The Art of Talking to Yourself

A man thinks in word-symbols, and such silent thought is equivalent to talking to himself. Sometimes when he is alone he speaks the words aloud.
But silent or aloud, his conservation with himself is creative….it makes him what he is.

More important than what others say to him is he says to himself. A man’s life is shaped by the way he habitually talks to himself.

A man can talk himself up or down, into happiness or unhappiness, into failure or success, into heaven or hell.

When he talks to himself in words of self-pity, defeat, cynicism, futility, fear, anxiety, despair, hopelessness and resignation, he tears himself apart and shatters his future.

A man can transform his life by switching the emphasis of his inner conservation to words that lift and inspire.

He can talk strength into his backbone so he will have the courage and confidence to stand up to life.

He can talk himself out of discouragement and despair by counting his many blessings.

He can talk himself into accepting hardships and handicaps and enduring them with a gallant spirit.

He can talk himself into seeing his duties and responsibilities in a new light – as opportunities and privileges.

He can talk himself about the beauty, glory and wonder of life so it will glow with a new radiance.

He can talk to himself about his dreams, hopes and aspirations. He can convince himself that there is a place for him and important work for him to do.

The way a man talks to himself has a dynamic power for self-influence. His words can make or unmake his life.

“Nobody” , wrote Cicero, “can give you wiser advice than yourself.”


Written by Wilfred Peterson in 1960.

weather chart today

Dendrobium

small Dendrobium in my garden.

I bought this plant for my mommy from e-mart.

RM-10.

In mommy's garden, all the orchid plants are

healthy and in blossom.

Oncidium (Dancing Lady Orchid)

Oncidium flower in my garden.

Temperature and humidity : 10 to 15 degree C.

Light in greenhouses.

40% to 50% of daylight.

study station

This is my new work station, actually "study station".

Place for researcher.

This place is cooler than my ex-work station, because this place has

no students' assignments, no students' record files, no students' projects,

no students' reports, and no marking at all.

Yayyyyy...life is beautiful.

Full Moon Day of October (ThiDinGyut)

Today is Full Moon Day of October. We call it ThiDinGyut full moon day.
It is also know as Lights Festival.


From the book "Flowers and Festivals Round the Myanmar Year " written by
Daw Khin Myo Chit , translated by Junior Win,

Thidingyut, the seventh month of the Myanmar calendar, marks the end of lent.
Monsoon is on the way out and the skies are clearing. Sunny days are here to stay.

Illuminations are there to celebrate the anniversary of the Buddha's return from the
celestial abode where he had spent the lent teaching the gods above his law.

Streets, houses and public buildings are illuminated and festooned with coloured electric bulbs.
One feature of the festival in small towns and village is see-mee lighting ; small earthen bowls are filled with sesame oil and a piece of cotton is soaked in each bowl and lighted.

These lighted oil bowls are placed on the terraces of pagodas. The lights last longer than
candles and the little tongues of flame quivering in the breeze lend an uncanny beauty to the
scene steeped silvery moonlight. Such lights are sometimes seen on the pagodas in
Yangon city.

Thidingyut is not only a season of festivals and rejoicings, but also a time for remembering
those whom we owe respect and gratitude. The Buddha's visit to the celestial regions was
to teach the great Truth he had found through rigorous striving for many many lives, to his
own mother.
It was a gesture of gratitude, an example for all to follow.

When Buddhists do the act of kadaw (paying respect) to anyone, their parents, teachers or elders, they not only pay respects as a gesture of gratitude, but they also ask forgiveness for
any wrongful action they might have done in this life and many many lives before.

Paying respects ceremonies are organized and held in schools. Paying respects to teacher,
one of the Five Revered Ones, is still practised. Buddhists parables illustrate the good influence
of teachers on their students, even though the latter might have become ruling kings.

So, this is the spirit of Thidingyut season...paying respects to these to whom respect is due and
remembering those to whom we owe gratitude.

Catleya (red)

flowers in my garden today

Basil in my back yard

bird chilli in my backyard

Double Butterfly Jasmine

Double Butterfly Jasmine flowers in my garden.

Botanical Name : abernaemontana divaricata Variegata 'Flore Plena'

Common Name : Crepe Jasmine, Double Crepe Jasmine, Indian Carnation Flower, Double White Gardenia, Creme & Green Double Butterfly Jasmine


Family: Apocynaceae (dogbane family)

The large shiny leaves are green and are 6 or more inches in length and about 2 inches in width. The waxy blossoms are white double five-petaled pinwheels that are borne in small clusters on the stem tips.

Atom Smasher Shut Down

Transformer glitch shuts down biggest atom smasher

By ALEXANDER G. HIGGINS, Associated Press Writer

Thu Sep 18, 5:18 PM ET

GENEVA - The world's largest particle collider malfunctioned within hours of its launch to great fanfare, but its operator didn't report the problem for a week.

In a statement Thursday, the European Organization for Nuclear Research reported for the first time that a 30-ton transformer that cools part of the collider broke, forcing physicists to stop using the atom smasher just a day after starting it up last week.

The faulty transformer has been replaced and the ring in the 17-mile circular tunnel under the Swiss-French border has been cooled back down to near zero on the Kelvin scale — minus 459.67 degrees Fahrenheit — the most efficient operating temperature, said a statement by CERN, as the organization is known.

When the transformer malfunctioned, operating temperatures rose from below 2 Kelvin to 4.5 Kelvin — extraordinarily cold by most standards, but warmer than the normal operating temperature.

CERN had not reported any problems with the project since its launch Sept. 10, but issued its statement shortly after The Associated Press called asking about rumors of troubles.

Physicists said it wasn't surprising problems would occur in getting a huge and immensely complicated collection of equipment like the Large Hadron Collider up and running smoothly.

"This is arguably the largest machine built by humankind, is incredibly complex, and involves components of varying ages and origins, so I'm not at all surprised to hear of some glitches," Steve Giddings, physics professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. "It's a real challenge requiring incredible talent, brain power and coordination to get it running."

Judith Jackson, spokesman for the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory in Batavia, Ill., echoed that view.

"We know how complex and extraordinary it is to start up one of these machines. No one's built one of these before and in the process of starting it up there will inevitably be glitches," she said.

Fermilab is home to the Tevatron, an accelerator that collides protons and antiprotons in a 4-mile-long underground ring to allow physicists to study subatomic particles. Jackson said transformer malfunctions can be common and aren't dangerous.

"These things happen," she said. "It's a little setback and it sounds like they've dealt with it and are moving forward."

The Large Hadron Collider is designed to collide protons in the beams so that they shatter and reveal more about the makeup of matter and the universe.

After it was started up Sept. 10, scientists circled a beam of protons in a clockwise direction at the speed of light. They shut that down, then turned on a counterclockwise beam.

"Several hundred orbits" were made, CERN's statement said.

On the evening of Sept. 11, scientists had succeeded in controlling the counterclockwise beam with equipment that keeps the protons in the tightly bunched stream that will be needed for collisions, but then the transformer failed and the system was shut down, the statement said.

The clockwise beam was not on at the time. Now that the transformer has been replaced and the equipment rechilled, scientists expect to try soon to tighten the clockwise beam and prepare experiments in coming weeks, the statement said.

Before the problem occurred, scientists had said it would probably be several weeks before the first significant collisions were attempted.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_re_eu/eu_big_bang

dinner

mushroom

mustard

shrimp

japan tofu

Dendrobium

it is unique.

Coconut Jelly (Agar-agar Santan)

Boil 40 grams of Agar-agar stick together with 6 litres of water, a little bit of salt and 1/4 kilogram of sugar.

Boil 2 cans of coconut cream ( Santan Krim) together with a little salt and 5 spoons of sugar.

Mix the boiled agar-agar and boiled coconut cream together and cook on the stove for a while.

If you want soft jelly, don't cook too long, just 4 or 5 minutes.

Place the mixture in the container and let it cool.

Ready to serve.