今天早上看报纸的时候留意到一篇文章,某位仁兄拿着国家的sponsorship要在北京和东北(哪里不记得了)建立大型的疗养院,侃侃而谈,视其为中国未来几年里的商业新契机.".....1000多张床位,.....医疗设施......"

 

我看的无语了...想起小时候听得一个故事:有个国家规定把n岁以上的老人送上一个小岛的故事....

 

我想,做人,孝心是起码的~~

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从高中时候起到今年5月，她一直是我心目中的牛人。当全班数学平均分是50分的时候，她的分数是100。高中三年她的数学成绩只有一次得了99，老师为此还对她表示歉意，觉得判卷有点严了。与数学比起来，她的物理不是强项，但她代表中国参加了物理奥林匹克竞赛。她在高三的时候直接保送进入清华，然后给了我们年级千年老二一个机会，那年他考了个全省状元。然后，在清华的日子里，她年年都是第一，四年时间学完了5年的课程，然后轻而易举的收到了美国顶级大学的OFFER。这就是2003年5月之前我心目中的牛人形象。

2003年5月，她留学已经7年，快要拿到博士学位了。谈起理想，她说竞争太激烈，美国的好大学留不下，希望到一个差一点三流大学任教，去公司裁员厉害，又有玻璃屋顶，所以不会选择。我就这样听她讲，心里一阵阵悲凉，这就是我一直以来尊崇的牛人，现在平庸的要去做一个三流大学的小教员，而且她说，就是做这个也不容易，要自己去搞钱做项目。送走她我想，我要重新定义牛人。我亲眼看着王长田从负债几十万到现在身家近亿，仅仅用了三年时间，而且他只有35岁。还有我的师兄，不到30岁已经成为全国大报的主编，月薪即达到6万元。我的另一个同学三年时间已经出了七八本书，被哥伦比亚大学邀请做访问学者。当年，我从来没把他们当作牛人。然后我想，当我们拿到了很高的GRE，很高的TOEFL，很高的GPA的时候，我们有什么可以骄傲的呢？不仅仅是巧合，我最新命名的那几位牛人没有一个通过大学4级，没有一个大学里的学习成绩优秀。而ORACLE的总裁爱里克森对耶鲁MBA的毕业生也说过，你们都是失败者，然后举出比尔盖茨等诸多没有完成学业的创业者的名字。

我们想想，在中国大学里拿高分的多数是什么人呢？多是顺民，多是平庸者。很多人往往缺乏独立思考的能力，缺乏活跃的思想，亦步亦趋学校的规章，老师的脚步，最终的归宿往往傻人有傻福的进入美国的大学。因为，他们有很高的GPA，很高的T，G。而独立的思考，创造能力，做事的魄力，人际交流能力是无法用分数衡量的。这虽然看似不公平，但要记住，这符合美国大学的游戏规则，美国人来中国不是选择英才抢他们的饭碗，他们只需要听话的能干活的机器就行了。我为什么要写下这些？我想告诉大家，我们拿了很高的GPA，很高的GT成绩，其实距离牛人还差的太远太远，就是凭这些进了美国的大学，也不要以为是因为自己很牛很牛了。真实的原因仅仅是：你符合美国大学招收廉价高质劳动力的标准。当然，劳动力也有牛与不牛的区别，但要记住：你仅仅是牛劳动力，而不是牛人。不过，我还是认为出国是件好事情。因为我觉得出国这一过程是在校学生有效整合时间，提高能力的最佳途径了。而且，出国后也有诸多显而易见的好处（但，仅仅是好处，并不能保证你成为牛人）。学GRE，出国应该仅仅是提高我们能力的手段，并非最终的目的。只要在这个过程中提高了能力，只要你的年轻岁月没有虚度，即使暂时出国失败也是无所谓的。就象渔民红出国失败后的经历一样，塞翁失马，焉知非福。更何况今天那种靠出国改变命运，乌鸡变凤凰的时代早已经过去了。总之，你考了个很牛的GRE成绩不算牛人，你拿到OFFER不算牛人，你拿到美国顶级大学的博士学位也不算牛人，你在美国找了个软件蓝领，小教员的工作更不算牛人，你什么时候才能成为牛人呢？等你到了35岁，自己觉得自己是牛人的时候。。。。。。。

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本来想一改上个学期的不良风气,结果还是~~~唉~~~狗改不了吃屎~~~

 

french 2 is v difficult,i have to say...got scared during the first lecture..the listening could be killing...yesterday got to meet 2 seniors back from France..their french is fantastic...admiring~~

the key advice gotten: THE ENVIRONMENT! shld i go to the immersion program?

 

徐煦说我在学习上有自尊没野心.想来还挺贴切的说.磕磕绊绊,昏昏顿顿地贯彻老爸地方针,过得去就可以了~~

 

it seems to be a birthday peak period recently, 3 of my close friends on 3 consecutive days...digging through my brain for the presents~~~

 

自己真是没有什么天份,怎一个"烂"字了得!!不过嘛,加油加油,猪突猛进.小学老师教的笨鸟先飞可以拿来安慰一下自己.

 

being away from home for 5 years, i really wanna say thank u to all the people who have made my life here memorable and fulfiling~~~didnt manage to come out with a thank you list last thanksgiving coz i think it could be an enormous project....THANK YOU ^n (n-->positive infinity)

 

前不久听某一朋友说要提高blog的访客量,不禁小想了一下,blog的目的是啥?请各位不吝赐教.

 

lost my pencil case+calculator+radio+water bottle on my first day of school, didnt manage to find it...after one week i realized i went back to the wrong LT to look for it....

yesterday i wore v "fashinable slippers" to dance, they dont come in pairs...coz i got 2 pairs outside my door and i accidentally ~~~never looked down~~~

 

6 modules (MA2101, MA1004, ST2131, LAF2001, FNA1002, SSA2211) + 3 CCA(temporarily)

+ 1 tuition

gd luck to myself then~~~

 

 

 

"Well I ll go down with this ship,

 And I wont put my hands up and surrender,

 there ll be no white flag above my door.."

                                      -----Dido <<white flag>>

 

some ppl said i am childlike, some said i am mature;

some ppl said i am sociable, some said i am quiet;

some ppl said i am hard-working, some said i am a slacker;

some ppl said i am independent, some said i am not;

......

 

i ask myself,  HOW AM I LIKE?

 

tt's all me..i guess..diff time, diff venue, diff sides of me...

everyone is like this...i still guess...

 

hmm...i put my feet down..everyone is like this...

 

if this statement is true, then we can lead to a conclusion: "il est tres difficile " to understand anyone, including oneself.

 

 

 

 

friends 我看了n遍了吧..最喜欢睡觉前看上一段..呵呵..其中描述的小人物的生活与那令人艳羡的友情真的能让无数人产生共鸣.谁是最可爱的人?朋友..^_^包容,信任,真诚~~~让人向往

frankly speaking, i am not really easily angered by other ppl unless the person is really over the border...somemore, i always feel most ppl here in uni are generally better educated and "civilized". However i was proven wrong recently, perhaps not really worng. It s just i ve just encountered the case called "random error". I understand tt it s to nobody's good to get back to anyone and i chose the way of keeping silent...however now i start to wonder if silence would end the haste fast or actually give the wrong impression of "consent"...sigh...i am not mature enough to take all the unpleasant stuff with an easy laugh....but i told myself to keep trying...hopefully it s gonna work...     afterall, c'est la vie...i guess i just got to tune down my "immature temper"...

 

while some unpleasant ppl are "unpleasant"by essential character, some others are actually v nice by nature but somehow wat they do can make us feel v uncomfortable...this bunch of ppl are friendly, warm-hearted, super"善良" and pure minded...but when it comes to real work stuff, they still stick to the old ways which is neither decisive nor constructive...and we would get speechless by them coz we would feel so guilty to blame ppl like tt...frustrating~~~

 

ok ok...i ve been too whiney today...sorry for tt if u actually finished reading tt

new year eve:

 

i went back to Hwa Chong Hostel for the new Year eve celebration, where I stayed for 2 years as a boarder and worked for 5 months as an residential tutor. Cheering and chatting around, watching movies and making dumplings at 3am, meeting the old and new friends…this place has never failed to give me a sense of belonging… I was sitting at the table named as “the old people corner” by Irene during the celebration and watching the new RTs busy working while thinking abt the very first formal dinner I did which had driven me crazy and one movie screening I screwed up etc…whatever it was sweet or bitter, they all had made my life more fulfilling…at the same time, I got to taste a sense of loss, especially when the ppl there talking abt the recent events and even the latest gossip stuff, it reminded me tt I was no longer a part of the team there… some ppl asked me why I did not stay… I think afterall, everyone got to move on…life got to move on…PGP is not fun at all up to all, but “je suis sur et certain” I have to move on...

Gian passed me a staff namecard designed by me, it was my last task b4 I left there..a little thing, a forever bonding…I am grateful for everything the ppl there gave me…