Well, I mainly means my time of sleeping. Though I sleep almost exactly 8 hours per day in total, the particular time of my falling sleep and waking up, is largely random. Well, in fact, not "random" but "too far from the 'normal' style."
Take the last 48 hours as an example. On Tuesday, I slept from 5 a.m. to 8 a.m. and woke up just in time to attend the lecture. After the lecture, I went back to my dorm. I had no lunch because by the time of lunch, I felt too sleepy and just fell to bed. I woke up to find that it was totally dark, and it was about 6:30 p.m. Hence, I struggled up, withdrew some cash and went for a dinner.
After that, I worked on my laptop for a couple of hours. By the time of 10 or 11 p.m., I felt sleepy again. I thought it was good because I just wanna do some adjustment! Hence I just turned off all the lights and fell to bed. When I opened my eyes again, before which I thought I had slept for several hours, I found it was "still totally dark outside". I picked up my watch and found it was only 2 a.m! I thought I'd better do some tedious reading to get myself sleepy again. Hence, I took a good bath and picked up some library books. I spent a hour to finish one of them, and them consumed some supply. (a Big-Mac!) I eventually surrendered to my desire of turning on the computer. In a word, I fell to bed at 5 a.m.
I felt I cannot sleep anymore by 7 a.m. and decided to work by the pond behind my hall. I was pretty cold outside by that time, and that make me sober. However, I finally gave up and returned to my hall at 11 a.m. After lunch, I stayed up until 4 p.m. when I cannot stand anymore, and fell to bed. I woke up to find that it was 8 p.m.
2007年11月21日星期三
2007年11月19日星期一
First Time to Lose An Expensive Item
God damn it! Son of a bitch!
I've been thinking to buying a volume of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman of myself, and several days earlier, I suddenly realized that the Stat. Mech. textbook we adopted is definitely the best I've ever seen on elementary level. Hence, I made up my mind to buy them both last afternoon. I must be too sleepy to forget putting them into my schoolbag, I just dumped the plastic bag on a chair in the canteen, and put my bag on it. My appetite turned out to be so little, and soon I determined to leave, I just instinctively picked up my school bag, and forget all about the book.
It was not until 8 p.m. that I realized something about the book. I rushed to the canteen, and astonishingly found that there are still a great many of people there. Definitely, the bag can no longer be found.
I just wonder who will need two books like that! Damn it! The price is over HK$300, my typical budget on meals for a whole week! Son of a bitch!
I've been thinking to buying a volume of Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman of myself, and several days earlier, I suddenly realized that the Stat. Mech. textbook we adopted is definitely the best I've ever seen on elementary level. Hence, I made up my mind to buy them both last afternoon. I must be too sleepy to forget putting them into my schoolbag, I just dumped the plastic bag on a chair in the canteen, and put my bag on it. My appetite turned out to be so little, and soon I determined to leave, I just instinctively picked up my school bag, and forget all about the book.
It was not until 8 p.m. that I realized something about the book. I rushed to the canteen, and astonishingly found that there are still a great many of people there. Definitely, the bag can no longer be found.
I just wonder who will need two books like that! Damn it! The price is over HK$300, my typical budget on meals for a whole week! Son of a bitch!
2007年11月7日星期三
Academic Bunkers Sieging
"I moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo and showed 'em what I've got."
I chose this piece of lyric to be my QQ signature, just before I "moved like Harlow in" the homework done by "Monte Carlo" method.
There is a famous idiom in the profound Chinese language, "Fuck time and time again, and love will eventually be generated". That's just what Monte Carlo did to me. When I began to learn it, I never considered it anything practical, and thought that the more determinstic methods are preferable and would converge at a far higher rate. However, after learning it for so long and doing so many problem with it, I've learned to enjoy this kind of thing.
However, the problem this time is that: the midterm and the deadline for this assignment just knock into each other, which, needless to say, means a ultimately arduous battle due to the lack of time. This turned out to be absolutely true.
There are four problems, each of which was estimated to require 5 to 6 hours on average to be completely done. Almost all I had were Tuesday and Wednesday, so I have to work 10 to 12 hours per day. It seemed to be a relatively small number, but studying problems is definitely different from lying on the lawn reading. I compare the former to an academic "Bunker Sieging".
I've seen sieging Bunkers with Hydralisks or Dragoons, and I know how bloody the scene is. However, I thought I had a few "academic Guardians and Reavers", and, above all, determination of blasting it to the ground. Hence, I had some confidence.
The full assault began at the night of Monday. Before that, I've done almost all the analytical work during the last weekend as preparation. The first two problems are essentially identical, i.e. finishing one means being able to finish the other in a matter of minutes. However, there are some subtle technical problems lying in front of me.
I've only slept for hardly 3 hours-- I stayed up until 5 a.m. and fell to the bed. However, it must be that I'm way too tired to ever sleep! I lay on the bed idly until I can no longer stand the sun out of the window, and determined to wake up and continue my work. However, I made little progress. I suddenly remembered that I told Bill I'll "kick into Chen's office and ask him about it", and I just set out.
It was not so easy to find Chen's office but I eventually made it. I told him that I've only slept for 3 hours last night but apparently he showed no sympathy so I determined to focus on the problems. He provided little help and told me that he cannot found where the problem lies until he see my code--that's the most ridiculous part--I assume that a professor should be familiar with all sorts of common mistakes students frequently make! Hence, I left his office disappointedly. Before my depart, he said, "Goodbye and have fun!", to which I reply, "Thanks if I can learn to consider it to be funny!"
I had my lunch (which is sold as "breakfast" by Mc'Donald) and returned to the dorm. After 1 or 2 hours of working, I cannot stand any longer, and fell to the bed...
When I opened my eyes again, I struggled to recall what was the last time I was conscious and tried to guess when it's most likely to be. I finally figured out it's probably early evening of Wednesday. I picked up my cellphone and was simply frighten out. 16 calls! Most of them from Haobo! Another of his SMS said that he'll have supper with a PG graduated from SYSU and asked me whether I will be there, I agreed without hesitation.
That PG turned out to be majoring in physics in SYSU (thus my direct major-mate), and he's just so kind and nice! However, I was still way too sleepy and had to leave pretty early. When I arrived at the dorm, however, I feel not a bit sleepy, and had this intense desire to finish it before dawn.
Now lemme make a brief report of my progress by then. The professor said one of my results in the third problem was wrong, but by the time I paced out of his office, I suddenly came up with the whereabout of the mistake, and fixed it immediately to reach the correct result. However, it was much, much more time consuming to run the program than to code it. I'd no mood to re-consider the first two problem, and had not begun with the fourth.
A figure of the third problem is also very hard to plot, and I didn't finish it until midnight. By that time, very surprising, Kaihan was online! I told him about my story and he was astonished, too.
I chose this piece of lyric to be my QQ signature, just before I "moved like Harlow in" the homework done by "Monte Carlo" method.
There is a famous idiom in the profound Chinese language, "Fuck time and time again, and love will eventually be generated". That's just what Monte Carlo did to me. When I began to learn it, I never considered it anything practical, and thought that the more determinstic methods are preferable and would converge at a far higher rate. However, after learning it for so long and doing so many problem with it, I've learned to enjoy this kind of thing.
However, the problem this time is that: the midterm and the deadline for this assignment just knock into each other, which, needless to say, means a ultimately arduous battle due to the lack of time. This turned out to be absolutely true.
There are four problems, each of which was estimated to require 5 to 6 hours on average to be completely done. Almost all I had were Tuesday and Wednesday, so I have to work 10 to 12 hours per day. It seemed to be a relatively small number, but studying problems is definitely different from lying on the lawn reading. I compare the former to an academic "Bunker Sieging".
I've seen sieging Bunkers with Hydralisks or Dragoons, and I know how bloody the scene is. However, I thought I had a few "academic Guardians and Reavers", and, above all, determination of blasting it to the ground. Hence, I had some confidence.
The full assault began at the night of Monday. Before that, I've done almost all the analytical work during the last weekend as preparation. The first two problems are essentially identical, i.e. finishing one means being able to finish the other in a matter of minutes. However, there are some subtle technical problems lying in front of me.
I've only slept for hardly 3 hours-- I stayed up until 5 a.m. and fell to the bed. However, it must be that I'm way too tired to ever sleep! I lay on the bed idly until I can no longer stand the sun out of the window, and determined to wake up and continue my work. However, I made little progress. I suddenly remembered that I told Bill I'll "kick into Chen's office and ask him about it", and I just set out.
It was not so easy to find Chen's office but I eventually made it. I told him that I've only slept for 3 hours last night but apparently he showed no sympathy so I determined to focus on the problems. He provided little help and told me that he cannot found where the problem lies until he see my code--that's the most ridiculous part--I assume that a professor should be familiar with all sorts of common mistakes students frequently make! Hence, I left his office disappointedly. Before my depart, he said, "Goodbye and have fun!", to which I reply, "Thanks if I can learn to consider it to be funny!"
I had my lunch (which is sold as "breakfast" by Mc'Donald) and returned to the dorm. After 1 or 2 hours of working, I cannot stand any longer, and fell to the bed...
When I opened my eyes again, I struggled to recall what was the last time I was conscious and tried to guess when it's most likely to be. I finally figured out it's probably early evening of Wednesday. I picked up my cellphone and was simply frighten out. 16 calls! Most of them from Haobo! Another of his SMS said that he'll have supper with a PG graduated from SYSU and asked me whether I will be there, I agreed without hesitation.
That PG turned out to be majoring in physics in SYSU (thus my direct major-mate), and he's just so kind and nice! However, I was still way too sleepy and had to leave pretty early. When I arrived at the dorm, however, I feel not a bit sleepy, and had this intense desire to finish it before dawn.
Now lemme make a brief report of my progress by then. The professor said one of my results in the third problem was wrong, but by the time I paced out of his office, I suddenly came up with the whereabout of the mistake, and fixed it immediately to reach the correct result. However, it was much, much more time consuming to run the program than to code it. I'd no mood to re-consider the first two problem, and had not begun with the fourth.
A figure of the third problem is also very hard to plot, and I didn't finish it until midnight. By that time, very surprising, Kaihan was online! I told him about my story and he was astonished, too.
2007年11月1日星期四
Suddenly Become Cold!
After sleeping for barely 5 hours, I forced myself to wake up, grabbed the t-shirt and the pair of shorts I wore yesterday, and made myself "good to go".
If I was still more or less sleepy when I'm opening the gate, I dare say I was definitely not after it: I was suddenly surronded by the air tranfered from warm to cold overnight! In fact, I'm more shocked by the fact itself than being frozen. For the first time since I come to HK, the idea of "I'm wearing too little" came across my mind.
I ran to the McDonald's on LG5 and ordered my routine breakfast. That cup of "hot cholcolate", originally served as sleepiness-dispeller, now became a way to make myself somewhat warmer.
After CP, I bought myself a good amount of supply in the supermarket, found myself a seat by the pond at the back of UG Hall 4 (a place I've been planning to visit for a long time but never managed to), sat down and began to read about crystallography. It was, just I expected, no more than one hour before I began to feel uncomfortable: upset, sleepy and cold. I recalled my plan of "doing something meaningful during November", and told myself to keep on reading. However, these uncomfortableness just accumulated, and I gave up by leaving for lunch.
After lunch, I had a great sleep until 5 p.m. when I was awaken by this damned phone call. It's from a classmate I met in PHYS351 and it was then that I began to realized the fact that we had an appointment to review the course together this afternoon. I jumped up from the bed and met them. He find me a very nice indoor place to study. We left there at 7 p.m. When we paced out of the door, a gust of freezing wind of the evening nearly froze me into a statue. The boy wore far more clothes than I did, but he also began to shiver. He looked at me and said in an astonished tongue, "don't you feel cold? You're wearing so little!"
After dinner, I went to the library, stayed there until 11 p.m. to finish reading 3 books (!). Then I thought it was "enough for today" and returned to my room.
So, the autumn is ending and the winter is approaching...
But that's not the thing I have to worry about now-- it is the exam tomorrow.
If I was still more or less sleepy when I'm opening the gate, I dare say I was definitely not after it: I was suddenly surronded by the air tranfered from warm to cold overnight! In fact, I'm more shocked by the fact itself than being frozen. For the first time since I come to HK, the idea of "I'm wearing too little" came across my mind.
I ran to the McDonald's on LG5 and ordered my routine breakfast. That cup of "hot cholcolate", originally served as sleepiness-dispeller, now became a way to make myself somewhat warmer.
After CP, I bought myself a good amount of supply in the supermarket, found myself a seat by the pond at the back of UG Hall 4 (a place I've been planning to visit for a long time but never managed to), sat down and began to read about crystallography. It was, just I expected, no more than one hour before I began to feel uncomfortable: upset, sleepy and cold. I recalled my plan of "doing something meaningful during November", and told myself to keep on reading. However, these uncomfortableness just accumulated, and I gave up by leaving for lunch.
After lunch, I had a great sleep until 5 p.m. when I was awaken by this damned phone call. It's from a classmate I met in PHYS351 and it was then that I began to realized the fact that we had an appointment to review the course together this afternoon. I jumped up from the bed and met them. He find me a very nice indoor place to study. We left there at 7 p.m. When we paced out of the door, a gust of freezing wind of the evening nearly froze me into a statue. The boy wore far more clothes than I did, but he also began to shiver. He looked at me and said in an astonished tongue, "don't you feel cold? You're wearing so little!"
After dinner, I went to the library, stayed there until 11 p.m. to finish reading 3 books (!). Then I thought it was "enough for today" and returned to my room.
So, the autumn is ending and the winter is approaching...
But that's not the thing I have to worry about now-- it is the exam tomorrow.
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