O Holy Night

Which one do you like more? ７ versions of "Holy Night". Last night I went to a Carols by Candle Lights... I like the last song "Holy Night".   And then looked up different versions...
🎵🎶Celine Dion:
https://youtu.be/RsWUWzai8P8

🎵🎶 Mariah Carey :
https://youtu.be/QP0TGh6c-Ss

🎵🎶 King's College choir of Cambridge:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTFG_nvreoI

🎵🎶 Classical music instrumental :
https://youtu.be/7cyH2QcltZU?t=20

🎵🎶 Famous Italian singers,  duo :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7uiqRCW6I8

🎵🎶Michael Ball  (the last song in this video  (the clip also has "Hark the Herald Angel Sing " & others)
https://youtu.be/CHj_q7ttDCE

🎵🎶Andrea Bocelli

   https://youtu.be/9egij7D5seI

😊

Lyrics 

O Holy Night!
 The stars are brightly shining,
It is the night of the dear Saviour's birth.
Long lay the world in sin and error pining.
Till He appeared and the Spirit felt its worth.
A thrill of hope the weary world rejoices,
For yonder breaks a new and glorious morn.

💕Fall on your knees!
 Oh, hear the angel voices!
O night divine, the night when Christ was born;
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!
O night, O Holy Night , O night divine!💕

Led by the light of faith serenely beaming,
With glowing hearts by His cradle we stand.
O'er the world a star is sweetly gleaming,
Now come the wisemen from out of the Orient land.
The King of kings lay thus lowly manger;
In all our trials born to be our friends.
He knows our need, our weakness is no stranger,
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!
Behold your King! Before him lowly bend!
💕
Truly He taught us to love one another,
His law is love and His gospel is peace.
Chains he shall break, for the slave is our brother.
And in his name all oppression shall cease.
Sweet hymns of joy in grateful chorus raise we,
With all our hearts we praise His holy name.
Christ is the Lord! Then ever, ever praise we,
His power and glory ever more proclaim!
His power and glory ever more proclaim!

💕

Background / Song composer 

The words and lyrics of the old carol 'O Holy Night' were written by Placide Cappeau de Roquemaure in 1847. Cappeau was a wine seller by trade but was asked by the parish priest to write a poem for Christmas. He wrote the beautiful words of the hymn but then realised that it should have music to accompany the words. He approached his friend Adolphe Charles Adams(1803-1856). The music for the poem was therefore composed by Adolphe Charles Adams.  It was translated into English by John Sullivan Dwight (1812-1893)

French lyrics

Minuit, chrétiens,
C'est l'heure solennelle
Ou l'Homme Dieu descendit jusqu'à nous
Pour effacer la tache originelle
Et de Son Père arrêter le courroux.
Le monde entier tressaille d'espérance
En cette nuit qui lui donne un Sauveur.
Peuple a genoux, attends ta délivrance!
Noel! Noel! Voici le Rédempteur!
Noel! Noel! Voici le Rédempteur!

Le Rédempteur
A brise toute entrave:
La terre est libre et le ciel est ouvert.
Il voit un Frère ou n'était qu'un esclave,
L'amour unit ceux qu'enchainait le fer.
Qui Lui dira notre reconnaissance?
C'est pour nous tous qu'Il nait,
Qu'Il souffre et meurt.
Peuple debout, chante ta délivrance!
Noel! Noel! Chantons le Rédempteur!
Noel! Noel! Chantons le Rédempteur!

To live a long healthy life...

When we fall in love, we want to be together for a long time, right?

Is it only good lovers, fathers, mothers, grand parnets, teachers, would care to warn each other of potential danger... ? Various organisations like (USA President's Cancer Panel, European Commisson on endocrine disruptive chemicals), United Nation, top universities (like Harvard) & outspoken doctors (like Michael Dreger) have been issuing WARNINGS to people about the problems with ◘ meat, ◘ dairy, ◘ heat-treated food especially high heat, ◘ endocrine disruptive chemicals, ◘ toxins, ◘ trans tat (trans fatty acid), ◘ pesticides & herbicides like glyphosate (Round Up) ◘ nano particles & micro plastic beads, ◘ artifical colours, artificial fragrance ◘ preservatives, ... since NN years ago! Some even 30 years ago.

The writing is on the wall.

We can all do some homework, to be well-informed, change lifestyle to protect ♥ ourselves, ♥our loved ones, ♥our Earth , ♥our environment, ♥God’s creation.

Things I bear in my mind :

♠◦🔔 Processed meats

can increase the risk of conditions including ☼heart disease, ☼stroke, ☼diabetes, ☼certain cancers, and ☼early death.

♠🔔Heat-processed food

especially high heat, can created carcinogen acrylamide. BBQ food, baked & toasted bread, coffee, breakfast cereal,

♠ WATER

Tap water has much more than just H2O. More like a cocktail of contaminants. It has been known that water in some big cities have found drugs, medicines & other stuff we pour into the water system. You know what they are. Do you think water companies can or bother to fully filter out or remove all chemcial contaminants? Let alone the chemical reactions of chlorine & industrial flouride with the contaminants and the copper pipes or alloy pipes, etc. I would not till the bubble being bursted to find out that you have been slowly poisoned. (The real Erin Brockovich is still busy helping people in varous cities & towns in United States against new tap water safety problems) Hundreds of fishy substances in water, in processed food... HENCE --- avoid re-boiling water because chemical compounds inside will turn into something more nasty. Do you fancy feeding your parents or kids re-boiled cocktail of arsenic, nitrates, and fluoride... ? Not keen on those electroic boiling water unit in offices or electric press-for-water jug in many homes. (many have plastic/resin tubes soaking inside in boiling water 24/7 for years) Get serious water-filter. Those with 6 , 7 layers of filters at least.

♠ Pesticides-herbicides spraying, and fracking

also cause more contimination of land and water.

♠ Land pollution & water pollution in turn pollute water-based crops like rice. There have been reports of arsenic levels of rice.

♠ Cheap white sugar

Many are from GMO sources. Sugar caused a lot of health problems.

♠ Trans Fat ( trans fatty acid )

hydrogenated fat, aritifical butter spread... they are under lots of different masks/names. They block blood vessels.

♠ Air

invisible, smell-able and non-smell-able ordour & fragrance, and that from many systhetic products. are invisible particles. = pollutants. Beware! Some are endocrine-disruptive. Have good ventilations.

► YOU ARE SMART, right?

♪♫ Change of diet can improve healh.

eg. Many people have reported that their illnesses including type II diabetes, clogged-arteries-related diseases, various cancers, by eating raw plant-based diet smartly in balanced way.

♪♫ Be very aware of true ingredience of

vaccines & other chemicals injected into your body like chemotherapy. Get manufacturers’ products inserts. Not the short general one for consumers. Read more about vaccine injury in different countries. Death count have been played down removing the fact that people died not long after vaccinations which caused problems.

♪♫ Maintain our bodies responsibly. Read the blueprint of real food

Increasing number of people have been recovering from long term illness after changing to raw plant-based diets.

Also, see Genesis 1:29 Food => seed-bearing plants.

OoO You know how this world are being run, right? Conglomerates are not saints. ► Be very aware of the counter attacks

from forces behind conglomerates which have been using all tactics to divert / fool/ brainwash / discredit / quiet / remove (including the horrible method) whistle-blowers, lab scientists, reporters, doctors or reports about the health risks related to their products.

If too busy to notice news or newsapaper, try to google. ♥ If you care for your survival and our world, please help inform more people to stop exploiting our Earth resources to stop harming our environment, to stop ill-treating and killing animals ... We are on the same boat called EARTH. We can change our lifestyle choices. ♥ Good health to you & your loved ones. Thanks. I am avoiding + / reducing meat(corpse), dariy products, BBQ, acrylamide, endocrine-disruptive chemicals, wheat products, rice products, food cooked non-stick products, microwaved food/drink, food with trans fat, canola oil, rapeseed oil etc.

A quick visit to a plant-based themed small expo in Brighton vegan festival

Personally I had been to art & craft expo, design expo, motor industry expo, pharmaceutical expo.  Often expo-goers can see /experience/ taste things way before the mass see them in high syrret shops/ supermarkets.  Nice😄

Since I may not be travelling to London for the big one mext month, so, on Saturday I went briefly to the small one organised by Viva!

Hilton Metropole Brighton.

 It has catering hall, talks and many different kinds of stalls in the large hall.

 Not too big - a comfortable size.  

I got some nice stuff.

I only managed to go there around 4 pm. Official entrance fee on the door is a fiver. But there were early birds tickets & other packages.  

(No need to walk all the way from hotel main entrance.  Use the side entrance from Cannon Street  to the exhibition hall.)

To avoid missing things out, and to prevent impulse buying, I started with a quick walk through. Then I got a mixed fruit juice before revisited some stalls. 

I could not buy everything I was interested in but good to see interesting things. 

The guy at the artisan green tea and macha stall  gave me 2 magazines😄 which he got from other stalls.  So as a recipocate gesture, I bought a pair of wooden chopsticks from his stall. (I could not drink tea that quick after the juice)  That stall sells nice glass tea pots, ceramic tea cups, too. And macha protein balls.

 In the 2 magazines,  and the official Viva magazine(not photoed), there are lots of recipes and useful informations.

I only bought a Spanish ceramic grating dish, and a natural hand-made shampoo soap bar.  Ha!

Another thing I surprisedyself is I only picked up a leaflet or two, plus, from the general area outside the hall a Great Taste Book 2017-18.

Many people have misconceptions about vegan "festivals" . They are basically another themed expositions (expo) , or  exhibitions ,  where products, services & talks , music, etc, took place. 

👫Who are interested in such event?

Those who care about
🌳Health, youth, beauty, healing.
🌳Animals
🌳 Envirnoment
🌳 Spiritual & religious purity,
virtues & integrity
🌳 Catering / beverage

Diary-free egg-free versions
of chocolate, cakes & desserts...
Kind products...

And naturally , related  businesses showcase their products & services under one roof. Handy, isn't it?
 
The first time I tried plant based and raw vegan stuff was about 9 or 10 years ago from a particulat pioneering group far away from where I live. Not much choices in where I lived.

Isn't it that such "festival",  or expo , a nice way to see things outside high street shops and see beyond the limitations of average supermarket? 💡

😄Good to see more plant-based food, drinks, snacks, etc , are reaching different supermarkets & shops this year.

❤May all people live a healthy life with plant-based food.
🌿🍒🍐🍓🍈🍇🍍🍎🍋🍉🍌🍅
🍏🍊🍑🌰🌻🌾🌽🌼🍃

Japan Centre London quick shopping

Since the coach will depart at 17:10/17:15, I had got to be quick.

There was a queue for the soft white bun with sweet red bean paste.
OK, I skipped that this time then.

I  went to the freezer/fridge to get natto.
There are products of 3 brandnames.
 I chose the orangy coloured one.
The ingredients seem slightly better.
A pack of 4.

Then I quickly walked to the back and
grabbed a few items including
Shichi-mi tōgarashi powder.

An avocado sushi pack from the food court area.

I didn't even have time to look for the Japanese free paper/magazine for local Japanese.

Queued &  paid.
Wrapped the natto well as I had  a long way to go.

Forgotten to take photograph of the natto.

But same as the one I bought last time.

There are the Santander bikes for rent outside Japan House.
But I am not sure there is dock for them near Tottenham Court Road or not.
So I skipped that.

Found my way with Google map back to Tottenham Court Road on foot. 
Walked through part of China Town.

No time to shop for the other stuff I need.
(This time I just very quickly grabbed
1 soft sweet flat sphere form of snack 
with peanut, desicated coconut  花生糯米糍from a bakery.)

Walked passed famous Foyle Book Shop.
(see the map in previous blog entry)

Arrived in time.
Enjoyed my sushi on coach.

The coach started the return journey at 17:25. Traffic jam.

Sun set photo taken during the loo stop.

I got off the coach at 20:34.

Thanks for the day, dear God.

  : ) 


 Part 1
http://sn-uk.blogspot.com/2018/09/japan-house-london-visit-part1.html
 Part 2
http://sn-uk.blogspot.com/2018/09/japan-house-london-visit-part-2.html
 Part 3

http://sn-uk.blogspot.com/2018/09/japan-house-london-visit-part-3.html

Japan House London visit part 3

Then I went up to the ground floor and browse around the museum-like shop...

Hand-made brooms.

Products from different companies.

Then I see more of the works by that copperware/metalware studio.
(small exhibition of Gyokusen Do)

A bigger pot next to this display has  price tag in 5 digit of GBP.
But it is a craft work or even art with copper, silver, gold.

A book of the craftsmaster's works

For more details of his work and the studio:
 http://www.gyokusendo.com/library/mokume
That is from the website of that copperware studio.

It is nothing like my original itinerary of the day trip,
but I really appreciate it ---
as I have been yearning for art-craft-design activities.
 ( well, I like glass and metal )

Due to the time limit, I found the bus stop for bus number 9.
This bus goes pass Kensington Garden which is near the Kensington Palace,
and Hyde Park. I should visit them next year or so.

The bus also went pass Royal Albert Hall.



 Seen while I was on bus...
Didn't see the name.


Got off the bus at Trafalgar Square.
Walked pass the Canada House, National Gallery.

National Gallery & St.Martin-in-the-field church.


My 2nd target today -- Japan Centre.
I wanted to get some food grocery there.


Part 4
http://sn-uk.blogspot.com/2018/09/japan-centre-london-quick-shopping.html

Part 1
http://sn-uk.blogspot.com/2018/09/japan-house-london-visit-part1.html
Part 2
http://sn-uk.blogspot.com/2018/09/japan-house-london-visit-part-2.html