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November 06 宅男的家庭影院 最近比较宅，过着办公室、健身房和家的三点生活。回家做饭史上最勤，开夜工之前常捧着自己亲手做的饭菜甚至喝点小酒一个人看会儿网上下的电影。 《入殓师》，给我的一个触动是如何面对亲人的逝去，和如何珍惜仍在人世尚可珍惜的那份亲情。这个话题对漂在异乡的我们格外敏感。 《燕尾蝶》，太戏剧化了些。一个细节是发财了的非洲兄弟们立马打包回国，中国人念叨着要回去结果都还留着，有的最后把命也搭进去了。 《活着》，潜台词是“不容易”。个人觉得是几部片子里最好看的。同类型的《站台》、《孔雀》装逼太厉害，看不惯。可以算是一代人又一代人的写照。爷爷留下一张纸的自传，外公在继续已经厚厚一本的回忆录。 《盲井》，真没猜到结局。紧接着在朋友的博客上看到同样恐怖的现实版，湖北见义勇为牺牲者被悬尸索价，当局会选择继续不作为么？一方面是千年农业税的取消，医保推向全国，另一方面是种种社会问题激化，公德危机。近来一些事情下来对韩寒的印象大幅上升。 October 25 南加州的树生平第一次business trip。时间很紧，工作很忙，根本没工夫用budget。一直是我们几个tshirt被一群business casual包围，2天做了3次presentation，还有跟uci honor program师生的准商务晚餐。最后一仗在Engineering Auditorium，自己当时也是通过on campus career fair招的，看到大家坐在自己也曾坐过的地方，略有感触。
October 18 幻灯片下的建国大业 故事在幻灯片上飞快地跳跃着，嘎然而止于1949。其实之后还有1979，然后今天的2009。就叙事本身，我读到的是渐渐地人性化而非曾经的脸谱化，努力把人还原回有血有肉。淮海大捷后开国元勋们的纵情高唱，大势已去时蒋氏父子台阶上的相互品读。总理高呼民主，总统慨唏嘘反腐。之前的《集结号》已现端倪。 差不多剧中所有战争画面都是黑白剪影，配以简单到不能再简单的字幕而无推销式的解释，且背景音乐基本都是按照剧情而非当局者身份，甚至听到了吉他声。的确，无论谁输谁赢，内战死的都是中国人。另一面，建国，大业，新秩序不容易，要流血。出品公司广电总局直属，出品人根正苗红，很能解读出一些味道。暂不论主旋律之多少，作为60大庆献礼片，能走到这个份上已经很难得了。身为中国人，都应该自豪一下。至于当年的理想与今日的现状，暂不讨论。爱中国，不是说中国有多好多好，而是希望中国好、更好。跟朋友聊过，30年前谁能相信今天数以亿计的中国人会用上手机；同理，要对30年后的中国有信心。30加30，恰好又一甲子轮回。 比较搞笑的一个小插曲，宋美龄将与美国务卿谈判，一边的黑gg跟对面的白gg说，"She's so hot, man." 把老北平城误作地主家大院也有点意思。 最后引用段段豆瓣上读到的，“开国大典上那些发自真心的无邪欢笑，让人想到这个国家曾经也是个有着无邪笑容的婴儿。这部电影拍了一个国家诞生前的阵痛和血污，和充满希望的婴儿年代。” October 13 REORG@ISD The official announcement came out yesterday noon. Moser was over. I accepted the offer from OneCare, Access and Security Division, two years ago and got on board at Shimla, Identity and Security Division, last year. Then I witnessed the gone of OneCare, and ignorable layoff in the division early this year. Now it's a significant re-organization over the division undergoing. 老大们座次重新排定，小兵们去向尚未明了。有人的地方就有江湖。Be tough to survive. October 04 杂想小记国庆，依旧没假。有意思的是有同事知道是共和国60年大庆，跑到我办公室问下班后是不是会搞个party庆祝。后来在网上看了阅兵直播，着实激动了一把，即便对几个巨幅画像持保留意见。中秋，恰逢周末。做客，Seattle地区的几个高中老同学小聚，第一语言已经让位于普通话，然后是绍兴话和英语。每次吃到家乡口味的饭菜都是感动加唏嘘。截止目前月饼还没吃到。 前阵子又有几个本科老同学从国内过来出差，还有别的州过来旅游的，故人皆依旧。每次都会聊起很多事情。和爸妈也谈过差不多意思的话题，既然当初选择走一条不同的路，大家的生活必然开始分叉，甚至渐行渐远。不可能回到原地，我不是说地理上的。 又到了家门口秋叶飘的时节，赴美第四个年头开始，第一份工作也走到了第二年。继续旅居在这个拌色拉的国度（我觉得比大熔炉更加贴切），一个感触是内心强大很关键。不知道我们这些在国内读完本科的，是留国内混还是留洋折腾成熟得更快。对自己总是诚实的：把工作做出色，把生活打理好，没那么容易。生于忧患，死于安乐，居安思危一点好。 September 24 My First Order for Online ServiceTonight I placed my first order for online service, or rather, my first payment to the software/service industry, though I've been I'M A PC for 13 years. Actually still a little reluctant to move on... Finally no way to walk it around, no free/open source substitute by community, or free license/service from my school or the company. Hmmmm, it's Yahoo!, not my favored Microsoft or Google. However, I have to admit Flickr is really cool, not to mention and its huge active community. Fine, I remember once I felt the UX of Flickr was so wired; and I was sick with blue cheese at Harold & Marilyn's when new to the States, but I EAT it now! OK, anyway, I'm working at Forefront Online team, and you guys would pay us for our state-of-art online services by the judgment day, no matter love the idea or not. Order Summary
September 20 悼念顾老师团支书同学在msn上告诉纪律委员同学顾老师过世了。不吸烟不喝酒天天锻炼身体，却30多岁就离我们去了，什么世道！顾老师是我初中三年的班主任，求学路上对我最好的老师之一，当初各种原因处罚我无数次（貌似几个男生班干部一直都是打击重点），把我培养成乖乖好学生功不可没。 September 13 One Shot to Death at UC Irvine Campus昔日模范城市，按照设计大师理念，短短几十年间在南加州荒漠上从零拔地而起。曾蝉联全美治安最佳城市，研究生母校所在地，一直为广大Anteaters津津乐道。 争论中的9万亿财政赤字，地球人无论男女老少人均借给美国政府不知道什么时候才会还的1500美元，约合10000人民币。明白美国从全世界60亿人身上搞去多少钱了吧！所谓too big to fall。美丽画皮继续撕开中。轮胎贸易战，祖国加油！ September 10 Company Meeting Again 果然，第二次参加Company Meeting就有点犯困了，中途几次离场跟朋友出去边看风景边聊天，最后在SteveB表演正酣时提前退场。整场三个亮点： Bing搜包包的可视化效果，女生少妇大妈们一定大爱。 StevenS从Macbook Air壳里面掏出更加超薄的跑Windows的Sony VAIO，有周星星电影的意思。 SteveB在与小兵们亲密接触时发现有人用iPhone，一把抢过，做欲砸烂状，最后只是放在了地上，离去。不管是不是排练好的，效果非常好玩。 Natal很不错，只是早就曝光过了，而Ray Ozzie演示的下一代user experience遥远了点，就不在此列了。顺便先对比下去年写的。别说7了，Windows Mobile 6.5都还没出来！ Quote Company Meeting 2008"Blue is for myself, and I'd like to show you orange." 不禁又想起刚过去的性格测试分析，和Annual Review时跟经理的讨论。 September 08 My First Annual Review 跟经理谈人生谈理想谈工作谈生活谈成长。一年之后，可以用英语聊这些了。一年之后，没有升级，没有涨工资。一年之后，学生气消退不少。话说性格决定命运，知识改变命运，时势成就命运。没有资格唏嘘世道多艰，只能再感叹一下这些年来性格的渐变了。 是人就会有惰性，得不时自我push一下。 September 07 赴美三周年整 这次周年纪念日是在旅途中度过的。 收到来自老爹老妈的周年贺信，大爱，原文如下： 观念决定方向，思路决定出路，胸怀决定规模，你具备这些条件，所以成功属于你。庆贺工作一周年！ 爸妈贺 然后我习惯性地Google了一下。。。 September 04 Insights into Personal Effectiveness Facilitated by Insights SeattleNice team training. I love most the methodology on differentiating persona conscious from persona less conscious and then the preference flow, which, obviously, indicates what we are pushing ourselves to achieve, or, in another word, the compromise between who you are, who you want to be, and who you need to be. The difference between my self estimation, teamates' review and the experiment result proves!!! I believe personality does matter for one’s career. OK, now here’s a bit of mine. Color Preference: Blue, Red, Yellow, Green Self Estimation: Blue, Red, Green, Yellow Experiment Result: Green, Blue, Yellow, Red "Hey, dude! So I’ve been working here for one year. Really curious about what gonna be years later. I believe it gonna change. Definitely.” -------------------------- Blue - Give me details Red - Be brief, be bright, be gone Yellow - Involve me Green - Show me you care September 03 不速之客
倒地，打滚，耍赖。最后我哄了半天才抱出去的。最近在家做饭比较多，常来光顾的猫已经不只这位Miss. Cat了。囧rz “我对大妈没兴趣”不灵了。不过“半夜我睁开眼睛，发现猫也睁着眼睛——看我”这种人间惨剧也不会再发生了。lol September 01 其实还有10多天From: Start at Microsoft-New Employees
Congratulations! It has been about one year since you started your new job at Microsoft. The past year has likely been filled with exciting, inspiring and challenging moments. We hope that you will take a moment to reflect on all that you have learned, the many people that you have met, and how you have contributed toward helping us achieve our mission: Enable people and business throughout the world to realize their full potential. As you consider your future at Microsoft, we encourage you to have a conversation with your Manager about the past year and what you have learned, your accomplishments and your performance. This is also an ideal time to discuss your future career and professional interests. Lastly, be sure to take advantage of all the training that is available to you as a Microsoft employee.
Questions: August 23 Burroughs Mountain Trail@Sunrise, Mt. Rainier NP
被LX3震撼了。要不明年借个去rim2rim？力气省一点算一点。某人帽子太像日本兵，还老抢镜头。Jacey同学和Meng同学合作Nikon广告一张。最后一张超囧的集体照。还是出发太迟，差点在Sunrise看到sunset！ August 22 The travel plan for the passed 9-day vacationHere’s the travel plan for the passed 9-day vacation at Grand Teton NP, Yellowstone NP and Glacier NP. In case you may get some idea from it. day 0: leave from bellevue, arrive at west yellowstone day 1: grand teton oxbow bend turnout jackson lake lodge (very nice) jenny lake hidden falls trail boat tour jackson lake dam day 2: yellowstone artists paintpots norris geyser basin steamboat geyser mammoth hot springs mammoth hot springs terraces upper terraces area lower terraces area north entrance tower fall hayden valley mud volcano yellowstone lake day 3: yellowstone lower geyster basin fountain paint pot great fountain geyser midway geyster basin grand prismatic spring (must!!! hike from the south end of a bike trail for 1 mile for overlook!!!) upper geyser basin old faithful yellowstone lake hayden valley canyon village upper falls grand view lookout point lower falls artist point day 4: yellowstone, drive to east glacier park canyon village lower falls artist point lamar valley beartooth day 5: glacier np going-to-the-sun road saint mary lake jackson glacier overlook logan pass hidden lake nature trail day 6: glacier np many glacier grinnell glacier tail logan pass hidden lake nature trail day 7: glacier np many glacier cracker lake trail (full of holly horse shit!!!) iceberg lake trail day 8: leave from east glacier park, return to bellevue logan pass (thick fog!!!) lake mcdonald August 21 Looking forward to the grand canyon rim to rim day hiking, swapping car keysWould challenge Rim2Rim@Grand Canyon next year. Conquered Half Dome@Yosemite last summer.
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