Story of Alimeowmeow 4 Merry xmas

我和女兒 構思了一個新遊戲,就是故事創作。
玩法非常簡單, 就是每人輪流說一句說話, 由於不知道對方會說什麼 ，所以往往故事情節峰迴路轉，意想不到。 我們兩個也很享受故事創作的過程， 以下便是今天我們一起創作的故事。


Story by

M: Mum😺     S: Sushiball 😃  G: 飯團貓🐈

S: "Boom!" outside there was a bang of thunder. Alimeowmeow jumped and hid behind his toothpick.
M: "It is Christmas Eve! Too bad there is thunderstorm! Will Santa Claus deliver Christmas gifts to children tonight?" thought Alimeowmeow.
S: "When Santa Claus comes, he will be wet and cold, " he thought. "I guess there are no umbrellas in North Pole. I should give him something warm and snuggly. " he thought of giving Santa Claus his toothpick, but it was his trusty weapon.
G: So Alimeowmeow decided to bake a batch of cookies for Santa. However, due to his lack of experience in using an oven, he accidentally set the kitchen on fire.
M: "Help! Someone please help me! My ice cream is melting! " shouted Alimeowmeow.
S: "Ho ho ho ho!" Alimeowmeow looked up and saw Santa Claus. He put out the fire with a big red bag. But it also gave Alimeowmeow a bubble bath. "Big fat oops! I thought it was water, " wailed the careless Santa Claus.
G: Alimeowmeow was very pissed at Santa. He thought Santa was supposed to be smart and all-knowing, instead of this careless idiot who was standing right in front of him.
M: "Where is my Christmas Gift?" asked Alimeowmeow. He was so excited and impatient that he fetched Santa's big red bag!
S: "Kaboom!" the bag exploded! IT WAS ALL BIG BAGS OF BUBBLE BATH!
G: This is a scam, Alimeowmeow thought to himself, as he glared intensely at Santa. This kid is so rude, Santa thought to himself as he glared intensely back at Alimeowmeow
M: The atmosphere was very tense. The world seemed to have stopped!
S: Suddenly, they realized everyone from the village had come to Alimeowmeow's home. They were all having free bubble bath!
G: Alimeowmeow was super annoyed. This was the worst Christmas ever! Just as he was drowning in despair, somebody came over.
M: 'Excuse me, did you see someone dress like Santa Claus around? He escaped from the asylum and we need to take him back as he is very dangerous!', said the police.
S: Everyone stared at Santa Claus. He yelled in fright and the policeman chased him back to the asylum.
G: Suddenly, the policeman staggered and fell down onto the floor as if hit by an invisible force. WAHAHAHAHAHA! Santa cackled loudly while holding a long whip in his hands. "Enjoy your Christmas!" he roared as he hopped onto a disgruntled Rudolph and took off into the night sky.
M: Suddenly, there was bright light shooting across the sky. It was a meteorite, hitting Santa and he and his Rudolph was shot down into the Pacific ocean.
S: Then it rained again, washing Alimeowmeow's tank clean. Everyone ran away because it was cold to stand in the open without a bubble bath (or any clothes! 😏)
G: Then, the real Santa came along. He looked in disbelief at the naked people running back towards their houses.
M: Santa thought it might be the custom of the village to be naked. It would be very rude to wear clothes. So, he took off all his clothes except his red Santa hat.
S: Alimeowmeow was very frustrated. This was the worst Christmas ever!
G: Was this another fake Santa? Why was he naked again? Suddenly, a Santa with clothes came charging towards the naked Santa. The naked villagers watched in awe as the 2 Santas started fighting while claiming that the other Santa was a hoax.
S: Alimeowmeow was no longer angry. He thought, "Let me go get some popcorn," and fetched it from his tank. The villagers cheered as Alimeowmeow threw the popcorn into the crowd. They all sat gobbling up the food while watching the Santas fight.


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Story of Alimeowmeow #3

我和女兒 構思了一個新遊戲,就是故事創作。
玩法非常簡單, 就是每人輪流說一句說話, 由於不知道對方會說什麼 ，所以往往故事情節峰迴路轉，意想不到。 我們兩個也很享受故事創作的過程， 以下便是今天我們一起創作的故事。


Story by Sushiball & Mum

M: Mum😺     S: Sushiball 😃

M: “BANG! BANG! BANG!” Alimeowmeow heard some big sound from upstairs.

S: He was very scared. 😰

M: He wondered what happened, and he stuck his head into his shell to protect himself.

S: Suddenly, there was another loud “BANG” and Alimeowmeow nearly jumped a mile.

M: “Mami said I should be brave as a boy! I should not hide inside my turtle shell!” murmured Alimeowmeow.

S: He held up a toothpick as a weapon and crept upstairs as slow as he could.

M: He met Meowy on the way upstairs and he invited Meowy to join the adventure.

S: When they were nearly at the top of the staircase, Alimeowmeow saw Ice Bear. He invited him to join the duo and Ice Bear brought an ice cream cone to ‘attack’ the intruder.

M: They arrived at the doorstep and they were discussing whether to bump in or press the doorbell.

S: While they were bickering and pushing about, Alimeowmeow bumped into Meowy who bumped into Ice Bear who bumped into his ice cream cone which bumped into the doorbell. “RRRING!” Uh-oh.

M: Silence…… You could even hear the sound of a needle dropping on the floor as the gang was panicking and wondering what to do next. Run away? Or attack?

S: “I want my mami!” Alimeowmeow wailed, and started  crying and hollering at the top of his lungs. That was as good as marching into the room deliberately and alerting the intruder.

M: Suddenly, they heard slippers coming close to the door……

S: Ice Bear hid behind his ice cream cone which hid behind Meowy who hid behind Alimeowmeow who hid behind his toothpick. Suddenly, Meowy’s eyes widened and she yelled, “WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY PET COCKROACH?”
M: It was Meowlody who opened the door, wearing his favourite blue slippers. He just murdered COCKY using his slippers!

S: “Intruder!” said Alimeowmeow, who had pulled out a handkerchief as a blindfold because he was so scared. He prodded Meowlody with his toothpick (not to mention it broke in the process) and Ice Bear jammed his ice cream cone at Meowlody. Ice cream dribbled all over his chin and he said, “Mmm! Delicious!”

M: Meowlody was delighted to see so many visitors, and he greeted them with a big feast. He put strawberry on Alimeowmeow’s broken toothpick, and gave Ice Bear an ice cream ball on his cone. He gave Meowy a fresh fish.

S: (He also gave Meowy her dead but beloved cockroach to bury, which made her scream.)
M: Alimeowmeow learnt a lesson. “BANG BANG is like the bell for big feast invitation! Yummy!” BUUUURRP!

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Story of Ali-meowmeow #2

我和女兒 構思了一個新遊戲,就是故事創作。
玩法非常簡單, 就是每人輪流說一句說話, 由於不知道對方會說什麼 ，所以往往故事情節峰迴路轉，意想不到。 我們兩個也很享受故事創作的過程， 以下便是今天我們一起創作的故事。
M 代表媽媽
S 代表 Sushiball


M: Once upon a time, in an old village far far away from the city, there was no electricity.

S: The villagers used their farts to power their homes.

M: They thought it was very environmental friendly as that was natural gas!

S: Unfortunately, the ‘natural gas’ stunk half of them to death.

M: One day, the cleverest villager Alimeowmeow had a fantastic idea to resolve this problem.

S: He suggested they eat tastier food so that their farts would not be so smelly. He thought it was a marvelous idea and he was so clever.

M: So, everyone ate what they thought as TASTY FOOD. For Alimeowmeow, he ate porky sticks.

S: The villagers became very fat. Even worse, they started farting even SMELLIER farts.

M: The villagers needed to wear oxygen masks any time any where to protect themselves from death!

S: They were very angry with Alimeowmeow. Because of his ‘fantastic’, ‘marvellous’, and ‘clever’ idea, they were suffering from asthma and serious obesity.

M: The villagers went to seek help from Meowy God by visiting the Meowy temple.

S: Meowy God was delighted that they were so desperate to solve this problem. She said, ‘If you give me lots of fish, I will help you solve your problem.’

M: The villagers thought that Meowy God was not kind and too greedy. So, they decided to destroy the temple.

S: Meowy God was very very angry. She cursed them to be forever haunted by terrible smells and punished the villagers by making stupid Alimeowmeow the leader of the village.

M: Milo God felt sorry for the villagers but she could not change the curse. So, she made another spell to remove noses from all villagers so that they would never suffer from the stinky smell. How clever and kind she was!!!

S: At first, the villagers were grateful to Milo God’s enchantment. But later, they found out that they could not smell ANYTHING. They would rather have Milo God to leave them alone and return their noses.

M: Milo God was upset about the villagers’ feedback. However, she was kind and she made another spell by making 2 tiny nostrils on the original nose position to let them smell.

S: The villagers did not know how to feel about Milo God’s response to their feedback. However, one person was very happy – and it was Alimeowmeow. Because he had had 2 tiny nostrils at the beginning, it made no difference!

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香港是否理想家園辯論題目講稿

得閒做乜好？

得閒做乜好？

戶內：

1. 拉筋
2. 造蛋糕甜品
3. 下廚
4. 打掃清潔
5. 洗熨衣服
6. 看書
7. 拉小提琴
8. 聽歌 (Download Apps Spotify for free)
9. 看電影/ Cartoon
• 我為貓狂 (What's Michael)
• 楓林網（電視劇）
• 電影搜尋綱
• 電影線上看
• Gimy 劇迷
10. 聽網上節目
• 自在Coach
• 深靈對話
• Club O 講座重溫
• Club O 過往活動錄音
• 花冧‧阿凡‧達人
• 聽花冧《原名: 新節目》
• 源網台
• 新城電台-健康生活
11. 看網上節目
• 香港電台網站: 重溫 - 鏗鏘集 
• 香港電台網站: 重溫 - 零距離科學
• 香港電台網站: 重溫 - 時代的記錄 - 鏗鏘說
• Talk Soul講乜靈嘢
12. 寫blog (正面感恩）
13. 寫信給自己（過去，未來，現在）
14. 寫信給其他人
15. 種芽菜
16. 釀水克菲爾
17. 小睡片刻
18. 打機
19. 電腦下棋
20. 清理電話舊相片

戶外：

1. 散步
2. 日光浴
3. 緩步跑
4. 行山
5. 去 圖書館（天水圍，元朗）
6. 彈琴
7. 逛街
8. 做義工（自在社,綠野林，club O)

靈性：

1. 氣功
2. 泛音
3. 誦砵
4. 音叉
5. 為自己或他人手療
6. 打坐冥想
7. 身體掃描
8. 靜觀
9. 零極限

藝術：

1. 衍紙藝術
2. 填色藝術
3. 鈎織勁巾，公仔
4. 縫製衣服，小飾物
5. 紙黏土藝術
6. Zentangle 禪繞
7. 加工照片

其他：
網上資訊，新聞
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How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (by Dale Carnegie)

*** Seven Ways to Peace and Happiness ***

1.Find Yourself and Be Yourself: Remember, there is no one else on earth like you.

• Let's not imitate others. Let's find ourselves and be ourselves.

2. Four Good Working Habits that will help prevent fatigue and worry.

• Clear your desk of all papers except those relating to the immediate problem at hand.
• Do things in the order of their importance
• When you face a problem, solve it then and there if you have the facts necessary to make a decision. Don't keep putting off decisions.
• Learn to organize, deputize, and supervise.

3. What makes you tired - and what you can do about it

• Psychiatrists delcare that most of our fatigue derives from our mental and emotional attitudes.
• Relax in odd moments. Let your body go limp like an old sock.
• Work, as much as possible, in a comfortable position. Remember that tensions on the body produce aching shoulders and nervous fatigue.

4. How to Banish the boredom that produces fatigue, worry, and resentment.

• Give yourself a pep talk every day. "Our life is what our thoughts make it!"
• By talking to yourself about the things you have to be grateful for, you can fill your mind with thoughts that soar and sign.

5. Would you take a million dollars for what you have?

• count your blessings - not your troubles!

6. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog

• Remember that unjust criticism is often a disguised compliment. Remember that no one ever kicks a dead dog.

7. Do this - and criticism cant' hurt you

• When you and I are unjustly criticized, let's remember to:
• Do the very best you can; and then put up your old umbrella and keep the rain of criticism from running down the back of your neck.

Good Quotes:

1)Douglas Malloch:

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill,

Be a scrub in the valley - but be

The best little scrub by the side of the rill;

Be a bush, if you can't be a tree.

If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass,

And some highway happier make;

If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass -

But the liveliest bass in the lake!

We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew,

There's something for all of us here.

There's big work to do and there's lesser to do

And the task we must do is the near.

If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,

If you can't be the sun, be a star;

If isn't by size that you win or you fail -

Be the best of whatever you are!

I hand the blues because I had no shoes, 

Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

2) Lincoln (about criticism:

"If I were to try to read, much less to answer all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing was right would make no difference." 

How to Win Friends & Influence People

How to Win Friends & Influence People
by Dale Carnegie

Key Summary and Quotes extracted from the book for reference:

(A) Fundamental Techniques in Handling People
Principle 1: Don't critcize, condemn or complain.
Principle 2: Give honest and sincere appreciation
Principle 3: Arouse in the other person an eager want.

(B) Six Ways to Make People Like You
Principle 1: Become genuinely interested in other people.
Principle 2: Simile
Principle 3: Remember that a person's name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language.
Principle 4: Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves.
Principle 5: Talk in terms of the other person's interests.
Principle 6: Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely.

(C) Win People to the Way of Your Thinking
Principle 1: The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.
Principle 2: Show respect for the other person's opinions. Never say, "You're wrong."
Principle 3: If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically.
Principle 4: Begin in a friendly way.
Principle 5: Get the other person saying "yes, yes" immediately.
Principle 6: Let the other person do a great deal of the talking.
Principle 7: Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers.
Principle 8:  Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view.
Principle 9: Be sympathetic with the other person's ideas and desires.
Principle 10: Appeal to the nobler motives.
Principle 11: Dramatize your ideas.
Principle 12: Throw down a challenge.

(D) Be a Leader
A leader's job often includes changing your people's attitudes and behavior. Some suggestions to accomplish this:
Principle 1: Begin with praise and honest appreciation.
Principle 2: Call attention to people's mistakes indirectly.
Principle 3: Talk about your own mistakes before criticizing the other person.
Principle 4: Ask questions instead of giving direct orders.
Principle 5: Let the other person save face.
Principle 6: Praise the slightest improvement and praise every improvement. Be "hearty in your approbation and lavish in your praise."
Principle 7: Give the other person a fine reputation to live up to.
Principle 8: Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
Principle 9: Make the other person happy about doing the thing you suggest.

(E) Seven Rules for Making Your Home Life Happier
Rule 1: Don't nag.
Rule 2: Don't try to make your partner over.
Rule 3: Don't criticize.
Rule 4: Give honest appreciation.
Rule 5: Pay little attentions.
Rule 6: Be courteous.



Good Quotes from the book:
(1) Ben Franklin : If you agree and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.
(2) Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite.
(3) Antoine de Saint-Expuery: I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he things of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
(4) Trivialities not love is going hurts my days. But that it went in little ways.
(5) Opera tenor Jan Peerce, after he was married nearly fifty years, once said: "My wife and I made a pact a long time ago, and we've kept it no matter how angry we've grown with each other. When one yells, the other should listen - because when two people yell, there is no communication, just noise and bad vibrations."
(6) From article "Bits and Pieces", published by the Economics Press Fairfield, N.J.:

• Welcome the disagreement. Remember the slogan, "When two partners alwaysa agree, one of them is not necessary." If there is some point you haven't thought about, be thankful if it is brought to your attention. Perhaps this disagreement is your opportunity to be corrected before you make a serious mistake. 
• Distrust your first instinctive impression. Our first natural reaction in a disagreement situation is to be defensive. Be careful. Keep calm and watch out for your first reaction. It may be you at your worst, not your best.
• Control your temper. Remember, you can measure the size of a person by what makes him or her angry.
• Listen first. Give your opponents a chance to talk. Let them finish. Do not resist, defend or debate. This only raises barriers. Try to build bridges of understanding. Don't build higher barriers of misunderstanding.
• Look for areas of agreement. When you have heard your opponents out, dwell first on the points and areas on which you agree.
• Be honest, Look for areas where you can admit error and say so. Apologize for your mistakes. It will help disarm your opponents and reduce defensiveness.
• Promise to think over your opponents' ideas and study them carefully. And mean it. Your opponents may be right. It is a lot easier at the stage to agree to think about their points than to move rapidly ahead and find yourself in a position where your opponents can say: "We tried to tell you, but you wouldn't listen."
• Thank your opponents sincerely for their interest. Anyone who takes the time to disagree with you is interested in the same things you are. Think of them as people who really want to help you, and you may turn your opponents into friends.
• Postpone action to give both sides time to think through the problem. Sugest that a new meeting be held later that day or the next day, when all the facts may be brought to bear. In preparation for this meeting, ask yourself some hard questions:
• Could my opponents be right? Pratly right?
• Is there truth or merit in their position or argument?
• Is my reaction one that will relieve the problem, or will it just relieve any frustration?
• Will my reaction drive my opponents further away or draw them close to me?
• Will my reaction elevate the estimation good people have of me?
• Will I win or lose?
• What price will I have to pay if I win?
• If I am quite about it, will the disagreement blow over?
• Is this difficult situation an opportunity for me?

(7) "Father Forgets", by W. Livingston Larned

偉大的科學家閱讀報告比賽亞軍

小學偉大的科學家閱讀報告比賽亞軍

The Quest

 One day, Tom’s uncle asked him to meet him secretly in the study. There, Tom’s uncle told him he wanted Tom to find a dragon’s egg.
 Tom nearly jumped out of his skin. “A dragon’s egg?”
His uncle nodded solemnly. “Yes. Some unqualified biologists named Keepers — led by a very clever man named Marius — want to steal this egg to win themselves money and fame. We must preserve it and keep it safe.”

 “There’s a cave in the center of the valley,” Tom’s uncle told him. “The egg’s inside.”
He handed him a map. “It is a very long way,” he warned. “Beware.”
He held Tom’s hand for a brief moment, then he looked away.
Tom put the map in his rucksack and left the laboratory. From there, he took a train which led straight to the mountains. When he arrived, it was already dark, and he rented an inn to stay for the night.
Three men were staying in the room opposite Tom’s. As Tom got ready for bed, he heard one of them say outside, “Do you reckon William sent him? Marius won’t be pleased.”
Tom straightened - William was his uncle’s name.
  “Nah, he can’t have. Hurry up, Jordan - we’re going to the valley straightaway tomorrow.”
As Tom lay down in his bed, his heart hammered in his chest.
 The Keepers! They were here!

Tom woke up early and went all the way to the valley. The Keepers appeared not to have arrived yet, and relief washed over Tom’s face.
The valley was dry and rugged, with rocks scattered over it. Tom walked on.
“Ow!”
He tripped and twisted his ankle badly.
“Rats,” he grumbled.
Tom limped towards the valley’s center. A small cave came into view, and he launched himself inside. A huge dragon’s egg was shining in the middle.
Suddenly, as Tom’s fingers brushed the egg, a loud voice sounded. “Rowle! It’s up here!”
Rowle came up. “Royal?”
“I’ve found the cave, come up here now! JORDAN!” Royal bellowed.
The three men entered the cave. Tom’s injured leg lagged behind him as he thrust himself up to a tree stump, his arms hugging the dragon’s egg — he felt a feeling of despair — he would never reach the stump in time —
“GET THAT BOY!” Royal howled.
Both Jordan and Rowle lunged at once. Tom stumbled and ran as fast as he could out of the cave.
  “STOP RIGHT THERE!”
 Tom’s shoulders sagged in relief.
  “Don’t move,” his uncle emerged. “I’m calling the police.”

“My nephew’s a witness,” William said later to the police. “You can get Marius for questioning - and these here.”
“Very good,” the policeman nodded. “We’ll arrest them.”
As he handcuffed the three and left, William put his hand on Tom’s shoulder.
“I’m quite proud of you,” he said gruffly. “You managed to get the egg back before the Keepers - and outsmart them in time. Good job, Tom.”

一天醒來，我發現我的眼睛看不見了

《一天醒來，我發現我的眼睛看不見了》

「叮叮噹……」 我的鬧鐘響的時候，我馬上睜開眼睛。 我嚇了一跳 - 為什麼什麼都看不見呢？ 我不知所措，只能靠摸索走出睡房。突然，我聽到姐姐說：「為什麼突然撞過來呀，你沒長眼睛嗎？」 我很尷尬，只好說：「我什麼都看不見呀！」 姐姐很不耐煩地回答：「我沒有時間跟你玩遊戲，你今天還要練習鋼琴，難道你忘記了嗎？」

我心想：究竟發生了什麼事， 令我突然變成了個瞎子呢？我好不容易梳洗完，再到飯桌吃早餐。 但是，我非常頭痛。應該怎樣練習鋼琴呢？ 我連鍵盤也看不見，當然不用說可以演奏出歌曲吧！我只好十分笨拙地在鋼琴上摸索。 可是，我不久後又聽到爸爸說話的聲音：「你怎麼彈不到任何東西呢！你今天沒精打采的，是不是病了呀？」

我因為怕他們擔心，所以不敢跟他們說看不到東西，或許只是暫時性的失明呢。因此我盡量在鋼琴上摸索，但是，還是不能彈到一首樂曲。媽媽很生氣地說：「如果你再不彈好一點，我就不讓你學習鋼琴了！」我十分擔心，因為我本來十分喜歡彈鋼琴，但是現在應該怎樣做呢？

我當天上琴課的時候，還被鋼琴老師好好駡了一頓。不能看得見，做任何東西都變得非常困難。那天晚上，我帶著很不舒服的心情睡著了。

那天早上，我起床的時候睜開眼睛。我又回復視力了！我真的又驚又喜。想到昨天因為沒有視力所經歷的困難， 我明白到要好好保護眼睛並珍惜視力。