別開生面的婚宴

上个星期六晚，我见证了一场别出心裁的婚宴。

婚宴以自由餐形式来进行。老一辈可能认为这怎么行吧？因为自由餐于人有点寒酸的感觉，不好看。可是，那场自由餐婚宴盛会并不难看，反而简单又隆重。场面布置得非常典雅高贵，令客人有如处身在热带丛林内用餐。那种感觉非常的和谐，可能就是“天人合一”的境界吧？呵呵。

婚宴特别之处在于，有一个小小的婚礼见证仪式。新郎及新娘站在会场中心处，说了好多令人感动的话。由于新娘是辅导员，所以说得一口非常标准之华语，表达能力更不用多说。新郎则看得出不善发言。这我很早救知了，只因我与新郎共事了一段日子，所以对其个性我还蛮了解。新娘的同事也一个接一个上台发言，个个也是说话高手，在场的宾客获益不浅啊，呵呵。

新郎新娘还请来了一支乐队为宾客们献唱，他们的素质都很好，大家吃饭时也不会闷，有悦耳的歌声陪伴。

食物方面当然及不上普通婚宴酒席的菜式。可是我很满意，因为我吃得刚刚好，不会有太胀的感觉。我对普通婚宴酒席的铺张与浪费早就不认同了，所以自由餐正和我意。

有机会跟新郎说说几句，他说，“你就参考参考吧！”。呵呵。

特别感谢新郎这次邀请我去他的这场婚宴，我得以大开眼界。我认为，这场婚宴偏重于西式。这很好，值得鼓励，我们该不时融合中西的优点，来创造出新文化，为我们的原有文化锦上添花，增添活力。

异人

在网上看到了这段，不知可信吗？

迪安阿布峇卡一口氣將整碗牛肉熱湯喝完。
現年61歲的迪安阿布峇卡，原來還有華人血統，他的父親，名叫莫哈末“廣東”。

根據他所言，在800年前他信奉回教（中國稱為清真教）的祖先，從中國到來印尼爪哇傳播回教，也把當時中國的少林武藝帶過來，揉合了爪哇武藝而演變成爪哇的“Selendang Merah”武術。

據說當時有位公主甘妊羅羅基魯曾患上皮膚病久醫不愈，后來他的祖先通過神明指示要她在爪哇海邊浸浴，結果真的有效，幾天后不藥而癒。

迪安阿布巴加深信，他的浮水異能，便是由當時守護公主的祖先神靈所賜給他的

中国沦丧了！

毒奶粉事件，大大的打击了中国产品在国际上的声誉。

如果我身为中国国民，我会感到羞愧。丑陋的商人为了利益，竟可不顾下一代的健康，损人利己。如此短视，中国还有未来吗？如我公公仍然在世（中国福建永春出生），必为此深感痛心！他们那一代，对中国是抱着多么大的期望啊！奥运办得轰轰烈烈又怎样，国际声誉此时已破坏殆尽！层出不穷的毒产品事件传出已久，一宗又一宗不时发生，当局反应迟钝极了，难道现任政府已不能有效的治理国家了吗？

今年中国发生的任何一件大事，除了四川地震的拯救工作值得称赞外，对其他事件的表现简直让人失望，在在显示了现任领导层办事能力的不足。

我非中国国民，我只是代表我祖父说说话。我觉得当局该痛下决心“变法”了。虽然看得出当局已在改革政治体制当中，但进展缓慢，只怕赶不上快速的经济进展。一个十三亿人的大国，就由七个人决定政策，这当真可行吗？就不能让“国会”（人民代表大会）来讨论并通过政策？是时候下放权力了！

地方势力似乎很大，说到底还是跟体制有关，当局有必要削弱地方势力以确保中央决策能贯彻全国，始终保持宗旨。我所知不多，希望当局已有相关答案。

官商勾结，亦是体制问题，官联公司能去多少是多少，目的是让官员好好做官，商人好好经商。任何商业决策、程序都需透明化，然后给予媒体更多的权力去追踪、报道，形成一种监督力，政府也不用这么头疼了。

全民教育更须强化！每个人都需学习儒家经商精神。当局能拿一些二十世纪南洋华侨的经商故事为教材，列为典范。这些先贤都是经典的儒商，个个强调诚信，个个始终贯彻儒家精神！例子就有陈嘉庚、李光前等人。这些人当年都是先从中国走出去成功经商的一批！他们以儒家精神经商的经验对目前商业至上的中国是难能可贵的！商业之上已让人伦尽失，每个人往“钱”看，致富成了人生最大目标，颠倒了是非！儒家精神将恢复中华文明根本，唤醒这些迷失的人们的儒家根本，让社会健康发展。须知，社会是会因道德堕落而失序的。社会不稳，共产党也别想长久执政。

幸好共产党当局不掩盖事实，让媒体据实报道，这令人欣慰。海外媒体也会因此而尊重共产党，而非一面抨击。

中国大陆的宝贵传统文化、书籍等皆于文革时惨遭蹂躏、毁于一旦、地位跌至不值一文。人民丧失了精神依靠，行事没指导。共产党犯了如此滔天大错，就有责任把错误纠正过来。事事以民为主是永不会错的，历史已证实之！如此政权才会长久！领导人也会流芳百世！个个官员、商人以民为主将会形成健康的利益圈，而国家实力才会百尺竿头、更进一步！

望全体中国人民加油。为了爷爷！拼吧！

human can migrate to South Pole?

The world's largest lake lies beneath the South Pole mainland. Not only one, but many others. Also, you can find streams or rivers there too!

Based on all these facts, people start to wonder if there are other civilizations or other creatures?

In the 16th century, a Turkey general drew a map. Nobody knew what land he drew about. After some time scientists discovered that it was actually a bird-eye's view map of the South Pole mainland! Why was he able to draw the map? Some more it is a bird-eye's view map! It is beyond our imagination. Does it mean this general flew over the South Pole mainland? If so, how did he do that?

In additional, there are a lot of enormous creatures living at the South Pole sea! A plesiosaur body was found on 11th October 2006 near one of the South Pole islands! This creature is very much like the frequent spotted Nice water creature.

Below are some interesting stuff:

In year 1962, a Soviet submarine found a strange man-fish creature boy in pacific near Cuba. The boy told them there are creatures like him living below the pacific ocean.

The Sumerian worshiped a half man fish creature.

On 1930, a bird mouth man was found in Estonia.

On 1825 & 1972, during a military exercise, the army suddenly noticed a USO(unidentified sea object) bursting out from the thick iceberg at 7 degree! At that moment every machine & electronic devices stopped operating for sometime! It appeared that that phenomenon had caused a blackout to the surrounding area!

In Africa, green skin tribe were found! Yes you are right, they have green skin! They claimed that their ancestors are from Uranus. They worshiped a triphibian creature! It can live in water, on land and it can fly!

There are so many things out there for us to find out! My respect to all scientists and archeologists! I wish one day i may contribute as well. I want to join you guys.

Pyramid In Eygpt

Wow! I just discovered some interesting facts about the 3 pyramids at Giza.

They are actually corresponding to The Orion and Nel River is actually corresponding to The Orion Galaxy.

The distance among the 3 pyramids are according to the golden proportional rule: 1 to 1.168!!

The pyramid is also a small model that simulates our solar system and earth!

The pyramid is built at an angle of 52 degree. It means, if you are standing on the peak of the Pyramid, you would not know there is strong wind at below.

Bear in mind that The Pyramid in Egypt is located at the north attitude at 30 degree, which is where a lot of great discovering of ancient civilization were found!

Also, on the Mars, there is a human face very much similar to The Sphinx and there are 5 things very much like the Pyramid. There are more mathematical facts about that. I can not list them one by one here now due to time constraints. You can find out yourselves.

More to find out!

林相如先生談八字

今天林相如先生在南洋商报的专栏文章没那么废了。他平常的文章对我来说简直是欺骗大众，鬼话连篇，说了等于没说，恕我时间有限，不能一一举例，但我非口说无凭，乱乱放炮。

今天他谈了命理学的作用。他举了个很好的例子，我在这里大概的简短说明。 他说命理学就像气象学，气象学提供有用的资讯如刮风、打雷等等于渔夫们，但此学并不能告诉渔夫今天能有多少鱼获及等等。命理学亦如是。它能告诉人们高潮及低潮期，至于人们能不能于高潮期顺流而上则看他们的造化了。同样的，如没必要，就别在低潮期尝试逆流而上，以防得不偿失。

换句话说，高潮期勇往直前，低潮期韬光养晦，能让我们有个较顺利的人生。

他也大概透露了八字计算法，皮毛而已。就是从八字中看五行。从五行的相生相克论，再配合个人每个八字的五行属性来作出这个人的一生命途大概如何。他举了一个“衰”人为例以进一步解说。

我非第一次听到此说法，而我一向来都是非常认同此说法的。

我希望林先生日后能继续写些诸如此类的好文章，而不是些废话，否则则有损名声矣。

Japanese Invansion to Malaya during WW2

Just read an article interviewing an old man who managed to survive during Japanese Occupation in Malay during World War 2.

There is a part where he said there were a lot of Japanese businessmen back then. They turned into some major or sergeant after Japanese army conquered Malaya. That is their real identity.

This reminds me one story that my English tuition teacher told us before: When he was still a kid, there was this Japanese old businessman neighbor who always gave him & his fellow playmates sweets. To them, he was just another kind old man. The kids were joyful. They liked this old guy very much. In the end, only they found out his real identity is spy. He did not say or he was not sure of what did the guy do as a spy tough. The memory that he got was the old guy was good. Like any grandpa that me and you can see anywhere on each day.

At the end of the article, Mr Wu, the interviewer, criticized the militarism mindset that is still haunting the Japanese. They never really feel "they are wrong" about the occupation. This kind of thought is scary. My personal opinion, those who were involved in those evil deed should sincerely apologize to their victims and start treasure the harmony from today onwards. After all, it is a value of what the Japanese Buddhism Group Sokko Kadai have been promoting.

Japan will win more respect from its surrounding neighbours if they really sincerely apologize.

Back to old tech? Oh no...

So today, i met Lim KY. He is a project manager. He is currently handling a bank system project team. I am not sure what system is that but i was told it is already a phase 2 project. I may take part in the UAT session of phase 2, and phase 3 too.

After bidding farewell to him, i asked one of the team members what technology they use. Unfortunately they are using those obsolete technologies such as Java 1.4, EJB2, Struts 1.2 and so on. Oh no, not even using Object Relational Framework or Dependency Injection Framework. I need to dig deeper in those areas. I want to try out JBoss Seam, more Spring, EJB3, more Hibernate and so on. I need to sharpen those. Now my dream will likely break. I know it is normal for a client like bank to use those technology they are comfortable with because they are proved to be stable. So i can not blame. I am wondering if i shall talk to my manager to avoid working on something i do not like.

I do not know how long will the phase 3 last. I just know that working in this project will not offer me a chance to travel to oversea. That is what i am looking forward to: to communicate with oversea colleagus or clients, i want to improve on that part. Furthermore now i am going to use the obsolete technologies. It is a double blow to me. I do not want to waste my time doing things i do not like. I want to achive my goal as soon as possible before i get married. As you guys out there know, normally man will lose lots of freedom after getting married. Sorry, i should say this phenomenon is common in Asia.

Wish me good luck.

Are we from Mars?

The human face on Mars. The pyramid on Mars. The water on Mars.

Is there any life on Mars?

Can human move to Mars?

Are we actually from Mars? As there are so many ancient legends telling us the 'spaceship' story?

If we are from Mars, then what had actually happened to Mars back then? Why our Mars ancestors chose to move to Earth? Where did water on Earth come from?

Is there really an ocean beneath the Mars land surface? Will we discover life in there?

Those Mars machines were washed by rains? Why they look so clean all the time? What has caused this? The rain?

bomber & cowboy on the moon?

Neil Armstrong saw many footsteps on the moon when he made his first step on the it. this particular part was removed by NASA from the video because it was too shocking! Who made those footprints? Years later those moon astronauts claimed that they saw all kinds of weird things outside the spaceship while on their way to moon. What are those weird things? They claimed that they were being trailed by some unidentified flying object. What was that? Fortunately they managed to make it to the moon. Nevertheless, there is something shocking, a Soviet satellite saw an American WW2 bomber on the moon before! Sometimes it was there and sometimes it disappeared suddenly! Besides that, at a different time, a dead cowboy was also seen on the moon! Did all these 'earth' things travel through some special 'tunnel' ???

In spite of that, a Soviet spaceship was reported vanish before during the space competition between Soviet and the U.S period. Before the spaceship was gone, the crew said the spaceship was surrounded by some kind of 'light'. Interesting isn't it?

When can we know all the truth? Are we really being supervised by some unidentified being? If so, why did they allow The U.S spaceship to land on the moon? Does NASA ever land on the moon? or it was just a show so that the news can be seen as a victory over Soviet?

Please let us know the truth. It something that every human has to know.

Great conversation with friends

I had a gathering with my university mates at 1U on 17 September 2008, which is a holiday in Selangor. We had a great conversation.

We talked about religions. One of my friend, who is a Methodist, said his Christian fellow will get angry every time he questions on the logic of certain Christian teachings. For example, if there are only heaven and hell for human to go to after death, then the number of being in hell is surely greater than the number of being in heaven as the rule to the heaven is so strict. Then the power of devil who governs the hell is surely greater than 'god' who governs the heaven. That is only one of many relevant topics that we discussed. Of course we did not only talk about Christian, but other religions as well.

We concluded that religion is a system. A system will surely have logical flaws. Of course we do not know if there is something that is beyond the logical flaw but for certain if based on the current knowledge we have, nothing can really explain the logical flaw of every religion or every system. It is a universal law.

Ugly King Of Thai

The King of Thai is another ugly one. I really think he explains why the monarchy system should be abolished. Monarchy emphasizes "privilege" be given to a minority group - the noble one who is actually a normal human like us.

In the past 60 years the military "coup de tat" always happened with the secret approval from the King of Thai whenever his great wealth is being threatened by the government then. Just check the history of the "coup de tat" that happened in year 1981, 1985 and 2006. It is all about money. The government and King of Thai are just playing games and the people who live in poverty are the one suffering the most.

The current biggest opposition party in Thailand very much support the idea to increase service tax, to reduce the cost that is meant to help people living in poverty and to set a limit to suppress the working salary of the labor. You know what? The king of Thailand supports this idea!!! He is "indeed" a good king!!!

In short, i think, nobody should enjoy the so called 'privilege'. The royalties are born as normal human too. They are like us. Nothing different. So, please please everyone of you help abolish the monarchy system. First of all, let us pull down the one in British first. That one really makes me sicked.

伊斯兰教禁食猪肉的前因后果

请看这篇由黄洁媚所写之文章，解释得相当清楚。

是个美眉哦，会写这么严肃的课题，相当难得！

http://www.merdekareview.com/news.php?n=7701

老马又开炮

http://test.chedet.com/che_det/2008/09/malay-unity-and-malaysian-unit.html

老马又要挑起事端了，这次要利用部分史实来强化他种族主义的论点。

嫌国内政局还不够乱吗？股市已跌接近1000点了。

说华人和印度人不愿接受同化，简直是在放屁！我想多数大马华人印度人都很乐意学习马来语。很明显的，我们的阻碍来自两点：

1）同化包括：被强逼皈依伊斯兰教、奉行马来人文化和舍弃华人姓名。

2）经济上：政府又处处以保护马来人利益为借口来限制别族的赚钱或升学机会。

这两点，都是问题的根源！都是造成大马人民不能团结的祸首！

还有，挑起事端地人总是那些印裔穆斯林（在大马我们称他们为嘛嘛），他们就是那些很会经商的一群。当年他们看到自己的商业利益逐步被华人侵蚀所以才认自己为马来人并强调需打击其他的种族。

这是有根据的！因为佩特拉亦有撰文透露这点。大家去找找看。

unknown histories about Singapore

Watched a documentary that talks about some unknown history Singapore.

When Singapore was expelled from Malaysia, Lee Kuan Yew was crying after hearing the news from radio. He was sad because he did not have a clear direction for his 'child', which is Singapore to go for. Nobody looked good on Singapore at that time as it was only a third world country port without any natural resources. Back then, it was really a tough job for Lee Kuan Yew.

At that time there were 3 isolated countries in the world: Israel, Republic of China(Taiwan) & South Africa. Therefore Lee Kuan Yew seeked for help from the RoC as he was a strong anti-communist politician. His relationship with the then President of RoC 'Jiang Jing Guo' was close. The good relationship started even before Jiang Jing Guo took over the president seat. Lee Kuan Yew visited RoC very frequently then. The rate was about once or more than once per year. Each time Jiang Jing Guo treated him as special guest.

Lee Kuan Yew's visit to Taiwan was not of no intention. Political system wise he adopted a lot of RoC's ideas as RoC is one of the Repulic in Asia then. RoC even helped build Singapore military system by sending a few good officers who later became important military officers in Singapore. Of course the help was not without any reward. Singapore helped RoC to purchase weapons and did a number of kind of sensitive things. It also became the 'international representative' of RoC as RoC's diplomacy was defeated badly by People's Republic of China then. RoC would always get Singapore's help to transmit messages to the worldwide.

Singapore's idea of welcoming talented people from worldwide are actually originated from RoC as well. In year 1985 Singapore was facing serious economic growth problem. The world's economic turned bad, the atmosphere was very much like the one right now. Singapore's economic growth percentage of that year was 0%! It was a big blow to Lee Kuan Yew. While his good friend the RoC managed to achieve a 6%! Lee Kuan Yew asked Jiang Jing Guo why his country was able to do that. jiang jing Guo said it's due to the policy of encouraging talented people to come to Taiwan and also due to the government's policy of encouraging creative and innovation in technology. Lee Kuan Yew was impressed and he quickly went to RoC for a toru of obversation. He spent a few days in the technology park! His earnest attitude impressed a lot of RoC officers. He brought back all the ideas to Singapore and immediately applied them and nowadays it is even doing much better than the RoC now.

I never expect Lee Kuan Yew believe in Feng Shui. The story is: Back into year 1997, the economic downturn came like a strong wind and defeated a lot of countries in Asia. Singapore was hit as well. Then the Feng Shui consultant of Singapore suggested that each Singaporean had to carry a 'Ba Gua' (Chinese ancient 'Eight Trigram'). The problem was: how to get every Singapore to carry that kind of awkward thing? Hence the government came out with an idea, which is to put the 'Ba Gua' in the 1 dollar coin! If you notice, the 'Ba Gua' was actually put into all 1 dollar coins that were published after year 1997!

Lee Kuan Yew strongly believes that dictatorship would help growing a country by ensuring a stable political environment. He objected jiang Jing Guo's idea of allowing 'democracy' to his country. However Jiang Jing Guo did not listen to him and now RoC's democracy was quite a role of model for the Asia countries.

Well, i am glad to be able to know this history.

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!

我家鄉名字的來源細說

真惭愧，在网上读到了这篇介绍文，方知家乡名字的来龙去脉。在此贴上：

“柔佛”二字，译自阿拉伯文“Jauhar”，意即“宝石”，在英文则是“珠宝”，早期被喻为“大地的尽头”，后来才定名为“柔佛”（Johor），与英文的珠宝“Jewel”谐音。柔佛州人口多达256万，共有8个县：新山、笨珍、峇都巴辖、麻坡、昔加末、居銮、丰盛港及哥打丁宜，其中新山是柔佛州的首都。柔佛是马来西亚9个由苏丹统治的州属之一，掌管州内事务者为州务大臣。虽然新山是我国主要先进都市之一，但柔佛州超过30％的土地仍是纯大自然地区，上千种植物、动物和昆虫是吸引外国的卖点之一，4个国家公园、7个休闲森林以及越来越长的受保护海岸线，3面环海的柔佛州，因此不论是喜欢上山或下海的游客，都能尽兴。

“昔加末”（Segamat）的名字源自马来文“segar”和“amat”，意即“非常新鲜”或“非常清爽”，若要追溯其典故和源头，则要从16世纪柔佛苏丹时期说起。有民间传说指“昔加末”之名乃当时的统治者苏丹阿末，亦即第一任苏丹所取。1511年，苏丹阿末与随从在一河边休息时，极度干渴的苏丹命令随从从清澈见底的河中取水饮用后，即刻感到神清气爽，舒解了长途跋涉导致的全身酸痛，于是说了一句：“Segar amat（非常清爽）！”一旁的宰相敦德博也有同感，因此就将该地区命名为“Segamat”。隶属森美兰州管辖的昔加末受英国殖民地政府统治，一直道1901年才成为柔佛州管辖地区，并成为8大县之一，也是州内主要的农业原产品区，面积达2千851.26平方公里，人口共17万8千620，是个历史悠久的小镇，古迹保留得相当完整。

这个位于柔佛州北部的小镇处处是园丘，橡胶园、油棕园及果园几乎成为当地的经济命脉，其中以果王榴连为最，单是榴连园面积就达1万1千公顷，不但盛产，而且所种植出来的榴连，品种和素质皆属上等，镇上还有一个名为“榴连广场”的地方！昔加末出产的其他水果包括龙眼、柚子、冷刹及红毛丹等，若在年中或年终的果季到访昔加末，口福不浅！爆米花论坛昔加末只是一个很小很小的小镇，但却不失为一个值得一游的地方。这个只有一条大街的小镇五脏俱全，购物中心、旅店、高尔夫球度假村、农业旅游及手工艺品中心一样都不少！

昔加末县分为南北两地，小小昔加末是县内最主要的城市，也是主要的经济集中的地，县内人口虽以马来民族居多，但主要的经济地却以华人为主，较著名和特别的旅游景点包括拉美士的天然温泉、双溪大港的断桥、苏丹的度假别墅、榴连广场、农业旅游景点和原住民居住的双溪班当（Sungai Bantang）休闲森林。

火车站
位于车站路的昔加末火车站，是当地历史悠久的古迹之一，也可说是昔加末之旅的起点。火车站对面便是巴士站。在几年前的一场火灾后，火车站也进行了几次的装修。在新巴士站还没落成前，巴士站是与火车站毗邻的建筑，知道新地落成，也就有我们今天的巴士站了。虽然距离变远了，但是设施比以往都好很多。

榴槤
昔加末市区也紧随发展列车的轨道，尤以巫罗加什路最明显，其中一个最重要及最特别的旅游景点，大概要数榴槤广场，一个果王和各种水果的贸易中心，一直是热带水果迷的必到之处，在水果季节，这里的游客和人潮更为壮观。事实上，昔加末的榴槤身价是被当地人的宣传方式越抬越高，人人慕名而来，证实昔加末榴槤是否真的“榴”名八方！

美食
小镇小食别有一番独特风味，阿芝路小贩中心的辣椒烧鱼、对望昔加末河的哈山路的肉骨茶以及昔加末峇鲁花园的印度传统小食“纸煎饼”（paper tosai），都是不可错过的美食

断桥
断桥，一个听起来让人感觉沧海桑田、痕迹斑驳、几许惆怅、淡淡哀愁滋味在心头的词。这座位于巫罗加什的断桥，一直静静地守着这个淳朴小镇，长年的沉默，挥之不去的荒凉，像是无声的控诉，控诉战争的无情、残酷与惨痛，徒留悲痛在人间！伫立在河的另一端静看断桥，心头总会不自禁地涌起难言的情绪。其实，昔加末共有2座断桥，另一座断桥坐落于距离昔加末市区约28公里的双溪大港，亦即柔佛边界，“吊”在河上的断桥，看似未完的工程。

温泉
距离拉美士约10公里处，有一个天然温泉，经过人工美化后，就成为著名的旅游景点，也是附近居民和游客的休闲松懈身心之地，既享受泡澡的悠闲，又具疗效功能，绝对是个值得一游的地方！

休闲
森林距离彼咯（Bekok）市区8公里处的双溪班登休闲森林，是除金山之外另一个备受游客喜爱的瀑布区，参天古木，奇石怪岩，不论是为享受大自然的呵护或全家出游野餐共享天伦乐，一样尽兴。距离昔加末南部约4公里的飞行俱乐部，为考取私人机师执照者提供飞行训练，想尝试飞行的滋味或对飞行情有独钟者，不妨尝试一下操作小型飞机的体验！

购物中心 Billion、Derang Emas、顶好及拉美士购物中心

酒店/旅馆 彩虹酒店（Hotel Sri Pelangi）、昔加末度假酒店（Villa Hotel Segamat）、和平旅馆（Hotel Harmony）、文化旅馆（Mandarin Hotel）、The Pine Classic Inn

高尔夫球度假村
巴也朗高尔夫球俱乐部（Paya Lang Golf Club）及昔加末高尔夫球俱乐部（Segamat Country Club）警察局、消防局、医院、移民厅、邮政局、关税局、马电讯、公共交通站

到頭來還是要人民幣升值！

八国集团近日发出联合声明，呼吁中国尽快让人民币升值，以暖和最近的石油与粮食危机。

说来说去，最近一年美国的所作所为还不是为了让人民币升值！

自数年前起，欧美各国就对中国年年的贸易顺差极度不满！他们抗议连连并采取各种手段如限制中国产品入口等等来逼中国让人民币升值。但是各种手段皆不成功，吃下场场败仗。

不知是恰巧或是已计划好，去年下半年美国“突然”爆发次贷危机，美联储局拼命调低利率，美元从此大幅贬值，加以引爆石油与粮食危机。再来是更棘手的通胀！

那些存有大量美元的国家这下的打击可大了！想想，手上的美元资产的价值竟然于短短数月内大量蒸发！而中国就是其中一国！不仅如此，接下来的日子还需付出更过来购买或补贴石油，中国人民日子必苦！

欧美各国上演了好一出戏！

竟然拿了亚洲各国包括马来西亚等来陪葬！