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the good days are not coming back

2011-07-31T22:50:00.000-07:00

no, the good days are not coming back.
the economy is crap, i mean, on both sides of the pacific.
fewer and fewer friends to talk to, getting burnt out by work,
the bay area is a shit hole full of bubbles made of money and
dreams made of bits.

oh, how i miss the good old days.
right as you complaining about it, life just laugh and say:

fuck you.

感谢

2010-10-20T23:17:00.000-07:00

感谢父母，感谢祖国，将我培养成一个有良知的公民。

礼仪廉耻国之四维。四维不张国之不国。

天下兴亡，匹夫有责。
今国家有难，只叹报国有门而无胆。

苟活于加州实为可耻，必当立志而报国。
尤记得中学校赤子吟一首，与君共勉：

我们在此铭心相约：一切皆不能将我和祖国的命运分开，无论是天灾、还是人祸，是金钱、还是权势，是疾病、还是劳累。是为志。由此，我将发奋努力，上下求索，勤于思考，勇于实践。是为行。直至民族复兴、天下大同。此心乃敢稍息！是为公。赤子之心山川可鉴。仅以此镌金刊石，以为共勉。

patience

2010-03-11T10:08:00.001-08:00

just wait a little longer

just work a little harder.

last one

2010-01-21T20:37:00.001-08:00

Last exam in my college life, hope it pass smoothly, bless.

Jan. 13th, 2010 (B-Day 22)

2010-01-14T00:50:00.000-08:00

First, very happy.

tons of bless, several presents.

cliche:
生日快乐,Happy Birthday,川哥生日快乐
innovative:
你懂的
bs:
22,越来越2

Presents:
Jim Bean from myself;
Mont Blanc bookmark from Gin;
Neujahrskonzert in Wien, 1987, Herbert von Karajan, DG remastered version from Yingfu;
Stanford Keyring, from Yingfu;
Fila sports towel from Sam;

Nice, real nice.

Compiling Hell...

2010-01-01T05:28:00.000-08:00

Learning GTK+ from scratch, like every other, the GTK+ Online tutorial has a chapter called "Compiling Hello World". The Chrome browser display the name as "Compiling Hell...".

It really got me! Got frightened for one sec.

Hell it is. Freezing Hell.

P.S. 2009 Sayonara. 2010 Konnichiwa.

Pain in the ass

2009-12-29T06:29:00.001-08:00

yeah, literally pain in the ass.

考试奇遇记

2009-12-28T08:24:00.000-08:00

这周是16周，从这个学期开始，交大的学期变成了19周。17周用来教学，2周用来开始。我这个学期选修了一门“美国简史“的通选课。作为大四学长的我，自然熟知通选课的通过之道，作业补齐，考试参加。想想还有两周了，今天下午是该去那个课看看了，什么情况。也就是随便想到，中午去627走走的时候问了一下，结果发现今天下午就要考试了！
太巧了，还好去了那个课，不然就悲剧了。

随便写了个文章，去那边誊上去，然后就okay了。这个课真是简单，去了三四次，然后交了两个文章，okay。还提前一周结束，真的是难得遇到的好课。

P.S.老夫现在有病都不呻吟了，sigh，这种心态。

Chet Baker

2009-12-27T12:32:00.001-08:00

Fall in love with his sound.

so they say

2009-12-27T05:21:00.001-08:00

cs男十宗罪 [转自88]

cs男，由于专业影响，在恋爱时有别于其他工科男，归纳特点如下
我简称为cs男十宗罪：

1、宅：习惯于在电脑前面，不大会外出活动，就算购物也首选淘宝
2、乱：以为上网多，因此了解到特别多的信息，以为世界都是混乱的
3、傲：不能够正确认识自己，有一些可以骄傲的地方时特别如此
4、虚：因为接触真实世界少，啥都上网查，心虚但是尽可能不表现
5、变：老师的教导就是不断更换笔记本电脑，摩尔定律要去18月换
6、望：总认为未来会出现更好的电脑，也会出现更好的mm
7、驭：对电脑有良好的驾驭能力，也认为能轻松搞定现在与未来mm
8、鄙：失业率高但是待遇好，还自认王道bs其他专业，没非cs的朋友
9、挫：卫生习惯差，头皮屑多口臭，餐饮习惯差，形象差，抽烟率高
10、孤：内外专业都没朋友，不愿意花时间在社交活动，宁可上网

Changed my system

2009-12-25T23:54:00.000-08:00

Change to Ubuntu 9.10 from Debian 5.0.

Didn't expect to be so much trouble.

First, the network really gave a hard time. Since I changed my motherboard couple of weeks ago. I have to modify my MAC so that I can connect to the Internet. Certainly, doing this kind of things would require root privilege, but the installing never queried me for root password. After a few googling, the answer came up:
sudo passwd root
That would do the trick;

Second, adobe flash player, SJTU's network is so bad that downloading a 3.7 megabytes software would require a whole hour.

Oh, crap

2009-12-19T06:29:00.000-08:00

Sitting there doing nothing is really not a good way to preparing an exam.

Entering offer-waiting status way too early.

Get fking busy!!!!

Bored to death

2009-12-19T01:16:00.000-08:00

Not in the mood to do anything but taking a walk outside.
But the weather is so chilling cold outside, my body temperature drops several degrees.
+========|moaning part ends|===========+
| This is really a long piece, so I |
| separate it into several parts |
+--------------------------------------+
Watched George Carlin's show yesterday, absolutely awesome. It's called "It's all bad for ya".
Interesting old fuck (he call himself "an old fuck", he explained it in the show. From politics to child raising, he reached out to a lot areas. Good show, should watch some more. I admire stand-ups, for their intelligence and eloquence.
=========|movie/film part ends|============
Also read some guys' blogs, amazed that how someone's can be so annoying while others' leave you a deep thought. Sometimes even regret that why can't I wrote something like that.

But, I am much of a sentimental kind. Saw Xinan Wu's blog the other day, clever man like he is even have people (Kxn, to be specific) to worship. The world is a big place, have lots lots of interesting people, that's why people should explore it.

But learn a few basic things to earn a living is also important. That's why I want to quit lab. As I am almost officially saying goodbye to the academics (the only chance I would still linger on some more is I got admitted by a Ph.D. program, I really don't sounds very enthusiastic about it, am I?). Learn some job-related skills is better for me. Things like algorithms and data structures, Python programming, hack some more Linux/UNIX stuff would be much useful than Semi-supervised machine learning. And coding is fun, reading paper is fun, but not that fun. Actually what's more fun? just to sit there, with a stick (like George Carlin would put it: "Just fucking sit there, with a fucking stick, dig a fucking hole). But it is really hard to say. To my bosses, they just submitted my recommendations, and I just quit? That's not things a responsible dude like me would do. At least, get through this semester. If grxue ask me to go coding at Alibaba, I would happily go there.
=========|moaning part ends, again|============

Recently, I just find 60s' and 70's music is so great, that even there are so much of them, they all sound so so good. The Beatles, the stones, the Who, etc etc. Like "the all-time-top-five-job-list" composed by John Cusack in the film High-Fidelity, to be a journalist for Rolling Stone magazine in the 60s would be cool so does a record producer at some major label in the 60s. "Who's Next" and "Velvet Underground and Nico", for particular, are two albums I love recently.
=========|music/movie part|============

Speaking of movie, I watched "Fight Club" again. It's just before I finish the original novel by Chuck Palahniuk. The nihilism strike me hard. I feel it, "hit bottom", "it's only when you lost everything that you can do anything". In a strange way, Tyler Durden's philosophy all somehow
are correct in his strange universe. Anyway, the novel is really awesome. I can now say I understand the movie, despite all the crazy acts.

Chuck Palahniuk is another writer to my "things i like" list, besides Truman Capote.
=========|movie/book part ends|============
Back to application. And everything is done. At least at my side. Just waiting now.
=========|application part starts|============
To sum up, I applied 15 schools in total. They are, in the order of my love for them:
Stanford, Berkeley, Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, Cornell, Washington, Wisconsin, Illinois, Maryland, Brown, UCLA, UPenn, Columbia, USC, Purdue.
Among them, Cornell, Illinois, Washington, Purdue I applied for Ph.D. admission, others for M.S. program.

Enough for today, details next time.
Beautiful cards by Bicycle:

I don't know exactly why, but I'm really in the mood of typing a lot of words.

Eight Quick Style Upgrades for Work (Just Add Shirt & Tie)

2009-12-19T00:32:00.000-08:00

Eight Quick Style Upgrades for Work (Just Add Shirt & Tie): "A lot of us don't need to dress up for the office. Some of us just decide to. And with help from our the shirt and tie, we guide these dressed-down professionals to a new improved look."

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That's why everyman should have shirt and tie.

Happiness

2009-12-18T04:12:00.000-08:00

Also from that guy's blog

这世界上有四种人：

A. 没能力没远大理想的人
B. 没能力有远大理想的人
C. 有能力没远大理想的人
D. 有能力有远大理想的人

人生平均快乐程度：

A > D > C > B

看到排在最后的那个字母，想起康神经常教育我的一句话：People who are zhuangbility want to show their niubility but only reflect their shability.

P.S. 当然，单纯的快乐并不是我们追求的唯一目标……

link:http://blog.wuxinan.net/archives/497

Blogging good for health

2009-12-18T03:57:00.000-08:00

I saw it on the blog of a H2Z alumnus.

http://www.liebertonline.com/doi/abs/10.1089/cpb.2007.9930

Almost done

2009-12-16T09:59:00.000-08:00

Almost done.

The application, almost done.
Wish myself good luck.

Stevie Ray Vaughan is TOO strong. Got me shaking with the chords. SRV, Jam! Bang! Maestro!

Worth it?

2009-12-12T20:42:00.000-08:00

A Dream is worth it, all the trouble.
Especially when you still got one.

Courtesy

2009-12-12T00:25:00.001-08:00

A man of courtesy is respectful.
i.e. should be respected.

But not the way it looks like these days.
Man of courtesy suffers from his conscience, he can't do one thing bad.
And that's REALLY bad.

I hate that girl, believing herself as something. The absolute opposite to Man with Courtesy.

Experience, come in double

2009-12-08T03:45:00.000-08:00

Screw it! What's the point of all these things.

I use two hours to pick up the perfect font for my vita.
Really worth it.

Experience:
1. Use winword to do your vita, unless you are a LaTeX guru. (like you have a better choice)
2. I don't know if counts as experience. don't buy computer with very small keyboard, I often mistakingly press F1 when I'm actually trying to press 1. (I think it's highly possible that my IBM X40 use standard keyboard distance, so it's just my fingers' problem.

Cola shouldn't be serverd by vending machines

2009-12-07T05:09:00.000-08:00

I just saw a real time tragedy.

One guy is about to enjoy his coke (fuck me, i just spell it "cock").
And coke spilled up over the place.

Guess it result from the knocks in the vending machine.

So, i guess cola should not be served in vending machine.

maybe cushion will help.

Dec. 5

2009-12-06T13:46:00.001-08:00

My schedule got more and more ridiculous. Some patches of sleep make my day. I would sleep three hours in the evening, and make it through the whole night. Then another three or four hours in the morning would make me through the day. And I feel superb during my acativity. I don't know if I got the biology cycle.

A tv program called "pimp your ride" make my day colorful. Every episode a trash car or grandma car would be totalled and then transform into a really hot ride. I've always like classical american muscle car like mustang. This program should make any guy into gears feel their blood rushing over the veins.

after three or four pimps. I start to work on my last recommendation letter. That Buick Centry's really cool. I assume US is the only place where you can still see 50s' ride on street.

Finished my recommendation letter for boss X this morning. And gaga proofread it for me. Many thanks and bless to this lovely lady friend. Then I sent two emails informing my bosses of my drafts of their RLs. I got up from sleep, and saw big boss' email there. Telling me to modify the RL to fit in his template. That's a sweet move. Boss got a custom made RL template, awesome. Including official SJTU header and all the necessary ingridents such as afflication and contacts.

Also in my inbox is my modified sop. They really made a huge difference to my sop. I didn't expect it turn out to be so good. Not only did they perform their expertise on the english language, but also trimed the structure, lose a lot body fat. Now I almost don't need to worry about my sop anymore.

All in all, It is beyond my expectation. This experience showed me that I still got a long way to go, even though I can express myself well in English, but I'm no where near real maestro. So, keep practising.

The going home jorney is also very smooth. Got the ticket the moment I got off the sub. Got on the train, as soon as I got the ticket. Find a empty seat after a few attempt. Saturday's train is not crowded at all.

Well, well, wish myself good luck the rest of the day.

P.S. I can tell Yuqiang will be a excellent researcher from several past seminar/demo session. He really has the talent. Me, not. As long he is willing to do so. he will make it a damn good one.

戰鬥

2009-12-04T03:35:00.001-08:00

七日懸命勉強.

experience

2009-12-03T20:59:00.000-08:00

don't sell all of your stuff out in one demo/seminar/group meeting.

you will run out of stuff to talk about when you haven't done anything in 2 weeks and need to make a talk.

just keep something in the closet.

in vino veritas

2009-12-03T18:11:00.000-08:00

The(i'm not sure if latin works this way) Veritas: Do NOT combine red wine with black tea.

real life experience, the outcome is really not good.
I try to warm myself with something warm, but find myself out of liquor, so vine come instead.
And i pour in last night's coffee, which i'm sure made it more poignant.

After all this mess, i'll open a bar here in my little cave.

Toblerone

2009-12-03T05:36:00.001-08:00

that's some amazing chocolate.

32 Variations

2009-12-03T03:00:00.000-08:00

was chatting with a friend on a piece of music by Beethoven, and i suddenly realize that I should write it down.

Beethoven, 32 Variations on a original theme, WoO 80

热泪盈眶

其实没有热泪盈眶
严格来说是,欲哭无泪的感觉
就是很难过,悲喜交加

就是这个他太powerful了
然后我feel到了一点
又进入单曲循环了

The work consists of an eight-bar main theme and 32 variations. A chord progression in the left hand, based upon a descending chromatic bass, serves as an important structural device. The short and sparsely melodic theme, as well as the emphasis on the bass line, reflect a possible influence of the passacaglia. The variations differ in character, technical difficulty and dynamics.

bass line的确有passacaglia的feel
我手边有三个版本,来回听
半闭着眼睛,手指头在台面上跟着他们摸索摸索
我感觉的到自己脸上扭曲的表情
似笑非笑.

lovely librarian

2009-12-03T02:43:00.000-08:00

Here i sit in this 80s' classic study desktop made from three-layer wood panel. perfectly comfortable with my laptop on this desk, nobody around, really cozy. Except there's no wireless connection.

As i'm turning on my computer, comes a lady inform me that this session of library open from nine to five on weekdays, that means i will have to leave in 25 minutes. such a nice librarian, call me "mister" rather than "student", warm smile and caring voice. nice lady, i can tell she's a knock-out some twenty years ago. Maybe it's the library that give them such a nice temper and quiet look.

i totally don't recognize this place anymore. one year of remodeling, it becomes like this, unbelievable. Just like visit childhood neighbourhood.

I love the old library.

Backup

2009-12-02T17:46:00.000-08:00

This one is about a unfortunate disaster:

i'm talking about backup data,
not backup other things, like tyre, friends, etc.

backup, that's not funny.
that's a serious business.

yesterday, i accidentaly press shift+del on a folder named "goUS". Lucky me, got good software like Recuva to help me recover these files.

Even if i didn't get panic (my sop is created on google docs, and my CV written in LaTeX is filed under Code), the possible outcome still got my spine tremble.

What if everything is gone.

really, seriously.

then everything is gone.

So, keep backuping.

Idea

2009-12-02T17:43:00.001-08:00

I forgot to post several older notes, this one is research oriented:

idea:

i just got an idea of mahine learning.

put it simply, I think it is possible to guide the direction of machine learning with human interference.

For example, if we want to discover the relationship underline one student's grades. Instead of normal approach, a little hint is possible to make the learning process faster or make it more accurate. We guide it by providing some a priori information such as math & physics grades are more possiable to have a positive correlation. Or art and PE tends to have a negative correlation. Maybe, simply point out the potential correlation alone is able to enhaunce the machine learning process.

That's just some naive thought.

Dec. 3

2009-12-02T17:25:00.000-08:00

I note that my blog's time is not GMT+8, maybe it's EST.

so it says something posted on Dec. 2 is quite possibly posted on Dec. 3rd.
Much like this one.

the mornint:
last night, sleep at bcmi, from 12-7
no wake-up.

pure guilt, should have drafted all my recommendation letter
f me.
and I'm still so tired.

p.s. familymart's jumbo-sandwitch is awesome. once microwaved, a perfect fit for someone with a big appetite like me.

btw, I dicided to apply for cmu's ini program last night, and send gre score to that institute.

later in the morning:
I just can't stand this fucker.
woke me up in the library, and ask me to move over
when he pull out everything from his miserable little backpack, he just left
take a dump but don't flush, typical fucker.
take five minutes to spread all his shits, and quite noticablely, he come from that miserable blood-sucking compay CICC.

I just wanted to do something bad to him, and hope "god bless him & god forgive me"

but there's no such need, I'm a good person, so I won't do anything stupid.
-------------------------------------------------------
*footnote[1]:
Bad Thing: something bad, something not good.
e.g. formatting one's hard drive, clear out one's email account, or more interestingly, send a suicide note to everyone in his address book.
  ----------------------------------------------------------
  **footnote[1][1]:
   the bad things i listed above are all so easy to achieve, but don't make it a bit less
   interesting at all. What a Genius!

And a little later than Later in the morning
Oh, my fuck, here come this sissy, stink up all over the place. smell like pron star, yet so ugly that he can kill me with a look.

He just ate a meatball in front of me. meat ball.

Conclusion
So it looks like that my day starts with quite a adventurous overture.
I wonder what's coming next.

Here comes my application diary

2009-12-02T17:21:00.000-08:00

Dec. 2

early today, I finish my modification of ps/sop, and send it to an organization to modify it.
right now, I'm working on my own recommendation letter. yyu grxue cy all would like me to compose a draft for them.

Later today, I want scan all of my material using lab's scanner. And do the Purdue online application, and UCLA if possible.

if possible, modify my ps/sop again.

Dream

2009-12-01T19:51:00.000-08:00

I can't tell if it's a dream.
If it is a dream, then it is sure a nightmare.

On the brink of consciousness and sleeping,
the sentences and words in my sop are just flushing back and forth.
These words just make me sick, and I have to send them to lots of professors.

Poor them, have to read tons of sick words made by sick undergrads.

奋斗到无力

2009-12-01T15:10:00.000-08:00

奋斗到IM上面没有GMT+8的人.
奋斗到第三壶红茶冷掉.
奋斗到无力.

其实也不是很想奋斗,无奈.

戰鬥！！！

2009-11-27T18:35:00.001-08:00

一生懸命勉強！戰鬥！

Shame

2009-11-26T05:06:00.001-08:00

I spent 5 hours writing an email to request a recommendation letter. Which didn't work out. That professor reject me through my boss! What a shame. A total waste of 5 hours of good happy sleeping time. I should ask him earier, or should never bother.

At least one comforting thing. grxue says I can have UIUC for secure. Hope he's right on that point.

A sunny busy Wendsday afternoon

2009-11-26T05:02:00.001-08:00

Just got back from seminar meeting at Apexlab.
First, jqchen introduced something about Virtual Machine, and later kfxu bsed a lot about some talk by a MS guy on the topic of data explosion.

And while waiting for boss, carter talked about ISWC 2009.
Talked about two important things:
1. do research that combine different areas, that is hybrid thing. From the trends seen in recent paper awards, map-reduce with semantic web, visualization with semantic web, etc.
2. Do research close to application, more industry oriented. I think my topic on Visual Contexual Advertising carry out this point pretty good.

And then, Boss came to address something important. He mainly talked about last friday's demo session. He particularly mentioned the importance of demo. Doing demostration in front of other people is a very important skill. And require constant practice. I can't agree more with him on that part.

I can no longer write this thing. The GRE score delivery is really killing me. Hope it won't be a problem for my getting into my dream school.

Forget it, guess i have to keep bugging the secretary everyday about it. And quickly modify my sop, And get recommendation letter from professors. And, and and and, so many things.

And boss's biweekly demo session is really something annoying.

Schedule is packed with things.

Neurasthenia

2009-11-23T21:14:00.000-08:00

Suffered from Neurasthenia.

I really hate this. Since that damn paper deadline, I've always feel shitty.
The GRE and TOEFL score delivery is really something that give me a heartache. Thanks to the earliest deadline of SS university, and the unacceptable inefficient work of ETS, I'm still not sure if my score will arrive before deadline.

Oh, my dream school.

And I sleep too much and eat too little. And drink too much, compare to how much I eat.
Haven't fix my recommendation letters. This is really a serious problem, further, I have a examination tomorrow after noon on a subject I know nothing of. Looks I have to make another night through.

I HATE ALL THIS!!!!

Nov. 23rd

2009-11-22T11:55:00.000-08:00

Finish the paper on Friday, got some sleep, just some, definitely not a lot.
And had a five-hour-long meeting.

Weekends played volley at FDU. And that Zhengda Stadium is really a awesome venue.

As I was taking shower last night. Watching all the boys striping down their sweaters, shirts, it occurred to me that what if our human being can grow some hair or fur like animals or cotton plants. What will I choose?

I think silk would be cool, just spit on oneself, and you got yourself a evening dress.

Next a few days would be concentrating on revising my sop, and prepare for that little cryptography exam. And hopefully, can finish some of the online application. And find teachers for my recommendation letter.

Starting tomorrow: sop, exam, recommendation letter. And, find a way to inquire about Test score delivery.

P.S. inglorious bastards is not as good as i expected.

To survive in a cave

2009-11-18T08:02:00.001-08:00

here i am, all alone (sounds like line from Transformer).

stucked in this dormitry.

But actually it's more like a cave, damp, cold, dark.

the things need to go through one night here:
lamp*1, man*1, thinkpad*1, black tea*1 port, black coffee*3 mugs, headphone*1, biscuits

Another day, and it will be over!!!

Problem Set

2009-11-17T11:34:00.000-08:00

First, I have to admit that I am really a lousy blogger.

btw, Alfred Brendel's version of Haydn Piano Sonatas is DIVINE! with pt, everything comes in the speed of Mega. Hopefully, with our fellow students' hardwork, we'll experience Giga-flow in a short time.

and, let's talk about some problems.

first (or, second, to be more consistent): life is full of compromise.

i.e. compromise of status quo and dream.

e.g. even though i don't have a clear dream (something like proving the Goldbach's Conjecture), i have the vague idea that a man should have something to live for. something high, something not so shallow as tomorrow's bacon and egg breakfast or something like a vintage Porsche (but i really like them). in other words, a man shouldn't work solely for bread, he (or she) should have some kind of passion for the job he (or she) does.

that's what i mean.

take the case of my gradschool application.

there's a piece of paper that all applicants are supposed to hand in, and this is suppose to be the single hardest paper oneman ever written. that thing is called Statement of Purpose.

but how can i write it without a clear purpose.

i have a purpose, that is to get out of this shithole, and have a decent human life on this earth and hopefully make more than a little money to make life a lot more easier.

this is clearly not a purpose the admission committee would like to see, i think they are hoping for sth like that Goldbach one.

the fact that i'm more into the idea of being a scientist than pursue some scientific goal hit me in the stomach.

I AM NOT SUIT FOR A SCIENTIST, AND I WON'T BE ONE.

that's almost it.

second, (or third, to be consistent about the consistence)

this problem is simply that, my application deadlines are drawing near. and i am absolutely one-hundred percent unprepared.

third, (you-know-the-routine)

i miss my mom, but all the things are keeping me here at minhang.

Jinkestu is leaving, following his destiny (somehow sounds like starwar shit).

Destiny, that's another topic, which will be discussed in future.

Here, i just thought, it will be funny to latex all these posts into a big book with clever elegant cross-reference that jump from one place to one place, from one time to another.

talking of latex, i'm really have a nerd/geek DNA programed in. Or it just because the love of beaury? (haha, Problem four).

Here it is, back to paper writing. (CVPR, i'm working on two most important/difficult papers at the same time).

And, it's really really really cold here.

Should brought a whiskey here, so it can make everything more Irish, and in that case, warmer.

Nov. 17th

2009-11-16T10:19:00.001-08:00

How can I write my Statement of Purpose when I don't have a clear purpose?

Fight yet another week

2009-11-15T10:09:00.000-08:00

Hang on another week, till CVPR deadline pass. Fix my Personal Statement tonight, and it will have a good sleep today.

Start fight tomorrow morning.

Discussed quite a while with Sam about our application, particularly on the school picking part. As USC is so perfectly good and secure, we hope to aim a little more higher, with school more Ivy.

Google Chorme is getting more and more comfortable to use, and more importantly, it's prettier and faster. In addition, with connection to oversea VPN in the evening, I am in a pretty comfortable position. I will be much pleased if my Internet keep on this state. I can facebook, I can blogspot, I can youtube, I can almost everything.

Bless Sam & Susan.

Hate this freezing cold weather

2009-11-14T10:53:00.000-08:00

Just don't know why Shanghai is so darn freezing cold.

Read half the book Twilight in one move.

It amazed me for that I can still be intrigued by teenage romantic story.

I start to read right after finishing the movie. But now I find it no longer interesting, it's jut too lengthy and without more highlights.

After I finish the Personal Statement / Statement of Purpose, I'm planning to start with "Fight Club", it will just be five or six hours at most.

I feel sorry Ming Sun

2009-11-12T07:54:00.000-08:00

Back from dinner with our single gang of four, Sam, Arene, Rocky and me. It seems our old friend, Ming Sun, is going to be admitted into the CMU LTI as PhD candidates. But his little girlfriend is getting him much trouble.

Everybody don't like that girl, so do I.

Wish they good luck.

A boy named Sam

2009-11-12T07:51:00.000-08:00

His name is Sam, he's my best friend.

I don't know if it's the November rain or his sad story makes me so depressed. Depressing as his story, I feel the strong urge to tell his story, so here it goes.

Sam is a clever boy.
He is smart enough to spot The Girl on first sight.

Sam is a lucky boy.
He met the girl in secondary school, lucky bastard. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a lot of people never find The One all their life. You should say how did I know that's his one. But, believe me, one just knows about these stuff. I can tell just by their pictures. And besides, more importantly, Sam knows it.

And the two became a lovely couple. They both play basketball, they both love films. Imagine what a great time they would have together, just like a fairy tale. And as any good story goes, something tragic is about to happen. As they are getting into high school, they plan to apply for the same school. Even though, Sam got his back far more secured than that girl. Even if he failed that school, he could still enter a relatively good school. But if the girl should fail, she would result in a shithole.
So, our Sam failed us, failed that girl, failed himself.

They broke up.

Five years apart.

He is going to US, she's going to television network.

They will never come across again.

He say they are still friends. Should they?
I can't even thing about the idea that letting such a good girl go away.

I used to think that I'm dying inside, but this heart-breaking story seriously moved me.

Bless.

I did it again.

2009-11-11T22:50:00.000-08:00

I did it again, I already have two blogs each named "Blog", "Another blog".
And for this one, I call it "Yet another blog".

The CVPR deadline is really getting closer and closer, and the first application package deadline is also drawing near. As I'm recovering from my little cold, getting on my feet and walking steadily towards these deadline is what I should do.

People around are all getting busy, or getting less busy. Those working on tests would soon be free from their college life, those working on application are going to be busy for a long time.

I like to be busy, busy as planned is perfect.

Again, I should really majored in foreign languages, learning other languages would be so much fun. And I'm good at it. It's such a shame I can't understand a word of those opera singers or tenors, soparonas, prima dona, etc. Clearly, english is not an very artistry language, quite expressive, as daily spoken, but clearly not a choice for opera.
Hope those broadway shows will change my view one day.

Speaking of which, I watched Swan Lake by Marvinsky Ballet. Great show, absolutely awesome. But I feel the two-hours-long show seems a little bit tedious. Sure it's not easy to tell a story without words solely by gestures and thighs in tights waving around. Anyway, great show. That private torrent is really a sweeatheart.