Mr Wind

Cool Ad



- Renewable Energies wins international competition
- Conergy Group again triumphs at Cannes
- Agency: Nordpol+ Hamburg

Hamburg, 29 June 2007: EPURON GmbH, a subsidiary of Conergy AG, won the top honour for best film advertising spot at the International Advertising Festival in Cannes. The “Power of Wind” ad is recognized as the most successful tv spot from Germany at Cannes. It was created by Nordpol+ Hamburg regarded as one of the most creative agencies worldwide.

The Spot cleverly demonstrates in a very charming and poetic way the strength of the wind – when used intelligently – everyone benefits. This project also drew the support of the German Federal Ministry of Environment. "When I saw ‘Power of Wind’ for the first time I was drawn by the motive and the humor of it. The Nordpol team did a great job in interpreting the meaning of wind energy into image and sound. It was an excellent ad for the future of renewable energies, “said Environment Minister, Sigmar Gabriel.

This was the second time the Conergy group was awarded for an advertising spot. In 2001, Conergy was a qualifier at Cannes. Now EPURON stands at the top of the ladder. "The Golden Lion proves that renewable energies can no longer be overlooked, not even the jury at Cannes,” replied Nikolaus Krane, Executive Board Member of Conergy AG and Managing Director at EPURON.

(from Epuron web's press release)

A Prayer for Guidance

Lord, bless me with peace within my heart
Help me make each day a beautiful start
Help me understand how I can make a difference
And the raison d'etre for my existence

Bless me with the courage to voice what's right
In a world where reality bites
Within the range of possibilities that I can change
Bless me with the will to do so for the better

And for those that I can't change
Help me to gracefully accept & not be bitter
For I trust in you, that You have Your reasons
So mysterious that I wont be able to comprehend

I believe you will show my why in another season
When the time is right, the explanation You will send
Bless me with the wisdom to then understand

As there is no highway to heaven on earth
Guide me in this world in each of my steps
Before I take my very last breath

(Anne Marie Warren)

The Truth

Cool Clip...

LOLCat Bible Project

There's a very interesting Bible translation project online, called LOLCat Bible. Personally, this is a great way for outreaching the mass reader out there. Really admire their effort to translate the whole Bible verse by verse. The project is still ongoing.



Below are some interesting translation from Gospel of Luke and Matthew...
(*the Ceiling Cat refers to God in these passages)

Da burth of Jesuz Christ (Matt 1:18-26)

18 Now, teh burth of teh Christ was liek dis: After Marry and Joseph waz all "We's gonna get marrieded, kthnx", but before dey could had hankiez pankiez Mary was all pr3ggerz from Teh Forse.19 Joseph was liek "I has virjn - NOOOO dey be stealin my virjn! Must hied hur".20 But when he was tihnkin, zomg, a WallCat frm Ceiling Cat was liek, "Oh hai! I'm in ur dreemz, givin u messij. Don't be scairdy cat. Take Mary as ur wife - is virjn. But teh Forse is strong in tihs wun, lol! HoverCat is on hur, givn hur feetus, srsly.21 "And she gonna made a son, and you gonna call him Jeezus, cuz he save kittehs frum bein bad kittehs. Kthxbye."22 So all dis was all did cuz Ceiling Cat had sed it wud be. His proffet was all liek:23 "Hay guise, look! teh virjn iz all preggers, and dey gonna call him Immanuel", dat be joospeek for "Ceiling Cat wit us"24 Then Joseph waked up, done wat teh angel frm Ceiling Cat tolded him to, and was all liek "U wit me now lol" at Mary.25 And dey didnt has teh HARBL GOES WHERE!?!? til affer dey gets a son and calleded him Jeezus. Ktnx.

Hail, Mary (Luke 1:26-38)

26 Ceiling Cat sended Gabriel, a hovr d00d, to Nazareth (dat is a citi in Galilee)27 to a virgn naemd Mary. She wuz engajded to a d00d naemd Joseph.28 Gabriel wuz liek "O hai Mary, u iz realli nice. Ceiling Cat iz wif u."29 Mary wuz kiend of worrid about dat.30 But teh hovr d00d wuz all "Doant be afraid. Ceiling Cat iz happi wif u.31 U iz gonna hav a kittn. Naem him Jesus.32 He wil be graet. He wil be teh kittn of Ceiling Cat an his daddi will give him David's chaer.33 He wil r00l Jacob's house forevr."
34 Mary wuz liek "O rly, i iz a virgn remembr."35 Gabriel wuz all "Ceiling Cat wil take caer of it."36 Elizabeth iz goin to hav a kittn n evribodi seded it wuz imposubl."37 Nothin iz imposubl for Ceiling Cat."
38 Mary sed "I is happi to do Ceiling Cat's work. Liek u sai." N Gabriel lefted.

And a passage from the book of Job, chapter one...

Prowlog

1 In teh land of Uz wuz a man calded Job. Teh man wuz goodz, wif respeck fur teh Ceiling Cat and hated evilz.2 Teh man hadz seven sunz and tree doters,3 And lots of sheepz and camlez and rinoceruseses and servnts, srsly.4 His sunz tok turns mading cookies, and they all eated them.5 And Job wuz liek "Oh noes! Wut if cookies were sin? Gota prey, just in cased."

Furst Tess
5 Teh ayngles wented to seez Ceiling Cat, and Saitin wented 2.6 Ceiling Cat axt Saitin, "Wher u wuz?" Saitin saied "Oh, hai. I'z wuz in ur earth, woking up and down uponz it."7 Teh Ceiling Cat sayd "Has u seen mai servnt Job? He can has cheezburger cuz he laiks me."
8 "No wai!" sed Saitin.9 "U just plyin favrits.10 If u take his cheezburgers, he no laiks u no moar."
11 Then teh Ceiling Cat sed "Okai, u can take his bukkit, but no hurtzing Job hissef." And then Saitin went awai.
12 Wun day Jobes' sunz and doters were eateding cookies at teh oldest wuns hoose,13 And a mans cam to told Job a mesege. "Ur donkzeys and moo cows was eateding grass"14 And thens teh servnts was atacked by some dudez and ur naminals was stoldz by them and only i got wai."
15 And then anotter mans cam to told Job a diffrant mesege. He sed "Teh Ceiling Cat maids fyr fall from teh skys and it burnded ur sheepz and more servnts and only i got awai."
16 And thens a more diffranter mans cam to told Job a mesege. "Sum Chaldean dudez took ur rinoceroseseses and killd moar servnts and only i got wai."
17 And then 1 moar mans cam to told Job a mesege.18 "Ur sunz howse feld over and skishded evryones. Sry."
19 Then Job got upt and shaved and was liek "Gota prey now."
20 "Teh Ceiling Cat giv me cheezburger, teh Ceiling Cat takded mah cheezburger awai. I stil laiks teh Ceiling Cat."
21 And teh Ceiling Cat sed "I winz!!"

Need to know more? Go to:
http://www.lolcatbible.com/index.php?title=Main_Page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolcat
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1642897,00.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-ca-lolcat16dec16,1,6069575.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

专一的爱情

爱情，很多人期待恋人专一，却往往发现，情人太专一、太执着的爱情像薄薄的水晶杯、碰到现实就容易碎。过度专一的情人，可能没有朋友、对另一半的依赖度太强、使他负担沉重；爱太强烈，强力的控制力会使人喘不过气来。

If you love some one, set it free. If it returns, it's yours; if it doesn't. it never was.

Articles about Career Success and Dream

Came across this cool article when reading another blog...
http://word2live.blogspot.com/

If you want career success - Stop Running from your purpose

The main principle to career success is one that many of us will have to learn the hard way. In fact, initially upon reading the title you may have wondered why you would want to run from your purpose. That is a good question. The truth is that we all have dreams and goals. I like to think that God places dreams in our hearts as a path to serve Him and others. However, some of us will never realize those dreams until we realize a very important truth: God’s ways of fulfilling those dreams may be very different from how we would fulfill our dreams if everything were left solely up to us.
Many times, as our dreams grow dimmer over the years, we, too, may begin to wonder how our current circumstances - our present job, our current boss, our career, our employer - are remotely connected with what we might have thought we were supposed to be doing in life. We look around us and say, “This can’t be right, my purpose isn’t this, I’m supposed to be doing ________.”
However we may fill in the blank, the result is the same. We come to a crossroad that is a test of faith when the dream we believe God placed in our hearts doesn’t line up with our current situation. For many of us, that is when we begin to run from our purpose and sabotage our career success.
The subtle truth is that we are often unaware that we are actually running from our purpose. We may even talk ourselves into believing that we are actually running toward it. This is how it works: We have an idea of what our dream job or dream career is supposed to be, and we then proceed to do everything that is humanly possible to achieve it. Of course, some glitch always gets in the way, and we work hard to either remove the glitch or to get around it.
But then, some other barrier pops up, and we do our best to beat it down or push it aside, all the while using up years of energy, emotion, knowledge and power to get this dream to work out our way. But when it doesn’t, we become frustrated, and we wonder what else we need to do to move our career along. We toil and toil and may have a few successes, but even those aren’t what we thought they would be. How does this fit in with career success? When we begin to see our present circumstances as divinely planned by God, we approach those circumstances differently.
You may be in a position today that isn’t the exact job that you want to spend your life doing. That’s OK. However, don¹t make everyone around you suffer by being bitter or having a negative attitude simply because you believe that you are supposed to be doing something else. Instead, accept the fact that there are aspects to your job that may prove in the years ahead to have been very valuable to you. Are you learning to be more detailed? Is it a chance to become better at building relationships? Or maybe you have a need to learn patience to wait on God¹s timing. No matter what the situation may be, it’s all for your good. Stop running from what can be used by God to prepare you for His purpose for your life.
Jesus did not enter into full-time ministry until He was 30 years old. However, from the very beginning, He knew what God’s purpose was for His life. While on a trip with his parents when He was only 12 years old, He was unknowingly left behind because he had been busy teaching and discussing deep spiritual matters with the leaders of His time. I’m sure that part of Him was anxious to get started with the purpose for His life. However, when His mother questioned Him about why He had remained behind to talk when it was time to return home, He dutifully returned with His family and began learning the skills of a carpenter. It would have been easy for Him to ask, “What on earth am I going to need to know how to do this for?” But instead, He became an expert carpenter and worked diligently serving His customers until it was time for His ministry to begin.
What about you? Are you viewing your current position as a part of God¹s plan for your life at this time? Or are you still debating whether it could possibly be something that escaped God’s attention? One of the best truths every written is found in Romans 8:28, “And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.”
This tells us that when we are in a relationship with God, He calls us to something specific that is meeting a specific purpose. It also tells us that everything will work together for good. This doesn’t mean that each single event will look good to us. Each job that we have may not in and of itself seem good to us. But what we are assured of is the fact that at the end of the day, when it¹s all said and done, everything will work out for good. Not only will it work out for our good but also for the good of anyone else whom God chooses to involve who are also called according to His purpose.
What this also points out is that it’s not all about us. Instead, it’s all about God. How He wants to use our lives and our jobs or careers will be a blessing to us, but it will also be a blessing to others, as well. Think as if you were viewing a really great classic film and in the middle of it the main character began to go through some difficulties; you wouldn’t jump up, leave the movie, and say, “I have seen enough, this movie isn’t going the way I think it should.” No, it’s more likely that you would stay glued to your seat, wondering how on earth the character was going to get through that plot twist, and remain until you saw how it all worked out.
Well the truth of the matter is that we don’t have a choice when it comes to the purpose God has planned for us. We may try to run from it, and we may think we have even succeeded for a while, but all we will have really done is taken the scenic route to the place God wants us to be. And it will be the place we will want to be once we get a grip and realize that it’s all good

Realising Your Dreams

No matter where you are in your life... The life of a dream is no different than the life of a Christian. A dream is born, it grows, it matures, but ultimately it must die, be buried, and return to its creator before it can truly realize its full glory and potential. There is always a time in my life when my dream was in the stages of death, burial, and submission to God. I took great comfort in knowing that when I submit my dream to God, when I truly let it go and return it to my creator, it will bloom forth like a flower in the desert. If you have a dream, but it seems that your dream cannot be fully realized -- if you are frustrated or discouraged and feel that your dream is withering -- You will discover what Jesus said, “unless a corn of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it abides alone -- but if it dies and is buried, it will bring forth much fruit.” Give your dream to God. Return your dream to its source. Let it die and be buried in the rich soil of God's fertile field. You will find that by giving your dream to God, it will exceed your wildest dreams. Whatever preconceptions you have about your dream, give them to God. Whatever hopes and ambitions you have for your dream, give them to God. Whatever selfish attachments and aspirations you have for your dream, give them to God. You will discover that your dream cannot flourish by your will or by your efforts. But in the hands of Almighty God, your dream will grow into a mighty and powerful force, greater than you could have ever thought or imagined.

Suvarnabhumi Airport - Bangkok

During our trip, we landed at Suvarnabhumi Airport (Pronounced su-wan-na-poom). A cool airport with a beautiful structure. It is located at Racha Thewa, in Samut Prakan Province, about 25 km east of downtown Bangkok.

The name Suvarnabhumi was chosen by King Bhumipol Adulyadej, and refers to the ancient kingdom hypothesized to have been located somewhere in Southeast Asia. This airport was designed by Helmut Jahn of Murphy/Jahn Architects, which also designed Caltex House and Hitachi Tower in Singapore.

(http://www.murphyjahn.com/intro.htm)

Found a cool quote on their web:

Creativity has to do more with the elimination of the inessential, than inventing something new. Perfection is achieved not when nothing is to be added, but when nothing can be taken away.

(Helmut Jahn,July 1999)

Art piece @ arrival hall
Arghh...concrete...wish I can custom order this to my living hall's ceiling.
I think I will give them a call for quotation for my house reno..wakakaka

Makan @ Bangkok

Superb food at the city of Bangkok. The food is very good and cheap.
Try to go for the street food @ Sukhumvit Road...


Mango glutinous rice @ Sukhumvit














Fried egg and white rice
@Sukhumvit










Salad and Chicken with Basil @ Cabbages & Condoms Restaurant
















Superb fish salad @ MBK Mall. Crispy fried fish served with peanut and vegetables.
Must try.











A Thai girl promoting their food..
I think it's a mixture or fried ginger, nuts and fresh lime, wrap in daun sirih. Taste good.











Pork Salad












Sausages outside Jatujak Weekend Market














Coconut ice cream in Jatujak Market
Very refreshing. Cheap.












A must-try in Jatujak market, nearby the art stalls. This stall is quite well hidden. Only targeting local, not tourist.
Try it if you dare. Won't regret it.










Superb Thai cuisine @ Sukhumvit 26












Coconut soup @ Sukhumvit 26














Green Curry












Squid with garlic and chilis












"Yau Char Guai" Thai style. Smaller, better than KL















Cool coffee @ airport

Made In Thailand

Had my honeymoon trip in Bangkok. A very enjoyable trip. Ate tons of food from morning till nite. The street food is cheap, but not the shopping stuff. Feel very safe walking on the street, with so many food around. The airport is marvelous. And one cool thing observed, 99% of the cab using Toyota Altis, whereas Toyota and Honda made up of 95% of car on the street...go Japanese go....






Thai school kids wore yellow uniforms. Many of the working people and students will wear yellow on every Monday (Monday-Wednesday this month, due to the King's birthday) to pay respect to the King.
What's the point of forcing people to fly flag on national day, when Thai people do this willingly everyweek...






























Thai silk shop @ Silom















Cool monk...















Street bar @ Sukhumvit






























Thai massage at reasonable price















They came here too!!!!
(http://space-invaders.com/som.html)















Street in Sukhumvit. Feel like I'm in Tokyo.




















Tuk Tuk.
Beware of the tuk tuk scam. They will offer a very cheap price, but you will need to follow them to all those tourist targeting bazaar.
















Street cleaning