This week flied so fast. I visited to NC to visit my friend this weekend. He graduate Univ. of Virginia last May, now he is in the program in Wake Forest Univ. He is my first friend in the U.S. I was glad to see him. We had great time this weekend. He is very kind to me, he treat me the best he could!! It could not be better.
We watched the movie ‘Book thief’. The movie was nice. I don’t think the main character stole books as many as the title makes us think. But, this movie reminded me how we are living happily. I can buy, borrow, download, and sometimes copy the books very easily. I can read almost any books I want. I do not need to burn books. I can believe that, while the world has still a lot of problems, the world is becoming better place little by little. There are still wars, starving, diseases, and so on, however, thanks to many people’s hard working, sometimes we have solutions. Thanks to many ancestors sacrifice, we are living happier. So, why don’t I do something for this world with my talent I have?
I am keeping learning English. One of reasons I started learning books is for my career in Physics. Almost every journal was written in English. I have to write papers in English as well. I need to make the presentations in English. It was natural for me to have chosen to learn English. Now, I am still learning though, I can read almost every book in English. But the problem is that I just realized that the reason why I can’t read the paper well is not problem about my English skill. That was physics problem. This is like joking!!
By looking back the paper I read, I realized that I understood the words almost everything, but I catch the meaning of paper barely. Yes, I should have read more easily. But, anyway, I crashed one of my bottle necks, and find new ones. That’s O.K., let’s start reading Physics books again, and make sure I understand physics.
I am currently reading ‘Think of numbers’ by John Verdon. This book is what is called the detective story, reminds me Sherlock Homes (I need to read them again!!). This story is really fantastic, I can’t wait reading ending of this story. And I just finished listening to ‘What I talk about when I talk about running’ by Haruki Murakami. He writes his philosophy in writing and running. I really like his style of writing, makes me calm. ‘The pain is inevitable, the suffering is optional’. This is his mantra when he runs marathon. The external world is not main variables for happiness of life we are being leaded. For books lovers, I want to meet you guys tell me what you are reading and please ask me what I am reading.
The new week is coming, let’s get good sleep and prepare for the coming exiting week!! I can’t wait waking up Monday morning!! Good night.