Laurel Peak 月桂峰

During the Tang Dynasty, at the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival, the moon gave its soft motherly light from heaven to earth.
At midnight, a fire-lighting monk named Deming from Lingyin Temple heard a series of ticking sounds when he went to the kitchen to cook porridge. He was puzzled so he looked outside of the window. He only saw the moon, but with no rain; so where did the sound come from? He opened the door to go outside, looked upward and he saw countless pearl-like tiny grain infants falling down from the moon to the mountain peak near the temple. He came out and started to pick up the grains. They filled up a whole gunny sack. They looked beautiful with a variety of colors.
The morning on the next day, monk Deming showed those small grains that he picked up last night to his master, Chiyi and asked him what they were. Chiyi looked at them and said : “ There was a large laurel in the Moon Palace and a man called Wu Gang , he cut the laurel throughout the year , but still he failed to cut it down. Sometimes he used all his might which caused the grains to fall. Perhaps those are the seeds falling down from the moon.”
Monk Deming was very happy when he heard it, he said: “ Master , let’s plant these seeds so that everyone can see the laurel and smell the sweet-scents of the moon .”
So, they planted a variety of small grains with different colors on the hillside behind the temple. Surprisingly, the seeds cropped out immediately the next day. One month later, they were already one feet long and the small seeds grew in between the green leaves.
They grew up in an incredible speed. One year after that, they were already one meter in height. The Mid-Autumn Festival of the following year , they were tall and big with flowers opening in full bloom, there were clusters of orange , white, crimson and much more. Monk Deming named the laurels based on their colors- Gold Laurel, Argent Laurel , Red Laurel …From this time forth , there were a variety of laurels around the West Lake .
Now, there is a peak next to Lingyin Temple called the Laurel Peak, the origin of the legend which told of seeds falling from the moon.

“中獎”騙案再現

各位朋友们,我遇到了同一个诈骗手法,自称是台湾珠宝行的.
那个珠宝行给了我这个网址
http://www.bdzbjp.com/
google 一下,发现完全没有 半岛珠宝精品 的相关资料
更没有看到在马来西亚有任何相关活动
这是第一疑点
第二
诈骗者一般上不会对目标以外的人作出沟通,这是因为他们的学习系统如此,他们学习的心理技巧通过电话智能针对个体下手,
所以一般上不会对代接电话的沟通.

还有, 他所说的金额和新闻一样,太白目了吧

“中獎”騙案再現麻坡‧機警讀者促公眾提防
柔佛 2009-04-25 08:20

（柔佛‧麻坡）“中獎”騙案再傳。

麻縣巴口辜小姐近日來接獲多通以“中獎”為餌的來電，企圖誘騙她繳1萬3200令吉的“個人所得稅”，以換取約8萬8000令吉的獎金。

機智的辜小姐於4月21日接獲一通相信是利用電腦撥號的來電，電話另一端傳來的並非本地人的口音，並宣稱來自香港一家精品公司。

“對方告訴我，這間公司將於當晚在吉隆坡星光大道舉辦宣傳晚會，還給了我一個編號作為幸運抽獎號碼，要我出席有關晚會。”

辜小姐一聽來電便知是一宗電話騙案，但是她並沒有揭穿，只是告知對方，她無法出席。

指抽中旅遊獎可兌換現金

辜小姐深信對方必定還有後續來電，果然不出所料，週五（4月24日）早上辜小姐再接獲一名女子來電，出口先向她道賀，恭喜她與另外2名幸運兒同時中了二獎。

這份二獎是價值20萬港幣的旅遊獎，相等於馬幣近8萬8000令吉。對方告訴辜小姐，3名得獎者當中，一人接受了獎勵，已經出國旅遊；另一名幸運兒則選擇兌換現金。

辜小姐立刻打蛇隨棍上，表明自己要兌換現金。對方當下便向辜小姐索取個人資料，包括身份證號碼、銀行戶口號碼，並提醒她，當獎金匯入戶口後，必須繳付一萬多令吉的“個人所得稅”。

提供對方假資料

“除了姓名之外，我給對方的個人資料都是假的，目的就是要看對方到底是耍甚麼把戲。不久後，又有另一名男子來電，再度向我解釋旅遊獎兌換現金的程序，同時還在電話上假裝與另一名顧客洽談鑽石珠寶交易，相信是要消除我對他們的疑慮。”

辜小姐認為，雖然對方至今尚未說明如何繳付這筆“個人所得稅”，但她相信對方必定會再來電說服她先匯錢，以換取這筆“獎金”。

報章上經常都會刊登一些集團利用中獎的技倆欺騙公眾，辜小姐希望通過本身的這段經歷來提醒公眾提高警惕，並緊記“天下沒有白吃的午餐”，以及只要不貪，就不會上當受騙。
星洲日報／大柔佛‧2009.04.24

Earth Hour 2009

Earth Hour 2009 – What Will You Be Doing?



www.earthhour.org

Cuddling up with your loved ones and admiring the stars in the night sky or organising a treasure hunt in the dark? At 8:30pm on Saturday 28 March, people from all corners of the world will turn off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour - and cast their vote for action on climate change. Anybody can participate and join together with millions of people across the globe celebrating Earth Hour.

Earth Hour is about taking simple steps everyday that collectively reduce carbon emissions – from businesses turning off their lights when their offices are empty to households turning off appliances rather than leaving them on standby.

Here are 10 different ways to spend Earth Hour and reduce your carbon footprint:

1. Attend a local Earth Hour event or organise your own by throwing an Earth Hour street party with your neighbours
2. Gather family & friends for a night picnic in your local park and look at the stars
3. Enjoy a family dinner by candlelight
4. Organise a treasure hunt in the dark
5. Take the dog for a night walk
6. Have a candle-lit bath
7. Sit in the dark and share stories
8. Organise a family night playing board games
9. Share a romantic night in with your loved one
10. Upload your ‘on the night’ photos and videos to flickr and YouTube respectively, and then add them to the Earth Hour flickr group and the global YouTube Group.

Earth Hour Executive Director, Andy Ridley, is encouraging people to participate in whatever way they choose and to think beyond the hour.

“There are no hard and fast rules surrounding participation in Earth Hour. We only ask that you flick that switch and have fun doing whatever you choose to do during that time.

Make Earth Hour work for you. Families with young children should feel free to turn their lights off earlier than 8:30pm and for those having too much fun in the dark during the hour, don’t feel you have to limit yourself to one hour and switch back on at 9:30pm.”

To find out more about Earth Hour, visit the official website www.earthhour.org, sign up and join millions of people in more than 1,400 cities and towns in 80 countries throughout the world by turning off your lights for one hour at 8:30pm on Saturday 28 March.