I bought this set of books last week.  It first attracted me when a friend posted about the discount offer on the facebook (a day before it is advertised!!!  Amazing, how did she know that? I wonder.).

Then, I checked on the books titles and learned that these topics are about human’s life.  These are typical topics (about success, challenge ourselves, our future etc.) and usually can be found on many motivational books (except the last book about awakening).

But what attracted me the most to buy these books is because it is written by the very famous Reverend Xing Yun Da Shi.  I am curious on how motivational books are written from a Buddhist’s point of view.

It comes with a foldable box and small lock and divided into 2 sections.  There are small rings on each section to allow the tray to be pulled out.

This is the front side of the box when it is closed.

This is the rear side of the box.

This is the discount coupon on the newspaper.  I have saved RM70.

After I have decided to buy this set of books, I asked my brother to help me to find it from the newspaper and went to the bookshop on the next day.

There are more than 1000+ articles in 12 books.  Now, I read a few articles every day.  From what I have read on the first quarter of the first book (The Criteria of Success), I found that instead of telling me what to do, it is a reminder that tells me some details in our life which I have already known but easily ignored.

Can’t wait to finish reading all the books.  Hope I can finish reading them within this year.

There is a cycle for the fountain pool to show different patterns of water dancing.  At that moment, I found 2 big contrasts.  - Static and Dynamic.

The fountain nozzles were stopped, but the surrounding was still moving.  Even their nearest water fountains were still spraying water.  Human, vehicles, birds were moving around, but the nozzles in this pool were as static as the “ground”.

My lung was also static because I hold my breath while I press the shutter button and wait for 8 seconds of shutter time, to prevent the shaking of my camera.

The nozzles were calm, and lined up with the red and orange light shined on their backs.

It was the turn of another pool to shoot the water taller than a human.  5 minutes later, this pool would be active again.

Sometimes, when we let our minds relax and stop thinking,  (it is actually hard to stopped our mind from thinking, because we keep too much unnecessary things in our mind), some great ideas will suddenly appear “automagically”.  And we can think of some solutions / ideas which we have never thought before.  Have you had this experience?

The water fountain needs a break to allow it to serve longer, same as our heart.

“Psst…hey…over here! Are you going to feed me or something?”

A shark was passing by next to us.  It has a triangular face and sharp teeth.  Its shape looked fierce but its behavior looked friendly.

From a lower angle, it looked like an aircraft.

In this huge aquarium, the sharks live happily with other water creatures.

Since the underwater tunnel is transparent,  I guess they can see human / visitors looking at them, or even pointing fingers at them, but they can’t smell anything inside the tunnel.  At anytime, the shark can be as close as 1 meter from us but separated by the glass.

I also wonder why the sharks did not eat other fish besides their food given by the divers.  The sharks might have been trained to make friends with other fish.

Some of the fish swim in groups, but a shark usually swims alone.

The stingray said, “I am ugly but I am gentle.”  (A Chinese song by ZhaoChuan.)

Human should not get drunk and drive, and I believe the fish’s parents would tell their kids:- Do not close your eyes and swim, otherwise you might knock one of the stones here.

Yes, the stones could become the shelter or playground for small fish.  They must be having fun while swimming in and out from the stones.

SiewPeng and I were inside the underwater tunnel and looking into the huge aquarium, I checked my photos, and I decided to have another round.  The picture above was taken at the start/end point of the underwater tunnel.

This fish has a special colour combination - blue and yellow (2 of the 3 basic colours in the colour cycle).

It has a yellow tail on its blue body.  The shape of its tail is triangular and pointing towards its body, it looks like a pointer which is following it everywhere, highlighting that it should be given attention.

Its upper body even has a mark in dark blue which looks like a petrol nozzle (mirrored ‘6′).

This fish is totally yellow, with a bit of orange as the outline to show how fit it is.  Hmm…   Fish also know fashion very well, but they can never change their colours.

See, this fish has other friends which are fashionable as well.

How nice if we could live with the beautiful coral,  everything is colourful.  But are they really happy?  I think so because they never need to worry about their food or attacked by larger water creatures unlike the one in the real nature.

In Chinese, water livings live in “LoongGong” which means the palace of dragon.  Dragon is the king in the palace and he rules and takes care of other water creatures especially in the sea.

We went to AQWA.  The most artistic thing that attracted me the most was this cylinder-shape aquarium in blue, and the jellyfish in orange inside.  Orange and blue combination is one of the contrast colours.  The cylinder makes me feel that I was a character in a science fiction.

They looked different compared to the one in nature and under the beautifully decorated aquarium and lighting.

Click here to look how jellyfish in nature look like.

Colin and SiewPeng, standing in front of the “cylinder-shaped blue-orange jellyfish-aquarium“.

I am going to tell you more about AQWA in the coming post(s).  Have you been there?