One more day in Mississippi State University

Feb 21, 2009, we had half a day of meeting, then we hurried off to get back to Texas.

Here are photos we took in the noon, after lunch.


In front of the beautiful modern building (as told by the organization committee when we tried to find our way there).

That's all of us. The camera was placed on a Sedan, in a car park besides Hunter Henry Center, the conference center.

It should be the school apartment. Just half an hour later after we left the conference building and we haven't left the campus, the clouds formed quickly and it looked very beautiful to me. But the exposer time of the photo is too long so the effect is not satisfactory.

It rained that afternoon.

Blind date in Mississippi!

We are having a blind date game during the first night of MCBIOS meeting!

I did not participated in it, but observed it, quite interesting! But till now I still cannot figure out its rule :-??

这可是现场直播啊，哈哈

游戏名字叫blind date。我到现在都搞不清规则是什么，只见让大家都排排坐在长条桌子的两边，一对一的开始谈话，过一小会儿主持人就让其中一排的人挪个位置，然后新产生的pair就又开始热烈的交谈...太吵了我都听不清在谈什么，反正大家都兴高采烈的，呵呵


(Continued on Feb 22, 2009)


Then I did participated in the game! It is really interesting, you got to meet and chat with everyone in your opposite seat. After 15 minutes of intense talk (everyone was talking so loud and fast that I had to shout so that my companion could hear me), and I was almost very tired, but excited.

Besides, I won a little present in the game, may luck accompanies with me, and us!

Still a few random pics here

Dear all, I'm really too busy to put some good stuff here, and many times I cannot find a good mood to do so...

Anyway, I'm a bit guilty about not providing anything for more than half a month. So here is some random pics that I took on Feb 7, 2009.

I'm now leaving for Mississippi for a meeting. Please wait for further news!

College Station, just arrived!

我亲爱的各位朋友们，我已经在得克萨斯州的College Station了。尽管目前尚未完全安顿下来，我已经初步适应了全新的环境，时差也倒得差不多了。这里真的是一个不错的地方，真的很符合我的预期:-)
All my dear friends, I have been in College Station right now. Though I have not been settled down yet, I have partially made the adjustment to the completely new environment and getting to like it. Yes indeed it is a fairly good place, not down to my expectation!

这里贴上刚到这几天随手拍的照片。
Here are a few random photos I have taken during my first days in United States, for my friends in China.

我在当地时间一月28日上午到休斯敦机场。当时天气格外晴朗，阳光强到有些刺眼。我们在等Joshua来接我们。Joshua真是好人呐！
I arrived at Houston airport on Jan 28 in the noon. I'm in thick clothes but the local temperature is around 20 Celsius. We were there waiting for Joshua to pick us up.



在回去的路上我不停的东瞅西看，可以想象我当时激动的心情吧！这里是在加油站时拍的。
On the way back to college station, Joshua stopped to refuel his Accord.


这是从Joshua和他妻子的公寓前看到的路景。
This is the street view in front of Joshua's apartment. A very clear, cool, and common morning in Jan 31.


我发现美国人的皮卡真叫一个多啊！估计家家一个吧，而且都那么的大。
A truck was passing by. Be the new comer, I'm a bit surprised to see the abundance of trucks owned by the natives.



It was Saturday morning, so few cars were on the road. Lots of parked cars can be found in front of each apartment.


Bryan是college station旁边的一个小镇，由于college station的不断扩张（因为是大学城），所以现在两个城市几乎连起来了。但具Joshua讲这里犯罪率比较高，而college station更安全。
We went to Bryan that morning. It is a smaller town adjacent to College Station. Following are some street views there.



我以后会把college station的照片放上来给朋友们看。这真是一个不错的地方。用Joshua的话讲，非常适于养儿育女。
I will bring up some photos in College station. Please wait!

Hope everybody is fine! I miss you all!

千里之外（续二）

一月十七日是我赴美前在北京逗留的最后一天。下午由朋友带去逛了北京老胡同和南锣鼓巷。我蜗居北京八年半了，这么著名的地方，听都没听说过，更不用说来过了。唉～～

乘地铁到张自忠站下，出来后的北京街道和电轨公交车：



旁边就是仍有居民居住的四合院。我们私闯民宅，窜到人家的院子里看了看。其生活面貌的保存完好程度令我这个北方小城镇出来的人都感到惊讶。




其中一间矮房门锁着，透过没有窗帘遮挡的玻璃，可以看到有人曾在旧报纸上练习毛笔字，挺有传统文化味道。



到南锣鼓巷了。



巷子口那个牌楼的背面。记得这巷子里好车特别多，好像有身份的人



从巷子口往里看就是这样的。小小的巷子，越往里越狭窄。但还是挡不住这里的车水马龙。我想，穿行在这里的机动车就仿佛旧日里的马车、黄包车。



开始逛这里的小店铺了！巷子里临街的店铺品种繁多，干什么的都有，对我这个整日闷在屋里的书呆子真是不小的视觉刺激。

巷子口不远是一个老制衣店，張華製衣。



这里有无数的小酒吧和咖啡厅。每个都与众不同，超级个性。




还有一家专卖火柴的铺子。但据我观察，火柴盒子上的图案基本上是侵权的 :-(




中央戏剧学院就在巷子里，怪不得这里有很浓的艺术气息。门口的广告牌上贴着很多在我看来很先锋的话剧告示，都是这里学生的作品



非常巧的是，我们赶上一个电视剧拍摄现场，《邓稼先》。片场设在一个cafe里（名字叫``小新的店''，好巧啊），屋里是西式陈设，会不会是邓稼先早年在美留学时的场景？我傻瞅着那堆设备的时候，随行的朋友一眼就看出了当红明星黄奕在里头，然后我就陪着她戳在那儿往屋里看啊看~~我发现连旁边的老奶奶都认得有个大明星在那儿，而我才第一次听说 -_-||



之后接着逛。看到一个巨个性的布偶商店。要是我猜到在里面会遇见和发生些什么，我可能就不敢进去了...哈哈


>_< 这就是了我被要求和里面的爷俩合影，理由是我长得跟他们好像！ （她先大笑的指着老头子说我老了就这样，然后又看到旁边那个，说我两年后就那样，然后就强迫我去合影...我又不是一眼大一眼小，鼻子上也没环...） 但照片出来一看，别说还真有点像！-_-|||



继续逛吧！天都黑了，而且冷得厉害。抓相机的手都被冻疼了。

在十字路口发现了几名摄影爱好者在取景。于是哆嗦着拿人家当成景儿拍一张。我的老相机没有防抖功能，远景被抖的一塌糊涂，仿佛在漂移似的，近景里的那位不畏寒冷的拍摄者却比较清晰，真是弄拙成巧啊哈哈



一家美轮美奂的服饰店。