Aspiring to Inspiring Before Expiring

Paul Chong

Description

You would remember an old school poem “What is life if full of care, We have no time to stand & stare . . . “ which led on the author’s mind to the notion of sharing & caring in life. Out of this thought, this book is appropriately called “Aspiring to Inspiring before Expiring.”
With most books, fiction or non-fiction, you’d read continuously from beginning to end. Here in this case, you can pick & choose to read with ease & pleasure the articles, over 600 of them,on “whatever interests you.”
The titles of articles are presented in a non-categorised manner, independent & complete by themselves individually. The book is very readable, easy to comprehend. It can well be your personal bible, a good travelling companion or indeed suitable as a gift for all occasions.
Collectively when they first appeared in Paul’s blog https://paulchong.net, they attracted over a million views and Paul has been acknowledged as a very inspiring blogger.
Readers will have both the leisure & pleasure of savouring a wide range of subjects in:
• love & romance
• arts & science
• facts & fiction
• reminiscences & presence
• greed & creed
• economics & politics
• fantasy & reality
• nature & venture
• spiritual & secular
• life & travel
• poems

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Themes
• Subjects
• Politics

Informations

• Publié par: Balboa Press AU
• Date de parution: 14 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781982295783
• Langue: English

Extrait

ASPIRING TO INSPIRING BEFORE EXPIRING
PAUL CHONG
A CHINESE BY DESCENT
AN AUSTRALIAN BY CONSENT


Copyright © 2022 Paul Chong.
 
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ISBN: 978-1-9822-9577-6 (sc)
ISBN: 978-1-9822-9578-3 (e)
 
Balboa Press rev. date: 09/12/2022

This book of selected essays when first appeared in Paul’s blog @ https://paulchong.net attracted more than a million readers. Now published as a book, it should speak volumes for itself. As it’s said that the taste of the pudding is in its eating.

Campus Belle of SPU goes viral online ON NOVEMBER 13, 2014 Source: (People’s Daily Online)
November 13, 2014 Chen Nina, campus belle of SPU (Photo/Sichuan News) Chen Nina, a junior student in Southwest Petroleum University, was elected as the “Campus Belle” on Nov. 12, 2014. Some netizens commented that she looks like South Korean superstar Jun Ji-hyun. Chen likes reading, playing piano, and shopping. She wants to be a college teacher in the future because Chen prefers to stay at school and live a simpler life. (Editor:Yao Xinyu 、 Yao Chun)
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Bypass Surgery Might Be History Soon ON JANUARY 28, 2014 Source: Biochemical Pharmacology
In a ground breaking discovery that may eventually render bypass surgery history, researchers at Tel Aviv University have shown that an injected protein can regrow blood vessels in the human heart. In heart disease, blood vessels are either clogged or die off, starving the heart of oxygen and leaving it highly susceptible to a cardiac attack. Dr. Britta Hardy of TAU’s Sackler School of Medicine and her team of researchers have developed a protein-based injection that when delivered straight to muscles in the body, sparks the regrowth of tiny blood vessels. The new vessels in the heart could give millions of people around the world a new lease on life. “The biotechnology behind our human-based protein therapy is very complicated, but the goal is simple and the solution is straightforward. We intend to inject our drug locally to heal any oxygen-starved tissue. So far in animal models, we’ve seen no side effects and no inflammation following our injection of the drug into the legs. The growth of new blood vessels happens within a few weeks, showing improved blood circulation,” said Hardy. The protein solution can also be added as a coating to a stent. Usually, the implantation of a stent is accompanied by a high risk for blood clots, which necessitates the use of blood thinners. “We could coat a stent with our peptide, attracting endothelial stem cells to form a film on the surface of the stent. These endothelial cells on the stent would eliminate the need for taking the blood thinners that prevent blood clots from forming,” said Hardy. If investment goals are met, the researchers are hoping that toxicity studies and Phase I trials could be complete within two years.
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The researchers began the study for preventing leg amputations, positing that proteins from the human body could be used to trigger the growth of new blood vessels. Hardy started by studying a library of peptides and testing them in the laboratory and later confirmed initial results. She then took some of the isolated and synthesized peptides and tested them in diabetic mice whose legs were in the process of dying. Although diabetes is known to decrease blood circulation, Hardy found that her therapy reversed the decrease. “Within a short time we saw the formation of capillaries and tiny blood vessels. After three weeks, they had grown and merged together with the rest of the circulatory system,” she said. In mice with limited blood circulation, she was able to completely restore blood vessels and save their legs. It was then a short step to studying the applicability of the research to cardiac patients. “It”s pretty obvious if there is regrowth or not. Our technology promises to regrow blood vessels like a net, and a heart that grows more blood vessels becomes stronger. It’s now imaginable that, in the distant future, peptide injections may be able to replace bypass surgeries,” concluded Hardy. The study has been published in Biochemical Pharmacology
C amouflaged Village in Afghanistan ON MAY 16, 2012 BY PAUL LEAVE A COMMENT At the bottom of the sandstone slope is a village, looking very much like the natural cliffs at the top of the picture. This is really unbelievable! You would never know this is a village looking down from above! The best natural camouflage ever!!! Amazing nature’s camouflage! Can you believe it?? Environmentally friendly Cave dwellings that blend absolutely with the environment. Long lasting & maintenance free. Militarily, it’s excellent natural defence. No cause for alarm even with the most sophisticated modern weapons. And you wonder why they couldn’t find Osama bin Laden?
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Canton Tower (Guangzhou TV Tower) ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2012
When I first visited Guangzhou in May 1989, it was like an “gigantic village” – dirty, ugly & teeming only with people & bicycles. It wasn’t a pretty sight except for White Swan Hotel, a five-star splendour, where we stayed. To attract foreign tourists five-star hotels were being first built. Then what greeted me in the late 1990s and 2000s is staggering & beyond my widest imagination. Simply unbelievable! There weren’t many places of interest in the old days except the Five Rams’ Statue, Dr Sun Yat Sen‘s Memorial, the zoo which housed some Panda bears & shopping mainly at Friendship Store. However, we had the taste of the famous Guangzhou cuisine & it was good. In a word, we were totally unimpressed as first time visitors. Today, Guangzhou is different! In line with the Stratosphere Casino Hotel Tower in Las Vegas, the world’s ‘highest’ Ferris wheel‘ is set to open for business on top of a 1,480ft tower in Guangzhou China – with passengers riding in seethrough pods. As compared, this development may not be as daring & adrenaline-pumping as with the Stratosphere’s. (Refer: Stratosphere Casino Hotel Tower, Las Vegas on Wed. 19 Sept. 2012).
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Built on the 450-meter-high Canton Tower, known as the Guangzhou TV Tower, the amazing wheel consists of 16 pods holding a total of 96 fearless thrill-seekers. Each capsule is just over three meters wide, and built using a special macromolecule material which allows a 360-degree crystal clear view. Just think about this – 15 years ago some of the leading business journals scoffed when Coca-cola announced they were going into China and one remarked “How can the Chinese afford to drink Coke when a can of Coke would cost the equivalent of a week’s salary?” Chinese companies are now competing with the likes of GE, Westinghouse, ABB etc to build power plants and massively sophisticated infrastructure – and beating ALL of them hands down!! NOBODY CAN COMPETE WITH CHINA!! Countries and companies that align with Chinese companies will become super powerful as China and Chinese companies have a long tradition of “Guan-Xi”. In Australia, BHP-Billiton is one such company that is laughing all the way to the bank, for China is building one Sydney-sized city every five days. Did you know that by the year 2025, China will have 219 cities with more than one million inhabitants, compared with 35 in Europe today and 24 cities with more than five million people. Also, 40 billion square meters of floor space will be built – in five million buildings. 50,000 of these buildings could be skyscrapers – the equivalent of ten New York Cities.
Cage Hongkees in Affluent Hong Kong ON MARCH 26, 2012
The tragedy of tens of thousands living in 6ft by 2ft rabbit hutches – in a city with more Louis Vuitton shops than Paris Hong Kong, one of the world’s richest cities, is abuzz with a luxury property boom that has seen homes exchanged for record sums. But the wealth of the city has a darker side, with tens of thousands priced out of housing altogether and forced to live in the most degrading conditions. These pictures by British photographer Brian Cassey capture the misery of people – some estimates put the figure as high as 100,000 – who are forced to live in cages measuring just 6ft by 2 1/2ft. The city is one of the planet’s most densely packed me