Never Believe ...

Never believe in anything until it has been officially denied.

Otto von Bismarck

NUS Karaoke Competition - Qtr Finals: 真情流露

Yes, I am in the semi-finals now. Woh...the heat is building up man...just the 10 of us left. And there were about 80 to begin with.

Here is the song I chose for the heat:

歌曲：真情流露
歌手：张学友
专辑：真情流露

仍难尽信
我是这样地
无穷好运
能遇上
精彩的你
我缺点胜别人
你竟费尽心神
把我留起

如仍未清楚地
说在目前和今后

仍难尽清楚地说在目前和今后

无论那一天都爱你
我这刻要直言
到沧海或桑田
最深爱的
亦只是你

我与你永不可别离
爱你爱到死
因只得你
方可使我
流露自己
你眼里那种种传奇
醉我醉到死
一生使我动情
是你

la la la la la ......

Chess is Anti-Kindness

"You cannot play chess if you are kind-hearted."

-A French proverb

Clear Your Plate

The choice is always simple enough: Clear your plate if you want dessert.

Author Unknown

Life is like Chess

"Life is a kind of chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events."

- Benjamin Franklin
1706-1790

Why God Allows PAIN?

This is one of the best explanations of why God allows pain and suffering ...

A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have a good conversation. They talked about so many things and various subjects. When they eventually touched on the subject of God, the barber said: "I don't believe that God exists."

"Why do you say that?" asked the customer. "Well, you just have to go out in the street to realize that God doesn't exist. Tell me, if God exists, would there be so many sick people? Would there be abandoned children?

If God existed, there would be neither suffering nor pain. I can't imagine a loving God who would allow all of these things." The customer thought for a moment, but didn't respond because he didn't want to start an argument. The barber! finishe d his job and the customer left the shop.

Just after he left the barbershop, he saw a man in the street with long, stringy, dirty hair and an untrimmed beard. He looked dirty and unkempt. The customer turned back and entered the barber shop again and he said to the barber: "You know what? Barbers do not exist." "How can you say that?" asked the surprised barber. "I am here, and I am a barber. And I just worked on you!" "No!" the customer exclaimed. "Barbers don't exist because if they did, there would be no people with dirty long hair and untrimmed beards, like that man outside."

"Ah, but barbers DO exist! That's what happens when people do not come to me." "Exactly!" affirmed the customer. "That's the point! God, too, DOES exist! That's what happens when people do not go to Him and don't look to Him for help. That's why there's so much pain and suffering in the world."

So, if you want to argue with your barber, let him finish his cutting first, okay?

Bobby Fischer's Words on Chess

"You can only get good at chess if you love the game."

"I like to make them squirm."

"If I win, I'm a genius. If I don't, I'm not."

- Bobby Fischer
1943- Present