Yes, I am back in Penang and back to civilization.. Actually, it is not so bad but there was so many destructions in Danang during the French and American wars that the place need time to be re-constructed. Destroy is easy but to rebuild it needs time.
What conclusion I have arrived after visiting Danang ? One thing is obvious . My health have deteriorated and my age have catch up with me. After climbing all the steps to the various caves , I failed in one venture and it really took the breath out of me. I have to sit down to recover and let the rest of the troop moved on. After catching my breath, I could no longer find them. It is so hard to admit that we are sick or old. We want to remain the same and still pushing on with life. But, there is a limit and you will hit the limit when you pushed yourself. You just cannot hide anymore.
Looking at the trip, I am also aware that I have to keep myself health or I have to travel when I can still walk or climb. If I wait for my retirement first, it maybe very difficult for me to enjoy the trip anymore through walking and climbing . Time waits for no one. Yes, I have to admit this weakness early and to travel more often rather than to wait for a good timing.
It can be just another wakeup call as there were so many before and I better sit up to listen to myself and to get on with my life through traveling.
Namaste
Thursday, December 29, 2016
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
I am in Danang , Vietnam : part 3
I am in Danang, Vietnam - part. 3
Have I being here before or seen it all ? This is a strange feeling that j have seen the marble mountain and the caves in the mountain. Maybe I have passed through it in my past life . I am not sure but I have a certain kind of strange feelings.
Here is Danang , there are so many caves and pagodas and we have enough of it for the past few days. The influence of Buddhism was very strong including the Chinese Taoism .
There is so much marble cravings of Buddha , Kuan Yin and Lord Siva and it makes us feel that we have gone through a religious tour instead of a leisure holiday.
Another fault is the food quality and it is the same dishes everyone ie the kangkong , the squid and Siew Pak choy soup. It appears in almost every meal including the small prawns. I have enough and it is oozing out from my ears and nose .
Due to the caves and ancient monuments , there was a lot of Walkings and traveling on the buses from one place to another .
However , there nice beaches , bridges and the wet markets . Come to think about it , the good thing is for the ladies' to shop for the local food stuff what to give to who back home .
This is the last day of travel and I will beck to civilization. Tomorrow. It is going to be a another hectic day on my journey back to Penang .
Namaste
Have I being here before or seen it all ? This is a strange feeling that j have seen the marble mountain and the caves in the mountain. Maybe I have passed through it in my past life . I am not sure but I have a certain kind of strange feelings.
Here is Danang , there are so many caves and pagodas and we have enough of it for the past few days. The influence of Buddhism was very strong including the Chinese Taoism .
There is so much marble cravings of Buddha , Kuan Yin and Lord Siva and it makes us feel that we have gone through a religious tour instead of a leisure holiday.
Another fault is the food quality and it is the same dishes everyone ie the kangkong , the squid and Siew Pak choy soup. It appears in almost every meal including the small prawns. I have enough and it is oozing out from my ears and nose .
Due to the caves and ancient monuments , there was a lot of Walkings and traveling on the buses from one place to another .
However , there nice beaches , bridges and the wet markets . Come to think about it , the good thing is for the ladies' to shop for the local food stuff what to give to who back home .
This is the last day of travel and I will beck to civilization. Tomorrow. It is going to be a another hectic day on my journey back to Penang .
Namaste
Sunday, December 25, 2016
I ann in Danang , Vietnam - part 2
I am in Danang Vietnam -part 2
Now I have been here for the third day and I have busted Bana Hill resort and it a former French dwelling places and it has so much of French architecture influences. The French occupies Vietnam for 80 years . One of the significant remains is the dancing fountain which goes with the timing of a French song .
After 3 days here , I noticed the influence of the Chinese , Japanese , French and the Americans A melting pot of so many cultures and heritage and a vital passage way for the Indochin countries ie Laos and Cambodia to the rest of the world.
There is so much influence of Taoism , Buddhism , Islam and the most is Hinduism. The people believe in Siva , the lord of creation , life and destruction. The power of three in one. The most powerful God.
The religion compares life to a day's activity . The sun rise in the east , goes into noon at the peak and slides into evening and ends in the night ie settling into the west . This philosophy compares to a human life of birth , age, sickness and death.
The day's routine goes into this repetitious cycle from the start to the end .
Vietnam don't have its only language and is modified from Chinese to Vietnamese by ending of a mark at each word.
After watching their performance in a show which includes songs and music performance , I realized that the style and their music and singing performance is very similar to the Chinese Teow Chew style . Yes, the influence of the Chinese culture was very significant.
At the top of the Bana Hill resort , there is a Chinese Temple which house a big bell for people to hit it and sent out a sound to wake the Gods. It was so cold on the top and serene. The air is fresh and the Chi is so strong . An amazing meditation ground for the fated.
Namaste
Now I have been here for the third day and I have busted Bana Hill resort and it a former French dwelling places and it has so much of French architecture influences. The French occupies Vietnam for 80 years . One of the significant remains is the dancing fountain which goes with the timing of a French song .
After 3 days here , I noticed the influence of the Chinese , Japanese , French and the Americans A melting pot of so many cultures and heritage and a vital passage way for the Indochin countries ie Laos and Cambodia to the rest of the world.
There is so much influence of Taoism , Buddhism , Islam and the most is Hinduism. The people believe in Siva , the lord of creation , life and destruction. The power of three in one. The most powerful God.
The religion compares life to a day's activity . The sun rise in the east , goes into noon at the peak and slides into evening and ends in the night ie settling into the west . This philosophy compares to a human life of birth , age, sickness and death.
The day's routine goes into this repetitious cycle from the start to the end .
Vietnam don't have its only language and is modified from Chinese to Vietnamese by ending of a mark at each word.
After watching their performance in a show which includes songs and music performance , I realized that the style and their music and singing performance is very similar to the Chinese Teow Chew style . Yes, the influence of the Chinese culture was very significant.
At the top of the Bana Hill resort , there is a Chinese Temple which house a big bell for people to hit it and sent out a sound to wake the Gods. It was so cold on the top and serene. The air is fresh and the Chi is so strong . An amazing meditation ground for the fated.
Namaste
Friday, December 23, 2016
I am in Danang ,Vietnam - part 1
I am in Danang , Vietnam -1
Yes, I am on a holiday for a few days . This is a short break after working hard for the past few months. Well, at this age, why do I need to work so hard ? Out of responsibility and a challenge after I decide to continued working . I have to stop working some day as I am just human:
Why do I choose Danang for a break ? No, reason just accompanying my wife and she wants to join tour with her sister . Well , why not ? This is a place of history.
Danang lies in the central of Vietnam and it is the location of many Americans GIs during the 10 years Vietnam war . There are rumors that the GI's left many off spring in Danang which have handsome or beautiful features .By the way,
Vietnam also went through a 80 years old war with the French.
The city lies in the path in the only way out to the world for three countries ie Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia via land and sea. It is a strategic military base . The last battle of the Vietnam war was in Danang and it is where the American forces and fleets withdraw from the air , land and sea.
Danang now focus on tourism and it boost ifs cleanliness . There is a lot of developments in this seaside . It has two seasons ie the hot season for 9
Months and the raining season for 3 months ie October to December and these are the coldest months as the cold wind comes from the winter in China .When it is hot, it is real hot in the dry season.
The seaside has one of the most beautiful beach in the world and alone rhe coast lies many high class hotels and one of it, is a six stars hotel and one room cost US$30k a nite . It is for high ranking diplomats or celebrities . However, some part of the 1.8 million population people is still very poor and there is several
Large tracts of empty land waiting for developments in the future and is owned by some rich families in North Vietnam.
So far , the food is so so and have yet to taste the real local food. We visited the night market, the silk village and stays in Atlas hotel , a three stars hotel.
More write up in the tour will be coming . By the way, merry Christmas .
Yes, I am on a holiday for a few days . This is a short break after working hard for the past few months. Well, at this age, why do I need to work so hard ? Out of responsibility and a challenge after I decide to continued working . I have to stop working some day as I am just human:
Why do I choose Danang for a break ? No, reason just accompanying my wife and she wants to join tour with her sister . Well , why not ? This is a place of history.
Danang lies in the central of Vietnam and it is the location of many Americans GIs during the 10 years Vietnam war . There are rumors that the GI's left many off spring in Danang which have handsome or beautiful features .By the way,
Vietnam also went through a 80 years old war with the French.
The city lies in the path in the only way out to the world for three countries ie Vietnam , Laos and Cambodia via land and sea. It is a strategic military base . The last battle of the Vietnam war was in Danang and it is where the American forces and fleets withdraw from the air , land and sea.
Danang now focus on tourism and it boost ifs cleanliness . There is a lot of developments in this seaside . It has two seasons ie the hot season for 9
Months and the raining season for 3 months ie October to December and these are the coldest months as the cold wind comes from the winter in China .When it is hot, it is real hot in the dry season.
The seaside has one of the most beautiful beach in the world and alone rhe coast lies many high class hotels and one of it, is a six stars hotel and one room cost US$30k a nite . It is for high ranking diplomats or celebrities . However, some part of the 1.8 million population people is still very poor and there is several
Large tracts of empty land waiting for developments in the future and is owned by some rich families in North Vietnam.
So far , the food is so so and have yet to taste the real local food. We visited the night market, the silk village and stays in Atlas hotel , a three stars hotel.
More write up in the tour will be coming . By the way, merry Christmas .
Monday, December 12, 2016
In a limbo
In a limbo
Last week was a hectic week for me with so many task to accomplish. It is strange that it just went by and even it was not that smooth in my execution of my task.
It is just like I have been squeezed through a bottleneck and I came out breathing heavily. Yeah , I am still a life .
The fear of death is always on my mind and it appears on and off . Yes , things can change with a simple twist of fate . It happens to the comedian driving by the Lim Ching Eu highway and was shot dead by a stray bullet from an insane body guard . It could have been anyone or me if I am at the place at the particular time when the shot hit the fan killing a Dato . The timing is so right for the comedian to exit this dimension .
Fate is uncertain and unknown and we should leave it as it is .
No need to know what and when it will and life is as usual as ever .
The other day I read Robin Sharma's wisdom. It says that we should not think that living for 75 years in the same routine is living. In fact, if we live the same way everyday is only loving one day . So we should be aware to live differently and do different things to make our life complete before fate take your life away.
Live differently, eat different things and do whatever you like in different ways. Live without regrets and experienced the varieties in life ...
Be a different person and with different lives with the same sanity and awareness.
Namaste
Friday, December 9, 2016
Mistakes
Mistakes
When we do a mistake , it is so difficult to forget and forgive ourself . It is like carrying a stick pick up from the road . The longer we hold it , the heavier it becomes . Finally , it becomes our permanent baggage in our life. Not only it drags is down but also worn us out if we attached too ego or plight to it.
We have to let it go ? How should we do it .
Letting go of the stick we pick up on our journey sounds easy but each time to try to shake it out , it remained with us . Why? Because we don't have a trained and discipline mind. The memory bounced back in our mind .
Yes. Our strong mind is the only solution . Just the habit of smoking . We stop but it just came back to us as the urge resurface . It is like a ghost which we failed to get rid of it .
How to have a strong mind ? It is to train it through an exercise with the mind, just like our eyes. We trained it to see what we want and not to see what we don't want to see. See to the left , right or centre , up or down . The eyes obeys us absolutely .
There are many tools ie meditation , chess , in chanting etc. But dun let it turn away from us and don't forget or fearful and just keep going for it and success will come one day.
Find out what is meditation or other ways of training our kind . If you succeed , you will be at your best.
Namaste
Wednesday, December 7, 2016
Chinese saying " mirror flower , water moon"
This is a very deep Chinese saying and it means that life is just an illusion and everything is just a reflection of our eye sight. The flower reflection in the mirror is just an image and it is not real while the reflection of the moon on the water is only temporary and with a wave of our finger on the water, the moon can jusf disappear like magic Life is like what it depict only a temporay reflection in our eyes. One moment it is there and the next it is gone .
In Buddhism , there is a concept of impermanence and everything is changing from second to second without the host knowing it. Human being is wonderful creature. Many million cells are dying and millions get replaced . Our mind is also constantly thinking and moving . It is impossible for us to know all the changes within us.
What have is only the present moment . The past is gone and the future is yet to come . If we lost the moment , we are nothing but drifting in transition from moment to moment . We are not real but just a reflection.
We better be aware and appreciate the present which also slipping off from our fingers and make us nothing . Nothingness.
Namaste
In Buddhism , there is a concept of impermanence and everything is changing from second to second without the host knowing it. Human being is wonderful creature. Many million cells are dying and millions get replaced . Our mind is also constantly thinking and moving . It is impossible for us to know all the changes within us.
What have is only the present moment . The past is gone and the future is yet to come . If we lost the moment , we are nothing but drifting in transition from moment to moment . We are not real but just a reflection.
We better be aware and appreciate the present which also slipping off from our fingers and make us nothing . Nothingness.
Namaste
Monday, December 5, 2016
Happiness
Happiness lies within us and we can decide on it whether to be happy or not. But , every often we make other people happy to make our self happy. Why ? We don't need other people to make us happy and it is silly to think so.. Other's happiness is not our concern and we need to be happy our self.
However, gaining another person's approval or acceptance is one way to make us happy because we get the praise from that person. Their agenda is different from us as when we meet their agenda , they are happy and this makes us happy. Especially, his happiness makes them reward us or give us recognition.
But , it is still the donkey story . The donkey fell in the dry well and its enemy tried to pour sand on to it to burn it but the donkey just shake it of and grow higher and higher. The donkey did not care a damn about the famers.
Likewise, we can go wiser and wiser and not bother by other people's happiness or agenda. Why other people are happy , it is because if we perform better , then they also perform better . If we cause them to lose face or endanger their position or detrimental to their life or career or status , they will be angry and make your life miserable. If he or she is boss, then they will create misery for you. But, you can still ignored them and be happy. The happiness is within you , and only you.
Why are we so stupid to cater for other people's happiness. The priority is all wrong and our happiness should be the first priority.... Tell them to shaft their jobs into their mouth and be brave about it and hold your ground. Tell them that their authority goes with their job title and if it is taken away, they have nothing. All the authority and benefits follow the title .
The title is impermanence and life is unpredictable.. ask them to humble and wait for things to happen instead of demanding things to happen which is not natural.
Namaste.
However, gaining another person's approval or acceptance is one way to make us happy because we get the praise from that person. Their agenda is different from us as when we meet their agenda , they are happy and this makes us happy. Especially, his happiness makes them reward us or give us recognition.
But , it is still the donkey story . The donkey fell in the dry well and its enemy tried to pour sand on to it to burn it but the donkey just shake it of and grow higher and higher. The donkey did not care a damn about the famers.
Likewise, we can go wiser and wiser and not bother by other people's happiness or agenda. Why other people are happy , it is because if we perform better , then they also perform better . If we cause them to lose face or endanger their position or detrimental to their life or career or status , they will be angry and make your life miserable. If he or she is boss, then they will create misery for you. But, you can still ignored them and be happy. The happiness is within you , and only you.
Why are we so stupid to cater for other people's happiness. The priority is all wrong and our happiness should be the first priority.... Tell them to shaft their jobs into their mouth and be brave about it and hold your ground. Tell them that their authority goes with their job title and if it is taken away, they have nothing. All the authority and benefits follow the title .
The title is impermanence and life is unpredictable.. ask them to humble and wait for things to happen instead of demanding things to happen which is not natural.
Namaste.
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