Originally posted by bizzkit0102:

Hey, even in NTU PRC's attitudes are also just as shitty. Every time there's free buffet after some recruitment talk by some company, All of a sudden a bunch of PRCs will flock to the place and eat the free food. They cut queues and do shit stuff like that as well. At least the worst ugly singaporeans will still at least attend the talk even if they ultimately have no interest in joining the company.

PRCs always like to pot call the kettle black. Honestly most of the time, I always emphasise that I am Singaporean and just because I am chinese, do not associate me with anything from PRC.

I am not so sure about PRCs speaking bad about us behind our backs but I won't be surprised if they actually do so, seeing that even their best brains have so little class. Really, I feel most/all of them speak english in such a fake, indecipherable accent that is neither amusing nor comprehensible.

there are misunderstandings here, yes, prc donot like to attend the talks ,whatever talks you are talking about, because they have their own world, they prefer to read novel or else, i know many prc who have already publish some novel, they are really good in writing, so let's take the chronicle in NTU as a example, at my time, the PRC are not keen to publish anything on the "chronicle", because they are more capable to publish books, so i guess, the talented writer would not like to publish on a small media like chronicle, and expose their real name.in the chronicle there is a section publish chinese articles. 

And another guy, pennamed"MKX" search his blog on google.

He have been to 60 countries, and write stories on that, get payed by that,

i think they are very capable, but i am not one of them, but one interesting thing about these student or engineer who is in the mean time a writer or jounalist, is that they are self centered, maybe they are not so good in socialising. 

 

Originally posted by bizzkit0102:

Hey, even in NTU PRC's attitudes are also just as shitty. Every time there's free buffet after some recruitment talk by some company, All of a sudden a bunch of PRCs will flock to the place and eat the free food. They cut queues and do shit stuff like that as well. At least the worst ugly singaporeans will still at least attend the talk even if they ultimately have no interest in joining the company.

PRCs always like to pot call the kettle black. Honestly most of the time, I always emphasise that I am Singaporean and just because I am chinese, do not associate me with anything from PRC.

I am not so sure about PRCs speaking bad about us behind our backs but I won't be surprised if they actually do so, seeing that even their best brains have so little class. Really, I feel most/all of them speak english in such a fake, indecipherable accent that is neither amusing nor comprehensible.

there are misunderstandings here, yes, prc donot like to attend the talks ,whatever talks you are talking about, because they have their own world, they prefer to read novel or else, i know many prc who have already publish some novel, they are really good in writing, so let's take the chronicle in NTU as a example, at my time, the PRC are not keen to publish anything on the "chronicle", because they are more capable to publish books, so i guess, the talented writer would not like to publish on a small media like chronicle, and expose their real name

Originally posted by Aver:

Chinese and Overseas-Chinese are very different.

Christians say to each other "Peace be with you", they see you at peace, they leave you in peace and be glad. If they want to talk to you, they say "hello" or "hi" and it is your freedom whether you want to befriend them and they respect it. This is to me, the Good and the Light.

But the Chinese motto is "I want to irritate you", they see you at Peace, they will come and harrass and irritate you, when you ignore them and continue with your life, they will continue their harrassment until you give them a respond ( be it an angry shout) and they will feel very glad because they acheived their goal of irriating you. To me this is evil. It is very sad to see them become this way. It is indeed very sad.

I am harrassed by them and am still is, they ruined the peace in my life, they let the dogs bark and sound the car hore continuously or everytime you passby. They want to make me depress and end my life.  

Overseas-Chinese chose the Light, they may not be christians, but they live with the good values.

Chinese can still change and be saved by teaching the correct values in schools, to begin with they should teach they young that the correct value is not to lie, and discourage lying because if they whole community is lying, their minds are confused and devils looms in the community. The ten commandments in the bible is the most simple and basic values to make your society a good place to live in. Just my 2 cents.

I may not be able to live long.

i don't know what you are talking about, i tell you one thing, christian value is a value, confucius value is a value, buddhism value is a value, chinese have it's own value, and i think have deeper meaning than christian value.

Originally posted by oldbreadstinks:

interesting isn't it? its not any other country but china, there must be something different about the people from china right?

i think the best way to integrate the difference is to talk to each other, since, local singapore consist of indian , malay ,and chinese, which is more different, why local or local chinese cannot be integrated with prc chinese?

Originally posted by Fantagf:

Understandable.   More encountering more nuisance from the Chinese national.   if bad encounters with them are very very rare, believe nobody will make noise about it. 

NOtice majority (not all of them) are very inconsiderate, talk very loudly, cause disturbance.

this generation of prc is inconsiderate, quite true, because they are the only child in the family, being spoiled by parents.

Originally posted by An Eternal Now:

Awareness cannot ease your physical pain.

But when there is a release of the reference point, the centerpoint, the 'I', 'me', 'experiencer', one does not react as much to the physical sensations and cause more mental reactions and aversions and suffering.

Perhaps, Thusness and Longchen can elaborate?

i think psychological pain is always greater than physical, and i used suffering from toothache, but now even i don't bush my teeth quite often, my tooth no longer pain.

You know the human body is a whole, that's what chinese medicine think that way, so western medicine, usually when you feel stomackache, or headache, they will diagnose on your stomack or head, but chinese medicine is the other way round, they will check your lung, or liver. So i think pschological pain and physical pain are correlated

human is walking animal, unmerciful, aggressive, adaptable, desire.Want to rule them all

i found one interesting thing in this forum is anything related with china will provoke a huge response from the folks, keep up with the good work

stupid thread, where does this "jackjoelee" come from, i don't understand his chinese. I think he must be some local PRC, i cannot understand either his english or chinese.

Originally posted by themoment86:

As topic..i can't surf website using IE..it always prompt page not found or page cannot be displayed..but the thing is i can connect to msn..and whenever i close the existing IE and open a new 1 my homepage will pop out..i can search for something but when i click the link..i got the error again...

 

seriously need help..i need to do my project but i got no IE to use!!!

repair ie le

Originally posted by airgrinder:

I'm a fan. Thanks. Hoho

Jinyong most successful wuxia writer, definitely a lot of fan.

ok, take zhao min as an example, she is mogolian descendent, from a noble family, love hard and hate hard, pretty fit northern women personality, huang rong, southern woman, delecate, smart, good at literature ,mathmatics.

Originally posted by Catknight:

I find it difficult to trust a china woman in a relationship even at a platonic level...Jing yong has misled many overseas chinese men lol:)

it's the same when it comes to sg woman, sounds like you have been cheated by prc girls, ah. I don't think you can make a judge to all chinese women, unless you have been to china, and be together with a chinese women for a long time, don't be seduced by those beauty chicks, usually they are meterial animal.

Originally posted by An Eternal Now:

Initially while practicing mindfulness, awareness appears to be a sense of standing back and watching, that awareness is a watcher in an esoteric space untouched by 'external' arising and ceasing, later it appears that that all things appear IN awareness, and finally it is realised that the "thing arising and passing" itself IS Awareness. Then all duality collapses.

More discussed in this topic: Reflection and Presence: The Dialectic of Awakening

the good thing about standing behind the scene, watch things ceasing and arising, is that sometimes could ease your pain, then time longer enough, your mind could really be peaceful. Aware but not attached, yes

i think read more taoism or buddhism stuff, could help you settled, it works for me,

good article, but maybe i come back later and read it, keep up with the good work

 

Originally posted by JitKiat:

Anybody can explain the answer to 根本大问??

无明，《华严经》上的妄想所讲的是根本无明，是属於根本无明。根本无明，大经里面告诉我们，一念不觉而有无明，这是讲最初你怎麽迷的。这个问题在大乘教里面叫根本大问，我本来是佛，为什麽我会有一念无明？为什麽起一念无明？什麽时候起的一念无明？什麽原因起的一念无明？这个一念，这问题困扰人。

《楞严经》第四卷里面，原来富楼那尊者也是同样的问题问释迦牟尼佛。你为什麽会起这一念？一念不觉，为什麽会起这一念？几时起的一念？《楞严经》上很长的一段经文。读《楞严经》很多，有几个人懂？如果真懂了，你就成佛了。你没有真懂，你还是凡夫。  - Master CK

宗镜录 discusses the same thing:

伏以真源湛寂，觉海澄清，绝名相之端，无能所之迹。最初不觉，忽起动心，成业识之由，为觉明之咎。因明起照，见分俄兴，随照立尘，相分安布，如镜现像，顿起根身。 

 

are you talking about the question, since everyone have buddha seeds in nature, why people is blinded by delusion? actually there is the answer on sutra, but i cannot remember

知暖知冷而心非冷暖；知动知静而心无动静

sounds like hearing but no hearer,

sounds like the position of standing behind the scene,watch the thing up and down, which is right path ,middle thinking

Originally posted by SPLIT SECOND:

i wish those poor animals are given superpower strength by god to hit back those bastads , do the same things to them and rape their mums and sis...bloody m#theryfa$kers...

my wife will feel very sad watching this since she is a animal lover...looking at the look of despair on the animals faces.

i wish the whole of China get infected by Sars and die, at least their population which is increasing at a alarming rate will decrease...

 

 

you r funny, the PRC people also critisize the people abuse animal ferociously, don't generalise it,it's an isolated inncident

FOR as long as people have vied for sporting glory, they have also sought shortcuts to the champion’s rostrum. Often, those shortcuts have relied on the assistance of doctors. After all, most doping involves little more than applying existing therapies to healthy bodies. These days, however, the competition is so intense that existing therapies are not enough. Now, athletes in search of the physiological enhancement they need to take them a stride ahead of their opponents are scanning medicine’s future, as well as its present. In particular, they are interested in a field known as gene therapy.

Gene therapy works by inserting extra copies of particular genes into the body. These extra copies, known as “transgenes”, may cover for a broken gene or regulate gene activity. Though gene therapy has yet to yield a reliable medical treatment, more than 1,300 clinical trials are now under way. As that number suggests, the field is reckoned to be full of promise.

As far as sport is concerned, the top transgene on the list, according to Jim Rupert, an anti-doping expert at the University of British Columbia, is the gene for erythropoietin. EPO, as it is known for short, is a hormone that regulates the production of red blood cells. It is already available as a drug (it was one of the first products of biotechnology companies in the late 1980s), and it has been used widely in endurance sports such as long-distance cycling. But if an athlete’s body could be stimulated to make more of it that would—from the athlete’s point of view—be better than taking it in drug form.

No dopes

The reason is that EPO, like most performance-enhancing drugs, is banned. However, bans work only when they are enforced, and that requires a test which can distinguish synthetic EPO from the natural hormone made by an athlete’s body. At the moment, this is possible. The EPO from a biotechnology company’s vats has a slightly different chemical structure from the natural sort. But the evidence suggests that EPO produced as a result of gene therapy will be far harder to distinguish.

In fact, EPO doping may already have happened. In 2006, during the trial of Thomas Springstein, a German coach accused of doping his underage charges, it transpired that Repoxygen, an experimental gene-therapy product containing the gene for EPO, was already making the rounds on the black market. Repoxygen causes a controlled release of EPO, but only when the body senses a lack of oxygen. Or at least it does so in mice.

Whether black-market Repoxygen has won any races is unknown. But several other genetic therapies being tested in mice also look as if they may interest the sort of men and women who feel their athletic performance needs a little boost.

Like EPO, vascular endothelial growth factor spurs red-blood-cell formation and thus helps to supply tissues with oxygen. The gene that encodes this protein is the subject of several medical studies, and is thus a prime candidate for sporting use.

IGF-1 is also a growth factor—though it promotes brawniness in muscle rather than the production of blood cells. Inject the gene that encodes it into a particular muscle and you can affect that muscle and no other. Such specificity might be of interest to people like tennis players and javelin throwers. Meanwhile, a gene called MSTN encodes a protein called myostatin, which limits rather than enhances muscle development. In this case, therefore, the doping is designed to switch the gene off. The result is what have been nicknamed “Schwarzenegger” mice.

Once brawny muscles have been acquired, whether licitly or illicitly, other genes might then be used to tune their activity. Tweaking PPAR-delta, for instance, alters the way muscles obtain their energy. The individual fibres that comprise a muscle can run in one of two modes. In slow-twitch mode they burn fat, and are less prone to fatigue. In fast-twitch mode they burn sugar. That makes them prone to fatigue, but is useful for delivering short bursts of power. Both modes are valuable to athletes, but in different types of event. The ability to make muscle fibres specialise in one mode or the other would thus be of great benefit to unscrupulous coaches. PPAR-delta controls the switch.

Finally, animal studies on the genes for natural pain-killers called endorphins suggest that these could be used to limit the perception of pain—another desirable trait for athletes. That might consign the adage “no pain, no gain” to the history books.

There is thus a lot of potential. And although—the Springstein incident aside—there is no evidence that any of these techniques have made their way into real athletes, the authorities are taking no chances.

The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), sensed several years ago which way the wind was blowing. In 2003 it issued a proclamation banning “the non-therapeutic use of genes, genetic elements and/or cells that have the capacity to enhance athletic performance”. It followed this by putting its money where its mouth was. Since much of gene doping’s allure derives from its alleged undetectability, WADA committed $7.8m—a quarter of its research budget for 2004-07—to 21 projects intended to develop ways of detecting it. Now another $6.5m is up for grabs.

Broadly, there are two ways of spending this money usefully. The direct approach focuses on improving ways of detecting differences between truly natural and “therapeutically enhanced” proteins or, failing that, on detecting the “vector” used to inject the transgenes into the places where they will operate. Such vectors are often particular sorts of virus.

The indirect approach seeks second-hand signs of the transgene or its vector. Viruses, for example, may produce a characteristic immune response that can be detected. Meanwhile the transgenes themselves may alter the body’s proteome (the set of proteins active in it at any given time) or its metabolome (a list of all the by-products of the chemical reactions that go on in each cell). Changes to either of these “-omes” can, in principle, be detected in blood or urine. What is needed are points of comparison. This requires working out the typical “biosignatures” of elite sportsmen as a group, or indeed of each individual, as a baseline.

Testing times

Whether gene doping will make its debut in Beijing remains to be seen—or perhaps not, if it is as hard to detect as its protagonists hope. Theodore Friedmann of the University of California, San Diego, who heads WADA’s Gene Doping Panel, reckons it probably won’t happen this time. He does not think there is, yet, a form of gene therapy that could easily be used to enhance performance. As for Dr Rupert, he says, “I would be surprised. But I have been surprised before.” It would be ironic if the first successful application of gene therapy were to people who are among the fittest on the planet. But it is possible.

 

Originally posted by AndrewPKYap:

Of course leave, all things being equal. If you move to Thailand, you become not 1st or 2nd class, you become Super-Class.

 

lol

get marry loh

then if money is the only thing you got, no wonder these girls will cheat you for money

then you should apply tactics

i do great this year, will do better, next year