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2010-01-08T13:06:00.001+08:00

Happy Birthday to Min

2009-12-20T00:00:00.000+08:00

有金阁银阁唐宋霓裳
你在他乡恍若故乡
有炫目五色清野高墙
家在此岸却似他方

每年此时，打油一首。今冬的特别地方，是每天静候着敏的消息。游学起居之余，也捎来一衣带水处的红砖碧瓦，风土人情。那定是个很有趣的地方，时间在空间上的交错，让遗失的历史片段在另一个地方得以重现，真实的竟像是虚构。敏寄来的那些明信片上，金阁寺的金殿映水，银阁寺的雪压青松，甚至古朴到原始的纪念戳，如果从前见过，那一定是在我的梦里。

红叶殷殷清水寺，可曾见识了大唐盛世；岚山脚下渡月桥，是不是载得动南宋晚秋。感谢敏和我分享这些所见所得。祝张敏生日快乐。天天快乐。一生快乐。

Video – Yoshida Bro. -「鼓動」

2009-12-14T12:27:00.001+08:00

没有国界，超越语言。

一遍遍地听，竟让人禁不住地疯狂想家了……

幸福就是……

2009-11-18T13:05:00.001+08:00

doubanclaim847171455bb59c36

2009-11-15T13:06:00.001+08:00

用于豆瓣验证

照片.个人.200910.鹅和鸭农庄II

2009-10-30T19:27:00.001+08:00

再来一张，容哥相机里的，也很反映实际情况。by Jessica He, 20091023于鹅和鸭农庄，van-SS Team Morale Event.

[Update, Nov.15, 2009]

稍微做了一下下，清晰一些。

关注中国污染（External Link: 卢广，蜂鸟影展网）

2009-10-30T09:59:00.003+08:00

http://image.fengniao.com/vision/content/1/122-1.html

我的家在内蒙古包头市——一个为重工业发展起来的城市。人口比例最大的几十万人都是包钢的人，我也是。那是一个让没有到过如此之大企业的人没法想象的一个地方，一条叫做昆都(du1)仑的季节河，河的东面是居民的城区，河的西面是厂区，很大的厂区，很大。从选矿洗煤，到炼铁炼钢，从初轧无缝，到氧气热电……你能想象的所有和钢铁的life cycle有关的大大小小的厂子都在这里，我们称作河西。污染，自是不会少的。包头纬度大约在西风带上，常年刮的是西北风。厂在西，上风口；家在东，下风口。小时候，贯穿头上的天空是两条橙色烟带，粗粗的，被叫作“黄龙”，刚到的人甚至会以为是云彩。哪里有整日的红黄云彩嘛，那是从焦化厂排出来的烟。

差不多到了90年代末，人们开始有意识地谈论污染、解决污染了。后来的黄龙消失，是当地很不小的一条新闻。不过，我们的喜悦没有持续的太久，随之而来铺天盖地的就是国有大中型企业相继崩溃的那些日子了。所庆幸的是，钢铁厂的衰落与转型，并没有耽误太多城市环境的治理。

离开家是1994年，之后回去的少之又少。听到那边的关于环境的消息倒是出人意料的好。层出的小区花园，改善的城市广场，梅花鹿嬉戏在夏夜的草地上——鹿回到了被称作“鹿城”的地方（包头[包克图]在蒙语发音里是“有鹿的地方”），心里有一样的高兴虽然还没有机会自己亲自回去看上一看。有时候却也会想，本来一直就是那样的好该多幸福哪。那枚小小的市徽依然珍藏在存放儿时宝贝的抽屉里。所以珍藏，因为上面有一只矫健的梅花鹿。所以珍藏，因为直到离开家，都没有见到过活生生的鹿。

先前那四十年的挥霍，对环境肆意的挥霍是有代价的。想想那些在高危车间工作而提前退休的工人，想想那些河西生活受了工业排放直接污染的农民，想想和自己一样的同龄人，在高氟地区度过长身体的年代，牙齿上留下的那些将伴随一辈子的暗黄痕迹（这世界不只低氟是有问题的）……

所幸的是，我们的城市，这一切正在好起来了。而不幸的是，城市的好，仅仅是那些城市的好，或者那些城市其实也没有真的更好。

照片.个人.200910.鹅和鸭农庄

2009-10-28T17:55:00.001+08:00

上一张照片，比较反映实际情况。by Jessica He, 20091023于鹅和鸭农庄，van-SS Team Morale Event.

妈呀！中国 (External Link: 我爱微风)

2009-10-22T11:28:00.001+08:00

有一点点鼻子酸酸的感觉。

http://blog.wenxuecity.com/blogview.php?date=200910&postID=1381

越来越多的抱怨，应该说已经不仅仅是偶尔为之了。越深地走进现实的生活，越是对“十之八九”人生事的切肤体验，纠结，纠结。

是什么让自己会有落泪的不自觉？人道上最基础的关爱，人性里最纯粹的大爱，还是失望背后的希望，抑或奢望？

更或是，其实自己根本就做不了什么。

于是默念“常思一二，天雨流芳”。

本来就打算这样写完了，可是一个声音突然敲打心门，他来自Too Loud A Solitude。其实自己根本不算了解他，只是在那篇纪念罗志华的文章里(见《读库0804》作者唐铮，豆瓣全文)提到了，于是从YouTube上找到改编的木偶动画预告片。半个早上，想找到更多的一点内容而最终不得。豆瓣上的分数高高，可书评几乎是空的，有幸读过的大多来自那两个小岛。只有少数的例外，这事儿本身也让人觉得带着特立独行的孤独颜色。

还能怎样呢？只能默念“常思一二，天雨流芳”。

当“梦”想照进现实——《格萨尔王》

2009-10-15T17:49:00.001+08:00

是天神之子

是一国之君

有区别么

是岭国的兴衰

是现世的分合

有区别么

是大神仙班净土琼浆

是英雄宝马江山美人

有区别么

是凡间的追逐与抛弃

是轮回的升迁与堕落

有区别么

是故事凝成史诗

是历史照进现实

有区别么

卑微的晋美啊，请不要为神把故事收走了而哀伤。故事找到你，不是你天赋异禀，故事离你而去，也不是天神迁怒。

单纯的晋美啊，请不要为摘下“仲肯”的帽子而哀伤。故事终归是会有结局，而结局也不会距离意料太远。你留恋，不是出于喜爱，你追寻，也不是出于信仰。

梦是心在睡眠上的投影，心是世界在你我身上的投影；故事是历史在仲肯帽下的投影，现在是过去在今天的投影。总会有那样的情形：我们梦见了那个世界，更或者说是当“梦”想照进现实，就让他来吧。

Game Collections (Wii)

2009-06-01T09:36:00.001+08:00

Some names could be wrong due to translation issue.

序号	版本	推荐程度	游戏中英文名字对照
4	美日合版	推荐	Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz - 超级猴子球:香蕉闪电战
9	美、日	必备	Kororinpa - 穿越迷地(转转球迷宫)
11	美	推荐	Excite Truck - 疯狂卡车
50	欧	必备	Fire Emblem - Akatsuki no Megami - 火炎纹章晓之女神
55	日	推荐	Bomberman Land - 炸弹人大陆
62	美	推荐	Blazing Angels: Squadron Of WWII - 炽天使:二战空骑兵
80	欧	推荐	Mario Strikers Charged Football - 马里奥激情足球
82	欧	推荐	Mercury Meltdown Revolution - 水银革命
84	美、日	推荐	Mario Party 8 - 马里奥聚会8
85	美、日	推荐	Biohazard 4 Wii Edition - 生化危机4
97	美	推荐	Donkey Kong Taru Jet Race - 大金刚木桶喷射
110	美、日	推荐	Forever Blue - 永恒蔚蓝
152	美、日	必备	Ghost Squad - 幽灵小队
156	伪美	必备	Super Mario Galaxy - 超级马里奥银河
163	美	推荐	Battalion Wars 2 - 军团战争2
169	美	必备	Mario and Sonic at the Olympic Games - 马里奥与索尼克在北京奥运会
175	美	推荐	Resident Evil - The Umbrella Chronicles - 生化危机安布雷拉历代记
199	美	必备	Link's Crossbow Training - 林克的十字弓训练
247	日	推荐	Simple Wii Series Vol. 4 - Simple Wii系列 Vol.4 THE 战斗射击
282	日	推荐	Winning Eleven Play Maker 2008 - 胜利十一人 2008
304	美	必备	Deca Sporta - Deca Sporta十项全能
305	欧	推荐	Worms: A Space Oddity - 百战天虫：怪异空间
309	欧	必备	Mario Kart - 马里奥赛车
357	日	推荐	Biohazard 0 - 生化危机0
364	美	必备	Wario Land Shake - 瓦里奥大陆摇摆
399	美	必备	Star Wars The Force Unleashed - 星球大战：原力释放
561	美	推荐	Donkey Kong Jungle Beat - 大金刚丛林敲击
565	日	必备	Taiko no Tatsujin Wii - 太鼓达人Wii
632	美	推荐	疯狂世界 - Mad World
634	美	推荐	实况足球 2009 - Pro Evolution Soccer 2009

印度管窥——德里夜降

2009-05-04T16:16:00.001+08:00

去过不少的地方，快回来的时候都是下定决心一定要写下些什么，一方面所行所感确实丰富，另一方面，自己脑子不好，时间久了就淡忘了。可事实是，回到家，便懒惰于动笔了，每每把几天前的决心抛到九霄云外。这次的印度之行，无论如何是需要写一点点的，因为，这次的感受，实在是异于平时，大异。不过，只是写一点点，毕竟，从出发到返回，满打满算的也就一周，所谓管中窥豹，只见一斑——许是真的豹子一斑，许是眯眼乱花，许是根本就混杂着自己脑中固有的影像的错误印象。不管那么多了，反正，不记下来，该是就又忘记了。

简要交代一下行程：4月19日近中午从北京飞新加坡，转机夜晚抵达德里，隔天下午飞海德拉巴，驻三日，晚经新加坡于次日（25日）下午抵京。

第一印象应该从飞机即将降落说起。从舷窗外的景物移动可以大约看出，飞机是盘旋着进入德里的，这也让人有机会鸟瞰夜晚的德里。从高空看一个城市的夜景，直观的辨识是通过各种各样的灯光的排列，直入眼帘的是纵横交错的交通要道，而后是穿梭其间的联络线，最后是散落其间的建筑、民居。如果对一个地方熟悉，隐约的可以猜出一些地标性建筑。不过，对于德里这个陌生的地方，就谈不上熟悉的地标了。事实上，纵横交错的交通要道也是不多的。从遥远地看见地面的灯光到落地，可以清晰辨识的与四周区分开得大路只看见了一条。这和深夜飞机降落在其他地方大城市看到的很不同。放眼望去的，都是点点独立的灯火，影影绰绰，广阔而均匀，可以感觉到大部分地方很平坦，有些地方可以认出地势的起伏，也是缓缓的。有如一条巨大的毯子，镶嵌着无数的淡黄色宝石。“下面没有大路么？”心里不时泛起点点疑问。飞机向左绕着大毯子的边缘缓缓飞行，反倒渐渐觉得这弥漫着点点温和灯光的大地更显亲切，在不远不近的时候，刹那间竟让人有种想要伸手触摸的冲动。好奇心也渐渐涌动起来，那些淡黄的灯火下，是人头攒动的街巷吧？是熙来攘往的夜市吧？还是星罗棋布的民房呢？想必都对，从落地后的经历看，机场应该是距离德里市中心有一定距离的，所以，那些本来不多的大路自然也就见不到，而遍布的灯火正式在深夜里活动的人们和密布的民居。

德里的机场该是一个面积不算小的机场，单是滑行就有一阵子。不过，基础设施没有海德拉巴的好，机场里面的装饰、设备都略显旧一些。大厅里巡逻的是荷枪实弹的警卫。从这里起，在一些重要的处所、入口等地方见到警卫和安检就不再是稀奇的了。

很容易联系上了来接我们的人，是一个很帅气的小伙子，可以说不错的英文。接我们的车是一个有点像依维柯的小巴士，需要走不短的一段路才到，刚好给了我们一点点时间来适应脚踏实地感受印度的感觉，熟悉或陌生。热，应该是踏上印度土地的第一感觉，地面温度很高，夜里10点多仍然有30度左右。走出室外，扑面的热浪袭来，虽然有了心里准备，还是让早上出发时沐浴着四月细雨的我们很是热了一下。只想迅速钻到车里，早点到旅店。有一个有趣的发现，停车场中的许多车都没有左边的后视镜。印度是左行，相当于我们的车没有右后视镜。有的是拆掉的，有的是没装，有的干脆是折起来没用的。不过，我们的车有。

何兆武《上学记》

2009-01-01T12:29:00.001+08:00

這是一本根據何先生口述整理來的書，按說口述的整理，多半是拉雜零碎的記憶拼湊在一起，但是，我寧可把這本書看做是一段口述歷史。講歷史，有的時候就要像展示一幅畫兒，布局結構給了人大約的印象，而從線條，從墨點，從色塊，才真正體味到節奏、精神和意境。文靖感受到了何先生的心中的存著的“美”。我亦深以為然。

從前覺得也許是清華的血脈聯系，會讓自己對這樣的書和文字有感同身受的體驗和喜愛。但是，讀著這本書，慢慢發覺，這緣分較之書中撲面而來的真實與溫暖，就顯淺薄的多了。真實的才會動人。是何先生的講述本身，讓人回到了那個亡國與新生共存，硝煙與自由同在的時代。7年，瞬間芳華，化作永恒，只是為向著幸福的堅韌信念而存在。現在想來，那燦爛的綻放，正是理想的頂點。而後的歲月，僅剩是非紛擾，悲恨交加。理想已經凝固在了那最後一刻，那一刻之後，一切都滅了、散了、逃了，化作塵泥歸入土了。又是什麽支撐著何先生一路走來？是忘不去曾經的芳華，還是為著有這麽一天，可以夕拾朝花，祭奠當初的那斷香一縷？

書名《上學記》。以為傳神。記得大約在麗江木府的一尊牌坊上，鐫有“天雨流芳”四字，按當時的納西方言說，是“上學去吧”的意思。姑且不論此坊間流傳是否確鑿，我還是記下來了，我喜歡這樣來自文字的關懷，細膩、潤澤，如沐春風。“天雨流芳”，何先生的這部《上學記》更讓我體味到了這四字的溫暖、浪漫與永恒。

一本好書，不需要多說。關於書的內容，還是親自去讀的好，此處記下只言片語，以備日後檢閱當時的自己。

另：還有宗璞先生的《東藏記》可以一起來讀。先《東藏記》，繼而《上學記》。

另二：這本書的整理者為文靖，感謝她的整理工作。

[简体字]

这是一本根据何先生口述整理来的书，按说口述的整理，多半是拉杂零碎的记忆拼凑在一起，但是，我宁可把这本书看做是一段口述历史。讲历史，有的时候就要像展示一幅画儿，布局结构给了人大约的印象，而从线条，从墨点，从色块，才真正体味到节奏、精神和意境。文靖感受到了何先生的心中的存着的“美”。我亦深以为然。

从前觉得也许是清华的血脉联系，会让自己对这样的书和文字有感同身受的体验和喜爱。但是，读着这本书，慢慢发觉，这缘分较之书中扑面而来的真实与温暖，就显浅薄的多了。真实的才会动人。是何先生的讲述本身，让人回到了那个亡国与新生共存，硝烟与自由同在的时代。7年，瞬间芳华，化作永恒，只是为向着幸福的坚韧信念而存在。现在想来，那灿烂的绽放，正是理想的顶点。而后的岁月，仅剩是非纷扰，悲恨交加。理想已经凝固在了那最后一刻，那一刻之后，一切都灭了、散了、逃了，化作尘泥归入土了。又是什么支撑着何先生一路走来？是忘不去曾经的芳华，还是为着有这么一天，可以夕拾朝花，祭奠当初的那断香一缕？

书名《上学记》。以为传神。记得大约在丽江木府的一尊牌坊上，镌有“天雨流芳”四字，按当时的纳西方言说，是“上学去吧”的意思。姑且不论此坊间流传是否确凿，我还是记下来了，我喜欢这样来自文字的关怀，细腻、润泽，如沐春风。“天雨流芳”，何先生的这部《上学记》更让我体味到了这四字的温暖、浪漫与永恒。

一本好书，不需要多说。关于书的内容，还是亲自去读的好，此处记下只言片语，以备日后检阅当时的自己。

另：还有宗璞先生的《东藏记》可以一起来读。先《东藏记》，继而《上学记》。

另二：这本书的整理者为文靖，感谢她的整理工作。

At the end of 2008

2008-12-31T23:10:00.001+08:00

It’s the end of 2008. Only 1 hours left. I do not want talk about too much about the whole year. Too many things to remember, to write down. However, I’d like to say something about today only.

This morning, I got into a traffic accident. A young man was knocked down by my car while I drove to office. It’s in the campus, near the west playground. The young man was not wounded badly. It’s on the left leg. Not knocked down directly by car. But by the bicycle while he fell down. After a diagnostics from the hospital. It’s a good news that there’s nothing about the bones. And, the young man also feels not very painful. Finally, I led him to repaired his bicycle. The young man was so kind that he even do not want some money while he left to his office.

I am so scared by the accident at that time, although it is not so dangerous. It’s the first time in these two years that I knocked down a person. The feeling was so bad that I even cannot drive for a while. I have never thought about such a scenario. I had thought that I cannot have such kind of accident. However, while the car behind horn on me, while I speed up at the cross, while the front car hide the person, while the bicycle rush to me, …., it happened suddenly. It happened before I can take any efficient actions. I even could feel the ABS working. But it cannot help too much. It’s such a helpless feeling that the everything out of control in the seconds.

It’s the first time that I get to realize the car is a wild and machine that requires control pretty pretty carefully. And, I really really get the idea of the saying: you can repair a car, but you cannot repair a person. Thanks God that the speed is not too fast, the person is young enough, the reaction is quick, the car is good to control. Finally, the young man turns out to be OK. I wish he will be totally recovered very soon.

Anyway, I MUST remember what happened today. A car can be repaired, a person cannot. And, I wish all the bad luck will go with 2008. Everything will be good in coming days. Surely, I will pay my great effort for that.

Finally, wish everybody a happy and safe new year!

[Updated: Jan 01, 2009]

在2008年的最後一天，我開車撞到了人。一個年輕的小夥子。在西操東北角的十字路口。減速，排隊過路障，起步，轉彎，然後，一切就那么突然地發生了。雖然在第一時間猛然踩下剎車，車子也在瞬間停在路中央，可還是撞到了他的車子。

急忙跳下車，檢查他有沒有傷到，一起去校醫院做外科檢查。看上去沒有了大礙，但是我還是始終放不下心，直到醫生看了X光片，確認了骨頭沒有問題，並且說疼痛是正常的，一點不疼才是危險的，才算是鬆了半口氣。開方、取藥，然後陪著小夥子去修了自行車，目送他繼續上路。要說，他真是一個很和氣的小夥子。看得出還是頗有一些疼的，但是他一直堅持說不要緊，甚至去醫院也是在兩個路過的阿姨和我的強力勸說下才答應的。

這次的經歷真是讓人害怕。所幸沒有出大事兒。不過一起在我事後看來，還是足夠引以為戒的。開車一定要小心。不能確認前方狀況的事後不能認為沒有問題，有行人的路口務必專心，A柱後面一定得看仔細，在學校裡面要時刻記著禮讓。總之，安全第一。在安全面前，速度、油耗、磨損……所有的一切都不那么重要了。也是從心底里想起了哪句話：

“車壞了，是可以修的，人卻不行。”

舊的一年就過去了，希望所有的不快都會隨著時間一起留在過去。新的一年是一切安好、幸福，充滿希望的。祝福左右的人。

Happy Birthday to Min

2008-12-20T00:18:00.002+08:00

天都俯瞰四野白
地履神松上云台
精卫可曾到西海
灵雀弄石天外来

今冬第一次见到大雪，竟是在黄山。雪霁初晴，行走与群山幽谷之间。从西海幻境到天都绝顶，所经美景，叹为观止。更让人深感温暖而澎湃的，是和最知心的人一同游历、分享这路上的风景，烂漫逍遥莫过于此。回首十年，始终如一。以为记。祝张敏生日快乐，天天快乐，一生快乐！

Short Break

2008-09-19T15:41:00.002+08:00

Suddenly, want to write down something, not seriously, but eagerly.

Not that much, but kind of busy in these couple of months. I would like not to show the busy stuffs. Showing up as a busy guy, then become a busy guys. I totally agree. Therefore, try to get home earlier a little bit, try to find out something for fun, try to watch movies as many as we can. All of these bunch of things together with the work stuffs build up the life in the past months.

To talk about the current project I’m working for, both good and bad points I can list as many as I can. We took it from the half way. Lot of things I can learn from the practice. although the instability upset me again and again. All the time we are facing tons of problems plus new feature requirements. A new task is pushed on to my stack before the last one is finished. That’s the fact. The most important thing is to prioritize the stuffs. However, even making the priorities could mess up things. Sometimes, I had to pause and think for a while which thing I should do firstly. The whole progress turns out to be kind of painful. But, the challenges are so attractive and the achievements are so exciting to me.

I need energize up. The day before yesterday, I purchased another new membership card at the B1 exercise place. Could it be a refresh start for me?

(The photo was taken almost one year ago. Looking at me, or looking at you?)

中国人走向成熟的九张面孔 - 国际先驱导报

2008-08-31T12:48:00.002+08:00

中国人走向成熟的九张面孔 http://news.xinhuanet.com/herald/2008-08/26/content_9710296.htm

I cannot stop my tears. Touch and move.

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2008-03-06T12:11:00.001+08:00

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Yet Another Week In Seattle

2008-01-30T22:34:00.001+08:00

Jan 20 - Jan 25, #1109, Hyatt Regency Bellevue, window facing west, over the hills down the road is the Lake Washington.

The only task was to attend the ExPo-Tech program. All the time I explained it as a training, although it is stressed as a journey at the kicked off meeting months before. I totally agree with Karen that it is so much more than a training. Training usually gives one person some things like knowledge, skills, techniques. To talk about journey, it mainly means you are part of it other than standing outside. Here you learn, you experience, you grow. The only difference from general journey is that no goal is predefined. The only commitment is our time. The achievements totally depend every individual.

The content focuses on personality, networking, and communications. It added some about self-awareness as well. The 3.5-day-long time was full of these bunch of things, which made me exited, surprised, and a little bit tired. Hardly can I spell out every details. Let me try to highlight some points which impressed me a lot.

CREDIBILITY. I became to recognizing the importance of it as soon as I learn about this word, which is definitely one of the core values for the western people. To my understanding so far, it is kind of capability that others can expect something on you, although it is not necessary they do require that from you. They know you can make it. They believe you can achieve it. No promises, no conditions, only credit. Also, that reminded me that the whole western world is build on a solid credit base. Credibility is just like the sun rising everyday. I'd ever taken honesty as the most important thing to me. From now on, it is upgraded to credibility. Where is your sun? Is it rising tomorrow?

YOUR BUSINESS V.S. MY BUSINESS. It's well-known that the western people do not consider others as we Chinese do. Basically they are described more self-centric. They enjoy living isolate. They care about privacy. They break into your speech suddenly if they have question. They drive the children out once they are 18. They do not even take care of the elders. Is it true? Perhaps mainly yes. However, you may also find some other interesting things. They respect your greatness. They donate a lot. They serve the society. They enjoy being volunteers. They approach to help you out as soon as you are lost. They never hesitate show up the greatest smile to you. What's up? Why these things look so different from each other? I suppose they are clearly separate things of what's your business and what's my business. Never step on others' feet. Nor boring me by attempting to do me a favor without permission. Giving someone a hand is greatly praised. But, it must be necessary and the privacy is not violated.

CULTURE DIFFERENCE. It is even more complicated than that I can imagine. One game from Day 1 is to select top 6 personal important words from a bunch of cards labeled with words such as curiosity, passion, family, innovation, integrity, health, blabla. Possible you can figure out that curiosity must be have for the western guys. However, can you imagine that family is seldom included in their selection? Neither is the health. We randomly selected a partner to share the top 6 words with each other. It turned out to be a very small intersection. The paragraph above can add to this point as well. Why it seems somewhat wired to us? It is roughly because the difference between cultures.

LANGUAGE PROBLEM. Again and again I suffered from the fact that English is my second language. Thinking, translating, then communicating. There's an extra step, which make me mad, especially in the small group discussion. Conversation kept flowing quickly from time to time. It is really hard to concentrate on both the idea and the language. Whatever, everything around language stuffs were improved more or less. I had no choice but try my best to catch up. One more personal trick is that speak aloud is really more important and more acceptable than murmured without language problem, especially for the western people. They will pass you if you cannot be heard clearly twice.

[-- Main part stops here. Some other interesting things below --]

Seattle was clear and shinning. But San Francisco was raining.

Watched one NBA game. Houston Rocket V.S. Seattle Super Sonic. 109:107 Yao was not bad.

Had a tour on the Museum of Flight. Amazing.

Bought two books.

Yoga - The Path to Holistic Health by B.K.S Iyengar.

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Happy Birthday to Min

2007-12-20T00:09:00.000+08:00

斯地哪得度波劫
　爱把新桃徒相叠
　是非乘除存自在
　守心翼翼何患耶

忽然又想起东岳庙里林林总总的衙司——掌管福禄寿喜的，门庭若市，径有余香；而收纳祸端虫豸之类的，则是门可罗雀，尘比钱肥。人心之趋利避害可见一斑。那些泥胎寄托的、受了香火的、天上地下的神仙鬼怪们，是安安然各享其供了还是付之一笑呢——纵使铜骡子如镜，新桃符似垒，也不比现世的一缕善缘罢？人间的美丑善恶，终会回到一个对应的归宿，乘除分明，毫厘不爽。为人必守心翼翼，行事须举步兢兢，年底是小结的时候，且留一个注脚在这里，并祝福天下的好人一生平安。

祝张敏生日快乐，天天快乐，永远快乐。

http://ditu.live.com

2007-12-14T14:26:00.001+08:00

Please check it out. I will write more about it some later.

http://ditu.live.com

[update: December 14th, 2007]

Virtual earth is a map service already deployed in US for years. Also, there're lots of local map services in P.R.China. Now, the local map service specified for P.R.China is going live from Microsoft. It is developed by the VE team in Windows Live (China).

Although live search is coming better and better, the virtual earth is now rushing ahead. I haven't used it too much. However, I believe it is a great product which can compete against the ones from other competitors. I know the guys in the VE China very well. They are excellent, crazy, full of passion. They devote very much to the baby product. I do know the difficulties of make it happen in this country as a foreign company. Both the tech things and the non-tech things. After all, after months, it happens. And, it will be better and better.

Usually, I used go2map, mapbar, mapabc, 51ditu, the map services from baidu and google while search somewhere in China. Now, I have another good choice. To be frank, I do not think the accuracy could be very different across so many map services. Especially in this country, too much changes are happening day after day. G, a super guy in VE China team, kept talking to me, his commitment is to achieve the top accuracy. His confidence impressed me a lot. And, I do know he is well qualified to achieve this goal because of the strong tech background and high level view. To talk about the user experience of this map service, it is my favorite feature, especially of the transit service. No longer type in, search and then route, Click-route instead. Open the map, right click your location, set as the start point, right click the target location, set as the stop point. That's ALL. It is really straight forward, really COOL as well. Look into the results, the transit points are marked with dash lines and you are kindly informed a walk is possibly necessary. It looks like a service provided by human other than by machine. It is really awesome, isn't it? I like these features even though I seldom take a bus nowadays. While I introduced this service to Min yesterday, she performed several tests, which turned to be really difficult to make a satisfied route by machine. One typical scenario is to find a transit plan between two points WITHIN Tsinghua (Haha, this naughty girl). Know what? The transit plans returned are almost the same as we expected, even the two points are somewhat far from the gates. Can't you help loving such a service?

地圖服務在中國大陸已經遍地開花。微軟早已擁有自己的地圖服務，但在中國一直是個空白。現在，微軟中國終于也交出了自己的答卷，這就是http://ditu.live.com。

這是一個優秀的服務。我尤其喜歡其中的公交換乘功能。與以往的類似服務不同，查公交換乘，可以不需要先搜索出發和到達的地點，而只需要直接在圖上用右鍵就可以直接標記出發和到達的地點了。對於並不知道確切的車站分佈的情形，這顯然是非常有用的，當然，方便更是不用説了。此外，如果中途需要換乘，那麽在換乘點會用虛綫標出兩個車站的位置，距離和行走的估計——這個設計確實很人性化。尤其在北京這樣的城市，往往一個站名在多條綫路上會對應多個不同的地點，是不是在馬路同側不必說，單是距離有時候就有夠人走的，還不算走錯的情形，而有了這個換乘點的信息，是多麽方便的事情啊？真貼心！雖然我已經很少去乘公交車，不過，這仍然是我最喜歡的功能之一。

關於地圖數據的精確度再説兩句——其重要性自不必言，實現難度也是周知的，尤其在中國北京這樣變化日新月異的地方。我不敢說微軟地圖服務的精確度和其他相比會如何，畢竟，數據本身的準確從根本上我們作不了主，我們的工作與合作夥伴的努力是緊密相關的。但是，一個地圖的核心開發人員G，我的好朋友，一直對我說，他就是要做中國精確度一流的地圖，這是他的承諾。我深知這是我能期許和等待的承諾，因爲我了解他，了解他們做地圖的一群人，他們有這個信心，更重要的有這個能力達到這個目標。他們了解中國，他們有微軟支持，他們有合作夥伴的幫助，需要的只是時間和耐心了。

昨天，向敏介紹這個服務的時候，她頗刁難了一下公交換乘。比如，在清華“裏面”選兩個地方，讓地圖找出一個換乘方案（這丫頭有夠狠）哈，一開始我可沒期望機器能夠得出讓人滿意的結果。但看到方案后，還是讓人很滿意的，不信可以親自試試哦。:p

Ocean Apart

2007-09-02T15:30:00.001+08:00

原来，有了家，离开家，开始想家的感觉是这样的。
手指敲出来的是惦记和思念，琐碎但真实。
几次想抓起电话，还是最终放下，
忍不住地泪流满面，哽咽而无法言语。

Javascript: Number <--> UTC

2007-08-15T09:04:00.001+08:00

<script>
  document.write(
    (new Date(112345920*1000)).toUTCString());
  document.write(Date.UTC(2007, 06, 07)/1000);
</script>

Attention:

The month is ZERO-based while invoke UTC.
Millisecond, other than Second, is the functions variables

Reference: Date reference from w3schools.

Movie: SECRET [不能說的秘密]

2007-08-09T18:24:00.001+08:00

I love this movie.

Update[10 Aug. 2007]:

Watched the movie again last night. Even love it more.

One year, one pound

2007-07-30T13:43:00.001+08:00

Title borrowed from Eric.

One year passed since I joined this company. This is my first job on my career path. I love this job, especially enjoy working with persons full of passion here. It is a really big change for me to start at such a point from school life to career life. Actually, too many changes happened and are happening in this year. Let me try to list them below:

Get married after a 8-year-long falling in love. That's really really important to me.
Achieved the goal to get PhD. Actually, I don't think it difficult to me to get PhD. from Tsinghua DCS&T. But, it did consume me too much. I must catch up what I've lost, the time, the passion, the energy.
Found an ideal job. The job is much different than I ever thought about, however, even more better than I expected. I definitely love it, although the organization keeps changing from time to time.
Having a car. Peugeot 206. Small, but cute. Small, but enough. Small, but easy to drive. Small, but make life better. Min and I enjoy the rush to GuiJie for dinner at night. We love to drive around Beijing for fun. Is it amazing?
kunwu.org ready. Blogging again. It will not change my life much. But, it will run along with me.
...

Too many exciting stuffs rush into memory. The list is not competed. I'll fill it all the time, all my life.

參加工作一年了。這是我的第一份工作，我喜歡這份工作，更喜歡和這里充滿激情的一群人一起工作。這一年對我來說，有太多的變化，而且，有些還正在進行當中。列一列吧：

結婚了！八年的愛情長跑進入了一個新的起點。這對我該是最重要的一件事兒了。愿天下有情人終成眷屬！
拿到博士學位。這個博士拿的著實不易。在上面我失去的太多。要補回來，全都補回來，那些失去的日子，那些激情，那些……
找到了一份理想的工作。這工作和我最初的想像很不同，但是是出乎意料的合我胃口。一下子，成家，立業，兩全了！
有了車車。標志206，很小，但是可愛，夠用，容易開，更重要的，讓生活更美好，我們喜歡夜里沖到簋街大快朵頤，喜歡在北京四處兜風。很酷，不是嗎？
有了kunwu.org。真正開始寫博客。
……

一下子有許多的激動人心的事情涌入腦海。這個列表看來是寫不完的，因為，要用一輩子去寫了，認真地寫，快樂的寫。