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I knew my life has been changed & Never ever going back the point I was. The world is so big, and please give me a corner I could stay. Then, to creat my own perfect world to share with someone~~~ Wish life that IS simple and happy__
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DoNaLd's FoOtPriNt

WaLKiNg with Dream, that will come ture one day
May 15

Way to go right

The hand time, again comes to and squeezes me into the death of cave. I feel really no choice doing anything that I can decide.  No choices means to keep current things going on without any changes. Well, every road to the Rome. Now walking the hardest way to the destination but the possibilities still exist sooner or later. The rule is simple. There are, for instance two ways to Rome. One is the broad way with a lot of risk but it is the shortcut. Another is the narrow way with safe but last forever. Certainly the broad is the best way to your destination if you take risk. However, the best way is not the safest way to the destination sometimes.  In theory, the risk of driving is much higher than walking. Both ways can access to the aim but consideration must be twice careful before action. True, everyone has the common sense on it, but the situation varies to people, which cause even more complicated in process and result in different judgments. Thus, the right decision is in doubt.  

March 25

Where is the will, where I go

请别忘记心中的承诺,这是永远,不能停止的战斗。即使是孤军作战,也要到最后一刻。时间很快过去了,对自己的评价还是不满意,或许有时还是退一步海阔天空,困难的时候是要忍耐的。只要心中有着承诺,一切会如愿的。我还是要相信。相信这一天的到来。
February 28

Thinking back and forth

It seems something is going all right, whereas I still have to overcome some obstacles.  Life is tough. I am almost there, where is the conflicting point that I have to make a decision whether I am complete success or not.  I got good news that I will be working a new company.  However, am I really ready for the things that I must have?  I am not sure.  Confusion suddenly is only thought in my mind. Well, this should be a great opportunity for me.  Trial and error is a way to prove the decision.  On the other hand, I felt really behind of study. I was ever proud of writing that becomes much poorer now.  I do understand I need more time to fix this suck grammar.

All are the review for my ongoing situation to remind me that my mission hasn’t completed yet.

January 29

2009 Ox year,new beginning

I have been back to Van for a month, and I really feel the way that I was the first time here. The unknown and familiar intertwine my soul to think back and forth of the past and now. Yeah, I have to restart my life again. 5-year as a return is like a long life journal. Now I feel far more behind than others in the world. My experience tells me that I need change, motivation and persistence. In 2009, it is the vital period that I will meet the obstacle and struggle for it, and turn it for the success. The best working plan and solution for the objective will turn out my outstanding expectation. Although everything is still under my construction, more effort will be made to complete the impossible mission. I believe Ox’s year will be great! ACTION~ 

December 28

心愿心语

我终于实现回来的心愿,一些情,一些结,也要给自己人生这个阶段的一个答案。五年时间很快过去了,该变的变了,不该变的也变了,唯一不变的是我一直向往过这里故土的一切,对,是一种气息,一种让人怀念与眷恋,虽然变的地方很多,让我依然看到过去的足迹,过去的我。
 
五年,就如一个人生一个小循回,是一种复杂的心情。无论这个过程是甜还是苦,是艰还是乐,现在又回到这个立足点,看到过去,也看到未来。退一步海阔天空,执着,忍耐,坚强,自信,路茫茫,没有指明灯,但心中的指明灯还亮着,如果都决定了,就走吧,走吧,---
 
千千日日夜夜,有得有失,有爱有恨,有喜有悲,这是人生啊。无悔无言,默默耕耘,吃得苦中苦,方为人上人,终有一天,代价会变成理想,一直追求的理想。虽然一步千里万里,但记挂的是一直关心支持我的人,无论走了有多远,爱,还是永恒。细水长流,天长地久。
 
明天,就要回去另一边的北半球,另一个的开始,意味着什么呢?孤单,恐惧,悲伤,艰苦,我不知道。唯一可以肯定的是,前途是光明的,只有一双手,天不怕,地不怕,更重要的,有这个坚定的信念,我会好好地去创造。---
 
我相信这个世界上还有更多更多为美好生活幸福爱情而奋斗终生的人,但能真正理解这种心情又有多少,无论负担有多重,无论有多艰辛,无论一个人的力量有多小,但有了爱,一定会挺得住,一切会慢慢地变好,变好,---
 
路漫漫其修远兮,吾将上下而求索```````
 
以屈原抒情诗为发愤之作,勉励,奋斗,于2008年12月28日晚。
December 21

Back to Space

Due to some reasons, I have never updated my space for a year. I have a hard time  in 2008, and I found that I have lost my way, or I chose the wrong way to work hard. On the other hand, fortune never belongs to me. so I have to persist in doing the suck things.
Whatever, I decided to go back China. Now I have made my dream come ture. I recognized the dramatic change in China. I really know what my position is now. The way is still clear, but it only depends on how you walk to. Confidence is root of power. I enjoy the time here, and hope to see tomorrow. I am coming, Vancouver.
 
March 26

想念

无论自己远开多远,还是多久,还是忘记不了哪一片在黄色的土地出生。有熟悉的土地的气味,唯一的,在世界上再也找不到同样的感觉。过去是自己最保贵的回忆,回味着过去,珍惜现在,向往未来,一直是这个哲理让人活得有意义。我不会抱怨这个现实世界,因为信念教会我如何对待,别依靠任何人,自己才是主宰。当看到这黄色的泥土,想起的不仅是过去,还有亲人,每一刻如闪电式地在脑海中。不要充满后悔带来的罪,这是想念亲人的方式。遗憾才让人如此深刻。我一直向往这片土地,想着它,有一地,我了居这片土地,有着它。
January 31

An Incomplete Manifesto for Growth

Written in 1998, the Incomplete Manifesto is an articulation of statements that exemplify Bruce Mau's beliefs, motivations and strategies. It also articulates how the BMD studio works.

1. Allow events to change you. You have to be willing to grow. Growth is different from something that happens to you. You produce it. You live it. The prerequisites for growth: the openness to experience events and the willingness to be changed by them.

2. Forget about good. Good is a known quantity. Good is what we all agree on. Growth is not necessarily good. Growth is an exploration of unlit recesses that may or may not yield to our research. As long as you stick to good you'll never have real growth.

3. Process is more important than outcome. When the outcome drives the process we will only ever go to where we've already been. If process drives outcome we may not know where we’re going, but we will know we want to be there.

4. Love your experiments (as you would an ugly child). Joy is the engine of growth. Exploit the liberty in casting your work as beautiful experiments, iterations, attempts, trials, and errors. Take the long view and allow yourself the fun of failure every day.

5. Go deep. The deeper you go the more likely you will discover something of value.

6. Capture accidents. The wrong answer is the right answer in search of a different question. Collect wrong answers as part of the process. Ask different questions.

7. Study. A studio is a place of study. Use the necessity of production as an excuse to study. Everyone will benefit.

8. Drift. Allow yourself to wander aimlessly. Explore adjacencies. Lack judgment. Postpone criticism.

9. Begin anywhere. John Cage tells us that not knowing where to begin is a common form of paralysis. His advice: begin anywhere.

10. Everyone is a leader. Growth happens. Whenever it does, allow it to emerge. Learn to follow when it makes sense. Let anyone lead.

11. Harvest ideas. Edit applications. Ideas need a dynamic, fluid, generous environment to sustain life. Applications, on the other hand, benefit from critical rigor. Produce a high ratio of ideas to applications.

12. Keep moving. The market and its operations have a tendency to reinforce success. Resist it. Allow failure and migration to be part of your practice.

13. Slow down. Desynchronize from standard time frames and surprising opportunities may present themselves.

14. Don’t be cool. Cool is conservative fear dressed in black. Free yourself from limits of this sort.

15. Ask stupid questions. Growth is fueled by desire and innocence. Assess the answer, not the question. Imagine learning throughout your life at the rate of an infant.

16. Collaborate. The space between people working together is filled with conflict, friction, strife, exhilaration, delight, and vast creative potential.

17. ____________________. Intentionally left blank. Allow space for the ideas you haven’t had yet, and for the ideas of others.

18. Stay up late. Strange things happen when you’ve gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.

19. Work the metaphor. Every object has the capacity to stand for something other than what is apparent. Work on what it stands for.

20. Be careful to take risks. Time is genetic. Today is the child of yesterday and the parent of tomorrow. The work you produce today will create your future.

21. Repeat yourself. If you like it, do it again. If you don’t like it, do it again.

22. Make your own tools. Hybridize your tools in order to build unique things. Even simple tools that are your own can yield entirely new avenues of exploration. Remember, tools amplify our capacities, so even a small tool can make a big difference.

23. Stand on someone’s shoulders. You can travel farther carried on the accomplishments of those who came before you. And the view is so much better.

24. Avoid software. The problem with software is that everyone has it.

25. Don’t clean your desk. You might find something in the morning that you can’t see tonight.

26. Don’t enter awards competitions. Just don’t. It’s not good for you.

27. Read only left-hand pages. Marshall McLuhan did this. By decreasing the amount of information, we leave room for what he called our "noodle."

28. Make new words. Expand the lexicon. The new conditions demand a new way of thinking. The thinking demands new forms of expression. The expression generates new conditions.

29. Think with your mind. Forget technology. Creativity is not device-dependent.

30. Organization = Liberty. Real innovation in design, or any other field, happens in context. That context is usually some form of cooperatively managed enterprise. Frank Gehry, for instance, is only able to realize Bilbao because his studio can deliver it on budget. The myth of a split between "creatives" and "suits" is what Leonard Cohen calls a 'charming artifact of the past.'

31. Don’t borrow money. Once again, Frank Gehry’s advice. By maintaining financial control, we maintain creative control. It’s not exactly rocket science, but it’s surprising how hard it is to maintain this discipline, and how many have failed.

32. Listen carefully. Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the details and the subtlety of their needs, desires, or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own. Neither party will ever be the same.

33. Take field trips. The bandwidth of the world is greater than that of your TV set, or the Internet, or even a totally immersive, interactive, dynamically rendered, object-oriented, real-time, computer graphic–simulated environment.

34. Make mistakes faster. This isn’t my idea -- I borrowed it. I think it belongs to Andy Grove.

35. Imitate. Don’t be shy about it. Try to get as close as you can. You'll never get all the way, and the separation might be truly remarkable. We have only to look to Richard Hamilton and his version of Marcel Duchamp’s large glass to see how rich, discredited, and underused imitation is as a technique.

36. Scat. When you forget the words, do what Ella did: make up something else ... but not words.

37. Break it, stretch it, bend it, crush it, crack it, fold it.

38. Explore the other edge. Great liberty exists when we avoid trying to run with the technological pack. We can’t find the leading edge because it’s trampled underfoot. Try using old-tech equipment made obsolete by an economic cycle but still rich with potential.

39. Coffee breaks, cab rides, green rooms. Real growth often happens outside of where we intend it to, in the interstitial spaces -- what Dr. Seuss calls "the waiting place." Hans Ulrich Obrist once organized a science and art conference with all of the infrastructure of a conference -- the parties, chats, lunches, airport arrivals — but with no actual conference. Apparently it was hugely successful and spawned many ongoing collaborations.

40. Avoid fields. Jump fences. Disciplinary boundaries and regulatory regimes are attempts to control the wilding of creative life. They are often understandable efforts to order what are manifold, complex, evolutionary processes. Our job is to jump the fences and cross the fields.

41. Laugh. People visiting the studio often comment on how much we laugh. Since I've become aware of this, I use it as a barometer of how comfortably we are expressing ourselves.

42. Remember. Growth is only possible as a product of history. Without memory, innovation is merely novelty. History gives growth a direction. But a memory is never perfect. Every memory is a degraded or composite image of a previous moment or event. That’s what makes us aware of its quality as a past and not a present. It means that every memory is new, a partial construct different from its source, and, as such, a potential for growth itself.

43. Power to the people. Play can only happen when people feel they have control over their lives. We can't be free agents if we’re not free.

January 16

The Moment

当灰色的世界开始染上新的颜色的时候,一幅新的蓝图将出现在新的人生的一页。 世事多变,每天都在写着人生的故事,背后的辛酸不能用言语来表达,真实地活着就是为了故事的延续,,,,当回忆与泪水成为过去,追求的是新的生活,是一种向往,生活本来就是很平凡,为什么会活得这么苦? 现实,就是人生的决定,是放弃,还是继续。 为了继续,努力是唯一的希望,即使力量有多小,伤口有多痛。
December 24

X`mas 2007

Wish White Chrismas....with my Dream & Love,,||||
December 10

Graduation & Decision

我Pass了Directed Study, 心里没有异常的兴奋,我的留学基本任务完成。一切似乎是结束,还是开始。 其实更伤感的是,见到朋友不能PASS,自己也有点难受。假如换是自己,用这么多心血,这么多的不眠夜,或许不能接受。如果期望太高了,而自己没有底线,这样,就会彻底崩溃了。
 
无论是怎样,这将或许是一个现实。这个结果会给自己带来什么样的信息呢?然后,自己会怎样想,怎样做,,,,有些结果有时候不能让人接受,为了逃避而虚荣地生存还是为了真实而忍辱负重。面对更多的挫折,人生只有放弃与继续,态度就是决定。
 
Take Care,,Friends...
December 08

Interior Designer

I survived. I did ok with 3 courses including Directed Study. I was supposed to have a really bad time this semester.
 
Indeed, I had a really bad time--I couldn't focus on my study; my mark didn't show; I lost the big book; I got two tickets at BCIT parking and even worst, I got my car hitCrying; However, the thing that besides me is always changing. I was keeping up my situation; I figured out my mark with teathers, I got back my big book even if I didn't leave my name on it; I got a lot of FREE ticket from the people I didn't know; I got helps from friends that I was really appreciated for them.
 
The Final presentation is not bad. hope I can get a good markSmile and all the hardworking friends AS WELLSmile
 
Whatever, it is NOT over. I am sure I will keeping on with Career as a Interior Designer. I think I love my major NOW~~~
November 16

my last Achievement in 2007

恶劣的天气,再不能让人感受到太阳的温暖。 学校也开始变得超来超寂静,也不像以住一样。走的走了,毕业的毕业了,回去的回去了。能继续走下去的人也不知道还有谁?人各有志, 我也从来不认为读书就是唯一的出路。 希望曾一起奋斗的朋友们能找到更有发展的前景吧。面临最后一门课,还有20天,开始有点压力了,可是自己的状态回升得很慢。我的斗志去了哪里了。如果不过,我也能接受。或许没有什么不能接受,能承受过的都承受过了。近来这么倒霉,也没有什么很坏感觉,但也没好的感觉。 反正no news is good news. 奋斗这最后的时间,对自己也算是一个交待。期待下一场大雪的来临,期待着明年,,,
 
Cover the Weakness to show up the strength; 
Suffer tough time in the toughest, enjoy happy time in the happiest;
Believe in what you think, and keep going;
To be ALWAYS Confident, this is the KEY--+----
November 04

Whenever Keep Going Or Withdraw

I really feel exhausted of 2007 that makes me upset..I don't  know how to keep my Story going on and on.. to one day to dream back...However,,,I can't even think a moment of the past, the future...I am like the normal people who can be happy, sad, excited, lonely, proud.
when hope became hopeless, when happyness became sadness, when success became failure, when love became lonely, when brightness became dark, when active became passive, when help became helpless, when brave became afraid, when smile became tear, when everything became nothing,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
Belief leads people go to the right way if they insist on it. I have my belief and never give up but when could I have my own world. -----------
Diligence is the way to be succeed,,,However,,,,I am woking hard all the time, whatever can reture to me=========
Am I goin to the Wrong Way?
 
 
October 21

FAR AWAY

I am not as busy as I thought. what I did now is shit..damn..Failure is getting closer to me. Who cares? I am the worst person in the world. I wanna get to the point that I am goin now...I can not concentrate on anything I wanna achieve. My last course has begun, yet I am dreaming the shit..How could I be killed.. I waste everything, or in other word, I have nothing....So Sorry....I can not tell..
 
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