国庆

祝在中国的亲朋好友们国庆长假快乐！

How do you pronounce your name?

Sigh Chen?

C Chen?

C Chen without 'T'. (This happened because a guy from Taiwan had a name 'Tsi Chen')

farewell, my private office

Since Alex felt that I'd better stay together with others in his new-born group, I got to move to that crowded room. And consequently, I was asked to return my current office.

After occupying this office for more than a month, it doesn't look as stupid as before. What's best is that it's private, and it's quiet. Nobody ever come to this part of the building, except a lady who comes to get rubbish every 6 PM. Someone even don't know its existence. So, it feels good really.

ill words

Don't look back to the old days!! It hurts so much. I hate reminiscence!

I used to do that a lot. But instead of get used to it, I get more and more easily addicted and captured.

Each time I jumped into a new environment, the old things were like vaporized. But whenever someone reminds me of a simple glance of that, the whole passed world returns and drunk I fall.

subway, quizno, etc.

I'm at a total lost at these fast food franchise!

 

They always ask xxx, xxX or XxX. And I have absolutely no idea what they are. Even after they showed me the condiment pane, those weird things made no sense to me, except for tomato and lettuce. Tons of eccentric words and veges running around there.

I failed a road test

 Details and comments are on the heels...

 

Here they comes...

 

I drove more than 21 miles to a town named Framingham to take my road test, and to got my license if passed. But I drove all the way back without a license obtained, but an experience of failure because of 4 mistakes as follows,

1. You came to a full stop when taking that right turn. You actually dont' have to do that.
   
2. Again, at that left turn.
   
3. You didn't look back through back window all the time when backing in that 3-point turn.(although I did look back all the time when backing straightly in another subject)
   
4. You didn't look at your blind spot when pulling out. (actually, I think I did glimpse that way)

 

quite a lot of new things today

Just pick some of them...

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I drove to laundry today, although I still don't have a MASS license and I haven't been on a road for over a month since the last and only on road experience of no more than 100km in Shanghai.

 

And, reality is reality, you can't live in imagination.

 

My skill was not as good as I had thought. I jerked on pedals; I took hours to park and didn't always make it; I almost happened to cross a red light; I forgot to proceed when it turned green... What's more, the seat was a little low, and I haven't figured out how to adjust it vertically yet. And I was so careless as to get on road when it was very rush hour. Luckily, nothing serious happened. No collision; no being spotted by police. Thank god the neighbour is quite safe without many police patrolling.

 

Still need much practice.

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Due to the above. I missed the first half an hour in class. I thought I was just on time. but it turned out that I forgot that courses in Math Dpt. always started 30 min early.

 

Still, I think nothing serious happened. I didn't miss anything except some casual talk by the instructor.

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I cooked patties today, made of meat, I guess pork, and a little pepper. I only do the cooking. The patties was bought from supermarket.

 

It was ok. At least I have some quick meat in recipe.

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Microsoft Math is a cool toy jumping into my brain this morning. It can even calculate the inverse of matrices. Not only those with totally numbers(I know matlab can deal with that), but also those with variables. However, it was still not so smart as to know how to do reduction, and some symbols refused to show themselves at least in my laptop.

 

Maybe matlab can also do that...

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That unused room with a lovely free printer was closed to update to a computer laboratory. So I lost my free printer. Trying to find a new unattended one...

包子

冷不丁地被提醒，才想起来远离这美食已经多少十日，而这还只是开始。

食堂的大肉包子，菜包子，油乎乎，大的小的，一蒸一大笼 @@

同样情况的还有饺子，不过饺子费点功夫我还能倒腾出来，也会煎。包子咋做呢？

秋色

今早十点从室内出来迎接明媚阳光，突然发现迎头那棵__树已然花了颜色，红如苹果皮，黄如银杏叶，夹杂浮动；在远山和友邻都还是盛夏绿的时候显示自己特立独行或是先知先觉。待到西面那片山头都响应季节的变更，可能得以见识到“满山秋色”的展示。

 

Labor Day以后，我这终于开学了。每周三门课，周一二三各一节，一个seminar在周三。So,

 

CONCENTRATE

 

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“满山秋色”——据说Massachusetts曾被翻译为“满山秋色”，正因其地形和植被在秋季美好的搭配，后因这翻译太直白，而采用马萨诸塞