For the first time, I saw a film in U.S.. It doesn't sound usual to see a film for the first time after I've got here for about 2.5 years. But anyway, I did. The ticket doesn't cost too much actually, compared with other consumptions here, just a couple of dollars. The foods/snacks in the cinima might cost more.

The film was great, especially when you saw it in a well equipped theatre. "Ice Age" is a 3D film, it telled a quite simple story, but I was shocked by the pictures, obviously 3D helped here. It was funny and quite easy to understand, while "Transformer" was not. People speak so fast, especially the robots speak in such an unclear way, I was totally lost in such a way that it seemed I was seeing a dumb film. Anyway, the pictures were amazing. I liked them, and I think that's a selling point of the holywood films.

Current Mood: excited

具体得让你感觉到它无处不在：在喧嚣的人群里，在冷清的实验室，在宁静的清晨，在躁热的午后，在凄凉的夜晚；具体到呼吸的时候，让你感觉它在勒脖子；具体到心跳的时候，让你感觉到心在一阵阵地挛缩。

一种习惯了两年多时间的生活，竟然变得如此地陌生和难以适应。

大概我真的中毒了……

With 1 week review time and $70 for the review book, I passed Foundamental Engineer exam. Now, I can go ahead to finish the procedure for the certification.

回美国三天了，可生活只能用一个字来形容“乱”，生活乱，心乱。回国能一两天倒过来的时差，可在这边到现在还基本跟国内同步。相比两年前，这次回来到这本应已经熟悉的环境，发现少了曾经的新鲜感，却多了些生活上的落差，我想我需要更多的时间来适应。在国内的这一个多月，虽然忙碌，行程紧凑，却也过得很轻松，很开心。完成了既定中的旅行，见了许多曾经的同学，朋友，也结识了一些新的朋友。本来，以为把自己放得很低，却在不经意间被拔高，于是间不得不担心会掉下来。

人有时会被自己编织的故事所迷惑。也许是被社会隔离得太久，虽说很多事情，都曾听说，却一直觉得那是离自己很遥远的事情。一陈不变的环境，似乎让我失去了应变的能力。所想和所做，基本还是靠自己的想象，似乎已经很久没有更新了。有时，让我不得不反思，我花费这么多年时间在学校，为的是什么？记得对自己曾经有个总结，我可以为我自己做某件事寻找无数个理由，但真正让我做决定的，往往只是一个很简单的事。记得我当初决定赔上自己另一个五年青春的原因就是：我一旦这次走出校门，就不可能再回到学校。不想给以后留下遗憾，唯有一鼓作气，将其读完。曾经以为，这是一种魄力和眼力，现在看来，当初的这个决定并不见得不是一种冲动。人生如棋，一步走差，全盘皆输。我无法预测结局如何，但是感觉最初的这步棋，让我有当年诸葛亮被逼六出祁山的感觉。

what are your life goals? 曾经有人向我提的问题，虽然提问的人是基督教徒，但我不可能从宗教的角度去思考这个问题。不过，我还真没想出来，我想要过什么样的生活。一种生活时间长了，会腻，会想换；却又不得不担心：新的生活会更好吗？自己能适应吗？一直以来，我把自己对未来的规划，看作是一个走夜路的人，在茫茫草原上，拿着手电筒在寻路，只是看得清自己眼前一两米和身后的路。不想给自己设定精确的目标，只有个模糊的方向。不忌惮绕几个弯，以为那会见识到新的风景，体会到新的历程。却不曾想，自己在绕弯的时候，别人已经走远，自己还在欣赏别人身后的风景。

一直劝自己用善意去看待这个世界，虽然随时得保持一颗警惕的心。却没想到，自己也会突然恨一个人。本来以为自己已经非常淡定，也忘记了上次恨一个人，是什么时候。却在那一刹那间，我的想法居然完全地改变了，我变得也可以恨了，这让我突然之间觉得有些害怕。我开始有些不认识自己了……

40天的假期，在转眼间来到。匆匆行程，总是在不舍中结束。从东到西，从南到北，第一次精心策划的旅行；第一次跨越了长江，黄河，踏上了长城。

计划赶不上变化，是个亘古不变的真理。原定６日的机票，却因为我当初的一次失误，导致险些泡汤，无奈花费一天多的时候，赶紧从家跑到县城，终于迎来转机。散漫的性格让我偏好自助行，而非跟旅游团。我不想仅仅为了“某某到此一游”而来，旅行是一种放松，重要的是体会。于是乎在昆明的一天，只是到了民族村看民情和海梗公园看滇池。请了个导游，却也不急着赶时间，于是晃荡得也算悠闲。只是最后一站藏寺中的师傅，太不专业，我们俩的符居然没给任何解释，只让一直都随身带着：为财，为福，或是为平安？不得而知。还有进村时间不大好，只赶上了一场基诺族的演出，当然还有最后的大演出，气势还挺宏博，各个民族的生活，基本都包含进来了。不过，却不得不让我思考一个问题，是否这些画片已经永远只是定格在表演中了呢？碧波荡漾的滇池，只要你不近看，只是远眺，还真有些心旷神怡。遗憾的是，我被这里面小吃店的“鲍鱼片”给骗了，完全就是香肠嘛。

来到丽江，最大的感受就是云南第十七怪：这边下雨那边晒。随时都得准备一把伞：或者用来挡雨，或者用来遮阳。紫外线之强足以让你在两天内从白妞变黑妞，小白脸变小黑脸。也是由于气候原因，没有到玉龙雪山玩。茶马古道，也只是过去吃了个饭就作罢。倒是在古城内转了几转：大研镇开发得太厉害，有些太过喧嚣，沿山而上，却也还算宁静，特别是在观景客栈鸟瞰全景。徐徐凉风吹过，足以让人产生在此长住的感想。束河镇还算是安静，只是那顿纳西密制火锅，让我吃得太不如意，连青岛啤酒，都被青岛XX啤酒替换，真叫一个难喝。

北京，上海中国最大的两座城市。但在上海生活多年的我，到了北京还真是感觉不一样。在上海走到哪儿，除了商业，还是商业，唯一可看的，就是高楼。连本来很值一看的外滩，现在也因为装修，而无法沿江观看。相对而言，北京就多了些政治和文化底蕴。只是城有些大，逛起来，还挺耗时间的。故宫和颐和园，就花费了一天。也许是个人偏好，我更喜欢自然风光，我对故宫并没有太多的兴趣，60元的门票却也没能留住我的尽快逃离。颐和园内昆明湖上泛舟感觉倒是不错，由于是最后一班船，诺大的船上，就我们俩，也落得清闲。

“不到长城非好汉”，游玩北京，不去长城，那绝对是一种遗憾。北方的山，不像家乡的丘陵地带那么缓和，险峻的地方，我都怀疑现在还不会有人到过。在这种地段修建如此浩翰的工程，不得不为之惊奇，也为当初的劳工们感到辛酸。上山时，还不算陡峭，甚至都能看到细高根在爬。缓缓拾阶而上，抵达一个个地烽火台，就像跨越一个个地里程碑，放眼远眺，峦峦山脉，魏魏壮观。下山时的路，感觉就不一样了，陡太多了。细高根是看不到了，将鞋提在手里的赤脚，倒是不足为奇。我不得不庆幸：选择运动鞋登长城，绝对明智。长开始登长城到下来，前后有3个多小时吧，中间还跨越了中午饭，一趟下来，就凭一瓶水的支撑，倒也还不算太累。

水立方，鸟巢，虽然我是学结构的，这些也算是我的本行，可我却没有太大的兴趣。纯粹的现代化工业产品，搬到哪儿都能建，都能有着相同的效果。于是乎，不等到水立方开灯，便开始撤离，决定去品味一下，曾经的大学生活，信步校园。

从北京辗转上海，让我有了一种不愿离去的感觉，喜欢把离开的时间卡得很紧，只是不想让自己有太多的时间去怀念，去伤感……

Finally, the qualifying exam was done. It should have been finished several months ago, but since it's the first time to have structure Ph. D. students in our department, nobody has the experience on this kind of exam. So we are the Guinea pigs of our department's qualifying exam. We first had a written exam, which was thought to be a matter of formality and we were not well prepared for. We had only 2 days to get ready for an exam covering 4 courses, and the problems involved to much computation work, we didn't have enough time to work on. So we didn't perform very well on the exam. So we had a make up problem then plus an oral test. The make-up problem was done before the end of last semester, and the oral test was done this Mon. And the final results were out: I was the luckiest one and passed. Hoowa!

Just a few days ago, the LF window of my car refused to go up and down. Since the same situation had happend to the LR window and it started to work again some time later, I expected the same to this window and just let the window open. Unfortunately, There was a heavy thunder storm in the Wednesday afternoon. I didn't even realize it would be a T-storm, I just let it go when it began to rain. But when it's getting heavier, I realized that I had to do something to the window. So my office mate took me home, and we found that the driver's seat was already wet. We then used some plastic paper to cover the window. What annoyed me more was that the rain just stopped after we got ourselves wet and covered it.

I called another friend, who has some more experience on the car, about this, and he came over. After some look, he concluded that the window regulator was broken. The same thing happened to his car, and he spent $60 to have the window lifted, without repairing the regulator. it would cost him $80~$100 more if he wanted to repair it. That's a lot of money to me. But he suggested me to repair it, since it's on the driver's side, the instruments might get damaged if this window opens.

Trying to save some money, I then went online to search for "window regulator", and I found that it's a common problem and it's repairable by myself. I even found a step-by-step instruction for my car. So I placed an order for window regulator and wanted to give it a try.

While waiting for the new regulator, I wanted to lift the window first. After the rain, I found that I couldn't leave it open any more. So after the qualifying exam, I started to work on that. Before working on the window, I wanted another thing to be done, the tail light. My right tail light cover is not well sealed on the upper side. when it rains, the water goes into the light cover, but the lower part of the cover is sealed very well, so the water just remains in the cover. The gap in the upper cover is so large that the light could be fully filled with water after a storm. I first planned to seal the cover with epoxy, but later I found that it's really hard to seal the cover and that would make it really ugly. So I went to the second method: making some holes in the lower part to let the water go out. I have the electric soldering iron in my lab, which is perfect to make holes for this kind of plastic cover. So I made three holes at the bottom line of the cover and tested it with water. It looked good, not that ugly as I imagined.

Here we go to the real topic. To lift the window, I had to remove the door panel, which was fixed by two bolts just behined the handle. When I uncoved the screws, I found that I need a torx driver to loose them. All screw drivers I had are either flat or cross ones. I phoned another friend to see if he has some tools. He had some screw drivers, even torx ones, but those were too small, but he suggested me that the flat drivers could be used to loose the torx screws. Thanks godness, it worked. So I succeeded with the first step, the screws were loosen. The next step might be the worst thing I've done in the last afternoon. Acoording to the instructions, I would pry out the switch and plug out the cables. Nothing difficult to pry out the switch, but I didn't understand the warning in the instructions, which say the connection between the top of the switch and the panel is subtle to be damaged and should be taken cared. I didn't realise that until I tried to install the switch after I've done all things. I just splitted the switcher and the panel with a screw driver. Taking out the switcher, pulling out the cables and remove the door panel were not hard. After that I could see the regulator and the motor and I could lift the mirror a little bit with my hands. But it got jammed somewhere and it couldn't go any further up no matter how much force I put on it. So the only thing I could do is unbolting the motor and regulator and see if would help. But the bolts were so tightly tightened, I have to go with wrenches. Finally, I got all the bolts loosen and took out the regulator and the motor. So I lifted the mirror with the help of my office mate, held it with tape. Put on the door panel, inserted in the switch. Until then I didn't realise my mistake, the switch could be held only be the clip at the bottom. So I just fix the top part with tape. I might find some glue next time to fixed that.

In summary, I spent about 3 hours to fix the problems, including the time finding tools. But I saved at least $60. :)

Just got the email from my advisor, my first paper, as the second author though, is out and here it is. Anyway, kinda excited.

It's in the midnight of this Thursday. When I got my apartment at 11:40pm, I just wanted to fall asleep as soon as possible, 'cause I had class at 8:00am on Friday, and I had to walk to class, which usually takes me 30 mins. However, one of my neighbour was having party. Some of them were sitting in his backyard and talking, laughing and screaming sometimes. I thought they would leave soon, since it's still week-day, people had to work/attend school the next day. However, half an hour later, I can't see any evidence showing that they are going to end it. So I decided to call police, but I didn't know the number of police, '911' is the only number I knew that I could ask for. The operator asked the address and said she would sent it out to the police. Then I began another waiting, and I hadn't seen any police come by to stop them until they left at about 1:00am. I have to admit that I hadn't had any experience with U.S. police before. I knew them only from the U.S movies/TVs, where police reacts very promptly, but in this case, I didn't see it. So...

I went to take road test yesterday afternoon for the second time, but I failed once again and the situation is even worse than the first time. She asked me to wait for another 2 weeks before I take the third one, while for the first time, she only asked me to practice 1 weekend. She thought I was going to have an accident, so she stopped the test. That was in the way to a village, the car before me was waiting for the green lights, it's far away from me, and I was braking the car slightly. Maybe the braking is too slightly to be noticed by the officer, so she asked me to brake. 'Cause I was already braking, I was a little bit confused, and asked her "what", and she said that again, but I still didn't understand her. Due to distraction of the conversation, the brake still remained slight, until I turned my head and saw the car was just a couple of meters in front of me, I made a kinda strong brake. That was the accident, she thought, that would have happened without her interference. Actually, I'm well aware of the traffic on the road, and it's her talking distracted me and made the accident more likely happen. I argued with her after the test, but it didn't change anything. :(

Current Mood: angry

5.12地震发生也将近一个礼拜了，明天就是全国哀悼日了。

这一个礼拜以来，每天都看这相关的新闻报道，每天都看到死亡人数不停地攀升，心情也越发地沉重。最早知道这个消息的时候，是星期一的早上在一个论坛上，看到有人发了相关的帖子，因为我这一段时间都没有有中文新闻了。然后再去网上搜，发现是7.8级的地震。因为自己是搞结构设计的，需要进行抗震验算。而且当时在国内的时候，研究所里面就有老师和师兄研究的方向就是这个，所以对这个震级还是有些理解的。依稀记得当年的唐山地震也就这个数。顺便也就将自己MSN和Xiaonei网上的签名档改成了“bless everyone involved in the earthquake”。不想，在Xiaonei网上看到一个同乡的签名居然是“好可怜，地震是什么滋味都不知道，好羡慕那些幸运的人……”。当时，看到心中就火起：现在的小孩，太不懂事了，还真把无知当个性。于是在他的页面上留下了”hi, dude, what do you mean by '好羡慕那些幸运的人……'? Don't make fun on others' loss, especially the loss of lives”。不过，好的是，他看到之后，马上意识到自己的错误了。

本来觉得这事，离自己有点遥远，因为自己在那边没有直接的亲属。就像当年的唐山地震一样，虽然说死亡人数是近四百年之最，历史第二，但那都还仅仅停留在书本上面，当然还有偶尔从电视中的访谈节目中听到那些人的亲口讲述。但是现在，却是每天都真实地看到电视画面，新闻图片上的惨像时，心中的震惊还是完全不一样的。虽然说现在的死亡人数，跟唐山还没法比，但给我的印象，却远比那深刻。真要算起自己在那边的朋友，第一个就是本科时的同学，在大足县，离成都不远 ，另一个是研究生阶段的同学，家好像是成都的。他们都在网上跟我们说家中没事了。还有两个，就是当时在上海认识的老乡，他们后来都到了成都工作。在同学录上发贴问他们的情况，一个回复说没事，另外一个情况不明……最后一个的可能就是从网上了解的一个人Yuking,fcitx的作者，在四川绵阳工作，因为以前用Linux的时候，曾经用过他写的这个输入法。网络上有很多人，也在询问他的消息，而现在为止，好像还没有确切的消息。祝愿他们平安。

Current Mood: gloomy

I should blog on my birthday, but I was shocked by another news: there was an earthquke in Wenchuan, Sichuan province of China. it's a 7.8 earthquake, as strong as the one occured in Tangshan in 1976, which lost about 300,000 lives. There was no exact casulty reported yet, but a loss of 3,000-5,000 lives was reported in one single county (Beichuan, which is 100 km away from the center of the earthquake).

Bless everyone there.

Current Mood: shocked

As mentioned in this post, I deleted my svn repository by accident. To avoid the history reoccuring, I'm trying to backup my reposity automatically, and I finally made it via hooks provided by svn. The strategy is run a script upon each commit, and the script dumps the repository and sends the dumped file as an attachment to my gmail account. It was accomplished by:

1. #cd $repository/hooks
   #cp post-commit.tmpl post-commit
   #chmod +x post-commit
   

2. edit post-commit to:
   #!/bin/sh
   REPOS="$1"
   REV="$2"
   python /path/to/backup.py "$REPOS" "$REV" >/tmp/backup.log 2>&1
3. the backup.py is like: #!/usr/bin/env python
   print "backuping..."
   import smtplib
   import mimetypes
   import os
   import stat
   import sys
   import commands
   from email.Encoders import encode_base64
   from email.MIMEAudio import MIMEAudio
   from email.MIMEBase import MIMEBase
   from email.MIMEImage import MIMEImage
   from email.MIMEMultipart import MIMEMultipart
   from email.MIMEText import MIMEText
   
   def mail(receipt, subject="No Subject", body="", attachment=None):
       msg = MIMEMultipart()
       msg['From'] = "MY_EMAIL_ADDRESS"
       msg['To'] = receipt
       msg['Subject'] = subject
       body = MIMEText(body) #Here is the body
       
       if attachment:
           attach = MIMEBase('application', 'octet-stream')
           fp = file(attachment, "rb")
           attach.set_payload(fp.read())
           encode_base64(attach)
           fp.close()
           fn = os.path.basename(attachment)
           attach.add_header('Content-Disposition', 'attachment', filename=fn)
           msg.attach(attach) #We create our message both attachment and the body
       
       msg.attach(body)
       
       server = smtplib.SMTP('smtp.gmail.com', 587)
       #server.set_debuglevel(1)
       server.ehlo()
       server.starttls()
       server.ehlo()
       server.login('MY_USER_NAME', 'MY_PASSWORD')
       server.sendmail(MY_EMAIL_ADDRESS, receipt, msg.as_string()) #Send away
       server.quit()
   
   def mail_with_limit(receipt, subject="No Subject", body="", attachment=None, limit=15*1024*1024):
       if attachment:
           s = os.stat(attachment)
           fn = os.path.basename(attachment)
           size = s[stat.ST_SIZE]
           #print 'size = ', size
           if size > limit:
               #split
               num = size // limit
               if size % limit != 0:
                   num += 1
               start = 0
               i = 0
               #print "Splitting ..."
               while start < size:
                   sub = subject + '(%d/%d)' % (i, num)
                   dest = '/tmp/%s-%d' % (fn, i)
                   fd = file(dest, 'wb')
                   fs = file(attachment, 'rb')
                   fs.seek(start)
                   fd.write(fs.read(limit))
                   fd.close()
                   fs.close()
                   mail(receipt, sub, body, dest)
                   os.unlink(dest)
   
                   start += limit
                   i += 1
           else:
               mail(receipt, subject, body, attachment)
   
   print "Beginning ..."
   repos = sys.argv[1]
   rev = int(sys.argv[2])
   #COMP=os.path.join(os.getenv('HOME'), 'usr/bin/7z')
   COMP='/home/student/zsx/usr/bin/7z'
   rep_name = os.path.basename(repos)
   logfile = '/tmp/%s-changes-%d' % (rep_name, rev)
   os.system('svnadmin dump --incremental -r %d %s > %s 2>/dev/null' % (rev, repos, logfile))
   os.system('%s a %s.7z %s >/dev/null 2>&1' % (COMP, logfile, logfile))
   sub ='[SVNROOT_BACKUP]%s-CHANGES-%d' % (rep_name, rev)
   body = """
   Info:
   %s
   
   Changes:\n
   %s
   
   See attachment
   """ % (commands.getoutput('svnlook info -r %d %s' % (rev, repos)),
           commands.getoutput('svnlook changed -r %d %s' % (rev, repos)))
   
   mail_with_limit('MY_GMAIL_ADDRESS', sub, body, attachment=logfile + '.7z')
   print 'to delete the attachment from local filesystem'
   os.unlink(logfile)
   os.unlink(logfile + '.7z')
   
   print 'check for a bigger stride'
   if rev % 20 == 0:
       logfile = '/tmp/%s-changes-%d~%d' % (rep_name, max(0, rev-20), rev)
       os.system('svnadmin dump --incremental -r %d:%d %s --deltas > %s 2>/dev/null' % (max(0, rev-20), rev, repos, logfile))
       os.system('%s a %s.7z %s >/dev/null 2>&1' % (COMP, logfile, logfile))
       sub ='[SVNROOT_BACKUP]%s-CHANGES-%d~%d' % (rep_name, max(0, rev-20), rev)
       mail_with_limit('MY_GMAIL_ADDRESS', sub, body, attachment=logfile + ".7z")
       os.unlink(logfile)
       os.unlink(logfile + '.7z')
   

Here's the a slight modifed version of the script.

曾以为我心已如止水，任凭风吹雨打，都不会再起涟漪。却不想，只言片语便又将我带到了从前……

Current Mood: listless

For the first time, I attended a graduation commencement ceremony in US for a friend's graduation. It's totally different from the one I had in SJTU. There are two graduation commencement ceremonies a year in US. One is in Aug., and one is in Dec. All the undergraduate students and graduate students are celebrate altogether, unlike we have in China, where they graduate students have a different ceremony from undergraduate ones, which gets less attention. The programs are a bit different from the Chinese ones too. The programs here emphasize more on the graduate students instead of the leaders of the University. And They prayed before the ceremony, which can't happen in China. After the pray, the president introduced the attendances, thanked every attendance, including the family and friends. I forgot if the president of the University gave a speech or not. Even if he did, the speech must be very brief and short. While in China, the president of the University gives a very long, tedious and similar speech at every ceremony, followed by the teacher representative or someone else, and there are only some selected students have chance to be on the stage to be confered their degrees. Here, every student has such a chance to show on the stage and gets his/her name announced when he/she is passing by the stage. The president of the university and dean are just standing on the stage to shake hands with every student. Everyone will take a photo with the president of the University. There are so many students to show on the stage that the ceremony becomes boring very soon. Of course, some students want to get more attention or to awake people by pretending to fall down. But I was told that the parents of the student don't like the their children play such jokes in such a serious situation.

I was told that there was a 62 years old bechalor. He was a very famous football palyer as a quarterback in the Univeristy of Alabama, and he went to a professional football team before he finished his degree. So he came back to finsih his degree. He is such a famous guy all over the nation that every one applauded for him when he was confered the degree. That's really admiring.

There are some other unusual things happended in the ceremony. A student died just before the ceremony, so his sister came to get the degree for him. I don't know the details, but it's obviously not a happy story.

Current Mood: cheerful

Waah! Now my two blogs sites(livejournal and blogspot) are synchronized, with the help of blog2blog, which can import blogs from any of livejournal, blogger and wordpress to any of blogger, livejournal, msn space and wordpress. That's really cool!

Current Mood: excited

login as blogger, posting to livejournal

The word looks a bit unusual/weird, doesn't it? That's a new word learned this night from the conversation of two America guys. We were working on a project and they were playing jokes with each other. One said "Ben brought bad Fung Shway to this office, bla bla..." to the other one. And then he asked me if I understood what "fung shway" means. "Absolutely no idea", I've never heard of that. Even after I asked them to repeat that word, I still have some difficulty to repeat their pronunciation. So I asked for the spelling. but he couldn't spell it until he went to google and made a guess then google corrected it. Guess what, I bet you'd be surprised if you understand Chinese. It turns to be "风水"(Feng1 Shui3, the wind and the water, I explained to them ;)). I guess transliteration comes from Cantonese rather than Madrian, because it doesn't sound so alike to "风水" in Madrian. I was also surprised that the concept of "风水" is so widespreaded. ;)

Here's a page on fung shway on wikipedia.

Current Mood: surprised

Unfortunately, I deleted my personal svn repository by mistake. I intended to synchronize the svn repository to another server, however, I synchronized them in the opposite direction,which removed everything on my repository. I've stored all of my stuffs that I work on in this repository, including all the history of my documents. I tried to undelete them, but with no success, because the server is a Linux server and the filesystem was mounted from an NFS server. The lucky thing is that I kept a copy of head version of all of these stuffs. So I can recreate a new repository by importing the current version of all stuffs. The lost will be only the history of the changes. Hope I will never do such a stupid thing again.

To avoid such mistakes in the future, I wrote a batch file that gets a compress copy of the repository and then uploads to another server, such that I can backup the whole repository regularly, which will reduce the loss significantly.

Current Mood: uncomfortable

现在正值国内十七大的召开的时候，新华网上的国内新闻是一片歌颂之声。一瞥看到了这则新闻：“铁娘子”吴仪闻听民间疾苦声 动容落下温柔泪。看完了之后，突然感觉有点怪怪的：这篇报道的主题究竟是什么？称赞吴仪的温柔？还是表达‘她是一位“慈祥、亲切、平易近人”的“女领导”’如果是前者，那么大抵只能算得上是八卦新闻了；如果是后者，那么作者的这个出发点、或者说思考问题的角度就有些值得商榷了。

按照中国对干部、官员的定义，他们都是人民的公仆，是为人民服务的。因此，对于报导中提到的情况，她应该感到自责，她的工作做得不到位。可是在报道中，完全看不出这一点，反而是对她的这个落泪进行各个方面的称颂。这其实说明了一点，在作者或者说大部分人的观念中，她还是一个官，一个高高在上的领导。因此，对于她所表现出来的一些关心和同情，都视作是莫大的恩惠了。而忘了在这个事件中，她所应该负上的责任。

也许，这方面的事情，不归她管，因为我不了解这些官员之间的分工。但是从这篇报道可以看出的是：在中国的社会中，官本位的思想，依然是根深蒂固，不论是为官者自身，还是普通的民众，都无法转变这数千年来的传统。什么样的土壤培养什么样的苗子。

Current Mood: blank

here's an acknowledgment generator for your dissertation of your Mater's or Ph. D. degree. You might find some even funnier things, if you spend some more time playing with it. Interesting

Current Mood: happy