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Today is 14 February 2010, a Valentines day and also the Chinese New Year, another way to say is Spring Festival （春节）.  A bunch of beautiful red roses is the perfect gift for a woman on Valentines day. Red roses are a symbol of love and that's why receiving these roses on this special day makes a woman feel so special. Love is the most powerful and positive human emotion and it deserves to have a special day for celebration. Roses and peonies are my favourite flowers and I have plenty of them in my back garden. During the summer time, it's absolutely beautiful. They are various in colours, styles fragrances and I just love them so much. It's winter time now and I have no flowers blossoming in my back garden so these gorgeous roses make me feel even more loved, happy and cheerful. Today is also the Chinese New Year, the most important festival to Chinese and Koreans. According to the Chinese lunar horoscope, this year is the year of the tiger. People bor...

Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, is one of the best books I have ever read in my life. It was a New York Times best seller and the most famous book by the author. The first time I read it was in May 2008, I read it again this year and even decided to write a review to remind me of the golden rules of the rich. I started to read the Rich Dad series in 2007 with Rich Dad's Cash Flow Quadrant, since then I have bought 14 books from the Rich Dad's series and his advisor's books. Personally I do not like to read the same book twice, but Rich Dad books are exceptional, I have read many of them twice, and every time I read it I always pick up something new or spot something I did not realise at first reading or have already forgotten. I am a big fan of Rich Dad and I rated this book five stars at Amazon. Rich Dad, Poor Dad book is very inspirational and one of the best mindset books you can ever read; he combined stories and also used simple English to make it easy t...

Robert Kiyosaki is one of the most influential people in financial education in the world, he educates people to become multi-millionaires and to be rich. Money working for money is the philosophy of the rich and wealthy and that's how all the greatest wealth has been created. Rich Dad's Guide to Investing is another excellent book regarding this subject and I rated this book five stars at Amazon. If you have read Rich Dad books you are aware of his famous four cash flow quadrants; Left Quadrant: E: Employees and S: Self Employed; Right Quadrant: B: Business Owners and I: Investors. Robert Kiyosaki says that the right quadrant is the area of wealth where all the wealthiest people are operating from. In order to become truly wealthy it is necessary to create assets, (own businesses) build a system as a business owner and acquire assets ( as investor) with your business. He says that most investors never get very rich as they invest individually rather than investing a...

This is one of the best money books I have ever read, and a golden book that you must read if you want to become rich. I am very surprised and amazed the legendary city of Babylon had such a wise man who had extremely valuable ideas about wealth creation, money making ideas, property investment and other investment ideas in such an ancient time. The richest man in Babylon city was called Arkad, he was famed for his great wealth, liberality and generosity. One day, his poor friends who had the same masters and played together when they were young came to his house and asked him the SECRET of becoming rich. His poor friends could not understand why they all worked hard, but Arkand turned out to be the richest man in Babylon enjoying many luxuries, while they were barely able to make ends meet. Arkad replied that they had failed to learn the laws that govern the building of wealth or else they did not observe them. Arkad agreed to tell them the secret of wealth and started with t...

After the rich money lender became Arkad's mentor, he worked hard, resisted the temptation of spending and paid himself 10% of all his earnings. Then he gave his saved money to a bricker to buy jewelry from overseas so he could sell these for higher price in Babylon. A year later, when the rich money lender came to the shop he inquired about Arkad's progress. Arkad told him the story, but his mentor said to him his savings would be gone. Arkad was told that he should not trust the knowledge of a brick maker about jewels, but instead should have gone to a jewelry merchant. You must invest your money with someone who is competent and experienced in their field in order to make your money multiply. It happened exactly as the rich money lender said, the brick maker was sold colored glass instead of jewels and Arkad lost all his savings. However he did not give up, as his mentor had taught, he planted another wealth seed. When the rich money lender returned a year later...

--> The Five Laws of Gold 1.Gold comes gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family. 2.Gold labours diligently and contentedly for the wise owner who finds profitable employment for it, multiplying as the flocks of the field. 3.Gold clings to the protection of the cautious owner who invests it under the advice of men wise in its handling. 4.Gold slips away from the man who invests it in businesses or purposes with which he is not familiar or which are not approved by those skilled in its keep. 5.Gold flees the man who would force it to impossible earnings or who follows the alluring advice of tricksters and schemes or who trusts it to his own inexperience and romantic desire in investment. After reading this book, it reminded me of Rich Dad, Robert Kiyosaki, I have read most of the Rich Dad book series and realised he followed and mastered the laws...

Continued from part one 2. Feed Plant Food : give plant food once in every one or two weeks from spring to summer,; this is very important. Flowers are like humans, they need nutrition to grow and produce buds during the flowering season. If you do this they tend to flower longer, bigger with more flowers and that helps keep your garden more colourful. I use Miracle-Gro LiquaFeed All Purpose Plant Food from B&Q and the results are very good. Please make sure that you feed different plant the right food, for example - acid lovers such as Hydrangea. 3. Spray: If the leaves become yellow and full of holes, you need to buy some spray to kill the bugs and other insects. Yellow bugs loves lilies and they love to make lots of holes on your lily's leaves. 4.I use various treatments to kill slugs, snails and ants: Sprinkle some slug pellets or ant-killing tablets or power around your plant to keep them away from your flowers and plants. Slugs especially like Dahlia type plants and...