Baton

6:40, Clouds in all kinds, dynamism governs the sky. The typhoon is coming closer and has brought this moisture in. Good, we could use a little more rain. The magnolia tree, which my mom got planted in front of the gate last year and had been thought almost dead, has put forth some young leaves at last as the temperature got down. With its roots yet frail, it needs water.
Going to be a busy day. Two days ago, my paper was finally published in the Journal of Applied Physics. A young guy in my client company will make a presentation on it next week in an international conference. I checked his speech script and corrected all but the title. In fact, I rewrote it from scratch. He is supposed to read it and give me some feedback today. Perhaps too long sentences for him to memorize. He wants me to listen to his rehearsal by way of Webex, an Internet meeting system. How easier it would be if I could make the presentation all by myself! I could save all the trouble. But it's a part of my job to let a client take some credit and not bad at all if I could help a young guy grow competent.
He wrote the speech draft in Japanese first. One of the problems is he outsourced the translation. The translator apparently is not familiar with this field of science. In many parts the translation was wrong or meaningless. When I go back to the original Japanese, sometimes it is written ambiguous and might as well be mistranslated. The Japanese language may not be so much for science as for poetry. But still it strongly depends on translator's background and translation skill.
This will be my last paper in my life. Strangely I do not have any special feelings or attachement to it. Rather I am surprised to find myself feeling happy that I could help this young guy with his first experience of speaking in English in front of big audience.
The baton being relayed.

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