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Where got roller coaster, all this while only low tide with wild waves hitting the roacks only lah. Stand on top of rock, when strong wave comes hit the rock, quickly grasp some "splash" to solve the thirst first.

Hard to get ppl nowaday like you to interpret my "poem" so correctly, congratulation! You have won the 1st price! Slaves remained slaves because they are not aware they are slaves. Some kings do not aware they are kings yet prefer choose to be slaves.

Some more: No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or by emotional appeal. I can write above words so you can know my "standard" liao.

I'm none of above but merely a copycat, not catwoman nor catman. I love reading history. The quote came from Frankl who was the only survivor during the DEAD CAMP.His dear ones all being tortured to death. One day he was fully naked, locked in a cell, "suddenly" he realised he has "freedom to response" to his environment. He was a "teacher" after the deadcamp. Frankl was just one of the many who have been able to develop the personal freedom in difficult circumstances. "I'm what i am today because of the choices I made yesterday."

Children got ipod and ipad, wife got iphone. I receive ibill and therefore ipaid till idie.

Chinese saying:" One kind of rice feeds hundred types of ppls". All these will invite "human disasters". Cause & effect. At comfort of oneself but expense of others....How would YOU react when you see ppl around u spending at yr expenses, and they themself live comfortably? Sow a thought, reap an action; sow an action, reap a habit; sow a habit, reap a character; sow a character, reap a destiny. Thought and destiny are related.

You must be tired of living liao. Better read first, "prevention is better than cure".

ipaid.

Cash is king, liabilities are slaves. All wish to be king, not slaves, unless the slaves want to remain as slaves.

Here I come again on "small" & big" months in chinese calender. Rule: The day on which the new Moon occurs is the first day of the month. The length of the months are determined astronomically. Suppose a lunar month is 29.5days, and starts with a new Moon at 13h on May 1. The next new Moon then takes place at 1h on May31, so the month has 30 days. But if the new Moon occurred at 1h on May 1, then the next new Moon would be at 13h on May 30, so the new month would start one day earlier, and we would only get 29days in the month. A month with 29 days is called 小月, a month with 30 days is called 大月. From a naive point of view, we would expect them to more or less alternate, with occasionally two long months, lián dà(连大), in a row. This was the method until the start of the Táng(唐)dynasty in 619, when the mean Moon, píng shuò(平朔), was abandoned in favor of the true Moon, dìng shuò(定朔). Because of Kepler’s Second Law, the lunations will be longer in the winter and shorter in the summer(Month turns around the earth faster during summer than it does in winter!). It turns out that it is possible to have up to four big months or three small months in a row. An example of four big months as follow: New Moon Length 1990 Oct.1˜ 8 23h 36m 29d 17h 29m 1990 Nov.1˜ 7 17h 5m 29d 19h 17m 1990 Dec.1˜ 7 12h 22m 29d 19h 28m 1991 Jan.1˜ 6 7h 50m 29d 17h 42m For (Feb 03 2011–Jan 22 2012), 辛卯nian, remember, i mention the word "nian": 1-30days 2-29days 3-30days 4-29days 5-29days 6-30days 7-29days 8-29days 9-30days 10-29days 11-30days 12-29days Total = 353 days! Short of "11" days as compare to Gregorian calendar's 364days. Another thing worth to mention about WHERE to observe the new moon: Before 1929 the computations were based on the meridian in Beijing (116deg, 25min), but in 1928 China adopted a standard time zone based on 120deg East. Since 1949 the Purple Mountain Observatory in Nanjing has been responsible for calendrical calculations in China. Now all of you see HOW these political decisions/changes affect the calender and therefere affect the DOB & therefore one's so called "Bazi". Zi Ping must be crying loud and try ways & means to stop all these changes for HIS THEORIES to be held true. (there were still many changes I did not mention here) Note: Gregorian calendar's 2012 will have "chinese leap month" in 21/4/2012 (四月初一）, 21/5/2012 also (四月初一).

1. Not true. Monthly installment = monthly principal + monthly interest. VL=Monthly installment x approximately 23yr. The longer the loan tenure will hit the VL because of the monthly interest amount. 2. OA usage is very very limited, gov is smart. Depending on individual's comfort zone, 2yrs reserve should be quite ok. 3. True enough, but who wants to die young?

Put 4 pillar issue aside first, I'll show u WHAT i'm talking about - take times, needs to draw some tables. Let me explain some basic stuff on the chinese calender which I believed most are not so aware of: A solar year (or tropical year) is the time from one spring equinox to the next. It is on average 365.2422 days. A lunar month(or synodic month) is the time from one new Moon to the next. It is on average 29.53 days. A lunar year consisting of 12 lunar months equals on the average 354.3671 days, which is about 11 days shorter than a solar year. This was a fundamental problem for the ancients. They tried to find a longer resonance cycle and discovered that 235 lunar months is almost the same as 19 tropical years. The difference is only about two hours. This is called the Metonic cycle after the Greek astronomer Meton who used it in 432 BCE, but it was known to the Babylonians by around 500 BCE and to the Chinese around 600 BCE. A lunar calendar ignores the Sun and the seasons but follows the Moon. The main example is the Muslim calendar. Since 12 lunar months is about 11 days shorter than the tropical year, the Islamic holidays regress through the seasons. Lunisolar calendars use lunar months to approximate the tropical year. Examples are the Jewish and Chinese calendars. Since 12 months are about 11 days shorter than the tropical year, a leap month (intercalary month) is inserted about every third year to keep the calendar in tune with the seasons. Notice that the Chinese calendar is not a lunar calendar! The Chinese name 阴阳历，which means lunisolar calendar. One method of inserting leap months is to follow nature. An aboriginal tribe in Taiwan would go out to sea with lanterns at the new Moon at the end of the 12th month. If the migrating flying fish appeared, there would be fish for New Year’s dinner. If not, they would wait one month. A more predictable method is to use the Metonic cycle. Since 235 = 29x12 + 7, it follows that we need to insert 7 leap months in each 19-years period. This is the method used in the Jewish calendar, and was used in the Chinese calendar before 104 BCE. It is important to understand that the Chinese calendar is a combination of two calendars, a solar calendar and a lunisolar calendar. The solar calendar starts at the December solstice and follows the 24 节气. This is traditionally called the farmer’s calendar (农历). The lunisolar calendar starts at Chinese New Year and consists of 12 or 13 months. This is what most people think of as the Chinese calendar, and the term farmer’s calendar has come to refer to the lunisolar calendar, even though it is not suitable for farmers. There are therefore two different years in the Chinese calendar, the suì(岁)and the nián(年). A suì（岁） is the solar year from one December solstice to the next. A nián（年）is the Chinese year from one Chinese New Year to the next. The length of a nián can be 353, 354 or 355 days in case of a normal year and 383, 384 or 385 days in case of a leap year. Just as we think of the Gregorian year as an approximation to the tropical year, most ppl think of the nián as an approximation to the suì. Will explain what/how make up of "small" and "big" months in chinese calender, in next post. Very mentally tired now liao.

This is part and parcel of life, not uncommon. Always practicality and safety come hand in hand. Let me help yr imagination to run wild: If get injured, depend on seriousness, if minor, "fix the injury" on the spot, if serious get ambulance and rush to hospital. Then, follow by action of "compensation".

Like function of stirer in cup of coffee, mix all soluble ingredients together, however, unsoluble ones still sink at bottom after each hard stir.

Booked under which housing scheme?

With "heart", nothing is impossible!

IC. Yr idea seems coincide with LT's opinions. Nevertheless, if can't get the ready-made, can always join this and make oil painting for your own, will keep it for life: http://www.myartspace.com.sg/index.html Note: I've kept 2 given paintings(customised, hand-made, one and the only one)of great sentimental value in store room for years liao. May be will put them in my coffin when i'm called home by the Lord.

One comment: I love her style, can syn and dance with me.

I guess i'm sort of out-dated liao, u're refering to commercial public service TV network? What I meant is this iTV, no more with bui-in tuner section, everything wireless. Telco will "air" TV programmes, not only through coxial cable. Something very similar to a wireless TV, voice-command operation, can communicate with hifi set/sound box, mobile handset....

LOL, should put you up there---carry more weight!

I've just googled and found this: http://www.natural-salt-lamps.com/howdosaltlampswork.html It is a "typical"- "flower seller says flower nice" self-explanatory. Doesn't writer aware the "chloride" gas is highly poison which attack throat & lung? Recalled what the Germans did when they blew this gas to their opposite camp?. Producing chloride gas is easy & simple. Just prepare a glass of salt water, apply a 12Vdc electrodes into the glass, at -ve electrode, this gas(slight yellowish) would be observed. Sodium by itself is highly "explosive" when it gest in touch with water....You can try dropping a small pc of metallic sodium into a glass of water & see what'll happen.

Allow me to chip in and long-winded a bit. Reative ppls are often afftected by their physical environment. If the weather is good, they feel good. If it isn't, it affects their attitude and their performance. Proactive ppls can carry their own weather with them. Whether it rains or shines makes no different to them. They are value driven and if their value is to produce good quality work, it isn't a function of weather is conducive to it or not. Reactive ppls are also affected by their "social enviornment".When ppls treat them well, they feel good, when ppls don't, they become defensive or protective. Reactive ppls build they emotional lives around the behavior of others, empowering the weakness of other ppls to control them. The ability to subordinate an impulse to a value is the essence of the proactive ppls. Reactive ppls are driven by feeling, by circumstances, by conditions, by their environment. Proactive ppls are driven by values-carefully thought about, selected and internalised values. Proactive ppls are still influenced by external stimuli, whether physical, social, or psychological. But their response to the stimuli, conscious or unconsciuos, is a value-based choice or response. Quotes: "No one can hurt you without your consent" "They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them". It is our willing permission, our consent to what happens to us, than hurt us far more than what happens to us in the first place. The same goes to our dear Ivy, Please don't thank me. Read the above a few times till u understand, digest and apply it..

Snap on. If things money can handle, let money does the job!

Visited a few times liao. Last time get Q number, ordered food and wait for number to be called. Now, need to Q-up, time consuming le. Uncles, anuties occupied the space, sigh..

Gauranteed you cannot get. Saw only 2D picture showing water flowing "Down", never see picture with water flowing "In". Now go to Thailand, sure see water flowing into the houses.