Wednesday, November 28, 2018

I do believe i'm smart

I do believe it/ it's just that for metrics, there are gaps that hinder me. my path is nothing like other candiadtes in the program. but i always urprise myself how fast i learn.

for example, in the case to learn how to add live feed in my blog profile, i mastered in in 30 min while a lot of people who asked online did not get to add live feed to their blogs.

So, trust yourself, take your time to learn, metrics is not Xingfei. Metrics is fun subject, Xingfei is a horrible teacher. You learn the topic, not him. so just stay your cool and carry on. If you fret about his slide, then you lose :)

don't fret. No all or nothing thinking.

it's ok. see? you have read and studied the intro econometrics for only two days, and now you at least can understand what's going on in the econ 599 advanced book. so it worked! even though there are a lot more estimation materials that the intro book didn't cover. but at least you are much less confused than when encountering it for the first time.

So, keep going! don't get upset! if you stop, you will for sure learn nothing! he doesn't test on everything, so don't fret if you can't understand every single details. just learn the majority. 

Sunday, September 18, 2016

My life seems to be filled with problems. One after another

Been in Canada for more than three weeks.

Don't feel happy. mainly cuz of the work visa.

i always feel that my dream, my life would be crushed if i can't get the PR. because of that, it really really reduces my motivation to study hard. because to be brutally honest, i came here to study a master's degree to use it as a pathway to get PR.

IT'S EASY for me to get back to being unhappy easily. unhappy because:

1. work visa problem
2. hard classes
3. not main reason but sone reason: A guy named Guanglong Zeng that I really liked but he's far away

i think if the PR requirment is that as long as I can get a master in canada, then i think i will study really hard to get it. but now it seems that i have not sufficient motivation...

but at least i can't just be unhappy cuz of a stupid visa, right? i have my parents, my grandmother that I can feel happy about...

Now Guanglong has deleted me.... oh well.... i am feeling even worse....


i have to face the reality, regardless of whether Guanglong re-adds or not......

today is a heck of a day... a heck of Sunday











Monday, December 28, 2015

29号了,还是没开始选校,上网瞎逛的时候痛快,事后心里又是无比的anxious

12月29号了。还是没开始。

昨天28号武汉地铁三号线通车,这两天一直都在地铁族上看帖子。

每天还是来了公司就是看网易,发地域贴骂上海人,武汉人,北京人。然后就是关注三号线通车的图片。

我就是典型的那种条件好了不知道珍惜的人。公司现在没事,多得是时间,我却白白浪费时间,不去申请。

今天我真的急了!真的我担心没时间了。

现在写一下发泄一些anxiety和对自己的不满,然后到多乐之日吃点甜点。

吃完,回来,我倒要他妈的看看今天啥也不看,就选学校我到底能不能死

Saturday, December 26, 2015

已经12月27号了,还是没开始选校..... 真的快结束了

上次写blog应该是23号。4天过去了,还是没开始。

每天选择看网易新闻,看地铁族,微信和基友聊天,但就是没开始选校,和去年做的事情一模一样。。。真的很担心,真的很担心,和去年一样got wasted。。。

今早(12/27,周日)下雪,很美,应该是北京第三次下大雪。

在六道口地铁站照了张像:

觉得很pure,白色的大地,疏散的树枝,iconic六道口地铁站,很有感觉。

于是我传到了微信朋友圈,并配上了 “六道口no冬”的日语和“Happiness is in the heart, not the circumstances”的英语:
 后来到了办公室,又分享了一个“身份证4201开头的人2016年要做的50件事”



但传完后,和往常一样,我在想:别人会怎么看我?很做作?很假,很穷b到在街上照张相装b?这个武汉人也能有优越感?还身份证4201开头也能在北京秀。

但我心想,自己想多了。别人怎么想关我啥事,我是我,他们又不认识我。

下了地铁,到了金台夕照,想到自己选校的正事不做,专门去想别人怎么看我发的朋友圈这些屁事,我就觉得自己好可笑。

自己改变命运的事不做,去想些peripheral的屁事,真是浪费时间,浪费脑力。把该做的事做了,自己的命运改变了,别人就算不喜欢自己我也不去care了。

所以呢,真为自己feel bad。

anyway,27号了,还没开始选校呢。下个月15号就deadline了。必须要开始选了。 Doing more pleasurable things instead of doing your job is NOT gonna  help. Period.

必须要把第一步,艰难的起步开始,get started,后面照着做,就顺理一下。

就这最后一个月了。。别再浪费 

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

你到底想怎样?!!还要再一次suffer?!!还没有对失败找到教训?


离18号考完GRE已经过去5天了。今天已经23号。大部分学校截止日期都是1月15号。已经非常紧了。为什么你这几天还是不开始get started?为什么? 为什么?为什么?

你真的是傻了吗?你到底是怎么了?what have got into you?前年,去年,你就是因为每天这样无所事事而荒废了申请,搞得现在一堆的headache。甚至大学时期,你也是exactly因为这些procrastination导致GPA及低。

为什么!为什么你还要拖延!!!!!为什么!!!我真的恨我自己了,真的!我这一切都是自己自找的,罪有应得!

是的,奖学金难拿,让你压力大,压力大让你不知所措,于是就开始拖。

但你现在有两种选择:1.继续拖; 2.开始做

1的结果:荒废申请,和去年前年结果一模一样。
2的结果:申请开始,报学校,可能有录取,甚至奖学金。

其实过去的6年来,你失败只有一个原因:Procrastination。Procrastination!没别的。

为什么拖延? 因为你觉得任务难,因为你懒,因为你被眼前好玩的诱惑,呵呵,真想不到,25岁了,还能这么控制不住自己,有没有白活啊?

其实大部分情况,硬着头皮,把第一步做下去,开始做,之后的就好多了。只要没拖延,大部分情况最后是benign的。而我的情况是第一步不开始,后来就一直不开始,知道把deadline荒废,目标失败。

离1月15号,算今天,还有24天。你要申请15所学校。选校还要花几天,还要和教授给时间写letter。mark stater去年前年已经抱怨我给的时间太短,今年绝对不能了。

真的,就一个月了,这一个月与其像去年一样每天browse地铁族,每天刷新闻,真划不来。地铁啥时候不能坐啊,新闻啥时候不能看啊。但申请deadline只有一个。

请不要再后悔了




Tuesday, November 10, 2015

A guy who made me sentimental, brought back my New England memories, and made me think deeply about my future

I usually wouldn't start a blog until something or someone memorable showed up in my life. But today, two months since my last blog, I met Jake T. After a sweet and loving night with him, I found me like him, maybe a lot...

It was on a cool Fall Sunday afternoon (Nov.9th). I was sitting on my relative(gu nai nai)'s bed after a nice home-made lunch, browsing Jack'd and reading news on netease. These are my Sunday routine at her home, which nicely (but temporarily) provides me with a relaxing weekend day...

A jack'd message reached me. Maybe because it was in English, I opened. (Since I started working in MSL, I paid significantly less attention on dating apps, so most messages with a plain "你好“ got unopened, cuz I really got no time for them!). Jake wrote hi and visiting from the states. He also unlocked his private pici.. I always appreciate it when guys do that! hahaha.

His private pic is just a chest.. so I was immediately let down, and started my first communication with a selfishly blunt "may I see face pic", without making effort to capitalize the first letter. He said sure and uploaded his face pic... 

He may not look like the "hot sex type" to many normal Chinese guys, but i found him handsome, especially eyes... He is dressed in a brown blazer with a business casual style. pic seemed to be taken in his closet. He looks a bit westernized.. i like his eyes, which look like a mixture of Asian and Caucasian eye shapes... 

Anyway.. Before 9pm when I got to his 京师大厦 hotel.. our chat went very well.. he seemed nice and we both wanted to meet up... On my bus to his hotel, he insisted coming down to the 1st floor lobby and pick me up. I thought that was too much and said it's OK if he just stays in his room. The hotel is conveniently located in a road crossing..It actually looks pretty nice and clean to me, but he previously told me it was shabby when I asked if i could stay over. 

I pushed the front door, glanced around, and there he was... standing by the front desk, dressed exactly the same as in the pic, looking at me... We simultaneously identified each other and walked close. He kept a subtle smile on his face and offered to shake hand, a typical American greeting huh? :) 

He took me a few upstairs and made us sit down on couch in public area and began to chat. I felt a bit weird why not going straight to room. He asked me what I studied in the U.S., my current work. etc... 5 mins later, he said let's go to his room.

Upon entering, he said sorry again about the shabby condition, but i found the room nice..... (maybe he always had fancy business trips? and poor guy like me don't have a standard?...)

So we sat down, we both seemed very discreet. chatted... He said he completed his Biology PhD in Boston.. I asked Harvard? Nodded.... WOW... Positive impression increased exponentially...He went abroad in 2001, first to UCSD for master's, then Harvard for PhD. After about 5 mins of non-sexual talk, he asked me to come over to give me a hug.... It was nice... cuz I already found me like him... he went to Harvard Bio... smart guy... handsome face... seemed nice... my heart was pounding during the stand-up hug and gentle kiss... 

The rest of the night was sweet and loving... We didn't rush to hardcore. We had plenty of fondling, kisses, sucking, nipple licking... we talked in the middle of fun... Turned out he isn't a potato queen.. He doesn't like White guys...he said he had "maybe" (lol) just one Chinese boyfriend. He thinks that there is implicit work discrimination against Chinese in USA. He has been working in the current company for 5 years. He said he has inferiority complex because his size is smaller than many guys... I could totally relate to him, cuz I used to experience some of the things he said... Before we went to sleep, he asked me to apply medical fluid and massage the bruised parts of his body (the other day, he and a guy had a fight in his room cuz the guy used fake pic and turned out to be a money boy asking for money. when Jake refused, he was going to smash things in the room). He seemed to like my massage... when i sat next to him, massaging him with my hand, we looked at each other in the eyes... it made me shy looking at each other so closely, but I definitely felt loving and sweet... He likes the feeling when we two cuddle together, with him lying flat down on his back, and me lying on my side, with my head on his shoulder and my one arm over his belly. We kissed a lot in this gesture. He called me "little baby" and i called him "big bro"... 

The next morning at 6:30am, he came up and lay down next to me ... we made out just like the night before. eventually, he topped me... and he used his hand to jerk me off...

He gave me his room card to let me have breakfast buffet on the first floor. After that, I went up to his room again. He asked me again to apply medical liquid to his body.We looked at each other in the eyes while I massaged him... it was sweet, but I guess that we both knew what we did was for one night... after massaging, he asked me again to lie down and cuddle with him... it was sweet... but short... at around 10:30, he said maybe it's time for work.. and i got up and got dressed.

He came up and kissed me while I got dressed... It made me feel happy, cuz he must liked me... when i collected all my stuff and walked to the door, he stood in front of me and we kissed again. He said let's keep in touch... I was so glad to hear that he'd like to continue contact. I asked him to send me a pic of him if he doesn't mind, but he moved his eyes down a little bit and only slightly nodded. He told me not to work too tiredly, and i told him the same, and also told him not to see discrimination that he mentioned as too big a deal... then i left...

On my way down, I took a few pics in the hotel that could help me remember the night: his room, the lobby, the angle that I saw him at the first sight...

For the rest of the day, I felt a bit sad. It was weird... cuz i knew what we did was 419, but i did found myself like him... when he replied to my messages on wechat, it always made me happy. i wish we could keep in touch... but i don't know as time goes by, will he like me less, talk less, and eventually ignore? And to this moment that im writing this blog, he has not sent a pic of him.. maybe he is too discreet? hasn't fully trusted me? doesn't really wanna keep contact? i don't know...

For several times, I wonder what i like about him... very few guys made me like them to the point that prompts me to record the encounter in blog. The last time i did was two months ago with that Chongqing consulting guy..

Maybe I like him cuz he went to Harvard and he's smart? Maybe I like him cuz he looks handsome to me? Maybe his eyes, which possess Asian and White mixed shapes, got me hypnotized? Maybe I like him cuz he works as a successful manager in a pharmaceutical company and must make lots of money? Maybe I like him cuz he has a green card that I longed for? 

Thinking more deeply and thoroughly, maybe I like him because he brought back my nostalgic New England memories... Maybe I saw him not only as a vivid person, but as a hope.... I have always hoped to go abroad again, got scholarship, finish degree, immigrate, have a good job, live a better life... just like what Jake has achieved... Considering this aspect, maybe I like him cuz I admire his life experience?

I will def keep in touch. I do like him. But because of remote distance, I will not be excessively sad or overly excited if he chooses to ignore or our chat becomes dull and not good for continuing... 

The best thing about him: whenever i think of him, his story, the sweet night, i really wanna work hard and go abroad (and be with him? haha)... he somehow stands like a hope, or a light to me... I think he is successful and I wanna be the same...