Ok, it took me about 10 years to decide to become an American citizen, and I got it todayJ.
I was already allegeable back in 97, I send my paper work in, but some how INS lost my paper work, so I thought maybe it is a sign that I should not become a citizen. Time goes by; my dad got his, then my brother, finally my mother.
Two of my best friends asked me, what am I waiting for? I said I don’t know, and it is too much money just to get the paper says that I am an American citizen.
So yet again, I let the opportunity passed.
This June, my dad comes to me, “When are you going to get your citizenship? If you not going to get it right now, you are going to pay $700.00 if you decided to apply next July.” I said “What????, Holy cow!!, it was only $100.00 back in 97, now they going to rise it to $700.00?”
This is my draw line; I am not going to pay $700.00 just for that. So I filed my papers, got my fingers printed, and waited for 3 months.
Got my interview this morning, and got my citizen ship paper this afternoon, talk about express line.
Here I am as a new American citizen.
January 31, 2008
January 13, 2008
Do You Believe in Karma?
Well, I do.
I am try to be a good person around my friends/family and with the people I don't even know. I keep in very low key when I have no control over any situations that will upset me in normal circumstances.
For example, I have been designing my templates and sell them on eBay, and there is a contain individual who is going around every template designers auctions and copy their designs and styles and post them as her own, and also bad mouth other designers creations. Such individual who is also copy many of my designs/styles and post as her own. Her actions cost me many nights of frustrations. Finally I told myself why pay so much energy on something that I have no control over. What she done will eventually catch up with her.
In Buddhism we believed in cycle of life, what you did in this life will result in what will you be in your next life, and sometimes this "result" will catch up with you in your current life time instead of next.
In Buddhism, karma (Pāli kamma) is strictly distinguished from, meaning "fruit" or "result". Karma is categorized within the group or groups of cause (Pāli hetu) in the chain of cause and effect, where it comprises the elements of "volitional activities" (Pali sankhara) and "action" (Pali bhava). Any action is understood to create "seeds" in the mind that will sprout into the appropriate result (Pāli vipaka) when they meet with the right conditions. Most types of karmas, with good or bad results, will keep one within the wheel of (the Sanskrit and Pāli term for "continuous movement" or "continuous flowing" refers in Buddhism to the concept of a cycle of birth and consequent decay and death, in which all beings in the universe participate and which can only be escaped through enlightenment. Saṃsāra is associated with suffering and is generally considered the antithesis of nirvāṇa or nibbāna.); others will liberate one to nirvāna (is a word used by the Buddha to describe the perfect peace of the mind that is free from craving, anger and other afflictive states).
Buddhism relates karma directly to motives behind an action. Motivation usually makes the difference between "good" and "bad", but included in the motivation is also the aspect of ignorance; so a well-intended action from a deluded mind can easily be "bad" in the sense that it creates unpleasant results for the "actor".
I am try to be a good person around my friends/family and with the people I don't even know. I keep in very low key when I have no control over any situations that will upset me in normal circumstances.
For example, I have been designing my templates and sell them on eBay, and there is a contain individual who is going around every template designers auctions and copy their designs and styles and post them as her own, and also bad mouth other designers creations. Such individual who is also copy many of my designs/styles and post as her own. Her actions cost me many nights of frustrations. Finally I told myself why pay so much energy on something that I have no control over. What she done will eventually catch up with her.
In Buddhism we believed in cycle of life, what you did in this life will result in what will you be in your next life, and sometimes this "result" will catch up with you in your current life time instead of next.
In Buddhism, karma (Pāli kamma) is strictly distinguished from, meaning "fruit" or "result". Karma is categorized within the group or groups of cause (Pāli hetu) in the chain of cause and effect, where it comprises the elements of "volitional activities" (Pali sankhara) and "action" (Pali bhava). Any action is understood to create "seeds" in the mind that will sprout into the appropriate result (Pāli vipaka) when they meet with the right conditions. Most types of karmas, with good or bad results, will keep one within the wheel of (the Sanskrit and Pāli term for "continuous movement" or "continuous flowing" refers in Buddhism to the concept of a cycle of birth and consequent decay and death, in which all beings in the universe participate and which can only be escaped through enlightenment. Saṃsāra is associated with suffering and is generally considered the antithesis of nirvāṇa or nibbāna.); others will liberate one to nirvāna (is a word used by the Buddha to describe the perfect peace of the mind that is free from craving, anger and other afflictive states).
Buddhism relates karma directly to motives behind an action. Motivation usually makes the difference between "good" and "bad", but included in the motivation is also the aspect of ignorance; so a well-intended action from a deluded mind can easily be "bad" in the sense that it creates unpleasant results for the "actor".
January 01, 2008
Chinese New Year!!! 2008
It is a new year Rat in Chinese calender. As a Chinese myself, we celebrate new years too. However the actual Chinese New Year is Feb. 7, 2008.
It is a very important holiday in East Asia. The festival proper begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called the Lantern festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.
Chinese New Year's Eve is known as Chúxì (除夕). Chu literally means "change" and xi means "Eve". The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. in order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every 19 years cycle. This is same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is way, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.
The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.
The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Year's Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. Then communal feast called "Surrounding the stove" or Weilu. It is symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations.
It is a very important holiday in East Asia. The festival proper begins on the first day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and ends on the 15th; this day is called the Lantern festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade.
Chinese New Year's Eve is known as Chúxì (除夕). Chu literally means "change" and xi means "Eve". The Chinese calendar is based on a combination of lunar and solar movements. The lunar cycle is about 29.5 days. in order to "catch up" with the solar calendar the Chinese insert an extra month once every 19 years cycle. This is same as adding an extra day on leap year. This is way, according to the solar calendar, the Chinese New Year falls on a different date each year.
New Year's Eve and New Year's Day are celebrated as a family affair, a time of reunion and thanksgiving. The celebration was traditionally highlighted with a religious ceremony given in honor of Heaven and Earth, the gods of the household and the family ancestors.
The sacrifice to the ancestors, the most vital of all the rituals, united the living members with those who had passed away. Departed relatives are remembered with great respect because they were responsible for laying the foundations for the fortune and glory of the family.
The presence of the ancestors is acknowledged on New Year's Eve with a dinner arranged for them at the family banquet table. The spirits of the ancestors, together with the living, celebrate the onset of the New Year as one great community. Then communal feast called "Surrounding the stove" or Weilu. It is symbolizes family unity and honors the past and present generations.
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