Stu vs A Mother's Sacrifice

This made me weep like nothing I have ever read. I found this while trawling the internet and it really moved me.



This is a true story of Mother’s Sacrifice during the Japan Earthquake. After the Earthquake had subsided, when the rescuers reached the ruins of a young woman’s house, they saw her dead body through the cracks.

But her pose was somehow strange that she knelt on her knees like a person was worshiping; her body was leaning forward, and her two hands were supporting by an object. The collapsed house had crashed her back and her head.

With so many difficulties, the leader of the rescuer team put his hand through a narrow gap on the wall to reach the woman’s body. He was hoping that this woman could be still alive. However, the cold and stiff body told him that she had passed away for sure.

He and the rest of the team left this house and were going to search the next collapsed building. For some reasons, the team leader was driven by a compelling force to go back to the ruin house of the dead woman.

Again, he knelt down and used his had through the narrow cracks to search the little space under the dead body. Suddenly, he screamed with excitement,” A child! There is a child! “

The whole team worked together; carefully they removed the piles of ruined objects around the dead woman. There was a 3 months old little boy wrapped in a flowery blanket under his mother’s dead body. Obviously, the woman had made an ultimate sacrifice for saving her son. When her house was falling, she used her body to make a cover to protect her son. The little boy was still sleeping peacefully when the team leader picked him up.

The medical doctor came quickly to exam the little boy. After he opened the blanket, he saw a cell phone inside the blanket. There was a text message on the screen. It said,” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” This cell phone was passing around from one hand to another. Every body that read the message wept. ” If you can survive, you must remember that I love you.” Such is the mother’s love for her child!!

If I ever found myself in this situation I'd like to think I do the same thing.

Stu vs Campaign Cartographer 3

Now I can draw, I'm not an artist but when I put pencil to paper the finished product looks vaguely like it should. However I wanted to create a really authentic and cool (emphasis on the cool) looking map to show the world of Etheracea. I had a go at doing a hand-drawn version which, although ok, didn't cut the mustard.

So I went searching for a little help. Now I have no arty friends but have found the next best thing. A user friendly computer programme that does it for you. A case of drag and drop. Well it arrived in the post this morning. I have installed it and as I have an hour or so to kill will be giving it a test run. I will be placing a few of my efforts here and on my website (if they turn out good that is).

Time to get my geek on.

P.S. Just watched a new American show called Revenge. Suffice to say it was very good, will be tuning in again.

Stu vs. The New American TV Season

Now I enjoy my job and I love to write but I also love it when September roles round with another myriad of American TV shows both old and new. It'll be an interesting few months with many new shows vying for a place in my download queue. Already got a new episode of How I Met Your Mother to watch and many more coming this week. I looking forward to the new series of Big Bang Theory the most though. It is by far the best thing for a geek like me on TV at the moment.

As for new stuff, Sarah Michelle Gellar's return to TV in The Ringer was enticing last week and I'm also looking forward to Alcatraz and Terra Nova.

This of course is really to keep me tied over until April and the new series of Game of Thrones (though recent news items regarding the new series has left me a little worried that the creators are straying to far from the awesome source material. I hope to be proved wrong.

Oh and I almost forgot, the new series of Spooks has also started. All these wonderful shows to influence my writing further.

Stu vs his website

There has been too much time between posts, so to all my regular readers I appologise (if I have any). The reason has been the end of the school holidays and going back to work. On the bright side its been better than the end of last term, having got work in a mor local school.

I've also joined a writer's group on facebook which is full of very active writers. One thing I've found is that so many of them have their own websites and as a result I've created my own. Here's the link which can also be found in the 'Links to Me' section

http://awritersblock.weebly.com/

On a completely different noteand with a small stab of jealousy my son made it into a magazine this month... And before his dad. If you have it please check out this months Good Food. The bottom picture on letters page is my son chowing down on his mum's Good Food.

Stu Vs. The Finished Cake

So below is the infamous cake. Trust me it tasted better than it looks.



What should I try next with so many birthdays and a christmas (I have a cool idea for this) coming up.