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...

Something about Math - Career or/and Entrepreneur

Found these 2 articles, may help to explain the wonder of why Math? There are still a lot of articles out there, and of course the debate between the bright and dark sides of it.

Too much math will not be good, and knowing too little of it will not help either. We all need to know "adequate" - enough to function! How much is adequate? Technically, you don't WASTE time, resources, energy - yours or/and others... to do anything (well, don't take me wrong, we all still have to relax - therefore, we must be able to separate ourselves from working and relaxing - clear line between them!)

online.wsj.com/article/SB123119236117055127.htm
(This link may not work from here, copy and paste will work)

www.gaebler.com/Entrepreneurship-and-Math.htm

Smart Vs. Wisdom

It just strikes me when I was listening to a talk few days ago. I think we all actually aware that both smartness and wisdom are two totally different phenomena.

A smart person doesn't mean that he/she has wisdom. However, the reverse is true! A person with wisdom must be smart! Perhaps, I can say that the smart person without (much) wisdom is not that smart actually, and he/she is only on a lower level of smartness... just like myself... it's not easy to reach that level, and perhaps we need to spend our life to acheive it, which need a lot of discipline.

Smart people can solve problem, and can be very successful. On the other hand, people with wisdom, may not seem that successful, but they are happier.

This may be just my opinion, this world has put us into a tiny and narrow view to judge a person's success: in terms of materialistics, fame, power... Human is losing the power of judgement with wisdom...

Knowledge Vs. Morality

As someone who teaches, nurturing our new generation is the main mission. However, are we just nurturing "the knowledge"? How about the other side of being a "right" person for the society. Especially the Asian community, parents emphasis too much on studies and getting good jobs for the future, which leads to good grades in school. Is it about being a good students depends on how good the grades are?

There is no doubt that as students, the only focus is study and learn, but what is good if a person is good for knowledge and doesn't have a "heart"? Being in the "world" just for the materiality, without the "heart" of knowing the needs of others?

Perhaps being a "good person" is boring, but is that true? Well, yes or no, but we don't want to be just a good person, we want to be a "right" person! And define "good" and "right"... I think I'll let you to define them.

Here is something that I want to share:

Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve,
you don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve.
You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.

by - Somebody

Who wants to be a Millionare?

Well, I have this book a while ago, and just found it again while I'm moving... Of course there is no free lunch, and you must work on it :D

The book title is "The Millennium Problems" - The 7 Greatest Unsolved Mathematical Puzzles of Our Time.

In May 2000, the CMI announced seven $1 Million prizes for the solution to each seven unsolved problems of Mathematics in Paris. There is a promotional site: www.claymath.org

Somehow, the problems are pretty interesting, and if someone would like to work on them, then you should check out the site...These are the topics:
1. The Music of Primes: The Riemann Hypothesis
2. The Fields We Are Made Of: Yang - Mills Theory and the Mass Gap Hypothesis
3. When Computers Fail: The P vs. NP Problem
4. Making Waves: The Navier-Stokes Equations
5. The Mathematics of Smooth Behavior: The Poincare Conjecture
6. Knowing When Equation Can't Be Solved: The Birch and Swinnerton-Dyer Conjecture
7. Geometry Without Pictures: The Hodge Conjecture


I have seen some of these when I was in college, back then... it's always complicated stuffs. Of course, I wish there were some books that can explain complicated items in a very simple way... but in order to understand complicated stuffs, and make it simple, we should go through a process of learning of complicated things, then we will understand what and how is simple.

People nowadays don't like to think, that's the problem why a lot of us actually take life for granted. Brains are not being used often... make me worry if human will be like those in Wall-E!

Anyway, hope some of you will enjoy the problems...

What REALLY is Education?

Often I heard that people telling getting education is to complete your study, to get a degree, then get a good job, in order to become secure in your life. Is it true?

Very often, in the schools or even in prep schools, teachers tend to emphasis on knowledge too much instead of overall personal growth from deep inside. Even though schools that want to "growth" the younger generations; but the educators don't seemed to know which is the priorities! And confused on where to start, often take the children as experiments!

Knowledge is IMPORTANT! Teachers definitely MUST be equipped with what they are capable in, not just teach by learning them the day before. Teachers MUST set the right example, not just because they HAVE TO, they must come out from their own hearts!

Is it knowledge the only thing we need to have? The answer is NO! Knowledge is just part of our skills that get us to be a better person. Nowadays, people with knowledge, may not necessary success. And how do we define "Success"? Is it how much money you make? or how is your society status? or everything that we can see and tangible? This is a great question that everyone must spend time to think!

What's good is the money, status, popularity, etc if we don't have friends? define friends... I mean "real" friends, the one who will be there whenever you need them, and no afraid to tell you if you are wrong. Not running away when you are in trouble. Not just want to be a freind because of benefit...

How about having your whole life, and you have a chance to be the one who can impact others' lives? Bring cheers, laughs, hopes... or we are the burdens of the societies or if not, just another human beings that never cares about others except him/herself... or just because we don't think this world has any hopes...after trying to help... are we the one who always blame on others... and not seeing why it happened, and try to figure out what can we do in order to become better?

Our schools focus on what we so called "education", which is just merely the surfaces of what we should be... teachers, educators should be more concern on human growth of integrity, care, morality... Otherwise, we will be the waste products of our own education...

相亲相爱 (Xiang Qing Xiang Ai)

Whenever I listen to this song, I am in the time capsule traveling back to my high school time. The time that we were fighting for retaining our culture, the Chinese culture, together.

Yes! We are family, and now we are still family, the Society is still standing and growing strong after 32 years.

I miss you all, and I believe that I'll see you all very soon... and keep the dream alive!