Sunday, 30 March 2008

reminder: the formula drift 2008 challenge is coming soon next month..
secure your tix at sistic.com for a discounted price of $13 now..

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Thursday, 27 March 2008

一朝被蛇咬，十年怕井繩

感情若時常出現陰影，那真的是不健康的。曾經心靈受到傷害永遠都無法抹去，
破碎的心就算拼回依然留下裂痕。縱然痛改前非，一旦景象顯前，過去的傷痛、驚慌、
仍浮現在腦海中。肉體上的傷口看得到會隨著時間恢復，心靈的傷害看不到更不知道
何時能夠恢復.. 因為看不到，人往往不曉得已經帶給了別人永久的心痕。

我很少在這裏提到我的感情，就是朋友也沒什麽向他們傾訴，因為我有一段不健康的感情。
這段感情不單單有陰影存在，也積蓄了很多不健康的事。這幾年來挺著一次又一次的失望，
甚至到絕望，我看不見未來.. 但我仍然堅持著.. 她不敢去面對，一直拖泥帶水。她知道耽誤
了我很長時間，分了又合，合了又分，我想是我太心軟，不舍得讓她一個人孤零零的在這裏。

不過這些即將過去了。這段情讓我更加認識自己，也成熟了不少。事情無法順著我們
只能去接受它，不能強求.. 只要盡了力，就無怨無悔。有些東西越是抓得緊越是得不到..

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Sunday, 23 March 2008

剛看完【SPOP 萬歲！音樂大典】，感覺是新加坡展現給海外的第一個音樂會。
很難得能請到李宗盛，還特別頒獎給偲菘偉菘。最初認識李偲菘、李偉菘是在80年代。
當時他們有新加坡“松柏”之稱。第一眼見到他們是在1995年張宇來新加坡宣傳
《一言難盡》專輯上娛樂節目的時候。那時他們看起來還傻傻的。哈哈。

偲菘偉菘是帶動了最多本地歌曲漂流海外。也因為了偲菘偉菘，許多人才會認識新加坡
的創作。本地許多的著名歌手也是出於他們的“門下”。他們的作品太多了，聽說一年內
他們倆作出了百多首歌曲，把一年作最多十二首歌曲的李宗盛比下去！

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Saturday, 22 March 2008

Joke of The Month

Lying is a Sin
A minister told his congregation, "Next week I plan to preach about the sin
of lying. To help you understand my sermon, I want you all to read Mark 17."
The following Sunday, as he prepared to deliver his sermon, the minister
asked for a show of hands. He wanted to know how many had read Mark 17.
Every hand went up. The minister smiled and said, "Mark has only sixteen
chapters. I will now proceed with my sermon on the sin of lying."

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Thursday, 13 March 2008

這是一首唱出很多女孩心聲的歌。第一次聽到時想許茹蕓終於發片了，認得出她的歌聲
但認不出男歌手是誰。其實到現在我也不知道他是誰。聽名字好像是內蒙古歌手。




許:愛愛愛愛了幾回　也明白其中滋味
　 付出的從來不會等於收回
　 我卻 還在 等待著誰能出現

穆:傷傷傷傷了幾回　也曾經為愛憔悴
　 愛情裏好人總比壞人狼狽
　 我卻還是學不會　狠心對誰

許:男人男人 多希望你是好人
　 多希望用你的真 讓我不必再心疼

穆:女人女人 我答應做個好人
　 我答應用我一生 來換你的快樂一生

許:愛愛愛愛了幾回　也明白其中滋味
　 付出的從來不會等於收回
　 我卻 還在 等待著誰能出現

穆:傷傷傷傷了幾回　也曾經為愛憔悴
　 愛情裏好人總比壞人狼狽
合:我卻還是學不會　狠心對誰

許:男人男人 多希望你是好人
　 多希望用你的真 讓我不必再心疼

穆:女人女人 我答應做個好人
合:不會再讓我（你）心疼
　 一等再等 你就是我等的那個人

穆:男人男人
許:女人女人
合:多麽希望你是對的人

男人女人－許茹蕓/阿穆隆　詞曲：吳克群　專輯：北緯66度

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Monday, 10 March 2008

a very interesting article.. i remembered seeing it years ago.. anyway, i
received it again and here it is:

Science and God

'Let me explain the problem science has with Jesus Christ.' The atheist
professor of philosophy pauses before his class and then asks one of his
new students to stand.

'You're a Christian, aren't you, son?'

'Yes sir,' the student says.

'So you believe in God?'

'Absolutely.'

'Is God good?'

'Sure! God's good.'

'Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?'

'Yes.'

'Are you good or evil?'

'The Bible says I'm evil.'

The professor grins knowingly. 'Aha! The Bible!' He considers for a moment.

'Here's one for you. Let's say there's a sick person over here and you
can cure him. You can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?'

'Yes sir, I would.'

'So you're good...!'

'I wouldn't say that.'

'But why not say that? You'd help a sick and maimed person if you could.
Most of us would if we could. But God doesn't.'

The student does not answer, so the professor continues. 'He doesn't, does he?
My brother was a Christian who died of cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to
heal him How is this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?'

The student remains silent.

'No, you can't, can you?' the professor says. He takes a sip of water from a glass
on his desk to give the student time to relax.

'Let's start again, young fella Is God good?'

'Er...yes,' the student says.

'Is Satan good?'

The student doesn't hesitate on this one. 'No.'

'Then where does Satan come from?'

The student : 'From...God...'

'That's right. God made Satan, didn't he? Tell me, son. Is there evil in this world?'

'Yes, sir.'

'Evil's everywhere, isn't it? And God did make everything, correct?'

'Yes.'

'So who created evil?' The professor continued, 'If God created everything,
then God created evil, since evil exists, and according to the principle that
our works define who we are, then God is evil.'

Without allowing the student to answer, the professor continues:
'Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these terrible
things, do they exist in this world?'

The student: 'Yes.'

'So who created them?'

The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats his question.
'Who created them? There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away
to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized.

'Tell me,' he continues onto another student. 'Do you believe in Jesus Christ, son?'

The student's voice is confident: 'Yes, professor, I do.'

The old man stops pacing. 'Science says you have five senses you use to identify
and observe the world around you. Have you ever seen Jesus?'

'No sir. I've never seen Him'

'Then tell us if you've ever heard your Jesus?'

'No, sir, I have not.'

'Have you ever actually felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt your Jesus?
Have you ever had any sensory perception of Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?'

'No, sir, I'm afraid I haven't.'

'Yet you still believe in him?'

'Yes.'

'According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable protocol,
science says your God doesn't exist. What do you say to that, son?'

'Nothing,' the student replies. 'I only have my faith.'

'Yes, faith,' the professor repeats. 'And that is the problem
science has with God. There is no evidence, only faith.'

The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a question of his own.
'Professor, is there such thing as heat?'

'Yes,' the professor replies. 'There's heat.'

'And is there such a thing as cold?'

'Yes, son, there's cold too.'

'No sir, there isn't.'

The professor turns to face the student, obviously interested.
The room suddenly becomes very quiet. The student begins to explain.

'You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat, mega-heat, unlimited heat,
white heat, a little heat or no heat, but we don't have anything called 'cold'.
We can hit up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can't go any
further after that. There is no such thing as cold; otherwise we would be able to
go colder than the lowest -458 degrees. Every body or object is susceptible to
study when it has or transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter
have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total absence of heat.
You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to describe the absence of heat.
We cannot measure cold. Heat we can measure in thermal units because heat is
energy. Cold is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.'

Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the classroom, sounding like
a hammer.

'What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as darkness?'

'Yes,' the professor replies without hesitation. 'What is night if it isn't
darkness?'

'You're wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is the absence of something.
You can have low light, normal light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have
no light constantly you have Nothing and it's called darkness, isn't it? That's the
meaning we use to define the word. In reality, darkness isn't. If it were, you would
be able to make darkness darker, wouldn't you?'

The professor begins to smile at the student in front of him.
This will be a good semester. 'So what point are you making, young man?'

'Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is flawed to start with,
and so your conclusion must also be flawed.'

The professor's face cannot hide his surprise this time.
'Flawed? Can you explain how?'

'You are working on the premise of duality,' the student explains. 'You argue that
there is life and then there's death; a good God and a bad God. You are viewing
the concept of God as something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science
can't even explain a thought. It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen,
much less fully understood either one. To view death as the opposite of life
is to be ignorant of the fact that death cannot exist as a substantive thing.
Death is not the opposite of life, just the absence of it.'

'Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that they evolved from a monkey?'

'If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process, young man, yes,
of course I do'

'Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?'

The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he realizes where the
argument is going. A very good semester, indeed.

'Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at work and cannot even
prove that this process is an on-going endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion,
sir? Are you now not a scientist, but a preacher?'

The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the commotion has subsided.

'To continue the point you were making earlier to the other student, let me give you
an example of what I mean.'

The student looks around the room. 'Is there anyone in the class who has ever seen
the professor's brain?' The class breaks out into laughter.

'Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor's brain, felt the professor's
brain, touched or smelled the professor's brain? No one appears to have done so.
So, according to the established rules of empirical, stable, demonstrable protocol,
science says that you have no brain, with all due respect, sir. So if science says
you have no brain, how can we trust your lectures, sir?'

Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the student, his face
unreadable.

Finally, after what seems an eternity, the old man answers. 'I guess you'll have to
take them on faith.'

'Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith exists with life,'
the student continues. 'Now, sir, is there such a thing as evil?'

Now uncertain, the professor responds, 'Of course, there is. We see it everyday.
It is in the daily example of man's inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of
crime and violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are nothing else
but evil.'

To this the student replied, 'Evil does not exist sir, or at least it does not
exist unto itself. Evil is simply the absence of God. It is just like darkness and
cold, a word that man has created to describe the absence of God.

God did not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man does not have
God's love present in his heart. It's like the cold that comes when there is no heat
or the darkness that comes when there is no light.'

The professor sat down.

Pass this on if you have faith in God.
If not, still pass it on for it's a good story!

we may not feel GOD presence physically, but we can definitly feel GOD spiritually..
our mind cling on to too many things that are false or empty, resulting in an
impure mind that is not calm and peaceful enough for us to 'see' GOD..


so what is my view as a buddhist on this? first, i would like to give
an applause to the smart student.. this show the few similiarity in
christian and buddhism.. the student touch on duality.. a lesson taught
in buddhism.. he is perfectly right to say there is no cold or darkness..

in fact, in buddhism, there is no heat or light as well.. duality itself
did not exist either.. it only come into existence because we perceive
that heat and coldness exist.. in buddhism, we look at things utimately..
not in a period of time.. everything is only there for a period, which
is not lasting and thus buddhism say everything is empty.. nothing is
permanent..

if there's a day we managed to see our sun burnt out, will there be
heat and light then? maybe light from other stars.. but each star has
its own life span too.. ultimately everything is changing constantly
and do not have a "fix self".. a name for a "temporarily self" is what
we human give to ourself.. human can't make anything with a "fixed self"
cos human is constantly making temporarily thing with temporarily thing..
for e.g. a table, or a pager.. does pager exist a thousand years ago?
will pager exist a thousand years later?

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Saturday, 8 March 2008

兩個女生為了自己的夢想放棄學業到臺灣受聲樂和舞蹈的訓練。
這對雙胞胎姐妹白瑋芬，白瑋玲才15歲，若真的大紅起來，相信在新加坡是空前的。
著名音樂人許環良已經把她們倆簽到海蝶，並且重砸200萬新元栽培她們！
by2（bai2，因為她們姓白）已經到過北京和日本受訓，目前在臺灣，
在今年五月份就要發片了。看一看她們受訓時的舞蹈吧！
加油明日之TWINS星！



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昨天wx打来说叫我一起去spa.. 别误会，是正经的那种。他自己一个人才会去不正经的。呵呵..
后来陪他吃了晚饭就去了Tanjong Rhu.. 到了那发现Cosy Bay又没营业了。是倒闭了吗？
其实那的生意都挺好的不是吗？

和平时一样，我们走到了近Oasis坐了下来。放眼看去，看见了新的景象。蓝蓝一大圈的摩天轮，
当然是新加坡The Flyer.. 聊的聊的就十点钟了，发现错过了"I Shouldn't Be Alive"!

回到wx家后就是一定的活动，大老二。又是一定的输了钱。:( 两点多wx说带我去附近的西藏佛寺。
里头的摆设都很精致，不过就如wx说的，商业化了点。那有一个帮手有些骄傲，wx也对他没好感。
好了，该睡了。其实我在等头发干，以前长发时要一个半钟头发才会干，现在半个钟就可以了。
我曾经读过报章写到湿着头睡觉会头疼是没有科学根据的，不过还是宁可信其有吧。

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Friday, 7 March 2008

日本綜藝節目:男扮女裝SHOW

有些的確挺好看的。

















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Monday, 3 March 2008

若你有看《刑事情報科》的話，在戲裏美麗為了照顧好家庭和剛出生的孩子，放棄了事業。
其實我覺得一個幸福美滿的家，是一個在外一個在內的。孩子小時候最需要母親的關愛。
若媽媽在外工幹，就無法與孩子建立好感情，也無法建立一個完美的家庭。

或許我比較傳統一些，我覺得其實做家庭主婦也是非常幸福的。把家裏打理的幹幹凈凈，
照顧好小崽子，煮一頓豐富的晚餐給老公吃，不也是一種享受嗎？雖然我不是女人，
不過我可以想象得到。我想我若是女人，也會像美麗那樣放棄事業的。因為我覺得真正
的幸福不是來自工作，而是家庭。雖然我是男人，但如果老婆賺的錢比我多，我會考慮
讓老婆在外工幹，我在家照顧家庭。除非老婆她自己要當家庭主婦。

現在女人都愛講男女平等。其實男和女是不可以平等的。我說不可以是因為有男和女的
不同才可以使這個家平衡，並非說女人無法和男人平等。男人女人為何在體質和理智上
都不一樣呢？就是因為他們有自己分內的工作。男人有力，理智才能在外頭找吃的回來，
女人溫柔，感性才能照顧好家和孩子。上帝創造人類時肯定已經想好這些了，一個
在外一個在內。什麽東西都需要一個平衡。我們看看動物界，所有的小動物都是由
媽媽來照顧的。這是最自然的道理了。

說到這讓我想起在"Planet Earth"裏看到的企鴯。企鴯是唯一一個動物不一樣的。
雌企鴯在下蛋後便先由雄企鴯來照顧，自己到外頭找食物。雄企鴯便在冬天裏和其他
的雄企鴯緊緊地圍在一起取暖，孵企鴯蛋。幾個星期後，雌企鴯回來了，並帶著好多
小魚給雄企鴯和將出世的小企鴯吃。這時雌企鴯會把企鴯蛋接回來自己照顧。等小企鴯
一出世，便把嘴裏的魚給小企鴯吃。雌企鴯到最後還是要自己照顧孩子。我看了真有點
感動，覺得母愛真是偉大。

雖然我知道很多女人不會放棄事業來照顧家庭，但我還是希望每個女人在有了孩子後，
再三的考慮，展示出自己母愛的偉大。因為到目前為止，沒有一個女人為了家而放棄事業
感到後悔。

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Sunday, 2 March 2008

for the past few weeks, i'd been watching "Planet Earth" on Art Central..
really a nice documentary.. last friday Art Central also start to air
"I shouldn't Be Alive".. its a documentary series of people who survived
through incredible circumstances.. the survivors narrate their life-threatening
experiences while actors re-enact their experiences.. definitly not one
to be missed.. last friday is the first espisode "Shark Survivor"..
the coming friday should be "Lost In The Snow"..

in "Shark Survivor", out of the 5 people, only Brad and Deborah managed to
survive.. from the show, i realised that in this kind of life-threatening
situation, beside will power, faith and optimism is equally as important..
because both of them promised to look after one another, they developed this
strong faith in them.. what saddening is the death of the other girl.. she
hurt her back badly and had a deep cut on her leg.. she lost her will to
survive when she saw her bf turned insane and died after jumping into
the sea.. that night she suddenly spoke in tongues.. some christians
believe that tongues is a language spoken in heaven.. and i guess she must
be praying to GOD before she passed away..

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今年年初出了一位新歌手楊宗緯。通常新歌手的首張專輯都會做得比較好，讓歌手有一個
好的開始。楊宗緯首張專輯《鴿子》的制作群陣容相當驚人，詞曲創作人就包括姚若龍，
鄭中庸，阿信，周傳雄，李偉菘，黃韻玲… 其中我覺得不錯的一首歌曲是阿信寫的《洋蔥》
這首歌是阿信為楊宗緯量身訂做的。楊宗緯沒有偶像派的長相，到目前為止也沒有創作的
才華，所以真不知道他能否會紅起來。大家拭目以待吧。



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