As a matter of fact, I did not expect to be so busy for the first week here, and I was glad that I don’t need to sit in front of the computer for days. As much as I would love to make myself busy, I sort of start to doubt how long I can last in this kind of condition. I begin to get used to the new environment and I did not really have time to sit down quietly to think too much each day. But I guess when time goes by, the view is getting clearer. Whether I am going to like it or not, I shall see. I have been asked by many if I like this country, but my answer was always ambiguous, since I haven’t known this place well enough to make a decision yet. The first impression was good, yet gradually I find it’s not much different from where I came from. It’s more developed for sure, but it surely has its problems as well. I haven’t started to miss my home yet, but when I was walking back home alone around 7pm with my stomach grumbling, my feeling was quite overwhelming today. Although most of my days here were nice and new, I had some bad days as well. It’s not perfect, and I know it’s not going to be; although I am trying to make everything perfect.

Well, since I am already almost settled down here, it would be ok to put a new nice pic on for my blog logo for a while. Downtown of Cincinnati reminded me of Shanghai somehow, but people there are nice-since we still got greeted by total strangers on the road. Maybe it’s because it was during daytime when it was relatively safe, or maybe Cincinnati was misunderstood by most people. Anyway my first impression of downtown was awesome-I’ll give it an A.

The new photo album cover picture has been changed to a road pic. It was shot by Canon D10 at Kuan&Zhai Lane in Chengdu today. I will keep this picture until everything’s been settled in late September.

Yeah, I was right-considering Microsoft’s relationship with China, it’s not quite likely that Live Space will be blocked forever. After being blocked for about one week, Live Space and some other SNS like twitter have been released in China. It’s a good news, but, again, it makes me feel that we are still like innocent young children who are being monitored strictly by our “responsible” parents. Anyway it’s better than nothing.

It’s really unfortunate that MSN Space is being blocked here in China. I don’t need to mention the reason, but it’s quite disappointing to see the shitty domestic blog services when all the good blog services are not available here. I don’t think I will convert my blog place to any other places than MSN Space, so I will just have to wait and see. After all, I thought Microsoft does have a good relationship with China, and I guess it’s quite promising that we will be able to use MSN Space anytime soon…

The reason for this change is because narrow rows are technically more comfortable for reading, and there are many good examples for this, such as The New York Times and lots of others.

Perhaps I just need some time to get used this new layout, since I am the person who determines the change. And obviously, this is the biggest change since the birth of the blog.

It's hard to find a good server providing pics with good qualities, and I was really looking for that kind of websites. MSN space provides this service, yet the pics will shrink, hence the quality is bad. In the end, I chose Flickr. The only concern is I am not sure about the band width-it says it has a limit. So I might as well just put this head pic there, so each month I don't have worry the head pic cannot be shown here...Let's see...So far, I like this simple design of the space here...high 5!

My blog used to be in a black background, and then I changed it into dark green. But lately I had problems with the head logo, because none of the online servers can provide me with the picture quality I wanted. Since I just need to be as simple as possible, the background color is changed into no color-white. I don't know how long I am going to stick to this solution, hopefully this is the ultimate solution. Yet the other side of the story tells me at least I still like changing, which means I am not too old, I mean mentally. I still like listening to the latest singles from new artists, and I still like embracing new things which are the latest trend. So maybe I am still young...My older cousin sister used to tell me that she was so old when she was in her mid 20s, and I couldn't understand that, as she was in her golden years in my eyes. Now I kind of feel the same as she did. Lots things have proved that I am no longer as young as before, and that always gets me. I start to notice tips about how to have healthy food and things like how to live a healthy life which were always ignored when I was, maybe, 2 years younger. The other day, I downloaded a software which can calculate the time when I die, of course it's just for fun. After I input my birth time, the result said I would die in 2029. It sucks, because when I calculated my friends, none of them would die before 2070. The result may not be true, but sometimes when we look back, we are always shocked by how fast time can fly. I used to think time is really slow when I was 3 years old, making mud soldiers in the field or building hydraulic dams in the little creek outside the house with friends. Now I start to miss the time when I had to study till mid night, and time really flies. Maybe it will be more true when I get older, and I think the reason why we think time is fast is because we are getting number as we grow older-we are getting more and more used to the mechanism of the world. 

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It's kind of disappointing that it takes ages to log on MSN Space, and that's why I can't update my blogs lately. I guess it has something to do with the education net, which is where I am, since people outside school can log on without any problems. Who knows...It has been over a week now...DARN!!!! The good news is there will be less and less time for me to stay in university, so at least I will be ok after several months, which is the worst scenario.

By the way, it is snowing right here in Shanghai. Amazing! After my sister and friends enjoyed the joy of snow in Chengdu, it seems my turn has arrived...Yay~~

I have been writing blogs for years, and at this point right now, it's quite important to back up my space blogs somewhere. So I decided to do this in several ways, in case something might happen in the future.

Testing...

It should be a great day today! I got up very early, and felt like writing a little bit. The sun is rising up, shiny and bright.

It's a brand new day!

Cheer up~~~

Since it's so slow to open windows spaces, I decided to hide some of the features on my space. I hid the photo albums, and it was really hard for me to make up my mind at first, as I have tons of pics in there, and I have been updating pics to the albums since the first day I started this space. But maybe after this change, my space can be a lot easier for others to view, and hopefully it will become more popular. Anyway, after the big change, I began to re-love my space, because I found it is very concise and it has its hightlights--the blogs...LOL...Stop being so self addicted. I am willing to make this space more popular...Yeah, maybe when I get famous...One day, hmmm, one day!

Haha, this is my utopia, I can have my day dreams whenever I want!

Here are two designs I like for the WesternMusic Board...I am looking forward to more good designs. Special thanks to ShaneFilan who made the Board T-shirt plan carried out, and thanks to his friends who designed these! Good Work!

SJTU Designing version	Qinghua Designing Version