Saturday, October 28, 2006

teach him to fish

"Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Teach him to fish and he eats for a lifetime" is my favorite aphorism. I recall the time i first read the word was when i watched the TV program online months again. The name of the program was Star_Trek [Enterprise], by which i was impressed. The word was spoken by the Enterprise NX-01 Captain Jonathan Archer when he and his crewes assisted another tribe to beat aggressor in another celestial body.

Why do i refer to the word? Because i want to remind myself how to work at home well. You know it's very heartsick for everyone when you work hard at home but nothing you get. Sometimes I read otheres' articles in which they told all they mad very good cash one month just spent little time and energy. Do you believe what they said? For me, it's incredible. How can they spend less but get more?

Nevertheless, credibly or not, there's something that exactely happens in the internet by those guys who earn much more money to support themselves and their family with little work at home. But that didn't mean they didn't spend more before, just now, they can enjoy their harvest by spending little. So no wonder, they could write articles to encourage others who want to work at home and take advantage of it. How have they done it? Learnd the word " Teach him to fish", that's an old word, i have realized that it is to tell every one to master the key and method of learning something, including working at home, it's lifestyle, also method of eaning money.

So chose working at home, is not just doing it but learning a way as well. I learned more about it, and always tried my best to do it well. After i worked at home, i spent much more time to read others' tip and their experience. I knew they taught me to fish by their articles, from them, i have learned more about how to work at home well, although, i do work not very well now. Bui i believe meself i can do it well, it's just time.

Monday, October 23, 2006

hang around

It's little difficult to explain such a case that when you stay at home so long, you're eager to hang around the street but nothing need to do, just hanging around. Some people maybe think these people are crazy strolling aimlessly by spending such more valuable time to do nothing, but it's true, there're such people who like to hang around the street, especially women and girls.

Today, i really felt bored, so had a short nap after lunch, i rode my red bicycle on the way to the center of my living city. At that moment, i just had a bit of thinking of haing a look at T-shirt, or something like that, if i like. Honestly, i wanted to relax myself by riding the bicycle after some days home working. While riding down the street, there're so many people there. I was wondering why so many people are there it's on monday now. Frightened past the alleyways, i thought it would be safe when riding the main street, surprisingly, i still couldn't escape crowd, and there were so many people here and there. I was wondering why a lot of people could still be seen when it's time for working.

Took carefully notice of people who stayed on the street, i found out there're mormally two big kinds of people, one is those who're really want to buy something, another is those who have nothing to do just liking to crowd into the busy place to experience the feeling of beaming.

For the first one kind, they are possibly off work today and want to serch some discount clothes, or fashionable clothes when they think it's not busy day for the shops and streets, but all of these are think one thing, so it's still a busy day for all, not only to potential customers, but shopkeepers at well. Be sure that the shopkeepers should be very happy seeing more and more people crowd into their shop, however, it's not a good news for customers who want to go shopping in a quiet and comfortable environment.

For the two kind, they are possibly about to be employless resently, and want to enjoy the city flourish while the time seeking a suit job, on the other hand, it's rarely opportunity to have a rest for them. So they flood into the center of the city and have a fun. All you have seen is that they stroll aimlessly and watch here and there, strangely, they're especially interested in the place where there're so people in. NO wonder there're so many people in the street while it's still time for working.

After over one hour seeked, i couldn't find any favorite one T-shirt or something like that. It seemed that i shoudn't appear there not only the wrong season for seeking T-shirt (it's late autumn now), but the busy crowd as well (this made me very tired). At that time, the only idea i had was to escape from the noise as soon as possible. But it's just that idea at that time, i know. Not far more time, i'll have an impulse to go out and experience the busy and noisy city life, and then i'll get tired again. o:)

Thursday, October 19, 2006

get ready to work at home

When you get up at half pass six or even at six in the morning, an idea always is came forth that working at home is so good; When you envy your friends enjoy a good time at weekends while you have to go to the office to do the job that your boss orders you to complete it before next monday, of course, the idea appears again; When at public holiday you yearn for sharing beautiful nature with your family, but You can just shake your head while watching piles of work on the office table, naturally you think of working at home. Working at home with flexible hours and lack of a boss is so attractive for ones who long for free.

I'm one of those who work at home. It's not very easy to decide to work at home for me. Although, i can take advantage of working at home, just like managing the time by myself free, and taking part in more activities, and doing what i like, etc. On the other hand, i must take a risk in failing. Working at home for near one year, i want to share my experience with ones who are going to be your own boss.

To do this decision, you'd better take some preparation. There are the subject you want to do, personal capacity, fisk management and financing independence.

First you should set your subject. What do you want to do when you'r at home? The subject you'll do is to be practical and realistic. That means you'd better take deep research before taking action. Don't do these that most people have done. If that, you're always behind them befor do it. Find out some new, do deep research, them put in practice.

Personal capacity is sometimes the most critical. Aimed at knowledge and technology you learned from school and society, you take the basic and important step to do the job working at home. Normally, the job working at home is an intellective work that need you to master more knowledge. So weigh your capacity before setting in your resignation to your boss, then take action.

Fisk management is necessary. Not all those who work at home are successful, some fail, for they are lack of strong willpower, or lack of deep research, or lack of the method of doing this job. therefor, you should have fisk management, and face rightly the issues, then solve them.

Financing independence is important. When you decide to work at home, you must provides sufficient income for you and your family. Naturally, remember don't put all your eggs into one basket, put some extra into another basket in case you can't put the bread on the table one day.

A business is going to be successful is a good thinking. Make sure that you get ready to work at home and take some preparation, then you can go far in the job working at home.

Sunday, October 15, 2006

Find your way

Got up this morning, i was used to switch the TV on, at that moment a program named UP CLOSE came into my view. This was an dialogue program in wich a professor of fudan university was interviewed by the host. I was very interesting about the dialogue program and took a seat to listen what they were going to say. It turned out that they talked about the experience between USA and CHINA. The professor had studied and worked in usa when he's young, but finally he decided to go back china and teached international friendship in fudan university. One word he said was to teach his students to find your way to solve the issue when you fell across the problem. I cared about what he said, and thought it's very right to accept his idea.

In china, for entering a higher school pressure, the goal for most schools is to get higher proportion of students entering schools of a higher grade, so more and more teachers take cramming/forced-feeding method of teaching. The result is to cultivate hundreds and thousands students who are shortage the ability to think things out for themselves, that's mean the students get no more scope to bring into play their initiative and creativeness. Therefore, in future work and life, these students aren't willing to think, and do what others ask they to do. But fortunately, this is not all the phenomena happened in china, there are still some schools take effective method to to cultivate the students the ability to analyze and solve concrete problems independently. To find your way to solve the issues by yourself is more better than to do what others ask you to do without thinking.

Therode, my friend, is one who like to think when he studies and works. He didn't
enrol any university for higher education, but it couldn't be the reason to stop him continuing study. He became educated through independent study, and became one pc programmer. He always said to study is to think and practise what you learned. To think is to find a way to solve your problem. No wonder why he's so successful.

If you have a dream, you should to make your dream come true with working hard. This's what the fudan professor said this morning. Good luck, all those who have a dream. TO make your dream come true is to find your way to solve all issues.

Wednesday, October 11, 2006

wrist tendinitis

I have suffered from tendinitis of the wrist for near one month since i have worked hard at home. I have tried several ways to treat it by myself at home, but it seemed the ways didn't work, so i have to bear the pain from my wrist when i woked. Up to now, my right hand can't still be flexible to control the mouse. How did i suffer from wrist tendinits? According to the information, this is the result of repeating activity. I remember the illness happened after i worked hard one day without taking break, i repeated to copy and paste something to my site with my right hand.

Tendons are tough, flexible, fibrous bands of tissue that connect muscles to bones. When tendons become inflamed, irritated or suffer microscopic tears, the condition is called tendonitis. Tendons can be small, like the delicate, tiny bands in the hands, or large, like the heavy, ropelike cords that anchor the calf or thigh muscles. In most cases, tendonitis happens for one of two reasons:
1. Overuse — A particular body motion is repeated too often.
2. Overload — The level of a certain activity, such as weightlifting, is increased too quickly.

I just repeated to use the mouse with my right hand, it's not surprise to see the tendinitis to happen on my rigt hand. I thought it's not necessary to go to the hospital for treatment, so i took some treatment by myself. First i relaxed my right hand and used the mouse with my left hand. It's not ease to use the mouse at first for i used to control the mouse with my right hand, after several days exercised, i could control the mouse successfully with my left hand. Then i moved my right arm and hand frequently around one time every hour. Finally i iced the injury. Applying an ice pack intermittently to the area of inflammation may also be beneficial. Icing wrist tendinitis could help to cool inflammation and also stimulates blood flow to the area of tendinitis. It seemsed work, but didn't recover entirely, and i should continue to use these ways to treat my wrist tendinitis.

Remember all work and no play isn't healthy. Work is important, but we have to pay attention to rest.

Friday, October 06, 2006

Celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival

On the 15th of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, it's time for the chinese traditional feast, Moon Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival. Parents in china always expect their children to come home to celebrate the special feast with them. Now that i have worked at home, i have more spare time to arrange by myself. So i went home early near several days before Moon festival coming. This's the first time to celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival with my family since i have gone out to work far from home 9 years ago, i wanted to experience the happy felling enjoying feast with my family.

At it happens, Moon Festival this year was in Gold Week, my brothers and sisters came back to my parents'house brought fresh fruits, moon cakes with them. My parents had a busy morning by preparing rich food, chicken, duck, rabbit, fish and vegetable. In this time, parents always cook more dishes they could think tasty to treat us, not only us, their children, but also their grandchildren. After the whole morning busy, sitting beside the table and enjoying the delicious dishes, smiling to all their children, my parents showed happy expression and we gave the blessing to parents. The only wish my parents gave us was to bless entire family happy, health. Therefore, the Mid-Autumn Festival is the symbol of family reunion, the day for family members to get together and enjoy the full moon-an auspicious taken of harmony, and luck.

To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival, a traditional dessert, moon cake, is absolutely necessarily. For generations, moon cakes have been made with sweet filling of nuts, mashed red beans, almonds, melon seeds, lotus-seed paste or chinese dates, wrapped in a pastry. Sometimes a cooked egg yolk can be found in the middle of the rich tasting dessert. Some people like fruit cakes which all kinkds of fruit can be found filling in. All these, moon cakes with almonds filling in are my favorate.

Unhappily, it's raining on Moon Festival this year, the desire expected to go out with family under the stars for wolking up at the full silver moon couldn't come true. Remembered years ago on Moon Festival, after nightfall, went out with family under full moon, putting moon cakes on the tables, eatting, talking, thinking of the relatives or friends, as well as those who are far from home. As it is said in china, "The moon at the home village is exceptionally brighter." But i could still enjoy the happy felling of the Moon Festival, for i stayed at home with my family and celebrated the special feast.

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival!