Happy New Year

Today is the first working day of year 2008. I did some documentation work about the past year and the new year, it somehow likes a little student doing homework assigned by teacher. But, it is my habit at the beginning of a new year to look into myself, and ask myself what I did right or what I did wrong in the past year, and at the same time to make a to-do list for the new year.

Do not want to list all of those items here, for some of them might be stupid to others. Of cause, how do I know that?...anyway, I believe it's a good chance for me to look myself clearly, maybe not that clearly as I wished...Among those action items, one possibly most important new year objective is to "be stronger, mentally and physically". I need to do lot of work to make it true.


Posted by paintingsky [General] ( January 01, 2008 08:42 PM ) Permalink

Solaris Packages

What does Indiana project mean? ... Means, more and more packages will be put into repository. Some packages are useful, obviously, they have fancy interfaces and interesting functionalities, and some have good reputation and respectable authors and users. Sooner or later, they need be supported, and easily be downloaded, so as to attract real end-users, as well as application developers.

No doubt about the importance. The question is about the process. Lucky thing is we will see it soon, and OpenSolaris will be better and better.


Posted by paintingsky [work] ( November 28, 2007 01:11 AM ) Permalink

TM: project #4 "My Nightmare"

It's an easy topic, I just did it two weeks' ago. It seems, audiences didn't enjoy such topic that much, probably I need to choose some serious ones next time. Another reason might be as same as the evaluation I got, audiences always expect a clear point from the speech. Obviously, I need to emphasize the last paragraph more, even from the beginning. - BTW, I don't have any dream recently.


Subject: My Nightmare

This is my project #4, assignment is to choose right words which should be colorful enough so that audience can "see" them in their minds.

Today, I choose a nightmare that I got 15 years ago, when I was a middle school student. This dream is a little long, but dramatic. It is about eternal friendship and death. In my dream, I can live forever and look young always.

Dear toastmasters, please take a deep breath, I don't want you be scared out of your wits. Story is coming ...


The 1st 100 years, I was very excited and enjoy such capability at the beginning, but gradually I realized it was actually miserable, because all my family and friends eventually left me. Nothing hurts like the truth. I had to make new friends and suffered the pain again. I was always waiting for the heart broken moment of separating with my friends. This just like my destiny. To change it, I suddenly became a scientist who had magic power to create a medicine which can bring died people to life again. That means my friends can live as long as I want. But, every coin has two sides, what bothered me was the way of a successful reincarnation. That was, I must kill them on my own firstly, and then put the medicine into their bodies. Then, they can live another 20 years, and never knew what happened.
- You may already notice it is quite similar like a vampire story. But, I did not know it until 2 years later after my dream, I saw similar story of a little vampire girl never grow up occurred in a movie "Interview with the Vampire", starring Tom Cruise and Brad Pit.

Continue... It's not the end of my dream.
The 2nd 100 years were fleeting, just like a summer breeze. During that, I got used to the pain of killing my friends and the happiness of bringing them to life, which happened in turn. Everything was going on peacefully, until one day. A friend noticed some indications, he came to me and asked the truth. I still remembered he told me that "you can not deprive my right to die", as if it is a thunder, I didn't know how to explain at all. Then, my friend left me, absolutely disappeared from my life forever, just like never ever have been there before. I didn't know where he was, and had no news, but I definitely knew his ending.

Again, the 3rd 100 years passed, not as quickly as people think it would be. I was still alive, young, fully of energy, even more intelligent than everyone around me, but those wonderful things made me sad, I started to hate myself. An ordinary morning, I waked up - of course in my dream, and saw sunlight through the window like waterfall, dust were dancing, life was so beautiful, but I was yet alive, like a zombie, then, I couldn't help crying, loudly.

Then, "the end" - I waked up, really waked up.


<...pause...>OK, this IS one of my dreams, I was depressed for about one week. Then, I did some research. As you can already tell, this dream has many elements. Following Chinese traditional method, I studied ZhouGongJieMeng. Following western modern psychological theory, I referred Floyd's “Interpretation of Dreams”.

ZhouGong Jie Meng said:
. A friend died in your dream, means he can live as long as he can.
. Reincarnation means problem can be solved, and you will be successful in health, wealth, and life.

Sounds pretty good result. Well, the “Interpretation of Dreams” said:
. Death and reincarnation: means the end of a kind of relationship, or fading away of some internal characteristics - which might be something you don't like or can't put up with, you want to change them and therefore have such a dream.

Yes, they are different. But the same thing is, both of them could not light my road of better understanding what this dream really means. I was not indulging in it, and I was not superstitious, I was just wondering why I had such dream, and how my daily life reflects in dream. A nightmare or a good dream can't change my mood.

Dear toastmasters, you can see that I am such kind of person who can remember all the details of a dream, which I am particularly proud of. So, I made a note book called "my dreams" – of cause, it is not about the better life people pursued, it is about the real reflections of brain activities. Some of them are good, positive, colorful and funny stories, and some are black, horrible and stupid ones. But, the common point is they are relatively integral, almost all of them have beginning, climax, and ending.

Occasionally, I thought I should have sold them to movie producer. But, more frequently, I thought those dreams were trying tell me something.

So, about this one, what I learned is: <...pause...> To many people, to keep young and be immortalized might be their aspirations, but actually, they don't equal to happiness. Because the most pain a human can feel is separation from love - Loneliness is probably worse than death.

Posted by paintingsky [work] ( November 22, 2007 11:17 PM ) Permalink

TM: project #3 "Beijing Olympic Game 2008 - who wins"

The 3rd project I did is at August, 2007. Sometimes, I just feel what we need to practise might be you can say something anyway, no matter what it is.


Subject: Beijing Olympic Game 2008 - who wins

Yesterday is August 8th, next year, the same day, Beijing 2008 Olympic Game is opened. People from all of the world will see what the opening ceremony looks like, whether or not Chinese have imagination and creation, whether or not the process is well organized, whether or not foreigners can easily find where they want to see or what they want to eat without tourists guides.

July 13th 2001, Beijing city was immersed in a festival atmosphere, and the whole world knew this city won the bid for 2008 Olympic Game. Since then, Chinese government and Beijing citizens put huge enthusiasm on it. - I remember our first toastmaster table topic is about Olympics too. A lot of things gradually changed after that. It's not a game for a single city any more, it becomes a game hosted by the whole country.

CNN said, "Beijing Olympics Puts China Under Microscope of World Media", well, we can also say that "Everyone is looking for the opportunity via this microscope".

But, question is who is going to win? Can ordinary people get benefits from it? Let's analyze it from several aspects:

The first thing I want to mention is real estate:
. As the Beijing citizens, we can take advantage of the new architectures left by Olympic Game the whole city is rebuilt. As well as, government can partly solve unemployment pressure through the working opportunities of building and maintaining.

But, story has another side. With the unbelievable development of real estate in Beijing, which is one result of hot Olympics economy, house price goes higher and higher. Even the large international company employees, like us, think the price is too high to afford. It's not difficult to image how a blue-collar worker buy their own apartments?

The 2nd thing I wan to analyze is China's image and foreigner's expectation:
. We may expect that after Olympic Game, China's image to western countries may change, because more people can speak English, and their communication capabilities improve a lot. To accomplish this, many people are learning English. For example, seldom, you can meet a taxi driver who is listening "international music radio" not "jiaotong radio".

But, I doubt how it really works in such short time, because change China's image is not an easy and straight-forwarding work, which is related to many aspects. If things can be easily revised by some volunteers, I believe the situation will be back to the original point shortly after that.

Finally, let's see another big headache - traffic:
. During the game, government will release some policies to ensure traffic is good. Such as, only cars with end number 1,3,5,7,9 can be on road each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. Another half cars can be on road the other half of week. - We already experienced this strategy during many large programs and activities.

But, can it solves the root cause? Encourage people to follow traffic rule might be more reasonable. Now, many programs on TV and radio talk about this, such as - you represent Beijing, be nice to foreigners, and follow traffic rules. - I can't totally agree with such strategy and tone, because as a person, your behavior represents yourself firstly.

If the marketing promotion strategy can not clearly explain "self-realization" concept, maybe, we can set up a "good image" during the game, but can it take long?

Till now, you may notice each aspects we analyze is ended up with a “question mark”. So, to answer the questions we asked at the beginning, “Who is going to win?” “Can ordinary people get benefits from it?” I have to say - I do not know.

I'm not negative person, and am not blaming all social problems to Olympic Game, and definitely don't boycott Beijing Olympic game. Actually, as a Beijing citizen, I'd like to see it will be as successful as the official web-site announced.

Today, my speech is to raise a question, and list several problems which might be or might not be related to Beijing Olympics, and hope government can solve them, and pay more attention to people's life, environment, healthy economy, and better traffic condition. Dear Mr. and Ms. Toastmasters, the key point is: Not Only During the Olympic Game. After all, this game is only a mile stone but not the final goal of a more harmonious and easier life.

Posted by paintingsky [work] ( November 22, 2007 11:04 PM ) Permalink

iwi with wpa support

Eventually, this Intel 802.11b/g driver, iwi(7D) wpa support is integrated today to catch up this build. After three hours stress testing(6 sessions, 16bit small packet) and three hours corruption testing separately on WEP128bit and WPA encryption, I got a success test result. It might be a question worth thinking of whether a long time stress testing is necessary, while corruption testing seems more reasonable for WiFi case, especially given the wireless environments and the ways people use it.

To use WPA encryption, it's quite simple by dladm configuration tool, just follow:

    #dladm scan-wifi
    #dladm create-secobj -c wpa wpakey
    #dladm connect-wifi -e essid -k wpakey

Then, the left thing is as same as a normal nic driver, DHCP or static IP address, you will have a more strong security WiFi connection now. If it doesn't work, probably because it only supports TKIP algorithm right now. Please check AP, whether it is set to AES-CCM algorithm, if so, need wait a while, but not that long. Bug has been filed, and fix is believed to be integrated soon.



Posted by paintingsky [driver] ( November 15, 2007 07:06 PM ) Permalink

TM: project #2 "Baby Boom - Opportunity and Challenge"

Here is the 2nd speech that I did the 1st week of June. This year is symbolized by "pig" in Chinese lunar calender. For more background information, there are lots from Google. A quick search, please check here.


Subject: Baby Boom - Opportunity and Challenge

Today, my speech topic is about baby boom. I got this idea because I read three "congratulation" e-mails after labor holiday, and days later, I read one more. Maybe all of you noticed that suddenly, like magic, everyone is promoted to be a mom or a dad this year - "pig" year. So, sounds like it's what we called "baby boom".

So, today, my speech subject is "Baby boom – Opportunity and Challenge"

Let's see the positive argument firstly - It's an Opportunity:

. Because baby born in pig year will have "Bright future" and "happy life". - new father and mothers would like to hear this.

Chinese think people born in "Pig" year are steady and resolute in doing things, and honest and warm-hearted to other people. They are always faithful to friends and set a high value on friendship. They have many good characteristics, like generosity, kindness, honesty, passion, and enthusiasm and patience for their work. People easily believe that baby born in "Pig" year will have bright future, and can archive their goals. It's not that difficult for me to understand why people have such perspective. On obvious reason might be pig's looks and habit.

We don't regard it as superstition, but look it as culture.

. Another positive argument: "baby boom" is an opportunity to some businesses, such as baby products, diaper, milk powder, toy, clothe, and various types of services, such as children's art photo studio, and so on. Furthermore, you may notice that there are some new businesses this year, very strange businesses, such as:

. A web-site requests 10 thousands RMB to help new parents to choose a good name for their baby;
. Another example: someone registered many web-site names which are related to mom and baby, then he sales those web-site names to the ones who really want to have related business on line. Guess what, that web-site name seller got 10 thousands RMB each month.

Actually, it's reported that baby boom brought the whole world 33 billion dollars this year, which is a huge market. Many baby product suppliers also predicted that there would be no slack season for them in 2007, even in summer, and they have already changed their advertising strategies. Obviously, there will be a sales-promotion campaign from June to September this year.

Then, let's see it from the other angle - it's a Challenge:

Competition will be obvious, considering that 20% more children will be given birth than a usual year. - which is statistic data reported by CCTV.

. First thing is Hospital. You may remember, early this year, the Sino-Japanese Hospital's obstetric (OB) department announced outpatient services were closed since they couldn't offer extra beds to new petits, the public became highly concerned about how Beijing hospitals would handle this year's baby-boom. Although Beijing Health Bureau held a press release and forbade public hospitals like the Sino-Japanese to close OB outpatient services without direct approval from authorities. The health bureau also asked the public not to worry about the issue, because there were still more than 800 maternity beds. -- But, we understand that it's really difficult for the pregnant woman to see a doctor.

. Then, there will be the competition in education and on the job market.
As you know, in China, especially large city, children are fighting for a better education and better environment. Their parents also spend extra efforts and money to make this happen. It's not difficult to imagine, with 20% more competitors, what will those little children's childhood be? They will have no childhood.
Then, after 16 years education, it's difficult to find a job again for same reasons and same group of people.

. Even longer team impact on those born during the peak period, is the ageing society. With the improved health care system, people can live longer. That means, with the boom of population, tens years later, more than 40% of population will be retired people who need to get the fiscal and financial support from government, which is a reality and problem we will have to face.

In conclusion, let me summarize what I said today. Baby boom, it's a social issue. It's an opportunity and challenge at the same time. Parents are happy to see a competition in the market - for they can get what they want at more reasonable prices, but they might be worry about their children's education and employment in the future.

Posted by paintingsky [work] ( November 15, 2007 01:07 AM ) Permalink

another new wifi driver: Intel wireless 4965

In the past one year, our team integrated many wireless native drivers - that obviously changed Solaris WiFi support a lot. Here is the list: ath, pcwl, pcan, ipw, iwi, ral, rtw, wpi. Meanwhile, all of our work can also be found on OpenSolaris laptop community. If users don't know which driver they should use, the compatible list may also help.

Today, I worked on the case of "Intel wireless 4965agn chip support". This time, it's iwk(7D). Stay turn, it will be integrated soon. If you can't wait, you can also find it here on OpenSolaris.



Posted by paintingsky [driver] ( November 09, 2007 03:36 AM ) Permalink

TM: project #1 "How a cave woman survives without a cell phone"

Early of this year, I joined ToastMaster club in ERI, which is a well organized club. I planed to work on one project every 3-4 months. Below is the first one I did Jan. 2007. Normally, project #1 is used to do some self introduction, it might be proper to put it here too.


Subject: How a Cave Woman Survives Without a Cell Phone

Today, I would like to share with you some personal stories about how a cave woman survives in a modern society, without cell phone. I choose this topic is because I was asked the same questions several times in the past three months, when ERI tried to set up an emergent phone tree, and when Paul asked me how to send short message. I still remember their responses and their faces when I told them "sorry, I don't have a cell phone". So, I think this topic might be interesting to most of you. Hope you like it.

First of all, the reason I don't have a cell phone has nothing to do with my ability to buy. Do you want to know the beginning of the story? OK, let's go back 10 years. You may remember, almost everybody had a B.B call at that time, and it was very popular to send special numbers that present special meanings. That game was so popular that I thought it changed the real meanings of some important things. As the result, I refused to use B.B call. Then, 7 years ago, when I graduated from school, all my classmates bet with me, that I had to have a cell phone. I, then, said NO to everybody. Now, see me, I guess I won. From then on, whenever I meet my classmates, they will use same question as opening "don't you have a cell phone yet?".

No, from then on, I started the life without cell phone.

Then, is there any disadvantage?

Let me tell you a wallet story. Last year, I lost my purse somewhere. When I realized it, I was frustrated, and very unhappy. So, I spent the whole day to call different banks to stop payment on my cards, and spent all day outside of my house. Then, when I went back home at 10:00pm, there were huge numbers of calls came in. Almost all my friends were looking for me. Because a good guy picked up my wallet, he tried to call each numbers on my contact book, even my parents in Xi'an, a middle school classmate who is now in Shenzhen. But, nobody knew my number. There were almost 20 people knew that I lost my purse, and everyone tried to find me, no way, until I went back home. Ofc, at last, I got my purse back, and really appreciated that good Samaritan who found my wallet. I guess, that night, there were 20 people everywhere said same thing "what the hell she is doing, why doesn't she have a cell phone".

So, normally, at such moment, people will think, I really need a cell phone. Do I? No, there are some other aspects of different stories.

Then, what are the advantages?

. I will never be disturbed by unwelcome messages. I don't need to suffer the pain of holding a hot line. The last company I worked for, engineers need rotationally man a hot-line, once a month. Every time, when I hold that hot-line, it made me panic. I can not sleep well, eat well. I still remember, that whenever I watched that cell phone, I felt it look like a monster which made me working all day.

. And, I don't need to worry about the embarrass caused by turning on cell phone in a formal setting. Have to say, the most important thing I'm trying to set up is peace of mine which can not be disturbed. What a perfect world to me is that people can find each other using a discreet way. Cell phone is totally opposite to what I thought it would be.

So, as the ending, let me tell some truth.

Honestly, in these couple of years, several times, I thought I might need a cell phone, especially when I saw people using cellphone to take a picture. And, several times, I talked to myself that nobody knows why I insist so much. But, after a second, I would tell myself, “If you can not keep on doing this, how can you be successful on other things”. Yes, I agree with you that I over-react a little. It is no big deal to have a cell phone, and it's not the end of the world. But, this made me feel so unique that I can't tolerate to have a cell phone since that looks like a betrayal to myself.

But, times goes by, I would like to say I might change someday. So, don't laugh at me when I tell you my number someday I might have one although I'm not sure right now, but nobody knows what tomorrow will be.

That's all, hope you have fun my stories.

Posted by paintingsky [work] ( November 08, 2007 11:12 PM ) Permalink

resume archive something...

It's been a while before I really start to write something here. Many things happened during the past months. I worked on drivers' integration, bug fixing, same as usual, and then I was sick for a while, and now, I am right back working again. Continue the work, this time, it's about Intel wireless driver WPA support.

With the integration of WPA soft tkip encryption method, other drivers can take advantages of it easily, such as ral. Especially those drivers which depend on net80211 to handle ieee8011 related part, such as encap/decap, crypto encap/decap, and state machine transfer, etc. But, not all driver work follow the same way. For example, Intel older drivers are different, iwi. It needs to handle state-machine transfered by itself, and has to encap/decap data on its own, while h/w does part of management frame translation work, but just part. So, this driver is quite different. What I did about WPA support are:

. Change driver to support soft encryption firstly, so as to use WPA tkip encryption integrated, which includes correctly set up hardware, successfully set up opt_ie before association, and make sure it's door is opened, etc.
. To successfully support tkip soft encryption, need to make sure:

~ c_cap has WPA supported;
~ encap frame after it's copied into one mblk.
~ notify wpad association/dis-association status correctly when state-machine transfered, which is the key point to solve the reconnection issue.

Now, I'm still working on the regression testing, see any possible other problem.



Posted by paintingsky [driver] ( November 02, 2007 02:22 AM ) Permalink

新疆9：美女

葡萄溝，顧名思義是個种滿葡萄的地方。其實，這裡是個修葺完善的人爲旅遊景點，是供人們看葡萄的地方。溝裏的葡萄長在高高的架子上，擡頭可以看到陽光透過葡萄葉子撒下來，留在長廊裏，形成斑駁的影子。 有維吾爾族的姑娘穿得漂漂亮亮的民族服飾，拉着遊客照相，可惜同去的男同胞們也沒有人主動留影。繼續前行，看到新疆電視臺的演員穿着更鮮豔的衣服在拍什麽片子。我們到時，已經結束。其中一個美女經過我身邊，看到我和老姐目瞪口呆的樣子，就故意定身迴眸，向我們抛了個媚眼，美艷不可方物，直驚得我們忘了按快門。想如果我是男兒身，怕是會跟了她去，自願作那槃絲洞的俘虜了。定神醒來，身影已經飄遠。悻悻然走過一個賣冷飲的推車，想那主人定是看到了我們的醜態，不僅笑說，“這可不是最美的，前兩天來了些個子高的，那才叫漂亮呢！”。幸好幸好，要是我們早來幾天，還不定作出什麽更難看的表情呢。

Posted by paintingsky [ent.] ( September 25, 2005 09:38 PM ) Permalink | Comments[3]

新疆8：美景

新疆因爲幅員遼闊，占据中國六分之一的領土，風景自然就大大不同。我們這次，見到了戈壁、雅丹地貌、湖泊、高山、草原，真是大相徑庭。 在魔鬼城看雅丹地貌，風蝕的岩石中會露出一兩座廢棄的古城，幾尺高的羊糞顯示當年這裡的人丁興旺。沙地上，偶爾會看到一些骨頭，不知道是不是暴死在這裡的動物留下的屍骨，但更大可能是某些遊客帶來了羊腿，白骨只是丟棄的廢物。因爲那些岩石立在曠野中間，難免讓人聯想，到底是腳邊的沙子堆成了這些魔鬼城，還是那些魔鬼岩石演化成細細的風沙。地理是我學的最差的一門功課，所以這些問號大約幼稚的可笑。無論如何，去摸岩石表面還能感覺到一些細沙，不僅感慨大自然滄海桑田的巨大能量。 在天山看天池，這座以前電視裏看到的湖泊就擺在眼前。因爲天氣有些霧氣，並不是萬里無雲，所以照出來的照片有些冷冷的氣氛。山上是黑色的松樹，可惜我們早到了那十幾天，不然，一定看到更多紅紅黃黃的葉子，整個背陰的山坡會更美麗一些。因爲水邊有兩棵樹已經泛黃，好像潑墨山水中的點睛之筆，我猜想所有人所有角度的照片中，都一定能找到這兩棵樹。我其實還好奇電影《七劍》的拍攝過程，這部叫做“七劍下天山”的作品，好像並沒有表現出天山真正的氣魄，除了無邊的風雪省去布景的一些麻煩。也許反倒是我們並沒有見到真正的天山。 在吐魯番看火焰山，是穿越了很多近在咫尺的大山才到達的。路上看到的山，由於距離比較近的原因，更覺得宏偉。那裏的山大多沒有植被，且有鴻溝交叉在山脚。爲了赶路，我們並沒有下車，直奔著名的火焰山才停下來。火焰山前面立了個金箍棒一樣的巨型溫度計，表示它和孫悟空的淵源。其實並不知道吳承恩是否真的來過這裡，當年他又是聽得哪裏的傳説才將這座山寫進書中，成就一段有趣的故事，也成就了火焰山的名氣。當天溫度並不是很高，張潔說現在已經過了最熱的季節，那時候，山的顔色也會變得紅起來。在我的想象中，這座山大概會紅彤彤的冒著熱氣，仿佛燒着的烙鐵。 進入喀納斯，風景眼看就起了變化。路上看到的草原已經不見了，山上的樹木變得高大起來，水草也好像更茂盛了。路邊開始出現直沖雲天的白樺樹了，沿路行走的羊牛馬都變得胖胖的，顯然生活條件優於外面。去過九寨溝的人可能會覺得這裡的風景有些相似。但跟這裡相比，九寨溝更像一塊濃縮了五彩繽紛的精致美玉，各個角度都讓人叫好。而喀納斯就好像是一塊天然奇石，你要這裡看看，那裏看看，走走看看，自然會找到你最喜歡的地方。 在白哈吧，我們看到圖瓦人的村落。這裡號稱西北第一村，因爲已經是最靠近邊界的村子了。有兩岁的小孩看到我們遠遠走過，就站得筆直等着我們照相。大約是奶奶還是姥姥一直張羅進屋看看，還不清不楚地說什麽錢呀什麽的。我們興奮之中並沒有意識，後來才明白原來是給錢才能照相。可見來的遊客不少，純樸原始的少數民族也學了很多。再走再走，通過邊卡，開車上山，就可以看到界河那邊的卡薩克斯坦。那邊安安靜靜的大山上，並沒看到哨兵。我們這邊，人來人往熱熱鬧鬧。遊人沿路跟界碑留影，跟界河留影，跟哨兵留影。我想，如果我是脚下的大山或白哈吧河，也許也會覺得疑惑。爲什麽一邊熱一邊冷，一邊喧鬧一邊安靜。或許，我會更享受安安靜靜的那一邊吧。

Posted by paintingsky [ent.] ( September 25, 2005 09:36 PM ) Permalink | Comments[1]

新疆7：美食

大盤鸡和拌面vs嘴裏的潰瘍 還在火車上，嘴裏的潰瘍就漸漸顯示威力了。喝方便麵湯和啃桃子都是艱難的任務。好疼啊。可真正的挑戰是幾天后在葡萄溝外的午餐。 這是第一次見識新疆的大盤鸡。北京的版本多是用番茄，青椒，洋蔥，鸡肉和麵條一起炒起來。端出來的時候，已經是紅紅白白一大盤了。北京的大盤大約十二寸左右，因爲有周圍的六寸盤對比，當然也可以叫做大盤雞。直到見到米泉回民老字號的才真正嚇了一大跳。這裡的盤子大約有桌子那麽大。每個人也只能守住自己面前方寸大小埋頭苦吃。我們這桌子三個女孩，兩個男孩吃到最後還剩下一些雞肉，眼大肚子小要求再加些麵條，只能全部剩下。這裡的雞肉是用辣椒，青椒，大蒜炒起來得，味道很濃，滋味很足，自然，也很考驗我的潰瘍。雖然，嘖嘖稱奇，咧嘴叫苦，但還是盡全力滿足了舌頭和肚子。潰瘍什麽的，還是隨它去吧，总也有自己好的那一天。 一路因爲赶路，吃的另一種面食是拌面。有些像山西的一根面。且炒出一盤子的菜，將麵條和菜拌拌吃了，又頂飽，又好吃。雖然也是辣的，但我的潰瘍在這樣的環境下竟漸漸好了起來。本來一年也吃不到一次麵條的我，就對這裡的麵條充滿好感。

Posted by paintingsky [ent.] ( September 25, 2005 09:33 PM ) Permalink | Comments[1]

新疆6：大家都開心的喝醉了

吃飯就一定是要喝酒，大家你來我往，自然不能夠簡單罷休。有乾脆的，有張羅的，有沾點酒就臉紅的，有喝多少也不變色的，有真的不能喝的，也有真的能喝的。推杯換盞之間才發現，原來還有些女將也很厲害哦。我自己覺得，紅色的新疆本地葡萄酒很好喝，甜甜的，好像是果汁。大舅舅和舅媽很像一家之主，大家輪流站出來敬酒，每個人都很開心。 最後，也許是借着酒勁兒，大家都high了，跳舞也好，嘻嘻笑得也好。真是開心。

Posted by paintingsky [ent.] ( September 22, 2005 02:40 AM ) Permalink | Comments[0]

新疆5：帕土拉和阿夷夏姆汗

應大舅舅的邀請，我們去了一処吃飯並看民俗表演的地方。夜色太晚，連名字都沒來得及看到。上炕吃飯，床上的桌子拼得很長，紅色大花的毯子和金色的墊子，等每個人找到位置坐下，盤子自然又堆起來了。 不多時，就開始看歌舞表演了。我想做表演的是一家人。兩個跳舞的姑娘大大方方，小郭叔叔慫恿我跟拉琴的大爺和打手鼓的大媽聊天。這才知道，他們表演的是種叫做“十二木卡姆”的歌舞形式，内容可以唱三天三夜。大爺叫做帕土拉，大媽叫做阿衣夏姆汗，他們是夫婦，在這裡給來往客人表演。用到的琴叫做阿傑克，而手鼓叫做大布。演唱的内容大約是介紹十二個姆汗，一個月就是一個木卡姆，星星峽也是一個木卡姆。帕土拉說了好多，可惜我不能完全領會他的漢語，也不能記下所有的内容，大約他也不是很了解我的問題。不過，開心是一定的。跟他們合影之後，答應將照片寄回來，要到的地址是“某某學校旁邊”，不僅目瞪口呆，這樣的也算是地址嗎？帕土拉一個勁兒的點頭，看他自信滿滿的樣子，我想，在新疆這也許真的就能夠寄到呢。反正這裡是片不大一樣的地方，也許什麽都不一樣罷。

Posted by paintingsky [ent.] ( September 22, 2005 02:35 AM ) Permalink | Comments[1]

新疆4：Ted的幸福家庭

這麽龐大的一次出遊，自然要去拜訪主人家。幸虧有時間，來得及買點東西，要不然這麽多人空手造訪，豈不是笑話。雖然如此，見到Ted的家人，才知道是我們的多慮。他們是那麽熱情好客，且乾淨利索。原來小慶慶真是盡現游家風範。 爺爺雖然腿腳有些不好，但氣色真是不錯。最讓人驚訝的是姥姥，八十多嵗，頭髮還是黑的，開心的眼睛都笑彎了。麻利的勒。聽説，這麽大年紀還每天做一大家子的飯菜。媽媽，小姨都是美女，皮膚白白沒有一點皺紋，怎麽看也就三四十嵗的樣子。大家坐下來就吃，吃夠了還拿，竟然還趁機讓專家姨夫給測了血壓，看看我們這些整天坐在辦公室的人是不是都身心健康。 揮手告別后，不僅暗自感慨，這樣家庭教育出來的孩子，真的會像Ted一樣彬彬有禮，細心認真罷。嗯，所以說，Ted有個幸福的大家庭。

Posted by paintingsky [ent.] ( September 22, 2005 02:34 AM ) Permalink | Comments[0]