Added some new albums and photos: Hong Kong & Transports

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Some more travelling this weekend, went to Greenwich and Tower Hill. I think last time I went to Greenwich was 8 years ago, it's nice to go there again. There is a nice Greenwich park, took some photos and walk to Blackheath Station to take a train to Tower Hill.

At tower hill, just before it started to rain. I managed to take a few shots of the Tower Bridge. The photo taken by the k800i is surprisingly good, have a look at this and see if you agree.

Please click on the photos to view more photos taken in Greenwich and tower of London. 

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Haven't have a update for the internship for quite a while so here we go. Today after talking to the Nigara guy, I start to work hard and got some results. I started writing the Handel-C library (drivers) for the DE2 board last week and I was able to display some text on the LCD module, controlling the LEDs and getting some data form a PS/2 mouse. The part that I find really hard is to display somethign on a monitor using the VGA out. So today I started off with getting a LCD monitor. After setting everything up, start to program… no clear directions, just trying… And at the end, I was able to display some colour on the screen, well some nice colour pattern with some simple code. Here are some photos of my new workspace, LCD & 7 Segment display and the nice colour pattern output.

Click on the images above to see more photos. The longer I spent doing this, I start to really enjoy working on this project :D.

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I would like to talk about two things that happened today. One is that I talked to a guy from Nigara and the other is a update of my intership. Let's talk about the guy from Nigara first.

The part of how I start talking to him is not important as I'm sure there are many people like him in London. He told me he came from Nigara a year ago, wanting to study in the UK after he graduated in Nigara but unable to find a job. I tried very hard and spent a long time earning enough money and get a student Visa to come to UK. He applied to one of the University and got accepted however he don't have enough money to pay the fee. So he had to take a year out to earn enough money so that he can study. He is working 17 hours a day and only get 3 hours of sleep. And the worse thing is his parents think he is in a "Paradise", and many people in Nigara really wants to come here. But they don't know that he is working so hard just to survive. He also told me that this is already nothing to him as he had to work a lot harder in Nigara. And that the government is so rich but don't care about their people. I can really see suffering in his eye but he is managing well, he knows he have to be strong.

I have always know that there are many people like him around me, but it means a lot more when I see one in front of my eye. I suddenly just feel so lucky which I start to forget when everything is going well. I really hope he can find what he wants in life, afterall working and earning big money is not the aim of life! for me anyway. It's so difficult to be human and so hope all of us can treasure this life and make the best out of it. Do whatever we can now to help others and ourselves and don't regret when it's too late. We never know what will happen tomorrow (Impermanence)!

Namo Amituofo 

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Quite a few things that I like about working, mainly earning some money and get the weekend off. So we spent a day walking around London, the first time I really get to try out the camera on the k800i and used up the 64MB on it.

We set off at Earls Court at noon to Piccadilly Circus. Went to LillyWhites and got a weird bag as my old one is broken which actually lasted for 7 years I think. The bags that they were selling were very good quality and most of them were 70% off. So I picked a Karrimor one with "airspace". And one of the reason why I picked this one is because of the "airspace", I also think that it's very well Engineered. Everything have been thought of. For example, Kamil said it's a "unsymetrical bag", and yes one side has a space for bottle and the other doesn't where it has a space for the walking stick instead. many other things… and here is a picture of the "airspace" which is decided to keep our back cool.

That's enough about the bag! Next we walk to Trafalgar Square, not the first time there but this time it's quite interesting. There are more people there than usual and all looking up on to the sky…

So what are they looking at??? Find out here

Then we walked to the Scotland Yard, it's quite cool that no one or car is there :D.

Keep walking and walking, cross the River Thames see the LondonEye, Big Ben…

Everything is about the same, then we saw a space for board skating and BMX right next to the Thames at Waterloo, that really surprise me! Also note that there is a CCTV on the top.

Not a very good photo, but show guy at the back graffiti at the back. Then there was a Capital Old Age Festival which was quite interesting, some people singing, dancing… Lastly we have Tate Modern before my phone went out of batter and memory. Quite a nice building.

I think somehow I have make it sounds quite boring, but it was actually quite a interesting day :D. Here is more photos for you, and have a look at Kamil's blog on this, it's more interesting :).

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【三法印】- The three evidences of the genuineness of a sutra. The three signs or proofs of a Hinayana sutra— non-permanence, non-personality (anatta, non-self), nirvana; without these the sūtra is spurious and the doctrine is of Mara;

• 諸行無常是說一切世間法無時不在生住異滅中，過去有的，現在起了變異，現在有的，將來終歸幻滅；
• 諸法無我是說在一切有為無為的諸法中，無有我的實體；
• 涅槃寂靜是說涅槃的境界，滅除一切生死的痛苦，無為安樂，故涅槃是寂靜的。

凡符合此三原則的，便是佛正法，有如世間印信，用為証明，故名法印。

摘錄自 佛學常見辭彙 (繁體) (简体)

三法印係指：諸行無常、諸法無我、涅槃寂靜。印者，認可、驗證之意。藉此三者根本教理，得以判別印證法之正邪，故稱「三法印」，其內容梗概，開演如下：

• 諸行無常：意指世間一切事物，皆在剎那間遷流變異，無一常住不變。有為諸法概皆無常，眾生執以為實，認假作真，而起諸妄想，或求長生不老，或徒務粉飾色身，不識「亙古不變」，仍不免「剎那生變」，無常者乃是世間之自然法則，此方是「真常」。了悟變化無常乃是生命的特徵，於一切境，隨遇而安，在悲智雙運中，得見生命之究竟義。想得到幸福，就要從真理下手。真理要從心下手，心要從悟下手。悟就要從觀照無常下手。能觀照就有大慈悲心，因為能觀照無常，就沒有得失的觀念。一旦失去什麼，就不會感到痛苦，因為你知道——這就是無常。
• 諸法無我：意指世間諸法，無論有為、無為，皆是緣起幻有，並無恆常不變、獨立存在之實體或主宰。世尊殷勤囑咐：應於二六時中觀照「無我、無我所」。此色身乃四大假合之幻軀，凡我之物皆是為我所用，非我所有。若真有我，何以我之心緒、生死皆非己能掌控？足見「我」無從主宰「我所有」，有「我」即生對立，而我執則為一切眾生之通病，唯有放下我執，方可覓得真我。唯有了知無我，始能與世界和平共處。
• 涅槃寂靜：此係佛教之中心思想，意指不生不滅，身心俱寂之解脫境界。若離開涅槃思想，佛教就形同生滅的世間法，只能稱之為勸善，不能體會因性本空，果性本空之非因非果甚深奧義。未入正信者，每以涅槃為死亡，此乃嚴重之誤解。倘如其所言，則死亡又為另一生命之開端，豈非生死未了？眾生長嬰(18)輪迴之苦，乃受業力所牽，作主不得。唯有佛陀為究竟死亡，以其死即不復再生，不生則不滅，蓋已打破無始無明，徹見本來面目，此允稱為佛教最可貴之處。

摘錄自 祈願正法重現 - 慧律法師著 (繁體) (简体)

南無阿彌陀佛

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