ChuHao

The shifting of power and wealth?

2011-02-13T09:20:00.000-08:00

Just being boring, went downstair, I switched on the TV. I flicked through a few channels and immediately , one typical show caught my attention..

There is one man and one woman, both wearing roller-skate doing all those fancy stuffs on a stage...They performed along with a big orchestra behind playing those fun and thrilling music to make the performance more exciting..

I didn't pay much attention at the first sight, just fascinated by their performance.. After a few minutes, I noticed something is wrong..

The performers were Caucasians, the orchestra was half Caucasians, and half Chinese..and the one who played the piano was also Chinese...

Alright, I think to myself, maybe it is just coincidence that the band and performers are Caucasian and Chinese...not a big deal...

I was shocked when the camera showed the audiences....it was also half CAUCASIAN and half CHINESE!!! (of course there are still few others like from others countries, but the majority was like people from China and USA)

This might be something interesting to watch! So I stay on with the show, as I wanna find out what's the name of the show...
After the commercial breaks, I finally get to see the title of the show named "Spring Festival International Gala"

My first impression was like "What the hell?" I heard before Spring Festival Gala..but why the hell they add in "international"?

I keep on with the show, then only I realised why they put the title as "international". Because they hired performers around the world and gave performance in China! This show was a telecast from Chinese New Year as it is kinda like a celebration for CNY!!

SO! Since it is a show I missed during CNY, I keep on with the show..

The following performance was a guy, I forgot his name...but he is from Israel and trust me, his voice are incredibly wonderful!

The first song, he sang "Phantom of the Opera". Beautifully sang!

The second song, he sang “敖包相会”...I was thinking "Why would u choose to sing Chinese song?!"

This really makes me wondered, why he want to learn and sing Chinese song? The next few performers who sang also have a mixture of English and Chinese...And I wondered why would they have the fusion of both East and West, Chinese and English? ALthough the title of the show has a word "international" in it. However, let me narrowed it down, I think this show we should focus on Chinese from China, and Caucasians from European and Western countries...

Correct me if I was wronged...Never did I see Caucasian entertained Chinese. Never! In this show, I saw those people who was performing was all Caucasian with a few Chinese singers, and the audiences were mostly Chinese...

I think this tracked back to the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), after a big hit on Wall St. , USA was literally undergoing some big issues with their financial system...The wave started to hit big countries such as UK and Europe, and eventually pull down the whole economic.

People panicked, they stop spending, whole system shut down. Who to blame? Those greedy bankers, who want to earn more and more.

What we used to call the big and powerful are now looking for money...and guess what? China emerged and literally became the World bank for those "big and powerful" countries.. And to our surprise, China has the world biggest reserve of currency! (Compliment to the Chinese tradition and culture of saving)

Few months back, I read some news about Bernanke scolding China for manipulating their currency, Ren Ming Bi...But in the end, those Western countries urged China to increase the value of Ren Ming Bi, as investors started to shift their investment from their countries and went into China!

To me, it was more like begging China not to torture them anymore...LOL!!

Just a few days back, China increased it's interest rates...and immediately investors started to pull back funds! Malaysia stock markets immediately went into a free fall! Why? because investors feared the economic will slow down again...

The shifting of power and wealth from Western countries to China? Beats me! I just know China now is running so damn fast that one day, it might falls too!

Strawberry Farm and Tuck's Ridge (Road Trip Day 2)

2011-01-15T20:54:00.000-08:00

Here is the second day of our road trip...We sort of having a little confused on where to go on the 2nd day of our road trip..with no suggestion among me and Queenie, Ah ting flipped through the tourist guide book and immediately found this strawberry picking farm...

Without further ado, I kick started the engine and run for our 2nd road trip.

Just an hour rides, we reached our destination. SUNNY RIDGE.

This strawberry farm will only be open for summer season, which mean their farm will open for visitors for merely few months..

Jarret also told us that we gotta try their Strawberry Ice Cream..YUM!

It is another sunny day for us, and the farm is packed with people...The above picture shown not much crowd on the farm, but trust me, after an hour, lots of crowd started to pour in and fill the farm..

The planting of strawberries were all well organised.

To my surprise, the pathway is exceptionally clean and easy for us to walk..

See the crowd..

The picture shown the old land which was ...As you all see far behind the picture there is a long line of queue...Those were people lining up to pay for strawberries picking...Behind my position of taking this picture is a new land of fresh untouched strawberries............

The few pictures above obviously shown us looking for BIG RED JUICY strawberries...but seems like the big red and juicy ones have all been reap by the early birdss....Argh..not pretty much happy about it...

However, we started to see few families going down to a new land full of fresh, ripen strawberries...We started to question each other as there is a clear signage which strictly forbid us to crossover there..

After a few minutes, we saw a staff slowly walking down.. we naughtily think that he is here to get rid of the few families who broke into their new land.. However, to our surprise, he is here to get rid of the signage..and I hastily walk down to the new land of STRAWBERRIIEEEEESSSSSS!!!!

WOOOHOO!!!! Look at the picture below! those are what I called BIG RED JUICY Strawberries!!!

I'm so excited, walking down the path full of ripen strawberries..

Incredibly red...

This is Rachel who hold on the box of big fat juicy strawberries.

saw the difference of strawberries from the old and new land? The two big raw strawberries are from the old land, but the bloody red one is from the new land...

I wondered if you all saw my picture of eating Three Big Fat Red Juicy strawberries at one time!! Scroll down for the epic pictures taken! hahaha!

Me tasting on the strawberries...

Indulging.....mmhhHHmmmm......

Holy mama!!!! It is so tasty!!!!!!!!

Me Eating

Me eating again...Queenie can't hold on anymore...hahahaha!

With strawberries stuffed in my mouth, I fed Queenie with another strawberry...

Strawberry stuffed in my mouth again! haha!

Me eating again! LOL!

Eating...

Eating......

Wiping strawberry juice which burst out from my mouth...

Almost every pictures above was me with strawberries stuffed in my mouth..and almost every pictures is me eating the freshly picked strawberries!!! I think it worths AUD$8 dollars per person for picking and eating in this farm...Every big red strawberries I ate, was honestly fat, juicy and sweet...

After finished filling up those boxes, they decided to stop me from eating more strawberries...as I think I ate about one and a half big box of strawberries...muahahahaaaaa!

Alright, next food to fill our mouth was the strawberry ice cream! See how satisfied they looked with the strawberry yogurt ice cream below....XD

(Didn't find any of ah ting and my pictures? As we were holding the cameras!)

This is what I called...Happiness.....LOL!

We finished the ice cream in the car, and decided to visit some winery. Drove around, and we stop for a winery named Tuck's Ridge..We saw lotsa cars stopping outside the wine yard, so we think maybe this winery is famous for its wine...haha!

Take a look for some pictures we took on the winery yard..

This is a place for customers to sit down and have a great view of Tuck's Ridge wine yard...

View from the cafe...

LOL! this is the quote of the week for Tuck's Ridge..haha! from Homer Simpson..

The entrance to cellar...

See the crowds!!!

The crowds inside the wine tasting cellar...

Me tasting the wine...XD

This is the certificates and awards they received...no wonder this place is so famous and packed with wine lovers...

Some interesting illustration..

We bought a wine to go with our dinner that night..HAHA!!!

Shiraz Rose from Tuck's Ridge..

This is where we ended our 2 days road trip..I delayed a little for posting this 2nd day trip as I am having another Sydney food trip with my dear dear....This is a memorable trip for me as the first day I broke my records of driving 12 hours ...the 2nd day...wow, for merely few hours, I ate the most strawberries in my life!!! What can I say? Marvellous experience, fun and exciting trips with you guys, lets do it someday again!!! More on Sydney FOOD trip coming up!!!

Cheers!

The Great Ocean Road (Road Trip day 1)

2011-01-10T03:03:00.000-08:00

We planned this road trip about a month ago, 5 people, rent a small car, 12 hours of driving, here we go!

Took this picture in the morning around 7am just to get to Budgets to rent the car... It is obvious that I am still not awake..lol!

Alrighty! We started our journey! And can you all believed? We didn't even have any GPS, and we are off to a 12 hours drive to Great Ocean Road..Thanks to Jarret who helped me out on checking the ways to our destination....We wanna get a GPS, and we booked one, however, too bad, there are non left...But thankfully, we don't need one at all..it is extremely easy to get there...There are clear signage all along the ways to guide us...

Ah...please do not attempt to try this during driving. I am just too exhausted as the previous day had a badminton session with Jarret and his brother, and I slept merely for 5 hours..

This is some scenery shots on the way.

Despite of the tiredness, the driving toward Great Ocean Road is kinda enjoyable as the roads are broad and smooth..

We stop at a kiosk, took some maps from the information counter, and bought this fruits just beside the kiosk..I would prefer having strawberry than plums...those plums looked nice, but tasted sour...

The signage is clear and accurate all along the way..there is really no need of GPS at all...

Ah, what a nice day for road trip..

I personally adored this picture very much...Just have a feeling which I don't know how to explain..lol

Ah ha! saw the deep blue sea far away, I thought we are getting close to our destination, but who knows, not even close at all...From this part, I still needa drive for 3 hours...And I already been driving for 2hours ++!!!!!!

It is really a beautiful driving experience..There are two route to the Twelve Apostles, one is taking the freeway, which will save me one and a half hours of traffic jam....But nevertheless, what for we chose the freeway when our purpose of this trip is to Great Ocean Road?

So, we take the route along the coast line...Along the way, listening to Champagne Supernova by Oasis..ahhh...this is so relaxing and enjoyable...

We wind down our windows and feel the sea breeze...

The scenery along the way

It is beautiful! People are getting out to surf in this beautiful weather!

We make a stop to take a look at this beautiful beach..It is rather weird they named the beach Urquharts Bluff Beach.. I was like: "Can't they think of anything better?" LOL!

Even the dog enjoy the beach...

There are lots of family having picnic and sun tanning on the beach..

haha! took a picture with my dear and Jarret

Welcome to LORNE!!!! WOOHOO!! I still gotta drive for two hours from here...what the hell...

Alright, the sea view again..

I AM GETTING BORED FROM THE TRAFFIC JAM!

LOL! No commentssss.....

We stop-by a rainforest to look for toilets..but failed..this is just a rainforest for hiking...I suggested that we stop here for a rest and take a bite...I lift up the car bonnet for cooling purposes ...haha

We brought our own cups and thermo-flask so that we have hot tea to drink..haha! looked how enjoy ah ting was! LOL!

AH!!!!!!!!! Finally!!! The 12 Apostles..It actually left 9 now...because of the erosion of the wind and sea water, three apostles had been totally wipe out by the power of nature...

Alright, I can't really make any comment on some pictures below as they are all just 12 Apostles...Take a good look at some of it, it is really gorgeous...

This is also one of the 12 apostles..

This is Rachel..

Another two on the other side..

We take a group photo with my left hand...as they concluded that I have the longest hand in the group..zzz

Just to let you all know that if you ever had the chance to travel here to Melbourne, why not take a day trip and visit this unique place...Take a look and feel the greatness of our mother natures..who knows a few years later, all these 12 apostles shall have non left due to the erosion..It might be a tiring trip, but I personally think it worths every seconds I spent on this trip..Especially with great friends and family!!!

That's all for now, Cheers!

Emotional Intelligence

2011-01-09T06:01:00.000-08:00

I found this book "Emotional Intelligence" by Daniel Goleman from Jarret's house. I find this two words interesting as I heard before EQ, but never to understand what its full meaning was.

So, to satisfy my curiosity, I took the book myself and flipped a few pages, and it is really interesting. So, I asked Jarret to help me to borrow the book( the book belongs to his brother's gf).

The first chapter talks about how our brain works..and how the information is transmitted to our brain... but the first chapter will be a disaster for someone who dislike Biology..

I got the book last week, didn't get to finish it yet, however, when I came across to the third chapter, one incidents caught my attention.

The story goes like this....

David Pologruto, a high-school physics teacher, was stabbed with a kitchen knife by one of his star students.

Jason, a sophomore and straight-A student at a Coral Springs, Florida, high school, was fixated on getting into medical school. Not just any medical school but Harvard.
Unfortunately, Pologruto, his physics teacher, had given him an 80 on a quiz..And guess what, the grade, a mere B, put his dream in jeopardy..

Jason took a butcher knife to school and, in a confrontation with Pologruto in the physics lab, stabbed his teacher in the collarbone before being subdued in a struggle.

A judge foun Jason innocent, temporarily insane during the incident..Jason claimed he had been planning to commit suicide because of the test score, and had gone to Pologruto to tell him he was killing himself because of the bad grade. Pologruto told a different story: " I think he tried to completely do me in with the knife" because he was infuriated over the bad grade.

After transferring to a private school, Jason graduated 2 years later at the top of his class. A perfect grade with 4.0 average, but he had take nenogh advanced courses to raise his grade to 4.614....way beyond A+.

but Jason never apologized and take responsibility for the attack...

This true story ends here but leave me into some thinking...

I am always not good with my grades..not because I am stupid, I believed I am highly smart and intelligent, I just can't get good grades. That is not a big deals for me as I know getting good grades doesn't mean you will get a better future life.

But for many students or parents I supposed, a flying colors in school results are highly essential.
I have seen students collapsed after they knew their results weren't what they expected...
Some even ridiculous, looking for ways to suicide.

After that, only I realized, EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE means the abilities of being able to motivate oneself and persist in the face of frustrations, to control impulse and delay gratification; to regulate one's moods and keep distress from swamping the ability to think; to empathize and to hope.

Unlike IQ, with its nearly 100 years history of research with hundreds of thousands of people, emotional intelligence is a new concept. No one can yet say exactly how much of the variability from person to person in life's course it accounts for. But what data exist suggest it can be as powerful and at times more powerful, than IQ.

I myself experienced a surge of impulse to trade with higher stake after a losing trade in Forex... Until I open the new trade, only I realized I am killing my own margin. And the result? Margin call...
Fortunately, after a few years of trading, I am now able to control not all, but part of my impulse.

I will needa learn to improve my EQ, not only in trading, but with many others aspects in life! I think this shall be my new year resolution. To improve my EQ.

If someone or some events challenged your EQ, will you be able to stand up tall with the challenge? or lose it out?

Emotional Intelligence: 10th Anniversary Edition; Why It Can Matter More Than IQ

The Lawn Mower Part 2

2011-01-06T03:06:00.000-08:00

The first part of this post is me and Queenie clearing out the front part of the house. The front part of the house already cut the hell out of us, I shall show you all the size of our backyard's garden..

This is the fuel container which I bought in the lawn mower shop..It cost me about AUD$14, and the unleaded oil to fill this things up cost around AUD$6

Just after I bought the container, only did I realise that the previous owner left us his old fuel container..zzzzz..........if not, I will be saving down $14

Alright, I took two pictures of our backyard as I can't take it down in one picture!!! this is the RIGHT side of the garden. I cut the grass a few weeks ago...that's why what you all see is the grasses were cut halfway...

And this is the left side of the garden...

This is me cutting the grass..As you all will be curious why the hell I wear long sleeve and cover my mouth with a mask to lawn the land..I wore long sleeve because there is a bee wasp in the garden!!! and for the mask, lots of tiny flies and insects flew around when I am doing my mowing...

See how the machine save my time and energy! Beautifully cut!

Ah-ha! this is one tiring part, as the grasses were all horribly long, I needa take out the container every time after I lawned just a little part of the land..the container hold up all those smashed up grasses inside...It is a damn tiring process as I gotta stop the lawn mower, take out the container, discard the grasses into the bin, put the container back, start the lawn mower again...

I discarded the grasses into the bin..

Me walking back and start the lawn mower again..

Although I haven't finished the whole garden..(Impossible to finish it in one day), but I will definitely get everything done before I went back to Malaysia.

It is kinda fun when you do it with your family or love ones..Queenie took all the pictures for me...and she also helped clean up the place where we BBQ....Honestly, we didn't bother mowing the lawn for about 6 months..and this is the price we gotta pay....with this lawn mowing, I learned the lesson of not procrastinating in no matter what we do..

今日事，今日毕，因为明日复明日，明日何其多。

A day for us to shop like no tomorrow

2010-12-31T19:09:00.000-08:00

Woohoo! It is Boxing Day! A day to shop like hell! haha! Almost every big stores are on sales on that day!

People started to queue on Myer since 1am in the morning to get the voucher! It is really ridiculous...

But for us, we just wanna go take a look on boxing day, but didn't expect to buy many things.
So we started well off to the city at around 2pm..we reached city at about 3pm...still there are lots of people!

The first stop! My favourite Walker's Doughnuts Shop to buy a cup of hot chocolate!

As I got the coupon, I can get a free cup of Coffee and a doughnut too! haha! Since I can't drink coffee, I gave it to Queenie.

I purposely set this pictures to extra large! See the crowds behind!! Holy cow!

LOL! this one is so funny! We are looking for some shirts for Ah yao...There are a few sizes life, and we are lucky enough to get a few sizes which suits him..but we can't decide on which one to buy, so Ah ting gotta get hold of all the shirts!! LOL!!!!

Queenie looking for the shirt...

After a few hours of shopping, we didn't buy much things..We went to China Town to have our dinner..

Ah...We went to a korean restaurant to have BBQ..

The sauce to go with..

BBQ pork slices!

Marinated Chicken with Enoki..

Kimchi Soup

YUM YUM!!

Combination of Dumpling..this dish is extremely delicious...

A tiring day, we bought some chocolates...haha!

So cool!

I felt so high simply by looking at it!

This is what I bought from boxing day! I have been looking for this pouch for so long! Fortunately, Ting found it by her first sight!

Other than the pouch, my dear dear bought some shirt and pants for me! haha! but we spent no more than 100 dollars for all those stuffs! We are saving for our road trip and Sydney trip..

That's all for now...more posting will be available for our road trip to Great Ocean Road and Strawberry Farm...

Christmas Eve Insanity

2010-12-30T16:28:00.000-08:00

Good day! Today I'm gonna let you all know how we spent our Christmas Eve! I posted some pictures below, take a look at it!

This is what we first start out, if you notice carefully, you will be able to see a big thermo flask and a big mug of tea beside the coke and lemon squash.. I prepared those as I really can't take anymore soft drinks and liquor...

Viola! These is our foods for BBQ! We have vegetables, mushrooms, seafood marinara, Chicken wings, hotdogs, Bacon(not in the picture), and of course, snacks!

Saw the big blue bowl? It is filled with BACON!! yum yum!!

Jarret is the one who is wearing the glasses, beside him is Ah ting, further on is Rachel (Ah Ting's friend)

The one behind Ah ting is Po..LOL! He is a rather talkative guy....but anyhow, he is always full of passion, and I saw no selfishness in him.

ALRIGHTY! this two girls, they are fascinated by the Christmas Bon Bon!!!

Take a look at the picture above, the one with a cat on it is called the Christmas Bon bon! and the present behind is all wrapped and prepared by my Queenie dear..haha! she is really good at it..this is the indoor present we gave to everyone. The bon bon is a christmas popper, which is more or less like a crackers..just they called it bon bon..==

Kinda fun, it pops, and inside is filled with some weird stuffs..

Po...He enjoyed eating and talking all the time! HAHAHA!! he is also the one who I mentioned in my previous post, A damn pro guitarist..

This is a very beautiful Christmas tree made of Chocolate!! A gift from Jarret and Yu Mei, AKA Fat Mei~~~ haha! YuMei!! just kidding! you are also one great friend to be!

This is called erm, I forgot, but it came with the Chocolate christmas tree. It has 7 that came with the Christmas tree, but we ate the rest of it...LOL!

Took a photo with the Tree, on the left is YuMei, on the right is Jarret, and of course, in front of me is my dear dear.. Great picture taken with great friends! Thanks Jarret and Yumei for the Choc Christmas Tree!!!

Ahhh!! Christmas, you can't forgot Christmas Puddddiiiinggggg!

Christmas pudding with Ice cream and cherries!

Yumei bought the fruits, Queenie and Yumei prepared these two big bowls for our dessert!

It is fun gather around together during festive seasons.

Alright, everyone was drunk, except me and Ah ting..hahahaha! This picture showed Jarret is forcing Rachel to drink both wine and beer..OBVIOUSLY, they just wanna get her drunk..lol!

It is really nice having great friends around! It a season to be jolly, fa lalalalalalalalala...

Cheers!

More post coming..on boxing days and OUR ROAD TRIP!!!

My first time playing electrical guitar

2010-12-28T04:51:00.000-08:00

Yesterday I accidentally found out something out of my friend, he is one electrical guitarist! And trust me, he is extremely good in it.

When I first met him, he really talked too much..but not until today, only i realize he has been playing electrical guitar for almost 4 years..what the hell..

The guitar below is an electrical guitar worth AUD$ 3000.

I took a photo of another guitar which worth around AUD$800-900..

The picture above showed us having a little jamming session! haha! the guy who holds the dark guitar is Jarret...I knew Po from Jarret!

I wondered if anyone of u heard Bon Jovi's ITS MY LIFE? WOOHOO!! I learned the 1st part of that song with electrical guitar!And it sounds so cool!!!! I am gonna try to learn more from him, he is willing to teach me too.

Forgot to mention, his name is Po..haha!

If anyone of u wanna see how good he is, go take a look with the link below!
CLICK HERE

That's all for now! Cheers!

Christmas Eve party's food preparation

2010-12-23T07:28:00.000-08:00

Howdy Howdy!! Merry Christmas everyone!

Alright, we are going to have a Xmas Eve BBQ event tomorrow.

SO, today, I made my own chill Sauce the 1st time! (Thank you Qing Tong's mother for the recipes)
Last time his mother gave me the recipes for the chicken wings, but forgot the sauce, so last time I tried making the wings, and it tasted weird without the chilli sauce!

Chilli, and below the chilli is some ginger...

AH! LIME! not lemon

Canned Pineapple slice will do the trick

White Vinegar (Stink the hell out of me)

The above is the ingredients which I used for my chilli sauce, I forgot to add in garlic, thanks to my dear dear for reminding me to double check the ingredients list. I just throw in every ingredients and blended it.
Both me and Queenie tasted the blended sauce for a few times and add in a few more of pineapple slices, depends on what taste you want. I want it to be sweet and sour, rather than very spicy.

TA DA! below is the picture of the chilli sauce which Queenie and Ah ting said it tasted very nice! It seems like the sauce is able to go with any meat dishes as the chilli sauce I made is a little sweet and sour, and not too spicy.

Today is also my last day working. As my boss gonna close for a couple weeks for Christmas celebration. IT WORKED THE HELL OUT OF ME TONIGHT!
My boss wanna clean out his whole restaurant. Then I gotta help to wash this, wash that, wipe here, wipe there....lots of chores to be done. But get a fairly good pay today too...and out of my expectation, he gave me a Christmas Card!

After work, I got a big bowl of CHICKEN HOR FUN! Ah ting today take away from a famous Vietnam Restaurant in the city for me.
Below is the picture I took! one big bowl of hor fun! haha! Great for me, as I was almost starved to death!

My dear dear suggest that I should eat the hor fun with the chilli sauce I made this afternoon! MAMAMIA!

You all must be wondering why I am talking all these crap, of course! after I finished my Hor fun, I gotta prepare for the chicken wings for tomorrow's BBQ! and guess what, it was around 1am when I started to prepare the wings...Thanks my dear for helping me out, or else I won't be able to finish the wings in 30minutes!
Many big thanks to Qing Tong's mother recipes again!

Queenie got rid some of the feather which is left on the wings. This helped a lot, and save hell lotsa time for me!

This is the first bowl of marinated chicken wings

TA DA! Successfully marinate two big bowls of chicken wings for tomorrow BBQ.
We are going to have hotdogs, vege, potato chips, soft drinks, bacon, seafood, mushroom for BBQ.
And most importantly, we will have a Christmas PUDDING! woohoO!!

I am very tired, but also excited! Gonna have some fun tomorrow.

Hope everyone will like what we prepared!

HO HO HO! MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!

Cheers!!

Snowing in Melbourne??

2010-12-22T02:54:00.000-08:00

I heard that there is snowing in a few suburb areas of Melbourne..but I don't know the creditability of the news.. Ah ting's friend who came to Melbourne for vacation said the newspaper back in Malaysia reported of snowing in few areas of Melbourne.

Ah..It supposed to be summer in Melbourne, and yet the whether is getting weird...I took a picture of what the sky looked like a few days back when I was gonna buy some groceries for Christmas Eve party..and the temperature for that time was 14 degree Celsius..It is really absurd to get 14 degree for Summer...

Gloomy weather....

But I do believe for the news, as for about half year back, for most of the people were unlucky, but for me, I was lucky enough to experience the worst hail storm in the history of Melbourne. WOW! there are a few pictures below showed the power of the hailstorm..

This is definitely not me. haha! it is Eugene testing on the hail storm. He is pretty much insane..LOL!

They said some of the hailstorm has the size of a golf balls..wow!

I was inside my room watching some movie, but for a short while, we all lost our connectivity to the internet. During that time, we were still using mobile broadband. So all in a sudden, everyone in the house can't connect to the internet. And that is when we heard loud thuds on the roof of our house.

Sounds weird so I quickly looked out to the window and saw ice balls falling from the sky, hit on the roof and scattered everywhere! Not for long, the hailstorm got worst!!

Honestly, it scared the hell out of me, but it got me very excited! haha!

The picture above showing Eugene getting out to the hailstorm the 2nd time to look for excitement..LOL!!

Lots of people are talking about the prophecy of the Mayan that 2012 will be the end of the world....I don't have any idea at all, but seems to me that Mother Nature is starting to take her action...with lots of disasters happening around the world, earthquake here and there, tsunami, changing of weather..These disasters KILLED millions of people around the world..and it is getting worst...But whom to blame for these disasters? What goes around comes around. We, human beings done lots of things that destroyed the earth; industrial waste, creating plastic bag for the convenience of shopping, Styrofoam boxes for take away food, carbon dioxide from vehicles..and many more...
I think we gotta start to make some difference now.

At least, we are doing it now.

I am hearing news of snowing in Melbourne now, what's next?

The place where I worked and learnt

2010-12-19T04:43:00.000-08:00

This is the glove I wear..needa be a strong rubber glove to withstand the heat from frying pan. There are also a pair of boot and apron for me, to prevent oil stain and dirty water. Didn't get to take a photo of those, but those boot stinks the hell out of me.

This is where all the stove, and oven lies. The chef will be using lots of frying pans that is stack up nicely on the rack. My job also need to make sure to clear all those pans which they used, and clean it up ASAP. As when it reached dinner time, I will need to be fast to refill all those frying pans.

The food preparing area.

Dishwashing area. Normally I will need to wash all these stuffs, but others will help me out. You must be thinking how am I gonna finish washing all these stuffs, I am stupid for the 1st and 2nd times, to make sure everything are clean and neat. But after that, I gave up, as it almost take the life out of me when I try so hard to make the cleaning perfect. So honestly, those utensils used in the kitchen are really not very hygiene as sometimes, I just simply gave it a scrub and throw it into the dishwasher to rinse.

And if you notice the pails below, those are multi-using pails, which sometimes they use it to make sauces. Not really clean I would say, as green liquid in the bottles is the detergent, and it goes straight beside those pails.

The dishwasher, can't really wash a lot of things in one time. Normally, this dishwasher is for rinsing purposes. It has the ability to wash with detergent, but I tried it once, the whole dishwasher is full of bubbles foam, and in the end, I will need to clean the whole dishwasher out. Wasted my time!

The big cooling room. Which the temperature need to be record few times a day to make sure the cooling room is in good condition to store the food. Compare with the previous cooling room in Lemongrass(the previous place where I worked as a wait staff), this cooling room is a little smaller. But still, the cooling room is well organized and neat.

After my work, reward myself with a pack of my favourite M&M and the rice+porridge is my supper.

Working is fun if you wanna learn something from the work. Albeit it worked the hell out of me, but I still enjoy it very much. I worked in an Italian Fine Dining restaurant. Co-workers over there are nice and friendly, I get to learn a lot from them. Learn their accent, their generosity, how they treat each other, and most importantly, how they lived their life!

Ahh.....too bad, I am going back to Malaysia soon, another 2 more days of working and they will be closed for Christmas.

Anyway, I achieved what I want in this work. Another skilled learnt!

Farewell to brave little Mikayla Francis

2010-12-18T05:57:00.000-08:00

After seeing all those morons who wanna suicide, my gf saw this news in the newspaper and it shocked me when this 7 years-old girl fight for her life to live on, and I felt that why some people who have a healthy life wanna ended theirs and while those who wanna live on often can't escape from the scythe of the Grim Reaper?

Read this, it will melt your heart.......

COURAGEOUS Mikayla Francis, the little girl who touched the hearts of Australians, left a final poignant message of love for her dad before losing her battle with cancer yesterday.

Last night, heartbroken Andrew Francis wept as he told of his brave seven-year-old daughter's final hours.

"I told her I loved her, and she actually said it back," Mr Francis said.

Mikayla died after a brief fight against a rare liver cancer at her Cockatoo home surrounded by family at 8.30am yesterday (13 December 2010).

"Her mum put her hand on her chest and I put my hand on her shoulder, and as soon as we touched her, there was a sigh and two breaths, and she was gone," Mr Francis said.

Mikayla's plight moved Australians, with many saying the little girl had taught them about what was really important in life.

This is Mikayla with her father Andrew. She asked her parents not to forget her.

Her biggest fear was being forgotten, but her story prompted an emotional outpouring from hundreds, who pledged they would always remember her, granting her greatest wish.

Right to the very end Mikayla's concern for others shone through, and even on her last day, when her brother suffered an anxiety attack, she sat up and called his name, Mr Francis said.

"The most important things I'm going to remember are her courage and faith and her unwavering selflessness," he said.

"Her care and love and consideration for other people was amazing. She always thought about everyone else before herself.

"She was seven years old. She didn't know why and she couldn't comprehend it but she didn't waver in her faith."

Mikayla was bedridden for three days before her death, drifting in and out of consciousness because of her medication.

Mikayla was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma in August, after doctors found a 10cm tumour in her liver.

She had been healthy until a week before her diagnosis, but then she started suffering stomach pains.

She was treated with chemotherapy at the Royal Children's Hospital, but did not respond to treatment. The cancer then spread to her lungs.

In November doctors told Mikayla's parents to bring Christmas forward because they didn't think she would last until Santa visited.

She celebrated Christmas and her seventh birthday on November 27 with up to 1000 friends, family and community members.

"She got to say goodbye to absolutely everyone she needed to," Mr Francis said.

Mikayla's father, Andrew, carried the coffin with a look which broken everyone's heart.

The coffin arrives by horse-drawn carriage for the funeral of Mikayla Francis.

Escorting police wears Mikayla's favourite butterfly wings during her funeral

Bubbles are blown in the air as the horse-drawn hearse arrives for Mikayla.

Mikayla's father, Andrew, says a final farewell as his daughter's coffin is led away

Andrew placed his hand on his daughter's coffin following the services

Mikayla and her parents, Andrew Francis and Allyson Cowan

Other mourners included Mikayla's classmates from Menzies Creek Primary, who formed a guard of honour in the final funeral procession as bubbles they had blown and a group of butterflies, released especially for Mikayla, filled the air.

Her final wish was to never be forgotten and, as we said goodbye to an angel, her memory became secure forever...

Mikayla, before her cancer

Mummy and daddy, please dont forget me. I'm not scared of dying, it actually sounds pretty fun, but dont forget me. If you have another baby promise me that you will tell them about me, always remember me..

Rest in peace Mikayla, I believed Angels are leading you to a better place now.

Isn't this ironic? Mikayla fought for her life, she was 7 years-old and yet she fought her way bravely, albeit failed, but will always be remembered. How about those who have healthy life and ended them easily? The most recent example will be Alviss Kong who jumped off a building after counting down in facebook. Just because a failure in relationship?

The others who followed posting suicide message in facebook, I don't care if they posted it for fun, for popularity or for real, they are just a bunch of fucking morons.

[转帖] 一张小抄，一个勇敢的阿嬷（真实故事被拍成广告，请到文章尾端点击观看）

2010-12-16T06:32:00.000-08:00

母愛就是如此偉大~

转贴：一张小抄·一个阿嬷的勇敢故事

因為採訪，到過許多地方、遇見許多人、聽到許多故事 ...

2006年 12月 14日，深夜11 點24 分，我和攝影小咼在美國洛杉磯國際機場，排隊等通關。

從薩爾瓦多飛來這，很自然地，隊伍幾乎都是拉丁美洲人，除了我、攝影小咼，還有那位排在隊伍前頭、揹著一個貼有" 徐鶯瑞" 字樣的歐巴桑。

她那張大大的A4 紙，實在很難不引起他人注意，
原因不只是白紙黑字太過醒目，
更是因為那張A4紙，是用細細的透明膠帶，綑了幾十圈，
狠狠地黏在她的黑色包包上。

很 " 俗"，可不是？

" 一定是大陸客 "，我心裡這樣想著。

那位"徐鶯瑞 "不時回過頭來，注意著我和小咼，而我和小咼兩人嘴裡聊的是宏都拉斯的採訪心得，心裡卻同時注意到這位有點 " 俗 "的阿嬤。

隊伍是以 S 型的方式前進，在一個轉彎處，" 徐鶯瑞" 和我們有了最近的距離，這時，她突然轉過頭來問我：「你會不會說國語？」我點了點頭，她立刻把一張紙遞到我手上，同時，指著營光筆畫的一行字：『我要在洛杉磯出境，有朋友在外接我』

"徐鶯瑞" 問我，過海關是不是應該比這一行？

當我看到那張小抄的當下，我的眼淚差點飆了下來....

眼前的這位，原本我以為"很俗 "的阿嬤，
其實是一位為了探視女兒，
帶著小抄、換了四班飛機、闖了半個地球的 "勇敢的台灣阿嬷 "！

被揉得爛爛的小抄，每一行中文字都會用綠色營光筆標示出來，方便阿嬤閱讀；
小抄第一行，用中文寫著『我要到哥斯大黎加看女兒，請問是在這裡轉機嗎？』
接下來的一行是英文翻譯，第三行則是西班牙翻譯。
第二題的中文是『我要去領行李，能不能帶我去，謝謝！』
然後又是英文及西班牙語的翻譯。

這張像是考前重點提示的紙，明顯地告訴我，
這位夾在拉丁美洲人群中的阿嬷，
是帶著這一張小抄，獨自一人從台灣飛到哥斯大黎加！

台灣怎麼飛哥斯大黎加？
首先，搭十二個小時的飛機，從台北飛美國，
然後再從美國飛五個多小時到中美洲的轉運中心 --薩爾瓦多，
接著，再從薩爾瓦多飛哥斯大黎加，
如果再加上這位阿嬤先從台南飛桃園機場，
那麼，她一共換了四班飛機。

薩爾瓦多和哥斯大黎加講的是西班牙語，
這也就是為何女兒給的小抄，還得附上西班牙語。
只是，很多時候，遇到的狀況，小抄上找不到題目。

阿嬤指著另一邊的隊伍，告訴我，
『我剛剛排旁邊的隊伍，結果他們比這邊，我才又趕快來這邊排隊，
我排這邊對不對啊？』
我笑一笑，向她解釋旁邊是持美國護照，這邊才是旅客的隊伍，
遞回小抄，我輕輕拍了一下她的臂膀，告訴她，
「沒問題了，現在只剩下美國飛台北的回程班機，講台語也會通呦」。

沒有兒子的" 徐鶯瑞" 告訴我，
十年前，女兒跟著女婿移民到哥斯大黎加，
這十年來，女兒只回過台灣一次，是孫子一歲時，
現在，女兒生了第二胎，" 徐瑞鶯" 特地飛到哥斯大黎加幫女兒坐月子，
一解思念女兒及孫子的情懷。
原本，女兒坐完月子要陪著媽媽到洛杉磯轉機，
結果因為買不到機票而作罷。

至於那張寫著大大" 徐鶯瑞" 的白紙，
是因為回台灣的華航班機是隔天下午，
而我們抵達L.A.的時間是晚上十一點多，
所以女兒特地請洛杉磯的朋友來接媽媽住一晚，
為了方便相認，徐瑞鶯特地在包包上貼了斗大的 A4 紙...

知道 "徐瑞鶯 "的旅程，有多麼困難重重嗎？
首先，從台北飛洛杉磯轉機時，必須先步出入境航廈，到隔壁大樓，
而那棟大樓是一棟非常長的建築物，
你必須沿著大樓走廊的告示牌：KLM、 NW 、 TACA、 AA，等等英文縮寫前進。

KLM是荷蘭航空， NW是西北航空、 TACA是中美洲航空、 AA 是美國航空公司，
儘管出國經驗頻繁的我，對這些指示都不成問題，
然而，當我從台北飛洛杉磯，準備轉往宏都拉斯採訪時，
我和小咼吹著冷風，走在看不到盡頭的長型建築物，
心中不斷提醒自己只有一個多小時的空檔可轉機，
卻是怎麼走，都找不到 TACA(中美洲航空 )的櫃台，
那當下，腦中冷靜的我和挫敗的我，幾乎要大打出手。

我一度懷疑自己會就此迷失在L.A. 機場，
更遑論這位完全不懂英文、遑論西班牙語的老阿嬤，
她一路從台北飛哥斯大黎加、再從哥斯大黎加飛回台北，
這整路會是怎樣的艱熬？

看著眼前這位一度被我誤認為" 很俗的大陸客" ，
不懂英文、不懂西班牙語，
為了女兒，勇敢地闖了這麼多關，飛越半個地球，
我的眼淚差點奪眶而出 ...

故事，還沒結束...

徐鶯瑞耐心地排隊等著過海關，
因著記者的職業病，我拿起相機，拍下她的身影。
為了不讓小咼發現我眼眶裡打轉的淚水，
我一邊低頭盯著數位相機，一邊對小咼說，
" 她真的好勇敢哦，
海關看到那張紙條，一定會讓她快速通關的。 "
沒想到，我話還沒講完，
徐鶯瑞已經被帶到遙遠的另一端 ....

到底發生了什麼事？
排在隊伍後方的我和小咼焦急了起來，
卻，無能為力。

只能遠遠看著老阿嬤的我，順著隊伍慢慢前進，
過了海關、到了行李提領區、等待領行李。
這時，一位年輕的機場工作人員看見我，朝我的方向快步跑了過來，
"Do you speak Engilsh？ " 滿頭大汗的他用急促的音調問我，
"Yes," 我的話還沒說完，只見他的表情由慌張轉為開懷，
同時，右手輕輕拉著我的手臂，左手指向海關區的另一個角落，
然後，用很快地速度引領著我。

我的心情，頓時，也輕快了起來，
因為我發現，他要帶我去的方向，正是徐鶯瑞被 "扣留" 的地方；
這位工作人員一定是因為徐鶯瑞這位亞洲人完全不懂英文，
把他弄得七葷八素；
所以當他發現這偌大的機場裡，有我這位唯一的東方女子，
而且還點頭表示聽得懂他講的語言時，
那位機場工作人員如獲救星般地興奮。

而我，比他更興奮，
因為終於可以去 "解救 "那位老婆婆了。

我終於知道，
原來，徐鶯瑞只是少填了一張藍色的入境申報表。

好心的海關，按著徐鶯瑞的護照，幫她填好表格裡的基本資料，
但是， "有沒有帶毒品，有沒有帶違禁品" ，海關是不可能幫忙代填的。
" 阿桑，莫要緊，甘吶幾個問題，填一填就好了"
我安慰著因被"扣留 "而略顯慌張的徐鶯瑞，
一邊快速閱覽藍色表格上的題目。

說真的，我從沒好好仔細研究過這些題目，
凡是出過國的應該都有經驗，
那些題目，就是連看都不必看，一路勾 "NO"就是了。
問題是，機場工作人員站在我旁邊，等著我幫忙翻譯表格裡的問題，
我只得乖乖的一題一題地問：
" 阿桑，妳甘有帶水果？
"沒 "她邊回答邊搖頭。
我在表格 "NO"的小框框裡打勾，同時繼續問著，
" 那妳有帶肉來美國嗎？"
"沒。"
老阿嬤像是小學生回答老師問題般，戒慎恐懼。

問了兩三題之後，我想到一個妙招，
反正身旁的機場工作人員聽不懂中文，至於台語，更是莫仔羊，
所以我就告訴阿嬤，
"我現在問你什麼，妳通通搖頭就對了，
因為這 (表格 ) 問的東西都是違禁品，
我幫妳填，妳只管搖頭就行了。"
" 好 " 徐鶯瑞點頭，
我嚇了一跳，深怕工作人員看見徐瑞鶯點頭，誤以為她帶了表格上的違禁品。

總之，我們倆開始演戲。
我嘴裡不停地假裝問問題，其實說的全是要徐鶯瑞放心的話，
手中的筆順著表格的題目，一項接一項地勾 "NO"；
聰明的徐鶯瑞則是不斷、不斷地，用力搖頭。

OK！終於填好了表格，
我幫徐鶯瑞整理她手中厚厚的一疊資料，
只留下護照、入境申報表、以及小抄，交到她手上，
我告訴她，別擔心，這次絕對沒有問題！

後來，徐鶯瑞再度過海關時，
不管海關問她什麼問題，
她都非常用力、非常用力地搖頭。

很好笑、
也很讓人感動。

一張小抄‧一個勇敢的台灣阿嬤。

文章來源，作者的Blog http://www.wretch.cc/blog/clairehsiao/9736795

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点击以下到youtube观看这个故事被拍成电影
母爱的伟大

人是要求生，而不是求死

2010-12-13T16:53:00.000-08:00

最近，在facebook看见不少人post一位年轻人自杀的事件。。去facebook打Alviss Kong就可以看见许多关于他的page了。。

刚开始，我还以为他讲爽的，结果真的跑去跳楼。。zzz 还把别人的车搞到这样。。

已经有很多人骂他不会想了。。所以我也不要去批评那么多。。毕竟，不管我的事。。

结果今天开facebook看，冤枉咯。。又多一条水要搞自杀。。之前的样貌还好看一点，结果这条水真的给人骂到乱，全部叫他早点死。。zzz 我觉得多半是因为他的样貌吧。你们自己看看。。

想知道更多的去这里。。
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真冤枉。。。因为早之前就通过我女友大姐的blog看见她的员工也跳楼。。所以就觉得怎么一堆人那么想死。。zzz 我把她大姐post的blog放在下面，去看看。。好像也是因为为情所困。。
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哎呀。。人都是求生的，干嘛跑去求死。。

得空跟家人skype，聊聊近况。就可以知道家是温暖的。

得空跟朋友skype，聊到一半，他拿着ipodtouch去厕所小便。结果我还以为他去倒水喝。。听到后面水声断断续续，才知道他跑去小便。。冤枉。当时笑到我脱牙。。不过，这样你就知道他对我们之间的友谊是没有任何隐瞒跟保留。

得空去做一下工，虽然是辛苦，不过有钱拿，回家又有心爱的人帮你弄宵夜，hambalang什么也值得啦！！！

得空上一下facebook，看到原来朋友5.30am起身就为了去减肥！

昨天跟二伯和二伯母一家人吃饭！结果他们请我吃龙虾！
回去又有朋友等着请我吃日本跟法国餐，家人也说要带我去狂吃个够！活着真爽啊！

是啦！人生不如意的事情，多得数不清。。谁没有经历低潮跟高潮？用屁股想也知道，这个才叫做生活！

不管发生什么事情，我肯定不会求死，因为我要求生，更重要要求财！

把不开心的事情缩到最小，把开心的事情放到最大！算是NLP(Neuro-Linguistic-programming)的一种吧。。哈哈！

你撑得住气吗？

2010-12-12T03:36:00.000-08:00

刚刚又重复看过了The Apprentice. 虽然重看了不知道多少次，不过，每次再回去看的时候都会学到不一样的东西。

这次看了，我觉的如果要成功成为最后几位参赛者，除了需要聪明的头脑，最重要的是，他们能不能撑的住气？

我发现如果你能够忍下来，不管是在做什么事情上，你一定会成功。

很多人，不是被骂一下，不然就辛苦一下，什么鬼都放弃了。刚刚看的那集，她因为输了，被逼要睡在豪房后面的帐篷里，相反地，赢的那组就能够舒舒服服睡在豪房里头。

结果她的组再次输了，她自己就要求退出比赛。她的原因是当初签约参加比赛时，合约里没有说明过这样的条件（也就是输了要睡外面）。

结果商业大亨Donald Trump送了她一句:"Quitter never wins!"

听了，也觉得很对。

现在这个社会，越来越多人吃不起苦，撑不住气。随随便便就放弃。

我举个例子。

我老妈做是做保险的。有一次，去见一个大保客。

在谈生意的时候，大老板跟他的儿子就不屑的坐下说时间不多，等下要开会，我妈就赶紧开始解释保单的内容给他们听。

听着听着，那老板的儿子就问，要是发生了火灾，我们买的这个火险能不能得到所有的赔赏呢？

我妈就解释说要查明原因，看是意外还是人为。如果是人为疏忽，就得不到赔赏。

那老板的儿子就不高兴，说了一句：“如果真的发生火灾，我看你叫你儿子女儿去卖身都赔不了我们所有的损失！”

（对不起，先给我骂两句！他妈的，你这条水是狗娘养的吗？嘴臭又贱！）

如果是撑不了气，当场我妈可以走到他面前，给他扫几巴掌！拿水泼那嚣张的家伙！

可是她什么都没有做，她很冷静的说：“是，你说得对，叫我儿女卖身都赔不了你们的损失。我看既然这样，你还是另找更好的保险员吧！”

说完，我妈就要收拾东西走人。心里硬忍着这股气。

结果，那大老板见到他儿子得罪了我妈，立刻叫住了她说，对不起，我这个儿子不会说话，你就帮我一手策划，要买什么保险，然后让我的秘书知道。我会吩咐她给你任何你需要的资料。

就这样，生意谈成了。

如果当下，给了那家伙一巴掌，生意会谈成吗？
如果当下，泼了那家伙一杯水，生意还会谈成吗？

忍，这个字，一把刀叉在心上。是很辛苦，但是，要成功，一定要会忍！
韩信受胯下之侮辱。他没有拔剑就把对方杀掉，而是忍下那股气。最后他可以为刘邦决胜千里之外。他不会像一般的人，“匹夫见辱，拔剑而起”，一下就撑不了气，拔剑就把人杀了。这样的人是做不了大事的。

古之所谓豪杰之士者，
必有过人之节，
人情有所不能忍者，
匹夫见辱，
拔剑而起，
挺身而斗，
此不足为勇也，
天下有大勇者，
卒然临之而不惊，
无故加之而不怒，
此其所挟持者甚大，
而其志甚远也。
【留侯论】

一个人的心态，可以改变一生

2010-12-11T05:30:00.000-08:00

在一个小镇上，有一位非常穷困的女孩子。她家里没有父亲，跟她妈妈相依为命。
靠制一些手工品为生。

然后就这样长到了18岁。这18年来，她都过着非常贫寒的生活，所以她自己从来没有买过任何漂亮的衣服跟首饰。而且就这样，她自己也非常的自卑。这就是她生命的缺憾。

后来在她18岁那年的圣诞节，她妈妈破例，给了她20美元。跟她说，这是你劳动所得，给自己买一点圣诞的礼物吧！
她很高兴！但是她还是没有勇气，她抵着头，很自卑的走在小镇上。捏着钱，绕开人群，贴着墙角走。一路走，一路想着那些人群的生活每一个都比她自己的好。心中就自想，自己是这个小镇上最抬不起头来的一个贫寒的女孩子。

路上她又看见了自己特别喜欢的男孩子，心里就酸溜溜的想着，今晚有盛大的舞会，不知道谁那么幸运会成为他今晚上的舞伴。谁能够有这个荣耀呢？

她就这样一路自言自语，躲着人群，来到了一个商店。

她一进门就被柜台上摆着的一笔缎子做的头花给吸引了。那个店员见到了她，就对她说：

"小姑娘！你过来！你这一头秀发配上这头花一定很漂亮！"

她一看见那价钱16美元，就对店员说我不戴了，太贵了，我买不起！

她还来不及反应，店员就给她戴上了头花，拿了镜子给她照一照。。
就在她看一眼的时候，她自己就惊呆了！她觉得这一朵头花改变了她整个人的容颜！
突然之间她变得像个天使一样,容光焕发。她从来没有看见过自己这个样子。

她就想说，一朵头花有如此神奇的力量，那么我就买了吧！所以她就飘飘欲仙的拿出钱来说，我买了吧！人家找给她4美元时，她仍然整个人飘飘然着，转身就往外飞跑。然后就不小心撞在一位刚刚要进门的老人家。然后她隐隐约约的听见那老人家在叫她，可是她不理那么多，就很开心的跑。

一路上，她就想，她怎么会有那么大的改变？不知不觉，自己就跑在了小镇的大路上。路边的人都很惊讶的想，哎呀！我们的小镇上怎么会有那么漂亮的一位小姑娘！然后她又再次遇上她暗暗喜欢的那个男孩。

那男孩也很惊讶，叫住了她，问她说：“我有没有荣幸请你做我圣诞舞会的舞伴呢？”

这女孩听了简直心花怒放！她想了想说，我索性就回到那间店，把剩下的4美元给自己买一点好看的东西吧！

但她再次踏进那间店的时候，就看见那老人家站在柜台对着她微笑。那老人说：“我就知道你一定会回来，你撞到我的时候，头上的头花掉了下来，我一直在这里等着你回来拿你的头花呢！”

故事到这里就停了。

这个故事就像个寓言，这个女孩子生命中的遗憾就真的是被一个头花改变的吗？其实是被她自己的自信心驱除的。

也许我们没有这样机缘巧合的时刻，我们不是所有的生命都有幸可以遇到像寓言一样的机缘。但是这些东西会启发我们的心智。

一个人内心的在乎与不在乎，他的悟性能够让他明白这个世界很多很多的事理。
也就是说，一个人的内心要是很坦然，很淡定，是可以让他化解生命中很多很多遗憾。

见心见性

2010-12-07T17:24:00.000-08:00

苏东坡有位朋友名叫佛印。

佛印人很老实，总是被苏东坡欺负。

有一天，苏东坡就更佛印到一个地方参禅。

苏东坡问佛印：你觉得，我坐在这里像什么？

佛印回答说：我看你就像一尊佛。

苏东坡就笑着说：你知道我看你坐像什么吗？我觉得你像一摊牛粪！

苏东坡又占了佛印便宜，回家跟苏小妹说了整件事。

苏小妹冷笑说：
“哥哥，就你这个悟性，你还参禅啊？你知道参禅的人最讲究的是什么吗？是见心见性，就是你心中有眼种就有。佛印说他看你像尊佛，那说明他心中有佛。你说佛印像牛粪，你回头想想你心里有什么吧。”

其实这个故事可以用在我们每一个人身上。一样的生活，为什么有些人活得很好，很开心？而有些人却每天都指责抱怨？这就说明了我们如何去看待一件事情。

打比方，一瓶好酒，喝得剩下一半。对于悲观的人来说，真可惜，只剩下半瓶好酒。对乐观的人来说，哇！那么好的酒！还有半瓶呢！

这个表述不同，心态也不同。
这就在于你看见了什么！

Malaysia

2010-12-07T05:13:00.001-08:00

Damn, I saw lots of issues about Malaysia lately.
Namewee (黄明志）wanna shoot a film called "One Malaysia". But unfortunately, failed.
Some articles showed increasing numbers of people migrating to other countries.
Some political video about some complicated political issues.

Speechless...I am now studying in Australia, and honestly, I don't wanna go back and work in Malaysia. Youngster nowadays will try their best to get the hell out of Malaysia to study and never come back. Some came back, to live in Malaysia, and work in Singapore. Isn't this absurd?

What the hell is wrong about Malaysia? Why talented and skilled workers are moving from Malaysia?
This is an easy answer for everyone who are from Malaysia.

Malaysia is a good place to live, but not one to work, or perhaps not for business too.
If you wish to do big business in Malaysia, the first things you need to do, get hell lotsa money and prepare to spend it on some Malays who got high influences in the government sector.

The more you made them happy, the more money you made. And the less you will get troubles from them.

My father worked honestly as an architect. He honestly paid his tax every year. He honestly set up his small company and be his own little boss. But he forgot to do one thing. To bribe the fucking government. Yea, you didn't read it wrongly, I wrote, The Fucking Government.

I heard this story from my mother when I accompany my father and mother to work. My father drove into a place starts with the Letter "J". I don't wish to put out the full name as I am pissed off whenever I bring this matter up.
Alright, me and my mother waited in the car for my father is going to pass up some documents.

We chat a little, then I couldn't help notice all those cars around us were those big Toyota Pajero. Then I saw two Malays smiling, and hop on into one of those Pajero. Then I turned my attention to the briefcase they were taking.

Alright, I asked my mother, what do they do in this working hours driving off in a huge pajero smiling with those briefcase? My mother replied: "ah, someone will be devastated as they are off checking companies which didn't pay their tax."

I asked again, how come you are so sure about it? My mother replied: "Your father's company experience it once when you were young."
My expression was like : WTF?!

I asked again, you all always pay the tax honestly, and why the hell did they go check on father's company?

My mother replied, you can't do anything when they have the power to check on you. I won't forget that day, even until today, the memories still run fresh in my mind.

That day they came into your father's office with the same size briefcase they carried just now, and demanded your father to take out all the documents for them to check. They made a big mess in your father's office, papers being thrown everywhere. And in the end, they accused us for not paying some amount of tax and charged us for RM20k.

Me and your father couldn't sleep for a week. We are so angry and upset. We pay the tax honestly and yet they accused us with the power they got and took the money away from us. 20k is a big amount for me and your father during that time, especially when we are facing difficult times having three children to feed.

I am pissed off during that time. And I learned that Life Isn't fair at all. I swear, I will get the hell out of this country.

I got to Australia to further my studies, I worked as a part time to relieve my parents' burden. As I am not good enough to get a scholarship. (that is what they told me. LOL!)

I successfully got a job in a fine dining restaurant. The paid is normal, but I can get tips,the food is fantastic there, the coworkers are good over there, the supervisor is a jerk. The boss is a bigger jerk. But anyway I still worked there for 5 months.

You all must be curious why I am telling about my part time job. Wait a minutes, it related to Malaysia government.

One particular day, the restaurant got a big booking. A table for 12 people. Good for boss, bad for us. Alright, the people came,they are Malays, they sat down looked to the menu, and I can't help notice the way they speak and the way they dressed. They are definitely from Malaysia.

Not a big deal. Maybe they lived in Australia and wanna have a good meal once in a blue moon. So I helped to serve that table of 12 people.

Honestly, I thought maybe who are having birthdays or maybe special occasion. Because it is really rare for me to see Malays in the restaurant. I worked there for 5 months, I only met Malay customers twice. FYI, both is the same person. The second times, he brought more people and booked half the restaurant down...zzzzz

Alright, for the first time, I thought they are having special occasion. And I served them with fake smiling faces. ( I am really dead tired working)
Then when I am serving them water, I overheard the father tell her daughter "Awak cakap nak makan di sini, now we are here, you can order anything you want. Are you happy now my dear?"
(This is originally how he speaks to his daughter)

I immediately think "WOW! I hope they give me more tips!"

Not until after they left, we started to discuss about them, and from others coworkers, only I knew they are from Malaysia, and seems like they are here for business.

I didn't think much about it after that. But when I am taking the train home, I started to think, WHY THE HELL DID HE BRING HIS WHOLE FAMILY HERE FOR BUSINESS??!!

The second times when they revisited the restaurant, the guy booked down half of the restaurant and invited 30++ Malays,one Caucasian and one Chinese if I am not mistaken. They are divided into 2 groups. A few of us, including me are given orders to serve them.

During the time when I served them, I just notice there are only 5 people in a corner discussing about some business. The rest are there to have fun.....zzzzz
Maybe I am wrong, but I believed, the 5 people including the Chinese and Caucasian are discussing about some business. The rests are their family members...zzzz (I think the Chinese and Caucasian didn't bring his family)

What the hell......they are from Malaysia, come to Australia for business, and they bought their family here. I think this is a trip more than a business.

I didn't give much thought about this issues until don't know who give me the information about some Malays who worked for government, go for a business trip, brought his family along, and claimed every penny they spent from the government. And of course, the government is stupid enough to provide them the subsidy.
When I linked both cases together, only I realized they are doing the same thing..

There are lots of things happening in Malaysia, which is really unequally treated to the Chinese and Indian in Malaysia. I wish Malaysia will be better in the future, as it is still the country I grown up.

By the way, I wrote this not because I hate Malays, I like them. In fact, there are a lot of kind and friendly Malays I knew. But it is those who have the power and misuse them that I look down upon.

The new Lawn Mower

2010-12-05T05:30:00.000-08:00

My girl just got a new powerful lawn mower, cost her AUD $400.. Pretty expensive but very useful.

We both have been looking around for cheap lawn mower and we really didn't really know a lot about buying good lawn mower. We thought of buying a cheaper mower online, which don't really look powerful enough.

But this one, which we bought from a shop, looked convincing and tough. So we got it right away.

Looked pretty tough huh? I am very happy with this machine. Safe us hell lots of time!

Below I will show you some pictures on how this powerful machine works!

BEFORE

AFTER

It took me just 15minutes to get this land done. Cool!

This picture below showed the "production" of the lawn mower. It looked just like a cow that vomited what it ate =.=

I had never used one mower in my life! but it is really fun, and horribly noisy..haha! Good experience!

By the way, those small insects and snails, it will all be smashed and mixed up...so probably, what you saw above is a mixture of mashed spiders+broken pieces of snails shell+mashed snails corpse+whole lotsa mashed small insects.

It is a little cruel..but I do save all that I could! The dead one, I chanted some prayers and hope you will have a better afterlife. Peace.

Small story, big inspiration

2010-12-02T17:38:00.000-08:00

The story starts this way:

A big group of small frogs is playing around, not far away, they saw a very high mountain. One of the frogs came up with this idea of jumping to the highest point of the mountain so that they can have a beautiful view of the land down there.

Every frogs agree. They started their journey.

Gradually, the frog who suggested this journey started to slow down as it is extremely exhausted from all the jumping. So it stops and think to itself, "Why am I so stupid to come up with the idea of jumping to the top of the mountain? It is so tiring." So, the frog stop.

After a little while, the second frogs stop, thinking the same, and start to discuss with the third frogs about themselves being so silly to think of jumping to the highest point of the mountain.

So not long, all of the frogs stop their journey, EXCEPT for one tiny little frog.

The whole group of frogs witness the little frog jumps a little by little until it can nowhere to be seen.

Eventually, when the little frog successfully got to the top and come back down to describe what it saw on top of the mountain. Every frog got curious and ask the little frog why it got the strength and will to jump to the top of the mountain???

And to their horror! The tiny frog can't hear a thing. The tiny frog is deaf. He saw the crowd starts the journey, so he might as well follow. When the crowd started to question about their silly behavior, then they start to stop down, and tell the other frog not to be silly, it is IMPOSSIBLE to get to the top.

But the tiny frog didn't hear a thing. It just keep jumping, jumping till it reached it destination.

This story gives me an inspiration. You see in our life, we always tell ourselves, I want to do this. I want to do that. I want to do all these...Blablabla..
And yet, we always questioned about our own decisions.

"Am I doing the right things?" "Did I make the right decisions"

And eventually, people will have lots of opinions with your decisions. For examples, if you decide to open a fast-food fish and chips chain stores in Malaysia, others people will start to say about: "AIYAH! there are lots of mamak, KFC, McD, and food restaurants, why the hell would you go and start a fast-food fish and chips chain stores??? It is impossible to be successful in this business."

Bull-shit! See how George, the founder of Manhattan Fish Market in Malaysia? See how he build up his empire with FAITH?
He started his business with nothing, he asked a bunch of friends whether anyone want to join his ventures in creating this business. Only one, supported his ideas and make their way through! The others who criticized his behaviors, are those losers who never win.

Have faith in yourself. Believe in what you are and what you are doing.

I think everyone know Arnold Schwarzenegger. He is an immigrant from other countries. Before he went to America to start his movie business, he was criticized by almost everyone. They said this CAN'T be done.

"Schwarzer--nizzzer? come on, a name like this can't be a movie star!"
"No way Arnold, you got the accent of an immigrant, you can't make it."

But he didn't listen to even one comment that those people made. Eventually, he made it. He is the highest paid actor, got incredibly famous!
Just because he ignored the phrase "It can't be done!"

In the book "Think and Grow Rich", the first two steps is to have the desire, and the faith.
Arnold, has the desire to make it big in the movie business, and he also has the faith to continue despite of all the criticism.
George, the founder of Manhattan Fish Market, also have the desire to open fast-food chain store, and has the faith that he will be success.

If you don't have the desire, and even if you have, but you don't have faith. You will only see "success" fading away from you.

Believe in yourself, and never lose Faith.

Using Yin and Yang to Read the Face

2010-12-01T15:54:00.000-08:00

One of the 1st things to do when we read a face is see how well-balanced it is in terms of Yin and Yang. Is there symmetry between the Mountains and the Valleys of the face?

The Mountains are the hard, sharp, and stable parts of the face, and we call them the Yang areas.

The Valleys, or the soft, fluid, rounded, and changing components of the face, are the Yin areas.

Therefore, the hard bone structures such as the forehead, brow bones, cheek-bones, chin, and jaws are Yang. The softer features such as the ears and nose, the tissue areas such as those padding the cheeks and chin and nose tip; and the mouth and the eyes, which are soft and fluid, all are Yin features.

Let me give you an example of a famous person with a predominantly Yin face.

This is Renee Zellweger, who has plump, soft lips and a fullness around her eyes and her upper eyelids. Her cheeks and round chin also appear supple, as though they have a little padding over the bone.

Others characters such as Marilyn Monroe & Oprah Winfrey also have soft Yin face features. You can try google it out and check on their pictures.

Now we take a look at an example of a Yang face feature

This is Lance Armstrong. He has his long, hard nose; wide, thin mouth; high cheekbones; strong, hard chin; and strong brow bones.

Another examples of Yang face will be Arnold Schwarzenegger, but he has a bit more fleshly face than Lance Armstrong.

How about a combination of Yin and Yang faces?? I will show you one below:

This is James Gandolfini, the star of The Sopranos. He has a soft, wide Yin nose; thin lips that are sharp and Yang; Yin padding on his cheeks; a full chin; a high, "hard" Yang forehead with prominent brow bones; and Yang ears with hard cartilage. He is an interesting balance of energies of Yin and Yang, as so many of us are!

Yin and Yang are always changing, just as our faces change many times and ways throughout our lives. Have you seen old photographs of people you know and yet not recognised them? As we mature, some features such as our nose may lengthen and widen while other features such as our mouth and eyes might shrink or sink.

Stress and grief may temporarily cause our entire face to sag and wrinkle or turn ashen. And great happiness gives us a glow and literally perks up and plumps out our features.

Just now long ago, my girlfriend and her sister meet up with their cousins around Melbourne and had dinner together, suddenly one of their cousin quietly pull my gf's sister aside and ask "Why your sister is getting prettier?". Well, if a person who is constantly in great and happy mood, the Yin and Yang of their face will certainly change!

People might have ask if the ideal face is a perfectly balanced symmetrical face. The answer, of course, is only if you are striving for a perfectly balanced life of mind, body and spirit. On the other hand, complete balance is not ideal for everyone.

The more Yang you have, the more of a doer you are, out there in the world leading, pushing the boundaries, getting things done.

The more Yin you have, the more inward, more imaginative and contemplative, with the gift to think things through before acting.

The Five Taoist Principles of Face Reading

2010-11-30T22:09:00.000-08:00

5 BASIC TAOIST PRINCIPLES

Harmony, Entirety, Qi, Yin and Yang, And the Five Elements. All these five principles comprise the study and interpretation of face reading. The principles of Yin and Yang and of the five elements are the core of Taoism.

The Principle of Harmony

The Taoist Principle of Harmony applies to face reading in that the more balanced the facial features, and the more complementary and integral each feature is to the other, the more favorable the potential for good health, good luck, and prosperity.

The Principle of Entirety

Although it is called "face reading technique", but the full analysis requires attention to the entire presentation of the person. Just as doctors of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western allopathic medicine who use face reading as a diagnostic tool are not going to ignore the rest of the person! One's body size and shape, feel, posture, movement, as well as the sounds of one's voice, one's laughter and cry, even one's expressions, contribute to the final assessment of each person.

The Principle of QI

Qi(气) is the life force, or spiritual energy, that is present in everything in the universe, including every living being. There is one good-old saying from the Chinese called "和气生财" which means if Harmony and Qi are combined, it will be able to bring prosperity and wealth!

When practicing face reading, we assess the state of Qi in a person's body and face. That might sound a bit weird or perhaps impossible to do, but with a little practice and attention, it's actually quite simple. Just a couple of examples to clear things up, do you remember seeing someone who walk pass by with extremely confident facial expression, walk with chest up, back straight ? And when they walk pass you, you might feel a small gust of wind blow your heart off (走路都有风) ? This is what we called a strong energy flow that the person has inside his body.

The Principle of Yin And Yang

The principle of Yin and Yang is the root of Taoism. It is the belief that everything within the universe is one of two opposites, and that each opposite produces the other. For examples, light as Yang, and darkness as Yin, males as Yang and females as Yin.

The Principle of the Five Elements (五形：金，木，水，火，土)

The early Taoist philosophers used Fire, Earth, Metal, Water, and Wood to explain the relationship, interaction, and ongoing changes of everything in the universe. Each of the Five elements affects the others in either a positive or negative way. （相生相克）

Fire generates Earth （火生土）

Earth generates Metal （土生金）

Metal generates Water （金生水）

Water generates Wood （水生木）

Wood generates Fire （木生火）

Fire controlled by Water （水克火）

Earth is controlled by Wood （木克土）

Metal is controlled by Fire （火克金）

Water is controlled by Earth （土克水）

Wood is controlled by Metal （金克木）

This continuous cycle of mutual generation & control sustains & balances the Universe.

Face Reading Technique (面相）

2010-11-30T21:48:00.000-08:00

Have you ever remember yourself looking into the mirror and asked "Omg?! I looked so old in just one week!" and as a matter of facts, you have been through a hell lot during that week. It may be a break up which caused you a big emotional disaster, stress from piles of unfinished works and many more.

Just by reading the face, you will get the answer right away, that is why Face Reading is so powerful.

As you learn to read your face, you will see that the art and science of face reading is a holistic study and analysis.

Since face reading technique was 1st used as a diagnostic tool of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and since TCM is derived from the Taoist philosophy that claims no separation of mind, body, and spirit, it is impossible to separate those 3 integral aspects of yourself when you read your own or someone's face.

In other words, you will not study your facial features and markings to determine only your personality traits, or only your emotional and spiritual well-being, or only your physical health. There is no separation. If you are in an emotional crisis, it will most likely show on your face.

I remembered when one of my friend lost his parent in an accident, he looked so pale and sick when he return back to school. He lost his old-days energy, walk like a living corpse, and seldom speaks at all. It must be a big blow for him.

Where and how those signs appear on your face will also alert you to specific corresponding physical and spiritual conditions that can become vulnerable as a result of that emotional imbalance. When one aspect of your being is out of balance, all will be imbalanced.

The Face reading technique is an ancient Taoist art and science based on Yin and Yang, and the Five Elements.

Wall Street crisis: Poor to bail out the rich and Where did the money go?

2010-11-27T21:08:00.001-08:00

"Rich people got it good in this country", said African-American comedian Wanda Skykes. "We refuse to let them not be rich. Think about it. Broke people are about to bailout rich people. This is what is going on.

"And they want no oversight. US$700 billion and no oversight! No oversight?! Why should we ?!! I want receipts dammit! What do you mean no oversight? Because, oh, you're so good with the other money??"

"This is the biggest piece of garbage ever. You know what? It's welfare for the rich!"

"It's going to cost every taxpayer US$7000. You got the guy there busting his gut working two jobs and barely making US$12,000 a year, and he's got to cough up something so some Wall Street guy can keep his swimming pool??! Man, that's is garbage!"

Bush address to the nation that he demanded that Congress pass the US%700 Billion bailout or else face "a long and painful recession". So they are officially using the tax payer money to bailout those riches who screwed up in this meltdown? They deserved to be screw, since they are so stupid enough to easily give out bad loans to those who are not qualified enough to get a loan.

And why do I said that the taxpayer consist of most poor than the rich? According to the July 23rd Wall Street Journal, the richest 1% of the US population received their highest hare of the nation's income in at least 2 decades while their average tax rate fell to the lowest level in 18 years or MORE.

Isn't this fucking ridiculous?

Actually, it's more than twice of a US$700 billion bailout. Wall Street has already received some US$900 billion worth of bailouts. So what we are looking at is more than US$1.5 billion of corporate bailouts!!

So where did all these money went?! I once saw a comic of Bush throwing big sacks of money into the sea. Is that so? It is impossible! If you pay so much, someone is receiving. The nature of the economy must be balanced!

So it dated back to 2004, that is about 3 years before the crisis happened, surprisingly an announcement came from London that Rothschilds is quitting gold market and London Fix.

According to the book "Currency War", the Rothschild family had foreseen the crisis that will burst in the US market. So they silently withdraw from the market, put a clear line on the gold prices between their family, as they knew the world currency reserves will face a new settlement among countries, and gold reserve in Asian(which been accumulated for quite some time) will be "redistributed" to the winners in the crisis!

So what we see now? the gold price skyrocketed and I believed the big bankers such as Rothschild benefited a lump sum from this crisis! (There are still, a few big bankers out there who manipulated the economy and benefited from the crisis)

This is what we called capitalism.

罗斯切尔德

2010-11-26T23:01:00.000-08:00

从来没有听说过“罗斯切尔德”（Rothschild）这个名字，就如同一个军人不知道拿破仑,

物理系的学生不知道爱因斯坦一样。

滑铁卢（Waterloo）与罗斯切尔德的凯旋门

内森是老罗斯切尔德的老三，也是五兄弟中最具胆识的一个。1798 年被父亲从

法兰克福派到英国开拓罗斯切尔德家族的银行业务。内森是一个城府极深行事果

决的银行家，从没有人真正了解他的内心世界。凭着他惊人的金融天赋和神鬼莫

测的手段，到1815 年，他已成为伦敦首屈一指的银行寡头。他的大哥阿姆斯洛

在法兰克福打理罗斯切尔德家族银行的大本营（M. A. Rothschild and Sons)，

他的二哥所罗门在奥地利的维也纳建立了家族的另一分支银行(S. M.

Rothschild and Sons),他的四弟卡尔在意大利的那不勒斯建立了另一个银行,

他的五弟杰姆斯在法国巴黎的银行叫(Messieus de Rothschild Freres)。罗斯

切尔德家族所构成的银行体系是世界上第一个国际银行集团。此时五兄弟正密切

地注视着1815 年的欧洲战况。

这是一场关系着欧洲大陆命运和前途的重要战争。如果拿破仑取得了最终胜利，

法国将不容置疑地成为欧洲大陆的主人。如果威灵顿勋爵打垮了法军，那英国将

主导欧洲的大国均势。

早在战前，罗斯切尔德家族就非常具有远见地建立了自己的战略情报收集和快递

系统。他们成立了数量庞大的秘密代理人机制，这些类似战略情报间谍的人被称

为“孩子们”。这些人被派驻欧洲所有的首都、各大城市、重要的交易中心和商

业中心，各种商业、政治和其它情报在伦敦、巴黎、法兰克福、维也纳和那不勒

斯之间往来穿梭。这个情报系统的效率、速度和准确度都达到令人叹为观止的程

度，远远超过了任何官方信息网络的速度，其他商业竞争对手更是难以望其项背。

这一切使得罗斯切尔德银行在几乎所有的国际竞争中处于明显的优势。

“罗斯切尔德银行的马车奔驰在（欧洲各地）的公路上，罗斯切尔德银行的船穿

梭于海峡之间，罗斯切尔德银行的间谍们遍布（欧洲的）城市街道，他们揣着大

量现金、债券、信件和消息，他们最新的独家消息在股票市场和商品市场中被迅

速地传播着。但所有的消息都没有滑铁卢战役的结果更为宝贵。”

1815 年6 月18 日,在比利时布鲁塞尔近郊展开的滑铁卢战役,不仅是拿破仑和威

灵顿两支大军之间的生死决斗，也是成千上万投资者的巨大赌博，赢家将获得空

前的财富，输家将损失惨重。伦敦股票交易市场的空气紧张到了极点，所有的人

都在焦急地等待了滑铁卢战役的最终结果。如果英国败了，英国的公债（Consols)

的价格将跌进深渊；如果英国胜了，英国公债将冲上云霄。

正当两支狭路相逢的大军进行着殊死战斗时，罗斯切尔德的间谍们也在紧张地在

两边的内部收集着尽可能准确的各种战况进展的情报。更多的间谍们随时负责把

最新战况转送到离战场最近的罗斯切尔德情报中转站。到傍晚时分，拿破仑的败

局已定，一个名叫罗斯伍兹（Rothworth)的罗斯切尔德快信传递员亲眼目睹了战

况，他立刻骑快马奔向布鲁塞尔，然后转往奥斯坦德（Ostende)港。当罗斯伍兹

跳上了一艘具有特别通行证的罗斯切尔德快船时,已经是深夜时分。这时英吉利

海峡风急浪高，在付了2000 法郎的费用之后，终于找到了一个水手连夜帮他渡

过了海峡。当他于6 月19 日清晨到达英国福克斯顿（Folkstone）的岸边时，内

森.罗斯切尔德亲自等候在那里。内森快速打开信封，浏览了战报标题，然后策

马直奔伦敦的股票交易所。

当内森快步进入股票交易所时，正在等待战报的焦急和激动的人群立刻安静下

来。所有人的目光都注视着内森那张毫无表情莫测高深的脸。这时的内森放慢了

脚步，走到自己的被称为“罗斯切尔德支柱”的宝座上。此时他的脸上的肌肉仿

佛像是石雕一般没有丝毫情绪浮动。这时的交易大厅已经完全没有了往日的喧

嚣，每一个人都把自己的富贵荣辱寄托在内森的眼神上。稍事片刻，内森冲着环

伺在身边的罗斯切尔德家族的交易员们递了一个深邃的眼色，大家立即一声不响

地冲向交易台，开始抛售英国公债。大厅里立时就引起了一阵骚动，有些人开始

交头接耳，更多的人仍然不知所措地站在原地。这时，相当于数十万美元的英国

公债被猛然抛向市场，公债价格开始下滑，然后更大的抛单像海潮一般一波比一

波猛烈，公债的价格开始崩溃。

这时的内森依然毫无表情地靠在他的宝座上。交易大厅里终于有人发出惊叫“罗

斯切尔德知道了！”，“罗斯切尔德知道了！”，“威灵顿战败了!”。所有的

人立刻像触电一般醒过味来，抛售终于变成了恐慌。人在猛然失去理智的时候，

跟随别人的行为成了一种自我强制性行为。每个人都想立刻抛掉手中的已经毫无

价值的英国公债，尽可能地留住一些残余不多的财富。经过几个小时的狂抛，英

国公债已成为一片垃圾，票面价值仅剩下5%。

此时的内森像一开始一样，仍然是漠然地看着这一切。他以一种不是经过长期训

练绝不可能读懂的眼神轻微地闪动了一下，但这次的信号却完全不同。他身边的

众多交易员立即扑向各自的交易台，开始买进市场上能见到的每一张英国公债。

6 月21 日晚11 点，威灵顿勋爵的信使亨利.波西（HenryPercy)终于到达了伦敦，

消息是拿破仑大军在8 个小时的苦战后被彻底打败了，损失了三分之一的士兵，

法国完了！

这个消息比内森的情报晚了整整一天！而内森在这一天之内，狂赚了20 倍的金

钱，超过拿破仑和威灵顿几十年战争中所得到的财富的总和！

滑铁卢一战使内森一举成为英国政府最大的债权人，从而主导了英国今后的公债

发行，英格兰银行被内森所控制。英国的公债就是未来政府税收的凭证，英国人

民向政府缴纳的各种税赋的义务变成了罗斯切尔德银行向全民变相征税。英国政府

财政支出是靠发行公债来筹集，换句话说，英国政府因为没有货币发行权而必须

向私人银行借钱花，而且要支付8%左右的利息，所有本息都是以金币结算。当

内森手里攥着具有压倒优势的英国公债数量的时候，他实际上就决定着公债的价

格，左右着整个英国的货币供应量，英国的经济命脉被紧紧地捏在了罗斯切尔德

家族的手中。

志得意满的内森毫不掩饰他征服了大英帝国的骄傲,lanci 的说：“我不在乎什么样的英格兰

傀儡被放在王位上来统治这个庞大的日不落帝国。谁控制着大英帝国的货币供

应，谁就控制了大英帝国，而我控制着大英帝国的货币供应！”

本文内容取于“货币战争”一书。

The Minds Of Billy Milligan (24 個比利) 真人真事

2010-11-25T03:04:00.000-08:00

这个书写下了比利的24种人格。他一个人能够分裂出24种人格。

以下列出的是他的24种人格。每一个角色有自己的特色，年龄跟性格。

（1）威廉．密里根（比利），26歲
最初的核心人格，後來被稱為「分裂的比利」或「比利」。高中時被退學，身高六英呎，體重190磅，藍眼睛、棕色頭髮。

（2）亞瑟，27歲
英國人，理性、無情，說話時有英國腔調。他自修物理、化學，讀過醫學方面的書籍，阿拉伯文說寫流利。雖然他頑固保守並自認為是資本主義者，但公開承認自己是無神論者。他是第一位發現有其他人格存在的人，在安全的環境中由他負責管理，決定誰可以從「家庭」中站出來講話。戴眼鏡。

（3）雷根，22歲
充滿憎恨的人格。他是南斯拉夫人，英語帶有斯拉夫口音，以塞爾維亞．克羅地亞語說、寫、讀。武器及軍事權威，同時也是空手道專家。他有強大的體力，能有效控制腎上腺素。他是一位共產黨員及無神論者。他的責任是保護家庭的每一位成員，包括婦女與小孩。在危險的環境中由他負責管理。他曾犯罪並且吸毒，有暴力傾向。體重210磅，虎背熊腰，黑髮，八字鬍、色盲，只畫黑白圖畫。

（4）亞倫，18歲
騙子與操縱者。通常都是由他負責與外面的世界打交道，是個不可知論者，人生態度是：「只要活著一天就盡情享受。」他打小鼓、畫人像，唯一會抽煙的人格。身高與威廉．密里根一樣，體重比較輕（165磅）。頭髮是右分，是唯一的右撇子。

（5）湯姆，16歲
脫逃的藝術家。好戰、有反社會傾向，通常被誤以為是亞倫。他吹奏薩克斯風，是一位電子專家，並且擅長畫山水。擁有一頭亂糟糟的金髮與琥珀色的眼睛。

（6）丹尼，14歲
容易受到驚嚇的一位。他怕陌生人，尤其是男人。他被逼迫挖自己的墳墓，而且還被活埋，因此他只畫活著的東西。齊肩的棕髮，藍眼珠，身材瘦小。

（7）大衛，8歲
充滿痛苦的人格，也是感情移入者，他承受其他人格的痛苦，具有高度的敏感及理解力，但無法長期全神貫注，大多時間都很迷糊。深紅棕色頭髮，藍色眼睛，身體矮小。

（8）克麗絲汀，3歲
由於時常被老師叫到角落上罰站，因此被稱為「角落的孩子」。她是聰明的英國小女孩，能讀、能寫，卻有失讀症。她喜愛畫花及蝴蝶。金髮及肩、藍眼珠。

（9）克里斯朵夫，13歲
克麗斯汀的哥哥。說話有英國腔調，溫順但內心不安。會吹口琴。有一頭類似克麗斯汀的褐色金髮．瀏海較短。

（10）阿達娜，19歲
害羞、孤獨、內向。會寫詩、烹調，並為其他人做家事。一頭鳥黑的直髮．茶色眼睛時常會左右飄動，因此有人說她有一對「舞眼」。

（11）菲利浦，20歲
粗暴者。紐約客，有濃厚的布魯克林口音，言語粗俗。以「菲爾」之名讓警方及媒體知道比利體內不只有十種人格。大過不犯、小錯不斷。棕色捲髮、褐眼、鷹勾鼻。

（12）凱文，20歲
企劃高手。他曾計劃「葛雷西藥房」搶案。他喜歡寫作。金髮、綠眼。

（13）華特，22歲
澳洲人。自認為是狩獵專家。擁有優越的方向感，常被委以確認位置方位。壓抑情感，性情古怪，留八字鬍。

（14）艾浦芳，19歲
女流氓。波士頓口音，她不斷計劃如何報復比利的繼父。其他人格認為她是個瘋女人。會縫紉、幫忙做家事。

（15）實繆爾，18歲
流浪的猶太人。他是個虔誠的猶太教徒，唯一相信神的人。雕刻家，尤其擅長木雕。黑捲髮、山羊鬍、褐眼。

（16）馬克，16歲
工作狂。無自主性，若無其他人格的命令，他什麼也不做。負責做單調勞動，無事可做時便凝望牆壁。有時稱他是「殭屍」。

（17）史蒂夫，21歲
經常騙人。喜歡藉著模仿嘲笑別人。極端的自我，在眾多人格中唯一不接受多重人格的診斷結果。由於經常嘲諷地模仿別人而惹來眾怒，造成其他人格的困擾。

（18）李，20歲
喜劇演員。喜愛捉弄別人、小丑、富機智。由於他的捉弄令其他人格爭吵，而被獄方關入禁閉室。對人生與自己行為造成的結果毫不在乎。深棕色髮、栗眼。

（19）傑森，13歲
安全閥。由於歇斯底里的反應和暴躁的脾氣而常招致懲罰，但是卻有解除壓力的效果。由於獨自一人承擔不快的記憶，因此可讓其他人格忘掉一切不愉快，而導致自己喪失記憶。棕髮、棕眼。

（20）羅勃（鮑比），17歲
夢想家。不斷幻想旅行及冒險。雖然夢想自己要讓世界變得更美好，但是欠缺野心與對知識的關心。

（21）蕭恩，4歲
天生的聾子。注意力渙散、反應遲鈍。發出嗡嗡的聲音而感覺到腦部的震動。

（22）馬丁，19歲
勢利鬼。是個愛擺架子的紐約客，喜好炫耀、裝模作樣。凡事皆妄想不勞而獲。金髮、灰眼。

（23）提摩西（提米），15歲
在花店工作，結果遇上一位有斷袖之癖的老闊，自此因為害怕而叫隱藏自己的感情，退縮到自己的世界裡。

（24）老師，26歲
二十三個自我人格的融合體。他教導其他人格所有的知識。聰明、敏感、具高度幽默。他說：「我是融合完整的比利。」他稱其他人格為「我製造的傀儡」．老師對往事擁有幾乎完整的記憶。

我很意外，所有的角色他都能扮演的很好。而且，他的第24个角色，是操纵其他角色的总头！可见得，比利是一位很聪明得人。

我这里有pdf的版本，如果有谁想看，可以留下email。（因为我不会upload）zzzz

You just need one person to bring down a 233 years-old investment bank

2010-11-24T20:44:00.000-08:00

Nick Leeson who made millions for Barings Bank by betting on the future direction of the Nikkei Index. His bosses back in London, who viewed with glee his large profits, trusted him. Leeson seems to have everything, bosses trusted him, he got paid handsomely, huge houses, cars, women. EVERYTHING! but, what goes up must come down.

Barings believed that it wasn't exposed to any losses because Leeson claimed that he was executing purchase orders on behalf of a client. What the company did not realise is that there was a computer account error where Leeson was able to hide his losses. This account had been set up to cover up mistake made by an inexperienced team member, which lead to a loss of £20,000. Leeson used this account to cover his own losses.

Barings was also to be stupid enough to actually believed that Leeson always make profit but no losses in the trade. No one in the history had actually come up with 100% win with no loss at all. And continue pump in money to let him trade. As the losses grew, Leeson asked for more funds and by doubling up the bets to hope that he will be able to rebuild his profit. (Absolutely a stupid idea)

Over 3 months, he kept upping his ante by buying more futures contracts worth about $180,000 and each in a vain attempt to move the market. (Again a stupid move)

About after three quarters, he lost about $1.3billion with those trades. When Barings finally discovered his action, they informed the Bank of England that Barings was totally busted. The action of Nick Leeson had wiped out the 233 year old investment bank. (Cool)

And for your information, the $1.3 billion dollars of liabilities was more than the entire capital and reserves of the bank.

This told us that we need to accept our losses bravely, learn from mistake, and strike again. Don't be a moron who think you will be able to out-guessed the market and double your stake each and every time. We also need to be able to monitor our trade carefully. For huge banks nowadays, they have front offices, and back offices. Those front offices are traders who do the trading, and back offices is for monitoring and reporting to higher level.

Lastly, don't trade emotionally, u will screwed up everything.

The famous financial bubble

2010-11-18T19:54:00.001-08:00

The speculative financial bubble involves bidding up the price of an asset far beyond its underlying value.

The famous financial bubbles occurred in seventeenth-century Holland when it was found that certain tulip bulbs, when attacked by a particular virus, produced flowers of brilliantly variegated colors. These bulbs came to be highly valued by collectors. Then speculators began acquiring them, pushing prices higher. Others came in to profit from the bonanza of prices that seemed to rise without limit.

Soon everyone, from nobles to chimney sweeps, was in on the action, bidding up the price of a single bulb of a particularly prized variety to the equivalent of $60,000 in current dollars. The inevitable bursting of the bubble came in 1637.

Forex Tips for traders

2010-11-07T19:33:00.000-08:00

It's been so long since I revisited this blog again. Today gonna write a short stuffs on trading tips. (which probably sharing with you all and keep a reminder for myself)

If you are not familiar with the currency pair you trade, don't trade on that pair! You might get information or news about the particular pair, but if you are not familiar with the movement, don't be stupid enough to trade on it.

If your risk management failed, so do your account balance. With the risk return trade-off theory, higher risk comes with higher return, that is true! But if you saw a trend falling or rising rapidly, and you wish to jump in with HIGH volume trading. May God bless you! You may earn huge profit from it! but most of the time, you will often get a call, which is "MARGIN CALL". you idiot.

If you think you can out-guessed the market trend, think twice, if you still think you can predict the future market trend, think again. If you still don't know what I mean, and continue think you are such a great trader with accurate future prediction, I might as well say you are either stupid, or you are an idiot! NO ONE can out-guessed what will happen with the market trend. So remember your STOP LOSS!

For students, if you are having exams or heaps of assignment ahead. Stop the trading. You can't concentrate on your studies if you trade.

If you trade, you learn, you gain experiences. Don't waste time on gaming or doing nothing. Use your time to read books or news to improve yourself.

That is all what I can think about for now, I will post more If I can think of more. I used to make mistake all the time. But we learn and we change. Anyone out there, hope this few tips helped you =)

Also, this is a reminder for myself too ...hahahaha! I LOVE PLAYING GAME! but i am changing.

All the best.