Serenity

2008 is a very special year for me. There are too many things happened. I've stayed in four completely different environment, and a part of my dream has come true, and I'm now in a totally different living style. Too many stories to tell.

Since I was a senior student in college, I restarted to play basketball again. I chose basketball as my exercise because it would not be boring to exercise with friends. Most of the players were my roommates, and there were some from our classmates. After we graduated from the college, playing basketball together had an additional meaning for us: to meet friends.

When I was a high school student, I read an essay which said that what the author learned in his college life is to make a good habit. Except his good habit, the other things he learned in the college is little helpful to his job.

Last year, I wrote the article "Review of 2006", and recently I found that it’s interesting to reread it after several months. Therefore, I decide to write this kind of article again.

Summer’s Left is the name of one of my favorite piano songs. About three years ago, I found a rearrange piano album named Kanon Air Piano Arrange Album “Re-feel” (also known as Re-feel for short) on the Internet. I loved this album very much, so I asked my friend’s help to buy this CD from Japan because it didn’t sell in Taiwan. The price index in Japan is higher than the one in Taiwan, so I paid about NTD 700 which was the double of the normal price for CDs in Taiwan, however, it was worthy! I have listened to this album for hundreds times.

( This articled have been revised by Magar. )

When it was winter, I didn't like the cold weather, and I thought that higher temperature is better than lower one. But now I think cooler is better than hotter.

It rained very much and persisted for a long time yesterday. In the morning, I was waken up by the sound of the rain, and then I closed the window and went back to sleep. When my eyes had opened for the day, it was noon again - just like the usual days.

Latest I try to listen in Japanese while I am going to bed. Instead of listening the context in the textbooks, I listen in dramas. Here, dramas don’t mean the classical ones such as “Phantom of the Opera”. The entertainment business in Japan is very strong. For example, when a game becomes popular, companies will make relevant goods with similar scripts in animations, comics, fictions, and dramas. In contrast, if a comic becomes popular, companies will make games, etc. Also, companies can sell relevant CDs, posters and calendars. We call these goods as ACG relevant goods. ACG is the abbreviation of Animation-Comic-Game because they are the main industries in these goods. The dramas which I listen in are the ACG-relevant goods.

After Mr. Magar Etmekdjian read this essay, he gave me many advices, and I did some revision.

This is the story about the winter camp two days ago, there were two groups of students. The first group had to prepare the events like role plays and speech, and the other one had nothing to do. Therefore, the teachers let the free students watch the movie "The Trueman Show" without subtitles. I was one of the free students because I was afraid there was not enough time for me to prepare the special events.

Without noticing this, nine of the ten days have been passed. I still feel like that only several days passed.

It's well known that the difference between the western and eastern people, and we often discuss about the culture shock or somethings like that. Today I found some good things in our tradition.

Recently I attend a English winter camp. This winter camp holds on for 10 days, and there are 3 foreign teachers who came from Australian. Until now, it have been passed 7 days.

read my essay and gave me some advices. This essay is the revision. Hope you will think this one is better.

Since I have memory, my handwriting has been bad.

Another mistake caused by getting up late, so I have less time to keep today's diary. This talk is still about getting up and going to bed.

Due to the memory leak, rebooting the computer after running a while becomes a NORMAL thing in Microsoft Windows. Although this sounds awkward in other Operating System, like MacOS, FreeBSD, Linux. It's said that the main memory leaker is FireFox, but who cares this when FireFox is such a powerful software. For me, inserting more memory cards would be a good idea if I have lots of money. Indeed, there has been 1GB memory by being inserted 2 cards.

Latest the improvement in writing in English is getting slow. Maybe it's time to read some English fictions and study the grammar.

Finally, I got up and went to bed early yesterday. Strictly speaking, it's not early but not late.