Monday, July 18, 2011

I-can-do-it-later list

Today's blog is a vlog again. I really have plenty of "me-time" this week-end.
In this video, I want to introduce people with what I call the "I-can-do-it-later list".
Basically, the "I-can-do-it-later things" on the list are all the little tiny things, really no time consuming things that you are procrastinating on.
As an attempt to take procrastination out of your life, working on the important things you are procrastinating on, like work or doing the washing up is a good thing. But working on more tiny and probably unnoticed things is also a good way to get the problem at the roots. It is good to free your mind from the things that you could actually do quickly but always postpone.

Once things are done you don't need to think about them anymore.
All those little things even if you are not thinking about them constantly are kind of nagging you at time. Your own "I-can-do-it-later" list depends entirely on you, it can be anything. You want to free yourself from them and get more thinking space in your brain for important things?
Start working on your "I-can-do-it-later list" today and I can promise you, you will feel as good as I'm feeling right now.

Sunday, July 17, 2011

Singing in Chinese : a whole new world

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I have been studying Chinese for a while now and I enjoy learning with music. Vloging is something I enjoy to but it always takes me several hours of intense work to record a song properly. I can't sing straight the first time, the music is never got enough, I take several recording 20, 30 times... I'm never happy with the result. And that's not even talking about putting the all thing together. Anyway, lucky you (if you don't die listening to me) I unexpectedly had a lot of free time on my hand.
So here is the best I could do for this sone. I hope you'll enjoy.



去看看這世界 神奇善良又美麗

放開心靈去接受另一種人生體驗

張開妳的雙眼 美景在眼前展現

與我一起遨遊天際造訪星辰明月

看這世界 擁抱著新的感覺

飛躍在雲間 在星月間 在妳我情誼之間

看這世界 惆悵寂寞曾占心田

有你在身邊 飛在天邊 淚水悲顏已化作為雲煙

在這嶄新的世界飛翔

去看看這世界 神奇善良又美麗

換個心情 人生到處充滿著新鲜

看這世界 張開妳的雙眼

擁抱這新的感覺 美景在眼前展現

飛躍在雲間 在星月間 在你我濃情蜜誼之間

看這世界 天南地北遨遊

在這嶄新的世界 散盡千萬般心情

有你在身邊 飛在天邊 淚水悲顏已化成雲煙

看這世界 看這世界

在你身邊 在你身邊

新的感覺 新的感覺

在你身邊 在你身邊

Thursday, July 14, 2011

"Attic Mirror"'s first proof

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It has been almost a month since the last blog post and seeing all the blog material that I have I think I'm pretty unforgivable for my month of laziness. So I'm going to do a big catch up during the coming days but don't worry still not more than one blog post a day so you'll have time to get back on track just like me.

After this little introduction (self flagellation?) let's get into today's topic and that's a big one as I received the first proof of "Attic Mirror" last night thanks to the help of the lab secretary for calling the Japanese post office for me and make an appointment for me to sign the form and get my delivery at a time where I actually was home.

So what about "Attic Mirror" ?

The first proof contains 275 pages and no illustrations as I didn't manage to get the illustration ready on time for the dead line. It's about 100 pages shorter than "Demon Soul" but it took a lot more of rewriting during the edition process. At every time of the process of writing, editing and uploading this book I thought I was never going to finish it. My perfectionism was striking again. I would said the final version will probably contain less errors than "Demon Soul". After all I'm improving with practice. It also contains references to "Demon Soul" quite a bit so that I needed to make sure that the story would still be understandable on its own and I'm pretty confident I succeeded.I still have to review the proof, add the illustrations and the last correction before making it available on sale on Create Space. So it will probably take one more month and a half to get there.
I hope you will enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed writing it.
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