Stay Alive....

I wish nothing but the best for you too
Don't forget me, I beg
I remember you said, " you dont know how long is long, Just Stay Alive.....until then..."




For you in three days.

銘心的故事總要以謀殺终结才能棲美？！再见Ella Wang Apr 12-16, 2013

A very sweet and touching story!

The girl in the picture is Katie Kirkpatrick, she is 21 . Next to her, her fiancé, Nick, 23.
The picture was taken shortly before their wedding ceremony, held on January 11, 2005 in the US .
Katie has terminal cancer and spend hours a day receiving medication.
In the picture, Nick is waiting for her on one of the many sessions of chemo to end.

In spite of all the pain, organ failures, and morphine shots, Katie is going along with her wedding and took care of every detail. The dress had to be adjusted a few times due to her constant weight loss

An unusual accessory at the party was the oxygen tube that Katie used throughout the ceremony and reception as well.
The other couple in the picture are Nick's parents. Excited to see their son marrying his high school sweetheart.

Katie, in her wheelchair with the oxygen tube , listening to a song from her husband and friends

At the reception, katie had to take a few rests. The pain did not allow her to stand for long periods

Katie died five days after her wedding day. Watching a woman so ill and weak getting married and with a smile on her face makes us think..... Happiness is reachable, no matter how long it lasts .

We should stop making our lives complicated.

Life is short
Break the rules
forgive quickly
kiss passionately, love truly
laugh constantly
And never stop smiling
no matter how strange life is
Life is not always the party we expected to be
but as long as we are here,
we should smile and be grateful.

The Purple Mountain

I had a session with a light worker Dorothy Austin today. She is truely amazing. She has a quartz that has a natural purple mountain inside, it looks really pretty. One point she make is very inspiring, some of us stay on the ground, a portion of us have a mountain to climb, yet only you and your divine partner can conquer your mountain, however, instead of focusing to climb the mountain, you get distracted and transform your energy to someone climbing another mountain, both of you get slowed down............definitly it is our choice......but seeing the beautiful purple mountain, i do want to live at the top of it :D

Hilarious!

Subject: 精神病人妙語
conversations in psychiatric hospitals
精神病人妙語事例 1
病人A：「怎麼樣？這本書寫得還不 錯吧？」
Patient A:" How's the novel?"
病人B：「太 好了！真是曠世鉅作。一點廢話都沒有，簡潔有力。
Patient B:" Good, it's straight to the point, no bullshit."
不過有一個缺點，就是出場人物太多了！」
"however, there are too many characters in the story"
謢士 ：「喂！你們兩個 ...... 快把電話薄放回去。」
Nurse:"The two of you, return the phonebook now!"
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精神病人妙語事例 ２
有一位精神病院的醫生問患者 ︰
The doctor asked the patient:
「果我把你的一隻耳朵割掉，你會怎麼樣？」
"If I cut one of your ear off, what will happen?"
患者回答︰「那我會聽不到。」
The patient answered:" Then i can't hear"
醫生聽了︰
The doctor then say:
「嗯，那很正常。如果我再把你另一隻耳朵也割掉，你會怎麼樣？」
" Alright. What if I cut also the other ear of yours?"
患者回答 ︰「那我會看不到。」
The patient replied:" Then I cant see."
醫生開始緊張︰「怎麼會看不到呢？」
The doctor was worried:"Why you cant see?"
患者回答 ︰「因為眼鏡會掉下來。」
The patient answered:" My glasses will drop!"
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精神病人妙語事例 ３
神經病院有一位老太太，每天都穿著黑色的衣服，拿著黑色的雨傘， 蹲在神經病院門口。
There's this old lady, who dressed in Black, carrying a black umbrella and knee herself in front of the hospital everyday.
醫生 就想要醫治她，一定要從了解她開始 ..
The doctor wanna help her, and he figured he should start by understanding her,
於是，那 位醫生也穿黑色的衣服，拿著黑色的雨傘，和她一起蹲在那邊。
therefore, he dressed himself in black and carried a black umbrella and knee beside her everyday.
兩人不言不語的蹲了一個月......
After a month.....
那位老太太終於開口和醫生說話了：
The old lady finally speaks:
「請 ..問一下 ! 你...也是香菇嗎?」
" Can i ask you a question...? Are you ...also a mushroom?"
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精神病人妙語事例 ４
一個精神病院的護士看到一個病人在寫信，非常好奇，想去偷瞄，
A nurse saw a patient writing a letter, and wanna have a glance
可是病人不給她看。
but the patient wont allow her.
護士忍不住問︰「給誰寫信啊？ 」
The nurse asked:"To whom are you writing the letter?"
病人回答：「寫給我自己啊！」
Patient said:"Myself!"
護士好奇心更盛，心想：「怎會有人寫信給自己呢？！」
The Nurse is curious:" Why you write to yourself?!"
於是又問：「寫些什麼啊？」
she asked again" So what did you write?"
病人說：「你神經病啊！！我還沒收到信，我怎麼會知道！」
The patient answered:" Are you insane?! I haven't received the letter yet, how am I suppose to know?!"
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精神病人妙語事例 ５
有兩個精神病患者從病院裡逃出來。
Two patients ran out of the hospital.
兩人逃跑，爬上一棵樹，其中一個人從樹上跳下來，在地上滾來滾去，
They escaped, and climbed up a tree, one of them then jumped from the tree, and roll himself on the ground.
然後抬起頭對上面的同伴說︰「喂！你怎麼還不下來啊？」
He then said to the one above:"Hey, how come you are still up there, fall down"
上面的那個人回答他︰「不 ... 行...啊！我還未熟透。」
The one on the tree:"no...no...I am not yet ripened!"
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精神病人妙語事例 ６
一位病人來找精神科醫生︰「醫生，怎麼辦？我一直覺得我是一隻母雞。」
A patient ask the doctor:" doctor, what should i do? I feel like I am a hen!"
醫生︰「喔？！那很嚴重呀，怎麼現在才來求醫？」
the doctor said:" you are so sick, why you didnt come earlier?"
病人︰「因為最近我的家人在等我生蛋啊！」
patient:" because my family are waiting for me to lay eggs."
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精神病人妙語事例 ７
一個貨車司機送貨到精神病院，當他卸完貨準備回家時。
A van driver always deliver stuffs to the hosiptal, one time when he is heading home,
忽然發現有一個輪子爆胎了。
one of the tires broke.
於是他將那個爆掉的車胎拿下來，正準備換上備胎時。
When he started to change the tire,
一個不小心，將固定車胎的四個螺帽掉到水溝裡了，怎麼撿也撿不到。貨車司機不知如何是好
the screw covers fall into the ditch, and the driver don't know what to do...
此時，正好有一個精神病患者經過，就問司機怎麼了？
There came a patient and asked the driver what happened?
司機想，反正也沒有別的事可做，於是就把事情經過告訴精神病患者。
The driver thinked that afterall there's nothing he can do except waiting, so he spend the time explaining what happened.
精神病患 說：「這麼簡單的問題也解決不了，難怪你只能當貨車司機。 你只要把剩下的三個胎各拆一個螺帽下來，裝到第四個車胎上， 然後開到最近的修車廠,補上剩下的 螺帽就可以了。」
The patient said:" That's simple, no wonder you can only be a driver. Just took one screw cover from each the other three tire lanes and put it on the broken one, drive to the closest tire repair shop and get it fixed:
貨車司機敬佩之餘，不禁開口問道：
The driver was amazed and asked:
「你這麼聰明，為什麼會住在精神病院？」
"you are so clever, how come you are sent to a psychiatric hospital?"
精神病患回答：「我住在這裡是因為我有精神病，不是因為笨！」
The patient said:" Come on! I have mental illness doesn't mean I am retarded!!"

hahaha, this made my day :>!

thanks for the song!

Can't help but to share with you this song that a friend send me, so nice!!!!!
thanks!!!

My adorable family

Family is so important to everyone, they are my ultimate web of support. My nieces are so adorable :>
The video was taken at the hong Kong airport on the day I head for Singapore, wish I have had spent more time with them.

Poll: Les Trois Mousquetaires / Three Little Pigs :>

My dream to own a gathering place for people to share their passion of spiritual life through coffee, tea and chocolate is still a dream, but once i own it this is a must-have, so you could create whatever you like on your cup of drink. Until that day, which name would you prefer my place to be named? heehee
Poll : 1. Les Trois Mousquetaires or 2. Three little pigs? hahaha

Room in a box

After moving so many times, and struggling every single time with moving and shipping, I do wish my life could be as simple and easy as this, hahaha.
I am sure it does work for you who is so proud you can move from state to state in an SUV :p

Badly drawn boy - year of the Rat :>

It was really really an enjoyable stay in Hong Kong, mainly because I am with my family!! Thanks Babi, bro, Maggie, Sis, long yu, ying ying, May and Alma!! i really had wonderful time and it does charged me up with lots of positive energy!!

Sis point this song to me, I really love the message carried from the cartoon video and the lyrics! We have to hold on together to make great changes!!
Life could sometimes be very frustrating and hectic and I may not always able to find a solution to anything, but just crab a hug and cooling down maybe a way!!

june is on the run for so long
pushed and pulled then shunned it was so wrong
these 4 walls crashing in wont stop me now
coz im alive, im out tonight, all night
everybody needs to know its the year of the rat
everyday we've got to hold on
coz if we hold on we could find some new energy
streets with flags unfurled like treasure
thank me for my words its a pleasure
just dont ask me to stay coz ill be gone
but its alright, i'm ok, always
everybody needs to know its the year of the rat
everyday we've got to hold on
coz if we hold on we could find some new energy
one plus one is one together
one plus one is one forever

You must love me?!

Suddenly (on 5/17) am thinking of this song from Evita, maybe that was what I was feeling...........
Where do we go from here?
this isn't where we intended to be
we had it all, you beleived in me; i believed in you.
certainties disappear
what do we do for our dream to survive?
how do we keep all our passions alive as we used to do?
deep in my heart, i'm concealing
things that i'm longing to say
scared to confess what i'm feeling...
frightened you'll slip away
you must love me
you must love me
why are you at my side?
how can i be any use to you now?
give me a chance, and i'll let you see how
nothing has changed!!
deep in my heart, i'm concealing
things that i'm longing to say
scared to confess what i'm feeling...
frightened you'll slip away
you must love me
you must love me

you must love...me

The truth behind everything

Once again, I am so thankful that I came across the inspiration that I can't believe what I see. Have to keep reminding myself that there are more beneath the surface to conceive.....

What would you think the painter (Baroque painter, Peter Paul Ruben) is trying to capture?

The true story is the old man was kept in prison and has not been fed for a while, his daughter was trying to feed his hunger. She could only offer her milk, a food from nature, because she can't even smuggle food for him.......

Cimon and Pedro

I guess it's meant to be?

Result Quiz:
What's your future career?
You can't escape yourself. Who you are determines what you will be. Stop worrying about which college to pick. Just take our quiz and your future will be clear.
My results:
You're very intelligent, hard-working and overstressed.
You always focus on details and you're unable to relax. You will either end up in a job that requires painstaking drudgery such as accountant or medical researcher or in one with huge responsibilities such as air traffic controller or heart surgeon. Just be careful you don't end up on the table yourself.

Being a Taxi driver?

It's just a funny thinking.
Sometimes, I feel like in a relationship is just like being a taxi driver, .....I am just driving the person to his/her destination, getting to know the person, enjoyed some conversations , getting inspired and knowing where he is going. When he gets to where he wants to go, my mission is completed, yeah at the end, make some earnings, although not in the form of money.
You get different customers, some treats you better like a friend, who would choose to sit next to you, some plays the appropriate roles and sit normally at the back. Some initiate conversations with you, some prefer to ignore you. Luckily you may meet a stable one or a long riding one.....Places they want to go varies too, maybe they are desperately riding to the hospital to get things fixed, may be they just want you a ride to work, or they are going to the airport and you are to be departed.....hoping one day he will move back and you have a chance to meet again....there are so who don't even know where they wanna go.......
Certainly if you driver a newer and better looking vehicle you may get better customers.....and customers would like to ride with you again......
The type person who get into my car also depends on where I decided to find my business, I am sure there are a lot more analogy you can add to it, let's keep adding to the list, would you? :>

I'm so moved, thanks for sharing your true identity!

I am sure everyone in a foreign country have their own story. Louis, a Mexican I met who worked in the same shop that I did in the Mall is no exception. Today is my final day at work over there, it's a sudden decision because I cannot manage to take care of so many things at the same time especially when I am leaving in 2 weeks.
He is genuinely sad when he know that I am leaving. Actually I quite like Mexicans because, well, most of them that I know of are very simple and true persons, they never hide anything from you and they are loyal.
Today, Louis shared with me his secret, and it is like revealing his true shelf to me, which made me feel so touched, first of all, he totally trusted me, and it's like he really want me to know the "true" him. It's certainly a big issue when he revealed his identity to me, the identity that make everyone a unique person, his name, given by his parents, and the real name!
It's obvious why he is living under another person's identity, many immigrant worker suffers from that, and I am truely moved when he shared his beautiful name with me -- Abraham, Lincoln's first name, Abraham, i will never forget you. See you in a year, as you said! :>
I feel like I am really lucky and am having a truely blessed life, I cannot imagine people calling me a name unfamiliar, a name I just encounter after 30 years of being myself....these people are amazing!!

A meaningful story

北歐一座教堂裡,有一尊耶穌被釘在十字架上的苦像,大小和一般人差不多。
因為有求必應，因此專程前來這裡祈禱，膜拜的人特別多,幾乎可以用門庭若市來形容。
教堂裡有位看門的人,看十字架上的耶穌每天要應付這麼多人的要求，覺得於心不忍，他希望能分擔耶穌的辛苦。
有一天他祈禱時，向耶穌表明這份心願。意外地，他聽到一個聲音，說： 「好啊！我下來為你看門，你上來釘在十字架上。但是，不論你看到什麼、聽到什麼，都不可以說一句話。」 這位先生覺得，這個要求很簡單。 於是耶穌下來，看門的先生上去，
像耶穌被釘在十字架般地伸張雙臂， 本來苦像就雕刻得和真人差不多，
所以來膜拜的群眾不疑有他， 這位先生也依照先前的約定，
靜默不語，聆聽信友的心聲。
來往的人潮絡繹不絕， 他們的祈求，有合理的，有不合理的，千奇百怪不一而足。 但無論如何，他都強忍下來而沒有說話， 因為他必須信守先前的承諾。 有一天來了一位富商， 當富商祈禱完後，竟然忘記手邊的錢便離去。他看在眼裡，真想叫這位富商回來，
但是，他憋著不能說。 接著來了一位三餐不繼的窮人， 祈禱耶穌能幫助它渡過生活的難關。 當要離去時，發現先前那位富商留下的袋子，打開，裡面全是錢。 窮人高興得不得了， 耶穌真好，有求必應，萬分感謝地離去。
十字架上偽裝的耶穌看在眼裡， 想告訴他，這不是你的。但是，約定在先，他仍然憋著不能說。 接下來有一位要出海遠行的年輕人來到， 他是來祈求耶穌降福他平安。 正當要離去時，富商衝進來， 抓住年輕人的衣襟，要年輕人還錢，年輕人不明究理，兩人吵了起來。
這個時候，十字架上偽裝的耶穌終於忍不住，遂開口說話了... 既然事情清楚了，富商便去找冒牌耶穌所形容的窮人， 而年輕人則匆匆離去，生怕搭不上船。 偽裝成看門的耶穌出現，指著十字架上說： 「你下來吧！那個位置你沒有資格了。」
看門人說：「我把真相說出來，主持公道，難道不對嗎？」 耶穌說：「你懂得什麼？那位富商並不缺錢，他那袋錢不過用來嫖妓， 可是對那窮人，卻是可以挽回一家大小生計； 最可憐的是那位年輕人， 如果富商一直纏下去，延誤了他出海的時間，
他還能保住一條命，而現在，他所搭乘的船正沉入海中。」

這是一個聽起來像笑話的寓言故事，卻透露出：
『在現實生活中， 我們常自認為怎麼樣才是最好的， 但事與願違，使我們意不能平。
我們必須相信： 目前我們所擁有的， 不論順境、逆境，都是對我們最好的安排。
若能如此， 我們才能在順境中感恩，在逆境中依舊心存喜樂。』
人生的事，沒有十全十美。
但是，我們應認真活在當下。 送給你一段『馬斯洛』說過的話： 心若改變， 你的態度跟著改變；態度改變， 你的習慣跟著改變； 習慣改變， 你的性格跟著改變； 性格改變， 你的人生跟著改變。
在順境中感恩，在逆境中依舊心存喜樂，認真地活在當下。 讓世界因為我們，而變的更美好！
「好東西要跟大家分享 生命就該浪費在美好的事物上， 當你遇見美好的事物時所要做的事， 就是把它分享給你四周的人； 這樣，美好的事物才能在這個世界上 自由自在的散播開來....」

Inside a church in Northern Europe, there’s a statute of Jesus crucified on the cross, with the size of actual human. People always get what they prayed for; so many people came here to worship. The doorman of the church hope he could share the pain of Jesus listening to all these prayers and request, so he prayed to Jesus.

One day, he suddenly heard a voice saying:” Good, I will come down to be the doorman and you will be me on the cross. However, regardless of what you see or what you hear, you cannot utter a word.” The doorman thought it was very simple and agreed to shift.

The doorman was crucified on the cross, and he tried to keep his promise keeping silent listening to the prayers from the crowd, no matter how ridiculous the things people ask for.

One day, a wealthy businessman came and left his bag of money after he prayed, he really wanted to tell him but he has to keep the promise and remain silence. Then came 3 poor people who can’t even afford for food, the poor therefore prayed to Jesus to feed them. Then they discovered the bag of money the wealth left behind and was so thankful Jesus made their wishes came true and they took the money and left.

After that, a young guy came and prayed upon Jesus to bless him a safe trip, meanwhile the wealthy businessman came back and was very angry suspecting the young guy took his money. The pretended Jesus found it so unfair and finally opened his mouth and told them what actually happened. The young guy then rush for his voyage. Jesus told the doorman to come down: ‘you broke your promise; you are not qualified anymore to be there”. The doorman asks: ‘I am just telling the truth, this is justice, what is wrong?” Jesus said: “what do you know? The wealthy man doesn’t need that money, he is just using it for prostitution, and with the money the whole family of the poor could be saved and feed. The worst is the young guy; he could have saved his life if he spends the time fighting with the wealthy man so that he would miss his ship, which is now sinking into the sea.”

This story seems like a joke but the lesson is: in real life, we always think we know what is right, however, things don’t go the way we anticipated, and we feel unfair. We must believe that what we possess now, no matter whether you are in a good or bad situation that is the best arrangement for us. Only with that mentality, we can be thankful in happy times and remain contended in down turns. Life cannot be perfect, but we have to live up to the moment.

Share with you a quote from Maslow: “if your mind change your attitude follows, if your attitude changed, your habit follows, if your habits changed, your personality follows, your personality changed and so will your life.”

someone I aspired to be - Mina Bissell

Just went to the AACR 2008 in San Diego. At first i wasn't planning at all to attend this mtg, was hoping to go to my first ISCR in July but since I know I am leaving, I know I can't make it. But it was such a great surprise for me, first being shocked with so much advance on cancer stem cell field and then meeting this outstanding lady.
I do admit although I am in Omaha this year, I really get to know and experience a lot of inspiring people and moments. That's why I am starting to miss it already.......

Mina Bissell, an absolutely stunning and energetic female scientist with extraordinarily passionate attitude towards science and knowledge, she just moved you around in her talks and conversations.
She is a model for being bold, standing up to what you believe and not being intimidated to fight for what you believe it is right. The brave in her is just what I hope I could develop.....
She is one of the selected remarkable female scientist in this year's Chroma calendar, which you can download here: http://www.chroma.com/wis/

It's so fulfilling and inspiring to read her story, I am sure when you are feeling you got stucked, esp those of us being frustrated in science, you will be enlightened with hope by reading the path she took. Enjoy it! http://www.lbl.gov/lifesciences/BissellLab/minapersonal/incyte.htm

To my fellows who got stucked， cheers!

Stuck in a Moment by U2
i'm not afraid, of anything in this world, there's nothing you can throw at me, that i haven't already heard, i'm just trying to find, a decent melody, a song that i can sing, in my own company
i never thought you were a fool, but darling look at you, you gotta stand up straight, carry your own weight, these tears are going nowhere baby you've got to get yourself together, you've got stuck in a moment, and now you can't get out of it don't say that later will be better, now you're stuck in a moment, and you can't get out of it

i will not forsake, the colors that you bring, the nights you filled with fireworks, they left you with nothing, i am still enchanted, by the light you brought to me, i listen through your ears, through your eyes i can see, and you are such a fool, to worry like you do, i know it's tough, and you can never get enough, of what you don't really need now, my, oh my, you've got to get yourself together, you've got stuck in a moment, and you can't get out of it, oh love, look at you now, you've got yourself stuck in a moment, and you can't get out of it, i was unconscious, half asleep
the water is warm 'til you discover how deep

i wasn't jumping, for me it was a fall, it's a long way down to nothing at all, you've got to get yourself together, you've got stuck in a moment, and you can't get out of it, don't say that later will be better, now you're stuck in a moment, and you can't get out of it, and if the night runs over, and if the day won't last, and if our way should falter, along the stony pass and if the night runs over, and if the day won't last, and if your way should falter, along this stony pass, it's just a moment, this time will pass!!

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Inspiring quotes on BRAVE

Be Brave, that's all I ask for.........
~ A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mohandas Gandhi
~ Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute for experience. Paulo Coelho
~ Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so. Thomas Carlyle
~ Let us be bold. Let us be brave. Let us be together. Brad Henry
~ The brave find a home in every land. Ovid
~ We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. Helen Keller
~ Be brave if you lose and meek if you win. Harvey Penick
~ I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death. Leonardo da Vinci
~ Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. Marcus T Cicero 106BC

Good old days

Memorable good old days, when having aims and goals and confidence to chase for dreams.......looking forward to reunion soon.......in singapore, hahaha!

These nights I have been living in memories....inspired by conversations but end up...seems a very painful experience.........

Chocolate Rocks!

March 19, 2008
Chocs of Love
Chocolate Hair Treatment

Ah, chocolate. Your old two-faced friend. Just one foil-wrapped bunny can mean hours at the gym.

If only there were a way to make it work for, rather than against, you.

Thanks to the Brazilian Chocolate Treatment, the fatty acids in chocolate can be used for improvement along with indulgence. The rich concoction smooths and conditions your locks, making your hair, not your hips, more supple.

During the approximately two-hours-long process, stylists wash your hair, then paint on the real chocolate blend, which gives off a nutty aroma not unlike that of Lip Smackers. With the treatment still on, hair is dried and flat-ironed to seal hair cuticles for results that last five to six months.

You’ll leave with more sheen, volume, and bounce to your hair.

With a mane that nice, who needs an Easter bonnet?

Description:

Milk Chocolate Creme Wax is formulated with Cocoa Seed Extract that acts as an anti-inflammatory agent, great for sensitive skin. The luscious chocolate aroma creates an aromatic waxing experience.

Description:

Powerfully restores and deeply conditions dry, damaged and chemically treated hair. Gives massive shine.

Romance? business?

Funny joke:
Ｔｒｏｕｂｌｅｓ　ｗｈｅｎ　ｂｕｓｉｎｅｓｓｍａｎ　ｆｉｎａｌｌｙ　ｆｏｕｎｄ　ｈｉｍｓｅｌｆ　ｆａｌｌ　ｉｎ　ｌｏｖｅ．
Businessman:　Ｒｏｍａｎｃｅ　ｃａｎ　ｂｅ　ａ　ｇｒｅａｔ　ｂｕｓｉｎｅｓｓ，　ｄｏ　ｙｏｕ　ａｇｒｅｅ？
Women: Oh yeah, it's a very profitable fragrance.........

Very Formal and Corporate Love Letter :D

Modern Love Letter

Dearest Girl :

I am very happy to inform you that I have fallen in love with you since Tuesday, the 3rd of April 2001. With reference to the meeting held between us on the 31st of March 2001 at 1500 hours, I would like to present myself as a prospective lover.

Our love affair would be on probation for a period of three months depending on compatibility, would be made permanent. Of course, upon completion of probation, there will be continuous on-the-relationship training & relationship appraisal schemes leading up to promotion from lover to spouse. The expenses incurred for coffee and entertainment would initially be shared equally between us, later, based on your performance, I might take up a larger share of the expenses.

However I am broad-minded enough, to be taken care of, on your expense account. I request you to kindly respond within 30 days of receiving this letter, failing which, this offer would be cancelled without further notice; I shall be considering someone else.

I would be happy, if you could forward this letter to your sister, if you do not wish to take up this offer.

Thanking you in anticipation.

Yours sincerely,

[Boy]

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Modern Reply of Morden Love Letter
Dear Boy :

Please refer to your letter dated today.

I am pleased to inform you that I hope to accept your proposal for romance. However, you should be informed that there are certain conditions of acceptance. Promotional prospects are to my satisfaction. However, please enlighten me as to your retirement benefits. Gratuity should be generous. I also need to be assured that there is sufficient security with regards to this commitment. If there is any chance at all of retrenchment or consequent disinterest on your part, then I should receive monetary compensation according to union standards.

Due to the nature of my position, I am sure you will agree that an expense account should be arranged for my access in light of the 'VIP' shall be entertaining. In addition, housing & transport allowances should be in order & nothing less than a luxury condo & a Jag are in order.

Please also note that there should be no moonlighting restrictions placed on myself.

If you are still interested in the relationship, please reply on an urgent basis as other prospective lovers have sent indications of interest.

Please also note that my sister is happily employed.

Yours perhaps,

[Girl]

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The lesson that cost my lifetime

it's been long....but will you keep your promise?

Wah~~ Honey Drops

Honibe Honey Drops

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Each one is made of 100 percent pure dried honey without any additives or binding agents. You simply drop it in tea or coffee, stir, and enjoy the sweetness. If you like lemon in your libation, opt for the Honey Drop with lemon (of the pure variety, of course). Each one is individually packaged, so you can carry them without risking an explosion of goop in your bag.

Nobody appreciates a bad case of sticky fingers.

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Silly kitchen thoughts :>

Only had you been living in illusions, you know there is reality.
Only had you been kept in reality, you know there are dreams.
Only had you been dreaming, you know they can come true!

The Paradox of Our Age

The Paradox Of Our Age

We have bigger houses but smaller families;
more conveniences, but less time.
We have more degrees but less sense;
more knowledge but less judgment;
more experts, but more problems;
more medicines but less healthiness.
We’ve been all the way to the moon and back,
but have trouble in crossing the street to meet our new neighbour.
We built more computers to hold more copies than ever,
But have less real communication;
We have become long on quantity,
but short on quality.
These are times of fast foods but slow digestion;
Tall mean but short characters;
Steep profits but shallow relationships.
It’s a time when there is much in the window
But nothing in the room.

His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.

http://www.thylacineslair.com/MindsRetreat.htm

The fallen of my american dream fairy

What a symbol! Ida came to visit me this weekend, I am so touched and happy that she came. Initially I didn't know that she probably would be the last one to visit me here. With an unexpected decision to leave USA for good, this trip of her make it perfect to get rid of my stuffs here.
I just moved into my new apartment and not long ago got this storage unit assembled and my cute stuffs displayed, among them, there is this beautiful fairy. I bought it when i first shop the Mall in USA, hoping that she would bless me for my "American dream". i didn't came here with much anticipation and didn't aim much as becoming a big apple, however, just want to enjoy my life and experience the American life completely, luckily, I do believe I achieved that.
To me the luxury life is very similar everywhere in this world, it seems like there's standard things for Rich people to do to symbolize that they are rich. However, average or poor people have their creativity on how to live their life to the fullest, being here, especially this year in Omaha, I am really inspired. It's really a great place to experience the rich and the poor, just like the Egg Benedict that we enjoyed on Sunday in Farmhouse cafe, there is the Rich farmer's and the poor farmer's version right next to each other!
Accidentally, the storage unit was fallen apart when I tried to unplug Ida's charger and replug my lights and my American dream fairy was broken into pieces, right in the time that I meant to leave America. Perhaps she know her duty is fulfilled or she actually don't wanna go elsewhere anymore with me :> and helped me save the shipping..........and got the refund for the storage unit, hahaha!
What an American life experience that I have been through, i'm really blessed, thank you fairy, and I am really sorry for your or mine being fallen apart.............
Any suggestions how I should bury her?!

不是我一个

生命過客 - 童安格

＊在擁擠的街頭　你在忙碌的追求什麼
在孤寂的角落　你知道失去的越多
在擁有的角落　你是否曾經好好珍惜
在失去的時候　是否依然那麼在意

＃一生要失敗幾回　才知道成功的意義
一生要愛過幾回　才了解愛的真諦

走在風雨中我不曾回頭
只想讓自己習慣寂寞

Life for rent -Dido

Just came across this song from my friend's website, www.post2share.com, really like the lyrics, esp. the first 2 sentences, it's just what my feelings now! "i haven't ever really found a place that i call home i never stick around quite long enough to make it"More Videos
i haven't ever really found a place that i call home
i never stick around quite long enough to make it
i apologise that once again i'm not in love
but it's not as if i mind that your heart aint exactly breaking
it's just a thought, only a thought
and if my life is for rent and i don't learn to buy
well i deserve nothing more than i get
cos nothing i have is truly mine
i've always thought that i would love to live by the sea
to travel the world alone and live more simply
i have no idea what's happened to that dream
cos there's really nothing left here to stop me
it's just a thought, only a thought
and if my life is for rent and i don't learn to buy
well i deserve nothing more than i get
cos nothing i have is truly mine
while my heart is a shield and i won't let it down
while i am so afraid to fail so i won't even try
well how can i say i'm alive
if my life is for rent

Love at first sight, you believe it?

hahaha, just read this news on abc good morning america. Worth checking out!
It's about a guy seeing a girl in the NY subway, and immediately fell in love and he posted this drawing on the web to hopefully get hold of her and the story came true.
After coming to the states, there are really few chances to squeeze in the subway. But I still remember the days when I am in Hong Kong and esp when I was a student taking the MTR to go to school everyday.
I think a lot of us do experienced love of this sort, since it's a scheduled time you go to school, you would meet someone regularly, or you would try to meet him/her by changing the time you go to school, hahaha.
Public transport is really good, saving energy and promoting personal interaction, which I really treasured and enjoyed.

Relationship......business

The biggest global market to earn money after petroleum, weapons, drugs, diamond and stones could be the dating business, hahaha. yeah, sadly it could be a tool for trades and making money........
I think the critical part of this business is how to make people break the ice, one could add so many spices on top of the ice and this encounterance, which suppose and ought to be ....Free! Free: free of money issue, and free of mind....what's wrong with human communication?
With the Valentine's day coming up in a few months, I guess more people would "benefit" from this......great business idea, huh?

Human Tetris

hahaha, it's so funny!

10 ways to better research

Ten Simple Rules for Doing Your Best Research, According to Hamming
Thomas C. Erren*, Paul Cullen, Michael Erren, Philip E. Bourne
Published: October 26, 2007
Hamming's 1986 talk was remarkable. In “You and Your Research,” he addressed the question: How can scientists do great research, i.e., Nobel-Prize-type work? His insights were based on more than forty years of research as a pioneer of computer science and telecommunications who had the privilege of interacting with such luminaries as the physicists Richard Feynman, Enrico Fermi, Edward Teller, Robert Oppenheimer, Hans Bethe, and Walter Brattain, with Claude Shannon, “the father of information theory,” and with the statistician John Tukey. Hamming “became very interested in the difference between those who do and those who might have done,” and he offered a number of answers to the question “why . . . so few scientists make significant contributions and so many are forgotten in the long run?” We have condensed Hamming's talk into the ten rules listed below:
Rule 1: Drop Modesty
To quote Hamming: “Say to yourself: ‘Yes, I would like to do first-class work.' Our society frowns on people who set out to do really good work. But you should say to yourself: ‘Yes, I would like to do something significant.'”
Rule 2: Prepare Your Mind
Many think that great science is the result of good luck, but luck is nothing but the marriage of opportunity and preparation. Hamming cites Pasteur's adage that “luck favours the prepared mind.”
Rule 3: Age Is Important
Einstein did things very early, and all the “quantum mechanic fellows,” as well as most mathematicians and astrophysicists, were, as Hamming notes, “disgustingly young” when they did their best work. On the other hand, in the fields of music, politics, and literature, the protagonists often produce what we consider their best work late in life.
Rule 4: Brains Are Not Enough, You Also Need Courage
Great scientists have more than just brainpower. To again cite Hamming: “Once you get your courage up and believe that you can do important things, then you can. If you think you can't, almost surely you are not going to. Great scientists will go forward under incredible circumstances; they think and continue to think.”
Rule 5: Make the Best of Your Working Conditions
To paraphrase Hamming, what most people think are the best working conditions clearly are not, because people are often most productive when working conditions are bad. One of the better times of the Cambridge Physical Laboratories was when they worked practically in shacks—they did some of the best physics ever. By turning the problem around a bit, great scientists often transform an apparent defect into an asset. “It is a poor workman who blames his tools—the good man gets on with the job, given what he's got, and gets the best answer he can.”
Rule 6: Work Hard and Effectively
Most great scientists have tremendous drive, and most of us would be surprised how much we would know if we worked as hard as some great scientists did for many years. As Hamming says: “Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime.” But, Hamming notes, hard work alone is not enough—it must be applied sensibly.
Rule 7: Believe and Doubt Your Hypothesis at the Same Time
Great scientists tolerate ambiguity. They believe the theory enough to go ahead; they doubt it enough to notice the errors and faults so they can step forward and create the new replacement theory. As Hamming says: “When you find apparent flaws, you've got to be sensitive and keep track of those things, and keep an eye out for how they can be explained or how the theory can be changed to fit them. Those are often the great scientific contributions.”
Rule 8: Work on the Important Problems in Your Field
It is surprising but true that the average scientist spends almost all his time working on problems that he believes not to be important and not to be likely to lead to important results. By contrast, those seeking to do great work must ask: “What are the important problems of my field? What important problems am I working on?” Hamming again: “It's that simple. If you want to do great work, you clearly must work on important problems. . . . I finally adopted what I called ‘Great Thoughts Time.' When I went to lunch Friday noon, I would only discuss great thoughts after that. By great thoughts I mean ones like: ‘What will be the impact of computers on science and how can I change it?'”
Rule 9: Be Committed to Your Problem
Scientists who are not fully committed to their problem seldom produce first-class work. To a large extent, creativity comes out of the subconscious. If you are deeply immersed in and committed to a topic, day after day, your subconscious has nothing to do but work on your problem. Hamming says it best: “So the way to manage yourself is that when you have a real important problem you don't let anything else get the center of your attention—you keep your thoughts on the problem. Keep your subconscious starved so it has to work on your problem, so you can sleep peacefully and get the answer in the morning, free.”
Rule 10: Leave Your Door Open
Keeping the door to your office closed makes you more productive in the short term. But ten years later, somehow you may not quite know what problems are worth working on, and all the hard work you do will be “sort of tangential” in importance. He (or she) who leaves the door open gets all kinds of interruptions, but he (or she) also occasionally gets clues as to what the world is and what might be important. Again, Hamming deserves to be quoted verbatim: “There is a pretty good correlation between those who work with the doors open and those who ultimately do important things, although people who work with doors closed often work harder. Somehow they seem to work on slightly the wrong thing—not much, but enough that they miss fame.”
In our view, Rule 10 may be the key to getting the best research done because it will help you to obey Rules 1–9, and, most importantly, it will foster group creativity [9]. A discussion over lunch with your colleagues is often worth much more than a trip to the library. However, when choosing your lunchmates (and, by implication, your institution), be on your toes. As Hamming says: “When you talk to other people, you want to get rid of those sound absorbers who are nice people but merely say ‘Oh yes,' and to find those who will stimulate you right back.”
Copyright: © 2007 Erren et al.

Happy Halloween!

This Halloween, so I can post something really scary! hahaha.
Came across this new pet concept (genpets), although I am working in the biological research field and am myself working on stem cells, I also find it very odd and disgusting.
Could we play God? or should we bother to do it? Especailly for commercial product like this. I admit that if it's a bit more cute maybe I would have a second thought :p but still....that's a bit too much. What do you think?

Everything I think of there are people before me 2

Arrrrrr headache, how come people are so fast?! Starting to worry if it is my problem :>
They are doing what I was planning to do, pack your own fine chocolate box set and includes some my favourite brands :<, but I'm glad I can order through them to cheer up myself and dont need to eat so much by ordering boxes from different brands :>
Alright another great gift idea for the season, huh?

A great relief to be because my favourites are not carried by them...yet..., so maybe I could still start my own store with my choices, heeeeeee :)

Great gift idea for the gifts season

It's the gift giving season again......your purse's ready for the slim up? Mine is complaining about me feeding it with too many junk food (recipts) yet working out too much and drying it up :p, so I decided to join the Dove's campaign for real beauty hahaha.
So, highly recommend this rather low cost but very special present idea :>
Sorry I know I put two unrelated things together :p

Custom love song

Not intended to help them market their site. But with so many friend's wedding coming up, maybe you would like to have your very own song to play during the banquet?
Guys, it's a really romantic idea for your Girlfriends :>
Takes around a month for them to deliver the song, so get prepared!!
"TailoredMusic.com is a group of professional musicians dedicated to helping you to create the ultimate romantic gift—the gift of custom-tailored music. Have you ever wished that you could write your own love song for that special someone in your life? TailoredMusic.com enables anyone to create their own personalized love song with the confidence and finesse of an experienced songwriter."
Do wish someone would send this romantic gift to me, hahaha! :o

Getting inspiration from talks by smart people

Just discovered this site www.ted.com from www.lifehacker.com.
TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design. It started out (in 1984) as a conference bringing together people from those three worlds. Since then its scope has become ever broader.The annual conference now brings together the world's most fascinating thinkers and doers, who are challenged to give the talk of their lives (in 18 minutes).
Here's one example, Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution, outlined here through a series of revealing personal stories, is "patient capital": support for "bottom of the pyramid" businesses which the commercial market alone couldn't provide. The result: sustainable jobs, goods, services -- and dignity -- for the world's poorest.

Play this educative game to test yourself and help against proverty

Click here to play:
http://www.freerice.com/index.php
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FreeRice has two goals:
Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
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Whether you are CEO of a large corporation or a street child in a poor country, improving your vocabulary can improve your life. It is a great investment in yourself.
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