Today's discoveries about Jung

ah ah....

His religious view, a more human and contemp view, about God and Job's situation....
in Answer to Job

It is so interestingly similar in terms of the intensity and destruction & creativity impacted on me and that between the breakup of Jung & Freud, and my own breakup with my academic father, and in a way only have I realized that I need to grow up and stand up as an independent woman...

busy like ....

I am in "deep water fire hot" Chinese saying for sooooo busy in the deepest shxt...

have so much homework to turn in today....
I think I'd di....e.....


ah My Lord help help!

It is amazing!!!!
How come you can get >>>>>???

our culture relentlessly seduce us to emptiness and disconnection from God

Dearest David,

What you said is soooooooooooo succinctly true!

Allow me to quote you and share with many Christians and non-Christians here:

"What I have learned (at considerable personal cost) about being disconnected from God is that this division is always the result of my looking to the world for purpose rather than our Creator. Inevitably, after some consternation, I awaken to the reality that our cultural compasses are perpetually disorienting.

Contemporary culture relentlessly encourages us, even seduces us, to irrevocably link our identity to its trappings -- what we do, what we have, who we're with, and he like. But all of these connections are temporal. In the end, if we take our bearings from the culture around us, we are destined to experience emptiness, which it then offers to fill with various distractions and forms of sedation."

I have to say, you put it in words my deepest worry and sadness....

Let me keep praying...

to my love. to myself. Love and let myself rest rest rest.
Where is God in my life?

Sand Arts: The Passion of Christ

Watch as artist and narrator Joe Castillo presents the message of the Cross in sand art ... an amazing presentation of the Gospel.

The Christian Broadcasting Network

Sand Arts and Worship

Sand Arts

Sand Arts: Gardening

My brother and I graduate together as PhDs!!!!

Finally, and destiny, and thankfulness of God that my brother and I graduate together, and our names on the same page of the PhD graduation name list in Medical Faculty of our university 2007-2008.

Sandplay Therapist

H.G. Wells, author and father whose book inspired Margaret Lowenfeld to her "World Technique", and who in turns inspires Dora Klaff, who was encouraged by C.G. Jung to combine Jungian theory and the use of sand as the medium of healing, and growing of the unconscious.

I am going to do my first sandtray with an International Society of Sandplay Therapist in Taipei!!!!!

Feb 09 is my first trip!!!


From ： www.bluedoorretreat.com/Sandplay.html

Mid-Autumn Festival: a new academic year

A new academic year, with so many new colleagues, students, and we enjoyed the largest BBQ celebration of Mid-Autumn Festival in a park near to our office.


We had a dressing code for the first Friday of each month.

And this month, as seen in the photo, is camerflage.

And on the next day, it is my lovely younger brother's birthday, and 2 of my colleagues made a potato + beef birthday cake for him!

Really very very nice colleagues.
And they are very aggressive in their work too!

Challenges & What I want for next spiritual year

What I want to do?

I feel less overwhelmed now. I am in much better shape.
Although I still have tons of assignments to do.

It is a great help to take up Biblical work.
This coming year, I'd like to focus on Bible study, digest and reflect on biblical verse.
I have taken up to study and learn as a sunday school student for Jushua, new to me. As I have not studied that before.

And also, after a serious prayer last sunday service, and then miraclous discussion with Cl, I'd take up a 6 time bible study on eg emotion maturity. I'd need to pray and reflect and pray for that.

How can I take up all these roles....

But I need them to fuel me. I need the Book of Truth in my life and as my fuel.

It is so reassuring, after I have made such a prayer about next year's direction of my church work, I can't just float around without any church work...., I came to the biblical verse Joshua 1:7-9. Wow...

Serve Our Father together

Need to reiterate again, as this is so sweet and true deep in my heart

30 July 2008

So now, I get it.

I look and wait for someone with whom we can serve our Father together in totality, as a family together headed by Jesus Christ, and SERVE together in support of each other, and each other's family.

This is particularly me, my wish, my life's wish, and my future family & partner's wish.

My love wish.

Amen.

Just be frank and straightforward about it.

I do have a criteria now.

God, may I?

God, can I be frank about this?

Father God, I love you, and I wish WE can serve you together, holding hands in hands, heart to heart together, love you together. Support each other to love you together.

I feel so much being supported and happy and all... and be fulfilled.

God, can we love you together? Help each other to love you at times of difficulty together????

I would be so 幸福, nothing sweeter than this. To be able to pray together, hold hands together to pray wholeheartedly in our marriage.

Wall E

WALL.E is a curious robot who has a penchant for collecting knickknacks which he takes to the transport truck he uses as a home. He loves his toys, light bulbs, lighters, and Rubik's Cube. But perhaps his most prized possession is a video recoding of the musical Hello Dolly. It puts him in a happy mood when he sees two of the lead characters holding hands.

His favorite scene comes with the song "It Only Takes a Moment":

"It only takes a moment
For your eyes to meet and then
Your heart knows in a moment
You will never be alone again
I held her for an instant
But my arms felt sure and strong
It only takes a moment
To be loved a whole life long."

Cheng Fai's 540 Vault: "The Cheng 程菲跳"

Cheng Fei at the 2005 World Gymnastics Championships held in Melbourne, Australia

She won the gold, and this set of 10.0 difficulty vault is termed by international as "The Cheng 程菲跳"!
Chinese version

This is 9.725, the second vault. 2 turns and 1.5 twist 540 degree vault

This is the first vault in the same occassion. In other words, this is the world first time to see this performed by anybody! Score: 9.6

Also the first time a Chinese Female Gymastist having a vault named after them, after Li Siu Pang's vault.

Explanatory Photo

Chinese Gymnastic Team at Beijing Olympics 2008

Chinese women's gymnastics team celebrates winning Women's Artistic Gymnastics Team gold metal.

(Photo credit: Al Bello/Getty Images)

Cheng Fai's Vault "The Cheng"

Beijing Olympics 2008 Guo Jing Jing Women's 3M Synchronised Diving

2008 Beijing Olympics
Woman's 3M Single
August 17, 8.30pm


Beijing Olympics 2008 Women's 3M Synchrony Diving
10 August 2008


The first Diving Gold Metal for the Chinese Team
Perfect Synchrony!!


The Water Cube, Beijing 2008
















2008 Feb Video

Beijing Olympics 2008

20 years of training: Princess of Diving

The Best Olympics Opening Ceremony EVER: Beijing Olympics 2008

Opening Ceremony 8 Aug 2008 8pm to 11.30pm

Photos by New York Times

Count down from 60 sec of the start of the opening ceremony By the spectacular drum performance!



These are the rows and rows of Chearn and Ha Dynasty
It was absolutely amazed and awesome with the drums and the count down.




I cried at the song of China flag entrance, sang by a girl.

Rising of the China PRC Flag, I was absolutely moved.

Representing 3000 students of Confucians and the start of Chinese Word formation in the Chun Chow Warlord period.

The dancing of the words and printing showed different Chinese period of the word "harmony" "Wo"

Sarah Brightman and Mr Lau sang the English and Chinese version of the Olympic theme song of 2008, "One World, One Dream"

Children's faces from all over the world are collected over 1 year to dance under the Globe as the theme song was being sang.

Entrance of the China Sport team and every altheletes has walked on the drawing, leaving foot prints there.

The lighting of the Olympic Fire by Gynamticist Mr Li Ling (from 80s, wining the most no. of gold medals of Gynamtics for China).

Tonight I just come back from Thailand!

I am already missing Thailand, Buriram, and Ajaan Sutin and his whole family!!!!!!

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Where are you from???

Thanks for visiting my Blog!!!

Feel free to leave a message to me!!!

And also your blog address, so I can visit your blog too!

Freud & Surrealism

Founded in Paris in 1924 by Andre Breton with his Manifesto of Surrealism, the movement's principal aim was 'to resolve the previously contradictory conditions of dream and reality into an absolute reality, a super-reality'.

Surrealism is characterized by using the subconscious as a source of creativity to liberate pictorial subjects and ideas.

Salvador Dalí, Birth of Liquid Desires, 1931–32

Surrealist paintings often depict unexpected or irrational objects in an atmosphere of fantasy, creating a dreamlike scenario. Salvador Dali was a master at this.

Other major artists of the movement were Picasso, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Rene Magritte and Joan Miro. By ToffsWorld.com

I am thinking of Freud Day & Night

breath-taking! Freud!

Love hates Evil

Love hates Evil

LOVE DOES NOT ENJOY EVIL.

Chinese version

Could it be that we all really do rejoice in evil? All it takes to rejoice in evil is to approve of its being here, to be content that we have some evil around, even though we may regret that evil has hurt us.

What do I mean by evil?

By evil, I mean everything that happens which hurts people needlessly, they are moral evil, natural evil, and accidental evil. We shall not talk about evils that do not hurt anyone. There are also things that hurt people necessarily ­like dentists' drills and surgeons' knives; these we do not call evils since they are necessary to bring about.

Moral evil is intentional. Intentional evil is done by devils and people. Natural evil is unintentional. Nat­ural evil is done by nature, though devils and people sometimes cooperate. Acci­dental evil is done by people when they do not mean to do it

There are subtle ways to rejoice in evil:
1. Philosophical rejoicing.

Sometimes people rejoice in evil by way of a philosophical explanation of it. Good and evil blends well in a giant picture in human history if we stand far enough and don't look too close from a personal view: like your hurt experienced as a first person. Thus, you can rejoice in evil, because it con­tributes to what, finally, has to be a very good, if not the best possible world.

But love will not join this profound praise of evil. To be sure, love will put up with untidy worlds, and will stand far enough away to see the whole mosaic, but love sees evil only as a monstrous blot on God's cre­ation. It is not seduced by profound speculations about universal harmony. Evil, in love's eye, is ob­scene, no matter how splendidly and fully it is dressed.

2. Theological rejoicing.

Did God somehow decree evil? No, God do not desire evil. Sometimes people think that without evil, God would never have been able to save a human soul from evil. No! Love does not affirm evil. It is the power standing in the way of yielding to the temptation to believe that God, in search of glory, gives evil a niche in His world. Evil is a strange, mysterious power whose ultimate origin no one can fathom; love is simply and clearly of God. Love does not rejoice in evil, not even in the name of theological profundity.

3. Religious rejoicing.

When religion builds altars to things less than God it brings out people's tendency to applaud evil. Idols always seduce us into an illicit affair with evil. Take devotion to one's country, for example. Patri­otism, love of one's nation, is how we express loyalty to the natural group which is second only to the family. When we worship the created state above the creator God, we are ready to call evil good.

4. Personal rejoicing.

We also rejoice in evil in more direct and personal ways - sometimes when other people are hurt by evil, sometimes even when they do evil. We rejoice when our enemies suffer evil. The more certain we are that our cause is right, the more pure our joy when the other side suffers (eg the loss of German in WWII). We rejoice when we think we are only indignant, disgusted, or nauseated. Take the discovery that someone we know - but have never liked very well - has fallen into a sexual sin. We may make use of the occasion in full measure of indignant fury. Others will only be dis­gusted. And so we have a chance to enjoy the evil.

Love rejects evil

Love, in contrast, is a power that moves us only to regret evil - anywhere, in any form, by any cause. This is a paradox, for agapic love, like God, does its best work in response to evil. It builds a state on which love is forgiving, healing, and redeem­ing. But love rejoices only when evil is destroyed. It rejoices with the truth. Why is it truth, not goodness, that is contrasted with evil? Truth keeps love honest, reminding it that an enemy loved is still an enemy, a sinner forgiven no less a sin­ner. Truth keeps love from sweeping the realities about people under a shaggy carpet of agapic good will. So love rejoices with the truth.

Love rejoices with the truth which is Jesus Christ, and rejoicing with Christ we re­vel in reality as it is meant to be. We are glad to be alive in a world where truth can be known uniquely as the reality that is Jesus Christ. Rejoicing with the truth puts us on the side of the future. To rejoice with the truth is to bet your life on Christ as victor over evil.

In the first place, love lets us see that evil never belongs anywhere; it has no right to exist.

In the second place, love opens our minds to the possibility that evil has in fact been defeated. The truth is victory over evil; this is reality. No wonder that love rejoices with the truth. Love well knows that God is able to bring blessing out of evil.

Love knows that life now is ambiguous. But love can bear it. Love can even rejoice in this mixed­up life because it rejoices with the truth, the Truth who will "reconcile all things to himself" (Colossians 1:20) and thus make the whole world i true again. Love man­ages well in a world like ours; but love never approves of the evil that makes our good world the mixed reality it is.

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撮要自 已故牧師Rev. LB. Smedes之「愛在限制中: 在自私的世界中實踐無私的愛Love within limits: realizing selfless love in a selfish world. Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans, 1979. 」 Rev. Smedes was a retired minister in the Christian Reformed Church, a former ethics professor at Fuller Theological Seminary. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_B._Smedes

Rest in God

The Lord takes care of me as his sheep;

I will not be without any good thing.
He makes a resting-place for me in the green fields:

he is my guide by the quiet waters.
He gives new life to my soul:

he is my guide in the ways of righteousness because of his name.

耶 和 華 是 我 的 牧 者 ． 我 必 不 至 缺 乏 。
他 使 我 躺 臥 在 青 草 地 上 、 領 我 在 可 安 歇 的 水 邊 。
他 使 我 的 靈 魂 甦 醒 、 為 自 己 的 名 引 導 我 走 義 路 。

Psalm 23

Hymn: YHWH is Love 【耶和華是愛】 詩集：上帝聽禱告，8

耶和華是

愛，讓我安身青草溪水邊，
神令我省察心中的幽暗，共同渡每一天。

耶和華是愛，在困境中祂保守引牽，
神為我擺設豐足的恩惠，在危難也不會變。

在世間主恩與共，祂的愛存在常無盡，
神為我施恩惠，保守勉勵，共同渡此世。

耶和華是愛，讓我安身青草溪水邊，
無限滿足快樂湧於心裡，在危難也不會變。

Life without limbs

Amazing God

Amazing LIFE. What can limit the meaning and value of LIFE given by God????

Nick's" Testimony



Video source


I am blessed in whatever situation life brought me into.
I shall continue with my struggle too.

Add oil!

Pray for my German Oral Exam today!

Hi Hi....

Very very nervous...I hope my German vocabulary are still with me.. after some last minute revision.

I have been catching up with my Thai today and the whole of tonight. I hope I am doing fine.

I know I can catch up with my Thai reading and comprehension as the Thai vocabulary are not too difficult. I may have to do more revision on my oral later on, right before my Thai Oral.

But Now I have to focus again on my German. It is my last chance of studying it seriously. I guess I have to live on whatever level I have now in the coming years, as I really don't have any chance of learning more.

What about you?

Would you pray for me? I have my German Oral Exam in 16 hrs.

I have to revise the related vocabulary: environment protection, food, weather, travelling, family & relationships, aging, employment and emigration. Some basic present, and past tense.

Please help me.

I have not been working on my other areas in these few days...

Help me to concentrate and to use the remaining time sensibly.
I also have to have a realistic picture of my limitations and capabilities.

Best regards.

I like to learn Languages

I like to learn languages.
But I am at the very bad stage.

However, I still like to put in effort, and enjoy learning the
vocabulary and increasing my comprehension of the language.

The day after tomorrow is my oral exam for German.

Then at the end of the month, I have the three-hour written exam for German.

I need to find time to attend private make-up class in Thai with my
very kind Ah Caan (Thai teacher). .... I am way way behind....
I shall have my Thai mission interview soon, probably at the end of April...

Still not make any progress in my PsyD nor my Symptom paper, that is
quite horrible, my laziness, I have to admit.

Cheers!

Low motivation

On the edge of PsyD bankrupcy


I intend to pray with K of my German exam on 23 - 25 Apr, and my Thai exam on 3 - 8 May. Each has a written exam which I can't really cope because of my poor grammar and lack of vocabulary. Also an oral exam for each of the language with an external examiner.

On the other hand I still have a 6 assignments 3 months overdue; 1 assignments 2 weeks overdue; 1 book 2 months overdue.

And I have big decisions in my research direction which would impact on my CP development, career development, and my divine call actualization...

And I have 2 papers due to submit to a journal for many months of which I haven't started on them at all......



I feel so much behind everything that I ...

God My Father... why am I doing this all by myself? Where can I and how come I do not seek for you, your power, your take-over?




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I dreamed to be hold by you tightly in your arms, in your support & encouragement, attention and understanding but you are only prepared to help me if I have some small or material problem.

He is not KB any longer.

Maybe in the States...

Loreena McKennitt

KB and I's most favorite musician and singer. Her music first came to KB in a UK old bookstore, if I remember correctly. I was introduced to her art pieces through KB's random search of his music library for something that tick my nerves.

Wow!! There Loreena was!



When is her next album?? Can't wait to have more of her music and nice vocals.

Quiet Time music

My Playlist for Jazz and Quiet Time


My Playlist for Taize Meditation music


My Playlist for Chinese hymns

Loss of consciouness gradually in a Stroke by a neuroanatomist

This is a fantastic tale told by a neuroanatomist who suffered a massive stroke in her left brain, and recovered.


12 March 2008 Quoting from TEDBlog Ideas worth spreading

Stroke of insight: Jill Bolte Taylor on TED.com

Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor had an opportunity few brain scientists would wish for: One morning, she realized she was having a massive stroke. As it happened -- as she felt her brain functions slip away one by one, speech, movement, understanding -- she studied and remembered every moment. This is a powerful story of recovery and awareness -- of how our brains define us and connect us to the world and to one another.

(Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 18:44.)





TEDBlog
Watch Jill Bolte Taylor's talk on TED.com, where you can download it, rate it, comment on it and find other talks and performances.
Read more about Jill Bolte Taylor on TED.com.

NEW: Read the transcript >>
Two and a half weeks after the hemorrhage, the surgeons went in and they removed a blood clot the size of a golf ball that was pushing on my language centers.

It took her 8 years to recover from the stroke.

First Day of Work at my New Office!

Nice Sea View!

270 panaroma sea view!

I am at the far end on the left hand side.




The Partitions have not arrived yet!

Thesis Re-submission Approved!

My supervisor has approved of my re-submission to have amended the text according to examiners' comments up to her satisfaction.

Finally, sent it off for binding.

I should have started work today.

Anyway, I am off for work during office hour once again from tomorrow.

My new office has just been installed today. Still waiting for the partitions to come, and the desktops to be set up....

A new day..... a new era.....

although the relevant papers have not arrived yet, I am the first PDF in my department ah...

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Arctic Tale: Arctic Cap will melt completely by 2040!

I watched Arctic Tale (2007) today!

I wish I can nurture the baby bears who don't know how to hunt on the soft thin melting ice...

Some drown polar bears were first found in 2004 as they risked to swim south to the nearest island 200km away.

The movie is by National Geographic, about Polar Bears and other Arctic Animals' difficult survival because the Arctic Ice has shrinken 20% in the last decade, 50% in the last 50years, and shall have melted by the summer of 2040!!!!



Aerial view of the Arctic Oceane taken in 2006