I better write down some things I want to do this year. Human beings tend to get lazy without targets. People always find 10 targets for such things, not less and not more, don't know why. So I try to do the same here, in no particular order:

• Work out more, be healthier. I stopped practicing Yoga for some time since I was too busy last year. I just went to renew my membership card early this month. Have to start before my body getting too 'rigid'.
• Organize my belongings properly. I like to keep things. But over the years I have learned to throw or donate the things I really don't need. I have organized a lot of them recently, but there are still a lot of them yet.
• Produce a human-digestible English text-to-speech rules and learn them. This needs some explanations. I just want to improve my English pronunciation with this 'hard' but probably systematic way. I don't know how this sounds but I'll probably explain this more later...
• Revive my analytical thinking by playing chess games. I played Chinese chess often in my secondary school more than ten years ago. While I was not a very strong player, I played reasonably, played blind chess too, understood the intentions of most moves in others' games, and enjoyed the intensive thinking to figure out a good move. However, I played less and less after that, and my brain is getting rusty! I cannot play blind chess now as I cannot remember even one position well! I could see a lot of things when I saw a chess game position, but my brain is quite blank now if you show me one! So I need to start playing some games this year, with humans or computers. I need to clear the rusts in my brain to revive my analytical thinking.
• Extend my solar system simulation program to be able to calculate the positions of all planets and Pluto in our solar system. My program is now able to calculate the Earth and moon positions well. After the extension I can use my program in many areas.
• Extend my program for Astrological charts. When my program is able to calculate planet positions, it is just a step away from producing Astrological charts. Astrological interpretation? Not sure. If time permits, I may study it and see how much I can do.
• Read at least ten new books. Any book less than 100 pages is not counted.
• Write a program to help earn some money, if I am lucky! This is a secret but totally legal project. Keep it for myself at the moment!
• Write computer-related articles for general public. Hope to write some articles, probably related to the free software stuffs, for the general public.
• Organize this home page better.