又逢圣诞，依旧没有节日感觉。如果问起欧洲圣诞的特征，只一个字 “静”。 圣诞是欧洲家庭团聚的日子，是大吃一顿的日子，烧鹅是必然出现的一道大菜。 no demonstration, no party... 不象中国，狂欢，party... 甚至一些企业还统一组织活动。 说起圣诞在中国，有些感想……这也是这个entry 为什么用中文的原因。
近年来，中国开放了，N多东西都与国际接轨了，节假日也不例外。情人节，中国的情人们开始celebrate了，圣诞节，狂欢，尤其是年轻人群，celebrating Christmas成了一种时尚，是一种跟的上时代脚步的象征，不管对圣诞的知识了解多少，不信，庆祝圣诞的各位，谁知道圣诞老人的名字？这够基本的了吧？ (答案：Santa Claus) 这本是个宗教节日，却在中国忽地流行了起来。是不是Hallowmas, Easter也要庆祝？
我并不反对国人过洋节，这可以拉动消费，增进朋友同事感情等。我心里只希望我们中国的传统节日能发扬下去。看看我们的日历，有多少传统节日还占据着公共假日的地位？劳动节，国庆，春节是3个主要长假。春节的地位难以动摇，暂不说。 中秋，元宵，端午，重阳…… 这些我觉得都是中国的重要节日，现在的人对这些越来越淡，不敢说再过几代，国人还知不知道这些词背后的意思。我了解到，在台湾这些日子都公共假日，至少这能让人们知道这天是中国的节日，这是我们的文化，中国的文化。端午，重阳先不说，中秋跟元宵我觉得是仅次于春节的节日，这至少应该是假日才对，哪怕从国庆的长假弄出2天来也是值得的。为什么这些假日都不是呢？难道是反“四旧”那时侯弄的？（我对文革不太了解，瞎猜的）
哎...我知道我说什么没用的，也就是发发牢骚算了。对我来说，这里圣诞对我的影响就是24号以前要买上维持3，4天的东西，因为商店，邮局，银行，一切娱乐场所包括红灯区，赌场节日期间全部停业。这可能是老外傻的地方，放弃了大好的赚钱时机，呵呵…… 此外，就是那种特殊的寂静，感觉闷的要命……
希望中国人能了解每一个中国传统节日和节日身后的故事。
2004-11-08
Java Pitfalls...done!
In this entry I listed 3 books for java programmers. Today I finished the book "Java pitfalls". Tomorrow I can return it to our library, phew... Last week I paid 1 Euro for this book cause I forgot renewing it. :-(
There are 50 items in this book. And there is no tight relationship among them. Then it allows me to read 3 or 5 items a day. It's true that almost all things in that book are Java fundamental knowledges. But I really gained some benifits from reading that book, especially on Java performance issues. I think in my future programming, some knowledges from this book will remind me in my mind all the time. It can let me write more efficient java codes, at least feels good :-). Well, I skipped some items concerning java GUI programming. I always feel sleepy when I reading something like Jbutton, Panel..stuffs.
In this book, authors discussed how to debug a java application and how to use Assertion. I guess JUnit maybe not available when they wrote this book. :-)
There is a series book called "more Java pitfalls". I checked our library, this book is not yet there. But fortunately I have the electronic version.
There are 50 items in this book. And there is no tight relationship among them. Then it allows me to read 3 or 5 items a day. It's true that almost all things in that book are Java fundamental knowledges. But I really gained some benifits from reading that book, especially on Java performance issues. I think in my future programming, some knowledges from this book will remind me in my mind all the time. It can let me write more efficient java codes, at least feels good :-). Well, I skipped some items concerning java GUI programming. I always feel sleepy when I reading something like Jbutton, Panel..stuffs.
In this book, authors discussed how to debug a java application and how to use Assertion. I guess JUnit maybe not available when they wrote this book. :-)
There is a series book called "more Java pitfalls". I checked our library, this book is not yet there. But fortunately I have the electronic version.
2004-09-15
Excited and Disappointed - 100M free web space
Just now I was checking Google Answer, occasionally, I found a 100M free web space in one question. I tried to sign up it immediately, finally I 've got a 100M web space with ftp account and 1G data traffic per month limitation. It provides more useful features. Like subdomain name custermization, php , MySQL DB and web email with pop3 and smtp supports. For me, I just need the web space with http reference for the files so that I can link in this blog.
However after I tested FTP and other function, I found the most important and basic feature doesn't work. I cannot access my test web page from browser. :( My internet explorer always says "Opening page...." in the status bar. I hope the reason of it is that their sever needs some time to add new domains...
Let's see what's happend tomorrow..
However after I tested FTP and other function, I found the most important and basic feature doesn't work. I cannot access my test web page from browser. :( My internet explorer always says "Opening page...." in the status bar. I hope the reason of it is that their sever needs some time to add new domains...
Let's see what's happend tomorrow..
2004-09-11
3rd times to Heidelberg castle And the perfect Chinese speaker
Today, Wang Zhenxu came to Heidelberg. We went to Heidelberg Castle together. Although I have been living here for 5.5 month, this is my 3rd times to go there and sight seeing.
I got a really big supprise during this time. When we visited the Apothic Museum, I found a guy who works there can speak really good Chinese. At that time, I wanted to buy a little box as souvenir. He spoke to my friend "说中文吧，还快一点"( let's speak in Chinese, it would be faster). And when I gave him the money, he also can speak "x块x毛x" . So typical Chinese....
Suddenly I felt so shame and embarrassed. I have been in Germany for 2 years, but I still cannot speak German...:(
The following picture is "Nackar river, Castle and I"
I got a really big supprise during this time. When we visited the Apothic Museum, I found a guy who works there can speak really good Chinese. At that time, I wanted to buy a little box as souvenir. He spoke to my friend "说中文吧，还快一点"( let's speak in Chinese, it would be faster). And when I gave him the money, he also can speak "x块x毛x" . So typical Chinese....
Suddenly I felt so shame and embarrassed. I have been in Germany for 2 years, but I still cannot speak German...:(
The following picture is "Nackar river, Castle and I"
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