Personal Interests/Preferences (I)

Finally, I'll realize my promise by talking about my personal interests and hobbies. Let me start it today...

• E-commerce
  People always start introducing themselves with their professions and education background. I'll copy that. Ecommerce is my major in university, so I have to say, I love it. The knowledge in this area is profound and broad enough for anyone to study for his whole life time. Simply put, it is by far a rather attractive integration of the most advanced technology – internet – that you never know which direction it would develop to tomorrow, the most common human activity – business – that needs extensive administration skills and ingenious wisdom to survive and prosper, and the most crucial infrastructure of a modern society – law – that has coherently extended its foot over the www domain.
• E-shopping
  Unless the retailers still insist on their strategic decisions to stay only in brick-and-mortar, or show me no sign of enough online security measures, I'll rather try doing some B2C on the Internet. Fast and easy, safe and clear, nice and fun…There are no doubt many other types of business models out there, only exploring their amazingly tremendous/fancy and intricately designed websites, and using my limited knowledge to make several guesses of how on earth their online business work, are a fun.
• Sports, especially NBA
  Basically, I prefer watching a World Cup soccer match or a NBA Final game without having to go to the washing room now and then. I hate being interrupted when I was on something so addictive to me. I remembered I comprehensively familiarized myself with NBA when Jordan was about to retire from the Bulls for the last time. Nevertheless, I'm a still a big big fan of him, though we would no more see him play. I know NBA inside out, not only because of the numerous superstars and their ability to shoot, dunk, dribble, pass, or rebound the ball well, but also because of the sports spirit that you may perceive from several outstanding players and teams. Players' perfect skill and passionate heart, coaches' 随机应变 (I forget and can't find out the word, a French one) and "guiles", and the sweaty and fierce competition during the buzzer time, that's all I expected from the court. I do play sports myself, I know I'm a good jumper and runner, but obviously I would have much more time for that if I were 10 years younger.
• Classic Chinese literature, especially the four classic
  I can write the same content in Chinese significantly faster and nicer than in English, even in verse, if you do demand, save the content is literally unique in one language and the translation turns out to be too lossy and touchy. Of course, I experience more of that when C2E than E2C. Chinese culture is the biggest and longest continuation in human history, so does Chinese literature, which best skeletonize the immense and intensive culture. What we call "four classic" is constant reading material for me, as well as their CCTV & diverse audio book editions. Every time I flipped one or two out of the numerous pages I unearthed different/undiscovered meanings and philosophy between the lines and had the urge to make some individual comments, despite the fact that I was already quite familiar with every little story in each episode and every single character delineated in each book. My personal favour so far of the four ordered from strong to weak is "The Dream of The Red Chamber" – "The Romance of Three Kingdoms" – "The Journey to the West" – "Water Margin".
• Maths and physics
  This is the interest and habit that was developed when I was only a tad. I like the feeling of cracking an extra-complicated mathematic riddle after hours of logic deduction and proving. There definitely had no dearth of maths & physics puzzles everyday for me to figure out when my little life was all about tests and examinations on them. This is also the reason why Newton and Einstein are still my favourite idols. Unlike what American children are learning in high schools, the basic science stuff I learned in China was far far trickier but far less capable of cultivating a child's creativity. The puzzle could easily perplex a prestigious American professor, but its purpose was only limited to perplex you, which, you can see, reflects one of many fallacies in child education in China that could have many conflicts with its occidental counterpart.

(to be continued...followed by many, too many to tell in one time :-))