Category Archives: A-Z Word of Life™

J for Joke

by cindy5 Posted on July 18, 2008

Joke: We sometime say “This is just a joke”, and want people not to take it seriously. On the other hand, we will say “Are you joking?” to the facts that we don’t want to believe. It was with lots of surprises on April 1st in 2003 that a famous Hong Kong actor-singer Leslie Cheung flew himself to death – jumped off from the 24th floor of Mandarin Oriental Hotel. Most people in Hong Kong would like to believe that “This is just a joke” on April Fools’ Day. This is heart-broken news and not a joke to his fans. I am wondering if there is a hidden message ”my whole life is just a joke”. That triggers also the question “Do we have the right to commit suicide?” He chose to finish his life at age 46 that he felt his health on the down side, and worried his appearance too, I think. He was praised by his handsome look, and brilliant performance on stage. I can imagine that there are lots of pressures to be a superstar. However, life is too short, and even ants strive to survive (from an old Chinese saying).

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I for Ice

by cindy5 Posted on June 23, 2008

Ice: From Wikipedia, ‘ice is the name given to any one of the 15 known crystalline solid phases of water’. If you warm things up, you will break the ice. Break-the-ice gossips may work with someone like me. There’s a movie ‘Iceman’ (1984), and the actor is John Lone. His name is Charlie in the film, and he is a 40,000 year old iceman preserved by a miracle of nature, and brought back to life by a miracle of science. Have you ever thought of having your body being frozen on your death, and stored to be cured in the future. There is a story about a man who was granted a wish by a Fairy to live forever, but on the other hand, Fairy asked if there is a way to quit and rest in peace. Remember, every beginning has an end. Life is about quality, not about quantity, I think.

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H for Happy

by cindy5 Posted on May 28, 2008

Happy: You are happy or not really depends on your perception of things around you. In Chinese, ‘Happy’ is written in two words “open” and “heart”, you will be HAPPY if you open your heart. One of the quotes by Charles Churchill “if you mean to profit, learn to please’. There are some basic elements to be happy according to my own bible: You are alive and healthy, you can do things follow your heart, and most important you have someone to share with both your sadness and happiness!

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G for God

by cindy5 Posted on May 27, 2008

God: “What If God Was One Of Us?” (Lyrics by Joan Osborne) What will you do if you are God? Are you going to leave the world as is, and let the Human to determine their fate? It is not fun to be God, please imagine yourself to take care of everything in this globe. Are you going to heal the soul of each human being? We all carry some kind of Sin because we are offspring of Adam and Eve according to the Bible. We are being punished by God if there is one, and left alone in this world to fight with each other. We discriminated each other by the color of skin, separated ourselves by the boundary of ‘Country’, and created War between us because of scarcity. BTW, you may want to see this comedy film ‘Evan Almighty’ in 2007, and God is being portrayed in human form by Morgan Freeman.

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F for Fate

by cindy5 Posted on May 27, 2008

Fate: Have you ever watched the movie “Sliding Doors”? There are two sides to every story, and your whole life will be changed whether you catch a train or not. Have you ever thought of going back a minute or a day, and to fix something? However, things may be worst than before because of the “butterfly effect”. I do not believe in Fate but I think we can all be a fortune teller at some points. You can tell whether a person will be success or not if you know his character – character determines fate. I would like to share with you a very interesting story about Fate. A man received a call from an emergency unit of a hospital one day that his wife was seriously injured during a car accident, and he immediately drove to the hospital. While on his way, he hit a car by accident, and tried to leave as soon as he can. The driver got out of his car and asked the man to give him a ride because he has an urgent appointment. The man did not have time to explain and left the driver alone. The man’s wife was announced death 15 minutes after he arrived at the hospital because the surgeon still not shows up yet, and who happens to be the Driver! The so called ‘Fate’ is just a series of cause and effect relationships.

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E for Exist

by cindy5 Posted on May 27, 2008

Exist: How to prove that I ever exist? I believe that ‘I’ exist for some reasons. Why I am here on Earth? What mission I have to carry? What message I have to circulate? Someone has ever said that “To have lived is not enough we have to talk about it.” I will talk, write and record what my belief is, and to influence people around me in order to change the world. I am the one who do not believe in God or Fate, but our own effort to make a change! Thank you to the advanced technology and the World Wide Web, it is very easy to broadcast my message to other people around the world

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D for Dream

by cindy5 Posted on May 26, 2008

Dream: There is a Cantonese Opera called ‘Zhuang Zhou Hudie Meng’, which means Zhongzhou’s dream of butterfly. The actor Zhongzhou is confused whether the butterfly is in his dream or in fact, he is in the dream of the butterfly. I am puzzled sometime whether my whole life is just a dream! I am wondering if some of the familiar places and people are in fact transferred from my dream to the daily life, and there are things that already happened in my dream. Have you ever imagined yourself to wake up every morning in a new place and in a different person’s body? I remember a movie or TV episode about this, but cannot recall the name. A TV series “Fantasy Island” (1978) about a resort that will make your dream comes true. Anyway, wake up buddy, and a new day is waiting for you to explore.

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C for Choice

by cindy5 Posted on May 26, 2008

Choice: It doesn’t matter here whether you are a supporter of Pro-Choice or Pro-Life. We do not have a choice when we arrive on Earth – we all cried when we switched from our mother’s body to this world. However, we do have a choice to enjoy our life, and to use this complimentary ticket to the Earth wisely as my hubby suggests. Every day is a bonus, and NOW is more important than future. No one knows what will happen the next minute, but it is important that we are currently content with our life. We choose to be a good person even though we know there is no God in this planet – this is the worth of humanism.

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B for Bourgeoisie

by cindy5 Posted on May 26, 2008

Bourgeoisie: Bourgeoisie Hong is another nick name of my hubby. His first name is ‘Hong’, in Chinese means Health as his parents wish. He is from a middle-class family as most people think they are from. He is a communist or a supporter of communism, and asked not to be judged by his outfit. He always buys things in good brands, and quality deserves a higher price as he explained. If you ask him to choose between communism and capitalism, his answer will definitely be the first one. Capitalism is an evil as he said. There is no difference of a prostitute and a doctor in a capitalized society – no money means no service. Most of us believe that we are well-off and better than the other half. In fact, we are all disadvantaged if compared to the richest in the world. We certainly do not want to be labeled as the poor or the low-income working class, and tried to stay away from this group or speak up for them (or in fact, for ourselves) at some points. We spent most of our life time to climb up the social ladder, and forgot to enjoy our daily life and appreciate people around us.

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A for Avant-garde

by cindy5 Posted on May 23, 2008

Avant-garde: My hubby was labeled as avant-garde when he was at college (more than 20 years ago) because he appreciates the diversity of life. He supports gay and lesbian, and doesn’t believe the so called ‘traditional family’. He said “this is just man-made tradition”. There are different kinds of relations on earth, and we respect other people’s choice. He has once created a drama on gay relationship but was banned by the professor back in 1980s. The ‘fake morality’ changed over time as he always mentions, and most people are more open-minded now as we can see. The movie “Brokeback Mountain” won three Oscars in 2005, and praised by lots of people around the world. It’s unfortunately my hubby did not choose to study Movie but English at college. We were all bounded by the term ‘traditional family’ in some ways – limit our love to our own family members and set a boundary for outside people. Maybe it’s time for us to rethink about this, and expand our love to every creature on this planet. “Love is a force of nature” (the tag line of the movie poster), and there is no limit or boundary.

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