Just as a reminder to myself (which is also what has been constantly repeated in my brain):

By the time I’m capable to amass 500K in various assets, I’ll consider myself “retired” (or financially free). By “retired” doesn’t mean that I won’t continue to work and stuff, probably I’d say that by that time I’d be comfortable enough to tell myself “another day, another dollar”.

But honestly speaking, if I end up developing the habit of chasing the carrot in front of me, probably even by the time I reach that goal I’d never enjoy myself at all.

So in a way I do have to learn to keep my pessimism in check and enjoy what I have now. Probably just start by telling myself “another day, another dollar” (with the positive interpretation in mind).

With our perception and knowledge only capable to be expanded in a finite space, my thoughts and beliefs of “infinity” is nothing more than just a hypothesis in the plane of thoughts.

If the concept of “infinite” is true, then how shall one be able to reach the state of complete boundlessness?

- A question that wasn’t a question -

Just a shopping list (more like a want list) to remind myself:

• New pair of specs or contact lens, either one of the two (Done: August)
• A couple of working shirts and slacks, planning to get those iron-free ones (Project: December; shirts bought @ November)
• A new and comfortable pair of leather shoes (Done: September)
• Two to four extra shirts for next year’s CNY (Done: New Year’s eve)
• (Want) Sony Ericsson K320i, probably I’d go for this model for its affordability and just-enough-functions that I need. Currently priced at RM400, hope I can get it cheaper somehow
• (Want) Nintendo DS Lite bundled with two games, one of them being FF3. That’d be a big bang out of my wallet so not sure whether I prefer to postpone it or not
• (Want) Attempt …

Just a plug to those who knew or interested about the previous tech blog that I had: The Digital Blue Wave is back to its second home at Blogger. Originally it’s going to be hosted at my personal web space but I sort of became lazy, so there you are.

Will be create a custom CSS theme for it, but probably I might as well keep it as simple as possible.

And yeah, most likely my Japanese blog would be hosted there as well so that I can share the CSS somehow.

Fulfilling one’s desire often has a price. Something has to be paid or sacrificed in order to have a chance to obtain something else: effort, time, comfort, dreams…

Throughout the journey, how many things that I have desired for? How many things I have sacrificed? How many times I have regretted? How many times I forget that whatever I had was once something that I had paid the price for…?

Why there’s are things that seemingly unattainable? Why emotions can sway so violently that blinds us in one way or the other? Why in the world does pain exists?

Being connected and interdependent with my own surroundings, decisions and actions often create that energy that causes ripples that we call as side effects.

Stand where I am now, an outer journey that connects …

At the moment, my Internet connection is still down and after almost a week it’s still not up. (if you did notice the timestamps of my recent posts and was fairly knowledgeable about my posting habits, you probably would have guessed it :))

Since I’m not at home during office hours, that makes it harder to make things work out (since it seemed that their technical team seemed to be more active during the day than at night… or do they only operate during working hours?).

Will be following up with them as closely as possible and hopefully I can get my connection back soon.

Luckily the Internet wasn’t that much of a life critical thing for me. But I certainly feel the pinch of trying to learn Japanese without an online dictionary …

Just say that life’s sometimes a Rubik’s cube. At least I felt that that’s how I’m living my life at the moment.

It’s been a few weeks ever since I reattempted my Japanese self-learning, which goes pretty well considering that I’m still on it right now. And the one thing I noticed is that workbooks are a MUST in learning languages, especially in my case that learning the language without some sort of a tutor or practice partner. Somehow watching anime and doing exercises on the workbook is the only interaction that I had with the language, guess in a way that’s the key support for motivating myself to continue: In the past, I just go through the books without any real hand-ons on the language, which can get pretty dull and boring after a while. And no, listening to J-Pop isn’t much great motivator because as a form of communication medium, songs …

Here’s a few that I used as my MSN handle but didn’t bothered to post until now:

选择性喜欢，或许这就是人的天性吧…

Liking something by choice, maybe that’s how humans are…

[幸福的定义] 或许自己只懂得埋怨别人一定比自己幸福

[Definition of happiness] Maybe I only knew how to complain how others are happier than myself

[失恋] 人一定要尝受到“拒绝”才能够成长吗？

[Heartbreak] Does people really need to taste “rejection” in order to grow?

それだけ。

P/S: for those who didn’t notice, I won’t be doing translations for all posts that I write in Chinese or Japanese as it was time consuming and I think it’d be better to spend more time writing better posts. Now it’s going to be like… translation on my own whims and fancy? ^^||

Anyway, I’m planning to start a Japanese blog some time soon …

Sort of reminds me, the question of the day: How much one needs to know about the others around him/her? This question came to mind when mom called just now.

OK, time for me to head to bed.