Posted on 9 October 2006 @ 12:58 in Personal, Stress Busters
Please meet Forever Peace, the little sister of the cub with harelip who I adopted through Pandas International:
I just received the picture from Suzanne Braden, director of Pandas International.
I’ve named her Yoong Ping (Mandarin pronunciation) for both my parents and my niece.
“Yoong” , the first part of her name, is the character for “forever” and it’s also the first part of my niece’s name. My niece battled leukemia for 4 years before succumbing to it this past March.
“Ping” , the second part of the name, means “peace” and was the nickname my parents used for each other. They met in the late 40s when there was quite a bit of unrest in our country and peace was what they wished for the country.
Yoong Ping – Forever Peace
I hope to visit Wolong next year and hold her in my arms!
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Posted on 7 October 2006 @ 21:00 in Writing
*points to new icon added to left sidebar*
Yes, that time of month again.
The Flickr nanowrimo group that I belong to has seen a sizeable increase in new members in the past week, and it’s due to a link from the official NaNoWriMo site! Yes, 2006 NaNo’ers are looking for places to share their excitement.
At the site itself, the forums have been activated since 1 October. I usually hang out at the NaNo Technology forum. In addition to writing my 50,000 words, I also have a mission to share about AlphaSmart products in that forum. And the feedback has been mostly positive. Quite a few people have an AlphaSmart product to help them NaNo, and all of them have good things to say about how they’ve managed to finish 50,000 words thanks to the product. Such positive response should help those non-users who have posted questions about AlphaSmart to make up their minds to get one!
I also hang out at the Malaysia forum, but that one seems to be a little slow waking up. We’ve only had 3 or 4 veterans post there. Maybe closer to the start date, we’ll have other Malaysian NaNo’ers stumble in to grab a seat.
Do I have a story for my NaNovel 2006? Sure I do. I have the characters and an idea of a story, but I’m trying not to outline too much (or at all), in case I start writing it! I have to wait for midnight, 1 November 2006, to do that!
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Posted on 1 October 2006 @ 23:36 in The Working Life, Writing
That’s all I can think of to post. Have been very busy, working past midnight at least three nights in the past 10 days. Not at home but overseeing production of the annual report at the colour separator’s. ‘Nuff said.
Yeah, I’ll probably NaNo again this year. Shouldn’t be hard. The trick is to just write every day of November and be a little ahead of the word count each day. Couple of other tricks I’ve found that helps – start at the stroke of midnight on 1 November and keep writing early in the day during the month, and break the writing into a few sessions each day. It’s easier to write three 600-odd words three times a day, and to have the first session early in the day when I’m fresh and before other stuff overwhelm me and zap my energy, than to sit down at the end of the day, trying to fulfill the 1,677-word requirement for that day.
I’ll be out of the country for about 10 days during NaNo month, but with my Dana, that shouldn’t be a problem, or an excuse not to write!
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