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12月22日 Little kids, big societyI finally had my car towed to the car service today. After I came back to my apartment I realized Waterview arranged a kitchen clean up for us since QY moved out and some new member will join us next month. This is exactly what I had been looking forward to, I certainly mean the clean up! These lovely Mexican janitors are awesome, they can make your kitchen totally shining in just 2 hours. I had the urge to go out and give them some tips and say "Feliz Navidad", but they left before I did so. As my car was totally unavailable and we did not want to ruin the shining kitchen, QN asked Amir if he wanted to go to dinner together, and he said yes, so finally we three and Amir's girlfriend Elizabeth sat at a table in Taiwan Cafe enjoying our dinner. The below-zero temperature outside made the conversation over the dinner especially cozy. Elizabeth mentioned a Chinese movie she and Amir saw the other day, called "Please Vote for Me". It' s a documentary about a class monitor vote in some Chinese Primary school and how the kids conducted the vote. And she said she would like to know what we thought of it because she did not know how to react to it. I remembered I saw some brief introduction of it long time ago, so I just said, out of my experience, maybe the director wanted to criticize some phenomenon in the adult society by what happened in this kids' community. When we got back, I decided to search it online to see if I could find more detailed introduction of it. It turned out there was an online video. So I simply watched the whole movie. It was very fun and it also proved my initial answer was not correct. Now I think the director maybe wants to probe, at least tentatively, the definition of democracy. I will not give an ornate description of the story, but the sophisticates of the kids shocked me. It is a very thought-revoking story, but only because I am not politics and sociology sensitive, I do not know how to react to it either. I do not remember the last Chinese movie I saw, maybe "Painted Skin", which was also weeks ago. However, "Please Vote for Me" is the kind of movie I do not want to miss. 12月19日 He said my golden lineBecause of some reason, the professor extended the deadline of the project to yesterday, which made the grading a little "nerve-racking" since today is the day for grade uploading, if some student is not satisfied with the grading, it would make the whole thing a lot more complicated. From 12:00 at noon I was grading it and everything was ok until around 10:30pm, suddenly I could not access the network disk. I found there was not enough space, only around 700M free space for the whole more than 550G disk. After some unsuccessful try I decided to give it a break and sent an e-mail to the technical staff, then I went back home and directly went to bed thinking I could get up early today to complete it on time. I set a record of getting up early for this month at 8:30am and went to my office hoping the staff replied to my mail, but to my disappointment, I found nothing in my mailbox. I tried the network disk but it was still not working. So I decided to call them directly. It turned out there was really something wrong with it, some people put 100G stuff on the disk last night and they were working on it, but no idea how long it would take. This really made me nervous so I decided to call the professor to tell him the situation. However, the number was wrong, but I figured he made one error on the area number so finally I got through. He was on the way to the office and said he would call me to go there when he got in. So after I got his phone call I went to his office. "When you want the grades?" I asked. "ASAP" he smiled. "But I called them and they had no idea how long it would take. When it's back to work, I will finish it as soon as possible." "Well, you can give them to me tomorrow" "No, I can not! the website is going through the maintenance from tomorrow! " So here comes the golden line:"Oh, maintenance, Life is difficult~" It turned out they fixed the problem very quickly. Then I went back to work on the grading. Suddenly the power in our building went off~ Right that moment, "Life is difficult" was echoing in my head. Fortunately the power was back very soon and I finished my task on time. But I am still thinking about sharing some interesting comments with the professor from some student's file: This project is long as HELL. We already got enough workload from other classes. It is ridiculous. Oh, BTW, summer is back too and it feels like having lost 20 pounds by taking off those warm clothes. 12月17日 Bad weather there tooJust got an e-mail from my advisor saying that they got tons of snow there. We have really bad weather here too, cold, wet and foggy. This long rainy and snowy weather cast another shadow on my luck, the car still stuck there. Well, having a car is indeed a good thing, only when it has not become a money sucker. I was trying to find a case when one's mood could totally unaffected by money then I found none. It is sort of always adding something extra, either happier or unhappier. I used to say it's not worthwhile of being unhappy because of money but I think I will miss my dear $1000 or so. Without having lunch and starved, I felt totally refreshed and energized after having a good dinner. Gotta work all day long for the following two days. Cant not wait for the days after. Everything will be fine then. 12月16日 Unfortunate things never come alone, do they?Just name a few: 1)Right eye hurts, oh, wait, I can feel it; 2)Extremely bad weather; 3) The steering wheel of my car got locked up, and still locked( so if anyone knows how to unlock it, please help~ Even though I succeeded once before, not this time:(); 4)Need to talk to my advisor later, not prepared yet, and I am still here writing something meaningless; 12月15日 Cloudy, againEven when I was still in bed, I knew is was cloudy. This kind of weather is best for having long sleep but I finally got myself out of bed. The temperature dropped so much. Yesterday was so warm and it gave me the hope that the winter would be over soon then today it just had it shattered, I hate it. I watched the movie(always movies) Leaving Las Vegas last night before I went to bed. It is such a sad movie, reminding me of a lot of similar situations. What kind of things could one do when he is totally despaired, what if life is totally at odds? So I thought a lot, which I should not do but I could not help. It made me sad and scared and awake. So I guess it took me really long to fall asleep. But I have to go. Sometimes I tell myself it is gonna be ok and it works, so I told myself the same thing today. It did turn out to be a smooth day, no surprises. It is so cold outside so I put on the coat, which used to be Wuji's. It is such a large coat and I looked silly in it. I could imagine Wuji would look more silly than me in it since he is more slender. Bad weather is for nostalgia, but I have to shrug off all my feelings and step forward. 12月14日 The Sixth Sense--a movie that touches meLast night, I was staying up late, watching a movie called The Sixth Sense. It is an old movie and I am sure a lot of people have seen it before, even myself I remember I saw this one more than once on TV, but never saw it completely. It is a story mainly about a Child psychiatrist(Bruce Willis) and a little boy who can see ghosts. Well, there are indeed some scenes that might be scary to some people, with the bleeding dead people walking. But this is not the main point of the story. I think this story is about love and trust. I always remember what the little boy's mom said to him every time he said something scary and weird to most of us: look at my face, honey, do I look like that I think you are a freak? Well, back to the title, why it touches me? I think it is the part when the boy and his mom sitting in the car, waiting for the road to be cleared because of a car accident. The boy said to his mom he was ready to communicate with her, about what he was afraid of , about he could see ghosts. Then he told his mom about his grandma, his mother's mother, who loved his mom and his mom loved a lot. The way the boy's mom cried when she heard about all of these, is exactly the way I expected. It is like crying out from the heart, but more subtle. You can see that she was trying to but finally failing to maintain her composure. This short part, is probably the most mesmerizing and touching scene of the whole movie. I really had fun of watching this part, twice~ Anyway, it's been a while for me to find something like this, cool~ 12月10日 好冷！ 今天巨冷！终于过冬天的感觉，学校里树木萧索，从parking lot估计，最近人也开始减少，又有要过节的意思了~跑了一趟之后，没什么收获，回来心也收不住，就在网上闲逛看新闻八卦。注意到今天的一条消息是朱棣文要被提名能源部长，要是真得就好了，至少代表在美华人地位提升，新的政府注意到华裔人才的能力。当然有人可能要说我们又开始自作多情，不过我确实看到有一条报道说:Chu, as an Asian-American, could add diversity to the new government.也不知道几年之后，像我以前说的一样，Steven 的弟弟，一个extremely accomplished lawyer会不会也走进美国政府~ 又乱操心了，下午太阳出来，开始暖和一点。 如果可以就是这样呆在房间里，什么也不需要担心，懒洋洋的就好了！ |
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