分类：Life & Notes

A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up (Part 1: Before Fourth Grade in Elementary School)

Life & Notes2006.07.06
A Casual Recollection of My Growing Up (Part 1: Before Fourth Grade in Elementary School)
The memories from before elementary school have grown too blurry; when I try to recall them, it feels as if I’m recounting someone else’s life. When I was little, I changed kindergartens twice, but I hardly ever actually went—mostly I just hung around at home. I really was too spoiled rotten back then. Because I was overindulged, my health was terrible as a child; because my health was terrible, I was indulged even more… At home, the division of labor was very clear when I was young: my father was responsible for earning money, my mother for my education, my grandmother for cooking, and my grandfather for taking care of…
education autobiography mathematics children
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2006年7月6日
Some Casual Notes Before the World Cup Semifinals

Life & Notes2006.07.04
Some Casual Notes Before the World Cup Semifinals
Originally I had planned to write a few articles and read a few books during this period, but now basically all of that has come to nothing. Because the World Cup is simply too captivating, not only have I hardly missed a single post-exam match, I’ve also been too excited during the day to have any 마음 to read. Hehe, after all, the World Cup comes only once every four years; wasting a bit of time can be understood, can’t it? This World Cup has truly been exciting. Although the refereeing has been less than perfect, it is much better than last time. The traditional powerhouses have mostly played as…
everyday life pluralism
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2006年7月4日
Application for “Friends of Nature”

Life & Notes2006.06.30
Application for “Friends of Nature”
I had wanted to join for a long time. At first, though, it was simply because I thought the organization’s name was badly chosen, and figured that if I didn’t join, so be it; then I thought about it again and realized there was nothing I could do about it anyway—if it were up to me, I wouldn’t be able to come up with a better name either. Later I found remitting payment troublesome, but recently I’ve often been ordering books by mail from Kongfuzi, and I’ve come to feel that remitting money isn’t all that troublesome after all. In the end, I was put off by the trouble of…
philosophy everyday life philosophy of science environment
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2006年6月30日
Stray——Wolf’s Rain Opening Theme Song

Life & Notes2006.06.28
Stray——Wolf’s Rain Opening Theme Song
This song sounds familiar—turns out it’s the theme song for this animated series. — *Wolf’s Rain* (Wolf's Rain). The subject matter is rather unconventional: the protagonist is a pack of wolves. It seems to have a bit of philosophy to it, but also gives off a slightly contrived, pseudo-profound feel. Recommended at an ordinary level. Stray Wolf's Rain Opening Theme Song Composed and arranged by: Yoko Kanno Lyrics by: Tim Jensen Performed by: Steve Conte Stray! Stray! In the cold breeze, that I walk alone, The memories of generation burn within me. Been forever, since I've cried the pain of sorrow, I'll live and die the pride that my people…
everyday life music anime
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2006年6月28日
My Life Ideal—The Abstract and the Concrete, the Passive and the Active

Life & Notes2006.06.24
My Life Ideal—The Abstract and the Concrete, the Passive and the Active
Recently someone happened to mention the topic of life ideals (seehttp://www.gotopku.cn/forum/viewthread.php?tid=39888&fpage=1), and I realized that I have never written out my own “life ideals” here in full, so I’ll jot down a few lines offhand. My “whole set” of life ideals was already determined long ago. To put it grandly for once (this article is just a bit of casual chatter): this is truly rare. Things like life ideals have no distinction of high or low, deep or shallow, but there is a distinction between being definite and being vague. When asked what one’s ideals in life are, answers like “hard to say,” “I haven’t thought it through,” “probably something…
autobiography Kant self ideal
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2006年6月24日
A Survey of the Books I Scored on Kongfuzi This Semester

Life & Notes2006.06.18
A Survey of the Books I Scored on Kongfuzi This Semester
The Adventures of Luzhinsi and Mifal Science and Religion (Barbour) An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Carnap) The Worldview of Physicists (Newton Press; Heisenberg) Chaos Semantics and Philosophy Fractal Art A Multi-Purpose Chinese Character Encoding Dictionary The Idea of Time Oxford Selection — Reflections on Logic Oxford Selection — Introduction to the Philosophy of Science Oxford Selection — Since Structuralism Oxford Selection — The Rationalists Oxford Selection — Why We Culture Oxford Selection — Moral Philosophy Chinese Health and Intelligence-Building Qigong: A Volume of Advanced Techniques Nostradamus’s Great Prophecies — Unraveling the Mystery of Humanity’s Destruction in 1999 Dianetics: Self-Adjustment Techniques for the Mind Man Is the Spirit of…
book reading science notes history of science
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2006年6月18日
When one has not yet encountered perplexity, it is enough to act by instinct and feeling; when one encounters bewilderment, one must appeal to reason; and when one meets perplexities that reason still cannot resolve, one has no choice but to appeal once again to instinct and feeling.

Life & Notes2006.06.11
When one has not yet encountered perplexity, it is enough to act by instinct and feeling; when one encounters bewilderment, one must appeal to reason; and when one meets perplexities that reason still cannot resolve, one has no choice but to appeal once again to instinct and feeling.
When one has not yet encountered perplexity, it is enough to act by instinct and sensibility; when one encounters confusion, one must appeal to reason; and when one runs into perplexity that reason still cannot resolve, one can only fall back once more on instinct and sensibility. When does one have to begin using reason, and in what circumstances can one give up reason again? That seems impossible to sort out. Still, once one has appealed to reason and reason has already given a definite answer, then if one still wants to evade it, that is painful; just as it is painful to stubbornly keep searching within reason when reason…
everyday life reason being Kierkegaard
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2006年6月11日
Old-School Peanut Butter Instant Cold Noodles~

Life & Notes2006.06.06
Old-School Peanut Butter Instant Cold Noodles~
Recently the cafeteria has introduced some kind of spicy cold noodles and the like, which really do not suit my taste, so I can’t help thinking nostalgically of Shanghai cold noodles eaten with peanut butter. I also don’t know where in Beijing one can eat Shanghai-style cold noodles…… Just as I was thinking about it, I happened upon a kind of instant noodles—the mixed noodles in the Nanjiecun wet-noodle series. They are said to be non-fried and to use lactic-acid preservation technology, so the noodles come out wet right away and can be eaten mixed together without hot water. What a marvelous world! Even more marvelous is that I actually…
everyday life innovation
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2006年6月6日
How to Fall in Love with Mathematics

Life & Notes2006.06.03
How to Fall in Love with Mathematics
I have never lost interest in anything I once fell in love with. Even when it was not yet love, but merely a passing fondness or interest, the same was true: my hobbies always multiplied. For example, in my freshman year I was drawn to philosophy, psychology, and wandering over to Weiming Lake; in my sophomore year, to religion, philosophy of science, and memorizing Tibetan mantras by rote; in high school, to popular science books, wuxia novels, and philosophy in the first year, to history and turn-based strategy computer games in the second year, to economics, Japanese animation, and buying books in the third year; in middle school, to physics;…
philosophy everyday life Peking University mathematics
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2006年6月3日
I Must Go into Seclusion and Cultivate Myself for a While!

Life & Notes2006.05.21
I Must Go into Seclusion and Cultivate Myself for a While!
My writing has become far too much! With the accumulation I have at present, I really ought not to be writing so much. I need to rein myself in a bit. No need for my teachers to remind me; I’ve begun to wake up to it myself. The clamor of this age is also reflected in writing—I quite agree. The things I am writing now, apart from assignments and internal exchanges, are mainly written for myself to read. I feel that writing down certain thoughts is very different from merely imagining them in my head; in the process of writing, I can see my own ideas more clearly. Sometimes…
everyday life scholarship blog writing
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2006年5月21日