Monday, August 25, 2008

Mr. Tsinghua, we'll miss you.

Mr. Tsinghua is leaving for his bright future soon. Although I am not a sensitive person-_-, I still feel sad about this cause Mr. Tsinghua is such a nice and wonderful friend.

I have heard about Mr. Tsinghua's strong muscle from Sheng(I'll call him Mr. Tsinghua 2) before I came to USC. If Sheng got evil's body and angel's face then Mr. Tsinghua got evil's body and evil's face(I'm kidding, Mr. Tsinghua please don't get pissed off). Anyway, what I meant is that the first time I saw Mr. Tsinghua, he does not look as cute as Mr. Tsinghua 2, instead, he looks more seriously. But don't be frightened by Mr. Tsinghua's serious face, actually, he got a really big&warm&soft heart for you to explore.

Mr. Tsinghua used to have a long pigtail when he was in Tsinghua which is really fashion that time. He attended the Tsinghua's body building competition with the long pigtail and got No.1, that's why we are calling him Mr. Tsinghua. Now Mr. Tsinghua got an almost bald head which still leads the fashion trend. In addition, Mr. Tsinghua got a well tanned body sexy enough in California to attract girls in restaurant flirting with him.

Chinese ppl always say:"If you got a strong body, you must have a weak intelligence". There are at least two counter-examples as far as I know. The first one is me(haha, laugh), the second is Mr. Tsinghua. Firstly, Mr. Tsinghua is a paper machine, you can see Mr. Tsinghua's name on all kinds of conferences like CVPR, ICCV, **CV, *CV*, and CV**. Secondly, Mr. Tsinghua got two annual best RA awards at USC. Moreover, Mr. Tsinghua is not only good at engineering, but also good at literature and painting. For proof, just go to Mr. Tsinghua's blog. There are poems like the steel and the song, YY novels like the princess and the thief and portraits for lucky us who get selected by Mr. Tsinghua.

Mr. Tsinghua likes to eat dumplings/baozi and drink wine/beer with peanuts. He prefer to make dumplings from scratch and buy big Shandong baozi. He likes enjoy life with a small cup of wine but he always sacrifices because he needs to drive us home. Mr. Tsinghua always tell us: "enjoy life". Yeah~ enjoy life~ I will miss these words so much.

Anyway, Mr. Tsinghua, we wish you good luck in your new life and we'll miss you so much. Take care~~

Saturday, August 23, 2008

Seattle Trip

Goal: survey Seattle
Conclusion: Seattle is such a nice place
Assumption: 1)whatever I said is truth, 2)whatever I did is right
Methodology: intentionally selected a subset of Seattle's places (this could be totally biased, without my assumption2) and not intentionally selected a small period of time(1 week) to visit.

Survey details:
(Base point is 10, there is only one judge which is me. This is a totally fair judgment because of asumption1&2)
Place 1, Grand Hyatt Seattle (selected not by my intention which violates assumption1&2, I'm not responsible for misleading)

It has fancy bathroom(extra point +10), but without free Internet access(-10), not so fancy service but with a fancy price(-5), nice food(+2)
Summary: 7.0

Place 2, Space needle (selected by my intention thus it is definitely trustworthy)

It's the symbol of Seattle(+2) which is the reason I spent $16 on it. It is the same as the eastern pearl tower in Shanghai but much lower. Fortunately, buildings in Seattle are lower than buildings in Shanghai as well. The view is not that great in the day(-6), in the night? I don't know. I know this could lead to bias but based on my assumption1, sorry, I rule XD
Summary: 6.0

Place 3, Mountain Rainier (selected by my intention thus it is definitely trustworthy)

It is paradise, it is definitely where you should go. It got mysterious cloud surround it(+10) and beautiful flowers(+10) covering it. It got a bunch of lakes with different colors and shapes(+10), It got a variety of wild species making it vivid(+10). Oh, I love it so much.
Summary: 50.0


Place 4, Downtown (selected by my intention thus it is definitely trustworthy)

much better than LA(+5), compare to Beijing, hard to say(-5). At least I can walk along the street on 10pm during the night(Is this criterion too low? -_______-). It got nice shops, you can find most of the shops you want without driving. As to restaurant, no idea, cause most of time it is Grand Hyatt Seattle which was feeding me.. It got bars, but I've no idea about that. I had several drink, but I still prefer juice -_____-, at least alcoholic with juice..
Summary: 10.0

Place 5, Pike Place Market (
selected by my intention thus it is definitely trustworthy)

hmm... I still didn't get it why Americans like to visit market while they were traveling... my preference order is national parks>symbolic city architectures>restaurants>shopping places>whatever else. I am not going to cook during my trip although it got fancy fishes, shrimps and crabs. And I don't know how to rate this, so I'll just leave it unknown...
Summary: -

So, to summarize, the mean of Seattle rating is (7.0+6.0+50.0+10.0)/4=18.25, and the letter grade is A+++. If we eliminate the highest and the lowest, the mean rating is 8.5, and the letter grade is A-.

Warning: this work is totally biased without assumprion1&2 as mentioned before. And I am not responsible for misleading.

Thanks for reading~ XD

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

男主外,女主内?

前天去玩,晚上吃饭的时候,一个mm聊到自己的男朋友如果没人给他做饭,他就饿着,而且从来没给她做过一次饭,只在她生病的时候给她下过一回方便面。我一听,就随口来了一句,既然这样,你干嘛不跟他分了。然后这个mm一听我这么说,语气又改了,说道,其实我也不要求他给我做饭,~!@#¥%……&*(此处省略,主要是我记性不好-_-)本来其实也不关我的事,但是不知道怎么的我的女权主义情绪就上来了,我也忘了我说啥了,大概意思就是,为啥总得女的做家务,为啥男的就该等着饭吃。然后旁边另一个mm不知怎么的就说到了上海男人,说上海男人就在家做家务,我说是啊,上海男人这点蛮好的啊,然后她话锋一转,说,“我就不喜欢这样的男人,男人应该把精力放在大事上,自古以来,男主外,女主内就是中国的传统”。

这句“自古以来,男主外,女主内就是中国的传统”可是把我彻底雷到了。我似乎已经很多年没听到过这样的说法了。不知道我哪根筋冒了烟,一下子情绪就激动起来。我说,“自古以来的传统就一定是好东西么?” 旁边那个mm一听语气不对,马上插嘴开始缓解气氛,说道,其实他也没有完全不做,什么掐菜啊,都是他做的,我做饭主要是我做得比较好吃。我一听,说,那也行啊,分工也行啊,只要不是他就在一边翘着腿看电视。

吵架,或者说辩论,我就不想多说了,这主要是个引子,我就是想抒发一下我激动的情绪。我这个人特别讨厌大男子主义,也蛮女权主义的。我觉得女人就是不该依靠男人,女人就是该在精神上和经济上双重独立。我看不惯喜欢女人依附他的男人,更看不惯喜欢依附男人的女人。我看不惯觉得妻子一切都得听他的丈夫,更看不惯心甘情愿一切都听丈夫的妻子(当然,请不要错误理解,偶尔的情感依赖是每个人都需要的,这我可不反对,而且很提倡,不然大家都要得自闭症了)。

不过话又说回来,如果丈夫是大男人,妻子不是小女人(或者说不完全是小女人),企图反抗,我还可以发挥我的余热去帮这帮女人打抱不平一下。但是如果人家刚好一个是大男人,一个是小女人(比如那个说男主外,女主内的mm和她的老公),绝配!一个愿打,一个愿挨,你去参一脚算什么事啊?人家只会说,关你啥事啊?你激动个什么劲啊?

一想到这里,我就迷茫了。正因为我讨厌别人指使我的人生,所以我厌恶大男子主义,己所不欲,勿施与人,你讨厌别人指使你的人生,你又凭什么去指使别人的人生呢?于是大男人和小女人的绝配组合总是能将我打败。就像那个说“自古以来,男主外,女主内是中国的传统”的mm,我以后见到她和她老公,一定是灰头土脸的,一下子就被击倒在地了。