习礼

道德仁义，非礼不成；
教训正俗，非礼不备。

习与性成、俗因化美；
礼治教化，以振纲纪。

Stuborn Banana

We have ate all the ripen bananas, but this particular banana just refuse to ripe!
It just refuses to ripe! What can you do?!

Wait till the time has rippen, where you can do something to it bah... Or... the Banana will think through and decided to ripe. (That's what really happened... It begins to ripe only after we have finish the rest.)

功败垂成不过是一时之事！

功败垂成不过是一时之事。
无势可以造势，不应待天降赐。
以胜者之见为诫，求教贤者睿智。
以前者为借鉴，不重蹈覆辙。

天降难于我，他日必有大任付托。
我不应负天，更不应负己。

我能落而即起，方可破万难而成其事。
我何某深信自己并非等闲之辈，必有过人之处，乃人中之龙。
器于我者，不知我也。短浅之人也，故不须理睬。
知我者，毕是人中龙凤。

今日我浅水困蛟龙，他日蛟龙入海，必定风起云涌！
我若一生平平淡淡，未经风雨磨练，又岂能成大器？
成就大业者，必能人所不能。
我必能人所不能，逐步登天！

是时候有一番作为了，不再辜负对我有期望的人了。

What is the song of the highest bliss?

If this song is so nice to me, than what is the song of Nibbana,
Where it's happiness goes beyond any sensual enjoyment?

= )

True that there is no end to craving for sensuality, it never really satisfy.

A better lifestyle!

15 Oct, the Blog action Day!! Let me talk about environment.. and Dhamma!

In the fast improving Society we are in today... highly industrialized. I think this is where all the pollution and environmental issue arise. We thought that we are smarter than our ancestors, but somehow I feel we are killing ourselves by not having thought through things as deep, as far sighted by them. I feel, those people who doesn't cherish what our ancestors have left for us, which is our roots... think twice, before you start to be chuck away like a rubbish, just as how you treated your own roots.

Maybe if we have put consequences above personal profiting, maybe some of the problems we face together, as a World, will not be that serious. It's still greed, hatred and delusion destroying our world. It is still virtues, mental discipline and wisdom saving the world.

As a student studying Architecture... Bamboo is an environmental friendly material, because it is Grass... not a wood. So we actually reduce the amount of trees we cut if we can replace some wood with bamboo isn't it?

Some people began to invent environmental friendly machines, so that's a good news. Maybe humans should revert our lifestyle abit to the more green type. We wear leather shoes, rubber shoes... our feet seldom walks on the mud. actually walking barefooted, on grass, on mud is good for the body. Do more exercise by walking more, climb stairs... if you aren't that sporty sort of person.

Oh ya... reduce the use of aircon.. GREATLY. Why... cos those buildings having aircons are like huge refrigerators... imagine how much heat they are producing??

Plant trees, do some planting at your own garden too. I enjoy planting and meddling with soil and plants. =) I like to plant my own veg and fruits... Some flowers too, but I prefer food more. Hehe..

Nutritious Lunch Porridge

He he! Today I've cook my traditional Cantonese porridge with self mixed recipe.

Seems plain but inside full of stuffs =)

1. Prepare Chinese dry mushrooms(remove the stalk and squash them into pieces!), dried shrimps, dry scallop and dried 银鱼(the white tiny fish).

2. Wash them clean and soak in hot water for 20mins.

3. Prepare 50g of pork muscle meat, clean it with water and cut into pieces(tiny slices).

4. Prepare water into the pot and cover. When the water has boiled, put all the meat and dried stuffs in, including the soaking water so that the sweet taste of those dry food is not wasted.

5. When the meat and mushroom is cooked, and the dry scallop has turn soft, remove all the ingredients from the pot and leave them in a bowl, leaving the "soup" in the pot.

6. Add in 1-2 table spoons of soy sauce and 2 teaspoon of salt. (varies according to personal preference)

7. wash rice. than put the rice into the "soup", cover it and start cooking until it boils. Stir abit to prevent rice sticking the base of the pot.

8. When it boil vigorously for sometime, until you see the rice become big and abit transparent, very soft. Turn into medium fire and stirring frequently

9. Until around 40mins of boiling and stirring, the rice will grow bigger and turn sticky gradually. Don't stop stirring as the porridge may stick the bottom.

10. When it turns into something like larva, turn fire to small, pour in all the cook meat and cooked dried ingredients, and continue stirring for another 5mins.

11. Pour it into a big bowl and it's ready to serve! =)

Eating/cooking Etiquette

1. Do not eat from the pot. It is not elegant.

2. Cooking pot/bowl should not be use as serving bowl. Arrange the food into another bowl meant for serving food.

3. Utensils use in the cooking process should not be used for eating, unless washed before using for eating.

4. Use a proper bowl for all you cook and uncooked ingredients. Do not mix cook and raw ingredients.

5. Take care of hygiene. Wash all your utensils clean before using, including your hands.

6. Do not use the spoon to stir which you use that spoon to taste. You may scoop bits of the dish into a "tasting bowl" and taste from there. Elegant and hygienic. = )

7. Attend to your cooking, seat around your kitchen. Try not to do other things like watching television while cooking. Unattended cooking causes fire accidents!

8. Arrange your utensils neatly on the table and then serve you food. Seat down and eat.

9. Enjoy your every moments from cooking till eating with awareness and mindfulness. Be with your process, its a pleasure!

The key of this porridge is to use the soup as the water to cook the rice as compared the using of plain water to cook the rice and then add the ingredients. By using the Soup, the porridge taste more 入味。The quality of the porridge depends alot on the stirring and the fire and the time. = )

I discover, whatever I cook, seldom look nice, but it taste really nice! Haha, home dish doesn't need much garnishing I feel. Maybe I will next time.

And I see that I can cook is a advantage! I will not die without a lady cooking for me, as most girls nowadays do not know how to cook, its rare lah, they know how to eat though. Haha...

If I do not have a wife, I can cook for myself. If my wife doesn't know how, I can cook for her! Cooking is a romantic thing isn't it.

If I am a monk... I can cook too. But I can't imagine using the alms bowl to cook. it got no handle and it is made of metal...

True spirit of Spreading the Dhamma

"What matters is not to call oneself a Buddhist but to practice Vipassana, to practice the Noble Eightfold Path taught by the Enlightened One, to practice sīla, samādhi, paññā, and to really benefit from the teaching of the Buddha. " - S.N. Goneka

"Buddhism" was something created out of greed, hatred and delusion of man. The true "Buddhism" lies in the very practise of the Dhamma, the teachings of the Buddha. So why are we meddling with all these defiled creations? Shouldn't get started in the training and learning of sīla, samādhi, paññā!

Conventional Idea

The day I made the will, yet the day I got percieved as a person who doesn't know how to think.
Just a... hmm... student who doesn't like studying?
But, I knew myself clearly, what was in me. At the very least, I had consider factors which you thought I didn't consider. And, I had consider factors what you didn't thought of as well.

Just do it lor. Anyway, they care most about the end result, because I didn't see concerns about the proccess I'm going through. But lucky there are people who did show concern, and each of their concerns I appreciated it deeply.

"You take care ya?
Must do well."

= )

What is so irritating?

Nothing irritate us actually...
We are just irritated by our own feeling we have towards it...

Working it out...

When there is a problem, I should work out the solution.
When I am stuck, I should get help from able people.

I realise the more I am stuck with pride,
the more problem it is going to cause.

I must admit that this life of mine is not perfectly right.
I'm sorry, I must go to school...

A Resolution

When I am determined, I must and I will do it.

I will make sure everything in a mess now falls back to the place where they should be.

I never know how close was success, and that is why I musn't give up.