Memorial Day For Comfort Woman in South Korea 14th March

      Memorial Day in South Korea for Comfort Woman

The international memorial day was held for Asian women forced into sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II.

The National ceremony marking the International Memorial Day for Comfort Women took place at the Hill of National Commemoration in Cheonan, south of Seoul, with the slogan of "memory for the future."

About 100 people, including elderly Korean women sexually enslaved by the imperial Japanese army, participated.

South Koreans have called on Japan to offer a sincere apology and compensation for the victims, but the neighbouring country has remained silent.

It is the third time that the government has hosted a national ceremony commemorating the day since 2018, when it was designated a national memorial day. 

The International Memorial Day for Comfort Women falls on Aug. 14th, the day when the late Kim Hak-soon, a former comfort woman, first publicly testified about Japan operating an organized military brothel program during the war in 1991.

"The testimony by Kim Hak-soon resonated across the globe, revealing the truth and the violence against women," she said. "Now we have to think of what we can learn from the tragedy in history."

The government then opened a digital archive that stored more than 500 files of documents and materials on "comfort women," a euphemistic term for the former sex slaves. 

The online depository (www.archive814.co.kr) includes reports by the United Nations forces during the Korean War and official statements by the Japanese government.

Up to 200,000 women, mostly Koreans, were coerced into sexual servitude in front-line Japanese brothels when the Korean Peninsula was a Japanese colony.

Review: Blackhead Remover Facial Skin Care Vacuum

Alright guys I've got a crazy review for you, so everyone has been talking about Blackhead Remover Facial Skin Care Pore Cleaner Vacuum so I found on Ebay for under a tenner (bargain) I had to have it here's how it went in steps!

I read the instructions, all 6 pages of it!

- Put the machine on charge 

(it had some life in it but you can never be too sure)

- Then I washed my face with hot water to open the pores, clean all the days junk 

- The instructions say work from the chin up 

(did that it nipped a bit and suctioned my lips)

- Then the forehead: middle to hair line 

(ok did that that didn't hurt at all)

- Cheeks: nose to ear (I did that and holy fuck did it hurt)

- Nose: for this I choose a smaller head to get in the little sides of your nose 

(did it hurt? did it hurt? well yes it bloody did)

***PAIN WARNING ALWAYS USE THE MOST GENTLE/ LOWEST SETTING TO START***

LINK HERE 

Personal Review: 

This machine hurts so bad. I ended up giving my nose and the side of my mouth a hickey also I bruised my chin badly.

My face afterwards was so hot and red its unbelievable, I wont be using this again in a hurry maybe once a month (maybe) this was my first time using it so maybe I need more experience.

Aftercare: After you have used this machine I would recommend cooling your face down somewhat before doing anything. I used a coconut facemask and left it on for 15 minutes which too some of the redness out of it but it was still extremely hot. When you feel ready, go ahead with your usual night routine and enjoy your sleep and drink plenty of water.

2016 Book's

Books I have read in 2016

January:

1: Pompeii by Robert Harris (recommend)

2: The diary of a young girl by Anne Frank

 3: 101 Dalmatians by Disney

4: The little mermaid by Disney

5: UP by Disney

6: Bambi by Disney

February:

1: A walk in the woods by Bill Bryson

2: Then tenderness of wolves by Stef Penney

3: The curvy girls club by Michele Gorman

 4: The Dove keepers by Alice Hoffman

5: The Hourglass Factory by Lucy Ribchester (totally recommend)

March: 

1: The thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield (totally recommend)

2: Voodoo killers by Joseph Carlson

3: City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

4: City of glass by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

5: Winnie the pooh and the honey tree by Disney

6: Wall-e by Disney

7: The lion king by Disney

8: Tinker bell by Disney 

9: The Fox and the Hound by Walt Disney

10: The Adventures of Henry Dent by Cathy Smith

April:

1: The City Of Fallen Angels by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

2: The Urban beekeeper by Steve Benbow (recommend)

3: City of lost souls by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

4: City of heavenly Fire by Cassandra Clare (recommend)

5: Catherine of Aragon by Giles Tremlett

6: The bane chronicles by Cassandra Clare (totally recommend)

7: Let the right on in by John Lindqvist

8: Long walk to freedom by Nelson Mandela

May:

1: The Haunted book by Jeremy Dyson
2: A reunion of ghosts by Judith Mitchell (recommend)
3: We still kill the old way by Nick Oldham (recommend)
4: The daylight gate by Jeanette Winterson
5: The Buddha in the attic by Julie Otsuka
6: Kasyan from the beautiful lands by Ivan Turgenev
7: Killing the dead by Marcus Sedgwick 
8: X Platoon by Steve Heaney
9: Public libraries and other stories by Ali Smith

June
1: The song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (recommend)
2: The collected works of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
3:The dictionary of mutual understanding by Jackie Copleton
4: I am Malala by Malala Y
5: The Celts by Alice Roberts
6: James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl (recommend)
7: Ordinary Beauty by Mary McEvoy
8: This House Is Haunted by John Boyne
9: The Book Of Lies by Mary Horlock
10: Beatrix potters gardening life by Martha McDowell
11: Red Azalea by Anchee Min (recommend)

July
1: I'm quiet happy standing by Virginia Ironside
2: Red Riding hood by Sarah Blakely - Cartwright (recommend)
3: Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
4: The Silk Factory by Judith Allnatt (recommend)
5: The Time Of My Life by Patrick Swayze
6: Me Before You by JoJo Moyles
7: The Secret by Decic Henderson
8: Not Quiet Nice by Celia Imrie

August
1: Frances: the tragic bride by Jacky Hyams
2: Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare (recommend)
3: We also served by Vivian Newman
4: More sawn - off tales by David Gaffney
5: Start wars: Ultimate Duels by Lindsey Kent
6: Sex Killer by Richard Jones
7: The Uninvited by Liz Jensen
8: The Secret Rooms by Catherine Bailey
9: Helter Skelter by Vincent Bugliose

September
1: The woman who would be king by Kara Cooney
2: Bridge of spies by Giles Whittel
3: San Andreas by Alister Maclean (recommend)
4: In the heart of the sea by Nathaniel Philbrick
5: A death in Belmont by Sabastian Junger
6: The Dungeon by Leanne reid banks (recommend)

October
1: The reckless life of Marlon Brando by Stefan Manger
2: By the river piedra I sat down and wept by Paulo Coelho
3: The life of Lee by Lee Evans

November
I have not finished a book in November 😐

December
1: The samurai that unlocked Japan by Giles Milton
2: The snow globe by Sheila Roberts (recommend)
3: The spare room by Helen Garner

2015 Book's

All the books I read in 2015

January
1: East to the dawn - The life of Amelia Earhart ( recommend)
2: The Linguist by Mar Urban
3: If on a winters night a traveller by Italo Calvino
4: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

February
1: Mad about a boy by Helen Fielding
2: Not without my daughter by Betty Mahmoody
3: Hit Girls by Dreda Mitchell

March
1: Churchill's Angels by Ruby Jackson
2: The Exorcist by William Blatty (recommend)
3: Beyond The Bounty by Tim Parson (recommend)
4: Argo by Matt Baglio (recommend)

April
1: The Full Monty by Wendy Holden (recommend)
2: Bella Tuscany by Francis Mayers
3: The Great Fire Of London by Samuel Pepys
4: The house we grew up in by Lisa Jewell (recommend)
5: Indian. English by Jillian Haslam
6: I hate and I love by Catullus (recommend)
7: As kingfishers catch fire by Gerald Hopkins (recommend)
8: The Dhammapada by Buddha
9: It was snow in butterflies by Charles Darwin
10: Wailing Ghosts by Pu Songling
11: The Fall Of Icarus by Ovid

May
1: The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mafuos
2: The hundred foot journey by Richard Morius
3: Dawn of the dead by George Romero
4: The two of us by Sheila Hancock

June
1: Goodfellers by Nicholas Pileggi
2: The girl in Alfred Hitchcock shower by Robert Gray-smith

July
1: Circe and the Cyclops by Homer
2: Miles: The Autobiography by Miles Davis
3: i was told there would be cake by Sloane Crosley
4: The Yellow Wallpaper by Charlotte Gilman (recommend)
5: The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

August
1: The waiting room by F. G Cotton (recommend)
2: the boy who harnessed the wind by William Kamkwambka
3: Straws upon the surface by A.M Story (recommend)
4: Breakout by Fred Lemon
5: Daddy's little girl by Mary Higgins Clark
6: Sand in my shoes by Joan Rice
7: Just take my heart by Mary Higgins Clark
8: The case book of victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
9: While you where dreaming by Lola Jane
10: China Bay Blues by Adhfel Aziz
11: All quiet on the western front by Erich Remarquie 

September
1: Gods of Egypt by Orland Smart Powell
2: Everyman's book of Victorian verses by Donald Thomas
3: Slow Decay by Andy Lane
4: Random acts of heroic love by Danny Sheinmann (totally recommend)

October
1: David Jason Autobiography by David Jason (recommend)
2: Roxy Music by Johnny Rogan
3: Santa Evita by Tomas Eloy Martinez
4: Whiskey Beach by Nora Roberts (recommend)

 November
1: Chestnut street by Maeve binchy
2: The discovery of chocolate by James Runcie
3: touching the void by Joe Simpson

December
1: Paris for one by Jojo Moyes
2: Anthony Hopkins Biography by Quentin Falk
3: Witch Child by Celia Rees (recommend)
4: Star wars: New frontier by Peter David

Poem: Maud by Alfred Tennyson

Maud

 

Come into the garden, Maud,
    For the black bat, Night, has flown,
Come into the garden, Maud,
    I am here at the gate alone;
 And the woodbine spices are wafted abroad,
    And the musk of the roses blown.

 

For a breeze of morning moves,
    And the planet of Love is on high,
Beginning to faint in the light that she loves
    On a bed of daffodil sky,
To faint in the light of the sun she loves,
    To faint in his light, and to die.

 

All night have the roses heard
    The flute, violin, bassoon;
All night has the casement jessamine stir'd
    To the dancers dancing in tune;
Till a silence fell with the waking bird,
    And a hush with the setting moon.

 

I said to the lily, 'There is but one
    With whom she has heart to be gay.
When will the dancers leave her alone?
    She is weary of dance and play.'

 Now half to the setting moon are gone,
    And half to the rising day;
Low on the sand and loud on the stone
    The last wheel echoes away.

I said to the rose, 'The brief night goes
    In babble and revel and wine.

 O young lord-lover, what sighs are those
    For one that will never be thine?
But mine, but mine,' so I sware to the rose,
    'For ever and ever, mine.'

And the soul of the rose went into my blood,
    As the music clash'd in the hall;
And long by the garden lake I stood,
    For I heard your rivulet fall
From the lake to the meadow and on to the wood,
    Our wood, that is dearer than all;

From the meadow your walks have left so sweet
    That whenever a March-wind sighs
He sets the jewel-print of your feet
    In violets blue as your eyes,
To the woody hollows in which we meet
    And the valleys of Paradise.

 

The slender acacia would not shake
    One long milk-bloom on the tree;
The white lake-blossom fell into the lake,
    As the pimpernel dozed on the lea;
But the rose was awake all night for your sake,
    Knowing your promise to me;
The lilies and roses were all awake,
    They sigh'd for the dawn and thee.

 

Queen rose of the rosebud garden of girls,
    Come hither, the dances are done,
In gloss of satin and glimmer of pearls,
    Queen lily and rose in one;
Shine out, little head, sunning over with curls.
    To the flowers, and be their sun.

There has fallen a splendid tear
    From the passion-flower at the gate.

 She is coming, my dove, my dear;
    She is coming, my life, my fate;
The red rose cries, 'She is near, she is near;'
    And the white rose weeps, 'She is late;'
The larkspur listens, 'I hear, I hear;'
    And the lily whispers, 'I wait.'

She is coming, my own, my sweet;
    Were it ever so airy a tread,
My heart would hear her and beat,
    Were it earth in an earthy bed;
My dust would hear her and beat,
    Had I lain for a century dead;
Would start and tremble under her feet,
    And blossom in purple and red.