What makes Chinese-CHINESE?

Please check the list to see how Chinese you or your friends really are:

There are 29 ways to know if you're Chinese. You will laugh at yourself when you read all of them.

1. You unwrap gifts very carefully, so you can save and reuse the wrapping
(and especially those ribbons).

2. When there is a sale on toilet paper, you buy 100 rolls and store them in your closet or in the bedroom of an adult child who has move out.

3. You keep a Thermos of hot water available at all times.

4. You save grocery bags, tin foil, and tin containers. You use the grocery bags to hold garbage.

5. You hate to waste food:

(a) Even if you're totally full, if someone says they're going to throw away the leftovers on the table, you'll finish them. (Your mom will give a lecture about starving kids in Africa ).
(b) You have Tupperware in your fridge with three bites of rice or one leftover chicken wing.

6. You don't own any real Tupperware- only a cupboard full of used but
carefully rinsed margarine tubs, take out containers, and jam jars.

7. You have a collection of miniature shampoo bottles that you take every
time you stay in a hotel.

8. You wipe your plate and utensils or wash them in a small basin of hot
water before you eat every time you go to a restaurant.

9 . You own a rice cooker and a slow cooker

10. You wash your rice at least 2-3 times before cooking it.

11. You fight (literally) over who pays the dinner bill.

12. You have a teacup with a cover on it.

13. If you're under age 20, you own a really expensive walkman if you're
over 20, you own a really expensive camera.

14. You're a wok user.

15. You only make long distance calls after 7pm.

16. You prefer your shrimp with the heads and legs still attached-it,
means they're fresh.

17. You never call your parents just to say, ' Hi. '

18. If you don't live at home, when your parents call, they'll ask if you've eaten, even if it's midnight.

19. Your parents tell you to boil herbs and stay indoors when you get
sick. They also tell you not to eat fried foods or baked foods because
such food are ' heaty' (yeet hey in Cantonese).

20. You e-mail your Chinese friends at work, even though you only sit 10 feet apart.

21. You always cook too much.

22. You eat every last grain of rice in your bowl, but don't eat the last
piece of food on the table.

23. You starve yourself before going to ' All You Can Eat ' buffet.

24. You know someone who can get you a good deal on jewelry or
electronics, computers.

25 . You own your own meat cleaver and sharpen it.

26. Your toothpaste tubes are all squeezed paper-thin.

27. You call a sausage a hotdog.

28. You wrap with napkins all the knives, spoons and forks of the airline that you fly on and put in your travel-bag as souvenirs

29. You never forget to take with you all the unused bath and facial tissues when you check out from the hotel because you believe that you have paid its all.

Now that you have read the lot, are they mostly true? Will you take this
message and forward it to all your Chinese friends, because you will
always be proud that you're indeed a great Chinese...

NASA proves that the BIBLE is True‏

For all you scientists out there and for all the students who have had a hard time convincing these people regarding the truth of the Bible here's something that illustrates God's awesome creation and shows He is still in control.

Did you know that NASA's space programmers are busy proving that was has been called 'myth' in the Bible is true? Mr. Harold Hill, President of the Curtis Engine Company in Baltimore, and a consultant in the space programmes, relates the following incident:

One of the most amazing things that God has for us today happened recently to our astronauts and space scientists at Green Belt, Maryland. They were checking out the positions of the sun, moon and planets out in space where they would be 100, and 1000 years from now. We have to know this as we do not want a satellite to collide with any of these in its orbits. We have to lay out the orbits in terms of the life of the satellite and where the planets will be so the whole project will not bog down.
Computer measurements and data were run back and forth over the centuries when suddenly it came to a halt, displaying a red signal, which meant that either there was something wrong with the information fed into it or with the results as compared to the standards. They called in the service department to check it out, and the technicians asked what was wrong. The scientists had discovered that somewhere in space in elapsed time a day was missing. Nobody seemed able to come up with a solution to the problem.
Finally one of the team, a Christian, said:"You know, when I was still in Sunday School, they spoke about the sun standing still......." While his colleagues didn't believe him, they did not have an answer either, so they said: "Show us."He got a Bible and opened it at the book of Joshua where they found a pretty ridiculous statement for any one with 'common sense'. There they read about the Lord saying to Joshua:
"Fear them not, I have delivered them into thy hand; there shall not be a man of them stands before thee." (Joshua 10:8).
Joshua was concerned because the enemy had surrounded him, and if darkness fell, they would overpower him. So Joshua asked the Lord to make the sun stand still! That's right - "And the sun stood still and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is this not written in the book of Ja'-sher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven and hastened not to go down about a wholeday." (Joshua 10:13).

The astronauts and scientists said:"There is the missing day!" They checked the computers going back into the time it was written and found it, but it was not close enough. The elapsed time that was missing back in Joshua's day was 23 hours and 20 minutes - not a whole day.

They read the Bible again and there it was: "about (approximately) a day."These little words in the Bible were important, but they were still in trouble, because another 40 minutes were still unaccounted for, and this could mean trouble 1000 years from now. Forty minutes had to be found because it can be multiplied many times over in orbits.

As the Christian employee thought about it, he remembered somewhere in the Bible which said the sun went backwards. The scientists told him he was out of his mind, but once again they opened the Book and read these words in 2 Kings. Hezekiah, on his deathbed, was visited by the prophet, Isaiah, who told him he was not going to die. Hezekiah asked for some sign as proof. Isaiah said: "Shall the sun go forward ten degrees, or go back ten degrees?" And Hezekiah answered: "It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees; nay, but let the shadow return backwards ten degrees."
And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord, and He brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz."
(2Kings 20:9 * 11).

Ten degrees is exactly 40 minutes! Twenty-three hours and twenty minutes in Joshua, plus 40 minutes in 2 Kings accounted for the missing day in the universe!
Isn't this amazing? Our God is rubbing their noses in His Truth!
Forward this to as many people who would think this is equally
astounding.

Truth that we cannot live without:
- No one can please God without faith, for whoever comes to God must have faith that God
exists and rewards those who seek Him (Hebrews 11:6).
- If you confess that Jesus is Lord and believe that God raised Him from death, you will be
saved. For it is by our faith that we are put right with God; it is by our confession that
we are saved (Romans 10:9-10).
- For it is by God's grace that you have been saved through faith. It is not the result of
your own efforts, but God's gift, so that no one can boast about it. God has made us what we
are, and in our union with Christ Jesus He has created us for a life of good deeds, which He
has already prepared for us to do (Ephesians 2:8-10).

睡個好覺的10種方法

1.不要仰睡：
避免手放在胸部，壓迫心肺，而且仰臥時舌根部往後墜縮，影響呼吸，容易發出鼾聲。

2.不要睡前思緒萬千：
宋代蔡季通〈睡訣〉中說：「早晚以時，先睡心，後睡眼」。現代研究約80%的失眠是精神疾病所造成。換句話說睡前不要讀理科的東西！

3.不要說話：
孔子雲：「食不言，寢不語」，睡前嘮叨不絕會使思緒興奮，不得安寧，因而影響入睡。

4.不要開燈：
中國傳統醫學認為，從寤入寐，進入睡眠狀態，是個引陽入陰的過程。醒時屬陽，睡時屬陰，光亮屬陽，黑暗屬陰。而西方醫學也報導，晚上睡覺開燈會影響智力發展，所以最好養成晚上睡覺關燈習慣。

5.不要蒙面睡：
因為睡覺時用被子蒙住頭面，會使人吸入大量的二氧化碳，發生呼吸困難。

6.不要吹風而睡：
古書記載：當風「恐患頭風，背受風則嗽，肩受風則臂疼，善調攝者，雖盛暑不可當風及坐臥露下。」現代生活中的電風扇，在睡眠中亦當小心，因為人在睡眠中，生理機能較低，抵抗力較弱。

7.不要飲酒飽食：
古人認為「胃不和則臥不安」，現代則認為睡前三小時不進食，可使胃部獲得充份休息，一杯熱牛奶可免因飢餓而睡不好。喝少量的酒，則可以鬆弛減少緊張。

8.不要張口呼吸：
古代藥王孫思邈說：「夜臥常習閉口」因為張口呼吸，空氣未經鼻腔「預熱」、「過濾」處理，容易引起咽乾咳嗽或其它感染。

9.不要睡中憋尿：
憋尿忍便對人體均有害處，也會影響睡眠。

10.不要貪睡懶覺：
中國的早有「早睡早起,久臥傷氣」的告誡，故而睡眠應以醒為度，睡懶覺對人體是有害的。

Optimistic Quotes A-Z by Author

God didn't have time to make a nobody, only a somebody.I believe that each of us has God-given talents within us waiting to be brought to fruition.
Mary Kay Ash - Belief - Optimistic - Motivational

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise.
Mary Kay Ash - Optimistic - Leadership

Positive things happen to positive people.
Sarah Beeny - Positive - Optimistic

We're going to try and recruit the very best people we can and produce the best papers we can, and publish them to the highest standards we can.
Conrad Black - Ambition - Optimistic

I am what I am and, you know, I'm a very lucky guy.
Michael Bloomberg - Luck - Optimistic

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.
Michael Bloomberg - Optimistic - Politicians - Success - Change - Job - Challenges

I found that in prison that I had more time to read the Bible, I had more time to contemplate life, and more time to look upon my fellow man. And I worked very hard during the period in there to help other people in the same situation. And I think that even in the most dastardly people, there is a goodness there, and you've got to find that goodness.
Alan Bond - Life - Optimistic

People who have drawn wealth into their lives used The Secret, whether consciously or unconsciously. They think thoughts of abundance and wealth, and they do allow any contradictory thoughts to take root in their minds.
Rhonda Byrne - Wealth - Thinking - Mind - Optimistic

Trust the Universe. Trust and believe and have faith. I truly had no idea how I was going to bring the knowledge of The Secret onto the movie screen. I just held to the outcome of the vision, I saw the outcome clearly in my mind, I felt it with all my might, and everything that we needed to create The Secret came to us.
Rhonda Byrne - Trust - Belief - Faith - Mind - Optimistic - Create - Self Help

When you live your life with an appreciation of coincidences and their meanings, you connect with the underlying field of infinite possibilities.
Deepak Chopra - Life - Optimistic

Miracles happen every day. Not just in remote country villages or at holy sites halfway across the globe, but here, in our own lives.
Deepak Chopra - Life - Inspirational - Optimistic

The way you think, the way you behave, the way you eat, can influence your life by 30 to 50 years. Most people believe that aging is universal but there are biological organisms that never age.
Deepak Chopra - Thinking - Optimistic - Life - Belief

To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle.
Walter Chrysler - Inspirational - Miracles - Optimistic

The challenge is to practice politics as the art of making what appears to be impossible, possible.
Hillary Rodham Clinton - Challenges - Politicians - Optimistic

I think Virgin Blue is still a very promising and exciting business. Now, I know that's not a view that's widely held in the market but I think the market is simply throwing it into the too-hard basket at the present time because of the oil price events. But we think it is still a very exciting business.
Chris Corrigan - Business - Optimistic - Stock Market - Challenges

We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must.
Jim Cramer - Stock Market - Wrong - Optimistic

Whatever qualities the rich may have, they can be acquired by anyone with the tenacity to become rich. The key, I think, is confidence. Confidence and an unshakable belief it can be done and that you are the one to do it.
Felix Dennis - Rich - Optimistic - Positive - Confidence - Determination - Motivational - Belief

If you're brilliant and open-minded, you can start at the top.
Uri Geller - Best - Optimistic

Leaders need to be optimists. Their vision is beyond the present.
Rudy Giuliani - Goals - Leadership - Optimistic

Every individual’s purpose in tithing is to open up his/her awareness of universal laws. Tithing opens you, to you. You are an unlimited individual, deprived of a fuller, richer life partly because of lack of the tithing experience and expression in life.
Mark Victor Hansen - Philanthropy - Life - Optimistic

Miracles never cease to amaze me. I expect them, but their consistent arrival is always delightful to experience.
Mark Victor Hansen - Inspirational - Optimistic

I dreamed impossible dreams. And the dreams turned out beyond anything I could possibly imagine. You know, from my point of view, I'm the luckiest cat on the planet.
Hugh Hefner - Lucky - Dreams - Optimistic

You stay in touch with the boy who dreamed impossible dreams.
Hugh Hefner - Dreams - Optimistic

Well I DO want to go up into space, but more than that, I'm dissatisfied with the fact that humans have only gone to the moon. I want to go to Mars! I want to eventually go beyond the solar system!
Takafumi Horie - Ambition - Optimistic

It is a mistake always to contemplate the good and ignore the evil, because by making people neglectful it lets in disaster. There is a dangerous optimism of ignorance and indifference.
Helen Keller - Challenges - People - Mistakes - Optimistic

If I regarded my life from the point of view of the pessimist, I should be undone. I should seek in vain for the light that does not visit my eyes and the music that does not ring in my ears. I should beg night and day and never be satisfied. I should sit apart in awful solitude, a prey to fear and despair. But since I consider it a duty to myself and to others to be happy, I escape a misery worse than any physical deprivation.
Helen Keller - Life - Encouragement - Happiness - Challenges - Optimistic

We would accomplish many more things if we did not think of them as impossible.
Vince Lombardi - Optimistic - Achievement - Thinking

It's easy to have faith in yourself and have discipline when you're a winner, when you're number one. What you've got to have is faith and discipline when you're not yet a winner.
Vince Lombardi - Winning - Determination - Goals - Optimistic - Commitment - Discipline

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.
John Madden - Winning - Self Help - Optimistic

Turks have a dismissive phrase: he works like a clerk. I have turned this insult around: I am proud to say that I work like a clerk.
Orhan Pamuk - Work - Optimistic

You don't have to be the biggest to beat the biggest.
Ross Perot - Motivational - Optimistic -

I think earning money is the simplest thing in the world once you learn how to do it. It’s like driving a car. It’s simple if you know how to do it.
Bob Proctor - Earnings - Money - Learning - Optimistic

When I lose my marbles which is never, when I lose my energy, I travel the world today for Viacom, China, Turkey, Dubai, Kuwait. When that happens, I'll know enough to retire, but that's never gonna happen. I'm here for forever.
Sumner Redstone - Retirement - Optimistic - Hard Work

I found that when you start thinking and saying what you really want then your mind automatically shifts and pulls you in that direction. And sometimes it can be that simple, just a little twist in vocabulary that illustrates your attitude and philosophy.
Jim Rohn - Optimistic - Thinking

An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful sculpture. An enterprising person is one who drives through an old decrepit part of town and sees a new housing development. An enterprising person is one who sees opportunity in all areas of life.
Jim Rohn - Optimistic - Innovation - Business Opportunity - Life

Anything's possible if you've got enough nerve.
J. K. Rowling - Optimistic - Courage

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.
Albert Schweitzer - Optimist - Pessimistic - Wisdom

It's like my mother says: I have a gift of the words. Maybe I'm charming. But it is a gift. I have seven brothers, and they're introverts. I'm an extrovert. I love people.
Mr T - Optimistic - Confidence

The rich get richer. Not only because they have surpluses with which to invest, but because of the overriding emotional release they experience from having wealth.
Stuart Wilde - Rich - Investing - Optimistic

I was born to teach. I have always had this gift with children.
Steve Wozniak - Teaching - Optimistic

One day our grandchildren will go to museums to see what poverty was like.
Muhammad Yunus - Poverty - Optimistic

Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.
Muhammad Yunus - Optimistic - Encouragement - Motivational - Potential



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