Run! 10/01/31 First 10km match

Getting up at 6am to run a 10km match is a disaster. Though the result turned out to be quite acceptable for me (59'20''), it takes me the whole afternoon and evening to recover. Maybe I should slow down and spend 10 more minutes to make myself feel better afterwards. I felt cold during the last 500 meters, which never happened during practice.

Anyway, the whole run was not bad :) And I decided to simply call off the half next month. I am not ready at all, and I must protect my ankle carefully for the performance in August. On pointe is not a joke neither.

09年展览参观总结+10年计划

09年还是去了几个博物馆的，拉个单子：

4.26：上野国立西洋美术馆，Louvre展
6.27：中国美术馆，透纳展
7.12：横滨美术馆，法国19世纪绘画展
9.5：江户东京博物馆，浮世绘展
9.17：斯特拉斯堡美术馆
10.25：东京国立博物馆，天皇继位20周年纪念展
11.15：东京国立博物馆，天皇继位20周年纪念展
11.22：太田纪念美术馆，浮世绘
11.30：损保东乡青儿美术馆，比利时近代绘画展

今年刚开始，不过已经去过一次江户东京博物馆了，最近应该还会去趟六本木的国立新美术馆。博物馆没办法计划，除了4月在美东的那一圈之外，不过先暂时这么定：

4.4：地中美术馆
5.?：上海世博会
7.4：箱根美术馆
7.11：东京图书展
9.26：JATA旅游展

有好的企画展随时往里加，嗯。今年的重点是莫奈，争取把在日本展出的莫奈作品都看一下。

10年赏花计划

09年的实际完成情况如下：

2.1：小石川植物园，梅花
2.21：河津，樱花
4.4：目黑，樱花
4.26：根津神社，杜鹃
5.30：小石川后乐园，菖蒲
6.7：旧古河庭园，玫瑰（晚了！）；六义园，紫阳花
9.27：镰仓，彼岸花
10.11：新泻鱼沼，红叶（登山）
12.6：六义园，红叶

基本上想看的都看了，不过有些经典的地方嫌人多就没去，还是有点可惜，应该发挥一下一不怕挤不进去二不怕挤不出来的精神...

2010年的花季马上就开始啦！除了东京附近之外，期待跟公司的登山俱乐部去几个稍远一点的地方。自己安排的大致如下：

2.7：梅花，羽根木公园/池上梅园
2.21：早樱，镰仓
3.28：樱花，千鸟渊
4.4：樱花，岗山后乐园
5.16/23：菖蒲，掘切菖蒲园
7.4：紫阳花，箱根
10.3/10：波斯菊，昭和纪念公园
11月：银杏，明治神宫

6月到9月天气暖和，是爬山的好时候，考虑去海拔2000m以上的地方看看。

Run! 10/01/23 prepare for longer distance

Tried for a full circle between the two bridges over Tama River, but skipped the 0.7kmx2 from home to running trail. 7.1km/47min, which is approximately 9km/h, so I should be able to finish 10km in 1.5 hour with no big problem next weekday. However, I must admit that after 5km, it becomes much more uncomfortable...

A picture of the trail :)

The best order confirmation email I've ever get

is this one from Better World Books:

"Hello ***(my name),

(Your book(s) asked to write you a personal note - it seemed unusual, but who are we to say no?)

Holy canasta! It's me... it's me! I can't believe it is actually me! You could have picked any of over 2 million books but you picked me! I've got to get packed! How is the weather where you live? Will I need a dust jacket? I can't believe I'm leaving Mishawaka, Indiana already - the friendly people, the Hummer plant, the Linebacker Lounge - so many memories. I don't have much time to say goodbye to everyone, but it's time to see the world!

I can't wait to meet you! You sound like such a well read person. Although, I have to say, it sure has taken you a while! I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but how would you like to spend five months sandwiched between Jane Eyre (drama queen) and Fundamentals of Thermodynamics (pyromaniac)? At least Jane was an upgrade from that stupid book on brewing beer. How many times did the ol' brewmaster have one too many and topple off our shelf at 2am?

I know the trip to meet you will be long and fraught with peril, but after the close calls I've had, I'm ready for anything (besides, some of my best friends are suspense novels). Just five months ago, I thought I was a goner. My owner was moving and couldn't take me with her. I was sure I was landfill bait until I ended up in a Better World Books book drive bin. Thanks to your socially conscious book shopping, I've found a new home. Even better, your book buying dollars are helping kids read from Brazil to Botswana.

But hey, enough about me, I've been asked to brief you on a few things: ..."

The rest part is my order information, and the sender's signature is names of the books I ordered. Can you imagine how much I'm looking forward to meeting them?! I just love books, and love the people who love books as I do :)

wubi ubuntu 9.10 installing issue

It is reported by several people, and unfortunately observed by myself that wubi 9.10 installation will drop into grub after a seems-very-successful-install. Potential solutions are:

1. manually download the 32bit version to go with your 32bit windows, or
2. do NOT choose 30G when installing the 64bit version with a 32bit windows

2 seems a better and easier choice, and 29G worked perfectly with my XP (at least so far).

Wish you good luck!

PS: I still don't think that there are much difference between Wubi and normal dual os installation...

autocompletion with vim+ctags

I wonder how many times I have googled for this recently... So why not some notes to save some time :)

Step 1: install vim
Step 2: install ctags
Step 3: download omnicpp
Step 4: download tags for stl etc.
Step 5: set up .vimrc

Generally, follow instruction of this link should be able to get everything done:
http://en.kioskea.net/faq/sujet-2367-the-autocompletion-c-c-in-vim

Run! 10/01/17 5km

今天有意识地提高了一点速度，5km/31'46''，凑凑合合吧。看来月底的10km有戏在1小时10分钟以内跑下来，不过3月那个half实在有点勉强... 考虑直接翘掉了事:P

4月去Boston看Jin跑全程，当面崇拜一下，嗯嗯:)

Run! 10/01/10 再出发

前一阵连着感冒了两场，很是消沉了一段，然后放假又出去玩了，跑步就被忘到脑后了，惭愧惭愧...

今天终于打起精神出去小跑了一圈，3.7km/27.30，还算凑合吧，只是感觉上比以前容易累，跑了还不到1km就开始觉得小腿发紧了。不过那也许是因为昨天芭蕾课的缘故。昨天上足尖部分的时候那个疼啊...以后一定不偷懒了，呜呜...

1月底有个10km，能不能在1小时之内跑下来呢，很是不好说呀，呼呼。

New year resolution

Hihi, I know that I've been absent for quite a while. Two continuous flu, Siggraph Asia, holidays in HK and Macao with someone vaguely cute (yeah, don't you dare to deny it, your cuteness does come in a pretty weird way...), and went through a car accident together. So dear friends, please celebrate our reunion here! We were not that far away from farewell forever...

Although my belief turns more and more to the randomness of destiny, I'd like to have a review of the old fulfilled-or-not new year resolutions and make some new ones :) Okay, here comes resolution of 2009:

1. higher salary: 9.5%, hmm, let's call it a done...
2. a new notebook pc: done. I love my new vaio SR93 :)
3. a trip with parents in Japan: not yet. Should definitely do it within 2010!
4. a new camera: bought 3 cameras as presents for others, 3 toy camera for myself... Fine, I'll mark it as done since I borrowed my mother's Nikon F75.
5. meet Hongfei every two months: we met 6 times, respectively in January, March, May, June, November, and December. Half done...
6. save 50k rmb: done!

And the unexpected ones:
1. got a second-author Siggraph Asia paper, and presented it in Japanese.
2. submitted a patent application, in Japanese!
3. a 2-week trip in Europe. And Jin and I met again at the Oktoberfest! Yeah~~
4. finally turned to linux (thanks to vista Japanese version)

Now the 2010's! Though I told Seb to be more ambitious with resolutions, I don't really plan to set a such example here. At least I hope it won't be ;) Random order:
1. publish one paper, and apply 3 patents
2. present my demo at in-house exposition
3. a trip with parents in Japan
4. a trip with Hongfei
5. pass French B2
6. pass German B1
7. pass JLPT Lv.1 (I do hope this one is already done...)
8. be able to run a full marathon (no matter how much time it takes me...)
9. on pointe in the August performance
10. save 100k rmb (I'm indeed very ambitious here!)

In fact, when I was writing them down, I even have already decided those for 2011 as well. I hate myself -____-