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A Wild Sheep Chase was "The first book where I could feel a kind of sensation, the joy of telling a story. When you read a good story, you just keep reading. When I write a good story, I just keep writing."
___Haruki Murakami

I read Murakami’s novel "Dance, Dance, Dance" and Norwegian Wood 10 years ago, but couldn’t remember any plot. A wild sheep chase is so different and interesting story that strongly impressed me, which I just finished reading yesterday…from his surrealistic writing, "Westernized style, idiosyncratic humor, and poignant nostalgia." he is very popular in Japan and China.

His idea in this book reminds me a book by Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, which make arguments that human body is the carrier of gene, so gene is the sheep in Murakami’s novel, is it just a coincidence? ….and then I read a old news this morning about Micheal Crichton, who died of cancer last November, who is a popular scifi writer, whom I know from "JURASSIC PARK" and "stroke"….

So I want to read more books…

Snow

Snow Snow

Snow Snow Snow 

is falling from the grey

Grey Grey Grey

Grey Grey

Grey

I shoveled a path for the

God to bring us 

White

White White

White White White

最近看电影着迷，正值哈佛电影档案馆放映大岛渚 (Nagisa Oshima) 的片子，今天看了两部：Boy和Pleasure of the Flesh。Boy讲的是一家人靠制造假车祸敲诈司机赚钱的故事，主角男孩是犯罪过程的工具；这家人在几个月内走遍了日本，男孩孤独地生存着，常常一个人说话，跟自己捉迷藏，经常离家出走，然后又回去，他也主动地参与父母的欺诈行为中，被警察抓住了，还继续说谎帮父母掩饰。。。主要是静态镜头，突出构图和颜色，间或插入黑白镜头过渡或是渲染气氛。。。战后，失业，生存，犯罪，导演对这个家庭的描述更倾向于同情。。。尤其是一家人四口之间的紧张关系，夫妻间，父子间，继母子间。。。在父亲要扼死母亲时，三岁的小儿子说，发生了什么事情吗？对立气氛立刻缓解了。Pleasure of Flesh是个连环套故事，有鬼魂，宿命的意象在里面。一个老师为爱人杀人被敲诈，目击者同时又是贪污犯，想把贪污的公款存在他那里，等到出狱后再来找他 （这个交易不怎么精明，倒是很搞笑。。。老师气恼之下决定在一年内享受女人，花掉所有代存的钱，于是找了一个又一个各种各样的女人，结果被惹上更多的麻烦。。。最后却被自己的爱人送进监狱。

刚看了电影Milk, 很不错的片子，值得一看。基于真实的发生在旧金山的同性恋争取生存空间的故事，一个美国现代史的英雄人物Harvey Milk…电影用纪录片与表演间放，成功的渲染了好莱坞英雄主义气氛，就象July 4th, Scent of Women一样。一个独特之处是Milk坐在房间里录音讲述自己的故事，理想，信念，贯穿电影的始终，就象一个访谈节目。。。一个私秘的空间与另一个公众聚光灯下的喧闹空间形成对比。。。这个故事表述的是个政治问题，不光是同性恋的问题，proposition 8 在电影里也有表决，现在还在进行，结果正在明天公布。

Sean Penn和Diego Luna的表演非常棒，非常的Sweet, 这可是gay呀！ 

"据我所知，早在2002年，老爸的研究工作目标就定到了2049年，那时正好是共和国建国100周年。他常说，我没有时间考虑过去，我只考虑未来。"__from an interview with Qian Yonggang (son of Qian, Xuesen)

……

伟大的科学家都是往前看的，我也是往前看的，我不是伟大的科学家，不过是因为今年收成不好。。。年终总结的时候又到了，参看了一下年初的计划，只实现了不到一半。。。 如果计划顶到2049年也许会实现的更多。。。

发表论文3篇（都是co-author)；

申请国家自然基金一次，不成功；

考试USLME step1 (2007/12/27),  step2cs (2008/7/18) 各一次，failed;

结婚一次；

完整读书12本，实现了每月一本；

旅游14城：Montreal, Ottava, Munich, Paris, Nice, Sinea, Florence, Pompei, Rome, Fusse, Chicago, DC, Tucson,  Pittsfield， 飞行20000 mile;

游泳〉50 mile， 滑冰 1次；

电影〉20 部；

音乐会，3次

其实工作上是积累的一年， 在破死岛上作最后的挣扎。。。

生活在自己的世界里，不爱理别人，说话最少的一年。。。
 

I read this book in Chinese version last night and felt it was an interesting one though the translation is bad…will find original edition to read later. The author is Carl Djerassi, a famous scientist and writer who had invented contraceptives, which is an Nobel prize level research. He has his own website to sell his products.

"‘Cantor’s Dilemma’ is an interesting case because it’s become a text document in many American Universities, in courses where they teach ethics and research, sociology and science and so on. It’s too black and white to call it a story of fraud. It’s the story of something grey, and I believe it’s the grey issues that are much more important.  " ___from an interview…