If I wanna get married before 27, I prefer to get engaged half a year before
the wedding. Of course, I surely want to be with the guy at least one year in
advance before the engagement. Before we start our relationship, I need a few
months to get to know him and make sure I really like him. A season to two
seasons time will be okay! In this case, which means, I need to meet the guy by
the time when I��m 25. However, the problem is how to find my Mr. Right? I��m 23
now, and there��s only one more years left.
I��m not worry about this and no rush for this too�� I haven��t think about
marriage seriously right now. I don��t even know which type of guys I want to be
with for the rest of my life. In my little heart, I don��t want to get married.
What a selfish girl I am! Parents, they all wish their children can find their
true love and be happy with their life. They also want grandchildren.
What if my happiness is living my own life? No stress for child, no stress
for family financial problem�� All I need is to get a suitable job, doing some
businesses, earning little money, having trips every year, making friends with
whoever I want. That��ll be fun. Yes, it��s my perfect dreamy lifestyle. I know
it��s just a dream. One day I��ll definitely be lonely. No friends to share my
sadness with, no family to be with in Christmas.... When I get older, I might
not be able to see words clearly, I might not be able to do work
myself��that��ll be very sad scenes.
Today is the first day of orientation, all classmates and professors join
together in Anheuser Busch Hall. An introduction to this university and more
important, to this law school, was made by the Dean Syvrud. And then Ms.
Greenhaw and Mr. Koby briefed us about the coming course Intro to US Law &
Methods. Dean Keeting, Ellis and Glumsky gave us precious advices on how to
select courses, like JD��s first year course or upper-level course etc.
The Dean of LLM program, Dr. Shoresman and all the other professors of
Washington University law school are really trying to speak English as simple as
we international students can understand. I highly appreciate their effort,
mention that Ms. Sarah, who explained all the email from the entire LLM class of
2010, without this lady, I can have a chance to be in Wash U.
I found it��s still some kind of cannot follow the native English speaker,
especially conversations between natives. Ms. Greenhaw kindly told us that it��s
ok, and told everybody not to be shy, speak a lot, write the assignment on the
time and hand it in. It will take a month to get use to native speaking English.
Mr. Koby added that do not forget to join workshop specially with US students in
the courses. These advices seem useful, and I gonna try them all later, let��s
see.
Also, I make some new friends, Pong from Thailand, who is interested in
Chinese culture. He knows the historical character like Wu Sangui and Chen
Yuanyuan. This guy is funny. Dr. Luo Wei, the lecturer from Quanzhou, China,
JD&MLIS, will meet the class tomorrow. I am looking forward to his research
lab.
Though all things are fresh and funny, now I have to deal with the case
reading assignment for tomorrow. Yep, keep reading cases and cases, the Dean
said we'd better quit Facebook and Twitter. That's OK. Haha, except for these
books which I cannot running from, life on this campus would be a joyful time
for me, I believe.
So nice that we three sisters who were born in Nanjing had a good time in
last May to visit the old place where we lived after birth...
That is a big courtyard where it was Kuomintang's general headquarter of
combined service and then after liberation, PLA Nanjing military Region
Political department used it as dormitory in early 50s..
Here is my picture sorted out for memory:
Looking from the street, the Gate is still looked
magnificent. It is the only preserved one while most buildings behind it was
dismantled.
This flowerbed is very impressive in my young memory. I
remembered that after I entered the gate, turned left and then I could find my
home.
This is the old building where we lived, now is also dismantled. This picture
was taken by dormitory manager in 80s last century.
We three sisters, each was born in 1950 (Me, in the middle), in 1952(The
right one) and in 1954(The left one). More than half century passed. Time really
flies!
Standing at the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, we were still holding on the
hope and wishes of life.
Xuanwu Lake, a famouse park in center of the city. Inside Xuanwu Lake are 5
isles that are suitable for a scenic walk and contain many small tourist
attractions such as Lama Temple, small amusement park rides and the "Temple of
Xuanwu Lake God." We used to visit Xuanwu Lake as our home was near it.
We were very happy back home with mother after visiting our birthplace. We
have experienced a lot and got to know what life was and now we still like to
take an optimistic attitude towards future. As long as there is hope, there is
life! Let's smile all the days!
Hope you would share my happiness!
Update: Google is now unblocked. I am sure it's blocking rather than
"technical maintaince" since it's working fine with proxies.
Now, Google is almost totally blocked in China. A lot of its products, like
Google Reader, Google Mail(GMail), Google Code... is not accessible in mainland
China.
What a shame for us. What a shame for the stupid kommunist!
They could blocked Youtube, but they could never block people's
creativities!
Here's a very popular video from China recently, by "�Ͻ�˫����zimo" (Zi Jin
Shuang He Tang Zimo), a Kuso version of Linkin Park's <In The End>:
After Facebook, Youtube,
Plurk, Twitter is now finally blocked in China. Though people have predicted
this and I know it's sooner or later, it still make me so sad.
I am a super fan of Twitter and I have got nearly 4000 followers, 70% of
which are from mainland China. Now I cannot talk to them and nor can they talk
to me. some of our authors and readers are also very active in Twitter.
What a stupid censorship! What a shame!
FYI:
- In the "China Twitter user investigation" I made few weeks ago, more than
70% twitter users from China said they'd keep using Twitter with proxy
servers. Only very few of them would consider to join other twitter-like
services in China.
- Wikipedia is also blocked today!
- Bing.com and Live.com are also blocked!
- Almost all the Chinese twitter users are spreading #FUCKGFW, #FuckGFW and
#fuckGFW around and it soon became the hottest Trending Topics couple of hours
later!
I went to south China with 2 sisters for about 2 more weeks and when I came
back home I got a pps file from a friend, on which there are great compassion
and vows.
They come from the most venerable master Sheng Yen, who was the founder of
Dharma Drum Mountain and passed away on 9 Feb, at the age of 80. I select 10 of
them, which are both in Chinese and English, to share with other friends here,
as I think what Master Sheng Yen said is definately right and practical in life.
I wish you would like and keep them!
- æ�����ң��۶���ƣ
Be busy but happy, and tired but joyful
- Ӧ��æ�������ظϹ�������Ҫ������������ʱ��
Work swiftly in an orderly
fashion; never compete with time in a nervous flurry.
- �������������䣬���dzɳ��ľ���
All the ups and downs of life are
nourishing experience for our growth.
- ɽ��ת·ת��·��ת��ת���˲�ת��ת
If the mountain won't move, build a
road around it. If the road won't turn, change your path. If you are unable to
even change your path, just transform your mind.
- ����ǣ�ҹ�ȥ�����ص���δ����̤ʵ�����ڣ�������ȥ��δ��ͬ��
There's no need
to be concerned about the past or the future. Live fully in the present and
you are connected with both the past and the future.
- ���ܣ�����֪ʶ�����Ǿ��顢����˼�棬���dz�Խ�������ĵ�̬��
Wisdom is not
knowledge, nor experience, nor dialectical excellence, but a selfless
attitude.
- ���ģ��Ƕ�������ĥ�����ģ��ǰ�ȫ�Ķ���
While worry fuels unnecessary
torment, carefulness breeds security.
- ��Խ������ԭ��ҪѰ������Ҫ��������Ҫ����
To transcend the suffering
of death, keep to the three principles: never seek death, never fear death,
and never wait for death to come.
- ��������������������̨
This body is the Buhdi-tree. The soul is
like a mirror bright.
- �ȱ�û�е��ˣ��ǻ�û�з���
Devote wholehearted effort without
calculating who does or gains more.
Enjoy your Dragon Boat Festival!
Some months ago, my friend Elliott
Ng from the U.S asked me
what Chinese LOST fans are thinking/discussing about LOST. I promised to post
something here, and as the season 5 is now finished, I think it's time to share
something here with you western LOST fans.
The easiest way to know what Chinese LOST fans are thinking about is to
analysis the polls held by hot LOST forums in China. I collected some data from
ydy.com, 1000fr.com, yyets.net(Some very popular online
forums on foreign, mainly American TV series in China) and some of my friends,
shared the results as follows:
- Most Chinese LOST fans are male, 18-25. Few of the fans are under 18 or
over 30.
- Most Chinese fans think that Kate (42.29%) and Shannon (31.45%) are the
most attractive women in LOST. Though Sun is the only main Asian character in
LOST, she just got 14.67% votes. Polls held on some other small forums show
that there're also a lot of Juliet fans.
- Most Chinese fans hate Michael and Ana Lucia after SEASON 2. In a vote
named "Who do you hate most", Michael (45.98%) and Ana Lucia(20.28%) got the
most votes. Ben Linus only got 0.8% votes - I think that's due to the date of
the poll (2006).
- Most Chinese fans think that Sawyer(54.83%) is the most attractive man in
LOST.
- 95.59% of Chinese fans think that Ben Linus is cleverer than Charles
Widmore.
- 93.81% of Chinese fans prefer to watch the original TV (with subtitles)
rather than a dubbed one.
- In a poll named "Which one will Kate choose", Sawyer got 51.37%, Jack got
34.91% and the rest (13.72%) think that Kate would choose neither.
- In a poll named "Who is the key people in LOST", John Locke got 35.39% in
a lead, then are Jack (18.86%) and Walt(15.03%). Ben got very few votes.
- In a poll named "Who do you want to stay with on that island", Jack got
70% FTW.
- Most Chinese fans would NOT push the button when the count down reaches
the end if they were the LOSTies.
- Most Chinese fans think Locke or Ben should be the leader. The reason for
Locke is "He never complained to others" while the reason for Ben is "He
always has a plan".
- 72.8% of Chinese fans think that Ben killed John for some unknown reasons.
7% think that Ben is just for stealing the information from John.
Though with lots of participators, those results above are the polls since
2005. They should represent the most condition here in China, especially for the
past years but not for the current condition and the future. As the TV series
goes on, there are lots of new comments on this series. For example, after the
Jacob finally appeared in the Season 5 finale, there were also a lot of comments
saying that LOST is just another story of "���ɴ��ܣ���������" (Gods fight, human
disaster). And more and more fans started to doubt that the writer of LOST would
never explain his show gracefully on a scientific basis.
Though I've been attracted by LOST for so much, I have to admit that Prison
Break in China is much more popular than LOST. I don't know why. Maybe most
Chinese people love stories like the Shawshank Redemption - They are
restricted/censored too much to be so non-harmonized:)
However, there are a thousand Hamlets in a thousand people's eyes, just enjoy
the show for yourself :)
(The pictures of Jack Shepherd below are from http://voote.com/)
We were discussing statistics when my American colleague told me about a
story of his friend's family. Whenever they travel by air, they break the family
up and take different planes. My American colleague thought that this made no
statistical sense, that is, the chances of a plane to crash isn't going to
change.
However, the chances for the whole family to perish from air crashes do
become significantly smaller, considering that it takes all the planes the
family members take to crash for the whole family to decease, and I guess this
is what makes sense for that family. Yet I have another idea: it would be a
tragedy for anyone of the family to survive the accidental death of other
intimate members, and it is far more comfortable (at least for me) to go along
with my family, alive or dead, which means, taking the same plane would be the
'rational' choice for me, as we can they live and die together.
My colleague laughed hard. He'd never looked at the problem from this angel
before. But he admitted that my opinion made sense to him.
And so much as I'd like to generalize for the East and the West, this opinion
might be just mine and mine alone. What do you think? Will you device a strategy
to outlive your family, or would you rather be with them, for eternity?
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Just want to share some BBQ photos (taken yesterday). I have always
appreciated HKUST for setting up a BBQ place at the beach for students. You can
book the stove on student intranet. Everything is just so simple.
In these photos, one GG is an exchange PhD students. The other people except
me are MPhil and PhD students from the same CS lab. For me, I'm a guest invited
by my friend.
I'm also going to commence my MPhil from this summer in the next two years.
By that time things will get much more intense compared with current student
life. However, I think no matter how limited the time is, don't ever be an
otaku. When feeling tired, try to go out, meet friends and get relaxed. That's
surely better than just staying in dorm beside the laptop :-)
