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Seven 在天虹给我买的黄水晶，据说可以带来财富和保护五脏。看看我送给 Seven 的是什么？

Hope the following steps help someone.

1. Find something else interesting to you instead of your research area.
2. Solve at most one problem per week, e.g. a typo.
3. Never look at any related work that have already done by others.
4. Forget about time management and stay up whole night, for games.
5. Be tired of discussions with your supervisors.
6. Remember the definitions without understanding it.
7. Be inconsistent on anything.
8. Refresh interesting websites every 5 min, such as /.
9. Write thesis in the same way as writing blogs.
10. Think about how to fail your graduate study all the time.

What do you think?

凌晨一点从办公室狼狈地赶回来，渐渐变冷的天气冻得我抖抖瑟瑟的。于是在开房门的时候，发现了门口厨房摆放的咖啡冲剂。

一定是新搬来的室友 Jeffery 送的。早上跟他聊天，他很热情地送了我三包高丽参茶。我随口一句：“ I drink coffee. ”，竟然被这小子记下来了，呵呵。

顺便提一下，Jeffery 是个学音乐的白人。奇怪他怎么会有这些写了中文的东西？有意思。

谢谢你，Jeffery！

I am always aware of my health and sensitive to even a slight change of my body, so I regularly do health check-ups. Having been studying in Canada for almost 7 years, I found that all the nurses and doctors I met here a very nice to me. What disappointed me is that, the appointment scheduling for health checks is not that efficient.

Last week, I wanted to do a blood test to see if my cholesterol becomes lower after I changed my diet style several months ago. But I couldn’t book the blood test directly. Instead, I had to book an appointment with a doctor first, and the appointment was scheduled a week later. Thus I has to wait for a week ’til the day of appointment. What happens next is that, I see the doctor and then I am sent to the lab for the blood test. But I don’t get the result directly from the blood test lab. What I have to do, is to book a follow-up appointment with the same doctor to get the result, and the new appointment is a week later, again.

It takes me two week in total to see my blood information.

What happens if it is in China? OK, here are the steps:

1. You go to the hospital in the morning, say 9am;
2. Do your blood test and get a bar-code associated with your ID card;
3. Then you get the test result in the afternoon, say 3pm, by showing your bar-code and ID.

In case you don’t understand the statistics in the result sheet, you go to your doctor and get the explanation. The whole process costs less than 12 hours. The point is that it’s your blood and you are the first person who has right to know the information about your health, even prior to your doctor. And if the mechanism is well managed enough, the process can be efficient.

Anyone has any comments? Let me know if I am wrong.