Author: heyihan

pp.27 – 100 Painters search for knowledge of seeing. The skill of the painter is in equal ratio to their ability to leave the named-world and just respond to observation of seeing sensations. Here ‘seeing’ means identifying and naming of sensations, not dividing the world into things. When trying to render impressions in paint the…

I am reading Max Meldrum’s “Science of Appearances” (1950) as my art teacher, Peter Kendall, recommended the book. I have since watched Paul Ingbretson speak about him pp.1-26 INTRODUCTION NOTES Sight is the apex sense and human sight is powerfully binocular.  The painter tries not to see with any purpose in mind but pure scientific observation…

Love a good bookshop town.  We Eastered (is that a verb?) in Castlemaine, Victoria.  Five bookshops later I have a large haul of reading to enjoy:      (1938) and   (1958) I will have to check out the reviews of the erudite if eccentric Waley’s works, but I thought these books might provide an insight…

Josh Waitzkin is a past chess champion, then a 2004 Tai Chi push hands (推手) World Champion.  His book is intense, as you might expect when it is written by a man not yet 30 who has soared in such focus-demanding competitions.   However, his insights to learning are very engaging and interesting. They share…

I sat the HSK2 exam on 20 May.  I have received my result. I am studying toward the HSK3 exam and did the earlier test just to sit through the process at the examination centre (RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, for me).  I’m quite nervous about doing the HSK3 exam in September and finding focusing…

I love it.  If you’re learning anything, you should love it too.  Collected here are all the bits and bobs I find out about using this wonderful public app.

I recently reviewed the blogs of Lyndsay Does Languages (who I encountered on Kris Bronholm’s Actual Fluency podcast) and one of the most fruitful tips was the apps Tandem and HelloTalk.  I have been using both of them a lot over the last fortnight.

Thursday 13 April  15 min Anki

I thought it would be good to list my study tasks for this week, set times, and see how realistic they are.  Here are all the things I would ideally do for a chapter/unit of the HSK 3 standard course. Anki I really notice the effect when I miss Anki routine (based on Gabriel Wyner’s…