Eric J. Ma’s Website

I finally have my own domain! You can continue to follow this blog on http://www.ericmajinglong.com/. I will cease to post on WordPress until I decide that maintaining my own domain just isn’t feasible……. I hope that day never comes!

After a harrowingly frustrating weekend in the lab, I swear I will not go into the lab and do heavy-duty lab work anymore. At best it’ll be innoculations for overnights. That’s it.

Time to chill on the weekends buddy. Chill and wait. That’s probably better than actually doing lab work. Wait, just as the Israelites did for 3 days before crossing Jordan.

It is in the quiet crucible of your personal, private sufferings, that your noblest dreams are born, and God’s greatest gifts are given, in compensation for what you’ve been through. – Whintley Phipps

Sunsets at the Rose Garden provide the most picturesque view of the North Shore mountains. It also is the most tranquil time that one gets to enjoy within the 16 hours of awakeness that we experience. The calm wind blows a gentle breeze, the sound of a jet plane high above the sky, the occasional car that cruises by… The atmosphere is just amazing. Absolutely suited to silent reflection.

His music is absolutely helpful. I solved the binary bacteria problem today – finally!

If your intentions are purposeful, and you communicate your intentions truthfully, and your actions match your intentions, you will never have to be coy, shy or embarrassed of what you do. You will walk in the light, you will have righteousness on your side, and you will always have the clearest conscience ever. And that matters the most, over money, fame, intellect, and the most earthly things you can ever imagine.

… to ruin what otherwise was a perfect day.

It just takes one blemish… to ruin the image of perfection.

Argh, the blemish always is there. It’s so hard to get away.

Appearances are deceiving. Indeed.

Stop looking at your target and saying, “What a great thing/person it/he/she is.”

You do not understand the internal struggles, the defects, the imperfections that are present.

Stop revering earthly things.

You do not see beyond the polish.

Stop.

Let the thing be the thing that the thing is, and let him be himself who he is, and let her be herself who she is.

Does not the Maker have the power to mould and shape each individual into a glorious vessel and a cheap vessel, both at His own will?

Let the Maker do His own job, and let us stop tagging things and people with labels.