Trip to 韶关(in China)

i travelled to 韶关 during this Easter Holidays.... 韶关 is at most northern part of GuangDong province and it took 5 hours speedy-bus from Shenzhen(top up a 2 hours travelling from HK to Shenzhen = a total of 7 hours to me.....u_u).

韶关 is not a big city and is not too special to visit; the 南华寺 and 丹霞山 are the only place worth to see. Although 丹霞山 basically is mini-size of 张家界, the landscape there is still very beautiful....there is a penis-like's rock there and local people believe that they can get baby-boy if pray for this rock. Hahaha, i also pray for it, let see if i will get a baby-boy~~~

a Christian Church found in the centre of the city and it is so interesting that there is a rolling-gate of the Church....

i didn't buy many things, only 2 kg of dried fish....my mom love it very much~~~ ^_^

Shek O -- BBQ

i went to Shek O last Sunday(March 16) to have a BBQ with my friends. The weather was so so sunny that i wanted to have sun-bathing rather than BBQ.

A bit surprise that Shek O didn't have much change, it still have the "looks poor's village"(but they are rich actually) with lot of small local shops there...

I remembered that when i was the first time to Shek O (probably when i was 10+ years old), i remembered that i had a mind at that time that i want to have a house here one day. So, this time when i went there, i tried to find if any property agency there, but there wasn't any~~~

Love Economics / 爱情经济学

I read a book recently, called 爱情经济学(Love Economics: Talk Love with Keynes).

This book is quite interesting, it said that the theory of economic can apply to different sectors & fields, including "love", even though most of the people may think that love can not be quantified or measured.

Some of the chapters such as:
爱情的需求 (the rules of demand)
爱情的需求弹性 (the rules of elastisity)
爱情的供给 (the rules of supply)
爱情需求与供给的均衡 (the equilibrium of demand and supply)
效用的概念 (the concept of utility)
激情函数 (the function of passion)
激情指数 (the index of passion)
成本 (cost)
收益 (return)

The writer used a lot of graphs, curves & formulas to make the presentation in a more economics aspect.

Although i don't think it has any sound scientific analysis behind the concepts, still, it is a funny & interesting book to read.

Medication of Chinese Calligraphy

This is another old msn blog that want to share it out again.

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August 19, 2007

Medication of Chinese Calligraphy

Things are always happened incidentally...When i returned some books to library today, i read a little book on why & how to cure your stress for city people. And it has an article on "How Chinese Calligraphy cure stress"

It said some testing has been made to "normal people" Vs "Schizoid disorder people", it said the heart-rate and blood-pressure of Schizoid people has been improved after writing awhile of Chinese calligraphy.

The reasons are:
1) The function of people's right-brain is responsible for "pre-attentive processing" while left-brain is responsible for "analaysis"
(that's why left-hand people usually more creative while right-hand people are more analytical)
2) Disorder people usually have damage on their right-brain while overload the functionability of their left-brain
3) So, when writing Chinese calligraphy, it can stimulate the use of their right-brain while lessen the use of their left-brain
4) Subsequently, it shown improvement on disorder people

You may then ask a next question, why only happen on Chinese calligraphy? but not English calligraphy?

Good question, it said English calligraphy also has an effect on "relaxation" but the effect is not as obvious as Chinese calligraphy. It is because:
--> Chinese characters are more complicated, so, when people write chinese calligraphy, they normally take longer time to complete a word. During your writing, it is scientifically proved that the activity of your brain has been slower down; while during your rest, the activity of your brain has been speed-up. So, that's why Chinese calligraphy has obvious result than English calligraphy

Well, such made me has an comment: City people normally not write (they type), so, their brain-activity always keep at high level without rest; that's maybe one of the reason that more and more city people has mental-disorder problem

this topic also remind me one thing. i remember that some hosiptals in Spain use "Chinese calligraphy" as a medication to the patients....hahhaha, should I take more "Spanish calligraphy" to lessen my stress~~~

Espanol Caligrafía~~~ Espanol Caligrafía~~~Espanol Caligrafía~~~

为什么做好事却没有好报?

This posting is not new, this was the one wrote in my msn Space, but i think it is good to share this again...


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November 11, 2007

为什么做好事却没有好报?

Sometimes when we read newspaper and see that some very good or nice people have bad return, you may criticize whether is the God blind OR is the world without justices?

A lot of people (including me) may ask: why good people may not have a good live/life/return (为什么做好事却没有好报?) According to another book written by 星云大师 (the famous buddist), he has the following explanation that i may like to share it out:

为什么做好事却没有好报? 因为他的身、口、意的缺口太多，福报功德自然也会漏了。
布施行善，若是心不甘、情不愿，让受者的尊严受到伤害，如此纵有善行，布施的功德也会漏了。
帮忙别人做了不少好事，若你一直抬高自己，自我膨胀，这就是你的功德有漏了。
平日说好话、做好事、存好心，积聚不少功德福报。但突遇挫折，就大发牢騷，口不择言、怨天尤人，原本的义行福报，就会漏了。

一面賺钱， 一面浪费； 一面种植，一面踐踏，这就是有漏的世问，有漏的众生。

去咗禮賓府賞花

Spring is a good season to watch flowers, i went to the HK Government House last Sunday (March 9) to watch the 杜鵑花... But there were not many 杜鵑花 due to the cold weather earlier in Feb... but, there are still a lot of different flowers such as tulips, water-lily, etc....And one of the flowers has a very funny name, called "海島十大功勞", haha, i really don't figure out how this name comes from....



see the pictures...

Cured-meat by killing his own-feed pig~~

This is the homemade cured-meat given by my colleagues as a gift~~~ Thanks sooooo much!!! He told me that his family feed this pig for almost a year and kill it to make as cured-meat & cured-sausage for the celebration of Chinese New Year!!! wow~~~~

If one day i retire while rich enough to rent a farm, i probably would love to rent a farm to feed some cows, pigs, ducks, goose & tortoise~~~

Dream reading -- 从解梦了解自己

I watched a video presentation today about dream reading. This talk is conducted by a HK Psychologist. The content of this talk is very interesting and useful, for example some classic dreams:

1) 甩牙梦 has the behind meaning of ethnical judgement. Maybe you had quite a lot of lies at that moment, that's why your ego(潜意识) has a message through the dream.
2) 考试梦 has the behind meaning of career development. It may say that your preparation to a certain tasks is not enough to deal with the career development.
3) 梦见蛇 has the behind meaning relating to love-affair.

It also said that dream actually will bring some certain & useful message out, if you try to take attention to your dreams, you may understand yourself better.

Watch it if you have interest.

http://www.ouhk.edu.hk/WCM/?FUELAP_TEMPLATENAME=tcSubWeb&lid=SUBWEBLIST_54442629&cid=7&lang=chi&mid=0
(click the video "从解梦了解自己")

Contents of her talk:

從解夢了解自己
每個人都會發夢嗎
睡眠時的腦電波
為何夢會那麼難記呢
讓你簡易記夢的方法
寫夢的日記有甚麼好處
解夢 (表面與隱藏的意義)
夢與自己有甚麼關係
潛意識的功用
東方與西方的解夢法有何分別
為何要解夢
解夢可用在那範疇
我們常常見到的夢
夢見蛇的話
最簡單的解夢法
成為解夢師需要甚麼條件