Posts Tagged ‘blog’

Bear's no blog for a little longer

I told many friends I have visited in my trip to China that the trip is a desperate attempt to trying to enjoy the very last bit of my worry-free university time.

It appears to be true now, the work load of my last year's bachelor study is immense and has way exceeded my expectation, forcing me to partially give up on some extracurriculum activities like blogging here.

I have always said, no matter how busy I am, blogging would be the last thing to give up because its significance in helping me achieve a number of personal objectives. So I'm definitely not to give this blog up.

However, because of the work load I'm currently experiencing, there is little free time available for me to use in this blog. I'm currently considering several restructuring options that would reduce the amount of time needed to blog here while do not comprimise the quality. One possibility is to make this blog more work related so I can copy my assignment and other works straight to here :) But if there is no other option, I will then have to adapt a twitter-like style for this blog, short, but stll on the point, or face the possibility of concentrating my time on Chinese blog and close down this English blog.

More coming soon.

On busy mode again

I was struggling to write something here in recent weeks, but I just could not find enough time to do so. It's that usual end of a semester busy mode again, and I'm currently having 3 assignments and at least 1 presentation on the to do list. Plus other personal commitments I have to make, the priority of update my blogs isn't that high any more.

I'm expecting that I could finish most of the works before or after Queen's Birthday, so I'll be back around that time, but before that, the update of this blog is halted. HOWEVER, you will still be able to find me in other places. I am still present on Twitter, and I have increased the number of tweets on current affairs in English.

The other thing is, I have made some of my RSS subscription categories publicly available for quite a while now, although I didn't post the links on this blog:). Most of my information and ideas came from those nice bloggers, so I just think these pages might be helpful if you are not a very into reading via RSS:

• blogs-china-politics (in Chinese)
  
• blogs-china-english
• blogs-new-zealand
• Magazines (mix of two languages)

Well, then, have a happy, safe Queen's birthday if I failed to make myself back on time.

Yet another break from this blog

I know it's bit sad to take two breaks from my blog within quite a short period. This time is different though, I'm not just being lazy, I need some time to deal with my personal difficulties. It's about my personal issue, so as usual I won't discuss it publicly.

I don't know when will I be capable to start this blog again, but, at least a week.

What I've been up to

I need another week to sort out my university works before I can resume my update here. However, I still have a online presence, I'm inceasing number of English updates in my twitter,  usually are short comments of news items.

During the week I struggled to finish the first of two presentations I have to do this year. As a moderate-severe stutterer(even this word is difficult to pronounce), it went better than I expected, but I still tend to over-simplify speeches to keep fluency, and that has affected my marks. Second presentation, however, would be a lot more worse, the panel includes city councillors, and a parliamentary party leader.

And I also got several assignment that I need to finish this week.

a week off from this blog

Well, I already took a  week off anyway. It's exam time and I think I still need a bit more time to go over my courses, so I'll be back after the exam, friday or weekend. But now, I'm in panic mode.

New theme

Nothing much to say really, I'm very resistant to change, so everytime when I adapt a new theme, the appearance would still look similar to previous versions - not this time though, I added another column.

I also added an interesting widget:

I always say, as a language, Chinese does more than just a tool for conversations, it is also the carrier of Chinese traditions,  philosophy, and ideas - that's why the culture lasted thousands of years, as long as the language is still present, we all remember that you cannot spell crisis（危机） without opportunity（机） in Chinese.