Silk Wedding Anniversary

May 26th is me and my wife’s wedding day. This year is our fourth anniversary, or so-called “silk wedding”.
We were pretty low-key on our anniversary, as usual. We know that gifts are nice and heart-warming, but time spent together values more. If we were to celebrate, our typical choice is usually go to a nice [...]

The Art of Translation and TCM

Ever since meditation and Chan has entered into my life to open my mind and heart, I have always wanted to make contributions to the people and the world as much as possible. I am hardly achieving anything yet, but I am constantly learning and growing with that goal in mind. Lately I have committed [...]

Saying Thank You!

Have you ever counted how many times a day you say “Thank you” to other people? It takes a nerd to do that, but the point is, we often say it less often than we should. To the delivery person, to the clerk, or to anyone who does service for us or help us — [...]

Vote for Your Favorite Doodle

Thousands of students from K-12 participated in the doodling competition held by Google under the theme “What I wish for the world.” (The event has been going on for a while but I noticed it just today when I opened the Google homepage.) They played around Google’s logo (i.e., “Google”) by incorporating their interpretation of [...]

Slow Down — And the Prisoner’s Dilemma

We have seen more and more people advocating and subscribing to simple living. When the material satisfaction has way exceeded our basic needs, it rarely add much additional value to our body and mind. (Consider from a Honda to an Acura, and to a BMW, etc.) Likewise, when the world has been moving fast and [...]

Cancer Vaccine Extends Survival — A Breakthrough or Not?

Every once in a while an improved treatment of cancer comes out, sometimes a breakthrough or a completely new way of treatment. These scientific advances by themselves are exciting achievements, but from a patient’s point of view (which is what really matters) they are not. A scientific result can be overthrown by a later study [...]

All Drugs are Poisons

The report below shows one simple truth: All drugs, FDA approved or not, are dangerous and harmful to your health. Even supplements such as vitamin supplements are not good. The best source of vitamins is food. Eat balanced diet instead of taking supplements. These drugs add burden to the liver — and over time, damage [...]

2009 Easter Egg Contest

2009 Easter Egg contest was held at my wife’s workplace. There were two winners. Most Creative — Black Hawk helicopter, and The Prettiest — Mr. Peacock. The pictures of all entries from all the participants are included below. Can you tell which were the two winners? (should be pretty obvious!)
Enjoy.

A Few Things That the Past Few Days Have Taught me

In this world we always encounter and deal with people different from us. They are different in ethnicity, culture, language, education level, political stand, and so on. We as mature modern citizens have learned to respect these differences, some of which in fact have greatly enriched the society and humanity. Yet, some people are different [...]

Looking up in the Sky

We joined a group of other people in a school event to go to the Griffith Observatory in LA yesterday. We did not drive. We all took the bus and the trolley to the observatory. It took about one hour or so. This is my first time to the observatory, as it was under construction [...]

Do Crabs Feel Pain?

For Buddhists, they don’t need scientists to tell them crabs feel pain. Of course they do — they are sentient beings. They are beings in the animal realm out of the Ten Realms in the universe. They are beings no more or less than us human beings. While an understanding based on “belief” may easily [...]

Public Policy

As I was looking for a job, I came across this non-profit organization that does research to advise the current public policy or guide a future one. This struck a chord with me as I am a firm believer of improving human welfare through a more people-centered instead of politician-centered policy. So I applied, although [...]