Keeping Mum

A black comedy. The story about how to save the daughter's life. Really scary though at last. The music is nice. And try to imagine that how Mr.Beans can serve as a starchy vicar if you had the chance to watch it.

Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Movie based on the famous novel Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen. The movie have been kept inside my album but until last week I had not watched it yet. The story is not as heavy as what I thought. The love affairs of a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet, a Miss Bennet and a Miss Bennet with Mr. Darcy, Mr. Bingley, Mr. Wickham, Mr. Collins (and so on) are natural, funny some how, and mostly happy endings. Enough words have been said by others about the image, the music, the actors and actresses, so I just write some my feelings here under the precondition that I have not read the original novel yet.

What really amused me in the opening of the movie is skilled the use of long shots: The opening scene of telling the life of the Bennets; The scene at the second ball shows the admiration, the hatred, the father's love, the regret being rejected, and the loneliness just in a single gap less moving of the viewpoint of the camera.

Mrs Bonnet's looking for the appropriate husbands is the key idea in the whole story as well as her main tasks. She is a good mother though, in my opinion: She was looking for the every chance for the Bennets to meet with the potential good young man, who would inherit the good life for her daughters. She was trying by all means to show the best of her daughters to those young men. I finally got to like her.

The dialogues are really beautiful English, which made me have to open the subtitle and the dictionary again trying to understand the conversation. A read of the original novel would not be a bad idea for me to sense the beauty of the language, while Shakespeare seems too ancient to me.

When there is a Great Fire Wall

Following post was posted on live at November 30 the time I could not access blogspot, A big complain on the GFW. Anyway the access came back finally. Just a brief introduction for you guys about the real internet policy which is going in China.

For almost one month, the user from China mainland could not access the blogspot directly, so, the Great Fire Wall became the murderer by all the blogspot user from China. Someone think this is because now blogspot is related to google and google was black-mailed by baidu. Finally, maybe the Greate Fire Wall has updated and blogspot was released, leaving wikipedia alone still walled outside China mainland.

But was there anything happened to me in my life?

Days and days working in the cubic, to make the finally deadline at the end of the year... following the Prison Break, Supernatural, Smallville, Heroes, Lost every week, even the Lost has already lost...

Also I am practicing for the small show in the coming Company's Christmas Party. Though I thought it would be interesting, actually it became so difficult for me, especially I did not attend the first training... and I will miss the coming 3 training sessions cause there will be a 5 days
job. Yes, near-real job, the second job for me in the past 4 month. Get some feeling of the past two years back, even though only small part of. And also because of the training, I missed the show of The King's Singer today in Beijing.

The 3 body by Liu Ci Xin have finished its publish in the monthly journal Science Fiction World. But after reading this long-expected work, some disappointment drew down my feeling: he continued his brave imagination, but the literal part also shows his lack of as a good story writer. Even I'm thinking the possibilities of the movie productions based on his great pieces, such as The Ball Lightning, The Wandering Earth, his works still need the big re-writing on the literary side to be accepted by the producers or screen writer.

So the life was still going on, with old friends and new friends, with the TV marathons (thanks to the internet), with the work and business and side-business, with the happiness and sadness and some dumbness. It is the life behind Great Fire Wall.

Swallow Nesting in Manned Swallow Housing

An interesting video shot in Kuala Rompin, Malaysia Peninsula. The Swallow Housings are very common in South East Asia.
Watch it in YouTube.Com!

Logging

Just returned back from one test well near Beijing City. We have spent 7 days in YanJiao, stuffed with all kinds of drinks, yogurt, snacks, as well as hot boat, dumplings, BBQs. Have been kicked off from one hotel and checked into another one with all luggages packed with ourselves. Have got all kinds of receipts from the local taxi drivers, the formal ones, the two-year-expired ones, the diesel receipts and the highway fee receipts.

The end of the year is coming and everything is being pushed to finish or give a milestone out. This test well logging trip was the first YanJiao well trip with full BGC crew (Ding helped us for the first 3 days during his honeymoon).

Just as the real logging job, unexpected events happened during the time of the trip, and they have enlonged the whole plan from the original 4 days. The renters had to cut us in the middle with their own test activities without informing us beforehand. And even one guy from the renter (A similar company doing the logging jobs as we do) came into our logging units and complain the unsatisfactory of the whole first 4 months career in his company..really ironic.

Job was finished. After having the dinner in JinDingXuan near YongHeGong, get really tired after this trip. need to sleep......

Say NO to PSP

I need a Playstation Portable.

First time seeing from Kevin's son, who was pressing enjoyably the buttons of the PSP when we were have a small party in Pop Inn one night, the PSP became a option for my mobile entertainment solution. Even later Zane brought his PSP to kemaman also. But after all the efforts I paid this morning, it was found that it will be such a headache for a relatively poor guy like me, not only money but also time, to buy a PSP and have it hacked and to play in China.... And another staring to the small LCD after the 8 hours facing to the big LCD monitor in the office, shit, iPod is better.

Now, I'm looking for the PS3 as the next target, after spending 4 hours looking through all the information online, and I have to go back now, to pick up the washed cloth from the washing machine.... Yeah, maybe a dry machine will be a better choice for me, with more real use indeed.

So, let's face it, PS3 for next year, and, .., a dryer machine for now.

Glance of Malaysia

Cameron Highland is just a red tee plantation, and also became a domestic vacation spot. The following picture was shot from the tea plant.




The second one is take form Pulau Tioman, a famous diving island in west Malaysia. The worn oxygen tanks were laid behind a diving school at the beach, where you can get the diving certification within one week.

When there is a Great Fire Wall

For almost one month, the user from China mainland could not access the blogspot directly, so, the Great Fire Wall became the murderer by all the blogspot user from China. Someone think this is because now blogspot is related to google and google was black-mailed by baidu. Finally, maybe the Greate Fire Wall has updated and blogspot was released, leaving wikipedia alone still walled outside China mainland.

So unfortunately, this blog has also been blacked for nearly one month.

But was there anything happened to me in my life?

Days and days working in the cubic, to make the finally deadline at the end of the year... following the Prison Break, Supernatural, Smallville, Heroes, Lost every week, even the Lost has already lost...

Also I am practicing for the small show in the coming Company's Christmas Party. Though I thought it would be interesting, actually it became so difficult for me, especially I did not attend the first training... and I will miss the coming 3 training sessions cause there will be a 5 days job. Yes, near-real job, the second job for me in the past 4 month. Get some feeling of the past two years back, even though only small part of. And also because of the training, I missed the show of The King's Singer today in Beijing.

The 3 body by Liu Ci Xin have finished its publish in the monthly journal Science Fiction World. But after reading this long-expected work, some disappointment drew down my feeling: he continued his brave imagination, but the literal part also shows his lack of as a good story writer. Even I'm thinking the possibilities of the movie productions based on his great pieces, such as The Ball Lightning, The Wandering Earth, his works still need the big re-writing on the literary side to be accepted by the producers or screen writer.

So the life was still going on, with old friends and new friends, with the TV marathons (thanks to the internet), with the work and business and side-business, with the happiness and sadness and some dumbness. It is the life behind Great Fire Wall.

Autumn in Tsinghua

Windy Beijing showed her power this morning, which I missed for tweo years. With the clear blue sky, I can not against my will to save this beauty into my ablum. Woke up at 0600, spend almost 3 hours moving around the ErXiaoMen, The first set of picture of the university I had spent 7 years were kept inside my camera...

But, just as all the newbies, I can hardly select a fairly good picture to show you all. Here are some out of the more than one hundred shuttle pressings.

The Yellow Gingko Leaves

The Great Hall

Remember Autumn

At last, here comes the autumn.

After two years humid summer-like equator life, the familiar dry cold climate ran into my life again just less than one week. I need to pick-up the thick cashmere and looking for wind-proof jacket before the final winter coming...

Again the defoliations in the wind will cover the road, and no more coconut tree and palm filling with your view the whole year; Again the snow will falling in one or two month and saying goodbye to the pouring monsoon shower; Again the old winter comes and, good luck to the South China Sea.

Today it was cloudy, the temperature was really in the lab. Outside in the office, there is going a recruitment for the year 2007 university fresh-outs. Some of them will join us, spreading out to the different corner of the world. Kinglad is still busy in his huge globalwide big project, Presley will head to US for his OFS-1 next week, Tubamqx will go to karamay and work as EIC temperately, and qiangwei is going for his new career, if it goes fine. Me? working in the cold lab and wondering what will happen in this familiar winter, or next year.....

So everything come back two years later, and all the people I knew are already not whom they were. Here comes the Autumn, also, here comes another summer, soon.

Welcome to the new Google Documents

Welcome to the new toy named

Just imagine that what will happen to the enterprise online document sharing 2 years later?

Actually what I'm concerning about is that, when the e-document has completely replaced most of the human knowledge storage, how the history and culture can be interpreted by other civilization if they do not have the ability to extract information from HD-DVD, Flash-memory, .... Should the paper-based documentation be totally replaced?

It is a big problem.

LOST in Communication

Cited from www.newsmth.net, Sun Oct 8 15:27:56 2006

Actually everybody has one piece of the jig-saw, but due to the lack of the communication, no one can see the big picture. All are irrational and emotional. Everybody ask the other to shut their f**king mouth but did not want to shut the mouth himself or herself(Anna) before get to know what the other knew.
The unknown side-effect of the uncontrollable electronic-magnet field can make some of them thought that they were destinated to the island (Sun, Lockie, Rose, ...), except Hurley's unliky lottery won before the island left without explanation at now.

The guns are the origin of the evil. Sawyer is correct for his gun-controlment, 'cause we can see at least one innocent guy ended whenever a gun has been out of control. And the others have even more humanity since they did not even kill for nothing....

We all agree that Michael has the rights to get his son back, but.... does he have the rights to get it with the cost of Anna? Libby just another unexpected victim. Sometimes the nature love goes wrong and even worse.

What's to say now? Still at least 2 seasons left, just wait for another sunrise

Oct.1st The National Day

Still a late wake-up. Today's objct was to get the new furniture for my small room. The room was one of the two-room-apartment rented with supercomet@newsmth.net, But the old twin-bed was so bad that I have to change it.

After 3 hours shopping in IKEA Beijing, we (me and qiangwei) finished the order and the shipment would arrive in few hours. 1800 hours, the new bed, new sofa-chair and new three-drawer-desk were standing in my room.

Dinner in MeiLinGe, ZhongGuanCun shop. Thanks for the coupon from qiangwei.

Sep. 30. TianQiaoLe Tea House

The first day of this 8 days, one-day-stop holiday.

Made a late waking up morning. Started to think about what to do in this whole golden week without wasting it. OK, let's move.

First, headed to Room 209, Center Building of nearby University, to top up the net access fee. Another 1 year accessibility at least for my thu email. It's, ..., actually, no use at all in my daily life. But, I prefer the feeling of ownership.

Then, cycled to the metro station in WuDaoKou, spent 20 minutes to find a space to leave my bicycle. Purchased a 5 RMB ticket and got to XiZhiMen. You can not image the importance of the public transportation system in China until you got to see the people sea in XiZhiMen metro interchange station. And even the door can harldy be closed for the outer-loop train, I selected the inner-loop train instead and spent 1/2 more time to go to my destination without being pressed into a much more thiner version of me. (Do not imagine. It will be terrible).

QianMen, The Front Door, and JianLou, Arrow Building, The outer frontier of The Beijing City. All the building in QianMenDaJie were tore down. The ungly-developed building were undergoing the renovation. The whole area will be return to Beijing traditional culture. At least, it is some of the good things the government has been doing for the sake of the culture preservation. But now, it is nothing in the main street which should have been filled with people shopping for the local artifacts. Though the DaShiLa was filled with people, I had no interests in visit there for the moment.

No idea how far my destination will go and without google earth in hand (How to? need update my handphone), I had to get on to bus Route.59. Almost failing to get the back door (for exit) from the mid-door (for entrance) in this bus with people filled as sardine, I escaped down at TianQianXiZhan. After another 5 minutes walk, here came the TianQiaoJuChang, TianQiao Theatre.

In 2003, the 'Cats' came to China. They were going performing in TianQiaoTheatre. The whole theatre was renovated to adapt the huge dump area for those smelly cats. But the SARS prevented the final trip, and The Cats came back after and performed in the People's Conference Hall of China, the worse place for such a musical. Damn lucky the fans in Shanghai, I have to say.


Checked at the ticket counter, only the ballet of the Romeo and Juliet was showing tonight. And thank for the help of the counter lady, I found my place, TianQiaoLe Tea House.

Already familiar with the name of Guo DeGang, the XiangSheng genius who is not interested in the commercial media, and who devotes himself and his colleagues in the theatre shows. The program of tonight was the Episode III of the PiFengShan series played by Mr. Guo himself, while two pair of other XiangSheng as rest. Time flew fast. Within the voice of the actors on the stage, the sound of cracking peanuts and sunflower seeds, the hushing and the applause rising now and then, the bumping of the tea cups, all but not limited to, the feeling of the old Beijing entertainment came back to the hundreds people in side this tea house. When the fade of the XiangSheng was talking about everyday by the experts of inside and outside, an art can not thrive with the massive media or with the suits and ties while its origin was from the local people, from the streat or the teahouse live show with gray or blue long dress and a simple piece of wooden block. Just like the HuTong, the lost of hutong can not recover back, because it is not a dead shows in the museum, but a living life of the people and enviroment.

The shows ended at 22:00 in the night. The first was over.

Pilot. 1st.Oct

Due to the partial unavailability of MSN Spaces in CERNET, I created this blog for my friends and every one, who cares about my life. (.....no one? Shit!,Damn! Jesus!)