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4/16/2008 CNN (Cheat News Network)http://youtube.com/watch?v=2j2bvOq3fLA 刚刚从mailing list上收到的。 其实我不想这么愤青，更从来不会骂人，可是这个家伙太过分了。 如果他说中国人是a bunch of goons and thugs我还一定程度上能接受，毕竟客观存在他把美国人也同样定义为a bunch of goons and thugs的可能。 但是他说the same bunch of goons and thugs as they were in the past 50 years，我就忍无可忍了，这五十年，我们变没变，变了多少，这是多么明显的事。只是过去我们穷的时候他们懒得理我们，现在我们来跟美国人抢工作抢市场这些伪君子们就义愤填膺了，添油加醋无中生有的找茬——"你们凭什么，你们50年来都只是一伙落后无知的暴徒！" 4/15/2008 无限的梦想·有限的一生最近比较愤青，加上实验忙，又为qual发愁，很久都没怎么抱怨自己的小情绪了。不只是没抱怨，也真的没怎么郁闷。尽管还是想gg想家，却实在没有精力去反复想这些没有解的烦恼。或许是越来越理性了，就算是天塌下来也只能自嘲自嘲，然后坐下来想想怎么办——这是roommate评价的实验工作者的优秀品质。
今天晚饭前搜索一下菜谱，再次翻到一位梅子姐姐的博客。已经不是第一次借鉴她的菜谱了，但过去多半是直切正题抄袭一点idea就关了网页，今天突然想看看她的文字。一看不可收拾，翻看了她许多篇博客，都是关于饮食的。看她每天给她老公准备的便当，每天都不重样，实在是千姿百态，令人垂涎欲滴。
看罢除了后悔又花了许多时间翻网页，更是觉得十分遗憾，为何人生如此短暂？突然想起nannan以前写的一首诗，题目原文忘了，大概是“如果世上有两个我”。最初看到这首诗的时候，还处于迷惘的阶段，总觉得人生太久，苦海无边。今天想起，才觉得那是个多么美好的构想。人生太短了，真实的我走着中庸的道路，其实我也很想，试一试做个驰骋商海的所谓女强人，或者抛下所有的不甘，做个温柔贤淑的小女人；如果能成为发明家，或许能改变全世界人明天的生活，或者做艺术家，作一幅一百年后才能有人理解的画。
可是我做不了所有的这些事。虽然我也会做饭，饭做得也算不坏，可是当我看到梅子说，做饭很简单，她每天晚上睡觉前想想明天做什么，我就明白我是永远不可能做出这些让所有人都羡慕的饭菜，因为我每天晚上睡觉前只能在想明天实验做什么……
人生太短，抱怨无益。贴一张新开的花，向大家证明我不是只抱怨的人。
矮牵牛花——仍然是所有花里长的最高的：） 4/9/2008 My opinion about TibetI have classes and meetings today and was not able to go to San Francisco. This afternoon I sat in in my office and thought about what happened in London and what was happening at that time in San Francisco. I've seen the general masses in US and other countries believe Tibet should be an independent country based on nothing but a few medias like CNN. Assuming what those medias talked about Tibet before are somehow persuasive, I'm so shocked that people still believe the story after all the violence. I'm angry. Thus I decide to write a short essay about my naive opinion in my bad English, just to make the foreign people around me, especially those who believe CNN, to think again about Tibet. My opinion is naive but also straightforward. Truth is often simple and straightforward. BTW, everyone is welcome to fix my language and my opinion.
1. History
Nationality and country are two different concepts. One can respect a nationality but can not change a historically established country. Back to the ancient time, the way to define a country is simply to dominate the land and people, usually, by force regardless of the nationality of people living on that land. At sometime, I think after WW II, people decided this is not a good way and wanted to protect human rights. So let's look at Tibet before WW II. In Qing Danasty (actually even earlier, but Qing is early enough for my argument), the central government of China sent governer to Tibet, which is an obvious sign of Tibet governed by China. Then in Republic of China, even the appointment of Panchen Lama needed to be approved by the central government. After PR China was established, Dalai Lama met Mao in Beijing and admitted Tibet as a part of China. In short, Tibet had been a part of China for at least hundreds of years before people claimed about human rights. If the original conquest of Tibet by Yuan Dynasty happened now, we can blame the use of force by Yuan. But it is absolutely ridiculous for Tibet to claim independence after being included in China for such a long time. In this sense I do feel okay with Taiwan as a matter of fact. Taiwan has been an independent country since Nationalists' retreat. It is nothing wrong to claim Taiwan is independent as far as they don't start a war for that. However, how independent they can actually be is another matter. 2. Economy
A country fundamentally lives on economy, not military force or religion. It is impossible for a country that can not raise its own people to be independent. In principle, a country could get help to develop and become independent in future. But unfortunately Tibet is such a special place that no natural resources could support its development. The soil is so impoverished that they can not raise their growing population. The very limited forrest resource is shrinking dramatically. They have a few minerals which can not price much more than the cost of transportation. Most people living outside Tibet get really serious health problem when they go to Tibet because of the altitude stress so the tourism is highly limited. All these facts decide it is impossible for Tibet to be truely independent. Or in other words, assuming it becomes a country, it will still rely on other countries to survive. Then the problem is who is going to support Tibet? China? China is close and capable. But what would be the difference between now and then? How about US, UK or other rich countries? Fine. Then Tibet will be controlled by some other country as a threat to China. In conclusion, neither the other part of China or Tibet could benefit from this "freedom". And it is clear why all these countries want to free Tibet. Most importantly, no real Chinese would allow this to happen. 3. Human rights
To make this long story shorter, I have three points. First, no country in the world allows violence at any time. When innocent citizens are attacked, the only thing to do is to stop the violence. It is unjustified to protect the attackers' human rights rather than to protect innocent people's lives. Second, human rights are not only religious freedom. Freedom is in the first place the chance for everyone to work out a better life. China liberate Tibet from serfdom and provide help for its development. Moreover, extremelized religion, like in old Tibet, is nothing about human rights since no one can actually think about anything different. Third, China is not doing very well in many aspects but people should allow time for changes. Any overquick change will cause instablity and therefore hurt innocent people. Actually China has defintely changed a lot over the decades. Criticism is welcome. But to provoke is not to help. To summarize, it is unreasonable and impossible to free Tibet. And all the violence caused by the exiled Tibetans can only hurt innocent people and make problem worse. So friends, if you do want to help, please think carefully rather than blindly follow either of the two sides.
I will pin this blog article to the top until I think it is truely too naive. 4/1/2008 激动中爸爸妈妈就要来啦！其实还很远，但是已经万事俱备了，忍不住激动一下。
介于大家都很关心签证之类的问题，就说一下整个过程吧，其实很简单的。
首先，预约签证，一般只能约到一个月以后的，所以这是第一件事。
签证准备的材料（红色是实际用到的）
必备的：护照，照片，签证费收据，DS156，DS157。
其中表格是我填好打印好后跟邀请信等一起寄回去的，让父母自己填写中文部分和签名，我是给了一个范本，所有需要手写部分highlight
支持材料：户口本，身份证，房产证，工资存折，邀请信，我的身份证明（护照，签证和I20的复印件），合影照片。
其中邀请信一封来自系里，stanford的同学们可以去http://www.stanford.edu/dept/icenter/InternationalStudents/access/invite_ltr_web_instruct.html下载模版，修改后请系里小米帮忙开具。邀请参加毕业典礼的可以直接由学校开具。另外保险起见我自己也写了一封非常简短的中英文邀请信，权当向签证官解释父母此行目的。
另外由于签证处一向比较混乱，我还详细地写了一份北京使馆签证全过程说明，从西站下火车开始的，写了整整一页A4，有点唐僧……不过如果谁的父母近期在北京签证还可以找我要，虽然罗嗦，但是也意味着极其详尽。
然后父母就去了北京，当天早上7点的火车到，打车去签证处，在签证处门口的中信交费，从进使馆到出来邮寄，花了两个小时——比我两次签证都快，虽然据父母说人很多。
注意交表的时候说明两人是一起的。
遇到的是一个华裔女签证官，中文十分流利。
先问女儿是否回来过，答曰冬天刚回来过。
再问此行目的，答曰看望女儿顺便旅游。
要照片，很仔细的翻了一遍，（不知为什么）问是国内哪个学校毕业的，答曰清华。
“你们的签证通过了，再见！”
于是我就开始买机票了，用的是庄芫推荐的http://backchina.travelsuperlink.com 上的问票平台，很多代理报价，最后在一家纽约的代理处买下CA的直飞票，往返$880。今年暑假的行情基本是只要在7月之前出发就很便宜，所以我最后买了6月30日出发的。 香雪球终于发现这个名字还是有physical meaning的了。我的Alyssum再也不是几朵单薄的小花了，团结力量大啊！
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