The Show Must Go On, despite speech disasters, upside down speakers and reversed text

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The Show must go on. It has been a crazy month. At one of the contests I attended, the speaker followed the instruction to ask, "Can you see me and hear me clearly?"

We could. But she was upside down!

I also sometimes get photos reversed left to right so the text is back to front as on some of my Happy Birthday hat photos. You go into Paint to find an icon for changing and flipping in various directions.

Useful Websites

https://www.wikihow.com/Turn-Your-Computer-Screen-Upside-Down

Reversing images left to right

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windowslive/forum/all/how-do-i-flip-a-photo-left-to-right/78f821b5-d05a-43f2-8737-19f07e8b28c1

Chinese New Year Decorations Welcome Residents, Visitors and Passers-By - Symbolizing what?

 

Chinese New Year. 

Chinese New Year decorations in Cashew Road in January 2022. Photo by Angela Lansbury.

This figure is seen at the entrance to Cashew Heights on Cashew Road, Singapore. 

How jolly. Like Santa, a personification of the holiday. His mouth is smiling.

A resident told me, "He is the God of Good Luck."

He has Chinese symbols, Chinese writing, on his hat. More are on his chest. What do they mean?

Some symbols are displayed upside down. She told me, "That is because the good luck of the future is not yet here but on its way."

If you notice nothing else, you are uplifted by the vibrant red.

Useful Websites

Wikipedia Chinese New Year

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_New_Year

About the Author Angela Lansbury

BIOGRAPHY

Angela Lansbury B A Hons ACG ALB PM5 EH5 DL5 VC5 
The Author of several books including  Etiquette For Every Occasion. Wedding Speeches & Toasts. How to be the Best Man. Quick Quotations. Who Said What When.

Blogs travelwithangelalansbury.blogspot.com

dressofthedayangela.blogspot.com

translateforfun.blogspot.com

Braddell Heights Advanced Toastmasters Speakers Club Vice President Public Relations (VPPR), Previous President

Join BHA 1st Wednesday 7pm and 3rd Saturday 2 pm Singapore time 

Vice President Public Relations (VP PR) of Tampines Changkat Advanced;

Secretary of weekly online Singapore International Dynamic Toastmasters Speakers’ Club;

Member and past president of Harrovians toastmasters club, UK; Past member of HOD Toastmasters, London. Past member in Singapore of: Toastmasters Club of Singapore (TCS); Tiarel; and Senja Cashew.

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Regular attendee at annual Swanwick Writers’ School, England.

Regular attendee at annual Writers’ Holiday, Wales.

Contributor to poetry readings, and after tea courses on: Speaking On Radio To Promote Books; and Plots And Character.

Winner of many club and area speaking contests in the UK and Singapore.

Language advisor to Empire Toastmasters club in Indonesia.

Language and speech workshops in Singapore.

Speaker on radio and TV in England, Scotland, the USA, and Australia.

Compiler of a school course on public speaking for teachers to prepare pupils for school open days with attending ceremonies before government ministers, Singapore.

Former member of Harrow Writers’ Circle, London, and two writing groups in Singapore.

Angela is on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Pinterest, Twitter. She would be delighted to link up with new friends.

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Books by Angela Lansbury
How to be the best man. (Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Wedding Speeches and Toasts.(Ward Lock / Cassell.)
Unforgettable British Weekends.
Poetry Workshop Workbook.
The Tailor and the Spy. (Lulu.)
Larry The Talking Labrador. (Lulu.)
Writing Poetry for fun.

Quick Quotations

Who Said What When

 

Upside down car in Pinner, NW London England

Upside down car after accident in Pinner, Middlesex. Photo by Trevor Sharot. Copyright.

Car turned upside down in Grimsdyke Road, Pinner, London, England.  A delivery man could not get through and told my family about it. Not nice, is it. In another photo we could see that an airbag had been deployed.

The moral is ...?

The date was Feb 22nd 2019. I looked all over the web and could not see any report of the cause or injury or death or survival.

We looked online again - still no luck.

If I get any news, I will update.

Why did the photographer take the picture?
"To send to my wife. I don't have to explain myself, surely."

Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.

How To Learn The Last Letters of the Russian Cyrillic Alphabet

In the previous posts we learned the Russian or Cyrillic letters A-U (U written like a y, as in the word You).

The circle with an upright line is the F. (What the f... is this 0 with a line through it! The letter F.) 

The upside down h is a ch. Remember how you play the children's game with a church and turn it upside down.

The big W is a Sh, as in Hebrew.

The W with an extra comma is a double sound, shch.

The b with a line like a delete across the top is like the b in the English word comb, not pronounced. The reversed E is an E. Io is like YO. The reversed r is like the r in word EAR. you say IA, without pronouncing the R at the end. R is IA.

Time for a coffee break. Come back to the next post for some more Russian letters.

Author

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker. Teacher of English and other languages. See my previous posts on learning Russian. Please bookmark your favourite posts and follow me and share links with your family and friends.

PS - Watch out for my two new travel websites coming soon. One will be on destinations. The other will be on what to pack and wear. I shall announce it on one of my posts on this website within a week. This website has the words Angela Lansbury and travel. One of the new ones will contain the word travel.