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In terms of ” America, Russia and Cold War” February 21, 2008

Well, I didn’t finish the book. Part of the reason is that its content was different from what I thought. It’s more a historical review of what happened during the cold war than a more thorough analysis. But it’s a very interesting book in a way that it tells a lot of stories we never knew of. The relationship between US, Russia, Europe and countries such as China are incredibly interesting. Every single important decision makers during that period time had a somewhat vivid characteristics in this book. You really have to think when you are reading otherwise you won’t get the mind behind some of the sentences.

Anyway, if someone ever interested in the history, and the relationship of the major players during and post cold war, they should read this book.

The Plan For 2008 By. Rouslan January 14, 2008

The most important goal is to love my honey dearly, of course. But that will be easy given her incredible cuteness.

A major goal is to go to grad school this year. I filed the applications for Masters degrees in December 2007. All I can do now is wait. The long term goal is a PhD and a job in a think tank like Rand Corporation or a research university. The direction for research is yet undecided, but is likely to involve economics or bioinformatics.

Self control is very important. I need to manage my time. The time must be spent enriching the intellect through books, speaches, conferences, and discussions. The posts below indicate my reading selection. TED is my choice for talks. LibriVox is my choice for audio books to listen when I travel.

The plan for 2008 by. Min January 13, 2008

2007 was a fairly productive year. I got my Bachelor’s degree, got a job offer, several grad school offers, rejected the job offer, and several grad school offers and I end up here at CMU.

I am still looking for changes. Changes that will bring excitement back into my life. I saw teh trailer of ” The Bucket List” at the movie theater the other day. I think it’s a brilliant idea to also create a plan for spending my year of 2008 productively and achieve something great. It will be a significant year for me for sure and I need to spend every single day wisely.

- I want to find a great internship. Doesn’t matter where it is. I want to go out and see the world. I  haven’t been to  many places but traveling around the world will definitely be the one item that I will list on my Bucket List. haha

- I want to learn a new language. I was joking with RD the other day that I want to be able to speak seven different languages after this year. That was achievable only if I  don’t have to study over 60 units of  courses and without a job.  So I  decided to set a more realistic goal - one language. I am setting my eyes on French but maybe latin as well.

- I want to do one thing that I fear about. Public speaking is something that I always try to improve so I contacted professor at Tepper to see if I can take a public speaking course. I will also take strategic presentation skills this semester.

- I  want to go back to China visit my friends and family.  This is  kinda luxury but  I really want to go home to take a break.

- I want to pick up my so far dropped hobby of reading. Well, that’s why I started writing this blog again.

- This one is a little hard to achieve but I will work on it. I hope I can get A+ for all of my courses this semester. I managed to get one last semester but I would like to get as many as possible this time.

B-Day Presents for RD January 12, 2008

Here are the three books that I selected for RD’s birthday.

Italo Calvino’s ” Why read the classics?”

Roger Lowenstein’s ” Buffet”

and Daniel Yergin’s “Commending Heights: The Battle for the World Economy”

American Russia and Cold War

This is the book I am reading right now for my Public Policy- International Perspective class.

Basic Economics

This is the book I am reading now. It is a good introduction to economics for laymen, albeit too wordy. The best lesson I have learned so far is that price ceilings do not benefit the poor.

A New Start

I decided to share this web with RD as our book club page. You can check the DouBan Blogroll of the books that we are reading

Gackt’s having a US concert this month! June 11, 2007

Sucks though, I can’t get a ticket!!!  I want to go to CA~~~~~~~55555~

GRADUATION 真的结束了 May 31, 2007

其实毕业还是很伤感的  尤其一切都在匆忙之中结束的时候  会觉得 没有好好说再见有一点遗憾

以前总是期待毕业 想看 自己日后的日子会如何如何精彩 唯独这一次 无论如何都提不起劲来  离开学校 不管读研与否 就真的是大人了 虽然一直都是一个人  可是没有退路的时候(尤其过22岁生日的时候)  还是会感叹一句 真想回到过去啊

可是人生必须勇往直前

 前两天妈妈刚走的时候很想很想她  比过去几次回家又离开之后都想

旅行的时候又可以享受久违的依赖  妈妈洗好的水果  整理的衣物 还有一切一切的挑剔和鲜明的喜怒都是一天24小时共处才有的体会 自从读书后就少有这样的独处了 所以毕业还是有好处的  至少在独自面对现实之前 还有机会彻底做一次小孩 放肆的撒娇跟任性

然后就又要启程了

Graduation - ISO End of Year Dinner April 29, 2007

Pics!!

Thanks to Lois and school’s photographer.