Little Indians
Do you still remember this rhyme? Well, a good remake to portray the Malaysia politics in the Indians community. On February 16, Indian women and children marched in KL city with roses in hands. They were going to send the roses to our prime minister but instead of meeting him, they met the FDU (Federal Reserved Unit) armed with shields and batons. Several women including an 11 year-old girl were arrested! This was the reason behind the massive traffic jam at Sg. Besi toll.
Which party are you going to vote?
The 12th Malaysia General Election is here on March 8. Posters and flyers everywhere. Useless politicians whom you don’t see them all year round suddenly appear in markets, streets and even going door-to-door. WTF!
With all the happenings in Malaysia, I hope dear Malaysians know who they are going to vote for this time. Here is a video for you to laugh and relax. So, no headache, just relax and cast your vote wisely this time.
Sun successfully acquired MySQL
Sun broke out the news that it has successfully completed the acquisition of MySQL. The acquisition was smooth. The acquisition accelerates and opens up opportunity for Sun to take a more prominent role in the US$15 billions database market worldwide. This acquisition will bring more synergies to Sun for the millions of global deployment of MySQL. These deployment include Google, Nokia, Facebook, China Mobile and Baidu.
Sun has been active in Open Source and well known for its contribution in OpenOffice. Sun will take MySQL to greater heights with this acquisition. This acquisition will open up more opportunity for my software business as well as provide better and easier access to MySQL/Sun technical. Read here.
Sex, lies and videotape
About 20 years ago, there was a movie with the title “Sex, Lies and Videotape”. Twenty years later, Malaysia released the first home brewed sequel, which shot down the minister of health. The sex scandal had stirred great upheaval in Malaysian society. People searched for the video high and low. Police hunted down the distribution channel and yet could not wipe it out simply because it had gone deeper underground. The scandal cost the post of the minister of health. Here’s something to laugh at.
重男轻女
我太太的一位朋友因为流产须要留医没法照顾她那18个月大的女儿。她要求我太太帮忙照顾一天，因为她的奶妈家有急事不能照顾，我太太基于朋友关系而欣然答应了。
我和我太太谈了一会才知道她朋友的丈夫要出勤而不能照顾。简着是废话。她丈夫自己开修车厂，而今天是星期日，有什么事急过于照顾女儿和太太？而她的家婆那里，一个人都没去医院探望她！她丈夫带他女儿出街，从未带过她去吃东西，就算俭朴，也不寒酸到这个地步吧？如果是个男儿，我相信她丈夫那里的人今天可会飞扑过来照顾了。她和丈夫都是广东籍。广东籍的人多数都是重男轻女，简直不可理喻，太过分了！
Our Princess Bread Maker
LA has got her Princess bread maker on February 11. She had made a few breads and they all tasted very good. Today she made another one after she managed to buy some special ingredients for bread making. She made a wholemeal bread with the wholemeal flour she bought from PJ. Here is the photo of the Princess bread maker and the delicious fresh hot wholemeal bread.
Lingam’s Devil Curry
Whether you have been following the recent video controversy of Lingam or not, or you have no idea what it is about, just turn on your loudspeaker loudly, sit back and enjoy!
Nokia 6300
It has been a week since I lost my Sony Ericsson K700i. Choosing a cellphone is always a chaotic headache. So many models! I had been a Nokia fan before I switched to Sony Ericsson 3 years ago. The most important feature I wanted for my phone is the Bluetooth sync feature which allows me to sync my Calendar, To-do, Address with Mac OS X. That was the main reason I chose K700i.
Another criteria is that I want a phone to look like a phone. The 6300 has got a classic phone look after Nokia releases so many garbage. Deciding on a model is never easy. I listened to many live user experience from friends and relatives and even youngsters who own phones as a hobby. Reading comparison and comments on Internet is never as good as listening to real people talking straight out of their minds.
Apple’s iSync and Nokia do not support this model for syncing via Bluetooth. I did some research and found the 6300 is using Nokia’s Series 40 software and there are many similar phones have been supported. I need to do a hack to iSync so I referred to the following sites:
- Koos Kasper.nl: How to iSync a Nokia 6300
- dabgotra.com: Nokia 6300, iSync, and Contact Photos…
By following Koos’ hacks, I managed to setup Bluetooth link and iSync away in less than 2 minutes. Now, my 6300 is populated with so much data from my Calendar, To-do and Contact. I have yet to try dabgotra’s hacks to iSync contact with photos.
Ada Seminar
I gave my last Ada Seminar in March 2005 at MMU Melaka. It has been 3 years since I last active in Ada and Ada projects. It will be a great pleasure to restart any Ada related activities after quite a long inactivity.
This time, I am going to give a talk about Ada at two universities. For more information about the Ada seminars, read here.
CNY visiting
There was nothing to do over the week end so I decided to take everyone to PJ to visit my brother-in-law and sister-in-law. The plan was also to visit a few friends including Benji and also window shopping at 1U if time permitted.
We started our journey early. Traffic was smooth and we arrived at Sungai Besi in 1.5 hours. Unfortunately, the traffic built up heavily before the Sg. Besi toll. We were stuck there for many minutes and I decided to turn back and to take another alternative judging the heavy traffic would be delaying our journey by at least an hour or more. I took the UPM-Puchong (LDP) way and again another traffic congestion at LDP’s Sunway toll. The traffic there was not as heavy as Sg. Besi but it delayed our journey quite a bit. A 2-hour journey became 4-hour journey!
While driving on the E way, I realized I did not have Benji’s numbers on another phone. I had no way to contact Benji until he contacted me. According to SIL, all shopping malls were heavily congested by cars and people. On our way to PJ, we saw heavy congestion at Sunway Pyramid. So we decided to hang around at BIL’s house.
We went to some bakery supplies shops to buy some ingredients for making bread. On the way, Benji called. Thanked God! We would meet after 8.
Finally, we met up at Benji’s around 8. We drove back to Malacca and arrived safely. We called it a day!
I lost my cell phone
I had to go to one of my client’s outlet at Sentral Melaka to service their IP camera. When I arrived at the outlet, I received an SMS from LA followed by a phone call from Richard. He asked me lot of questions about his insurance claim and also to thank me for providing assistance and information about his insurance claim. I remembered clearly I put my Sony Ericsson K700i which I bought in 2005.
I was a Nokia user before switching to SE because I read about how seamlessly SE K700i syncs with Apple’s Mac OS X applications via Bluetooth. The SE K700i is a very nice phone with many features I love about. One of them is K700i can be used as a remote control for Apple’s Keynote presentation software. The control is via Bluetooth as well.
Soon when I realized it was not in my waist pouch, I quickly dialed the number using another phone. The phone had been switched off. Total silence. It’s gone! A phone which has been my friend for almost 3 years is now gone.
I went back to the outlet after taking Dmitry from school and the staffs told me they didn’t see it. Disappointed.
福建少林拳（转载）
福建少林寺是南派少林拳的正宗发源地，创立于唐代，毁于清朝康熙年间。福建少林寺位于福建福州市福清的东张镇九莲山，现于重建中。福建福州少林拳，广泛流传于福州，长乐，福清，永泰，闽侯，蒲田泉州，厦门等地，并流传广东，浙江，江西等省，并经华侨流传香港，新加坡，澳门，日本，缅甸，泰国，马来西亚，台湾，美国，韩国等国家，地区。
福建福州少林拳继承了北少林拳的精髓，吸收民间和行伍中流传的各种拳法，仿效飞禽走兽，家畜家禽，鱼虾等动物的觅食，飞翔，搏斗，跳跃等动作，又综合吸收《易经》，经络学，气功理论，逐步发展为内外合一，内外兼修的实用性技击性强的南派少林拳法。
福建福州少林拳动作精简迅疾，巧狠并行，刚柔并济，身法敏捷，勇猛刚劲，多短打近攻，套路简捷朴素，富有阳刚之美。
福建福州少林拳以阴阳，五行相生相克，喻手法，身法，讲究精，气，神，意，劲，手，眼，身，法，步的配合，要求劲力节节贯穿，筋，肌富有弹性，每一拳一脚都着眼于实战搏击，福建少林拳头顶项稳，紧臀松裆，含胸拔背，沉肩坠肘，步实身正，搏击交手时虚实兼用，巧狠并施，连防带打，以柔克刚，以刚克柔，不封即缠，不刁即裹，不扣即搂，严密紧凑，快速连贯，拳不空发，手不空回，使对手陷入步步挨打的被动局面.
福建福州少林拳很讲究劲，’劲’可分为’内劲’，’明劲’，’刚劲 ‘，’柔劲‘和’暗劲’（福州方言即短劲，寸进）。’内劲’是意识支配’内气’行至身体某一部位，气经骨缝肌肤，通过肢体屈伸辗转与肌肉收缩而形成，在外形上使人明显见到发力效果谓之’明劲’。
1，暗劲 ；暗劲重意，拳掌在短距离内震颤骤然施劲，触物即刚，神凝气沉，功蕴于内，随意而达，劲力莫测，也叫寸劲，
2。刚劲是由丹田产生气，力随气意在肢体一处爆发产生的力，也叫弹簧劲
3。柔劲是全身骨节，肌肉及内脏器官严密配合，含蓄活跃于体内又能随意集中于一处的一种韧劲，也叫橡胶劲。
福建福州少林拳注重双桥（福州方言，即手腕到肘关节的前手臂叫桥手）”基手”（福州方言也叫”摇基”或”摇桥手”，分为单基手，双基手）训练，不同拳种有不同”基手”锻炼”方法。”基手”练封，缠，刁，扣。搂等福建少林特有的双桥技法。通过”基手”长期锻炼培养出良好的听劲。”懂劲”既桥手的敏锐触觉，感觉到对手力之轻。重，浮，沉，去，留，洞察到对手的意图，及时根据对手的动向与变化，做出准确快捷打击或反击。
福建少林拳原宗拳法，器械，暗器是少林三进拳，少林梅花四十六式和一百零八式梅花拳，三十二式少林八步连环拳，四门刀，棍杖，梅花刀，二月剑，断门枪-飞镖，飞石等暗器。
福建少林拳继承原宗少林拳法而发展了少林五祖拳，少林看店拳，金狮罗汉拳，八宝门硬气功（已传广西，现掌门人莫文丹先生），花锁门（已传广东，现掌门梁光喜先生）象形拳有：虎形拳，鹤拳，豹拳，龙拳，蛇拳，象形的混形拳：咏春拳（蛇鹤双形），金猴鹤拳，虎鹤双形拳，此外，还有南派少林拳特有的血脉点穴法。
五禽戏
五禽戏非一门武功，也不是什么武术技巧。它是由中国汉代名医华佗创编的一种养生健身术，主要模仿五种禽兽－虎、鹿、熊、猿、鹤的神态和动作，以达到舒展筋骨，畅通经脉的功效。
五禽分属于金木水火土五行，又对应于心肝脾肺肾五脏。据中医解说，模仿五禽动作不但能锻炼四肢筋骨，还能间接地加强五脏六腑之功能。而现代医学研究亦证明五禽戏能锻炼和提高神经系统的功能，提高大脑的抑制功能和调节功能。在心肺功能方面则能改善心肌供氧量，提高心脏排血力和促进组织器官的正常发育。同时它还能增强肠胃活动及分泌功能，促进消化吸收。
五禽戏诀云：
“虎戏者，四肢距地，前三掷，却二掷，长引腰，乍脚，仰天，
即返距行，前却各七过也。”“鹿戏者，四肢距地，引项反顾，左三右二，左右伸脚，
伸缩亦三亦二也。”“熊戏者，正仰，以两手抱膝下，举头，左僻地七，右亦七，
蹲地，以手左右托地。”“猿戏者，攀物自悬，伸缩身体，上下一七；以脚拘物自悬，
左右七；手钩却立，按颈，各七。”“鸟戏者，双立手，翘一足，伸两臂，扬眉鼓力，右二七，
坐伸脚，手挽足距各七，缩伸二臂各七也。”
俗语说：“药补不如食补，食补不如动补。”，说明运动是保持身体健康最有效的途径。从虎到鹤这五种禽兽的动作互相配合，各不相同的作用将有效地达到统一的保健，从而强身健体，祛病长生。
Tiger
The tiger (Panthera tigris) is a mammal of the Felidae family, the largest of four “big cats” in the Panthera genus. The tiger is an apex predator and highly adaptable ranging from the Siberian taiga to grasslands to mangrove swamps.
In the culture of many Asian countries, the tiger is the symbol of beauty, bravery and power. In some Chinese martial arts, particularly southern Shaolin tiger boxing style or Kosonken mimics the movement of the tiger. The Kosonken techniques are as direct, short and powerful like the tiger. The techniques include grappling, pressing, pulling, tearing and striking. These techniques are applied directly to vital points on the body and as well as the limbs.
Kosonken applies short explosive energy in the techniques. The short explosive energy helps to conserve energy with effective motion economy. The adversary has no hints and unaware of the sudden shock of application of energy creating surprises and leaving the adversary more vulnerable.
Wa-uke
Wa-uke or circular block is the most versatile and most frequently used in Uechiryu karatedo. It is one of the secret techniques in Uechiryu. Simple by the look but it takes months or years to learn the correct method and to understand its concepts and applications. My previous research incorporated concepts from Taijiquan and Aikido into wa-uke. The keys of understanding and realization of wa-uke are change of momentum during different stages of maneuver, timing, contact points, triangulation and changing of stance. By applying the different concepts, wa-uke is not only a block but also grappling, throwing and taking down. Wa-uke is effective for mid- and close- quarter contact (CQC) fightings.
Repetitive practice of wa-uke together with the understanding of its fundamental concepts and applications, a simple technique becomes a secret technique. Complemented by the understanding of the concepts from Kosonken (tiger style boxing), this secret technique becomes more devastating and deadlier.
My research continues to unlock more secrets of Uechiryu and Kosonken as the time goes by. At the mean time, while waiting for more new exciting discoveries, let us practice this simple and yet secret technique.
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