Ugly stuff!

weird stuff 2. I didn't read the explanation for this thing. too lazy.... hehe...

museum 5, what are these weird stuff?

museum 4

museum 3

museum again

Do I have to write a caption? ft! I can't leave it blank!! What a stupid setup!!

You see what this is. :)

OK, finally got out of the underground and this is Russell Square! The grassland is not as good as the ones in US.

hahaha..... The first stupid thing I did in London! After I got off the subway, I walked up the stairs to get to the street. I walked, walked, walked, walked, and walked, ...... It is endless!! Guess how many steps are there at Russell square station? 175 steps!! It is higher than a 10-floor building. Then the second day when I took the train again, I saw a sign on the entrance to the stair, "People are not expected to use the stair except in an emergency." How stupid I am!!

The subway in London. It is called underground or tube here. Imagine this, there is NO aircondition in the subway here!! I heard a rumor from a colleague at school that London Transportation Administration is asking people to take shower before going to the train station!! :)))

The ad in the subway. A round trip ticket to China is only 385 GBP. An annual pass for underground within zone 1 and 2 would cost me more than 800 GBP. That's more than 2 round trip tickets to China!! I comfort myself in the way that everyday when I take the train, I think it as if I am flying back home little by little. By the end of the year, I would have gone back home twice. It makes me feel much better! Very A-Q, isn't it? :P

The first dinner I had in London. Doesn't it look delicious? :P

The bed, the desk and the chair are the only furnitures in the bedroom. However, it is already more than what I had at Baltimore. :) I slept on the floor before, and there were no desk or chair in my room at Baltimore. Imagine what I had in the room? hehe...

The temporary apartment I live in right now.

In a cute leather shop at New Hope, Pennsylvania. Photographed by my mum. :)We went there one week before my mum left for home from Baltimore.

the first two days at London

到伦敦已经两天了，几乎从早睡到晚，昏天黑地的，所以乏善可陈。只上了两次街，深切的感受到英国司机同志们开车技术的高明。这里的交通状况和国内有得一拼，只除了自行车没有国内多以外，伦敦的司机在狭窄的街道上飙车的本事是大大地令人敬仰的。我头一次上街的时候还保持着在美国过马路时的淑女风度，慢条斯理，目不斜视的，不过立刻就有伦敦的大叔及时给美国来的冒牌淑女上了一课。过了第一条马路之后，偶就充分认识到从今往后又可以象小时候那样撒丫子在距离3米的两辆车之间争分夺秒了。怪不得英国的秃顶绅士们看起来都是一副老帅哥的样子，原来是生在了好地方，天天锻炼的结果呀！

明天就去上班了，为了推翻冬瓜关于上班第一天必定迟到的人生定律，偶今天无比坚强的从床上爬起来，去探了探路。伦敦的街道实在是短的创纪录，每隔一个block，同一条街道就会换一个不同的名字(至少在一区市中心是这样的)。我从家出门的时候看好了地图，觉得学校离地铁站撑死了也就20分钟的步行距离，结果偶围着大英博物馆顺时针、逆时针各转了一圈，又以大英博物馆为起点做Brownian motion一小时，最终可能是老天可怜见偶这个新近入城的老土吧，总算是误打误撞到了Keppel street上。找到学校之后，四顾一望，原来俺真是三过家门而不入呀！之前在学校附近已经逡巡了多次，最近的时候只离开一个街区的距离，就是10米长的街道把偶给害苦了！回家的路上，一在地铁上坐下来就觉得腿都要断了。

好了，新闻报导so far就这么多。等俺上了班，有了啥新典故再来这里八卦吧。

离愁

早晨起来，家里空空荡荡的。从纽约回来之后，整个人被极度的困乏所淹没了。家里从热热闹闹的七个人的house一下子变成了只剩我自己。想到列了两页纸长的to-do-list，人整个就被crush掉了。除了迫在眉睫的这些不得不在走之前处理完的事情，还有房间里弥漫充塞的离愁，使得我只想躺下来睡死过去。虽然已经开始分分秒秒的计划剩下的时间了，可是还是忍不住到这里来疏散疏散郁结在胸中的愁闷。

无题

家里，里里外外，大小器具，都收拾得净洁而明亮，一切井然有序，一种发自女人的审慎聪慧的心思的安详、和平、温柔的气息支配着整个的家，使我一脚踏进来便发生一种亲切、温暖和舒适之感。这种感觉是当一个人久别回家后才会有的，它让漂泊的灵魂宁静下来。

------- 钟理和 <<贫贱夫妻>>

注：中午吃饭时懒得看八卦新闻了，随意散步到文学视界。在那儿读到钟理和的<<贫贱夫妻>> 。“让漂泊的灵魂宁静下来”这样的感觉太奢侈了。禁不住感叹一下。

Disparity on Job Search

刚刚去听了一个talk, “Searching the Globe: Careers in International Health”. 总共有三四十听众的讲座吧，满屋子坐的都是女生，只有三个男生，其中一个还是组织者。不晓得是因为男生们找工作没有困难，不需要浪费时间在这样的讲座上，还是他们压根就对international health不感兴趣。

随便感慨一下，没啥别的废话。