatsu table.

I liked been inside a "kotatsu table" It is a electrical heater table and it have a blanquent around it. I got warm and relax.

My favourite time it was walking while it was snowing when I lived I did a lot walking when I was in Japan . It is amazing how the landscape change through out the year.

I had a good time but it was good come back Australia . My promise land