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28-May-2005, 12:18 AM
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Tinkerbell of Taiwan and her Legacy
I was nicely surprised to see people from this forum visiting
Tinkerbell's webpage http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9 I came in to find a nice thread on her. If you folks do not know of Tinkerbell, here are a couple of photos, and the Webshot folders where even more can be seen  Tinkerbell - Reunion http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/677616/  Tinkerbell at Green Island Taiwan http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/677784/ More interesting photos such as my avatar can be seen in Tinkerbell - at Chipeng 2 http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/678317/ This is a love story of me and my Tinkerbell, a free flying Congo African Grey parrot CAG , as we roamed about the mountains and forests and cities of Taiwan. She loves to go riding with me on the motorbike as she sit on a perch on the handle bar. Full details of that and more are in that webpage, together with URLs to the relevant Webshots folders of hundreds of photos. Without those photos, what I wrote will never be believed As with all love story, it is happy and sad. Tinkerbell's webpage http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9 serves as a record of those immensely happy times as well as pointers to the training and her diet and life with us. Tinkerbell Legacy was then written during my travelling around Laos and Thailand. In it, I try to lay out the principles how you can keep a flying parrot as well as other stuff that I had not touched on in detail earlier. The legacy is on-going, and that can be followed from the blog. There is also a pointer in Tinkerbell webpage that lead to that blog http://www.livejournal.com/users/shanlung/2005/02/ Both should be read. Hopefully, that will lead you to an entirely new relationship with your parrot making both of you happier. That is the legacy that Tinkerbell will like you to have. That you can also keep a flying parrot. 
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28-May-2005, 12:59 AM
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Welcome
Shanlung,
You had caught me by surprise when you registered here. Welcome to Petsfanatics.com 
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02-Jul-2006, 09:00 PM
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Videos of Tinkerbell and Yingshiong Singing
To all friends of Tinkerbell and Yingshiong, My wife uploaded a few videos. Those are old videos of Tinkerbell and of scenes in Taiwan. You can also see Yingshiong singing and display. That can be access via http://shimmertje.livejournal.com/79634.html I cannot see any of them as I am in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and censorship here cut off that video site from me. Perhaps you might find those videos interesting. Shanlung
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04-Jul-2006, 04:24 PM
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Hi Shanlung,
Heard you are running another project at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. May you have a good trip there and best of health. regards, Silvanus
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16-Nov-2006, 01:28 PM
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Tinkerbell Interlude photoset and videos, and start of next chapter of life
Hello to all my friends around the world, The last couple of days were spend in collating the photographs and videos taken during the Tinkerbell Interlude, a period from 1st November to 8th November when I was in Taiwan to be with Tinkerbell again. I sort the photos to cover the day by day with Tinkerbell. The Livejournal entries now have the appropriate photos in them that better illustrate some of the events I wrote about. The videos are also embedded in the Livejournal entries. You find that in http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2006/11/ Tinkerbell flights were very weak at the beginning. Yu treated her too well, taking delicacies and tea to her. As a result, she hardly had to fly. She never made recall flights to him for a long time. That led to him not trying to let her fly. That was a sad spiralling circle. It took me just one morning to put right in my "Retraining the trainer". Tinkerbell needed to be reminded of the joy of flying, and given the chance to fly again. In the videos at Chiayi Park Confucious temple, you can hear clearly the heavy landings she made on me, none of those feather soft landings of before. It was only a week later, that I trusted her with longer flights at BanTienYen. Look at the video where she flew at me, circled off with the leash screaming from the reel and her breaking off and returning to me. The photosets can be seen here. http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/sets/ You can also see the videos here. http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=shanlung You should see that from bottom up starting from Confucious temple flights. Why I went to Taiwan for this short holiday can be told now. When I left Saudi Arabia, I went to Brisbane Australia and accepted a 4 year contract to work and live there. I came back to Singapore to do the paper work to get that work visa for Australia. I knew my time frame will be short. So I had to see Tinkerbell when I could. It was lucky that I did so. Yesterday, I received news that the visas for me and my wife Joy were granted. I hoped to start there early next year. That company then wanted me over asap. We compromised in that I fly over to Brisbane on 26th November starting 27th November 2006. My wife will remain in Singapore for a few months until the work and company find us mutually agreeable for that long term. Then she will fly over and live with me in Australia. This started when I was working and living in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia. Then I read this BBC article in June about the Russian tundra melting. We knew that would happen. But I thought that to be a consequence of global warming. That article then described the CO2 and methane trapped in the past to be coming out now. So instead of the permafrost melting as a consequence, that might well be a timebomb giving us even less time in a world and society that we know. I rather enjoy life with my wife NOW, than to make lots of money in Riyadh for a future rather uncertain. There were other reasons, but my preference is to enjoy the time that is left to me and my wife. Working and living in Brisbane Australia will be much better than in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia even if the pay is less. Perhaps, what I wrote ten years back might make interesting reading for you. http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/oldluddite.html I will not argue if you think differently. In fact, I hoped you are right, for the sake of my son and your children, that we will have a lot more time in the future. If true leaders are found and all of us ready and able to accept the drastic changes in our current lifestyles. Rather difficult isnt it? That bring up what will happen to Yingshiong should and when my wife joins me in Australia. You note that I deliberately had to fly back to Singapore from Taiwan as my wife flew to UK to see her nieces. By the way, Yingshiong is in the PC room with me. He flew in to join me as I wrote this rather long letter. If I ignored him too long, he would hover over my head. So I do a few recalls for the chance to treat him with millis. I love YS too, even if not at the level at the soul as that with Tinkerbell. Should me and my wife cannot look after YS, I will not allow YS to be back into a round cage. I had discussed with Taufik with the various possibilities and he agreed with me. Yingshiong might go into the Jurong Bird Park in the waterfall aviary. This is the largest walk-in aviary in the world. I have had discussions with the highest level and given an in-principle approval for Yingshiong. There are 4 resident male shamas there and one or two females among lots of other birds. It will be a life and death struggle for Yingshiong. But I think YS is a prime 4-5 years old. I believe he will fight and be dominant or at least carve out a space for himself. So if anyone go there in future, you might be hearing Yingshiong singing up in the canopy of trees. My friend BK offered Yingshiong a permanent place in his huge aviary, and beautiful shama wife for him too. But no one other than me , BK, and a few of his friends will ever hear Yingshiong again. He will be safe there, pampered for the rest of his life. Another option will be to release Yingshiong back into the appropriate forest. This might have the risk that he is unable to integrate back into nature or capture by other people to be kept in a cage again. It is yet too early to decide now. Warmest regards Shanlung
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04-May-2007, 12:42 PM
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My wife would have joined me much earlier in Brisbane but for Yingshiong.
But it is decided Joy will be joining me and farewell to Yingshiong is soon aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa Livejournal entry yesterday Thursday 3 May 07 http://shanlung.livejournal.com/66935.html YS last few days with me I just landed into Singapore early this morning and back into apartment. After hugging my wife who was about to leave for her office, Ivan greeted me with meows and figure of eight curls around my ankle. Yingshiong looked at me from his flight room and flew about with excitment. Sorrowfully, I incarcerate Ivan for YS to fly out. YS did not fly to me yet on cue as expected. This trip is made specially to walk Yingshiong into his next chapter. I first spend a few days with him and on Monday, he will be taken to Jurong Bird Park. Then in the evening, I fly back to Brisbane. I waffled and flip flop between JBP or my friend huge aviary. Between the beauty of living in dangerous world against the cocoon of a safe aviary of my friend For him to engage in life/death struggle with all the magic or a safe existence He will be living in the largest aviary in the world, the JBP waterfall aviary I will be leaving apartment soon to buy YS succulent crickets. I will spoil him rotten over the next few days. shanlung (further updates in livejournal)
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12-Jul-2007, 07:22 PM
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 From mountain top where we can see forever  And valleys dotted with hotsprings in between the mountains  And village in Southen Taiwan, Kenting where she flew to me in force 7 crosswinds  And to seashores such as this in Green Island Hi folks, I am sorry to have been away from here so long. A few other things had happen since I was last here. When I came to Australia in Nov 06, I prepared plans for Yingshiong future if my wife joined me here It was another painful goodbye that I had to say to Yingshiong. That was on the 7 May 07. I flew back to Singapore to be with him, and then to hand him over to the Jurong Bird Park. If you go there, please ask to see Yingshiong at the South East Asia Aviary and listen to him singing there. Leaving Yingshiong was painful even if not of the magnitude when I first had to say goodbye to Tinkerbell. I was lucky in that I flew back to Brisbane on that same evening. My wife was left in Singapore for a few weeks to be surrounded by YS things and the silence in the apartment. The only way to prevent that is to close our hearts entirely. Then there will be no pain, and no beauty or magic either. You can read those last few days with Yingshiong in here. (warning, not happy reading) http://shanlung.livejournal.com/2007/05/ The leaving of Tink is more than a throbbing hurt. Much of my life still evolve around her. When I went to work in Riyadh Saudi Arabia, I was hoping that would lead me back to Taiwan. Then I realised that was not going to be the case and my wife understandably refused to live with me in Saudi Arabia. I could not fly back to Taiwan to see Tink and ignore seeing my wife. Thats why I am now in Brisbane down under. Where my wife is willing to come and live with me here. We can both visit Taiwan together as Tink is her daughter too. My wife is here for a month already. We just shifted out a couple days ago from my old flat to another with a balcony at least where I can interact with birds and beasts. After YS, we decided we cannot cope with another farewell. I promised my wife the only birdies that get into the apartment will be grilled, fried or curried. I hope to make friends with the lorikeets , or pied magpies or cockatos or anything else outside in the balcony. They first might be attracted by food I place out for them. Then perhaps one might chose to be my companion and bonded with clicker training with me. Hopefully, future partings with the wild birds might not be so traumatic on us. I also found some other photos on YS in my wife laptop. Three are below. I hope you enjoy them. More are in http://www.flickr.com/photos/shanlung/   
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15-Dec-2007, 08:46 AM
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An update.
Come 20 December 07, me and my wife will fly off to Taiwan to be with sweet Tinkerbell again to mid January. I will blog that daily into my Livejournal. With the last farewell to Yingshiong, me and my wife decided its just too agonising to have to say goodbyes to creatures. No birds will get inside house unless it is fried, curried or roasted. Only when we are certain we stay on for a few years (no such thing as forever in our planet as of now), will we get a furry or feathered companion to live with. But wild beasties do befriend us. At first, only crows and bush turkey came regularly for the food I set for birds. The earlier flock of crows that I disliked swarming about the food dishes resolved itself to a single crow that condescend to patronising us. I do like this particular crow that you can see in video later. We called the crow Princess Mononoke http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Mononoke And if you have not seen above, do yourself a BIG favour and see that movie. PM was given that name because she did this sound of one of the Kodamas (forest spirits) in that movie. We hung stuff in boxes that needed to be pull up feet over beak like Tinkerbell pulling up target stick on chain. PM did that after a few minutes and was the only crow here that did that. PM is still painfully shy and extremely wary, but less so of my wife. But then, I had to leave for office too early in morning. Placing food for PM to pull up (video above) became a ritual for us. If I have more time later on, I will go into formal clicker training with wild creatures and see if that will be the bridge into deeper relationships with them to go beyond a bribe provider. Rainbow Lorikeets still fly about the trees across the road. I have yet to prepare the special food required for them to try to entice them to us. Two butcher birds that I mistakenly called currawongs are regular friends. One friendly and the other still very shy. The friendly one will fly through the open door to sing to me to announce his presence and will take mince from my hand. The shy one refused to take from my hand. A pied magpie is another regular caller on my verandah, a most beautiful and elegant creature. He apparently talk as captured by my wife in her videos http://www.youtube.com/profile_vide...=shimmertje&p=r Photos of birds coming to my feeders http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimme...57601924716943/ Bush tail possums came for their nightly feedings, a one eyed possum and what I call 'mother and child'. I was pleased that the possums will spook and run away when other people walked on the foot path 30-40 feet away. Yet the possums accepted us sitting a foot away from them. And just a few weeks ago, the child allowed me to stroke his back as well. His mom got used to me a while back already. Photos of bushtail possums at my veranda and allowing me stroking them http://www.flickr.com/photos/shimme...57601852137489/ Video of me stroking the possums are also in above. My wife keep a blog and update that a lot more regularly than I ever did that perhaps you might like to read as well. If you think you are a bad learner driver, you have not known my wife yet. I think driving instructors might even pay my wife not to engage them as driving instructor. After all, I am willing to continue to pay them to minimise stress on myself in teaching her how to drive. She is a lot better with birds and creatures than she is behind the wheel. http://shimmertje.livejournal.com/ Warmest regards Shanlung http://www.geocities.com/shanlung9/
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