Tales of the three brothers, a story about 3 brothers who met the Death himself, appeared in the book of harry potter: the deathly hallow. It's a story i like the most. and the book, it's the most interesting story that i ever read. One day, i would like to read it again in japanese.
i was really feeling happy this week because the luck was on my side again... this time on my japanese language proficiency test or JLPT.. 6 months ago i decided to try out N1 level, i promised myself to work hard and study but i didn't. My laziness told me that i was gonna waste my registration fee. i was quite nervous for the past few months as i didn't think about passing the grammar/vocabulary part but i was again with a little bit of luck, passed it. It was a promise as i've promised myself to pass the N1 in a year's time after i came here. it is this kind of targets from time to time, from year to year that keep me going in life. I couldn't live without a concrete mission in my life. So 1 year has passed, it's time to forge a mission for 2nd year. It's not difficult to set myself a new target, a new mission because i already have it.
when i was working these few days, i thought a lots about the projects that i've done in university. As the saying goes, calm down and the directions become clearer. While definitely, working life here is much more relax then my university life then. I was quite surprised with the things that i've found out on these few months since i started my work. There are lots of things that i should have realized earlier, i should have known earlier but i didn't. i was asking myself, why? then i realized that i should have relaxed myself more, gave myself a little bit more time to think when i was a student. I should have realized earlier why the color sensors that i've designed would fail to work sometimes. I should have realize earlier why the robots we build were not reliable enough electronically. These are all in the books! In the books that we have studied for 4 years. And i just didn't know enough how to apply it into the real world. Lastly, the thesis, the camera that i build, why it had so much noise? I should have calmed down myself a bit, sat down and relaxed and gave myself a break to look at the situation from other perspectives. It was just so simple, sometimes we just need around 10 minutes to do some calculations and solve a problem that may cause us a few months' time. I believe we just need to give ourselves more times to calm down and think.
Today i realized, reading is still the best way to gain knowledge. I love books and i have plenty of books in Japanese. Although i'm an electronics designer, i don't like to have those sophisticated electronics devices around me. I don't like my iphone, i don't like e-reader, e-book, tablet pc etc.... all i need is just a normal computer. And i just like the traditional books with pages to turn.
