A Change of Seasons
An excert from the Dream Theater EP 'A Change of Seasons'
I remember a time
My frail, virgin mind
watched the crimson sunrise
Imagined what it might find
Life was filled with wonder
I felt the warm wind blow
I must explore the boundaries
Transcend the depth of winter's snow
Innocence caressing me
I never felt so young before
There was so much life in me
Still I longed to search for more
But those days are gone now
Changed like a leaf on a tree
Blown away forever
into the cool autumn breeze
The snow has now fallen
and my sun's not so bright
I struggle to hold on
with the last of my might
In my den of inequity
viciousness and subtlety
struggle to ease the pain
struggle to find the sane
Ignorance surrounding me
I've never been so filled with fear
All my life's been drained from me
The end is drawing near....
Finally managed to verify a result in a paper, turns out the proof is trivial once you know the missing link. Now I need to work on a result that promises to be much more tricky, hope I won't lose too much hair and brain cells in the process. Why must the authors of academic publications always write, "It is easy to see that ....", "The proof is trivial and is ommited", most of the time a lot of hard work goes into the proofs but mathematicians love to use the above 2 lines in papers or some permutation of it. Really drives me nuts sometimes. A professor once mentioned that everything is hard until you know how to do it, how true!
The last few days when I'm not working or training, been spending some time reading through a translation of Richard Wagner's magnum opus "Der Ring des Nibelungen", the librettos can be found here. Operas never interested me much in the past but the story here is pretty engaging once you figured wat's going on. Maybe I should spend some time on understanding some Teochew opera too. The only one that I know off is one where a poor scholar stays in a haunted room in an inn because all the rooms are fully occupied, I remember watching it as a kid and was very much entertained by the actors. Enough of a break, back to the realities of work now.
I remember a time
My frail, virgin mind
watched the crimson sunrise
Imagined what it might find
Life was filled with wonder
I felt the warm wind blow
I must explore the boundaries
Transcend the depth of winter's snow
Innocence caressing me
I never felt so young before
There was so much life in me
Still I longed to search for more
But those days are gone now
Changed like a leaf on a tree
Blown away forever
into the cool autumn breeze
The snow has now fallen
and my sun's not so bright
I struggle to hold on
with the last of my might
In my den of inequity
viciousness and subtlety
struggle to ease the pain
struggle to find the sane
Ignorance surrounding me
I've never been so filled with fear
All my life's been drained from me
The end is drawing near....
Finally managed to verify a result in a paper, turns out the proof is trivial once you know the missing link. Now I need to work on a result that promises to be much more tricky, hope I won't lose too much hair and brain cells in the process. Why must the authors of academic publications always write, "It is easy to see that ....", "The proof is trivial and is ommited", most of the time a lot of hard work goes into the proofs but mathematicians love to use the above 2 lines in papers or some permutation of it. Really drives me nuts sometimes. A professor once mentioned that everything is hard until you know how to do it, how true!
The last few days when I'm not working or training, been spending some time reading through a translation of Richard Wagner's magnum opus "Der Ring des Nibelungen", the librettos can be found here. Operas never interested me much in the past but the story here is pretty engaging once you figured wat's going on. Maybe I should spend some time on understanding some Teochew opera too. The only one that I know off is one where a poor scholar stays in a haunted room in an inn because all the rooms are fully occupied, I remember watching it as a kid and was very much entertained by the actors. Enough of a break, back to the realities of work now.
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