Miscellaneous
Bits and pieces of me.
What does my middle initial "J" stand for?
To leave my middle initial abbreviated all the time would be to forget my heritage.
"J" expands to the name Jia Jiunn Yutaro, where Jia Jiunn is Chinese and Yutaro is Japanese. To the right I show you their characters and a literal translation.
林佳俊
Family name: 林 (lin, forest)
Given name: 佳俊 (jia-jun, good and handsome)
富岡 雄太郎
Family name: 富岡 (tomi-oka, prosperous hill）
Given name: 雄太郎 (yuu-ta-rou, male first son)
Some advice from grandpa
マイ ペース
ma-i peh-su
"My pace."
(You don't need to compare yourself against anyone else. Your best effort is the best you can be. You are good enough!)
やってみせ、言って聞かせて、
させてみて、褒めてやらねば人は動かじ
ー 山本 五十六
yatte-mise, itte-kikasete,
sasete-mite, homete-yaraneba-hito-wa-ugokashi
- Yamamoto Isoroku
"Show them how it's done, tell them so they hear it,
have them try it, and praise them; if not, they won't move."
Floorball
I attended high school in Singapore (Victoria Junior College).
From 2010 to 2018, I played floorball for my school teams. Check out my rainbow floorball stick!
🥈 Newspaper article: interview with me after a national championship final in 2015.
🇸🇬 Playing in competitions was probably the sole reason for my being fairly well-travelled to all corners of (the tiny) Singapore.
🇸🇪 This sport also gifted me a chance to travel to Sweden too! (Hey, sarg, byte, skot, pass, ja!)
Will the ant get lunch today?
Co-winner for SUMS Art Contest, Jan 2021.
Impretzible, with Holly Zheng.
Mini contribution
I read Joe Silverman's Abstract Algebra textbook and caught typos for him.
Childlike excitement ヽ(o＾▽＾o)ノ in being acknowledged in the preface.
Best typo
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Books I liked
In The First Circle Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Brave New World Aldous Huxley
Braiding Sweetgrass Robin Wall Kimmerer
Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoevsky
Crime and Punishment Fyodor Dostoevsky
Extreme Ownership Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared Jonas Jonasson
Video/audio
One of my favorite goals in soccer/football.
A valuable conversation on perspective. The extra footage is great too.
My personal definition of perfection.
Favourite youtube version of Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto 3.
These videos got me into cooking when I was 15 (specimen 1).
These videos got me into cooking when I was 15 (specimen 2).
Sums up some of my current thoughts. Can we live simply? Will the natural world be happier if we do so? Can we reverse out damage? What are the lies we listen to every day?
Love this podcast. No better place to start than episode 0.
Frank observations, but worthy of reflection even today. transcript
Unchecked growth is cancerous. But through this physical, biological intuition, we can teach ourselves a way to live well and sustainably.