Category: Daily Life

A Great Move on My Blogs

I eventually finished the whole works to move my blogs into this new site. It is a great job, since I have to do plenty of works to reset all the links to the cited images in every post.

The main contents, and the most important ones, are from QQ Zone. Most of my posts that can reflect my life and thoughts are stored there, including the travelling to Hawaii. According to the suggestions from the internet, firstly I use Blogbus to transfer all the posts into a XML document, and then import that ino the WordPress. Here I use the filter that can directly read the XML document from the Blogbus without any converting needed.

But the most great problem is the links to the image. Traditionally, the external links from QQ Albums are not supported. That is, all the links will be broken once the posts are moved.  However, the Blogbus draws the encrypted links to the image as well when the posts are drawn, and most images are correctly displayed. While I  am still worried about the links, since when even a tiny adjustment was adapted by QQ Zone, all the links would be broken and dropped. But I do find no suffiient way to solve this but only download the images to my local computer and update that again.

The move from Blogger.com is much easier. It is quite an old blogger service provider (BSP) that I started to use in1995. But following the traditions here that the service was also soon GFWed when there are more and more Chinese users involved.  A direct WordPress XML document was firstly exported from WordPress.com where the blogs from Blogger.com can be directly imported. Then the document is imported into my site and some categories and tags are added manually. The only problem is that the service from WordPress.com is also GFWed and some special actions are adapted.

Till now, all the works are completed, and you have access to all my posts from this site directly since 2005. But do care that I deleted some very short posts since they are really too short to deliver adequate information to the readers. In fact, they are more fit to the Twitter though there was no such service at that time.

Thanks for the technical supports from my friend Bill Wung. It is his suggestion and help that brings me great convenience in this accomplishment.

Manuscript Finished: Some thoughts about my past two years

Eventually I get my manuscript finished, under the suggestions from my tutor. It should have been finished earlier but thanks to the attitude from my tutor, I really don’t know why he is so clam about this.  He is being too calm but which unfits his demand, at least I suppose so. While, fortunately, his mood these days seems to be good, and his working efficiency is recovering. What’s more, he is recovering his confidence on research.

I don’t know if the things I did fits the value on my sacrifice for the past two years. The unbalanced distribution from our team definitely draws me out of the scholarships and awards. I am wondering if such occurrence meets my rank among the 90 colleagues as No.1.  Is keeping a balance between the input and output can be that difficult?  To be or not to be, that’s a question

Unexpected Gifts: Piles of Mails from My Mailbox

昨天发生了很多事情，不仅仅是我的GRE考试，同时我也收到了一大堆的邮件，那些邮件是因为我搬来这里一直没有拿到邮箱钥匙而没有去收。昨天被邮递员叔叔叫下了楼，说塞不下了，让我收拾收拾。真是不看不知道，一看吓一跳啊，呵呵。里面有N封来自各大航空公司的邮件。大多是我去年出游的副产品。最搞笑的是，我后来选择的是美西北航空，并没有订购全日空的机票，但是全日空仍然兢兢业业的给我寄来了日文版和英文版的材料，外加一张卡片，呵呵，只是看不懂上面的日文，哪天找朱朱给我解读下去。

最让我诧异的是来自于Benben的礼物，两本Economics of Accounting，呵呵，本来都以为寄丢了，却没想到是在我邮箱里躺着。具体关于这本书，就不介绍了。它是分析性会计学的权威教材，相当于微观的MVG，呵呵，是去年Prof. Li推荐给我的，不过呢，这书只能自己研究了，国内做分析性会计学的人真是屈指可数。算了，能看懂多少是多少吧，万一侥幸真看懂了，呵呵，我就。。。。（此处省略若干字）

不过不得不提到的是，邮箱里的垃圾邮件也不少，呵呵，绝不亚于我的电子邮箱，什么欧尚，家乐福的广告真是有一大堆，呵呵

Revisiting SHUFE: Second Attempt Starts Here

昨日重游了中山北一路的上海财大的GRE考场，一切还是那么熟悉，不过考场规则略有变动，比如压缩了键盘熟悉的时间，签名同时需要使用中文等等，呵呵，不过上财考场的考务人员还是比较热心的，呵呵，服务比我在南师大的托福考场所经历的好了很多。难道这里也有地区差异？

不知道火车站怎么排的时间，两趟火车

昨日重游了中山北一路的上海财大的GRE考场，一切还是那么熟悉，不过考场规则略有变动，比如压缩了键盘熟悉的时间，签名同时需要使用中文等等，呵呵，不过上财考场的考务人员还是比较热心的，呵呵，服务比我在南师大的托福考场所经历的好了很多。难道这里也有地区差异？

不知道火车站怎么排的时间，两趟火车居然相差有两个小时，为了避免过去坐冷板凳，我还是选择了11点的火车，呵呵，或许是由于前阶段的列车运营事故，现在的动车组的列车速度明显下降，时速不超过180公里了，当然速度也慢了很多，从以前的30多分钟延长到了40来分钟。不过好在我所在的的考场就在地铁三号线的旁边，所以过去并不耽误。事实上，我到达考场的时间还提前了两三分钟，呵呵。

所抽到的题目是典型的高频题，本来想写错误使人进步，但是没有思路展开，于是写了另一个经典题目，关于领导是否需要具有高道德标准。不过这个题目太高频了，我估计拿高分太难。毕竟我们是老外，不可能在语言上有什么亮点。就如北美范文的作者所言，如果要把自己当成什么文学家来写文章，那将是非常痛苦的。对美国人都如此，更何况我们这个把英语作为外语的人群呢？

考试的键盘不好，没有我第一次的感觉那么好。呵呵，不过好在小时候练过英文打字，这方面倒是没吃上什么亏。我的写作速度比上次还快了点，Issue部分我还修改了好几次，当然主要是改文章的逻辑顺序和连接词，其他也改不了什么。不过这次的Argument让我大感奇怪。他主要是说一个团队做了两次研究，结果前后不一致，于是就认为前者是错的。按理说这个题目不难，但是由于是一个并列关系，要组织比较好的让步攻击并不容易。这是有悖于我们平时的做法的。呵呵

出了考场，直接上地铁，然后回到火车站，去KFC吃了顿，发现时间正好可以上车。呵呵，感谢这两年的旅行经历，让我对时间的计算精度又提高了一个数量级。

天气太热，就没有在上海逗留了，直接回家凉快了。不知道为什么，站在上海，我怎么就没有在外地的感觉呢？

Flight Mileages: Nightmere for Low-End Customers

今日在南方航空网站上订我9月份回到武汉的机票，突然注意到了明珠会员的账户迁移通知。于是就去关注了下里程累计，结果很可惜，发现我的累积完全是0。当时就大感诧异。尽管我来回飞行不多，10次是肯定有了，武汉到上海的飞行里程是768KM，怎么可能没有呢？

今日在南方航空网站上订我9月份回到武汉的机票，突然注意到了明珠会员的账户迁移通知。于是就去关注了下里程累计，结果很可惜，发现我的累积完全是0。当时就大感诧异。尽管我来回飞行不多，10次是肯定有了，武汉到上海的飞行里程是768KM，怎么可能没有呢？深入研究了下明珠会员的里程章程发现，原来我所经常购买的R，S等舱位是不属于累积范围的。进一步的Google检索发现这类舱位往往都是4折以下的舱位。

为了进一步弄清楚是否对所有的低折扣舱位都采取同样的措施，我检索了下东方航空公司的章程，结果发现，我唯一一次乘坐过的2折航班取得了557分的积分，也就是说，东方航空对所有的客户都赋予了常旅客的待遇。进一步Google发现，国航也不承认4折以下的里程。考虑到东方航空的折扣一向较高，而南方航空的快乐飞系列为像我这样的穷光蛋首选，不对4折以下的舱位进行航程累计恐怕是一个潜规则了。但是就我的经验而言，航空公司并未就此对客户尽足够的告知义务。

回想到我去年去夏威夷参加APJAE的年会之时所搭乘的Northwest Airlines的航班，则并没有这些问题了。我当时的往返票价为6880元，相当于1000美金，考虑到将近9000英里的航程，这是一个非常低的折扣，但是我的里程累积也并未被忽略，同时还有每月一次的电邮通知。尽管说这9000英里的里程对我并没有什么作用，但是这至少也可以理解为一种服务的态度和对客户的关怀度吧。

当然不可否认的是，这种里程其实对真正的“空中飞人”才有意义。比如我认识的NTU的Lee教授那样的一个月跑一次美国的人，他们的里程可以非常可观，而且他们也往往对航空公司具有较高的忠诚度（Lee跟我说他是NWA的忠实客户）。而对我们这样的Discount-Seekers而言，选择何种航空公司无所谓，关键是价格，这样就会使得我们的选择趋于多元化，而本已不多的里程也被分割，显得更没有意义。毕竟对我们而言，性价比才是第一位的吧。

不过正所谓上帝对每个人都是公平的，国内公司尽管不承认低价客户的里程，但是对其他方面，如服务，舱位选择等方面却没有什么限制，相比较NWA的50美金选择Premium座位的行为，我们的条件真是太优越了，难道不是么？

 

Solar Ecplise: Staying Behind the Clouds

今天是难得一见的全球性日全食，然而天公也真是作美，这么多天不下雨，今天居然破天荒的下了场大雨。不过也好，本来还在考虑是否去桂花公园，我家附近的一个公共观测点，现在彻底打消了这个想法了。老老实实在家看CCTV直播了。

相比较我而言，武汉的哥们姐们相对运气好很多，他们应该可以看到完整的日全食了，呵呵，不过按照CCTV的直播来看，浙江那边的观测显然是最好的，不过现在网上还没有高质量的图片上传，只有一些很一般的照片。估计下午应该会有了吧。

至于所谓的500年一遇，那真是有误人子弟的嫌疑。在网上的检索发现，其原文是说，在未来300年内恐怕不会有类似于今天这样的全球性日全食，而不是说未来300年没有日全食。事实上，去年我国西部地区就可观测到日全食。

A Travel in Suzhou

Due to the preparation for my GRE exams and some works for paper, I have been stayed at home for more than two weeks since my return from SNAI for the training. And in fact, the time can be longer if my friend, Jiang and his wife don’t come.

They come to Suzhou, as their first-time visit, in quite a hot morning.  And I met them in a KFC restaurant near the railway station. Now a trip starts.

We firstly paid a visit to the famous sight: Tigher Hill, with a tower that is regarded as the symbol of Suzhou. It is really quite a hot day, very few tourists appear there, but the price of the ticket, is still as high as the temperature, asks for 60 RMB. Thanks to my annual card, I do save a big deal on this visit.

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This is the gate for the park, just see how the sun shines! But undoubtedly, it is beautiful.

Following is a stone that are divided sharply, as a legend says, it was done by a sword of King Wu.

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See that tower? Yeah, it is the symbol of the Suzhou City, no less important the Learing Tower of Pisa in Italy.

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The nex station we refer to is the Gally in Xu’men, where held the World Heritage Meeting. The weather that day is really good, just see the blue sky:)

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Following is a remote sight of Xu’men that I shot standing at the top of the bridge.

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The last photo is just the Xu’men. Still remember the old days when I lived near that place. It was as brumal as you can image! But now it is really a beautiful place.

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Re-Open: A New Step in a New Era

Quite occasionally I came into this blog that I opened some years ago when it was still quite a fresh service here in China. But soon it was forbidden by the gov that I can even hardly enter by myself. Eventually it died out. But now, I decide to restart the updating of that, with the only reason as its credibility and steadibility on their offered service.

It was quite hot today in Wuhan that I kept sweating for the whole day, and drinks as twice much of water as I used to. But still, the fainting comes with me for the whole day, that impeded my working experience greatly. What’s really happening on earth?

GRE is really not an easy task fo fulfill, as well as the paper in hand. I am quite too anxious about both of them, one decides my further and the other decides my life at present. Neither can be simply denied. Qute a reasonable question that arises, is this the life that I really want?

Grandma Gone: A Letter to My Brother

I have just gotten the mail from Keke that Grandma has gone this afternoon. It is really a depressed new to hear from, I can hardly imagine how fast this developed. I was supposing, I was wondering what kind of gift to bring to her. But now, it is all gone. I don’t know how to express my feeling, I may say all these to my mom, but, I don’t want to tell her more, she, must be fully depressed now. The people that I can only talk to, is you, please forgive my long letter this time.

Still remember the photos that I took in West Garden? She seems to be that healthy, that bright, and of great excitment, we were planning to get more people involved in the trip next year, we were wondering the ceremony for her age of 100, we werehttps://blog.gujun-sky.com, I even admit her of a gift from overseas again when I am admitted to a school abroad, but nowhttps://blog.gujun-sky.comI don’t know what to do https://blog.gujun-sky.com

I was brought up by her, possessing the preliminary education from her, which is know to all my families. And I do see her bearing a lot, the pressure of living, the sickness of my childhood, and, I can even remind the sight of teaching me how to use a abacus. I remembered the first time she searched the English books that was left by uncle and grandpa for my very first interest on this language, but you know, in fact, it was, of only curiosity that every child possesses and I could even hardly tell the 26 letters at that time.

It is her, that took me to the kindergaten, primary school and back. It is her, that paid full attention on my diet, on my clothing, and on my assignment. It is her, that took full care of me, even today. I still remember her excitness of my admission to the graduate school and my opportunity of travelling to Hawaii. It is heer, that kept asking me quesitons on my study, on my future plan, even on my research though she is fully ignored about all these things. Now I am so hestitate, why cannnot I be more patient to treat her? Why cannot I be more patient to explain all these to her? But now, I have no chance any more.

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