——在周二下午就已经结束了...囧

情况大概是:

周一：

大早起来开始梳妆打扮...西装革履的出门，终于第一次见到Zhan Beilei师姐，之后半个多月就要拜托她接送我上班和来去Brooklyn-长岛了。感激不尽Orz

到了公司，第一天忙忙碌碌的弄入职手续、培训和Set up之类的，但是公司对我的材料并没有准备好，而且我刚开始被安排在Lab的一个角落，后来我的boss看我坐那里挺可怜，想起来还有一个cubic可以安排我，又把我挪到那边，于是关于电脑的事情又要重新来一次。一直到这一天结束我都没有还没有正式开始工作...然后就坐上师姐的车回家了。

回家后炖了一大锅排骨萝卜汤，真好喝，接下来几天就靠它了，以后要多炖汤！

周二：

总算把入职的基本事项搞定，初步开始了工作。总算联系上了Michael Greenstein教授，跟这位神龙见首不见尾的教授预约了第二天周三下午见面办理CPT，于是刚开始工作就请假一天...

周三：

还是拜托师姐早上接我，送到火车站然后赶回Brooklyn办各种晕菜事儿。在学校总算把CPT流程走到最后一步，结果被告知要等5天才能拿到我的CPT，可是...明明师姐说最后一步也就两三分钟的事儿，为啥要拖这么久？！

而公司的HR大姐更是落井下石地打电话告诉我，如果我没有办好的CPT，他们不能让我在那里上班...最fz的是，确认这个消息是在我上了回长岛的火车之后。。。两周前这位大姐可是说先来吧没事儿，之后办好了就成。现在来这么一下，让我之后两天呆在那个小牢房里面么难道？

于是我这周的上班是正式结束鸟，只能盼望着学校能在周五帮我把CPT弄好，我就可以周末回Brooklyn拿到然后下周一带过去上班了。

周四：

学校那边哪会这么积极啊，这天电话问来问去的也只是说有可能周五弄好，希望不大，我很纳闷，为什么几分钟的事情这么难呢？

这天睡了个懒觉，然后下午跟着室友少蓬去SUNY-SB转了转，还去了一下健身房，让我想起了我跟大黄数月前持续了一个多月的健身计划...自从买了蛋白粉我们结果逐渐停了锻炼...

周五：

决定主动出击，大早又麻烦师姐送我到车站，赶回Brooklyn，在学校OISS办公室门口待着，不给我办我就不走了..反正我现在也哪儿去不了。好吧，没有这么夸张和赖皮，我只是跟管事儿的头解释了一下自己的情况，来去很不方便，希望能当天拿到CPT，等到下午都行。Michael说，我们要一周时间来处理，你要耐心。话虽这么说，不过他还是让Sherly和GA开始处理我的CPT了。

让我吃惊的是，真跟传说中的一样，5分钟后我拿到CPT...早这样不就行了么，倒。

短短五天内我最大的三点感受：

1.早睡早起真不好玩:(

每天早起洗澡着装，然后晚上回家随便做个饭上个网就又该睡觉了...觉得生命被加速消耗ing...这样的日子至少还有3个月...不远的将来还有N年...

2.印度人退散！！

我知道不该这麽说...我也没有对印度同学的歧视什么的，希望没有懂中文的印度朋友恰好看到囧。Anyway, 在学校四处可见的印度兄弟身上的味道实在让我有点那啥，而搬来长岛第一天晚上去的印度超市里面的味道更是像一个下马威一般让我心有余悸，再想到自己要到一个公司的软件开发部门，那印度人必然满眼都是啊。

没想到的是，400人的公司也不算小了，里面几乎没有看到一个印度人，黑人都很少，主要都是白人，还有亚裔。我们软件开发部也是这样，大概四分之一是中国人，然后其他都是白人，真是让人神清气爽！再次声明...没有任何种族歧视的意思...何况我们才是经常被歧视的对象，sigh。

3.PUSH PUSH and PUSH MORE!!

在美国办事，一定要为自己的权益PUSH相关部门和人才行。这话不是我说的，是一个来美国很多年的朋友的话，我也是最近才真正体会到。因为感觉每个人都很忙，你不PUSH对方的话，对方就有可能把你的事情放在一边就那么放着，不知道等到什么时候高兴了才帮你弄。这次实习的paperwork就是这样，从公司HR部门到学校的相关办公室，全部都给你拖，你不催人家就不给你办。而且像我入职第一天，很多事情都应该HR部门提早准备好的，也是临到用时被催着弄的。

当然，也许这只是因为我现在只是一个外国学生或者实习生的关系，希望往后事情会变简单一些。不过，如果你的事情你自己都不积极的话，人家肯定更加放羊了，所以这个思想还是有用的吧。

上周五在Brooklyn的家里最后一夜，然后第二天上午就搬家来到长岛了，终于离开了房东老妖婆，开心。新家所在town是Selden，公司在Bohemia，开车大概20分钟吧。不过暂时没有驾照，车保险会很贵，等16号路考以后再买车。

没有车在长岛是不能生活的，这点从刚搬去的那个下午就感觉到了，整理完东西我发现自己简直是被囚禁在这个小房间里面了，哪儿都去不了...如果你认为这很糟的话，那么还有更可怕的在后面。我到处都找不到笔记本电脑的电源适配器...这产生的直接后果就是，这天晚上9点半我躺到了床上...

好在和几个朋友打电话消磨了时间，不过还是很早就入睡了...珍爱睡眠，远离电脑...

不过这将意味着我接下来的几天都没有电脑用，加上没有车，那就是户外室内活动都没有了...总不能整天打电话和睡觉吧。好在善良富有的Lily夫妇伸出援助之手...他们愿意帮我晚上到我家帮我拿适配器然后转交给第二天去教堂的同学再给我。不过问题是，家里没有人啊，sublet给的女生回长岛拿东西要第二天才回去，也就是说。。。要按房东老妖婆门铃让她放人进去了，这妖孽必然怒不可遏。不过只有一样东西能让她忘记其他纷扰，那就是绿花花的美钞。正值月末，于是Lily打着为我交房租的名义过去按门铃，可怜Lily BF戴同学这天刚下飞机到JFK第一件事就是帮我取现金付房租...就这样。。。第二天将从许云那里拿到了我的适配器和顺便捎来的棒球手套。

第二天是周日，因为前一天睡得很早，所以大早就精神矍铄的起来了，洗完澡发现还是7点不到，开车来接我去教堂的Paul Jensen要九点半才能到我家门口，又陷入无事可做，于是诞生了下面某装13系列照片...，这里贴出来跟硕博士比比谁的头发长！

...没错，就在我在长岛无聊透顶的时候...这些家伙在北京high得不行...(呼，从那么一堆他们的照片里面就找到这么一张正常点的...真是颇有些想念这些家伙。硕博士...在米国大乡村被带坏鸟，咳咳，等他过阵子来纽约见到真人再说；彭没啥变化，不过话说当初跟我们熬夜麻将的时候可没有这么精神；祝同学是不是长高了...；旺旺有点没精神；李杨乐真PP~）嗯，后面三张比较像草莓百分百里面的色情男...这个周六会回去NYC理发，短期内不能装13鸟。

装完13一般都很累的...一不小心又睡着到9点多，飞奔下楼，还好Paul的车刚刚到门口还没停稳。去教堂的路上跟Paul有的没的聊了聊长岛的生活和美国的风俗习惯，中途还在Deer Park接到他的乌克兰养女。

这周日的Service，NBC请来了另一个教会的某著名Pastor做了一次同步手语的关于计划人生的演说，他真是很了不起，先讲述了自己怎么走上为聋哑人服务和发展所在教会聋哑人传教的经历，然后之后就是一边说一边打手语，其口才和手才都让我十分佩服。

另外在worship the God的时候我第二次听到了一首十分好听的歌，叫做Hosanna，光从音乐的角度这就已经是一首很赞的歌了。回家后我特意在网上找到原唱，听了之后让我十分惊叹教会大妈的歌喉，好吧，不是什么大妈，30来岁一个挺pp的大姐，歌声太赞了，比原唱唱的都好听。Anyway，推荐这首Hillsong United的Hosanna：    

从教堂回来后我也要开始我的棒球传教鸟，对象就是我刚认识的新室友绍鹏。这个可爱的大三小男生带我跑来Stony Brook打球，他对棒球并不感冒，先自己和朋友打篮球，我一个人在这个陌生的学校寻找到棒球场，三个球场竟然两个是空的，这在City里面的Park简直难以想象。总算在远处第三个球场里面找到有两个亚洲面孔的家伙在传球，遂加入一起玩。这两个家伙不断惊叹我的传球XD，只是之后就越传越离谱了，不过总算在这没什么棒球气氛的学校认识了两个打球的朋友，约好之后周末再一起玩。

第二天周一就要开始第一天上班了！God Bless!

还有4分钟到北京时间14:28，到点发文，然后为祖国和人民默哀，为受灾的地区、人们祷告。

还有3分钟...

还有2分钟...同时也为中国祷告，请主保佑她。

还有一分钟。

Publish，开始默哀.

"努力去争取快乐，爱与被爱，最重要的，是求得心灵的宁静"
"愿心平安！"
                                                        ——《世界上最伟大的推销员》

I lost my peace again...

额...有点装13的在上面引用了两句刚开始读的书里面的话。因为跟我最近一直说的想的东西很相近吧，所以还是贴了上来。嗯，接着上一篇的，Interview Day后，春假最后四天，花了前面两天去了一趟华盛顿吧，然后接下来周末两天就是补充睡眠、复习考试和准备面试了。

本来好像可以写很多的华盛顿之行，貌似用所谓"很好，很快乐"形容也足够了。

What happened in the following week...took an exam? and what? I guess things have been filtered or...should I say erased?

If I must put a description on it. As I wrote in two foregoing logs, I have been a battlefield, for me and me. What I felt like to do vs. what I should do in Jesus' name which was actually just in my own conceit. Maybe neither of them were God's plan for me.

Maybe that's why God gave me another lesson, which still seems inapprehensible to me.

Here's another song I want to share, "Frey - How To Save a Life":

"And pray to God he hears you."

Speaking of praying to God, on the last day of the two weeks' log, I went to the chuch, with an exam to go on the next day...I had to ask God...

Thus, when pastor lead peole to pray, I went forward and knelt in front of the Cross. I prayed to God that I need his wisdom and guiding for me, hope he lead me to the place where I can find peace again, and give me an answer about my question. Pastor said sometimes we know God may not answer our requests immediately, we just have to keep trusting. I do.

也许是看到我最近的虔诚-_-...教会的朋友有意让我2周后受洗。这看起来像是一个huge step for me，我比较犹豫。不过按照他们的说法，接受耶稣才是最大的一个step，而洗礼只是一个形式。额...我又弄错了，尽管如此，尽管我确实take Jesus as my savior and believe in him，我对这个形式还是比较慎重。或者说，我觉得这意义很重大，我希望自己在受洗的时候，自己是一个真正的基督徒吧。而最近的状况让我觉得自己好像做的并不合格。

当天晚上正犹豫着的时候，收到一封email，其中一段话化释了我不少顾虑，原文链接如下：

http://blog.creaders.net/qianqian/user_blog_diary.php?did=19243

“亲爱的朋友,

你问怎么样才能信神, 对我来说, 这个问题就是, 怎么样才能成为一个基督徒.

其实要成为基督徒说简单也很简单的, 不是有首歌唱道:

Come just as you are...

不管你现在是怎样一个人, 怎样一种状况, 只要来到神的跟前就可以了. 我们根本不需要等自己一切都完美了才信基督, 我们也不可能完美. 正因为我们不完美, 我们才信基督. 信基督从很大的意义上讲是表示: 我们需要神的帮助.”

嗯，以上，就是之前两周了，这个周末，4.6前决定4.13到底要不要受洗吧。

忙碌混沌地过了最近两周半，忙找工作、忙project、忙考试、忙赶作业，说的好像很正经似的...其实同时也在春假疯玩了一通...一个一个deadline接踵而来，一直在折腾，最后还没啥成就感...
Besides...I've been blue.
"Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend." -- Fray - How To Save A Life
太平洋时间愚人节，赶在某公司实习编程测试deadline的最后3分钟内提交了结果，松了一口气，决定记录一下最近两周来的好玩的事情。嗯，就从Palm Sunday（3.16.2008）后开始吧。

St Patrick's Day(3.17)，最初这个节日是为了纪念St Patrick主教大人，但是现在发展成为一个绿衣绿帽狂欢节了，人们嗨皮的绿着一身游行、作乐、去爱尔兰酒吧。它主要在爱尔兰、英国、美国东北部流行。

总之，出于对绿色的喜爱，我很早就号召去参加今年的第五大道游行。于是这天大清早的，我们家仨人加上Sunny同学就兴冲冲地穿着绿色衣服赶到游行现场。不过...凛冽的寒风和低温让我们没在街上待几分钟就赶紧躲进了Apple Store，趁机尝试了一下nb哄哄的Apple Air:

诺，如上面第二张图，离开的时候，我特意把网页留在了YouTube上"Tibet WAS, IS and WILL ALWAYS BE a part of China"这个Video的页面，那两天正是西藏暴乱吵得不可开交的时候。

说到这个，游行中还正好有几次出现左图的队伍，举着"ENGLAND GET OUT OF IRELAND"(英格兰滚出爱尔兰!)的旗子。这么说的话，西藏要求独立也似乎可以理解，但是这个世界是以实力说话的，人家爱尔兰和北爱好歹也是有军队打了那么多年，藏独们却完全是遏制中国的一个恶心玩意儿，根本就没有独立的基础和实力，而且，强大的中国也不是如今被蹂躏成碎片的南斯拉夫。

想起一句话，奥运就是唐僧肉，谁都想来吃一口，今年要跳出来闹腾的不会少的，现在不就有一堆了么。本来我还心里很不爽，后来一想，被抵制过的奥运主办国貌似就美国、苏联、德国还有偶们了，多NB呀哈哈~没办法，如今世界就是对中国和中国人不爽和仇视，我们也只能接受这个事实然后好好发展自己了。(希望本文不会被和谐...)

Love our land, love our Central Kingdom!!

好了，还是来说游行吧，游行中最多的就是"Pipes and Drums"的队伍了，大概占五分之一吧，色彩斑斓的爱尔兰格子裙还有优美嘹亮的风笛是我的最爱。

这种衣服需要体型魁梧，最好还有点胖，穿着会十分神气和威风。

除了爷们儿，当然也没忘拍下美女们:

最后这张照片里面的女生很好玩，制作了这样的标语，"偶不是爱尔兰人，我来这里只是为了警察~"。所以每当警察游行队伍过路时，她们就成了最受警察叔叔喜爱的小姑娘，警察们争相跟她们拥抱、合影，哈哈。

不过你以为就只是如此的话，那就错了。最精彩的就是，这个标语是双面的，另一面只是把"POLICEMEN"改成了"FIREMEN"！所以消防队员gg们经过的时候同样也为之疯狂。其实她们有4个人，另外两个人也有这样一张标语牌，没有在照片里面。估计这4个女孩是这天被帅哥拥抱和合影最多的幸运儿了XD。

差点忘了满大街的爱尔兰国旗和绿帽儿:

...我的绿帽儿其实不是我的，而是在Disney Store的角落拿着店里的帽子偷偷拍的囧rz。没错...因为太冷，其实我们一直沿着第五大道逆着游行方向走走停停的看，隔一段时间就到一个店里取取暖再出来继续前进。比较好玩的就是这家Disney店了，除了店里琳琅满目的好东西，最搞笑的就是，我们四个跑到地下一层上洗手间的时候，一个男人在那里当coordinator。他指挥着Men进Ladies' Room，而Ladies则被要求进Men's Room！原因其实是女洗手间里面有一个男清洁员在打扫，囧...无论如何，既来之，则安之，在米国有幸使用了一次女洗手间:

除了Disney Store，我们还穿越了St Patrick大教堂，正好也叫St Patrick，应景! 这座大教堂真是很宏伟很漂亮。虽然我信基督教，却对天主教堂由衷地赞叹和喜爱。待在这样的教堂里面，HOLY的感觉油然而生，不需要用文字语言来描述。进行了短暂的祷告后我们才离开这座北美最大的天主教堂。

终于走到了游行起点处，幸运的找到一个胖乎乎的爱尔兰人拍照留念XD

PS: 我把42 St的中国领事馆记错成在5 Ave了，一直寻觅未果。结果在去地铁站的路上赫然看到对岸在纽约的领事馆...

Sleeping Day! 话说春假前我对大黄说，春假开始棒球集训！每天早上去球场训练，备战即将开始的长岛垒球赛季。结果从周六开始到这时已经是第4天了...周六去了法拉盛K歌，周日去了教堂，周一去了曼哈顿看游行，周二总应该开始训练了吧...

无奈前三天每天都早出晚归的...周二一觉睡到了下午，补充了充足的体力-0-

Interview Day! Last week, I got a call from a company in Long Island. I had been preparing for their phone interview for more than 2 weeks, thank god they finally called me. However, they made a little change. The phone interview was changed into an on-site one, which was good but also became a much bigger challenge for me. Cuz...I had never been to an on-site interview before!

I was so nervous that I stayed up all night...I started taking bath and dressing up myself since morning and they took me for like nearly 2 hours...which nearly made me miss the train.

When I got there, it was more than 1 hour earlier than the interview time. I had no choice, because I would be late if I took the next train.

This company seems awesome, their products are widely used in US Military Weapons. To name some: Tank M1A2, Fighter Planes F-15, F-16, F-35...

The interview went so-so, at least I thought so. The talk with HR lady was good while the following talk with director went not well. I prepared so much stuff, but he just asked one major question even without letting me finish it...he stopped me there and then gave me a short tour of the company. Oh, come on, I followed the Interview Skill Book from McGill Univ., which said such questions should be given that long to answer!

Anyway, I guess there are not much for me to do but praying now.

Back to that day, here comes the "BEST" part...which is why I write this day's story in English, because I don't want my parents to know...So any of you guys who see the story, keep it a secret for me from my parents OK?

Due to my staying up, I was so tired on the train back to New York. Yea right, I fell asleep. Right now I just wish I kept sleeping till arriving at destination...which would only waste me less than 1 hour for taking train from Penn Station at Manhattan to Brooklyn.

Unfortunately, I woke up. Not only that I woke up, I woke up at the "perfect timing". Guess what, when I woke up, the train just arrived at Jamaica Station, where I should get off and transfer to another train to Brooklyn. So I jumped off the train right before the train left.

After successfully transferring to the Brooklyn-bound train, I even said to myself, "Woo, that was close~"... Only 3 minutes later, I realized something was missing.

"Holy sh*t, my camera! My f**king DEAR CAMERA is on that train!!" >_<

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Well, funniest thing is, I transferred all my photos from camera to my laptop that morning on the train to Long Island. So I left a perfect "clean" "brand new" camera for a god damned son of bitch who found my camera without turnning it in.

I called the LIRR lost-found with a slight hope. I asked what the chance is that I get my stuff back. Answered by a nice young lady, "40%". Now here we are, 2 weeks later, still nothing...

:((

So there won't be many photos from me in New York in the near future...

Take care of your stuff guys, I know of course you will...I am the only one who is “不靠谱”。

"没谱青年，勇往直前！" I like this saying cited from July.

 
The huge cemetery I talked about, click to see it on Google Maps.

I have been asked "how's it going with the court?" "have you been to the court yet?" these days, thank you guys for caring. Actually, though a little bit annoying, the whole thing seemed funny and interesting to me at the first place. It was like, "oh! OK, just bring it on". (For those who don't know what the hell I am talking on here, click here to check it out.)

Here's the current situation. After looking into the matter, I and my roomate Bruce found we were absolutely clear, the current evidence won't hold up the charge that NYPD put on us.

1.We didn't break the park rules.

Here are the photos I took of the Friends Field's park rules:

See? It says the park closes at dusk, that's right. But look above, it just probid people ENTERING the park after it is closed. We didn't re-ENTER the park after entering it around 2 PM, we just stayed in the damn park, played football. The police stopped us when we were leaving the park around 5:30 PM, we were leaving, not entering, and that's it.

2.We left before dusk.

According to the dusk time on http://www.gaisma.com/en/, dusk time was 17:51on Feb 9th, the day we were caught. And here comes my favorite part, the time the police put on our summons was 17:50. Hahah, this is exactly what I need here.

In sum, the charge on us won't hold.

I also told these to the OISS(Office for International Students and Scholars) officer, Micheal. After listening to me and seeing all the documents and evidence that I presented, Micheal said, you guys should be fine, and, wow, you should be studying at a law school. Of course he was kidding.

I gonna be fine~ Thanks.

补上一篇来.

已经是上上周日了，也就是2月3日。从早上去教堂开始，大家互相的问候就是晚上什么安排，言语中掩饰不住的兴奋。当然了，因为这天是米国人民最激动的日子，超级碗！而且今年NY Giants艰难地打进了最后的决赛，对手还是本赛季18站全胜的来自Boston地区的新英格兰爱国者队(NE Patriots)，向来与Boston棒球迷、橄榄球迷大眼对小眼的纽约人民自然也更加有所期待了。

我们几个当然也不闲着，下午从教堂回来就叫上一帮人直奔“老友公园”，然后开始了5v5的touch规则橄榄球比赛。最后貌似是我们家为主的一方赢了，不过结果不重要，重要的是又让几个新人接触了橄榄球，以后可以叫来的人就会越来越多。

晚上我们家也跟风米国人民办了个party一起看球，虽然前面3节除我和老戴之外大家注意力都在做饭、聊天和啤酒上面了..不过第四节着实让所有人全身心投入了一把。

新英格兰的18-0全胜记录后面确实有着其强大的实力，其brady有伤在身的情况下，咱们巨人队也是艰难的应付着。前三节的大致情况就是刚开始巨人队通过Field Goal取得小领先，但是马上就被NE轻松达阵；3-7的比分僵持到第三节，NY终于又找到机会攻入NE达阵区将比分改写成为10-7。

来到第四节。NE每次落后之后的反攻都十分流畅和轻松，这次从自己的20码左右到最后达阵竟然几乎全部是Frist Down搞到新的First Down。而比分成为10-14的时候，巨人队只剩下差不多3分钟了，而且只能通过Touch Down的方式挽回局势，前面，还有80码。巨人的进攻一如既往的艰难，几乎没有推进，似乎败局已定，老戴都想离开电视机了。

...I said to Bruce, "Let's pray." Cause this reminded me the story told by pastor on that day. It was about Moses and Joshua winning one battle by fighting on two levels, body and soul. So...holding our hands together, we prayed for Giants to get another touch down and win.

Guess what, after just that, Manning got a long distance throw done, which re-lighted up all Giants fans' hopes. Only 30 yards to win! And they did it. We went absolutely crazy, didn't care what the hell our landlord would say.

I said to Bruce, this baby's going into my testimony. Sure I was kidding...but I did write this to a friend from church. You know what..he agreed with me and said one day I would give a testimony on that...Well...I guess I'll put this away for now, but I definitely will try to truly understand that.

The most important thing right now is, NY won! And defeating Boston surely made this more exciting and awesome~

Next thing, of course is celebratioin. On my way sending Yini home and back, there were people talking about the game everywhere, on subway, in street and etc; and some even started celebration party in the midnight. But none of these would compare to the Big Winning Parade at Manhattan and Jersey City on the coming Tuesday. NYC was crazy about this championship not only because it was SuperBowl, also NY hadn't won a championship since like forever. The last time Giants won the SuperBowl is 17 years ago, and the last time NY was the champion was Yankees' winning the WorldSeries in 2000. That makes this championship even bigger deal to New Yokers.

Alright, pictures talk louder than words. Check it out:

一出地铁站就被漫天飞扬的纸片震撼了。

City Hall站被封了，我们只能从Rector st下车。Broadway两侧隔着一个街区就被封了，我们这些来晚了的人只能隔着一个街区叹息。不过终于在某个关卡，警察大叔们仁慈的打开路障了，也是因为这里是一处工地的原因吧。。。总之赶紧往里钻！

想看到游行就不能在地面。。。蹲杆儿的、站起重机的，还有玩杂耍的-0-

我和Jason在人群中不忘互相拍照留念..话说Jason的相机在他攀爬过程中还掉落地面了一次,cft

18-1！！OUR JOBs DONE~

New York! Let's Go Giants!!

话说我家附近除了有一片很大的墓地之外，还有一个"老友公园"(Friends Field)，有橄榄球场棒球场网球场等，每周六我们都召集一干人来这里打橄榄球或者棒球。刚开始的时候只有我和被我生拉硬拽上的室友..因为大陆同学都对这两项运动不感冒嘛，现在人越来越多了，每周都能玩的很开心。

嗯，故事背景总是和谐的，事情就这样发生鸟..

这周六我们一帮人又来打橄榄球，同样的时间，晚上5点半回家。结果这次，有两辆警车在外面候着，五六个警察上来把我们拦住，问我们有没有ID。因为边上他们还抓了几个墨西哥人，刚开始我还以为就是说查一下身份合法性。由于跟我们说话的女警十分pp，笑得又甜...我们还傻笑着回应着，一边还自己用中文说“这个女警还真漂亮啊”之类的。她说我们违反了"You cannot stay in the park after dusk, do you know what dusk is?"。等把我们名字、生日等个人信息收集之后，换了个魁梧的男警察过来给我们一人开了一张传票。。。。让我们4.28之前跑去346 Broadway出庭。

霹雳...

啥？天黑后在公园里面就要上法庭？！

而且这才五点多啊，我说，是不是随着季节你们来抓人也时间不同啊。答曰，是的。

最后两辆警车开走了。。。据说临走前pp女警还回首妩媚地说了一句"sorry guys"，我没有亲见，不过亲见了的几个人心中的郁闷指数下降了倒是。

回到家上网查了一下这方面的信息，有可能到时候就是为了罚我们的钱。据网上说，这是补贴州政府财政的方法，就是警察没事出来开罚单什么的。像NY和CA两个州，每年罚单赚到的补贴能有几亿美元。强盗。。。

Anyway, 去见识一下美帝法庭好了，破财消灾之。

两周多前我就跟大黄说我们除夕搞个party吧，包饺子打牌什么的。然后有的没的说了两周，中间出现了诸如房东不同意、学校春节活动冲突之类的阻力，终于在周二，除夕前一天拍板决定下来。从当天晚上开始大购物，一直到三十这天下午才把东西买齐...

OK，let's get the party started!

做饺子、吃火锅、打牌、杀人...下面这张图片我们本来想送给学校做招新广告，名字就叫做poly男生的幸福春节。

不过当然了，还有我们家三口，哈哈：

话说我那视如己出的饺子们还真是好吃啊...哈哈

家和万事兴,
骅人普天庆,
拜拜神与灵,
年年好心情.

一首打油诗送上，祝大家新年快乐~

家和万事兴,
骅人普天庆,
拜拜神与灵,
年年好心情.

一首打油诗送上，祝大家新年快乐~

续12-08-2007

从MoMA出来，既然都来到这里了，当然不能错过洛克菲勒中心的全球最大的圣诞树啦。于是到第五大道上往南，走过几个街区就到了纽约圣诞节的象征所在的地方：

嗯，洛克菲勒中心的THE TREE屹立了75年，今年是第一次采用彩色灯光设计，以往都是传统的亮黄灯，就像我们学校所在的MetroTech Center的这棵一样。同样都是Center，同样都是圣诞树...咋差别这么大捏hahah

I know...You wanna ask, what the hell is this thing above?

Let me tell you, this is the hell what MODERN ART is!! hahah~

That's right, I went to the MoMA (The Museum of Modern Art) on Friday night, 12-07-2007. MoMA offers free admission to all visitors during 4 PM to 8PM every Friday. Today when Zhan told us about this at 5 PM, we were all excited and eager to take this advantage...so we, a group of seven, ran out of lab, heading Manhattan Island.

When we got there, it was almost 6. And Zhan had to store his black backbag, which could highly likely to be a bomb hazard in securities' eyes. The line to storing compartment was long, we had no choice but wait, otherwise we couldn't get in. Accept it, this is New York. Therefore we actually only got two hours in the museum, far far from finishing it, we just took a quick tour at 3 floors.

However, oh my, it was absolutely 2 AMAZING HOURS! I will definetely often come back, on Friday nights, of course XD...

Cause I had no camera, I deemed it other's duty to take photos, especially when Zhan, such a pro, was in the group. Again, I recommend his online public photo album: http://www.flickr.com/photos/zhanma.

For me, I only took a few pictures with my cell phone not long before leaving the museum. Their content may be neither great nor from celebrity like Van Gogh or Picasso, (not to mention the photo quality...come one, cell phone, baby, cell phone >_< Guys, donate me a camera...) but they might have put some thoughts, either funny or strange, in my head when I looked at them, and that's why I took them.

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We started with the 6th floor, because this is where MoMA holds special exhibitions. One exhibition often lasts for several months then another one comes up. The exhibition on this day was Georges Seurat: The Drawings, which goes from Oct 28th 2007 to Jan 7th 2008.

I really enjoyed this exhibition, maybe because I drew when I was a kid. Some of the drawings were incredible, they just gripped me in front of them, still, forgetting to walk nor take pictures. I am sure someone will enjoy this as much as I was. I found two of my favorite drawings from the online exhibition: "Railway Tracks" and "Place de la Concorde, Winter", which I'd like to share with you guys:

Railway Tracks (1881-1882)                  Place de la Concorde, Winter (1882-1883)

Another exhibition going on was Martin Puryear, which I rather refer as "all kinds of crap, but awesome and esthetical". You may notice the two strange photos left-above, yes, it's one of the Martin Puryear works. Actually this was one of my 2 favorites. It's called "Ad Astra", which I totally have no idea about. Located on 2nd floor, its top tip seemed not far from people who look at it on 6th floor, you may imagine how tall this thing is. 19.2 m ! That's the height. Zhan said its pole part was one single part of a tree. Holy wow, how huge was that tree?! Well, the online exhibition picture is showed on right. The other my favorite works is "In Sheep's clothing", whose picture is also from the online exhibition. It's showed left below.

In Sheep's Clothing (1996)                                Starry Night (1889)

嗯...梵高的《星月夜》...这应该是MoMA馆藏中名声最大的展品之一了。从六层一路下来匆匆看完五层和四层的"绘画与雕塑"类展品，只有这幅作品感觉最像画，或者说最像话...? 的确, 现代艺术的绘画和雕塑太"深奥"了，之所以加引号是因为我目前的艺术欣赏水平看来，它们都太无聊和浅显了。但愿今后多次来这里陶冶之后能从塞尚或者毕加索的画里面顿悟出什么。

（话说...贴完两张图以后怎么就变成中文了...或许我潜意识到时间不够我折腾英文了...）

在四五层还是拍了两张照片，如下:

第一个被我们命名为"扬州炒饭"。我前面不是说了么，我拍的照片上的东西一定是我看它的时候它给我脑中输送了些东西我才拍的(这句话写完我都b4自己语文表达能力-_- 读不懂别难过,前面有英文版原句...)。这张"扬州炒饭"就偷偷给我灌输了艺术思想，以至于夜里我做饭突发奇想做了左边这道菜，而且当时还鬼使神差拍了照下来，直到现在写博客的时候我才意识到，这...是艺术的力量啊！

第二个是我来米国后见到的n面星条旗之一，不过这面是最昂贵和有名的了，其材料很独特，"画布"是铺在板子上的报纸。暂时我还不知道我为什么要拍它，或许过几天我要做出一道这幅德行的菜？

转着转着发现我已经跟大部队脱离了，于是一个人来到第三层，摄影区。说到摄影，公布一个消息，硕博士斥资网购了一台相机，不久大家就能欣赏他美好的生活了。这里也有一个Exhibition: New Photography 2007: Tanyth Berkeley, Scott McFarland, Berni Searle。我只看了两三个房间正准备专心研究某Topless Girls照片的时候就接到电话说他们已经在一楼了，要关门了，赶紧闪人。于是心怀一丝遗憾离开了这个展区。好吧，裸女的确是有的，不过遗憾是因为这些作品真是很赞，让我对摄影从一无所知到了虽然一无所知但是有了些许兴趣的程度。平时看到nb照片会惊叹其技术和器材，但是这里让我感叹摄影师的思想，如果摄影师自己的眼睛是镜头，大脑是暗室或者打印机，说不定我们看到的作品将更加惊世骇俗。

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上面左边就是我的一次尝试...至于右边，是一张人物照片作品的名字：Meredith。Grey's Anatonmy的主角，其演员在friends里面也出现过，虽然很多人说她很丑...但是我觉得其嘴角十分勾人-_-，在我当时看friends的时候就这么觉得了...当然了那一集也过于搞笑了，就是Ross跟Chandler本科时候约定都不追某个mm那一集,那个mm就是这里我说的Meredith了。

赶往一楼的途中又看到一个有意思的展品，一面镜子，但是上面有一盏小红灯，这就成了艺术供奉在博物馆了。拍照留恋一张！

喂喂，眼神别往右边移，右边那个美腿丝袜长靴女不是我，我在正中间谢谢。

最后说说逛完MoMA的感想吧，除去前面写的很惊艳很想再去之外的：

1.现代艺术就是抢着把让人看不懂的或者简单得不行但是没人做过的抢着做出来。拿绘画为例：

比如本篇最开始那张图，啥啊那是。其实这还好，至少看着觉得还有些色彩的错综复杂构成的美感。而毕加索大人的画...幅幅价值连城，但是幅幅都云里雾里而且觉得很丑...

至于简单的不行的东西呢，比如把一个罐头广告放大贴到墙上，接着再贴一个在边上，接着贴一个到底下...贴出一个n×m的同一个广告的阵，如果你是第一个这么做的，那么这就成了可以出现在众美术书籍或是博物馆中的名作了。

不过，如果你脸皮厚点，做第二个也是有可能继续捡便宜的。比如一个不是很白的纸上用纯白色的颜料涂出来一个正方形，就叫做《White on White》!，而更搞笑的是往下走一层看到一个基本上一样的作品，名字是《Two Whites》....fz啊

2.曼哈顿美女真多...

不只是在曼哈顿的美女(美国女)漂亮，世界各地来这里的女生都很不错...中国的、日韩的、欧洲的、俄国的等等等等，质量都比NYC其他地方好太多了。所谓其他地方，指的就是我所在的Brooklyn了，虽然Brooklyn的中部偏上的那片也是很不错的社区，金发美女帅哥成群，无奈我学校和家刚好在其一上一下。

曼哈顿...多年后等我赚够了钱我会想来定居一两年的...

累...闷...这就是这周的感受，于是周五晚上决定出去释放一下。

4男4女，貌似其中一半是本科小孩。先在一个叫作红筷子的上海餐厅吃饭，食物都很精致，味道很赞。不过黄步轩说一般，看来是我忍受自己的厨艺和西餐已久的缘故吧。刚坐下的时候，斜对面的本科生小孩让我吃了一惊，这不是helen嘛，什么时候变大波浪卷发了。她也是大三的，长得和helen特别像，不过后来站起来之后发现原来是迷你版的helen，呵呵，cute。

吃完饭来到据说刚开不久的一家叫作DIYuan的KTV，名字比较ft...一路走上去到包厢内，从环境到服务生，简直跟国内的KTV一摸一样，再看点歌系统，轻车熟路呀。这里唱歌还是挺便宜的，十多块钱一个小时，看来主要是做饮品小食的生意了。

进入正题说说唱歌吧，歌曲库、音效、电视、环境一定让远在大陆另一端的硕博士口水直流，话说，硕博士，为了来爽一把K歌，你也应该圣诞来纽约呀。我随便唱了几首熟悉的，反正不会有人说你怎么又唱这个...以此骗取了现场观众的好评^^。话说离开了北京，离开了歌神彭英柯，在这里很惊讶的发现另一个声音迷人的家伙，那就是我的室友黄步轩。虽然他技巧什么的应该比不上专业彭，但是声音真是很赞，十分浑厚的男中音，让迷你helen倾倒不已，屡次要求跟他合唱，一曲一曲地问他会不会唱。可怜的黄同学哭丧着对我咬咬牙说，55，亏了，基本上不会男女合唱的，估计从此开始跟硕博士一样开始努力练习新歌！另外mini helen也唱的非常好...高水准麦霸...而且真的很cute，我本性难移地强烈控着卷发XD, yeah

By the bye, someone told me to write down my everyday most pleasure thing, making life easier and better, which I doubt though...

Anyway, the most pleasure thing in Friday was:

I had a good time at KTV and met a mini helen with cute hair, who by the way I didn't hit on...just make things clear XD

上来写一篇~

光光节本来是要去长岛参加教会活动的，结果早上7点醒来以后把闹钟一按就继续睡到了9点...错过了

呆在家里也冷，干脆跑到学校去了，在实验室看了一整天的程序和paper...对H.264和SVC有了新的理解，其实就是把之前模糊的概念弄清晰了点，嗅到了兴趣的味道，有了动力XD

再次感叹美国人太没有素质了，或者说纽约城里人太没素质了！

来之前听说他们不闯红灯，但是感觉整个曼哈顿只有我等白灯，这是我从小时候开始一直的习惯，改不了；

来之前听说超市不用塑料袋，但是至今还没有发现这样的超市，而且超市给的塑料袋一个比一个大方；

来之前听说汽车让人，我前两天却差点被车撞了。

我当时在曼哈顿的切尔西，于W 23rd th和9th Av的路口向北过马路，我一如既往的等到白灯然后开始走，走到路中间的时候。一辆银色小车从9th Av向南左转，对着我冲过来，我以为它到离我近些的地方会减速，但是没有，仍然是高速(这边的车在城里都开的飞快)对我冲过来，马上就要撞到我了，我才飞快的往边上一跳擦着车躲过一劫。回头看着已经开过刚才我站的地方半个车身的这辆跑车，我愤怒的在美国第一次用了F word和yelling；车窗拉下来，一个白人男子轻描淡写的说了几句对不起，然后走了。我想我当时是蒙了，也没有记下丫的车牌号码之类的，然后走回人行道，一直向前走...

心里巨不是滋味，莫名其妙的觉得委屈和愤怒，脑袋里面还是蒙的，导致几次在过马路时傻站着等待了好几次红白灯交换才突然醒过来一样过马路。然后回家就一直脑袋昏昏沉沉的睡了一天多，好像感冒了一样嗜睡，周六就两次吃饭的时候起来，其余时间都在睡觉，直到周日夜里做了两个噩梦，一个关于...的一个关于考试的，才终于在周日的早上8点起来。看来确实是受了刺激:(

不过梦总是跟现实相反的，hopefully...

昨晚终于考完期中考试的最后一门~一出考场就赶紧来到Rogers Hall参加这里的一个Halloween Party，还没进去就被身边走过的一个有点小胖的猫女给吸引了，真是可爱，看来我确实控猫耳...另外在Party里面还有一个很漂亮的黑人女生扮的兔女郎十分诱人，超短的裙子和性感的Bra...不过我竟然觉得她太瘦了，再次证明了我控肉...总结下来就是我控肉猫女。

快九点的时候跟阿巴，小菜等几个阿三同学来到曼哈顿参加大游行~诶，为什么只有小印们，其实我也叫了中国同学们，但他们都说太累或者嫌太晚了而要回家-_-，宁愿回家看电影或者睡觉而错过曼哈顿每年最疯狂的夜晚真是太不明智了XD。

在NYU附近的West 4th st下车。一走出地铁门就感觉不在人间了，周围除了我们几个就没有几个正常人。这让我们十分激动，迫不及待的想要到地面街上去。不过地铁站里面人流控制的十分变态，辛勤的NYPD们阻拦了绝大多数出口，我们和各式怪物在地底上下左右转了好久才终于来到西四街的地面。

地面上面更加壮观，满世界的各种各样的化妆者，"目不暇接" is the word here。我们挤进人群开始跟着流动，也许是刚结束考试，街上一切都让人开心，只是身边的朋友是几个交流困难的小印:( 他们过分热情的勾肩搭背让我不时有点尴尬-_-

不过由于我们几个基本没有化妆，所以没有在主要游行队伍里面逛很久，而是到了周围的街区，这些地方不会那么拥挤，并且仍然有很多看头。街上的各式角色大致可以分为下面几类：
(没有相机，所以很遗憾只用手机拍了几张，效果很不好就懒得多拍了。)

1.NYPD

街上最流行的"角色"就是纽约人民警察同志了，每个街口都有一群警察维护秩序，街边也有警察在巡逻，头顶上空NYPD的直升机们更是一直飘来飘去...

走在我前面的一个女人对着一个警察说"nice costume~~"，然后警察很无语，哈哈

2.性感美女类

护士、学生制服女、仙女、兔女郎、蝙蝠女、超人女、猫女、女仆...她们的共同特征就是...SEXXXXXXXY @_@

各族美女们为了满足大家的视觉，顶着凛冽的寒风尽情展示美胸美腿甚至...

3.状物类

香蕉、NY Taxi、大礼盒．．．

4.影视卡通游戏类

蜘蛛侠、闪电侠、蝙蝠侠等各种超能力者；超级玛丽的玛丽兄弟、蘑菇人、公主~；等等等等...

对了，这个斯巴达战士！这家伙的肌肉比电影里面的斯巴达战士们nb多了，他几乎不说话只是在装酷，而其身边的忍者神龟伙伴在不停地给路过的人们隆重介绍他。我很惊讶的问，"那些肌肉是真的么"，回答是肯定的，让我们几个倒吸冷气。而就在我们要离开他的时候，两个"脱衣舞女"惊奇的跑过来要求摸着他的胸肌照相!不得不说...真是太诱人了，肌肉和舞女都是XD

不过最可爱最强大的角色是左边这个小蒙面侠~而且他还有一群美女争着和他合影留恋，照片中这个美女本来衣服是敞开露出黑色的bra和G-string的，小蒙面侠mask下面单纯的眼神让美女哈哈大笑着扣上衣服然后才蹲下来一起照相,hahah

5.反古类

维京战士、一边喝茶一边走路的英国绅士、希腊学者、殖民者等等

6.惊悚类

其实这是最传统的了，各种惊悚的妖魔鬼怪，吸血鬼、食人魔、各式行尸走肉、狼人...

7.职务类

医生、警察(除了真的警察外还有很多这种警察...)、橄榄球队员、厨师...对了，还有某个街口看到的这几个持枪警戒的FBI（Female Body Inspector）：

8.X类

不得不说这是My favorite，因为实在是太搞笑了...:

The sheep-fuckers...

The huge boobie lady and...the ogre who's hugging her is 阿巴.ogre

The penis dude...有一些仙女竟然握着that thing合影，囧rz

还有怀孕了的修女；小腹前面贴着一个礼盒的家伙，更搞的是一个黑人魔法女巫见到他后马上兴奋无比的跑过来打开礼盒一看究竟，Orz

除了上面几类，其他的。。。太多太多类别和感慨了，超越了我文字驾驭能力。

回到家已经是半夜1点了，真是太好玩了，希望明年自己也能化妆去游行，这样一定更有参与感:)

Usually I see Sunday as the beginning of a week, this time I make it the end. Look at this week.

I were sitting at the roof of Jacob building, where nearly nobody around. There I had a really good nap in the warm afternoon sunshine.

I also taught my roomata Huang Buxuan to play baseball in a morning. We spent an hour in the baseball field near our house, throwing and catching the ball. He learnt really good, which meant I taught well haha XD. We will have a wood bat in the coming week. Haven't swung a bat like forever, I really looking forward it.

Graveyard is a quite and cold place to go at night. I was on my way to buy some drinks when I took this picture, which I think really cool. Of course it would be better if I had a real camera.

I bought a lot of drinks home. Red wine, white wine from california and my current favorite, Tequila. I had this serious sleep trouble since two weeks ago, so I tried alcohol. It turned out great, and drinking within moderation is good to your health. In fact, I became interested in alcohol when I entered that huge Liquido Store, where they have thousands of different alcohol drinks. I wanna learn making cocktails like Margarita, like Monica did in "Friends", and they seemed really enjoy that.

Cheers to the Boston Red Sox! After losing straight 3 games to Cleveland Indians in the ALCS(American League Championship Series), they fought their way back. Tonight they beat the Indians 11-2 in Game 7 of ALCS to complete the dramatic comeback from a 1-3 deficit, and the pitcher tonight is my favorive Japanese player Dice-K, Matzuzaka. Red Sox becomes the Champion of American League, and surely will be the Champion of the World Series! Cheers for Boston and Cheers to Sunday night baseball again, this Tequila is really great~

Lastly, check this out, Sherlock Lee...:

独在异乡为异客，每逢佳节倍思亲。
遥知兄弟登高处，遍插茱萸少一人。

虽然敲出王维同学(是王维吧?)一首这么符合现状的诗词，但是还是没有什么特别的感觉...早上起来看到是重阳佳节，于是给家里打了个电话，给几个知道email的老朋友发了email什么的，想念和朋友们hang out的时光，到这边以后都没有过什么好玩的聚会可以开心放松一下(因为参加的都很boring...)。

晚上又有一个CUSA，本科生中国学生会，的聚会，去看看然后吃点久违的中餐应该也不错。

Anyway, have a great Chung Yeung Festival to everyone:) Make phone calls to people who you care about and cares about you.

It ends...

十月初的时候去中央公园，穿过中部的观鸟林，虽然头上还是一片绿色，但是脚下咔咔作响的落叶和吸入胸口的冰凉的空气都提醒着夏天已经结束了。

于是纽约转眼就开始天寒地冻的。When I stay up till late at night(my Mom will know I stay up late if I wrote it in Chinese-_-)会冷得全身发抖，只是去泡上一杯热乎乎的绿茶(话说在国内我喝很多咖啡，结果跑到米国来变成喝绿茶了...)，而不想去加衣服，仿佛这样就能让自己多过几个夏夜。诞生在一年最炎热的时候的狮子们一定是只是属于夏天的，otherwise, why we got into downturn with the summer ending?

Two weeks that passed, here I am, still stuck in phase 1. However the life sucks, with the midterm and lab works coming up, I gotta move on and deal with my trouble. That's right, I remembered what Lynette yelled to in DH S03E07, "Yes, we all have pain sometimes, but we deal with it, we have to swallow the pain and get going with our life... ...". Though it seems really hard for me, such a self-controlless guy, to handle my life, but damn it I gotta try. As I said to my other Leo friends, our summer will come again when the cold winter's over.

So after another self-pity and faineant weekend, I decide to at least do something positive to start over, for the coming new week. I cooked a big boiler of curry chicken for roommates and of course myself, as Monday lunch to be brought to school, then write about this here. New week, new life, hopefully...

By the way, you want to know why I wrote lots of English? Right, as I said, my Mom knows about this place now, she's gonna see me talking about these disturbing crap and get some serious worry. Thank god she doesn't understand any English.