A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Showing posts with label Life is about. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Life is about. Show all posts
Friday, September 28, 2018
Sunday, September 23, 2018
Find the right numbers...
Life is like a combination lock; your job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want.
-- Brian Tracy
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Finding the right numbers is a simple work sometimes, yet, it can be hard and become a mission impossible at time!
We are learning how to do it naturally, and I always believe that whatever we have, is the best combination that could had happened.
Just live the way it is and do the best we can.
Dexterine Ho
Thursday, March 01, 2018
What sparks the light in you ...
You have to know what sparks the light in you so that you, in your own way, can illuminate the world.
--- Oprah Winfrey
--- Oprah Winfrey
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Thursday, June 29, 2017
Spiritual progress...
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Friday, May 12, 2017
Monday, October 10, 2016
GIVE HOPE WITH PROJECT TOMORROW
I recalled a group of Uni friends and me, when we were in our forty, we went to NUH together and signed up as Bone Marrow Donors.
We went happily and until now, we still recall the day with joys.
Few day ago, I went to China town point and noted the program is named BMBP and run under
https://bmdp.org/
We went happily and until now, we still recall the day with joys.
Few day ago, I went to China town point and noted the program is named BMBP and run under
If you like to know more about the project, visit any link here:
https://bmdp.org/
Monday, September 26, 2016
Just accomplish small tasks...
28th and 29th Sept is the assessment day for Support Collection Maintenance, and with these photos on my flower arrangements, I hope, my well wishes to all, is being convey and well received!
All the best for the assessment!
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
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I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.
Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)
American Writer
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Sometimes, especially on a Sunday morning, you may not feel like taxing your brain too much...
Hence, doing something small, accomplish it, will make you feel just as great!
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years.
People grow old only by deserting their ideals.
Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul.
Douglas MacArthur
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When you give up doing things that you like, you do not feel like yourself!
When you give up your interest, nothing in life will interest you!
I am a keeper of old things, including my many hobbies and interests!
To me they are knowledge that I acquired days by days, and I hope it might transform to wisdom one day...
Even without being wise, my hobby and interest do help to keep my soul unwrinkled.
I am able to live in a youthful soul, when I am re-experience the joys of my many old hobbies, like flower arrangement that I did here!
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be.
-Abraham Maslow
(1908-1970) American Psychologist
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A person who likes things that inspire the soul, may like to look at how a small flower express the beautiful side of it...
And try to preserve it, or mirror it!
Dexteirne Ho Soo Miang
The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
American Author and Humorist
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I adore grant scale Ikebana, yet I can only start with something small, something that I can manage and afford first!
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
Life is no brief candle to me.
It is sort of a splendid torch which I have got hold of for a moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
Irish Playwright
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We each hold a small torch!
I just try to burn it as bright as possible.
Doing training is the way I handing it on to fellow librarians or any keen learners, and they become my multipliers and subsequently benefit the generations beyond...
I just try to burn it as bright as possible.
Doing training is the way I handing it on to fellow librarians or any keen learners, and they become my multipliers and subsequently benefit the generations beyond...
Arranging flower, is the let the flower shine like a torch, lighting the soul, and let those who admire it, have the joys of seeing the light!
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
Thursday, August 25, 2016
一席: 王德顺 (听君一席话，胜读十年书)
王德顺，1936年出生于沈阳，人体艺术大师、电影演员。1960年，王德顺开始做话剧演员。1985年，王德顺开始研究形体哑剧。1987年，王德顺将中国的哑剧带上世界哑剧舞台；1993年，王德顺创造“活雕塑”。2003年，王德顺参演何平执导《天地英雄》。2008年,王德顺参演张新建执导《闯关东》，2012年,王德顺参演张扬执导《飞越老人院》。2014年，王德顺参演董阿成执导电影《判若云泥》，并入围萨兰托电影节。2015年，王德顺参演陈正道执导《重返20岁》； 3月25日，王德顺在中国国际时装周在北京798艺术中心上演，因79岁的王德顺身材没有走样，精神矍铄，其光膀走秀的图片昨天爆红网络。
Friday, May 27, 2016
Short cuts
There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
--- Beverly Sills (1929 - 2007) American Opera Singer
Saturday, April 02, 2016
Get things done
The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.
--- Benjamin Jowett (1817 - 1893)
In working life and in family life, if you do not mind stepping back and let others who think they are contributing get the credits, you can get things done easily.
If credits is due, it will return to you after it travel the world in full circle.
At that time, the credits are endorsed beyond the current crowd...
So just get things done, let credits travel through those who claimed them and see how it goes...
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
Saturday, March 19, 2016
Life is a combination lock
Life is like a combination lock; you job is to find the right numbers, in the right order, so you can have anything you want.
--- Brian Tracy
Saturday, March 12, 2016
吳彤 Wu Tong：笙歌 Song of the Seng
This video has subtitle in English and Chinese.
If you enjoy listening to Chinese music, it will be an enjoyable experience for you!
I learned so much about Chinese philosophy and understand the "Seng" instrument from Mr Wu Tong.
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
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If you enjoy listening to Chinese music, it will be an enjoyable experience for you!
I learned so much about Chinese philosophy and understand the "Seng" instrument from Mr Wu Tong.
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
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【一席YiXi】吳彤 Wu Tong：笙歌 Song of the Seng
Published on Mar 2, 2015
吳彤，華人跨界音樂家代表，精通創作、演唱、民族樂器演奏。1971年9月21日出生
Wu Tong
He is a representative figure of Chinese crossover musician, skilled at creation, singing, and national music instrument performance. He was born in Beijing on Sep. 21, 1971. He graduated from Central Conservatory of Music. In 1992, he formed “Again Band”, the first college rock band in China. In August, 2010, his album “The sound from my heart” was released, in which the album enabled him to win the 2011 Taiwan Golden Melody Awards respectively for Best Lyricist and Best Arranger in the category of Traditional Arts and Music. In February 2010, “Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace” enabled him and Ma Yo-Yo et al. to win the 52nd Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover Album. He also won the 2011 Golden Horn Awards for the Most Internationally-influential Crossover Singer in China, and the 2012 China Institute’s Annual International Musician Award. He endeavored to seek the common development of the coexistence of Chinese traditional music and world music, always making continuous efforts in international collaboration in crossover music. For many years, he has devoted himself to stage performance, but he always keeps a low profile in his behavior and life.
Source of information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuv93XcdEUM
Wu Tong
He is a representative figure of Chinese crossover musician, skilled at creation, singing, and national music instrument performance. He was born in Beijing on Sep. 21, 1971. He graduated from Central Conservatory of Music. In 1992, he formed “Again Band”, the first college rock band in China. In August, 2010, his album “The sound from my heart” was released, in which the album enabled him to win the 2011 Taiwan Golden Melody Awards respectively for Best Lyricist and Best Arranger in the category of Traditional Arts and Music. In February 2010, “Yo-Yo Ma & Friends: Songs of Joy & Peace” enabled him and Ma Yo-Yo et al. to win the 52nd Grammy Awards for Best Classical Crossover Album. He also won the 2011 Golden Horn Awards for the Most Internationally-influential Crossover Singer in China, and the 2012 China Institute’s Annual International Musician Award. He endeavored to seek the common development of the coexistence of Chinese traditional music and world music, always making continuous efforts in international collaboration in crossover music. For many years, he has devoted himself to stage performance, but he always keeps a low profile in his behavior and life.
Source of information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuv93XcdEUM
Thursday, March 10, 2016
梁紹鴻：功夫六十年
【一席YiXi】梁紹鴻：功夫六十年
不善言辭的梁紹鴻，他的每一句都是真實的，是那些真正把握功夫的人
梁绍鸿（Duncan Leung ， Leung Shiu Hung），1942年6月11日出生于香港，他13岁的时候（1955年）被好友李小龙介绍至叶问门下，成为叶问第一个私家授课门徒，请叶问到家授课达四、五年之久，完成了叶问系咏春拳全部课程。
梁紹鴻1942年出生於香港，13歲由好友李小龍介紹到葉問門下，成為授課門徒。1974年移居美國紐約，在當地建立自己的拳館。談起已逝去多年的少年好友李小龍，他說，李小龍比他大兩歲，喜歡學功夫喜歡約會女孩子，之前李小龍學習功夫疏於練習，後來因為被人家打了兩次，就下苦功夫練習。尤其跟葉問學習後，進步很快，所以他也拜葉問為師。
作為葉問的弟子，梁紹鴻也因此成為王家衛電影「一代宗師」中梁朝偉的詠春拳師傅，他說，當時王家衛找他，讓他教梁朝偉功夫。最初他表示自己雖然認識很多電影圈的人，但是對電影沒興趣。不過王家衛說要動真格的學，他就前後教了梁朝偉兩年。他表示梁朝偉非常有天分，比李小龍聰明且做事低調，雖然不可能像行內人那麼搏命練習，但其優勝之處在於沒有任何功夫枷鎖和陋習，對其訓練講究穩紮穩打，循序漸進，從基本動作開始兼力量訓練最後進行實戰對抗。
說起真實的葉問，梁紹鴻說，電影中的葉問和現實裡的葉問有很大出入，當年葉問做師傅的時候已是人生失意期，沒有正當工作，只能靠教功夫才能養活老婆孩子。武館教十幾個學生，每個學生收幾塊錢，有時還沒有學生。
不過葉問很少說自己的事，但教功夫很有一套，告訴學生要學功夫就去打吧，不打怎麼知道行不行。不去打就不知道自己的功夫深淺。這種學習方式很適合梁紹鴻，他說，他從小不喜歡讀書，學歷不過小學畢業。他就喜歡打架，每天去醫院都是家常便飯，打架打多了就自然曉得功夫的奧妙。
現在70多歲的梁紹鴻領悟到功夫其實就是一種哲學，他說，作為人類，身體是有極限的，會老會病會有很多身體無法做到的事情，但智慧沒有極限。學習功夫不是單純模仿老師的一招一式，而是要學會自我創新和挑戰老師，在實戰中體會功夫各種力道的槓桿原理，以小勝大，以弱勝強。
梁紹鴻原本住在維吉尼亞州，但因治病要長期在加州停留，因此萌生在此地傳授功夫的想法。他說，如今學功夫的人越來越少，因為沒有時間堅持練習，打架也不再是肉搏而是使用武器，他只想在生命結束前，把自己對功夫的理解和經驗傳承下去。
在梁紹鴻20日授課現場匯集男女老幼，各個族裔。他不僅傳授詠春理論，還現場和學生演繹過招。他說，詠春拳首先要注意不是拼狠，而是不要被對方打到，不要受傷，之後要學習的才是要如何打別人，功夫的關鍵不是防守而是進攻。
Source of information:
http://baike.baidu.com/subview/4741537/13588482.htm
http://www.worldjournal.com/156839/article-%E6%A2%81%E7%B4%B9%E9%B4%BB%EF%BC%9A%E6%A2%81%E6%9C%9D%E5%81%89%E8%81%B0%E6%98%8E%E5%8B%9D%E9%81%8E%E6%9D%8E%E5%B0%8F%E9%BE%8D/
Tuesday, January 19, 2016
杨澜访谈录 黄西(Comedian Joe Wong) The road to Comedy Star喜剧表演之路 20121109
Source of information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3GT5SHiUrA
黄西出生于吉林省白山市的一个朝鲜族家庭。他家三代前从朝鲜半岛移民中国[1]。毕业
2000年黄西到麻州剑桥一家跨国基因制药公司 Sanofi-Aventis Genomics Center 实验室做科研。业余时间他就穿梭在新英格兰地区的酒吧、夜总会、俱乐部和大学礼堂，表
2010年3月的美国电视记者年会上，作为唯一受邀的谐星为总统和全国的媒体代表们表
Mr. Joe Wong was born in baishan city, jilin province a Korean family. His three generations ago from north Korea peninsula immigration China [1]. Graduated from jilin university, majoring in chemistry. Had read graduate student in Chinese academy of sciences. Travel to the United States in 1994 and in 1994 obtained a doctorate in biochemical rice university in Texas.
Mr. Wong to Cambridge in 2000 genes a multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi - Aventis Genomics Center laboratory to do research. Spare time he travels in the New England region of the bars, nightclubs, clubs and university auditorium, show his stand-up joke. Boston is the place where he started, the night viewing champion David letterman show, April 17, 2009 in the evening for the invited Chinese accent very heavy Wong (Joe Wong), American jokes in English, nearly six minutes show, the audience reaction. Mr. Wong was an instant hit. In the United States in 2009 universal "the birth of lies".
At the annual meeting of the American television journalists in March 2010, as the only invited comedian performance for the President and the national media representatives talk for 15 minutes.
Joe Wong (comedian)
Comedian Joe Wong
Joe Wong (Chinese: 黄西; pinyin: Huáng Xī, born 1970), is a Chinese American comedian and chemical engineer.[1] He was born to a Korean Chinese family[2] in Baishan, Jilin, China. His family moved from Korea to China three generations ago. He graduated from Jilin University and Chinese Academy of Sciences, before he went to further study chemistry at Rice University in Texas in 1994.[3] He moved to Boston in 2001 and began to perform his comedy at All Asia Bar, at Stash's Comedy Jam.
Although he had won numerous awards, he did not attract nationwide attention until after his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman on April 17, 2009.[4] His multiple appearances on TV, courtesy of Ellen DeGeneres, boosted his reputation further. On February 10, 2010 Wong made his second appearance Late Show,[5][6] and appeared again on March 30, 2012.
On St. Patrick's Day, 2010, he headlined the annual dinner hosted by the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.[7][8]
Wong documented his performances in United States and China, discussing his limitations and style in Chinese humor.
On June 19, 2010, he placed first in the Third Annual Great American Comedy Festival.
Awards: Finalist at the Boston International Comedy and Film Festival (May 2003)[9] Best Short Film award at the Cambridge Fringe Fest (March 2003)[9] Six-time winner of Standup Comedy Contest at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3GT5SHiUrA
黄西出生于吉林省白山市的一个朝鲜族家庭。他家三代前从朝鲜半岛移民中国[1]。毕业
2000年黄西到麻州剑桥一家跨国基因制药公司 Sanofi-Aventis Genomics Center 实验室做科研。业余时间他就穿梭在新英格兰地区的酒吧、夜总会、俱乐部和大学礼堂，表
2010年3月的美国电视记者年会上，作为唯一受邀的谐星为总统和全国的媒体代表们表
Mr. Joe Wong was born in baishan city, jilin province a Korean family. His three generations ago from north Korea peninsula immigration China [1]. Graduated from jilin university, majoring in chemistry. Had read graduate student in Chinese academy of sciences. Travel to the United States in 1994 and in 1994 obtained a doctorate in biochemical rice university in Texas.
Mr. Wong to Cambridge in 2000 genes a multinational pharmaceutical company Sanofi - Aventis Genomics Center laboratory to do research. Spare time he travels in the New England region of the bars, nightclubs, clubs and university auditorium, show his stand-up joke. Boston is the place where he started, the night viewing champion David letterman show, April 17, 2009 in the evening for the invited Chinese accent very heavy Wong (Joe Wong), American jokes in English, nearly six minutes show, the audience reaction. Mr. Wong was an instant hit. In the United States in 2009 universal "the birth of lies".
At the annual meeting of the American television journalists in March 2010, as the only invited comedian performance for the President and the national media representatives talk for 15 minutes.
Joe Wong (comedian)
Comedian Joe Wong
Joe Wong (Chinese: 黄西; pinyin: Huáng Xī, born 1970), is a Chinese American comedian and chemical engineer.[1] He was born to a Korean Chinese family[2] in Baishan, Jilin, China. His family moved from Korea to China three generations ago. He graduated from Jilin University and Chinese Academy of Sciences, before he went to further study chemistry at Rice University in Texas in 1994.[3] He moved to Boston in 2001 and began to perform his comedy at All Asia Bar, at Stash's Comedy Jam.
Although he had won numerous awards, he did not attract nationwide attention until after his appearance on Late Show with David Letterman on April 17, 2009.[4] His multiple appearances on TV, courtesy of Ellen DeGeneres, boosted his reputation further. On February 10, 2010 Wong made his second appearance Late Show,[5][6] and appeared again on March 30, 2012.
On St. Patrick's Day, 2010, he headlined the annual dinner hosted by the Radio and Television Correspondents' Association.[7][8]
Wong documented his performances in United States and China, discussing his limitations and style in Chinese humor.
On June 19, 2010, he placed first in the Third Annual Great American Comedy Festival.
Awards: Finalist at the Boston International Comedy and Film Festival (May 2003)[9] Best Short Film award at the Cambridge Fringe Fest (March 2003)[9] Six-time winner of Standup Comedy Contest at the Lizard Lounge in Cambridge, MA
Saturday, January 16, 2016
David Beckham
贝克汉姆（David Beckham）：离场，不散场 【开讲啦20140607】
The introduction for the first 8 mins is in Mandarin.
David Beckham's talk is in English with Chinese subtitle:
Source of information:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_igOxrC5ymw
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Friday, October 09, 2015
Prepared for change
Life belongs to the living and he who lives must be prepared for change.
--- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To cope with changes, one needs to have vision and courage to take oneself to the next best level.
Otherwise, the way we cope with changes maybe just a patch work done poorly...
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
--- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To cope with changes, one needs to have vision and courage to take oneself to the next best level.
Otherwise, the way we cope with changes maybe just a patch work done poorly...
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Meeting of minds
Conversation is a meeting of minds with different memories and habits.
When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them,
reshape them, draw different implications from them, and engage in new
trains of thought.
Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
---Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author
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I enjoy conversation with like-minded friends.
The exchange of facts, feeling, thought and emotion help our mind to grow/
The mental process engaged in conversation reshapes our perspective and create new understanding or knowledge!
It is a joyful process and I am glad that I have friends who share the same joys in conversation!
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
When minds meet, they don't just exchange facts: they transform them,
reshape them, draw different implications from them, and engage in new
trains of thought.
Conversation doesn't just reshuffle the cards: it creates new cards.
---Theodore Zeldin (b. 1933) Historian & Author
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I enjoy conversation with like-minded friends.
The exchange of facts, feeling, thought and emotion help our mind to grow/
The mental process engaged in conversation reshapes our perspective and create new understanding or knowledge!
It is a joyful process and I am glad that I have friends who share the same joys in conversation!
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Like hourglass...
Think of your life as an hourglass.
You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle.
Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass.
You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass...slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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I like the quote as I am now rushing too many things and do not take tasks one a a time.
Do take tasks one at a time and let them pass...
Do not stress your structure by overloading too many things at one go.
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle.
Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass.
You and I and everyone else are like this hourglass...if we do not take [tasks] one at a time and let them pass...slowly and evenly, then we are bound to break our own...structure.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
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I like the quote as I am now rushing too many things and do not take tasks one a a time.
Do take tasks one at a time and let them pass...
Do not stress your structure by overloading too many things at one go.
Dexterine Ho Soo Miang
Friday, June 19, 2015
The company of someone close to you
This period of time, when I need company for lunch and other activities, I am grateful to have someone close to me, a sister, to be around.
I am used to doing things independently, and when I find it hard to do it when I have too much thoughts distracting my concentration lately, I turn to one of my sisters for support, and she is always there for me.
This makes me feel touched and gives me a sense of security and contentment.
Thanks to have her company during this period of time!
I am grateful for her time, her reassuring words of encouragement!
I am used to doing things independently, and when I find it hard to do it when I have too much thoughts distracting my concentration lately, I turn to one of my sisters for support, and she is always there for me.
This makes me feel touched and gives me a sense of security and contentment.
Thanks to have her company during this period of time!
I am grateful for her time, her reassuring words of encouragement!
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