US trip

Hi sorry for the inactivity for the past 2 weeks because I was in US for a study trip and sadly moments with free wifi are short and pathetic. But no one probably reads my blog so why would I care. Anyway as I've said I went for a study trip, which is quite fun and enriching. They say that a journey matters because of the people you travelled with, and indeed it is. The trip itself isn't in anyway special, okay maybe it is but the places that we visited are less important than the friends I've made in this trip. The trip does teach me a lot about interactions with people and more importantly discovering what is inside of people.

Sorry I just went youtube and it was an unfortunate 2 hour break. Now back to this blog. I forgot what I was about to say. Umm my experience there? Oh right. Now to me the whole thing feel like a dream. I get that feeling every time I returned from a trip. What is past is past, the past may be captured in your memories which is somewhat delusional. Luckily or unluckily we have things like camera which will accurately capture the past. So maybe I can share some photos here.

While loading my photos I will talk about random things. There's actually so many things I want to talk about of my trip but somehow I find it really hard to consolidate my thoughts. It is hard for me to turn experiences into words. The reflection that I submitted was really crappily written except for the part where I attempt to write the words such that they forms the shape of a sheep. Sorry Mr Tan you know I can't write a good reflection when I'm on the plane and they don't allow me to open the windows and the table smells weird so I didn't use it and the reading light shines at the person beside me instead so I've to use the LED light at the bottom of the screen. And still I don't like the idea of a forced reflection and having to write my thoughts down. I don't know if this problem is unique to me but when I think I make random connections and jump from thoughts to thoughts, when I write this function is somewhat disabled, writing things will disrupt my thoughts thus lowering the quality of the things I'm writing.

Oh good the photos are ready. Let me paste some nice ones which I took.

Hmm I just realised it's not a good idea to paste everything cos it'll make the post look very long. Maybe I can insert a picasa album?

Damn now I've to wait a long time to download picasa. Maybe I don't need to download it to insert pictures but downloading it is a good thing I guess. Back to writing. Actually writing down things may be a good thing. Although writing may compromise quality of the writing itself, it does provide a good way to record down ideas and make sharing easier. Writing is the main tool to make knowledge universally available. It allows others to build on your work and not  repeat mistakes. But will writing restrict one as well? What if someone assumes that something is wrong and others will not dare to explore it further? The problem exist but due to our primitive brains generations and generations of people still will repeat the mistakes of those before them, so I guess the problem won't be prominent.

Why does it take so long to synchronise my web album and my album.

So writing connects people and ideas, it also make ideas permanently existing instead of vanishing with the person himself. I guess that's good.

Here's my photos! Why am I suddenly talking about writing when I'm supposed to post about my US trip. It took me a while to write the captions and organise them.




Okay that's all for now.