Binary number system anecdote
There are 10 types of people in the world – those who understand binary, and those who don’t
Avril – I Can Do Better
Satu lirik lagu yang baru gw perhatiin kemaren ini, dan bener2 empowering, did not notice it before. Nice Av, finally something in your song i can relate to:
Couldn’t give a damn what you say to me
I don’t really care what you think of me
Cause either way you’re gonna think what you believe
There’s nothing you could say that would hurt me
true true.
All there is to life?
if one day you woke up and realize that you already achieved all your goals, are living your dream. will you say “okay, that’s all there is to life. i am grateful”, step out of the bed and shoot yourself on the head?
Sharpening my mandarin skill
Started a new blog yesterday on wordpress.com called “Xin Vocab” (http://XinVocab.wordpress.com/). ‘Xin’ (pronounced as in “to lie is to sin“) means “new”, and ‘Vocab’, from ‘vocabularies’.
I decided to start the blog to sharpen my rusty Mandarin. I notice that my current difficulties are mostly in vocabularies. In a sense that I have a solid grasp of the grammar, but stumbled upon unfamiliar terms.
It was like this when I was watching news broadcast on a Chinese TV station: “Our president (just quoting the news, my actual president is SBY, lol), Hu Jintao held a meeting with the prime minister to discuss about blah3.. due to emerging economic crisis that has affected the People’s Republic of China. The result of the meeting will be blah3 to be discussed further on blah blah blah.”
Basically, I get the main point, the person who does the action, the action itself, and the whole structure of the news, but lose most of the meaty details.
It’s like “XXX does XXX to XXX because XXX”,
????
lol. yeah anyhow, I have made commitment to stop procrastinating and being lazy and start to grab some exceprts from news, articles, paragraphs each day and really look it up, really understand and digest the meaning. I hope I can increase my working vocabularies in Mandarin because I don’t want to let my native tongue go to waste like that.
Hope it helps you learn Mandarin too. Let’s chat! hai yaa….
Indonesia – crisis, again?
The year is 1997, economy crisis hit asia. Indonesia had a political, social and financial turmoil.
2004, Indonesia starts crawling up, starts to show progress.
2008, America financial crisis hit. Rupiah weakens again to a near Rp10.000,- level.
Lol. 10 years bad luck.
Sigh… my beloved country…. I know we can do it! lack of nationalism sih most of the people.
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