Life In a Drip

Ambition leads to success.The biggest catastrophe for someone is losing his ambition.Ambition is not the monopoly of the great,it can be holded by everyone.A politician may have the ambition to make the world peaceful,a peasant may have the ambition to be the wealthiest in his area.In some sense,ambition is one's dream.It is a dream that one would like to make all his passion and effort to realize.A man with no ambition is like a vessel with no rudder.Without ambition,one cannot persist in study,work,etc.
In the catalogue of a book entitled "Think and Grow Rich" you will find the word "desire".Virtually ambition is a kind of desire.With the ambition to make people's life better,Thomas Edison became a great inventor.With the ambition to discover the rules hidden in universe,Albert Einstein discovered the theory of relativity.With the ambition to discover the relationships among the creatures,Charles Darwin discovered the theory of biological evolution.
Without the utilization of ambition,one's imagination will be confined.Inspiration will not circulate around his brain.And only when he is confronted with the fact that he has achieved nothing will he realize how important and useful ambition is.The penalty for neglecting this is failure.
With resort to ambition,one can exert himself to the maximum.

This afternoon WangXin and Gu GuoLiang came to see me.I was very surprised that WangXin bought me a pingpong racket.It was really a great present,which I liked very much.We chatted for a while and then I suggested we go to play pingpong.I put on my shoes and soon we were on the way to the palaestra.
At first,I decided to go to school to play.But considering the gate keeper might refuse to let us in,we finally made up our mind to go to the palaestra.It was a long way,however.Many people were playing in the palaestra when we arrived.
I haven't played pingpong for more than a year.GuoLiang and WangXin were top-players in our class when we were in high school,and even though I tried my best,I couldn't beat them virtually.
GuoLiang and WangXin both love pingpong very much and treat it as part of their life.Perhaps that is why they can play so well.I only treat pingpong as a hobby and don't put my heart in it.This also shows that one can do anything well as long as he do it with passion.
We were playing happily when it started to rain.So we went our respective homes.Anyway,I had a happy day today.

Today I did the MBTI test.(Myers-Briggs Type Indicator).It is the best known and most trusted personality test available today.The test is on:
http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes2.asp
My result is:

Your Type is
ENTJ
Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Judging
Strength of the preferences %
33 38 1 11

Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
moderately expressed extravert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
slightly expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed judging personality

Most suitable careers:
Management in Business or Education
Military Education
Politics
Law
Counseling
Engineering
Industrial Management & Manufacturing Management
High School Education
Computer Programming

My father also did the test.
His result is:
Your Type is
ENTP
Extraverted Intuitive Thinking Perceiving
Strength of the preferences %
33 25 25 11

Qualitative analysis of your type formula
You are:
moderately expressed extravert
moderately expressed intuitive personality
moderately expressed thinking personality
slightly expressed perceiving personality

Most suitable careers:
Education
Engineering
Natural Science
Information System Specialist
Counseling
Management in Business or Education

Gobang is also known as GoMoku, or 5-in-a-row. This is a traditional oriental game played with black and white stones on a 14x14 GO board.
This game was invented in ancient times of China, developed in Japan and quickly spread in Europe. It is simple to learn but difficult to master and this made it great popular around the world.
I always play the game when I was in high school.It is really intellective and interesting.Our ancestors are really admirable that they can invent such a perfect game.I haven't played the game for a long time and these days I played again with my friends and people on the internet.
The rule of the game is easy.The winner is the player who will be first to attain five stones in a row.
Have you ever played it?If not,what are you waiting for?

Yesterday some of my classmates in high school came to see me.They are Zhang ZhiYong,Zhu Huan,Dong ZhenLei,Gu GuoLiang,Xie XueLei,Zhu LianYun,Pan Ye and Zhang YingXiu.(The above list is in no particular order.)We have been graduated from high school for a year or so.How happy I was to see them!They changed little in appearance(while I changed a lot).What about characters?Let me introduce them one by one.

Zhang ZhiYong,a boy tall and thin.I have the impression that he is childlike innocence and is in favor of watching cartoons.In this point,he hasn't changed.Now he is studying fire protection engineering in university.He wants to buy a notebook PC for study use.Initially he wants to buy one with my help,but his brother has already bought one for him several days ago.He tells me of its brand and price.I think it must be a great computer.(At least much better than the one I'm using now!!!)

Zhu Huan,a diffident boy.He was very down when he started his university life at first because he couldn't take part in the activities.I encouraged him to be more confident and try to contact more with his classmates.This time whom I see is a optimistic and happy boy.Smile is always on his face.He is still nuts about NBA,but pityingly,the team Phonix Sun,which he prefers most,was not champion.He is studying economics now and I hope one day he will be a great economist.

Dong ZhenLei,a chatty boy.His chatty style has not changed,but the content has.After a year in Shanghai,he knows much more and tells us a lot of interesting stories.He is an ambitious boy who has a lot of dreams.He intends to study in the US after graduation from university.I bet his dreams can come true.This summer holiday he will not relax.Instead,he will earn some money on his own hand.An able boy,isn't he?He gives me a map of TongJi university and a book.The book is somewhat uninteresting to me but I will read it in my free time.Thank you,ZhenLei!

Gu GuoLiang,a cool boy who loves playing ping-pong.We are good firends and are always together when in high school.He is a gentleman who can tolerate my faults.Ha!Maybe that is why I'd like to be with him.Most of the time we get along well with each other.Even if sometimes we quarrel,it will not be long before we're OK again.He had got a girlfriend but parted for some reason.(What reason?I don't know.I don't wanna know because it is his personal matter though we are good friends.)Never mind,GuoLiang,you are so cool that girls should be out of question.

Xie XueLei,a boy with few words.It is really a big surprise that he comes to see me.I haven't been in contact with him since we gradute from high school.In my opinion,he hasn't changed,he is still honest and polite.He is studying engineering management and I bless he will have a bright future.

Zhu LianYun,the tallest boy in our class.He plays basketball very well and is a member of the school basketball team.I'm glad to hear that he lives in a comfortable dormitory and gets along well with his teachers and classmates in university.This summer he will earn money together with Dong ZhenLei,the boy I mentioned above.

Pan Ye,an energetic and gorgeous girl.She has a warm and outgoing personality.Being crazy about Korean teleplays,she becomes sublime active when talking about that.She always complains that her campus is small in size(even smaller than our high school).Actually size is not the problem,teaching quality is the most important.Remember,"Condensed is distillate".Laziness is one of her shortcomings.The most unbelievable thing to me is that she chooses to study law.I thought she may study physics and will be another Madam Courier one day.Studying law is no easy task,a lot of remembrance is required.I hope she can be more diligent.

Zhang YingXiu,an incommunicative yet beautiful girl.She came to see me in winter holiday this year.And this time she comes again.She is a very kind-hearted girl.She seldom expresses herself but we all know that she is perfect.I always received her short messages during the time I was in hospital.She treats her friends honestly and cares others more than herself.I hope she can be more outgoing and active in the future.

The weather was rather hot yesterday and I didn't treat them well.It was really a pity that I forgot to take some pictures of us.But history had witnessed the moment.In the future,our appearances may change,our characters may change,our status may change...But one thing is certain--We are good friends,forever!

Contentment is sometimes the achievement of what you want,while sometimes the awareness of what you already have.
These days I'm occupying myself in a task(so busy as not having time to write a post),during which I encountered a lot of problems.Each time a problem was solved,I felt a sense of contentment.The feeling witnessed what I had done and provoked me to keep on working to overcome the next difficulty.I remembered when I was still a kid,I always felt a sense of contentment when I got the toy I had been longing for.So in these cases,contentment is the achievement of what I want.
When one is down,he always think that he is the unluckiest one in the world.Everything seems to be againest him.Of course I'm no exceptation.For instance,when I got a serious disease,I thought the world is unfair,the god is unfair...But later I realized that there were many people who were unluckier than me,some of them even got diseases that couldn't be cured by Today's medical technics.Some people were still struggling for a place to live,so much as a meal.So I feel a sense of contentment,I know that I have a lot of things that others may not have,for example,a harmonious family,many good friends.The feeling helps me to drive those blues out of my life.In these cases,contentment is the awareness of what I already have.
Contentment is a necessary feeling in our lives,it makes our lives meaningful and keeps us going.

Yesterday I received a phone call from a good friend.He was a student of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.He said he was in summer holiday and would come and see me later.I was very excited because we hadn't met for nearly half a year.Definitely he will tell me a lot of stories happened in Shanghai.And of course,I have a lot to tell him as well.
Today I received a phone call from WangXin,a nurse I got to know at Peking University People's Hospital.She asked about my health and gave me some advice on how to keep fit.I couldn't be thankful enough to her for her timely care.I felt very lucky to know such a conscientious nurse.In the call she told me that she had just taken an exam and didn't know whether she could pass.She was extremely weak in English,I know,but this time the exam didn't cover it.I believe she can pass.
What about tomorrow?Will I receive a phone call again?Who will it be?I don't know.After all,tomorrow is too far to be concerned.I will go on working now.

These days I'm busying designing a website for a foundation in my hometown.So I don't have much time managing my blog.
Today I was perplexed by a problem.You know,it is easy to parse xml document using flash CS3.PHP don't have such powerful parse functions.However,flash can't save the file modified while PHP,as a background language,can.So I wanna use flash to modify xml document and send it to a PHP file.But I don't know how to receive(or access) the xml in PHP.I have searched for the solution on internet,but no correlative articles was found.At last,I asked father for help.
He didn't know how to access the xml sent by flash,either.But he thought out a solution finally.The solution is as follows:
First,load the xml document in flash.
Second,modify the xml document using flash.
Third,translate the xml object to string.
Fourth,send the string to PHP.
Fifth,save the string to a xml document using PHP.
Thanks to dad,the problem is finally solved.He is a great programmer whom I admire most.

A recent statistic shows that the members of CPC(The Communist Party of China) has increased 11,859,000 from 2002 to 2006.The average increase per year is 2,372,000.Almost half of the students in universities have written the application for joining the Party.The CPC is the only party in power in China(except for TaiWan).Not only people's standard of living,but also the whole nation's general competitive power has improved a lot during the past few years under its leadership.So it has won the trust of most people,among whom many people wanna become a member of it.However,to join the Party is not easy.One who wanna join CPC has to be excellent in studying and working.
I'm not a Party member at the moment.But I hope one day I will be.

"Lucky 52" is one of the programs I am in favor of.It is broadcasted on CCTV2(China Central Television) every friday.In the program,Yong Li,the famous compere in China asks questions of all kinds,such as scientific,historical,and commonsensible questions.Three challengers answer these questions and one of them,who gets the most correct answers,will be the "present winner".At last,the "present winner" will compete with "winner of the last time"(final winner of last week) to decide who is the final winner of this week.The program is so challenging and interesting that it has a high audience rating.
However,the program has changed to a new version recently.The original games in the program are cancelled.Instead,the challengers will compete with some primary scholars on some primary school questions.The challengers always lose because knowledge learned in primary school has already been forgotten by them since they are working now and has graduated from school for several years.
As a consequence,the program becomes less interesting.What a pity!
Why did the editor generate the idea of changing version of "Lucky 52"?I think it is because of YiDing Yu,a challenger in "Lucky 52".He is so sophisticated and erudite that no one can beat him.He has been final winner for 9 weeks.Many audiences argue that he is unbeatable and it is boring to see the same face every time they watch "Lucky 52".Maybe it is just because of this that the editor changed the program under great pressure.
Nevertheless,I don't like the change.At least the new program is apparently less interesting than the previous one.Eruditeness is no fault.Why can't we tolerate a pandit?I firmly hope the program can be restored even though I know it is impossible.