ch request 2 : Leadership and Crisis Management

Dear Friends,
  image from www.britannica.com.
 
The last 10 days have seen quite a few crises for leaderships all over the world to deal with :

contaminated dairy products from China,

the melt-down of US financial sector,

badawi fighting for another day in office,

run on Bank of East Asia (my friend’s Uncle’s bank !)

Typhoon Hagupit blasting ROP, HK and Guangdong,

etc etc [...]

Hunger Crisis

Dear Friends,

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CH sent me a circular earlier regarding  a petition asking G8 leaders and UN Secretary General to commit to providing aids to help some of the world’s poorest countries in fighting the on-going hunger crisis.
CH attached a website for joining the petition : http://www.one.org/un2008/?rc=un2008taf
.
In earlier posting “It’s the food(energy), stupid !” : Averting [...]

What’s in a name ? That which we call a Rose

Dear Friends,
    
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There were much racist remarks in the bolehland of late. Be it a sign of increased polarisation or crude political plot, it is timely to Have a Pavilion and look at this from a distance.
I have commented earlier about the story of the seven blind men, each insisting that his [...]

5th Major Qi Period of 戊子年 (2008)

Dear Friends,

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Yesterday was 白露 (“Bai lu”), beginning on Sept 7 and will last for 15 days.
白露 means “white dew in the morning”(on tree leaves especially), signifying the first chill that’s coming as we go deeper into the Autumn. You will feel a drop in temperature and cooler/dryer wind in the next couple of [...]

CH’s Request1 : Teenage Pregnancy, what’s the real deal ?

Dear Friends,

Sarah Palin brought something serious to the table : Teenage Pregnancy.

    
image from www.pregnantteenhelp.org                 www.statcan.ca
    image from www.matlocktv.com
In posting Your growth/reproductive pattern, we saw the patterns in both male and female as per classical Chinese Medicine. Here is a recap of part of the cycle :
First, for the ladies :

1×7=7 yr   : permanent teeth replacing primary teeth, hairs [...]

a fish called Palin

Dear Friends,

image from www.math.canterbury.ac.nz
 
mf mentioned something about Zhuang Zi in one of the comments on posting mf’s request1 : maths of PCO. It reminds me of the old posting 莊子 (Zhuang Zi) : the Fish KUN and the Bird PENG, especially when the media suddenly found their darling in Sarah Palin.
To recap, 莊子 wrote :

“北冥有魚，其名為鯤。鯤之大，不知其幾千里也。化而為鳥，其名為鵬。鵬之背，不知其幾千里也；怒而飛，其翼若垂天之雲。”
“There is a [...]

YL’s request1 : Shoulder pain

Dear Friends,
this is in response to YL’s shoulder pain.
Acupuncture is very effective on shoulder point, but unfortunately not something you can DIY at home.
One specific point to loosen the joint and the pain.
Select opposite side of the leg. Use a hard and round top pressure stick to press the acupoint point called “Cheng shan” (承山).

This [...]

mf’s request1 : maths of PCO

Dear Friends,
It turns out to be a very bad idea to ask for suggestion for something to write.
mf suggested I write a simple piece on how to calculate PCO (Personal Cosmic Orientation).
Hmmmmm.
孔子 (Confucius) reminded us that :

“未知生，焉知死” (if we have yet to know how to live, how are we capable of comprehending death [...]

Running out of idea

Dear Friends,
My brain is cooked by the Strong Fire of 2008.
Anything you want to write or want me to write on ?
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