Nice Sunday: read and swim

I found I was fond of reading books. Yesterday, I had found the book Complexity and been attracted by the first chapter. I found out that English books had a kind of style. That was listed many questions which could attract readers' interesting. Just like this book.

I had read the first chapter yesterday. Today was in weekend. After done some works on our project, I began to keep on reading it. I had only Chinese translation version. But I thought the translation was very good. In chapter two, author introduced the phenomena of giving to owners. I understood it like Matthew Effect. Yes. Author had introduced so many examples for explaining it. Author used this for anatomy of new economy. In this chapter, I learned something that was very important for our research on any topic or area. They were erudition and transfixion. Author said something about his idea on how he had found these phenomena and where was his inspiration. Our common, I believed, was hard to understand there was some link between physics, gene and economics. But after the author had read many books on these areas, he got his idea and whole architecture of his theory. I believed you could not understand this process. So I recommended you read it. It was so interesting that I ensure you would like to read it like me.

Wonderful books were the source for our life and research. I knew an archaic sentence "问渠哪得清如许，唯有源头活水来". It was just like the previous English sentence.

This afternoon, Chengjie Sun and I went to Sunshine Swimming pool again. During the two hours, I practiced my breast stroke. I tried more on exchanging my breath at the same place. Then I began to swim from this side to another. Finally, I mastered all the techniques of breast stroke. I could swim form this end to another. It was good news. I felt I should practice more. Do and learn it. This was the rule.

So nice day, it was. I liked this weekend. I should do more works on my project from tomorrow. Let me try more.

One nice book: Complexity

When I reviewed my favorite blogs, I found a nice book for reading. It was Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, 1995 by Mitchell Waldrop.

Its English introduction was in http://www.tnellen.com/ted/tc/complexity.html

I had found its Chinese virsion on http://www.egr.msu.edu/~hujianju/onlinebook/complexity/ComplexityIndex.htm.

After read the introduction, I am interested in it. I had added it to my reading list.

Libra won the award of poster design competition of MSRA

We won the awards of MSRA Student Poster Design Competition! Yeah~! That's very exciting news of our Libra in MSRA. We five main members were Yuhao Zheng, Tian Fang, Ying Song, Zhizhi Zhou, and me. We had prepared this poster four days and discussed so many ideas. It could be observed by my blogs.

Yes. Maybe the character of Libra was balanceable and hesitant. We had not confirmed our final design schema before yesterday. Our final schema was based on the windows game of Mine Sweeping. We used twenty-nine ping pong tables for our main frame of PPC. And there were many numbers like in the game were surrounding the ping pong balls. The timetable above the numbers and balls was two red tags. Their number were 730 and 930 which meant our ping pong club activity time each week. Our slogan was "We are surrounding you!” There was a mouse tag stuck on the core ball.


On the poster show time, our Libra five VSs went to the dais and introduced our design highlights. We were in a great team. Finally, our works won the first three of twelve constellations. The final result would be announced in the last big activity of MSRA in Aug.26.

We all were very happy. After the competition we had a dinner and played billiards together.

So nice teamwork, so nice day!

The related pictures were as following:

Our rudiment idea

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Our final design locale
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The final mouse tag
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Our works on showing
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Other groups
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Poster design for our Libra

There was a poster design competition. I was in Libra. And our Libra group had seven guys. All of us had had three discussions about our poster. In the past time, we all were concentrate on the new ideas and the main schemas. During the brainstorm stage, we discussed a lot. And sometime we all had no words seeing others faces. It was interesting!

This evening, we began to discuss from 18:30. First, we discussed the ideas last night we discussed. We voted for the schemas. Finally, when it was 21:00，we all focused on the final idea about using 29 ping pong tables forming our club name. I went to Wall Market to buy 39 balls. When I returned to Sigma 4F, they had done the main frame. Tomorrow afternoon, we would take part in the competition.

I came back to BUAA at 23:30. It was too late. I felt tired.

Ping Pong Activity

After the swimming last Sunday, I had done any exercise. As I felt little muscle ache and without time these two days.

This evening, I went to discuss our Poster Design with my Libra friends in brainstorm. After our super, it was 19:17. I had invited our Ping Pong members of MSRA gathering at 19:00 in 4F hall. So I was late for it. When I ran to, there was no one waiting for me. I knew maybe someone, who had wanted to play, had left because of my late. I would say sorry to them.

I went fast back to BUAA. When I brought my pat to the Ping Pong room, there were only four VS of MSRA playing. After a while, Taifeng Wang came. We six played three tables in two hours. During the two hours without substitution, we all enjoyed ourselves.

Caizhi Zhu would like to swim this Saturday. I felt good on this form of exercise.

Poster design and English Corner

This morning, I read two papers about dialogue act classification and dialogue clustering. When it came to afternoon, I was busy.

To my plan, I should write some corpus for our project. But there was a poster design competition. The deadline was Friday. This afternoon, Yuhao Zheng called us in Libra for a discussion. Our Libra was assigned to design poster for our Ping Pong Club. In order to design better poster, last week there was a VS who was professional on this, gave us a presentation on how to design poster. And we five Libra VSs discussed in detail about out poster. But finally we had not got the final schema. We must discuss it tomorrow afternoon.

This evening, there was a English corner. The speaker was Nikola who was from Yugoslavia and studying in America. He introduced how to save your life in US. He was very talkative and made a presentation like a cookbook. It was including nearly all the related things for first study in US. This was his last talk in MSRA. He would return to US tomorrow. Thanks for his talkative introduction.

So busy afternoon and evening, I would do more works tomorrow.

Typhoon Matsa

It's terrible in the two days. It was said there was a typhoon named as Matsa which would land on Beijing. And it would bring the biggest storm in recent 10 years of Beijing. It had damaged so many cities of China. It was reported that Masta would come into Beijing this morning with the speed of 30 km/h. And before this morning, there were thousands of denizens had moved to safe places.

But until 18:30 after our supper, it did not appear. We all friends did not stay in Sigma this evening. As newly reported on famous website, it would come at 20:00 this evening. So after lunch I returned back to the bedroom of BUAA. We could do nothing except watching TV.

We were in room and expected the coming of the storm. But when we fall asleep, it was without any trace. It seemed there was some inaccurate weather forecast.

So I only do more works tomorrow.