Department of Philosophy - Symbolic Lab @ 3:24pm

• Your brain is really like a muscle. The less you use it, the less it can function as well as you like it to be. It degenerates and suffers from memory loss. Gosh- two days ago I tried doing this geometry problem participating in the Department of Mathematics Competition. It was torturous to think in sines and cosines again. It was painfully slow to do maths. Angles… Equations… Ugh… I need to start using my brain again!!!
• I am so glad I took up the Tennis class. Even if the instructor doesn’t teach us much, it’s good regular training practice. It’s amazing how my forehand strokes are starting to improve with just a few pointers from my instructors. Bent knees, changed grip, use left hand to guide… Now I need to work on my backhand and serves.
• It all started with getting a Canon S80 p&s camera to take better pictures. Now I’m getting into the whole realm of digital photography. It’s so interesting and so much to learn. Been reading forums and photography tutorials and articles. Given my bad memory, photography is one good way to capture my memories! Taking good pictures is strangely self-satisficing, like drugs. I gotta resist getting a DSLR for now. Shopping for a decent tripod now… KIVing this.
• I really have to decide my final project for my Maya animation class. A person doing a perfect golf-swing… The story of a hiccup girl… Modeling my dream car… I need inspiration!!! Shane Acker really gave me quite an inspiration. Maybe I should just do a feature film for the heck of it.
• The latest topic in my Investment class deals with options, something that sounds so foreign before that day. It’s actually possible to reduce your risk of owning stocks by doing a whole bunch of different strategies. Straddle, collar, covered call, protective put… Essentially you get other people to insure your own stocks, aka cover your own ass. In this trading world, when one person wins, one person has to lose. My hope is to be the former, as much as possible.
• Pending work to be done: Finish up my Maya 3D animation of the man walking up the stairs and opening the doors… I need to learn how to change from IK to FK. Maybe if I have time, I will animate him fall down the stairs!!
• Pending movies (lying in my HDD) to watch: Brokeback Mountain, Capote, 神雕侠侣, King Kong…
• Pending stuff to learn: Options trading, FX trading, Maya Effects…