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11月15日

thank god it's x'mas

reuters 的图片中心真是好地方……
 
圣诞估计会在写paper和抢打折品中度过了,提前祝福一下,祝各位学习工作顺利!
 
Oh my love we've had our share of tears
Oh my friend we've had our hopes and fears
Oh my friends it's been a long hard year
But now it's Christmas
Yes it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas

The moon and stars seem awful cold and bright
Let's hope the snow will make this Christmas right
My friend the world will share this special night
Because it's Christmas
Yes it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas
For one night

Thank God it's Christmas yeah
Thank God it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas
Can it be Christmas?
Let it be Christmas
Ev'ry day

Oh my love we've lived in troubled days
Oh my friend we have the strangest ways
All my friends on this one day of days
Thank God it's Christmas
Yes it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas
For one day

Thank God it's Christmas
Yes it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas
Oooh yeah
Thank God it's Christmas
Yes yes yes yes it's Christmas
Thank God it's Christmas
For one day

A very merry Christmas to you all
 
 
-by Queens-
 
 
10月30日

生活 zz

一条脏兮兮的狗蹲在路中央,打着哈欠,在阳光下伸着懒腰。非常舒服地伸展了一会儿四肢,又蹲下来开心地刨了一通。然后它站起来,抖了抖身子,向四周搜寻看有没有什么生活赐给它的好东西。路旁有一个垃圾堆,它高兴地过去嗅了嗅。果然,它的鼻子没有骗它!如此浓烈的腐烂气味甚至超过了它的预料:它兴趣愈来愈浓地嗅着,然后突然纵情地躺在地上,又极度兴奋地在那个垃圾堆上打着滚。显然这个上午是狗的天堂!最后累了,它站起来,又溜达到了路中央。然后,没有一点警告,一辆破旧的小汽车横冲直撞地从拐角处奔驰而来,压过它的全身,毫不理会地继续走了。
 
那条狗站起来,站着凝视了萨特思韦特先生一分钟,眼睛里是茫然无声的责备,然后倒下了。萨特思韦特先生走过去,弯下身子,那条狗死了。
 
节自阿加莎 克里斯蒂《海上来的男人》
10月25日

每天一点一点

杀掉过去的自己……
 
好吃懒做的,神游八荒的,孤独弃世的,文艺复兴的,自厌自怜的本体。
然后就成功了。就好像
 
温瑞安的小说,大英雄一路走来,留下背后尸横遍野,血流成河;结局时他茫然站在雪地中,风尘仆仆的七零八落的残肢散落在他四周,如一幅泼墨写意山水,情人倒在怀里,伤口已痂结成丑恶的红褐色,正是一方褪色的印跋……
 
有人说,武侠从高高在上的“剑神”发展到混迹世井的侠客,是从神到人的回归,其实不然;“神”能成为欢乐英雄,而凡人,只会越往前走越寂寞。
 
忘了真心的笑才能成为喜剧之王吧;可是大部分人,纵然一辈子寂寞也不过是个宋兵甲。
10月14日

Ranking Your Drivers

Please rank the five elementary drivers of career:
  • skill (you're good at or enjoy using)
  • field (you're most interested in)
  • people (you like to work with)
  • working condition
  • reward

mine is skill>reward>people>condition>field

It's just a part of self-assessment, but i think u can find how significantly people are different from each other in this area even they share similar educational or cultural background. In addition, i view self-assessment as a cruel process for u have to face the pallid personality u have when writing down analyzing or computing as your key skills and travelling or reading as your interests...It's also very upset to discover that u have no passion or dream except for the cliche 'travelling around the world' or 'living a happy life'.

 

Beatles - Nowhere Man    ...

He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his nowhere land,
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.

Doesn't have a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?

Nowhere man, please listen,
You don't know what you're missing,
Nowhere man, the world is at your command.

He's as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere man can you see me at all?

Nowhere man, don't worry,
Take your time, don't hurry,
Leave it all 'till somebody else
Lends you a hand.

Doesn't kave a point of view,
Knows not where he's going to,
Isn't he a bit like you and me?

Nowhere man, please listen,
You don't know what you're missing,
Nowhere man, the world is at your command.

He's a real nowhere man,
Sitting in his nowhere land,
Making all his nowhere plans
For nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
for nobody.
Making all his nowhere plans
For nobody.

 
Illustration: Edward Hopper: Sunday
 
 
10月6日

就这样堕落了……外一篇

反省了一下,这两天除了购物,闲逛,看食谱,聊天啥都没做,最有建设性且有满足感的事情居然是做饭……pathetic
 
每天手机六点半响但还是会赖到快九点自然醒才爬起来,吃饭的时候打开电脑准备听bbc但是还是点击了卡通片,睡前计划背一篇新概念却又因没有床头灯而作罢……诶,我所有野心勃勃的计划啊:每天去图书馆看书和journal(课本太贵了……),上网研究财经和地产新闻,收听并跟读bbc radio来锻炼英音语感,重拾统计和随机……啊!!!(无语对苍天中)
 
总结一下就是在一个超级紧张的pre-sessional week之后,迎来了一个无所事事的freshers' week;鲜明的对比带来了暂时的岁月静好的幻像,而没有课的状态将peer pressure 降到最低。虽说教授们在induction上反复提到了dissertation deadline gloom,但是一年以后的事无论如何都看起来很遥远。现在碰到每一个舍友或同系,都会说 we won't have any class till next wed, so we still have a free week to spend...然后伊们便露出羡慕的神情……
 
另外就是种种借口:本来计划每周都要出去玩玩的,但是现在银行卡还没办下来,就借着没办法在网上订便宜票的因素每天赖在房子里;fresher's fair 的时候,看见队超长的就没有进去,结果现在什么社团都没报,只加入了中国同学会的mail-list,每天收到一大堆求购和甩卖的垃圾邮件 :(   准备去Granchester郊游,但走在无人的路上想起中国同学会网站上提到的学生被杀被抢的事情,就绕到植物园和火车站一圈回了(还是花了好几个小时……)
 
今天下午和同班同hostel的一个中国女,一个韩国男一起做饭。韩国男泡了麦茶,三个人坐在厨房里,端着茶杯,有一搭没一搭聊着天,后来干脆就都没话了。然后韩国男忽然说’so relax...' 大家才意识到已经过去了一个小时,忽然脑海中想起queen 的歌声:i come from london town i am just a ordinary guy, and i'll be lazy on the sunday afternoon...
 
另,韩国男给我的那个mug上印着 not all the potato can swin,背面是一个在杯子中沉底的potato骂 shit,这是啥米意思,我们讨论n久没答案。。。
 
 
其二 廉价的社交
 
西方人真是满重视社交的,最近就不时收到各种social evening 的通告:informal drink, pub crawl...一直都没甩,今天终于决定去一下系里面给研究生开的一个。去了之后,发现里面全是同学,中国人依旧是习惯扎堆,乱七八糟地打了一圈招呼,和不同专业的几个中国人认识了一下,照例和几个国内本科过来的女孩子抱怨一下这边的学制,商量哪门选修课好过分高。。。吃的永远是切成小块的三明治,冷冰冰的meatball,dessert和cheese虽然诱人可惜热量太高,本来是想借机喝点免费wine的,不过身边的中国mm都很淑女地举一杯orange juice,遂决定做个好小孩。。。超无聊,呆了五分钟就和人大的feifei一起闪了,在路上遇到一北大外语系的mm,昨天去doctor注册时初见,一聊发现居然是老乡,相约一起坐直飞西安的飞机回家。。。该mm此时正举着一包麦粒素,提着sainsbury的鸡,虽是刚到一周,言谈中已对这边的物价和压力颇为释然,很赞!
 
回来照例坐在宿舍里,对着墙(shiwei语录),又不自觉地想起偶像梭罗关于社交廉价和学生孤独如沙漠中的拖钵僧的言论,感受更深了一层。
 
另,来到一个pub的国度去泡的机会反而不如在国内多,很讽刺。。。