Dream, 是邪非邪 ?

 
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What’s a dream ?

A dream is not a dream when we are still in the middle of it, for we have no way of telling it is in fact,  a dream.

A dream is a dream only when we wake up from the dream (and can still recall it).

The isn’t much headline news to cheer about since 2008, especially [...]

Of Day, Of Night

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It will be 春分 (“chun fen”) this Friday Mar 20, after which there will  be light rain around 清明 (“Qing Ming”), April 4, the day to remember our ancestors. ( “清明時節雨紛紛，路上行人欲斷魂 …”, see posting 春分 (chun fen) : beginning of 2nd Major Qi Period).
Sakura will blossom in Tokio between 春分 and 清明. The impact of  Qing [...]

Ordinary Greatness , 聖人無名

Dear Friends,
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In America, each ex-President is given some fund to build a “Library” to commemorate himself.  Wonder who will visit “George W Bush’s Library” ?
Or in all American universities, we find names attached to this hall or that building, names of either the rich or the famous. When they tried to name the [...]

Beyond 8×7 and 8×8

Dear Friend,
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The current economic downturn  the world over has caused much anxiety, especially to many old people in the Westernised society.
I say “Westernised society” because the family value system is that of “nuclear family”, consisting of only two generations, i.e. parents and kids (and maybe with a pet thrown in).
Then the kids leave, dropping by their parents’ [...]

Zhu Geliang (“諸葛亮”): The Macro Tuner

Dear Friends,

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Some of you may be lucky enough to have used an old radio before.
Unlike the digital tuning, tuning into a particular radio station is done manually by turning the tuning nob.
Typically there are 2 tuning nobs :

Rough-tuner   : allows one to search over the spectrum quickly to detect various stations available,
Fine-tuner      : allows one [...]