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我早在6月就已经听说日全食这个事情了，等到了7月22号前几天，成都的天气那是很糟糕啊，又是下雨又是闷热。天天都在祈祷22号天气好一点点，结果今天一大早上一起来，天阴阴沉沉的，看来是看不成了。好吧，就看电视直播好了。等到八点半突然下起了雨，我猜这下是彻底玩完了。

等到快要九点的时候，吴老师发短信过来说他看到了隐藏于云层缝隙之间的太阳，我赶紧收拾到苏坡立交旁边的一个人行天桥，赶过去架好摄像机已经快到到9点11了，这时天色已经快要暗下来了。

路灯都有一部分打开了。出门的时候把手机也带上的，听收音机里面说快要到了。视频时从9点7分的时候开始拍的，在4分钟以后（视频大概在3分29秒），天色忽然就暗下来了。

虽然这时候太阳也不见个影子，但还是觉得很特别。一来是感觉很好玩，二来是感觉特别震撼。立刻就进入了黑夜。再没过几分钟，又忽然明亮了起来（视频大约在7分19秒），又进入了白天。但可怜的太阳啊，一个影子都没有啊，今天貌似只有月亮的影子了，呵呵。

过了许久，也没见太阳影子，算了吧，撤退。

回到家一阵子，电视直播突然播出了成都的视频，是不是哦，还能看到哦？立刻拿着摄像机和照相机跑去出，哟，从云层之间的漏洞看到了太阳了。这时候已经快要接近结束了，月亮只有遮盖了1/5的面积了，但是阳光依然很刺眼，很热。我们用的电焊的护目镜看起来也是很刺眼的，看来普通的墨镜肯定不起作用。

还好啦，就几分钟的时间，太阳就躲了回去，后来又出来了一次，可是已经几乎复原了，没有啥意思了。

这就是我们成都的这次日全食，还真是郁闷的鬼天气作祟，羡慕武汉和杭州的市民能够领略到这几百年一遇的天象奇观。

前些日子把以前开通又一直没怎么用的Adsense账号又用起来了。WordPress还是挺方便的，装了个Easy Adsense插件稍微配置配置就搞定了。似乎以前这个账号已经被浏览了7000多次，我的收入是0.10$每千次，算下来也就0.8$，真少啊~~要靠我这个站到达10$，不知道要天荒地老了。

我也算是比较讨厌广告这个东西的了，装Firefox都要安装Adblock Plus插件并且订阅针对中国的广告的列表。这样上网清净了许多，也少了很多漂浮不定、闪闪烁烁的广告。好吧，既然我也是讨厌广告的，那么，还是不要弄广告好了，反正也不值几个钱，前段时间就算免费给Google打工了好了。

周一，恢复正常作息，每天还是要去METEN，要不然口语又要生疏了。周三，日食，期望天气大好~

去年在逛太升南路的时候，买了三瓶茉莉清茶，送了个魔法土和茉莉花种子。那么久过去了一直放在书柜里，等在气候适合的时候种下。四月份想起过一次，后来觉得太冷了，就忘了。今天又看到了，就拿出来试一试看能不能长出茉莉花来。

按照说明说，把魔法土放在盆中，并注入适量的水。我本想用一个可乐罐子减去一半来弄得，后来发现花台里面竟然还有一个花盆的盆底座，看起来还挺合适的。把种子放到魔法土的中间，两粒，我想总有一个能发芽吧。

放好了魔法土，然后就浇水啦。魔法土果然很吸水，但膨胀的速度倒是挺慢的，要有点耐心慢慢的等他胀起来。弄了一刻钟左右总算好了，土也不胀了，估计也就这样了。在泡上满满的水，放在淋不到雨的地方。大功告成~

剩下来的时间就是等何时发芽啦，说明书上写的7-10天哟~~慢慢等吧，期待发点小芽，然后就可以移栽到大一点的花盆里面去了。倒还是挺有趣的~~

我想我可能落伍了哟，老早之前就注册了Facebook，但一看界面就像“校内网”——说实在“校内”也还真垃圾——一下子就没有了兴趣。算了，还是规规矩矩的玩博客吧。

根据长时间的观察，现在的博客已经走向了低谷了，很久没有看到有谁有个留言了。大家都在玩社交网站，交了一大堆朋友，一会儿一个留言，一会儿一个评价。QQ也学得好，整啥子抢车位、挖白菜——整个就一浪费时间。我看我博客的站点统计，流量基本上还是来自于我的hesicong.net域名的流量。大部分都是以前写的技术类文章。现在也懒了，也不想写了。最近用微软的东西越用越冒火，GDI+性能太次，串口类有一个BUG……

整个博客的衰落到现在的境地，让我联想起一些现象。以前QQ刚流行的时候，大家都加这个加那个，都想成为好友，见面时不时聊一聊。看看现在呢，好友上面的数量至少上百了吧，上线的寥寥无几，基本上都是隐身的。QQ除了用来追追女娃，看看照片，整个就一浪费CPU、内存的东西。好吧，你说不用吧，又总是心痒痒想打开，又总是想到可能有朋友要联系。但一上来才发现是个可有可无的东西。好吧，有时候无聊就上会儿手机QQ，一看没人聊，算了，关了，玩N-GAGE。

我猜想社交网站估计也差不多这样，国内学了很多，校内、开心、QQ空间、饭否，还有一些我还不甚了解。每天用着就想看看有没有朋友留言，没有留言还要制造机会叫人家留言。没事看看菜是不是被哪个偷了，车位是不是被占了。每个人其实都很闲，但一问：老大最近如何？答案多半都是：很忙。真不知道忙到哪儿去了。

我也一样哟。每天挂着QQ，随时看看QQ空间，再看看MAIL，再看看Wordpress。其实看看MAIL就好了，Wordpress都没有必要打开，就知道有没有留言了。

以前的博客，就像是私家别墅，时不时有贵宾过来看看；现在的社交网站，就像赶集买东西一样，很火。但我真不知道这东西能够火多久。

最后看来，我还真是落伍了，那就落伍吧……

This is the third day after the No.9 bus tragedy in Chengdu, my hometown. When I went to Meten by bus, I noticed a phenomenon that many people looked around to find the hummer or tried to find out where is the emergency switch of the door. And more people prefered to stand beside the door or near the  window.

Today, government announced the investigation of the fire that someone might bring some gaslione to the bus. According to the video of the whole burnning process, I could concluded that the bus must be fired by people because the fire started from the inner part of bus. Government also made out a plan to modify the window of the bus which has an air conditioner and would take more investment to buy new buses.

We must learn something from this terrible thing. First is not to take any dangerous things to the public area. Second is to be careful of people near you if he brings some suspicious things. Third is when someone is in terrible trouble, you must take your full ability to help them get out of that situation. Fourth is learn some safety knowledge in case you're in trouble.

But, in the end, hope everyone is safe and happy everyday!

I was taking a bath and wondering I should write something but I have no idea. I was searching my memory when I came across hi-tech things, I suddenly recalled a store happened many years ago.

When I was in high school, my paternal grandmother's mother ( or my great-grandmother for short ) lived in my home for about one month. She was 80-odd years old at that time and now is a 88 old but kind mother. One day, when we all went out and came back late at night, she told me that there was a phone call in afternoon. We asked she who was that, and she just told us when the phone was ringing she told the phone directly that we were out and after a while it stopped. We knew she didn't know how to use it. It was really not easy for an old person from country side to answer a "hi-tech" phone, so we told her that we should pick up the phone first, answer it and put it down. She knew how to do this next time.

Another day, she answered another phone. This time she picked up the phone and said we were not at home and then put it down. Everything was done just as we told her.

"Who was that?", we asked.
"I don't know. I just picked up the phone and told you were not at home and put it down", she said.
"Was the person a male or female?", we continued.
"Ennn, I don't know either. I can't tell you. I didn't see that guy!! ", she said.

We really can't help to laugh and she was embarrassed. She said she did everything we told her and in order to prove this she did a demostration to us how she answer the phone. We finally got the answer. She did all we told her - really picked up the phone and indeed said something to it and at last put it down. But the point was, she didn't touch her ear to the headphone so she heard nothing. She laughed at last. We thought we'd better have another "Higher-tech" video phone to solve this problem.

Today is the annual holiday for celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival on which day we eat rice dumpling and in some places people play dragon boat competition. It true that rice dumpling today was very hot today and nearly sold out. TV news reported many people sold rice dumplings in the MaAnDongLu which is a road has a long history of rice dumpling making.

People were longing the following three days holidays. We brought many things from supermarket. Some for us and some for children. It must be the happiest month for primary students because there are nearly three holidays - International Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, and Children's Day. I was unlucky that my memory of the time in primary school was boring and studying forever. My parents were busy and had no time , especially no money, to enjoy the holidays. The happiest time for me was to play a computer game on Sunday and ride bike on the path of fields in the countryside.

Life becomes coloful when we are getting rich and have more time to travel. My friends and I are planning to hava a trip on Sunday to TianTai mountain after the offical holidays for at that time it will not be very crowded. I'm thinking about what I will do these days and perhaps I will study something. But first of all, I'll have my hair cut. ^_^

At last, happy Dragon Boat Festival and enjoy your rice dumpling!

搬新校区都是上个星期的事情了，这个星期才有空写写。我的感觉是：终于搬了。都说了很久很久了，我记得大三的时候就开始说要搬新校区了，然后又说大四，大四说读研肯定在新校区，然后上了研一我们学院都还在老校区。研一上学期说期末搬，到了期末又说下学期搬，到了下学期又说不搬了。然后又说暑假搬，暑假又没有搬成，传闻又是研二下学期刚开学搬。开学了还是这么回事，最后终于越来越密集的谣言，还是最终搬了。

搬东西那是一个累人。我的东西又是一大摞，之前我就搬了大半回去，搬家那天又把车开过去，装了慢慢的一备箱。离开时也没有太多的留念，也就这样吧，麻木了。

把东西搬到下面以后，大家都坐着聊天，等“蚂蚁搬家”过来搬。学院也是，那么多东西就派了3个车，“蚂蚁搬家”的车那简直和蚂蚁差不多大，三个车要跑两三趟才能装完，每次都是2个小时。钱没有出够就是不一样。

吃了中午饭，我载着寝室哥们儿一同奔向新校区。新旧校区一个多小时的车程，30多公里，经过高新西区，从成灌高速入口网上转一圈就到了。进了大门，寝室还要走很长路程才能走到，新校区确实是很大的。寝室很偏远，旁边有一条小河，我们称之为“清水河”。到寝室楼下办好了手续，就开始搬东西了。东西那是一个多啊，特别是书，最重的东西，6楼没有电梯，只要背上去。

寝室比较小，两人间，目前无网络无电话无热水，似乎到了农村一样。洗热水澡都是在外面的集中地方洗澡，听说只有三个喷头，看来冬天洗澡都要抢了。还好，唯一的好处就是空气质量尚可，风很大。

我严重质疑这里的工程问题，我们寝室的门关不了，使劲一拉，差点把拉手拉断了；其他两个哥们儿的寝室门开不开；旁边一哥们儿的寝室一关门门上的门牌掉了下来。哇，好久都没有写所谓的排比句了，竟然是写道这样的地方。不知道俺们的可爱ZSB（拼音缩写，确实是这样，还带SB两字）校长是不是想我们帮他一起搬了，这样给我们的工程！幸好地震的时候还没有房子塌下来哦。

在食堂办饭卡也很造孽，必须要交100块钱，更搞笑的是之前的通知上面写的“请准备零钞100”。是说准备100*1元的小抄呢还是说100元是小抄呢？搞不清楚。拿了张一卡通“临时卡”，哦，看来我们是临时的……无语中。食堂有几个笔记本电脑正在享受免费的无线网络，学校的无线网络也就这儿比较灵。永远不要听领导所谓的“笔记本校园”，“无线上网anywhere”，那就是骗小孩子的。ZSB给我们寝室安装个固话我就谢天谢地了。

好吧，我忍了。

去取钱室友买东西，停在广场上。待会儿一个保安跑过来，说“要停好久？”，我说就几分钟，他说这里不能停车的。最后雷人了一句“在这儿停车怕把地砖压坏了”。1.4吨的小轿车能把坚硬的地砖压坏了？~！看来这里的工程确实有问题，算了，以后不敢停车了，怕待会儿出来一看车陷到地里面去了我还懒得请吊车。

送完同学我就走了，从宿舍到主楼好远的路程啊，开车都要两三分钟，走路恐怕要半个多小时。食堂离主楼那是一个远啊，没有自行车怎么能行？我还怀疑有了自行车能不能骑上几天？算了，这些都不要想了，反正我也不在这边住。

从主楼正门出去，走西芯大道，IT大道，全程飚车（小声点我开得100，给警察叔叔只能说70哟~）回家，15分钟到，很快。

后来同学都没有上网，更搞笑的是上网回老校区实验室上网，哎，造孽。听说寝室楼的交换机都没有装，莫非真要台式机都用WiFi？！

My English teacher Leign told us a hot phenomenon on Internet especially on Facebook that many person wrote their "Top xx things". In recent days, I found some English learning sites for me and I want to write a list of these site. I recommend these to you. Just look at them and you may find it would be a huge treasure.

1st: ESL Podcast (http://www.eslpod.com)

You may heard about the word "Podcast". Accoding to wikipedia, "Podcast" means:

A podcast is a series of digital media files, usually digital, audio, or video, that is made available for download via web syndication.

In Chinese, we translate it to "播客" which means a blog that has sound or video to broadcast. ESL Podcast is a site for "English as Second Language" learners. It provides podcasts and transcripts for many topics covering nearly every aspect of our daily life. You will hear a slow dialog at first, then explanation and after all comes with normal speed. Its material comes from our life, and thank Dr. Lucy Tse who writes the dialog with a lot of useful words.

I liked this podcast very much when I first listened to it and started to download them into my phone. I learned from this podcast by listening to it when I was on the bus or riding a bike, or sometimes did a dictation first, then compared it to the script. And with the words I learned, I tried to use them in my conversation with my English teachers and partners. By doing this persistently, I felt my English was proving magically. Hope this site help you too.

2st: CRI English (http://english.cri.cn)

When I was in high school, my teacher told us to listen to BBC or VOA Special English everyday to improve our listening. But just listened to them in a short period of time, I gave up. This was not because I was lazy but the material was too far away from my life and I felt very boring. I googled and found the site -- "CRI English". "CRI" means Chinese Radio Internation, which is a official radio station reports news and life in China to the world.

You can listen to the boardcast "Round the clock" at mms://livexwb.cri.com.cn/clock. And I also perfer the "Webcast". In this subject, we have news near us, interesting stories about people, and aha please visit and find the rest. Most of the stories have scripts, so you can listen to it and then compare. The most important thing is you will not feel boring but exciting to hear what is going on besides you, that is better than BBC or VOA in my opinion.

3st: Quick and Dirty tips (http://www.quickanddirtytips.com)

I found this site only in a few days ago by searching "Grammar Girl". "Grammar Girl" is a podcast program on this site talking about English grammar. I subscribed mail from this site and it sends me a short mail about grammar daily. To join this, click "Sign up for the grammar girl tip of the day".

Besides "Grammar Girl", it is a good practice to listen to other programs on this site. Every podcast has a script but the speaker uses native speed, so if you can't catch up with him, you can read it while listening.

To the last two podcast, I wrote two programs to download them. Check it out at Grammer Girl podcast downloader and ESL podcast downloader

So this is all my recent discovery, if any good opinions or good sites, please leave me a comment!

We usually see some diabled person begging for money and someone who is kind hearted may give some money to them. It is a good for parents to educate their children to have a warm heart although we all know most of the begs are fake.  We see these a lot.

If you are a driver, you proberly know some kind of people selling goods in the middle of the road, especially in some big cross with short green light time. I don't know how large the market is, because only few people buy these goods and probably the quality is bad. This type of sell and buy is reasonable.

What I saw on Saturday when I was on my way to school made me laugh. Bus stopped and moved very slowly in the crowed YangXi cross. I saw an old dirty person bringing a duster and moving toward a dirty car and he started to dust the windsheild and hood. Just after he dusted a few seconds, he asked the driver for money. The driver closed the window and waved his hands asking him to go away. The dirty person found out he could not get the money and went to another car to have another try.

I focused on his funny begging and I laughted. Does any body give him money? I don't. How about you?