Came back to Korea

After 2 months' travel and almost 1 month's relaxing, I came back to Korea where my love had been waiting for me. ^^ It represent a new life for me and for us.

KOSES Best Paper Award

Last Friday, I went to BuSun to attend Korean Society for Emotion & Sensibility Conference 2007. And I presented my paper there. Surprisely, I got Best Paper Award in the conference. I couldn't believe my ear when I just heard about it. I never thought I could get any award. I thought I was just lucky. After I heard that the selecting process was carried out with justice, I believed it was the award for my efforts. But not only mine, Professor lee and all lab members did contribution as well. I am really appreciated their help to make this paper awarded.

-Professor Lee was awarding me in the ceremony

写论文引发了新兴趣

由于最近正忙于书写论文的Literature Review部分， 我阅读了很多关于文化的书籍，探讨东西方的差异。东西方间的差异不光是行为层次的不同，还有思维的不同。 就任于耶鲁大学(Yale University) 和密歇根大学 (Michigan University) 的心理学教授Nisbett曾著有《The Geography of Thought》一书（2005）。书中提到现代东方人和西方人的思维差异源自古希腊思想和古中国思想， 并且阐明了为什么古希腊人和古中国人会有不同的思维。通过阅读此书， 我突然对历史产生了兴趣。 现在觉得学习历史会对理解文化有不可估量的帮助。 回忆起中学时学习历史的痛苦， 真是有种遗憾的感觉。

今天我从VeryCD上下载了由剑桥出版的《剑桥插图世界史》， 打算从头再学学历史。 现在一想起学习历史就有种冲动，怎么中学时候就不能有现在的冲动呢？！不管怎么说， 从论文的学习当中，我体会到了很多乐趣，汲取知识的乐趣。

"OST" 闹了我的心情

早上兴致勃勃地打开KiTAS movie community网页， 看到有人请求[OST] Soul Mate. 啊~ Soul Mate, 我看过，整个电视剧就在我们实验室的电视剧服务器里， 我想这次我也能上载一些东西与大家分享了，于是高高兴兴地开始拷贝文件到电影服务器。

不知怎的，我突然被 “OST”缠住了思维， “OST”是什么？从我的记忆中，我仿佛意识到每次看到OST都是和歌曲联系在一起的。 难道，那人是想要Soul Mate中的主题歌曲？ 这种想法越来越强烈， 迫使我终止了传输文件。 我想删掉已拷入电影服务器的文件，但又删不掉。。 这是服务器管理者的设计，拷入的文件是不能被任何其他人删掉的。

这下子真窘大了，， 看似“OST”是众人周知的词儿，可偏我就不知道。。我也只好问오빠那是什么意思，并让他帮我把那个文件从电影服务器里删掉。 后来才知道“OST”=Original Sound Track 就是电影里的原声歌曲。 今天倒是学了一个新词儿，可是我开始那兴致勃勃的心情却被糟蹋得所剩无几：就是那种本来想显呗自己有些东西，但是没得逞； 而且最糟的是当我问오빠 帮我的时候，他正在教课，很明显我打扰了他教书，只因为我不想让更多的人看到我的愚蠢行为， 便一刻也不能多等似的。 总之，一大早我经历自己狠虚荣的一面，， 自己的都觉得可悲。。 上午大好时光就在这虚荣心中惭愧地度过了。

Working on Thesis-为论文奋斗

由于论文的缘故， 我需要找西方人和东方人来参加我的测试。 东方人还好说，发MSN消息给我的中国朋友，很快就联系好了一批人。 可找西方人就有些困难了。首先，为了确保测试的有效性，最好是找以英语为母语的人，比如美国人，加拿大人，澳大利亚人等。而恰恰在KAIST， 并不多见这些人。眼看要发表论文了，如此紧急情况逼得我去尝试各种方法。除了发邮件邀请一些外教，和让我认识的寥寥几位西方人邀请他们的朋友，我还做好了随时“抓”人的心理准备。 现在在路上一看见西方长相的人，我就立即开始紧张的思维活动。为了论文，什么都不管了。。 我主动上前搭话， 介绍我的测试，幸运的是，他们都被我说动了来参加我的测试。 不幸的是，我发现他们是法国人。 今天又碰上一个伊朗人，但我没有邀请她。法国人做测试，测试缺乏Reliability(可靠性)，因为测试的模型是英文的。最后，只好决心放弃他们的测试数据。。真可惜， 好不容易找到的西方人。。看来我需要更精确地分辨人的外貌（真没想到我会上前跟伊朗人说话，不过我们倒交了个朋友，赫）， 这样才会更有效地帮助我的论文 ^^;; 不管怎么说，主动和老外说话对我来说倒是新鲜，为了论文，我改变不少。。呵呵呵

I need both Westerners and Easter Asian to participate in my experiment which is for my thesis study. It is much easier for me to recruite Asian peope (Chinese). I just simply recruited many chinese people by sending MSN messages. But for recruiting Westerners (in this case: American, Australian, Canadian and so on), things become difficult. There are not so many Westerners in KAIST. . Thesis presentation is on next Tuesday. The situation pushs me try any methods to recruite Western participants. Besides asking my American friend to invite his friend and sending invitation letter to English teachers in KAIST, I also planed to "catch" people on the street. Whenever I see someone in Western looking, my brain begin to work busily.. I approach them and introduce my experiment. Yesterday, I was lucky to ask 3 people to participate in my experiment, but the unlucky thing is that they are French.. It may affect the validation of my research, because the prototype is in English (English is second language for French). I decided to drop the data collected from French. Today, I encountered an Iranian. I talked to her, but I didnt invite her. It seems that I need to improve my ability to distinguish people's nationality, which may help my experiment more effiently. hehe. Anyway, talking to foreigner on my own initiative is fresh to me. Thesis could change me a lot .. hehehe

论文历程

挣扎于论文中已经有些时日了。可以说昨天因为论文的缘故，身体和精神都痛苦和糊涂到极致了。实验的设计存在众多的漏洞，和理论的连接也是缺乏逻辑，头脑里有些想法，但是就是组织不成一个合理的实验设计。 苦闷于论文当中，却不知觉得睡着了，伴着台灯的照耀，电脑运转的嗡嗡声，手里攥着眼镜和手机，头脚颠倒着睡着了。。

今天和教授讨论了我的论文，短短的10分钟内，他就把我的想法组织成比较像样的研究计划。 他对我的一些工作的肯定也相当地推动了论文的进展。 我为什么就不能自己肯定自己呢？否则，我想我的论文进展应该没有这样艰难。 今天看了一本关于做研究的书， 书中就提到focus, problem solve, and make decisions的能力对于顺利完成论文会有很大的帮助。 而我恰恰在这些方面很弱。

李教授解决问题的干净利索真的不能不叫人佩服，他清楚的知道什么应该肯定，什么应该否定。只有这样，工作才会很有效率的进行。 我也应该培养这方面的能力才行。

The God

A Christian came to me try to persuade me to believe in the God. I asked her where the God is. How does it look? She said God doesn't have concrete form, but spirit. He can let you born again with hope in life. He can make your life more valueable…

I couldn't agree much. I have been thinking why people are so sincere to a creature so called God. I could never imagine how he exists, how he leads people's life. I believe people make decision by themselves. I would decide what I am going to do, what I am going to be, but not God. Eventhough sometimes I believe the supernature could exist, I would not depend on it. I can make wishes by believing the supernature, but I won't live in believing supernature.

I am not criticizing Christian here. I believe everybody has the freedom to choose what he or she believes. I believe in myself not in God. I hope those Christian don't try to persuade me to believe what they believe any more.

That is silly.

今天我当姨了 :)

阴历大年初一， 表妹生了个儿子， 听说是早产了13天。 虽说早产了，可也真够幸运的，赶上了新年的第一天。 以后每年过大年，都拉不了他的生日喽。恰逢今年猪年，小伙子被美其名曰为“小金猪”。赫赫，还真不赖。

我也突然当了姨。妈妈也当了姑奶。我们都成了老一代人了。。表妹那姑娘，自己还是个孩子，现在倒养起孩子来了。突然感觉整个世界都变了。 也许是因为对身份变化的一点感触吧。

只可惜今年春节没回家，没能见上一面那“小金猪”。 真是后悔啊。估计要半年之后才有这缘份了。

祝母子平安，猪年快乐 :)

今天是大年三十

今天是大年三十， 周围静静的。这是二十六个年头来，第一次不在家里过年， 热闹的炮竹声也只能从打给妈妈的电话中听到了。 校园里见不到几个人影，停车场里的车也少了不少。 大家都回家过年了。很多中国留学生选择了留在这里，大家聚到了一起，说说笑笑做游戏。游戏都是很传统的游戏，但还是百玩不厌，沉浸在母语的环境当中，感觉真得很亲切。

但我提早离开了聚会。论文的任务还很艰巨。都怪我没有一个好的安排计划，结果论文进展得并不顺利。借着新年放假这几天，周边清静，我要专心地思考论文并努力获得些进展。

需要思考的还有我的前途。 毕业在即，是读博是工作一直未决。哪一边都有理由去做和不去做。古人云：有舍有得。是啊，目前我正是在衡量这舍和得。

I lost the game...

Today, I realized that I am really not a good game player... I even lose the simple game easily..Have a look when I lost the game. hehehe

I was eating...

I was eating DunkinDonuts . I was drinking Dunkin Donuts' coffee. And, I was trying to eat my lipstick -_-;;;

2007

"2007年1月1日", It appears in my computer. It is strange to me, because I am familiar with 2006, not 2007. It shows the time is passing, not 2006 any longer, but 2007. A year which holds my future came silently. Sure, it holds the future of many people as well. We have to face it, again, a new year. Truthfully, Happily, Energetically. And, most important, to hold "love" always.

It is me

기태오빠drawed a picture of me. I was really amazed by that. I didnt know that 오빠 can draw such a good picture. Besides, he drawed this picture with mouse which gave me another surprise. I really like this picture~

After exercise

after exercise
Originally uploaded by Dong Ying.

After playing tennis, I felt great.. exercise makes me feel happy and healthy~~

I saw Mom through web camera!

I just started to use web camera. I never tried that before. last saturday, Mom and I talk through MSN, and we can see each other through web camera. I spent nearly 20mins to teach her how to start video talk . hehe .Finaly, we saw each other ^^ It was such an excited moment. We both regreted that why we didnt use that earlier ^^! Now, Mom decided to learn more about computer. It is not easy for her... Anyway, if next time she use less time to access the video chat, it is a big progress. ^^ The happy moment that we saw each other ~~(2006-05-27) 我通过电话，教妈妈如何开始视频聊天，向不懂电脑的妈妈解释如何操作电脑可费了不小的功夫，呵呵。这是妈妈和我看到对方的那一时刻，妈妈高兴得不得了~

I am in KAIST

Good weather..Good mood..I am in such a beautiful campus~~ Hey~ Thank you, photographer~ ^0^

My lab

Good weather,Good mood~

The weather is so good here in Korea, blue sky, warm sunshine, gentle breeze...which made me feel happy everyday^^. My friend and I took a walk after some busy work in this lovely afternoon. look at her... she was totally intoxicated in that moment ~^O^~

KAIMIX-Cartoon shop

Several times, I just passed by this cartoon shop with curious about what it is like. Today, I got a chance to visit it, which made me really excited. The front of this shop is not big. You can say it is so small that is easily ignored. ^-^; The name of this shop is KAIMIX. It comes from the combination of KAIST and Comics. (카이믹스) The interior is much spacious than I thought. I was amazed by numerous comics which are arrange in two-layer book shelf around the room. And the reading area seems very comfortable. Also, I noticed that some people were eating their dinner there. Then I realized that this shop provide "multi-service" . It is indeed a good place to relax.

We also had our dinner there. Eating as well as reading is new experience for me in Korea. After dinner, we focused on reading. Actually, I was reading Korea version 阿拉蕾（아라레), I chose that book for its simple word and already-known contents, which was easy for me to read. And I found it is indeed a good way to learn Korea. I had a deep impression of word learn by this way, because I learned word through a context rather than memorize word by rote. I will visit that shop often from now on. hehe

My lovely coffee~

I visited Vero again and I tried another kind of coffee. It looks great with the white milk foam, and it is pretty tasty. Next time, I am gonna try another one...