China-Tibet Crisis

Now that the Olympics are over, China is slipping into another stage of marketing themselves as a bad quality controller of milk but yet with scientific advances (going into space again).

I have been thinking all this while about this crisis actually. Since young we have all been fans of Jing Yong's (the famous author) novels; these includes famous titles like "the flying fox of snowy mountain", "the Condor Heroes", "heaven sword and dragon saber." However, if you look closely at the culture of these shows, there isn't any show that have a Lama (Lamas are monks from Tibet)and is a good guy. The ultimate evil guy in "the Condor Heroes", "Jing Lun Fa Wang" is also a Tibetan monk. Lamas (from what I seen) is perhaps the most distinctive difference you can see between a Mainland Chinese and a Tibetan.

As a matter of fact, none of the shows I have watched in my entire life shows a kind and heroic Lama. So, it is actually quite evident that the social gap between mainland Chinese and Tibetans are quite huge since some time ago.

Even shows about the revolution near the end of the Qing Dynasty like "Huang Fei Hong" etc shows nothing good about these monks.

While generating these thoughts, I was lead into thinking of another possibility of the future. I think that in the future, globalisation will be so complicated that there would probably be lesser and lesser pure blood; which probably means that my great-grandson would probably be a Chinese, Malay, Japanese and Indian mix blood. Of course, there would still be a very small percentage of pure bloods living in their own herd; but they would probably make just a small percentage of the the human kind.

Look at the Olympics, even players of European countries, not to mention Singapore consist of players not just who are the children of their soil but also Chinese who were originally China. Soon, our world would probably be a huge plate of rojak with a lot of "you tiao" but little sauce.

Are dogs really men's best friends?

I was just staring blankly into space when I started to create some thoughts on the things around me.

I started thinking, even in western context (perhaps due to my poor English standards) I really couldn't find a phrase about dogs that can be used positively. For example, "raining cats and dogs" isn't really a positive way to describe the weather. And even as we claim them to be our best friends, we wouldn't even use "as loyal as a dog" or some phrase along that line. We even call some people "bitch" , or use phrases like "stop bitching about her"; and even calling the girl that we hate a "bitch."

Chinese are actually worse off in this area. Take Chinese for example:

狗嘴吐不出象牙
a dog can never produce an elephant's tusk out of its mouth. (When used on a person) It would mean the person can never produce some thing good out from his mouth.

狗眼看人底
This means a dog looking down on humans; when the irony is that dogs are shorter than humans. In other words, a dumb person is saying that he is smarter that some one else.

狼心狗肺
Heart of a wolf and lungs of a dog. This phrase is self-explainable.

好狗不挡路
"A good dog never blocks the road" If using towards a person, it would mean asking the person to get out of your way.

The Chinese even call dog's meat "香肉" which means fragrant meat. So, the Chinese REALLY like them, just not as best friends but perhaps as a delicacy on the dining table. Yucks.

During world war 2, Germans were really creative in training our best friends as self-seeking bombs for the enemy tanks but only to realize that the dogs went for their tanks instead of the enemies. Thus, making them, our best friends, the worse weapon of the century.

In Singapore, Malays who are Muslims and are owning dogs as pets are a rare sight itself too. I don't really know why, but I assume it could be due to their culture or religion that dogs aren't really welcome as pets in their household.

From these thoughts, I am really starting to believe that we humans aren't really true to our words. It is such irony and contradictions that we have been creating that makes us ridiculous.

Moral of the story: So the next time your best friend questions asked if this is the way to treat your best friends; tell her/him ,"trust me, you don't really want to know how I treat my best friends."

learning something

One thing I learn about speaking to superiors would be a quote I taken from the book ,"The 48 laws of power."

It says ," Never be too straightforward. Go to the forest, the straight ones are being chop down, the crooked ones are still standing." You can never tell your superior ,"Sir, I think you are wrong." But you can always say ,"marvelous solution, sir, but I think this method is slightly better...."

At first glimpse, some one might like your frankness as it might be refreshing to them; perhaps no one has ever talk to them in straight forwardness. After they start to stick to you, they might find your frankness quite insulting to their intelligence. That is when they would start to abandon you or leave you.

Thus, lesson learn is speak English with the Englishmen, Chinese with the Chinese and Malay to the Malays. Not every one can take a direct shot.

My day in S**TI MI

Today there is this "commandant's water challenge" over at my camp. It was kinda fun looking at all the commanders playing water polo accompanied by songs that came from the 70s.

something cool to take note is that there was this general who was in one of the teams. Having a star on his shoulders (his rank amulet), he was literally our "star" player. He was quite good though.

Lets say your sergeant major has been adding extras for you recently; this might be a good chance to get "something" back at him. :P It turns out that all of these men are hungry for victory and have a very strong "cannot lose" attitude stuck in their head to some extent whereby integrity was some times no longer an issue.

Its true that these events are organize to create bondings and allowing the commanders and staff to relax once in a while. Being spontaneous, sporty and sociable is part of the job. However, please mind your image in front of others. LOL.

My officer was thinking ,"you mean if there's a war, we go to war under THESE PEOPLE?!?!?!" I was thinking, "yups, good luck."

All in a day's work.

自恋

Please view in IE if you guys can't read this.

今天我发了一个简讯给一位过生日的朋友:

"幸福"是猫吃鱼，狗吃肉,噢特曼打小妖怪。

"代沟"就是我问老爸觉得"菊花台"怎么样，老爸回答说没喝过。

"绝望"就是中午走食堂，点了两道菜；吃了第一个我震撼了；"世界上还有比这更难吃的?"吃了第二个，我哭了:"天啊，还真有啊!"

"自恋"是下半辈子我要投胎做女人然后爱上我这样的男人。

"无语"就是法官:你为什么印假钞?

罪犯无辜的说:因为我不会印真钞~

"诚意"是像我这样提前祝您HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!


在下对"自恋"所了解的意思是对自己的爱意以及对自己的照顾。它跟自私只在于一线之差。

在下觉得在漫长的人生中，若没那么一点自恋或自爱的话，而凡事都为别人着想，此人必定少活三十寿年。不过，若是处处都为自己争夺利益，那就是自私而非自爱。

人与财

这位是在下的表哥，William的儿子,Oscar.

古人日:"马行无力皆因瘦，人不风流只因贫。"

这是在下最近所领悟的道理。

在下虽然朋友不多，认识的人也少，不过身旁的几位大哥们都是蛮风流的。这几位大哥平时为人不错，对人不薄，偶尔也会举行"武林大会"来款待朋友;其他人格方面也不错。但好的不坏偏偏就是坏在一个"情"字。虽然说:"英雄随所见略同"，但还是"难逃美人关"。

张某认为这并没有什么不好，只是想对这几位江湖兄弟说:"别玩过头。"

希望在下的一番好意能让几位大哥稍微"收手。"

My time: end of a tunnel?

This is a picture of my cousin's (William) son, Yong Jie aka Oscar!!!!

Finally my MC is coming to an end. It will be ending this Friday, 12th September 2008. I sincerely hope that my body will recover to what it was a year ago. I realize that I have wasted 11 months of my time recovering from this rubbish illness. I ain't fully recovered yet as I am still on drugs and my body still trembles a lot.

Life have been lonely thus far, but I have been reading this book ,"the 48 laws of power." In general, this book corrupts one's mind to the extreme, leaving no space for purity or innocence. So you can probably imagine me squatting in a corner of my room coming up with ideas to manipulate humans or dominating the world.

The aftermath of reading this book is that I realized that I don't really need friends for friendship as I slowly find no use of them other then going for movies together. I feel more independent, empowered and perhaps a bit more confident to handle stuff on my own. The trade off for power and authority ultimately is still emotions. Emotions are not just a liability but also an irrational burden. 

 something less serious is that I have passed my final theory today. It makes no sense that I took 3 tries for basic theory and only once for advance theory. But then again, common sense or logic cannot be used to forecast my results. :p

I read about 2 differences between humans and animals that embeds in my mind permanently. Hunters are able to hunt and kill animals as they studied their behavior, their habits, their diet and their movements, in general, their patterns. That's what ease the hunter's job, the knowledge of the animal's patterns. Humans are the only animals that are able to shape shift their patterns. Yet many of us chose to live in the comfort of routines and standard patterns, which slowly makes this people the prey.
Humans are illogical, emotional and irrational. No one on earth is probably able to live without these traits. However, these are what makes us humans. No human being is completely rational as everyone will make human errors once in a while.