"Take Five"

I like "Take Five" by Dave Brubeck Quartet so much.
This is one of pieces that I really want to be able to play on piano someday.

Recently I purchased the music book for beginner that include "Take Five".
This sheet is not satisfactory at all because it is too simplified and it is in different tonality.
But I think this is a good starting point for me.
It is good for me to learn melody and rhythms...and to practice reading the sheet.
After studying this "Take Five" for "beginner", I would like to try different versions.
But I think that I will need at least one month to be able to play it (for beginners) comfortably.

Add Something into a Ricecooker.

 I just have to mix it with rice into a ricecooker and just wait for 50 minutes or so.
Then I can enjoy flavored rice with mixtures such as mushrooms and crabs.
But I had never come up with idea of mixing something other than products on markets that is solely for mixing with rice.

When I was reading some article, I learned that some people add butter into the ricecooker to make the rice less sticky.  I've never thought about adding butter into the ricecooker.
I thought that it would be fun to try adding various things into the ricecooker.

For my first challenge, I added several scoops of salmon flakes.
Well, it is not a big adventure yet it is a huge first step for me enjoying cooking.
This year, I would like to cook more by myself and train my taste sensation.

By the way, I liked the smell of salmon from the ricecooker.
But I thought that I should've add more when I was eating it. Too frugal am I?

Journey to Find the Next Career.

I have to keep studying to improve myself, our community, and the world.

First I need to figure out the most effective way to use myself.
Is a high school math teacher the answer to it? 
Right now I'm on the journey to find the answer to this question.
I know I should find the answer quickly because time I have is finite.
But please give me a year or two.

Help somebody, not everybody.

I watched a movie "Bernie."

Bernie is a real volunteer.
He works for people of small town Carthage.
He is really happy to work for people and he doesn't work for his own profit.
He found the significance of his life is to work for people.

His life seemed to be a successful one until he met Marjorie, an evil-minded widow.
He tried to be supportive to her like he did to other people.
It's not apparent that he fell in love to Marjorie or he simply tried to rescue Marjorie in solitude.
Anyway Bernie's life is destined to jail at the moment he decided to help Marjorie.
Her strong desire to keep Bernie in her hands resulted him spending more time for her and less time for the rest of people in Carthage.
His frustration was summed up because he couldn't do what he wants (the commuinty service.)
After a while, he killed Marjorie. 
He concealed her death for 9 months.
He keep acted to deceive people as Marjorie is still alive, and he still worked vigorously for the community.  He spent Marjorie's abundant legacy for community with no hesitation, too.

I found Bernie really scary.
This Mr. Nice Guy can easily deceive people.
He doesn't have himself.  He doesn't show any characteristics. He doesn't have his preference.
Is he really a human? 

From this movie, I thought that I must be selective.
I can't support everybody in the world nor everybody I meet.
Two reasons: my lifetime is limited and helping someone could hurt others.
If I try to be Mr. Nice Guy to everybody, I will be tormented like Bernie did.


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1704573/