Monday, November 30, 2015

Reading Diary A: TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS 17th&18th


The 17th goblin's story happened in a city named Ujjain. There was a race of magic spell. One side had very strong power and skill, and the other side was a little weak but the boy had a pure heart. Finally the boy with pure heart won even though he made a small mistake on spelling. The King was also impressed by the boy, so he answered the goblin's question without hesitation.

Then the 18th goblin told a story of murdering. A boy was conducting a murder with his parents. However, they were caught by guards. Before his execution, the boy laughed for his final liberation of bounding within his body. The King also answered the exact answer; he said the boy finally realized that being killed by his king was actually his salvation.

Sunday, November 29, 2015

Tech Tip: Poster-Maker


I made a poster by using Automotivator. The wake up means more than wake up your body; it means your spirit must be also woken up!

Monday, November 23, 2015

Week 13 Growth Mindset: LEARN FROM OTHERS


I like to learn from others as everyone has a unique way to think about same question.

During this semester, I read a lot of tech tips from other's blog. Most of then are very helpful.

Moreover, I learn from my professors. They have developed a very successful way to do certain work. One example is my Commercial Banking professor; he likes to make plans to make everything clear.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

Reading Diary B: TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS 15th&16th


I got a long story and a short story today. Both of them are really good.

The first story happens in the Himalaya Mount. In The Fairy Prince Cloud-chariot and the Serpent Shell-crest, two important characters made great sacrifices for the King in the story. And the goblin asked the King whose sacrifice is more than the other's. The King thought that Shell-crest did more sacrifice because Cloud-chariot knew what he would do and the results after he did.

The second story, The King who died for Love of his General's Wife; the General follows him in Death, tells me a sad story. The general of the king loves a same woman that the king loves, so he decides to help his king to get the woman. After the marriage, the king was very angry about the woman, so the king burns himself to death. Meanwhile the general decides to do the same thing, so he dies after his king.

Monday, November 16, 2015

Reading Diary A: TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS 13th&14th


Today I read the 13th goblin, The Girl who showed Great Devotion to the Thief, and the 14th goblin, The Man who changed into a Woman at Will. The first story is really interesting.

In the 13th goblin, a beautiful girl does not want to marry anyone. When the thief in the city has been caught and executed, the girl tells everyone that she only marries this thief. God is impressed by her spirit, so god promise her to restore her husband's life and make him a good man. Then they live in a happy life.

In the 14th goblin, a man change him into a woman on purpose. And he makes a lot of chaotic incidences accidentally until everything losses control.


Sunday, November 15, 2015

Week 12: Growth Mindset


Today I want to introduce a good method of time management I learnt from my Commercial Banking class. This strategy is making plan.

I sounds simple and it is simple. However, this simple method helps a lot. In the morning, I spend 5 minutes on making a plan for today. And in the whole day I follow my plan and do things efficiently. The time we can save will be much much more than the time we spend on making a plan.

This strategy is learnt from my professor Stock. He use plans to make his progress very clear and nobody gets confused about progress of the class.


Tech Tip: Weather Widget

Today I learnt how to add a weather widget in my blog. However, I you are the owner of the blog, you need to click the "view blog" button on top of your blog page to see the weather widget.

My favorite whether is cloudy and cool days. My least favorite weather is raining days.

Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Week 12 Storytelling: A Man In Dog


Her car has been on fire. I have to get her out quickly or she may die for severe burns. Despite the fire was burning me, I jumped into the car from broken window and unfastened her seat belt. The door was hard to open, so I used my legs to force the door open.

Fortunately, Billy is a large dog and I feed him very well, otherwise I could not move this girl. We just ran away less than 50 yards, and the car is completely burned up. She looked okay, but a lot of my dog hair was burnt. When I touched my head, there was almost not hair on it. Fortunately, the skin did not burn and I thought animal hair grows very fast.

Ambulance soon came; the girl was carried to the ambulance. I was taken by a police car and we followed the ambulance to the hospital.

A nurse helped me a bath. After that I was waiting at the waiting area. Three hours later, the girl came out.

“Lucy, you only have couple minor burns. I already cleaned them and I think no additional treatment is needed,” said the doctor. “You dog saved you! If you stayed in the car, you probably won’t die but most of your skin would have to be replaced.”

“Wait, this is not my dog,” said Lucy confusedly. Then she hugged and said to me gratefully. “Thank you so much for saving me! Your hair burned a lot and you are still with me now!”

All of a sudden she noticed my collar.

 “Here is his address. We live very close. Shall we go home together? I have to thank your owner.” Lucy said happily.
I was shocked for her hug because I have never been hugged by a girl in my 26 years’ life. I suddenly came up with a thought.

“I do not want to be a human anymore!”

We went home together. When I approached my door, I realized that I could not let Lucy see Billy in human body. I quickly ran into my house through an open window and locked the door. Lucy knocked my door for a while and she left a letter of thanks.

Billy did not wear pants and he looked very upset. When I checked my fridge I found no food. I ordered a pizza for Billy for he was supposed to eat human food.

As the pizza order was on the road, I tried to comfort Billy in dog’s way. I licked Billy’s face and suddenly I realized that I returned in my own body.

“I am very hungry!” I yelled.

When pizza arrived, I gave the delivery man a very nice tip and started eating immediately. After dinner I recalled the moment I returned to my body and I found the area of my face I licked had a mole there.

“This mole is very suspicious,” I said to Billy. “Should I let you lick it again? No, forget it. What if I cannot switch back? I do not want to be a dog forever.”

I opened my Facebook and I wanted to share this with my friend. The old post was still laughed by many people. Then I found I got a private message.

“Before you became a dog, your dog must have licked your body. The place where the dog licked must have a mole. If you lick the mole again, you will become a human again. Reply if you want to know more. Or delete this message now for you safety.”


Author’s Note:

I write this story based on the 9th goblin I read from the TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS from this week. In the 9th goblin story, a beautiful girl wants to select one from three candidates as her husband. They all have a special talent in a career. In the end of the story, the King answers the goblin that the girl should choose the warrior as he likes warriors.


I want to add some hero trait to my character, so Evan saved the girl and accidently found why he became a dog. Then he will be involved in a series of peculiar incidences. 
My story will be continued next week. The following plot will be based on what I will read in TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS.

Biography:

Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Reading Diary B: TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS 11th&12th

The 11th goblin is a really long story, but the story is really enjoyable. I had two exams today, so I have a leisure evening time to spend on reading. The 12th is short though.

In the 11th goblin, a high-minded counsellor takes care of his king's kingdom for a long time. But rumors appear that people say the counsellor wants to take over the king's country. To end these, the counsellor decides to travel though his king does not want him leave.

When he comes back, the king falls in love with another girl, so the counsellor's heart breaks and dies.

The second story tells an innocent man is kill by coincidences made by unconscious people. The question is which one is responsible for his death. The king says the man himself should be blamed because everyone else cannot be blamed.

Monday, November 9, 2015

Reading Diary A: TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS 9th&10th


Today I read the 9th goblin and the 10th goblin.

The first story is about a pretty girl selecting her husband. There are three candidates. One of them has amazing skill on making clothes, one of them knows how to communicate with animals, and one the them is a warrior. The king finally says the girl should marry the warrior because a true warrior is much better than a weaver or a farmer.

The second story is that a king wants to know which one of his queens is the most delicate one. And I totally agree the reasoning in the end; the king says the queen who is hurt just by sound is the most delicate one. The other two are hurt by being touched physically.

From what I read in the 9th goblin, I will continue my story based one the girl the dog would save. My dog character would be a dog hero.

Tech Tip: Quotemakers

This tech tip is actually very addicted! I played it for half an hour like a game.

Here is my creation.
Self-made Pic by Canva

Sunday, November 8, 2015

Week 11 Growth Mindset


This week I want to talk about persistence.

Accumulation has an infinite power. What I read from my economic book is that accumulation of knowledge is the primary factor of economic growth in the past and in the foreseeable future. 

If my goal is to shake this world by coding skills, I think I need to practice millions of times. It looks scary; however, when we think about practice 100 times a day, one year means 36500 times. If I keep going, I will eventually become the 1% of programmers.

Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Week 11 Storytelling: A Man In Dog


DAY 1

My name is Evan. I work in an IT company five days a week. My life is prosaic and I do not have a passion to find a girlfriend. I live with my dog Billy, and now I am a dog as well.

However I am actually a human whose soul is accidently swapped with my dog Billy.

It was a Monday morning; I woke up and found I was sleeping on the ground in the sitting-room.

“How could I?” I was very confused because I did remember I slept in my bedroom. Then I saw a man lied in front of me, watching me with his eyes wide with expectation of food.

“Wait! You are me! Do not lick me!” the man scared me and he was trying to lick me like my Billy does.

Billy, which is my dog in my body, was hungry. Suddenly he found the refrigerator and his instinct for food miraculously helped him to open the door.

“No, Billy. That is MY yogurt for breakfast!” I yelled to him but Billy stood up and ate my yogurt.

“Alas! My dog becomes me, and it eats my yogurt.” I was very upset. “My life is already hard, now it is even harder.”

“WAIT! Why am I thinking about yogurt? My current problem is why the hell I become a dog!” I quickly found the problem and forced me not to think like a dog.

DAY 2

I certainly did not go to work because I could not work in a dog body. I stayed in my house, thinking about how to switch back and playing with Billy. I must admit that the dog food tasted really good! I fed Billy with pasta and candy.

I tried to call my friends, asking them what to do if they become a dog. They could not help me because nobody became a dog before. Also I posted the question on Facebook and everybody thought I was insane or joking.

“It looks like I have to help myself as expected.” I was very frustrated.

“I still remember that Billy licked me once before I woke up.” I started thinking.

Then I tried to write; though my handwriting was horrible, people could read it.

“HELP! I BECOME A DOG!” I wrote this on paper and went out of my house with the paper in my mouth.

When I was walking on sideway, a rope unexpectedly looped my neck and I was caught by a masked gunman. He put me in a cage in his car and drove away.

“WTF! What is he doing? Why am I so unlucky?”

When I looked around and found there were several other cages in the car. I got a couple dog brothers in these cages. As I was thinking about how to communicate with them, a violent smash hit the car, and I lost consciousness for a while.

When I woke up, I found the cage was open. That was a fierce traffic accident. I jumped out of the car and found the car was burning.

“Damn it! I have to leave now because the car can explode at any moment.” I was running away very quickly because I did not want to die there. Moreover Billy still occupied my body. If I died here and my friends visit me, it would be a crazy thing I never wanted to think about.

I turned around when I thought I was at a safe distance. I was seeing a girl in another car; she was unconscious and bleeding on her head. I decided to save her because the girl in fact saved me from the man.

(to be continued)

Author’s Note:
My idea is from the 6th goblin from the TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS. In the original story, a woman mistakenly switched the heads of her husband and her brother. As a result she faces a problem that which man she should choose as her husband.

I picked the idea of switching, but I switch souls of a man and his dog. It would be really interest, so decided to write the story for up to four weeks.

Biography:

Reading Diary B: TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS 7th&8th

Today I read the 7th and the 8th goblins.

In the first story, a king was accidently dropped into a sea. However the king found in a beautiful city. I will not use this story because it is really boring. And the question goblin asked was not tricky.

In the second story, three brothers argued about whom of them are the cleverest one. A king gave them tests and all three of them passed the test easily. The king however thought the brother of cotton specialist is the cleverest one. I do not agree; I think the woman specialist is the best one.


Monday, November 2, 2015

Reading Diary A: TWENTY-TWO GOBLINS 5th&6th

I read the 5th and the 6th goblins today.

For the first story, I think King's point is that the one who takes the most risk deserves the girl. The clever man and the wise man are only assistants of the brave man.

The second story is short, but it really gives me a hard choice. Lovely accidentally switches the heads of her husband and her brother, so the question is which one of them should be her husband. I agree with the king's point and I may pick this as my storytelling this week.

Tech Tip: Adjusting the Google Site Navigation Panel

This is a very useful tip as Google's default setting is not good for most people.

For a faster instruction:
1. Click the gear icon on the top right corner of your site page
2. Choose "Edit site layout"
3. Move cursor on your Navigation Panel and click
4. Uncheck "automatically organize my navigation"

Now you can edit your navigation panel.

Week 10 Growth Mindset

Giving up things sounds bad, but giving up some less competent fields is indeedly a smart choice.

We only have 24 hours, which is not much, so we want to use our time wisely. For the fields or majors you are not good at, you may let them go. We should do works that we can utilize our max power, and never waste time on inefficiency works. One approved evidence for this is that this sociality has workers in different industries; and they are good at their jobs.


I have been struggling with accounting for three years. Though I do not understand why finance major has that many required accounting courses, I am about to finish my last accounting course. Luckily account courses are not included in my major GPA. I could explain this to my future interviewers.

To sum up, spend your time on valuable targets. Do not waste time on things that others can do much better than you do.