Schlagwort: random

My Career

Finally, I want to analyze my study routine during the last 6 years. To provide you with some background info, I want to add that in general I am a fairly good student with some exceptions. Either I get straight As, or I will do moderate. I have never failed throughoutly or had to repeat a class. My weakness is definately that I am a slow learner and that I cannot deal with studying the exact same thing over and over again (ie. using flash cards only for vocabulary won’t work for me). My mind is network-based and I am a visual/haptic learner.

I want to put down here what did help me improve my learning: (no particular order)

  • tables, charts, schedules: I try to put everything I learn into a table. The creation of the table alone and thinking about organzing knowledge will help me studying the subject.
  • draw a comic based on the subject to study
  • create mind-maps every so often
  • Add-ons for Firefox (Perapera-kun), surfing the net in languages I have not yet fully mastered
  • join social networking sites of target language (renren.com, weibo.com)
  • make many native-speaking friends
  • cook dishes from target language country, try to use original recipe
  • use colourful markers, highlight notes
  • do summaries of your own notes from class
  • organize folders

archive.org

There’s an internet archive. A really big one, too.
I wonder if there will be one day some job called „Web historian“ or so. A Web Historian had to specialize early in his studies, eg. on blogs of exactly 19 year old british female students with red hair, or passionate private websites on fantasy literature with a focus on dragons (without web-galleries), or even import/export websites selling pu’er tea cakes under 50€.

Fascinating.

some notes

gaijin in kimono. a difficult topic.
women sewing all night and day to compress their bodies in selfmade victorian corsets. same thing.

i believe you can take a thing and develop it into something new.
my new obsession is kanzashi (hair ornaments), especially the type びらびら簪 bira bira kanzashi (dangling ones).
i would love to get the chance possessing one. same thing with victorian garment, i love the looks, i would also love to touch and feel it… but going out wearing that? no way.
authenticity is not my main focus. i don’t like making fun out of people playing with authenticity because i see no point in that, people always took traditions and developed them into something new, until those eventually became tradtional looks, and so forth… as we live, we’re already part of history.

still, seeing pictures of those women gives me similar shivers as when i’m at the museum.
i am very thankful i was born in the 21st century, and even if there was some time machine, i would not even dare going 30 years back in time.

fashion of every couleur is pleasurable to look at for me,
the items i like to wear are usually of one kind: plain and simple. when i was younger, i broke that unwritten rule sometimes; but for now, i like a non-distracting, reduced style on myself best.

https://www.kanzashigarden.com/briefintro.html
https://www.kanzashigarden.com/basic.html

making tsumami kanzashi
https://kurokami-kanzashi.deviantart.com/art/Kanzashi-Tutorial-Part-I-43067797
https://www.vivcore.com/kanzashi_core.html
https://www.kanzashigarden.com/howtofold.html

a very lovely piece
https://myloko.deviantart.com/art/The-Visitor-From-Kyoto-53509122

lightbulb moment

Wieviele Archäologen benötigt man, um eine kaputte Glühbirne auszuwechseln?
Drei. Einen, der die Birne wechselt, und zwei, die streiten, wie alt die alte ist.

Wie viele Kunsthistoriker braucht man, um eine Glühbirne auszuwechseln?
Vier. Der erste, der zuerst ein Buch darüber schreibt, wie viel bedeutungsvoller die alte Lichtinstallation war; der zweite, der diese These in seinem neuen Buch „Abwesenheit von Licht im Raum“ widerlegt und der dritte, der sich dafür bezahlen lässt, vor dem dunklen Raum zu sitzen und interessierte Besucher mit kleinen Informations-Häppchen zu unterhalten. Der vierte schließlich wechselt die Glühbirne dann in seinem vom Arbeitsamt vermittelten Job aus.