2025 Target

This is a regular post for me to start new year. Usually writing just before opening new year. This year is same, now 23:30 31th Dec 24.

Keep

  • Re-started violin lesson finally. Even time could be allocated to practice is limited, but I will continue to do. My goal for this is  to play The Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043. still not sure when I can play this. but never give up!
  • Challenged cycling event in Shimanani 2024 as I posted to here. a bit challenging to keep motivation in Winter and Summer, instead of outside ride, try to go indoor ride in Gym as much as possible.

Problem

  • Even I wrote this in 2024 target, but could not make a good progress in 2024. Still sometime feels not enough vocabulary in English conversation, especially with English native colleagues. as business conversation, no issue for me and business, but I would like to use more natural phase in any case. I know it’s a bit touch for non-native people, but it’s worth to try. 

Try

  • As part of my business, I would like to try new things what I can do right now. Not only for learn uncovering technology, also explore new way to spread technologies to more friends. 

Since recently well busy, no waste time in my daily life, so it’s not easy to do more new thing, so will brash up and enhance what I’m doing now as continued  challenges to be next stage. 

One of the new challenge ever before

Since our life has been backing to normal like before covid 19, so working in office, having drinking after work, traveling world etc. One of the habit I got during covid 19 is road bike cycling that I started when I lived in Singapore. It must help to keep my heath. 

Because weather in Japan is very widely changed as season, it’s not easy to maintain my motivation to keep riding in Summer and Winter…. Also backing to normal life, gradually getting far from riding life. 

But luckily got chance to join “CYCLING SHIMANAMI 2024” which is International casual cycling event on a world-class cycling course. I cycled around the area in 2021, but it’s first time  for me to join the such kind of cycling event. Even it’s not racing, there are some time limitation since we can ride on expressway around Shimanami islands. I felt some pressure by time limitation, but successfully passed all of the gates and accomplished the course (65km from Imabari to Mukaishima) with my bike (Bianch Olter XR3).

It’s so valuable experience and fully enjoyed expressway ride with magnificent scenery around Shimanami islands.

Sakura Season

It’s season for Sakura (Cherry blossoms). In Tokyo, unfortunately raining day  has been continued after cherry blossoms started. So it’s a bit tough to see sakura in peak time, but I could captured some good sights in several place. 

  • Meguro River (Tokyo)
  • Roppongi Midtown(Tokyo)
  • Hanaki River (Hiratsuka, Kanagawa pref)

I picked up some to here, hope you can enjoy seasonal awesome and fantastic sakura photos.

Speaker on M2 MBA

After a few weeks, I realised sound quality of M2 MacBook Air is relatively great than M1 MacBook Air. Somehow sounds are coming from monitor. I was surprised to see build in speaker on M2 MacBook Air are at hinge as attached photo.
That’s why I felt that sounds are coming from monitor, it means the sound from speaker has been reflected on monitor. 

At same time, number of build in speaker are double (from 2 to 4) and are supporting Dolby Atoms. Playing some music on Apple Music are compatible with Dolby Atoms. So I could feel good quality sounds as spatial one.

Changed to M2 MacBook Air

I have been user for MacBook Air since 1st generation of that. it was released at 2018. Including company’s one, I used most of generation of that. And 1st gen to recent one (M1 based), shape has been mostly same, Heigh are different on both side.

Opened box of M2 MacBook Air. Compared with Macbook 12 inch 2016. Slight bigger

I brought M2 MacBook Air with 1TB SSD. More biggest changing for me was share on M2 MacBook Air. It’s flat body same as MacBook Pro series. because in my jobs, company provides MacBook Pro, so not big surprise to use flat shape body. But somehow missing clam shaped body on MacBook Air.

Due to not enough SSD for recent iPhone Photos, It’s a bit tough to handle files with 512GB SSD on previous one, even most of file are managed on iCloud Disk. Previous M1 MacBook Air (2020) has enough CPU/GPU power with M1 for me, at this point, no big reason to change it to latest one. Main reason to change it was mainly for less disk, and a bit curious about flat design and Midnight colours, definitely so cool on my desk.

 Anyway, getting new Mac is always exciting and refreshing my mind!