Patience is a Virtue

I was having a confrontation with little Manja just this past Friday.  It took me HRS just to complete the last post.  Its all because of the banner advertisements on my blog.  He saw the banner which featured the Disney Junior's programme advertisements.

So, you know, little kids, they love cartoons.  They love colours and they love dancing to music.  The banner was colourful and it was his favourite cartoon, Jake and the Neverland Pirates.  Immediately he wanted to sit on my lap and was demanding to press on the banner.  But how can I?  Bloggers are not supposed to click on the advertisements on their own blog.

His demand was getting louder and louder, and annoying.  Isn't the tv programme enough for him?  Apparently not.  He kept nagging when I wanted to quickly arrange the final touches to my post.  Don't you just hate it that your work is almost done to be interrupt by unwanted attention?

And so I resorted to have this:



Well Manja, click all you want and repeat as many times to your pleasure.  Just do not puke on me when you finally got bored watching it.

** He jolly-fully sang along and endlessly repeating the short music clip while I was carrying a near blown-up face.  He was still swaying to the music while sitting on my lap...... for HRS.  As for me : Patience is a Virtue.

The Banned Light

As I watched Disney's "Tangled" animated movie, I couldn't resist a part of the film which showed the entire kingdom releasing the enchanted sky lanterns.  How beautiful this was projected and the magical touch that Disney has always been able to express in all their works.

As enchanting and magical as it successfully featured, the sad truth is, due to modernization, these sky lanterns are now posing hazards to aircrafts. Take a look at the imposed fines by Malaysia's Transport Ministry.  Transport Ministry warns against releasing sky lanterns (Updated) .  In the recent Chinese New Year celebration, Cincau noticed a few sky lanterns floating across the sky and got worried.  Who would have thought something seemingly so "gentle" could have such massive destructive effect??

Nevertheless, hope prevails.  For the sky lanterners (can i call you that way?), the spirit of releasing sky lanterns is still very much alive in Taiwan. The island celebrates their lantern festival as an annual event.  The event travels around the island and this year's celebration was in Pingxi.  Check out the video below.  So when and where will the next celebration be?