"Yesterday is history, tommorrow is mystery, but today is a gift, that's why it is called the Present." I like this phrase for its wisdom and simplicity. Since nobody could make time stop running, no one could go back, as well as no one could go to the future, the only thing for us could do is about to make the best use of right now and catch the star that will take you to your dream.

The sentence on the left side of this paragraph has been a motto to me since I learned it from its owner, more accurately to say is its speaker. I attended a class of correcting my English pronunciation in the fall of 2009. It was a chance of not my actively intention to join this two-day training. I was not expected to get so much improved in this just two-day lecture as I told myself before I meet with the lecturer Jerry. However, His lecture was so excellent that some memory is still vividly in my mind at this moment, all the things about his story, his loved song, and his wisdom words. He was about my age when he followed his parents immigrating to Canada. He was not a very distinguished student at home and most sadly thing was that his English was poor as he moved there. He had no friend, no job and lost himself. But a man of being not content with his current status would definitely make a different. He forced himeself to watch only English TV programs, to make no Chinese friends, and to listen only English songs. All these efforts was to break the cold ice that he was totally a stranger in a society of English. Two years later, he acheived his basic goal and he went out to find job. He do it from a seller selling thing from door to door, it is not a easy job, but from his mouth, it is an interesting story to us. As you may guess, after so much frustration, he owned a good salary and a good position in a company. However, working for other people was not a happy ending. He hesitated to continue doing current job or make his own business. The saying on the left side was generated at that time. As wise men always choose the right thing, people who make the right choice are also called the wise.

August 23, 2012

I received my bachelor's degree in the Software School of Xidian University in 2011. After that, I came to the Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences for my master's degree. I spent a whole year in studying the courses and getting all the credits, and then I stayed in pFind group. My supervisor is Dr. Sun, but I've got a lot of help from other people in the group as well. This is suppose to be my last year in pFind.

The first half year in pFind I did some work on pXtract and studied how to assess the identification results of cross-linked peptides. Now I have been put all my heart into the job of cross-linked peptides identification. pLink2.0 will be my work, which is supposed to run dramatically fast, robust and easy to use. I hope pLink2.0 can get more users which will make me pround of myself. July 1st is the release time. Hope I can make it.

This year is destined to be an important year for me. God bless me.

May 21, 2014

During my leisure time, I enjoy reading, watching television shows, listening music and so forth. The books I read include fictions, essays, peotry, history, etc. Before attending college Harry Potter series were my favouriate. I read it twice and watched all its movie several times. I like Chinese ancient novels and Western Classic. I love the Story of the Stone, I am happy to talk with others about the people and things in the story. I love Jane Austen, J.K. Rowling, Jin Yong. I am fond of all different kinds of good stories.

When it comes to music, there is one person making me feel so different and her name is Nakajima Miyuki. She is a Japanese song writer and singer, famous in 1970s and still very active in music circle. Most Chinese must have listened her songs from some other Chinese singer's voice, but few of them know about her. I admire her talent, her passionate and her life experience. Wanting to know what she is singing, I start to learn Japanese. She is a person full of stories, if you are interested in her after seeing this, listen to her voice, which is not so sweet but full of stories and emotion.

August 23, 2012

看着缓缓升起的孔明灯，我内心的希望又燃烧了起来，虽没有烈火那般炽热。

第一只意外地坠落令我吃惊与失望，感慨命中注定，我默念的期盼大概就如同这灯，灯芯与灯罩身首异处，不能一起飞向高空、飞往远处。第二只起飞前也极不顺利，不仅是因为风大，也是大家的耐心不够，更因为我的躲避而不愿意更多的参与与承担。如第一只飞起时一样，我掌握着火源，只负责点火，大伙儿帮忙扶着灯罩，不同于第一只点燃时所犯的致命性错误，我参与了燃料绑缚于铁丝上的过程，了解到点固体燃料时要点四个角，千万不能点中间的小孔，因为那是固定铁丝的地方。点燃第一只时，师妹已经套好了燃料，我用火机烘烤固体燃料，半天没有动静，嘈杂中听到志远说点中间的小孔，我以为自己之前很蠢不知道小孔的地方是用了引火的材料，因为在我将火源移动到小孔所在的地方时，燃料上迅速窜起了火苗，不一会儿整个燃料就烧起来了。然而，在大家放手后，飘了还不到三米，燃料突然从灯罩上掉了下来，大伙失声而笑，但我却感到一阵的难过，不是因为这灯是我买来的，它的一切就要跟我有什么牵连，而是我的担心，我的踌躇，全都在它身上表现了出来。迅速大伙儿七嘴八舌发表意见，什么原因导致它没有起飞，多数归咎于风大，不适宜放飞，很多地方被气流压得鼓不起来，也有人说是大家耐心不够，气还没有完全充满灯罩，或许应该放低些，再耐心些，但这些都不能说明为什么燃料会掉下来，那只能是没有捆绑好。当我拿起第二只，问师妹你是怎么固定燃料的，她也有些慌乱，回答我说是直接穿透了中间的小孔，然后接手又固定了上去。顿时我意识到自己所犯了错误，错听了别人的意见，臆想了小孔的作用，但即便知道了这些，我还是没有信心指望它能够飞起来，毕竟我当时的心情已经失落之极，弄丢了跟朋友借来的相机的闪光灯，还放不起一只孔明灯，更别说寄托着我的期盼了。

点第二只灯的时候，旁边的看客耐不住性子，拿起自己火机一起帮我点。两个火源，不一会儿四个角都着起了火，在他的指导下，大家把灯罩放低，想让冷气流尽可能少的进入灯罩，让灯罩里的空气快点暖热。在我的催促下，大家又一次齐手放开了孔明灯。最初像第一只一样，在离地面四五十公分的高度被风吹打，还时不时撞击一下地面，不过好在燃料没掉。志远在众人的瞩目下快速跑去追飘远的孔明灯，我当时犹豫了一下也追了上去，只是担心点着天津站周边的草坪，烧伤海河边的游客。贺老师也建议，灭了火拿回去改天再放，我也基本不指望它能够起飞了。在距最初点灯四五十米的地方，我与志远重新将灯撑了起来，因为他还是热情高涨，希望看到起飞的孔明灯。我们压低灯罩，撑起陷落的地方，其间还听旁边人说有个地方破了，我看了一眼也没找见，不过也足够浇灭我的愿望了。等了许久，我们齐手放开，可它还是低低不起，眼看快要撞着岸边的花池壁了，志远放声喊叫，“给力啊”，我虽没有那样，但心中的焦急冲上了整个心头，我全然感觉不到周围人群的存在，只盼望着它能起飞，终于它越过了花池，在夜风的助动下，扶摇而上，而后我听到了大伙儿的欢呼。

走向天津站的路上，我时不时抬头凝望，直至它消失在视线之外，许是飞高飞远了，许是被冷风吹灭了，许是氧气不足熄灭了，许是灯芯又一次脱落了，但不论怎样，它都起飞了，它曾经飞高、飞远过。

2013年04月01日

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