impromptuz

• there are no wrong turns, only unexpected paths.
• We think that accomplishing things will complete us, when it is experiencing life that will.
• If peace comes from seeing the whole, then misery stems from a loss of perspective. When we narrow our focus, the problem seems everything. In actuality, misery is a moment of suffering allowed to become everything. So, when feeling miserable, we must look wider than what hurts.
• Sometimes the simplest and best use of our will is to drop it all and just walk out from under everything that is covering us, even if only for an hour or so—just walk out from under the webs we’ve spun, the tasks we’ve assumed, the problems we have to solve. They’ll be there when we get back, and maybe some of them will fall apart without our worry to hold them up.
• An aging master grew tired of his apprentice complaining, and so, one morning, sent him for some salt. When the apprentice returned, the master instructed the unhappy young man to put a handful of salt in a glass of water and then to drink it. “How does it taste?” the master asked.

  “Bitter” spit the apprentice.

  The master chuckled and then asked the young man to take the same handful of salt and put it in the lake. The two walked in silence to the nearby lake, and once the apprentice swirled his handful of salt in the water, the old man said, “Now drink from the lake.”

  As the water dripped down the young man’s chin, the master asked, “How does it taste?” “Fresh,” remarked the apprentice. “Do you taste the salt?” asked the master. “No,” said the young man.

  At this, the master sat beside this serious young man who so reminded him of himself and took his hands, offering, “The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the same. But the amount of bitterness we taste depends on the container we put the pain in. So when you are in pain, the only thing you can do is to enlarge your sense of things …. stop being a glass. Become a lake.”

難得的long weekend。

• Podcast和Email都是相對上原始的工具。
  想邊做其他事邊學習新知識或只是想讓雙眼休息，audio podcast也是不錯選擇。這不就是收音機的作用嗎？最近大熱的luxury email app Superhuman 竟然要by-invitation only with USD$30 subscription fee，就算現在有whatsapp skype slack，我們最終還是離不開我們的email address。 （其實gmail還真的應該upgrade一下了）
• 轉了我的Chrome sign-in page，很滿意。

「大家都係打份工姐。」

「你有你嘅難處，我有我嘅難處」

「其實都係想解決件事」

「明白呀，但我都要同公司/老闆交代」

「唔係針對你呀」

「我真係幫你同老闆爭取咗架啦」

「一人行一步啦」

「我地都合作咗咁耐，都知道你一直最支持/幫忙」

「多謝你一直咁支持/合作/幫忙呀」

「都知道你難做嘅」「都唔想你難做呀」

「老闆話」

 

1. Have a wonderful peaceful sleep on a cozy bed

2. Have very good food

3. Watch a great movie with the best chair, sound and screen

最近兩次旅行 – 日本 和 成都 – 也讓我確定了我並沒有太喜歡這兩個地方。
日本，我更是覺得反感了。（幸好我回波士頓的時候沒有這個感覺）

可能回憶總是美好的。但當你再重踏舊地，你的感受才是最真實。

也許，回憶是加了味精，都被美化了。

不知道為什麼這次getaway週末還是有點壓抑有點累有點神不守舍。
希望只是荷爾蒙在作怪。
（可能wifi很慢，可能見到舊朋友並沒有想像中熱鬧，可能聽到很多新訊息讓我不安，可能見到很多店舖轉換讓我想起了當時的苦，也許是香港office的upcoming nightmare讓我覺得不能真正relax下來，也許是weekend還收到工作有關的whatsapp讓我很沒趣。。）

還是看了兩套電影（票價便宜），toy story 4 和mlb international。前者值得一看、後者不看也罷。

另外，話說最近再review一下python， bisection search 感覺之前學過但完全沒有印象。
看看gmail，2009年11月我已經學過了也教過功課！真的都完全還給了老師了。。