照片.个人.200910.鹅和鸭农庄II

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.

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我的家在内蒙古包头市——一个因为重工业才发展起来的城市，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

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)

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》

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。

Yet Another Week In Seattle

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.

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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.

1. Yoga – The Path to Holistic Health by B.K.S Iyengar.
2. The Complete Sherlock Holmes

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

http://ditu.live.com

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

Javascript: Number <–> UTC

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

Attention:

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

Reference: Date reference from w3schools.

Movie: SECRET [不能說的秘密]

I love this movie.

 

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Update[10 Aug. 2007]:

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

One year, one pound

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.

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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。