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February 11

It's a dream after 3 years

The past three year is like a dream to me. From March 2005, the moment we met each other till February 9 2008, it will be a time that I will never forget. Wish the one forever happynes in her life.
February 03

Fake motion blur in Processing

void setup() {
size(200, 200);
noStroke();
smooth();
}

void draw() {
fill(0, 12);
rect(0,0,width,height);
fill(255);
ellipse(mouseX, mouseY, 20, 20);
}
January 31

THE ASSISTANT

As always, I find Professor John Maeda's blog post is very inspiring. It is not how he can figure out meaning from complex things but his insights on simple things. "On the ride from Tokyo to Narita Airport, a co-worker from my past escorted me to say goodbye. He related how his professor at Tokyo University (sort of like the Harvard of Japan) was probably the #1 or #2 people in the world in his subfield of materials science. This professor's administrative assistant of thirty years had recently died at the young age of 55 from cancer. My friend was still reeling from this news and wanted to relieve some of his pain by relating the story as he and many past students had a deep emotional attachment to her. As the story went, the professor's assistant had followed this famous professor all the way up from being a junior professor to later becoming a high ranking person in the professor's field. My friend joked about how people all over the world claimed to not know who the professor was, but everyone sure knew his administrative assistant because she was the one that made things happen logistics-wise for this famed professor. He was loved, not just for his expertise, but the good company he had closest to him as support. Towards the end of her life in the hospital this professor visited her every day without fail. He canceled all his travel to be with her. And since he was so respected in Japan, he moved his assistant to the highest ranking doctor and service above all other VIPs at the hospital ... yet it did not result in her getting better. The lesson I took away from this is one that I know by heart. That great people know how to take care of their people. For a great person does not become great by themselves."
January 17

勇气

大约2个月以前有一次在办公室无意听到同事放的一首歌名叫“勇气”觉得很好听。也很喜欢那首歌的歌词。也许是因为它所描述的那种爱情就是我一直以来所相信的吧。别人说什么真的不重要,最重要的我们都要有勇气相信我们会在一起。从那天开始勇气一直在我的MP3里,成了我每天上下班的伴侣。以下将它的歌词摘录下来作为纪念。
 
勇气
词:光良   曲:瑞业   演唱:梁静茹
 

终于做了这个决定
别人怎么说我不理
只要你也一样的肯定
我愿意天涯海角都随你去
我知道一切不容易
我的心一直温习说服自己
最怕你忽然说要放弃

爱真的需要勇气
来面对流言蜚语
只要你一个眼神肯定
我的爱就有意义
我们都需要勇气
去相信会在一起
人潮拥挤我能感觉你
放在我手心里你的真心

如果我的坚强任性
会不小心伤害了你
你能不能温柔提醒
我虽然心太急更害怕错过你

 
November 30

Beauty is the Experience

From Professor John Maeda's blog and it inspires me quite a lot.
 

"What is beautiful to you?

I was recently interviewed by a German magazine regarding the beautiful objects that I own ... I realized that ownership ceases to make things beautiful.

As I look for designed objects in my studio that "signify beauty" I find many examples, yet none of them are entirely beautiful to me. I find beauty in freshness and fragility -- two qualities that the modern designed object is not allowed to possess. Once an object is acquired, it eventually becomes stale in your apartment; were an object to be crafted as to break upon the slightest touch, it could not be sold. For these reasons I find my beauty in nature, where every item has a purpose and a life cycle that is perfectly natural.

The moth: On a walk around my home, I saw this beautiful white moth dying on the paved road. The contrast between the whiteness of nature, and the darkness of manmade materials -- combined with the two deaths -- one of the moth, the other of the ground that lay beneath the pavement. This complex, yet simple moment of the lightness of life to soon vanish into the dark ... rendered in a black and white palette represents the kind of beauty that cannot be owned, but only experienced."

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