Human lifespans are averaging at 80 - 100.
We graduate from university when we are around 20 -25 years old (yet another generalization, i think singapore guys are slightly older than that). That is around 20% of your whole life. Provided you live a long life.
And usually 80% of your life is determined by the first 20%.
The 20% stage is a stage where we are the most rebellious, naive, childish, stubborn and narrow minded. When we refuse to listen to parents' advices, when we are not responsible, when we do what we want to do, when the world still consists of friends, entertainment and occasional cram session to score at the exams.
I can't help but wonder why. Why is our lives set on a path that you built on your first 20 years. The 20 years that is the most worrying stage of one's life. The unstable 20 years. Yet it is the time where most people choose their path that they are going to walk for the rest of their lives.
And our brain start degrading after 20. Bah.
I honestly feel for criminals. I think most of them just made all the wrong choices on the first 20 years (not all, most). When they realize their mistakes, they are probably already walking the path-of-no-return. Of course it is not applicable to every criminals, but then again, how do we know it isn't? We can't read minds and we are not omniscient.
Monday, August 3, 2009
Yet another un-arranged thoughts
Editing blogs can be interesting. I have been making the 'temporal vortex' images for the last hour. I love photoshop. It makes life so much easier.
If i can't secure a job in the animation industry, i wouldn't mind having a photoshop-related kind of job. They are definitely faster to execute than animating. Faster to master too compared to Autodesk Maya. I am generalizing here. Some people who has spent their lives using Photoshop might not agree with the statement. Well, what i mean by 'master' is being able to use it at ease. Not to the point where you know about every single button and their histories in Photoshop world ( This reminds me of my Photoshop teacher, he is very knowledgeable about this ) but just to be able to navigate and do your stuffs without any headache about technical difficulties.
Maya has a steeper learning curve. Even with my current knowledge i wouldn't say i can produce 'good' animation. Not until i try. And i have been learning it since 2 years ago.
Economy's been bad recently. I wonder whether it'll pick up when i graduate next year. This reminds me of Obama and how he is doing. When it was the presidential election in US, that was the first time i got interested in politics other than my country's. McCain and Obama. I supported Obama, naturally. Obama has a gift. He is able to speak with authority and charisma. He does not stutter and exudes confidence. I think that's the main reason why so many people like him. Whether he is competent or not, we'll see in a while. Looks like he is doing pretty fine in his administration.
And he stayed in Indonesia for a short while, i wonder whether he is able to speak the language. It would certainly be interesting if i have a chance someday to meet and converse with him in my mother tongue.
Recently i began to develop interests to various things. I want to learn drum. I wish i can learn violin. I want to know what blog is all about. I once read somewhere that human brain reaches its peak at the age of 20 and it is going to degrade ever since. I am not sure how accurate it is, but this explains why we need to learn as many things as possible in our youth before our brain fail us.
Stephen Tong once said to learn as many skills as you can. They will never go to waste. The knowledge will be stored in your brain somewhere and it will aid you in your future endeavor in one way or another. You also have more diverse job scopes to choose from. In short, the more you learn, the better it is.
I sometimes wonder whether this is actually what determines talent. For example people who are very attuned to playing music games ( me) and a person who never play music games, or rarely play. If one day we spot a new music game machine and start playing together, I will grasp the concept much faster and adapt easier. The other guy will then remark 'wow you are talented'.
But is it really talent? Isn't it due to the amount of exposure i have? When i think about it then suddenly the definition of 'talent' takes a whole new meaning. Does this apply to everything? If it is, then the more things you learn, the more knowledge you store in your brain and the faster you will learn new things and the cycle will keep on repeating. With drive and motivation, can human learn an amazing amount of skillsets? Leonardo Da Vinci is a genius who is a polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. His brain capabilities must be enormous and if my theory is correct, the easier it will be for him to learn new things if he wants to, given the amount of skills that he has already own.
I want to fully utilize my brain before its too late. Before i run out of time to learn new things.
If i can't secure a job in the animation industry, i wouldn't mind having a photoshop-related kind of job. They are definitely faster to execute than animating. Faster to master too compared to Autodesk Maya. I am generalizing here. Some people who has spent their lives using Photoshop might not agree with the statement. Well, what i mean by 'master' is being able to use it at ease. Not to the point where you know about every single button and their histories in Photoshop world ( This reminds me of my Photoshop teacher, he is very knowledgeable about this ) but just to be able to navigate and do your stuffs without any headache about technical difficulties.
Maya has a steeper learning curve. Even with my current knowledge i wouldn't say i can produce 'good' animation. Not until i try. And i have been learning it since 2 years ago.
Economy's been bad recently. I wonder whether it'll pick up when i graduate next year. This reminds me of Obama and how he is doing. When it was the presidential election in US, that was the first time i got interested in politics other than my country's. McCain and Obama. I supported Obama, naturally. Obama has a gift. He is able to speak with authority and charisma. He does not stutter and exudes confidence. I think that's the main reason why so many people like him. Whether he is competent or not, we'll see in a while. Looks like he is doing pretty fine in his administration.
And he stayed in Indonesia for a short while, i wonder whether he is able to speak the language. It would certainly be interesting if i have a chance someday to meet and converse with him in my mother tongue.
Recently i began to develop interests to various things. I want to learn drum. I wish i can learn violin. I want to know what blog is all about. I once read somewhere that human brain reaches its peak at the age of 20 and it is going to degrade ever since. I am not sure how accurate it is, but this explains why we need to learn as many things as possible in our youth before our brain fail us.
Stephen Tong once said to learn as many skills as you can. They will never go to waste. The knowledge will be stored in your brain somewhere and it will aid you in your future endeavor in one way or another. You also have more diverse job scopes to choose from. In short, the more you learn, the better it is.
I sometimes wonder whether this is actually what determines talent. For example people who are very attuned to playing music games ( me) and a person who never play music games, or rarely play. If one day we spot a new music game machine and start playing together, I will grasp the concept much faster and adapt easier. The other guy will then remark 'wow you are talented'.
But is it really talent? Isn't it due to the amount of exposure i have? When i think about it then suddenly the definition of 'talent' takes a whole new meaning. Does this apply to everything? If it is, then the more things you learn, the more knowledge you store in your brain and the faster you will learn new things and the cycle will keep on repeating. With drive and motivation, can human learn an amazing amount of skillsets? Leonardo Da Vinci is a genius who is a polymath, scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, botanist, musician and writer. His brain capabilities must be enormous and if my theory is correct, the easier it will be for him to learn new things if he wants to, given the amount of skills that he has already own.
I want to fully utilize my brain before its too late. Before i run out of time to learn new things.
Sunday, August 2, 2009
First post
Hi to whoever has brace themselves to read my post.
I have been reading blogs recently and i find them quite..interesting. I won't say i read many blogs though. I think i can count the blogs I've been reading with my ten fingers., and i only read when i have nothing else to do. What i think is interesting from blogging is that it displays the unique difference between every human. It certainly is interesting to see what's going on in other people's head. How their lives differ from mine. How their ideals are alien to me. It's taking a look into a life i have never lived. Peeking to other people's head and wondered what's going on inside.
So i thought, maybe I should start my own to have my thoughts on a journal and see in the future how foolish or arrogant i sound in the past. Heh. What a reason to start blogging. Mainly I want to see inside my own head and see just how messy it is. I ever read my own math books and wondered how smart i was to be able to solve it, haha. Third-person perspective is always nice. It provides a new view.
Joan said I must be a "wall-of-text" kind of blogger. I will prove that i am not. But i think i will be anyway. Seeing as how i started my first post.
By now i realized i am typing this with an assumption that there will be people reading it. Why do i do that? is that something unconscious? I guess its habit. I always assume writing is like an essay, It is for people to read and understand. But not anymore for blogging. It's freestyle. If it's only me who understands what I am typing, then so be it. But for the sake of improving my writing, I shall try to make it understandable. If not, it will probably be useless for future reference. You'll be amazed at how fast i forget things. I probably won't even understand what i wrote in 1 year if i write it now without proper 'flow'.
Speaking of forgetting, I remember something I ever discussed with my good friends a good long time ago.
Sherlock Holmes once said humans mind is not infinitely expandable. So the choice of what you put in your brain will determine how fast your brain fills up. If you want to fill it up with useless information, it will probably get full in no time. How often you think about a certain memory also will bring about the order of memories in your brain. What you think the most will most probably be what you can summon effortlessly in mere seconds. What you just remember in passing will probably at the back row and will be eventually forgotten.
I know that he's fictional, but as always, he makes sense.
That's why humans are blessed with the ability to forget. Wonderful. But i think i have that ability a little bit too much. Added with my absent-mindedness, I can forget even the most important events. Most important stuffs.
In other words, since i forget so much, i probably has a lot of rooms in my brain for other knowledges to get in. Fast in, fast out.
My friend though. disagreed with the finite brain storage theory. She thinks it's infinite. Well. If the choice of which to pick, infinite or finite, i will definitely want an infinite storage.
But if the choice of which to trust though, I trust the finite brain storage. Mainly because trusting this has lesser disadvantages if it's proven to be wrong. And because i think it makes more sense than the other one.
Ok enough about brain. How do i even get started on this? -_- I always jump from idea to idea quickly. Maybe only me can understand why i switch topic so fast, haha.
I shall go to sleep. It's been a long day...and its a darn long post. Looks like Joan is right ~_~ Adieu.
I have been reading blogs recently and i find them quite..interesting. I won't say i read many blogs though. I think i can count the blogs I've been reading with my ten fingers., and i only read when i have nothing else to do. What i think is interesting from blogging is that it displays the unique difference between every human. It certainly is interesting to see what's going on in other people's head. How their lives differ from mine. How their ideals are alien to me. It's taking a look into a life i have never lived. Peeking to other people's head and wondered what's going on inside.
So i thought, maybe I should start my own to have my thoughts on a journal and see in the future how foolish or arrogant i sound in the past. Heh. What a reason to start blogging. Mainly I want to see inside my own head and see just how messy it is. I ever read my own math books and wondered how smart i was to be able to solve it, haha. Third-person perspective is always nice. It provides a new view.
Joan said I must be a "wall-of-text" kind of blogger. I will prove that i am not. But i think i will be anyway. Seeing as how i started my first post.
By now i realized i am typing this with an assumption that there will be people reading it. Why do i do that? is that something unconscious? I guess its habit. I always assume writing is like an essay, It is for people to read and understand. But not anymore for blogging. It's freestyle. If it's only me who understands what I am typing, then so be it. But for the sake of improving my writing, I shall try to make it understandable. If not, it will probably be useless for future reference. You'll be amazed at how fast i forget things. I probably won't even understand what i wrote in 1 year if i write it now without proper 'flow'.
Speaking of forgetting, I remember something I ever discussed with my good friends a good long time ago.
Sherlock Holmes once said humans mind is not infinitely expandable. So the choice of what you put in your brain will determine how fast your brain fills up. If you want to fill it up with useless information, it will probably get full in no time. How often you think about a certain memory also will bring about the order of memories in your brain. What you think the most will most probably be what you can summon effortlessly in mere seconds. What you just remember in passing will probably at the back row and will be eventually forgotten.
I know that he's fictional, but as always, he makes sense.
That's why humans are blessed with the ability to forget. Wonderful. But i think i have that ability a little bit too much. Added with my absent-mindedness, I can forget even the most important events. Most important stuffs.
In other words, since i forget so much, i probably has a lot of rooms in my brain for other knowledges to get in. Fast in, fast out.
My friend though. disagreed with the finite brain storage theory. She thinks it's infinite. Well. If the choice of which to pick, infinite or finite, i will definitely want an infinite storage.
But if the choice of which to trust though, I trust the finite brain storage. Mainly because trusting this has lesser disadvantages if it's proven to be wrong. And because i think it makes more sense than the other one.
Ok enough about brain. How do i even get started on this? -_- I always jump from idea to idea quickly. Maybe only me can understand why i switch topic so fast, haha.
I shall go to sleep. It's been a long day...and its a darn long post. Looks like Joan is right ~_~ Adieu.
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