Medical and fate
When I was taking care of my father in the hospital, I got some questions.
當我在醫院照顧爸爸的時候,我想到了些問題。
If the medical technology of today, can preserve a person from death, what will be going on? Are human beings really want to live as long as possible in this world?
如果現今的醫學科技,能夠讓一個人不死,這將會怎樣?人類是否真的想在這世界長生?
If the medical technology of today, can preserve a person from dying, but because of carelessness of family members, nurses and doctors, a patient was died. What does it mean? Are we going to accuse the family members or nurses or doctors? I don’t think we should accuse them if the accident is really happened. Because what is happened, is happened. If we accuse someone can change the situation (I mean, the patient will resurrect), then we should accuse someone.
如果現今的醫學科技,能夠讓一個人不死,但因為家庭成員、護士和醫生的疏忽,而造成病人的喪亡。那意味著什麽?我們應該譴責家庭成員、護士或醫生嗎?如果事情真的已經發生了,我是不認為應該譴責他們。因為發生了的事,就已經發生了。如果我們譴責某人能改變狀況(我是指,病人能夠復活),那么我們就應該譴責某人。
Law of Attraction
My brother introduced a book to me, “The Secret” (by Rhonda Byrne). But I didn’t read the book.
The secret in the book is the “Law of Attraction”. And I searched through Wikipedia what is that Law of Attraction. Then I found that, the Law of Attraction is very familiar. Because, you ask, you believe, you work for it, and feel gratitude, then you will get it. Doesn’t the Law of Attraction just seems like “faith” that I know as a Christian?
Diencephalon 間腦
沒有聽過,都不知道;沒有看到,都不相信。
If I never heard it, I don’t know; if I never see it, I don’t believe.
我的親戚的小孩,上了個課程。那個課程可以開發間腦(Diencephalon)。開發了之後有什麽用?蒙上眼睛,還能“看見”。
我們用她做了示範:把她的眼睛蒙上。然後,把許多藍色和紅色的小球放在個盒子里。然後叫她把紅色的拿出來。她都拿了出來。不止如此。我們還拿了小孩的書,有圖案和英文名稱的書,隨便翻了翻,擺在她面前,她摸了摸,都可以知道是什麽圖案,什麽顏色(眼睛還是蒙著的)。
My relative’s child, attended a course. That course can help the children to open their “diencephalon” (middle brain, or inter brain). Why open it? When the children are blindfolded, they still can “see”.
We asked the girl to demonstrate the ability: we blindfolded her. Then, put a lot of blue and read small balls inside a box. Then we asked her to take out all red balls. She could take them out. Not only that, we used a children book, which contains a lot of picture with english name, and randomly opened a page, put in front of her, she touched, and she knew what is the picture, even the colour. She was still blindfolded.
Programmer's problem
I don’t know whether this is my personal problem or it is related to any programmer.
Because I do programming, and programming normally uses trial-and-error method to solve the problem. I can detect the errors during the compilation. And the compiled binary file can be run and tested for the bugs. The application can be revised and revised in order to produce the final product.
Because of trial-and-error, in my life, I always do my work carelessly. Because I think if there is an error, I still can revise and solve the problem.
Thanks, all of you...
這段時間發生了太多的事。
A lot of things happened recently.
感謝所有為我一家祈禱的人。
生老病死,悲歡離合,都是人生必經之路。
Thanks to those who pray for my family.
Birth, old, sick, die, sad, happy, leaving and gathering, these are all we must face in our life.
Petition
如果我們把東西借給人,當我們需要那東西時,就會不斷地催迫那人儘快交還。若那人尚未交換,我們就會不斷地催迫,一直地催迫,直到那人交還為止。
If we lend something to other people, when we need the thing back, we will unceasingly ask him to return the thing as soon as possible. If he not yet returns, we will urge and urge until he returns the thing.
但若我們的祈禱,也能有這種毅力,不斷地祈求,必會得到所求的。然而,我們不會這樣地祈求天父。因為我們沒有把任何東西借給天父。天父亦不欠我們任何東西,而且需要幫忙的是我們。另外,我們也不敢這樣祈求天主聖父。因為,我們知道自己是罪人。這是理所當然的,我們本來就應該要承認自己的罪過。因此,我們若真的有所求,就必須先向天父認罪,並求天父寬恕。為求天主寬恕,自己就應當先寬恕別人。之後,就祈求天主。
If we pray with the persistence like this, we should get whatever we ask. However, we will not pray like this to the Father. This is because we do not lend anything to the Father. And the Father doesn’t owe us anything. Even more, we are the ones who need the help. Besides that, we are not dare to pray like this to the Father. Because, we know that we are sinners. Of course, we should confess our sins. Therefore, if we really have petitions, we need to confess our sins to the Father first, and ask for forgiveness. To ask for forgiveness, we need to forgive others. Then, we can ask from God.
Simplified chinese or traditional chinese?
Actually, I personally prefer traditional chinese. Because the character is more complicate, and look prettier than simplified chinese. And besides that, the traditional chinese character provides better meaning in the presentation of the character itself. Especially the character “love”, 愛,in traditional chinese, the centre of it is 心,that means we love with our heart. However, the simplified chinese is 爱, which doesn’t have the 心 at the centre.
Another important reason is the surname. When I was young, I was taught to write the surname in simplified chinese, that is 钟. The traditioanl chinese of 钟 is both 鍾 and 鐘. While both meanings are different. Therefore, in computer, the simplified chinese of 鍾 becomes 锺, instead of 钟. So, that is why I prefer traditional chinese, because of the surname problem.
Human and Cell
Human being is consists of cells. Each type of cells can be differentiated by its functions. Each cell cannot think like a human think. However, human can think because of the systematic organisation of the cells. Human can live because each of the cells plays its own role. If a cell does not function or malfunction, it will become a cancer. And human needs to destroy the cancer so that the cancer will not spread to other cells and he can live.
Sin Chew Daily 星洲日報
I like to read the news using feed. That is why I use Sage and FeedReader. Sage is the addon of Firefox. I prefer FeedReader. Because it can be installed as a portable version. Then I can subscribe RSS to the FeedReader.
Sin Chew Daily is one of my favourite, because it is chinese newspaper of Malaysia. And just found that, it provides RSS. Previously, it does not, so I need to browse the website. Now, it is easy to read the news through FeedReader.
Hanzi 漢字
關於漢字,原來漢字本身并不帶有讀音。因此,單看漢字,并不能推測讀音。由於西方文化的接觸和電子科技的發展,羅馬字的運用變得普遍,所以才有了拼音輸入法。然而,電腦所輸入的漢字也因此變得有限。因為電腦的漢字必須根據“字型”(Font)來決定。
另外,中文漢字又分簡體和繁體。因此漢字的編碼又因地區的不同而有分別。簡體漢字普遍有國標碼(GB),而繁體普遍有大五碼(Big5)。為了方便同時能讀簡繁漢字,就有了統一碼(Unicode)。
其實漢字會因著時代的需求而演變和創新。因此漢字不應該是有限的。而朱邦復所創的倉頡輸入法則運用了24個羅馬字母來輸入漢字:日月金木水火土、竹(斜)戈(點)十(交)大(叉)中(縱)一(橫)弓(勾)、人心手口、尸(側)廿(並)山(仰)女(紐)田(方)卜。運用倉頡輸入法,就可以創新字。倉頡輸入法普遍是第三代。然而第五代和第三代的輸入法又有些不同。
但其實,我個人認為,在我們日常生活中,也不需要每天創造新字。并且所創的新字又不帶有標準讀音。因此,不能把漢字當作羅馬字來運用。但漢字畢竟有其微妙之處,因為一個字即可包含很多意思。