conditions

Ying wants me to be in good conditions when I go back home. These days the word "condition" comes across my mind from time to time, so I'd like to talk about it. I'm not gonna write an organized article or something, just some random stuff.

I'm learning and want to learn a lot of stuff. I'm writing my own computer game using a computer language called Python; In research I collect several softwares from national labs and write my own, trying my best to work for my advisor as a postdoc associate which requires me in better conditions. Conditions? no no no. In the past almost 25 years I've stored many knowledge and experience, now in the next
25 years of my life I want to build them up into skills. Skills are independent of conditions, which just work no matter what.

Stepping on the soccer ball and pulling it with my right foot, I dribbled the ball past a player. Now this technique works for many times. I no longer depends on my sense and body condition when playing, because now I have techniques. I like this kind of feeling.

I reached level 24 in warcraft. A non-sponsored online clan "Warcraft Dream" is recruiting players above level 30, which are very rare. I already see the day when I reach level 30, in near future. Warcraft for me is like chess. I get a cup of black tea and play a game of "chess" with some unknown, in a snowing winter. This is life, man.

Be professional, is the way to go.

Christian camp

The place I went to last weekend is called Mukuonago, WI. The car I sat in has five people, and
the six hour road trip was not too bad, for me it's just loops of sleep, wakeup and sleep. I went camping with the same group of people this summer, which was scary. We six people shared a tent, then it rained hard, then the tent began to float, then water got in. Then we contacted with some people and got arranged to sleep on the floor in a random building. The frog in the bathroom also seemed scary too. Ok, going with the same group of people absolutely brought up the scary memory. However, this time everything was not so bad, besides no heating and snoring. I did learn a lot:

1. Suffering, death and resurrection. Most of people just want the resuccrection part and forget about the other two parts. In times of suffering and tests, endurance is critical.

2. The parables of ten talents in Matthew. You get your talents according to your ability, and you have to make them grow instead of just storing them. If you don't know how to multiply them, just putting them to bank is ok. Relating to faith, I thought it might mean our faith has to grow, if I don't know how, then just go to church.

going to Wakesha, WI this Friday

with COC. for a christian camp (no idea what it is)

fun in Warcraft

I played a lot of warcraft during these two weeks, with the results of almost 70 wins and 70 losts and getting level 21 on Battle.net. Maybe I should take a break and focus again on job hunting and research. But nevertheless I had a lot of fun experience "fighting" with others.

When I lost a game, I either type "gg" (good game) and quit or quit directly. When the enemy lost, they typically did one of the following:

1. gg and quit or just quit
2. beg for a mercy win. like "I'm only 7 any chance I could get a win?"
3. begin to bad talk. #$#@$@#%.
4. ask for pausing the game for going to restroom...

well, that's fine. It's just a game. Anytime when I feel offended, I count "1,2,3" in my heart before reacting. If still feeling bad, I count "4,5,6"..

yeah, there are lots of memorable moments in the game play. There was once when my hero, DemonHunter, lead the army and leveled up on the map. Then I felt like to go to the enemy base to see what's going on. At the moment when I saw twenty guard tower in his base, I almost bang my head to the computer screen.. Then this game lasted for an hour, I got exhausted and quit.
Also there was once I beat a kid (don't blame me, please), and he asked me to join a clan formed by his cousin. "how old are you?" "well, I'm in grad school." and so on