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Fishualization improved a lot in ways to detect fish movement and calibrating the settings. Now it has built-in tool to grab the color and use that to detect range of colors.  At the Tech day it only took 10 minutes to set the color. In previous years, it took more than an hour to set the color. I wished to have more time on content side but , as always, engineering took most of the time. I should try to put balance between engineering and art for later projects.

Fishualization 2008 means more to me in terms of devoting certain amount of time everyday for my personal project.
I promised to myself to put about 1 hour every morning. The reason to choose morning time is that I get exhausted at night time after work. One hour in the morning is actually more effecient than 2 hours of night time. I think it was successful plan and it actually gave me a habit to have time for self-improvement. Doing something everyday is actually very important. I am going to spend morning time reading books. It will be mostly engineering book that needs lots of focus.

I enrolled 24 Fitness at Ocean Park. Also bought 10 times of personal training. Just devoting right amount time and make it a habit to go to gym is the most important thing. Is it really possible to change my body in 12 weeks? Well, I’ll see.

I decided to write about my random thoughts. I don’t care if it might sound stupid or unrealistic. Writing things always considering what people might think about my thougts stops me from thinking freely or writing freely. Anyways, who’s going to read my blog?

* How many hours of work is really possible?
- I think a good 2 hours of work is the maximum.

* About 8 hours of coding and some more coding at home?
- Should I try to focus on more artisic works?
- Is doing artisitic work really using different part of brain?

* Reading books might be the best way to make a good use of after-work-time in terms of self-improvement.
- Need to balance between learning new things and creating something from the knowledge you have.
- Also, should the new knowledge need to be work related?
Learning C#, LUA, COLLADA format reading more C++ related books like Modern C++ Design, Templete meta programming would be helpful.
- Or should I digress more?
Like learning completely different languages like Phython, Perl, Smalltalk?

* Doing something good for my health must be a good investment.
- Gym, jogging, yoga, or just take a rest… sleeping…

* What are the periodicals I need to pay attention to?
- Newspaper, websites, Polictics , Stock, Real Estate, Business side of technologies.

* Simulating what I dream about.

* There are lots of area I need to cover. I cannot sacrifice one thing out of others. I need to visit a little bit of everything and also put some more time on time consuming work using weekend or other free time.
- Defragementing my life!!! Try to use little piece of time at work or anywhere!!! ==> Using Palm is excellent idea. Checking schedules, daily tasks, reading books, listening lecture mp3s and so on.

* What are the categories of my life?

* Limited time increases the quality of focus and effeciecy.

* Setting my personal milestones.
What’s the end result? What’s the award or risk?

* Decide to do something you’ve never tried. At least one thing a day and keep a journal about it. Get ideas from books “Things you should do in your 30’s.”
* Decide to choose a different way in making decision.
* Decide to share things.

* What are the things, even the tiny ones, you do everyday?
* Can you recognize those things you’re accustomed to?
* What are the things you think everyday?
* What are the tiny ideas, desires
that start you doing something negative or positive?
Startup triggers. Places that make the atmosphere to focus.
* Do you know when to move on?
* Do you set deadline on things you should do?
* Do you look at yourself in a 3rd person’s view?

If I can evaluate(Rate) what I do on daily(Repetition) basis in a quantifiable way it is instantly more pleasurable(Reward) experience. This is actually one of the fundamentals of game mechanism.

[New]
* Modern C++ Design
* Templete Meta Programming
* Cross-platform Game Programming
* Game Developer’s Open Source Handbook
* Accelerated C++
* C# Cookbook
* Design Pattern by Examples in C++

[Revisit]
* C++ Primer 4th
* Thinking in C++
* Effective C++ 2nd
* More Effective C++

* Daily Self-assignment / Self-evaluation / Self-reward
* Time Management
* Exercise Plan
* Artist’s way : Morning Pages / Artist’s Day
* Books
* Personal Projects
* Live Web 2.0
* Religion
* Socializing