Beyond the Individualism

Ichiro Suzuki is definitely one of my most favorite baseball player.
What he had accomplished so far is simply astonishing.
He is goal-oriented, and he works really hard to accomplish many feat.
He shows us the significance of continuous work
Even though he is just playing baseball, nontheless his influence is far-reaching.
How many "I'm not a baseball fan" guys show respect (or disrespect) on Ichiro?
He is in steady declining, but I believe that he still can play at competitive level.

By the way, I'm not a Yankee fan. I'm on SF and Oakland.
From SF's recent success and the failure of Bonds' era, I believe that an outstanding team chemistry prevails simple arithmetic sums of outstanding players.
I see Ichiro as one of the most skilled player and he can inspire many people; however at the same time, I see him as highly self oriented player who lacks the ability to cheer up his teammates.
Ichiro's join to SF was going to destroy the positive atmosphere in SF's bench.
That's why I'm very happy to hear that he signed Yankees for 2 years.
Will he recognize the importance of team chemistry and the upper limit of contribution by a single player? I'm looking forward to see Ichiro's evolution while he is in NY.

Which brand of Bottle of Water Tastes the Best?

Sampling 10 students of statistics class, I tried to figure out which brand of bottle of water tastes the best.

I asked them to rate each (label masked) between 1 and 5 for the following 8 brand.

Aquafina
Dasani
Evian
Fiji
Poland Spring Water (the most inexpensive among them)
Smart Water
Volvic
Voss  (the most expensive)


The result of this simple test was Fiji and Smart Water taste the best, Evian the worst.

I tasted them by myself separetely (except Fiji), and I found

Volvic and Smart Water tastes better than the others.
Didn't find any difference between Aquafina, Dasani, PSW, and Voss.
I didn't like Evian.

I should buy Fiji to taste it because I've never tried it before.
But tap water, 1000 times cheaper than PSW, is replaceable for my dull tongue.
I probably can't recognize much difference anyway...

A Happy News...for me.

Another MLB related story.

I'm so happy to see Marco Scutaro returning to SF. $20 mil in 3 years.
Pagan's speed with Scutaro's ability to advance runners will be a great weapon for SF.
More chance to score in the 1st inning, more chance to win the game!

But I didn't expect a 3 year deal. I hope he will stay in good shape for 3 years and won't be traded away like he was when he was in Redsox.



http://sanfrancisco.giants.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121204&content_id=40514076&vkey=news_sf&c_id=sf#disqus_thread

The Parity, Even and Odd.

I just heard that MLB's Huston Astros is going to transfer from NL Central to AL West in 2013 season.  Now five ball clubs will be belonged in each division in each league.
That seems fair. I always felt strange that there were only 4 teams in AL West.
But I couldn't expect this to happen at all for one reason, the parity.

There are 30 MLB teams, currently 16 in NL and 14 in AL.
Because both leagues have even number of clubs, they can play against each other everyday.
But from 2013,  there will be 15 NL teams and 15 AL teams.
Then, one team in each league have no opponents in its own league.
So I couldn't see this become a reality.

It seems that an interleague game will be played somewhere everyday.
The next season's schudule intrigues me!

First of all, I expect that the "interleague period" in May and June will be discontinued.
There are 15 teams in AL x 5 teams in one division of NL x 6 games/series = 450 interleague games.
There are about 162 days in the regular season.
So roughly 450/162 = 3 interleague games will be required each day.
If there are 3 interleague games each day, the remaining 24, 12 in each league, can face each other.

Calender

I'm not skilled at utilizing a calender.

For year 2013, I plan to buy  calenders and do my best to use it for better life.

1. Look at the calender, make plans (like trip plans) before the school ask me to do some task on the weekend!
2. Insert the weather of the day into the calender. I would be fun.
3. Insert the deadlines for my tasks. For example, "finish reading '~' by 1/31" or "be able to play "fur elise" by 1/31". 
4. Use it as my notebook. Unlike scratch papers, calender won't be discarded or be lost.

I think if I use it wisely, I can improve my time management.

This month is the trial period.

"None was started by one person."

"None was started by one person." by Ernesto Sirolli.

Recently I gain a bit of interest in the Africa.
I never had any curiosity in Africa.
After restudying some geography, I began to wonder how the life of typical Africans are like.
I've never been there and I'm not willing to visit there because of the safety issue.
But is there anything I can do to help improving their lifestyle....from the distance?
My current solution is that I can't do anything. I have no power to change it in significant way.

While watching Ernesto Sirolli's talk on TED, I realized that I'm lacking the concept of working as team.  I guess I'm still believing "I'm almightly" in some way.
I must learn how to get help where I can't do very well.
Stop trying to do everything by myself!



http://www.ted.com/speakers/ernesto_sirolli.html

ABA form (Plan)

Music has some type of forms such as ABA or ABAB.

I would like to introduce these kind of form into my math lecture.

With some twist on second A (repetitive part), students can review the material at the beginning of the class yet they will hear something slightly different (I would say more challenging).
That will  reinforce important part by repeating, and at the same time, they will learn it more deeply with slightly twisted problems.

Introduce something new (A)

Do something different (B)

Back to A with some modification. (A)

I think this form will be better than form ABC or ABCD to keep students' attention.

What a Pessimist!

I think that humans are not intelligent and associating enough to evade the next world war which could be catastrophic.

I hope I'm wrong...at least for the next 100 years or so.
But I believe that all one of us must be aware of that possiblity.

Myself as a Resource to make the World Better.

Am I doing my best to make this world better?

Teaching mathematics to high school students is the best I can do???

I probably can't help every single person in the world.
But I can probably help my family at least to some extent.
Then how many people I should try to help? Tens? Hundreds? Thousands? Millions?

I feel that a school is very small world. I can't do much for the world if I'm stucked here....
Or can I? If teachers give positive influence toward students who might do something good for the world....???


As one of the member who grew up in blessed society, a feel of  responsibility to do something good for the society is emerging a little by little.
At this moment, I have no knowledge and skills to help many people.
I aspire to find the way that I can contribute to the world in the maximum way.

Talking to the Cashier

"Hi, It's getting cold lately. I started using heater at home....so my home is really dry now and I feel thirsty." I only purchased drinks this day. milk, water, juice, and ice-cream...

 "Oh my...I'm sorry for not spending enough money to earn even one stamp! I will do better next time" At this store customers can earn 1 stamp for each $10.00 of purchase and 100 stamps is equivalent to some amount of a gift card. On this day, My total was about $8.00


Recently I tried to chat with a cashier person when I purchase food and drink (and icecreams.)
The above two are examles from my most recently shoppings.
Various reasons to do this....

1. I feel more comfortable with greeting. I used to feel more comfortable staying silent...
   What a change!!! Oh Well...

2. I would like to make cashier person happy with quick wit words. You know they probably are having a bored time for monotonous work.  I was once being a cashier. I guess that's why I feel this way.  I just hope I don't bother them.

3. Also this is a great opportunity to train myself to come up with wit words...without hurting myself.

4. I'm trying to practice speaking English more. If possible, I would like to use words I recently learned.

At the Verizon's Customer Service (Analysis)

(Continue from previous post.)
Why he was successful?

1. I didn't have to wait as long as I expected when I called. Actually it was surprising quick.
    I expect a long waiting time before I can connect to any human helper.
    I guess this less waiting time alleviate my frustration level.

2. He listen to what I wanted to tell sincerely.
    Sincerely!? How can I know without seeing him? Am I sure??
    I don't know. But he stayed quiet while I was speaking, and he responded back quickly after I finish. So I feel comfortable.

3. He gave me several (fortunately not many) options I can choose from for my solution.
    He didn't force me to do anything. He knew very well about my (and any humans') tendency to be repulsive when I was forced. 

4. His stance remained as a humble and gentle assistant  throughout the whole conversation. 
    So I felt he is trustworthy.


Currently I'm a mere high school teacher. But this job includes customer service side.
So whatever skill he used, I should acquire and be able to apply.

At the Verizon's Customer Service

I was using Verizon's Hot Spot for internet connection since Jan of 2011.
I signed for a two years contract.
The device only gave me unstable connectivity and I'm not so satisfied.
But I didn't terminate the contract because I didn't find any sound alternatives and also I didn't want to pay penalties for early termination.

But about two weeks ago, right after Hurricane Sandy passed NY, the device stopped working.
I was hoping that Verizon would give me a replacement without any charge because the device broke within 2 years. 
I went to the Verizon shop for seeking help.
Then I was told to call to the custer service.

After 15 minutes of communication with the gentle male on phone, I felt very good despite the fact I originally didn't plan to use my option to upgrade the device for additional cost and I don't receive any compensation for the parking fee for visiting the shop!

I have to bow to the customer service gentleman for his communication skill.
He calmed me down and lead me into buying another Verizon's product!
I still can't figure out why he could do that. What set of skills did he has???

Communicating with him was well worth paying $70.00!....Maybe not....
But I had things to learn from him and I'm satified for now.
I just hope the new device is also a satisfactory one.

Marco Scutaro, MVP for NLCS!!!

I'm so happy about hearing this news.
I turned my radio on this evening for the first time in 3 months just for hoping to hear SF Giants' victory and the possible MVP award to Marco!
Scutaro is my favorite player since 2004.
It is astonishing to see his batting stats are keep improving.
I wonder how many more years he can stay in MLB...

Anyway, I'm in bliss!

My body does it, not my brain!

Checking emails is my daily task.
Well I lied.  Actually I don't do it daily....but...indeed, it is the task!

For whatever reason, I have to log in with my username and password every time.
And I can log in without looking at a cheat sheet or hacking because I remember my password.
Well I lied once again. Actually I don't remember it.
I just didn't know that I didn't remember it clearly.

A few days ago, I tried to check my email from the I-PAD.
It was my first attempt to check my emails with my new gadget.
I set newly acquired Apple's email account for the default which I don't use it elsewhere.
So I have to log in with my user name and password for all other accounts.
After failing to log in several times, I realized that I don't remember my password.
My fingers remembered the correct sequence of typing password, but my brain doesn't remember it clearly. It was absolutely new experience for my fingers to type in passwords with the virtual keyboard in the I-PAD's screen.

Now I understand that body could be useful to learn something.

At Richard Elliot's Concert.

I went to see a jazz concert last Saturday.
The concert had two parts. The first half was for the pianist David Benoit (and his group), and the second half was for the saxophonist Richard Elliot (and his group).

I was interested on Benoit's stage, and it was as good as I expected.
He played pieces I was hoping to listen such as Kei's Song and Freedom at Midnight.
But also he played some other my favorite pieces suchas Will's Chill and Beat the Street.
I was really satisfied with the first part of the event and I totally forgot about Mr. Elliot.
Actually I was about to leave the concert hall immediately after David Benoit's show.
Well I didn't leave because I noticed nobody were leaving during the "intermission".


It was my first time to experience Richard Elliot's music.
I even haven't listened to his music on CDs or MP3s.
My first impression was a good one.
His first piece on the stage was a vivid and energitic one,
and the sound of his sax was clear and beautiful.
But I didn't like his over-performance (body performance, not about music.)
I felt it's silly. He didn't have to such performing actions.
His music and stage were already satisfactory without the aid of such silly body actions.
So afterall, I was a bit disappointed at the end of the day...

Although I didn't like Richard Elliot's show, I would like to have a fraction of his crazy energy.
I think my lectures need some of his silly heat.

I couldn't see it to happen at all.

Wow, Oakland A's took the division title.
Rangers was a forerunner for the entire season until yesterday, and A's overpassed Rangers at the final day of the regular season.
It's so dramatic! That's a stunning news!
From the beginning of this season till the last week, I've never ever thought about this posibility.
Simply amazing and unbelievable! I still can't believe that this is real.
I wonder what was so special about this year's A's.......
Well, I guess I should see more possibilities from my students at school.
They might be able to accomplish much more than what I can anticipate.

An incident that made my day.

On Saturday, I went to a shopping at Stop & Shop.
I bought several items including 2 cereal boxes and 2 pints of Haagen Dazs.
I went to the self-service checkout line with coupons: 1 for cereal and 1 for icecream.

A big problem arose. The scanner failed to read either coupons.
Without the coupons, my total expense will be above $50 which is my upper limit.
I asked one of the employees near me for help.
She typed in the numbers into the machine because it was failed to be scanned.
Then she asked me "How many cereal boxes do you buy?"
I replied "Two."
She showed me the coupon. "This coupon is valid for at least 3 cereal boxes of purchase."
"Oh...I didn't see it carefully!!"
How nice she was! She made this valid even though I only purhcased 2.

While I'm feeling happy about this, she showed me another invalid coupon and said:
"This coupon is for at least 4 icecreams. This is absurd. Who the hell will ever buy 4!"
Again, she made this valid for me.

She was so nice. I feel fortunate that I still have human interaction at the shop.
If it was 100% computerized environment, my coupons would be mercilessly rejected.
So I probably had no chance to feel happy at the end of the transaction.
I hope people foresee 100% computerized society is actually a cruel world.

By the way, I often buy 4 icereams. I didn't do so this time because of the budget limit.

Wallpaper for Learning.

My brother taught me something clever.
It is about the wallpaper for the desktop.
I have never cared about it and I use the default all the time.
But he told me that we should change it because we look at it very frequently.
What's so clever about it?
Well he suggested me to put some crib sheet for whatever I want to memorize.
That's a sounding and convincing idea. I've never thought like that.
As you might expect, I use my computer frequently...at least as much as I update this blog.
I probably have glimpsed the wallpaper hundreds times a day.
Yeah, I should exploit the accumulation of such instant moments for learning.


Thank you for your advice!

The Squall hit NY on last Saturday.

I was going to meet someone, and I had a right to choose date and time to meet up.
On Friday just prior to the weekend, I decided  "Saturday 2pm".

Then a heavy rain falls here...on Saturday.
I had to drive through the horrible visibility due to the severe squall.
I saw at least three sites of accident during my 2 hours of round trip that day.
I was actually very happy to return home without a problem.
Next day was clear and sunny.
The sky is blue and beautiful.

I'm really impressed to myself.
These days, I'm simultaneously reading the following books.
a book on weather forecasting, a book on weather (for children), and a book on global warming.
And...I was completely unaware of the weather forecast for the weekend.
How comical I could be!

Rejecting the Sunlight...What a Gloomy Life!

I used to think there is nothing special about birthday.
"Well, birthday is just one of 365 days in the year. Why does people act strangely in such days?"
I really didn't understand it.
"Are you really sure that you're born in exactly xx years ago?"

I used to think that studying subjects such as history and geography is fruitless effort.
"Is such knowledge mandatory for our daily life?"
I really didn't have a clue why I had to study them when I was a student.
My understanding was that school is a place to establish my own studying habit/style and become an independent learner.
So....I didn't put effort on these subjects...because my style was "Do what I like, don't do what I don't like."
My style didn't change since then.
But my stance toward subjects which I used to be hated is changing.
I become more open minded to accept them rather than to reject them.



Rejecting the speciality of my birthday wouldn't produce anything good.
Accepting it might produce some happiness...maybe.

Rejecting A to Z makes my life boring and unproductive.
Rejection is an evil!

So why the devil is nested in my immatured brain?
I believed that repulsion is cool!
Ironically, repulsion made my life cold.
It's true. Learning provides me energy, and I bragged I didn't have to learn those useless things.

Knowledge Without Action

I received a spreadsheet file with small tables with students name.
This file was distributed to teachers, not only me.
All tables were in the same format.
Well I just need one of these tables to print out.

I noticed that the table was not sorted by names.
It was sorted by one of other columns which was not desired by teachers.
So what I did is resort the table by names, and printed out what I want.

...So what's this talk all about???
After a short while, a little trouble happend.
The tables were printed out and distributed for some other purpose.
Then someone found out that tables weren't sorted correctly, and the person who prepared them had to collected them and prepare resorted tables.
I inwardly felt sorry for all involved, especially the one who made the table.
If I notified my awareness beforehand, this trouble was prevented.
But I didn't do so.  I couldn't think the simple fact that the tables was not only for me but also for many others.

Although my mistake was due to my unawareness of thinking about others,
I would keep in my mind that knowledge without action is a vile act.

Graph of Sine and Cosine Function.

I just come up with the idea to momerize the graph of Sine function and Cosine function.

It is fairly easy for student to recollect that these function has wavy shape.
The harder part was apparently the distinction between these two function.
Guess which one is y=sin(x)?

Imagine the capital letter S of sine and C of cosine rotated 90 degrees.
Here is the answer.
The blue one is S, and the red one is C.

Tripodal Synergy....No...There is also Math.

While studying geography, I realized that curiosity to economics and weather are good asset to deepen my understanding about other countries.

Well to be honest with you, I don't know much about economics and weather.
I just recently got interest in them and began trying to gain knowledge on them.
Despite, the effect of possessing curiosity seems obvious.
Motivation to learn geography, economics, and weather helps to heighten each other.
I'm thrilled when I learn something that join two different field of study.
It is a positive synergy effect.  What an effective way to learn!
It's sad to see "math" is outside of this geographic learning cycle....so far....
Oh but...Wait! Today I was willing to spend time reading about "Mozambique Current" and another current on the west coast. Why? It's probably because water turbulance was a picked up quite frequently in "Chaos" which I was exposed to during this summer.
Indeed, math has some role in this learning process.
Did I forcibly involve math to make a conclusion with my taste?


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Today's adventure:

Open a magazine.
Found an advertisement about traveling to South Africa.
Check South Africa on Wikipedia and Google Image Search and get overview about the country.
Learn about ocean currents around South Africa. (this helps to understand the terrian and climate!)
Check nearby countries such as Namibia and Zimbabwe quickly.

Virtual Trip

Since the beginning of last month, I'm slowly learning the geography of the world.
My main objective is to remember names and locations of all countries in the world.

As you may know that this is merely a topic from high school geography course.
So I should say "RE-learning" instead of "learning".
But I don't remember much from the course, and I feel that I'm learning something new.

Although my goal is ultimately just learn names and locations of each country,
I want and need to gain more information to solidify such knowledge.
With help of internet, I try to imagine myself sightseeing these countries.
How is the weather there like?
How convenient the public transportation?
Where is good sightseeing spot?

After my virtual trip to several developing countries, I realized that safety is the huge issue in most countries.
For now, beautiful photos are more than sufficient to satisfy my desire.

My Bookshelf

My bookshelf is lack of variety in genre.
I felt that I should explore other field in order to widen my knowledge and to improve my imagination.

First I have to break out from my habit of being stingy.
Second I have to make free space by discarding books which I wouldn't read for the rest of my life.
That requires courage which I failed to acquire in college!

Learn the Taste of Triumph

There are instantly executable things that I'm unmotivated to do.
For example, writing a check for the monthly credit card bill could be done quickly.
Dish washing is another example. Flossing teeth is..still...such a thing.
My rational thinking brain is telling me "just do them right now!"
He knows that once I finished with these troublesome I feel good.
My brain doesn't have to think about it anymore.
However my lazy brain also often tempted me like "hey, we can do it anytime. So do it later."
From experience I really understand that deferation is not a wise decision.
So I have to fight against the temptation from lazy portion of myself.
To become invincible, I have to be addicted and starved for the savor of the triumph.

I Accomplished Something Today!

Hey this is my 10th post of the month.
What so special about it?
One of my goal for this month was to write 10 posts on this blog.
I accomplished it.
Please forget about the fact that I did it with this clumsy post which merely says this is the 10th of the month.
Anyway this gives me confidence.
This accomplishment will be the driving force for the next month!

Do It EVERYDAY!

It was a year ago that I swear...to myself...that I will brush my teeth and use flosses more frequently to prevent getting cavities.
Although I didn't flosses everyday, I did much more frequently than used be.
Acutally I had a secret confidence not having any cavity this time.
But what I heard from my regular dentist was a very brielf disappointing one.
"You have two cavities."

Darn it!
I was so shocked that I didn't want to talk back to him!

Ok. I swear that I floss everyday!
That means I have to make it my habit. Yes, brushing is my habit but flossing is not my real habit yet.

According to a recent book I read, it takes 3 weeks of practice to make something to be your new habit. Three weeks is loooong. But it is a good to have such indicator. With such a concrete number, I feel I can do it this time.

"Imagine is More Important Than Knowledge"

Imagine about how my behavior would influence the other people.
Predict how they react when I take some action.

Then take some action if not inappropriate and observe.
Now I get one sample data.
Reconstruct my model (prediction) if needed then repeat the process at different incidence.

This is a science of human behavior.
First part is essential. I think everybody do "take action" and "observe" part.
But without "Imagine" part, it's not effective.
This will train my observational skill which is good to possess for better daily life.

Get Out of the Chaos

I feel that I know nothing now.
There are too many things which I'm ignorant at.
I have desire to learn those things, but I can't learn everything.
There isn't enough time to learn all.
By thinking so, after all, I have diffiuculty sustain my curiousity.
Consequently I'm not really learning anything meaningful.
I feel that the only way to overcome this dilemma is to give up most things and focus on a few things that I really really want to know more about.
The ability to give up many things for one thing, or the skill to select one from myriad matters.

Sounds easy...why I can't practice it?

My mind is in total chaos, and I haven't figured out what I really have to do....
I guess I have to get out of this maze at first or I'm a unsolved zigsaw puzzle forever.
But once I figure out my direction, I surely can reconstruct my ruler for finer judgement and valuation.

Overcome the first week ordeal (ordeal???)

There is a moment of ecstasy when I actually can feel the improvement on what I'm working on.
And that feeling becomes the driving force to push me even further.

For example, push up exercise:
I could only do it 5 times and give up immediately.
I really hated to do push up.
Yet very recently I started practicing it on daily basis.
Just after one week of unwilling and tiresome praticing of push ups, I could count up to 20.
Not only the improvement in the duration of the exercise, my heart began to feel lighter.
I mean that now I don't feel too much pain to start doing push ups. Actually it's getting joyful (a little bit though.)

It is difficult to initiate the unwanted and painful work.
However once we get used to it and see some improvement, bright future (like I become strong enough to push up 100 times continually) seems at the graspable distance.
Am I daydreaming???
Maybe that's true...but it is better than doing nothing by giving up every hope.

Old Man Uses Paper and Pencils.

As electronic devices become parts of our life, we probabaly don't use paper and pencil as before.
But I feel that my mind is sharper when writing with pencils than when typing with keyboard.
It is probably because I learned with pencil way when I was young.
I hope that my mind stays sharp or sharper with keyboard because of its convenience and speed.
Which is more realistic: adjust my brain to computers OR computers adjust to my brain.
I guess the latter is the answer; therefore, I'll wait the arrival of next generation computers which make me staying sharp or sharper.

Establish the Learning System

What is the most primary thing that we learn at school?
Well we are obliged to absorb lots of knowledge.
But I think that's not the point.
What we have to do at school is to establish a good system of learning.

Time management which optimise our learning
Study English to learn how to read and absorb more knowledge.
Study Math to learn how to utilize numbers, functions, and graphs.
Study each subject to learn way of thinking linked to each subject.
School provides a guidance. Tests tell what's more important than others (things appear on test and things don't). Homework tell us about an amount of work that one should do everyday or one can handle. Discussion helps us to learn how to communicate and learn the existence of various point of view. Project gives hint to find out problems by ourselves.

Once one acquires the effecitve learning system, one can progress into one's new stage of life.
On the other hand, even if one memorize all the knowledge needed to graduate from school, one has to start from the beginning in one's next learning environment. Think about a computer that can answer to all the typical questions within the ambit of high school level  yet can't answer anything outside of the scope. Would you hire it? Probably no...unless it still have a huge free memory and it is a fast one.

Don't Rush.

Eating hastily is probably not the best way of eating. Foods wouldn't be digested efficiently.
As I force myself to gain more knowledge rapidly in short time, I'm sacrificing the opportunity to deepen my comprehension. 
For more effective learning, I want to strengthen my digesting system.
A cliche which I should keep in my mind all the time is "Don't Rush. Chew Well".
Even though I shouldn't rush much, I shouldn't drive like at a turtle speed.
I should figure out the speed of absorbing which would optimise my comprehension both in quality and quantity. Well I will need innumerable amount of trial and errors...hoping that the sequence of refinement will converges quickly.

Accurate and Concise Expression

Recently I realized the importance of commuincation skills.
Every jobs require some amount of commuincations.
I should've taken it more seriously when I was a student. I was a moron.

Right now,  I'm trying speak/write more accurately yet concisely.
But with my limited set of vocabularies, my expression tends to be circuitous if not accurate.
I must study English literature.
To learn more vocabularies and phrases, read more English paragraphs.
I should occasionally read aloud to improve pronounciation. (Pronounciation is one of my problems.)
I must speak up more and master new words and phrases.

Well that's not enough.
I have lots to learn from daily life as well.
I desire to have a chef's tongue and nose to distinguish the tastes and smells.
I desire to have artist's eyes to observe the world.
I desire to have musician's ears to differentiate sounds.
Then I must look for opportunity to express the nuances by words.


Unremitting observation and practice are inevitable.
But actually this is getting fun. I believe my English and myself is getting lively at communication.

Set Short Term Objectives

Do you have a definite objective that worth spending all of, if not most of, your life?
I don't have one.
Mathematical research or Mathematical education might be the ones.
But I haven't determined to live in these directions.
Decisions are always my weakness through my life...

The disadvantage of undeciding of one's life path is that one can't focus on one thing.
Athletes would majority of their time on practicing their althletics.
Musicians would spent their time on brushing up their musical skills and playing.
Professors of Math would devote their time on studying math.
People who haven't found out the objects to pursue would have difficult time figuring out what they are suppose to do now.

Without knowing one's fate, one would have difficulty setting concrete objectives.
It's like that one is in a maze without any clue for escaping.
However one has to act something. If one stays at a same place or just strolls randomly, one can't achieve anything. Escaping is just a dream.
So set some short term objectives. It might gives a progress. Achieving such short term objectives will strengthen one's mind. Some of the trials might lead to an unexpected breakthrough, too.

For the discovery of the thing to worth devote all of my life I'm working on my daily, weekly and monthly objectives.

Friction

I haven't post anything for half a year.I must have extremely large normal forces against the surface!
That means I'm a heavy fat guy.

I must do some exercise now!!!!