Vienna Teng 史逸欣《The Tower》

March 26, 2009

曾经红遍全美的华裔音乐才女,在Stanford读的Computer Science,毕业后去Cisco干了一段时间,感到无趣,转行做音乐去了。这首《The Tower》听上去挺入耳的,enjoy!

Vienna Teng

Vienna Teng

Title: The Tower

Artist: Vienna Teng 史逸欣

Album: Waking Hour

Lyrics:
The one who survives by making the lives
of others worthwhile
she’s coming apart
right before my eyes
the one who depends on the services she renders
to those who come knocking
she’s seeing too clearly what she can’t be
[...]

2009新年计划

December 24, 2008

  1. 发两篇Top Journal/Conference Paper
  2. 找一份internship
  3. 做一个决定:未来5-10年的职业选择
  4. 和BaoBao一起去三个不同的地方
  5. 掌握基本的金融,投资理财知识,如果条件允许,完成第一笔投资
  6. 完成dissertation的主要工作
  7. 掌握Python
  8. 练字
  9. 提高口语,presentation skills
  10. 坚持写blog,学会思考和表达思想
  11. 健身

爱不用太笨 [转]

July 18, 2007

From 蔡康永的博客

談戀愛的對象,最好比你笨 ——
戀愛是艱難的對決,
何苦去招惹你打不過的對手。
嗯…..可是啊……

談戀愛的對象,最好比你聰明 ——
戀愛確實是艱難的對決,
但請不要搞錯對手:
愛情、才是你的對手;
至於愛人、是你的做戰夥伴、隊友。

感谢

July 9, 2007

事实证明,每一个生日都不可避免的会变成感恩节。
即使在我累的不可开交的时候,也忍不住上来啰嗦几句:
感谢神,上帝以及老天爷,我又平平安安的活了300多天;
感谢爹妈;
感谢老婆为我争取到的所有祝福:)
感谢troy的越洋电话;
感谢(顺便鄙视)半夜三更不睡觉给我打电话还心疼话费的ike;
感谢一大早就爬起来,在自己blog上写酸不拉几号称是诗的tommy;
感谢所有发短信祝福我的朋友们。。。

人又老了一岁,不过可能是每年都受这个刺激的缘故,已经开始习惯了。
老有老的好嘛,老婆,老友,越老越香:)

收拾行囊

May 13, 2007

终于搞定了最后一篇report,可以安心的收拾行装准备回国了。
没有想象中的兴奋与期待,反而有些许的忐忑与迷茫。
人老了,活得真TMD的累。。。

Anyway,至少要好好解解馋,从南吃到北:D

荒芜

April 23, 2007

多谢乐吧的提醒,居然快3个月没有更新了,狠狠的鄙视自己:

不要用忙碌来掩饰生活的乏味;
不要用沉默来掩饰思想的空洞;
不要用更加蹩脚的英文来掩饰蹩脚的中文;
不要让这个世界把你遗忘。。。

向始终坚持在blog第一线的乐吧同志致敬;
向虽不多产,但时常会冒泡的chuchu同志致敬;
向堕落中的ike, 消失中的tommy致以类似于我自己的鄙视。。。

祝火箭队能够取得两连胜:)

提高信用值的一些tips

January 6, 2007

信用值(Credit score)是用来申请信用卡,贷款的重要指标之一。在mitbbs的money版里研究了半天,整理了一些提高信用值(Credit Score)的注意事项:

  1. 坚持按时还款。Late pay应该是对信用记录影响最大的负面因素了。不过据说只有当银行把late pay的情况提交给信用机构,才会扣信用值,如果偶尔一两次late pay的话,银行一般不会报告。还有就是每次pay的钱数的问题,有好几种不同的说法,据说在年利率0%的期间(不同的信用卡情况不一样),每次只还最低限额的话有利于信用值的增长。不过,最可靠的方法还是每个月按时把所有的balance付清。
  2. 保持较低的 credit usage,也就是花掉的钱(Balance)与信用额度(Credit Limit)的比值。这一点我一直都存在误解,以为花的越多,只要按时还清,信用记录就越好,其实不然,据说最佳比率是 1-2%,不过这个似乎也太少了点,可怜我现在只有$500的额度,如果按这个比例的话,我每个月只能刷掉5-10块钱:( 也有人说维持在10%就不错了。可以肯定的是一般不要超过50%(我第一个月居然达到了85%,汗…)。
  3. 尽早入手第一张信用卡。信用记录的历史越久,信用值就越好。所以要尽早申请到第一张卡,就算额度比较低也无所谓,可以慢慢涨。还有就是第一张卡最好一直保留,就算不用,也要放起来压箱底。
  4. 减少有balance的信用卡的数目。尽量用一张卡,不要这张花几块,那张花几块。有balance的信用卡的数目会对credit score有负面影响,但信用卡的总数并没影响。所以暂时用不上的卡放家里就行了。如果cancel掉,反而会影响卡的平均信用历史。
  5. 减少hard inquiry的次数。所谓hard inquiry就是你授权银行或信用卡公司进行的信用值查询,对credit score有负影响。这种inquiry一般发生在申请新卡或者要求提高credit limit的时候,因此要提高申请的命中率,不要没事儿就申着玩。不过,一般只有两年内的hard inquiry有负作用,尤其是6个月以内的,所以有一个技巧便是可以同时申请多个银行的信用卡,因为信用记录更新需要时间,这样在申请的同时,他们互相看不到别人的inquiry,而这一批申请结束,需要歇上1-2年再进行申请。
  6. 尽量提高信用额度。一般来说,Credit Limit 越高,usage of credit越低,从而对分数有正面作用。因此,每隔一段时间就要向银行骚扰一把,要求提高credit limit。不过要注意有时候银行是会去查你的信用记录,也就是要进行hard inquiry,所以提要求的时候一定要问清楚。
  7. 一个内容丰富的信用记录(包含普通信用卡、商家信用卡、房贷、车贷等)对credit score有利。
  8. 不要过分care信用值。刚开始的时候,由于信用值会影响到高级信用卡的申请,需要比较留意。而在搞到几张可以满足需要的信用卡后,这是信用值应该也比较良好了,就不用太care上边说的很多技巧了,在保证按时还款的前提下,怎么省钱怎么来:)

Burning the late night oil

December 10, 2006

Again, it comes to the end of the semester;

Again, I am desperately rushing for the deadlines;

Again, I make the damn promise to do things ahead of time in the future;

Again, I know I will definitely eat my own words soon…

Just heard the seven Ps and would like to share with you:

Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance.

I ordered it…

September 14, 2006

I’m tired of waiting for the update, so finally I ordered my damn MacBook:
Base $1199.00
2.0GHz Intel Core Duo
512MB 667 DDR2 SDRAM – 2×256 (will add 2 X 1GB 3rd party RAM soon)
80GB Serial ATA drive (+$45.00)
SuperDrive (DVD±RW/CD-RW)
Keyboard/Mac OS – U.S. English
Apple Wireless Mighty Mouse (+$69.00)
Apple Mini-DVI to DVI Adapter (+$17.00)
AppleCare Protection Plan for MacBook/iBook – Auto-enroll (+$183.00)
HP DeskJet 6940 Printer (+$29.95)
Hope it will arrive ASAP:)

Settled down

August 22, 2006

来回折腾了好几次,终于找到安身之处了,三个人share一套三层的townhouse,条件还不错,有独立卫生间和laundry,周围环境也挺漂亮,就是有点贵。实在没想到房子居然会这么难找,据说是因为Penn State的橄榄球队拿了去年的全美冠军,导致今年小镇上一下子多了2k的学生,于是房价也跟着上去了:(今天又淘到了一个二手的电脑桌、电脑椅和书架,一共才30$,嘿嘿。屋子里没有那么空空荡荡了,多少有那么点家的感觉了。总的来说,算是初步安顿下来了,各位挂念我的xdjm们可以放心了。
State College是个很安静的小镇,在这里除了好好学习、努力研究以外,似乎也没有太多的事情可以做了。老老实实的学点东西,仔细想想以后的打算,也不错:)

祝我生日快乐

July 9, 2006

Birthday cake貌似作为成功人士的一个重要标志便是会忘掉自己的生日。而我活了25年了,居然还能记得自己的生日,实在是可悲啊!

感谢爸妈为我精心准备的生日蛋糕和午餐,感谢你们赋予我最宝贵的生命,又陪伴我走过25年的风风雨雨。儿子口拙,不会讲什么花俏的语言,只希望你们能够永远健康,让我们一路平平安安地走下去…

感谢chuchu送给我的风铃,感谢你几年来的爱。我会一直把风铃带在身边,不管相隔多远,当我摇响它的时候,你一定会听到的。相信我,我们会永远幸福的:)

感谢今天发来贺短信、贺msn、贺gtalk的leba、tommy、罐头、ike、bluelava和skyswind等,因为你们,我的生活变得更加精彩。

怎么感觉越写越像毕业论文后边的致谢了,就此打住。过个生日居然会乐得屁颠屁颠的,看来自己还真的是太naive了。不过考虑到明年的今日,旁边也许不会再有这些亲人朋友相陪了,且让我再享受一次这当孩子的无边快乐吧 )

Bye

July 6, 2006

Goodbye PKU, Goodbye Urban, Goodbye SESS, Goodbye GIS99, Goodbye GIS03, Goodbye 28#233, Goodbye 27#230, Goodbye Geosoft, Goodbye my piglike life, Goodbye my youth, Goodbye my friends~

Go West

June 16, 2006

(Together) We will go our way
(Together) We will leave someday
(Together) Your hand in my hands
(Together) We will make our plans

(Together) We will fly so high
(Together) Tell all our friends goodbye
(Together) We will start life new
(Together) This is what we’ll do

(Go West) Life is peaceful there
(Go West) In the open air
(Go West) Where the skies are blue
(Go West) This is what we’re gonna do

(Go West, this is what we’re gonna do, Go West)

(Together) We will love the beach
(Together) We will learn and teach
(Together) Change our pace of life
(Together) We will work and strive

(I love you) I know you love me
(I want you) How could I disagree?
(So that’s why) I make no protest
(When you say) You will do the rest

(Go West) Life is peaceful there
(Go West) In the open air
(Go West) Baby you and me
(Go West) This is our destiny (Aah)

(Go West) Sun in wintertime
(Go West) We will do just fine
(Go West) Where the skies are blue
(Go West, this is what we’re gonna do)

There where the air is free
We’ll be (We’ll be) what we want to be (Aah aah aah aah)
Now if we make a stand (Aah)
We’ll find (We’ll find) our promised land (Aah)

(I know that) There are many ways
(To live there) In the sun or shade
(Together) We will find a place
(To settle) Where there’s so much space

(Without rush) And the pace back east
(The hustling) Rustling just to feed
(I know I’m) Ready to leave too
(So that’s what) We are gonna do

(What we’re gonna do is
Go West) Life is peaceful there
(Go West) There in the open air
(Go West) Where the skies are blue
(Go West) This is what we’re gonna do

(Life is peaceful there)
Go West (In the open air)
Go West (Baby, you and me)
Go West (This is our destiny)
Come on, come on, come on, come on

(Go West) Sun in wintertime
(Go West) We will feel just fine
(Go West) Where the skies are blue
(Go West) This is what we’re gonna do

(Come on, come on, come on)
(Go West)

Good Luck, bad Luck, who knows?

March 13, 2006

I’ve got two pieces of news this morning. One is the letter from SIMS, UC Berkeley which informed me that I had not been accepted for admission, and the other is the email from MTT which said that I was still in the committe members’ consideration at CEE, MIT and only very few students were handful to the committe members. Good luck, bad luck, who knows? Just wait…

An old fable: Good Luck, bad luck, who knows?
A father and his son owned a farm. They did not have many animals, but they did own a horse. One day the horse ran away.
"How terrible, what bad luck," said the neighbours.
"Good luck, bad luck, who knows?" replied the farmer.
Several weeks later the horse returned, bringing with him four wild mares.
"What marvellous luck," said the neighbours.
"Good luck, bad luck, who knows?" replied the farmer.
The son began to learn to ride the wild horses, but one day he was thrown and broke his leg.
"What bad luck," said the neighbours.
"Good luck, bad luck, who knows?" replied the farmer.
The next week the army came to the village to take all the young men to war. The farmer’s son was still disabled with his broken leg, so he was spared. "Good luck, bad luck, who knows?"

一点G感受

October 25, 2004

考得很不爽,不过累计了一些经验值,还是写下来吧:

首先显然要说单词。其实说到底GRE就是考单词,对我们来说,那点做题的伎俩早就会了,新东方的那些复习资料看不看倒不是很重要,关键是要把单词背好。事实证明,只背老红包是不够的,老红包只背一遍更是不行,很多单词似曾相识,但考试的时候根本就想不起来,劝大家还是乖乖把单词关好好过了再说吧。

然后是做题,一定不要指望把单词全背完再做题,至少对于像我这么懒的人是不现实的。事实上,如果能把所有的No.题和国内题中出现的单词都记住,红宝书也就差不多了。

时间。30分钟内做完一个section的V,是件很困难的事情,所以在平时做题的时候一定要限时,如果实在不行就得放弃短文章阅读。

跨区。北大的考场管的还是比较严的,至少我们那个考场的老太太还是比较凶的,我尝试性的跨了一次,就被盯上了,汗~

数学。完全不用看,很易…

最后,以后不要再说GRE考不出一个人真实的英语水平了,GRE本来就不是考英语的,但足够的英语能力是必要条件,不要妄想纯粹的凭借所谓的技巧来拿高分。真正的牛人应该既具备实力又能不失时机的表现出来,我连实力还不具备就想去表现,bs自己一下!