Firework

Today I made a little stuff by Firework, drawing a Manchester United jersey on a Rilakkuma. My last work by Firework/Photoshop/PhotoImpact may be probably a year ago. I did that for my final year project. Time really flies.

CBBC

Recently I spent much time on reading news about finance. And i started to buy some Bulls/Bears contracts... I was lucky, and earned $500.

But I know, once I win the first time, it would be extremely easy for me to play the second time, the third time,.... and play much more money than previous. One day, you would be suddenly shocked, how did I lose so much money?

This is gamble.

Smartone Vodafone

Sorry for not updating the website for a week... I was reading papers and thinking how to write my papers. Let me talk about some small stuffs the previous week.

1. I will be a member of Smartone Vodafone on 16 Aug, moving out of 3.
2. I was planning to take the exam of LPI, MSCE and get a driving license.
3. I bought a new XBox360 remote.
4. There will be meeting with my advisor tomorrow.

See you all later!

depress

I am considering taking the LPI or MSCE.... but many people in the Internet said they were useless. Even I study by myself, the exams are quite expensive... I do need to consider that very carefully.

Is finding a good job really that hard? To me, definitely, at this moment.

Decision

A week from my last article.

This week was not an easy one. I have made an important decision. At this stage, I will not pursue for the PhD. I decided to go to work after finishing my thesis.

There are a few factors contributing to me decision.

First, I found my ability was not good enough, especially the mathematical skills. Many of my thoughts have been done by others, and of course, well-written. I was very confused in the beginning when I read the latest journal from ScienceDirect, which contained exactly the topic I wanted to work on. Surprisingly, the paper came from HKUST too. After one day I recovered, and was a little bit happy - even famous and great professor has the same thought as mine.

It is not easy for me to work on a topic without any help. My advisor was not an expert in this aspect. To me, it is hard to think of more topics. Originally, I wanted to write a great thesis with several papers which could be submitted to journals. That would benefit me if I went for PhD or professor afterwards. Now, I just want to work on to finish my thesis and go out to work. Then my thesis may not be as sophisicated as I planned before.

Second, my mother seems to be resisted to my study. This is the most important factor. You know, I am really frustrated when I need help, but she will not encourage me. Money is what I think the only important thing to her. Everytime when I play my Xbox 360, she starts to talk a bunch of shit like, you should be preparing for the jobs, find something to learn for the future jobs, look for friends for jobs,.... Hey! that's enough! After the whole day research work, I just wanna have a quiet place and enjoy two minutes of video games! Are people only born for jobs? For money? All I have to do should be job-related? I am an engineering master, should I learn accounting, cooking, driving, getting a CFA license for future potential jobs? So why should I study for the master, even the degree?! I really find hard to understand her. So you know, can I go for PhD? Never.

But I agree, I should do something for future works. I started to find all my friends and heard from them about their job duties and natures. So far, I want to focus my preparation for 1 to 2 kinds of jobs, so I can be so called experted in particular field. IT and finance are my temporary choices. I spent time on reading news and information about them. I hope I will come up with more ideas next week.