Happy mid-autumn festival 中秋节快乐！

The mid-autumn festival is one of the 4 major festivals of the Chinese. You may refer to the complete description of this festival here

The other 3 important festivals are the Chinese New Year(Spring Festival), the Qing Ming Festival (means Clear & Bright) and the Duan Wu Festival.

Luckily this year it falls on Sunday. Therefore i managed to reunite with my family members on this day. Reunion on the full moon day means everything to Chinese family.

It is quite unfortunate that it was raining in the night so i could not see the beautiful moonlight. Anyway i had seen it the day before. The scene was weird. Clouds were gathering around the full moon and the moonlight penetrated through the thick clouds. You could see rainbow ring surrounding the full moon. Fascinating!

Happy mid-autumn festival to you guys out there! Hope you guys will complete your whatever things out there as full moon means complete!

New Employee Orientation

Well, i joined IBM Malaysia eventually. The first few weeks were just quite bored. I am not given any assignment. Today i attended the New Employee Orientation. I learned something here!

I realized the power of 'innovation'!

We were put in different groups. The trainer was asking us to play a game. Each of the group member has to touch 4 balls in sequence. He demonstrated the normal way we did it and asked us to improve the process.

The game was so interesting. Initially we achieved a 5 seconds record. He was not satisfied and in the end we managed to finish the task within 1 second!

That's the power of 'innovation' , 'think'

Wow....

中华文化对世界文明的贡献

奥运是希腊文明送给世界的一份礼物。

中华文明呢？除了四大发明外？有别的吗？

这值得探讨。

要超越美国成为另一个超级大国的话，软实力一定要强！英语的通行就是昔日英国及今日美国成功的软实力政策的一例！如果华语（普通话）能做到这点那么中国才算是有希望挑战美国的地位！日本曾经差点做到了！所以这应该不是梦！

而且中国需要鼓励国内的创新风气。如果在文化及科技上能创新，就必能强化对世界的影响力！就像日本的动漫一样！中国需要的就是这些东西！

我想，这梦想可能还需要一、两代人来努力实现！加油吧！

The way Islamic countries treat women

Women in Islamic countries are suffering from a lot of restrictions which are so against the humanity. Women in these countries have to cover from their head till leg! This kills the woman's right of choosing costume freely. Some countries that practices the Islamic fundamentalism even do not allow women to get involved in social activities. For example women are prohibited from working!! Women who participate in sports have to make sure that they do not expose any parts of their body besides head! Imagine if a Muslim lady takes part in swimming or gymnastic or beach volleyball! Certainly she will be forced to dress up a lot or she is even not allowed to take part in the game anymore.

Ironically, the men from these countries are curious about woman's body. They enjoy sex. They enjoy prostitution. Men from Islamic countries enjoy typing 'SEX' in Google!(According to a survey done in year 2007 or 2006 i can't remember exactly) Yet they want their women to cover up their body so that these men will not commit any sex crimes against these women. Ain't it funny! Think carefully, the problem actually falls back to men. It is up to the men themselves to control their behaviors rather than to ask women to do something that help reduce the lust of the men! If we are decent, if we do not have obscene thinking in our mind, it does not bother us if a nude lady is standing right in front of us. Is it really unfair to ask the ladies to cover up their hairs so that to protect themselves from being attacked by men. That is ridiculous! Why blame the lady instead of man???

All the ridiculous things that these Islamic countries do are certainly losing respect from the non-Muslim. They will think that Islam is an extreme and a barbarous religion. If Islam wants to earn more believers, Muslims should promote Islam reputation by doing good deeds such as giving respects to women, to drop the old time punishments such as 'throw stone till death' and so on. Please let the non-Muslims know what are the good teachings in Islam. That will help convince the non-Muslims to turn themselves into Muslims.

So far i think Turkey has done a good job of trying to maintain its nation status as a secular country! I think all the other Islamic countries should learn from Turkey anyway.

炁学

最近上了3天的“无4水-气学”。真正的读音是“气”学，但其“气”非此“气”。

那个字非常罕见，请原谅我拼了老半天也拼不出来！

很神奇，短短数个小时内就能掌握了它的道理！

它能救人救己，非常实用！类似气功，相对的又简单许多！动作又简单易学易记！所以连马来西亚备受尊敬的华教元老高龄90余岁的沈慕羽先生都学习中。

当然，如要用此道救人，前提是，此学创始人---蔡宝珠老师需先为您打开穴道！开穴道需分3次来进行。

第一次开穴道时，我需要坐下，放松身体、深呼吸、闭目。然后老师用手掌按着我的头顶百汇穴，历时大概10分钟左右，就这样而已。

第二次要开的穴道是在双掌的掌心正中，学员们围了一个大圆圈，大家放松心情、闭目深呼吸，之后由站在圆圈中央老师带头，个个手牵手，等着老师从掌心发出能量从一个穿到另一个的掌心中！

至于第三次开穴道的过程与第一次相似，只是这次老师就掌按背部正中不知什么穴位。

这3次，还真感觉到穴道处的热能呢！

开了穴道后，老师就教我们辨识身上的9大穴道！为了使学员们易记，老师用号码来标示每个穴道！老师也说了每个穴道说主掌的身体部位。这些非常重要，因为欲治疗某某病就必须知道需要把能量输送到哪一个穴道！

输送能量的方法实在太容易了！只需什么什么号码配上什么什么号码的！（掌按某某穴道及某某穴道）。想不到这竟能救人！甚至生命垂危的癌症病人！

例如，如果头疼，就掌按1号（百汇穴）配上2号（额头正中的穴位），历时大概十分钟，必能痊愈！当然此为小病的治疗方法！它亦能在紧急时刻派上用场！有助延迟危机的发生！例如心脏病发作时，如用上此法，必能缓解病人情况，至少能拖到医生的到来！

不仅如此，甚至还有一些特定的简单方法能治疗长期病痛，如“抓、顺”等等特定动作。

老师为了让学员们更好的掌握此学，所以叫学员们互相为对方输送能量！个个都乐此不疲！

老师也用上了“秘密”的道理，即“吸引力法则”！老师说，我们身体发射出去什么样的能量，宇宙间就会反射对等的能量回来我们身上！这是“吸引力法则”所说的啊！想不到老师把它应用在此学中！

此学听起来虽然不可思议，但是学员众多，而个个又乐于分享他们学了此学的经历！又不得不信了！

老师功德无量啊！

我期待有一天我也能派上用场救人！建立功德！在此之前，先尝试医好我的一些慢性病。

有趣的或然率

和朋友谈到了或然率。

朋友提出了一个他在某某英语电视剧所看到的题目。

桌面上有盖着的3张牌。2张是A，1张是B。

1）你必须选其中一张。
2）选了之后，对方会打开其中一张B。现在桌面上只剩下2张仍盖着的牌，其中一张是你之前选的。

所以，现在你选中B的或然率是多少呢？

答案是，1/3！

我相信大部分的人会说答案是1/2。因为只剩下2张未揭底的牌啊！

但是，在对方未揭开其中一张B之前，你已经选了手头上的牌，不是吗？

想想看。

如果要更清楚两种答案的分别，你不妨试这样想：

比方说，对方让您重复选50次。

这样一来，你就可以看到分别了！你有50次的机会，如果或然率是1/3，选中A的机会会小得多了不是吗？换着是1/2，几率相对的就大得多了。

呵呵，很有趣吧。

华侨旗帜、民族光辉 － 陈嘉庚先生

最近在紧追着陈嘉庚的传记，成了我每日必读文章之一。每天已买了报纸就迫不及待的掀开连载“陈嘉庚传记”文章的版面细读一番。

我一直都很向往陈嘉庚这位清末民初南洋大企业家的事迹。他的故事内有好多的重量级配角，都是大家耳熟能详的民初人物如孙中山、汪精卫等等！由此可见陈老先生的故事想必多姿多彩，情节丰富。也足以证明当时他的地位非凡，能轻易与这些历史大人物们打交道。

在未读陈嘉庚传记之前，我已从许许多多的文献报刊中得知他事迹的一二。如果所载史实可靠，那我觉得陈老先生应为当代中国的风云人物之一。他可以为了振兴家乡教育而倾家荡产，建立了小学、中学、甚至大学（厦门大学）！他劳心劳力四处奔波招徕当时中国最好的师资以栽培中华子弟！单是这份贡献精神就已值得让身为炎黄子孙的我们学习！

不仅如此，他另我另眼相看的是，在那个年代，他竟拥有前瞻性的思维。他不计较民族的历史仇恨，聘请能辅助他的外籍人士为他工作，当中甚至有日本人及英国人！此为陈老先生公私分明一例！此事也证明陈老先生为人实际，不感情用事。他能清楚每个人立场皆异，所以并没盲目的把外籍人士都归类为都是对中国人不友善的一群。这在在应了他的天秤座个性。

最难能可贵的还是, 陈老先生在生意上历经波浪还是屹立不倒！他历经了数个生意危机，包括令人闻之色变、影响重大的1920年代经济大萧条！无论如何，后来他都能咬紧牙关，一一奋战到底。终于他的坚持有所回报，可谓皇天不负苦心人。要从挫折中重新爬起，说易行难，所以如能亲得陈老先生的教诲，终身必受用不尽！

我觉得，一个人物，应当有如陈老先生，所作所为都是为了子子孙孙，都是为了大众。他对亲人苟刻，对大众却慷慨！我们未必要认同他说做的每一个东西，但无可否认的是，他的精神确有很多可取之处！他可谓已做到了流芳百世。他的名字、灵魂、精神至今仍深深的依附在他的“大众遗产”内！厦门大学，集美学村，南洋商报及等等！这些遗产，让人们世世代代都惦记着他！

此乃真风云人物也！

假作真时真亦假，无为有时有还无

原来此名句乃出自中国四大古典小说之一的“红楼梦”。

如今得知，感慨万分。

Job is not our life!

Came across an article talking about there are more and more people not to prioritize job in their life. I like this excerpt:

In other words, I know firsthand how futile utter devotion to a job can be in the long run. I still want to do well in my job. I still want to be on the cutting edge of things. But I don’t want to work 16 hours a day to maintain that edge. It’s just not worth it. Or maybe it’s kind of worth it, but it wouldn’t win out in a head-to-head competition with my kid, my husband, my elderly father, and the rest of the hoodlums that make up my extended family.

It explains what i want to explain all this while.

英语系国家

发现世界上有好多的英语系国家！

屈指数来就有英国、美国、澳洲、纽西兰（新西兰）等等！这些国家的主要居民还是严格路、萨克逊人的后代！

美国是当今世上独一无二的霸主！

英国国力相对于上数个世纪已减弱许多，但其如今亦非吴下阿蒙，尤其是经济上还是搞得很不错的！

澳洲，个人看好是未来之星! 它将继美国之后崛起！

新西兰，则有如一片净土，简直是退休人士的天堂！

这些英语系国家都还有蛮大的影响力，难怪英语如今仍然风行全世界！屹立不倒！

华语系国家怎可相比？而且，华语系国家只有一国啊！（新加坡并不算）！

想想，还真悲观！

相信华人需要让各民族欣赏方能传播万里，为其他民族所吸收采用！就像当年盛唐时期，日本和韩国介派人学习唐朝的种种优越文化般！

这个世纪对中国来说是一个千古难逢的机会，中国如能把握此良机再次崛起，必能再造另一个唐朝盛世！

下一个强国？

美国国力将会在今次的次贷风暴中元气大伤，在今次金融风暴中幸免的国家将趁此时崛起。

继美国之后，哪一国将会是下一个称霸全球的强国呢？

会是来自亚洲吗？中国?印度？

还是欧洲各国会复兴？

抑或是南美洲强国巴西？

我个人是蛮看好澳洲的！地理位置优越，经济已连续成长多年，土地方圆辽阔，含有丰富的天然资源，最重要的是人口少啊！

我蛮欣赏澳洲政府所奉行的移民政策，这数年来有好多的欧亚移民前往澳洲了，而他们都是在某某领域的佼佼者。如果澳洲政府能够坚守这一政策，相信不出数年澳洲必能强大起来。

它的地理位置还真比美国优越啊！想当初美国能避开两次世界大战的直接影响的确是拜他们的地理位置所赐，而澳洲在这方面是更受到优待了！任何一国欲入侵澳洲必耗费相当大的资源！真非易事！它自身已是一个大岛！而非如美国般还有加拿大及墨西哥这些邻居。

Our ex prime minister encouraged genocide?

This fella. I am speechless. Look at what he has written on his blog.

http://www.chedet.com

Hey old man, you yourself are not the indigenous too! Your blood is not pure anyway. All of our PMs do not have pure Malay blood!! This is the fact!

Think about it! Without all the so called foreigners, do you sincerely think Malaysia can be the Malaysia today? I believe it will be another Cambodia or Laos...or even Myammar.

I can not deny that may be a large number of the first generation Chinese or Indian in Malaya did not think that Malaya is their home country! Well this can be explained because they were not born in Malaya. They were encouraged by the British to come over to this land. They just wanted to get rich and then returned to their homeland!

By the way, who do you think had robbed most of the resources in Malaya all this time? It is The British, the Netherlands, and Portugal! They were the real conquerors. Come on old man, please fire them instead of those innocent ones like Chinese and Indian, they did not get rich by robbing or killing the indigenous! Instead, the non indigenous had won numerous awards in sports events for Malaysia! How could you deny their contribution! Look at badminton, which race takes the majority since decades ago? Also, the non indigenous take the main role in a lot of woman sports as the indigenous are strongly restricted by the "law of religion" in terms of dress code! So, tell me, did the non indigenous contribute to Malaysia?

Also, please ask yourself, would the British allow Malaysia to be independent without the fight from the Chinese and Indian community? Do not forget that our independence were resulted from the cooperation of 3 major races in Malaya which were the Malay, the Chinese and the Indian!

Your words in your blog definitely would not help improve the current political climate in Malaysia! Please do not start your racist statement again! If you want to get rid of all the Chinese Malaysians and Indian Malaysians, please bear the consequences because you will certainly not be benefited from that! The people will hate you so much!! It will be a big blow to the nation's economy. Malaysia will step backward for 50 years!!!

So, please keep your mouth shut, old man!

This is 21st century

Had a chat with friend. Were talking about investment. I complaint that buying a house basically means being put in prison for whole life because you owe to bank for 20-30 years!!! You are going to lose your freedom. Anyway, why should we think of getting a house as an investment? Yes it may have been the best way for the previous generation for investment but it may not seem to be as important as it was now! Nowadays we have plenty of ways to invest our money. For e.g. trust fund. In old time people did not buy trust fund! Well I am talking about people in Malaysia. Nowadays there are plenty of trust funds for us to choose. One advantage of buying trust fund is you are always guaranteed the liquidity! You will not enjoy the same level of liquidity if you are buying a house as you need time to get someone who is willing to offer the price that you are expecting to buy your house. Else it is going to be a burden to you because every month you have to allocate certain percentage of your income to bank!