Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah

Advantages: It's a beutiful and tragic story, your constantly feeling sympathy towards her and feel lucky that you weren't brought up like that.
Disadvantages: It's makes you feel really down although it is very interesting.

...This book was one of the best I have ever come across. It is Adeline Yen Mah's tragic life, her very sad biography, how she was bought up to feel like she had no existence and very unwanted. The story starts off by telling us about Adelin's birth, born the fifth child to an affluent Chinese family her life begins tragically. Adeline?s mother died shortly after her birth due to complications bought on by the delivery, and in Chinese culture this marks her as cursed or ?bad luck?. This situation is enforced on her so much that when her father?s new marriage took place to a lady who has little affection for her husband?s five children. She displayed overt antagonism and distrust towards all of the children, particularly Adeline, whilst favoring her own younger son and daughter born soon after the marriage. The book outlines...

moo_trendy_cow 15.07.2004 · Read review
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Mah Jongg???

Advantages: Gets your mind going. Great puzzler.
Disadvantages: Will you actually complete a level?

...The game's alright but i haven't got the faintest what the title means. Mah Jongg is a one-player version of an ancient Chinese game. The creator is Yaroze and it's a puzzler type game. The idea of the game is to clear away all of the rectangular playing tiles which are displayed on screen. To accomplish this you must match up pairs of tiles that look the same. Once you've matched them up they are removed from play. The difficulty lies in the fact that only tiles from the outside of the board or tiles that sit on an elevated level can be selected for pairing. Each tile has a symbol on it and some of the chinese element tiles are: bamboo, cherry, chrysanthemum and plum. These can all be paired. The seasons are also included. So these tiles can be paired together: Summer, Spring, Winter an Autumn. You're timed but it's not...

biker2000 08.07.2000 · Read review
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Emotional biography of Adeline Yen Mah.

Advantages: True story.Enjoyable read. Very interesting
Disadvantages: Very emotional which can be a bit upsetting.

...I recently read this book at part of a school project. I enjoyed it thoroughly and once I had started reading it was difficult to put down. The book is a sad and emotional biography by Adeline Yen Mah. Adeline?s mother tragically died because of complication?s with Adeline?s birth. Her father blamed Adeline for the death and considered her to be bad luck. Her father then re-married and had 2 more children with his new wife, Niang. Niang treated her own children well and they got whatever they wanted but for Adeline and the rest of her siblings they could only eat at certain times and only had a few clothes and got last pick in everything. The only members of her family who she feels close to is her Grandfather, Ye-Ye and her Aunt Baba. Ye-Ye later dies and Adeline isn?t told about the death until she was on the way to his funeral...

lulu_111 20.03.2005 · Read review
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DC4800 A Good Buy!

Advantages: Ready to shoot, ease of use, good selection of settings
Disadvantages: weired shape to handle

...fell in love with the Kodak DC 4800 for the following reasons *Kodak is a name I trust. *It had 3.1 Megapixel uncompressed resolution (which was very good back then) *3 x zoom optical *2 x zoom digital *Had a viewing screen on the rear *Does all the things my happy snappy cameras did So what functions are there on the camera I hear you ask (oh yes I so! Or is that just the voices inside my head again?) Well you get these: ## Camera top / front ## *Self-timer button *Exposure compensation dial *Power button (on off) *Flash pop up button *Flash unit *Flash button *Shutter button *Mode dial *Self-timer light (light warns you when photo is about to be taken ? handy) *Landscape/close up button *Status display panel ~~ Status display panel ~~ >Manual mode >Distant >Close up >Black and white function >ISO setting...

Pastynicholls 16.02.2004 (26.02.2004) · Read review
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Dexxa Flatbed Scanner 4800

Advantages: well priced
Disadvantages: A bit larger than most modern scanners

...If you are looking for a well priced easy to use desktop scanner, look no further. In the past 12 to 18 months most hardware has seen dramatic price reductions and in the case of flatbed scanners there is no exception. The biggest problem here is knowing which makes and models will be most compatible to which computers, also what capabilities they have. The Dexxa 4800 Flatbed Scanner is very standard as far as looks go but handles virtually all types of materials to scan, if you placed your hand on the screen it would even scan that clearly. The scan range (resolution) is anything between 50 and 4800 DPI which I'm sure for anyone is more than enough, besides which the high end resolutions would take enormous amounts of memory and super powerful computers to be any use. For most people the Dexxa 4800 is ideal and will work easily...

Trev1000 15.01.2001 (28.12.2000) · Read review
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Fuji FP4800 - Stunning looks with quality results

Advantages: Stylish, takes great photos, pleasure to use.
Disadvantages: Falling behind a little in spec terms...

...INTRODUCTION I purchased my Fuji FinePix 4800 around a year ago after doing a lot of research into what the best digital camera for me would be. I eventually settled on the 4800 due to excellent reviews I had read, its stunning looks and the great deal I found on it (£200 from a small camera dealer). THE CAMERA The camera arrived; I was immediately struck by its beautiful design (after all, it was designed by Porsche!). Smooth and sleek with excellent textures, all of the controls look like they belong exactly where they're placed and the whole thing is extremely tactile. It?s just the right weight so that it feels solid but not too chunky. It just about goes in my pocket but perhaps it could have done with being a little smaller/lighter. All of the camera's extremities are concealed within the camera while its off, turning...

tomhughes 19.05.2004 (24.07.2004) · Read review
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Epson DX4800 All In One Printer/Copier/Scanner

Advantages: Easy to Install and Use, Array Of Functions, Good Value.
Disadvantages: Lacks a Display to View Photos.

...The Epson DX4800 is a good value printer for those who want professional looking documents and photos. It is easy to install, just simply plug it in a spare USB socket in your computer and install the bundled software! Once setup you have access to an array of features including a photo printer, scanner and copier. The best part is, you don't even need a computer to use the copier and photo printing functions. The copier function simply consists of placing the document you wan't to copy in the copy/scanner bay and deciding what size paper you want and whether you want to copy in black and white or colour. Simple! Photo printing is even easier, with a built in memory card reader to print of your favourite snaps from your digital camera. The only thing the printer does lack infact, is a display to view your photos before printing. To scan...

Mozza46 17.06.2007 · Read review
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How Super is Mah Jong

Advantages: Just keep playing
Disadvantages: Eyes hurt after time

...How addictive is the classic oriental game made into this popular P.C game, Super Mah Jong from Game house? The idea of Mah Jong is to pick pairs out of a bundle of tiles stacked up. As you pick out the pairs they disappear, leaving less and less tile as you go along. Once all the tiles have gone its game over. Super Mah Jong is even better. It has the same concept as the original game, but there are a few changes which make the game more irrisistable. Firstly you can choose between different sets of tiles, ranging from the traditional oriental tiles to an easy set with big pictures, letters and numbers on them. There is an attractive soundtrack, of which you can choose the track playing, also the little sound effents as you go along. On traditional games, once completed, thats it... Game over and if you want you can play...

dizzych 07.07.2004 · Read review
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Mah Jongg

Advantages: short games
Disadvantages: frustrating sometimes. Repetative

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emuku 29.07.2001 · Read review
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Epson DX4800

Advantages: All in one - print/scan/copy
Disadvantages: Slow copy time

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jsloan532 23.01.2008 · Read review
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