In oriental culture, there are various methods for analysing the life pattern of an individual. Some methods give an indepth view of your past, current and future life while others give an overview analysis normally using a short phrase or poem. There are 2 most widely used methods: Ba Zi 八字 (four pillars/eight characters) and […]

The other day. someone asked if they have purchased a land plot for use, what is the feng shui? Most of cemetery plots are predetermined if you live near the city. They look like flats and you are allocated a position. A few things you can keep in mind. If deceased is cremated, they will […]

  The art of living in harmony with the natural environment has been a key guideline, passed down from generations of oriental families. Many evolved practises from Tao to Zen became part of the oriental culture seen in Chinese, Korean, Japanese, South East Asians. The wide spread of appreciating nature as a part of life has been […]

Lunar Calendar 2 month 3 day Today is 文昌 (wen2 chang1) day. Wen chang represents literacy, knowledge and authority. Traditionally, governors and officials are selected by knowledge and virtue. This is the day when people who are studying or having examinations pray to the god/star of literacy and hope to be blessed. Most people visit […]

Guan gongs birthday is on the 13th day of 5th month in the lunar new year. Many make offerings of food. At home I offered fruits and chinese wine. Its a happy occasion, so offer your good words and respects to the god of fortune, loyalty and war. Celebration Date Lunar 5th month 13th day […]

Meditation is a proven technique to reduce stress. The build up of Stress can be caused by over whelming work or constant negative emotions. When stress encapsulates you over an extended period of time, it will usually cause illness and pains. This is how our body tells us that it is not feeling well. Some […]

Gu Qin is a type of traditional oriental instrument. GuQin started with 5 strings, of oriental 5 elements. At around 1000bc, King Wen added another string to 6 and finally King Wu added the 7th string. Naming it the Wen Wu 7 String Instrument (文武七弦琴). This can be referred to an older literature in Book […]

On a mac OSX, I have some problems adding a glossary to my report. The makeglossaries command cannot be added to user commands which is stated by alot of online references. However the command itself works fine when run in terminal. With help from Shawn, my colleague, we managed to get it working. The following is […]

OpenStack A frugal effort in installing OpenStack using Lubuntu. Lets hope it all works. A DevStack Project has started a quick installation of OpenStack on simple setup. http://devstack.org/guides/single-machine.html Traditional Clustering Reusing old pcs to make a super computer? read this. I havent tried it out myself but apparently 2 easy ways of doing it are […]

As I was clearning up my notes, I came across this ancient list of IT documents. Alias A type of nickname (usually short and easy to remember) that refers to a type of network resource. Aliases are used so you won’t have to remember the long and difficult names. Anonymous FTP By using the word “anonymous” as […]