Eyes Wide Shut: MalayMailOnline: MCA told to shut up

Eyes wide shut...

Not being appreciated and respected, was humiliated instead.

This is a good case study - at the end of the day, even own partners will look down on you, despise you.

Eyes wide shut - it is so obvious but yet you couldn't see.

如果你生为不死， 你生来何故 ？

大闹天宫 2014： 观音对孙悟空说： 如果你生为不死， 你生来何故 ？世事无常，三界始终生灭，灯火不息，死即再生，念念相续，是为轮回。

Too Unhappy With Many People ?

When you are too unhappy with many people ???

It is easier to forgive.

Just forgive everybody.

Author/physician Shigeaki Hinohara On Longer Life

His diets:

For breakfast I drink coffee, a glass of milk and some orange juice with a tablespoon of olive oil in it. Olive oil is great for the arteries and keeps my skin healthy. Lunch is milk and a few cookies, or nothing when I am too busy to eat. I never get hungry because I focus on my work. Dinner is veggies, a bit of fish and rice, and, twice a week, 100 grams of lean meat.

His Schedules:

My schedule book is already full until 2014, with lectures and my usual hospital work. In 2016 I'll have some fun, though: I plan to attend the Tokyo Olympics!

On Materialistic:

Remember: You don't know when your number is up, and you can't take it with you to the next place.

His Advises:

• There is no need to ever retire, but if one must, it should be a lot later than 65.
  
• Share what you know.
  
• To stay healthy, always take the stairs and carry your own stuff.
  
• Science alone can't cure or help people
  

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放下也是岸

苦海无边，回头是岸

我认为，放下也是岸。

’空有无二‘ 是说 ‘不执空，不执有’

空性是指一切事物的存在，是无自性，没有不变不灭的实体，所以它才是实相。

所以，生活要提防问题。不可要求太完美。

牺牲自己，自己吃亏

牺牲自己，自己吃亏，才能得到自在。

Believing... Is Probably The Only Thing that Matters

Believe, is not something which you can describe easily.

If you believe in ideals, it doesn't mean that you are striving for perfection, which most people understand that it doesn't exist in this world.

But yet, if you don't believe, you are probably just breathing the air, without living the moment.

You got to believe.

Believing is probably the only thing that matters, without, you can't make a dent.

Visit to Dong Zen FGS Malaysia

First of all, check out the what it is and where it is.

The tricky part is as you approached the round about forking to Carey Island, what you are going to anticipate before making the right turn, right ?

A better map would be this one...



After the roundabout (Carey Island), go straight until you hit the second traffic light on your right, take right turn and go straight until you see Dong Zen on your right.

If you are going from Sunway Toll, the journey to Dong Zen would be around 50km (one way).

You can use the opposite direction to go home.













It is not really a big place, in fact it looks smaller now with most of the compound being put to good use compared to a few years ago when there were still many vacant lands..

This is a good place to come occasionally if you think that Buddhism is your way. Trust me, if you go with open heart, you will feel the power.

Of course, on that day itself, we had chance to check out the relic's of the real lord Buddha which is being put in place to anticipate for the exhibition show during CNY 2009. It was at this point which I felt the Buddha's light shone through my soul, I was overcome briefly.

The best gift that I got during that visit ....



Check out events for CNY 2009 at Dong Zen.



最好的礼物是忠言；最好的修养是宽恕。 This is a wisdom, this is a dharma and if properly appreciated and put to practice, I can achieve enlightenment (to a certain level) in this life.

Building Foundation is Important

Image via Wikipedia Many people recognize that building foundation is important after Lee Chong Wei lost to Lin Dan in the Beijing 2008 Olympic Badminton Men's Single Final at 17th Aug 2008. Also check out here.

Watching the whole match through RTM 1 (million thanks to RTM 1 for those who don't subscribe to Astro), I must salute Lin Dan that he is a truly world champion, there is just no doubt about that. His Bruce Lee playing style, his charisma, his physical ability and his passion for excellency.

Like I mentioned early what makes a world champion ? Lin Dan is truly a risk taker.

Congratulation to Choon Wei for putting Malaysia's hope floats at such critical time and for the silver medal.

“Although he (Chong Wei) did not win, I am happy that Chong Wei has made it to such a level. We will try again in London Olympics in four years' time but the important thing is we have to start planning now. We have to bring in our juniors into the national set-up,” Badminton Association of Malaysia president Datuk Mohd Nadzmi Salleh.

Roger Federer Lost in Olympic Again (2008)

Image via Wikipedia Roger Federer lost again, yeah he did in Olympic 2004 (as top seed).

Quite unlikely he is going to have a gold medal for Olympic anymore.

But having a gold medal for Olympic doesn't make you world champion these days, it merely makes your country proud. Or rather to say, it is just for the fun of it.

This is especially true for people like Roger Federer (multi-millionaire in USD) as well as James Blake; both are professional tennis players.

I managed to catch the match about 1/4 through the match and 3/4 in the first set. By mere observation, I knew that Federer is not playing at his best.

Why ? I don't know. Maybe it is part of the strategy for anticipation of US open which is around the corner. Or simply, it just wasn't his day.

First of all, he just couldn't serve well. So this adds a point to what makes a world champion, you got to serve well.

Secondly, it is interesting to note that even not playing at his best, Federer did demonstrate a lot of uncanny behaviours which make him world champion. I noticed that Federer is a risk taker, comparing to Blake. Federer would risk taking wicked shots and just that this time, it didn't work most of the time. Blake on the other hand, conquered most of the important points and he won. Federer is definitely more charismatic than Blake. We would want Federer to win and he disappointed all.

The third thing that I noticed is that Federer is a practically patience man. He could just keep going under pressure. I predicted that if the game were to go on for another set, Federer may turn it around and win it in 5 sets. This also suggests that if the professional tours were to switch to 3-sets decider, Federer may not be the world champion.

And to guess why must he lose again ? I don't know, maybe it is boring. The is no passion to win.

Conclusion : What makes a world champion ?

• Critical Success factor - Serve
• Risk taker and charismatic
• Patience

“From those to whom much is given, much is expected.” - Bill Gates

“From those to whom much is given, much is expected.” - Bill Gates

From the moment you dreams are realized, you have been loved.

And at that same moment, there are 6 billion souls being left in the dark.

Therefore, if you feel lucky, your next journey is not about you anymore.

And this next line has to be left blank because it is where it defines the unspeakable (nobody never ever able to guess what you are really up to next). Period.

Mixed Culture : Malaysia Boleh (2)

Towards a better culture tolerance! Malaysia Boleh !

1. Malaysia Boleh (1)

Two Reasons To Be Vegetarian Today

1. Myanmar disaster took 216,000.
   
2. China Chengdu's disaster took 12,000 life and still counting.

Survival of The Sickest - Must Read

I think I have read a good book. Must read.



The Survival of the Sickest.

Some of the key points noted...

• Cancer cells require iron to grow, so the body attempts to limit its availability.
• Mother's milk contains lactoferrin - a chelating protein that binds with iron and prevents bacteria from feeding on it.
• Viking men may have offset the negative effects of hemochromatosis because their warrior culture resulted in frequent blood loss.
• Diabetes may have helped European ancestors survive the sudden cold of the Younger Dryas.
• When we are exposed to the right kind of sunlight, our skin converts cholesterol to vitamin D.
• Ultraviolet light detroys folic acid in the body, the darker your skin, the less ultraviolet light you absorb.
• People of African descent have darker skin and are more likely to have a gene that causes them to produce greater amount of cholesterol.
• People of Northern European descents have pales skin and are much more likely to have iron loading and predisposition for Type 1 diabetes.
• People of Asian descent are much more likely to be unable to process alcohol efficiently.
• The current mainstream consensus is that modern humans evolved in Africa around 250,000 years ago.
• In Africa, where the heat was an evolutionary argument against denser body hair, people are prone to sickle-cell anemia, which, as we'll discuss, offers some protection from malaria.
• High blood pressure, or hypertension, is a particularly insidious disease - it's responsible for as much as 25 percent of end stage kidney failure, but it usually has no noticeable symptoms; that's why it's often called the "silent killer."
• Organic plants produce more natural toxic than non-organic plants. Eat your vegetables, your vegetables can kill you.
• Women infected with T.gondii spend more money on clothes and are consistently rated as being more attractive than women without the infection.
• The diarrhea caused by cholera isn't just a symptom - it's a transmission channel. It's how the disease makes it into the water supply and ensures its ability to find new hosts.
• At its most basic, cance is uncontrolled cell growth caused by a mutation in the gene that is supposed to control the growth of the cancerous cells.
• Most scientists don't consider viruses to be "alive", because they can't reproduce or metabolize on their own.
• There are all 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 viruses in the world's oceans. Over the few millions of years, perhaps we've given them the ride of their life and, in return, they've given us the chance to borrow some code from their huge genetic library.
• Researchs have certainly noted that many miscarried fetuses have genetic abnormalities
• Through a combination of epigenetic effects, various genes are turned on and off.
• Pups that were gently licked by their mothers grew into confident rat babies that were relatively relaxed and could handle stressful situations. But rats that were ignored by their mothers grew to be nervous wrecks.
• Children whose parents are overly stressed are more prone to depression and have less self-controlled. Children whose parents are relaxed and available tend to be happier and healthier.
• When cancer cells are successful, it's usually with the help of telomerase. Without telomerase, cancer cells woudl die out after dividing fifty to sixty times, or perhaps a little longer. Many scientists believe cancer prevention is the "reason" cells have evolved with a limit on the number of times they can reprduce.

Conclusion (from a reader):

• Humans (today) are mutant, we mutated by being infected with viruses.
• By default, our body can fight off cancers.
• Genes can be turned on and off due to various factors.
• As a semi vegetarian, I think that vegetarian don't eat vegetables because we like it so much, it is just to survive, thus, don't eat too much. Try to strike a balance.

Quotes

Try to see beyond prejudice..

"Science must confine its inquiry only to things belonging to the human senses, while spiritualism transcends the senses. If you want to understand the nature of spiritual power you can do so only through the path of spirituality and not science. What science has been able to unravel is merely a fraction of the cosmic phenomena " - Sai Baba

"by understanding the past, we can do a better job of dealing with problems today; and by anticipating what might be on the horizon tomorrow, we can help prepare for a better world" - Waitt Foundation

"I personally think that society is responsible for a very significant percentage of what I've earned. If you stick me down in the middle of Bangladesh or Peru or someplace, you find out how much this talent is going to produce in the wrong kind of soil... I work in a market system that happens to reward what I do very well - disproportionately well. Mike Tyson, too. If you can knock a guy out in 10 seconds and earn $10 million for it, this world will pay a lot for that. If you can bat .360, this world will pay a lot for that. If you're a marvelous teacher, this world won't pay a lot for it. If you are a terrific nurse, this world will not pay a lot for it. Now, am I going to try to come up with some comparable worth system that somehow (re)distributes that? No, I don't think you can do that. But I do think that when you're treated enormously well by this market system, where in effect the market system showers the ability to buy goods and services on you because of some peculiar talent - maybe your adenoids are a certain way, so you can sing and everybody will pay you enormous sums to be on television or whatever -I think society has a big claim on that." - Warren Buffet