I have been giving some thought to the notion of maintaining chess as my career, if not second. Recently it has come to my mind that such demands great energy. I read about how people 8-hours of work and 8-hours of self-interest with other things, how they maintain a secret and proud identity outside their boring job. Perhaps for me, the lack of professionalism is the greatest problem. I am not seeing clearly how can I improve my own game, and that my playing level seems to have peaked. Again, if I have to rely on chess giving me a second life, perhaps I should say YOLO and keep pushing myself into it.

Poeple usually make the mistake that they are trying to find specific examples rather than general principles. I came across a post of what are the most romantic things to say. One of it quite struck me, for Chinese, we don't quite use our own Chinese full name, so when a girl asks her boyfriend what's her Chinese Name, she found it surprising and lovely that her boyfriend actually knew.

But then, it all depends on the circumspect, whereas if she loves you, anything will be romantic enough. Being flashy is always a kind of mistake. One should rather not being talked about than being talked about, Wilde is always quite at fault with the general principle because of his own eccentricity.