Reading magazines seem like a useless past time. Endless issues of a single title, repeating topics and themes over and over again albeit from different angles.
I however feel that reading magazines really gives you a quick look on a certain topic. For example if I was going to speak with a tennis enthusiast, a quick skim of a tennis magazine will probably update me with knowledge to act as if I have (to some degree) similar interest. Even if you admit to the other party that you really do not have an interest in this particular area, you will appear knowledgeable to him.
To me magazines are a quick introduction to a topic and because they are published ever so often, you know that you’ll always be getting the latest and greatest information.
I have been contemplating about learning a third language for quite a long time now. I’ve come to realize that taking lessons and listening to tapes can help you pick the language up, but if you don’t really use it regularly, you’re back to square one in no time.
The second thing I’ve came to understand that knowing a language doesn’t really mean you can do business in that language, the terminologies required for that conversation will probably be deeper than what you’ve learnt in your lessons. This being said, I don’t think it’s totally useful cos (1) the other party will know that you are putting in effort to blend in and (2) you may be able to overhear something they are trying to hide from you by speaking in their native language!
Haven’t been blogging for almost 2 years now. Used to blame the lack of time for not blogging, but soon enough you realize that these are all excuses. It’s really about whether you see the need to or not.
So why do I blog… I blog because I have all these thoughts in my mind and they come and they go… Sometimes some of them actually do make sense, and I think the best way for me to remember is to write it down…
So here we go again… Let’s hope it lasts longer this time round.
