2015-08-15

Happen to notice old pictures in my blog are with broken url now. Reread them is interesting. The photos are actually not that good. Chinese description is good with the details, English is rather bad. It doesn't mean I am a better photographer now. For so many years go without a real camera, I haven't improve any skills with those lens. But my eyes are sharper. So editing and thinking about pictures on iPhone really helps? Hua Yihe said you are a master of the tense and hue, although it is just a low quality mobile photo. Maybe that's the same about writing.
In work, have been writing in English seriously for about two years. The beginning is pretty simple: why not? Why don't I resume some writing, even it is in English. Then I've got a luxury environment, those big guys provide guidance. In all aspects: what to write? what do you really want to say? What's the point? In one word: don't be stupid. Don't waste the reader's time. And finally almost every word is polished by the native speaker. Every word is a learning.
It's all about substruction. Remove unnecessary words. Be condensed.

What matters is not what you thought a perfect work at that time. But those details will have its own independent life. So better just write down the trivals now.

Also a lot of q&a with the mentor. The best things of the job are these indirect parts, coaching trainings, mentoring programs. He asked,, so what's your own development plan? All you talk about is how u r doing things. That's important. But what's your overall direction? It's more important. To be honest I don't know. There are people passionate to be great, but I am not. It's a shame after many years u'r still that kind of 'with potentials'. So the next round I tried to answer this after clarifying lots of confusions while doing things. I am happy to be a technical expert. Then when talked about more details of requirements of next level, think about what u lack and work towards it, he said. U want the next level? Yes, why not. I said. I knew it's correct, but the small voice inside me started: but... I don't like that. I know I will never really consult anyone about how to succeed. In some dimension, that's not important for life: there are dozens of real troubles u need to work them out daily.
It's always like this. In the high school reunion the year before. Finally I got the chance to sit besides Teacher Du and sincerely thanked him for all the enlightenment he had given. That has a big impact on me. He was beaming up: I feel the real happiness now. He really meant that. He's always like this way. Teacher Li recalled once in casual that I was that kind of once per ten years student in this well reputationed high school. But so far I achieve nothing. Is that important, either? I guess not.

Now I see why Patricia who is purely mathematics oriented loves to learn different languages and why Nora said, to practice her brain she starts another language Arabian. It's actually something like Math. A set of rules and the meaningful world is constructed on these rules. A native speaker won't feel the rules much. But the new learner relys on them. It's all about logic. And all rules are practically simplified. That's interesting. The very basics of thinking differ in different languages.
Mango app is rather a good tool. So when I walked up stairs and murmured the chants of 'Die Herrentoilette ist rechts und die Damentoilette ist gleich links daneben', it feels very super-realistic.
Sorry that I didn't really learn some Japanese. At least for travels it worth doing that. The next one in my list. With mango it's possible.
But this doesn't work for kids. Mango uses logic deduction, that is not a kid's best way. They simply feel things.