Going Out of Town

Tomorrow we’ll go to Surabaya (East Java, Indonesia). My father asked us to accompany him, because his condition hasn’t been fit yet to travel alone.I've bought plane tickets yesterday, but my father asked for changing the departure time, as he felt it was too early. Hopefully this issue can be resolved.

My father would leave pilgrimage this year. He will go along with my brother and SIL who lives in Surabaya. That's why my father should be in Surabaya soon for Hajj training has already started.

For Watery Wednesday, I share here a fish pond in my grandfather’s house, captured months ago.

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Matt Dallio and the China Care Foundation

From an early age, Matt Dallio has walked a path in life that is a little different from the average person. While most teenagers are obsessed with videogames, cars, social media, or parties, Matt spent most of his time trying to help orphans on the other side of the world. It started when he was a young boy and he spent a year living abroad in China. He attended school there with the local children and was the only non-Chinese born student in the school. At first he was an outcast but the children soon befriended him and they all became friends. From this experience, he would grow up and never forget the compassion that his schoolmates showed him when he was the outsider.

Years later, while Matt Dallio was thinking of things he could do for his Eagle Scout project, he began to research how he could help Chinese children. He soon found out about the large number of orphans there. Because of the one child limit imposed on all Chinese families by the government, if a child is born with an abnormality or birth defect, it is common for the parents to simply abandon the child. Although many of these birth defects could be solved with a simple outpatient surgery. So many orphans in China have cases of a cleft lip, or clubbed foot.

Matt Dallio realized that if he was able to raise money, he could possibly afford to pay for some of these surgeries for these children, which in turn would give them a better chance at being adopted and having a better life. This is exactly what he did. Within 4 years his initial project raised over $1 million, and grew to a multi-purpose organization and provided everything from pediatric surgeries to financial aid for adopting families.

The China Care Foundation is now over a decade old and has raised millions of dollars helping hundreds of children. Matt Dalio’s initial vision became a reality and in the process, has changed the lives of many children and families around the world.

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To Find a Right Home for Your Family

Every family craves to have a home. In fact, family and home are the heart of your life; where you should believe as the most comfy places in the world. Having a peaceful home is already becoming an essential part in pursuing a meaningful life of you and your family. Don’t you agree?

In other side, lots of people value houses and property as a type of high advantageous investment. That’s why the real estate business and industry are still included the recent fastest growing industries. The big question is, whatever your reason to search for a property; can you find it just by yourself? Buying a home isn’t an easy and simple thing to do; have you already known what you should prepare to avoid any following disappointment?

Let’s say that you and your family will move to Arizona in a short time. So, you must search for a right home for your family! It can become a hardest job, since you don’t know anything about Arizona yet. Using professional helps from Arizona realtors could become the best solution for you and other people who looking for properties in Arizona.

A quality real estate agent will definitely give you many benefits. It’s much recommended to find and buy homes with the assistance of real estate agents, as they will help you in various things; from pricing, offering wider range of homes, finding homes that most suits your family needs, handling all paperwork, negotiation, to closing the transaction. Their helps will ease much of your headache!

To get maximal advantages from a realtor’s service, you should apply the qualified realtors in the related areas. The best and simplest way to find reliable realtors in united states is by using realtorsnearme.com, a directory website that provides all realtors data in USA, from every state to city and county. If you visit the website, soon you’ll find out that this directory is very useful; as finding a real estate company nearby becomes so quick and easy. Each contact person in the company will be equipped with full information such as the address and phone. After getting the information, you can straightly contact the realtor to assist you in searching for your home.

Don’t be hesitant to get professional helps from realtors. They are experts in taking care of your interests in property field. Since your home is always becoming an important part in your and your family life; it’s really worth to get a real estate agent’s assistance!

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Overload

How’s your weekend, guys? I didn’t go anywhere. On Saturday, an old friend of ours came to visit and we chatted for a few hours. Last Sunday, my husband must work and I just enjoy my lazy times with watching TV for hours.

For Blue Monday, I want to share some overload captures that I saw on the street (in different cities). Anyway, overload (noun) means an excessive burden. In our daily life, it can make us under stress and exhausted. But when it comes to overloading a vehicle, it will cause dangers such as the vehicle will be fewer stable, hard to steer and take longer to stop. Vehicles respond differently when the maximum weights which they are created to carry are exceeded (source: ArriveAlive).

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A Cat and a Jackfruit Tree

The cat was walking, nearing the tree. Was the cat interested with the jackfruits? Just trying to make a fun post for the weekend; would you like to guess what would be done by the cat next? Here are the options:

a.the cat did nothing with the tree and just walked passing by
b.the cat was curious with the jackfruits and sniffed them
c.the cat was only interested with the tree and started to scratch it; sharpening his front legs’ claws.
Which one is your choice?

It’s a pity that I can’t share the ‘next photo’ here. I accidentally deleted it; but I still remember what the cat did next.

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