City Island Library. Updates On My Stomach.

This is a Daytona Beach Regional Library, known as The City Island Library. It looks huge, huh?

I went to the library on the City Island in Daytona Beach with my mother yesterday afternoon. The library looks huge than Ormond Beach Public Library. It's called Daytona Beach Regional Library. I rarely went to the City Island library much until I returned there for the first time. I can't remember when the last time I went there. Next to that huge library is the park. South of it is the baseball stadium where famous black baseball player named Jackie Robinson trained in 1946. The name of baseball stadium is The Jackie Robinson Ballpark after him. East of the library is Halifax River. Back to the library, I stayed there for few hours. I've borrowed 5 DVD movies from there. My mother was doing a research to find old articles that she wrote in mircofilm. She used to be a columnist for Daytona Beach News-Journal for few years. Her old articles were dated back in 1990. Mom was having a hard time to figure out how to use a microfilm. She must have forgotten about it. I noticed her neck hurts. It's probably her age. She sat there for a long time. When I went to the reading area, I noticed there are some strange men sitting at the table. I could hear they talk loud but don't understand what they are discussing. I can tell that those strange men are homeless. I saw some homeless people wandering around the City Island when I arrived at the library earlier. They stay in that area near The Salvation Army. The Salvation Army is located north of the library and near the bridge and where so many homeless people stay. Some homeless people come to the library for reading newspapers and magazines. Not at the Ormond Beach Public Library much. It's a different area cuz we are on the level of middle income. Back to the reading area, those homeless guys stay there for several hours. I avoided them and read the magazine, "The Entertainment Weekly" at the other table far from their table. In the part of Entertainment Weekly, I was reading about the upcoming movie, "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull". It's very interesting to find out. But I am not finished reading to 2 of 4 steps in that section when Mom said it's time to go home. She looked tired. I was concerning about her. Mom missed lunch. She didn't have time. She's feeling dizzy. I did eat lunch before I left home. And then I went home.

Updates On My Stomach
My stomach is improving but still working in a progress by taking pills everyday. I sent Mom to get 2 bottles at a health food store for me last Saturday. I don't feel tired anymore. That's good news. Also, still no pains but about decreasing. I went back to do exericses.

Updates On My Stomach

Pains in my belly are gone no more since yesterday. That's good news but not yet, pills I am still taking are too slow to heal me. I am waiting for going back to a normal again but I also don't want to feel trapping here at my apt too long, u know. I really want to go out for fun. I am trying to eat a huge food but the thing prevents me from it. I am concerning about my weight. I want a hurry up to get better. I've decided to stop doing exercises for awhile until I get back to normal again. Wish me well.

Have a good weekend!

1888 Photo Depicts Helen Keller, Teacher Sullivan

This 1888 photo released by the New England Historic Genealogical Society in Boston shows Helen Keller when she was 8 years old, left, holding hands with her teacher, Anne Sullivan, during a summer vacation to Brewster, Mass., on Cape Cod.

When I heard about a 1888 photo of Helen Keller and her teacher, Anne Sullivan, on the TV news last night and this morning, it got me interesting and this photo looks cool. I have never seen this one like that before. But I can't see the sign language of Sullivan spelling "doll" in that photo. I can tell that Helen was about improving her behavior and English skills during the year 1888. She looked much better than the year before. A year before 1888, Helen was a troublemaker and messy but in that 1888 photo, she looked so pretty and recovered. Wow! I am so impressed by seeing that photo.

1888 photo depicts Helen Keller, teacher

Society staff discovers 1888 image from donated collection

The Associated Press

updated 7:48 p.m. ET, Wed., March. 5, 2008

BOSTON - Researchers have uncovered a rare photograph of a young Helen Keller with her teacher Anne Sullivan, nearly 120 years after it was taken on Cape Cod and tucked inside a family album.
The photograph, shot in July 1888 in Brewster, shows an 8-year-old Helen sitting outside in a light-colored dress, holding Sullivan's hand and cradling one of her beloved dolls.
Experts on Keller's life believe it could be the earliest photo of the two women together and the only one showing the blind and deaf child with a doll — the first word Sullivan spelled for Keller after they met in 1887 — according to the New England Historic Genealogical Society, which now has the photo.
"It's really one of the best images I've seen in a long, long time," said Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Federation for the Blind, where Keller worked for more than 40 years. "This is just a huge visual addition to the history of Helen and Annie."
Image stuffed inside a family album For more than a century, though, the photograph was hidden in an album that belonged to the family of Thaxter Spencer, an 87-year-old man in Waltham.
Spencer's mother, Hope Thaxter Parks, often stayed at the Elijah Cobb House on Cape Cod during the summer as a child. In July 1888, she played with Keller, whose family had traveled from Tuscumbia, Ala., to vacation in Massachusetts.
Spencer, who doesn't know which of his relatives took the picture, told the society that his mother, four years younger than Helen, remembered Helen exploring her face with her hands.
In June, Spencer donated a large collection of photo albums, letters, diaries and other heirlooms to the genealogical society, which preserves artifacts from New England families for future research.
"I never thought much about it," Spencer said in a statement released by the society. "It just seemed like something no one would find very interesting." Spencer has recently been hospitalized and could not be reached for comment.
It wasn't until recently that staff at the society realized the photograph's significance.
'It's a beautiful portrait' D. Brenton Simons, the society's president and CEO, said the photograph offers a glimpse of what was a very important time in Keller's life.
Sullivan was hired in 1887 to teach Keller, who had been left blind and deaf after an illness at the age of 1 1/2. With her new teacher, Keller learned language from words spelled manually into her hand. Not quite 7, the girl went from an angry, frustrated child without a way to communicate to an eager scholar.
While "doll" was the first word spelled into her hand, Helen finally comprehended the meaning of language a few weeks later with the word "water," as famously depicted in the film "The Miracle Worker." Sullivan stayed at her side until her death in 1936, and Keller became a world-famous author and humanitarian. She died in 1968.
Jan Seymour-Ford, a research librarian at the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown, which both Sullivan and Keller attended, said she was moved to see how deeply connected the women were, even in 1888.
"The way Anne is gazing so intently at Helen, I think it's a beautiful portrait of the devotion that lasted between these two women all of Anne's life," Seymour-Ford said.
Selsdon said the photograph is valuable because it shows many elements of Keller's childhood: that devotion, Sullivan's push to teach Helen outdoors and Helen's attachment to her baby dolls, one of which was given to her upon Sullivan's arrival as her teacher.
"It's a beautiful composition," she said. "It's not even the individual elements. It's the fact that it has all of the components."

Pains In My Belly. Trip to Wal-Mart. Patrick Swayze.

Hello, Bloggers!
I am back. I hope pains in my belly will be gone anymore this afternoon. It could be a gas but I already figured it out. It drove me crazy. I fear I would be losing weight again if I don't eat plenty of food much. I push the food away from me again when I am feeling in pains in the evening. I also hope my vitamins (pills) from heath food store are still working but I really need a medication immediately. Yesterday, I had a disagreement with my mother who don't like very strong medications and don't believe in doctors cuz they can't find anything inside the body in the fax message. I told her I want to see a doctor and need a medication right away. Mom experienced she had a colonoscopy 4 times but a doctor can't find anything. I didn't know that she has until I found out last Fall before I had a surgery. Anyways, when I found out I am asked to be invited to a Silent Signing Dinner from one of my deaf club friends in an e-mail last Monday, I am not sure I can go there cuz I am concerning my belly but I must needing to get a medication first. Silent Signing Dinner will take a place next Friday March 14th. I need to get out of my apt cuz it's too boring to me.
Last Tuesday morning, I went to Wal-Mart. I was feeling great as if I am kept moving around as I am busy that morning. I went straight to McDonald's for ordering my breakfast. My breakfast is good. During breakfast, I noticed an old man looking at Wal-Mart employees who were eating breakfast as if he's checking his watch that tells him when they will be finished eating it. I suspected something but I don't know what it is. After breakfast, I continued doing a food shopping and carried a cup of my coffee. I bought 2 things but I can't tell u what they are. I went home when I finished shopping.
That Tuesday afternoon, I felt downward again when a pain in my belly came back. Ugh. I felt tired and wanted to take a nap. I did napping that afternoon.


Heard about Patrick Swayze's disease on news. I hope his cancer will be gone no more quickly. Wish Swayze a good luck. I saw some of Swayze's movies years ago, in the 1990s. Yeah, just like Michael Landon, a TV actor, who had a pancreatic cancer many years ago. That's why Michael drank too much alcohol.

February 29, 2008

I didn't do blogging yesterday cuz I've had experienced terrible pains in my belly for almost 2 weeks. Pains started few days before Valentine's Day. Or after that holiday. Every afternoon and night. Aspirins, Advil, did it. Mother thought so. She suggested I should take Tylenol instead. Mom was told by pharmacist. I will purchase it the next time. Right now, I am about recovering from an illness. I am hoping 2 sets of my pills from health food store work. Those pills are now cleaning inside my intestines. U know what I am talking about. I will take them again pretty soon before I eat supper. I hadn't time to walk with walker cuz pains in my belly kept bothering me. I will start to walk again next week when I am feeling great.

List Of Oscars 2008 Winners

Hello, Bloggers.

Did u watch Oscars last night? I did. I stayed up late little bit. LOL! I enjoyed watching it. Wow, some of actresses look so beautiful in their gown. I like one of them. I can't believe an Oscar went to "No Country for Old Man" for Best Picture. I am confessing I am haven't seen this movie. I do not like this dark thriller movie cuz a strange man in it scares me. I also haven't seen other movies yet. Here is a list of Oscar winners below if u missed watching it last night:
Complete list of Oscar winners:

By The Associated PressMon Feb 25, 5:18 AM ET

Complete list of winners at the 80th annual Academy Awards:
Best Motion Picture: "No Country for Old Men."
Lead Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis, "There Will Be Blood."
Lead Actress: Marion Cotillard, "La Vie en Rose."
Supporting Actor: Javier Bardem, "No Country for Old Men."
Supporting Actress: Tilda Swinton, "Michael Clayton."
Director: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men."
Foreign Language Film: "The Counterfeiters," Austria.
Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, "No Country for Old Men."
Original Screenplay: Diablo Cody, "Juno."
Animated Feature Film: "Ratatouille."
Art Direction: "Sweeney Todd the Demon Barber of Fleet Street."
Cinematography: "There Will Be Blood."
Sound Mixing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."
Sound Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."
Original Score: "Atonement," Dario Marianelli.
Original Song: "Falling Slowly" from "Once," Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova.
Costume: "Elizabeth: The Golden Age."
Documentary Feature: "Taxi to the Dark Side."
Documentary Short Subject: "Freeheld."
Film Editing: "The Bourne Ultimatum."
Makeup: "La Vie en Rose."
Animated Short Film: "Peter & the Wolf."
Live Action Short Film: "Le Mozart des Pickpockets (`The Mozart of Pickpockets')."
Visual Effects: "The Golden Compass."
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Academy Award winners previously announced this year:
Honorary and technical Oscars: Robert Boyle; Eastman Kodak Co.; David A. Grafton.

Picture Perfect: Shadow

A beautiful sunset on the 4th of July 2006.  This photo was taken at Bethune Park in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, south of Daytona Beach.  The name of river is Halifax.  Wow!  The weather looked nice but hot on that day.  I love this photo very much.  Awww!