How to spend the money from "Scheme $6000"

各位同志：

有無想過拿到了6000蚊後點用,不如好似我咁把小部分捐助給不同的慈善機構,一來可以幫助有需要的人,二來這是一筆意外橫財,用當中一些作幫忙他人好讓剩餘的用得開心.因為幫了有需要的人，你會相比唔幫人的自己更為喜悅開心！

以下是我建議大家的一些慈善團體以作參考：
1. 國際培幼童會 (PLAN INTERNATIONAL HONG KONG)
2. 香港癌症基金會 (Cancer Fund)
3. 樂施會 (Oxfam Hong Kong)
4. 無國界醫生 (MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES)
5. 救助兒童會(SAVE THE CHILDREN)

一次過捐助(每個慈善機構港幣200)都係一千蚊,只是6000蚊的一部分而已。捐果陣講埋我個名重有收據攞tin！

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From a Tadpole to a Tree Frog

Dear friends:

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I am writing to tell you about an interesting experience I had recently on a visit to my uncle’s home. I would like to show this as a teaching guide to some children who are forced to study at home on Sunday and to those who are forced to rack their brains during the class for those very difficult questions, respectively by their parents and their teachers. I still remember that I was so happy in my childhood, unlike today’s children. Catching tadpoles from countryside may most likely be an extravagant activity to nowadays’ children. If you are a child, and now you are reading this article, you absolutely will experience a complete evolutionary sequence of a tree frog!
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On 3 Sep 2011, it was a sunny day, not having anything in particular to do for that morning; I decided to visit my uncle. My uncle lives at Palm Springs of Yuen Long 元朗加州花園, it is located in Yuen Long, Wo Shang Wai, near Mai Po Marshes, there are 5 phases to the whole development at Palm Springs, namely (1st Phase) Montery, (2nd Phase) Ventura, (3rd Phase) Westwood, (4th Phase) Paloma and (5th Phase) Arcadia. To the best of my knowledge, Palm Springs has built more than 980 semi-detached three-storey houses with own car park and yards, my uncle's house is one of three-storey houses in Paloma’s phase. Palm Springs is nearby the countryside so that many varieties of insects and amphibians can be easily found everywhere at his yard.
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In that morning, I was talking with my uncle about two tortoises’ condition, these two I had gifted my uncle in September last year. These two Sulcata tortoises (非洲蘇卡達象龜) are the third largest species of tortoises in the world, I named these two respectively as “Schoolbag 書包” and “Hatch-bag 背囊”, they like eating in essence, and they grow so fast and big as I still remember that I took them in my home in May 2003, they were incredibly cute little Sulcata babies in the beginning but now they have reached at approximately 65cm in shell length, and each has 38Kg in weight. Below photos showing my younger uncle with two Sulcatas for your perusal, these photos were taken on 20 November 2011:

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Absolutely these two tortoises are not leading role of this article, the protagonist of this article are 7 numbers of tree-frogs. The story shall be talked starting from their born place (a water tank located at my uncle yard). As a rule, tree frogs like to lay their eggs on trees as a rule; their eggs are inside the small whitish bubbles clumps attached to tree trunks. Tree frog's eggs hatch into tadpoles within 24 hours and the newly hatched tadpoles will fall into water below from their arboreal foam nest to complete development. For this reason, some tadpoles were found living in the water tank located at the yard of my uncle house. For the purpose of having more understandings of the complete evolutionary process of tree frogs, I collected 7 tadpoles by soft net from the tank and brought to home for further observation. For a clear view, they were kept in a transparent plastic bottle in my home for weeks, and their life-history was observed.

Personally, I didn’t know where they came from and what the type of tadpole species is, and even I didn’t know why they would appear in the water tank. 3W (Where, What and Why) gave me a good reason to bring them to home for further observation. I knew that almost all tadpoles living in nature are strong, and not much more knowledge is required if breeding tadpoles.

During the observation, I recorded the process to each tadpole including body size, evolutionary speed, and I tried to take some high density photographs as further comparison and observation with each of tadpoles.
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(Day 2 at my home- recorded on 4 September 2011)
One of the tadpoles obviously grew two rear legs; its evolutionary speed was faster than other tadpoles, this tadpole I named it as No. 1 tree frog. For breeding tadpoles, some frozen red-worms were put into the bottle one time per day. By and large, they looked like so good and were active during the Day 2 observation.

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(Day 5 at my home- recorded on 7 September 2011)
The No.1 had already developed its fore and rear legs, other tadpoles were observed as well, No.2 (the second one who grew 4 legs) and No.3 (the third one with rear legs) eventually evolved in the water.

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(Day 6 at my home- recorded on 8 September 2011)
The No. 1 had been nearly a complete evolutionary process, nutrition stored inside its tail for the evolutionary period was entirely digested by itself body, and its tail was missing eventually. Below photos can be seen, the No.1 tree frog and No. 2 tree frog were well developed suction discs on all digits (所有腳趾長有吸盤了).
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(Day 8 at my home- recorded on 10 September 2011)
Below photos showing the No.1 and No. 2 tree frog, their skin was very smooth with very tiny granules, moreover, there was a conspicuous fold from eyes to fore legs.

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(Day 9 at my home- recorded on 11 September 2011)
In the morning of Day 9, four tree frogs were found in the bottle, No. 3 and No. 4 tree frog were named for the newly evolutionary frogs. These frogs were quite active at night and liked to rest during the day; their behavior was observed in this day, No. 1, No.2 and No. 4 were love to climb and so active in the bottle, but No. 3 was not. Also some special matters were observed; they were in grayish in colour, and all with an X-marking on their back.
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Photos show below the 4 evolutionary tree frogs and 3 tadpoles in the bottle, their change in size and body were quite obvious and their back all with an X-marking.

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(Day 11 at my home- recorded on 13 September 2011)
Unfortunately, No. 3 tree frog died in the water, this was an inactive frog, it moved slowly and did not like to jump, unlike No.1, No.2 and No.4. Its dead gave me a warning sign on the care and breeding of tree-frogs. Maybe tree frogs should live in nature, not in a bottle!

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(Day 13 at my home- recorded on 15 September 2011)
Remaining 3 tadpoles evolved over the days into 3 grayish tree frogs; they were No. 5 tree frog, No. 6 tree frog and No.7 tree frog. In my record, 6 successful evolutionary processes were observed and well recorded, one dead case happened on No.3 tree frog. To me, evolution is very interesting process, it was definitely a good experience when I can see a tadpole evolving into a tree frog. Next, I tidied up the information, all tree frogs were subsequently released and brought back to the nature.

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According to their properties in size, body and colour, I searched varieties of websites about tree frogs, I found this species of tree frog that widely distributed throughout Hong Kong, also they can be found in Macau, and other Asia areas, like india, China and Indonesia, the scientific name is “Polypedates Megacephalus” or we can call this to be spot-legged tree frog 斑腿泛樹蛙, this is a medium size frog which is grayish to reddish-brown in colour, sometimes with an X symbol on its back, spot-legged tree frog can sometimes change colour according to the background colour. The following photo I searched from the internet showing a mature spot-legged tree frog for your information.

Best Regards with my heart