The Origin of Nature

A personal life or a financial world is in a kind of cyclical nature. It can be spiral upward or spiral downward, stagnation and setback are short and temporarily. Reflection on my Mount Kilimanjaro trekking trip. I spent most of my first half of June on mountain climbing. Climbing an icy cold mountain with thin air is not an easy task for me and for my family members because we live in a tropical country a whole life and we have two weathers: summer and raining season. Despite our age disadvantage, We made it to the second highest point, our limits; Stella Point of Mount Kilimanjaro at 5745m on two feet, without assistance of ams pill (acetazolamide), diamox or viagra. We experienced no headaches, it was simply amazing. Thank you Mt. Kilimanjaro for given us permission to climb,credit must also go to our kind hearted helpers and all professional guides, especially the descending part. As my wife put it in this way: "climbing this mountain is not for everyone", e...

Sometimes when we have inappropriate technology or methodology or belief, and that makes life more challenging. My next blog post would appear here in late June 2012.

Neuroscience has been advanced into a very high level of brain science. There are many neuroscience gurus now as compared to fifteen years ago where we had less knowledge in this area. Many neuroscientists explain well the working mechanism of neurons inside the brain and I particularly like Prof. Dale Purves simplified version. Let's look at some ideas from on what happen inside our neurons by Prof Purves and Augustine findings: 1) Transmitter is synthesized and then stored in vesicles. 2) An action potential invades the presynaptic terminal. 3) Depolarization of presynaptic terminal causes opening of voltage 4) influx of ca2+ through channels 5) Ca2+ causes vesicles to fuse with presynaptic membrane 6) Transmitter is released into synaptic cleft via exocytosis ... Neuroscience is a branch out of medical science, it further developed into neuroimaging and many advanced techniques . However, there is another branch of science it is called brainwave neurofeedback or EEG biofeedback....

Asian Scientist (Dec. 14, 2011) –" Singapore’s oldest person, Teresa Hsu Chih (许哲), has died at the age of 113. She passed away peacefully at home on Wednesday 7, December 2011. Hsu was born into poverty in Guangdong in 1898 but rose to become one of Asia’s most beloved and inspirational social workers in Singapore. She started studying nursing after World War II, at the age of 47. She later founded the Heart to Heart Service and the Home for the Aged Sick in Singapore, and her contributions to charity earned her the Public Star in 2009. According to a notice on the Heart to Heart website, Hsu had requested that no media announcement be made, and that no rituals or ceremonies be conducted. Hsu was cremated that day and instructed that no claim be made of her ash." In 2005 I went for her talk on a topic which interest many people. A secret of longevity. As an eager audience I saw her walkup the stage without any walking aid. She was 107 then. After a long introductory by the ...

This picture on the right below was taken by Jeremiah L T Chen @102257h I saw Orion, venus and a cheese ball in the air. Moon eclipse is the shadow of earth produces by the sun which projected on the moon. The eclipse lasted a few hours. It started after 8pm and ended at 11pm on Dec 9, 2011. In my childhood days although we knew the truth of moon eclipse but the elders passed down the idea of celestial dog bites the moon. In those days we had fun by hitting the gong loud, chased away the sky (heavenly) dog (天狗食月) . When we get older, some of my friends become more emotional. I hope we will be more logical and scientific in understand our universe and the nature. In science there is no place for superstitious and biased views. This year we see a slightly red moon. When we see a red moon, we are seeing the red light that wasn’t scattered, but the blue and green light have been scattered away back to the space. That’s why the Moon looks red. In the wavelength spectrum a slower red light...

When we went on climb Mt. Rinjani in Indonesia last year, a life volcanoic mountain near Bali area, we received a momentary comment from a rest-house owner, he said that Singaporeans were one of the slowest trekkers' groups in the world. Yes it is nerve breaking revelation but I did not dispute that statement as our island country state has only a hill which stands at 160m, it is called Bukit Timah hill, "the highest mountain". For mountain climbing enthusiasts, now we have a solution for those we have the desire to scale highest mountains. You can start training at our aritifical mountains all over the country, or in many countries. If your want to have a summit climb of 1000m within a day, you can simulate a situation by climbing 10 rounds of 40 floors' high rise building. But there is one problem that we have not really found a right solution, ie Mountain sickness. Nontheless this artificial mountain training regime would provide us improvement in heart rate variab...

Nature takes care of plants & flowers. It makes them grow so well without extra human intervention. “ 有心栽花花不开,无心插柳柳成荫” Resonance with the nature, it controls the timing and opportunity. Unintentional act may provide a better outcome after all. Nature favours pure, noble and good intention rather than greedy,selfish and self-centred act. Know the nature, harmonised with nature and grow with the nature.