My fashion preference

Check out this website

http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/best-and-worst-dressed-at-the-vmas/2266?nc#id=1

It's a set of photos in VMAs(actually I don't know what it is). There is a comment about the star's dress under each photo. It could be a best or a worst. Of course, it's writer's personal preference. Interested, I made my own comment on each photo before reading writer's comments. And it turned out to be that whenever I think one to be a best, it's a worst and vice versa. I am always opposite to writer's opinion. Ha~ 

Four promising chiefs

    It has been about 2 weeks since we four roommates started cooking together by ourself at home. Surprisingly,  we really made a lot progress in cooking these days. We look more and more like a professional chief now.

    When I just arrived at this place, they cooked only for themselves as well as me. Because I only cooked for myself, I just made things like noodles soup with and vegetables in it. One day, I tried to fried some green vegetable( sorry I still don't know its name, I bought it only because it seemed easy to cook.) and overcooked it. Meanwhile, the living room was smoked. This historical dish looks like the following photo.

    The room just downstair to ours is also lived by Taiwanese. When it comes to cooking, they have a good system. They bought every thing like rice, vegetables, meat all together in Wal-mart or meijer every one or two weeks. And then they take charge of each meal in turns individually. However, they don't use a list to decide whom to make which dish beforehand. Conversely, they use a blank list with calendar so that the one who make the meal some day can sign on it. It's a way to have elasticity as well as responsibility.

    So, we followed them.

    In the beginning, everyone took vast amount of time to prepare for a meal, like two hours. Even with a volunteer's help, it still took two hours. The resulting dishes is usually normal( or just simple). But after two weeks, as I said, one can finish a meal in one hour on his own. Meanwhile, the property is better. Today, Adrian made the dinner. He cooked one more dish by mistake(we usually have three dishes and one soup) so it turned out to be a especially plentiful dinner. It looks like the following.

    In conclusion, I believe that the four of us will become more and more like professional chiefs. 

Amazing brain

    Last night I had a dream where a girl was reciting a Chinese poem. The poem is of the form in Tang Dynasty in China and is very long. What so weird is that the poem is so real that it can not be made up by myself. After I woke up, I found it's impossible for me to recall that poem. 

    So, what's it about? The main point is that I do ever memorized that poem when I was a child. I knew that. But I can't recall that poem at all now. Actually, the poems I can recite now are only a few and are all very short. The poem in my dream, however,  is very long so I am assured that it's not the kind of poems I can recite when I am awake.

    It's pretty interesting that I find my brain working in such a strange way that I remember more things when I am asleep than I am awake. It seems that my brain locked some of my memory somewhere in daytime and release them having party in my dream at night.

    My friends Matt told me that it's actually how our brains work. In fact, our brains remember much more things than we are aware of.  That's why we can construct such a vivid scene in our dream because our brain already memorize a lot of details in advance for us. Brains just save them somewhere and lock them.

    The question is why brains do that locking thing. In my opinion, it's because that brain would work more efficiently that way. Just imagine our brains as computers with a data base. If we don't lock some not-so-important data, the data base would be so large that it would cost vast amount of time to search files. I think our brian will lock some memory from use especially for the memory that is not used for a long time. In this way, our brain can keep the system working faster and faster.

兔子小

    路上，瞥見了一隻兔子。沒什麼，見怪不怪。每天都要看到的。

    但是牠好小，好像不是兔子，而是耗子。

    於是我走過去。OK，確定是隻兔子。

    這兔子小，有兩個層面：

    物理上呢，牠只有一個拳頭小。

    心理上呢，牠很幼稚。

    我找牠玩，傻傻的就過來了，明顯社會經驗不夠。

    玩了玩，牠咬我手指頭。這太暴力了，我生氣的轉身走。

    這時，來了一隻兔子。有社會經驗的。

    耗子呢?

    去兔子下喝奶了。

    

New semester, new Life

Tomorrow is the start of fall semester. I need a good plan to keep excising and studying everyday.

Weekday

1. In the morning, go to Grainger Library to study the courses I take.

2. In the afternoon, stay in my office for research. 

3. At 5~6 p.m., go excising like jogging, practicing Kung Fu or going to the gym.

4. At 6 p.m., have dinner at home. If it is my turn to cook, I will go home earlier.

5. After dinner, study English for about 30 min.

6. Before going to sleep, prepare and review lessons.

7. Sleep before midnight.

8. No computer games.

Weekend

1. Play badminton.

2. Be allowed to play computer games.

3. Study at least four hours a day.

Now, let's wait and see.

Drunk night

    Yesterday, I was so drunk that I threw up.

    It began in a reception in YMCA building. I and my roommate went together. After that, we attended the Union where a lot of activities were hold. There are mountain climbing, talk show, X-box 360 playing, Wii playing and movie watching  etc.. I met people and made new friends so frequently that people around me kept changing.When I was about to leave Union, I found myself was with a totally different group from the one I followed in the beginning. 

    And then, we went to a Chinese student's home to have some beer and wine. There is about 12 people who are mostly from Computer Science. We played two games: one is called something about  chopsticks; the other is called "count seven ". For the former, People sat in a circle with two chopsticks were individually hold by two members. Then member who held a chopstick started to play "Paper, Scissor, Stone" with the one next to him. If he won, he passed the chopstick. Otherwise, he played again with the one in the opposite direction. Ultimately, it came to the situation that two people with chopsticks had to play "paper, scissor, stone" with each other. The one who lost would hold two chopsticks and be punished to drink a cup of wine. 

    For the later game, people counted numbers in turn from 1,2,3 and went on. Whenever the number included 7 like 17 or the number being a multiple of 7, people should say "pass" instead of saying the original number. Once a person made a mistake, a punished to drink followed. And it was this game which destroyed me.  I kept making mistakes, so I kept drinking. They said I am a all time drinker.....

Although I made most of mistakes, other people also made mistakes a lot. This game really made PhD students look so not like PhD students. 

    Finally, I were so drunk. Even worse, I threw up at about midnight. It's my first time throwing up because of drinking wine. I felt awful and sick so I went to some room and slept on the ground. However I can't fall asleep immediately. I heard people talking and laughing in the living until I fell asleep at last.

International night part 2

    This afternoon, it was another orientational activity- chancellor's reception in Krannert center for Performing Arts. Originally, I didn't want to go based on experience of activities I attended days before. However Krannert center is so famous, I thought it's worthy to check it out. After attending the hall, I felt disappointed, again. Reception is held without seats for students. So, everyone just stood listening to the speech for the whole time. ISSS prepared some cookies, cheese and drink. The cookies are so delicious. Not too tough, not too soft. Maybe a little bit too sweet. On the other hand, the cheese is so disgusting that I got to throw it away.

    After the boring speech, there was a short introduction of this center by staff. They tried to explain how great this center is. They said that Chicago Orchestra borrowed this center to record their CD album. In addition, Ma Yo Yo performed this year here. Wow....

    After that, it's time to meet new friends abroad. And I thought that's really awesome. I met a lot of students from Taiwan and China. The best of all, I had a great deal of conversation with students from Europe, Korean, Australia and Canadian. About 15 students went a coffee shop to continue talking. After that, we went to Green St. to have dinner in a grill restaurant. It's a kind of buffet that you put things like meat, vegetables and sauce into a bowl and then the chief will cooked that for you. So you gotta be good at choosing and mixing, or the meal will hardly be better than the one you cook at home. Obviously, I am bad at it. 

    conclusively, I felt great and so international tonight.