Xianfeng Songs blog

I am selling my car, which will be available to buyer after June 15th since I am leaving for a job in other country.

The car is 98′ Honda Accord with V6 engine. We bought it in May, 2006 and it runs great! We are asking for $5800, which is significantly less than the KBB price. Please feel free to contact us if you are interested in.

I am getting heavier and heavier! So, on Monday, I decided to start my workout plan. On Tuesday, I bought the gym pass and also one year of locker. On Wednesday, I started my workout plan and run for half an hour. Today, I swam for 10 loops (Don’t know the distance for one loop. ) The strength of these workout has not reached my limit. I wanted to make my body get used to these workouts gradually.

I would expect these workouts would drain me of energy and hopefully by doing these, I would lose weight! On the contrary, to my surprise, the workouts refilled me energy! I usually get tired in the late afternoon and can not do much in the evening. But yesterday and today, I could focus and do much more things in the evening without feeling tired!

If you are like me, the alumnus of Peking University, you should be able to join the Peking University network on Facebook. Here are the steps:

(1) You should first goto www.pku.org.cn to register as an alumnus. Thus you will be given an email address with the domain name pku.org.cn.

(2) Goto the Networks’ pull down menu, you should see “join network” and click it. After entering the given email address on the page, you are ready to go.

Fanglei today passed her defense. Congratulations to her! We old friends gathered together at China house for the dinner in her honor.

Suddenly I found I became a Facebook addict. There are several things I need to do to control it:

(1) Put a note in front of my screen saying that checking Facebook twice per day is enough!

(2) For something need to be done on Facebook (like managing the groups), put it on todo list!

I finished reading this book today. The last half part of this book is not exciting at all. The author turns to how to successfully run a e-business.

We can now redefine the 4 steps in the context of e-business:

First step: D is for Definition. Find out what you can do for e-business. Be ambitious.

Second step: E is for Elimination. Eliminate the tedious work. Try to outsource as many as you can, effectively.

Third Step: A is for Automation. You should build an automated system for your system.

Fourth Step: L is for Liberation. Enjoy your life!

Personally I don’t like this half which is not as inspiring as the first half. The author should do some elimination on this part! Anyway, this is only a best-seller. What can you expect!

I was attracted to this book through an article on some blog. The book teaches you how to use several steps to increase your working effectivity (Note: not efficiency)

First step: D is for Definition. Define your goal. Be ambitious!

Second step: E is for Elimination. 80% of outcome are from 20% of things you do. Cut the unnecessary and tedious work!

Third Step: A is for Automation. Outsource your life! Batch processing your work in order to reduce the setup cost.

Fourth Step: L is for Liberation. Have not read it yet.

What I get from this book so far is that you’ve gotta liberate your brain! Think what you dare not think and then do only the necessary!

I really don’t know! Life sucks, and I just desperately want to get out!

Facebook can also be addictive. I found myself constantly check the facebook everyday. It costs so much of my precious time. You know, the feeling of being connected to people is really really good.

This article Facebook labelled a $5b waste of time proved my concern.

Zheng and Mengmeng are going to leave bloomington on the coming Monday and we held a farewell party for them this evening. Zheng is going to Washington for his experiment and Mengmeng is going to school in Georgia. I took some crappy pictures during the party using my iphone.