No, No, No!
Don't look at me. Still struggling for my thesis writing now, I am!
This is all about my wife who has completed her Master thesis some two months ago.
Just got a great news to share! LOL..LOL... She got a "Distinction" for her thesis.
Congratulations to my beloved sweetie!
Though it was not like "a dream come true", it is a great honour and respect for her diligence and intelligence. I am proud of her. ^Q^
2006年12月10日星期日
Culinary Clash
Made myself a traditional Chinese soup tonight - Pig leg and mooli soup. It tastes great as it always is. :)I am not good at cooking food, but it seems that I have a great potential on that. When I was young, my parents used to run a small fast-food restaurant where I fed my stomach well and learned how to cook some basic stuff at the same time. My favorite food in my parents' are fried bread stick with soybean milk. They were famous for making fried bread stick in our small town. Sometimes we saw people queuing for it. They closed the small restaurant many years ago since we all grown up and didn't have to make a living on it. I miss it a lot.
The cooking skill I've learned from my parents helps me a lot to ease my thirsty for Chinese food during my overseas study. We even made some new cooking methods that we'd never thought that we could before. I myself love OX-tail soup the most. I found the similar recipe online but add some other extra ingredients. It looks awesome and tastes awesome too.LOL, practice makes perfect.
Actually we can do many things if we stick to it.
2006年12月8日星期五
Most difficult time
Done with the three most important chapters for my thesis now, though they are just the first drafts. What left now are the parts of introduction, concept and models and conclusion.
I assume they are not hard nuts to crack compared to the previous three parts. But who knows.
The thing is I am already getting tired for writing though I confess the process is very rewarding. I learned a lot from writing my thesis. It is kind of process to reorganize what you've learned to serve your thesis.
I guess that's a common feeling for people who are in the middle of writing a thesis. A misery never ends.
The good thing is my adviser seems quite satisfied for what I have written so far. "We, of course, need to make some change in your drafts, but it is good and you are working hard and very talented," he told me. It is very encouraging, though I know it clearly that people say such kind of words for politeness. But those words do cheer me on.
Need to take a rest tonight to recharge myself.
And I miss my sweetie so much.
Baxia, fighting!
I assume they are not hard nuts to crack compared to the previous three parts. But who knows.
The thing is I am already getting tired for writing though I confess the process is very rewarding. I learned a lot from writing my thesis. It is kind of process to reorganize what you've learned to serve your thesis.
I guess that's a common feeling for people who are in the middle of writing a thesis. A misery never ends.
The good thing is my adviser seems quite satisfied for what I have written so far. "We, of course, need to make some change in your drafts, but it is good and you are working hard and very talented," he told me. It is very encouraging, though I know it clearly that people say such kind of words for politeness. But those words do cheer me on.
Need to take a rest tonight to recharge myself.
And I miss my sweetie so much.
Baxia, fighting!
2006年12月5日星期二
A way of expression
Listening to the music is a fantastic way of relaxing.It is a world where you can express any kinds of feelings ranging from happiness, sadness, hatred, angry to depression and sorrow. Right now I feel liking doing nothing but immersing myself in music.
It is kind of embarrassing that I am not so sure which kind of music I like the best. However, if you ask me the question, my immediate answer will very likely be Jazz.
When I feel low, I tend to choose Jazz, full of emotion and extremely expressive. The twists and turns in Jazz for me is a good way to send out all the misery feelings. Most of Jazz songs are very touching. Singers have to sing Jazz with their souls. That's my understanding about Jazz. But the dilemma is I don't know many Jazz songs.
I also love American country songs very much. Each song tells a story.
And some Cantonese songs. For some of them can really touch the bottom of your heart.
However, it is sometimes really hard to find an appropriate song for your inner world at the right time, isn't it?
2006年12月2日星期六
Chocolate Christmas Coming!
The calender just turned December.My corridor friends made a Christmas chocolate house.
What a cute little yummy house!
2006年12月1日星期五
Writing a dessertation
Really get tired and misery about writing my thesis.
Bumping into one of my classmates' blog today. I found what he wrote in his blog reflected exactly what I am confronting with now.
Here are the excerpt of the discussion about writing a dissertation:
“Writing this dissertation is really the first big thing of your intellectual life. It is going to be a very tiring process. It is not like writing a paper: you get it done and you send it off somewhere. Writing dissertation: you get your first chapter done, and you feel you have lifted the weight. But what is waiting? Your next chapter. After a few chapters, you get really tired and you see no end to this misery. When I was in grad school, there was this famous play coming out, called, The Loneliness of a Marathon Runner. That is exactly the feeling of writing a dissertation. Only you run and compete with yourself, not others. So you have to be in good physical condition too. You need to exercise regularly. ”
“You have to figure out a way to sort your materials. You cannot keep all in your head. When I write, I always have a mental map of chapters, and then I number them 1, 2, 3, etc. Later when I come across an article, have an idea, I collect it or write it down and number them according to which chapter I feel they belong to. So they go into the pile numbered 1, 2, etc. You can give multiple numbers to articles, ideas too. Just remember to distribute them to other piles when you finish your first numbered chapter. I am not saying you should follow my way. But you got to find a way. The only good way is the way that works for you.”
“Books are quite different from dissertation. Most people rewrite their dissertations when they turn them into books. Because you need to prove you are a scholar in your dissertation. When you write a book, you are a scholar. But in a book, if you state up front what your objectives are and what you found, no one would want to read the book. A good book walks with the reader through a journey, hand in hand with the author. For all social sciences, really good work is only done by good writers.”
“You read and learn from the books you really admire and that speak to your heart. Do not say Marx or Nietzsche is cool, so let me copy them. But they are not you. Read a book not as a consumer, but like an author. It is totally a different perspective. Like watch a movie not as a member of audience, but as someone who makes movies. Then you will get better.”
“I know how sensitive the period is for a grad student. You are not sure you can do it. You have many doubts. You have to think more strategically and get what you want. Many people have gone through this route, but many people have failed too.”
It's really enlightening. Hope I can go through this route.
Bumping into one of my classmates' blog today. I found what he wrote in his blog reflected exactly what I am confronting with now.
Here are the excerpt of the discussion about writing a dissertation:
“Writing this dissertation is really the first big thing of your intellectual life. It is going to be a very tiring process. It is not like writing a paper: you get it done and you send it off somewhere. Writing dissertation: you get your first chapter done, and you feel you have lifted the weight. But what is waiting? Your next chapter. After a few chapters, you get really tired and you see no end to this misery. When I was in grad school, there was this famous play coming out, called, The Loneliness of a Marathon Runner. That is exactly the feeling of writing a dissertation. Only you run and compete with yourself, not others. So you have to be in good physical condition too. You need to exercise regularly. ”
“You have to figure out a way to sort your materials. You cannot keep all in your head. When I write, I always have a mental map of chapters, and then I number them 1, 2, 3, etc. Later when I come across an article, have an idea, I collect it or write it down and number them according to which chapter I feel they belong to. So they go into the pile numbered 1, 2, etc. You can give multiple numbers to articles, ideas too. Just remember to distribute them to other piles when you finish your first numbered chapter. I am not saying you should follow my way. But you got to find a way. The only good way is the way that works for you.”
“Books are quite different from dissertation. Most people rewrite their dissertations when they turn them into books. Because you need to prove you are a scholar in your dissertation. When you write a book, you are a scholar. But in a book, if you state up front what your objectives are and what you found, no one would want to read the book. A good book walks with the reader through a journey, hand in hand with the author. For all social sciences, really good work is only done by good writers.”
“You read and learn from the books you really admire and that speak to your heart. Do not say Marx or Nietzsche is cool, so let me copy them. But they are not you. Read a book not as a consumer, but like an author. It is totally a different perspective. Like watch a movie not as a member of audience, but as someone who makes movies. Then you will get better.”
“I know how sensitive the period is for a grad student. You are not sure you can do it. You have many doubts. You have to think more strategically and get what you want. Many people have gone through this route, but many people have failed too.”
It's really enlightening. Hope I can go through this route.
2006年11月27日星期一
Rainy and foggy days
Weather in Lund is terrible this November.Too many rainy and foggy days. The eyesight from my window is not more than 50 metres. Extremely foggy! Everything seems gloomy, deteriorated by the weather.
Hope there will be a sunny day or a snow very soon.
2006年11月26日星期日
Lund University ranking 76
Studying in Lund University, however, I am really not sure about the ranking of the university in the world. I know there were many rankings of different kinds, though for many times they didn't mean anything. Here I found one ranking list from Newsweek published on its web on August13 – The Top 100 Global Universities.“We evaluated schools on some of the measures used in well-known rankings published by Shanghai Jiaotong University and the Times of London Higher Education Survey. Fifty percent of the score came from equal parts of three measures used by Shanghai Jiatong: the number of highly-cited researchers in various academic fields, the number of articles published in Nature and Science, and the number of articles listed in the ISI Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities indices. Another 40 percent of the score came from equal parts of four measures used by the Times: the percentage of international faculty, the percentage of international students, citations per faculty member (using ISI data), and the ratio of faculty to students. The final 10 percent came from library holdings (number of volumes)."
Here is the ranking – http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14321230/
1. Harvard University
2. Stanford University
3. Yale University
4. California Institute of Technology
5. University of California at Berkeley
6. University of Cambridge
7. Massachusetts Institute Technology
8. Oxford University
9. University of California at San Francisco
10. Columbia University
… …
76. Lund University
... ...
88. Uppsala University
… …
2006年11月24日星期五
Deep Autumn in Lund, Sweden
Mission started
Start writing my thesis today.
Handed in a few small parts of a chapter to my adviser a few hours ago.
A real tough job. Feel tired now after hours of intensive reading and writing.
No wonder my adviser in Japan emphasized that it's better to spend two months on thesis.
Handed in a few small parts of a chapter to my adviser a few hours ago.
A real tough job. Feel tired now after hours of intensive reading and writing.
No wonder my adviser in Japan emphasized that it's better to spend two months on thesis.
2006年11月21日星期二
2006年11月18日星期六
Thesis outline sensible
Good to hear from my adviser that my thesis outline is sensible.
A good news in these dull days. The coming Monday we are going to talk details about my thesis. It is a new step forward.
Hard to imagine the day when I am done with the thesis. Excited, happy,... ... .
Wait and see.
A good news in these dull days. The coming Monday we are going to talk details about my thesis. It is a new step forward.
Hard to imagine the day when I am done with the thesis. Excited, happy,... ... .
Wait and see.
2006年11月17日星期五
Moving on
It's mid November.
Many rains these days. Lund is getting colder and colder.
I just finished talking to my adviser on Monday about my thesis. It's good that I have some idea now. But the bad thing is I can't concentrate myself on writing. Too many other stuff bother me. Really got a lot of things to do and should work harder.
Fortunately, I am kind of confident that I can do it. Good for me.
Many rains these days. Lund is getting colder and colder.
I just finished talking to my adviser on Monday about my thesis. It's good that I have some idea now. But the bad thing is I can't concentrate myself on writing. Too many other stuff bother me. Really got a lot of things to do and should work harder.
Fortunately, I am kind of confident that I can do it. Good for me.
X'mas is coming!
Still have 6 weeks to go for X'mas.However, my corridor friends can't wait to warm it up earlier than previous years.
"This year we would like to make it earlier and have more fun," said Stefan, a very nice Swedish guy from Stockholm. He is the one who handles almost all the stuff in our corridor.
Usually, they start counting down four weeks before X'mas by adding one candle each week on a candle plate. So when there are four, X'mas is there.
In the past week we've already had two glogg parties for X'mas. We had cookies and dried grapes. And the heated glogg wine is very much like traditional Chinese medicine to me. It is very sweet.
We also bought X'mas chocolate canlendar, though it is November:) I opened the 6 of Dec and found a Santa on the back of the calendar.
Expecting X'mas!
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