shanlung

My french friends, I am happy to be back in this forum again. I had tried to get back, but I think the forum was being reorganised. There had been some chapters of my life added since I was last here. I then lived in Muscat, Sultanate of Oman in the Middle East from 2008-2010. A rescued CAG was given over to my care. I called her Riamfada. Riamfada was a hauntingly beautiful magical entity of David Gemmell, the finest fantasy writer in the world. A name befitting to this grey. She came to me as a frightened ball of grey and with wings asymmetrically clipped. Her story started here http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2008/10/ Then we became good friends. And she got to understand her wings better. Riamfada flying up to me on sand dune in Seifa beach in stiff cross winds. Story in http://shanlung.livejournal.com/94889.html Riamfada flying to me above rampart of Nakhal castle story in http://shanlung.livejournal.com/97041.html Eventually, we went on to do free flight. But free flight is not something I recommend to anyone else. Buwah Free Flight 2 // Wadi Harban // Riamfada with Jabris again http://shanlung.livejournal.com/111045.html In the desert of Oman http://shanlung.livejournal.com/112019.html I had to leave Riamfada with a friend in Oman when my contract there ended. Then I got myself another bird in Singapore. And a few entries of the greenleaf song bird in Singapore until late June 2011 shanlung: Events that happened // LiBai flights in apartment http://shanlung.livejournal.com/127946.html Tinkerbell -Summer of 2011 // Ivan and LiBai // LiBai voilational flights to me // http://shanlung.livejournal.com/128061.html LiBai - Footprints in the sand http://shanlung.livejournal.com/128585.html I wrote a lot more than what I posted in this email. You can always use the Livejournal navigation to page back and forth to other entries. A summary of my first parrot Tinkerbell of Taiwan http://shanlung.livejournal.com/8284.html And the entries of my last visit to Tinkerbell in Taiwan made over end June/early July 2011 Tinkerbell Summertime2011 - Before visitting her // Sieben // Formosan Blue Magpies & Molly http://shanlung.livejournal.com/128803.html Tinkerbell Summertime2011 -Being with her Part 1 // 30th June - 2 July 2011 http://shanlung.livejournal.com/129050.html Tinkerbell Summertime2011 -Being with her Part 2 // 3 July -7 July 2011 http://shanlung.livejournal.com/129358.html Tinkerbell Summertime2011 Wuling Nong Chang & leaving Taiwan http://shanlung.livejournal.com/129541.html

Tinkerbell à BanTienYen L'Agonie Http://shanlung.livejournal.com/71760.html Et de l'ecstasy Http://shanlung.livejournal.com/72611.html Tinkerbell - Secours à Bantienyen Http://shanlung.livejournal.com/73198.html Tinkerbell - Bantienyen rétrospectivement Http://shanlung.livejournal.com/73232.html Chaleureusement Shanlung Tinkerbell at BanTienYen The Agony http://shanlung.livejournal.com/71760.html and the Ecstasy http://shanlung.livejournal.com/72611.html Tinkerbell - Rescue at Bantienyen http://shanlung.livejournal.com/73198.html Tinkerbell - Bantienyen In Retrospect http://shanlung.livejournal.com/73232.html Warmest regards Shanlung

Merci mes amis. Je suis désolé de la pression de travail et le manque d'énergie m'a empêché de De venir ici plus souvent. Une mise à jour. Venez 20 07 décembre, moi et mon épouse volera au large de Taiwan À être doux avec Tinkerbell nouveau à la mi-janvier. Je blog, qui tous les jours dans mon Livejournal. Avec le dernier adieu à Yingshiong, moi et ma femme Décidé sa juste trop Douloureuses d'avoir à dire au revoir aux créatures. Non oiseaux obtiendrez l'intérieur de la maison à moins qu'il ne soit frits, Curry ou grillées. Ce n'est que lorsque nous sommes certains que nous Rester dans le pays pour quelques années (aucune une telle chose comme jamais dans Notre planète, pour l'instant), nous obtenons un poilu ou Drapeau compagnon de vivre avec. Mais beasties sauvages ne nous en ami. Dans un premier temps, seuls les corneilles et brousse dinde venait régulièrement Pour la nourriture que j'ai définies pour les oiseaux. Le plus tôt troupeau de Corneilles que je n'aimait pas essaim de la cuisine Réglée à une seule corneille que condescendre à Condescendant nous. Je fais comme ce que corneille Vous pouvez le voir dans la vidéo plus tard. Nous avons appelé la corneille Princesse Mononoke Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke Et si vous n'avez pas vu plus haut, ne vous un BIG Favorable et de voir ce film. PM a donné ce nom parce qu'elle a fait ce bruit de L'un des Kodamas (forêt spiritueux) dans ce film. Nous Accroché choses dans des boîtes qui devaient être remontée pieds Sur le bec comme Tinkerbell en tirant sur la cible bâton Chaîne. PM fait que, après quelques minutes et a été le Corneille que celle-ci ne l'a fait. PM est encore douloureusement Timide et extrêmement prudent, mais moins de mon épouse. Mais Ensuite, j'ai dû partir pour le bureau trop tôt le matin. Placer la nourriture pour les particules, de remonter (vidéo ci-dessus) est devenue Un rituel pour nous. Si je n'ai plus de temps plus tard, je me rendrai en forme Cliqueur formation avec des créatures sauvages et de voir si cela Sera le pont vers des relations plus étroites avec eux D'aller au-delà d'un pot-de-vin fournisseur. Rainbow Lorikeets encore voler sur les arbres à travers le Route. Je n'ai pas encore préparer la nourriture nécessaire Pour eux de tenter d'inciter à nous. Deux boucher les oiseaux que j'ai appelée à tort currawongs Sont des amis. L'un et l'autre amis encore Très timide. L'amicale va voler dans l'ouvert Porte à chanter pour moi de vous annoncer sa présence et ne Émincer prendre de ma main. La timide refusé de prendre un De ma main. A pied pie est un autre appelant régulièrement sur ma Véranda, la plus belle et élégante créature. Il Apparemment parler comme capturé par ma femme dans ses vidéos Http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=shimmertje&p=r Photos d'oiseaux venir à mes mangeoires Http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimmertje/sets/72157601924716943/ Bush queue possums venu pour leur tétées de nuit, un Borgne possum et ce que j'appelle "la mère et l'enfant". I Se félicite que les possums se spook et exécutez Quand d'autres personnes ont marché sur le pied chemin 30-40 Pieds. Pourtant, les possums accepté de nous assis un pied À distance. Et il ya seulement quelques semaines, l'enfant M'a permis de frotter son dos aussi. Sa mère a Utilisés pour moi un moment déjà dos. Photos de bushtail possums à ma véranda et en permettant Me frottant les Http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimmertje/sets/72157601852137489/ Vidéo de me frotter les possums sont également en haut. Ma femme tenir un blog et la mise à jour que beaucoup plus Régulièrement que je n'ai jamais peut-être que tu aimerais À lire aussi. Si vous pensez que vous êtes un mauvais élève Conducteur, vous ne l'avez pas encore connu ma femme. Je pense Moniteurs de conduite pourrait même payer ma femme de ne pas Les engager comme instructeur de conduite. Après tout, je suis Prêts à continuer à payer pour réduire au minimum l'accent sur Moi-même, à la manière d'enseigner son lecteur. Elle est beaucoup Mieux avec les oiseaux et les créatures qu'elle est à l'origine de la Roue. Http://shimmertje.livejournal.com/ Cordialement, Shanlung Http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Thank you my friends. I am sorry the pressure of work and lack of energy prevented me from coming here more often. An update. Come 20 December 07, me and my wife will fly off to Taiwan to be with sweet Tinkerbell again to mid January. I will blog that daily into my Livejournal. With the last farewell to Yingshiong, me and my wife decided its just too agonising to have to say goodbyes to creatures. No birds will get inside house unless it is fried, curried or roasted. Only when we are certain we stay on for a few years (no such thing as forever in our planet as of now), will we get a furry or feathered companion to live with. But wild beasties do befriend us. At first, only crows and bush turkey came regularly for the food I set for birds. The earlier flock of crows that I disliked swarming about the food dishes resolved itself to a single crow that condescend to patronising us. I do like this particular crow that you can see in video later. We called the crow Princess Mononoke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke And if you have not seen above, do yourself a BIG favour and see that movie. PM was given that name because she did this sound of one of the Kodamas (forest spirits) in that movie. We hung stuff in boxes that needed to be pull up feet over beak like Tinkerbell pulling up target stick on chain. PM did that after a few minutes and was the only crow here that did that. PM is still painfully shy and extremely wary, but less so of my wife. But then, I had to leave for office too early in morning. Placing food for PM to pull up (video above) became a ritual for us. If I have more time later on, I will go into formal clicker training with wild creatures and see if that will be the bridge into deeper relationships with them to go beyond a bribe provider. Rainbow Lorikeets still fly about the trees across the road. I have yet to prepare the special food required for them to try to entice them to us. Two butcher birds that I mistakenly called currawongs are regular friends. One friendly and the other still very shy. The friendly one will fly through the open door to sing to me to announce his presence and will take mince from my hand. The shy one refused to take from my hand. A pied magpie is another regular caller on my verandah, a most beautiful and elegant creature. He apparently talk as captured by my wife in her videos https://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=shimmertje&p=r Photos of birds coming to my feeders http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimmertje/sets/72157601924716943/ Bush tail possums came for their nightly feedings, a one eyed possum and what I call 'mother and child'. I was pleased that the possums will spook and run away when other people walked on the foot path 30-40 feet away. Yet the possums accepted us sitting a foot away from them. And just a few weeks ago, the child allowed me to stroke his back as well. His mom got used to me a while back already. Photos of bushtail possums at my veranda and allowing me stroking them http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimmertje/sets/72157601852137489/ Video of me stroking the possums are also in above. My wife keep a blog and update that a lot more regularly than I ever did that perhaps you might like to read as well. If you think you are a bad learner driver, you have not known my wife yet. I think driving instructors might even pay my wife not to engage them as driving instructor. After all, I am willing to continue to pay them to minimise stress on myself in teaching her how to drive. She is a lot better with birds and creatures than she is behind the wheel. http://shimmertje.livejournal.com/ Warmest regards Shanlung http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/

papaye From mountain top where we can see forever And valleys dotted with hotsprings in between the mountains And village in Southen Taiwan, Kenting where she flew to me in force 7 crosswinds And to seashores such as this in Green Island Hi folks, I am sorry to have been away from here so long. A few other things had happen since I was last here. When I came to Australia in Nov 06, I prepared plans for Yingshiong future if my wife joined me here It was another painful goodbye that I had to say to Yingshiong. That was on the 7 May 07. I flew back to Singapore to be with him, and then to hand him over to the Jurong Bird Park. If you go there, please ask to see Yingshiong at the South East Asia Aviary and listen to him singing there. Leaving Yingshiong was painful even if not of the magnitude when I first had to say goodbye to Tinkerbell. I was lucky in that I flew back to Brisbane on that same evening. My wife was left in Singapore for a few weeks to be surrounded by YS things and the silence in the apartment. The only way to prevent that is to close our hearts entirely. Then there will be no pain, and no beauty or magic either. You can read those last few days with Yingshiong in here. (warning, not happy reading) http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2007/05/ The leaving of Tink is more than a throbbing hurt. Much of my life still evolve around her. When I went to work in Riyadh Saudi Arabia, I was hoping that would lead me back to Taiwan. Then I realised that was not going to be the case and my wife understandably refused to live with me in Saudi Arabia. I could not fly back to Taiwan to see Tink and ignore seeing my wife. Thats why I am now in Brisbane down under. Where my wife is willing to come and live with me here. We can both visit Taiwan together as Tink is her daughter too. My wife is here for a month already. We just shifted out a couple days ago from my old flat to another with a balcony at least where I can interact with birds and beasts. After YS, we decided we cannot cope with another farewell. I promised my wife the only birdies that get into the apartment will be grilled, fried or curried. I hope to make friends with the lorikeets , or pied magpies or cockatos or anything else outside in the balcony. They first might be attracted by food I place out for them. Then perhaps one might chose to be my companion and bonded with clicker training with me. Hopefully, future partings with the wild birds might not be so traumatic on us. I also found some other photos on YS in my wife laptop. Three are below. I hope you enjoy them. More are in http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/

Fidjy, papaye au revoir dragon http://shanlung.livejournal.com/65819.html bonjour gens, _ tandis que je pouvoir non avoir prendre actif partie dans votre forum, je écrire sur perroquet. _ un série avoir être sur coupure aile que je extracted dans mon Livejournal ici. _ _ http://shanlung.livejournal.com/65601.html je être aussi juste actif dans Wikipedia - africain gris perroquet http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Grey_Parrot grand importance, être le 'discussion 'que vous tout pouvoir aller quand vous cliquer sur le étiquette 'discussion 'le dessus ou http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:African_Grey_Parrot vous pouvoir comme aller là faire ce être plus r3fléchissant et utile tout dans le communauté son être un long temps je écrire tout puisque je venir au-dessus Brisbane. _ je détester staying dans hôtel et je rapide obtenir un endroit sur un 6 mois louer sortir que hôtel. _ je être maintenant counting vers le bas le 3 mois gauche extrémité que louer obtenir un maison rester dans. _ Thats parce que je être non permettre avoir tout créature, poilu ou faire varier le pas. _ comme ce endroit avoir aucun balcon l'un ou l'autre, je être frustrer par appeler arc-en-ciel loris, pie pie, SC2s que chanter dans arbre et terre et je non capable agir l'un sur l'autre avec les. _ tellement de sorte que je égal traiter en ami le redback sous le étape ce leased appartement dans bureau, je dépenser mon déjeuner casser par le côté un crique. _ là être ces 4 eau dragon. _ certain je donner les chute et alors je ended vers le haut buying kitty égruger alimenter les. _ mon épouse venir au-dessus un couple semaine dernier mois et prendre quelque photo que vous pouvoir voir dans http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimmertje/sets/72157594547160392/ sans tout autre créature, devenir mon déjeuner ami, pour trois mois. _ et dans le dernier semaine, le étape que je être capable frotter le grand alpha reine sur la tête. _ garder le autre trois quelque distance loin alors à partir ce jour lundi, je être seconder un client et être working avec les sur un grand projet. _ que signifier je être leur bureau et plus going mon vieux bureau. _ tandis que thats passionnant, je être attrister dire au revoir le dragon. Goodbye to dragons http://shanlung.livejournal.com/65819.html Hi folks, While I might not have taken active part in your forums, I do write on parrots. One series has been on clipping wings that I extracted into my Livejournal here. http://shanlung.livejournal.com/65601.html I was also fairly active in Wikipedia - African Grey Parrot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Grey_Parrot Of greater importance , will be the 'discussion' that you all can go to when you click on the tab 'discussion' at the top or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:African_Grey_Parrot You might like to go there to make this to be more reflective and useful to all in the community. Its been a long time I wrote to all since I came over to Brisbane. I disliked staying in hotel and I quickly got a place on a 6 month lease to get out of that hotel. I am now counting down the 3 months left to end of that lease to get a house to stay in. Thats because I am not allowed to have any creatures, furred or feathered. As this place has no balcony either, I am frustrated by calls of rainbow loris, pied magpies, SC2s that sang in trees and ground and I not able to interact with them. So much so that I even befriended the redback under the steps of this leased apartment. In office, I spend my lunch breaks by the side of a creek. There were these 4 water dragons. Eventually I gave them scraps and then I ended up buying kitty kibbles to feed them. My wife came over a couple of weeks last month and took some photos that you can see in http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimmertje/sets/72157594547160392/ Without any other creatures, they became my lunchtime friends, for three months. And in the last week, to the stage that I was able to rub the big alpha queen on her head. She kept the other three some distance away. Then starting from this day Monday, I was seconded to a client and will be working with them on a big project. That meant I will be at their office and no longer going to my old office. While thats exciting to me, I was sadden to say goodbye to the dragons.

http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://shanlung.livejournal.com/65169.html?200510&lp=en_fr au-dessus du URL traduisez les liens aussi bien aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Photoset et videos d'intermède de Tinkerbell, et début de prochain chapitre de la vie Bonjour à tous mes amis autour du monde, Les derniers couples des jours étaient dépensent en assemblant les photographies et les videos pris pendant l'intermède de Tinkerbell, une période du 1er novembre au 8 novembre quand j'étais dans Taiwan à être avec Tinkerbell encore. J'assortis les photos pour couvrir le jour par jour de Tinkerbell. Les entrées de Livejournal ont maintenant les photos appropriées dans elles cela meilleur illustrez certains des événements que j'ai écrits environ. Les videos sont également incorporé dans les entrées de Livejournal. Vous trouvez cela dedans http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2006/11/ Les vols de Tinkerbell étaient très faibles au début. Yu l'a traitée trop bien, lui prenant les délicatesses et le thé. En conséquence, elle à peine a dû voler. Elle jamais n'a pendant longtemps fait des vols de rappel à lui. Cela mené à lui n'essayant pas laissez sa mouche. C'était un cercle se développant en spirales triste. Cela m'a pris juste un matin pour mettre bien dans mon "recyclage l'entraîneur". Tinkerbell a dû être rappelé la joie du vol, et être donné la chance pour voler encore. Dans les videos au temple de Confucious de parc de Chiayi, vous pouvez entendre clairement les atterrissages lourds qu'elle a faits sur moi, aucun de ceux atterrissages doux de plume d'avant. Il était seulement une semaine plus tard, cela que je lui ai fait confiance avec de plus longs vols chez BanTienYen. Regardez la vidéo où elle a volé à moi, cerclée au loin avec la laisse criant de la bobine et elle m'interrompant et retournant. Les photosets peuvent être vus ici. http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/ Vous pouvez également voir les videos ici. https://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=shanlung Vous devriez voir que du fond vers le haut à partir des vols de temple de Confucious. Pourquoi je suis allé à Taiwan pour ces vacances courtes on peut dire maintenant. Quand j'ai quitté l'Arabie Saoudite, je suis allé à Brisbane Australie et ai accepté un contrat de 4 ans pour travailler et vivre là. Je suis revenu à Singapour pour effectuer le travail de papier pour obtenir ce travail visa pour l'Australie. J'ai su que ma tranche de temps sera courte. Ainsi j'ai dû voir Tinkerbell quand je pourrais. Il était chanceux que je ainsi. Hier, j'ai reçu les nouvelles qui les visas pour moi et mon joie d'épouse ont été accordés. J'ai espéré commencer là au début de l'année prochaine. Cette compagnie alors m'a voulu plus d'aussitôt que possible. Nous avons compromis du fait je vole plus d'à Brisbane le 26 novembre commençant le 27 novembre 2006. Mon épouse restera à Singapour pendant quelques mois jusqu'à ce que le travail et la compagnie nous trouvent mutuellement agréables pour cela à long terme. Alors elle volera plus d'et vivra avec moi en Australie. Ceci commencé quand j'étais travaillant et habitant dans Riyadh, Arabie Saoudite. Alors j'ai lu cet article de BBC en juin au sujet de la fonte russe de toundra. Nous avons su qui se produiraient. Mais j'ai pensé cela pour être une conséquence du chauffage global. Que l'article a alors décrit le CO2 et le méthane emprisonnés dans le passé venir hors de maintenant. Ainsi au lieu du pergélisol fondant par conséquent, cela pourrait jaillir soit donner de timebomb nous même moins de temps dans un monde et société que nous savons. J'apprécie plutôt la vie avec mon épouse MAINTENANT, que pour rendre des sorts de l'argent dans Riyadh pendant un futur plutôt incertains. Il y avait d'autres raisons, mais ma préférence doit apprécier le temps qui est laissé à moi et mon épouse. Travailler et vivre à Brisbane l'Australie sera bien mieux que dans Riyadh, Arabie Saoudite même si le salaire est moins. Peut-être, ce que j'ai écrit dix ans de dos pourraient faire la lecture intéressante pour vous. http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/oldluddite.html Je ne discuterai pas si vous pensez différemment. En fait, j'ai espéré que vous avez raison, pour mon fils et vos enfants, celui nous aurons beaucoup plus le temps à l'avenir. Si vrai des chefs sont trouvés et tous de nous prêts et capables à accepter les changements énergiques de nos styles de vie courants. Isnt plutôt difficile il ? Cela apportent vers le haut ce qui arrivera à Yingshiong devrait et quand mon épouse me joint en Australie. Vous notez que je délibérément ai dû voler de nouveau à Singapour de Taiwan pendant que mon épouse volait au R-U pour voir ses nièces. D'ailleurs, Yingshiong est dans la salle de PC avec moi. Il a volé dedans pour me joindre pendant que j'écrivais cette lettre plutôt longue. Si je l'ignorais trop long, il planerait au-dessus de ma tête. Ainsi je fais quelques rappels pour que la chance le traite avec des millis. J'aime YS aussi, même si pas au niveau à l'âme en tant que celui avec Tinkerbell. Si j'et mon épouse ne peut pas s'occuper de YS, je ne laisserai pas YS être de nouveau dans un camp rond. J'avais discuté avec Taufik avec les diverses possibilités et il était d'accord avec moi. Yingshiong pourrait entrer dans le parc d'oiseau de Jurong dans la chute d'eau volière. C'est le plus grand volière de plain-pied dans le monde. J'ai eu des discussions avec le niveau le plus élevé et ai donné une approbation de dans-principe pour Yingshiong. Il y a 4 shamas masculins résidents là et un ou deux femelles parmi un bon nombre d'autres oiseaux. Il soyez une lutte de la vie et de la mort pour Yingshiong. Mais je pense que YS a des 4-5 ans principaux. Je crois qu'il combattra et soyez dominant ou découpez au moins hors d'un espace pour se. Ainsi si n'importe qui entrent là à l'avenir, vous pourriez être audition Yingshiong chantant vers le haut dans la verrière des arbres. Mon ami BK a offert à Yingshiong un endroit permanent dans son épouse volière et et belle énorme de shama pour lui aussi. Mais personne autres que moi, BK, et quelques uns de ses amis n'entendront jamais Yingshiong encore. Il sera sûr là, choyé pour le reste de sa vie. Une autre option sera de libérer Yingshiong de nouveau dans la forêt appropriée. Ceci pourrait avoir le risque qui il ne peut pas intégrer de nouveau dans la nature ou la capture par d'autres à maintenir dans un camp encore. Il est encore trop tôt pour décider maintenant. Les amitiés les plus sincères Shanlung Tinkerbell Interlude photoset and videos, and start of next chapter of life Hello to all my friends around the world, The last couple of days were spend in collating the photographs and videos taken during the Tinkerbell Interlude, a period from 1st November to 8th November when I was in Taiwan to be with Tinkerbell again. I sort the photos to cover the day by day with Tinkerbell. The Livejournal entries now have the appropriate photos in them that better illustrate some of the events I wrote about. The videos are also embedded in the Livejournal entries. You find that in http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2006/11/ Tinkerbell flights were very weak at the beginning. Yu treated her too well, taking delicacies and tea to her. As a result, she hardly had to fly. She never made recall flights to him for a long time. That led to him not trying to let her fly. That was a sad spiralling circle. It took me just one morning to put right in my "Retraining the trainer". Tinkerbell needed to be reminded of the joy of flying, and given the chance to fly again. In the videos at Chiayi Park Confucious temple, you can hear clearly the heavy landings she made on me, none of those feather soft landings of before. It was only a week later, that I trusted her with longer flights at BanTienYen. Look at the video where she flew at me, circled off with the leash screaming from the reel and her breaking off and returning to me. The photosets can be seen here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/ You can also see the videos here. https://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=shanlung You should see that from bottom up starting from Confucious temple flights. Why I went to Taiwan for this short holiday can be told now. When I left Saudi Arabia, I went to Brisbane Australia and accepted a 4 year contract to work and live there. I came back to Singapore to do the paper work to get that work visa for Australia. I knew my time frame will be short. So I had to see Tinkerbell when I could. It was lucky that I did so. Yesterday, I received news that the visas for me and my wife Joy were granted. I hoped to start there early next year. That company then wanted me over asap. We compromised in that I fly over to Brisbane on 26th November starting 27th November 2006. My wife will remain in Singapore for a few months until the work and company find us mutually agreeable for that long term. Then she will fly over and live with me in Australia. This started when I was working and living in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia. Then I read this BBC article in June about the Russian tundra melting. We knew that would happen. But I thought that to be a consequence of global warming. That article then described the CO2 and methane trapped in the past to be coming out now. So instead of the permafrost melting as a consequence, that might well be a timebomb giving us even less time in a world and society that we know. I rather enjoy life with my wife NOW, than to make lots of money in Riyadh for a future rather uncertain. There were other reasons, but my preference is to enjoy the time that is left to me and my wife. Working and living in Brisbane Australia will be much better than in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia even if the pay is less. Perhaps, what I wrote ten years back might make interesting reading for you. http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/oldluddite.html I will not argue if you think differently. In fact, I hoped you are right, for the sake of my son and your children, that we will have a lot more time in the future. If true leaders are found and all of us ready and able to accept the drastic changes in our current lifestyles. Rather difficult isnt it? That bring up what will happen to Yingshiong should and when my wife joins me in Australia. You note that I deliberately had to fly back to Singapore from Taiwan as my wife flew to UK to see her nieces. By the way, Yingshiong is in the PC room with me. He flew in to join me as I wrote this rather long letter. If I ignored him too long, he would hover over my head. So I do a few recalls for the chance to treat him with millis. I love YS too, even if not at the level at the soul as that with Tinkerbell. Should me and my wife cannot look after YS, I will not allow YS to be back into a round cage. I had discussed with Taufik with the various possibilities and he agreed with me. Yingshiong might go into the Jurong Bird Park in the waterfall aviary. This is the largest walk-in aviary in the world. I have had discussions with the highest level and given an in-principle approval for Yingshiong. There are 4 resident male shamas there and one or two females among lots of other birds. It will be a life and death struggle for Yingshiong. But I think YS is a prime 4-5 years old. I believe he will fight and be dominant or at least carve out a space for himself. So if anyone go there in future, you might be hearing Yingshiong singing up in the canopy of trees. My friend BK offered Yingshiong a permanent place in his huge aviary, and beautiful shama wife for him too. But no one other than me , BK, and a few of his friends will ever hear Yingshiong again. He will be safe there, pampered for the rest of his life. Another option will be to release Yingshiong back into the appropriate forest. This might have the risk that he is unable to integrate back into nature or capture by other people to be kept in a cage again. It is yet too early to decide now. Warmest regards Shanlung

Tinkerbell Interlude - The meeting http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2006/11/01/ Other updates will be made naturally and when possible, so do check on it when you are free Shanlung

Amis, Je volerai à Taiwan 31 oct. pendant des vacances courtes. Je passerai 10 jours là pour être avec ma petite fille encore à partir de 1 novembre. J'enregistrerai cela journal dans shanlung.livejournal.com à partir du 31 oct. Friends, I will be flying to Taiwan on 31 Oct for a short holiday. I will spend 10 days there to be with my little girl again starting from 1 November. I will record that daily into shanlung.livejournal.com from 31 Oct

Rendez compte de la concurrence de chant d'oiseau de shama à Singapour http://babelfish.altavista.com/babelfish/tr?doit=done&url=http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2006/10/23/?200624&lp=en_fr

new videos of Yingshiong Hi folks, I am back again in Singapore. Here are some more videos taken by my wife that she posted up on Youtube. Shama gathering at Jurong East. She came with me to the Friday shama gathering at Jurong East about 3 weeks ago. She took this video of those shamas singing. They even had this female shama hung in a corner to get those male shamas to try to sing better. I thought they would be singing better than what they did with so many of shamas there. I went again to the shama gathering at Bishan on Wednesday night 4 nights back. There were more shamas at Bishan than in Jurong East. But the performance was about the same. Boy shamas meet girl shama

Fidjy, :-) Is drinking camel milk better for the health? :-) aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Very OT - Sheep head and camel milk The last Saudi friday weekend of 25 Aug was likely to be the last trip we all be making into the desert around Riyadh. You might find "Sheep head and camel milk" to be interesting. If you have delicate stomach, you might not wish to read http://shanlung.livejournal.com/61041.html Warmest regards Shanlung

Very OT - on shisha and hidden valley Some travels in Saudi Arabia. A shisha place and hunt for hidden valley. For your reading pleasure if you are too bored. http://shanlung.livejournal.com/60849.html There are also links to some of my earlier letters on my martial art background as well. Warmest regards Shanlung

Videos of Tinkerbell and Yingshiong Singing To all friends of Tinkerbell and Yingshiong, My wife uploaded a few videos. Those are old videos of Tinkerbell and of scenes in Taiwan. You can also see Yingshiong singing and display. That can be access via http://shimmertje.livejournal.com/79634.html I cannot see any of them as I am in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and censorship here cut off that video site from me. Perhaps you might find those videos interesting. Shanlung

Fidjy :-) On shama, parrots, owls , falcons and living fossils Hi folks, I have been back to shama YingShiong and am again in Riyadh. I was snubbed by YS for a few days. My report on that is in Singapore and Yingshiong again 3 months after http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2006/06/17/ I forgot to take the photos I mentioned of owls and travels in Laos and that in Saudi when I went back. Even if I did, I did not have the time to upload them when I was in Singapore. To my nice surprise, the censors in Saudi lifted the ban on Flickr so those photos are loaded into folders Laos travels & Tinkerbell Legacy http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/72157594170336188/ "I was writing Tinkerbell Legacy during my travelling in Laos in early part of 2005. Here are some of the photos of Laos as when I first crossed Mekong to encounters with the slaty headed parrot, the owlets hold for ransom, the vernal hanging parrot that featured in Tinkerbell Legacy, the owl that played with me. I took photos of rats on sale in market in 2005. In 2006, it was found that those creatures were very old, as old as fossil but still alive today , until they were killed for the market. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/5082264.stm These photos , the travels, and the Tinkerbell Legacy were written up in http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2005/02/Start with Ranting 01 " Riyadh & falcons http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/72157594170434840/ " Photos of places around Riyadh and falcons. The scenes were described in my comments at my wife's blog in http://shimmertje.livejournal.com/ during the period from March 2006 to June 2006 Warmest regards Shanlung

Greetings from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. My apologies for not appearing here for some time as I was settling in. That disaster of Tinkerbell flying away had its silver linings. Not only that lead me to harness usage and the developement of a safe comfortable and light harness (only 3 grams in weight) to take her out in, that lead us to the Yu family who is looking after her and taking Tinkerbell out as should be the case. I just received some photos of Tinkerbell from the Yu family taken on 23 Apr 2006. Take a look at her and her state of health in http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/72057594124075215/ Just as fate brought us together, it may yet reunite us once more. In the meantime, I am content that Tinkerbell is with people that love her too. In that same folder, you will see a photo of Yingshiong now looked after by my wife. I think that photo is the best photo ever taken of Yingshiong, or of any shama for that matter. Feel free to disagree with me :-) Shanlung http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/