Saturday, 24 February 2007

在报纸上看到马兆骏逝世的消息，忽然间又有一种天妒英才的感觉。
虽然很多他的创作我都没听过，但单单一首《宽容》就足以让我敬佩他的才华。
似乎逝世的都是创作杰出的歌手，如黄家驹、张雨生、张国荣等。
这三位已故的歌手最让我心痛！少了他们，世间也少了不知多少动人心扉的歌曲。

凌晨两点半 你还在我身旁
关上电话 我不想和谁再多说话
爱着你的我 认真听你说的每句话

凌晨两点半 你不在我身旁
讨厌自己 为何还要这样的牵挂
爱着你的我 无法隐瞒自己对你的想法

你说你想要找个宽厚的肩膀
问自己带你到什么地方
看着明天 告诉我你不会紧张
跟着我海角和天涯

我说我想要找个避风的港湾
谢谢你陪我到任何地方
你的宽容 还有我温柔的包容
没有泪的夜晚是天堂

宽容－张信哲　词曲：马兆骏　专辑：不要对他说

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Thursday, 22 February 2007

Live in the present and you'll be happy

As a little boy, I enjoyed chanting the Cantonese words that wished the listener
prosperity and urged for hongbao. Getting those little red packets with money made
me happy. The more money I found inside each paper packet, the happier I was.

Then, as I grew older, I started to wonder why there were more gong xi fa cai
(Mandarin for wishing you prosperity) wishes than xin nian kuai le (happy new year)
greetings during Chinese New Year.

My non-Chinese pals would tease me: 'Because you Chinese are money-faced, that's
why. Happiness is more important than money.'

It was in jest, of course. Many ethnic Chinese I know agree that happiness is more
important than money and still subscribe to that sentiment.

But last month, I heard a woman philanthropist on local radio disagreeing with her
fellow panelists and saying that money was more important than health and happiness.

She explained that it did not mean one had to chase wealth, but that we all needed
enough money to sustain health and do things that made us happy.

What a wise point of view.

In quizzes about personal values, people tend to pick health and happiness ahead of
money. I used to put health and fitness at the top of my list. Now I am reconsidering
and leaning towards the view that having enough money to live healthily and
comfortably should be No 1.

Last week, I picked up the latest Mind issue of the magazine, Scientific American.
On the cover is the teaser, 'Why it's so hard to be happy'.

Inside is an article by associate professor of psychology Michael Wiederman.
He writes: 'What would make you happier? Perhaps a bigger house or a better car;
a sexier or more understanding mate; surely, wealth and fame. Or maybe you would
simply be happy with finishing everything on your to-do list.'

Then the writer urges readers to stop deluding themselves because research suggests
that those things are not likely to increase your happiness significantly.

Neither can hard work nor good luck bring you happiness, and winning a lottery
apparently gives only a transient high.

'The happiest people seem to be those who are engaged in the present, rather than
focused on future goals,' says the writer.

When a person is totally absorbed in something interesting or motivating, he or she
is said to be going with the flow.

Following this notion, the writer says, Western psychology has embraced the Eastern
concept of mindfulness. The concept calls for immersion in what is happening right
now, without any distraction of the past or future.

Whether we can be happy or have a cheerful disposition is also a function of our
personality. That, in turn, is the result of the different combinations of nature
and nurture in different people. There are personality differences even among
siblings.

Complicated? Sure.

Research tells us that happiness does not come easily. But most of us knew that
already.

So, let me wish you xin nian kuei le. Okay, lah, also, gong xi fa cai!

By The New Paper columnist Peter H L Lim, 21 Feb 2007

somehow this article is so similiar to what the buddhist venerable sage said..
“活在当下才是快乐”

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Wednesday, 14 February 2007

爱上你我不会后悔
即使你还不能体会
但在我心中你是永远的玫瑰

虽然你时常有些累
眼角偶尔也有泪水
你的笑容很容易让我忘记疲惫

亲爱的Rosy啊 世事多变啊
为何要在猜疑中和自己挣扎
爱你的话 千言万语也无法表达
如果你不相信 还是有些怀疑
让这首歌证明我爱你的心

亲爱的Rosy不要怕 给你我最真的回答
你是我心中无永远不调谢的花
虽然你偶尔有些累 眼角也常常有泪水
让这首歌抹去你心中的伤悲

亲爱的Rosy－张宇　词：十一朗　曲：张宇　专辑：用心良苦

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dreamed of racing on 10:46 pm

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Sunday, 11 February 2007

今天和伟祥一起去了Bendemeer做义工。在那也看到了好久不见的佛堂朋友。
我们捐了点钱买了些食物，用品等等便和狮子会的成员们一起分发到三座一房室的住屋区。
个个老人家见到我们都很开心。虽然满头大汗的，不过看到他们的微笑，这一切都值得。
唯有一户人家比较特别，打开着大门，门前却放满了好多遍文章。往里头一看，都是一些
奇怪的字，还有一些辱骂女人的话。也不知道是不是他老婆抛弃了他。



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dreamed of racing on 10:59 pm

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Saturday, 10 February 2007

The way I look at it, a happy spiritual marriage should have these 5 C’s -

1. Commitment : This is obvious. If each can't totally commit to the other, there's
no need to talk about marriage in the first place. Why commit half-heartedly for
life? Why live half a lie, while seeking the truth on the spiritual path?

2. Compassion : At times, different opinions and views might arise. Mutual
compassion is needed to ensure conflicts or grudges are resolved with understanding.
Both need to see that to be resentful is to hurt each other. When we are unkind, we
lose our spirituality in the moment.

3. Cultivation : Right spiritual cultivation results in wisdom, with which one will
do less wrong, while becoming more virtuous to each other and for the world at
large. Commitment above is not just to each other, but to a common spiritual goal
too. Without the latter, the marriage is a mundane union, not a spiritual one.

4. Communication : A relationship without sufficient communication is not a working
relationship because the true essence of what makes a healthy living spiritual
relationship live is the continual exchange of kind and wise thoughts (not bodily
fluids!), which better each other. Learning and sharing the Dharma together makes
any relationship spiritual, whether it is also carnal or not.

5. Choice : Commitment, as mentioned above, should not be mistaken as attachment to
each other. In other words, there is always freedom of choice for each party.
Freedom in the sense that though the couple might be largely agreeable on many
issues, they are still free to see certain issues from their individual
perspectives. If both parties are exactly alike, they might as well have married
themselves or stayed single! Ultimately, choice here also refers to the generosity
of being able to gladly let the other party go should one choose to renounce the
relationship for a spiritual or even mundane cause.

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Friday, 9 February 2007

another free MMORPG.. i'm still new to it and it seems quite fun for the 1st 15mins
of playing.. click on the banner to join in the game!



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Monday, 5 February 2007

i thought diya will win.. cos her fans are alot! in the indoor stadium, you can
really see more diya's fans and they're also more enthusiastic.. its like history
repeating.. but who will know that daren's album sold more then diya.. i think this
is part of the reason he won the superstar.. anyway, i also prefer daren to diya..
he has the x-factor of a superstar more then her.. i really don't like the way she
sang her last song.. before that i already know she cannot make it.. she cant reach
the pitch and her voice is not powerful enough.. i really wonder why she chosen that
song..

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dreamed of racing on 12:28 am

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Friday, 2 February 2007

a pair of tickets for Project SuperStar Grand Final..

actually among the male contestants, i only like Zhang Le Sheng.. cos he has a good
vocal and singing skill.. but he seem abit closed up.. as for the female, i always
thought that diya will make it.. can't you see and hear how loud her fans are..
i used to think she would win this Project SuperStar, but darren seems to get more
and more popular ever since he came back to the stage.. its getting to be interesting..

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i believe recently you may have receiving a windows prompt asking you to
"Click to run an ActiveX control on this webpage" if so, here why you are receiving
it and how to fix it.. the change was included in a recent Windows update because
of a patent infringement lawsuit between Eolas Technologies and the Regents of the
University of California v. Microsoft.. because of this lawsuit, Microsoft is
changing the way Internet Explorer handles ActiveX controls.. these changes will be
in Internet Explorer 7.. however, to allow developers a chance to change their
code.. the change was included in the April Security update (KB912812).. this is why
you are receiving the following prompt when visiting some ActiveX web pages.



How to Correct this Problem
1) Download the following Compatibility Patch to revert the IE Active X Control Behavior
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=B7D9801B-4FB5-492E-903E
-3400ABF1D731&displaylang=en
2) Install it and reboot your computer
3) Try the webpage you were receiving the prompt on
This should fix the issue for the time being, however when IE 7 is released this prompt
will appear on web pages that have not changed the way they handle ActiveX
components.

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dreamed of racing on 5:09 pm

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some of us may have heard of HP's LightScribe technology, HD DVD, but ever heard of Blu-ray Disc?
well, its derived from the blue-violet laser used to read and write this type of disc..
and because of its shorter wavelength, substantially more data can be stored on a BD
than on the common DVD.. the BD can stored 25GB on each side compared to DVD's 4.7GB..
there're also released of dual layer(50GB) recordable and re-writable BDs..
BD format is only around for 2-3 years and is still ongoing development..

although the Blu-ray Disc specification has been finalized, engineers continue working to advance
the technology. Quad-layer (100 GB) discs have been demonstrated. And TDK announced
in August 2006 that they have created a working experimental Blu-ray Disc capable of holding
200 GB of data on a single side, using six 33 GB data layers. Such discs would almost certainly
not work on some of today's Blu-ray Disc players, as these devices are only designed and tested
on discs that meet the current specification.

a Blu-ray Disc rewriter cost more then $1k currently.. but price will definitly drop in the future..
i remembered buying my DVD-RW burner for $130+ now it cost only $40+

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Thursday, 1 February 2007

Joke of The Month

Biz Man And The Cabbie
A successful businessman flew to Vegas for the weekend to gamble. He lost the shirt
off his back, and had nothing left but a quarter and the second half of his round
trip ticket -- If he could just get to the airport he could get himself home.
So he went out to the front of the casino where there was a cab waiting.

He got in and explained his situation to the cabbie. He promised to send the driver
money from home, he offered him his credit card numbers, his drivers license number,
his address, etc. but to no avail. The cabbie said (adopt appropriate dialect),
"If you don't have fifteen dollars, get the hell out of my cab!" So the businessman
was forced to hitch-hike to the airport and was barely in time to catch his flight.

One year later the businessman, having worked long and hard to regain his financial
success, returned to Vegas and this time he won big. Feeling pretty good about
himself, he went out to the front of the casino to get a cab ride back to the
airport.

Well who should he see out there, at the end of a long line of cabs, but his old
buddy who had refused to give him a ride when he was down on his luck. The
businessman thought for a moment about how he could make the guy pay for his
lack of charity, and he hit on a plan.

The businessman got in the first cab in the line, "How much for a ride to the
airport," he asked? "Fifteen bucks," came the reply. "And how much for you to give
me a blowjob on the way?" "What?! Get the hell out of my cab." The businessman got
into the back of each cab in the long line and asked the same questions, with the
same result.

When he got to his old friend at the back of the line, he got in and asked
"How much for a ride to the airport?" The cabbie replied "fifteen bucks."
The businessman said "ok" and off they went. Then, as the drove slowly past the long
line of cabs the businessman gave a big smile and thumbs up sign to each driver.

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dreamed of racing on 11:35 pm

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