http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/ en Copyright 2007 Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:04:53 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss ]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/08/save_the_best_for_the_last.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/08/save_the_best_for_the_last.html Fri, 03 Aug 2007 01:04:53 -0500 ]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/the_last_week_here_1.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/the_last_week_here_1.html Tue, 31 Jul 2007 13:12:28 -0500 The bed placed between two rooms. I forget the exact name, it must be a term. Jefferson thought put the bed there could save place. But from my point of view, he could shift himself between the two rooms by jumping across the bed! That could be a lot of fun! And there's no need to build the door, though there's a door there. I'm not using enantiosis by saying so. This is really a rare design! The closet above the bed. There are three holes on the wall above the bed. I'd thought wooden cuckoo could come out from these holes at sharp o'clock by singing "BU KU BU KU~~~". But the guide said these holes could let air and light in the closet so that Jefferson could find things without holding a candle. (Fine, here lies the difference between an extraodinary leader and an ordinary kid......) The access to the closet is behind a door at one end of the bed. The bed together with the closet were really cute! The automatical door. The other side of the door closes automatically while you pull one side. I was wondering why he didn't make all the door like this. Others say it was his experiment. I thought it was left intended for later tourists to be amazed at...... The wine's elevator. Obviously, I made up the name again. It is more common than the former designs. But as for Americans, it should be mentioned.......But together with another delicate rolling-door, it sounds the serve of the meals became high-tech related. He drew, he designed, he worked on politics, he struggled between the equality of every humanbeing and slavery and he drafted the Declaration of Independence. He could use seven languages, he taught himself Spanish and architecture. In one word, he's really a talent! I'd thought the trip might be boring. It turned out contrarily. ]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/thomas_jefferson_is_such_a_tal_1.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/thomas_jefferson_is_such_a_tal_1.html Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:27:29 -0500 ]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/where_is_the_utopia_1.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/where_is_the_utopia_1.html Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:25:33 -0500 We with the baby. ]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/nice_home_visit.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/nice_home_visit.html Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:27:05 -0500 Squirrel Colorful stores lining up the road. The pink panther! See how hot today at 4. I walked dozens of blocks to the post office to get you STAR WARS stamps! The sky at 8 p.m..See how beautiful it is. Cameras can be used as pens or keyboards to keep the diary. (Though the DPI of these pics are not so good when posted on the blog. I'll have them printed when I get back to Shanghai.)]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/picturetaking_competition_haag_1.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/picturetaking_competition_haag_1.html Sat, 28 Jul 2007 04:16:28 -0500 ~~~Coins together with the Adcenter students' journal as background~~~ ]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/coinholic_1.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/coinholic_1.html Fri, 27 Jul 2007 03:47:45 -0500 Got a little vague o >_< o The lobby Words on the wall Group working space Special walls The Moonpie Madness Adcenter ]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/the_adcenter.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/the_adcenter.html Fri, 27 Jul 2007 02:11:00 -0500 I have to confess that I really don't like politics. All I care about is how the new media influence people's life, how to persuade people into buying products, how to pull the money out of their wallet. About fast moving consumer goods, cosmetics, fashion and luxury goods. This seems to be superficial while others are drastically talking about democracy, civil rights or even the future of the country. But just like there are people who are wild about politics, let me be the one who have no interest in it. The saying that "all Fudan students have is a free but useless soul" suddenly occurred to me today. Maybe this is exactly true. Students from Beijing especially those from Peking University used to frequently involve themselves in political campaigns. While students from Shanghai cares more about the way how they live. Of course especially those from Fudan. The north cares about the country while the south cares about themselves. This is not a right or wrong thing. It's just the way who you live and think. What is improtant is not pretending to be scholarly so that others will regard you as sapient but to stick to your own cognition and not be influenced by others. So, just let free and useless be free and useless. And just let the south be the south.]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/free_but_useless_soul.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/free_but_useless_soul.html Thu, 26 Jul 2007 02:17:47 -0500 ]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/i_went_to_the_library_today_as_1.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/i_went_to_the_library_today_as_1.html Wed, 25 Jul 2007 00:29:01 -0500 See what we had for dinner the first evening at Virginia Beach. The bill was also handsome... Nightfall view from our balcony. The sunrise on 22nd. Actually I took nearly 100 pics that morning coz my video camera was out of battery... Shadow and name on the beach. Let's call it...comparison...Okay, that's a little evil. I guess I was a little addicted to the architectures in Williamsburg.They were all fantasic. If only my physics had been better, I would choose to study architecture! To conclude, stirring and unparalleled weekend! But I found that I spent toooooooo much money... I've determineded to focus on study next week! ]]> http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/back_from_weekend_1.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/back_from_weekend_1.html Tue, 24 Jul 2007 02:56:00 -0500 Sitting here thinking I should write a No.4 so that I could finish 5 by tomorrow and enjoy the weekend without thinking about the blog thing. I've just came back for the movie. Actually Shanghai has an Imax, too. But I've never been to. I have a favorite cinema which is relatively closer to my home. After seeing the Harry Porter today, I discard my favorite cinema immediately and decided that I'll always go to Imax when I return to Shanghai. The dome is really cool~~~Though the movie itself is so-so, compared to the last four episodes. I took a nap yesterday from 5 to 9.30 and went to bed again at 12. The activities arranged for us are really full. I mean all activites are attractive and interesting. But all together they are beyond my load. Maybe boys don't think so. It's just because I'm toooooooo weak. It rained this afternoon. I refer to this as a special thing coz I searched for Richmond's weather before I went here. It's said that total rainy days in the summer is around 9. Together with today's rain was the stronge wind which blew down big trees and mailboxes along roads. After the rain the temperature was fairly comfortable. We went to a Chinese restaurant today. The owner offered us free drink and we chattered with the clerk. We also went to the Ucrop's before dinner and bought some bread, salad and bottles of coffee. Now our refrigerator is really really full.(One bottle of milk is even in other's refrigerator......) I like it as full as this. um.....No.4 is not as good as the last three. http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/sitting_here_thinking_i_should.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/sitting_here_thinking_i_should.html Fri, 20 Jul 2007 03:19:40 -0500 I guess that one important reason we easily fell asleep on Dr. Tunnell's lecture is that he doesn't use the powerpoint. It's now a picture-reading era especially for the TV-generation. Without colorful pictures, speeches alone can not attract us effectively. Yesterday when Dr. Smith was talking about Captain John Smith meeting with Pocahontas, he intended to give us a more direct image of the woman. So he turned to the Internet. I thought he'd use Google. But actually he opened the Youtube. And he referred to it as "amazing!". Pictures are more impressive than words while videos even more. I know one respectable professor in my department who does not use email nor mobile phone. He thought computers evict radiation and the buttery in mobile phones are likely to explode. It seems that eldder ones are unwilling to accept these changing new technologies. But the spreading power and ever-growing influence of the Internet, Web 2.0(or even Web 3.0) and other interactive media are kind of overwhelming. No matter you like them or not, you can not turn away from them. Seems that I tend to link whatever I see and think to my major subconsciously,haha. Okay then change a topic--the library. We toured the library this afternoon. It seems omnipotent. Others say that libraries in Japan and HK are alike. I can't agree more on the view that you can judge a university by its library. So there's still a long long way for libraries in Fudan to go. But I'm not sure if the libraries in my university become one like VCU's I will go there frequently or not. Coz we have an individual journalism library and it's close to our dorm but er......few of us go there very often. Then let's say this ---- living life, loving library! um......poor slogan. http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/i_guess_that_one_important.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/i_guess_that_one_important.html Wed, 18 Jul 2007 20:18:14 -0500 As you can see from the title, we'd just come back from WAL MART. Guess how much we spent? $72. Now you can imagine how many things we had bought and moving them to the dorm made us exhausted. Many thanks to Mitchell who accompanyed us and waited for us late in the night. Clap~Clap~Clap~ Today is the first day that we started to have lectures and lessons. To be frank, I think the one in the morning is more interesting than that in the afternoon. I guess you think so, too. :-p Then we had brainstorming in the writing lesson. One thing interesting is that no matter what word you start the mind map with, you can always come up with the word "ADVERTISING" sooner or later. Advertisitng might be the product of the modern and advanced world. Nowadays, we even can not live without them. And, it's just my major. People don't like ADs because they are not good ADs. People like to see good ADs. They are amusing and they provide information. We have a TV in the dorm so I watch it during breakfast or dinner time. I saw marvellous ones as well as awful ones, similar to those in China. But it's still interesting to see dozens of new ADs. Moreover, I find my skin obviously much tanner than three days ago since the sun is really strong here. But I don't care. I regard it as a good souvenir. It's bedtime now, my roommate and I had to get up early to cook breakfast ourselves. Tomorrow morning's lecture will be given by the same professor we met this afternoon. I'll try my best to focus on him. (づ￣ 3￣)づ http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/always_low_prices.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/always_low_prices.html Wed, 18 Jul 2007 06:00:48 -0500 In Japanese this phrase means "Tokyo incident", and it's also a name of a Japanese brand. While I use this title to infer to the flight incident we encountered on our way here. Due to the late flight of China Eastern Airline, we couldn't catch the next flight when we got to Tokyo. Unfortunately, a typhoon was approaching Tokyo at that time. If we don't get back to Shanghai as soon as possible, we could go nowhere in the following days. So, believe it or not, we get back to Shanghai on the same plane we went to Tokyo. We had stiff negociation with the airline company late in the midnight and finally managed to get the next day's ticket to Chicago. What I found really strange is that I felt a little indifferent inside. Though I helped my groupmates to negociate with the airline company and shot the video of the whole process, I was not as rageful as others. They said you'd better go back to Shanghai. I thought okay, it's not a big deal. They said let's talk over the ticket thing tomorrow. I thought okay, it's not a big deal. We had to fly for dozens of hours. I thought okay, it's not a big deal. We had to eat plane meals all day long. I thought okay, it's not a big deal. Later I told my parents and friends about the flight incident. They were all very angry and blamed the airline company for the whole thing. I thought yes, you were all right, it was all their fault and they should pay us back. But actually I did not hate them and I was not mad at all. I can not explain why. Just like I couldn't control my mind in those days and it happened to be too calm. Anyway, we finally arrived in the night of 15th July. It's a clean city with fine houses lined up along smooth roads. The life style here is quite different from that in Shanghai, just suitable to spend the summer holiday. Hi, Richmond. Nice to meet you :-) http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/tokyo_jihen.html http://blog.vcu.edu/zhangy26/2007/07/tokyo_jihen.html Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:02:35 -0500