I should study English at home rather than in the office, I think. I need to write more journals.

14:16 Vimium

Vimium is a browser extension that can make using a browser like Vim.

15:58 Safety Training

Finished the Safety Training online course, and then I could start doing the lab soon, hopefully.

16:10 About Polishing

Today I learned a very important concept – about polishing. At the stage of writing, don’t worry about the format and the grammar issues.

For every essay I wrote, I should revise and proofread it again.

EOD

I learn and practice Vim with VSCode extension all night. For me, a tool-lover, I think this is my ultimate end-of-strolling tool.

After mastering it, I think I can pay more attention to content creation.

Today, I feel that my English is really quite poor. My progress has been very slow, and I still have trouble communicating with others when it comes to complex issues.

Today, Luis asked Amir and me to go to a job fair. I had absolutely no interest in it, and I also didn’t have the courage to take the initiative to talk to people and learn more. I felt extremely frustrated.

Learning English has become urgent. My vocabulary seems insufficient, and I need to take the initiative to memorize more words. I also need to make good use of my time to review grammar once again.

By the way, at lunchtime today, Luis wanted to eat with us and asked whether I wanted to try his food. I rejected him instinctively. In the evening, I felt really bad about it, so I sent him a text message to explain.

1. Practice spoken English and writing.
2. Preview upcoming course content and review parts of past courses I didn’t fully understand.
3. Start reading literature and determine my research direction.

It’s time to start using my to-do app again; only self-discipline can solve these problems.

I studied phonetic symbols and practiced shadowing tonight. It’s hard to pronounce sounds that don’t exist in Chinese unless we build muscle memory through practice.

I woke up at 12 PM and then cooked some food for lunch. After that, I took a shower and took some time to relax. By the time it was approaching 4 PM, the sun had already set (or the sun was gone).

I spent some time studying my textbook, Writing Academic English. I recently discovered Zotero and found it to be a very good tool for taking notes and managing references. I plan to use it to take tons of notes going forward.

Later, I cooked a lot of food to prepare for the next few days.

快中午的时候把工位的电脑装好了，有了自己的电脑和两块显示器。学习 PPT 啥的都能够比较方便了。

预习过之后，在上课的时候果然好了很多，上次课几乎听不懂，这次能够听懂 30%以上了。

不过下午的课程，老师说话极其的快，直接把我干懵逼了，还好大部分内容都在 PPT 上面。后面也能够跟着课程走，但是生僻的单词太多了，需要经常拿起手机来。

下午上完课已经是 8 点了，下 LRT 后去 Safeway 逛了一圈。里面卖的东西特别多，想买的也特别多。不过很多东西都很贵，好些都舍不得买；另外一方面是需要考虑室友的情况，还是有点难办的。

一天过得好快，今天只感觉自己的英文需要提升和练习的太多了。

I already can write blog on my new computer at office. Everything is becoming good over time.

15:36 Orientation with Professor Liu

objectives, money, future

After the noon’s class, Amirthan and I go to the Dr. Liu’s office. He said he will give me a orientation.

The key words of the orientation are about the objectives, money and future. But so many content we talk about, I can’t write all of things. The core concepts is as follow:

• We must learn how to concentrate on our research
• Do not work for long time, 40 hours a week is enough
• Do save money, take care of ourself
• Keep the private time, keep respect with each other

Finished the Config of New Computer

There is nothing in my home. So I don’t want to go home even after 5 PM. I utilized this time to set up my blog config and complete the internet appointment.

May be I should learn how to relax and enjoy Life. Canada is a beatiful contry, We should take more time for the nature.