It just feel GREAT!

After 5 weeks of summer school, despite the toughness, discipline, and the not so fun homework with low score in tests/exams, I finally see the improvement "within" the students. Not only academically, but also personally. However, they are still kids!

Seeing them getting more focus and more discipline is nothing you can buy, it's just so precious. From cheating during the tests until able to control and be honest on their scores (Imagine that the temptation of cheating is very high since they just sit very close together).

Nothing is more important than the "right" attitude and behavior... academic is just something add-on on top of the quality of a human being.

I believe that these kids will be so strong in the future, they can face any tough situation and be able to handle them well. This is just great!

How to Count Without Counting

When I first saw the subtitle, I was so amazed there is a book in Math does sound like Philosophy! It's true that people have been spending time in a lot of unnecessary activities and decision making. A lot of people just spend too much time on doing something that could be done in a lot less time. That's the problem! People don't understand why we should save time! Most of us think that we can take our time to do things, well, it's just depend... (Another decision making moment).

The title of this book is "Mathematics of Choice". It's indeed very true that we have a choice, not only in Math. God has given us choices in life for many things. We make our own choices... Do we make a good choice? Or we has been spending time to make wrong choices all the time (there are a lot of people spending too much time making wrong decision...).

However, a lot of people don't want to save their time... people are generally stubborn.. haha... They want to stay at their own status instead of change (even though they always say that they wanna change) - I think this matches Newton's First Law! Or may be we are just too "Solid", where all molecules in solid state can't really move around, and can only have very limited movement unless some external "heat" or "forces" acted upon it. Wow! Our life is just so Mathematical and Scientific!

Well, our life has so many Combinations, Permutations and Distributions...

I Remember...

To Honor Our Father...

I remember it was you, who always bought me something whenever you came back from a trip when I was a kid.

I remember it was you, who gave me a surprise birtday at my nursery school when I was 4.

I remember it was you, who prepared two movies for me everyday before I went to bed.

I remember it was you, who beat me up and then helped me to put on medicine when I was out of control.

I remember it was you, who always remembered what I like and bought me books even though you believe "book" would bring bad luck (in terms of gambling).

I remember it was you, who built up "whole room" of bookshelves in our study room.

I remember it was you, who always wanted to be the chef cooking for my guests whenever there was a chance.

I remember it was you, who always took us out for dim sum during the weekend, and spent the day with us.

I remember...