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Jian's Discovery of the World

September 15

Friends

今天终于看完了最后一集Friends。花了4个月时间。When I saw the episodes before the last one, can saw the time effect on the actor and actress for ten years. Never been to a TV series like this, this is really a good one. Although the characters sometimes are stupid and made many fun for me, but seriously the way they  went through for the marriage really means some lessons.
A good TV series, Though I had to admit that I'm too out of time, catch up this series so late:)
 
August 24

奥运闭幕式

16天的奥运会结束了。
原来以为会错过在中国举行的这一届奥运会,但结果还是在北京全程看了奥运。从开幕式到每天晚上回家看转播,另外还去现场看了2场比赛,感觉确实很不一样,特别是国旗升起,国歌奏响的时候。
今天下午和几个朋友聊了一下午的天,回来的时候在思考一些问题,想得有些头疼,发现闭幕式的时间到了,就去看闭幕式了。
看着看着,突然想明白了一件事情,也把我之前的一些决定想通了,甚至一些自己回答别人问题时很奇怪的连现在似自己都不知道当时为什么这么说的答案也能够被解释通了。恩
以后再做一些决定就会更easy一些了吧。
 

August 23

奥运,金牌!

下午和几个朋友一起跑到顺义去看皮划艇的比赛。来回车就坐了4个小时,不今天又特别的晒,我从来都不怕晒的人都被晒的皮肤红了。我们的座位是在250米处,前面几项都要不没有中国队,要不中国队就很弱,气氛不是太浓烈,最后地二项是男子双人500米划艇,中国队是卫冕冠军。一开场就领先,全场也叫的很凶,最后夺冠之后,所有人都在踩脚下的地板,真怕那个临时的场地会塌下来。颁奖的时候,大家又频频明的欢呼,还在最后唱了一把国歌,还是很直的!
感谢jing同学的慧眼,组织了这么一场顺义奥运旅游团:)

August 03

26岁的尾巴

过Just had a happy birthday.
26 became the past, 27 became the reality.
Most of age 26 was spent in US, which is kinda of suck. Maybe it's because I expected too much from that journey.
Still remembered a conversation with a friend before I started that adventure, he said he felt in a dark field, didn't know how to get out while at that time, I looked the expatriate as a for-sure opptunity for me to upgrade. Though, I had a little fear that would not become true at that time, but I just forget it.
During the journey, the fear became more and more like a real threat. But I was just stuck there and didn't be able to figure out way out.
At last, I gave up. But only after I gave up, I felt actually I still learned many things, it wasn't like the disaster before I decide whether to give up or not. Maybe if I realize this earlier, I could get more from this adventure.

It has been more than one month since I came back. Not sure whether it's the exp in US helped me or other things. I found myself a little different. I began to willing to spend time and money on building my life. I began to believe I should be perfect not only in work but also in making my life rock. Time is always rare. Whenever in work or in life, balance and prioritize are more important than endless devotion. Last friday, a friend of mine invite me to see her performance in company picnic, I  said seemed you enjoyed your life, eh, she answered, yeah, life always full of fun, doesn't it? Suddenly I felt very strongly I agreed with her and I had a strong feeling that i'm not the boring me again because in the past, I wouldn't think it in that way.

Maybe it's because I started learning something: cooking, tennis, etc... Everytime I achieve some milestones, it will make me feel very happy. Maybe I was too old for learning some thing, but the important thing is the experience of learning. I already had a strong skill to make a living, now I need more skills to make my life and also my precious one's life rock.

I knew there is a perfect myself in my heart. But before I came back, I always use tiredsome after work as an excuse to not perfect myself. It shouldn't be like that anymore.

26 is now the water under the bridge, but I believe next year, when I turn 28, i'll more satisfied with my life and the change than I'm now.

July 10

Install WinXP on Mac Book Air

Mac Book Air号称是最薄的笔记本,我们公司内部有100美元的折扣,于是抵制不住诱惑买了一个。 用了之后发现很多功能确实很cool,只是毕竟还是有太多xp的程序要用,所以准备装一个xp。 粗粗看了一下,发现有Vmware, Parallel和Bootcamp三种选择,大部分人推荐使用Bootcamp,因为那样毕竟是native系统会比较快一些,问题也少一些。 可真的准备用Bootcamp的时候,发现不能建立分区,调查之后发现是磁盘太满的缘故,晴空之后,分区成功了,Bootcamp提示需要XP的安装光盘。这时候我才意识到远程光盘是不work的(大家知道Mac Book Air是没有自己的光去的),因为重新启动的时候,不可能有wifi的驱动让本本读取远程光盘的内容。 又是一堆research,找到一个好工具叫winclone。就像windows中的ghost。 又开始在自己的另一台mac上装xp,因为发现mac下读ntfs会有问题,而winclone宣称自己支持fat32,就装了个fat32系统。 搞完image,拷贝到air上,运行老是报错,看了log,google一下,发现winclone的客服说2.06版可以解决这个问题,可是网站上死活没找到下载的地方,后来在原有的url上猜了一个xxx.com/beta,成功找到了最新的2。06版。 以为已经搞定了,没想到继续出错,再google出错,发现有一个人7/1也发现了这个问题,他和克服之间的版聊在昨天是最后一个post:( 看log信息,估计ntfs就没有问题了,于是又回到凌夷个mac上,转换文件系统,重新制作img,现在终于成功
的restore了。
麻烦的是键盘和鼠标都不能用,还得继续折腾啊

June 15

Squash(II)

上次和我一起学Sqush的同事又来美国出差了,于是这周又去Stanford玩了一次。
上次是别人带我们去的,所以这回自己过去,就要靠Google Map还有Qiqi的帮助,总算找到了那个体育馆。
玩了大概1个多小时的样子,发现还是有进步,至少一发成功率从几乎0%,上升到了50%以上,于是和同事之间的Game,也能够打得十分激烈了。
不过,可能因为没有高水平的人参加,我们就不像上次那么累。低水平的对抗消耗体力比较少,呵呵
据说Squash是单位时间最耗体力的运动,看起来是名不虚传:)
 
June 03

Gas and Inflation

美国的经济是越来越不行了,人民的生活也越来越水深火热。就拿油钱来说,去年11月刚到美国的时候,记得很清楚加的第一箱油,一共花了40元,大概15加仑的样子,接着就一直不断往上涨,3月底回国前San Jose Mercury News上还搞过竞猜说San Jose啥时候能油价过4刀一加仑。回去1个月,回来就发现没人讨论了。这回出去假期前,还记得是4.09,一路上看到很多小山村的gas station都是4.09,还以为只是因为这里不好运输,但是回来后就发现已经涨到4.29。今天上班的时候发现竟然已经4.47了。这样一箱油就要64刀了。虽然都能够报销,但还是要感叹通货膨胀厉害啊,现在报纸每天都会报道多少人不开车了,多少人生活受到影响了,多少人被裁员了。
 
不知道下回再来美国出差的时候,会不会油价就是6元了。
 
P.S 竟然不出2天,又涨了1毛,成4.57了。这种速度和以前小时候看的三毛漫画里买米的那个差不多了。
 
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