I Ching- The eight trigrams

The 8 trigrams are:

1) Heaven (Qian)
-Defines as the heaven, male, father and sovereign.
-Symbolise heaven, strength, creativity, father

2) Earth (Kun)
-Defines as Earth, compliance, obedience, feminine
-Symbolise earth, meekness, receptivity,mother

3) Water (Kan)
-Defines as pit, hole, crisis
-Symbolise water, danger, diffculty, second son

4) Fire (Li)
-Defines as brilliance, depart, defy
-Symbolise fire, light, elegance, intelligence, second daughter

5) Thunder (Zhen)
-Defines as to shake, shock
-Symbolise thunder, motion, agitation, eldest son

6) Wind (Sun)
-Defines as mild, bland, submissive
-Symbolise as wind, penetration, pliancy, eldest daughter

7) Mountain (Gen)
-Defines as tough, honest and upright personality
-Symbolise as mountain, obstruction, stoppage, stillness, youngest son

8) Lake (Dui)
-Defines as to exchange, barter
- Symbolise as lake, pleasure, joy, youngest daughter

Aimless

Without an aim in life,

drifting in the current of pasting time,

with no desire to act.

Passion of life,

extinguishes with the repetitive flow of events,

everything is dull.

Life is a journey,

where eternal rest is what you get at the end of life,

ash to ash, dust to dust

Set an aim,

and like the phoenix,

that rises from the ashes

I missed you, Grandpa...

Grandpa,

You had already left us more than a decade. Hope that you are leading a peaceful life now in the other world, playing Mah Jong with your buddies. You deserve the carefree life!

You had spent much quality time with me.
I can remember that I was always in your car, been ferried to eat breakfast, lunch with your friends and eat desserts along the road side. I had the best fried meehoon in the world, that your friend had prepared.

You taught me to behave and have good manners. You let me know how important it is to treasure friendship and be discipline.

For the last 10 years of your life, you laid there without speaking a word because of your stroke.

Thank you for coming to see my performance in school on your last day in the world. I can sense that you were standing there watching me before leaving this world for the other.

It is my biggest regret in life that I could be at your side when you left the world.
Please forgive me

Hi to the 10 years later me!

It’s 21 July 2006 at 2300hr.

Dress up well. Take a seat and place a digital camera in front of you.

Look into the lens, smile and start recording from the digital camera.

You are about to do a recording of what you want to tell yourself exactly 10 years later on 21 July 2016. What do you want to tell to yourself 10 years later?

“Hi, the 10 years older me. Remember me - the 10 years ago you in 13 July 2006, how are you doing?

Except in your memory, guess this is the only time you see me again in person!

Are our parents still around? I really hope that they are. Please don’t be sad if they have already ended their sufferings on Earth.

No matter what is happening to you now. Don’t get dishearten if things are down.

Re-summon the similar fighting spirit inside us 10 years ago. With our confidence and endurance, nothing can stop you. You can make it! Pressure can either thrust you up or push you down. You are the master of pressure, tame him well to serve you.

Remember our motto: “ We do not have nothing. We have our hands. Use our hands to build our future.” Keep up the spirit.

Food creation!

The mind drifted back to the hostel days and recalled the times where I did my own food creation.

Creation 1: Beer Float
Beer is best drink when it is cold. In Singapore climate, a icy cold beer will turn warm in a short while. Adding ice cubes will just dilute the beer.Beer has a taste taste, ice cream is sweet. So,
Step 1: Add a few scoops of ice-cream to a mug of beer!
Step 2: The melting ice cream keeps the beer cool, dilutes the bitter taste and makes the mixture more foamy

Experience with many flavours and concluded that durian ice cream gave the best combination whilst chocolate ended up ... ...

Creation 2: Watermelon fudge
Usually had a tub of ice cream in my fridge and brought a whole watermelon once a week. The watermelon will lose it water contents and turn sloggy if it is left in the fridge for too long.
What to do with the leftover watermelon?
1) Dice or slice the watermelon into smaller pieces.
2) Place the watermelon into a bowl and spread the ice cream over it
3) Allow the ice cream to melt into semi-liquid state
4) Place the bowl back into the freezer