I Ching Of Love

[Nickie Koskinen]

8I have been Cambodia last year, I love this country so much, but see many social problems, such as wide gap between rich and poor, lack of source in education, and females are not respected in society. Do you think your music can help Cambodia to develop? Have you ever tried to show those social problems in your music or MV to make people think about it?

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With a generation that demands well designed products, employers that support a better lifestyle, and a deep desire to work for and trust purposeful companies that make the world a better place, a question mark lies for many business leaders.

Yes, the glitz and glam of the Apple Watch and Gold MacBook's got the world really excited, but for many, that was secondary. What stuck to me and many others was Apple's new ResearchKit, an interface that will transform the way medical breakthroughs happen for researchers. Harnessing their Health apps, researchers will be able to get straight to collecting data faster than ever before and with a scale of a large user base via the iPhone.

Nothing is more important than our health. It is one of the few things that you cannot replace, and a topic that millennials are strongly conscious about. Not only is this going to change society, it resonates and compels people to be a part of this exciting vision.

This is game changing. It concretely showcases how technologies like the iPhone and ResearchKit will make our lives better and it makes a typically boring thing, more fun, and enjoyable to participate in.

It's the one thing many companies fail to do--to get people genuinely excited and in love with their vision, purpose and products. And if you cannot excite people or give great value people, how can you get them to buy, or even work for you?

You need to immerse people--to experience the same love as the creators have for their vision.

Apple's Marketing immerses people with the experience. It takes them through the same journey their employees feel. It inspires to put the customer in the same seat of the passionate creators behind the vision.

Sharing the vision builds a powerful relationship between creator and user. It creates a brand love and understanding and shows the brand's appreciation for their customers. In return, people give their money, excitement and loyalty.

Go on Apple.com and you'll find each section ranging from their core products to supplier chain responsibility filled with beautiful films, emotive photography and relatable stories to help illustrate their commitment to the vision. You can feel it in everything they do, and for companies, this is exactly where we can learn from Apple.

From the smallest details to the big vision, Apple continuously pushes for better. A company with great products, great vision and more importantly a great purpose that is demonstrated by all the things they do - this is what makes a great brand that many millions of millennials love, and happily give our cult-like loyalty.

While the I Ching has been used as a form of general divination for thousands of years, it is also excellent for probing specific topics in detail. Of course no topic interests most of us more than our loves, friendships and their future course. To see what the I Ching has to say about your social life, enter your name in the textbox below (optional) and select "Throw My Coins." We hope your cast is a good one!

When Oxide Pang makes a new film, I'm there. I don't need a synopsis, trailer, poster or whatever to get me interested. When Basic Love was first announced I was a little surprised though, as it marks a pretty serious shift in territory for Oxide. No more horror, fantasy or other manly genre film making, but a full-blown drama in true Pang style.

If the name Oxide Pang (The Storm Warriors, The Detective, Som And Bank) doesn't ring a bell, it means you haven't been paying attention to my reviews here. Oxide Pang is without a doubt one of my favorite directors, though more because of his constant quality output rather than any true masterpieces amongst his body of work.

Even though Basic Love is a serious departure from familiar territory, from the very first shots it feels like a true Pang film. There's this thing in his visual style that's immediately recognizable and makes it something he can call his own. Apart from that Basic Love feels much like a Japanese drama, though a bit more polished and maybe not as subtle. Luckily there is plenty of good stuff here to compensate for that.

The titular 'basic' refers to the simple love triangle setup. Things get a bit more complicated when one of the main characters turns out to be deadly ill, disrupting the romantic affairs of the threesome and upsetting the lives of the three protagonists. What follows is an endearing story about loving and living in the moment, set to a tenderly handled coming of age background.

If there is one thing Oxide Pang never fails at, it's delivering some awe-inspiring visuals. Not always consistently throughout a whole film, but the man knows how to play around with cameras and color. Basic Love is no different. The usual Pang touches are here, though used in a more gentle, loving way. Nothing big or extreme, but all the same beautiful to behold.

The soundtrack is a little trickier, though Oxide manages to keep it within the confines of good taste. It seems he has learned from earlier films, and even though the music can be a tad too soft/piano-based for its own good, for the remainder of the film it actually works in creating the needed atmosphere. Acting is surprisingly good too. A couple of young talents that have no trouble working their way through the harder scenes in the film.

Basic Love is not a very big or difficult film. It's a modest tale about three kids, young love and fear of communication with a touch of drama running underneath it all. It's not as bare-bones or realistic as regular Japanese dramas, but it still fits right in with the rest of them. It's a little surprising seeing a film like this coming from Oxide, but he seems to pull it off without a problem.

A pretty low profile film that is sure not to reach the West any time soon, but fans of the Pang brothers should do well to seek it out anyway. Especially those of you that can't get enough of their trademark style. Just don't expect anything like their regular output. Basic Love is not an overpowering film, but slowly grows on you and ends up as most other Pang films: a solid, enjoyable and stylistically pleasant endeavour.

Ng Wui Ching (Doreen) found herself becoming fascinated by Tripsichore Yoga because of its graceful flow and breathing technique associated with the flow. Doreen has since been practicing Tripsichore Yoga under the guidance of Edward Clarke and obtained her 500 hour Teacher Training Program conducted by him in 2011. Throughout the years of pursuing her own yoga practice, she has devoted much time to teaching and is currently the principal teacher at Padma Yoga Studio in Malaysia and oversees all of the programs and courses offered.

Yes. It pushes us to know ourselves at a deeper level. With all the stress and distraction, yoga brings a certain focus and helps to center our lives. Yoga has brought a balance to my life. It has allowed me to re-focus my outlook and created in me a desire to pass on my knowledge to as many people as possible.

When I was in college, I wanted to be a politician. I had been the president of my debate team in high school, had won a trophy in every single competition we had gone to senior year, and had a huge ego.

And then I read this book in a class I was taking. It was called The Human Event. It was a grand class for honors students, perfectly designed for our grandiose dreams, and the idea was to imagine humanity as this overarching dream, a creation that we had created ourselves, and looking at it from the beginning to today. A whole year of seeing the Human Event come to life.

The book that I read was one of the earlier ones. One of the ancient ones. It was called the Tao te Ching. Most people estimate that it was written around 500 BCE. We assume that they were written by a man named Lao Tzu, but it is impossible to truly know its origins. All we know is that this little pamphlet of collected poems was the foundation for an entire philosophy of life and reality that is still studied today.

At the time, I had been indoctrinated and excited by, what I realized later, was a western mindset. One that saw the world as something meant to be conquered. Something where we are in separation from the reality outside of us, and are thus empowered to break it, change it, turn it into what we want to make it into.

It was what many people tend to describe as a secular mindset, but the truth is that it is just as real, perhaps more real, in Christian thinking, Muslim thinking, and, it could be argued, modern Jewish thinking. Some people believe its roots lay in Greek and Roman philosophy and culture, approaches to life that were built off of the potential greatness of man.

And so, when we choose to subjugate or change through force, or erase that which surrounds us, we are actually just living in disharmony. We are not so strong. We are not so great. We are great only because we are attached to all that is. We are not separate from reality, and so are unable to subjugate it. Rather, we are one with it, and so must learn how to look inwards and adapt ourselves to it so that whatever we do shape or create comes from the totality of reality.

So much has happened in the meantime. I got married. I had kids. I moved to Israel. I moved to New York. I started a career. I became a writer. I tried hard to fit into my community in Brooklyn. I failed. I created a new identity as a mix between modern orthodox and Hasidic. I started a creative community. I joined an activist group.

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