marquis.fan December 19, 2007 at 6:22 a.m.

hey,guys!I'm glad to see you here.I'm from china.if you wanna leran Chinese,you can add my msn:[email protected].
the condition is you can teach me english, :) so ,we can teach each other.

Lorene September 14, 2013 at 1:37 a.m.

(the top two lines relates the origin. It was from a place named Ju don under the caring of Shaolin Temple). The third line is a succession naming method which is popular amongst a major clan. The monks in Shaolin Temple follows a hierarchy to obtain their names so they can be differentiated with their pedigree.The rest of the lines basically can be translated as follows:Our religion covers a vast territory and we rejoice in under the same originMaintenance of tranquillity should be deep as the ocean and purity is the path to followKeep your virtue constantly with the help of a solid mindKeeping an open mind will guide you to more understanding of the ‘tao’Kindness and loyalty will bring fortune to establish a greater understanding“shue ting” can be your instructor and guide you through the proper path.I might have mis-spelled and missed some of the proper words but the basic meaning should be there.Hope this will be of some help. http://www.newyorkonlineinsurance.com/

Tyya September 15, 2013 at 2:49 p.m.

Mr Seah, I really like the black and white pictures. Without colour, I thought I could detect a very genuine rowdiness, a certain purpose and the merriment of the time. Then, Chinese New Year must be the biggest event for every Chinese and I think the shoppers were filled with an earnest desire to buy the best piece of meat, the best flowers be in plastic or fresh, to decorate the house. When I was young, we were very poor and my papa never brought us to Chinatown at all. I remember my papa buying anthuriums, chrysanthemums and carnations once a year and he bought the first flower vase for the family. I was living in Toa Payoh then, and carefully, papa would trim the stems of the flowers he bought from a florist in the market and make sure the arrangement was gentle and flowing. When papa passed away 7 years ago, I decided to hunt down the flower vase but sadly I couldn't find it. I was determined to get the same vase as a memory of my papa and his artistic skills. I found it on ebay all the way from the States.When we were young, he made flowers from crepe paper and sold them to the British servicemen before I was born. That was what he told us. Neighbours used to call my papa Chor Huay Chek, (in Teochew) the uncle who makes paper flowers.I wish I have a picture of it to show you now. I will show you with pride, the first piece of Tupperware that my papa bought for the family. It is called a floralier. I don't think I can post the picture here. I will post it on Facebook. That is my fondest memory of Chinese New Year celebration. No Chinatown for us. It was too far for us.Thanks for the memory, Mr Seah. http://www.comparecashbackcards.net/ http://www.travelrewardscards.net/

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This is really a very cool way to showcase the past juxtaposed with the present. Great job James!Do you know the year the past pics were taken? I think many would wonder about that. In photo CNYST08...unless I'm mistaken totally, a lady shown there could be my elder sister. Chinatown was very close to our hearts as most of my late father's relatives,friends and work mates live there. As a kid, I've accompanied my dad on many visits there, including SAGO street..climbing those ricketty staircase, into the confines of windowless cubicles that are so cramped,so dark and dank that left my young mind with a lifelong respect for all the unfortunate people living within. There were no chairs for us to even sit on during our visits!Our people today, living in modern comfort and many in opulence,should never lose sight of all these things from the past. http://www.yourinsurlist.com/ http://www.insuryourcar.com/ http://www.sanfranciscoinsurers.com/

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Trudy September 25, 2013 at 4:47 a.m.

that when a law is made in China, it seemed to him that everyone thought about how they could obey the law. “When a law is made in the US”, my nephew said, “everyone thinks about how to avoid obeying it.”And, finally, my own observation of cultural differences involves competition. I am quite competitive , and at the time I visited Changchun as a team leader, I was eager to bring along a Scrabble board to help my students improve their English. Of course, I also wanted to teach them to keep score. “After all”, I thought, “what’s the point of playing a game if you don’t know how to keep score.” In the first game, we teamed up: I had one student on my side (Team 1)and there were two students teamed together as our opponents (Team 2).As we played I showed the students the rudiments of the scoring system and how to look for the “hot spots” to double or even triple their score. To my great surprise, when a member of Team 2 caught on, she was very excited to share this information with my partner. She would say to us on Team 1, “Oh, look, you can get a good score here.”I was my observation that while I thought of competing against Team 2, the Chinese students thought of competing against the board. “How can we get a good score using the board”, not “How can we get a better score than our opponents.”It was a lesson for me. In my way, there were losers. In their way, we all were winners. http://www.comparecashbackcards.net/ http://www.eben-uk.org/

Jesslyn September 28, 2013 at 2:19 p.m.

Dear Steve; You make mention of “standing as a martial art”. There are many fine books here at Plum that deal with Yiquan, and yiquan is the usage of standing as it can be applied for fighting. KenichiSawai in his book Tai Ki Ken, used what he learned from Wang Xiang Zhai for fighting purposes. In Standing you gain a definite exchange, a remuneration if you will; by standing you gain excellent root. Excellent root is what keeps you standing upright as your enemy tries to knock you down.Wang XuanJie published quite a few fine books on his take of yiquan, as did my Teacher, Paul Moon Wai Dong. Pauls books touch on what some might consider the esoteric end of the standing meditation skills; going into external qi healing and also Lin Kong Jing.Those skills exist depending on how far you wish you go down the Rabbit Hole, and how much of your mind you wish to give up in the process of gaining them. They work good for some, so-so for others, and not so much for others. I spent my time training for many many years, and had great fun, but at last my body could no longer keep up with the requirements demanded of me for the training at it’s deeper more esoteric levels.What I came away with was tremendous strength; both internal and external, a youthful appearance; I am now 52 and look 25 - 27 years of age, great blood pressure, etc… I am happy to remain at the stage I am at, and if I live to the age of 120, I will chalk it all up to Paul’s training and unstinting giving forth of his copious knowledge to a white boy with dreams of daoist immortality running in his mind. I love Paul as a son loves a doting father for all the other information he eagerly shared with me over the past 2 decades. I have done right by Paul in passing along his knowledge all over europe and here in the USA.The thousands I have taught in England, Ireland, Scotland, The Royal Air Force Martial Arts Association, Germany and Belgiumand here in the USA from coast to coast; East to West and North to South will be the ones to carry my work further down the centuries, and I hope that many of them uncover the riches of Standing Meditation, where I could only plow into the basic depths during my training. Of course, there are many who just wish to delve into the basic physical training skills, and totally avoid any of the esoteric skills that are there waiting for people just to dive into and explore, and I also wish those who wish to only grasp the physicalstrengths the best of wishes as they explore those avenues of training. http://www.travelrewardscards.net/