Friday, October 15, 2004

5 days since the last journal

I resume my duty of writing a journal. For last five days, things happened so quickly. The transition of time occur very quickly at current time. I must get as much as I can get from the present time before all passes so quickly.

Speaking of speed of time flowing, If you don't do it "NOW", it will never happen. because if you postpone, "NOW" is going to be never. It is a corny saying but nevertheless the VERITAS.

I must do what I REALLY value to DO before NOW passes. I feel that field of the computer science is going to change the world fundamentally. I want to be important contribution to the world, and I BELIEVE that I can contribute by researching computer and biology hybrid topics.

I decided to write a thesis for cpsc502 about immune system simulation. I want to get a grasp of what the current research has been. I must read many research paper and get a feeling of what the current trends are. I must DO IT NOW.

Sunday, October 10, 2004

Concrete vs. Abstract

I woke up at 12:30AM since I slept from 8:30PM while listening to Yanni-all time favourite sleeping song. I dreamed or thought (which I was not sure) strange experiences. This experience is pretty much undescribable but I'll try to articulate as much as I can.

I am a serious programmer and I am currently working on a java objective-oriented programming. Just like my every learning experiences, I try to make connections between my newly learned knowdges to my existing knowledges in various fields of my life. The experiences seemed like I am re-wring my whole brain structure to suit object oriented way of thought-especially in java. Learning java language gave me very strange experience. Everything is clearly more objective now after I learned this language. I remember hearing about a book titled "How to think like a computer scientist" from Mr. Dolandson, my comsci highschool instructor.

Back to my dream/imagination I had today. I was trying to objectify all my life experiences and my thought process. It felt like I am hovering in a n-dimentional space and observing myself objectivly and finding new relations between events in my life, or a thought processes. It seems to me that my brain complexity is evolved enough to abstract myself. Objectify myself even.
"Concreteness of my existance can be abstracted by myself". I don't know what the hack this mean but this is the conclusion of my strange dreaming/imagination experience.

End of Journal (EOJ)

Saturday, October 02, 2004

Friendship

The virtue of friendship lies on trust.

What is friendship and why do we need it? Simple answer lies. We are social animal thus need good social connections. Human beings instinctively want to be with other human beings. And we wish for good relations between other human beings.

Friends are the one who you can seek anytime and expect to spend good time with. Of course nothing works like the pure form of definition. In order to win friendship, you may have to sacrifice short-term efficiency and time. Who would you rather spend time with? Simple answer. The one who will fullfill your goal at that temporal location most.

Due to the dynamic nature of the situation surrounding us, true friendship becomes harder to accomplish. Meanwhile true friendship keeps emotional and psychological health healthy. Human beings communicate in both high and low level, or intellectual and emotional level. There exist social institutions that encourages quality high (intellectual) level communication: such as an educational institution. There also exist social institutions that encourages quality low-level, or emotional level communication such as a family. However the role and strength of families have been declining ever since the modern ara.

In this sociological circumstance we are standing, the importance of friendship is every higher. There are factors threating establishing or already established friendship. Since our society is greatly concerned about security issues, we develop certain levels of defence against other human beings. Which concludes a fact as follows "Friendship often comes with price that are higher than what we are willing to pay".

So what are the alternative to the friendship? The folllowing discussion will continue.