My last blog was written somewhere near the start of the semester (early October 2024, it seemed), and now I am nearing the end of my university year and career. I do not have exams for my last semester, so it ends in two weeks. Not long from now, at all. It seemed like yesterday that I challenged myself to step outside my comfort zone for the school year, and now my school year is nearing its end.

So what happened? In these few months, what did I do? What are some challenges I faced and overcame?

Well, lots of things happened, and this will catch us all up to date.

To start off, let’s talk about the challenges mentioned in the last blog, the graduate course, interdisciplinary capstone, and monthly challenges.

The graduate course went totally fine, it was nothing new compared to another course, and I got a very desirable grade in the course. Through this, I learned that the unknown experience is much less intimidating than one would have imagined. Things aren’t that different, it was still taking on a new area of knowledge, digesting it, and applying it, very much the same structure as learning throughout my entire life.

The interdisciplinary capstone is a very interesting experience and very different from what I imagined. For a refresher, students in computer science usually do a capstone with a computer science prof, related to their area of research, but I had a commerce prof supervise my friend and I, and we are doing a project for a company. It taught me so much more about finding a problem and solving it in the real world, something that is less practiced in computer science in the undergraduate level.

Lastly, the monthly challenges. One failed , the other a success! Learning cursive took way more than 15 mins a day for a month (and I did NOT practice the full 30 days). However, I can say I am able to write in cursive now, it only looks half decent, and takes longer than my normal print, but hey, I can write cursive~! For February, I challenged myself to make 10 questions a day, be it ice breakers, writing prompts, future plans, or anything. This one went well. I now have a list of 270 questions that I can use for conversations. At the end of the day, I learned that failure is less serious than I imagined, and success is much more achievable than I imagined.

But those were not the only challenges I took upon myself in the 5 months. And this mindset I set for myself began this chain reaction of steps that took me waaaay outside of my comfort zone.

The first of which is this hackathon in China. It was an international fintech hackathon, where top schools from over the world were invited to China and we had 80 hours to build a prototype, pitch, and be judged. Long story short we (Data Queens, our team) won. And how did this come to be? I decided to greet my professor on the sidewalk, and he was just there waiting to pick up his kids from school, it led to a conversation, and finally me being put on the team. That decision to have a conversation with a professor, who I did not really know at the point, led to winning an international hackathon that became one hell of a news for our entire university.

Then, through the team I met during the competition, I was introduced to many resources and opportunities at Queen’s which I was previously unaware of, since all I wanted was a good GPA and then a job after. One of them was QFII, Queen’s Founder and Innovator Initiative, which encouraged and supported people to start up their own ventures and learn entrepreneurship. Another thing that I would never imagine myself doing. Although thought of many times about starting projects on my own before, they all ended in analysis paralysis, they all died in the planning stage. However, this program gave me partners and guidance, allowing me to go further than I ever had.

But what is the point of saying all of this? The meaning? It is just a summary, after all.

What I realized through all of this is that you are more prepared than you imagine.

In reality, you won’t be able to get yourself into situations that are outside of your capabilities. You cannot lose more money than what is in your bank account. You cannot fall further than how high you currently are. So don’t fear starting something new, the worse outcome is much better than imagined.

What comes after that is, once you are in the situation, you have what you need to overcome that situation.

I had knowledge of AI going into that graduate course, it wasn’t something completely unrelated to me. Going to the hackathon, I had a lot of experience working with data and AI, it was just another project, one that needed teamwork and a bit more time. I am already acquainted with design thinking and building new things, they just never got out of the planning stage. I have done analysis of problems and came up with solutions, now I just had to take it to a corporate setting.

So through all of those, I learned that the things I can get myself into are not something out of my league, they are at most the most difficult things I have come across. Nor are they something I am completely unfamiliar with, the things I can get myself into are things that I already have a valid understanding in.

My last blog talked about being outside of my comfort zone, and this blog is the first update to how that decision has ended up. Currently, it is very good. I will continue to go about this mindset, for who knows, maybe my next update will be my first major setback.

But how bad could that be?

All that I can lose is what I have earned, and if I earned it once, I can earn it again, so fear not, there are just things that cannot be taken away from you. Coincidentally, those are the most precious things you can have. — me

Cheers~!

I was always told that to make someone sound more romantic, just say it in another way… never really understood it, or fully grasp the essence of that, but this song… it explains it so perfectly… in other words, just do it.

I am back, the hiatus was not for any particular reason, simply because I did not feel like picking up the pen… or… pressing down my finger, more accurately.

Looking forward to the new school year, I want to implement a word to it, one that I will center my year around. It has occurred to me that having some sort of big idea or goal makes a lot of hard-to-make decisions and tiebreakers much clearer and simpler.

Thinking back, all my previous years have had words or concepts that were the core of how the year went. A summary of the year, if you will. For example, last year (school year, since I am a student and a school year is more commonly used to determine the time of the year rather than the normal calendar year) was surrounding realizations.

There was a realization on how big the small words are. What I mean by that is, the four letter words we throw around (not the curse ones) have much bigger questions that follow it. What is love, why is life, how to live, etc.

When I thought of those questions, I found myself taking a step back and started seeing things as a bigger picture. It is natural for you to just remember and go with the most recent and frequently used definition of concepts. For example love and dating are often put together, therefore dating must be love. Or life is most described as good life versus bad life, and you have to have a “good life”.

Those are all answers indeed, but following my last blog, are they the answers of you? or answers of the world?

I realized that love doesn’t always mean “date someone”, because I can love my family, my siblings, and myself. And I realized a good life isn’t always getting a degree, climbing the corporate ladder and earning money, because I was happy, enjoying my home cooked meal more than I would from most restaurants.

Do note that I am talking about enjoying a meal, but if you are talking about enjoying an exquisite dining experience, I do love me some good restaurants.

All of the realization led to one enlightenment, however, which is that we are often restricted to notice, think about and live by what is comfortable to us. The definition of things that is most used and most heard of, that is most familiar to us. And that limits the size of your world at times.

So this year, I want to focus my time around discomfort.

And right off the bat, there are already a few things that should be noticed:

• I am coming into the year with a word to live by, rather than summerizing my year with a word, moving from passive observation to active living.
• This word has a negative connotation, which almost seems stupid to surround my year around.

But this active step into a negative state isn’t something that was done blindly. Rather, it was done with thoughts and courage.

To stop myself from seeing the world with a limited view, I need to step outside of what is familiar to me. So to see the world with a different view, I need to step into things that are in unfamiliar territory, which will cause much discomfort, for humans are wired to do what is familiar to us.

It is not comfortable to live against human nature. But change only happens in unfamiliarity.

So what are some ways that I will live in discomfort?

I have already started this journey to step outside of my comfort zone and explore new things. One of the two examples I can give right now is that I have taken my capstone project (a final project for undergraduate students) and placed it under a commerce professor rather than the usual computer science professor, such that I would learn more about the business world rather than hyper fixated on computer science. The second of which is getting myself into a graduate levle course, which I know will kill my GPA, but the experience that comes from it will surely be of great benefits. The worst case scenario is I get another low grade on my transcript, which won’t be of much issue.

But the big thing that I want to challenge myself to do is, for the next 12 months, I will challenge myself to do one thing a month. It might be a completely new skill, or habits I never thought I’d take to, or putting time into something I’ve always wanted to focus more time on but never did

An example is trying to write in cursive. Who knows what is going to happen in a month. But that is the beauty of this challenge, no matter how good or how bad I end up by the end of the month, nothing bad will happen to me, these changes won’t change me for the worse. I might still suck at writing cursive, or maybe I am naturally talented at writing cursive and never found out about it, or most likely my cursive just doesn’t look like chicken scratch, and I continue with typing out all my texts.

So I will discomfort myself with challenges, and it will forever send funny feelings down my spine thinking about the unknown ending of challenges I have planned for myself.

But rather than trying to see to the end whole challenge before doing it and foreseeing the whole future before living it, I want to take this year to be courageous, to embrace failure, and to just,

simply,

live.

Here is Billie Jean, since I will be going to see MJ the musical soon : 3

Growing up in a Chinese family meant that everything was to be of “A” quality. Ever since I started school, excellence was the standard and everything else is failure. “Being the top” is a thing to be expected.

On the Western side of the world, there is an almost similar ideology, often known as the “American Dream”, which focuses on democracy, liberty and equality. But as time moved on, it shifted more towards “if you work hard, you can attain whatever it is that you want.”

Many would agree that these are very positive ideologies or “codes to live by” (fast & furious 6, anyone?), in fact, they have now become very popular codes that lots of people live by.

The American Dream gives motivation and an end goal in mind for what is to be achieved in life: to be the best, to live the dream life, and to be the one everyone else looks up to. Nothing wrong so far, everything is acceptable and good.

Whatever it is that you dreams, it should and can be achieved. You won’t bat an eye to this idea, and rarely do you hear anything that is against this ideology. That is how much this ideology has come to be in the world today.

I, to be frank, lived by this too.

I will work hard during my college days, get a good corporate job in the tech field, climb up the corporate ladder, get a side hustle going, invest in real estate and retire maybe just a tad bit earlier than others, just to be humble, not too much earlier.

This is what the world thinks today. However, is this what the world can offer today?

There is this recent and popular anecdote that is on the rise in Chinese social media. The protagonist is this one guy, who doesn’t have the best of appearance, but works very hard in the gym. A typical gym bro who isn’t the most blessed in the face department.

However, that does not stop him from trying to be the best version of himself. Someone who is an ex-military, who is not ashamed of his flaws, works to become the best version of himself, achieving the dream physique of many, and most important of all, becoming the inspiration for everyone, with a motto that basically translates to “what excuse do you have to not work hard, I have went through hardship, and became the person I am today. If you work hard, you can achieve great things yourself.”

Aspiring, isn’t it?

On a side note, a common, and to be honest quite toxic, “encouragement” commonly used by parents in China is, “if you don’t work hard in school, you’d grow up to become a bricklayer in the construction site.” Or similarly, parents would have children hold a pen or book in one hand, and a brick in the other, giving them the idea that “schooling is ‘lighter’ or easier than being a construction or ‘blue collar’ worker”. Being a “blue collar” worker is a career that is looked down upon.

So many challenged this super jacked now-social-media-figure to go one day into the construction site, to work as someone who carries bricks, to follow through with his ideology of hardwork and payback. Credit has to be given where it is due, he is a hard worker and being an ex-military, he is mentally fortified to do that hard work.

During that day, he challenged himself to carry about 20 bricks in one go, with each brick about 10+ pounds. About 200 pounds or more of very rigid was poorly positioned weight on his back, and carried it up a few flights. Impressive. To say the least. And as he went on to reinforce his motto, with such great timing, another worker passes by, carrying more bricks, lays it down, and continues on while the influencer tries to catch his breath and does his social media influencer speech.

Quite the comedic timing to be fair, but the realization there was massive for the influencer. If he did not have that odd opportunity that made him famous, if he did not have anything other than his strength and mental resilience, he would be even worse off than that common, unknown construction worker, who is carrying that much more weight than him.

But what does this anecdote have to do with the “American Dream” ideology today?

There is a difference between what the world thinks today, and what the world can offer today.

After reading “The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” by Mark Manson, it changed my whole view on “striving for the better”.

There are many new perspectives provided in the book, however the one, paraphrased, perspective that challenged me the most is, “if ‘average’ means middle or median of the population, then you have a 50% chance to be worse than the average”. Which, as a numbers guy, was quite the shocker.

In a world where everyone is reaching to become someone who stands out, who is upper class, who is better than the bigger portion of the population, that perspective is quite controversial, but mathematically, is not wrong.

As a victim of “elitism”, I was nurtured into believe that I was special, was someone who had great potential, and was someone who is entitled to achieve great things.

Notice the emphasis on entitle.

Frankly, not everyone is entitled to become the best, afterall, the best implies there is only one.

More likely than not, you were born just as normal as anyone else, special in no way. Maybe born with a higher IQ than some, but not enough for you to be considered “different”.

You can achieve great things, sure. But that hard work does not entitle you the best, and maybe won’t give you any return at all.

So, if you cannot be the best, then what’s the point?

“The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck” is not a book about not giving a care to others’ feelings, or disregarding flaws, being a selfish douchebag or however the world understands “not giving a f*ck” today. It is the art of accepting the fact that not everything will be perfect or extraordinary in life, and that is okay, so stop giving so much attention to mistakes and failures and others’ opinions and live in a world where YOU are the determinator of things.

The book does not encourage selfish and careless ideologies, but rather it encourages your own value as the most important, it encourages a life where confirmation and satisfaction comes from within and not from outside.

It is then easy to notice that, hey, maybe failures and mistakes and imperfections aren’t so world-ending-devastating as you’d thought it was.

When you are just a normal human being, not expected of things, and allowed to be average compared to the rest of the world, you can still be the best in your own world. In that world, you are entitled to everything.

So live in your own world. A world where everything is about you and is you. The goods and bads, the failures and successes. However it is not a world separate from the outside world, just a world more important than the outside world.

Combining this with another ideology presented by James Clear in “Atomic Habits”, where your identity affects your actions and your actions affect your identity, it creates this very positive and self-providing loop that fuels you to become better.

As you find yourself to be not as important, as perfect, or rather, when you realize there isn’t a need to be as important and as perfect, it affects your actions. That whatever it is that you do, the results are less impactful. And with less impactful failures, it encourages you to continue on with your goals, and as you do more to build toward your dream, it then in turn affects your identity, and makes you someone who can make dreams come true.

So I am not suggesting you to stop giving a damn about the whole world, far from it. But rather, stop putting others, their values, their ideas, their successes, as the center of your world. Instead, have you yourself, as your code.

A gentler approach to fuel your ambitions,

and a liter approach to life.

Beethoven’s Symphony №6, Pastoral, insipired by nature and the country side. In this world where most of the population live in urban areas, consider a break from the city and head to the rural areas. The first movement of the symphony translates to “Awakening of cheerful feelings on arrival in the countryside.”

Before diving into my experience, let me clarify a little detail: when I was applying for my current job, it was advertised as a hybrid position, requiring two days a week in the office.

However, once I started, it became clear that office presence is quite flexible, so I basically work from home now.

Let’s dive into how that’s working out for me.

Transition to Remote Work

Initially, I was excited about the hybrid position, eager to meet new people and immerse myself in the corporate experience at a big company. However, this expectation quickly shifted. Unlike many companies pushing for a return to the office, Ericsson’s Ottawa office remains flexible about in-office presence for now. While the office itself is great and sometimes tempting to work in, it’s rarely crowded, as most employees prefer working from home.

Given the distance I live from the office and the sparse attendance, I’ve opted to go in only when necessary or for special events like company BBQs. Despite how it might sound, this arrangement suits me perfectly. Working almost fully remotely allows me to focus better and maintain, if not improve, the quality of my work.

Benefits of Working from Home

Working from home has revealed numerous benefits, with the most significant being the flexibility to manage my time and achieve a healthy work-life balance.

To give you a bit of context, I’m a bit of an introvert who enjoys solitude and doesn’t need constant social interaction to stay happy. That doesn’t mean I don’t get along with people; I have many friends and enjoy socializing. I just don’t get lonely easily. So, working from home fits my personality well — I don’t miss out on human interaction much, though I acknowledge it might be different for networking.

One major benefit is avoiding the daily commute and Ottawa’s rush hour traffic. This extra time allows me to enjoy a proper breakfast, make a good cup of coffee, and start my day more relaxed and focused. This improved mindset helps me work more efficiently.

Working from home also brings financial benefits. Commuting costs vanish, which is significant considering my 23–25 minute drive to the office. Plus, I save on food by cooking at home, and other costs like clothing and parking diminish. These savings add up, making a noticeable difference.

Productivity-wise, having my personal setup, the ability to play my music, and a private space free from distractions boost my efficiency. This familiar and comfortable environment allows me to concentrate better on my tasks. Stay tuned for an upcoming article about my home office setup!

The Not-So-Great

Of course, it’s not all rainbows and butterflies. There are downsides to working from home, which became evident during the pandemic lockdowns.

The most significant drawback is the lack of networking opportunities. While virtual meetings and chats are helpful, they can’t replace in-person interactions. Professional face-to-face communication is a valuable skill I wish I could practice more.

Moreover, working from home means facing new distractions and temptations. Entertainment is just a click away, and it’s easy to get sidetracked. A funny reel from a friend can quickly lead to a doom-scrolling session.

Without anyone watching over you, it’s tempting to slack off. For me, setting daily goals helps maintain focus and ensures I take reasonable breaks without getting entirely distracted from work.

Personal Projects and Hobbies

Remote work allows me to put more time into my personal projects and gives me great freedom to transition into them after work. It has enabled me to take a break from bothersome issues I may be facing at the moment and reset my mind easily, by either just opening up one of my personal projects and working on that for a while instead, or by picking up my instrument and playing it for a short while, letting my mind become empty.

Advice for New Remote Workers

For someone new to remote work, my biggest piece of advice would be to establish a routine that mimics a typical office day as closely as possible. Start your day at the same time every day, and create a dedicated workspace that’s free from distractions. It’s also important to set clear boundaries between work and personal life; make sure you take regular breaks and step away from your desk for lunch. Over-communicating with your team can help prevent feelings of isolation and ensure that everyone is on the same page. Finally, don’t forget to move around! Incorporate short exercise breaks or a walk into your day to keep your energy levels up.

Setting Up a Productive Home Office

When setting up a productive home office, start by choosing a quiet space where you can focus. Invest in a comfortable chair (this is so so important) and a good desk that supports proper ergonomics to avoid strain. Good lighting is crucial, so position your desk near a window for natural light (my photo from before has the blinds down as the sun outside that day was way to bright 😎), or use a quality desk lamp (good monitor light bars are my recommendations). Keep your workspace organized and clutter-free, as a tidy environment can enhance your focus. Personalize your space with items that inspire you, such as plants, art, or motivational quotes. Finally, make sure you have all the necessary technology and tools you need, like reliable internet, headphones, and any specific software or hardware pertinent to your work.

Wrapping It Up

In conclusion, my remote work experience has been quite positive. The flexibility, cost savings, and increased productivity outweigh the downsides. While I miss some networking opportunities and face the occasional distraction, the benefits of working from home suit my lifestyle and work habits well. For anyone considering or transitioning to remote work, I hope my experience offers some insights and reassurances. Embrace the flexibility, find your rhythm, and enjoy the perks of working from the comfort of your home.

A piece of music 🎶:

Blue Moon is a classic that has been covered by many musicians over the years, but Oscar Peterson’s more upbeat and light rendition stands out to me the most for its remarkable jazz interpretation. Enjoy!

As mentioned previously, we are two friends in our university student / internship days. We are both studying computer science at Queen’s University in Ontario, having just finished our junior year.

No one special, quite honestly, just two regular compsci kids trying to figure their way in this life and doing the most to make the best of this only opportunity.

Anyways, a little bit more about the two of us:

Darwin

Hey all, Darwin here, time to make my first introduction to meet you all.

To start off, I am a computer science student (like Nolan), and I would say I have tried to do a little bit of everything. From web design to developing small games to building AI models.

I wanted to have a layer of understanding in all areas of computer science to understand what I truly enjoy doing in this field. And as of right now, I have been looking more into the UI/UX aspect, alongside the AI implementations & techniques.

Personally, I would call myself creative, and enjoy being so. I began my music career early on, all the way back in elementary school picking up first the clarinet. Worked my way up to becoming the section lead, and then concertmaster during my high school years.

In between, I have also experimented with various instruments (picked up the tenor sax along the way) and dipped my toes into music production and sound design. Looking back, I was definitely a pretty big music kid.

Flipping the page now to the more recent part of life as an university student studying computer science. The past three years has truly been an extraordinary journey and the amount of self-discovery done was quite something.

I’ve learnt lots, experimented lots, met lots of new people, and really enjoyed and savoured every little aspect of it.

With my third year of studies just finished, I was fortunate to find an internship with Ericsson in Ontario. The first month here, of many more, at Ericsson has been quite an eye opening experience.

Moving forward, I can be sure that I will still be passionate in tech and programming (even with the whole AI shenanigans, yes).

Backstory aside, there is this urge for me to create something, to document my experience and thoughts in this world. So alongside my like minded friend, we started litelife.

We hope to offer an opportunity to ourselves, an opportunity to document parts of our lives as a piece of literature, and offer it to others that may find it inspiring or just entertaining to read.

Nolan

Greetings again! This is Nolan, and I, too, am your everyday computer science student that went into AI because it looked like a great career path a few years back.

I’m someone who is an enjoyer of many things, and maybe too many things:

• keyboards (we have matching keyboards : 3, it was on sell ok)
• cooking
• travelling
• board games (CATAN!!)
• music and dancing
• working out
• skateboarding (we use to have like 11 skateboards total in the house)
• rotting in bed

The whole shabang is amazing as long as it is not school or unpaid work.

I’ve picked up and dropped off a lot of things too, origami, trumpet, drawing (when i was like 7), and the list goes on.

All of these to say that I am just someone who does what I want to do on a whim.

My heart flutters and my body reacts. The brain is nowhere in the picture.

So to me, life is about doing what you want to do, but not simply just that. It is also about remembering what was done, the goods and bads that happened. Learning from it and using that knowledge of self to become who I truly want to become.

All aside,

This summer I landed an internship at HongMall, an ecommerce company, as a software developer. My focus is on developing AI and algorithms for optimizations of all sorts, search engine, product recommendation, autocomplete, as well as analysis in all areas.

I started my journey on learning AI in my sophomore year, with NLP and transformers, and in third year expanded my skills to have more data analysis so now I work with everything data (after all, AI is just a big processor for data, eh?). All to say I am super happy to be somewhere that has lots of data for me to work with and hone my skills.

Anyhow, life will have its obstacles, but so will it have its trophies.

litelife

So about litelife.

The name originated from the words light and life (shocker), but, in chinese: 轻 生活. When brainstorming about the themes for this blog, the ideas presented were: Light, life, relatable, clean, and no bs.

And after translating it to chinese, 轻 生活 just stuck, it just sounded… nice… thus resulting in our final name — litelife.

litelife has two meanings, the first being, a light life.

Life in this world right now feels too heavy, and a lighter, cleaner, gentler life is one that we hope and reach for.

Onto the second meaning of lite, besides being a short form for light, it is software related (woohoo compsci). For example messenger lite or minecraft pocket edition lite.

It means an incomplete version of the app, or in better words, not a full version of the app, but the app in itself has no problems, its core functionality intact.

“Lite” is something that is stripped to its mere core functionalities, without any “cherries on the top”. It means something that we think includes just the necessities (minimalist vibes).

This is how we see our lives right now. It is ok by itself, it is a lite and liveable life, and there is nothing wrong, it can become a fuller version.

So the two meanings combined becomes a reminder that we are always to reach for a better life, but in a manner that does not encumber ourselves. It does require hard work to achieve that fuller life, but the work should not be overwhelmingly heavy.

A litelife is what we are after, and here is where we will share about it, the thoughts, the processes, the results, and the next steps.

A piece of music:

Not much to say, Sidney Bechet 👌

This is an introduction to our blog, a new plan and a new vision. My friend and I (we shall introduce ourselves with future blogs : 3), we have always wanted to start a blog, but weren’t sure how or what to write.

However, not knowing how to start will be the least of the problems now, as this is the start.

Why do we want to start this blog?

For many, many reasons.

Primarily because in this day and age where everything is so fast paced, it is so easy to fall into a habit of watching time slip through our hands.

And in this world where there is just so much information being tossed around and so much happening, a desperation of not knowing what to do.

This blog will be a progress tracker, source of motivation, and a form of accountability, for ourselves, and hopefully for all who reads this as well, a call to take action.

To avoid becoming a bystander to time and an outsider to action.

This summer:

Both of us were lucky to find ourselves in an intern position, doing things that we actually want and picking up new skills.

We want to share this process here, and with everyone.

It won’t just be a blog about our day to day work life, although mostly, it will be, the blog will also consist of numerous other things. Things such as our hobbies and what we like, be it:

• tech
• music
• cars
• lifestyle
• current events
• or whatever on our minds!

We are grateful for the opportunity given, and we want to make it as worthwhile as possible.

To make the most of it, we will reflect upon the experience and really dissect what was done and what needs to be improved on.

A process of realizing our worth and planning our growth.

Our current state:

“A problem well stated is a problem half solved”

- Charles Kettering

Indeed so, hence the heaps of planning that were put into our big big bank of trello boards.

But.

Through reflections, there is a realization that what we have planned did not end up being accomplished.

For no other reasons, but because all the time was spent on planning and there were no actions taken.

No matter how well the problem is stated, it is only half solved.

So instead of making a big and glamorous plan this time, to solve all the problems before they even show up, we will start and share the progress and obstacles here with everyone.

The reflections, the plans, the actions.

What to expect from this blog?

This will be a blog about our summer, from a summary of our work, to hobbies we’ve been working on, projects that we want to do, and even the reflections that we are doing along the way.

This is just a big two-men dairy for the world to see, and hopefully it becomes an encouragement and motivation for those all who read this.

We have many things planned. Hustles, hobbies, habits. All are very beneficial and of much interest, but useless, if not real.

So, be ready to expect lots of experiments, failures, reflections and improvements, as well as a summary of do’s and don’ts.

A piece of music

This is where and how we make our blog “unique”, or, “us”.

We want to share a piece of music at the end every blog that we write. No other reason, just because we love music and music is good.

Here is the first piece of music we want to share, an instrumental cover of a jazzy and classic piece of music we love. One that we listen to when it is 2 am in the morning, judging who has got better speaker quality. We’ve also tried to play this as a duet on clarinet and trumpet but failed miserably.

Thus,

Thus, thus, thus,

To our journey ahead, to this summer and to the thereafter,

Cheers~!