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September 18 Root and WingWhen asked about my favorite quotes, "You can have roots and wings" from "Sweet Home Alabama" simply appeared in my heart. Roots and Wings. My dear friends, we traveled half of the planet in search of our wings, have you found them? And somewhere along the journey, did you lose the direction back to your roots? I think I am lost. A man's word is everythingDo we really hear men say this nowadays? sometimes, people with a traditional view of value are precious. September 17 Just back from department retreatAnnual visit to the beaufort marine lab was not as boring as I thought to be, after all. Yes, the talks were long but some of them were quite interesting. And the talent show was so amazing that I almost lost my voice this morning due to the excessive yelling and cheering. It's always fun to get the faculties do something funny or embarrasing...haha...you just never know who could turn out to be a total partyer/drunko. Living in a trailer home and sleeping in bunk beds are not so bad, especially when your porch has a terrific, breathtaking waterfront view. It's so beautiful and romantic that you just feel like being in a dream. Sitting on the dock, listening to the guys playing guitar, counting the stars that you haven't seen for many years, and being surprised by the fish which kept jumping out of the water...... And of course, getting drunk. I didn't pass out or anything, but I do believe that I've set some sort of alcohol consuming record of my own in the past weekend. Playing pingpong with americans definitely made me feel athletic, haha, although I am actually such a poor player. Chatting with people who you've never talked to turned out be nice surprises. Although I kind of regret now that I probably said a lot of stupid things and made an idiot of myself. Well, I guess that's it. Once in year, you let loose of yourself. I suppose it's not too bad. The fun's over. Let's get to work. September 13 Several great movies I wached recently1. "Good Will Hunting"
Will Hunting (Matt Damon) is a genius with photographic memory who grew up in the shady neighborhood of Boston. Being an orphan, he went through several foster homes and were physically abused throughout his childhood. He worked as a janitor in MIT and solved a math problem which no MIT student could work out. His talent was then discovered by the professor who brought the therapist Sean Maguire (Robin Williams). Sean is the first real challenge Will had ever met. As trust and respect grew in Will's heart, his world was about to change...
Matt Damon is THE actor in Hollywood that I love most. Neither best-looking nor sexy, he has something with him that is amazingly attractive. He's also superb at acting especially at his lines or narration. I simply love this guy. This movie was written by him and Ben Affleck, who won an Oscar together for their terrific writting. The movie has so many memorable lines, which are witty and funny, that I just couldn't help thinking about them days after I first watched it. A+ movie, definitely a must-see. I just regret that I didn't watch it earlier.
2."Love Actually"
A great British comedy, incredibly funny and extremely romantic. Instead of telling one love story, this movie portraited eight different stories which are loosely connected. Each story touches my heart with its distinct way. There were times that I felt heartborken but most of the time I was surrounded by the sweetness of love. The movie starred with a lot of great British actors and actresses, including Hugh Grant, Keira Knightly, and Alan Rickman (Professor Snape!!!), but I was so impressed by the Brazlian superstar (not-so-famous in Hollywood) Rodrigo Santoro. This guy is damn HOT~~ My roomates and I immediately went online to search for his information, haha.
3. "Sweet Home Alabama"
Melanie Smooter (Reese Witherspoon) is an up-and-coming clothes designer in NY and she found herself engaged with the most eligible bachelor Andrew Hennings, the son of NY's mayor. However she is still married to the Alabama backwoods husband Jake Perry (Josh Lucas), who has been refusing to divorce her in the past 7 years. Melanie went back to Alabama, determined to get Jake to sign the divorce bill and to sever all the ties with her past. However the trip down the memory lane revealed her true feelings and she found herself never actually gotten over her first-love.
Reese is as always pretty, cute, and pleasantly funny. I like her a lot. Josh Lucas has the most beautiful blue eys. When he watched Malenie with that warm and loving look, I could feel myself melted. Dreamy, yes, that's the word for Josh Lucas. Maybe it's because I always love small-town life, I think the way they pictured the little southern town is really nice. Yes, there are a lot of stereotype things, but southern people are portraited as warmhearted, family-oriented and rather charming. And the fall scenary was terrific too. I feel like I could live there for my whole life. If you like romance but don't like tear-jerking tragedy, this one is for you.
September 07 A day with ups and downsToday unfolded like anyday else. Realizing that my boss is this close to getting really angry with me, I decided to motivate myself and went to mouse room to do some injections. I joked as I was leaving the lab, "if I am not back in an hour, I must've been biten or eaten by those monster mice. So come rescue me!" They joked back about setting a timer for me, things like that.
Halfway through my routine injections, I was just wiping the liquid off the exterior of a syringe with a wet paper towel, suddenly I felt a sharp pain in my finger. Reflectively I jerked back the syringe, shook off the towel, and saw a blood stain in my glove. "Oh, shit!" It was actually pretty deep, so the blood was oozing out. We don't have a emergency kit in that surgery room, so I had to rush back to lab. Everyone was like, "hey it's only 30 minutes~~ You are quick this time." "Yeah I didn't get biten by the mice. I actually poked my OWN finger with the needle!" I mumbled some curses and dealt with my poor bloody finger with some bandages.
So I was thinking, OK, today sucks. But when I went back to continue my injections, a lady came to me and told me that she's a inspector and wanted to watch me doing injection!! Talk about luck! I got really nervous, realizing that anything wrong could give the whole lab a hell lot of trouble. Even this simple i.p. injection seemed complicated now. I breathed, and slowly did the injection, trying to do every step as carefully as I could manage to. The lady took my name and PI's name, and wrote something down in her notebook. Well, there we go.
Several hours later, my boss came to me, holding a piece of paper. "So the email about your inspection is here already." His face remained expressionless, and to me it looked rather stoned. "Oh my god.. I know I didn't do it right." I read the email. Aha~~HO HO HO YO HO~~ I actually got a commendation~~ hahahaha..
Here is part of the email:
"Shudan is to be commended for her attention to the datails, the professional manner in which the animal activities were conducted, and the humane manner in which the animals were handeled. ....... Congratulations on the job well done!"
Well, well, well. I put the email printout up on the board outside of our lab and highlighted that part. I just couldn't stop smiling in the rest of the day. Ha~~
August 30 总结一下我看过的英文小说 (III)With the experience from reading the LOTR, I decided that probably I should stick to reading children's books. "Ann of the green gables" came to my notice. This 8-book series has been an all-time popular choice for the American youth, and the online reviews are all like A+.
So I got the whole set from Ebay and dived into the beautiful world of Ann. The series is about the whole life of a lovely, sweet and smart girl Ann who was adopted and began live in the "green gables". I love the setting of the story. A nice quiet village with lots lots of trees and flowers, lovely houses, and interesting (OK, maybe not THAT interesting) people. For Ann, everything looks just beautiful. How can a little girl like her have so many wild imaginations, funny ideas and still manage to be so sincerely warmhearted and caring that you just can't help from loving her. I like the way a little girl fusses about her pretty dress, and enjoy to see how she worries about her red hair, how she talks to herself and everything else all the time, how she wins everyone's heart. Little Ann grows up. She becomes the teacher in her own school. It was an interesting read to see how Ann deals with kids of all problems. And Ann goes to college~~ Yes, she is always smart and hard-working. How could boys not pursue her? And we get to see how she made mistakes about her true feelings and how she and Gilbert finally found each other after long misunderstandings and seperation. But oh wait~~Ann is going to be headmastress far away and Gilbert has to stay to be a doctor. In all those long letters she wrote to Gilbert we had a peek at her never-quiet life and her real love for Gilbert. And then they finally get married~~After a simple yet extremely beautiful wedding, they arrived at their house of dreams in a seaside town, where Ann grew to be a wonderful wife and neighbour. And we got to hear romantic stories of sailors.
Somewhere after book5, in which Ann started her life at the House of Dreams, I stopped reading. But I always intended to pick up book 6 again and continue the life-adventure with Ann, with Gilbert and their children.
Ann of the Green Gables series is easy and fun to read. They might not make you laugh, but you always find yourself smiling. They may not be heartbreaking, but now and then you find it touching. I would definitely recommend them to anyone. 总结一下我看过的英文小说 (II)So since Rowling insisted having the world waiting for another one or two years, I had to hunt for other books. I thought that "Lord of the Rings" series would be similarly fun to read. They are both about imaginary world and are both world-wide popular. 10 pages into the first book of the triology, I started regretting. These books are not written for younger readers. The setting of the story is probably centries ago so that the language used in the books are sort of like "acient English". That's my guess. Because it's simply too difficult for me to read. A lot of characters with complicated names, tons of places with even more difficult-to-remember names. I could tell that it's a great triology with grand setting, but.. it's just too much for me. So I put them back onto my bookshelf, and never touched them again. If anyone likes to read, you are perfectly welcome to borrow them.
总结一下我看过的英文小说 (I)OK, it's been five months since the last time I had fine mood to blog anything. So it's sort of a long-due debt. I was communicating with a girl about our favorite books and it suddenly dawned on me that I've read enough books in the past year and I actually should summarize them. My crazy reading started last winter. What triggerred it I don't remember. Maybe it was the Harry Potter 6? Never mind. Let's start with my favorite, Harry Potter. OK, do I really need to say anything about it? I am a fan of Harry. So far I've read every single book for at least 3 times. I borrowed CDs of these books and listened to them before sleep. My friends think I am crazy because I can remember all those details of the magic world and can actually recite some parts of the books. Well, what can I say? The whole world is in love with Harry. Rumor has it that J.K.Rowling is going to finish off Harry in the last book. If so, I guess I'll hate the woman for my whole life. Many readers hope to see a Harry-Hermione story, while I am perfectly happy with the Ron-Hermione love. Don't you think these two are just a younger version of Mr. and Mrs. Weasley? How adorable! And Ginny is good for Harry too. She is grown into such a wonderful character that I am totally convinced that Harry must be attracted to her. Oh, and the twins~~~I mean, who will NOT love the trouble-maker duo? Hah.. if I were to choose, I would definitely go for either of the twins. So many theories are out there online about the 7th and last book of Harry Potter series. One of the hottest debate is about the ture loyalty of Snape. Well, I like Snape and I have complete faith in this character that he would turn out to be on the good side. Does anyone think that Snape in the movie looks oddly sexy? haha.. Maybe I am weird.
April 06 宽容这两天，mitbbs的biology版又开始了一场对该版“月经话题”的讨论－－究竟该不该quit biology。不过，我不想讨论这个问题。
让我颇有感触的是，还有少部分的真正的生物学热爱者对这些动摇不定的同行所抱的态度。"当初做选择的时候干什么去了" “还不是自己选的" "根本就不是为了做研究而来的” “不想钻研的早点走人，别占着别人的位置”。 言辞间颇为苛刻。我想，以他们对生物学这种热爱来说，我们这些只把生物学当成一种职业并且渐渐地发现它并不是一种理想职业的凡人，的确是很值得鄙视的。
我在想，是不是成功的人，或者说找到自己人生定位的人，在冷看周围庸庸碌碌挣扎着的人群时，都会有这样的想法呢。觉得他们不够努力，不够坚持，不够奉献牺牲，实在是混帐之至呢。
我在想，以前，当成绩还是衡量一个学生几乎唯一的标准时，很"成功"的我，是不是也这样想过呢。
不记得是什么时候看过的电视剧里。一个老者对一个执着的年轻人说，"宽容一些吧。这个世界上有很多人不象你这样幸运，在人生刚开始的时候就找到了自己一生的归宿。他们努力着寻找着。有的人一辈子也没有找到。可是这样的人生也是人生啊。” 当时心里就有些震动，然而随着岁月的流逝我才能逐渐体会那种宽容。
中学的时候，经常有人上课不自觉地睡着。其他老师总是很生气。唯有我们的物理老师很有趣，总是对我们说，"其实这些同学比其他人更努力。眼皮实在是都挣不开了，他们还努力想撑着呢。最后还是撑不住，可不是他们不想撑着呀。以后，哪个同学觉得困了，就自己主动到教室边上或者后面站一会。站着不容易困。觉得清醒了再自己坐回来。" 一开始我们都笑，觉得这是他讽刺挖苦的一种方式，变相地罚站。渐渐地我们发现他是很认真地这么觉得。渐渐地有同学真的主动站到后面去了，站一会又坐回来。他很高兴。我生平第一次发现，什么叫做换个角度思考，什么叫做宽容和体谅。
让我们都多一些宽容和体谅吧，对别人，也对自己。浩瀚的人生，找到自己的坐标不容易。我们需要支撑和坚持，有时候也需要站起来去清醒一下，更需要无论是坚持还是转变都能体谅尊重和欣赏我们的人。
March 30 I need a change in lifeNot satisfied with the way life is.
Not satisfied with the way I am.
I think it's time for some necessary change. Change a little, change a lot.
Be aggressive and be brave. Set a goal, and work for it.
March 28 What's your perfect major?So it seems I am supposed to be in English major or be a journalist. Both of these careers were my dreams in middle school. And what really funny is, the least thing I am supposed to be is BIOLOGIST! hahaha.. I knew it!!!
March 24 Sleepless in Durhamcan't sleep. Simply hurts.
I guess it's a sleepless night in Atlanta too.
March 23 Forever BlueWe lost.
Tears in eyes, pain in the heart, I turned off TV.
We lost, not to baby Shaq. Facing this 310-pound matchup, Shelden Williams stepped up and literally carried the whole struggeling team on his shoulder.
But he did not have help from his fellow all-american. The all-time shining Duke star JJ Redick finished his briliant career with such a disappointing play.
I could hear laughter from all over the continent. The most hated college player Redick fell again, on the same road. Indy is as fas away as it was last year. But this time, JJ has no second chance. It's FINAL.
March is still crazy, but JJ and shelden's final March ended.
Coach K is still Coach K. But he will always remember once he had a best shooter with Duke's all-time shooting record, a best defense power with Duke's all-time rebound record. Yet they left, without the precious title, full of regret.
The opponents are celebrating with tremendous joy. Fellow seniors are swallowing tears, not believing they've just said goodbye to their March, forever. The 3-18 play that crushed his final dream will become a nightmare, haunting JJ over and over again.
It's the end of an era, so tragic and painful.
The sun still rises and life still goes on. So, let it be, let it be. We won't forget you, shelden and JJ, won't forget the joy and pain you brought us, the hope and desperateness we all experienced through the years.
Farewell, JJ. Farewell, Shelden. Farewell, the 2006 class.
Farewell, March.
And we are forever BLUE~~
March 18 march MADnessSo, Duke is the most overrated program
So, Duke should hardly be an overall No 1 seed despite they played to win yet another ACC title So, Duke got specially treated to be playing in Greensboro just because they are a No 1 seed So, the refs almost dunk for Duke to give them every win So, "Reddick" being a superstar as a shooter is totally a joke because the college 3' line is a joke
So, Williams is the ugliest player ever So, Redick and Williams decided to stay for a final shot at the national title is because their NBA career is doomed anyway. So, coach K is a total moron because if he didn't get those good recruits he would never ever had 3 titles. So, few Duke players had ever succeeded in NBA which proved how pathetic and overrated Duke is. So, I am one of many blind and stupid Duke-homer losers.
So, it really hurts to be a Duke supporter. I am not arguing against any of those negative comments.
Duke was weak last year and we are not too strong this year either. We do get superstar calls and Williams could hardly be called handsome. We do have a shallow bench and we are certainly not unbeatable. We do get loads of media attention, accompanied by public pressure, as if we asked for it. But why are we hated so much? Why JJ had to stand on a free throw line while the whole court chanting "F**K you"?
Why can't we just be royal fans to our school without being called moron? Just why, why do people take special pleasure in attacking Duke players and fans? And, why am I so stupid to read all those posts flooding in almost every forum?
Shrug it off and cheer for your team and be royal. That's all I am supposed to do. But still, it hurts.
So, I guess I am just too girly and naive. I know. August 29 Slow Dance好吧，我承认我是“喜新”的人，虽然还不算很“厌旧”。最近狂喜欢 妻夫木聪，让我不禁怀疑自己是不是越活越回去了，一把年纪了居然又开始喜欢阳光帅哥了。呵呵。
《Slow Dance》，迄今第9集播出完毕。理一 （妻夫木聪）为中心的圈子，和 衣咲 （深津绘理）为中心的圈子，因为 衣咲 在 理一工作的驾校学车而发生了交集。内心以电影导演为理想的理一当着驾校教官，过着稳定的生活。直爽能干的衣咲是服饰店的店长，年过30的她面临着工作和爱情的双重压力。整部片子就如其名字一般，缓缓慢慢地铺陈情节。描写地20出头的一辈在寻找人生目标和定位时的无措，30出头的一辈对生活前景和对爱情的迷茫。在这样的夏天，这些都市男女在现实和理想之间要如何面对自己真实的内心。这是一部典型的夏季剧作，就像炎炎夏日里一阵淡淡的凉风，让人心情舒畅。没有跌宕起伏的情节，颇有韵味的对话是主要的旋律。外表诚实阳光的妻夫木聪，演技一流的深津绘理，偶像气质的藤木直人和广末凉子，以及演唱主题曲《东京》的福山雅治，组成了今夏最强劲的日剧组合。这部片子的很多地方，都酷似当年的《悠长假期》。妻夫木 也许无法重演木村拓哉的辉煌，但《slow dance》绝对是值得收藏的经典。
August 02 智齿长智齿了。牙床肿了几天，以为自己吃什么东西吃坏了。偶然间，发现自己多了半颗牙。传说中的智齿，终于在24岁珊珊而来。很郁闷啊，这些天一直都吃不了硬的东西，咬不动，一嚼就疼。大家都说要去把它拔掉，不然以后经常会发炎啦，疼啦。吓得我够戗。一直觉得自己很独立的，才发现在看医生这件事情上，我好像还没有学会。不免有些想家。在家的话，大概妈妈早就陪着我去医院了吧，还有香喷喷的粥...
不过..智齿是什么意思呢? wisdom teeth，是不是长了就有智慧了呢? 呵呵，如果是这样，疼也心甘。
July 12 又到毕业时节又到毕业时节。
昨天Zhang Nu师兄来叫我去开party，约莫也是为了庆祝毕业。刚才在楼道里看见了Zhang Zhihong 师兄的答辩通告和毕业party通告。不禁有点怅然。光阴似箭啊，来美国两年了。扪心自问，做了什么呢。什么也没有。Nu师兄第一次给我写email介绍学校情况，还是在大四时，仿佛就在眼前。Zhang Zhihong带我们去smoky mountain玩，初到美国的我那样地沉醉于漫山遍野的红叶，一切仿佛就在昨天。眨眼，就两年了。
聪明的你，能不能告诉我，这两年，我都做了些什么呢。 June 20 最近的生活呵呵，除了在厨房折腾以外，最近积极寻找新的丰富生活的元素。唉，没办法，太无聊。 前一段看了《Ray》，我发现Jamie foxx跟Ray Charles居然真的长得很象！尤其是年轻时候的样子。不愧是今年的奥斯卡影片。看完之后，里面的音乐绕梁三日，搞得我对country music大感兴趣起来。正好实验室有个黑哥哥，那天跑去跟他讨教了一些关于黑人音乐发展的东西，听得半懂不懂。于是我就自己乱找歌听。目前我最喜欢的是这首《Hit the road Jack》，呵呵，不知道算哪种风格的 (Ray的风格据说有很多种》，但是非常欢快幽默流畅。5星推荐。 在找Ray的歌的时候，歪打正着地找到一首极好听的歌，Kem的《I can't stop loving you》。R&B的风格，整首歌很流畅干净。因为Ray有一首同名的歌，一开始我以为是Ray唱的，后来才发现是Kem这个新人的最新专辑的主打。他的第一张专辑《Kemistry》和最新专辑《Album II》，都是最高的5星评价，看来值得一听。 顺便试听了一下这个周四才刚release的backstreet boy的复出新专辑《Never gone》。两首主打《incomplete》和《never gone》都相当好听。目前被认为是他们最好的一张专辑。 然后说说图书。Harry potter 6还有一个月才出版，现在的预订量已经排到了best seller榜的第一名，魅力无法挡。我把1－5都看了两遍了，实在是爱不释手，强烈推荐啊。前几天买了一套《Lord of Rings》的书，看了5页，悔得不行，看不下去。嗯...我想，我还是比较适合看看那种children's reading，英语简单，风格轻松。呵呵。 说到children's reading，最近在各大影线上映的《sisterhood of the travelling pants》据说是根据口碑非常好的同名畅销书改编的，适合Teen girls。 全书三部，以友情为主线。嗯...想想自己实在已经不是teen girl了，我就不打这套书的主意了。 下一阶段，(如果我能把lord of rings勉强看完的话), 打算开始看另一套 children's classic reading，《Anne of Green Gables》。据说是非常经典的一套书，在amazon的评价里一个个都是对此书感动不已推崇不已，其中不乏成年人。既然是号称陪伴了美国几代年轻人的读物，想来应该是不错的吧。 然后说说电视剧，呵呵。临时住在我家的本科小mm一直在看《ER》。我跟着看了几集，果然很精彩，不愧是目前最popular的系列剧集之一，经历了11年收视率依然高居不下。可惜我家现在没有电视cable，以后有空了看DVD算了。 木村的《Engine》还有两集就要结束了。作为两个女儿的父亲，木村果然是越来越给人温暖的感觉。这一部围绕着12个孩子和木村展开的电视，没有错综复杂的情节，没有纠缠不清的爱情，娓娓道来，流淌的是一种温暖的亲情。打算把它刻盘，嘿嘿，谁要看的跟我说一声啊:)
June 19 最近的"实验"成果呵呵，好久没有往这里添内容了，faith同学写信来问了，"你你你跑哪里去啦，怎么都不更新 blog啦“。呵呵。最近无所事事，心痒手痒，对厨房比较感兴趣。先是做了麻辣凉粉，嗯，大夏天的吃起来真是很爽，可惜忘了拍照了。上个礼拜挑战高难度，自己琢磨着网上的各种方子，做了一个草莓鲜奶蛋糕。嘻嘻，我承认，蛋糕坯子是用cake mix做的，所以一次成功味道很好；鲜奶油可是花了我不少功夫。首先是在超市里转了半个小时，才总算找到了所谓的鲜奶"whipping cream"；回来以后打啊打啊，打发了半天才总算把液体鲜奶弄成了固体的奶油，胳膊疼了一天 :( . 可是我不会往蛋糕坯子上糊奶油，结果糊了半天，还是糊地狂难看，真丢人......不过味道是真的好啊，哈哈哈哈哈，我不骗人。美国店里卖的蛋糕都好甜好甜，而且很多不是鲜奶蛋糕。套用孙欣同学的话，叫做"自己做的真实惠啊"。呵呵。 今天晚上又不高兴去实验室了，心血来潮要做sushi。可是..既没有sushi 米，也没有sushi醋，更没有生鱼片了。凑活凑活啦，发挥了我的聪明才智，^_^， 瞎做了一回。看看是不是有点可以骗人了? 呵呵
May 27 ft, 看到老鼠乱跑傍晚去mouse room查看老鼠的时候，看到一只棕色的小鼠在hallway里乱跑。kao！吓了我一大跳。这可是那个那个..不知道第几级的emergency。staff都回家了，明天就是周六，星期一还是holiday。ft啊...那老鼠跑得快，我抓不住也不知道抓住了该怎么处理。只好到处找emergency的电话。打了好多个也没人接。终于找到一个emergency office的传呼，（土啊）。总算效率还不错，过了一分钟就有人回电话了。嘿嘿，也不知道现在那只老鼠抓住了没有。
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