A few pieces of news this week.

There’s a man given himself a Chinese name “Lu An Ke” who is from Germany and volunteers as a teacher in a village in Guang Xi Province. He has been living there for a few years, and maintaining a blog journal in his own website about his teaching activities. But recently he chose to close his blog and remove all the entries, leaving the books he have translated and written, by the reason that he don’t want to draw too much public’s attention(or forced by the local gov). The story is being extremely mis-used but there is one documentary interviewing him by Chai Jing worth watching. It tells about how Lu tries to teach in a different way, focusing on the relationship he had built with the children who’s parents have gone to make a living far away in big cities, and tells about what he think and why he’s been doing all this. There is one quote I like very much in the documentary - when Lu was ask why he had said in his blog that “the people in towns and cities of China are to anxious(焦急)”, he explained, “They don’t wait until the foundation is built, but require the result happen. It should be a long time before things come out naturally.” It’s just what I have been thinking these days – “Build a concrete foundation.” Good things need a foundation to last long. So i would like to put more effort on the setups.

Another hot news, a series suicides happened in the company Foxconn since March. The strangest thing is people’s reaction on the net. They seems to be enthusiastic to find the news that the managers and gov haven’t done anything effective to stop the tragedy and one more life has gone. The habitual pessimism on gov and the non-responsible attitude are making the society less and less to enjoy. Are we still going to make this world a better place?

I also working on a small experiment recently. I want to study THE WAY I STUDY. I’m trying to use MS Excel to record down the periods I use to read books every day, and manage the progress of each book I want to read. Eventually I’ll have the data that shows how I read books – I can spend how much time on books every week, and how long it takes to read a book with certain length. And then I’ll figure out if there is any possible way to speed up my reading behavior and make better reading habits. It might be hard to keep doing this experiment, but currently I’m still having fun.