人生 光影

"All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life

are made up of light and shade."

Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

 人生一切的變異 魅力 優美

 都是由 光明和陰影 構成的

列夫 托爾斯泰

Learning: Schönau & Feldheim

Following the Chernobyl disaster a community around Schönau in Black Forest, Germany

decided to power on with solar or wind energy and sell the excess to the national grid.

Feldheim, one of many villages in Germany, not only has gone 100 percent
renewable in net consumption but that the village is completely off-grid.

However, the German government recently announced a 30% reduction in subsidies

to small energy producers, stifling similar green communities across the country.

Back, to the future..

While studying architecture at the University of Melbourne,

I participated as a volunteer in a UNESCO World Heritage project:

Vijayanagara Archeological Field Research
Hampi, Karnataka, India

Two weeks in the field of ruins in what was

left of a once mighty Moghul Empire, Vijayanagara..

Surveying and recording every stone, detail and dilapidation,

understanding how a civilization once lived, thrived, and collapsed.

Little was I to comprehend

that journey into middle India was

the inflexion point deep in a young psyche

to guide and shape a life over the next 25 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijayanagara

Roast pork, home made in Melbourne

五香烧肉

That traditional, delicious roast pork with crunchy crackled skin and spiced layers that melt in your mouth, is easier to make than you think..

• Ingredients: Belly pork, sea salt, five spice powder 五香粉 and olive oil.
• Turn over the belly pork, sliver the meat at 3x2cm grid, leaving the skin intact, attached.
• Mix sea salt with five spice powder, rub the mix over the meat and deeply into the grid.
• Turn pork over and lay onto baking paper, with skin up, and place into a baking tray.
• Spread olive oil generously and evenly over the skin.
• Pre-heat oven at 250°C with both grill and fan turned on.
• Position baking tray, with skin about 15~20cm directly below the top griller.
• Roasting time depends on size of serving - your eyes are the best to check..
• When the skin has crackled (like boiling with bubbles on the surface) and turned light brown, lower the heat down to ~200°C.
• When the skin turns dark brown, turn the grill off. Leave it for 10~15 minutes, turn the oven off. 

Voila..! Best served hot, oven hot!
Simply turn it over and cut through the grid with a sharp knife..
If it takes you more than 30 minutes, I should invite you to dinner instead :o)

A Journey of Pods: Milestone 3

AeroPOD® Apparatus

AeroPod CDM Programme of Activities, PoA

Global Warming Mitigation Programme

UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Clean Development Mechanism

全球暖化 緩解計劃

聯合國 氣候變化 框架公約 
清潔發展機制 碳排綱領

http://cdm.unfccc.int/ProgrammeOfActivities/Validation/DB/8HR26510NZ6W16Q6TGFWG87ZK44K7N/view.html

Home.. Australia

I still call Australia home..

I've been to cities that never close down
from New York to Rio and old London town
But no matter how far or how wide I roam
I still call Australia home

I'm always traveling, I love being free
and so I keep leaving the sun and the sea.
But my heart lies waiting over the foam
I still call Australia home

 

All the sons and daughters spinning 'round the world

away from their families and friends
But as the world gets older and colder
it's good to know where your journey ends

Someday we'll all be together once more
when all of the ships come back to the shore
I realize something I've always known
I still call Australia, I still call Australia

I still call Australia home..

Dawn of a new chapter..

Australia-Japan Alliance

Product Alliance Agreement

: EV Australia & EMRO Japan

for collaboration in R&D + IP

: New product development

for Malaysia

轉折點

If there were turning points in life

where one answers a calling,

2007 was a determinant.

Out there walkabout in the field,

site survey in the first project for the

UNFCCC Clean Development Mechanism.

New Venture Creation 21st Century: https://www.mcgraw-hill.com.au/html/9780070277663.html

Fusion Engine.. any Trekkies?

"That's basically dilithium crystals we're using,"

 ...Trekkies everywhere shudder in delight..!

 Charger-1 Pulsed Power Generator 

http://www.businessinsider.com/newest-fusion-engine-is-powered-on-star-trek-like-dilithium-crystals-2012-10

A Journey of Pods: Milestone 2

BioOrganic Produce

First batch . Product branding

Pod Organics design mark : MM

春曉

Apricot bloom.. in spring

孟浩然《春曉》

春眠不覺曉 處處聞啼鳥

白秀卸紅袍 脈脈問卿早
 
凯尔《杏花》

When insults had style..

The glorious insults from an era when
words were valued for meanings.
Think, for a moment, that they
were said in one's face..

When Insults Had Style

She said, 'If you were my husband I'd give you poison,'

and he said, 'If you were my wife, I'd drink it.'

Exchange between Churchill & Lady Astor

'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.'

'That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.'

Exchange between a member of Parliament & Disraeli

'He had delusions of adequacy.'

Walter Kerr

'He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.'

Winston Churchill

'He is a modest little person, with much to be modest about.'

Winston Churchill

'I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.'

Clarence Darrow 

'He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.'

William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)

'Does he really think big emotions come from big words?'

Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner)

'Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I'll waste no time reading it.'

Moses Hadas

'He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.'

Abraham Lincoln

'I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of  it.'

Mark Twain

'He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.'

Oscar Wilde

'I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend...if you have one.'

George Bernard Shaw to Winston Churchill

'Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one.'

Winston Churchill, in response

'I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.'

Stephen Bishop

'He is a self-made man and worships his creator.'

John Bright

'I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.'

Irvin S. Cobb

'He is not only dull himself, he is the cause of dullness in others.'

Samuel Johnson

'He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up.'

Paul Keating

'There's nothing wrong with you that reincarnation won't cure.'

Jack E. Leonard

'He has the attention span of a lightning bolt.'

Robert Redford

'They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge.'

Thomas Brackett Reed

'In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily.'

Charles, Count Talleyrand

'He loves nature in spite of what it did to him.'

Forrest Tucker

'Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?'

Mark Twain

'His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork.'

Mae West

'Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.'

Oscar Wilde

'He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp-posts... for support rather than illumination.'

Andrew Lang  (1844-1912)

'He has Van Gogh's ear for music.'

Billy Wilder

'I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.'

Groucho Marx

物是人非

An awakening..

about the practice of architecture

with architects in Melbourne

唯吾知足

Content, in solitude

唯吾知足

来历 : 汉朝 方孔古钱
据说 : 反清復明 佩幣

来历: http://baike.baidu.com/view/359893.htm

A Journey of Pods: Milestone 1

Process Control Apparatus

First installation . First apps client

Pod Systems design mark : MM

水則載舟 水亦覆舟

Samsung's internal memorandum

"History has shown there has yet to be a company

that has won the hearts and minds of consumers

and achieved continuous growth,

when its primary means to competition

has been the outright abuse of patent law,

not the pursuit of innovation."

http://www.global.samsungtomorrow.com/?p=17705

...and then substitute those words with:

government  citizens  challenges  security  improvement

君者 舟也 庶人者 水也
水則載舟 水亦覆舟

荀子 《王制》

Clean stoves: fight global warming + charge phones

Using a thermoelectric generator that converts waste heat into electricity to power a fan, this wood burning stove increases the efficiency of fire and reduces smoke by 94%, CO2 by 91% and wood fuel by 50%.

Plus a USB port to charge your cell phones too! Perfect for a long camping trip?

Think about the billions of home stoves using wood as fuel.. worldwide.

http://www.businessinsider.com/biolite-homestove-alexander-drummond-jonathan-cedar-2012-8 

Giving thanks, on reflection

Last week

Board resolution: listed carbon unit acquisition
Programmatic CDM Host Nation Approval

Remediation rupture.. and turbulence
Central America offer acceptance
Crowdfunding business metric

JV bombshell.. and ripples
ODM trademarking
Lab completion

This week

Carbon unit acquisition: an acceptance
Remediation: asymmetric solutions

Watershed order in principle: Go

Social media channel initiation
ODM supply shipment: Go

JV assurance.. plus MoA
Lab commissioning
Plus one partner

Grateful..

Torrid. Precipitous. Eventful.

On reflection.. thanks for

Best. Two weeks. Ever.

转折处 柳暗 缀花明
仰首间 海阔 连天穹

凯尔