Diary 31/3/2017

Still a messy day. Lost something precious =(
Have wonderful breakfast (yum cha) and lunch (italian tomato) =)
Met Ms. Margaret Loo and Pastor Suen.

Tried to go to the stupid Prince Wales Hospital and Shatin Hilton Plaza Ear Clinic. Sure, make appointment. Shutting door right at my face. (grimace)

Yeah for Anime! Yeah for Manga! Yeah for Game! Hehehehe
Yeah for all my lovable friends and families.

Happy days, happy weeks. Lots of ups and downs, but getting better now (I think/I hope).

See you guys tmr.

Weekly Journal 20-26/3

又是一個很艱難的一週。不說太多了。

Weekly Journal 13-19/3

A chaotic week with many highs and lows, ups and downs. Won't type too much now.

To-do list

Reason I am writing a to-do list:
I am starting to have many things I want to do or need to do. I have to write them down in case I forget something very or relatively important. This is an activity that can help me to think.

High-priority list: (短期目標)

(NEW)

• Trial and error
• Be truthful to your feeling
• Create a self-introduction table/diagram/essay

Jobs-related (i.e. Think about my needs Financially):

• Send more resume
• Teaching Assistant/Research Assistant/Education Consultant/Social Worker Trainee/i dunno know.
• Acknowledgements:
• Teaching experiences: From P.6 to S.3. Targets: classmates.
• Research experiences: B.Sc. dissertations and M.Sc. assignments. SHKP EIA-related project (3 months), creativity assessment tool (1 year? not sure)  
• Consulting experiences: accumulative 3 years. Targets: family members.
• Social work/Sociology: F.5 1 year? Venue: Teens Angel Family Centre A brand new field to study.
• Special thanks to Uncle Duncan and Polly (lol)
• The "Why?Why?Why?" game was so inspiring and memorable. I loved it. I think I was P5? Need to check lol.
• Reminders:
• Keep on exploring until 30 years old. When you are 30 years old, decide a specialist and move on. Consider the other field as valuable interests or knowledge or experience, but you have to move on and transit to another stage.
• Entrepreneurship is difficult, but may be necessary at a certain stage (40 years old)
• Get to know more about yourself
• http://personality-testing.info/tests/16PF.php
• Attend more interview
• With a higher self-awareness and better understanding of the "rules of interview", you can improve your interview scores.
• Decide on a job (1 full time or 2 part-time)

Middle-priority list: (中期目標)

Relationship issues: (or Social-Needs):

• Plan a trip. Go with an intimate friend.
• Plan MPhil/PhD.
• I don't really need one for a living to survive. I just really want to experience a romantic MPhil/PhD life. Not much concrete thought yet.
• Chat with every relevant people I know
• (NEW) E.g. Social Science Information Day
• Develop your own social network
• (NEW) Learnt Philosophy: "You have to cooperate to do great works. You can't do everything on you own."
• Get involved. Make more sharing with people that you dare to try.
• Finish that powerpoint - Questions/Fact-finding on Parenting
• Re-unite with relationship I treasured
• Wait until till I am feeling sufficiently secure
• (NEW) Write a history of yourself. Floor the foundation of my love and logic.
• Wait."You did your best and let God do the rest" (Reference)

Low-priority list: (長期目標)

Health issues:

• Try a Tai-chi class, and see if I like it
• I prefer slower and less taxing sports. Maybe.
• (NEW) Try a muay thai class.
• Self-defense and "Positive Violence".
• Check out and find a pub/bar that I might like. Target: exposure, not booze
• Check out 西環district. Check out "handmade" products.
• Check if telepathy is feasible
• Maybe Internet * Mobile Phone interaction is telepathy LOL
• Read about male and female differences

(Date of update 15/3/2017)
(Updated text highlighted in red)

(I will pause now, and update if I think of anything.)

Personal Bookmarks

Random sites I might want to review and read when I have time

http://www.ahaparenting.com/ask-the-doctor-1/love-logic-a-critique
https://www.loveandlogic.com/about/research-funding

Weekly Journal 6/3 - 12/3

Another tough week! At least I finished all statistical analysis given from my PI (principal investigator, i.e. my boss)

Had a few gathering with:
1. Uncle Spencer (Wednesday). Nice Japanese food, nice chat about further career and regret. Quotes: Live the moment and work at your best heartily and proactively, then, you need not be regretful in your coming future (用心、積極、盡善地面對當下，你日後便不需後悔).

2. 3E classmates (Thursday). Food stall, so acceptable food, but I'm not gonna have fish intestines anymore...So sort of picked up what my best friends are doing nowadays. Sophia's younger brother had a Psychology Bachelor, but went to Australia to study Engineering! Wow, how similar to what I did. And I feel a bit sorry for Sophia's mum for feeling lonely, that her sons and daughters are all no longer depends on it. A bit sad, but a transition for all mothers.

3. Furry friends (Friday). Yeah, Japanese buffet(tabehoudai)! Second time to rakuten daikiya(樂天大喜屋), yum yum again! I think I thrashed overly, and got my feeling flying everywhere across my tables. LOL. Oh well, I think no big deal.

4. Rachel's friends (Saturday). Wow. Second time to teach people to play Shadows over Camelot. 勞勞thanked me for teaching them, so I feel better even though I could be more patient and teach better, but that game IS complicated, so ok overall. No need to be too demanding! Try better next time! Wish I could play too though, but oh well. Good experience to be a GM.

Er...wow. Busy. Sort of remind me my Bachelor life.

For emotional aspect, I am writing a really demanding task. Will talk about it when it's finished.
Though I am building up really good relationship with a nice guy. Bless him.

For job-finding aspect, no progress yet. Just sent an application.

For reading, found a good book (see Facebook). For writing, found something I wrote six years ago Orz... can't bear to read it again.

Well I will sign off from Blogger now.

News and Newspaper - Effective Ways to Read?

One of my friends shared his views on gaining awareness of news around the world, so I thought I would write a short piece on my thoughts this. I am starting with Hows, and hope that I could get to Whats and Whys.

In this century of information explosion, numerous ways are available to catch news, e.g. social networking sites such as Facebook, a sharing in your Whatsapp groups etc. However, these are what your friends wanted to share, and is not necessarily what you want or need to read.

These so-called "random encounters" do not really help you to know news "enough".





Brainstorm:
Hearing News - televisions on MTR, TVB news, iNews channel

News website - BBC CCN appledaily, scmp, standard
News categories - Local (Hong Kong and China), World, interests (Science and Technology,  Education, Lifestyles, Sports, Entertainment etc.)

What we should do? Choose the sources wisely!
"Free newspaper" are "fast food news" - get to know the hottest and utmost importance
Have more time? Have a quick check of different sites, and find your favourite ones.

Weekly Journal 27/2 - 05/3

I wrote something I don't want to share, so I will make this one short.

Not much progress this week.
Arthur gave me some information regarding the different positions in an University.
I am beginning to think this might not be a good time to pursue a PhD.

Yes I am a sort-of-curious-and-think-too-much guy, but I still need to practice generating more outputs (like this journal lol)

Anyway, hope next week will have better progress!

My regrets regarding my upbringing

This journal focus on the training I had during my studies in secondary school and university.

Between secondary form 1 and 3, I began to be interested in the Physical Science. It's ok actually, because I am good at logical thinking, and I did very well in Maths Physics Chemistry Biology.

But I had had some unfortunate incidence in these years. I disappointed some teachers. Both scolded me severely, such that I felt being misunderstood. I learnt to avoid "getting hurt" by avoiding conflicts with others. By doing this, I was actually widening the gaps between me and my peers or my teachers. So I never was able to have "constructive communications" with them.

I started to be scared of general social interaction, and this inability to communicate well snowball itself, such that I was once diagnosed as having Asperger's Syndrome when I was 16.

But we did not do much about it, not until I was having major problems while I worked in the society.

When I was applying for my bachelor studies, I haven't given deep nor serious thoughts on working in the society, because I was not good at social interaction in general. I faced tremendous disappointments and frustrations when I failed or had unpleasant social events.

Really wished I had thought more about my career
Really wished I had earlier intervention with my social limitations

So...at least I hope the future generations wouldn't repeat my mistakes, but hey, history repeat itself and humankind is so ignorant or stupid lol