Sociology -- on action

5pm, in Alcuin Auditorium, three consecutive talks given by three sociologist, in fact, more like researchers in education.
I always talk myself through to keep my mind open,but still I found the research in that area kind of shallow. However, I try to see the merits in that area, and do realize that one good thing worth praise is that studies in sociology focused on solving a practical social problems. Of course, some may look into the future, but most of them are starting from the issues in daily life.
Rather than criticizing their lack of strict evidence, I do appreciate their audacity of practising and consider various factors in reality. They may have to deal with government, keeping an eye on the social climate, and predicting the reaction that people may have after the implement of the act.
The final talk is especially interesting, which touches the realistic problem of teenagers' lack of interest in science. The female speaker showed a supreme speaking skill with humurous remarks, which make the impatient me put away the gloves and took out a pen.

One more thing other than the lecture, is that in today's lecture (Contemporary Issue), I found that Philip is not that horrifying, but possessed a staidness and respectable attitude treating things he knows or not know. Never pretending. Good.

Snow storm and Financial Crisis in England

8 am in the morning, draw apart the curtain, and a scene of ice age came to eye. It should not be such a surprise to me since the snow storm disaster have been taken place not long time ago, also in an early spring, but in China last year.
Kind of sadness and gloomy spread out as the male voice indicating a terrible future week falling upon the once wealthy country now faced a serious economic downturn which will get nowhere but worse. The snow was definitely unwelcome at this moment, commented as largest snow in 18 years.
In China, there is a phrase called adding frost to snow, which means a worse situation added up to a miserable present.
Though somewhat bitter, I still quite appreciate the humor leaked time to time when facing the problem. As the brocaster replaced the 'more news will come' to 'more snow will come'. Walking out of my nine square meters room, the sun came out with snow stormed coming, What a scene!
Hope all the snow can purify my laziness and procrastination in the first month of 2009.

The "crime" of novelty

I admitted reluctantly that I am indeed a terrible terrible loser of self control. New ideas and things attracted me, like amphetamine to drug addicts, which resulted in executing the plans. The most difficult part is the beginning part; once started, I can soon find enjoyment and new small achievements built up step by step. After bury my head among the thing I am into, another problem occurs-- I can not stop!

I guess initiation is somehow related to inhibition, both of which are online work taps.

It is the first time that I am more than glad to find no one visited this blog and after a week observation, I shall claim it secure.

Moreover, there is a passage today on Mindhack about the dopamine effect of learning novel knowledge,indicating the pleasure produced by novelty is an important heritage that enjoy the evolutionary benefits.The author also mentioned about the surprise excitement over the right and wrong judgement. I could not agree with it more since I always feel the same way about this.

To conclude, there are many ways achieving happiness. You can hit the pipe or listen to your favoriate music; you can walk 3 miles everyday to feel the jogger's high or just read a book discovering unexpected secrets, and the feelings in brain are the same, dopamine dances all the way its joy.

New start

New life began three months ago with changing of my daily language. To accommodate better to it, I think it would be wise to write a blog everyday.
To get free from the insecure feeling of dangerously displaying my private life and secure desires on website while sick peepers may steal the fun from judging and interfering others' life.

Then why not just keep it in a dairy, even a digital word file in computer should have been able to satisfied the need of free expression. It is a self-deceiving way of persuading myself as having someone to communicate all the time, anonymous public.

It would be like an experiment that without people to comment on it or even view it, will I still remain the passion and stamina to write it everyday; or on the contrary, become addicted to it.

We will see.