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Irony

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On August 17, 2004

In Films & TV, Off Beaten Track

Heard a statement on the local TV regarding Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) recently. The basic gist was that it is because of the practice of TCM that the Chinese as a race has been able to survive till the modern age.

Could not help to think of the flip-side of this statement. By simple extension, isn’t it an even greater miracle that all the other races, deprived of this brilliant Chinese technology, can survive till now?? Really says a lot about the worth (or lack of) of TCM in this context, doesn’t it!?

Missing links, part II

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On August 16, 2004

In Off Beaten Track

As a postscript to previous thoughts on <a href="”>missing links, if a pattern cannot be detected for more than one generation, many alternative explanations – all equally seemingly probable – for a series of events are not only possible, but in fact to be expected.

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Function God()

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On June 19, 2004

In Faith, Off Beaten Track

This entry was started on 23 August 2003, after the bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad, but I just never got around to finishing it, until now.

The UN headquarters in Baghdad was bombed two days ago. Shortly after that, a suicide bomb exploded in Jerusalem. Not long before that, the Jordanian embassy was bombed, again, with many casualties. Once again, many innocent lives were lost due to the ideals of the few. At the end of all this, US becomes isolated in playing the role of international policeman.

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Budget-thinking

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On June 17, 2004

In Off Beaten Track, Reading List

Been reading the Rich Dad, Poor Dad series as mentioned earlier. In one of the books, the author advocated that money is just a concept.

In order to acquire wealth, one of the starting point is to actually change the thinking process. To be the rich, you need to act and think like a rich person. But, I gather, this does not mean spending as if you are loaded when you are not! The author’s central thesis is to challenge people to change the “I can’t afford this” thinking into “How can I afford it?”

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Trend vs discontinuities

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On June 17, 2004

In Off Beaten Track

Hindsight is a wonderful thing. As they say, it is always a 20-20 vision.

With hindsight, we can always make the correct decisions, spot the life-changing technological breakthroughs before they happen… With it, we all have the opportunity to become “geniuses”, able to see things no others can see.

Now comes the million-dollar question: how can we achieve that, given our human fallibilities?

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