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5月15日 Talking about 朱子家训
Quote 朱子家训 1月21日 Freezing Crazy Crowded Inauguration Day昨天心血来潮决定要去看看奥巴马，于是带着早上8点起床9点到National Mall，11点半参加他的swear-in ceremony，小小午休一下加入预计下午两点半开始的inauguration parade的美好愿望爬上床。结果今天早晨（中午？）一睁眼，捞过闹钟，很不情愿的发现已经11点半了 = = 眼睛一闭被子一裹，干脆睡到12点半直接起床看parade。 外面很冷，整天最高温也不过零下2度，全副武装出了门向着地铁站出发，然后咱很无奈的看到了以下一幕：
（地铁主入口交通管制＝＝） 然后是地铁的另一个入口：
（队排了最起码有２０米长） 于是果断的放弃地铁。还好家里离白宫不远，走过去半个小时绰绰有余，哈哈哈~ 逆着人流向Pencylvania Ave.进发（满大街都是看完了swear-in从Mall回程的人群= =），很不幸的在穿过了三个街区后再度被阻：
相信咱，这道人流的宽度大于十米，密度大于３人每平方米。拍照的时候没敢深入，人群里连胳膊都抬不起来
又两三个街区后，终于看到了第一个parade参观入口。近前仔细一看，竟然是持绿票观众指定入口，而咱是凑热闹的群众，啥票都么有= = 正在此时，身旁一群众提供了历史性的小道消息：这个入口正短时间容许非持票观众入内，哦HOHOHOHO，能够想象吗？这可是白宫背面奥巴马及其内阁成员即将观看parade的区域入口啊，哈哈哈哈哈~ （虽然咱那时候还不知道 然后，咱安稳滴登上看台，HOHO，看台就在路旁，警察哥哥姐姐们间隙大，视野一流！
可惜西北风嗖嗖滴刮，如果不是身边保暖的人肉够多，咱恐怕熬不到四点见奥巴马＂一面＂ 一群人全副武装坐在凳子上干等，咱实在是无聊，于是就有了以下几张照片：
（Police officer，帽子真暖和~）
（艾森豪威尔时期的行政大楼，被装饰上了美国国旗）
（百无聊赖的我和Yvonne）
（parade临时观景楼，直通白宫后花园，Obama及Biden等人后来就是在这里观看inauguration parade）
猛然注意到有一小撮人不知道从哪里冒出来到处和警察哥哥姐姐们握手慰问：
p.s.中间这位姐姐是谁？后来还在小白观景楼里看到她站在奥巴马后面，实在是对她很有好感！！ 旁边的人突然站起来，满眼期待的看着远方，似乎有什么要来了~
其实那时候什么也没有……汗 然后CNN的吊臂转播车来了，一堆警车来了，该来的也快来了吧？
嘿嘿嘿，确实是有人来了～
（拍得还可以吧 又等了N久，左边看台开始传来一阵一阵的尖叫和欢呼，周围的人纷纷扯下毛毯说是奥巴马要来了，于是继续架起相机摄像。跟在记者车后的第二辆凯迪拉克是奥巴马坐驾（这段视频很烂，咱光顾着用眼睛把奥巴马红果果的拎出来了，手上的活就没注意……不过从视频录音可以发现，咱到最后也没敢肯定我揪出来的那一个到底是不是奥巴马，车窗反光太强了……）
还是回来看电视录像的时候才知道没揪错人，放一张室友从那段视频里的截图，画面左上角的人影就是奥巴马：
紧接着是副总统一家，他们是走着通过我们面前的街道的，哈哈～
总统副总统及其家人从白宫另一侧进入白宫，骑警队悠闲的殿后：
现在时刻下午４点３０分左右，太阳已经完全被周围的建筑物遮挡住，四周的战友们早已跟着奥巴马跑了，警察哥哥姐姐眼见着也要落跑，小风嗖嗖滴直吹在咱身上，肌肉控制不住滴颤抖，于是和咱室友对视一眼，为咱伟大滴战略撤退画下了蓝图……本来咱也是为了ＧＷＵ滴parade float来得啊……一眼都没见着 ------------------------------------------------------- p.s.浑身僵硬滴回到家打开电视才认识到parade一直持续到晚上7点，老天保佑还好咱没留下来受冻。满足了，嗯~ 11月11日 Found something really interesting in the paper, haha~"In the limit, as Lamda(m) converges to 0, the upper cluster converges to [0,1]: All men are accepted by the highest-quality woman, and hence only women of quality y belonging to (b(1),1] get married in equilibrium."
--Francis Bloch and Harl Ryder, in "Two-side search, Marriages, and Matchmakers" 10月19日 Oct. 18 Back from Wine Tasting Festival~We didn't do hiking as I expected, but, it was fun~
We arrive at Shenandoah Valley at around 12:30 in the afternoon.
I couldn't love the sky and cloud more~ It was clear blue and pure white. God must be in good mood when drawing them~
We began to eat right away. (That's all of us today, except for our photographer, "YO, YAO~~")
The crabcake sandwich and chips were wonderful. Thank you very much Wayland~!
Even though it was hard to tell from the last picture, but this was the place where we were sitting....
Wasn't that wonderful!
We tasted wine from different brands and were made from different kinds of grapes.
As well as wine (can I still call them wine?) made from other fruits like blueberry, blackberry, peach, plum and apple...
They were nice, but definitely not this one! Did you see the tags on our sleeves read "I kissed the DEVIL"? It was for my brave trial of the wine called "Devil(?)", which is made from 30 different kinds of pepper... You can imagine the taste = = Err.
This was the most creative banner I saw today. They make good wine too~
Look at them~ It's real romance^^
What more can you expect from a weekend? Oh, I was really enjoying this!
All right. It's balloon time now~
Don't be shy, Chen~ You are as cute as a mole~~
And this was our balloon, which failed to fly in the sky b/c of the wind T T
So, that was what we could do... Please imagine we were flying~~
Six o'clock in the afternoon. Sun set and the valley was no longer ours...
BUT~ The story never ends, you'll know why if you drop by~~
10月13日 Oct. 12下周六，Hot Air Balloon & Wine Tasting Festival游 决定！
十月正是华盛顿绿叶次第转红，一年中最色彩斑斓的时节。而今年自九月底已经持续两个星期天气晴好，整日被多情和煦的阳光笼罩着，再不郊游踏青实在是有负秋光~
十一月初摘苹果之旅也许要缺席，十月中去弗州国家公园及当地最大的葡萄酒庄园一游却也是大大的美事一庄。早上才和室友一起乐颠颠的报了名，现在就已经按捺不住雀跃的心情开始四处宣传炫耀了~ 其实彼此都对热气球没多大热情，对葡萄酒又没什么研究，但端端酒杯闻闻气味，小尝一口装装样子，抬起头附和着对腾空的气球小小赞叹一番这样的事，倒也不是头一次干。所谓醉翁之意不在酒，在乎山水之间也 ;P 10月12日 Oct. 11下午得到消息，Verizon Center有College Night--Special ticket offer to NBA games提供，价值48块的upper level票才卖10块！Ticket Available的第一场就是十月二十九号奇才对网队，小易会过来哦~ 虽然已经安排了11月21号伙同100多中国人企图把Verizon Center变成火箭和姚明的主场，但是10块钱看易建联比赛的诱惑还是让我流了一地口水。偏偏各个周末的行程基本都已经排定，犹豫踌躇挣扎了半天，终于下狠心决定把票买下来，结果却发现那场比赛是在星期三晚上7点…… 偏偏是星期三晚上7点…… 星期三晚上7点我有不能逃课不能早退的万恶的Macro课啊啊啊啊啊啊啊！郁闷死！！ 10月3日 It can never be more weird...Well, I was really surprised by their explanation about why my SSN was still not released for around 4 weeks.
Here was our conversation this afternoon at Social Security Administration office.
"Hello, how can I help you today?"
"Oh, hi. I applied for my SSN around 4 weeks ago, and I ..."
"All right. I can help you with that. Please give me your receit."
Passed her the receit.
"Oh, you applied on Sept 5th?" Began counting... "Then you card should be on the way."
"But on the receit it was written that I should contact you if I didn't get my card in two weeks..."
"Exclude the holidays." Very serously.
"So, it should be 14 weekdays?" It was not like this on the receit, and it didn't work that way when my roommate applied for that.
"Yes. 14 + 2 days. You know that the post office shall hold that for the last two days if you give us the right address." All right. 2 days more.
"So I should be receiving my card in 2 to 3 days? That's great!" I thought that was all about my visit today.
"Let me check it for you... What's your birth date?... Where were you born?... Right... What's your mother's name?... Full name... What's your city?... Yes, the city you were born... "
Okey, here comes the fun part!~
"All right, here it is." Looked at me nicely, "Well, sometimes you have to understand that the sysem will not respond normally when there're so many people carrying the same name."
Explaining the true reason why the process took so long? Anyways, at least I can get the number today (I was so optimistic.)
"Oh, really? I didn't expect that, because in China we do not have so many people carrying the same name as mine."
"here, it's not 10, not 20, not 200..." Tried to be mysterious = =
I, WAS, SO, SURPRIZED. Come on, man, it's in America!
And, that was not all of the story,
"And it's especially hard for the system to recognize you when you're with the same birth date, same place of birth, same maiden name of the mother."
I really didn't know what to say...
"But your mum's last name is different."
.......
"Wait a moment." Then left the desk for some file just printed.
I was still shocked. I didn't know there were some people who share the same profile with me: both from LYG, both born someday 23 and a half years ago, both in US now, and both of our mums are called YL.
She came back, and said, "Now I have processed it for you, 'caz your profiles are all good. You should be getting this in around 1 week."
I was waken up. So, I was getting my card next week? Then, "Can I have my number today? I need that for tax department and ..." I was told I was already assigned an SSN when I made a phone call about my not receiving the card.
"No, maybe you can come back and get it next week."
"But..."
"I have just processed your application, and it takes the system some time to assign you a number."
Till then, I finally reallized, my application had't been processed, 4 WEEKS after I submitted my application form!
Can I still believe the coincidence she just told me and take it as the true reason, or should I consider it as one the excuses they randomly made up to escape from the furious customers? I was really pissed off. Am I really that stupid?!
Fun, isn't it? You're the boss, and you speak louder.
Let's wait and see what's happening next week! 10月1日 Sept. 30th"Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though."
--Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless (1995) 9月12日 9.11Things become tough.
I think I'm going to do something that I can call it real research soon...
p.s. Congratulations to Ariunaa! Yao, you know what happens, don't you? 9月9日 无聊的产物一年了，家搬了，prelim考完了，开始工作了。
马不停蹄的从八月下旬忙到现在，总算是安顿下来了。
下午终于拿到了第一张check，sigh，据说一个小时14块还要低过一个新手bus司机> <
好歹我也是做RA啊，蓝领果然比较昂贵~ T T
刚刚认识了为同一个教授工作的另一个RA。
一眼看过去，嗯，中国人。
仔细一问，她竟然是福建在印尼第十一代移民的丹麦女儿……
叹，北欧人真的壮，最起码身高就刺激的我不愿意站在她身边 TnT
系里资源不足，害得我们只好两个人挤一个cubic，
空间倒也足够（其实一个人用就是奢侈），只是我得自备电脑 = =
还好现在走路回家也用不了15分钟，
而且重要的是，一年了，我终于找到我买12"超小型笔记本的意义了！！
（p.s.家里还得等18号才能通网，郁闷，还好楼里有免费的business center。）
所以现在在用自己的电脑在office里写blog……
呵呵，很有一点在偷别人的时间的爽快~~ 5月17日 May 16th终于对那块大馅饼死心了 T T
msn上只有小猫两三只，现在是国内周六的早上啊……
放假第一周纪念，在家闷得快长蘑菇。
天色阴沉，小雨不断。沉重沉重沉重。
周一
金灿灿的“2008年8月8日前的第88天”，一桶油漆啪的从天而降，瞬间就染了满眼厚重的血红色。
稳了气息向美国室友转述，讲着讲着忽然开始声音哽咽。
亲友皆无事，pat pat，没事没事。
救援队伍离汶川还有70公里，god bless!
周二
睁开眼满屋昏暗，挠挠头发开始种蘑菇。
救援队伍抵达汶川，满目疮痍。
上土豆找灾难报道视频，偶遇一群人造谣附和“zhong yang zheng fu隐瞒地震‘预报’，涉嫌草菅人命。”
愤怒愤怒愤怒！
忍不住想用唾沫星子淹死这群趁火打劫巴不得所有人都弱智的土匪，结果被土豆网的cencor系统气的半死硬是发不出一条留言。
Orz，tudou，可不可以请你公布你的敏感词列表！
周三
不上论坛只看新闻。
救灾救灾救灾。
周四
看了朋友转载的一首打油诗，总结，08年中国不顺到诡异。
诗云，“天将降大任于斯国也”。
天灾避无可避，人祸暂时也只得叹气。
所以说，政治最讨厌了 = =
周五
去查经班蹭饭偶识师姐，交换旅游心得，心情多云转晴！
乖乖的坐在查经初级班里和Tom讨论圣经，Tom很可爱，虽然他没希望说服我信教。
之前也是在查经班里听说，基督只会接近主动接近他的人们。
“嗯，从心理学上说得通。”当时如是想。——可见我甚至从未心生接近的念头。
无神论根深蒂固，但是却相信超自然力的存在，不信些什么大概就无以寄托对未知的不安。
自大的对自己说，“也许稍稍可以理解牛顿晚年皈依基督的理由了呢。”
周六
美国东部时间凌晨一点十八分，
北京时间下午一点十八分，
想起Jacky的名言，“早晨对我来说就是下午五点之前……” 4月15日 First interview in the US 8.5 hours later...Don't worry...
Don't panic...
It will be fine...
It's just a beginning...
Comfort~~ Comfort~~~ 3月28日 Spring Break大纲……
New York
无缘的女神，失踪的金牛，北京的潘
Boston
淫雨霏霏的Boston，Newburry的Burberry，说谎的Harvard
Niagara Falls
不开的船，天上来的水，绕了一圈的人
正文……
待续……
（抱紧头盔逃窜） 3月27日 2008 F1 Race Calendar2008 FIA Formula One World Championship Race Calendar
六月，蒙特利尔，咬牙，尖叫！
恭喜kimi雪邦折桂！~ 小小寰球，有几个苍蝇碰壁。
3月14日 Mar. 14我讨厌期中考 T T
一门课三四十页的作业，七八十页的笔记，两三百页的阅读资料，三门课，每天花上七八小时对着这些看久了反而头昏脑涨完全不知所谓的东西，叹气，做学生在哪里都一样，资本主义和社会主义难得的在这一点上达到了极大的协调 = =
无数次在微观的课堂上惊叹Prof. Joshi从来不用换口气的惊人语速，下课后对着新增的七八页笔记目送他两手空空的背影，然后叹服了。无数次在宏观的课堂上对着Prof. Wei圆圆黑黑的脸蛋昏昏欲睡，下课后对着寥寥两三题的作业和寥寥一两页的笔记满头雾水，然后叹服了。无数次在计量的课堂上被Prof. Philips光亮整齐的地中海闪到眼睛，下课后对着好不容易整理出连贯逻辑的若干严谨非常的证明过程，然后叹服了…… 读phd，难道莫非也许或者……以后也会变成相似的背影被人仰望？天，对我来说那是个最起码还需要十年的过程，头昏，如果我有一天能够变成那样的话，如果有一天我愿意变成那样的话。
Ms. Huang斩钉截铁的对我说过，读phd是个煎熬的过程，诚不欺我也。
p.s.为什么大家暑假都要回家，我也要回家 T T 2月22日 上传了几张照片……终于把欠了好久的照片发了。游记……唉，当时的感觉已经不在了，就算是想写也已经有心无力。不过刚从弗罗里达回来的时候倒是雄心壮志打算发个游记连载来着，可惜ie瞧我不起，狠心的以服务器不响应的方式把1000多个字的废话丢进了历史的垃圾箱……唉，不提也罢。来日方长，或者以后心血来潮的时候再补点儿记忆深刻的细节。呵呵，弗罗里达可是个好地方啊~ 2月15日 First Boring St. Valentine's Day in the USWell, not an interesting Valentine at all. Disappointed.
I knew that for long there couldn't be a Chinese New Year like it was in China, so, OK, the first New Year here was already good enough for me. I had dumplings and hot pot with friends on the New Years Eve (hot pot for free, HAHA); tidied our apartment, and watched Chun Wan through internet even though it made me get up at 7 in the morning which is really really very hard for me in the rest of the year T T; I made a huge sum of phone calls, both through internet and telephone (some vedio calls when I still didn't have my hair combed in the morning = =)... Well, that was a busy and happy day, happy enough for me to forget the fact that I was exactly one year older (crying T T).
But today, emm, a normal day, no celebrations on the road, no parties, just some small stands selling roses which is also common for the other weekdays, except that my roommate has someone to celebrate the festerval with for the first time... That cannot make me feel better. I want a boyfriend too, but where is he? >_<
Maybe it's time to prepare for something exciting, even though I do not have much time to deal with that. Emm, I really need some incentive to make me full of energy. I hate boring days! T T
GOOD LUCK, COME TO ME~~ |
拍完照深吸一口气，仗着咱身板儿小就往夹缝里钻，好不容易挤过人流立马觉得身轻如燕，恨不得直接向白宫飞去
）入口安检处的警察叔叔太凶了，没敢照相
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（曾经我们距离彼此只有咫尺之遥）
（V.P. Biden咱对不起你，光顾看您鲜红的老婆了，只给您留了一只带着皮手套的右手……）
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