關於 my chinese zodiac sign is ，我們在網路上蒐集到這些相關的討論、資訊與評價

【不做自己財運最大的小人！】
DON'T BLOCK YOUR PROSPERITY PATH!

2021年2月3日晚上10點59分，就立春了，我們便正式進入了金牛年！對，不是等到大年初一，是立春一到，牛大哥就來接棒了！

大家不要再把自己的生肖搞錯，以為自己是什麼鼠尾牛頭之類的生肖。每一年都是以立春日而定，您到底是屬什麼生肖。

立春日，為了討個新年吉利，您也有排長隊在ATM把錢存入銀行的習慣嗎？我個人沒有這個習慣，因為告訴您，如果影片裡所說的這個步驟您未先做好，其實您依然是在堵自家的財路啊！您是您財運最大的小人呀！

如果你渴望改命，想出人頭地，以下這段話背後的毅力、膽識和足智多謀是你應該學習的：

1977年，在貝雅士蓄水池上段的開幕會上，當時的李光耀總理發表了一段振奮人心的演講，宣布要打撈清理新加坡河和加冷河。

他說：「保持水質清澈，使每條小溪，每個涵洞，每條小河流都免受不必要的污染應該是一種生活方式。十年後，讓我們在新加坡河和加冷河都可以釣魚。這是可以辦到的。

當我們實現（乾淨的河流）的那一天，無論過去十年或接下來的十年中是哪些人負責，如果我還在，我將給他們每個人 - 部長、常任秘書長和部門主管 – 一枚真正純金牌，一金衡盎司。我不在乎會花多少錢……但是如果它沒有完成的話……如果我在1986年裡仍在掌管，我會找出問題出在哪裡，無論是誰，無論是哪一群人使它出錯和失敗……嗯，我有特別的鉛 - 不是用來打造獎牌的 - 我想我會把它們添加到他們的水源中。」

新加坡河約3.2公里長，加冷河約十公里長。

在新加坡河旁邊有養豬場、擅自佔地居住者、街頭小販、蔬菜販子，造船廠（用於建造駁船），造成了河水裡所有的污染。

數十萬人，數十年的污染。

一位盲人電話接線員在位於萊佛士坊的李光耀夫人律師事務所工作。他每天都乘坐公共巴士去上班，並且總是知道何時下車。因為這新加坡河實在太臭了，只要巴士一過河，他就已聞到了。

然而，只需要一個人堅信並說出：「可以做到。」

就這樣，一切的助緣便開始啟動了。

李光耀先生為了一個國家和她的後代跨出這一步，做了前所未有的改變。

給你勇氣和智慧！為自己和家人做出意想不到的改變，拿下屬於你人生的金牌！

我的Youtube頻道： https://youtu.be/nSHZejqHKXM
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Come 3 Feb 2021, 1059pm, it would be the day of Li Chun - Beginning of Spring and we would officially be in the Metal Ox Year. That's right! Not on the first day of CNY! Metal Ox Brother would take the baton on the Li Chun day.

Thus don't get your Chinese zodiac sign wrong again and tell me that you belong to the Rat tail end and beginning of Ox kind of zodiac sign. For those year-end babies, your Chinese zodiac sign is determined based on whether you are born after or before the Li Chun day.

On the day of Li Chun, do you also have a habit of queueing up at the ATM to deposit money into your bank account, for good luck and prosperity in the upcoming year?

I had never had this habit, because let me tell you this: if you do not get the first step right, as what I taught in this video, this tradition would bring you little benefit because you are STILL blocking your own path to greater fortunes!!!

If you desire to change your life for the better, and stand out from the rest, learn the determination, boldness and resourcefulness behind this speech extract below:

In 1977, at the official opening ceremony of Upper Pierce Reservoir, the then Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew gave a rousing speech, announcing the cleaning up of Singapore River and Kallang River.

He said, "It should be a way of life to keep the water clear, to keep every stream, every culvert, every rivulet free from unnecessary pollution. In ten years, let us have fishing in the Singapore River and fishing in the Kallang River. It can be done.

The day we achieve that [clean river], whoever has been in charge for the last ten years or for the next ten years, if I am still around, I will give each one of them – both the Minister, the Permanent Secretary and the head of department – a real solid gold medal, one troy ounce. I don’t care what the price of it will be… But if it isn’t done… If I am still around and in charge in 1986, I will find out where it went wrong and whoever, whichever group of people made it go wrong and failed… Well, I have got special pieces of lead – not for striking medals – I think I’ll add it to their water supply."

Singapore River is 3.2km long. Kallang River is 10km long.

There were pig farms, squatters, street hawkers, vegetable sellers, shipyards (for building tongkangs) beside Singapore River, causing all the pollution.

Tens of thousands of people. A river with decades of pollution.

A blind telephone operator worked in the law firm of Mrs Lee Kuan Yew, which was at Raffles Place. He took the bus to work every day and always knew when to get off the bus. For the river was so smelly that he could smell it, as the bus crossed the river.

Yet all it took was one man to say and believe "It can be done".

With that, everything else was set into motion.

For the sake of his country and the many generations after, Mr Lee Kuan Yew took an unprecedented first step and kickstarted unimaginable drastic changes.

Here's some courage and wisdom for you! I hope you can change for the better for yourself and your family and nab that special gold medal for your Destiny!

On my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/nSHZejqHKXM

#Cosplay #Cosplayer #CONNECTEDCosplay #ConnectedTVShow #Cosplay2020 #cosplayvietnam #cosplayfc
CONNECTED COSPLAY STARS FOR 2020. Cosplayers to keep your eyes on this year. From VIETNAM....
Name: Mei Yuan
Location: Vietnam
Occupation: Student
Website/Social Media:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tuyen.tanda (personal account)
- IG: @koipurimprud (not often update cosplay images)
- Weibo: @meiyuan202003 (just a new one)
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

When and how did you get started in Cosplay?
- I've started cosplaying since 2015 (it took me nearly 1 year to search for it before attending). By some of my friends.

What was your first Cosplay?
- Kaneki Ken.

What was the most difficult character?
- For each of the cosplay project, I always want to have everything perfect (but sometimes it wasn't). I think once I want to plan to cosplay any character, I have to take a good preparation so I never feel easy for any of them. So, there is no most difficult, just more difficult.

What characters are you planning and type of character are you drawn to?
- On the early days, I only cosplayed the male characters and never thought of the female ones. But in 2017, I tried putting on some female costumes and felt pretty good, then started to cosplay those. But now I think I'm gonna change my mind one more time and back to cosplay male characters again. Most of my next cosplay projects are Disney princess and Arknights' operators.

What is your process when starting from the beginning with a new cosplay?
- I always start with the wig. Even when your costume is suitable with your body, your failed wig will ruin everything, believe me. Your face shows emotion and catches everyone attention so you have to be beautiful/handsome all the time (even when you character isn't, but it's rare), and a bad haircut will take your face to the hell. So I choose to get a best wig first.

Are there any helpful hints in sewing, costume design or any other aspects of your cosplay that you discovered in doing your creations?
- I'm not talented at all. I don't have ability to do anything that can help my cosplay projects done. So I got some trustable people who help me do that (with money for sure).

Do you have a preferred brand of makeup in your cosplay? And if so why?
- I just have tried to makeup by myself for 3-4 months. Before that period of time I always had to find some makeup artists to help me with those. And now I realize that I just have to find my favorite makeup artist (but I still try to learn myself, I like Chinese interior cosmetics, they are afordable and qualified for a begginer like me).

What are you listening to?
- Classical music.

Favorite Movies?
- Thriller is my favorite type of films.

Favorite Animes?
- I liked a lot, one of them is Death Note.

Favorite TV Shows?
- Every music show.

Is there a scene from a anime, cartoon, movie or tv show that left a big impression on you and what was it?
- This is the first scene of Jessica Rabbit from the film "Who frame the Rabbit Roger?".

Books?
- Gone girl, The girl with Dragon tattoo,...

Games?
- Onmyoji, Touken Ranbu, Identity V, Arknights,...

Beverage?
- Yogurt, water, coffee.

Fast Food/ Junk Food of choice?
- Yes.

Candy bar?
- Sure, but not sweet chocolate.

Favorite Breakfast cereal?
- I live in Vietnam so I have my breakfast with "Banh Mi".

Is there something not going on in the cosplay world that you would want to see or is there something you would want to change?
- There are a lot of challanges during my cosplay road. I just want to take cosplay as a hobby, not a job. You know, hobby is something that we want to do but job is something we have to do.

What was your favorite toy growing up?
- No certain one.

Who is your biggest character crush and why?
- Jessica Rabbit. I love everything from her.

You enter a warehouse. There is little light, but you are able to find your way around. The sound of music draws you to a corner of the warehouse. There are FIVE GHOUL CLOWNS, playing a dancing video game. They have razor sharp teeth and scary weapons. Magic can not affect them; they sense your presence and turn facing you. They run to you to attack. Time to fight! What character would you want to be to defeat them and how would you handle the situation?
- Saitama (One Punch Man). His best skill, punch.

If you had to be chained with a character for one year, what would be the character and what would you do?
- Kashuu Kiyomitsu.

You can have dinner with your favorite character. And at this dinner you may ask one question. Who would be the character and what would be your one question?
- Jessica Rabbit. "How much for the next time?"

What's number 1 on your bucket list? (Something you want to do before you leave the planet).
- Lose weight.

What advice would you give to people getting started in Cosplay?
- There's no need to be too serious on this fields. Take it as your hobby, and respect yourself and your beloved characters.

泰晤士報人物專訪【Joshua Wong interview: Xi won’t win this battle, says Hong Kong activist】

Beijing believes punitive prison sentences will put an end to pro-democracy protests. It couldn’t be more wrong, the 23-year-old says.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/joshua-wong-interview-xi-wont-win-this-battle-says-hong-kong-activist-p52wlmd0t

For Joshua Wong, activism began early and in his Hong Kong school canteen. The 13-year-old was so appalled by the bland, oily meals served for lunch at the United Christian College that he organised a petition to lobby for better fare. His precocious behaviour earned him and his parents a summons to the headmaster’s office. His mother played peacemaker, but the episode delivered a valuable message to the teenage rebel.

“It was an important lesson in political activism,” Wong concluded. “You can try as hard as you want, but until you force them to pay attention, those in power won’t listen to you.”

It was also the first stage in a remarkable journey that has transformed the bespectacled, geeky child into the globally recognised face of Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy. Wong is the most prominent international advocate for the protests that have convulsed the former British colony since last summer.

At 23, few people would have the material for a memoir. But that is certainly not a problem for Wong, whose book, #UnfreeSpeech, will be published in Britain this week.

We meet in a cafe in the Admiralty district, amid the skyscrapers of Hong Kong’s waterfront, close to the site of the most famous scenes in his decade of protest. Wong explains that he remains optimistic about his home city’s prospects in its showdown with the might of communist China under President Xi Jinping.

“It’s not enough just to be dissidents or youth activists. We really need to enter politics and make some change inside the institution,” says Wong, hinting at his own ambitions to pursue elected office.

He has been jailed twice for his activism. He could face a third stint as a result of a case now going through the courts, a possibility he treats with equanimity. “Others have been given much longer sentences,” he says. Indeed, 7,000 people have been arrested since the protests broke out some seven months ago; 1,000 of them have been charged, with many facing a sentence of as much as 10 years.

There is a widespread belief that Beijing hopes such sentences will dampen support for future protests. Wong brushes off that argument. “It’s gone too far. Who would imagine that Generation Z and the millennials would be confronting rubber bullets and teargas, and be fully engaged in politics, instead of Instagram or Snapchat? The Hong Kong government may claim the worst is over, but Hong Kong will never be peaceful as long as police violence persists.”

In Unfree Speech, Wong argues that China is not only Hong Kong’s problem (the book’s subtitle is: The Threat to Global Democracy and Why We Must Act, Now). “It is an urgent message that people need to defend their rights, against China and other authoritarians, wherever they live,” he says.

At the heart of the book are Wong’s prison writings from a summer spent behind bars in 2017. Each evening in his cell, “I sat on my hard bed and put pen to paper under dim light” to tell his story.

Wong was born in October 1996, nine months before Britain ceded control of Hong Kong to Beijing. That makes him a fire rat, the same sign of the Chinese zodiac that was celebrated on the first day of the lunar new year yesterday. Fire rats are held to be adventurous, rebellious and garrulous. Wong is a Christian and does not believe in astrology, but those personality traits seem close to the mark.

His parents are Christians — his father quit his job in IT to become a pastor, while his mother works at a community centre that provides counselling — and named their son after the prophet who led the Israelites to the promised land.

Like many young people in Hong Kong, whose housing market has been ranked as the world’s most unaffordable, he still lives at home, in South Horizons, a commuter community on the south side of the main island.

Wong was a dyslexic but talkative child, telling jokes in church groups and bombarding his elders with questions about their faith. “By speaking confidently, I was able to make up for my weaknesses,” he writes. “The microphone loved me and I loved it even more.”

In 2011, he and a group of friends, some of whom are his fellow activists today, launched Scholarism, a student activist group, to oppose the introduction of “moral and national education” to their school curriculum — code for communist brainwashing, critics believed. “I lived the life of Peter Parker,” he says. “Like Spider-Man’s alter-ego, I went to class during the day and rushed out to fight evil after school.”

The next year, the authorities issued a teaching manual that hailed the Chinese Communist Party as an “advanced and selfless regime”. For Wong, “it confirmed all our suspicions and fears about communist propaganda”.

In August 2012, members of Scholarism launched an occupation protest outside the Hong Kong government’s headquarters. Wong told a crowd of 120,000 students and parents: “Tonight we have one message and one message only: withdraw the brainwashing curriculum. We’ve had enough of this government. Hong Kongers will prevail.”

Remarkably, the kids won. Leung Chun-ying, the territory’s chief executive at the time, backed down. Buoyed by their success, the youngsters of Scholarism joined forces with other civil rights groups to protest about the lack of progress towards electing the next chief executive by universal suffrage — laid out as a goal in the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s constitution. Their protests culminated in the “umbrella movement” occupation of central Hong Kong for 79 days in 2014.

Two years later, Wong and other leaders set up a political group, Demosisto. He has always been at pains to emphasise he is not calling for independence — a complete red line for Beijing. Demosisto has even dropped the words “self-determination” from its stated goals — perhaps to ease prospects for its candidates in elections to Legco, the territory’s legislative council, in September.

Wong won’t say whether he will stand himself, but he is emphatically political, making a plea for change from within — not simply for anger on the streets — and for stepping up international pressure: “I am one of the facilitators to let the voices of Hong Kong people be heard in the international community, especially since 2016.”

There are tensions between moderates and radicals. Some of the hardliners on the streets last year considered Wong already to be part of the Establishment, a backer of the failed protests of the past.

So why bother? What’s the point of a city of seven million taking on one of the world’s nastiest authoritarian states, with a population of about 1.4 billion? And in any case, won’t it all be over in 2047, the end of the “one country, two systems” deal agreed between China and Britain, which was supposed to guarantee a high degree of autonomy for another 50 years? Does he fear tanks and a repetition of the Tiananmen Square killings?

Wong acknowledges there are gloomy scenarios but remains a robust optimist. “Freedom and democracy can prevail in the same way that they did in eastern Europe, even though before the Berlin Wall fell, few people believed it would happen.”

He is tired of the predictions of think-tank pundits, journalists and the like. Three decades ago, with the implosion of communism in the Soviet bloc, many were confidently saying that the demise of the people’s republic was only a matter of time. Jump forward 20 years, amid the enthusiasm after the Beijing Olympics, and they were predicting market reforms and a growing middle class would presage liberalisation.

Neither scenario has unfolded, Wong notes. “They are pretending to hold the crystal ball to predict the future, but look at their record and it is clear no one knows what will happen by 2047. Will the Communist Party even still exist?”

https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1119445/unfree-speech

#moomoos
CAN ALL MY TAURUS MOOMOOS PLEASE STAND UP!

Finally, my first zodiac makeup look, and of course it has to be MY sign lol but for reals, I absolutely loveee this look (can you tell?)

Let me know if you want me to do any other more zodiac signs!

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NARS Soft Matte Complete Concealer
Shade: Custard
BareMinerals Blemish Rescue Skin-Clearing Loose Powder Foundation
Shade: Fair Ivory 1N
Excel Powder & Pencil Eyebrow Ex
Shade: PD01 Natural Brown
Fenty Beauty Pro Filt’r Amplifying Eye Primer
Colourpop Zodiac Eyeshadow Palette
Heroine Make Eyeline
Shade: Brown
Kiko Extra Sculpt Waterproof Mascara
NARS Laguna Bronzer
Shu Uemura Glow On Blush
Shade: 510
Colourpop Super Shock Cheek
Shade: On The Cusp
Colourpop Lux Lipstick
Shade: What’s Your Sign
Fenty Beauty Mattemoiselle Plush Matte Lipstick
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I review the "Year of the Dog" Edition of Tokidoki's "BASTARDINO (CACTUS DOG)" collectible figure! This non-articulated figurine (Featured #onTOYSREVIL: https://bit.ly/2ErNWjC) was unleashed earlier this year, celebrating the Chinese Lunar New Year - whose zodiac sign this year is very aptly the "Dog"!

Funnily, this was brought on a Mother's Day Sunday (Yes, I am late with my purchases, as usual :p), instead of getting something for my mum that day! (Which we'd gotten much earlier though, thanks!).

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Chinese parks are quite a different sort of experience, other than being a place for people to try and sell off their sons and daughters for marriage to other families, it's the only place people are really able to go out and practice their kung fu, dancing, singing, musical instruments etc. Of course there are the regular activities such as having a picnic, hiking and playing sports (as well as some boating and fishing) available as well. Come and join Sasha and I as we get the low down on how Chinese parks work.

The primary goal of attending the marriage market is for parents to find a suitable partner for their child. The standards of finding the right match may be based upon (but not limited to) age, height, job, income, education, family values, Chinese zodiac sign, and personality. All of this information is written on a piece of paper, which is then hung upon long strings among other parents' advertisements for their children. The parents walk around chatting with other parents to see if there is a harmonious fit only after their children's standards are met.

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Many parents do not have permission from their child to go to this event. It has been described as "match.com meets farmers' market" with a low success rate. In many parents' eyes, parent matchmaking gatherings such as the Marriage Market are the only way to uphold a traditional dating style for their children in modern China. China's long idealized tradition of continuing their family lineage is very important within Chinese culture. As the children of the One Child Policy start to become of typical marriage age, the so-called marriage "market" of China has wavered in stability, particularly for males in China. The University of Kent predicts that by the year 2020, 24 million men will be unmarried and unable to find a wife.

Recently, well-educated women in China with established careers are in less of a hurry to get married. They have more options than women in past generations and are not afraid to put their career first. This change in marriage ideology puts the women in a higher position of power within a traditionally male-dominated society. Now more women seek to find a responsible man with personal integrity instead of just a high paying job.

Many men's standards have changed with the progression of women's status in the work industry as well, they expect a woman that has been educated and well on her way to a career path. But what has drastically changed is the older generations viewpoint on the subject—they agree with the younger generation, with the two most important qualities in a wife being "elegance and a decent career path," quite a change from "diligence and the willingness to suffer the burden of life".

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