Fin

Fin: a diary

I'll finish writing this diary. Let me explain the reason why I made a decision like this.

My purposes for writing this diary are:

  • To have a habit of writing articles
  • To be able to write English sentences without thinking twice

I think I've achieved my goals regarding these purposes. Aside from them, I've been thinking about 仕上げのモチベーション these days.

だいたい何でも、完成度4〜5割で全体が見えてきたあたりから完成度8割くらいの ところまで持ってゆく時が一番手応えがあって楽しい。手を入れる度に 良くなってゆくのがわかるから。 完成度8〜9割のあたりで、だんだん楽しさよりも使命感というかプライドというか、 明らかに未完成なものを出したくないよな、っていう想いの方が支配的になってくる。 9割とか9割5分を過ぎるとむしろ執念。

でも、この最後の1割を追い込むかどうかで、出来上がりの持つ存在感というか 重みというか、が違ってくる。 ...

ただ、この9割過ぎてからの作業って、モチベーション保つのがしんどいんだよね。 文章ならもう内容はすっかり頭に入ってる(つもり)のものを何度も読み直すとか、 演奏や演技ならひととおり通して出来るようになってるものを客観的に分析して 何が足りないか探すとか、 プログラムなら既に動いてテストも通ってるんだけど抜けてるエッジケースが 無いか今一度確認するとか。

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こういったブログの文章なんかは5割くらいの完成度で投げっぱなしに してしまうので楽なものだ。ブログをいくら書いても文章の練習にならないと 思うのはそのためだ。(毎エントリがっつり練って校正するなら別だけど、 それはもはやエッセイ集だな。)

(仕上げのモチベーション)

From this point of view, this diary is incomplete stuff, so to speak. As I mentioned above, one of my main purposes is "To be able to write English sentences without thinking twice." I think it's a reasonable purpose because this is a diary. Basically, you shouldn't spend too much time on writing a diary, since it will be a great burden. But when it comes to the quality of writing, I should spend much more time on writing. This is a kind of dilemma.

What I want to mention here is simple: It's time to try to write sophisticated sentences. Instead of writing constantly, I'll do my best on each articles from now on.

In short, I decided to quit writing this diary for the reason :-) My daily life can be seen partly by twitter and facebook. Instead, I'll write things more seriously on blogs. Please stay tuned. I'll let you know when my new blogs are available :-)

diary: 2011/09/23

Running

I ran about 1 hour today, and it'd be about 10km. I think I'm gradually getting better condition. These days, I'm able to run longer and faster than ever.

Dinner with host family

Luckily for me, I have chances to eat dinner with host family these days. It's interesting to take part in the conversation. I sometimes have difficult time when I try to understand what they say, though.

diary: 2011/09/22

Running

I ran about 1 hour today, and it'd be about 10km.

Skype

I talked with my family except for my father on Skype. They seemed to be fine as usual, and I felt easy when I talked with them in my native tongue Japanese.

diary: 2011/09/21

...

I'm writing this diary on Sep. 23, 2011. To be honest with you, I can't remember the event of this day. I have to include writing this diary in my daily routine...

diary: 2011/09/20

Job interview

Today is the day for my first job interview. I could enjoy the chance and talking with the CEO & the chief engineer in the company that I applied for was enjoyable. I hope everything goes well :-)

Hilight grep results

I added some configuration to my .zshrc to highlight results of the grep command.

export GREP_COLOR='1;30;43'
export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto'

diary: 2011/09/19

Running

I ran about 1 hour today, and it'd be about 10km.

diary: 2011/09/18

Running

I ran about 1 hour today, and it'd be about 10km. It's just as same usual.

diary: 2011/09/17

Day trip for Victoria

I went to Victoria with my friends at UBC ELI and spent almost whole day there.

At first, we went to The Butchart Gardens.

After the garden, we got separated into several groups. Our group went to Royal British Columbia Museum.

Visitors were allowed to take photos there.

Finally, my Chinese friend and I went to a Japanese restaurant named "Shima Sushi". To be honest, this is my greatest memory of the day :-) The taste of Oyako Don there was so good. I want to try again if I have a chance to go there again...

diary: 2011/09/16

Running

I ran about 1 hour today, and it'd be about 10km.

I got a phone call!

It was my first time to say "Hello" on the phone, instead of saying "moshimoshi (もしもし)". The phone was a reply for my job application.

I got a little nervous at that time ;-) I hope this talk to bear fruit both of us (me and the company).

I got a skype call!

In Japan, next week is a special week called Silver Week. Many Japanese can enjoy vacation because there are two holidays in the week.

My younger brother who is usually working in Tokyo returned to our hometown on previous Saturday. So I was able to talk to almost all members of my family via Skype. It's nice to talk with family :-)

diary: 2011/09/15

Running

I couldn't run today because it rained a little. Vancouver will soon enter into the rainy season, so I had better prepare for it.

Keep revising my resume and cover letters

I've keeping revising my resume and cover letters. It's really tough job for me to modify words since English is my second language. To be honest, I sometimes make mistake when it comes to choosing right words.

Luckily, my tutors are so kind that they tell me suitable words for such papers. I have to try harder and harder...

Heroes Season 1

I finished watching Heroes Season 1 on Netflix. Japanese characters on screen don't look like Japanese.

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