《漫画读通柯维成功学》读后感 (3/33)

阅读前的期待：

Stephen R.Covey 是我最喜欢的作者之一。从 7 Habits for Highly Effective People 开始，我就爱上了他的书。至于那个七个习惯，我并不陌生。我买这本书来读的目的有三个：
（一）让我重新复习这七个高效人的习惯，
（二）重新体会这本书另一方式的呈现，（这样可以从另一个角度学习到我遗漏的知识）
（三）读完后转让其他懒得读整本书的人以更简单地方式来学习这7个习惯。


读后感：

虽然只有大约150页，但是这本书的每一页都是精华、都是重点。除了利用漫画来带你进入每一个习惯可以应用的情形，我最喜欢这本书的另一点就是用图解的方式来诠释原作的概念。
这让人会容易明白，吸收，复习和不断反思。
我最大的收获是，以前我阅读原作时，不小心把这 “7个习惯” 当成 “7个应该做的事”。
（可能只有我这么做。）
这里每个 “习惯” 都是我该学习的，但是我却忘了把它们转化成我的习惯。这七个习惯中，我的首要任务是把这三个完完全全变成我的习惯： “主动积极 Be Proactive”，“以终为始 Beginning with the End in Mind”，“要事第一 Put First Thing First”。当然其他的我也会去做，但是这三个会是最重要的。

读了这本书后，我随着漫画的情景想象，融入自己的生活习惯，也想要利用这些 “习惯” 来改变自己。我坚信这一定不会是我最后一次读完，我计划每个月至少两次再去翻开他来提醒自己,把他当作我不断更新的其中一项要务。


满意度（满星7星）：6星

《不拖延工作术》读后感 (2/33)

这是我18号买的其中一本书。
这是我这三天看完的第二本书。

阅读前的期待:
我希望阅读过后可以改善我自己的坏习惯。学着书里作者给的秘诀来改变自己，然后更有效率地完成我的工作（不管是现在或以后）。

读后感：
这是一本翻译自英文版的 The 60seconds procastination. 作者把他的内容分成6个方向60个秘诀。但是对我个人来说，阅读完后觉得很遗憾。这本虽然有沿着主题在说明举例，但是流畅度很不好。一页一页读下去后完全捉不到一个方向。就连作者在举例的一整段，我完全不了解作者是在说正确或是错误的例子。整体来说，结构凌乱，重量不重质啊。就连引用人物的语录也常常跟接下去的内容没关联，让人混绕。 

满意度（满星7星）：2星

我认识的人都是人才

不知道是什么关系，我发现我认识的人都是好不得了的人才。
大家都不会盲目的过日子，一直在私底下追求进步。


我一直以来交际方面没什么好，认识的人也没深入了解。
有了 Facebook 后，虽然可以像看报纸般去关注大家的动态，但是他们真实内心的想法，你又了解多少？相信大家都只能捕风捉影、依据猜测吧

今天看见某个中学同班同学又发了自己blog的新文章。

回想起第一次看见他写就是在他开始不久的8月初。
我很惊讶的看见14天后，已经有了33篇了。而且，每篇文章都有非常有质素（一点都不像我）。看来他真的好好在经营着，希望他能够持之以恒。

我随机读了几篇，发现了都好有学习的地方。他的心态和方向，跟我有很多地方相似。不同的是，他已经开始行动了，我还留在原地待机。

就像他说的：

…心态需要配合很多的天时、地利、人和直到有一天，我们发现我们需要改变了才会得到提升。而改变的过程也不简单。所以对我而言，我非常看重心态的进步，哪怕是多小的进步，都是非常可贵的。…

…每天进步一点点这个概念对我来讲是很重要的，因为它是我建立信心的根基。我相信只要每天走一步，多远的路程都能走得完。…

这些年，我不知道我自己进步了多少，退步了多少。
可能至少还拥有的进步就是一直在别人身上发现了他们的优点， 以及我应该向他们学习的地方。比起他人，我实在有好多不足之处。
我会好好珍惜，好好观察，好好学习，好好进步的。

羡慕老同学聚会

昨天羡慕 Facebook里一大堆人都去旅游或回乡
今天羡慕 Facebook里小学同学聚会

这几天他们都开心聚在一起，真好~

其实看见一些熟悉的人，开心的合照，
即使没有我，我也觉得很温暖。

希望他们都朝着他们的梦想前进，
因为他们每一个都是很厉害的角色啊。
（至少都比我好）

羡慕自由的人

开斋节到了。Selamat Hari Raya!
在 facebook,看见好多人都在享受假期。
回家乡的回家乡了，去旅游的去旅游了，
我还是埋在这里，做着未完成的任务。

好羡慕得到自由的人。
唉。

First time attending photography workshop

As I posted months ago, I was thinking to buy a NEX camera once I have my thesis done.
That was sometime early this year, but til now - 5th August 2013, I'm still not getting it done yet. (So embarrassing~)

 2 days ago, I have seen an advertisement about a workshop of shooting portrait using NEX camera. Even better, I can just go in without paying and get a camera loan there. How good is that.

I reached there sometime around 11am, paid RM10 for the cab, and walked around to find the shop and ATM. At that moment I nearly broke my promise to myself and tried to buy the camera before finished my thesis. But luckily I still hold that. I'm the earliest to reach there. Since the workshop started around 12pm, I have made some registration stuff as member first.

The shop owner is known as a very kind man and willing to share experience. I have some talks with him, but he was kind of busy. Around 12.30pm, we just only started the workshop at a room upstairs.

The workshop has started with some slideshow presentation. Surprisingly, after 10 minutes of the presentation, some familiar faces appeared at the door. Those were my seniors in Nottingham - Darick and Derrick. Damn it, such a small world. Although my friends knew them quite well, but I have never talked to them before. Anyway, I can see one of them recognized me but we didn't even greet each other. Just let it be~ Who cares~

The presentation was basically aimed to deliver some basic tips of how to use NEX camera settings. They also taught the Rule of Third, which I have already learned from books. The most important experience for me that day was that I have a chance to shoot a model. I borrowed a NEX-6 with SELP1650 lens from them and shoot at the model.

Actually the shooting session was around 40 minutes, however I had already feel bored just after 15 minutes. I have played with different effects of camera, and different angles of shooting on different posture the model to really spend that 40 minutes. I had also played with the viewfinder and see if I really need it. (NEX-5R don't have viewfinder) I found the viewfinder has a really good quality, unlike my compact camera Nikon P500. In overall, that camera is quite comfortably used and that was quite a good experience.

After that shooting session, they asked volunteers to show the photos the captured and tried to review together before they end the workshop.

I went to get my lunch after that and thought of buying the camera or not. At last, I still decided not to buy because I want to really make myself keeping my promises.

Hope I can finish my thesis as soon as possible. Camera....here I come.......

Practices of an agile developer 读后感 （一）

No matter how far down the wrong road
you’ve gone, turn back   -  Turkish perverb

读了本书第一句就完全吸引到我。我正是这种情形。
我刚刚放弃了走错的那条路，必须重新回到出发点开始。
不容易啊。

在中文译书里，《Practices of an agile developer》 的书名被翻译为《高效程序员的45个习惯：敏捷开发修炼之道》。

封面中有个天使和恶魔在那个developer的身边，蛮有意思的。
我还没读完那本书，但是第一章就有介绍了，
往往开发员在举棋不定的时候，就有个天使和恶魔在身边左右着你的思绪和决定，
所以这本书要的是让你更敏捷和高效率地去实行开发的工作。

- Agile development uses feedback to make constant adjustments in a highly collaborative environment.

- Continuous development, not episodic

我这两本中英文的版本都有，
所以我每一章读两遍。
毕竟，我的理解和翻译员的理解有时候都有出入，但绝对是有益的。
下一贴，我会开始写读后感了~