明华园天字歌仔戏

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Tonight was my first night watching minghuayuan. I quite enjoyed the performance. quite surprised that there do not have any clown role today but nevertheless, it was a excellent performance. 陳昭香 as zhou is very good as xiaosheng, she had quite a powerful voice. 孙诗雯 as princess wenling is also very good but somehow, does not leave any deep impression on me, her voice is equally good.

The below poster is from this website- http://blog.xuite.net/hsianghsiang/mhytian?st=c&p=1&w=1488461

The first performance fenghuangtaizhu 鳳凰珠胎 is on tuesday, 7/7/09 but i did not get to watch. in fact, i only watched on fri and sats only.


万古流芳 - 10/7/09

Today performance is quite interesting. storyline happen in a palace.

Zhou married emperor sister, wenling. wenling was pregant with zhou kid. meanwhile zhou servant, bao ahd wenling maid whom had married each other also had a child due to be born. zhou and his family are all loyal subject of the tang emperor. on zhou's dad birthday, evil minister, jia send the dad incense papar and 2 candles at zhou doorstep. jia refused to enter the house and asked the servant to inform zhou. When zhou servants informed zhou, zhou was furious and asked his servant to hit jia away. Zhou servant hit jia away.

Tang emperor had a strange dream about a stone saying 万古流芳. The emperor asked jia to help him to solve the mystery of his dream. jia ask the emperor to give a 圣旨 to ask zhou to help to solve the mystery of his dream. evil jia went to find zhou. at the doorstep, zhou servant recognized jia as the previous guest whom tried to create trouble and was beat away. the servant informed zhou and under zhou instruction, jia was beat again. before jia left, jia laughted aloud and warned the zhou they had fallen into a trick.

When jia left, the servant immediately informed zhou. zhou and his family knew that they had fallen into a evil plot that would killed the whole family. Princess wenling upon hearing this, said that she will entered the palace to inform her brother emperor about the plot. wenling left with zhou two servant, bao and old su.

True to zhou word, evil jia informed emperor that zhou and family refused to recive the sengzhi and chased him out. emperor was very angry and ordered jia to take a army to capture the zhou family. shortly after wenling left, jia arrived with the army. zhou tried to fight back but was hold back by his dad. evil jia captured the zhou family and killed the whole family on the spot.

meanwhile, bao informed wenling that the zhou family had been wiped out. jia was looking for the princess and her unborn child. wenling shortly gave birth to a son in su house.old su though of a plot that required a newborn baby.bao asked his wife that was formly wenling maid to bring their son to su. su told bao that in order to save the princess and zhou only offspring, boa had to let his son died in replace of wenling son. the plot was su wife would need to die and bao will bring his own son to jia claiming that the son was that of princess wenling. wenling refused the plot but bao and su insisted princess that she must live.su begged wenling to take care of his own son, chengzai. so su set fire on his own house killing his wife. this is to make jia believe that wenling had died in the fire. bao carried his son to jia whom murdered the newborn by throwing the child on the ground. jia also killed su when su cried that his son master had died.

12 years later, 武子 son of wenling was in the jungle looking for tiger. a young guy was about to be killed by the tiger when wuzhi saved him. the young guy was in fact the son of emperor. to thank wuzhi, the young prince agreed to be with blood brother with wuzhi. the young prince also informed wuzhi his true identify and informed wuzhi that when the old emperor died, the prince will take over the throne.the young prince gave wuzhi his own fan. soon, wuzhi recieved news that the old emperor had died and the new emperor was in the street to introduce his own subjects that he was now the new dragon. wuzhi stopped the new emperor. jia tried to stop wuzhi. after some agruement, the angry new emperor gave wuzhi a sword and gave wuzhi a offical role. when wuzhi returned home, wenling was stocked. bao then told wuzhi his true background. a anger wuzhi went to find jia. now jia was actually plotting with the enemy before wuzhi came. jia guy was supposed to come out when jia shouted'大胆'. Whose know when wuzhi came, jia acidentally shouted the word and the guy came out. wuzhi and chengzai killed the guy and grabbed the revolt letter. wuzhi then killed jia. Wuzhi went to find the emperor and told him everything. upon knowing that his aunt was still alive, the emperor went to find his aunt and gave his aunt new clothes. bao wife upon seeing that the wuzhi had seek revenge, she killed herself as she was still unable to accept that her son had died 12 years ago. her husband also killed himself. When wenling whom had changed into new clothes and the emperor came out of the house, they found the couple bodies. the emperor build a stone tablet to let his subjects know about what the two couple done to save the lives of wenling and wuzhi.

details from this website in chinese;;

萬 古 流 芳（原趙氏孤兒）

相爺杜欒賈與趙頓父子，忠奸不合，適逢趙頓王爺壽長，皇上命百官前去賀壽，杜欒賈相爺百般不願，但聖命難違，故在壽宴上百般刁難而遭郡馬－趙束命人毆打，杜欒賈懷恨在心。

皇上夜夢，魁星下凡，命百官解夢，杜欒賈解釋，需建魁星廟，極力推薦趙家父子，擔任重職，並請命宣讀聖旨，但卻封鎖消息，致使再與趙束郡馬起衝突。回宮奏明趙氏父子欺君罔上，皇上命杜欒賈為欽差抓拿詢問。杜欒賈改稱趙氏抗旨，將其滅九族。忠僕－程嬰以其子代死，換趙氏遺孤，含辛茹苦養育十六年。

十六年後，太子遊山玩水，遇猛虎命危，趙武子救駕，並與太子結義。在趙武子得知結義兄弟已榮登皇帝，即進宮面聖，受封親王，而此時趙武子亦得知其家仇血恨，怒而持劍斬殺杜欒賈……

Ge Zai Xi at 韭菜芭城隍庙

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I had not updated what i had watched at 韭菜芭城隍庙 this year.

At new year, Taiwan 台北飛鳳儀歌劇團 came to 韭菜芭城隍庙 for performance. We had watched 6 days of performance mainly on the first day of cny and friday and sats performance.


In march, 韭菜芭城隍庙 had 131 days of chinese opera - noted that this is the longest opera performance in aisa and the temple is set to have this record on world record. performance will invite singapore, taiwan and china operas troupes- overseas opera troups include the following -

1. 中國福建漳州薌劇團

2. 台灣小飛霞(聯合新加坡福建筱麒麟劇團)

3. 台灣台北宏聲歌劇團

4. 台灣明華園天字團

Details from the chinese newspaper - source

宋佳佳


　　韭菜芭城隍庙今年庆祝城隍诞，一连上演131天酬神大戏，创下新加坡纪录大全连演酬神戏最多天数纪录。


16个国内外剧团参与
　　在这次于昨晚开锣演出的131天酬神大戏中，除了6月20日（农历五月廿八日）城隍爷圣诞那场戏是由城隍庙自行出资上演之外，其余130天都是由信众赞助，总共筹集约50万元，聘请16个国内外剧团演出。


　　对于今年的酬神戏，非但不受经济低迷影响，反而一举打破了多年来演酬神戏天数纪录，城隍庙的总务陈添来受访时说：“这一方面是因为今年农历闰五月，能有多一个月的时间演出，另一方面也是答谢神恩信众热烈支持所致。”


　　韭菜芭城隍庙每年都从农历三月十五日开始，根据信众的赞助多寡，一连多日聘请戏班上演酬神戏。不过，酬神戏最迟必需在进入农历七月前一天，停止演出。


　　今年农历闰五月，城隍爷“清溪显佑伯主”，今年有两天可庆祝寿辰。陈添来说：“闰五月要隔12年才会有一次，非常难得，而为了表示虔诚，酬神戏的天数一定要比往年多。演出天数‘131’也谐音‘一生一’，是一个好兆头。”



　　他也透露，韭菜芭城隍庙已经向新加坡纪录大全申请演酬神戏最多天数纪录，纪录大全负责人会在酬神戏演出的最后一天，也即8月18日（农历六月廿八日）晚上，在台上将纪录证书发给城隍庙。



　　韭菜芭城隍庙从1992年开始，每年举办连续多日的酬神戏，而在过去17年中，有6年演出的酬神戏在100天以上，其中以1998年演出的天数最多，总共109天。当年，恰巧也是闰五月。



　　从事物流业商人林水金（52岁），今年独自出资10万元赞助15场由台湾明华园戏剧团演出的歌仔戏。




　林水金也是韭菜芭城隍庙的信托人兼名誉主席。他说：“我在1992年开创物流公司前，曾来城隍庙求签，结果求到好签，办了公司，一切果然很顺利，今年的酬神戏又刚好做得很大，所以就捐得比往年来得多，算是还愿。”




　　社会发展、青年及体育部政务部长符喜泉，昨晚应邀主持敲锣开演仪式。首晚由中国福建漳州芗剧团呈献《梁山伯与祝英台》，全场600多个座位，座无虚席，部分戏迷甚至站在过道旁看戏。

The first performance troup is from 中國福建漳州薌劇團.



I had watched 'liang sanbo and zhu yingtai', 'bao ying ji', 'lu meng zhen', 'guo wenying', 'yuan yang xiang bao' and ' lee san siang'. I had actually watched lee san siang on year 2006 but mum said that lee san siang was a rather sad show and suggested us to watch. upon watching, i realised that i had watched the same performance before but cannot remember when i watched the performance.

That is also the same reason i decided to blog about my opera watching on my blog again so that i get to know what troupe i had get to know from watching opera here.

My favourite performance by this china is the one on bao ying ji - story of protecting a baby --

The story was about a woman whose son was dying. Before dying, he informed his mum to get care of his future wife whom was pregnant. The mum went to find the woman. after giving birth, the woman realised that the mum son was not her own husband. Her husband was supposed to be killed and the mum's son was a good friend of her husband. The woman tried to hide the truth as she was very thankful of the mum whom saved her. In the past, woman cannot be pregant without a husband or the woman will need to be drowned. The woman real husband managed to find his wife.The story ended happily with the woman and her husband acknowleding the mum as their foster mother.


Second performance troup was from 台灣小飛霞(聯合新加坡福建筱麒麟劇團).
I heard from mum that 小飛霞 and 小龍女 are both godchildren of the singapore troup 筱麒麟劇團. that is the reason why both taiwanese returned to singapore yearly for performance too. i am amazed that the 筱麒麟劇團 boss -- a pair of elderly couple - husband already in his 80s and wife in her 60s are still performing. In fact, the wife whom is most commonly known as 'xiao jing kee' still have a powerful singing voice despite her old age. this is admirable in the opera industry. The husband Lau Hor Xin only perfomed a small role due to his age but he had a major role in holding the whole troupe to survive in singapore.

'xiao jing kee already in her 60s

Lau Hor Xin already in his early 80s

Combined performance with their godchildren had such a great effect that the troupe received many generous donation for their wonderful performance. Mum counted at least $500 plus for one night performance. A blogger had set a website for this troupe - http://tw.myblog.yahoo.com/w3688sg-opera/article?mid=7&sc=1#61.

I am not too sure what performance i had watched already as i cannot find the performance schedule online. I realised one thing about the net - there are many ppl whom know about this performance at our local temple but almost all sites i managed to find are from our fellow singaporeans or taiwanese.


小飛霞


小瓏女


Third performance troup is from 台灣台北宏聲歌劇團 .

Dad boss had 赞助 the day performance on the first day on performanc - du wen long. My parents and i get to sit right at the first row for the performance. There was quite a small drama over sitting issue before we got to sit in the front rows.

I really love the troupe xiao sheng - lan yajun. She is very good as xiao sheng. At crying show, i can see her tears really dropping. You can never see this from the behind rows and so that is why i thought yajun was real good. She is quite beautiful despite her thick makeup with deep dimples on both side of her face.

xiao sheng - lan yajun 藍雅君

Actually i love all the xiao sheng role in most opera troupes. it is not easy to be cast as xiao sheng where u need to have deep voice, wear thick shoes and behave like a real man. the last time i had any real 'feel' for xiao sheng is the troup from the china troupe. Btw, the xiao sheng 'lan yalan' in yang li hua troupe is also very handsome as her role as a guy.

I only watched the first day of their performance on 21 june, 4 and 5 of july. i liked yesterday performance, 错爱。The story involved love between human and foxes. The story of coures ended as expected as moral and demons can never be together. What i loved abt this performance is the 'clown' roles are real funny, it lighthen the whole atmosphere and made the whole story seem more interesting. Yesterday, the actors came down the stage selling buns for chartiy. It was a pity that my SE phone is unable to take good photos at night or i would had take some photos of yajun. Yajun had went right to the end of the audience row to ask them to donate by selling them buns. But one thing abt taiwanese performance is the words they used in hokkein can be quite vulgar. anyway hokkein words can be quite vulgar at times.yesterday donation by selling buns got the temple $1726 for charity.

the last performance troupe is from 台灣明華園天字團. Mum and i had already plan to watch on fridays and sats where at most we will only get to watch for two more weeks.

Lohang Cat Tong Tong

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Can anyone spotted the lucky number on Tong Tong tiny body?

Xmas party at campany function

The log cake look nice right?

Lazy me using Mobile blogging

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Hi Realised that the last few pictures i took only got a sentence. I had used my SE phone to take picture and blog after photo taking.

There are quite a few happenenings anyway since my last long post. Mum had helped to sterilize the cats(with sister's help) near her workplace. There are the ShaSha family. Daughters and Mum are being taken care of, now is only left with ShaSha blood, the white ginger male cat.

Heard from my mum that Shasha mum had given birth 2 times or more. ShaSha is the first batch, shasha. of all 3 siblings, only Shasha remained in the street but now ShaSha is hee...... somewhere safe in princess bed. Then Shasha mum given birth to ShaSha mei and her brother. Used to have 2 more siblings that had since i assumed died.

Mum will try to trap shasha blood next week. Hopefully we will have shasha blood next week.

Toa payoh temple cat

Taken at tp central at the temple under the tree

Tong tong and his mummy pig

Welcome to the house of cats

dd

Cat in fruit basket

Cat

I had managed to blog using my mobile. This is taken this morning of sweetie on blood table. (I am typing this text via computer as i had just transfer the blog name given automatically by my handphone to this current blog, animal kingdom so from now onward, all my mobile photos can be uploaded directly to this blog)

Cats in the News Today

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I got this article from wobao. A summary of this article is how this cat was saved by Vegan & Meowies by putting the cat for adoption after sterilizing the female cat. What i do not liked about this article is the reply made by AVA head: “It would be good if those who feed stray cats could find homes for them.”

This misconcept is the same made by both cat lovers and cat haters.

Cat Lover Misconcept:If you want to love the cats, do not feed them, take them home with you.

I had read one particular cat lover blogger whom i shall not named her, her thinking is that if you love the cat, take the cats home, do not feed it (There are a whole lot of her own explanation as to why we should not feed outside cat that i will not list down as it make my blood boil too to think of that). Anyway i had boycotted her blog after reading this distasteful topic. Given that her blog had quite a number of hits daily, i wonder how many of her readers would also have this misconcept. If given the choice, which animal want to be wandering in the street trying to survive, trying to find shelter or food? Those animals previously do have homes but were abandoned, i do not understand why would a cat lover said this in her blog. Cats increased bacause they were not sterilized so it just added on the the number of so called stray cats in the street. Without food, they will try to find means and way to survive. We can only do little as to help by sterilizing them and feeding them responsiblity as in to clear whatever paper after we feed them.

Cat Hater Misconcept: Take all the cats that you feed home

I think every cat feeders had this words being said to them but for me, i had not encountered anyone saying this hurtful words.

Hmm.. except for Two encounter - Once was when a young lady asked us to take the cats we feed to SPCA because someone will adopt all cats that is send there. I think this young lady is not familiar with the statistic as to how cats are put to sleep daily in both SPCA and AVA.

The second encounter happen only recently when a woman staying in the 2nd storey warned us not to leave the food in the drain and reminded us that there are security camera around us. Nothing much to say to this idiotic woman whom is staying at the area closer to the central rubbish area and where security camera only face the lift area, not on the rubbish area. I was telling sister that i will change a new carrier that i used to carry the cat food so that ppl will not remember us going around to feed the cats. I think i should not use a red carrier.

With limited space, it is impossible to take every cats you see on the street home. The reply in the above mentioned article by AVA head had mentioned we find home for the cats we feed. Of course, we wish we can do that but how? We are actually doing sh** job for those irresponsible ppl whom are abandoing their home cats in the street. How is it possible to find home for each cat that ppl throw in the street. It is like a never ending cycle - you try to find home for one cat, another cat is abandone in the street. And finding a home for cat is not a matter of days, it can delay into months. I find that most female cats are abandoned into the street - a act when the cat is on heat and the stupid owner refused to sterilize the cat.

Ok. I had made enough review on today news. Sister is feeding mimi and friends today so i am quite free to blog..Happy meows..

Notty Sweetie

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Recently Sweetie had this notty habit of 'stealing' food from my community cats. Sister had bought a big pack of food for our outside friends and repacked them into smaller portion. Sweetie had claw her way into the plastic bag to create a tiny hole for free buffet.

As a result, mum had placed the food inside the cat trap. This did not stopped sweetie from trying to get some freebie. She actually put her fat paw into the tiny hole and managed to create yet another hole in the plastic bag. As a last resort, i had used cardboard and magazine to cover all the four sides of the cat trap. No more free food for this notty cat. The best part is when i scolded her for being greedy, she actually talk back to me.

Cat Tin Tin

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Think people whom visited sister blog would have saw Ting Ting. I am still not sure whether to call him : Garlic, Ding Ding or Tin Tin or Xiao Tin Dang.

Mum had called this little fellow Xiao Tin Dang while blood call him Garlic after Blood childhood softtoy from Nestle.

We had found him sitting beside the road around 3 week ago. So we decided to 'kidnap' him home. He is quite smart despite his small size. He had now learnt how to use Xiami litterbox whenever we allow him to come out of his carrier to play. On his first day in our house, funny blood had taken dozens of this tiny fellow with his camera. It is a pity that blood did not get to see HeHe and XianXian when they were still kittens as blood was at Germany at that time.

Tin Tin favourite activity meanwhile is kneading. he loves to knead on everyone open hands and can do this for hours. This morning, blood allow Tin Tin to knead on his hand for one hour while blood was reading the newspapar.

I will soon be able to blog more as i now had bought a more decent camera phone. I will introduce the rest of the cat family once i get used to my new phone.

My Blog is still alive

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Hi everyone, i am back. I had not post any new topic since May.

wow, i am damn lazy. But I am back with more meowing news.

News 1: Auntie Thiru is unwell!!!

Last Friday, dad and I sent Auntie Thiru (The little black cat u see on my sidebar). She had been passing droplet of blood on thursday night and passing little urine. I am worried that there may be a blockage that is said to be very toxic to a cat and can killed it within 24 hour. I also suspected Thiru had urinary tract infection.

Thiru cried all the way to the vet. Kind Uncle Vet touched Thiru and mentioned that she did not have any blockage, only bladder infection. Vet said that most males had blockage while the odds are against female cats. I am quite relieved after hearing that. Thiru got a jet of antibodies and a week supply of antibodies that i need to feed her.

But then, stupid me feed her 1 whole antibioties tablet when it is only meant for 1/2 tablet.i only realised my mistake on day 2 night but by then 2 days of supply were gone. Anyway, the antibioties did work, no more bleeding and normal urining. My only concern is that thiru seem not to be pooing for 3 days. Will monitor on her and see what to do with her. i heard from san that pumpkin work for constipation cats.

Update: -- 27 July (9.35pm) Auntie Thiru had normal poo poo on Friday and today. That is quite a relief.

I will update more on all my cats when i got hold of sister camera.

Japan Cat Cafe - Calico

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Dad was watching Channel New Asia when he announced that he saw cats news in CNA. So We watched the news. it is interesting to find that japan have this kind of cat cafe. the concept is quite interesting in fact. For JP$5, japanese can enter the cafe and play with the cats. I love the L-size ginger cat sitting on the sofa with both legs wide open accompanying a lady.

Here is videos of this site: (I am not sure if the video is in Japanese or English as my computer is mute currently)





The cafe did have an website but unfortunately, i did not understand any japanese: http://cafecalico.com/

Website news:
From this link: http://archive.japantoday.com/jp/feature/1328

TOKYO — People cuddle and play with cats as if they were at home. But it's not home: Welcome to the cat cafe Calico where 17 cats are always waiting for customers. Since it opened in Kichijoji last March, Calico has attracted a lot of media attention.

Takafumi Fukui, the 35-year-old manager, has mixed feelings about all the hoopla over his business from both media and cat lovers. Fukui and a classmate at a vocational school opened the cafe after he quit his job at a video game company. At Calico, customers can freely cuddle and play with cats, paying 800 yen admission fee for the first hour and 120 yen for an additional 10 minutes.

“I love cats very much. But one of the reasons why I opened the cafe is actually that I wanted to work with my toy poodle. When I was working for a video company before, she got stressed out because I couldn't take care of her. So I decided to open a cafe where she can be with me all the time,” says Fukui.

Calico has never advertised with any media. After a local cable TV reported on it, major TV stations and entertainment magazines did stories on Calico. The unexpected media attention left Fukui feeling confused. “Last year, several similar types of cafe opened in Tokyo, so some media say there is a cat boom. But it's just a coincidence really. Ever since Reuters did a story on us, we sometimes have foreign customers. An American from Texas said he visited us just to see one of our cats he likes.”

It's not only mainstream media but word of mouth on the Internet has played a huge role in spreading publicity. Fukui explains: “Many customers come to Calico to take photos of our cats and post them on their blogs and online social network communities. More people are finding out about Calico through the Internet.”

“I thought Calico would be something like just an ordinary cafe with cats. But it has a more comfortable and peaceful atmosphere like at home,” said Marie Fuchi, 19, who came to Calico for the first time.

A 39-year-old man, who has been to Calico three times in the past month, says: “I love cats but I can't have pets at my apartment. I wouldn't even be able to take care of them because I live alone. So I like to come here where I can touch and play with them.”

The demand for cat cafes like Calico partly stems from the fact that most of the apartments in Tokyo ban pets. Fukui says 70% of his customers cannot have cats at home even though they wish to. Calico answers their needs, he says.

While Calico is now well-known both nationwide and overseas, Fukui recalls it was hard launching his business. “Since nobody knew the concept of a cat cafe, many building owners were reluctant to rent space to me, so I had a hard time finding a location.”

Sanitation at the cafe is also a big issue because sanitation rules for restaurants vary according to individual local governments. “Some cat cafes separate the room for cats and eating space for customers. But at Calico, only the kitchen is completely separated from other rooms,” Fukui says.

After managing the cafe for almost a year, Fukui says: “I don't think I'm doing anything special. Rather, I'm just lucky because the media reported there is a cat boom. I still feel there are many things to improve at Calico. But I get a lot of help. Our official website, for example, was created by one of our regular customers.”

Fukui is already thinking of what to do next after the cat boom created by the media ends. But one thing he's certain of — he wants to provide even more places where people can interact with cats.

Calico's address: 7th Fl, Yuki Bldg, Minami-machi, Kichijoji, Musashino City, Tokyo 180-0001. Tel/Fax: 81-(0)422-29-8353

For further information, visit: http://homepage3.nifty.com/calico/


January 17, 2008

I am best friends to my cats

[Glitterfy.com - *Glitter Photos*]

China ge zai xi @ Cheng Huang Temple

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Cheng Huang Temple near Geylang police station is back to its nearly 3 months of opera by troups from China and singapore.

The April performance is from China Xiaman troup. I had seen two performances so far. Today and last saturday. In fact when The xiamen troup came in 2006, i had also seen their performance.



Last sat performance was a rather boring story:

I am not sure of the opera title.

But the story goes like this:

Zhou was drinking wine in a brothel when he saw X bullying Jing, a poor girl whom was tricked to enter the brothel to work by singing when her parents died. He helped to fight off X. X was the son of the minister so he had often used his dad's reputation to bully the villagers.


Various girls performing a dance esp for X

Jing was forced to perform even though she was sick


Jing was very grateful for Zhou help. While Zhou went off, he dropped his jade that later Jing vowed to return to him dressed as a guy.

Zhou was placed under arrest for fighing X. As a result, he ran away and meet xiulan. Xiulan saved him by placing him in her dad graveyard area to hide. Xiulan was the daugher of a officer. she was actually bethored to Zhou at a young age. When her dad died, her stepmother took her to marry another guy. When xiulan stepmum knew that Xiulan was hiding Zhou, she informed the officers to come to arrest Zhou. Xiulan stopped the troops while zhou escaped.

Wen and her uncle, aunt and her cousin tried to escape from the coming robbers. As a result, wen was seperated from her relatives and captured by the robbers whom wanted to take her as wife. The robbers took Wen to a temple. At the temple, zhou came in. When he heard Wen cries, he killed the robber head and saved Wen.

Wen asked zhou to take her to her house that is many mountains away. At a deserted temple, wen tried to hint zhou that she loved him but zhou had no heart for her love proposal. Finally wen reached her house. Her uncle tried to arrange for marriage for zhou and wen but zhou refused the proposal. When wen heard of that, she hang herself.

The story end by wen ghost went to find Zhou. In the end, neither xiulan or Jing entered the plot again that i think is really stupid.

Today story: (27 /4/08) - Feng Huang Guan

Lee Yue Er was the daughter of a minster but she was vain from young and her only wish was to be married to a son of a senior officer, wearing a feng huang guan. Her father had proposed marriage to the Seng family. However, misfortune fall on the Seng whom was famed for corruption. As a result, father Lee and Mother Lee forced Seng qing (the son whom was supposed to marry missy Lee) to write a letter to wihdraw the marriage.

The Vain Yue Er and her equally vain money faced mother plotting to withdraw the marriage between Lee and Seng
When the corrupted Zhang arrived at the Lee family threating to capture the whole family, Father lee dennied that they had anything to do with the Seng as they had withdraw the marriage on june. In fact, The old Lee had changed the date from august to June.

Seng qing escaped from the officers whom were sent to capture him. While on the run, he entered a fishing house and meet a woman named Lee Chun niang. Chun niang hide him in the house and lied to the coming troups that Seng qing was her husband. When Chun niang father questioned why he was being chased by the army, Seng qing lied that his name was wong wenjing and he was a poor scholar. Seng qing and chun niang relationship grow better as half a years passed by. One day, Chun niang father proposed marriage to Seng on his daugher behalf. However, seng rejected the proposal. When Chun niang cried, seng qing finally revealed his true identify. Chun niang still love Seng qing despite knowing that seng was a escaped criminal.Both Chun niang and Seng vowed to remain true to each other. Seng then learn that his beloved had a real name called 'Lee Yue er'.

Seng qing went to take part in the imperial exam and got the top rank. When the emperor wanted to asked him to marry the princess, seng refused and mentioned that he will only married lee yue er. The corruped senior Lee heard of this and mistaken the lee yue er to be his daugher. Meanwhile the lee family learnt that Seng family had restored their past statues and the elder seng was now the prime minster.

When the sedans past by the evil lee family and did not stopped, the old lee stopped seng qing and asked him why he did not went to his house. Seng qing then revealed that he was going to marry the fisherman daugher with the same name.

The old Lee refused to accept this and a trial was set up.
The first trial was judged by a nine rank officer whom asked the missy lee to have the huang guan while The poor lee to have seng. the trial did not come to a end as a result.

The second trial was judged by a corrupted officer. His final verdict was to let Seng marry both woman with the missy lee as the first wife. The trial failed as a order by the PM (seng father) asked the officer to investiage the withdraw marriage case.

The third trial was judged by a good and fair officer, Wen. before the trial, Wen investiaged and found that there was indeed a withdrawal letter wrote by seng. At the trial, Wen pretended that the fault was all on Seng, the poor yue er or chun niang and her father.He then asked missy lee if she want to marry seng with that missy lee answered with a firm yes. Wen also captured Seng and wanted to withdraw the scholar name from him. When missy lee heard that, she wanted to withdraw her earlier agreeemtn to marry Seng. She then revealed that actually the marriage was withdraw last year in August. The spolit lee took the letter from her dad. Finally, the truth was revealed and seng and the poor lee married.


At the trial, the truth was finally revealed when the wen officer set a trap

Mini Meow from Catster

Jennifer say:





This is cute, check this out.

http://www.catster.com/talking_cat_cards?app=451&sid=413681

Cute icon for MSN

Jennifer say:


Just got this cute icon from flowerpod that i though was too cute. I will be using this icon for future posts. But i hope that the icon can said This:

"I am a Cat"
"I Purr"
"I Meow"
"I Climb"
"I Eat"
"I Wash"
"I Sleep"

Sister had said that i need to edit my pictures to be smaller so that blogger can upload my photos faster into the system. i will do that in future to ensure more photos and less words in my blog.

DDX was sick last sat

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Last sat was a worry day for all of us as DDX kept vomitting for the whole day. We suspected that she had licked on the washing powder in the toilet as she now had this bad habit of licking water from the pails in the toilet. DD had refused to drink nor eat on sat.

Mum was very worried as DD is one of her favourite cat beside Sweetie.

On sun, we sent her to the vet. On the way to the vet, DD had kept crying. We had to comfort her by kept talking to her. The vet said that DD had Gastric problem that happen suddenly to all cats. The main reason is DD had eaten something wrong. DD had a injection and two medicines - one for anti-vomit and one for anti inflammatory. She instructed us to feed DD two small potions per day only.

At home, DD was sleeping the whole day. At night, i woke her up and feed her wet can food. We were very happy and relief when DD started to eat her food.

On Monday, DD meowed for dry food. I had instructed dad and mum NOT to feed her dry food as she might still vomit again. But the spoilt DD was still given dry food and she vomitted. After this incident, dad and mum did not dare to feed DD any dry food when she winned.

After her completed course of medication that was yesterday, DD is back to meowing for food (dry) and she has fully recovered also.

Lazy Blogger Me & My cats

Jennifer say:




I am rather lazy nowaday in blogging. Firstly, i had too lazy to take any photos of my community cats. Secondly, i am lazy to upload pictures of my home cats as the blogger keep hanging whenever i tried to upload photos - picasa is not working well also.

Anyway so here is a boring update of my community cats without any photos:

1) Mimi has migrated to another block across the road from his usual hiding place. We took 1 and a half month before we found his new hideout.

2) There are 3 newly abandaned cats near mimi hideout - xiaguo ( a ginger male sterilized last year), silly ah gong (gong as in silly in hokkein - another ginger male same age as xiaguo and lastly a brown tabby male. Xiaguo and ah gong are hanging to each other so far while the third male cat is always M.I.A but still around.

3) Wang zia had serious ringworm problem but that silly boy now refused to come to find us. We also do not know how to apply the medicine that sister had bought for him when wangzai refused to come near us now.

4) Ginger and PaPa are now two fat, round ginger cats.

5) Koala has a younger son. A 3 months old kitten that hang around with him. Koala is quite sweet when his 'son' play war game with him - Koala not only do not mind his son biting him, he also allow his 'son' to hang him by his claws.

6) Fake NaNa is still around very near to mimi hideout. We just found out yesterday that there is something wrong with nana one eye as it is not diluted in the dark as like normal cats. But he is still walking very normally.

7) Seaweed is another beautiful female cat is a good friend of mimi.

8) Ringring still appear near the nearby park sometimes. She is a rare ginger girl with a meow similar to my sweetie.

I had not seen baby, xiaobai and cubby cubby for quite long time as i had not went near their hideout near the carpark in the park.