又是樱花灿烂时

“樱花大道”---Lower Mall

游台湾

马英九前天说今年7月份可以开放大陆游客赴台，听起来像是在不久的将来就可以去台湾玩了。

睡眠剥夺综合症

最近几天老是睡不好，倒也不是说睡不着，就是睡不久。昨天两点睡的，早上八点半就醒了，真是要我的命啊。疯了！

University of Washington, Seattle

Suzzallo Library
It boasts to be "the soul of the university". Indeed architecturally aesthetic.

Paul G Allen Centre. Home of the CSE department. There are only 160 undergrads in the CS department, and yet they have such a luxurious building! Yeah, American universities are RICH.

The Quad

Unidentified Gothic style building

The lake view from the backyard of a CS prof's house. Oh man, that guy's super rich. He has his own deck.

The view from the top of Paul Allen Centre. I'd say this is in no way comparable with the view we have in CS2 at UBC. While we look at the Pacific Ocean, they have only that small lake, and moreover, they have to endure that green, scenery-destroying chimney!

The front entrance of Paul Allen Centre.

Cherry.

Deep corridor symbolizes knowledge? Just my wild guess...

Tibet Was, Is, and Will Always Be Part of China!

This is the best-ever video I saw on Youtube!
Most Westerners don't know anything about Tibet. What they "claim" to know is all from their "objective" Western media. What qualifications do you have to comment or criticize other countries' internal affairs when you haven't yet cleaned up your own mess of racial problems in your backyard? So if you don't have the full knowledge of what you are talking about, please keep your mouth shut!

纽约

3月1日下午4点，从北卡RDU机场离开。



晚上6点，降落在纽约JFK。在飞机上不禁感叹这个城市真的很大。（谁叫咱来自农村呢。）

学校给找的旅馆还挺不错的, 一个人睡两张床, 就一爽字. :)


在曼哈顿如此拥挤的地方，竟然还有一Central Park的绿地，真是amazing啊。


Columbia的招牌建筑。

“那条街”
“那条街”上的那头牛（和人）。

这次拍了几张自以为很得意的照片，拿上来秀一下。
时代广场的灯亮到照相机没有闪光在晚上也曝光很短（当然，我用的傻瓜模式）。

Ellis Island. 据说最初的来美国的移民都要先在这个岛上的这个“移民厅”登陆后才能进入曼哈顿的。

帝国大厦。WTC双子楼被炸后，就数它最高了。（有没有点S&C片头照的那个味道?)

自由女神像是绿色的原因是。。。铜锈。这尊像另外也使我联想起<红色警戒>的游戏.

看看这些照片，觉得我的摄影技术有提高了。自恋中。。。

Surprise

昨天晚上在junk folder里发现了UIUC CS的offer，无语中。。。Yahoo的spam filter也过于严格了吧。Anyways, 还是蛮surprise的，本来以为现在这个时候收到的admission decision都是拒信。（一方面也因为最近收到的拒信是在太多。）至此，今年的admissions game基本上收宫了。接下来就要进行思想斗争来做最后的决定。收到的这几个offers都挺不错，但又都不是自己最想去的(最想去的没要我）。这种状况实在令人想抓狂。

SAMSI Workshop

2月28日，启程千里迢迢飞去北卡罗来纳，参加SAMSI办的一个undergrad workshop。先飞到西雅图Sea-Tac机场，转机去盐湖城。西雅度不愧是高科技城市，机场里似乎人手一个iPhone。。。

盐湖城从机场看出去似乎有点像温哥华，只是他们的雪山更靠近城市，更山区。飞机上有很多人都是去滑雪的，原来盐湖城也是个滑雪胜地。
经过将近一整天的转机飞行，终于到达位于北卡的Raleigh-Durham地区。还好主办方满贴心，拍了车子到机场直接把我们拉到Research Triangle Park的Radisson住下。之所以叫Research Triangle Park，是因为这里在Raleigh, Durham, 和Chapel Hill之间，然后三座城市又分别是北卡州立，Duke，和北卡大的校址。
这次北卡之行感觉并没有留下太深的印象，因为到达后第二天一大早主办方就把我们车到SAMSI在RTP的楼里，开始lecture，一直到晚上五六点钟，回hotel吃晚饭。第三天一样一大早就上课，中午十二点结束后，大家就都直奔机场离开了。本来还以为会去Duke参观一下之类的，结果就只是上课而已。不过北卡的天气似乎不错，也不是很冷。Research Triangle Park看上去有点像Burnaby EA, Kodak, 和HSBC在那块地方，到处都是树，但冷不丁树丛里就冒出来一块牌子，写着"IBM"，就是传说中IBM在北卡的那个研发中心吧。
在SAMSI听到主办方讲的最经典的一句话就是"You'll never get hungry at SAMSI." 哈哈。尽管吃！美国人还真是满有钱的，出钱把这二十几号人从美加各地拉到这里，就上那么一天半课，我其实并不太理解他们怎么justify这个cost。

MURC (Multi-disciplinary Undergrad Research Conference)

Me and my poster. Compared to those posters on topics of Bio-chemistry and Psychology, mine definitely looks boring to the general audience, so very few people actually stopped by and bothered to take a look. Anyways, as long as UBC reimburses the cost of printing my poster, it's fine to me...

Mounted Police Spotted On Campus!

This is the first time that I saw mounted police on UBC campus ever since I came here. The horses are handsome and elegant, I would say. But I was just wondering about one question: they are not RCMP, but Vancouver Police, surprisingly. UBC is technically not part of the City of Vancouver, so it is actually under the charge of RCMP. So what are the VPD people doing here? And I also could not help wondering, is the security level at UBC raised to such a level that we need mounted police to patrol around the campus?

Tony's Blogger Re-opens!

Three years ago, I abandoned Blogger on the ground that posting pictures here was really pain in the neck. Now Google has acquired Blogger and has actually made a lot of improvements to it, including picture posting. So I decided to re-open my Blogger, which is probably a nice place to post some of my travel-logs. Stay tuned. :)