While
I was having lunch today, Hannah and her daughters were at Sandringham
collecting for SPCA, Olivia, a character in Ann the Playgroup loved
animals and volunteered at At SPCA. Here is Hannah and her dog, Marlo.
In this book, Christine and Isabella went to SPCA and got a big dog.
Isabella's gigolo took her to Muriwai to see the gannets.
Muriwai's gannet colony is a one hour drive from the centre of Auckland.
Next to the car park, a short walking track leads to a viewing platform
right above the main colony area. Out
to sea, the colony continues on two vertical-sided islands. About 1,200
pairs of gannets nest here from August to March each year.
The Playgroup, paper back. ISBN 978-0-473-37871-4 Available at: Wheelers Books or from me, annkschin@Yahoo.com eBook: Kindle Amazon ASIN: B01N0AWTOL
This book talks of a hotchpotch SAHM (Stay At Home Mums) jelled by a
common denominator, the Playgroup. This book will resonate in women who
went to Playgroup with their children or grandchildren. This hotchpotch
include mothers of nuclear families, single families, bereaved parents,
widowed, widowers, cancer survivors, volunteers, and so on. Issues like
death, bereavement, cancer, adoption, fostering, and remarriage are
sensitively discussed.
The Playgroup, paper back. ISBN 978-0-473-37871-4 Available at: Wheelers Books or from me, annkschin@Yahoo.com eBook: Kindle Amazon ASIN: B01N0AWTOL
This book talks of a hotchpotch SAHM (Stay At Home Mums) jelled by a
common denominator, the Playgroup. This book will resonate in women who
went to Playgroup with their children or grandchildren. This hotchpotch
include mothers of nuclear families, single families, bereaved parents,
widowed, widowers, cancer survivors, volunteers, and so on. Issues like
death, bereavement, cancer, adoption, fostering, and remarriage are
sensitively discussed.
Vincent Skeen was found guilty of the manslaughter of 17-year-old Luke Tipene. Photo / Nick Reed/Supplied
The teenager who stabbed a rising rugby league star to death with a
broken bottle had racked up 25 offences before he turned 16.
Vincent Angene Skeen, 18, even continued to offended while awaiting trial over the death of 17-year-old Luke Tipene.
Skeen was convicted of manslaughter after a second jury trial last month and was today jailed for five years and two months.
First edition: July 2013 Fiction ISBN: 978-0-473-25414-8
272 pages.
This book is the embodiment of many issues of the darker
side of today’s society. Auckland
city is chosen because of her cosmopolitan features, as well as the presence of
immigrants, new and old. There are mail order brides from all over the world.
This story could happen in any big city in the world.
http://www.thestar.com.my/News/Community/2013/10/06/Local-writers-books-to-be-released-on-Oct-12/ " Mail Order Bride published in July 2013, it is
about the darker side of today’s urban social issues such as obsession,
mail order brides, murder, suicide, mother-daughter rivalry, child
pornography, prostitution, modelling, fraud, childhood shenanigans,
runaway street kids, anorexia, nervosa and teen pregnancy.
Jindarat Prutsiriporn was 23 when she followed her boyfriend to New Zealand in 1989, settling in Auckland. Photo / Facebook
Bound and gagged in the boot of a moving car, Jindarat
Prutsiriporn must have been truly terrified to make her fatal bid for
freedom.
The secret life of the 50-year-old had finally unravelled to a tragic end.
A
mother of three, Prutsiriporn should be enjoying middle age after
moving to New Zealand for a more peaceful life nearly 30 years ago.
Instead, a drug addiction led the Thai national into spiralling debt and saw her entrapped in the world of organised crime.
Jindarat Prutsiriporn. Photo / Supplied "I was also shocked to see ... she had become very
skinny, like a different person," said a friend, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity.She died poor and lonely, apparently after throwing herself from the vehicle.
Now,
a major police investigation is delving into Auckland's criminal
underworld to find out what happened to the woman known as "Nui".
Hope for a fresh start
Born in December 1965, Prutsiriporn was the third of four children (she has two brothers and a sister) born in Thailand.
Her
parents separated when she was 8 and Prutsiriporn went to live with her
father who had "a succession of girlfriends", according to court
documents.
She was 23 when she followed her boyfriend to New Zealand in 1989, settling in Auckland.
"Nui
jumped at the opportunity to move to New Zealand hoping for a better
life because she didn't have much going for her in Thailand," said
another friend.
"But unfortunately, when she got here, she became involved with bad company and people who introduced her to drugs."
Prutsiriporn
smoked cannabis every day and eventually split with her partner, the
father of her three sons, in 2002. She worked at Eve's Pantry on Epsom
Rd for around 10 years, until her daily cannabis habit led to a darker
path in 2009 - methamphetamine.
Watch: Chinese community protest outside High Court
Several members of the Chinese community gathered outside the High Court
this morning as the 19-year-old man accused of murdering and sexually
violating a woman at her home appeared.
Ann Kit Suet Chin is a New Zealand Chinese
writer. She was born in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia. She attended Methodist
Primary and Secondary School in Sibu. She graduated from Windsor
University in Canada, Auckland University and Auckland University of
Technology.
Ann is the fourth child of the late John
Chan Hiu Fei and Mary Kong Wah Kiew. She is married to Chin Chen Onn,
PhD. She has three surviving children, Deborah, Gabrielle and Sam. Her
third child, Andrew died when he was a baby and is the inspiration of
her first book.
This
is a real life story of losing one's only son. This experience has made
the author strong and caring. This tragedy has
been a great help for her to help understand other bereaved people. The
author is very brave to write this book. It has not been easy and she
aims to touch,...
Used as a reference book for NICU staff at the University Hospital, Toronto.
Dr Simon Rowley is a consultant at Starship Children's Hospital who's been given a copy of the book.
"It
is a good reminder to all health professionals that when our patients
leave us, the story does not end for the parents. The detail is amazing,
and every little thought and action seems to have been recorded as it
happened, and then has been reflected upon.
"For parents undergoing
similar experiences this book could be a great comfort. For health
professionals, I would see it as essential reading."
ISBN 9780473239008 English
ISBN 9780473309626 Chinese
This is a
hundred-year-old journal of two families, the Chans and the Kongs. It traces
the first movement in 1907 from Kwang Zhou, China to the jungles of Borneo.
It is a six-generational record with the second wave of movement to England,
Canada, Japan, Singapore, Australia, USA ...
This
book records with humor the life of a busy and active family through
World War II, the formation of Malaysia and Confrontation. It is a
personal reflection of a way of life that has moved on and provides
insight into a family and its relationships. It is most of all a work of
love and respect for the Chan and Kong families and for Father and
Mother.
a fiction novel – Mail Order Bride. The story, set in Auckland, New
Zealand, touches on social issues such as teenage pregnancies,
drugs, paedophile and the like. The book took two months to finish.
Her third book, Mail Order Bride is the first fiction piece
from Ann. She said that the book targets an audience of
young adults and that it appeals readers interested in social
issues and ills that young adults have to face.
Women suffers from
oppression. This story traces the life of Nadine who overcomes her own
problems of oppression, grows up to be a social worker and helps women
who have suffered from physical and mental violence, domestic violence,
rape, pornography, swinging, sex slavery, human ...
Judy Lawson, Counsellor
A book I would use in my work as a reference.
World War II in Borneo, Tales of my Grandpa
ISBN:
9780473339005 (Pbk)
It
is seventy years after the end of the World War II, or the Japanese
occupation in Borneo. Captain Cheng aka Captain Fong and his Canadian
soldiers are remembered in their role of leading the surrender of the
Japanese.
I've been reading your book World War Two in Borneo: Tales of my
Grandpa. I was a bit hesitant to start it, since it is combined
fiction and fact and I didn't want to get the history mixed up in my
mind. However, I'm finding it very compelling to read.
Traces the lives of 2 girls. The poor girl is sold to the rich girl
as a slave aka mui zai to serve her for ever. Different Chinese
Tradition are explained, and tragedy brings them to the South Seas. The
Japanese invasion, the slave protects her mistress and is sent to a
brothel as a comfort women.
