2008年7月 Archives
Bought fifteen years ago, at the age of 21, from a slave trader for a
mere $300 by a 50-year-old farmer, the procured wife's existence was
one on par with the animals with which she shared her outhouse
accommodation, kept naked and shackled in filth all year round,
freezing in winter and food for insects in summer.
Such is the pitiful tale related by a journalist who was tipped off as to the woman's plight, and went to investigate.
When the journalist set out to confirm the report, he quickly discovered its accuracy was not in doubt; on arrival he soon found his way to the rude hut in question, and on peering into the crude structure's empty windows saw the imprisoned "wife" staring vacantly back out.
She had apparently been bought from a slave trader 15 years earlier, and then forced into marrying the farmer under a false name to give her servitude an air of legitimacy.
The farmer's first act upon acquiring his property was to strip her, and tie her to a heavy stone. Interrogation of the farmer revealed he bound her as she would otherwise destroy things, and that he kept her naked as it was easier to deal with her bodily functions that way.
Kept this way, naked all year round, she apparently only survived by keeping her body warm using the single sheep she was kept with. At times she would faint from the cold, but villagers would set a fire for her, although perhaps for reasons less than sympathetic.
Her existence was also one of toil; the farmer had a number of small fields and had her work these, as well as having her work the fields of other villagers, perhaps explaining their interest in avoiding her freezing to death. She was kept half starved, and forced to beg for her living costs when she was not toiling in the fields.
She could read, at least at first, and, according to the wicked villagers, was young and beautiful, and of sound mind, when first she was brought to the village.
But the shell of a woman before the reporter only gazed vacantly into space, and was heedless of the many times she had been bitten by mosquitoes in the hut; the farmer smiled and said "She don't take no notice of them".
Apparently, she has at least one surviving relative in the form of an older brother, who came searching for her in the area, but failed ultimately to find her. The reporter is currently soliciting information as to the full identity of the woman.
Whilst slavery and other barbarity may be relatively common in backwater rural China, this story seems to exhibit exceptional callousness and cruelty on the part of the owner, to put things mildly. And it happens not in the backward and neglected interior, but in coastal Shandong province, one of the richest and most economically developed areas in China.
Such is the pitiful tale related by a journalist who was tipped off as to the woman's plight, and went to investigate.
When the journalist set out to confirm the report, he quickly discovered its accuracy was not in doubt; on arrival he soon found his way to the rude hut in question, and on peering into the crude structure's empty windows saw the imprisoned "wife" staring vacantly back out.
She had apparently been bought from a slave trader 15 years earlier, and then forced into marrying the farmer under a false name to give her servitude an air of legitimacy.
The farmer's first act upon acquiring his property was to strip her, and tie her to a heavy stone. Interrogation of the farmer revealed he bound her as she would otherwise destroy things, and that he kept her naked as it was easier to deal with her bodily functions that way.
Kept this way, naked all year round, she apparently only survived by keeping her body warm using the single sheep she was kept with. At times she would faint from the cold, but villagers would set a fire for her, although perhaps for reasons less than sympathetic.
Her existence was also one of toil; the farmer had a number of small fields and had her work these, as well as having her work the fields of other villagers, perhaps explaining their interest in avoiding her freezing to death. She was kept half starved, and forced to beg for her living costs when she was not toiling in the fields.
She could read, at least at first, and, according to the wicked villagers, was young and beautiful, and of sound mind, when first she was brought to the village.
But the shell of a woman before the reporter only gazed vacantly into space, and was heedless of the many times she had been bitten by mosquitoes in the hut; the farmer smiled and said "She don't take no notice of them".
Apparently, she has at least one surviving relative in the form of an older brother, who came searching for her in the area, but failed ultimately to find her. The reporter is currently soliciting information as to the full identity of the woman.
Whilst slavery and other barbarity may be relatively common in backwater rural China, this story seems to exhibit exceptional callousness and cruelty on the part of the owner, to put things mildly. And it happens not in the backward and neglected interior, but in coastal Shandong province, one of the richest and most economically developed areas in China.
Taken from: http://stories.sg/
Letter to Singapore
by Zing
Dear Singapore,
I'm sorry, but I'm leaving you. I've fallen in love with somewhere else, and you wouldn't like her. But London is the place for me. I've fallen for her dingy, narrow streets. The 24-hour bagels on Brick Lane; the club kids in neon and glitter falling out of Boombox at 3 in the morning; the bands with their urgent, clashing guitars, cigarettes and floppy hair. I've fallen for boys who play in bands with a copy of The Female Eunuch in their bedrooms; I've fallen for girls who write poetry and play guitar in Leicester Square pubs. I've fallen for the Chinese boy I saw at Kings Cross holding hands with his boyfriend, while his mother smiled and hailed a taxi for them all. I've fallen in love with the Irish. I've fallen in love with the Welsh. They're all here, Singapore, in tiny corners, in crammed spaces, in underground dancehalls and abandoned warehouses.
We had a good run, but I was never really comfortable with you. You were always liberal when it suited you, small-minded when it didn't. You used to say, "Careful you don't be so open-minded, otherwise your brains fall out". But maybe some fresh air would be good for your head. You were always scared of my clothes, the way I spoke, what I wanted to do. "So smart, is it?" you used to say. "Have some common sense. Later in life, what matters is money. Sad but true. You have to think ahead."
I'm 20 years old and I don't want to be jaded, but you're already feeding me defeatism and banality as a lifestyle choice. I want to be more than an office drone. I want to be more than my salary. You need to dream big to be big, Singapore. I looked into your dreams one night and they were full of dollar signs. They were full of people getting by on their Mercedes, their two maids, their country club membership. Getting by and not living. Getting but not achieving. Buying and selling but not giving. I d reamed we went to a Club Med on holiday, and I told the receptionist, "You live in a beautiful country," and she replied, "You don't live here." That night, I said, "I wish we'd gone somewhere else." You said, "Like where? All the places you want to go are dirty, no air-con."
I'm in love, of course I take a romantic view of London. But I've seen the dark alleys; I've seen the feral children with their knives and guns; I've been mugged and it wasn't fun. I almost had to get stitches. I met a drag queen at A&E who'd been gaybashed on night bus number 54. We looked at each other in recognition, and she smiled grimly and said, "Honey, I've always wanted a nose job on the NHS."
In London, I can be a saint or a sinner. I can be City boy, goth girl, punk kid; I can be in with the media, in with the cool kids, I can drop rhymes in East End ghettos and I can drop cash in Mahiki on cocktails. I can be posh, p oor, upmarket, downmarket, chav, toff, hippie, indie. I can be gay or straight, man or woman. I can make myself up, make myself down. And London will still embrace me, and I will always find somewhere that will take me in, and raise no eyebrows should I wear hoop skirts and pierce my lip and call myself Bettie Page.
I'm not sure you could ever do that, Singapore. You say you celebrate diversity, but really you only grudgingly tolerate it. You know what always pissed me off? When you would shrug your shoulders and say, "What to do? It's like that, what. I'll never change." I would try and try to change your mind, but you would just shrug. That same reply. Then, accusingly, you would say that you were an Asian and you were conservative, and I was trying to make you something you weren't. Then, defiantly: "If people don't like it, not my problem!"
But I'm not trying to make you something you're not, I'm really not. I'm just trying to make you see that you're more than dollar signs. You're more than people just scraping by, dreaming of money and five-star hotels. You're a hell of a lot more than just a good air-conditioning system. You're everybody, not just the dream citizen; you're the Malay kids skipping school, hanging out at Peninsula Plaza in black jeans and trucker caps. You're the unemployed kopitiam uncle with his songbirds. You're the schoolgirl holding hands with her classmate, hoping the teacher doesn't see. You're every one of them, but for some reason you just won't acknowledge this. You like to hold on to this idea of you being this clean, perfectly efficiently city, when really it's the dirt that makes you who you are.
And at this point in my life, I don't want to deal with this amount of self-loathing and deception. I don't want to deal with somebody who sees their history as something to be packaged and sold to tourists, who sees every citizen as an economic unit to be moved around on a chess board. We are the only resource? Who said people can be resources? What are we, oil? Trees?
(Plus, I don't want to be with somebody who says "well, you just don't understand - this is for our SURVIVAL" should anybody dare to disagree. You're more than surviving. You've done well. But now you need to stop holding your breath, stop acting like everything can be taken away from you in an instant. This kind of warlike paranoia isn't doing you favours. You could be so great if you just relaxed and let go, just a little.)
I want truth, beauty... you know the rest. I'm twenty and the world's an open book to me, but you... I'm afraid that maybe, just maybe, you're a closed case.
I love you, but I can't do this anymore.
Letter to Singapore
by Zing
Dear Singapore,
I'm sorry, but I'm leaving you. I've fallen in love with somewhere else, and you wouldn't like her. But London is the place for me. I've fallen for her dingy, narrow streets. The 24-hour bagels on Brick Lane; the club kids in neon and glitter falling out of Boombox at 3 in the morning; the bands with their urgent, clashing guitars, cigarettes and floppy hair. I've fallen for boys who play in bands with a copy of The Female Eunuch in their bedrooms; I've fallen for girls who write poetry and play guitar in Leicester Square pubs. I've fallen for the Chinese boy I saw at Kings Cross holding hands with his boyfriend, while his mother smiled and hailed a taxi for them all. I've fallen in love with the Irish. I've fallen in love with the Welsh. They're all here, Singapore, in tiny corners, in crammed spaces, in underground dancehalls and abandoned warehouses.
We had a good run, but I was never really comfortable with you. You were always liberal when it suited you, small-minded when it didn't. You used to say, "Careful you don't be so open-minded, otherwise your brains fall out". But maybe some fresh air would be good for your head. You were always scared of my clothes, the way I spoke, what I wanted to do. "So smart, is it?" you used to say. "Have some common sense. Later in life, what matters is money. Sad but true. You have to think ahead."
I'm 20 years old and I don't want to be jaded, but you're already feeding me defeatism and banality as a lifestyle choice. I want to be more than an office drone. I want to be more than my salary. You need to dream big to be big, Singapore. I looked into your dreams one night and they were full of dollar signs. They were full of people getting by on their Mercedes, their two maids, their country club membership. Getting by and not living. Getting but not achieving. Buying and selling but not giving. I d reamed we went to a Club Med on holiday, and I told the receptionist, "You live in a beautiful country," and she replied, "You don't live here." That night, I said, "I wish we'd gone somewhere else." You said, "Like where? All the places you want to go are dirty, no air-con."
I'm in love, of course I take a romantic view of London. But I've seen the dark alleys; I've seen the feral children with their knives and guns; I've been mugged and it wasn't fun. I almost had to get stitches. I met a drag queen at A&E who'd been gaybashed on night bus number 54. We looked at each other in recognition, and she smiled grimly and said, "Honey, I've always wanted a nose job on the NHS."
In London, I can be a saint or a sinner. I can be City boy, goth girl, punk kid; I can be in with the media, in with the cool kids, I can drop rhymes in East End ghettos and I can drop cash in Mahiki on cocktails. I can be posh, p oor, upmarket, downmarket, chav, toff, hippie, indie. I can be gay or straight, man or woman. I can make myself up, make myself down. And London will still embrace me, and I will always find somewhere that will take me in, and raise no eyebrows should I wear hoop skirts and pierce my lip and call myself Bettie Page.
I'm not sure you could ever do that, Singapore. You say you celebrate diversity, but really you only grudgingly tolerate it. You know what always pissed me off? When you would shrug your shoulders and say, "What to do? It's like that, what. I'll never change." I would try and try to change your mind, but you would just shrug. That same reply. Then, accusingly, you would say that you were an Asian and you were conservative, and I was trying to make you something you weren't. Then, defiantly: "If people don't like it, not my problem!"
But I'm not trying to make you something you're not, I'm really not. I'm just trying to make you see that you're more than dollar signs. You're more than people just scraping by, dreaming of money and five-star hotels. You're a hell of a lot more than just a good air-conditioning system. You're everybody, not just the dream citizen; you're the Malay kids skipping school, hanging out at Peninsula Plaza in black jeans and trucker caps. You're the unemployed kopitiam uncle with his songbirds. You're the schoolgirl holding hands with her classmate, hoping the teacher doesn't see. You're every one of them, but for some reason you just won't acknowledge this. You like to hold on to this idea of you being this clean, perfectly efficiently city, when really it's the dirt that makes you who you are.
And at this point in my life, I don't want to deal with this amount of self-loathing and deception. I don't want to deal with somebody who sees their history as something to be packaged and sold to tourists, who sees every citizen as an economic unit to be moved around on a chess board. We are the only resource? Who said people can be resources? What are we, oil? Trees?
(Plus, I don't want to be with somebody who says "well, you just don't understand - this is for our SURVIVAL" should anybody dare to disagree. You're more than surviving. You've done well. But now you need to stop holding your breath, stop acting like everything can be taken away from you in an instant. This kind of warlike paranoia isn't doing you favours. You could be so great if you just relaxed and let go, just a little.)
I want truth, beauty... you know the rest. I'm twenty and the world's an open book to me, but you... I'm afraid that maybe, just maybe, you're a closed case.
I love you, but I can't do this anymore.
There was this skinny old man swinging bands of wooden beads and clapping. In front of him, there was an old newspaper clipping of him being interviewed for his not-so-interesting performance. I stood and watched, trying to understand the amusement of his act, to no avail. Nobody on the street, except several tourists whom happened to be standing around, could be bothered to even catch a glimpse of him.
When I stood around, he started his act and as I watched, it started to drizzle. I handed a 2 dollar bill into his tray almost empty tray and he smiled with thanks. I returned with mine, feeling both pity and admiration for him at the same time.
I supposed "pity" would be an insult to him, and he would need no charity from anyone but an appreciation for his work. How much can he earn doing that? I wondered in doubt, could never comprehend his motive. But truth is, I do not have the right to feel pitiful for anyone whom is devoting his pride and effort into earning that few dollars that I would spend in minutes. That is my wrong.
I waited till the rain came, and was forced to move into shelter.
You see, I think that.
To commit an act of kindness in the response of pity, is an act of hypocrisy in the belief of doing a good deed with a good result when it also encompasses the indulgence in a false sense of superiority over an inferior ego - when more often, its the other way round.
To commit an act of kindness in the response of a divine belief in karma or direct benefit, is an act of greed in the belief that doing a good deed brings a tangible or spiritual reward in the future - its pathetically self-deception.
The old man may be performing an art, but it is not the act that attracts attention, but his position in people's mind. I wished I could give him a minute of applause, but that would also meant a lie of my opinion in what I thought.
Results are not everything. The motive and process are just as important.
When I stood around, he started his act and as I watched, it started to drizzle. I handed a 2 dollar bill into his tray almost empty tray and he smiled with thanks. I returned with mine, feeling both pity and admiration for him at the same time.
I supposed "pity" would be an insult to him, and he would need no charity from anyone but an appreciation for his work. How much can he earn doing that? I wondered in doubt, could never comprehend his motive. But truth is, I do not have the right to feel pitiful for anyone whom is devoting his pride and effort into earning that few dollars that I would spend in minutes. That is my wrong.
I waited till the rain came, and was forced to move into shelter.
You see, I think that.
To commit an act of kindness in the response of pity, is an act of hypocrisy in the belief of doing a good deed with a good result when it also encompasses the indulgence in a false sense of superiority over an inferior ego - when more often, its the other way round.
To commit an act of kindness in the response of a divine belief in karma or direct benefit, is an act of greed in the belief that doing a good deed brings a tangible or spiritual reward in the future - its pathetically self-deception.
The old man may be performing an art, but it is not the act that attracts attention, but his position in people's mind. I wished I could give him a minute of applause, but that would also meant a lie of my opinion in what I thought.
Results are not everything. The motive and process are just as important.
一、没认识你之前我拿奖学金，认识你之后我差点补考。
二、我忍着让别人笑话的耻辱给你洗衣服。
三、一个苹果，都给你吃。两个苹果，我把大的给你吃。
四、同吃一条鱼，我让你吃鱼肉，我自己吃鱼头。
五、你这么难看，我还说你漂亮。我这么帅，你还说我难看。
六、出去玩都是我花钱，回来我只能吃萝卜（你省下钱当然可以自己吃鱼翅了）。
七、认识你之前我没交过女朋友。认识我之前你交了两个男朋友。
八、你生气时，我让你当出气筒。我生气时，我把自己当出气筒。
九、你想吻我的时候就可以吻我。我想吻你的时候还要经过你同意。
十、你经常打我，我从来没有打过你。
十一、有一次你问我如果你爱上别的男人了我会怎样，我说我要杀了那个男的。我又问你如果我爱上了别的女人了你会怎样，你说你要阉了我。
十二、我买了200块的衣服给你，骗你才50块。你买了30块的手表给我，骗我要300块。
十三、我把你的耳机用坏了，我买新的赔你。你把我的自行车丢了，连句对不起也没说。
十四、你生病一次，我要瘦两斤。我生病一次，你反而胖两斤（你来寝室陪我，吃光了我所有的零食。）
十五、我没嫌你矮，你却嫌我高。
十六、你来我家，我睡沙发。我去你家，还是我睡沙发。
十七、那次去看露天演唱会，你骑在我头上看得津津有味，我被你压在下面在人群中流泪。
十八、我家的狗生了，我把最好看的一条送给你。你却把你养得快要死掉的金鱼送给我，害我才养两天就得给它们送终。
十九、我给你洗了N次的袜子，从未给你丢过一只。你只在我生病的时候给我洗了两双袜子，就各丢一只。
二十、我陪你去买东西时我主动帮你提东西，你却从来没问过要不要帮我提东西。
Funny read. LOL.
二、我忍着让别人笑话的耻辱给你洗衣服。
三、一个苹果，都给你吃。两个苹果，我把大的给你吃。
四、同吃一条鱼，我让你吃鱼肉，我自己吃鱼头。
五、你这么难看，我还说你漂亮。我这么帅，你还说我难看。
六、出去玩都是我花钱，回来我只能吃萝卜（你省下钱当然可以自己吃鱼翅了）。
七、认识你之前我没交过女朋友。认识我之前你交了两个男朋友。
八、你生气时，我让你当出气筒。我生气时，我把自己当出气筒。
九、你想吻我的时候就可以吻我。我想吻你的时候还要经过你同意。
十、你经常打我，我从来没有打过你。
十一、有一次你问我如果你爱上别的男人了我会怎样，我说我要杀了那个男的。我又问你如果我爱上了别的女人了你会怎样，你说你要阉了我。
十二、我买了200块的衣服给你，骗你才50块。你买了30块的手表给我，骗我要300块。
十三、我把你的耳机用坏了，我买新的赔你。你把我的自行车丢了，连句对不起也没说。
十四、你生病一次，我要瘦两斤。我生病一次，你反而胖两斤（你来寝室陪我，吃光了我所有的零食。）
十五、我没嫌你矮，你却嫌我高。
十六、你来我家，我睡沙发。我去你家，还是我睡沙发。
十七、那次去看露天演唱会，你骑在我头上看得津津有味，我被你压在下面在人群中流泪。
十八、我家的狗生了，我把最好看的一条送给你。你却把你养得快要死掉的金鱼送给我，害我才养两天就得给它们送终。
十九、我给你洗了N次的袜子，从未给你丢过一只。你只在我生病的时候给我洗了两双袜子，就各丢一只。
二十、我陪你去买东西时我主动帮你提东西，你却从来没问过要不要帮我提东西。
Funny read. LOL.
Rêuang taang, phŏm róo-sèuk ngâe ráai khrap. Mâi dee nít noi.
Wan yoot tawn yen, Nad chawp yoo bahn doo thoratat.
During his day-off evenings, Nad likes to stay at home and watch TV.
Khun phaw ahn nitayasaan (magazine) kaan-meuang (politic) leow bon wah kaan-meuang tham hai (to cause) khun phaw puat hua (headache).
You read political magazine until the politics in it brought you headache.
Khun mae gumpang tham ahhan yen nai krua.
Nad gup nawng sao, Nan, chawp doo cartoon. Prokati tha mai mee arai tham, thang sorng chawp doo T.V reu lehn game computer.
Nad deekat thi mee krob-krua thi mee khwaam suk (happiness).
During his day-off evenings, Nad likes to stay at home and watch TV.
Khun phaw ahn nitayasaan (magazine) kaan-meuang (politic) leow bon wah kaan-meuang tham hai (to cause) khun phaw puat hua (headache).
You read political magazine until the politics in it brought you headache.
Khun mae gumpang tham ahhan yen nai krua.
Nad gup nawng sao, Nan, chawp doo cartoon. Prokati tha mai mee arai tham, thang sorng chawp doo T.V reu lehn game computer.
Nad deekat thi mee krob-krua thi mee khwaam suk (happiness).
Phôm
yàhk tîeow meuang Thai gàp pêuan bplaai pee. Rao pai Krung
Thep sài reua bin, láew gôr kâo rót fai pai meuang Surin.
Rao jàak Surin pai Chiang Mai, láew
gôr Krung Thep.
Sà-nòok
khrap.
I'm thinking of developing a flash pacman clone game in "respect" to my work environment. And to practice as I pick up AS3.
It's gonna be fun. I can roughly visualise how it would be like, and how I can code the skeleton. But AI wise, I'll have to work harder on it. The objective of the game is to survive, score points and get powerup to destroy monsters.
No prize guessing what those monsters look like.
It's gonna be fun. I can roughly visualise how it would be like, and how I can code the skeleton. But AI wise, I'll have to work harder on it. The objective of the game is to survive, score points and get powerup to destroy monsters.
No prize guessing what those monsters look like.
To Clement: You forgot to set Time-Zone is it?
The sun represents vitality, a sense of individuality and outward-shining creative energy.
Sun in Aquarius
He is independent, autonomous, emancipated and has progressive ideas.
Weaknesses: an unusual, rebellious and revolutionary spirit.
Aquarius ascendant Capricorn
Sun in I
Forceful personality. He is strong-willed, authoritarian. He is self-confident but is sometimes arrogant. Has a happy childhood. His desire for self-development leads to success and he has a good professional job.
-76 Square Sun - Pluto
This aspect means fights and setbacks. He is presumptuous.
The moon represents a reaction, unconscious pre-destination, and the self-image.
Moon in Virgo
He has a very good memory. Scientific or medical studies preferred above all others. He is humble and moderate, calm and reserved. Emotional discipline. He is willing to help, devoted and gentle.
Weaknesses: servile nature, frequent changes of occupation, gets annoyed, upset, worries. He is too shy.
Moon in VIII
He has a tendency to bad dreams. Possibly has romantic phantasies. Is interested in the occult.
99 Trine Moon - Mercury
He has good judgement, a good memory. He is intelligent, imaginative, vivacious and develops all through life. He speaks easily. He has an aptitude for learning foreign languages.
229 Sextile Moon - Mars
He is frank, honest, full of vigor and ambition. He is strong-willed and powerful at work. He is a little hard on himself but, above all, on others whose capacity for action is not as great.
51 Trine Moon - Jupiter
He is frank, honest, optimistic and generous. He likes good cooking, his comforts. His friendships are sincere. He is a worker and knows how to surround himself with the right people: he is appreciated at work.
77 Trine Moon - Neptune
276 Sextile Moon - Pluto
He wavers between a rich and successful love life and social success. He has difficulty in succeeding in both. Almost always, the choice comes down on an ideal emotional life.
50 Trine Moon - Ascendant
He has a good influence on the family, which loves and helps the person. He likes travelling, movement, change. He likes contact and is open to other people.
Mercury represents communication, Cartesian and logical spirit.
Mercury in Capricorn
Reflective, deep thinker: a fine and vivacious mind. Undertakes lengthy studies or, if circumstances do not allow, will teach himself. A rational person.
Weaknesses: rancor, coldness, malice, and often a pessimist.
Mercury in XII
He has difficulty expressing himself, especially when young. Does not talk much, he does not speak for the sake of it. He works in remote and quiet places. He is discrete and philosophical.
348 Sextile Mercury - Mars
He likes to discuss, likes polemic. He has good judgement and is determined. He is a worker and has lots of energy. He has a lively intelligence and goes to the heart of things.
117 Conjunction Mercury - Jupiter
He is intelligent, has big ideas: he is tolerant and has a strong sense of justice. He has good judgement, good sense and has his feet on the ground. He has the "gift of the gab", and likes to speak, he also likes literature. He is erudite and will normally be successful socially.
171 Conjunction Mercury - Neptune
He can put down in writing everything that his imagination and intuition dictates.
69 Sextile Mercury - Pluto
He has a great sense of observation and quickly grasps the situation. He is crafty, subtle and critical.
312 Conjunction Mercury - Ascendant
He is intelligent, with quick and lively reflexes. He is preoccupied by his circle, likes to exchange ideas with his friends, but also with strangers. Of an open nature, he goes out to others.
Venus represents an interest for emotions and values, exchange and sharing with others.
Venus in Sagittarius
Open-heartedness, devotion, generosity, charity, altruism. He likes foreigners or he can find love abroad. Has problems with the family or with the society in which he lives. He looks for affection, love far from the family circle or from the native country.
Weaknesses: he loves adventure and risk, and the unforeseen is always to be expected.
Venus in XII
He is devoted to sick or impoverished people. Can be in the medical or social professions. He likes animals, tranquility, peace and solitude. He has secret love affairs.
90 Conjunction Venus - Jupiter
He is good-hearted, generous and has a good character. He likes well-being, comfort, a life without problems. He has good relations with his circle. He is easy to approach. All the same, he falls in love easily. He has a successful married and professional life.
143 Conjunction Venus - Neptune
His professional life is unstable. He has a taste for the Arts, is a dreamer, is easily influenced and romantic. He is emotional and very sensitive.
Mars represents the desire for action and physical energy.
Mars in Scorpio
Aggressiveness can lead to a fight against society, the family, injustice in general and can sometimes be very violent. He can be the leader of an organization or a union, but the aggressiveness can be directed towards self-destruction if it does not have an outlet. The latter is by no means certain, as it is difficult to contain without snapping.
Weaknesses: passion, rage, fanaticism, quarrels.
Mars in X
He devotes lots of energy to work, which continues till a great age. He is a dedicated worker, not afraid of getting down to it. He improves his living conditions. He can complete long-term tasks. He is easily excitable, gets upset and in the same vein criticizes even himself.
450 Conjunction Mars - Pluto
He is ambitious, has a great capacity for work, has self-confidence and goes to the end of his plans.
140 Sextile Mars - Ascendant
Jupiter represents expansion and grace.
Jupiter in Capricorn
He has great professional aspirations. He likes to direct, organize. He is correct, virtuous, conscientious and worthy.
Weaknesses: without doubt too avaricious, eager for gain.
Jupiter in XII
He is kindly, and does charity work. He is protected from life's rigors to which he is not immune, but he knows how to cope. He likes working in peace and alone.
137 Conjunction Jupiter - Neptune
He is very generous and altruistic, helping people in difficulty or sick people. He knows how to listen or, at least, how to give that impression. He is a dreamer, with lots of imagination: he likes the Arts.
58 Sextile Jupiter - Pluto
He likes to direct, is intelligent and is an organizer of the first order.
43 Conjunction Jupiter - Ascendant
He likes meeting friends, around a good meal and in a cordial atmosphere. He is pleasant, jovial and engaging.
Saturn represents contraction and effort.
Saturn in Scorpio
Observant, self-controlled, unforgiving, tough, methodical, a researcher, an investigator. Lots of courage, self-assurance and can keep his cool.
Weaknesses: makes no concessions or compromises. He can become a fanatic of a creed, a party, work or a religion.
Saturn in XI
He appreciates the company of older people of intelligence and good counsel. These will help success in professional life. He has few friends and has difficulty in finding a partner. He is very reserved.
Uranus represents individual liberty, egoistic liberty.
Uranus in Sagittarius
He is shy, delicate but proud, bold and lively.
Uranus in XII
He has difficulty in adapting to the modern world, to new technology. He looks for a job in an isolated place.
Neptune represents transcendental liberty, non-egoistic liberty.
Neptune in Capricorn
He is discerning, wise and sensible.
Neptune in XII
He likes isolation, a withdrawn life, dreams and meditation. He has little desire for action.
54 Sextile Neptune - Pluto
Pluto represents transformations, mutations and elimination.
Pluto in Scorpio
Great sexual activity.
House I is the area of self identity. The ascendant is a symbol of how one acts in life. It is the image of the personality as seen by other, and the attitude that one has of life.
Aquarius ascendant Capricorn
Ascendant in Capricorn
If childhood and youth are not very scholarly periods, with little success, maturity and old age will see the arrival of success. The rise will be slow, and he will be self-taught, spending all his life studying and instructing himself.
House II is the area of material security.
House II in Aquarius
Success in professional life won't take place without the help of friends and protectors. While he might earn enormous amounts, he can lose as much if not even more.
House III is the area of social and intellectual learning.
House III in Pisces
Ideas are somewhat changeable, and his humor as well. Travel, sea voyages or work connected with the sea.
House IV is the area of action and emotion.
House IV in Aries
Lots of authority within the family. He knows how to take the destiny of the family in hand. He is very energetic, very strong, knowing how to cope with life's setbacks.
House V is the area of self-security.
House V in Taurus
A pleasant home, a charming wife, loving and sweet children, nice little meals, pleasant evenings with the loved one, that's the good life.
House VI is the area of learning by material transaction.
House VI in Gemini
Good secretary, or equally good sales rep. Weak point: the nerves, sometimes also the lungs.
House VII is the area of social et intellectual action.
House VII in Cancer
Marriage, a nice little family. The spouse will not always be easy to live with, a little too mad.
House VIII is the area of emotional security and of security of the soul.
House VIII in Leo
Have regular check-ups on the heart and arteries.
House IX is the area of learning that shapes the identity.
House IX in Virgo
He is devoted to all causes that bring comfort or help to people in difficulty.
House X is the area of material action. The Mid-heaven represents the work one will do in his life, the place one will take in the world of society. It becomes more important as one grows older
House X in Libra
Contacts of all kinds will lead to social success, professional, through marriage etc... Likes society life, friendships that could help professionally. Sometimes jobs connected with justice, but always involved with important and influential people.
House XI is the area of search for social and intellectual security.
House XI in Scorpio
Adores to debate endlessly with friends who don't share his ideas. The discussion can lead to words, even a certain verbal violence.
House XII is the area of education and of emotion.
House XII in Sagittarius
Problems abroad, or with foreigners, or flight abroad, exile.
The sun represents vitality, a sense of individuality and outward-shining creative energy.
Sun in Aquarius
He is independent, autonomous, emancipated and has progressive ideas.
Weaknesses: an unusual, rebellious and revolutionary spirit.
Aquarius ascendant Capricorn
Sun in I
Forceful personality. He is strong-willed, authoritarian. He is self-confident but is sometimes arrogant. Has a happy childhood. His desire for self-development leads to success and he has a good professional job.
-76 Square Sun - Pluto
This aspect means fights and setbacks. He is presumptuous.
The moon represents a reaction, unconscious pre-destination, and the self-image.
Moon in Virgo
He has a very good memory. Scientific or medical studies preferred above all others. He is humble and moderate, calm and reserved. Emotional discipline. He is willing to help, devoted and gentle.
Weaknesses: servile nature, frequent changes of occupation, gets annoyed, upset, worries. He is too shy.
Moon in VIII
He has a tendency to bad dreams. Possibly has romantic phantasies. Is interested in the occult.
99 Trine Moon - Mercury
He has good judgement, a good memory. He is intelligent, imaginative, vivacious and develops all through life. He speaks easily. He has an aptitude for learning foreign languages.
229 Sextile Moon - Mars
He is frank, honest, full of vigor and ambition. He is strong-willed and powerful at work. He is a little hard on himself but, above all, on others whose capacity for action is not as great.
51 Trine Moon - Jupiter
He is frank, honest, optimistic and generous. He likes good cooking, his comforts. His friendships are sincere. He is a worker and knows how to surround himself with the right people: he is appreciated at work.
77 Trine Moon - Neptune
276 Sextile Moon - Pluto
He wavers between a rich and successful love life and social success. He has difficulty in succeeding in both. Almost always, the choice comes down on an ideal emotional life.
50 Trine Moon - Ascendant
He has a good influence on the family, which loves and helps the person. He likes travelling, movement, change. He likes contact and is open to other people.
Mercury represents communication, Cartesian and logical spirit.
Mercury in Capricorn
Reflective, deep thinker: a fine and vivacious mind. Undertakes lengthy studies or, if circumstances do not allow, will teach himself. A rational person.
Weaknesses: rancor, coldness, malice, and often a pessimist.
Mercury in XII
He has difficulty expressing himself, especially when young. Does not talk much, he does not speak for the sake of it. He works in remote and quiet places. He is discrete and philosophical.
348 Sextile Mercury - Mars
He likes to discuss, likes polemic. He has good judgement and is determined. He is a worker and has lots of energy. He has a lively intelligence and goes to the heart of things.
117 Conjunction Mercury - Jupiter
He is intelligent, has big ideas: he is tolerant and has a strong sense of justice. He has good judgement, good sense and has his feet on the ground. He has the "gift of the gab", and likes to speak, he also likes literature. He is erudite and will normally be successful socially.
171 Conjunction Mercury - Neptune
He can put down in writing everything that his imagination and intuition dictates.
69 Sextile Mercury - Pluto
He has a great sense of observation and quickly grasps the situation. He is crafty, subtle and critical.
312 Conjunction Mercury - Ascendant
He is intelligent, with quick and lively reflexes. He is preoccupied by his circle, likes to exchange ideas with his friends, but also with strangers. Of an open nature, he goes out to others.
Venus represents an interest for emotions and values, exchange and sharing with others.
Venus in Sagittarius
Open-heartedness, devotion, generosity, charity, altruism. He likes foreigners or he can find love abroad. Has problems with the family or with the society in which he lives. He looks for affection, love far from the family circle or from the native country.
Weaknesses: he loves adventure and risk, and the unforeseen is always to be expected.
Venus in XII
He is devoted to sick or impoverished people. Can be in the medical or social professions. He likes animals, tranquility, peace and solitude. He has secret love affairs.
90 Conjunction Venus - Jupiter
He is good-hearted, generous and has a good character. He likes well-being, comfort, a life without problems. He has good relations with his circle. He is easy to approach. All the same, he falls in love easily. He has a successful married and professional life.
143 Conjunction Venus - Neptune
His professional life is unstable. He has a taste for the Arts, is a dreamer, is easily influenced and romantic. He is emotional and very sensitive.
Mars represents the desire for action and physical energy.
Mars in Scorpio
Aggressiveness can lead to a fight against society, the family, injustice in general and can sometimes be very violent. He can be the leader of an organization or a union, but the aggressiveness can be directed towards self-destruction if it does not have an outlet. The latter is by no means certain, as it is difficult to contain without snapping.
Weaknesses: passion, rage, fanaticism, quarrels.
Mars in X
He devotes lots of energy to work, which continues till a great age. He is a dedicated worker, not afraid of getting down to it. He improves his living conditions. He can complete long-term tasks. He is easily excitable, gets upset and in the same vein criticizes even himself.
450 Conjunction Mars - Pluto
He is ambitious, has a great capacity for work, has self-confidence and goes to the end of his plans.
140 Sextile Mars - Ascendant
Jupiter represents expansion and grace.
Jupiter in Capricorn
He has great professional aspirations. He likes to direct, organize. He is correct, virtuous, conscientious and worthy.
Weaknesses: without doubt too avaricious, eager for gain.
Jupiter in XII
He is kindly, and does charity work. He is protected from life's rigors to which he is not immune, but he knows how to cope. He likes working in peace and alone.
137 Conjunction Jupiter - Neptune
He is very generous and altruistic, helping people in difficulty or sick people. He knows how to listen or, at least, how to give that impression. He is a dreamer, with lots of imagination: he likes the Arts.
58 Sextile Jupiter - Pluto
He likes to direct, is intelligent and is an organizer of the first order.
43 Conjunction Jupiter - Ascendant
He likes meeting friends, around a good meal and in a cordial atmosphere. He is pleasant, jovial and engaging.
Saturn represents contraction and effort.
Saturn in Scorpio
Observant, self-controlled, unforgiving, tough, methodical, a researcher, an investigator. Lots of courage, self-assurance and can keep his cool.
Weaknesses: makes no concessions or compromises. He can become a fanatic of a creed, a party, work or a religion.
Saturn in XI
He appreciates the company of older people of intelligence and good counsel. These will help success in professional life. He has few friends and has difficulty in finding a partner. He is very reserved.
Uranus represents individual liberty, egoistic liberty.
Uranus in Sagittarius
He is shy, delicate but proud, bold and lively.
Uranus in XII
He has difficulty in adapting to the modern world, to new technology. He looks for a job in an isolated place.
Neptune represents transcendental liberty, non-egoistic liberty.
Neptune in Capricorn
He is discerning, wise and sensible.
Neptune in XII
He likes isolation, a withdrawn life, dreams and meditation. He has little desire for action.
54 Sextile Neptune - Pluto
Pluto represents transformations, mutations and elimination.
Pluto in Scorpio
Great sexual activity.
House I is the area of self identity. The ascendant is a symbol of how one acts in life. It is the image of the personality as seen by other, and the attitude that one has of life.
Aquarius ascendant Capricorn
Ascendant in Capricorn
If childhood and youth are not very scholarly periods, with little success, maturity and old age will see the arrival of success. The rise will be slow, and he will be self-taught, spending all his life studying and instructing himself.
House II is the area of material security.
House II in Aquarius
Success in professional life won't take place without the help of friends and protectors. While he might earn enormous amounts, he can lose as much if not even more.
House III is the area of social and intellectual learning.
House III in Pisces
Ideas are somewhat changeable, and his humor as well. Travel, sea voyages or work connected with the sea.
House IV is the area of action and emotion.
House IV in Aries
Lots of authority within the family. He knows how to take the destiny of the family in hand. He is very energetic, very strong, knowing how to cope with life's setbacks.
House V is the area of self-security.
House V in Taurus
A pleasant home, a charming wife, loving and sweet children, nice little meals, pleasant evenings with the loved one, that's the good life.
House VI is the area of learning by material transaction.
House VI in Gemini
Good secretary, or equally good sales rep. Weak point: the nerves, sometimes also the lungs.
House VII is the area of social et intellectual action.
House VII in Cancer
Marriage, a nice little family. The spouse will not always be easy to live with, a little too mad.
House VIII is the area of emotional security and of security of the soul.
House VIII in Leo
Have regular check-ups on the heart and arteries.
House IX is the area of learning that shapes the identity.
House IX in Virgo
He is devoted to all causes that bring comfort or help to people in difficulty.
House X is the area of material action. The Mid-heaven represents the work one will do in his life, the place one will take in the world of society. It becomes more important as one grows older
House X in Libra
Contacts of all kinds will lead to social success, professional, through marriage etc... Likes society life, friendships that could help professionally. Sometimes jobs connected with justice, but always involved with important and influential people.
House XI is the area of search for social and intellectual security.
House XI in Scorpio
Adores to debate endlessly with friends who don't share his ideas. The discussion can lead to words, even a certain verbal violence.
House XII is the area of education and of emotion.
House XII in Sagittarius
Problems abroad, or with foreigners, or flight abroad, exile.
I finally bought a Haruhi pinky! So cute!
Work has been spiraling down an endless caveat; meaningless. I don't do meaningless work, nor handle obnoxious people.
My slippers' strap broke when I was buying dinner today, and I had to walk home barefooted across the road and pavement.
Bad omen.
Bad omen.
I was sleeping in the room with two other persons during my trip to KL. In the morning, I woke up and saw Ting wearing dark coloured shirt lying on the middle bed. So I thought, "Aiyah, sleep a little longer since they not yet up."
Later on when we were having breakfast, I realised she wasn't there the whole night. So who did I see?
Later on when we were having breakfast, I realised she wasn't there the whole night. So who did I see?
I'm good at taking surprise shots. Really. And I didn't know people can look so serious switching TV channels. Left: Wei De and Bert.
Camera shy. All the more must take picture and put online!
Friends who went to KL with us. From left: Eileen & Ting. Ting says this picture nice so can put up.
Group picture. I didn't take it, so go blame the person whoever took it for misaiming the camera. From left: Eileen, Wei Ming, Ting, Bert, Me.
Picture of me looking dumb in the lift.
Picture of me drinking a bottle of water. How original huh.
"And to Allah belong the east and the west, so wherever you turn yourselves or your faces there is the Face of Allah."
Extremely interesting book describing the change of a mountaineer to a humanitarian commited to provide education to the rural children of Central Asia.
Read it to know about it.
