第七、「學習生存」。
為了生存，我要維護身體健康。
身體健康不但對自己有利，也讓朋友、家人放心， 所以也是孝親的行為。
星雲大師
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monday, September 21, 2009
人 生 都 在 學 做 人
第六、「學習感動」。
我們看到人家得好處，要歡喜； 看到好人好事，要能感動。
感動是一個愛心、菩薩心、菩提心， 在我幾十年的歲月裡，有許多事情、語言感動了我， 所以我也很努力的想辦法讓別人感動。
星雲大師
我們看到人家得好處，要歡喜； 看到好人好事，要能感動。
感動是一個愛心、菩薩心、菩提心， 在我幾十年的歲月裡，有許多事情、語言感動了我， 所以我也很努力的想辦法讓別人感動。
星雲大師
Sunday, September 20, 2009
人 生 都 在 學 做 人
第五、「學習放下」。
人生像一只皮箱，需要用的時候提起，不用的時就把它放下。
應放下的時候，卻不放下， 就像拖著沉重的行李，無法自在。
人生的歲月有限，認錯、尊重、包容才能讓人接受， 放下才自在啊！
星雲大師
人生像一只皮箱，需要用的時候提起，不用的時就把它放下。
應放下的時候，卻不放下， 就像拖著沉重的行李，無法自在。
人生的歲月有限，認錯、尊重、包容才能讓人接受， 放下才自在啊！
星雲大師
Saturday, September 19, 2009
人 生 都 在 學 做 人
第四、「學習溝通」。
缺乏溝通，就會產生是非、爭執與誤會。
現在中國大陸、香港和台灣， 兩岸三地最重要的就是溝通， 相互了解、相互體諒、相互幫助， 大家都是龍兄虎弟，互相爭執、不溝通怎麼能和平呢？
星雲大師
缺乏溝通，就會產生是非、爭執與誤會。
現在中國大陸、香港和台灣， 兩岸三地最重要的就是溝通， 相互了解、相互體諒、相互幫助， 大家都是龍兄虎弟，互相爭執、不溝通怎麼能和平呢？
星雲大師
Friday, September 18, 2009
人 生 都 在 學 做 人
第三、「學習生忍」。
這世間就是忍一口氣，風平浪靜，退一步海闊天空；
忍，萬事都能消除。
忍就是會處理、 會化解， 用智慧、能力讓大事化小、小事化無。
各位要生活、要生存、要生命，有了忍， 可以認清世間的好壞、善惡、是非，甚至接受它。
星雲大師
這世間就是忍一口氣，風平浪靜，退一步海闊天空；
忍，萬事都能消除。
忍就是會處理、 會化解， 用智慧、能力讓大事化小、小事化無。
各位要生活、要生存、要生命，有了忍， 可以認清世間的好壞、善惡、是非，甚至接受它。
星雲大師
Thursday, September 17, 2009
人 生 都 在 學 做 人
第二、「學習柔和」。
人的牙齒是硬的，舌頭是軟的，到了人生的最後， 牙齒都掉光了，舌頭卻不會掉，所以要柔軟， 人生才能長久，硬反而吃虧。
心地柔軟了，是修行最大的進步。
一般形容執著的人說，你的心、你的性格很冷、很硬， 像鋼鐵一樣。
如果我們像禪門說的調息、調身、調心， 慢慢調伏像野馬、像猴子的這顆心，令它柔軟， 人生才能活得更快樂、更長久。
星雲大師
人的牙齒是硬的，舌頭是軟的，到了人生的最後， 牙齒都掉光了，舌頭卻不會掉，所以要柔軟， 人生才能長久，硬反而吃虧。
心地柔軟了，是修行最大的進步。
一般形容執著的人說，你的心、你的性格很冷、很硬， 像鋼鐵一樣。
如果我們像禪門說的調息、調身、調心， 慢慢調伏像野馬、像猴子的這顆心，令它柔軟， 人生才能活得更快樂、更長久。
星雲大師
How you behave in a quarrel
The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Anybody can behave well when things are going smoothly.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
人 生 都 在 學 做 人
第一、「學習認錯」。
人常常不肯認錯，凡事都說是別人的錯， 認為自己才是對的，其實不認錯就是一個錯。
認錯的對象可以是父母、朋友、社會大眾、佛祖， 甚至向兒女或是對我不好的人認錯， 自己不但不會少了什麼，反而顯得你有度量。
學習認錯是美好的，是一個大修行。
星雲大師
人常常不肯認錯，凡事都說是別人的錯， 認為自己才是對的，其實不認錯就是一個錯。
認錯的對象可以是父母、朋友、社會大眾、佛祖， 甚至向兒女或是對我不好的人認錯， 自己不但不會少了什麼，反而顯得你有度量。
學習認錯是美好的，是一個大修行。
星雲大師
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Google Fast Flip
Google Fast Flip at http://fastflip.googlelabs.com/ is a web application that lets you discover and share news articles.
It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine.
It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.
How does it work?
It captures images of the articles on our partners' websites and then display them in an easy-to-read way. The stories are grouped by categories, such as Entertainment, Business, Opinion, Politics and Most Viewed. Readers can flip through stories quickly by simply pressing the left- and right-arrow keys until they find one that catches their interest. Clicking on the story takes them directly to the publisher's website.
For more information, read the FAQ at:
http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/answer.py?answer=161790
It combines qualities of print and the Web, with the ability to "flip" through pages online as quickly as flipping through a magazine.
It also enables users to follow friends and topics, discover new content and create their own custom magazines around searches.
How does it work?
It captures images of the articles on our partners' websites and then display them in an easy-to-read way. The stories are grouped by categories, such as Entertainment, Business, Opinion, Politics and Most Viewed. Readers can flip through stories quickly by simply pressing the left- and right-arrow keys until they find one that catches their interest. Clicking on the story takes them directly to the publisher's website.
For more information, read the FAQ at:
http://www.google.com/support/news/bin/answer.py?answer=161790
Having interesting conversations
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally.
And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.
-- David Weinberger
If you like the above quotation, you may like to read his book "Everything is miscellaneous: the power of the new digital disorder."
Some topics in this book I enjoyed are:
* the differences between how we organize and think about physical and digital information (very much a librarian's approach)
* the power of the Internet to let us consume information in unique and customized ways (the free text indexing that public enjoyed)
* the implications of the above for retailing, politics and education (tagging and not classification by call number or control vocabulary etc.)
Notes:
And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations.
-- David Weinberger
If you like the above quotation, you may like to read his book "Everything is miscellaneous: the power of the new digital disorder."
Some topics in this book I enjoyed are:
* the differences between how we organize and think about physical and digital information (very much a librarian's approach)
* the power of the Internet to let us consume information in unique and customized ways (the free text indexing that public enjoyed)
* the implications of the above for retailing, politics and education (tagging and not classification by call number or control vocabulary etc.)
If you do not have time to read his book, you may like to listen to his interview at:
http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2007/06/weinberger_on_e.htmlNotes:
Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder, by David Weinberger. Times Books, 2007.
Friday, September 11, 2009
禅之智慧
禅之智慧
* 每一种创伤都是一种成熟；每一个经历都是一笔财富
禅之智慧
* 当你对自己诚实的时候，世上没有人能欺骗得了你
禅之智慧
* 世间的人多知对法律负责，却少有人知对因果负责
* 能够把自己压得低低的，才是真正的尊贵
* 对人恭敬是在庄严自己
* 良心是每一个人一生最公正的审判官
* 感谢我所拥有的，感谢我所没有的
* 若能一切随他去，便是世间自由人
* 宁可自己去原谅别人，莫让别人来原谅自己
* 静坐常思已过，闲谈莫论人非。
Original source: Unknown
Forwarded by Shue Teng Lee to a group of travelling fans!
* 每一种创伤都是一种成熟；每一个经历都是一笔财富
禅之智慧
* 当你对自己诚实的时候，世上没有人能欺骗得了你
禅之智慧
* 世间的人多知对法律负责，却少有人知对因果负责
* 能够把自己压得低低的，才是真正的尊贵
* 对人恭敬是在庄严自己
* 良心是每一个人一生最公正的审判官
* 感谢我所拥有的，感谢我所没有的
* 若能一切随他去，便是世间自由人
* 宁可自己去原谅别人，莫让别人来原谅自己
* 静坐常思已过，闲谈莫论人非。
Original source: Unknown
Forwarded by Shue Teng Lee to a group of travelling fans!
心灵鸡湯: 何为最高处？
心灵鸡湯: 何为最高处？
当你喜欢你的过去，看重你的现在，乐观你的未来时，
你就站在了生活的最高处。
当你明了成功不会造就你，失败不会击垮你，平淡不会淹没你，你就站在了生命的最高处。
当你修炼到足以克服一时不快，专注于自身的责任而不是权力时，关切他人的一切不快，
专注于安慰和拯救时，你就站在了精神的最高处。
当你以宽恕之心向后看,以希望之心向前看, 以同情之心向下看,以感激之心向上看, 你就站在了灵魂的最高处.
Original source: Unknown
Forwarded by Shue Teng Lee to a group of travelling fans!
当你喜欢你的过去，看重你的现在，乐观你的未来时，
你就站在了生活的最高处。
当你明了成功不会造就你，失败不会击垮你，平淡不会淹没你，你就站在了生命的最高处。
当你修炼到足以克服一时不快，专注于自身的责任而不是权力时，关切他人的一切不快，
专注于安慰和拯救时，你就站在了精神的最高处。
当你以宽恕之心向后看,以希望之心向前看, 以同情之心向下看,以感激之心向上看, 你就站在了灵魂的最高处.
Original source: Unknown
Forwarded by Shue Teng Lee to a group of travelling fans!
Thursday, September 10, 2009
50+ Designing for 50+ Workshop: some photos
The group photos taken at the end of the workshop!
Now just reflect on what we did on the first day:
We started the actual workshop after the briefing with cutting and pasting our Mood Board. I like the way ideas are sourced and transformed from design magazines.
The idea of "Mood Board" is very interesting yet the actual process is rather time consuming and tiring.
The Mood Board above are filled with lot of futuristic ideas. It is created with the help of the students and other group members, we have many more cut-out, yet the board is too small to host all.
Below is my simple Dream Home ideas:
There are lot of great ideas from other participants, here is the link:
http://www.designedby50plus.com/2009/index.html
Click on the colour dots and move the page side way to see the rest of the page. Most of the web page are not designed this way and many first time viewer may miss the rest of the page that way.
I do not see the need of creating pages that way, nevertheless, design students like to do things differently. They like to create something unique which may not follow the habit of web readers. I just hope that their hard work is not being missed or ignored by impatient visitors!
With the help of students, the dream home ideas we generated are transform to drawing and design ideas. It is fascinating to see the great dreams and great ideas in print.
For me, the most valuable moment for the workshop was to see all the presentations created by different groups at the end of the four day workshop.
This web page captured all the ideas, and I am sure you will enjoy reading them:
50+ Designing for 50+ Workshop
School of Design, Singapore Polytechnic organised 50+ Designing for 50+ Workshop held on 7-10 Sept 2009.
As one of the many participants, I enjoyed the experience working with students and like-minded 50+.
Following is the program:
To learn more about the workshop, just visit the official website at:
http://www.designedby50plus.com/2009/index.html
Here are some points I extracted from the web pages:
"Design is everywhere. Whatever we use, wear, experience, like and dislike are designed for."
"Design is about changing the existing condition of living to a preferred condition, and the users need to have a say."
"The 50+ designing for the 50+ workshop consists of a structured framework to provide for the stimulation of new ideas, new thinking and new possibilities of 50+ living and activities to bring about awareness in our students towards a basic understanding and appreciation of the rich experience of our 50+ through working together."
"It is a workshop, where for the first time in Singapore, the 50+ users get to express and co-design what they need, want and desire."
The Objectives of the workshop are:
* "To showcase design recommendations, new ideas, new thinking and new possibilities for 50+ Living Well."
* "To develop in both students and the Silver Population an awareness of the possibilities of designing their ways of 50+ Living Well."
* "To promote awareness of 50+ Living Well in our young students through an understanding and appreciation of the rich experience of our 50+ through this collaborative workshop."
* "To develop an awareness of the process of design as a meaningful and creative activity."
* "Thus the 50+ will be able to work with designers in future collaborations."
* "To stimulate the market with new ideas and thoughts and ways of understanding the 50+."
I enjoyed the designing process as a wide range of user research methods were used and applied effectively, such as "REAL PEOPLE Methods (Design Ethnography, Shadowing, etc.)" and "CO-OPERATIVE Methods (Participatory Design, User Forums, Lead User, etc.)"
"The OUTSIDE-IN approach rather than the traditional INSIDE-OUT approach" make users like us felt that our needs are the main focus of the workshop. The students who use the input of the users are designing something with the user in mind.
I think the state-of-art design approach is very stimulating "The main goal is not to solve a specific problem, but to DISCOVER and UNDERSTAND the user life's patterns and his/her unmet needs and desires. And then DEVELOP DESIGN and EXECUTE on radical concepts that will stimulate the market."
Here are some "Facts & Figures"
Total Number of Facilitators
20
Total Number of Singapore Polytechnic Students
80
Total Number of 50+
60
Total Number of Participants (Including the facilitators)
160
Workshop Duration (Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm)
4 days
Number of Working Groups
20 groups (3 Seniors + 4 Students in each group)
Total Number of Ideas Generated
Unlimited!
To learn more detail, visit the official website at:
http://www.designedby50plus.com/2009/ideas.html
As one of the many participants, I enjoyed the experience working with students and like-minded 50+.
Following is the program:
To learn more about the workshop, just visit the official website at:
http://www.designedby50plus.com/2009/index.html
Here are some points I extracted from the web pages:
"Design is everywhere. Whatever we use, wear, experience, like and dislike are designed for."
"Design is about changing the existing condition of living to a preferred condition, and the users need to have a say."
"The 50+ designing for the 50+ workshop consists of a structured framework to provide for the stimulation of new ideas, new thinking and new possibilities of 50+ living and activities to bring about awareness in our students towards a basic understanding and appreciation of the rich experience of our 50+ through working together."
"It is a workshop, where for the first time in Singapore, the 50+ users get to express and co-design what they need, want and desire."
The Objectives of the workshop are:
* "To showcase design recommendations, new ideas, new thinking and new possibilities for 50+ Living Well."
* "To develop in both students and the Silver Population an awareness of the possibilities of designing their ways of 50+ Living Well."
* "To promote awareness of 50+ Living Well in our young students through an understanding and appreciation of the rich experience of our 50+ through this collaborative workshop."
* "To develop an awareness of the process of design as a meaningful and creative activity."
* "Thus the 50+ will be able to work with designers in future collaborations."
* "To stimulate the market with new ideas and thoughts and ways of understanding the 50+."
I enjoyed the designing process as a wide range of user research methods were used and applied effectively, such as "REAL PEOPLE Methods (Design Ethnography, Shadowing, etc.)" and "CO-OPERATIVE Methods (Participatory Design, User Forums, Lead User, etc.)"
"The OUTSIDE-IN approach rather than the traditional INSIDE-OUT approach" make users like us felt that our needs are the main focus of the workshop. The students who use the input of the users are designing something with the user in mind.
I think the state-of-art design approach is very stimulating "The main goal is not to solve a specific problem, but to DISCOVER and UNDERSTAND the user life's patterns and his/her unmet needs and desires. And then DEVELOP DESIGN and EXECUTE on radical concepts that will stimulate the market."
Here are some "Facts & Figures"
Total Number of Facilitators
20
Total Number of Singapore Polytechnic Students
80
Total Number of 50+
60
Total Number of Participants (Including the facilitators)
160
Workshop Duration (Monday-Thursday 9am-5pm)
4 days
Number of Working Groups
20 groups (3 Seniors + 4 Students in each group)
Total Number of Ideas Generated
Unlimited!
To learn more detail, visit the official website at:
http://www.designedby50plus.com/2009/ideas.html
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Tact is not my strong suit
I am a person who speaks what is in my mind.
Hence, tact is not my strong suit.
From time to time, I have to remind myself to be less impulsive. When there are unclear zone that I have to enter, I try very hard to rely on keeping the calculations watertight.
I learned to be very precise when I am being pushed into delicate conversations.
Based on fact rather than hearsay, no one will be able to challenge and alter what I quote.
What is fact is fact, what I quoted is a quote!
I am pleased that a lot of truth can be unveil with facts and quotations!
I can be grow to be true to myself!
I can communicating my points and opinions without being classified as being bias.
Cheers!
Dexterine Ho
Hence, tact is not my strong suit.
From time to time, I have to remind myself to be less impulsive. When there are unclear zone that I have to enter, I try very hard to rely on keeping the calculations watertight.
I learned to be very precise when I am being pushed into delicate conversations.
Based on fact rather than hearsay, no one will be able to challenge and alter what I quote.
What is fact is fact, what I quoted is a quote!
I am pleased that a lot of truth can be unveil with facts and quotations!
I can be grow to be true to myself!
I can communicating my points and opinions without being classified as being bias.
Cheers!
Dexterine Ho
Sunday, September 06, 2009
Youth is a state of mind
"Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.
It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees.
It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease.
This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals."
- Samuel Ullman
Read and re-quoted from THOUGHT OF THE DAY, Sun, Sept 6, 2009: http://www.refdesk.com/
I know people who are at my age now like to see that "youth is not a time of life, but a state of mind".
I believe that nobody really "grows old by merely living a number of years"; many do "grow old by deserting their ideals."
I think if you have taken photos at certain age, you maybe amazed how your look change when your emotion change. Some older photos of you may look older than you are now. If it is so, it is because you now have a different perspective of life and have some dreams to pursuit.
Most of my friends are looking younger than they are in their 40s. The reason being, they change the way they dress, the way they think and the way they look at day to day living.
With lot of ideals to fulfil and dreams to transform to reality, you will not feel that the days are dull. As you add life to day and live your days with joys, you will look and feel younger.
Try it, I think you will transfer Samuel Ullman's words to reality and live the days like how he projected!
Dexterine Ho
It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees.
It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease.
This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty.
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals."
- Samuel Ullman
Read and re-quoted from THOUGHT OF THE DAY, Sun, Sept 6, 2009: http://www.refdesk.com/
I know people who are at my age now like to see that "youth is not a time of life, but a state of mind".
I believe that nobody really "grows old by merely living a number of years"; many do "grow old by deserting their ideals."
I think if you have taken photos at certain age, you maybe amazed how your look change when your emotion change. Some older photos of you may look older than you are now. If it is so, it is because you now have a different perspective of life and have some dreams to pursuit.
Most of my friends are looking younger than they are in their 40s. The reason being, they change the way they dress, the way they think and the way they look at day to day living.
With lot of ideals to fulfil and dreams to transform to reality, you will not feel that the days are dull. As you add life to day and live your days with joys, you will look and feel younger.
Try it, I think you will transfer Samuel Ullman's words to reality and live the days like how he projected!
Dexterine Ho
Friday, September 04, 2009
Everyone of us is the architect of our destiny.
Everyone of us is the architect of our destiny.
Things go in cycle and it is true that those give with a big heart are richly rewarded.
Same with our body, remember to enrich your body with good diet and making sure you get the required amounts of minerals, vitamins and fiber.
If you body is in good condition, the body will be able to handle more.
If you mind is feed with good and professional knowledge, it will be enrich and you will be knowledgible. The professional projects that come to you will have great chances for success in the best of conditions.
Dexterine Ho
Things go in cycle and it is true that those give with a big heart are richly rewarded.
Same with our body, remember to enrich your body with good diet and making sure you get the required amounts of minerals, vitamins and fiber.
If you body is in good condition, the body will be able to handle more.
If you mind is feed with good and professional knowledge, it will be enrich and you will be knowledgible. The professional projects that come to you will have great chances for success in the best of conditions.
Dexterine Ho
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