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<link rel="stylesheet" href="/style.css">
<title>Exercise</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>The meaning of exercise</h1>
<p>I haven't always like exercising.</p>
<p>For a long time, anything more intensive than the running I had done on the playground was seemingly so out of reach.
I could only look on at people in the track and field teams and their performances, labelling them in my head as
someone of a different class.
</p>
<p>Someone beneath me.</p>
<p>I'll admit, it was an ugly emotion. I prided myself on academics, and was only moderately good at anything
sporty — and only by virtue of brute effort. I saw physical exertion as a lower function, something to be done
by those whose intellect couldn't take first place.
</p>
<p>But, slowly, this entrenched idea began to be chipped and hacked at, until some years ago it was finally dislodged.
I came to regret looking down, deep down in jealousy, upon people who could do better than the bare minimum of
physical achievements. I started to want to also claim that ability for myself.
</p>
<p>So, over time, I've decided that I also need to start exercising, regardless of how <a href="/exercise/weakness.html">hopelessly
weak</a> I really was. After it occurred to me that, in addition to the mind, there was the body, just waiting
to be taken to its limits, it did make me, who tended to be a bit competitive, feel somewhat left behind,
as it was. I wanted to do much, much better, and now I've decided that's exactly what will happen.
</p>
<p>I'm sorry to everyone I looked down on before; I've written down my feelings here to express how
shameful and disgraceful this jealousy is, but also to document this stage in what I today perceive as
a chance for me to evolve: a chance, also, to penetrate new boundaries and make the most of the body
I've been given. Everyone, I'm gonna join you up there at the top!
</p>
<h1>My fitness goals</h1>
<p>Well, that theatrical speech aside, I do still take this stuff seriously, and I've got a number of physical
goals I'd like to attain as part of my overall journey in life; in exercise, my ultimate goal is to
to maximise the strength and physique I can feasibly build, slowly working up to the highest levels of
fitness and health. Ultimately, it's all for the health, so I'm looking primarily for both strength and
hypertrophy, and only to a lesser extent endurance and conditioning. Nevertheless, I also want to supplement
the above with hearty development of the cardiovascular.
</p>
<p>Despite talking big game, at the beginning of my journey in ~2020, I probably started off at a place of
lamentable weakness: I could, yes, do a pull-up and a push-up, but, lacking any sense of motivation or direction,
I never made considerable progress until I started taking it seriously—in 2024. Even in 2024, I'm still weak beyond
belief, but my progress is coming along: in addition to building up my pull-up repetitions to about 10+,
and push-ups to the 10s or 20s, I'm taking steps to build towards muscle-ups and, eventually, planche,
and one-armed variations of the above. To this day, my legs are still poorly developed, which I've been
more conscious of lately, so I'm thinking of doing more squats to remedy this. I can't say if it'll be enough,
though, and I also don't have any plans yet what to do when simple squats stop making any progress.
</p>
<h2>Final targets</h2>
My goal repertory of exercises I want to be able to do are:
<ul>
<li>Back exercises</li>
<ul>
<li>Muscle-up</li>
<li>Slow muscle-up</li>
<li>One-arm pull-up</li>
</ul>
<li>Chest exercises</li>
<ul>
<li>Planche</li>
<li>Plance push-up</li>
</ul>
<li>Shoulder exercises</li>
<ul>
<li>Iron cross</li>
<li>Handstand pushups</li>
<li>One-arm handstand</li>
</ul>
<li>Core exercises</li>
<ul>
<li>Dragon flag</li>
<li>Human flag</li>
<li>L sit</li>
<li>Front lever</li>
</ul>
<li>Leg exercises</li>
<ul>
<li>Pistol squat</li>
</ul>
</ul>
<p>The truth is, with just the above, it would be insolent to high hell to call myself much of anything,
but it's probably the most I can do without sacrificing something else. I'm nowhere near there at all yet,
and I apologise if I've been arrogant in listing these goals and with my feelings and all,
but I will try in future to vindicate these ambitions and make this page more than just a burst of hot air.
</p>
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<title>Weakness</title>
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<body>
<h1>How weak I am</h1>
<p>You start to realise how pathetic any normal person like us really is when you glance towards the top.
You see people lifting 200kg or more on their shoulders, hanging effortlessly apparently in defiance of gravity
off the side of a pole, climbing trees like their ancestral DNA had been fully unlocked, running at breakneck
pace as though it were a mere footrace; basically, I feel very, very weak in comparison.
</p>
<p>Obviously, it's no surprise that the rank amateur can't compare himself to the masters,
but it does make me ashamed to think that, with my current level of strength, should a time come
when it is put to the test, it will most certainly yield to most anyone my better.
If something were at stake in an altercation, like an encounter with violence, I couldn't do much
to protect anything. I resolved as I began to make some minor progress that that has to change.
</p>
<p>It's far too arrogant still for me to claim anything of the sort, but they say that as one progresses
in something, they contrarily realise just how far away they really are from being capable of the very
best; the more competent, the more humble and reserved, and the more inadequate, the more arrogant.
In the end, I'm glad at least to have been able to witness, through places like YouTube,
just how hopelessly far away from the top I am as I am now, and how impossible it likely is
to make it there. The redeeming silver lining, however, is that that all isn't necessary at all.
</p>
<p>My personal goals revolve around the same notional goal as "calisthenics": to maximise the beauty of the body.
Again, I must apologise for the grandiosity I seem to be exuding, but my dream is not to stun people in the
streets with a six-pack of abs or a tanned-up beach bod, but rather to make the most of what the body already has
inside it; to unlock first of all its strength, and secondly to harness it in synergistic beauty so as to
control it elegantly and handle it with grace. To be able to walk around with every muscle efficiently
supporting my gait, and to bend in gentle loci described by a body that's in total control of its movements.
That's all i really mean. However pretentious that still does sound, though…
</p>
<p>So, even though once I do reach such a stage, it'll be very dubious to claim any level of strength at all,
I can still be glad that my goal is achieved. Even if unable to master the heights of professional athletics,
I can still master my own body.
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<span>Password: public</span> <span>Password: public</span>
</article> </article>
<h2>Personal targets</h2>
<p>There are a number of goals I'd like to eventually attain, some of which a good deal into the present.
Regardless, I've resolved to do the following:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Career: become a senior software developer</li>
<ul><li>Become skilled enough to make projects of my own on large scale that satisfy me</li>
<li>Make my own operating system</li>
</ul>
<li>Master the German language</li><ul><li>Pass the Goethe Institut C2 exam</li></ul>
<li>Master the Japanese language</li><ul><li>Pass <a href="kanken/">level 1</a></li><li>Pass Nihongo Kentei level 1</li></ul>
<li>Attain a high level of <a href="exercise/">calisthenics</a> profiency (qualified on the exercise page)</li>
<li>Make Wiktionary a worthy Bulgarian dictionary</li>
</ul>
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Kanken</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Kanji Kentei</h1>
<p>The <em>Kanji Kentei</em> is an exam available in Japan to test the examinee's knowledge of Chinese characters (kanji)
as they appear in Japanese. The test comes in 12 levels, spanning from level 10 (the easiest) to level 1 (the hardest),
with levels 2 and 1 have easier versions called pre-1 and pre-2.
</p>
<p>It's said that the hardest level, level 1, is also functionally the hardest credential to achieve
among the Japanese culture's rich array of similar exams (such as on geography, cultural heritage, etc.),
lining up with the <em>Nihongo Kentei</em> as the top of the hardest Japanese-language-testing exams.
</p>
<p>Evgeny Uskov, via his website <a href="https://roshiajin.jp">Roshijin.jp</a>, has been my ambassador in learning
more about this exam through his <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@EvgenyUskov">YouTube channel</a> and website expounding details of the exam in English.
Thanks to Evgeny, it's become clear to me that I, too, wish to take up the gauntlet and achieve a pass (80% or more)
on the hardest exam of its kind, namely level 1. At this time (15 August 2024), only 5 non-Sinosphere foreigners
appear to have passed it, according to Evgeny's most recent information, so I aim to hopefully line up somewhere
in the top 10 my the time I eventually finish! :)</p>
<h2>My resources</h2>
<p>
Due to the illumination of people who came before me, the task of passing the exam has, in my opinion,
been significantly lessened in ardour, because I am able to view comprehensive details about each part of the
exam and its precise details ahead of time, as well as the fact that many resources have already been
made widely available that weren't as accessible before.
</p>
<p>In keeping with this trend, I would like to also share my own offering in the Kanken resource space,
namely a massive dataset adequate for comprehensive study of the Kanken level 1 material,
all in one centralized location. I'm still working on this in various aspects, but for now,
an Anki deck and a general data sheet (in CSV/spreadsheet-friendly form) are in the works.
</p>
<p>
These will contain the contents of the Kanken Kanji Jiten, i.e. the (relatively) exhaustive authority on the
Kanken level 1 (and below) exam, to whose contained kanji the exam will be constrained, in Japanese.
Ultimately, the exam may feature some vocabulary outside the scope of the dictionary, but the large part of
the exam should come from the contents of the dictionary. I will also, over the course of my personal studies,
build up the English Wiktionary's coverage of the Kanken material, with the late-stage goal of
transforming Wiktionary into an adequate resource for Kanken study, albeit allowing you to study the same
material in English for more efficiency for us English-speakers. However, if the deck itself is to take a while
to be produced, then the English version I prepare only after I've basically finished studying will take
literal years. Please be patient if waiting for this one!
</p>
<p>I also intend to provide the following extra resources for help in Kanken study: </p>
<ul>
<li>A copy of the chart in the Kanken Kanji Jiten listing the kanji radicals (as used on the exam)</li>
<li>A list of all phonetic series for helping to remember the <em>on</em> readings for the characters</li>
<li>A list of all undecomposable characters out of the 6300, which effectively breaks down recognition and writing into a simple game of composition</li>
<li>Along with the data and Anki deck: differentiated <em>go-on</em> and <em>kan-on</em> readings, to help learners grasp the connection between the two, as well as predictably use one or the other, e.g. to read an already-analysed Buddhist term</li>
</ul>
<h2>Personal study</h2>
<p>
As for my own course of study, I intend to work through the 42,000 vocabulary entries and 6300 kanji
over a course of a bit less than 2 and half years, with the hope of getting a high coverage of the full
exam material. This would equate to 50 cards a day, which, from my experience of prior study in Anki,
would amount to several hours of study a day by a year in; however, thanks to the "FSRS" algorithm's
recent development, which vastly improves scheduling in Anki, it may be possible to push back that
inevitable inkstone-grinding labor a year or so, so that only towards the end will the study truly
reach any laborious heights.
</p>
<p>
Additionally, once the deck and data have been prepared, I would like to offer a website to provide
(a) practice exams, and (b) the ability to perform online practice ad-hoc in each of the exam categories,
and have the computer tell you if you're right, etc.
Since the Kanken exam always follows the same format, it's possible to make this generation very
programmatically, and this will allow one to gauge one's own progress with a quite satisfactory degree of accuracy.
</p>
<p>Perhaps if I'm feeling up to it, I might also consider offering a tracker to let you note which kanji you've
learnt, and which words, etc. you now "know", or even expand the service to a live online SRS like Anki,
but ultimately these functions would be largely unneeded given the reasonable efficiency of Anki itself.
It can at most be a fun game if a leaderboard, etc. were to be implemented.
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<title>Reading</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Reading</h1>
<p>I really love reading, because it's one of the only hobbies that I can just totally immerse
myself into without worrying at all about anything else. Reading for fun is literally like
getting teleported into a world of peace, comfort, and exhilaration, being able to enjoy a lifetime
of exhilarating events in just a few hours.</p>
<p>The thing I love about it the most is that it feels like it even makes real life more exciting,
because you can start to see how even the mundane everyday is just like a book, too!
It might be a bit embarrassing, but at times I do end up mimicking heroes from the books
I've read, and in my opinion it ends up all the better for it, since it imbues my
usually more aimless conversation with passion and enthusiasm... in any case,
it can help to animate even a boring moment by likening it all to just a fragment of the
overall very exciting storyline.
</p>
<p>In that way, I must say I take a special loving to <a href="./lightnovels">light novels</a>, because
they eschew all the complicated bits of using any overly flowery language (unlike me…) and get directly
to the drama, suspense, character action, and the like! The juicy bits! I even used to basically
desire the same thing from regular books, since I remember skim-reading some of the early Harry Potter
books (a bit before I was really grown-up enough to read them) and only reading the dialogue!</p>
<p>No matter what, I wouldn't mind being able to just read fiction every day for many hours, although
sometimes other things do get in the way. The greatest joy of having gone on holiday and sworn
not to use my laptop was being able to throw all those distractions away and read for at least 4 hours
a day, not by force, but totally out of my own desire, and it was great. I felt like I enjoyed myself
unbelievably well, and learnt a lot of new words and funny turns of phrase along the way.
</p>
<p>And reading also gives you a time of slow pause, to let you drink in the nuances of language
and to think about what each word means. Unlike a movie, it won't skip ahead without you,
and in that regard it's totally at your own pace, letting you also match your thinking and reading
together to go as fast or slow as you want. Moreover the imagery I'm able to see because of
even the simplest of texts is so beautiful and stunning and immersive, I'm just ashamed
I haven't been making <i>more</i> use of this ability until more recently!
</p>
<p>I've fallen into various periods where I've not read awfully much, which has sadly
atrophied my vocabulary over time; it probably peaked in year 11, where I'd known so
many words as to always leave an impression on my English teacher. If I had to repeat my essays
today, I'm not so sure I'd still be anywhere near as compelling… but, that's at least a little bit
excuses by the thought that in the meantime, I have read in Japanese and German a fair bit,
and I've been able to instead focus on learning to read those two more naturally, even to the detriment
to my vocabulary in any one of them. It is my ultimate goal to master all of them, though,
so I don't intend to compromise like this forever, at any rate.
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