AFA 11 and Culture Japan Night

[kanzy]

I can't believe I was actually deliberating so much on Saturday night whether or not I should attend AFA 11. Given that there weren't any stage activities that interested me, and that most of the merchandise/stuff on show should be from those anime in the recent seasons, I wasn't actually too keen on going. I'm glad that I did go though, because

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[drateramal]

http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/01/23/beyond-passion-the-science-of-loving-what-you-do/

http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/10/16/the-passion-trap-how-the-search-for-your-lifes-work-is-making-your-working-life-miserable/

[bunnified]

you want to learn game programming?

[kanzy]

Game design does seem interesting, and programming seems to be something that I could be at least decent at. I haven't really done any serious programming, so I wouldn't know, but debugging gazillions lines of code does seem unbearably tedious.

That said, I guess it wouldn't hurt to try. Why? Do you have any advice/tips/places to start?

[bunnified]

pygame!

[kingofshorties]

Haha just pick one or two that you really want to do, like I think that sometimes you have to sacrifice because you can't really have every single piece of cake and eat them all.

I did have random childish dreams of being a singer and all that, but now my bathroom singing status sort of condemned that already haha.

So yeah sometimes it's about the choices you make, other times it's just about what chances come across you way. Either way, no harm bumping around until you get that feeling that this is what you were meant to do all along =p (damn vague I know but still haha)

[playmythoughts]

Actually I have a super vague dream leh. All this while it's primarily been "living and working in Japan", and then other things just came along and my path has changed like a million times, but at the end of the day my goal is still the same.

The whole graphic designer in Japan thing only came about after I was noticed for my graphic design skills, not because I'm particularly passionate about graphic design. (Right now I'm going even more specifically into vector graphic designs since Danny noticed that lol)

I guess it helps if you have a really vague goal? Like wanting to travel a lot or wanting to improve the lives of people around you, there's like a million ways to achieve it, but it gives you something to work towards.