做有人文关怀的geek

彩灯映射于湖面，鱼群也被Maroon5的This Love吸引，抛弃了鱼饵在斑斓的光影旁聚集，留下寂寞的垂钓者……

一番immoral的仲夏夜之梦唤醒了沉睡的树精灵，树枝的倒影在湖面伴着jazzy keys舞动着，幻象是微风裙上的涟漪……

再见萤火虫，舞动着森林的黑暗。梦于光怪陆离中渐行渐远，所以不如归去……

灯光在金黄色的饮料中找到一条通路，似宝石般纯净……

抑或如文艺女青年所说，墙上爬的不是寂寞，而是蜘蛛。

在ld的强烈要求下，从北Raleigh一大户人家领养了两只kitty。两个小家伙刚刚6周半大，胆子极小，但对世界充满了好奇。我们给黄白相间的kitty boy起名叫shimmer，另外一只girl叫做dimple。shimmer到家之后成功断奶开始吃猫粮了，dimple由于一只不愿吃猫粮也不喝我们买的猫奶，只能被我们送回妈妈身边几日练习断奶。

看他们无辜的眼神，仿佛感受一种类似宗教引人归善的力量，圣洁而美丽。

所以，养育宠物有助于和谐社会的构建。

自从过年之后我的状态可以说是不到廿四岁却本命年已过~ 原因是生肖算阴历的，而生日算阳历的~

 今天终于24岁了。好像从20岁开始一年一年的过得飞快，不似中学时代那些把成长细细记录品觉日子了。昨夜入梦，竟初见Entong Jnr的模样，恍惊起而长嗟: 老矣！

 收 到这么多朋友的祝福，甚是温暖~ 一半功劳归给online social network~ 打开QQ,一只白色大脸猫的头像在闪动，原来是妈妈遥寄打油诗一首。第二句“重洋远渡为了啥？”，土是土了点儿，倒也发人深思，如果深究下去就怕颠覆了价 值观，隧不敢细究。暗暗喟叹老妈果然有深度，一句话就上升到了人生观的哲学高度。。。

 觉得NC State最好的一点就是中国人多，每年来两百来位。人多了朋友自然少不了，细细算下来甚至比本科时的朋友还多。上周五晚上排练完回办公室，刚下车便见一 个美女mm独自踱步走向EBII。正在纳闷何许人也之时Allen恰好出现。其实Allen认识的女生比我多，这次也不例外。三个人隧寒暄了几句，那mm 听了我的名字之后居然说“生日快乐”。。。

 当然最要感谢的人是LD，让我已经不知孤独是何滋味，以至有时必须独自去美亚盒饭来重温那熟悉的孤独感。谢谢LD送的手表~ 自从作了城里人，还未曾想往城外跳，是不是时候未到？哈。

 自 从换了老板，工资也水涨船高，外加年初免税导致购物欲望膨胀。最新购入Gulda/Abbado/维也纳爱乐版本的莫钢协DG小双张。其中的No.20 D minor是我的favorite，如果没记错的话电影<Amadues>开场用的就是第一乐章开头似阴霾中的行进。其实莫扎特很少在他的作 品里这样宣泄他的情绪，小调的钢协也只有两首。其实本想在1/27莫扎特生日的时候留下一些文字，最终不了了之。很多人说Mozart的音乐是“含着眼泪 的微笑”，个人以为这个说法有些过于矫情。音乐家写作来自inspiration和所谓的“音乐动机”和“音乐主题”，然而也是和“市场”紧密相关的。所 以说神童莫扎特的灵感在当时大众的品味环境中便成就了莫扎特的风格。古典音乐最大的魅力便是每个听众每次聆听都是一次再创作的过程，因为这些音乐本身只是 音符的排列，而并没有《死了都要爱》（譬如）这样一个主题。说白了就是reborn和replication的区别吧。

 同时购入的还有Jacques Loussier Trio的<The bach book>, 不过拿到手中觉得录音质量欠佳，bass的声音有些浑浊了。22日去Richmond看Tommy 的live, 算是送给自己的生日礼物吧~最后还要谢谢表哥表姐的生日祝福~亲情最大

I'm gonna go and watch Tommy's performance on Feb.22 (Sun) evening in Richmond, VA. Anyone wanna go together?
Tommy is regarded as the best acoustic guitar player alive. Here is a video clip on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lbvSBNLLoo
The performance information can be found at:
http://www.tommyemmanuel.com/tour-dates/
Ticket is about $30 plus processing fee.

地处美国东南的Raleigh冬天并不是那样寒冷。去年年底的某天，一个男孩子带着三个女孩子到更温暖的南方去过冬。

租来的2009 Chevy Cobalt有7300 miles，还车的时候已经是10000+ miles。这次南巡竟开到了美国本土的最南端——距离古巴只有90 miles的Key West.

我在香港一年她在香港半年竟都没去过香港新开张的Disney,不知是不是为了留给这次来世界最大的Disney World. 一座城堡承载了多少浪漫的童话故事，又承载了多少小孩子童年的梦幻~ 圣诞夜坐在城堡前看焰火的时候，羡慕着周围的小孩子们——那个还不知何为“童话”何为“现实”的年代，思维长出绮丽的翅膀，飞得比大人们的“幻想”和“想象”高远得多——是不是当我们懂得何为“童话”何为“想象”的时候就已经不是小孩子了呢？ 不知是不是因为去了由《阿甘正传》inspire的Bubba Gump Shrimp餐馆才生发出这样反智的想法，抑或艺术本身就是反智的？就像阿甘眼中的世界，充满单纯的元素, simply simple...

这两天偶尔会在思考，到底是什么力量造就了“大师”，尤其是艺术大师。同样的是拉琴或是作画，为什么大师们能够出神入化？天才？勤奋？还是一种对周遭异乎寻常的敏感，或者是对“次要”的事情异乎寻常的冷漠？忘我，忘我，忘我谈何容易！还是唯有忘我才能把一件事情真正做好？再扯远了就成了“通才专才”的大俗辩题。。。不知从社会学的角度是不是专才更有利于社会整体进步？可是，who cares?

圣诞节那天，我把信用卡递给Universal Studio的停车收费人员，小伙儿灿烂地一笑，说声Merry Christmas就放行了。多好！

Island of Adventure真是个折腾人的好地方~ 当然，也是个释怀的好地方。多少恩怨情仇，上了两个巨型过山车Incredible Hulk和Dueling Dragons, 统统抛在脑后，在乎的只有自己还能不能活着下来。从这个意义上讲，过山车真是个好东西——俯冲开始前慢慢爬升的时候听轨道嘎嘎作响，那时真的是什么都不care了——就像我们仰望星空时发现人类的渺小一样。我在想的，还有人们坐过山车时为什么会觉得“爽”？Gravity是统治我们的rule, but "the Joker has no rules". 这样说来Joker的境界比以gravity堕落的Harvey Dent还要高了。所以说不喜欢规则的人定是喜欢过山车的？！

回程的夜晚，I-95深入旷野的时候，我把车停在路边，仰望从未见过的亿万颗繁星...

如果把阳历2009都算作牛年的话，现在我们恐怕还只是站在牛角尖上讲话。

朋友们的blog充满了岁末岁初的总结展望，无论2008过得如何，每个人都对新的一年充满了憧憬和幻想——新的日子总是被赋予希望与愿景吧。

新年的第二天，办公室里已经人满为患，我带着耳机静静地听着扶声博客里的背景音乐。

很久没有这么安静了，不知孤单的安静是否会由奢侈品沦为非卖品。

师兄们的paper上周都被据了，办公室里弥漫着竹篮打水的气氛。。。

这次换了老板相当于破釜沉舟，渴望投入实干的充实感和有所成绩后的成就感。。。我们这些做RA的有时候都意识不到老板实际上深深影响着PhD五年的生活状态，motivated or depressed，我们都被环境影响着。

这9天的Florida之行算是痛痛快快地refresh了一下，游记和照片稍后单独贴出~ 值得一提的是在迈阿密见到了咱clas2的Hello和Tiantian~ 感觉HL和高中时差不多，身旁刚到美国4天的bf显得文质彬彬~ Tiantian的卷发热裤和彩妆倒是和Miami的都市印象相得益彰~ 相聚总是短暂，拥抱之后便是分别~

看孙猫网站上Clas2北京分舵滑雪的照片，想起高中那些事儿还有浙大四子的四年时光，便又怀旧起来~ 感谢网络时代，我们得以知晓曾经最亲近的朋友们上演着迥然的故事，每个人有每个人的精彩~

同学同学，一同上学。不管怎样，“同学”这个称呼还是比“同事”更纯一些。自从大学毕业之后，只有新同事——同学都已然成为老同学了。

好吧，我承认我挺放松的，一点儿也没惊魂，但用这样的标题似乎可以提高帖子的点击率。因为发现校内网上的标题党现象越来越严重，什么”吐血推荐“”绝对震撼“”绝对雷人“”很好很强大的哦““很小很认真的帖士””惊叹。。。太美了！“”男生勿进“”女生必看“”看后我半个小时没说话“”史上最xx的xx” “转~超实用！”“绝美！令人窒息！”等等等。。。而这些标题党往往都可以成功的增加点击率——谁不想轻点鼠标看看“男生勿进”的到底是啥呢？

不过小斑鸠家的确是着火了，而且已经是晚上十一点了，只听平常在街上远远进进的警笛声今天听来是那么的真切，往窗外一看忽闪忽闪的消防车救护车警车就停在门外。说实话那红色蓝色还有白色的闪灯在夜晚真的是光彩夺目，比圣诞树上的彩灯要好看许多。因为线路老化，小斑鸠家的一盏顶灯被烧着了。虽然没有很大的火苗，但因为房子是木质结构也大意不得。据说mengbo打911时还保持着一如既往的cool，相比之下我便相形见绌了——上次我打911的时候故意讲得很焦急的样子，结果人家听说是停电问题便不鸟我了。

消防员叔叔们来了之后把房顶杵了个大洞，估计小斑鸠一家这两天的日子不好过了...

11pm Eastern Time, Nov.4th - the time when several states on the west coast closes their poll, the media historically announced that Sen. Obama is projected to be the next president of United States of America. And he will be the first African American president.

As I was watching live video on Internet, looking at the cheering crowd of more than 100,000 people in Grant Park (the headquarter of Obama campaign), listening to the words of ‘unbelievable’, historic’, extraordinary’, watching the images of people kneeling down and crying or just standing there with tears shed - I myself as a foreigner even feel moved and excited by this election and by this country.

General election is the best patriotism education for a nation.

Congressman John Lewis, who is a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement, said in an interview yesterday, that he has never imagined this profound moment that he lives to see a black man being elected the president of this country - a country in which even forty years ago a black man hailed a taxi but most likely was ignored by the driver, a country in which racism has been and still be the No.1 unstable factor of the society, and a country that black men being slaves two hundred years ago when she was founded. This moment has come much sooner than most of the Americans thought. And none of the countries in the western world can be as open and democratic as America. That’s the amazing part of this land.

I've never been to Europe, but I've heard of from a senior consultant in UBS told me that the European countries are much more conservative than the US and that’s why he chooses to live here. I also hear from friends who have experienced the superiority of some European people. Being different from them, the unique America as an immigration country opens to provide jobs to the competent international students and welcomes them to stay. It is the immigrants, white or black, who built this country and keep her energetic and moving forward. That's the uniqueness of this country.

I was moved by people's political enthusiasm in this season, by the image that an old woman staggered in the long long queue outside the polling station. I try to find the answer that why so many people choked up or even cried when a new president is elected, especially this time. Why are they so obsessed with voting? The tears must be different from the tears at the moment when mankind steps onto the moon, when a masterpiece of art makes one overwhelmed with emotion. The tears should be in common with the ones when a little girl singing <A Hymn to Our Motherland> in the opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics.

It is the power of patriotism, the power of democracy, the power of politics.

There's no doubt that we as Chinese people love our country and we are all patriotic – especially when we are abroad. However, most of us, in particular born in or after the 80s, have not experienced the power of politics which makes one moved and cry. Gone are the days when Chinese people were crazy about politics but lost ourselves, gone are the days that we unconditionally believed in the government. When all the chaos in the 60s, 70s and the end of 80s are faded away, left are the indifference of talking about politics among the youngsters, including me. We are still patriotic, yet our patriotism comes from our vast history and culture, comes from our pride as a people – not from democracy though. That's why I was moved by this election and that's why it keeps me meditating about it.

It is true that some Americans choose not to vote because they think politicians are politicians. And politicians are controlled by their financial groups or companies behind them. So they simply don't care who will be the president. But most Americans believe as citizens voting will make them big and strong. Regardless of the necessary political background and what are really behind the candidates, they must go through certain stages which ensure the leader elected to be an excellent person. They must debate with each other in front of all the people in the nation. They must be challenged by a number of interviewers who have the toughest questions for them. They even go to comedy shows to show their sense of humor. Those are what the leaders in other countries in the world seldom experienced. If they happened to watch this election, they are sure to have something to think about.

In a word, whether you like Barack Hussein Obama or not, he will be the next President of America. And whether you are for or against him, this is a victory for all Americans. Even though I can still largely feel the existence of racism, this is an extraordinary and steady step forward of Americans as a whole and has enormous implications on the children and children's children.

In Obama's speech after he won the election, he mentioned a 106 year old woman in Atlanta who voted for him. “She was born just a generation past slavery; a time when there were no cars on the road or planes in the sky; when someone like her couldn't vote for two reasons -- because she was a woman and because of the color of her skin. ... At a time when women's voices were silenced and their hopes dismissed, she lived to see them stand up and speak out and reach for the ballot. ...

And this year, in this election, she touched her finger to a screen, and cast her vote, because after 106 years in America, through the best of times and the darkest of hours, she knows how America can change.”

Yesterday the President of Kenya (肯尼亚) announced that Nov.5^th is national holiday. Because a son whose father was from Kenya is elected the next President of United States of America.

（所有图片转载自msnbc）