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Welcome to my virtual home. This is a little private space for me to put my thoughts and share my feelings since 2005. Due to my wide range of interests, there are perhaps too many tags. I would explain some of the less obvious tags:
"About Life" is really about how I have been pondering about life and what enlightenments and paradigm shifts I had experienced.
"About Psi" contains most topics about happiness, optimism vs pessimism,
confidence, comparison, pride and prejudice and other psychological aspects.
"About Logical Thinking" is about my own way of interpretating and explaining
certain issues, aiming to debunk (or create?) superficialness of them.
"About Ideology" is about my thoughts on big concepts like freedom, justice,
fairness in society and religion.
"About Society" is more about my observations about the society, often through interactions with different peoples.
"My Country" reveals my frustration, critics and hope
on my homeland - Malaysia.
"My Little Pieces" has more short posts though mostly are written in Mandarin.
While I do have some posts on book reviews and business, I am planning to
separate them into author-specific and content-specific blogs. Stay tuned.
Enjoy your reading!
Friday, February 5, 2010
No one can teach me who I am
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Saturday, January 23, 2010
How true can you be?
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Friday, January 8, 2010
Read and Learn
but if you only read what you want to see,
you are still what you are,
regardless of how much do you read,
because you read but do not learn,
just like you hear but do not listen.
- Thoughts after reading so-called book reviews.
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Saturday, January 2, 2010
Collection of past Facebook status updates
I think since having i-phone that can access internet 24-7, I had posted quite a lot of my thinking on Facebook. These flashes of thoughts are not long enough to become blog articles, but yet are important for me at the time of expressing them out. Hence I have decided to compile them here for future reference, with additional notes. 2010-01-02: I wonder how people construct logic to rationalize things without first checking for missing links. When even science is based on hypothesis, it seems inexplicable to see why people sometime are so adamant with their superficial logics. Affection with their creation, perhaps. [Thought developed from opinions from some football fans, suggesting tones of 'logical' answers regarding the situation, of which actually contradicts with the true answer: the missing information. However, this phenomenon can be observed everywhere. How often do we quickly believe something just because they sound logical and outline a simple causal relationship where in reality events have more than one cause? One of the most vivid examples that I could link from my past readings is this: Since now everyone use cell phone and it has becomes a necessity, it's good to buy stocks of cell-phone companies like Nokia. Sure earnings. It sounds logical, isn't it? This opinion overlooks many major issues, for example the effect of supply and demand. Even demand is always there, if the market is oversupply due to stiff competitions, do you think most of the companies still grow and earn? In fact, a lot of mature industries have entered the market of oversupply.] 2009-11-29: 2009-11-28: [Economics build on the theory of scarcity and one example used is the scarcity of time. Though this is easily understood but how many do actually realize the importance of it?] 2009-11-28: [I wonder why Malaysia's education doesn't teach economics. It is such an interesting topic that involves everybody's life especially in the era of globalization and highly sophisticated market. The first encounter was in university's first year and I scored an A for that economics 101. But I never discover that I have a deep interest in this field until I have come out to work, start having some doubts on how the society is revolving and found clarifications in books of economics. I think now I have a better understanding of this sentence: "The economic base of production determines the superstructure of a society".] 2009-11-23: [现实和理想,永恒的挣扎。] 2009-11-23: Partial truth is not truth. Correlation based on linking of partial truths is mere coincidence or sophisticate manipulation. 2009-11-18: [I have never stopped wondering what sources of happiness are, and I did conclude few factors in two separate articles written during university time. But at present stage, I am more inclined to think that the three factors mentioned are the most important.] 2009-11-18: [All the while I know what a cooking book is but I have never heard of book cooking (or cook the books). It just forms such a big contrast between the conscience of ordinary people and the integrity of big fishes.] 2009-11-15: [Calmness is needed to convert emotions into energies properly. Only through that can emotional roller coasters be avoided and continuity of efforts be assured.] 2009-11-13: [I was following my manager to see how he brought buyer to see house. After the whole process, the seller's side agent gave me a little tap on my shoulder and said this to me. As usual, there are millions types of people around the people. Good people are not divided by field or industry, not identifiable by looks, but scattered around and sparks a resonance when they meet. ] 2009-11-13: [Discipline needs direction too.] 2009-11-13: [It's a quote by Vince Lombardi. I think this is especially true. Whether you have found your direction or not, you need to have the hunger for excellence. With that, even without a direction, some people may eventually still achieve success if luck favors them.] 2009-11-13: [Leaning something new is always slow because of the need to build a solid foundation. Perhaps exponential growth is only possible with a long period of slow but thorough and accurate learning. Genius, of course, is an obvious exception.] 2009-11-13: [Influential ads have directly or indirectly defined what happiness is by defining what level of quality products you need to consume. Though you did get happiness by doing so, it doesn't mean that this is the only way. Luxurious lifestyle is just one possible way of quality time.] 2009-11-13: [有时候虚伪是必要的,但无论作出什么虚伪都会有代价。不必要的虚伪,就注定了长远利益的双输。] 2009-11-05: [I learnt this word meticulousness from my colleague, and when I went back home to check its meaning, I have found a word that best describes one of my strength when I do things that I want to do. This doesn't come without cost of slight procrastination, though the link is not necessary at all. This bad habit needs to be killed.] 2009-11-04: [Imagination and sheer curiosity could link puzzles that are scattered and form a bigger picture.] 2009-11-03: [About question of life, I think everyone had asked or will ask. We may never get a simple answer, but is getting a simple answer really the answer? Isn't life borne out of diversity and complexity? We may never get a simple answer, but if we fed up and stop asking questions, are we still passenger inside or passerby outside of our life train?] 2009-11-01: [There is an old saying of Chinese idiom: "Comparing against better ones and thus we are inferior; comparing against worse ones and thus we are superior" that conveys the importance of passive contentment. But somehow I think there is a greater meaning for using different targets for comparison: to strike a balance between pride and complacency. By comparing ourselves against the better ones, we develop fear and are stimulated to improve ourselves; by comparing ourselves against the worse ones, we shield ourselves from being overrun by fear and build up self confidence. The same mentality can be applied to comparing different scenarios to strike a balance between overly optimistic and overly pessimistic.] 2009-10-31: 2009-10-31: [世有伯乐,然后有千里马。千里马常有,而伯乐不常有。] 2009-10-29: [所有的味道,都是由时间酝酿出来的。] 2009-10-23: [Being totally conformed is being totally deformed. Perhaps we all keep a certain degree of disobedience and madness under mask and let it revealed only when the time is right.] 2009-10-22: 2009-10-21: [That just illustrates how tough it is when time is running out and how ineffective are we when time is abundant.] 2009-10-18: [I think I am going towards the direction of decentralization and becoming generalist.] 2009-10-16: [It is sad. But perhaps it is unrealistic for people in majority group to step out of their comfort zone and be less ignorant. If you don't help yourself, no one else can help you.] 2009-10-11: 2009-10-08: 2009-10-07: [Road diverges, time doesn't.] 2009-10-04: [Only if fantasies are free lunches.] 2009-10-02: 2009-10-01: [Vision is the front windshield, caution is the rearview mirror.] 2009-10-01: [知足不是一种平衡,适时的知足和不知足才是平衡。] 2009-09-30: [回酬和风险。] 2009-09-29: [We anticipate whatever we can to reduce risk, whatever we can't, we have to rely on flexibility.] 2009-09-28: 2009-09-25: 2009-09-22: 2009-09-18: [Even abstract arts comes from reality, it's just different transformation, interpretation or representation.] 2009-09-17: 2009-09-14: [Noise making is a necessary survival skill for someone without authentic skills to impress.] 2009-09-10: [人的世界最复杂。] 2009-09-08: [这不是办公室政治,这是办公室武术。] 2009-09-06: [跑慈善短跑过后对生活的联想。] 2009-09-04: [Life is not about others, but yourself; life is not about journeys, but discoveries.] 2009-08-10: [Skills can be valued, enlightenment is priceless.]I will disrupt my healthy lifestyle for the final few days of 2009 for deep reflections in quiet midnight.
I believe that before you talk about theory of scarcity you have to realize the scarcity of time first.
I wonder why I encounter economics so late...
牵动着每个人的,始终是梦想与现实的差距。逃避、反抗、忍受、创造、妥协、擦边、背叛、醒悟。。。有多少情绪随着时间发酵,又有多少抉择能耐岁月风化。
[The more I read, the more I know. And the more I know, the more different angle I could see regarding a correlation analyzed by others. When you need to sell to mass, your idea needs to be simple and powerful. However, this doesn't guarantee the truth of the correlation. Yes, what make up the correlation are facts, but by purposely neglecting the black swans, the so-called correlation is nothing more than a sophisticate manipulation. This is especially true for complex topics. Only the coverage of alternative view will complete the whole picture of arguments. ]
Three ways to get happiness: help a person, solve a problem, or make a thing happens. It is threefold if all is done in one act.
Cooking book vs book cooking: ordinary people vs extraordinary scam
Sometimes support brings motivation; sometimes expectation exerts pressure; only calmness can bind the forces together and yields great results. Time and again, I have been reminded that:"Life is a marathon, not a sprint." The moral behind the story of the race of the rabbit and the tortoise becomes so impelling now. Only continuity matters.
The time will come.
When disciple of discipline meet wizard of wisdom…
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.
Where decision matters in split second is where learning is hard and slow.
Don't let others control destiny and define luxury. Happiness can be very simple.
祸兮福之所倚,福兮祸之所伏,生活中有太多的晴天霹雳,需要坦荡荡的心灵去面对。多一份不必要的虚伪,等于多埋一个待引爆的炸弹。
Final day before the final adventure, nothing will be certain but what I could rely on are my discipline and meticulousness.
If I can see and link, life is just as real as any movie, drama, soap, circus, arena, novel, story, history, saying, fable, games, comics and so on - as all of them roots from reality. They are just as real.
Life is a mystery. When you start asking questions, you get different answers; when you stop asking questions, you get no answer. Either way, there is no one simple answer. Is it a merry-go-round?
We compare ourselves against both lesser and greater so that we feel proud but yet not complacent.
The one that has no fear to rise to the occasion can do much better given a chance to "create" occasion.
知音易尋,淡志難明,花開花凋落,無人賞。
剑散刀乱,意逝琴挥,弹笑千里间,各奔往。
Disobedience is what keeps my fire; madness is what makes me normal.
风暴将息,坠翔的日子开始倒数,但等待着的,却是更变幻莫测的风向。克服对无定的恐惧,不过是第一关;而最终迎来的,也未必是阳光……但,这就是抉择。
Swinging between struggling and rotting, so rarely are we in perfect balance.
And hence one road diverges into two, and perhaps more...in the journey of decentralization.
Is it a norm that minority group has always been marginalised? The majority may not be tyrannical, but being negligent is enough to form this norm.
Tough call made. Tough sail ahead. Tough game everywhere.
决定追寻更广阔的天空,飞翔坠空够惊险,此去无路我来开。今曰事今曰完,明日事谁人知?
You can have the best of each path but you could only choose one to walk.
If life is only worth few fantasies, why are we creating so much trouble for ourselves...
In the end, some fakers have noblest souls as they need different masks to deal with dynamic difficulties; while some moralists have excellence exteriors as they can't contradicts themselves with complicated realities. No one can really tell and perhaps that's why life is so fun. It's gaming world.
[World of masks.]If intelligence, like coin, have two sides...then one side is vision, another side is caution.
与时间比赛奔跑时,想要喘气,和时间一同滞留时,渴望飞翔。。。我们总是倾向于不知足,但这样的不知足,是那么地自然,也并非什么错,而是对生活平衡的憧憬。能化一切于安宁,是莫大的幸福。
总是在冒险的荒野才会发现意外的彩虹。。。
There isn't a need to plan if there will not be execution. Planning is meant to make things happen accordingly and smoothly. Unless we are able to act reflexively and yet correctly upon sudden turn of events, if not we need to plan. Anticipation and flexibility work best in pair...perhaps.
The road ahead would be the roughest and toughest but I shall not regret. Life is no turning back once a decision has been made. Even the worst anticipated outcome would be a blessing in disguise. It's either being courageous or coward...for life is also like investment, risks and returns are often correlated.
Life stage is quantized...need concentration and concentrated efforts to break through higher state, or else would always fall back to the same old state, regardless of endurance period spent.
Melody of the September: Change is good. What you expect to be difficult has always been magnified by inertia and fear while the experience and excitement are the real flowers that blossom.
Good intuition comes from astute observations, poor intuition comes from pure imaginations
即使是现实的生活,也是介于半梦半醒之间.
Sometimes filtering noise for few minutes requires much more energy than working for long hours. And guess who make those noises? Those who talk the walk.
这世界就是这样,有些人什么都不管,做东西乱乱来,反而落得"两袖清风":无事干;有些人想认真做点东西,反倒成了"多管闲事"的贱人。
太极,年轻人学不来。有些人学了无用武之地,都拿去办公室实践了。
生活是一段又一段的起跑、加速、超越、喘气、暂歇、望梅、冲刺和结束。
The path that you think less people has taken, may be a false notion when you really walk along it, but it doesn't really matter, as long as the path is new and unexplored to you, you will find discoveries that would be useful and meet surprises that become memorable.
The quality of education really matters for long...the power of empowerment and enlightening is simply unmatched by any other forces, and yet most of time it is treated as a materialistic gateway, to success, to glory, to pride...which are all secondary to characteristics.
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Monday, December 7, 2009
Nice quote from Eliot
Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
~ T.S Eliot
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Friday, December 4, 2009
Pessimism of the will
I don't like the general notion of the exclusivitity of pessimism and optimism. For me both co-exist and fluctuate interchangebly, it's only as of this moment which end do you incline towards. But that's not the main theme here. Compare the motto with the following:
and you will know why I shouted eureka.
And hence, to me, first sentence is a powerful and motivating motto; while second sentence, is nothing more than lazy escapism. Let's face it, life is not always a bed of roses. Quality time does not always has to be lying on the bed, and rest is the reward for hardwork, but not an end by itself.
Pessimism of the intellect spots unavoidable problems and brings forward the necessary worries, for the optimism of the will to plan strategies and solutions.
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Monday, September 21, 2009
Emotional fuel
Any emotions could be barriers that undermine progress, or be converted to fuels that power up life.
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Re-route
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Friday, September 18, 2009
Moderation
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
流放
放逐才会捡获自由
What brings forth resurrection is banishment
What leads to freedom is being exiled
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Friday, July 31, 2009
Quotes (Schopenhauer)
哲学暂时对我仍太深奥,还是先从名句开始吧……我就要看这个著名的悲观主义者到底有多悲观。先收集,过后再翻译。
Arthur Schopenhauer
- A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.
- A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants.
- A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.
- A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will every say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.
- After your death you will be what you were before you birth.
- All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
- Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.
- As the biggest library if it is in disorder is not as useful as a small but well-arranged one, so you may accumulate a vast amount of knowledge but it will be of far less value than a much smaller amount if you have not thought it over for yourself.
- Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win another's money. Idiots!
- Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather than inside a situatin, and one leads to other.
- Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
- Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
- Compassion is the basis of morality.
- Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
- Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.
- Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
- Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.
- For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprenhensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.
- Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
- Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
- Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.
- Hatred in as affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.
- Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
- I've never know any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.
- If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- If you want to know your true opinioni of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.
- In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
- In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.
- In the sphere of thought, absurdity and perversity remain the masters of the world, and their dominion is suspended only for brief periods.
- It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.
- It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.
(It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.)
- It is only a man's own fundamental thoughts that have truth and life in them. For it is these that he really and completely understands. To read the thoughts of others is like taking the remains of someone else's meal, like putting on the discarded clothes of a stranger.
- It is only at the first encounter that a face makes its full impression on us.
- It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.
- Journalists are like dogs, whenever anything moves they begin to bark.
- Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
- Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
- Men are by nature merely indifferent to one another; but women are by nature enemies.
- Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no lnoger capable of human happines in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
- Music is the melody whose text is the world.
- National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
- Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.
- Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.
- Obstinacy is the result of the will forcing itself into the place of the intellect.
- Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity of one side, it must go like distance on the other, and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
- Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.
- Politeness is to human nature what warmth is to wax.
- Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little please he takes in others' company.
- Reading is equivalent to thinking with someone else's head instead of with one's own.
- Religion is masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.
- Satisfaction consists in freedom from pain, which is the positive element of life.
- Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interst and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.
- Suffuering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
- Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.
- The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.
- The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that somethign can be true and untrue at the same time.
- The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
- The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.
- The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
- The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
- The greatest achievements of the human mind are generally received with distrust.
- The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind happiness.
- The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.
- The man never feels the want of what it never occurs to him to ask for.
- The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existance seems to him.
- The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.
- The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.
- The word of man is the most durable of all material.
- There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.
- There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.
- They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice...that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.
- * To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.
- * To find out your real opinion of someone, judge the impression you have when you first see a letter from them.
- To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.
- To live alone is the fate of all great souls.
- Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speaks to you first.
- We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when miss thier existence as witnesses to our success.
- We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.
- Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
- Wicked thougths and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.
- Will minus intellect constitues vulgarity.
- Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.
- With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty.But with those who possess great talent is hypocrisy.
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Be the change you wish to see in the world
Sayings in Chinese like 己立立人, 己所不欲,反求诸己 revolve around relationships with others.
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Monday, May 18, 2009
Stay Strong
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
[OQ] There's always more to achieve...
"That no matter how much you've done, or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, more to learn, more to achieve."
Commencement speech at Arizona State University, May 14 2009
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Saturday, August 16, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
机
危机是机会,忧愁是契机。危机若好好处理,能化为难得的转机;忧愁若妥善剖析,能预防潜在的危险。因为,事出必有因。
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Monday, April 7, 2008
Saturday, October 29, 2005
自信 and Life
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Sunday, October 23, 2005
李天命语言录
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