Little doctor lake

"Preparation no more spoils the chance for spontaneity and serendipity than discipline ruins the opportunity for genuine self-expression in sports, acting, or the tea ceremony."

When can I start my exploring! I wish I can fly out to the little doctor lake right now.

Henry David Thoreau

My greatest skill has been to want little - Henry David Thoreau, Walden


Although Henry David Thoreau never traveled very far outside of New England, he promoted an uncommon view of wealth that is essential to vagabonding. Considering all material possessions beyond basic necessities to be an obstacle to true living, he espouses the idea that wealth is found not in what you own but in how you spend your time. " A man is rich." he wrote in Walden, " in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."

Born in Concord. Massachusetts. in 1817. Thoreau trained as an engineer at Harvard. although he never could pinpoint his true profession. At various times, he called himself a schoolteacher, a surveyor, a farmer, a house painter, a pencil maker, a writer, and "sometimes a poetaster." It is as a writer that he is best remembered - particularly for his book Walden, the vivid account of his one-year experiment in antimaterialist living.

At Walden Pond, Thoreau lived in such a way that he only had to work six weeks a year: eating vegetables from his garden and fish from the pond; living in a " tight, light, and clean house" that he built himself; avoiding unnecessary expenses, including fresh meat, fancy clothes, and coffee.This left him with ample time to indulge in the things he loved best: reading, writing, walking , thinking, and observing nature.

In this way - through simplicity - Thoreau was able to find true wealth. " Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only," he wrote. "Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul."


I found his thinking greatly resemble mine. It is amazing to discover there are actually so many people out there have the same doubt as me and look at life and money with similar attitude. But I guess this kind of attitude will not be a big boost to the now depressing economy under such a consumer culture. But what is the meaning of so call economy if it is all based on a false logical foundation? It will not and will never be a sustainable and a logical structure in my opinion. Like a business with no passion or a romantic relationship based on pure money and sex appeal, it is just not meant to last for the cruel reality of natural law of development and revolution will crash them fiercely. ( My limitation of English vocabulary is limiting my ability to express my true thoughts )

Thank you for the flower and cake

A ghost full of doubts traveling in the tunnel of time.





I got flowers from a few friends and a very nice birthday cake made by Anna's bakery, my favor place.

I am happy. Thank you to my dear friends.

There is only one small problem. I don't have any container that is big enough for the flowers but my bathtub.

7th March My Birthday!

I got flowers for my birthday. I put them in front of my apartment window. They make the whole room smell like heaven...

Happy Birthday to me : )

Joining the navigation class on the 8th April

I am joining a ocean navigation course on Granville Island April and then I will learn how to sail 1 weeks later.

Sunday joining Sandra to a dance class.

Meeting Jill from circle learning 11th march and Keith 10th. Take the Project Management one day course with Jill May.

Travel July and May. See what happen with all this freelancing thing. I might get a laptop soon.

Back to work after this summer and work on my portfolio and upgrade my skill with all these new techs during my travel around BC.

I miss them

I really miss them. I wonder how are they doing now? Next time I saw Fu's picture. She look a bit sad.

I wish one day I can see them again in Beijing. And I wish I had try harder to get to know them while I could.

Now I might never be able to meet them again.

Join me to the NorthWest Territory

Anyone here want to go see the northwest territory with me around July?

I originally planed to go by myself all the way up the Dempster Highway....but I am having a second thought..... Anyone want to go? ( no nasty pervert men please ! )

Why do I feel like talking to myself? Who will read this website anyway!


I am joining my friend to a 7 sections long dance class...can't wait to see myself looking funny shaking my ass and try to look sexy.

I still wouldn't let go of what happened. I am still in pain. Hopefully dancing can help me to forget.

By Michael E. Gerber

Got some interesting thoughts from one of the books I am reading call( The EMyth). I wish I can one day really talk to these authors, but then I guess if I really meet them in person, I might get very disappointed and discover that they are just another group of stuck-ups. I guess you can be the greatest person talking on stage and your book, but there is no guarantee that this person is not just another asshole in real life.

But anyway, good enough for now that he has something logical to say. Let me just imagine that he is really this wonderful person portraited in his book.

It surprise me how cynical I am.


From EMyth:

You must ask yourself these questions: What do I value most? What kind of life do I want? What do I want my life to look like, to feel like? Who do I wish to be?

Your primary aim is the answer to all these questions.

If you were to write a script for the tape to be played for the mourners at your funeral, how would you like it to read?

That is your Primary Aim.

And once you've created the script, all you need to do is make it come true.

All you need to do is begin living your life as if it were important.

All you need to do is take your life seriously.

To create it intentionally.

To actively make your life into the life you wish it to be.

Simple? Yes.
Easy? No.

But absolutely essential if your business is to have any meaning beyond work.

Because if your business is going to become an integral part of that tape, if your business is going to make a major contribution to the realization of your dream, if your business is going to become a significant component of your Primary Aim, you have to let your business know what that Aim is!

And how can you expect to do that, if you don't know what that Aim is!

And how can you expect to do that, if you don't know what it is?

Do you see why your primary Aim is so important to the success of your business?

With no clear picture of how you wish your life to be, how on earth can you begin to live it?

How would you know what first step to take?
How would you measure your progress?
How would you know where you were?
How would you know how far you had gone?
How would you know how much farther you had yet to go?

Without your Primary Aim, you wouldn't. Indeed, you couldn't. It would be virtually impossible.

As with Mature companies, I believe great people to be those who know how they got where they are, and what they need to do to get where they're going.

Great people have a vision of their lives that they practice emulating each and every day.

They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives. of their future in the present. They compare what they've done with what they intended to do. And where there's a disparity between the two, they don't wait very long to make up the difference.

They go to work on their lives, not just in their lives.

I believe it's true that the difference between great people and everyone else is that great people creates their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next.

The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.

The difference between the two is living intentionally and living by accident.

Let me repeat once more that great quote by Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda's "A Separate Peace": " The difference between a warrior and an ordinary man is that a warrior sees everything as a challenge, while an ordinary man sees everything as either a blessing or a curse."

(The third wave) by Alvin Toffler

...most people surveying the world around them today see only chaos. They suffer a sense of personal powerlessness and pointlessness." He want on to say that, " individuals need life structure. A life lacking in comprehensive structure is an aimless wreck. The absence of structure breeds breakdown. Structure provides the relatively fixed points of reference we need."

It is these " relatively fixed points of reference" that an orderly business provides its customer and its employees in an otherwise disorderly world.

A new look this summer. Time for some shopping.