Outside the window, it began to rain,

To look at it positively, when life hits a new low,

the only direction it can go is UP.

Exactly my situation.

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Tuesday I had lunch alone again. Kind of got used to it.

Didn't feel miserable anymore, just bored.

In the evening I bought 半斤的水餃 for dinner, and got so full!!!

I had no idea how many grams 半斤 is. XDDD

(Still don't know now! I only know it's a LOT!!)

Later on 文輝 brought me fruits, too many fruits actually. XD

I insisted that he take some back with him. XD

But I really appreciated apples and peaches. Thank u so much. Really.

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Wednesday I went to the Great Wall,

met a girl friend on the tour bus,

chatted with Huichao, Dulan as we rested on the Great Wall.

That night Huichao, Dulan, Wangxin, Changqin, Jianping and I had dinner together along with Dulan's friend, Jingzhe, at 東來順.

I heard it b4 from 柏聿. She said she liked it! Yes, really tasty.

原來 東北人 把 金針菇 叫 金針蘑 呀!!!!!

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Thursday noon I met Gintare and had lunch with her,

discussing the difference btn smoothie and slush. XD

還有發現自己的英文很爛, 不知道木耳(black fungus), 青江菜(bok choy / spoon cabbage)的英文 orz

I first met Gintare at the bus stop. She and her boyfriend Linus asked me for help reading the bus routes.

I helped them find their hostel, called PekingUni,

the one 文哲 had taken me for a look, called 未名 in Chinese.

I have no idea why the English name and Chinese name are so far-fetched. XD

That night (Monday) I walked in high heels for 3 km!!!

Thur night I had 3 peaches for dinner.

我真的胃變大了! orz 三顆耶!!(不小顆喔!) >"<

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Friday morning I put up Jingfen's poster, was asked of questions to which I didn't know the answers. >"<

Checked out Zhangyi's, Huichao's, Wangxin's posters.

Chatted with a person from 瀋陽, and study in CS Dept,Univ of Toronto.

I liked him a lot. :)

Then there was this short man in a bright green T-shirt who was interested in Jingfen's poster.

I explained everything to him with best efforts.

He said it's really nice. :D (Happy tears)

Okay then it came to my demo.

Only two to three guys checked out my stuff. :(

But I had long and deep talks with them. So...never mind.

I regretted not making a poster. :P Learned a lesson this time!!

Having a small booth of my own was actually really cool only if I had had the poster to hightlight my topic. :P

Had lunch with Huichao and Wangxin.

Huichao is a really really nice and kind guy. So glad meeting him.

Huichao and I went to the Best Finalists talk.

I am sorry to say I fell asleep sometimes.

The content was too difficult and the words on the slids I could not see due to my poor eyesight... orz

Meeting Gintare and Linus at Dongsi Station at 18:00.

Went to 王府井, saw 串烤海馬, 串烤蠍子, 串烤蠶蛹, 串烤蜈蚣, 串烤海蛇...

中國人真是無物不食!!!!!

其實看到有些蠍子(還是活的)在竹籤上扭動的時候, 真是於心不忍呢...

王府井真的很多小吃耶, I loved it!!!

話說, 那條串烤街道上每隔幾公尺就擺了個大型垃圾桶,讓食客丟吃完的包裝垃圾。

有一個人，他看了看垃圾桶裡，有杯丟棄的飲料沒完全喝完(大概只剩不到20%)，

便伸手進去拿了那杯飲料起來喝。

I was sooooo shocked seeing this!!!!!!

Alright anyway I had wonderful time walking around the 王府井 streets. :D

有朋友，人生真的很快樂。

這是我這次來北京最深刻的體認。

Coling is over. My vacation begins! Hooray!!!!

So I had a little breakdown tonight.

Called Sis, cried a bit.

The two people I talked to were nice.

But all I could see was our distance.

What they were discussing was all Greek to me.

Oh, okay, that's something about statistics.

Oh, okay, and that's something about computation.

I felt like I knew nothing! Felt like crap! (Sorry, rude language here!)

I was so messed up, didn't blend in a bit.

I don't even know why I'm here.

I miss my little attic in Taipei...miss my sister...

Tonight in the shower I told myself:

I can be frustrated, but can't be defeated.

Tmr is a brand new start.

Hope I can make Prof. Hsieh proud! >"""<

The original plan is to have the floor of the hotel room drop out from
underneath the dreamers and thus provide the 'kick' that wakes them up
- specifically Eames who is 'hosting' the dream in the snowy mountains.
This is supposed to happen before the van plows through the barrier and
off the bridge. However, the timing is thrown off and now that Arthur's
body is in free-fall in the van, it translates into his dream of the
hotel - thus preventing the floor from dropping once the explosives
discharge. He improvises a kick by moving everyone into the lift and
then setting off an explosive to cause the lift to start moving up the
shaft (this works much like a rocket on a space craft). To those in the
lift, the force of the lift pushing them is equivalent to gravity.
Gravity alone is not enough to awaken the dreamers, but when the lift
hits the roof at the top of the shaft, the sudden stopping or
slowing-down causes the dreamers to first be propelled upwards, and
then fall back to the floor. The result is the same as the inner ear
only detects the acceleration due to a force acting on the body, much
like Eames' demonstration of tipping Arthur's chair over to wake him
up.