The world has its pain

"The world has its pain." I heard it from the pastor in today's worship at KIBC. I failed to attend the worship last Sunday and I almost missed today's brilliant sunshine

if it were not for my roommate's kind remind.

This is my third week of semester 2 in year1, and I got quite busy in the past week's time.

Finished my O.B presentation with my teammates in group 1. It was my first time to cooperate with

local students on a group project. I have to admit that I did not have much confidence in their performance,

as one of them two, Anna, talked little in our discussion and didn't seem to have proficiency in English. However, I

preyed to God and make every effort I can to handle things well, wished that everything was on track with telephone calls, and continuous modification on our work. Michelle was of great help, meanwhile Sara seemed busy with other stuff at the same time. I understood that a group which works as a whole performs well only if there's some one in charge, or in other words, organize everything. I doubt if I do have potential in leadership, but I always have tendency to be the one who is to shoulder responsibility, when no other people excels me in that. Or at least, "with great power comes greater responsibility", my cooperation with my close friends last semester didn't bring me with such kind of experience, since every one was thoroughly aware of the field each of us are good since we all know each other well and trust others. However, this time I learned that within a team, you not only have to have trust in others,but efficient communication is vital, so that everyone shall be conscious of how everything is going, and there ought to be one person in charge( to make sure that everyone works on his part well), or the group work might mess up.

After all, I handed in my application form for exchange program on Friday, and high probabilities are that I will spend

my 2 semester in Year2 in Aarhus University in Denmark. Hopefully I will have some companions, if possible.:)

But to stay alone in a long journey is a perfect chance of enjoying meaningful meditation and solitude. Never have I stepped onto the European continent and I just hope that everything will be OK.

It was terrible that I seriously hurt my ankle after my muscular fitness class last Wed., and I had a horrible experience as a "handicapped person", having to walk slowing relying merely on my left leg between the old and new campuses. However, it's interesting to see the college, my life in a slower pace, and to rethink of the value of health and happiness which are priceless but often ignored by us. I was thinking of my plan of exchange to the other side of the world, when I fell over the step under my feet, which is ironic and reminds me to make every steps of mine solid and concrete, as my mentor said to me with sincere.

As to my mentor Professor Ng, I am in the belief that she is obviously kind-natured and warm-hearted, willing to offer any help to students if possible.I should be thankful to be assigned such a good mentor, and it's likely that I will turn to her more often concerning both academic and career suggestions.

Finally it comes to some of my meditations during the week.

1.The world has its pain, as the pastor said during the Sunday worship. Highly-educated people will be desperate to live for one more year, and people who earn high bank account will sacrifice anything for some sincere companions, it turns out that everyone on earth have the dreams that they may not realize , which are buried deep in their hearts.

As people who are responsible for our heart, the wellspring of human, what shall we do? To immerse ourselves in endless desire and destruct our bodies and leave our spirits exiled? Or find the living power of God, and purify our heart with noble moralities? My heart made the choice, but I made the opposite decision, now I confess with guilt as you uncover what was concealed, and I do hear your words. This night, I also had great fun in our debate training. As I have always believed, a life without thinking is not worth living. I did have some breakthrough, however, there is still much space for improvement, and it is by no means a bad thing. It's really encouraging.

What a fruitful week, thank to your arrangement, I finished it with peace in mind. So life goes on and let's see what lies ahead.

2010

This is my first blog post in 2010. The new semester has started and I have been busy around, dealing with the add/drop courses stuff and attending new classes. I have pay visits to intermediate economics and com-aid statistics, and really appreciate the academic style of courses offered by science department and those of higher level. I feel pitiful that I'm not able to add STAT1620 as my free elective course due to taking BUS1200, if so, to fulfill the requirements of minoring in statistics is more sophisticated than expected, and I hope to turn to AR for more detailed information tomorrow. For the time being, I have added FIN2210 in case, though I guess it's a higher-level course than other courses I am taking. Learning from the website information, the lecturer of FIN2210 concentrate on game theory, which is an important bench of economics, despite the fact that the professor is in the financial department.

Though applied economics fit me better than finance, I still feel it strange that bu offers similar bachelor degrees which are each titled"CBS",CS-ECO",and "Applied ECO". Students study similar core courses, and receive degrees from different departments and schools. I think that it's a bit tricky and confusing. However, to make every effort to learn as much as I can and try to think over issues from various and higher perspectives which come from solid knowledge and scientific approaches. I'm quite fascinated by the teaching style of the lecturer of principles of macroeconomics, who trys to explain GDP, business cycle and other concepts in his own way,pointing out the inaccuracy of the diagrams in the PPT instead of following the ppt content.

At least, I am now aware that multinational companies like Nike helps boost Chinese economy for they contribute to native production of mainland China. Still, I'm not clear about transferring price, and other concepts related to open economy, which I hope I shall figure out later on.

I feel that I urgently lack math tools to help make quantitative analysis in further study, and I'm starting to turn to math books.

Baidu it, and you get it; Google it, you know too much. lol

I believe the action of Google is memorable and 2010 witnesses the evolution of the local area network of China. After all, what remains when the Internet is deprived of Google, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter? Baidu, Youku, Renren(Xiaonei) and T.Sina？

Well, George Orwell have told the whole story before I was born, and I guess it's still not to late to review his tales.