319-July 2008

7/25
南澳-蘇澳 (153)

南澳車站外的7-11正好在南澳與蘇澳的交界處，可以一箭雙鵰

不過本計劃也到此宣告失敗了，沒有趁冬春天氣涼爽穩定時多玩玩，等到夏天就懶得出門了，而且要台灣走透透還真的需要蠻多的熱情...不然就是像我這樣半途而廢，所以只能期待各微笑商店的章在未來幾年還能好好保存著，也許我還能慢慢完成

完成縣市：台北縣市，台中市，基隆市，新竹市，桃園縣，宜蘭縣，花蓮縣，金門縣，連江縣
達成率：153/368=41.6%

宅男的世界

最近在整理房間，把不要的東西清掉





從小到大，花在電動，模型，棒球卡，籃球卡的錢不知有多少??
當然這些都不是不要的東西，以後拿去開運鑑定團鑑價，說不定我就在不知不覺中成了有錢人

小新聞

[毎日新聞 - 2008/7/6 18:32]
今季最高の跳躍を見せ、かみ締めるようにこぶしを握った池田＝函館市千代台公園陸上競技場で２００８年７月６日、梅村直承撮影

此人跟同為運動員的親友約好要在奧運跳出7公尺, 但親友先走一步, 而她成績不振, 甚至連參加奧運的資格都有危險, 直到今年7月這一跳後, 才出現這張照片

The road not taken

Robert Frost (1874–1963)
1. The Road Not Taken
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
(.....)
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
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Recently, I happen to read this piece in two different places.
I feel....I did not really "take"the road. Of course what I did helped shape the path. Though, it's just 一念之差,因緣際會,時勢所趨 (徵翻譯)

Marat keeps going

Safin plays in No.2 court (2006)

It's Wimbledon season again, and surprisingly, Safin is still in the game, and he will be facing Federer in the semi.

His career is characterised by ups and downs. Won a grand slam, injured, played not so well, won another grand slam, injured, and played not so well again. And he's back one more time.
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Some interviews....

Q. When you walked off, the BBC man asked you about your next opponent. You implied you didn't expect to get past Djokovic, and you didn't know who youwere going to play next. Is that right?

MARAT SAFIN: Yeah, true. But if you have a second round against Djokovic, the guy won the Australian Open, semifinals of French Open, winning the tournaments left and right. You play against him, and the last time I won two matches in a row was I don't remember when. So what do you expect? Of course that you are not really in a position to look anything after the secondround.

Q. You quite rightly didn't have huge expectations coming in because of your second round opponent. Have you looked at the draw the last couple days andset a new goal for yourself?

MARAT SAFIN: Well, match by match. It's just you don't want to have a lot of expectations, because when you start to have a lot of expectations you just end up losing in the third round to God knows who.

Q. How much of your happiness overall has to do with winning?

MARAT SAFIN: I'm 28. 28, a lot of things already happen in my life, you know.I'm not gonna be excited of winning just another match, just running around with a big huge smile. But just for me it's more like a relief, you know, that I made it -- first time in my life the semifinal of Wimbledon. But it's great. It's unbelievable. So it really means that I can play on this surface.Of course I'm happy, but just it's a different happiness. It's not the samewhen you're 20 years old and the first time you make the semifinals. Youthink you are flying. You are not even touching the ground. But now it's alittle bit different. It's nice, of course. You need to enjoy it, but it's a different way.

How to get a PhD (Part 1)

為什麼還沒開始唸,就可以寫"How to get a PhD"呢?

如何申請學校

1.成績單
修課內容可能比成績還重要
例如:(70分的高等微積分)>>(99分的投資學or財管or諸如此類的營養學分)
2.英文考試成績
如果你的母語不是英文, 就要考TOEFL或IELTS
考高分=>應該的, 考低分=>被踢掉
3.讀書計劃
Why PhD? How good and how motivated you are? Research interests? Can you survive? Career plan?
4.研究成果
通常用碩士論文來充場面
5.推薦信
有學界大頭的話最好
6.GRE or GMAT
考你的語文能力和數學能力, 只不過是用英文考

以上的東西寄去學校, 有緣的話就可以去唸啦!
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下集預告:
Part 2: 修課階段
Part 3: 寫論文階段