All of you can do it (read 500 pages a day), but I guarantee not many of you will do it. That's the difference.
Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Thursday, December 19, 2019
There are more to life than just 8+ hours of work every day.
Thankful for my job which provides a steady flow of respectable amount of income, I feel tired every day. I need to rethink how to live life in a more balance and productive way.
Maybe switch job to Tech Prog Mgmt which will be all meetings and tracking, no development related work...?
Projects for 2020:
1. Taiwanese passports for everyone. Full body checkup
2 Mega-backdoor ROTH in 401K
3. Visit dad
4.
Thankful for my job which provides a steady flow of respectable amount of income, I feel tired every day. I need to rethink how to live life in a more balance and productive way.
Maybe switch job to Tech Prog Mgmt which will be all meetings and tracking, no development related work...?
Projects for 2020:
1. Taiwanese passports for everyone. Full body checkup
2 Mega-backdoor ROTH in 401K
3. Visit dad
4.
Wednesday, December 18, 2019
Learn to be a gracious competitor
Everyone needs to learn to be a gracious winner and a gracious loser.
Human kindness first
Use your intelligence in a positive way, cultivate the warm-heartedness that can be the catalyst of constructive change.
Materialistic goals aside, cultivate human kindness first.
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Terrible July 2019
Have to record all the bad things that happened in the month of July 2019
July 22:
Father-in-law Interment Ceremony
. big waste of money
. big unhappiness from MIL and SIL
Sis got hit by Uninsured Motorist whom even try to claim medical coverage
July 25-26:
SIL and MIL went crazy.
First foul words text from SIL
Then MIL forced face to face talk in car during commute home. Spilled out all the unhappiness accumulated from all these years.
July 27, want to pretend all is good after the big argument. But no thanks, really.
July 31, the big court hearing day for sis:
Postponed because judge got last minute filling from Sung
Got the 8k+ bill from lawyer.
Silver Linings of the month.
John finally showed up on 7/31 at mom's home to start the repair.
July 22:
Father-in-law Interment Ceremony
. big waste of money
. big unhappiness from MIL and SIL
Sis got hit by Uninsured Motorist whom even try to claim medical coverage
July 25-26:
SIL and MIL went crazy.
First foul words text from SIL
Then MIL forced face to face talk in car during commute home. Spilled out all the unhappiness accumulated from all these years.
July 27, want to pretend all is good after the big argument. But no thanks, really.
July 31, the big court hearing day for sis:
Postponed because judge got last minute filling from Sung
Got the 8k+ bill from lawyer.
Silver Linings of the month.
John finally showed up on 7/31 at mom's home to start the repair.
Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Strangest dream
Had the strangest dream last night!
Dreamed I was married to a totally stranger someone else. Tall, chubby and Chinese but have no idea who he is. I was told he works for the school in a search lab and we were married not that long ago. Someone made the comment saying "he is not divorced or anything" so it might be that it's my second marriage? It feel crazy to be told to be married to someone I have absolutely no knowledge about. And every word that person said just becomes very personally disturbing when it's not right. So the conversation was more like "let's get on to having kid(s)!" My mom was somehow a younger version of her true self and I was in Taiwan. Also because I was staying at a house of our relatives with a large number of my own family for a few weeks, I was told to write a check for 14 some million Taiwan dollar from my dad's account.
Everything seems so real but disturbing. I could still remember a lot o it upon waking up. I keep wondering what if I need to issue the check, how much is it really in HK dollar or US dollars. Who is that guy anyways? Have I seen someone like that in real life? What terrible feeling to be married to the wrong someone. There is just nothing worth to be tied to someone you don't know or care. Really the worst feeling of it all.
So it got me thinking... what if I have to remarry under some circumstance. Would it be better to stay single or I just need to spend more time with that person before making a decision. It's all a bit confusing or maybe more disturbing. Also, I should treat my husband better... in every sense....
Dreamed I was married to a totally stranger someone else. Tall, chubby and Chinese but have no idea who he is. I was told he works for the school in a search lab and we were married not that long ago. Someone made the comment saying "he is not divorced or anything" so it might be that it's my second marriage? It feel crazy to be told to be married to someone I have absolutely no knowledge about. And every word that person said just becomes very personally disturbing when it's not right. So the conversation was more like "let's get on to having kid(s)!" My mom was somehow a younger version of her true self and I was in Taiwan. Also because I was staying at a house of our relatives with a large number of my own family for a few weeks, I was told to write a check for 14 some million Taiwan dollar from my dad's account.
Everything seems so real but disturbing. I could still remember a lot o it upon waking up. I keep wondering what if I need to issue the check, how much is it really in HK dollar or US dollars. Who is that guy anyways? Have I seen someone like that in real life? What terrible feeling to be married to the wrong someone. There is just nothing worth to be tied to someone you don't know or care. Really the worst feeling of it all.
So it got me thinking... what if I have to remarry under some circumstance. Would it be better to stay single or I just need to spend more time with that person before making a decision. It's all a bit confusing or maybe more disturbing. Also, I should treat my husband better... in every sense....
Monday, January 14, 2019
Happy at Work
I am happy when
1. I found problems and filed bugs.
2. I made real friend at work who shares both work and personal knowledge.
3. I get a raise or reward.
4. I successfully filed a patent.
5. I have good manager who told me I weigh my weight in gold!
6. my work allows me to also handle my personal needs. (parents, kids, other things...)
7. the coffee at work is GREAT!!
1. I found problems and filed bugs.
2. I made real friend at work who shares both work and personal knowledge.
3. I get a raise or reward.
4. I successfully filed a patent.
5. I have good manager who told me I weigh my weight in gold!
6. my work allows me to also handle my personal needs. (parents, kids, other things...)
7. the coffee at work is GREAT!!
Tuesday, January 8, 2019
2019 - To be achieved
新年的心愿清单
工作，财务，健康，成长，娱乐，感情: 每一方面：自己投入了多少（时间和金钱)
1. Less sugar and carbo.
2. Smile more.
3. Be soft spoken.
4. Calm & Cool. Speak calmly and softly to the kids!
5. Work standing up.
6. Replace bad word with "Oh, Geez!"
7. 想要的越少，束缚就越少，做一个极简生活的践行者。
8. 临场反应能力慢，创意不足是我的缺点，逻辑性强，规划性强，自律和学习能力是我的优点。
9. Read and summarize learning
10. 钱多事少离家近的工作
11. 不去抱怨，寻找解决问题的方式，解决问题
12. 远离一切负面语言和能量
13. Ability to make far-sighted choice(s). Made big decisions by discussing them twice: once while drunk, once while sober. (^_^) Decide which option would be most appealing today, later this year, and decades from now; which would be preferable emotionally, financially, and morally; and which is better for you, your family, and society. Seeking out diverse perspectives on the choice, challenging your assumptions, making an explicit effort to map the variables”—constituted “a step up” from the pro-and-con lists. First ask ourselves what we value, then seek to maximize that value. A decision is essentially a value-maximizing equation. Plug in your values, and the right choice pops out. Vegemite Principle: if you’ve never tasted Vegemite, then neither a description of what it’s like (black, gooey, vegetal) nor experience with other spreads (peanut butter, marmalade, Nutella) will suffice to tell you whether you’d like it. Before having children, you may enjoy clubbing, skydiving, and LSD; you might find fulfillment in careerism, travel, cooking, or CrossFit; you may simply relish your freedom to do what you want. Having children will deprive you of these joys. And yet, as a parent, you may not miss them. You may actually prefer changing diapers, wrangling onesies, and watching “Frozen.” These activities may sound like torture to the childless version of yourself, but the parental version may find them illuminated by love, and so redeemed. You may end up becoming a different person—a parent. The problem is that you can’t really know, in advance, what “being a parent” is like. For Paul, there’s something thrilling about this quandary. Why should today’s values determine tomorrow’s? In her 2014 book, “Transformative Experience,” she suggests that living “authentically” requires occasionally leaving your old self behind “to create and discover a new self.” Part of being alive is awaiting the “revelation” of “who you’ll become.”
14. Life decisions touch on the question of who we aspire to become. There are some vague sense of its value that's hard to express, which you hope that some future version of yourself might properly grasp.
15. HIIT = High Intensity Interval Training
工作，财务，健康，成长，娱乐，感情: 每一方面：自己投入了多少（时间和金钱)
1. Less sugar and carbo.
2. Smile more.
3. Be soft spoken.
4. Calm & Cool. Speak calmly and softly to the kids!
5. Work standing up.
6. Replace bad word with "Oh, Geez!"
7. 想要的越少，束缚就越少，做一个极简生活的践行者。
8. 临场反应能力慢，创意不足是我的缺点，逻辑性强，规划性强，自律和学习能力是我的优点。
9. Read and summarize learning
10. 钱多事少离家近的工作
11. 不去抱怨，寻找解决问题的方式，解决问题
12. 远离一切负面语言和能量
13. Ability to make far-sighted choice(s). Made big decisions by discussing them twice: once while drunk, once while sober. (^_^) Decide which option would be most appealing today, later this year, and decades from now; which would be preferable emotionally, financially, and morally; and which is better for you, your family, and society. Seeking out diverse perspectives on the choice, challenging your assumptions, making an explicit effort to map the variables”—constituted “a step up” from the pro-and-con lists. First ask ourselves what we value, then seek to maximize that value. A decision is essentially a value-maximizing equation. Plug in your values, and the right choice pops out. Vegemite Principle: if you’ve never tasted Vegemite, then neither a description of what it’s like (black, gooey, vegetal) nor experience with other spreads (peanut butter, marmalade, Nutella) will suffice to tell you whether you’d like it. Before having children, you may enjoy clubbing, skydiving, and LSD; you might find fulfillment in careerism, travel, cooking, or CrossFit; you may simply relish your freedom to do what you want. Having children will deprive you of these joys. And yet, as a parent, you may not miss them. You may actually prefer changing diapers, wrangling onesies, and watching “Frozen.” These activities may sound like torture to the childless version of yourself, but the parental version may find them illuminated by love, and so redeemed. You may end up becoming a different person—a parent. The problem is that you can’t really know, in advance, what “being a parent” is like. For Paul, there’s something thrilling about this quandary. Why should today’s values determine tomorrow’s? In her 2014 book, “Transformative Experience,” she suggests that living “authentically” requires occasionally leaving your old self behind “to create and discover a new self.” Part of being alive is awaiting the “revelation” of “who you’ll become.”
14. Life decisions touch on the question of who we aspire to become. There are some vague sense of its value that's hard to express, which you hope that some future version of yourself might properly grasp.
15. HIIT = High Intensity Interval Training
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