Category Archives: Life
Light at the end of the tunnel
I am currently revising the final draft of my dissertation. After a revision and some changes to the bibliography, it will be ready for printing and mailing for scrutiny. Read more »
Two paintings
Often times when I use my computer, my son will come to my desk and try to get my attention. He sometimes grabs the mouse and demands either to play games or draw a picture. Read more »
Breaking Bad: fly
I must write this post to get over my batch of Breaking Bad posts. There are three seasons of it so far so I figure I should write three posts to match it. It is weird thoughts indeed. Read more »
Breaking Bad: cancerous motive
The motive is the key to the action of any character in a story. To make the whole story plausible and intriguing, the character should have a burning feeling of life and has to act in one way or another. The motive and the action make a unique person with whom we empathize and share the same feeling. Some universal themes include love, hatred, revenge, suffering and betrayal. It is easy to pick one of the universal theme but creating it into a wonderful and unforgettable story really requires inspiration, craftsmanship and building blocks. Read more »
Breaking Bad: a new start
I will not be lingering on this post to explain what happened in the past three months. A lot of things happened, and I felt I am a changed man due to the lessons and harsh realities life throws at me. No, I will not write about what happened. Read more »
Three ways to use Twitter on Symbian phones
I am no twitter fan but as G.F*W gets so omnipotent, I guess I should dig a tiny hole in it by using twitter anyway. Read more »
Happiness: new understanding
Now I have a new perspective of what happiness is: it is more dependent on what you don’t have than what you have and plan to have. Read more »
Count the blessings
Let me count the blessings I have in my life at this moment: Read more »
A few things to do every day
Once I got back to the supposedly easy life in China as a somewhat changed person, I found it was so easy to fall back into the old routine life and idle away. So in this morning of a new semester, I am thinking of doing the following things daily in order to make progress little by little: Read more »
Insistence on Email and phone communications
Has it ever happened to you that your phone calls and email messages to someone go unanswered. What would you do? Thinking that person chose to ignore you and drop the initiation of communication, or trying to reach that person again? My recent experience taught me to always opt for the second option. Read more »