Even if you are afraid you can bluff you are not afraid

Even that you know that you are bluffing and other people know that you are bluffing and you are scared to death, or other people know that you know that other people know that you are bluffing.  However this tension of paradoxical opposite has the effect of making you look brave, or that you are actually brave in this context, people will respect you.

This is bluffing in a advance degree. Actually everything is bluffing if you look at it correctly. You would only know this if you play poker.

I discover all this while I have been playing my cards not people

In poker, you dont play your cards, you play the people, you can even play without looking at your cards.

And the people player wins.

I realize that I have been only focusing at getting my technical knowledge high and I never play people. That is why i always get bullied and in turn my technical knowledge cannot gain too much because i need to divert my energy to manage my emotional turmoil.

you cannot play people only, you have to play cards also. 50 50 or 60 40

Everything you want to know how to interact with people you can learn in poker

-Use bullshit to fight bullshit. Use aggro to fight aggro.
-Use your rational brain instead of emotional brain. Read also Freedom from Fear by Peyton Quinn.

The art of the strategist : 10 essential principles for leading your company to victory by William A. Cohen.

Wow, i have read the book two years ago and forgot about it today i had a look at the content again, and all what I have writing in this treasure chest can be summarize in this below:

Like the dip = resource limitation = chapter 3
ROV and Oracle = Chapter 7

Chapter 1: The Fundamental Principle: Commit Fully to a Definite
 Objective
Chapter 2: Seize the Initiative and Keep It
Chapter 3: Economize to Mass Your Resources
Chapter 4: Use Strategic Positioning
Chapter 5: Do The Unexpected
Chapter 6: Keep Things Simple
Chapter 7: Prepare Multiple Simultaneous Alternatives 
Chapter 8: Take the Indirect Route to Your Objective
Chapter 9: Practice Timing and Sequencing
Chapter 10: Exploit Your Success

Garlic the wonder drug

super flu killer. cure cancers and chronic fatique syndrom, even can make a dead rabbit penis comes up

poker and war is about guestimate what the opponents wants to do not what you want to do

and other misc thoughts:

show sean photo about drinking water
push the extra mile
or instead of c++ can play with database immediately
download freedrive best books.
defend yourself by attacking back
muka tebal is a value not method, melay word sounds thicker
you have only one life, talke high risk. experience
a man got to do what a man got to do
get the steps right, set great striving first, then only paradoxical relaxation. relax your mind consicously while carrying out the task already set forward.
focus, remember you have limited time and energy.
i discover that i focus on things i dont like due to some reason. refocusing need some effort but it is a small effort compared to the disruptions of thinking on things i dont like.
note making put complex things down in perspecive and in a small model universe your brain can think about. 
use aggro to fight aggro, use crazy to fight crazy
dont care about small loses poker
compact light mobile nimble
break it down simplify note making
other thing beside oracle is ROV

After playing no limit texas holdem, now playing limit holdem is like taking candy from baby

A lot of times i dont have cards, but are guessing what the opponent is thinking, and are mimiking strong cards behavior. Limit holdem players are losers.

Ace on the river we have the pdf copy is a very good book. Please check freedrive.com and our family portable drive.

Instead of a explorer I would rather be a pirate

A pirate have both the best world of explorer and self defense.

Money = suffer, No money = more suffer

When have problems always go to internet forum to ask

When you have difficulties, always go to internet forums to ask for people opinion

here is a good one
http://forum.lowyat.net/

There are karate forums, oracle forums, physics forums, math forums, marine forums,

Stripping the gurus a very important book

So you wont waste your life as I did

free pdf here http://www.strippingthegurus.com/

I want my tombstone to read "Explorer"

The best way to get out of a bad mood to find new things to explore

It works everytime, the other stuff dont work like thinking what i have already achieve, or counting my blessings, or detachment, or mindfulness, or goal setting etc.


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Let me tell you something you already know. The world ain't all sunshine and rainbows. It is a very mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit, and keep moving forward. How much you can take, and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if you know what you're worth, then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit, and not pointing fingers saying you ain't where you are because of him, or her, or anybody. Cowards do that and that ain't you. You're better than that!
Rocky Balboa

I hated every minute of training, but I said, "Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion."
Muhammad Ali

The 30 million dollars callibration test

If i have 30 million dollars. I spent 3 million dollars screwing the most good looking girls, travelled the world 3 times, ate the best food, bought the best sport car. WIth 27 million dollars left and 30 years of time to spend, how would i spend the rest of my life?


I choose between wei qi, oracle, driving harley, poker. But all this thing i know, and it is boring.

So i may try number theory, quantum theory, or even ROV.

This is a calibration test to find out what you really want to do. I love you Sean and Ryan.

The all knowing invincible field of nature

There seems to be a invincible and invincible field of nature that knows what is your knowledge and what are you doing. I dont know how it works.

I have two big stage in life 17-35 is the year I believe in mystical Buddhist/hindu type enlightenment. I have trying to search for this eternal bliss stage using all the methods i can find, i forget  about my studies of mathematics and engineering, resulting in lost grades and low income career. In the end of the search, i concluded solidly this is all bullshit logically, practically and philosophically. Please read Stripping the Gurus by Geoffrey D. Falk. We have the PDF.


18 years wasted. My abstract world knowledge of mathematics, physics and engineerign is a waste land. And people seems to know this. I cannot find good jobs.

3-6 years ago is the early Renaissance where i delve into c++, game programming, poker and poetry.

Just last year is the year I called true Renaissance, i delve into advance calculus, partial differential equations, quantum mechanics, fluid mechanics, digital signal processing, computational fluid mechanics, western philosophy, embedded linux, and Oracle. Now probably going into ROV science.

And now somehow my company seems to think i am very smart, which probably i am, i am the only one who can do more more abstract programming and write hell good official letters with bombastic but paradoxically beautiful and subtle english. BUt it could be the field of all knowing nature.

Even if you dont tell people, people around seem to able to pick up what is on your mind, and your knowlege level.

I notice somehow I am evoving from my father

I just realize my knowledge crystal is to correct the two most big mistake my father makes and is in me, probably in you and ryan also

1. Being too feminine, too soft, dont know how to confront people
2. Being too lazy.

My two biggest knowledge crystal is:

1. Karate (possibly the book freedom from fear)
2. The dip by seth godin.

I have been all along trying to correct the sin our father and myself.

My father though totally selfish himself but is unaware, is constantly taken advantage by other people. This is where Poker comes in.

Oracle is the push into the abstract world which my father never venture into due to inbreed laziness.

Upload yourself to the abstract mathematics

Sean, Ryan, we are explorers, we can't stick still to a regular job. If we are not exploring, we are eaten up by everyday pettiness that reruns the same thing over and over again, hell.

Sean, Ryan, you have big eyes looking around always for intresting things, you two cant sit still.

So now I have mastered the material world, what's left is quantum mechanics, number theory, ROV sonars mathematics. Oracle i have eaten all and is finished.  I am staying in the KNOWN material world too long, I notice everyday I think about all the petty politics over and over again, which is not fun. Nature which is elvoving to more and more complex being, wants to evolve into the non material world, the abstract world, if I dont explore there nature will punish me with boredom and in turn flashback.

I will upload myself to the mathematics world. My body is living in this world, there is no escape. But my mind can either live in this world, or live in the abstracted world created by my mind and the minds of others. I can choose where I live. I choose to live in the abstract world, cause this world is too boring.

Nature rewards the most complex and evolve being. The more abstract your brain wiring, the more money you get generally. Look at the doctors, oracle dbas, physicist, the harder to know the job, the more money. Keep exploring and understanding, gradually you will come to the abstract world, a lot of people will stop evolving here, you continue to evolve into the abstract world to escape boredom, and nature will recognize this, the money will come naturally.

Take pain like a man

I think nowadays there are no more rites of manhood, and young men become like sissies, I am one.

In west Africa, young boys are whipped across the chest cutting the flesh, and have to smile to show they can handle pain like a man. The boys who cannot smile are considered weak and will not get girlfriends. The ability to handle pain and suffering is important in order to lead the tribe through hardships, as a man.

I have to be reeducated to be a man also; I joined a more traditional style karate school, the sensei holds a 5 feet stick and shout at the students to do horse stance until unbearable pain. If the student stood up, he will whack the student with the stick and shouts constant humiliation. For the more senior student, he will punch them on the chest and stomach, a karate punch with about 5% power is enough to knock out a layman. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MciLrVWcP8w

I was whacked on the butt countless times, and experienced excruciating pain punched on the solar plexus. But after that, hell, it was being hardened psychologically with steel. You got a problem ah? Come loh. Pain and suffering ah? Come loh! Things that bothered me before lessened a great deal.

More about the peyton quinn book

The book is based on Quinn's actual experiences as a high school math teacher, bouncer in a biker bar and creator of a successful software development firm. He is internationally recognized in the self-defense trainer and security industries for his research into the affects of adrenal stress conditioning. 

Biker, bouncer, math, software development = i like.


Whether dealing with a street thug or an overbearing boss at work, you're facing a bully. Your body and your mind will react to the threat. Unfortunately, many people involuntarily send the message that they are safe to attack. Learn how this process works so you can take control of this process and instead of signaling that you are a good victim, send messages that prevents conflict.

Freedom from Fear: Taking Back Control of Your Life and Dissolving Depression by Peyton Quinn

Maybe a extremely important book. Order it 2 days shipping from Amazon today. Could solve 99 percent of life problems.

The other very important book is The Dip.

Deliberate practice

http://www.hooversbiz.com/2009/03/04/deliberate-practice-in-a-nutshell/


Sean, Ryan, to make your life happy, just do the following most important things in order of priority, the rest of the treasure chest is minor details:

1. Karate : Super confidence and dominance. A must.
2. Deliberate practice: Read The Dip book, the market wants the best. Another must.
3. Poker: Game theory. Chronicals of Riddick. Thick skin, black heart.
4. Oracle : The biggest toy.



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The dip as experienced by cool Malaysians

Folks,

You can get drown in a lake of average depth of 3 inches. The average might be 3 inches but where you stand might be 10 feet deep.

It is VERY SIMPLE. If you want to make a lot of money, do not be AVERAGE. You need to be SPECIAL in some way and fashion. You need to have HIGHLY VALUABLE skill and capability.

Now, remember, there are competition out there. So, if you make a lot of money, a lot of people want your job too. So, you probably need to have

A) TALENT

You can learn and do easily compare to others

B) Great effort

Work very hard to keep up your skill and capability

C) Exposure

For certain area, you need to be in right environment to pick up those skills.

This is the same as running a business too. You need to have COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE.

So, think of yourself as a business of selling hours for money.

Dreamer


http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/908181/+460

Five star concept building book: Computer Networking First-Step by Wendell Odom

Few books are as perfect than this book. Except maybe Headfirst sql, or Who Is Fourier, or that partial differential equation I forgot the name book.

Accept about 20 percent of suffering

Accept a little bit suffering to get more fun.

Watch taboo series in Okto about fight club.There is a tribe in africa where they hit eachother with whips, but the recepient must smile and not show pain then only he can be a man and have the strength to face difficulty in the future.

Karate is about touching the chaos of violence but simultaneously maintaining extreme control.

Visualize what you study to burn into your memory

After you study something, say Oracle function, close the book, and then try to visualize what you study, if you can visualize that means what you study has been burn into your memory, your eprom.

possible to play with Oracle database with you are 13

Instead of playing with c++ or game programming. Because database is fun too!

First play with making a table and inserting data into it.

Then learn plsql a little bit.

Then play lots of sql tuning, like tuning a car model.

If i have time i will teach you sean and ryan how to play when you are 7.

Accept suffering

If I accept suffering, all my mental talk cease, i become less stress.

I have avoided legitimate suffering, but i suffered ten times more suffering as a result.

So, study hard, put in the hard work, make yourself top in your field, maybe Oracle, accept legitimate suffering, so you will have more happiness as a result.

Half fight suffering, half accept legitimate suffering.

The perfect stress therapy.

Always use the internet forums for help in all sectors

In your technological life, you will face a lot of technical difficulty. And internet forums is a very useful way to solve your difficulty. Usually in working life your colleagues would not want to teach you. The IT forums are most helpful, that why i recommend you to go into Oracle for this world market.

Even for other life questions like karate and strategy you can ask the internet forums.

There is a paid forum which is very good if the ordinary forums cannot help you with tough questions like GPRS or wavecom programming: http://www.experts-exchange.com/. I use it to bail out my very tough technical difficulties few people in the world can solve. The payment is only about S$20 a month.

How to make goals

1. Small goals
2. Reachable within 1 year
3. specific and concrete

Goals 2010

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1Z0-47 December 15
Famous SQL tuning blog March 15
Labview SQL Metocean software April 15
KL rental house Sept 15

Run, dont walk - A linux guru

Get excited about life. Feel the excitement of rushing. Forget about your regrets and hurts. Make mistake, stumble, take risk.

The awareness as true self system

Usually use by hindus, saying that awareness is true self. This statement is a assertion and is philosophically unsound, i can say that my thumb is my true self using the same philosophical argument. Instead, the assertion is more like a method to detached from the many self in a person, and is a method that works.

Another way is to pretend you are another self A and prentend the self B that is causing the problem is not really yourself.

Philosophy is all about pretend. It is a game. Described by Wittenstein.

The half half system

Half awareness identity, half ego identity
Half attachment, half detachment
Half good, half bad
Half faith, half fear
Half goal, half process

I am trying to find this one method one principle

Now I got a cocktail of principles. I am searching for that one principle.

Faith not fear

Being too scientific and logical brings fear and nihilism. Nihilism is the ultimate end of scientific reasoning. I live in fear because I am a extremely logical person. I think to avoid death and thus live in fear of death.

I need faith I need art.

Faith not fear

Being too scientific and logical brings fear and nihilism. Nihilism is the ultimate end of scientific reasoning. I live in fear because I am a extremely logical person.

I need faith I need art.

It is very important to have a thick skin

You can do much more things in life. To have a thick skin remember you are not the center of the universe.

The self is like a OS.

The ego is like the kernel of a operating system. Hindus are wrong saying the ego should be destroyed, if you destroy the kernel, the whole pc cannot function. The ego like the OS is needed, but frequently there will be virus, corrupted programs, bad programs, thus mindfulness is the antivirus program.

Karate is like the hardware of the pc. The stronger the hardware like RAM and CPU, the better the OS (self) will perform.

THe rest of the philosophy is other modules in the OS which is also required.

The 80% philosophy

This system actually cured a lot of my problems. I saw it in a book by a japanese

No need to do things perfectly, just until 80% perfection. This will cure your self criticism, inertia of starting difficult project, and stress.

The October Resolution

The October Resolution    8:45am 29.10.09 Tuas

Have a goal. It is the mother of all methods. It reorganizes mental and emotional energy.

Goals:

1.    5 houses for rental.

2.    S$200,000 for sons’ university.

3.    OCM.

4.    Shitoryu Karate 2 Dan.

5.    Sons have Karate black belt and programming skill by age 13.

Be with Oracle or partial differential equations easier than English spelling or plumping

Actually Oracle or partial differential equations is easier than English spelling. English spelling need to memorize much more word than Oracle. English spelling now become easy because you spent a lot of time immerse in it. Be with it. Love it.

Oracle or partial differential equations is no more abstract or more difficult than plumping. Plumping is much more hard work. You just have to immerse in Oracle, spend a lot of time in it. 

Add 6 more rules

18. Work hard play hard
19. Buteyko breathing could be the missing link.
20. Plan your fun time. Refer The now habit by Neil Flohr.
21. Pretend your goal will definitely succeed.
22. Detachment.
23. Mindfulness

Karate, Oracle, Poker

Bubul 17 rules to happiness

1. Karate, Poker, Oracle,  The Dip by Seth Godin (or Deliberate Practice by Geoff Golvin).
2. Be half good guy half bad guy. Refer the Chronicles of Riddick movie. Refer Thick Face, Black Heart book.
3. It is never your fault . Refer determinism, and Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman.
4. War and forgiveness helps each other. Learn game theory, war strategy well. Learn Christianity forgiveness well.
5. To get courage and stress free don't be afraid of losing things.
6. Pretend that the big task is easy.
7. Break a big task down to simple parts.
8. Always go back to basic. Refer Kihon in Karate.
9. Vit b to get energy and muscle knot releasing by pressing the spot hard.
10. Focus on the beauty of the activity that you love doing instead of the political result. Refer the Practicing mind book.
11. Study books by scanning first, then read detailly. If dont understand read another book.
12. Learn to find good books in amazon reviews, library, rapidshare books, google books.
13. Accept both ying and yang, balance them. Refer thesis and synthesis theory by Hegel.
14. Military first then only happiness, not the other way around. Refer modern china.
15. Purpose centered, not feeling centered. Refer Morita Therapy.
16. Accept legitimate suffering. Refer the Road less traveled by Scott Peck.
17. Always have a goal and visualize a better future. Refer research of successful people set goals.

Karate and the dip: Two most important knowledge for sons

This will help them in all areas of life. Karate is to create power to deal with difficult situations, it grounds them. The dip is to understand take smaller short term pain instead of much bigger long term pain.

The other smaller two knowlegde: Poker... is knowing that bluffing is prevalent in all people interaction, and how to counter bluff. Oracle is the biggest toy and the you make money playing with it.

 

The October Manifesto

The October Manifesto Plan for the next 30 years. 8am 20 Oct 2009 in Tuas, Singapore.

The 30 years period of exploration, self centered gratification, and Iraq war is over. Today Obama won Nobel peace prize and is rebuilding America’s finance.

Aging is rapidly becoming a factor. Two boys’ university funds need to accumulate quickly. Irking out a living has been tiring.

Thus the counter strategy and the plan for the next 30 years is:

1.       Real estate.

2.       IZO 147.

3.        Purpose centered not feeling centered.

4.       Run, don’t walk – A Linux guru.

5.       Push your limits.

If my son knows only two things it will be : Karate and the Dip by Seth Godin

I always thought that if my treasure chest is lost, and the most important part can only be passed down by word of mouth what will it be? It must be short and easy to remember. It will be karate and the Dip.

Karate specifically the classical karates: Shitoryu Karate or Shotokan Karate.

The Dip is the book by Seth Godin. It means that you have to be the best to be happy, and to be the best means you have to pass through the tough time call the dip, the dip is the gateway for you to use to reach the place of bountiful resources and security. This book is available in Singapore library, or Amazon.com, and I have a pdf copy in our portable harddrive, and freedrive.com.  

Forgiveness and war are opposite polarity but both are needed

Without war and only forgiveness I will be crushed. Without forgiveness only war will be brittle. Forgiveness help me recuperate and help war to be strong.

In life, forget about all the fancy psychology or breath therapies, dont work. The basic and classical stuff like hard work, forgiveness, toughness, Christianity, samurai ethnics, karate always works. This classical stuff is in ying or yang polarity, use them both together, and you will find peace in war.

This two polarity has frequently helped, it is a practical and useful tool.

What if i change from feeling centered to purpose centered?

What will happen? This I will experiment.

Morita Therapy

I have know morita therapy for a long time. It is smiliar to my accept suffering therapy. Yesterday i have a lot of anxiety over work problem, trying different technique, then i remember that trying to control emotion using no matter what technique will only make the emotion worst, suffering anxiety is natural for this kind of job, everybody has to suffer it. I stay with my anxiety letting it be there, it subside by itself, i slept.
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morita_therapy

Morita Therapy directs one's attention receptively to what reality brings in each moment. Simple acceptance of what is, allows for active responding to what needs doing. Most therapies strive to reduce symptoms. Morita therapy, however, aims at building character to enable one to take action responsively in life regardless of symptoms, natural fears, and wishes. Character is determined by behavior, by what one does. Dogmatic patterns of collapse are replaced with the flexibility to call upon courage and empowerment. Decisions become grounded in purpose rather than influenced by the fluid flow of feelings.

In Morita Therapy, character is developed by cultivating mindfulness, knowing what is controllable and what is not controllable, and seeing what is so without attachment to expectations. Knowing what one is doing, knowing what the situation is requiring, and knowing the relationship between the two are quintessential to self-validation, effective living, and personal fulfillment. Character is developed as one moves from being feeling-centered to being purpose-centered. A feeling-centered person attends to feelings to such an extent that the concern for self-protection reigns over decisions and perceptions. Given the human condition, change, pain, and pleasure are natural experiences. Indeed, emotions are a rich type of experience and a valuable source of information. Feelings are acknowledged even when what is to be done requires not acting on them. Constructive action is no longer put on hold in order to process or cope with symptoms or feelings. The individual can focus on the full scope of the present moment as the guide for determining what needs to be done.

    Trying to control the emotional self willfully by manipulative attempts is like trying to choose a number on a thrown die or to push back the water of the Kamo River upstream. Certainly, they end up aggravating their agony and feeling unbearable pain because of their failure in manipulating the emotions.
    —Shoma Morita, M.D.

Ultimately, the successful student of Morita therapy learns to accept the internal fluctuations of thoughts and feelings and ground his behavior in reality and the purpose of the moment. Cure is not defined by the alleviation of discomfort or the attainment of some ideal feeling state (which the philosophy of this approach opposes), but by taking constructive action in one’s life which helps one to live a full and meaningful existence and not be ruled by one’s emotional state.

To win to be stressfree dont be afraid of losing

-Today i discover that i am afraid of losing, because i am afraid of losing. Because i am afraid of losing, i avoid conflict, and postmodern my mistakes over and over again, because i am afraid of losing i am fearful, stressed out and suck at poker.  That's why i cannot be a bad guy because bad guy entails risk of losing.

I have never been aware of this before, i always look down at singaporeans for being kiasu but never noticed this in myself. Since i am not aware of it i cannot correct it.

If i am not afraid of losing, immeidately i gain flexibility and relaxation and most important detachment.

-I must remember that it is never my fault. My personality and nerve is too complex near impossible by human to change; there are billions of connections like the milky way how can i change anything. So i am never blamable for my mistakes and shortcomming, and this non blaming makes me more powerful. Read the book Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman.

Karate is my art therapy and religion

Just joined Shitoryu karate club and its kata is in another dimension; total beauty dipicting life, shotokan has no match for it. Practicing karate again puts on back shape into my being.

Run without the ball

In poker late stage tournament nobody is getting any good cards, so you have to win money with bad cards, run without the ball - Steve Badger. People that runs without the ball wins the tourni.

So it is in life, you have to run without the ball sometimes to fight bad people.

How to get Oracle OCA developer

Study and play with PLSQL until you are very familiar with it.
Study PLSQL exam guide book
Study selftestsoftware, we have a copy up freedrive.com and in our family portable drive

Best oracle books reloaded

Head first SQL by Head First SQL by Lynn Beighley (F, L)

Easy Oracle SQL by John Garmany (W)

Sams Teach Yourself PLSQL In 21 days by Johnathan Gennick
Easy Oracle PL/SQL programming by John Garmany (W)

Oracle 11g for dummies (L)
Easy Oracle jumpstart by Rampant Press (W)

Oracle SQL Tuning by Dan Tow

Oracle SQL: Jumpstart with Examples by Gavin JT Powell (F,L)
Oracle Performance Tuning for 10gR2 by Gavin JT Powell (F,L)
The art and science of Oracle Performance tuning (L)

Oracle SQL high performance tuning by Guy Harrison (W)

Oracle performance tuning 101 (W)
Linux for dummies (F, L)
C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie (F)
Networking for dummies (F,L)
Game programming books (L)

How to study oracle books or any other books

First you get a intutive oracle book that you only have to read once or twice to understand the difficult concept, read my advice on what book to read. If not go to amazon and type best oracle book, read the reviews on the book. Go to google books to check review of the book. Use search engine type ""oracle book title xxxx" free book" you will usually find a copy of the book. Use search engine of singapore library to find the book. This will be your major oracle book.
Then if you have concept you dont understand in the major oracle book, read other oracle book that gives the explanation in a different way.
Then after you have masters the old master book, go find a more advance oracle book to be your master book.

The other good thing about Oracle compare to engineering - Can use forum

You can ask for technical advice in forum, and get answers quickly.

In engineering it is much more difficult because you have to beg for the answers people usually dont want to teach you.

Know how to use internet forums, it is very important.

Best self help books (1 Oct 2009)

Read the book reviews in Amazon to get an idea. Use Singapore library search engine to find the book to borrow. Read reviews of the book in the internet by type “book title review”. Look for any pirated book. We may have the book. Check if the books are up in freedrive.com, ask your mom or aunty. I am compiling the reviews and put it up facebook and freedrive and email. Cant post it in this blog for copyright reasons. Read some previews in Google books, usually it is enough to read the preview. Check our portable hard drive, probably have copies of the book. 


In order of importance:

1. The dip by Seth Godin. The market usually would require the best service. To get something you have to work very hard like in the bottom of the wave then when you reach the top of the wave everything become easy.
2. Strategic Intuition by William Duggan : This book really explains the real meaning of buddhism, Tao, and hinduism. Respond by what not you want, but what the situation demands. There is a lots of this books in Singapore libraries. And reading google book preview is enough.

Opposable mind by Roger Martin

3. Thick face black heart by Chin Nin Chu: You must be shameless and think you are perfect in whatever you did.
4. The 33 strategies of war by Robert Greene
5. The now habit by Neil Fiore
6. The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus Into Your Life by Thomas M. Sterner
7. Death March by Edward Yourdon
 
 
 

Best books beside the dip book

Strategic Intuition by William Duggan : This book really explains the real meaning of buddhism, Tao, and hinduism. Respond by what not you want, but what the situation demands. There is a lots of this books in Singapore libraries. And reading google book preview is enough.

Death March by Edward Yourdon : You will be a programmer, and this book is a must read. Read google books preview.

Opposable mind by Roger Martin : How paradoxical polarity works. Also in singapore library and google books.

The responsiblity virus by Roger Martin.

Looking at PLSQL or C codes is like looking at a forest

Don't think that you are staying at home you are missing out all the fun roaming in a forest.

Looking at PLSQL or C codes is like looking at a forest.
Everything in this universe is fractal, self similiar, like a crystal growing into more and more complex shape until it and grows into every terriotry making forest, human which is a small universe, and human being a part of the force which created the complex world created quantum mechanics, number theory maths and poetry created codes, and codes is a part of the force, a part of the forest, a part of crystals.
Being with PLSQL or C is like being in a forest.

Best books for maths and other IT beside Oracle

1)Differential Equations - by Paul Blanchard
availabe in Singapore Taopayoh library. (Differental equations is the most fun, it is like a toy.)
2)Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus, Fourth Edition (Paperback)by H. M Schey
Availabe in singapore Lee Kong Chian Reference Library. (One of the best concept orientated calculus book.)
3)Who Is Fourier?: A Mathematical Adventure by Transnational College of Lex Tokyo, Yo Sakakibara, and Alan Gleason
Available in singapore boon lay library. (This is a comic like book that make sure you understand calculus.)

Linux System Administration by Vicki Stanfield  (The best book on linux operation and concept) singapore libraries
UNIX Systems Programming by Kay A. Robbins   (Best book on detail linux programming) singapore libraries
C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie  (Everybody in the world only read this C book)
C++ without fear by Brian Overland (Probably best C book)  Get it on freedrive.com user login as your mom.
Modern Operating Systems by Andrew Tanenbaum   (Best book to read if you want to hack linux OS instead of embedded

linux).Get it from freedrive.com user login as your mom
Counter hack by  Edward Skoudis : Read this book if you want to truly understand networking and how hacking works.

Singapore library.

All books in Singapore library.
1. Linux for dummies (F, L)
2. C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie (F)
3. Networking for dummies (F,L)
4. Game programming books (L)

Why Oracle is better than the rest

Oracle can earns lots of money even with medium B+ skills. Oracle can be tweaked at home with only a cheap PC. You can be a expert by 13 years old. By Oracle is fun. Compared to;

Thereotical physics which require A+ skills to earn good living else you become a high school teacher, and there is no guarantee if you can researched anything new. There is actually a lot of dirty competition in physics.

Electronic and eletrical engineer or other engineering. Equipment is expensive cannot tweak at home. Engineering has much less tweaking than programming.

Philosophy is very hard to earn a living, you will likely become a high school teacher. Probably slightly less fun than Oracle.

Poetry you will be poor.

Poker you need to be broke for a few years, it requires above average skills.

Weiqi is hardest to make a living, you have to work more hard than Oracle or Poker.

Law you have to like language a lot, and have no problem with being a bad guy.

Game programming is very unstable companies go bankrupt and too many people like to do it making competition high.

Account mm mmmm very boring but if you like to escape tax for big bucks it probably is ok. But you cannot tweak at home.

To love something

Actually you can love any occupation once you know enough of it. For instance something like Oracle you have to be with it, to know it in and out, to have mastery of it, then you will love it. If you are not familiar with something you will feel bored with it and dont love it.

Imagine that you have one billion dollars and have done everything you want to do

Like travel around the world, eat the best sushi, live in the best houses, sleep with the most beautiful woman, win the world poker tournament, read all the books. This all dont have to take too long, maybe 3 years. Then what would you do? With all the time left.
Considering philosophy, thereotical physics, mathematics, weiqi, karate, tai chi, poker, poetry, I thought about it, I would do Oracle, I can live in the mountains and all but my mind have to have something to chew on. And programming with all its beauty, logicallness and orderliness, like a zen garden, is the place i want to be in. Weiqi is simply too taxing and gets repetitive, poker is too damn boring, philosphy maybe, karate and tai chi is too boring once mastered and how can you do karate all day?
Thus think about this question. You need to have some occupation you want to be with, you are in love with, you can tweak in your house all of the time. I suggest Oracle database. Focus on the occupation you in love with often, dont focus much on the office politics, then your life will be very fine quality as it suppose to be. Even office politics focus on your war techniques not the result like what you do at poker focus on your play not the money. Focus on what you love not the result but paradoxically move towards the result , use the dip.

Game programming will get your started

At young age you are in now, start with game programming first, use c++ or gamemaker to make some game. 3d you can use Blender to make some models. Go up to the internet and read game programming tutorials to get you started. At about 13 you can become a expert game programming. But game programming income is unstable and Oracle i think is better. I have done game programming and it is not a living thing, Oracle is because it handles large amount of data, and the complexity makes it alive.

Forget all about other spiritual path

Those buddhism, christianitylah, no ego, enlightenmentlah, samadhi, avaitar, new science, new age, whatever, dont fall into their trap it will lead you no where. Follow only karate.

Today I found the dip book and sams teach yourself plsql in 21 days

I was looking for Oracle PLSQL program units exam guide in Jurong East Regional library in Singapore and it was on loan, and i found the above two great books.

The Sams teach yourself PLSQL in 21 days by Johnathan Gennick is probably the best PLSQL book i have ever read though it is not very famous and uses oracle 8i but i cant put the book down, it step by step explanation has cleared a lot of doubts in my mind even the Rampant book Oracle PLSQL jumpstart didnt really clear. I cant put the book down.But the book is written by two authors, John is probably very good the other one probably not that good, read the reviews of Amazon.

The other book is The Dip by Seth Godin, somehow i havent spotted that it was available in singapore library. It is probably the only book i would want you Sean and Ryan to read. I might scan it to freedrive.com when i have time, it basically says you have to be the best, nobody wants average guys, people go for the best guys, but in order to be the best you have to go through a very diffcult period call the dip.

In work life there are two aspects, the political fighting aspect and the real job that you do, like Oracle. There are a lot of ugly parts in the political fighting and focusing too much on it will make your job which is suppose to be fun to be tedios. You have to fight but most of the time spent your attention on the good part of the job, liike Oracle, focus on the beauty and exploration part of Oracle. Be aware that you have to be the best, but work on the result but put your soul on the process. This is ying and yang aspect of work. Result Orientation read The Dip book by Seth Godin, is the yang aspect. The ying is process orientation by Thomas Steiner.

I just thought of the best balance of good guy bad guy character i want you sean and ryan to have. One is Riddick from the Chronical of Riddick movie. The other one is the SIngapore Goju Ryu karate national team brothers in Goju Ryu SIngapore. One brother wear specs and is a probably a engineer, have brain, but he has also gangster behavior, with karate as back up, half good half bad is the best combination.

Karate can protect you for the rest of your life.

You will never fail in life unless you quit

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Just conjore up feeling of happiness - excitement

The closest feeling of happiness is excitement in my opion - like you about to visit a shopping mall when you were six.

This feeling is long forgotten by me, today i artificially conjore the feeling, and it feels good, my body and mind immediately activates. No need for any conditon, just pretend you are excited.

Why karate is so beneficial to character development

Especially shotokan and shitoryu karate:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAYotDoM8uA&feature=related

The only way to happiness : deliberate practice

Nature, life, evolution is always pushing to a higher complex system. The higher complex system is more rewarded with energy or money. God is actually another word for life. Some how in this universe, things exists, from nothing to atom to human life to advance mathematics and weiqi joseki, structure is pushing itself to be more and more complex, this mysterious force is called god. Happinesss is a signal that you are following evolution who wants you to be more and more advance.

IF you only remember one thing i want you to remember deliberate practice. Practice the things that is hard that few people can do. Hard work, diligence, perserverence. The masters need 10,000 hours average to be good at what they do.

This link here is about deliberate practice which i also saved up to free drive:http://money.cnn.com/2008/10/21/magazines/fortune/talent_colvin.fortune/index.htm

this two books which i gonna get explains everything.
talent is overate by geoff covin
the dip by seth godin

Detach from your emotion

Probably the only anti stress technique that may work. Comparing against open focus brain techniques.

Open focus brain by Les Fehmi

Yesterday I found the Open Focus Brain by Les Fehmi book in popolar book store.

I think it explains how all the meditation and therapy including talk therapy works. The brain need to have a diffuse and broad attention in order to go into parasympathetic mood. Also focusing on space, large space works very well because in space the brain does not have an object to activate all its defense and attack circuit, so the brain takes a back seat. This explains why i so much want to live in a desert and why in my meditation looking at the emptiness in front of my eyes and myself being infinit space is so effective.

The book could potentially cure all my stress problems.

Deliberate practice, karate, poker, Oracle

If my sons use deliberate practice to perfect karate, poker, and Oracle. They would have learned all that is necessary to be happy in life.

Break a big task down to simple parts & do things one at a time

The other 50% of your problem is non people related, it is object related.

Hence the above only technique that works.

Poker is the most important practice

Forget about all those mindfulness and positive thinking and ying yang mumbo jumbo. 50% of your problems is due to other people. The only way to solve the problems is using poker game theory thinking.

When you deal with difficult people, there is a lot of times you need to play the chicken game, see who back down first. You need to be willing to take risk and not afraid of losing. Only then people would not bully you. Most of the time the cost of both sides losing the chicken game is much less than the psychological cost of backing down from the chicken game where the bully continue bullying you long term.

Another poker skill that can be applied to life is detach from your emotion. Dont need to detach from thinking, all else you gonna think? Detach from your emotion and let thinking continue.

You need courage to fight with other people. Strong muscles builds up courage. Thus you need to learn karate or do weight lifting. If you practice only weight lifting, it would be deadlift, totally addictive.

Read everything this guy have to say

http://forrestchurch.com/writings/sermons/selfconsciousness-opposite.html

My favorite Oracle book

My favorite Oracle book

Very lucid explanation.

The art and science of Oracle performance tuning by Christopher Lawson

Whenever i felt the peace beyond understanding i am not afraid to die

Now after finding tai chi and oracle. I want to bring up you two Sean and Ryan. I want to show you the way of Karate, Oracle, Weiqi, Poker, and Tai Chi.

Tao and limited consciousness bandwidth

Our consciousness, will, have very limited bandwidth. There are billions neuro chaos activity inside our brain, billions of connections like the connection, it is impossible for our consciousness to monitor and control all this neuros, just try to troubleshoot a microchip million times simpler than our brain. So there is 99% behavior and feelings we cannot control. Our consciousness is like the president of a country he can give general direction but cannot control 99% of the things; Chaos system fractal theory.

Outside objects, other people, we cannot control much of their behavior also.

But since we were little until now, we have the illusion that we are all powerful, our consciousness can control, know and predict everything, this leads to mis estimation of the world around us and we make bad judgement and decisions. From playing poker and weiqi and war you know that you can only win if you estimate the situation correctly.

Remember limitation.

Many things you cannot control, you will make "mistakes", it is never your fault. Study the book Learned Optimism by Martin Seligman that says never blame yourself. Never self hate. Self hatred is due to illusion.

But sometimes self hate is good. Remember paradox polarity and Tai chi.

Lao Tze tao theory says follow the tao, this means that you have to follow reality not pretend it is otherwise than what it is, let go of your illusions of all power, know your limitations. Then following the tao you will not do the wrong thing and lead to defeat and suffering.

At day time you have to fight life forget the tao so you could make your dream come true, at night follow the tao and forgive your mistake and rest.

Tao is a war theory.

Use endorphine with night and day cycles

All spiritual practice including asceticism, self torture, no ego, samadhi, enlightenment, is actually getting endorphin in the brain.

However endorphine in the brain cannot be maintained, there will always be a crash after the high.

But there is a higher level discovered by zen and tao and Kalil Gibran.

Know that there is cycles for all system, night and day always replace eachother. Know that whenever you are unhappy, happiness will be in the corner and come to you. Enjoy both the sessions of happiness and unhappiness. Dont always cling to happiness, unhappiness is a burst of creativity and building.

Shiko Dachi rules

Centers me.

Make my gyaku lunging extremely stable and easy.

What is karate

Karate is not sport or game
Karate is not philosophy
Karate is
to knock my opponent out due to use of One Finishing Blow

- Mikio Yahara

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWrA4AI5jfw&feature=related

I found permanent bliss: My life before meeting Oracle

12, 13 years old i wanted to unify quantum theory and relativity. I wanted to become a physicist badly. But there is no physics or calculus books around. Only one physic chemistry book which is too deep for me.

15,16. my only concept of IT is watching a movie about a AI who lives in the internet that can get money on ATM wow.

17,18 Concept of IT is it is for girls. And programming is only programming for accounting programs and calculating, totally boring. Encountered buddhist and began my 15 years great search for enlightenment. This search may me lost my knowledge of the joy of hacking for computer or engineering or physics knowledge. Made my collegue results bad and ruin my finance until now. But is probably a healing process.

19 discover weiqi but not very good.

27 Read my book on python and c++

29 Got a book on linux hacking but too difficult for me. Still no much interst in IT.

30-34 The great leap in game programming and poker and poetry. But game programming no money.

36 The great leap in philosophy, quantum thoery, partial differential equations, fluid mechanics, computational fluid mechanics, embedded linux

37 Found youtube go game analysis by Korean 5p woman players. Found go books of what his name richard brozulich. My go lept.

36 Feb - 37 Found Oracle. Oracle much better than game programming is a living thing. I can tune it, interact with it, my life search is over. I found the constant bliss enlightenment is talking about.

Feel your feeling

Whenever you feel upset, just feel your feeling. Restore your balance back fast. It is actually a ying dont care technique. You already dont care, then just feel your feeling, you dont care anyway.

Be paradoxical but dont tell anyone then you will rise above everyone

The sure fire must work simple and stupid method to success

-everything at first you dont get use, you will have suffering. But after a while due to the brain plasticity, you will get use to it and even conquer the situation. So whenever you are trying to achieve you will be in new situation, and always suffering will arise, just bear with it and the suffering will stop and money will come and your power will increase. Always get your technical skill and knowledge and suffer hard, dont suffer less now and end up becoming a poor old waiter. Remind yourself by looking at he poor old people in singapore. The greatest pleasure in this world is hacking.


So have a big goal, go get it, bear the suffering along the way before you get use to your success, enjoy the fruits of your success

Always remember limite resources

-limited resources and forgiveness is a war system: Always remember there is limited resources. We tend to think that
resources are unfinishable. But no, in this universe there is limited resouces, dont believe the new age gurus. Or else why
you need to sleep or die? Because there is limited resources remember to focus on your energy on one area that matters most. Always remember limited resources so you will be focus. Forgivess is actually a war tactic, saving your resources.

The greatest pleasure in this world is hacking, hack oracle, hack weiqi, hack karate

insights

-how to think over people matters, just use game theory.
-sean ryan become programmer, it is spiritual practice, the joy of making a elegant code
-garlic seem to stabilize my emotion
-warring n game teory
-the accounting mindset: You never lose in any situation, one part lost is compensated by another part. When you feel bullied,
think of the overall situation you will usually have profited in some areas.
-need a distraction or hobby or love or go so mind will not be eaten by flashback. When there is no outer enemy, a group of
people will usually start fighting among themselve. Start mind like ours will carnalize itself if there is no abstract object to
attack, like Oracle, WeiQi, quantum theory, karate..
-neuronal avalanche, in order to think effectively, the brain need to start a avalanche of neurons, that is why smart people tend to have tendency for shizophenia and thin skin. so we need to balance with karate. smartness gives us an edge but it has a (worth it) small price of flash backs and stuff.
-bear the fruits of you success but with a cost of suffering. Every profit has some cost, but overall the profit outweight the cost. So bear your suffering.
-nature rewards higher abstraction, the higher and more complicated and more abstract your work is, the happier you are and the more money you make
- the strange loop book, the avalanch article
-karate pulls down the abstraction, so you will be more balance yet maintaining the abstraction but with a thicker skin.
-limited resources and forgiveness is a war system
-kokoro go.
-paradoxical relaxation when fed up with work
-work hard play hard system, the pizza billionaire
-work hard but dont care about the result, paradoxical system, people will fear you
-limited resource is a important principal, easy work will always have less money, less money is less happiness because there is no money buffer for chaos
-ying and yang dialectic, just be, go the opposite direction-
-oracle you are actually a private business selling your skills just like other sell soya bean milk
-only when relax so your punch will be powerful
-ten rules of strategy book, i forgot the title please refer back to my old treasure chest, nice book.
-life is always about getting pleasure even for the altruist and the nihilist. The goal of evolution is make a life in abstraction that doesnt exist in matter. Thus you have to achieve maximum performance that produce the most complex work and beautiful work, like crystal.
-keep it simple, stupid.

Only with complete relaxation and detachment a most powerful punch can be released

Becoming a bad guy is arming yourself with weapons and putting on a power suit.

Whenever you feel bullied, and feel anger, this is because you are over leaning to become a good guy, always put on your bad guy attitude, you can feel an immediate shift. It is like arming yourself iwth weapons and a armor suit.

Eat vit b. But vit b tense up the muscle and you might shoulder ache. Then use your fingers to press all over around your neck, shoulder, scalp, until you find a painful or hard spot. Press on that spot hard so that the muscle will relax under the pressure. This is call muscle knot releasing.

Work hard to have high technology is very important

Oracle is high tech, karate is high tech, Weiqi is high tech.

Having high tech is like having a long stick to poke at a ant. You can poke at the ant whenever you want, the ant cannot reach you at all. That stick is technology.

Like american tanks shooting at iraq tanks during the war, american tanks can shoot much long range whenever they want, iraq shell cannot reach america at all.

Damper and when to be ying or yang

When you strive to be the best in what you do like Oracle. This is your so call gain adjustment in control theory.

There will be other factors coming to hinder you, like office politics, family. If your gain is high, you will naturally be affected by the factors. Thus you must also have a damper installed. Think of the negativities as a minor unfortunate aspect of life that must come with success but dont think of it as unacceptable. Use a shrug. Forget about the small stuff, focus on the big stuff.

In every aspect of life, if you want to get something, you have to sacrifice some other areas. The thing is sacrifice the small thing but gain the big things in the meaning of life.

When to use damp, when to use gain. When to be bad guy when to be good guy? Usually yang in the daytime, and then ying in the nightime. Everything is fractal, then usually following our earth night and day time would be right.

When in daytime you are 80% yang and leave 20% ying so you would be balance. Nighttime vice versa.

Oracle is the only high paid job that is being described as mystical

Not engineering, medicine, lawyer, etc, Only Oracle. A DBA said that person to do Oracle must be a bit mystical.

A good game theory book

Thinking strategically: The competitive edge in business, politics, and everyday life by Avinash Dixit
"CONTENTS: Professors Avinash Dixit and Barry Nalebuff begin the book with explanation of sequential-move games governed by the principle `look ahead and reason back'. Then simultaneous-move games are introduced by means of prisoners' dilemma, the situation when by playing their dominant strategies (thus theoretically maximizing their payoff) both sides get the outcome that is jointly worse than if they followed the strategies of minimizing their payoff. The paradox lies in interdependency of sides' outcomes. To resolve the problem the competitors have to cooperate i.e. follow their less desired strategies. Temptation to brake rules unilaterally is very strong, to make it worse you cannot control your opponent's move in the game. The rule `look ahead and reason back' does not work either. But one can manage this.

To tackle the problem strategists transform simultaneous-move games into sequential-move games. That is where the notion of strategic move comes into play. Strategic move is an action designed to alter beliefs and actions of others in a direction favorable to yourself. Strategic move will purposely limit your freedom but in return it will limit your opponent's freedom. Threats and promises are examples of strategic moves that are widely used. Another example of strategic move explained in the book, brinkmanship, consists in creating and maintaining risk of mutually bad outcome. Unlike the compelling threat, brinkmanship does not secure bad outcome, it does not even tell when it may occur. It is left to your opponent to guess at any point in the game if you are on the brink of disaster. By defying yourself an opportunity to influence the situation and making your opponent understand that he is the only capable to resolve the conflict you induce him to compromise.

Then it comes to multi-person games where interdependence is so complex that the outcome seems absolutely unpredictable. Voting is an example of an imperfect system that cannot aggregate up individuals' preferences into a will of the people. The authors show how result of voting depends on the scheme of voting that gives way for manipulation.

When discussing bargaining the authors explore how different schemes of bargaining change sides' power and affect the result. Time is money for both sides but it is likely that they discount future at different rates thus one side gets competitive edge. Simultaneous bargaining can open up possibility for mutually beneficial trade-off, especially when sides value items differently.

OVERALL: The book is well structured and written in an easy-to-understand language, though in some cases it shows contradictions and some explanations seem oversimplified. It is rich in examples and offers cases from different spheres of life. This book instills mathematical approach to problems without going deep into mathematics. So the book will not put off `mathematically disadvantaged' readers. Even in case this book is the only you read on strategy, you will acquire knowledge that is indispensable nowadays. The book changed my perception of conflicts, games and bargaining.

The most accurate theory of soul to date

I am a strange loop by Douglas Hofstadter
Available in singapore library, great book

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The goal of life

If life has no meaning like the story of a greek god who was cursed to for eternity to always push up a rock which always fall down, then it is wrong, because the story has no beutiful woman in it which is inconsistent with life. If you say that woman will eventually get boring then have you got the most beautiful woman yet? If yes then the story has no weiqi or oracle or karate in it. If you say weiqi is boring, then have you crack the pattern deeply and enjoy the trill of defeating everyone? Have you become godlike in weiqi yet? Have you found truth of life in weiqi, or karate, or oracle? Have you found that peace that surpass understanding? Do you know that weiqi contain the waves of a sea, the leaves of a tree, like crystsls? Have u know something so well until you perfection and control of the world? Do you know why some people stay in there room all year onlr studying weiqi or quantum theory, this is becoz they found immense beauty in weiqi. There is self simularity call fractalness in this world where large and small different system has roughly the same structure. For instance in a country there is military ministry, finance ministry, etc, a smaller would have the engineering dept n account dept etc, a individual has the same sector also. You would discover that weiqi, karate, Oracle, Quantum theory,War, n life would have a lot of simularity also.

You need to have a goal in life, 99% likely the goal is to perfect a skill to godlike level until you are the skill like Oracle, weiqi, or karate. Perfecting skill is inline with what evolution wants you to do. Evolution made you and the universe and it wants you to keep on improving, if you go against this, you will be in trouble.

What is evolution, how come things exist in this universe. For things to exist there must be hooks for small components to group together. You see that there is atom, and germs, and cats, and humans, higher and higher organization, the universe is trying to push the orgranization to be more and more complex and beautiful like cyrstal forming. Evolution has the same force as existence. The things human build like Oracle, karate and weiqi is actually the same force as evolution. Evolution is actually god. Evolution is slowly evolving into the realm of non material.

Work hard to get much bigger reward in future instead of lazy to get small reward now

It is easy to think that idleness is more rewarding than hard work, especially when you are young. Then just go to see a old waiter working, he lives in a small room with debt, no money to buy food or books to enjoy life. If he get sick, he might just die because he cant py for medical fee. People look down at him. He got to be this way because he has no skill that society wants to give a lot of money for. Getting skill like Oracle or quantum theory you need to immerse in it, work hard in, but working hard doesn't mean it is not immensely enjoyable. Learning Oracle is no different with ABC, you dont need fancy technique, just immerse youtself in it day in day out, after a while it will naturally be a part of you,.Do you need to think now when you spell cat, so you would tune Oracle without thinking.

You have to focus your resources into doing one thing that is complicated, need to read 600 pages books to learn,few people can learn it, have high salary then you get reard from life. When other children are playing you are studying, dont think that you are sacrificing because oracle is much more fun than xbox, also the other children will suffer much much more later as waiter without money.

Dont believe all the monks and gurus especially buddhist n hindus saying that money is not important to hppiness n u only need to sit in a cave, i been down to that path and it dont work.Most gurus has a lot of scandal wiith woman just look up the internet n embezzle money. I can sink into samadhi easily but it gets very boring, its effect is much less than weiqi or oracle.

First your military have to be strong

China was a good country, never invaded other people, just minding her business and be happy. Then the western countries and japan invaded her.

china turned into communism, and first thing Mao Tse Tung want was build up her military first no matter what, then only economy. After china got the atom bomb only china began building up her economy.

North korea is doing the same thing.

To build up your military you have to have high tech. And Oracle is high tech. You have to have fighting spirit, and karate is fighting spirit. You have to have a hobby to stand up all the stress, and Wei Qi is the best hobby beating women, known as the wooden fox temptress.