Outdoor Activities

This week is our expected annual summer vacation. Thank to the slowed down of epidemic, we can restart to play the outdoor activities smoothly. In fact, we had already stayed home without any interesting activities for at least five months. Just like last several years, in the summer vacation, we had get used to travel on eastern of Taiwan, regardless of bike riding, water activities or mountain climbing. What is different this year was that we had visited Hualien first by the just finished Suhua highway. It provides the efficient and safety way to arrive for Hualien, but the dense tunnel also restrict the scenic view in the entire path. Without the trial breakthrough, this trip we had focused on the Zhongbu Cross-island highway, ranging from Hualien to Puli, which is the substitution way after the interruption of the original way to Guguan which was cross middle of Taiwan. In the pasted several years, I had visited the Taroko, Lishan, and Qingjing, but I had never crossed the entire Zhongbu Cross-island highway.

We had set out from Hualien, in fact, after the Tianxiang the last scenic spot in Taroko, there is nothing special except for the gas station and rest area. The Dayuling is the intersection of Zhongbu Cross-island highway and another feeder road. However, the status of this section is not ideal and enjoyable. Then, after briefly stayed at the Lishan at night, we would go back to Dayuling and arrive for Puli continuous. The key point of this section is the Wuling and Hehuanshan. I had visited here in the childhood, but I don’t have any memory currently. This is also the highest point in Taiwanese pathway system which reached higher than altitude 3000m. The scenic views on the way are definitely different from the low altitude. We had stayed in several spots and enjoyed the mountains. Then, keeping go forward to the Qingjing and Puli where we had been familiar with. In general, in the total process, the driver span is much longer than staying at any spot. However, the experience cross the unpopular is also indispensable which also provide us the clear thought where we could visit next time. Wuling and Hehuanshan might be the great example for worthy visit, but next time we would set out from Puli and focus on the mountain climbing.

Acoustic Requirement

After the COVID-19 pandemic break out, the more time I have taken to stay home. Thus, the more hobbies and activities at home would be built to satisfy this fundamental requirement. Except for the music composition, the movie watching, video game playing, and music listening required the appropriate earphone or speaker employed. Previously, I had merely one speaker and one earphone. Due to the cost and performance balance, I commonly focused more on earphone and cared about the quality more than speaker. I had chosen the recommended earphone made by Koss with the acceptable price. Fortunately, this Koss earphone was able to cover the entire requirement from my daily life, including the music, oral and video application. Afterward, I moved out the dormitory and posses the own space in the suite. I purchased the speaker with the bass strengthen both for music and video. It can perform the better sense of space in music, but the tone in higher frequency would be blurred for particular occasion. Furthermore, it also doesn’t match to the drum which emphasizing both low and high frequency.

Then, we had moved to the bigger house with five floors. The second floor generally applied for the video watching and the fifth floor is the music studio. Both floors require the speaker and earphone. In order to solve this problem, the Koss earphone would be put on the second floor where usage rate is much higher, and the other earphone: SHP2000 would be put on the fifth floor for seldom usage of music practice. However, the Koss had been broken when it was out of the lifespan. Then, I had purchased the HPH-200 replaced the previous Koss earphone. After a period of trial, I decided to exchange the rule between my own two earphones, because I thought the SHP2000 possess the comfortable wear experience and bass strength which is more suitable for the video watching and long time usage. And the HPH-200 possesses the better performance in wider frequency which is great for the musical instrument. Thus, the HPH-200 with the better acoustic performance but worse wearing feeling would replace SHP2000 and employed for the electrical drum and piano playing. Indeed, it performs the considerately quality for the entire frequency. The SHP2000 is also perform very good at the video watching and game playing especially the bass strength, although it would not good enough for the wider drum tone.

Technical Report

Since November last year, I have been busy on the new product development and test the multiple latest additional functions in the next version. In the schedule, the new version would be released on this May and, fortunately, the major functions in the software had been versification and the problems also had been solved. Thus, this month, I can arrange the current progress, think the new plan, and go forward for the next breakthrough. Except for the product development, I also want to make the further improvement for the potential field and make another valuable mission to expand our capabilities.

Thus, for this month, there will be three major tasks for me. The first one is to keep the developmental progress forward, both for the technical solution or the documental process. The second one is to arrange my entire data in the recent two years, including the data in hard disk and on the cloud. Due to the computer out of order previous, I hope I can put all the important files to the cloud, but the backup code and program whose size are too large saved in the computer disk. On the other hand, I hope I could come up with the unprecedented method to manage the data well for current requirement. The third one will be technical guide writing and automation tool app development.

Historical Record

Recently, due to the corona virus , we had more time staying home to see the movies and play the video game instead of traveling outside. Although, the content and view capture in the movie still expand our vision and idea. Furthermore, the football game which is able to show the diversified cultures also inspire me to understand the widen world deeply. The first thing I had acquired was studying the history and traveling to the particular area. Thus, after finishing the detective fiction project I had executed last months, I had enlisted the new historic books which focus on the European history in last ten years. Although, I had read all of them ten years ago, that time I was merely familiar with the topic related to the Second World War and cold war. In the above content, only the Germany, French, UK and Soviet Union played the key role, and development of the other countries commonly surrounded. This time, I won’t only focus on the above counties, but also the Low Countries, Eastern Europe and Balkans.

On the other hand, the trip in the Balkans provided the tremendous resource and experience to understand the cultural issue. Balkans is located between Western and Eastern Europe, which doesn’t only represent the two major powers in the Europe, but also the two utterly religious systems also. In our trip, we had visited the mountains belong to the Alps first, then the area and island along the sea coastline, finally the several significant historical cities in the world. In the last two years, I only travelled the Asian countries both for the sightseeing and business trip. The European and American long journey made us exhausted, but it exactly worth it. In the current situation, all the non-essential travel abroad isn’t allowed. However, it is still a good chance for us to recall and make arrangement for the further developmental planning.

The Target behind The Crisis

The corona virus crisis has broken up since the two months ago. Most of us have modified the plans in daily life including both weekday and weekend. Especially for weekend, we commonly go to the diversified places, such as department stores, bookstores, and other downtown and outskirt area. In the current circumstance, the above activities won’t be appropriate unless the crisis would be released. Since the event broken up, we had planned to do several indoor activities instead. The music related and watch the movies are the initial ones which are the existing hobbies formerly. Furthermore, I had taken more books and video games to kill the holidays for the current situation. In the weekday, we also changed life style at all. In the past, we would do the different sports in each day, consists of jogging, basketball, bicycle riding. And we also go the library, department store and downtown area in the weekday. However, in these two months, there have been merely two things we had done in the evening: jogging and watch the movies.

In order to enhance and shape the ideal body, the regular sport plan has been modified and execute strictly. Six times a week and one hour at least each time is the first target. The long distance jogging is likely able to improve the heart and lung capabilities. And the intermittent training is also another fiercely enhancement. For the first few weeks, we still spend time on increasing the strength gradually and try to seek the potential limit. We hope we can keep adjusting the training sequence to enhance the intensity and efficiency. On the other hand, the moderate weight training will be also put in the schedule to reach the target goal as soon as possible. In the past, there are a vast amount of activities we can do in the daily life, so we would exercise every day. However, the corona virus crisis restricts what we can do every day, and I hope it would become the great opportunities for the visible improvement.

Unplayed Games

The technology always changed rapidly, so what popular in our childhood was sharply different from now on. Therefore, the impression of the memory would be able to represent the unique symbol. After entering the college, because we I had involved in the technical field, the technology researching might become blurred between hobbies and works, I had reduced the percentage of the free time on it. When the time I got the first job, it was still contradiction for me to determine whether or not to involve. I was in the traditional industry which is far from the technology. However, I still want to take related job in the future. I studied courses with regard to the electrical engineering and computer science. On the other hand, though, I had loved to follow the latest products of technology and new trend. But, after the mobile replaced the computer as the major icon, which product attracted me less made me lose the almost all of the enthusiasm for following the trend.

Recently, I had taken the old magazine of the technology and computer from home, which content mainly including the technique and product introduction. When I was reading these contents in regard to technique, I was only a junior high student. I merely can build the website in the friendly developmental software and assembly desktop computer with the diversified parts. Writing the code and develop the program was still the far target that time and I still didn’t have sufficient mathematic knowledge to support the further development. Nowadays, I have much more knowledge from the college and writing the program also become the major works for our daily life. I want to read this content again and I will have complete different ideas right now. On the other hand, the product introduction in that period is highly likely to disappear or not popular afterward, such as the disk, small digital camera, and traditional mobile. Above product would also become the icon of the old days.

In The Childhood

Due to the Corona virus, the recent period after Chinese New Year, the entire society incline to be more cautious. Enormous travel abroad had been cancelled and the crowded people in the downtown had also decreased as well. People avoid go somewhere crowded if unnecessary. Thence, we also require altering the style life in the weekend. We couldn’t go anywhere but stay home, so what we have to do in the future is to come up with various ideas and activities. However, when I recalled and sorted out what I dreamed of in the child which I haven’t fulfilled so far. I had found out the material art might be the first one. For the child who is lack of sufficient resources to recognize the world, simple acquire and be affected by the accessible media like the TV program and movie. The topic famous in our childhood was related to the violence. In the midst of violence, it also is classified as the mechanical and unarmed. The battle robot will be attributed to the mechanical and the material art is for the unarmed. In that period, we obviously want to learn and train how to fight and it is also exactly useful for the daily.

However, after high school, the free time had been deceased dramatically. We don’t have adequate time and energy to think of the extracurricular activities. The entire dreams in the child had been suspended in these periods. Fortunately, during the college life, we had such the freedom time. Most students would make the plan to learn or play the extracurricular activities in the club and group. I had the opportunities again to fulfill the childhood dream. Nonetheless, the highest priority in that moment was the music related skills, such as the guitar, drum and compose. On the other hand, what I chose for the sport was the football, bike riding and swimming. Although, I still had chance to access to the Taekwondo club when the freshmen propaganda and access to the free boxing when I was graduated, there were still without the stronger motivation for me to make the crucial decision. First, I don’t think when I get older the unarmed flight was still the necessary skill in the daily. Accordingly, the training might turn into the mere physical education. Furthermore, the competition of diversified categories of fighting, shows the too much cautious and fewer strengthen than other sports.

Be Independent

In the past over three years, I had tried to decrease the news and information from the secular media. I always think that if the news was the product in the free market, the content would be focused on how to attract the people instead of telling the truth. Indeed, most of our news we had seen every day rarely provide the believable data or the structural material. In recent years, the social media had risen and most of the young people acquire the information only from the social media. Though, this new trend offered the diversified resource and, on the other word, the media won’t only controlled by the particular power entity, the group in the social media had been chosen by the user. Consequently, people only want to subscribe the group or the resource which provided more consistent comment with themselves. They subscribed these resource won’t really want to acquire the truth but saw the content make me happier instead. It is difficult for people to acquire both positive and negative comment on the specific issue or analyze the raw and make the clear judgment by themselves. In fact, there were still several impartial media offering the high quality data and comment for diversified issues. However, the news without the entertaining factors won’t attract the mainstream audience.

Last year, due to the business trip in Southeast Asia and released the new product in the market, I spent more on studying the history and status analysis of these countries. However, the presidential and legislator election had held this month, I had thought I would require to study on the issue recently. Just one year passed, although the government hadn’t made the breakthrough effort on the policy, the international circumstances urge people to make the different thinking. And the entire election also focused the sovereignty rather than economic policy like four years earlier. On the other hand, the legislator election also generate fully entertaining topic because the people like entertainment more.

As Twenty Years Ago

After simplifying the daily life, my major target in the life merely focus on the keeping the exercise habits and English improvement. However, both of them require the long-term progressive which couldn’t acquire the remarkable achievements in the short term. On the other hand, due to several cold waves and rainy weather, I had spent more time at home which made me not to do the outdoor activities. Thus, in order to enhance the joy when I stayed at home, I begun trying to find some special hobbies for me to alter the different style of life. However, add the new hobbies without long term maintenance is impracticable, so I started thinking what was the something I expected in the past but I couldn’t accomplish utterly. To meet this condition, there are two main factors why I hadn’t done in the past. First, the most important of all, was that I didn’t have sufficient money prior to graduate from school. The second one was that I didn’t have enough free time in the evening because there was too much homework and exam had be done or prepared. Although, nowadays, I have much more time and sufficient money, what attracted me in the past might not attract me currently as well. As a result, in these days, I would walk the different way and to find something might leave regret previously.

The game boy and pocket game was exactly attracted me when I was three grade in elementary school. Why I couldn’t possess it because when I was child, I was allowed to choose one of the video game between PlayStation and Game Boy. Due to the bigger size of the screen, the PlayStation had been chosen which brought me the long great memories. Thus, I lost the opportunities to contact the Game boy. In that period, much more famous video game developed on the PlayStation platform, but the key and notable game in Game boy platform was the pocket monster. Though, I still had played this game via the PC platform, the Game boy was still occupied the most regret position in my heart. Fortunately, recently, when I served the internet, I found the revise version of Game boy sold on the e-commence. I grasped this rare chance and purchased the machine smoothly with the great operational status. I also purchased the cassette of blue version pocket monster which I had been familiar with when I was a child. This was the game which would me spent months and months to accomplish completely. Therefore, I won’t think I will be boring with playing this game.