20 Dec 2023 – Down With Covid
Sun: tkx to 1stBorn for the reminder for this 3rd Sunday of Advent, have nearly forgotten some of these Sundays of Advent since the empty nest when we made some of these homemade advent lights then.
Lunch@MT-FoodMarket with Henry and thanks for yummy apple&pecan tarts from Baker&Cook – now with him in a new job at a designing company there was much to catch up.
Our Daily Menu – Baker & Cook Pte Ltd (bakerandcook.biz)
Olaf in front of Paragon/OrchardRd wishing everyone a good week ahead with some humour to start the last week before Christmas – appreciations to AmyJ for this share, but do wonder where this is from, ie if not photoshopped?
Mon: woke up with a runny nose+scratchy throat, considering that I have been around the company of both bros Steven&Leslie+their families the past 2weeks with most of them having tested + it is inevitable with incubation period being 2-14days. Glad most of whatever shopping that needs attending to are done, enough food to last for the week and a list of movies to catch up. Not going to waste ARTtest-kids until mid-week, will not be going anywhere or seeing anyone as long as testing +
Last time tested + Jun2022: Isolation With Covid – Here-There-Everywhere – This-That-Everything (amylamsg.com)
Tue&Wed: have always been fascinated&interested in ancient&lost civilizations and if finance,health,time,etc are of no issues, would have liked to visit many of these sites. Reality is that priority with time for family&friends top the list.
ErikVonDäniken’s Chariots of the Gods claimed that the Sarcophagus of Palenque depicted a spaceman sitting on a rocket-powered spaceship, wearing a spacesuit. Despite that he incorrectly states the sculpture to be from Copán, rather than Palenque was the start to plant the seeds of much interest to lost civilizations when first read in 1969/first edition paperbag which was still on my bookshelf in 1999 but somehow is now missing? Pix downloaded.
Appreciations&tkx for recent Netflix amazing documentary AncientApocalypse by GrahamHancock series which really got me catching up&understanding more of what has already starting to sprout wild in the mind for half a century. Fascinating as they seem&sound, remember to read between the lines and find the balance – pix downloaded.
Now that the eyesight is not as it was, would like to listen to some of his audiobooks, and to learn more. Physically will not be able to visit many of these places, but will try to objectively listen, read, watch, etc with an open mind, both postive&negative sides from ppl who sounds logical who make sense to me.
Graham Hancock – Fingerprints of the Gods – Full length presentation – YouTube
10 Ancient Cities That Were More Advanced Than You Think
5Jan2011 post from a Sep1990 trip to Mexico, ie before blogging days.
With the world in wash cycle and thanks to Denise’s queries, thoughts of the Maya civilization surface again!
Maya cities reached their highest state of development during the Classic period/app 250-900AD and continued throughout the Post-Classic period until the arrival of the Spanish. Maya centers of the southern lowlands went into decline during the 8th&9th centuries and were abandoned shortly thereafter. This decline was coupled with a cessation of monumental inscriptions and large-scale architectural construction. There is no universally accepted theory to explain this collapse but there are many questions without answers.
MayaCalendar is not just a system to mark off the passage of time but it helps to understand the movements of the solar system. It does NOT predict the end of the world in 2012 but their astronomy was so advanced that they were able to document up to the 2012 WinterSolstice. Today known as the Galactic Alignment, where scientific researchers have worked on the movements of planet earth’s position and her axis and pole in relationship with the galaxy for 21Dec2012.
Interviews conducted by JJ Marks/Jul2012 with Maya daykeepers (shamans) at the sites of ChichenItza&Uxmal revealed that the MayaCalendar does not, in any way, predict an end to the world but, rather, a new age, a new cycle, in precisely the same way that people in the modern age hope for change and renewal in the new year and make new year’s resolutions.
One of the oldest archaeological sites not on a heritage list, NanMadol, like EasterIsland, is an engineering marvel. Nan Madol: The City Built on Coral Reefs | History| Smithsonian Magazine
Edited 25May2025: Unidentified liquid discovered beneath ancient Mexican pyramid
This week started with 2 natural disasters, earthquake in China and volcano eruption in Iceland.
At least 116 dead in north-west China earthquake | The Straits Times
Tkx to Clement for delivering food.
