Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
what a day
how exciting. juice juice and more juice. haha.

how sad.this is probably one thing in the world, where feelings supercedes everything else, and communications and actions can virtually mean nothing in an instant.
歌手:罗志祥 专辑:speshow
词 曲:kang.hyun min☆
像两首节拍不同的歌
却又同时被爱情合奏
旋律勉强着
愉快不能够假装快乐
你心中有宽阔的天空
空气还稀薄
曾经等待因为会改变什么
你总会属于我
但是最后时间证明了
你只喜欢我
你说我比较像你的好朋友
只是不小心拥抱着
你道歉你难过
于是我给你笑容
谁在乎我的心还会不会寂寞
如果爱情是五线谱
我只希望用全音符
吟唱出爱上你
那完整的幸福
当你的心没有耳朵
即使我为你唱着歌
你也只看见我哭了
你说我比较像你的好朋友
只是不小心拥抱着
你道歉你难过
于是我给你笑容
谁在乎我的心还会不会寂寞
歌词提供再兴
☆☆☆☆
曾经因为等待会改变什么
你总会属于我
但是最后时间证明了
你只喜欢我
你说我比较像你的好朋友
只是不小心拥抱着
你道歉你难过
于是我给你笑容
谁在乎我的心
ho 还会不会寂寞
你说我是你最好的朋友
却不应该再拥抱着
你退缩你冷漠
于是我放开双手
不在乎我的心
会永远的寂寞
呜..☆.
☆献给永远走在一起的朋友

how sad.this is probably one thing in the world, where feelings supercedes everything else, and communications and actions can virtually mean nothing in an instant.
歌手:罗志祥 专辑:speshow
词 曲:kang.hyun min☆
像两首节拍不同的歌
却又同时被爱情合奏
旋律勉强着
愉快不能够假装快乐
你心中有宽阔的天空
空气还稀薄
曾经等待因为会改变什么
你总会属于我
但是最后时间证明了
你只喜欢我
你说我比较像你的好朋友
只是不小心拥抱着
你道歉你难过
于是我给你笑容
谁在乎我的心还会不会寂寞
如果爱情是五线谱
我只希望用全音符
吟唱出爱上你
那完整的幸福
当你的心没有耳朵
即使我为你唱着歌
你也只看见我哭了
你说我比较像你的好朋友
只是不小心拥抱着
你道歉你难过
于是我给你笑容
谁在乎我的心还会不会寂寞
歌词提供再兴
☆☆☆☆
曾经因为等待会改变什么
你总会属于我
但是最后时间证明了
你只喜欢我
你说我比较像你的好朋友
只是不小心拥抱着
你道歉你难过
于是我给你笑容
谁在乎我的心
ho 还会不会寂寞
你说我是你最好的朋友
却不应该再拥抱着
你退缩你冷漠
于是我放开双手
不在乎我的心
会永远的寂寞
呜..☆.
☆献给永远走在一起的朋友
Saturday, February 10, 2007
you can quit, they don't care, but u'll always know
AHHHHHHHHHH i'm not ready for the race yet. sigh. and i'm getting so bloody fat. time to stop eating and let the lard stop dripping. think i can forget about all the vday cny celeb crap w the bloody CAs and trgs and what nots. hahahaha. what a way to
start the 21st year.

230am. Xueting's place. Simei. Happy 20th! wahahhahahaha
start the 21st year.

230am. Xueting's place. Simei. Happy 20th! wahahhahahaha
watch this!
this show is really good. watch it regardless of whether u have the time or not. haha. fav scenes from the show!
Saturday, January 20, 2007
属于自己
Presenting the people who've left an indelible footprint in my life. Spent a whole day reflecting on the past 20 years, well at least what i can remember of it. these are probably just a few of the pics i can salvage. Thanks for having been in part of my memories and my life somewhere along the way.
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Genting, New Year's Day 2004. AC Buddies. KY,TC,XW,Gav,LK

Turkey July '06 Rou Rou

Turkey July '06 Xiao Mei

Kepke, Yuqi- BMTC, Mar '05

RJ Prom Dec '04 Yiling

Esplanade Aug '06 Lil

Sheares Hall Aug '06 HQ

RJ Lab, 2S03K guys. Samuel, TRM, Weeping, Thomas, Enhui

Nikki's place -Jan '07

Grand Corpthone Aug '06 Weilin

RJ S03K peeps. TRM, Michael, Tiff, Velda

SH DnD Mar '06 Wenjie

SAFTI MI, July '02 NCC mates. Jefri,Edward,KY,Chuck,Ben Kwan,BenLiang,LK,SungAnn,Kevin,Augustine,Noel,Bruce

BMTC Mar' 05 Jaguar Company Platoon 3 Section 1. I love you guys.

26th BDC, Naval Diving Unit. Dec '04

Sakae Marina, July '06 Yoke

RJ Prom Dec'04 Jerold Shawn Tan

Redang, June '06 - SK, SY, YL, AH, WM Acers!

RJ Prom Dec'04 SO3K guys!

Kunming Medical College, Yunnan Dec '06 Pandas Barry GuanHong Xueting Qiuting

RI Pool, RJ waterpolo team J2s '04 Shane, Lau Yan, Kawa, Kerby, Roger, Zhengyue, Weixun

Sheares Hall Aug'06 Weiming

Victoria Concert Hall, Dec '06 Xiaohui, Siying, Junlinag, Michael, Daniel

Hua Niao! Yunnan'05 Kenny, Yingxian, Lin Na, Xingni
Enough said. what a song. its one of those which u'll have to listen to it again and again to appreciate it.
歌手:张玉华 专辑:属于自己
打印预览 词:姚谦曲:吴庆隆
还有牵引突然有感应
在这一刻他很开心
应该是又遇见了新恋情
只是现在我不会妒忌
不断找爱是他宿命
就好像我总是选择孤寂
在人与人来回试探眼神的言语
在爱与不爱等待与放弃的煎熬里
突然我会怀疑
太执着的爱你
是出自爱情
还是因为不甘心
在心与心碰撞后开始保护自己
在放与不放沉淀与寂寞日子里
直到看清楚爱情
只属于属于自己
时间的雨下了多少季
我还等着雨天过去
有点担心已经不适应天晴
在人与人来回试探眼神的言语
在爱与不爱等待与放弃的煎熬里
突然我会怀疑
太执着的爱你
是出自爱情
还是因为不甘心
在心与心碰撞后开始保护自己
在放与不放沉淀与寂寞日子里
直到看清楚爱情只属于自己
I love food outings.=)
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Genting, New Year's Day 2004. AC Buddies. KY,TC,XW,Gav,LK

Turkey July '06 Rou Rou

Turkey July '06 Xiao Mei
Kepke, Yuqi- BMTC, Mar '05
RJ Prom Dec '04 Yiling
Esplanade Aug '06 Lil
Sheares Hall Aug '06 HQ
RJ Lab, 2S03K guys. Samuel, TRM, Weeping, Thomas, Enhui
Nikki's place -Jan '07

Grand Corpthone Aug '06 Weilin

RJ S03K peeps. TRM, Michael, Tiff, Velda

SH DnD Mar '06 Wenjie

SAFTI MI, July '02 NCC mates. Jefri,Edward,KY,Chuck,Ben Kwan,BenLiang,LK,SungAnn,Kevin,Augustine,Noel,Bruce
BMTC Mar' 05 Jaguar Company Platoon 3 Section 1. I love you guys.
26th BDC, Naval Diving Unit. Dec '04
Sakae Marina, July '06 Yoke
RJ Prom Dec'04 Jerold Shawn Tan

Redang, June '06 - SK, SY, YL, AH, WM Acers!
RJ Prom Dec'04 SO3K guys!

Kunming Medical College, Yunnan Dec '06 Pandas Barry GuanHong Xueting Qiuting

RI Pool, RJ waterpolo team J2s '04 Shane, Lau Yan, Kawa, Kerby, Roger, Zhengyue, Weixun

Sheares Hall Aug'06 Weiming

Victoria Concert Hall, Dec '06 Xiaohui, Siying, Junlinag, Michael, Daniel
Hua Niao! Yunnan'05 Kenny, Yingxian, Lin Na, Xingni
Enough said. what a song. its one of those which u'll have to listen to it again and again to appreciate it.
歌手:张玉华 专辑:属于自己
打印预览 词:姚谦曲:吴庆隆
还有牵引突然有感应
在这一刻他很开心
应该是又遇见了新恋情
只是现在我不会妒忌
不断找爱是他宿命
就好像我总是选择孤寂
在人与人来回试探眼神的言语
在爱与不爱等待与放弃的煎熬里
突然我会怀疑
太执着的爱你
是出自爱情
还是因为不甘心
在心与心碰撞后开始保护自己
在放与不放沉淀与寂寞日子里
直到看清楚爱情
只属于属于自己
时间的雨下了多少季
我还等着雨天过去
有点担心已经不适应天晴
在人与人来回试探眼神的言语
在爱与不爱等待与放弃的煎熬里
突然我会怀疑
太执着的爱你
是出自爱情
还是因为不甘心
在心与心碰撞后开始保护自己
在放与不放沉淀与寂寞日子里
直到看清楚爱情只属于自己
I love food outings.=)
Saturday, January 13, 2007
disappointed
terribly disappointed. what can i say. kind of unfair. wonder if i've myself to blame. no point looking back. time to pick myself up and work even harder. Pandas rock! haha. ktv session was fantastic. we re AA..we are AA...ohhh well...notreally in the mood to do anything today..maybe i'm just tired and really need alot of sleep..this week is gonna be one great mugging week! well, there's still sunday to enjoy.haha.

Thanks JJ for this solution to fight the rainy season and watch dvds at the same time! wahahaha

PANDAS! and our associates.wahahahahaha frcpanda.blogspot.com

numbers made out from strawberry biscuits. interesting huh.

215AM. KE7 squash court 1. wahahahaha

Thanks JJ for this solution to fight the rainy season and watch dvds at the same time! wahahaha

PANDAS! and our associates.wahahahahaha frcpanda.blogspot.com

numbers made out from strawberry biscuits. interesting huh.

215AM. KE7 squash court 1. wahahahaha
Sunday, January 7, 2007
what it feels like to be a medical student part 1
its 2am. this is like the start of lifelessness. amazing. i finally feel like i'm in med school. mugging all the impossible stuffs. and realised how great it feels to think u know and have ur ego totally destroyed the next day. while studying the tv was on. guess what. a report on pneumococcal vaccination haha. they still use the 7 strain polyvalent vaccine instead of the 23 strain one for kids with the biggest problem of seroconversion. book says recommended for 2 years old, but tv says 6mths. talk about lysed by bile and inhibted by optochin to differentiate from Viridian Strep which both are alpha hemolytic and V Strep also causes endocarditis and brain abscesses from dental surgery or oral trauma etc...ahhhhhhhhh! oh well. and then came Grey's Anatomy season 1 episode 1. how motivating. time to get some shut eye! =p
Saturday, January 6, 2007
can u identify these?

E.Coli. ur coliform that will make water undrinkable at >4/microliter. causes lotsa stuffs including meningitis in neonates, food poisoning (ETEC), hemolytic uremic syndrome (0157: H7 strain) hemorrhagic enterocolitis (EHEC) etc. i cant remember the rest. just throw ceftriaxone or any broad spectrum Abs and kill this bug

the mug my brain always refuses to register. gram +ve rod which grows with grey diptheriae like rods on colony. very motile. causes meningitis and sepsis in immunocompromised patients (esp those who had kidney transplant) and neonates (esp those whose unfortunate mothers contracted at time of birth) as well as outbreaks for febrile GIenteritis when u eat stuff like unpasteurized cheese or milk or just damn suay when touching an infected animal. no treatment for that bad ab pain and flu-like syndrome though. u can take ampicillin with or without aminoglycoside depending on the severity of sepsis and meningitis or oral trimethroprim sulfamethazole which can be also used for prophylaxis for those butchers and milkmaids.

an extremely TIGHTLY coiled spirochete. another one of those my brain refuses to register. can cure with doxycycline (also used for prophylaxis) or amoxicillin if mild, whack with penicillin G or ceftriaxone if its serious. the one that refuses to get into my brain, and thats bad cause triatheletes, swimmers etc extremely prone to these bugs excreted by rodents, cats, dogs and the you name its into environmental water sources. 2 phases in the illness firstly it makes me feel like a total sucker with prodrome and conjunctival suffusion followed by your body which wrecks the havoc in the immune phase where your body system just crashes with jaundice, aseptic meningitis, pleural effusions, and ur kidney function just goes boom. oh no i'm starting to speak like tan you jiang. i.e. my nerd function is on.
I don't sound like myself and thats, i dunno good or bad. But i so wanna sushi, donut and movie.ohh man i feel like a small boy all over again. =p eat sleep cycle run! ironman in slightly over a month! 240207 3.8k swim, 180k bike, 42.195 run. hahahaha. i cant remember that quote that JJ LOVES to say:
This is the ironman. If you can challenge yourself to do an ironman, you can do anything.
Limits? What limits? There is no can't in ironman. To the great, it takes 8 hours. Others go the full 17. And they are all in the same arena, the big black lava island of hawaii. First and only goal of the day is to get to the finish line.
Theres no a better sense of accomplishment in life, than finishing an ironman.
A 2.4 mile swim, 112 miles on the bike, than a marathon. The man who started this said, you can quit but they don't care, but you will always know.
This is the ironman.
those mad navy seals. haha. but i'm becoming just as mad!

Happy Birthday IVY NG! i just realised i'm the youngest of all the pple who got into med from my jc class. hahaha..all u lao da jies! =p
Friday, January 5, 2007
A real neat piece
what an article. i came across this in the Review today. its amazing. take a read and take a stand. it really speaks volumes for people who are non-believers.
10 myths—and 10 Truths—About Atheism
By Sam Harris
December 24, 2006
The Los Angeles Times
SEVERAL POLLS indicate that the term “atheism” has acquired such an extraordinary stigma in the United States that being an atheist is now a perfect impediment to a career in politics (in a way that being black, Muslim or homosexual is not). According to a recent Newsweek poll, only 37% of Americans would vote for an otherwise qualified atheist for president.
Atheists are often imagined to be intolerant, immoral, depressed, blind to the beauty of nature and dogmatically closed to evidence of the supernatural.
Even John Locke, one of the great patriarchs of the Enlightenment, believed that atheism was “not at all to be tolerated” because, he said, “promises, covenants and oaths, which are the bonds of human societies, can have no hold upon an atheist.”
That was more than 300 years ago. But in the United States today, little seems to have changed. A remarkable 87% of the population claims “never to doubt” the existence of God; fewer than 10% identify themselves as atheists — and their reputation appears to be deteriorating.
Given that we know that atheists are often among the most intelligent and scientifically literate people in any society, it seems important to deflate the myths that prevent them from playing a larger role in our national discourse.
1) Atheists believe that life is meaningless.
On the contrary, religious people often worry that life is meaningless and imagine that it can only be redeemed by the promise of eternal happiness beyond the grave. Atheists tend to be quite sure that life is precious. Life is imbued with meaning by being really and fully lived. Our relationships with those we love are meaningful now; they need not last forever to be made so. Atheists tend to find this fear of meaninglessness … well … meaningless.
2) Atheism is responsible for the greatest crimes in human history.
People of faith often claim that the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were the inevitable product of unbelief. The problem with fascism and communism, however, is not that they are too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions. Such regimes are dogmatic to the core and generally give rise to personality cults that are indistinguishable from cults of religious hero worship. Auschwitz, the gulag and the killing fields were not examples of what happens when human beings reject religious dogma; they are examples of political, racial and nationalistic dogma run amok. There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.
3) Atheism is dogmatic.
Jews, Christians and Muslims claim that their scriptures are so prescient of humanity’s needs that they could only have been written under the direction of an omniscient deity. An atheist is simply a person who has considered this claim, read the books and found the claim to be ridiculous. One doesn’t have to take anything on faith, or be otherwise dogmatic, to reject unjustified religious beliefs. As the historian Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-71) once said: “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
4) Atheists think everything in the universe arose by chance.
No one knows why the universe came into being. In fact, it is not entirely clear that we can coherently speak about the “beginning” or “creation” of the universe at all, as these ideas invoke the concept of time, and here we are talking about the origin of space-time itself.
The notion that atheists believe that everything was created by chance is also regularly thrown up as a criticism of Darwinian evolution. As Richard Dawkins explains in his marvelous book, “The God Delusion,” this represents an utter misunderstanding of evolutionary theory. Although we don’t know precisely how the Earth’s early chemistry begat biology, we know that the diversity and complexity we see in the living world is not a product of mere chance. Evolution is a combination of chance mutation and natural selection. Darwin arrived at the phrase “natural selection” by analogy to the “artificial selection” performed by breeders of livestock. In both cases, selection exerts a highly non-random effect on the development of any species.
5) Atheism has no connection to science.
Although it is possible to be a scientist and still believe in God — as some scientists seem to manage it — there is no question that an engagement with scientific thinking tends to erode, rather than support, religious faith. Taking the U.S. population as an example: Most polls show that about 90% of the general public believes in a personal God; yet 93% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences do not. This suggests that there are few modes of thinking less congenial to religious faith than science is.
6) Atheists are arrogant.
When scientists don’t know something — like why the universe came into being or how the first self-replicating molecules formed — they admit it. Pretending to know things one doesn’t know is a profound liability in science. And yet it is the life-blood of faith-based religion. One of the monumental ironies of religious discourse can be found in the frequency with which people of faith praise themselves for their humility, while claiming to know facts about cosmology, chemistry and biology that no scientist knows. When considering questions about the nature of the cosmos and our place within it, atheists tend to draw their opinions from science. This isn’t arrogance; it is intellectual honesty.
7) Atheists are closed to spiritual experience.
There is nothing that prevents an atheist from experiencing love, ecstasy, rapture and awe; atheists can value these experiences and seek them regularly. What atheists don’t tend to do is make unjustified (and unjustifiable) claims about the nature of reality on the basis of such experiences. There is no question that some Christians have transformed their lives for the better by reading the Bible and praying to Jesus. What does this prove? It proves that certain disciplines of attention and codes of conduct can have a profound effect upon the human mind. Do the positive experiences of Christians suggest that Jesus is the sole savior of humanity? Not even remotely — because Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and even atheists regularly have similar experiences.
There is, in fact, not a Christian on this Earth who can be certain that Jesus even wore a beard, much less that he was born of a virgin or rose from the dead. These are just not the sort of claims that spiritual experience can authenticate.
8) Atheists believe that there is nothing beyond human life and human understanding.
Atheists are free to admit the limits of human understanding in a way that religious people are not. It is obvious that we do not fully understand the universe; but it is even more obvious that neither the Bible nor the Koran reflects our best understanding of it. We do not know whether there is complex life elsewhere in the cosmos, but there might be. If there is, such beings could have developed an understanding of nature’s laws that vastly exceeds our own. Atheists can freely entertain such possibilities. They also can admit that if brilliant extraterrestrials exist, the contents of the Bible and the Koran will be even less impressive to them than they are to human atheists.
From the atheist point of view, the world’s religions utterly trivialize the real beauty and immensity of the universe. One doesn’t have to accept anything on insufficient evidence to make such an observation.
9) Atheists ignore the fact that religion is extremely beneficial to society.
Those who emphasize the good effects of religion never seem to realize that such effects fail to demonstrate the truth of any religious doctrine. This is why we have terms such as “wishful thinking” and “self-deception.” There is a profound distinction between a consoling delusion and the truth.
In any case, the good effects of religion can surely be disputed. In most cases, it seems that religion gives people bad reasons to behave well, when good reasons are actually available. Ask yourself, which is more moral, helping the poor out of concern for their suffering, or doing so because you think the creator of the universe wants you to do it, will reward you for doing it or will punish you for not doing it?
10) Atheism provides no basis for morality.
If a person doesn’t already understand that cruelty is wrong, he won’t discover this by reading the Bible or the Koran — as these books are bursting with celebrations of cruelty, both human and divine. We do not get our morality from religion. We decide what is good in our good books by recourse to moral intuitions that are (at some level) hard-wired in us and that have been refined by thousands of years of thinking about the causes and possibilities of human happiness.
We have made considerable moral progress over the years, and we didn’t make this progress by reading the Bible or the Koran more closely. Both books condone the practice of slavery — and yet every civilized human being now recognizes that slavery is an abomination. Whatever is good in scripture — like the golden rule — can be valued for its ethical wisdom without our believing that it was handed down to us by the creator of the universe.
10 myths—and 10 Truths—About Atheism
By Sam Harris
December 24, 2006
The Los Angeles Times
SEVERAL POLLS indicate that the term “atheism” has acquired such an extraordinary stigma in the United States that being an atheist is now a perfect impediment to a career in politics (in a way that being black, Muslim or homosexual is not). According to a recent Newsweek poll, only 37% of Americans would vote for an otherwise qualified atheist for president.
Atheists are often imagined to be intolerant, immoral, depressed, blind to the beauty of nature and dogmatically closed to evidence of the supernatural.
Even John Locke, one of the great patriarchs of the Enlightenment, believed that atheism was “not at all to be tolerated” because, he said, “promises, covenants and oaths, which are the bonds of human societies, can have no hold upon an atheist.”
That was more than 300 years ago. But in the United States today, little seems to have changed. A remarkable 87% of the population claims “never to doubt” the existence of God; fewer than 10% identify themselves as atheists — and their reputation appears to be deteriorating.
Given that we know that atheists are often among the most intelligent and scientifically literate people in any society, it seems important to deflate the myths that prevent them from playing a larger role in our national discourse.
1) Atheists believe that life is meaningless.
On the contrary, religious people often worry that life is meaningless and imagine that it can only be redeemed by the promise of eternal happiness beyond the grave. Atheists tend to be quite sure that life is precious. Life is imbued with meaning by being really and fully lived. Our relationships with those we love are meaningful now; they need not last forever to be made so. Atheists tend to find this fear of meaninglessness … well … meaningless.
2) Atheism is responsible for the greatest crimes in human history.
People of faith often claim that the crimes of Hitler, Stalin, Mao and Pol Pot were the inevitable product of unbelief. The problem with fascism and communism, however, is not that they are too critical of religion; the problem is that they are too much like religions. Such regimes are dogmatic to the core and generally give rise to personality cults that are indistinguishable from cults of religious hero worship. Auschwitz, the gulag and the killing fields were not examples of what happens when human beings reject religious dogma; they are examples of political, racial and nationalistic dogma run amok. There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.
3) Atheism is dogmatic.
Jews, Christians and Muslims claim that their scriptures are so prescient of humanity’s needs that they could only have been written under the direction of an omniscient deity. An atheist is simply a person who has considered this claim, read the books and found the claim to be ridiculous. One doesn’t have to take anything on faith, or be otherwise dogmatic, to reject unjustified religious beliefs. As the historian Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-71) once said: “I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
4) Atheists think everything in the universe arose by chance.
No one knows why the universe came into being. In fact, it is not entirely clear that we can coherently speak about the “beginning” or “creation” of the universe at all, as these ideas invoke the concept of time, and here we are talking about the origin of space-time itself.
The notion that atheists believe that everything was created by chance is also regularly thrown up as a criticism of Darwinian evolution. As Richard Dawkins explains in his marvelous book, “The God Delusion,” this represents an utter misunderstanding of evolutionary theory. Although we don’t know precisely how the Earth’s early chemistry begat biology, we know that the diversity and complexity we see in the living world is not a product of mere chance. Evolution is a combination of chance mutation and natural selection. Darwin arrived at the phrase “natural selection” by analogy to the “artificial selection” performed by breeders of livestock. In both cases, selection exerts a highly non-random effect on the development of any species.
5) Atheism has no connection to science.
Although it is possible to be a scientist and still believe in God — as some scientists seem to manage it — there is no question that an engagement with scientific thinking tends to erode, rather than support, religious faith. Taking the U.S. population as an example: Most polls show that about 90% of the general public believes in a personal God; yet 93% of the members of the National Academy of Sciences do not. This suggests that there are few modes of thinking less congenial to religious faith than science is.
6) Atheists are arrogant.
When scientists don’t know something — like why the universe came into being or how the first self-replicating molecules formed — they admit it. Pretending to know things one doesn’t know is a profound liability in science. And yet it is the life-blood of faith-based religion. One of the monumental ironies of religious discourse can be found in the frequency with which people of faith praise themselves for their humility, while claiming to know facts about cosmology, chemistry and biology that no scientist knows. When considering questions about the nature of the cosmos and our place within it, atheists tend to draw their opinions from science. This isn’t arrogance; it is intellectual honesty.
7) Atheists are closed to spiritual experience.
There is nothing that prevents an atheist from experiencing love, ecstasy, rapture and awe; atheists can value these experiences and seek them regularly. What atheists don’t tend to do is make unjustified (and unjustifiable) claims about the nature of reality on the basis of such experiences. There is no question that some Christians have transformed their lives for the better by reading the Bible and praying to Jesus. What does this prove? It proves that certain disciplines of attention and codes of conduct can have a profound effect upon the human mind. Do the positive experiences of Christians suggest that Jesus is the sole savior of humanity? Not even remotely — because Hindus, Buddhists, Muslims and even atheists regularly have similar experiences.
There is, in fact, not a Christian on this Earth who can be certain that Jesus even wore a beard, much less that he was born of a virgin or rose from the dead. These are just not the sort of claims that spiritual experience can authenticate.
8) Atheists believe that there is nothing beyond human life and human understanding.
Atheists are free to admit the limits of human understanding in a way that religious people are not. It is obvious that we do not fully understand the universe; but it is even more obvious that neither the Bible nor the Koran reflects our best understanding of it. We do not know whether there is complex life elsewhere in the cosmos, but there might be. If there is, such beings could have developed an understanding of nature’s laws that vastly exceeds our own. Atheists can freely entertain such possibilities. They also can admit that if brilliant extraterrestrials exist, the contents of the Bible and the Koran will be even less impressive to them than they are to human atheists.
From the atheist point of view, the world’s religions utterly trivialize the real beauty and immensity of the universe. One doesn’t have to accept anything on insufficient evidence to make such an observation.
9) Atheists ignore the fact that religion is extremely beneficial to society.
Those who emphasize the good effects of religion never seem to realize that such effects fail to demonstrate the truth of any religious doctrine. This is why we have terms such as “wishful thinking” and “self-deception.” There is a profound distinction between a consoling delusion and the truth.
In any case, the good effects of religion can surely be disputed. In most cases, it seems that religion gives people bad reasons to behave well, when good reasons are actually available. Ask yourself, which is more moral, helping the poor out of concern for their suffering, or doing so because you think the creator of the universe wants you to do it, will reward you for doing it or will punish you for not doing it?
10) Atheism provides no basis for morality.
If a person doesn’t already understand that cruelty is wrong, he won’t discover this by reading the Bible or the Koran — as these books are bursting with celebrations of cruelty, both human and divine. We do not get our morality from religion. We decide what is good in our good books by recourse to moral intuitions that are (at some level) hard-wired in us and that have been refined by thousands of years of thinking about the causes and possibilities of human happiness.
We have made considerable moral progress over the years, and we didn’t make this progress by reading the Bible or the Koran more closely. Both books condone the practice of slavery — and yet every civilized human being now recognizes that slavery is an abomination. Whatever is good in scripture — like the golden rule — can be valued for its ethical wisdom without our believing that it was handed down to us by the creator of the universe.
Thursday, January 4, 2007
仙剑奇侠传 一直很安静
this show kept me going when i was studying for last year's pros. give me a wow show for this year's pls. haha.
distracted again
i really wonder what stuffs goes through their heads when they do these stuffs. all the physio, microb, pharm etc. wth man seriously. when one day enterococci and peptostrep spoils their day...

Total bliss. Eat your heart out guys. life's not just about mugging isnt it. use these stuffs to stay sane man.


Ahh i miss japan. can't wait for april. sashimi, sushi, tempura wait for meeeeee!

SLURP!

Total bliss. Eat your heart out guys. life's not just about mugging isnt it. use these stuffs to stay sane man.


Ahh i miss japan. can't wait for april. sashimi, sushi, tempura wait for meeeeee!

SLURP!
Going slow
i can't stand this feeling. everything is going so slow. yet time's moving so fast. argh. well, at least there's something to look forward to now. after test outings! leaves me smiling whenever i think of it. think ultimately its still the stuff u've to know well in order to be a gd doc and not kill someone. stuck at Clostridium Difficile what the PMC. time to move on.=p
haha. cant find the chinese version of this MV. well sing along with the chinese lyrics then. gigi leung never fails to deliver.
給自己的情歌-梁咏琪
曲:周杰倫
詞:陳少琪
在鏡中 何苦你要落淚
禮物放於手裡 誰也沒有心想去打碎
沒有甚麼 愛已過去
你與你昨日暫時團聚 直至再遇著迷人伴侶
今天安睡 傷心不必知道放在那裡
來面對新的生活 只需膚色給你讚許
不需跟笑聲作對
愛過便十全十美 你要特別鳴謝你
這次若是無運氣 傷風失戀不會至死
人海十萬里 誰又一天一天 誰又一點一點 留心你
痛也是合情合理 你要慢慢原諒你
你要日後成大器 灰灰的天都要撐起
誰可善待你 由自己的嘴巴 和自己講一聲 要爭氣
明知愛太受罪
你若豁得出去 年老便有些戀愛花絮
讓你內心 永遠少女
那怕會再度被情連累 甚至快樂地頑强面對
haha. cant find the chinese version of this MV. well sing along with the chinese lyrics then. gigi leung never fails to deliver.
給自己的情歌-梁咏琪
曲:周杰倫
詞:陳少琪
在鏡中 何苦你要落淚
禮物放於手裡 誰也沒有心想去打碎
沒有甚麼 愛已過去
你與你昨日暫時團聚 直至再遇著迷人伴侶
今天安睡 傷心不必知道放在那裡
來面對新的生活 只需膚色給你讚許
不需跟笑聲作對
愛過便十全十美 你要特別鳴謝你
這次若是無運氣 傷風失戀不會至死
人海十萬里 誰又一天一天 誰又一點一點 留心你
痛也是合情合理 你要慢慢原諒你
你要日後成大器 灰灰的天都要撐起
誰可善待你 由自己的嘴巴 和自己講一聲 要爭氣
明知愛太受罪
你若豁得出去 年老便有些戀愛花絮
讓你內心 永遠少女
那怕會再度被情連累 甚至快樂地頑强面對
Wednesday, January 3, 2007
the culprit of lack of concentration for the day
Mugging@Airport
hahahahaha. so scandalous. well not referring to me of course, ask the fellow pandas =) but it was great fun. popeye's chicken is totally TOTALLY sinful. gives u like one thousand chins and makes you look like snowman ****. wahahahahahhahaa. the 'stuck' thought just makes me cringe in laughter. knowing a person can almost seem to be characterized in many phases, and somehow unless u are truly bonded, it'll end up in a tragedy. 1: u know the person- first impression 2: ur impression becomes modified from the stuff you do together 3: you share views on common topics and ur impression changes 4: you open up and u start to know that person 5: you share deepest and darkest secrets one step at a time and cautiously 6: you no longer watch what you say in front of that person and you just blatantly rattle off each other in confidence 7: you start getting conflicts because of differing views from pre-formed expectations 8: you accept differing views as part of unresolvable differences and incorporate that into your considerations in your attitude towards that person 9: you cast your view of that person in stone until one major catastrophic event or change comes by 10: i'm just trying to fill up 10 but well its all true and progressive, of course steps can be skipped in between =)

Grab her guys. she can eat more chocs than you.

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY VELDA HAN.

Told you its unmistakable. My darling little sister

Totally bored while mugging at popeye's@Terminal 1

Grab her guys. she can eat more chocs than you.

HAPPY 21st BIRTHDAY VELDA HAN.

Told you its unmistakable. My darling little sister

Totally bored while mugging at popeye's@Terminal 1
Post-Yunnan syndrome
the other blog of mine decided to give up on me. well actually i forgot the password and username to it. so i've decided to start a new one in tandem with the other pandas! it shall be a food blog, a blog of reflection and sharing of good stuffs cause we all love to share the love don't we? apparently if u blog u belong to 3 types of people. 1: in need of creating an identity 2: trying to express yourself in ways that you can't in reality 3: trying to instill ideas and thoughts into others by creating some kind of following. to begin with i think i've lived life long enough to know that stereotyping is a truly dangerous thing yet thousands of people conform to it. its just easy. a new blog to start the new year. well, shall catch up on a few posts about Yunnan (when i'm done reflecting), the new year spent with xiaohui and gang, panda outings, mugging etc. oh and did i mention? i love pandas.


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