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.