My latest book: The playgroup

The Playgroup, paper back. ISBN 978-0-473-37871-4
Available at: Wheelers Books or from me, annkschin@Yahoo.com
eBook: Kindle Amazon ASIN: B01N0AWTOL

This book talks of a hotchpotch SAHM (Stay At Home Mums) jelled by a common denominator, the Playgroup. This book will resonate in women who went to Playgroup with their children or grandchildren. This hotchpotch include mothers of nuclear families, single families, bereaved parents, widowed, widowers, cancer survivors, volunteers, and so on. Issues like death, bereavement, cancer, adoption, fostering, and remarriage are sensitively discussed.

A 14-year-old girl with Down syndrome died choking

A 14-year-old girl with Down syndrome died choking on a piece of meat in Gloriavale Christian Community while shut in an isolation room.
Prayer Ready was in an isolation room with the door handles disabled to prevent people getting in and out when she choked on her dinner, according to a coroner's report into her death.


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Media & Society

Looking back on a total shitter of a week for women in New Zealand

By Alex Casey and Leah Damm
August 8, 2016

Alex Casey and Leah Damm recap the hellish events for women in New Zealand last week, including the Kuggeleijn case, The Chiefs’ behaviour and the curious case of Kevin Roberts.
Last week sent an incredibly scary sexist snowball through the country, trampling all of the women in New Zealand in its mighty wake. In less than five days, we were reminded that many people in this country still see our ambition as non-existent, our word as ignorable and our bodies as not our own. We’re hardly the first women to see the common ground between these events, so if you see us on the street and we aren’t smiling, it’s because we are one more news story away from going full Furiosa in Mad Max. Don’t test us.

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International women's day

Today is the 105th anniversary of International Women’s Day, 1911-2016 , 8 March 2016.
Make a Pledge For Parity

Women's Day events honour and celebrate the achievements of women all around the world, ranging from small random informal gatherings to large highly organised events.






The Mt Roskill War Memorial Park was a sea of beautiful people in their beautiful clothes.


I am very proud of Kate Sheppard. Her image appears on our ten dollar note. She is mainly responsible for New Zealand to be the first country to give women the vote in modern times.

Katherine Wilson Sheppard (10 March 1847 – 13 July 1934) was the most prominent member of New Zealand's women's suffrage movement, and is the country's most famous suffragette. Because New Zealand was the first country to introduce universal suffrage, Sheppard's work had a considerable impact on women's suffrage movements in other countries. During one of the protest movement, she led a whole group of ladies to lie down on the road and the police couldn't do anything.

Sheppard played a considerable part in getting the women's suffrage bill was successfully passed, granting women full voting rights. Sheppard herself was widely acknowledged as the leader of the women's suffrage movement.

An elderly friend in her 80s told me that when she was growing up, the girls wanted to be like Kate.

Sheppard is considered to be an important figure in New Zealand's history. A memorial to her exists in Christchurch.




In 1975, I was a young impressionable 20 year old when I went to Canada and heard Helen Reddy sing. This song was chosen by United Nations as the anthem for the International year of women. Together with my girls friends in the Laurier Hall, the hostel for women only in Windsor University, we sang this song with gusto. That year, I became aware of women's rights and women's lib. I became a champion for this cause. Some of the boys accused us to be lesbians.

I am woman, hear me roar
In numbers too big to ignore
And I know too much to go back an' pretend
'cause I've heard it all before
And I've been down there on the floor
No one's ever gonna keep me down again

CHORUS
Oh yes I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to, I can do anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman

You can bend but never break me
'cause it only serves to make me
More determined to achieve my final goal
And I come back even stronger
Not a novice any longer
'cause you've deepened the conviction in my soul

CHORUS

I am woman watch me grow
See me standing toe to toe
As I spread my lovin' arms across the land
But I'm still an embryo
With a long long way to go
Until I make my brother understand

Oh yes I am wise
But it's wisdom born of pain
Yes, I've paid the price
But look how much I gained
If I have to I can face anything
I am strong (strong)
I am invincible (invincible)
I am woman
Oh, I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong

I am woman
I am invincible
I am strong
I am woman


Today, I am no longer the young naive girl. I write books, and some of them are about women and oppression.

Women face many kinds of oppression through the centuries. The author takes you to a journey of modern day oppression.

This story traces the life of Nadine, a girl born to Indian parents. It embodies the issues of a Kiwi girl, Nadine, growing up in conflicting cultures and getting lost in her environment.

Nadine grows up to overcome her problems to help women who suffered from physical and mental violence, domestic violence, rape, pornography, swinging, incest, bullying, sex with minors, sex slavery and human trafficking.

Traces the lives of 2 girls. The poor girl is sold to the rich girl as a slave aka mui zai to serve her for ever. Different Chinese Tradition are explained, and tragedy brings them to the South Seas. The Japanese invasion, the slave protects her mistress and is sent to a brothel as a comfort women.

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Porn Harms

Thank You Nick For The Truth - Porn Harms
Media Release 6 March 2016
Family First NZ is thanking Nick Willis for lifting the lid on the harms of pornography, saying that his honesty is a ‘reality check’ for society and that it takes ‘a real man’ to front up to the harm that porn does.

“The porn industry pedals the myth that porn is harmless, But society is fortunately being woken up to the fact that pornography is harmful and leads to addictions, broken marriages, increased sexual violence, child sexual abuse, sex trafficking and prostitution. Even those in the industry admit that its becoming more extreme,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.

>> Olympic star Nick Willis on the real victims of his pornography addiction - Women - NZ Herald 7 Mar 2016 <<

“Nick’s honesty and bravery will be the catalyst for a national conversation on the harms of pornography and will hopefully be an incentive for other men who struggle to seek help.”

 

 

Thank You Nick For The Truth – Porn Harms

Posted by Editor on Sunday, March 6, 2016

Media Release 6 March 2016
Family First NZ is thanking Nick Willis for lifting the lid on the harms of pornography, saying that his honesty is a ‘reality check’ for society and that it takes ‘a real man’ to front up to the harm that porn does.
“The porn industry pedals the myth that porn is harmless, But society is fortunately being woken up to the fact that pornography is harmful and leads to addictions, broken marriages, increased sexual violence, child sexual abuse, sex trafficking and prostitution. Even those in the industry admit that its becoming more extreme,” says Bob McCoskrie, National Director of Family First NZ.
“Nick’s honesty and bravery will be the catalyst for a national conversation on the harms of pornography and will hopefully be an incentive for other men who struggle to seek help.”
“Part of this societal change is happening because social scientists, clinical psychologists, biologists and neurologists are now beginning to understand the psychological and biological negative effects of viewing pornography. They show that men who view pornography regularly have a higher tolerance for abnormal sexuality, including rape, sexual aggression, and sexual promiscuity. Prolonged consumption of pornography results in stronger perceptions of women as commodities or as “sex objects,” says Mr McCoskrie.
A 2002 meta-analysis by the National Foundation for Family Research and Education (NFFRE) at the University of Calgary found that viewing pornography leads to perceptions of sexual dominance, sex role stereotyping, viewing persons as sexual objects, sexual aggressiveness, and sexually hostility and violent behaviours. A 2013 study by Cambridge University found that porn addiction leads to the same brain activity as alcoholism or drug abuse. And a recent study out of Indiana University and the University of Hawaii at Manoa which was a meta-analysis assessing 22 different studies from seven different countries around the world found that internationally the consumption of pornography was associated significantly with both verbal and physical aggression among males and females alike.
Research has shown that children who are exposed to pornography develop skewed ideas about sex and sexuality, which lead to negative stereotypes of women, sexual activity at a young age, experiment with drink and drugs and indulge in sexting, and increased aggression in boys.
La Trobe University in Australia said; “This is not about couples going to the porn store to spice up their sex lives. Men in growing numbers are using porn in ways that are secret, shameful and damaging. It is having a damaging impact on intimacy and sexuality.” 
“Thank you Nick Willis for being a real man, fronting up to the issue with brutal honesty, and reminding us all that yes – porn harms.”
ENDS

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NZ rapist who kept daughter as sex slave for 23 years to be released despite concerns

One of New Zealand’s most prolific rapists is set to be released from prison despite a Parole Board finding that he remains 'an undue risk to community safety'.

Ronald Van Der Plaat, now 82, kept his daughter as a sex slave for 23 years when she was aged between nine and 32.
He was sent to prison for 14 years in 2000 for the horrific abuse, which included putting her head in a padlocked box while he raped her, the New Zealand Herald reported.
Mr Van der Plaat must be released on his statutory release date of May 11, 2016.
However, in a parole decision released on Tuesday, the New Zealand Parole Board has declined a request for his release before that date.

A younger Ronald Van der Plaat.

The board noted that the most recent psychological assessment of Mr Van der Plaat found he had “a medium-high risk of sexual reoffending”.
That, coupled with “the fact that he has remained in denial and therefore has not obtained any treatment in relation to that offending” meant that he remained “an undue risk to the safety of the community,” the board found.
Mr Van der Plaat’s daughter, Tanjas Darke, waived her right to anonymity and wrote a book detailing the depraved and horrific assaults carried out on her by her father.
She was also the subject of a television documentary, To Hell and Back, in which she detailed a life of physical and psychological bondage, rape, sexual violence and indecent assault.
By the time she was 12 years old, Ms Darke had been treated for a number of sexually transmitted diseases.

Tanjas Darke wrote about her life of abuse in Flight of the Dancing Bird.

Incest fear: Living in fear after my dad's release
"It happened so quick I didn't even have time to turn around and wave goodbye to my childhood," she said.
Mr Van der Plaat was released in 2010 but was jailed again in 2012 after committing further offences, the New Zealand Herald reported.
He had reportedly been seen at Auckland Museum holding the hand of an Asian girl thought to be about five.
In its most recent parole decision, the board said: “The psychological report says that the most likely target for Mr Van der Plaat will be vulnerable solo mothers, most likely non- European immigrants, and that he will groom their trust through offering financial, material, practical and emotional support.
“Future victims are likely to be their female children with Mr Van der Plaat assuming some form of caregiver role,” the board said.
While he will be subject to GPS monitoring, the community probation service told the parole hearing that this would assist in determining where Mr Van der Plaat was spending his time but it would not indicate who he was spending time with.
News break – March 1

Bound and gagged woman

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11598464

Bound and gagged woman: What we know

What happened?

• A woman jumped from the boot of a speeding silver sedan on Huia Rd, near the corner of East Tamaki Rd, Papatoetoe, at about 7pm yesterday.

Who is the victim?

• An Asian woman in her late 30s to early 40s.
READ MORE:
Bound and gagged woman 'jumps from moving car' in Papatoetoe
Kidnappings that shocked New Zealand

What is her status?

• She is in a critical condition and her injuries are "causing concern" in Middlemore Hospital this morning.
• After she jumped from the boot she could not talk, had a bleeding nose and was frothing at the mouth after falling to the road, a witness said.

Has her abductor been caught?

• A major manhunt is under way as the driver of the car, who police had not identified last night, remains at large.
• A witness said the driver did not appear to realise the woman had jumped from the boot.
• The car sped down Huia Rd and towards Motatau Rd.

Police cordon at the corner of Huia Rd and East Tamaki Rd in Papatoetoe. Photo / Jason Oxenham

How did the victim escape?

• She may have used a piece of metal, seen lying on the road, to open the boot, a witness said.

How was the victim held?

• The woman's legs and hands were tied, and she had been "strangled" around the neck with cloth strips, a witness said.

What happens now?

• The East Tamaki Rd area was cordoned off by police last night, disrupting access to the Southern Motorway.
• Huia Rd remains cordoned off this morning as police conduct a scene examination
• There is no confirmation of any arrests but police are seeking any information from the public.
• Manukau Police say they will be releasing an update on the Papatoetoe incident later this morning.

- NZ Herald

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http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/food-wine/76733638/moustache-cookie-shop-closes-down-then-pops-up--in-a-bus


After being forced out of her Auckland CBD shop due to soaring rent, Deanna Yang, 25, has taken to the streets to sell her cookies in true food truck style.
The Moustache Milk & Cookie Bus opened for business for the first time on Wednesday, parking up in Aotea Square.
When the self-titled "chief cookie officer" heard her Wellesley St shop's rent was going to be put up 40 per cent, she knew she had to make a change.

LAWRENCE SMITH

The 1978 Bedford school bus-turned-Moustache Milk & Cookie bus parked up in Auckland's Aotea Square.

"At the time I was really surprised, that in one year, the value has supposedly increased by 40 per cent."
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So the young entrepreneur bought a 1978 "old-school Bedford school bus" and kitted it out with a commercial kitchen capable of pumping out twice the number of cookies her old store could.
"I've always wanted to open a cookie shop since I was eight years old, but another thing on my bucket list was to open a food truck.
"I thought, let's combine two of my dreams into one, and that's kind of how the Moustache Milk & Cookie Bus came to be," Yang said.
But dreams don't come easy and neither does renovating a bus built in the 1970s.
When Team Mo [Moustache] closed down their original store after three years in business, they decided to give crowdfunding a go to make a cookie vending bus a reality.
A whopping $90,000 was donated in four weeks, a true testament to the store's popularity and dedicated followers.
"And while that does sound like a lot of money, we actually went over budget by two or three times that," Yang said.

"It was a challenge but we had a lot of fun building it."

The bus sells the same gourmet cookie selection as the original store, with favourites being the chocolate peanut butter and Snickers cookies.

 

It will remain Auckland for the next few months, before winding its way to Wellington and eventually embarking on a New Zealand-wide tour from Cape Reinga to Invercargill.

 

So why cookies? Yang said it all comes back to her childhood.

"Growing up, my mum was a solo mother, raising us three children, so we didn't have very much money. She would always wake up at like four in the morning and bake for us, and even though we didn't have much, it was waking up to the smell of freshly baked cookies that really made me happy.
"And that's when I realised, the best things in life are actually the most simple things, and that nostalgia, that memory of my childhood inspired Moustache," Yang said.
"I love the bus much more than the original store, its just so much fun."
The Moustache Milk & Cookie Bus will be parked in Aotea Square until Sunday.

 - Stuff

ann's book cv

作者 Ann Kit Suet Chin-Chan.

Ann Kit Suet Chin is a New Zealand Chinese writer. She was born in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia. She attended Methodist Primary and Secondary School in Sibu. She graduated from Windsor University in Canada, Auckland University and Auckland University of Technology.

Ann is the fourth child of the late John Chan Hiu Fei and Mary Kong Wah Kiew. She is married to Chin Chen Onn, PhD. She has three surviving children, Deborah, Gabrielle and Sam. Her third child, Andrew died when he was a baby and is the inspiration of her first book.

作者 陈洁雪

洁雪是新西兰的华人，出生于马来西亚砂拉越的诗巫市。早年在诗巫卫理小学和卫理中学受中小学教育。大学毕业于加拿大的温舍大学、新西兰的奥克兰大学和奥克兰科技大学。

洁雪是已故陈鹞飞夫妇的女儿，家中排行第四。

Diary of a Bereaved Mother 吾儿再见：丧儿母亲的日记 ISBN 9780473187095  This is a real life story of losing one's only son. This experience has made the author strong and caring. This tragedy has been a great help for her to help understand other bereaved people. The author is very brave to write this book. It has not been easy and she aims to touch,... featured in the Aucklander. http://annkitsuetchin.blogspot.co.nz/2011/06/diary-of-bereaved-mother-newspaper.html "words of healing" I appeared in Television 1 Down Under program. It's ok to cry http://tvnz.co.nz/asia-downunder/s2011-e31-video-4453514 On baby bereavement. http://www.youtube.com/asiadownunder#p/c/C9FEF73B56807B22/3/IZk9w-uywAs I spoke in the Baptist Women's Annual Convention, North Island Chapter. http://annkitsuetchin.blogspot.co.nz/2013/02/foreverinmyheartexhibition.html   My book was exhibited  at the Peacock  Art Gallery, Upton Country, Dorset, Park England. I  presented a workshop on Asian Infant Bereavement at the Sands National conference for Sands families and medical personnels for 200 attendees in September 2013 Used as a reference book for NICU staff at the University Hospital, Toronto.  Dr Simon Rowley is a consultant at Starship Children's Hospital who's been given a copy of the book. "It is a good reminder to all health professionals that when our patients leave us, the story does not end for the parents. The detail is amazing, and every little thought and action seems to have been recorded as it happened, and then has been reflected upon. "For parents undergoing similar experiences this book could be a great comfort. For health professionals, I would see it as essential reading." http://www.nzherald.co.nz/aucklander/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503372&objectid=11030  From China to Borneo and Beyond   海外华人的中国魂: 从中国，到南洋，到更远  2013 By Chin-Chan, Ann Kit Suet ISBN 9780473239008  English ISBN 9780473309626  Chinese     This is a hundred-year-old journal of two families, the Chans and the Kongs. It traces the first movement in 1907 from Kwang Zhou, China to the jungles of Borneo. It is a six-generational record with the second wave of movement to England, Canada, Japan, Singapore, Australia, USA ... http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Ann+Kit+Suet+Chin-Chan%2FChen+Jie+Xue,+2013,+From+China+to+Borneo+and...-a0375949200 Link/Page Citation This book records with humor the life of a busy and active family through World War II, the formation of Malaysia and Confrontation. It is a personal reflection of a way of life that has moved on and provides insight into a family and its relationships. It is most of all a work of love and respect for the Chan and Kong families and for Father and Mother. M M Ann Armstrong Lodge International School http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/12/01/words-of-healing-from-a-bereaved-mother/ She explained the people in Sarawak, especially among the Chinese community, could relate to the book as it traces their roots and identities. “From China to Borneo and Beyond kindled a lot of interests in the state. I am very happy to hear a publisher is going to print a Chinese version of it.” From China To Borneo and Beyond was her second autobiography book, which is a hundred year old journal of two Families, the Chans and the Kongs. The book contains records of historical events and current affairs endured by her family from 1907 to 2006 such as the Opium war, virgin tropical jungle, the Japanese World War, colonial days, revelation and fighting with the communists. http://borneobulletin.brunei-online.com/index.php/2013/10/15/sibu-born-author-ann-chin-kit-suet-promotes-books/  Mail Order Bride 邮购新娘   By Chin-Chan, Ann Kit Suet   This book is about the embodiment of the darker side of today's society. ISBN  978047325414-8 Published 1 July 2013 http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/12/01/words-of-healing-from-a-bereaved-mother/ a fiction novel – Mail Order Bride. The story, set in Auckland, New Zealand, touches on social issues such as teenage pregnancies, drugs, paedophile and the like. The book took two months to finish. Read more: http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/12/01/words-of-healing-from-a-bereaved-mother/#ixzz3JJw2LIxU Her third book, Mail Order Bride is the first fiction piece from Ann. She said that the book targets an audience of young adults and that it appeals readers interested in social issues and ills that young adults have to face. http://borneobulletin.brunei-online.com/index.php/2013/10/15/sibu-born-author-ann-chin-kit-suet-promotes-books/ Cry of Oppressed Women 妇女的哭泣   By Chin-Chan, Ann Kit Suet Women suffers from oppression. This story traces the life of Nadine who overcomes her own problems of oppression, grows up to be a social worker and helps women who have suffered from physical and mental violence, domestic violence, rape, pornography, swinging, sex slavery, human ... ISBN 9780473287153 Published 1 July 2014 Interest Age All ages Judy Lawson, Counsellor A book I would use in my work as a reference.  World War II in Borneo, Tales of my Grandpa ISBN: 9780473339005 (Pbk) It is seventy years after the end of the World War II, or the Japanese occupation in Borneo. Captain Cheng aka Captain Fong and his Canadian soldiers are remembered in their role of leading the surrender of the Japanese. I've been reading your book World War Two in Borneo: Tales of my Grandpa.  I was a bit hesitant to start it, since it is combined fiction and fact and I didn't want to get the history mixed up in my mind.  However,  I'm finding it very compelling to read.   Canadian documentary maker, Keith Lock. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BGRESX0/ref=rdr_kindle_ext_tmb Traces the lives of 2 girls. The poor girl is sold to the rich girl as a slave aka mui zai to serve her for ever. Different Chinese Tradition are explained, and tragedy brings them to the South Seas. The Japanese invasion, the slave protects her mistress and is sent to a brothel as a comfort women.

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