In the wind, deep in the thought.

The trees outside all bent to the same direction. People gave out their umbrella, running for some hide.  I could hear the wind passed by even though the windows were closed. The repeated reports of typhoon made me nervous.

I think it was just this moment all the thoughts hid deeply inside would flush out.

Looking back a few months ago, I got the letter in which my bonus of last year was written. It had been dramatically decreased compared to the last year. In addition, at that time, our team just got the project transferred from another team, which had worked on it for a long time. If you never saw that project, you would never know why the original team spent so much time on it in order to meet the schedule. Structureless, no logic, no "latest" spec. The consequence is:
1. Any slight modification may have more bugs produced.
2. It is hard to maintain since you don't know what the codes really mean. Actually, it means nothing sometimes.
3. The modification may change the behavior but you have no chance to learn it, since there is no latest version of spec.
4. If you are going to implement a feature, it may affect existed one, since you don't know there exists such one. The none-latest spec tells nothing about the history of this project.

I felt numbness inside. I felt anger burning the soul. I didn't know what did I fight for. Fight for money? Ridiculous! You had spent 13 hours a day in the company in the last year but you got less bonus in this year, were you willing to have another hard work year? Fight for the knowledge? Insane! The project you were watching taught nothing, just craps. I lost the direction in my life.

Last month, I accidentally visited the autobiography of Steve Paul Jobs, who is the CEO of Apple. He had been resigned by Apple in 1985. It was easy to imagine how sad he was. Being fired by the company he created. The depression lasted for a few months and finally he learned one thing --  he really loves his job, so he founded another one, NeXT Computer. Without that one, he would not have chance to go back to Apple, and iPod, iPhone, iTune may not exist today. His story really touched me. I searched in the Youtube and found a clip in which he gave the commencement speech to the students in Standford.

He said:
"Your work is going to fill a large part of of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet. Keep looking. Don't settle"

When I heard what he said, I had wet my eyes. I was impressed especially by the last few words, "If you haven't found it yet. Keep looking. Don't settle". I was pretty sure he taught me what I should do in the future.

Keep looking. Don't settle.

Steve Paul Jobs

9/28 中午:
當我看到 Steve Jobs 在Standford畢業典禮說的話,
"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle." 


這句話當場讓我紅了眼眶... Keeping looking. Don't settle!

Well... what's the topic tonight

Another night... we always have something at night...

It rained crazy outside, but I heard nothing. My fan drowned all the sound. Looking out of the window, the rain dropped on the ground making small splashes. It was a soundless picture.

The yellow lamp, mild and dim, stood there silently. No people outside, no animals, no cars. It just like the rain stopped anything.

The night, silently crawled over the world, hid behind the moisture, carefully planned everything you couldn't see and hear. It was kind of scary. The proverb said, the hidden enemy is the most dangerous. You cannot see anything, but you could feel it doing something out there.

The night, we couldn't bear it. The best way to avoid the harm and neglect its existence is to go to sleep. Close your eyes and the next time you open your eyes, it is expected to be a bright day with hope and strength.

Android application

Yes. Tonight.. (it's very late now, and I'm very tired, sleepy)

I actually start to learn how to write a android program.
For the namespace, I have thought of some names by following the format below.
..

The candidates for the unique name may like:

1. gigear: I got the idea from "Giggle", which is exactly my favorite name in the online game. With the name gear, it sounds like Giggle.
2. nomed: a reverse order of the word "Demon", which is my nickname.
3. dexon: it really like x = m.

Ok... maybe one of them will last forever.

Hope I have a good start!! Let's roll to hello android XD.

Test posting by email

Yah... If I see this message in my blog. That means I can post an article through email.

Good job.

We sleep, we eat, we write!!

People always say the idea coming at night. I just wonder why the night having such magic. It indeed makes me thinking, thinking about future, thinking about something which will not happen in the real life. You have some idea coming from your brain, and it flows in your nerve. It passes through your neck, shoulder, elbow, wrist and finally to the finger. Your fingers will obey the command and perform the typing. You will see the characters on the screen and you will satisfy with them.

The night, a moon hanging in the grey blue sky, sometimes has some noises as decorations, barking dogs, rushing cars, laughing or chatting or arguing voices from the neighbors nearby. Actually, the night is not silence, if you carefully listen to it. Why those elements combined to form a so called 'night' have such incredible seduction? I don't know.

But the writing really wants to tell you why. The thought, a word, a sentence, a paragraph or an article, tries to tell you the truth. Those words on the screen give you many hints. You write those words, to describe your feeling, and they try to tell you something out of consideration, even you forgot.

We sleep, we eat, we write.... and finally we know the truth!