Money

Money talks! In society especially today, money buys three out of four of the basic needs of mankind which are water, food and accommodation; only air is free. One almost literally cannot live without money, this is why every sensible person understands its importance.

So money is important, but how do you convince somebody that money is not most important?


During the first half of one's life, a man spends his health to gain wealth; during the second half, he spends wealth to gain health. Most people understand and agree on this concept, but why do they(we all) still do it? Neglecting our health, working our guts out to get good grades, work, whatever.... all for the sake of earning more money.

Hmmm, whether or not we neglect our health to earn wealth now, we would still need wealth to maintain health in old age, would we not?
So, is neglecting our health now permissible?
We are merely stewards of everything we have here, including our bodies.

Health or wealth. Keep both? Choose either one if there is only one choice? What would you choose? Who can judge if you've chosen right or wrong?

at breakfast today

本来约好两位好朋友今天在福州包吃早餐的可是福州包今天休息不做生意，所以我们只好到别处吃。
今天早上真开心 ，跟那两个好朋友聊天谈得很开心。

Anyway one of them said this,  "下次尽量去些比较少人的地方吃吧，我不是自夸可是跟朋友吃饭时常常遇到认识的人很烦的。”


我回到家了在心里想，“说的也对。” 哈哈！

但我又继续再想下去。。。  如果我在街上遇到认识的人，花几秒种停下脚步打个招呼，对方会不会觉得我烦呢？
而如果换成是我觉得对方烦，脸上的笑容是不是很虚伪呢？
虚伪的人对得起自己，对得起他人吗？

我又再次想下去。。。在这世界上有谁不虚伪？


今天我的到的结论是：有好的礼貌就对了啦！  虚不虚伪的难题就让各自的良心告诉自己。

Liquid Paper

Made to make invisible mistakes made

yet invisible only on a mixture of all colours

Made to cover up flaws

yet of which traces easily exist

Liquid paper: paper in liquid

However paper inorganic

Cover up, cover up

and provide a second chance

Should it ever even work

best wishes I give though am skeptical

Liquid paper hide complete

such a belief for the naive

© Joel Yap

Ungrateful Sleeping Boy

Two months had past
nothing she gives
Neither a word
nor a single hi
All was a dream
will to wake from I have not


Story too long to tell
emotions still run wild
Facing it all alone
standing pain hard to bear
Listeners grow faint
along with watchers who care


Hands to borrow there are
but not the one in desire
Learn to allow and receive
to unlearn self-defined best
Differentiate needs from wants
Integrate self to help

© Joel Yap

Coldplay - The Scientist

 The song speaks it all,

whatever I feel like ranting out loud now.

万物之灵

老师在学生生命里留下的影响与影像是非常深的。好的老师对学生的付出和恩惠是无法被报答的。

就读中华三小时，老师说：人类是万物之灵。

上了中学，老师的教导没有被遗忘。
我自己能想了：

万物之灵的眼睛不如鹰；

万物之灵的耳朵不如蝠；

万物之灵的嘴巴不如狮；

万物之灵的鼻子不如狗。

万物之灵真的在万物以上吗？万物之灵配吗？

狗儿懂得为争地盘而打斗，万物之灵也会。

狗儿懂得因配偶发生争执，万物之灵也会。

狗儿懂得为了好处而变乖，万物之灵也会。

狗儿懂得辨认于永远记得主人， 万物之灵却不会。

狗儿不懂得伤害主任，万物之灵却会。

狗儿懂得忠心，万物之灵却不懂。

万物之灵懂得树木的重要性，绿色的世界还是渐渐消失。

万物之灵懂得饮食均匀的重要性，因肥胖引起的病率没有减少。

万物之灵懂得沟通的重要性，彼此的感情还是受不了一点点误会的打击。

万物之灵的脚不如豹，发明了车子；天上的鸟儿数不清，但它们何曾因碰撞而丧命？

万物之灵没翅膀，发明了飞机！

万物之灵下不了深海，发明了潜水艇！

万物之灵的成就可嘉，

可是这些成就却不幸在战场上被利用来自相残杀。

要不是上帝赐予思考能力，万物之灵连狗都不如。
思考能力是用来群造福人群的，你我有做到吗？
你我有分析对于错的能力，我们会选择不做错吗？

Random Thought of the Day

Back to randomly musing again, was wondering:

Between one who is given more and another given less, is it necessary that the earlier is more fortunate than the latter?


Taking an immediate example that we are using right now, the Internet.
Say I have a good speed while my neighbour's one is terribly slow. Both use the Internet like everybody does. One day the phone lines become thinner, causing the Internet speed in the neighbourhood to slow down due to the increase in resistance of the wires. Anyway forget about why, the point is that both subjects in mention experience worse connections than the ones they had been using all the while. When this happens, who do you think will suffer more? The one who had a good Internet connectivity or the other?
Who then, is more fortunate in this case?

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