北大生物90

… if you were me!

Here’s a playlist that’s gonna keep growing – My older son Charlie plays Chopin, Beethoven, Mozart, Bach, Senneville … The most popular pieces (that Charlie could play) from these composers. Hope you like it!!

BTW, would any of you start posting sth. that might be even just remotely interesting for alumni? I’m sure I could bore you w/ my piano posts soon if someone else doesn’t step up to the plate!

Hi, everyone! It’s been so long since anyone posted anything. Maybe I should 抛砖引玉.

Below is a playlist I created for my son’s best piano videos, hope you like them!

Here to spread the word about Blue Planet Run, of which one of my coworkers is an organizer. It’s about bringing clean water to the developing world. Somehow it has to do with running around the world.

They passed through China and reached San Francisco today.
http://blueplanetrun.org/run/day57

In Memory of
Prince Max of Württemberg (1689-1709)

生小曾衔铁。
未羞他瓜时雁断，少年轻别。
马上江山笛里月，览尽清欢佳节。
纵烟焰，夜垣红彻。
并辔迷花香绾袖，约明年洗剑楼兰雪。
潍水上，高秋猎。

旗麾万里黄云叠。
望君前，青衿洞染，啼鹃丹血。
追日狂心填海恨，一夕楚歌伤绝。
摧客鬓，胡沙风色。
尘驿天涯芳草梦，烬寒灯到晓孤光灭。
倚闾处，萧华发。

I thought you guys might have been misled about the identity of my warrior king. Anyway, here is a poem written by an adoring countryman of his in 1818, at the centenary of his death, with my translation after each section.

Original author: Esais Tegnér
English translation: J.E.D.Bethune & C.H.Wallace (I mixed up the 2 versions)

King Charles, the conquering boy,
Stood up in dust and smoke;
He shook his sword for joy,
and through the battle broke.
How Swedish iron bites,
We will make trial new;
Stand back, you Muscovites;
Forward! My lads in blue!
查理王，少清狂，
起立烽烟临战场。
泰阿漫舞向天笑，
碛沙披马旗飞扬。
枪刺寒锋新铸铁，
关山连海从头越。
俄军震栗不敢前，
勇士蓝衣阵如雪。

Not ten to one appal
The angry Vasa’s son;
Those fled, who did not fall:
So was his course begun,
Three Kings he drove asunder,
Who leagued against him stood;
And Europe saw with wonder
A beardless Thundergod.
以一当十虎剑光，
瓦萨骄儿气凌苍。
纷纷虏骑奔还坠，
午课才开暮受降。
三王俯首全欧动，
雷神颜色比何郎。

Old grey-haired schemers muttered
Their plots with wily care
The brave young hero uttered
One word, and burst their snare.
High-bosomed, goldhaired, slender,
A new Aurora came:
From his throne’s young defender,
The temptress turned in shame.
重髥构网结私晤，
雏凤清啼破冥雾。
莲花翠袖弄歌弦，
曲尽周郎终不顾。

So great a heart was heaving
In his true Swedish breast,
In gladness, as in grieving,
Justice he loved the best.
Though fortune smiled or lowered,
He dauntless kept the field:
He could but be o’erpowered,
He knew not how to yield.
皎月霜明枫叶丹，
冰心长对玉壶寒。
运时翻覆凭天意，
百战何求匹马还。

The stars have long been glowing
On his sepulchral stones;
A century’s moss is growing
Above the hero’s bones.
All glory that is mortal
Is fated so to fade.
His name in Northern story
Will soon be just a shade.
星垂露野照孤坟，
岁久苔滋英骨沉。
老柏成薪湘竹死，
功名烟絮几留痕？

Yet — to the tale may hearken
This ancient saga-land,
And dwarfish talk fall silent
When giants rise to stand.
Still in the Northern forest
The lofty spirit stirs,
Not dead, but sleeping merely:
His sleep, one hundred years.
愿拟行歌闻旧国，
巨灵拔起庸儒没。
人言直北墨林深，
时有战魂独灼烁。
青凤不亡唯睡迟，
百年一梦秋河落。

Kneel, Sweden, where reposes
Thy greatest, noblest Son;
The crumbling stone discloses
The honour thou hast won.
There bards, to read his story,
Come reverently bare;
And Sweden’s flag of glory
Is dedicated there.
长拜松陵卧鬼雄，
残碑铭字想韶容。
诗人仰止闻天语，
云锦织旗猎劲风。

Hi, Yu Hong just sent some of the photos of his son’s 100-day photos. His son’s really cute and it makes you wonder: Both big heads, why is this little boy so much cuter than his daddy? But must be smart as his dad I’d guess.

西征梦（上）

西征梦（下）

Baseball season starts today! I wonder if there are any other baseball fans out there. Do you fancy to play some
fantasy baseball?

If you haven’t played before. it works like this: with at least four people (teams) we can set up a league. Each player gets to draft players and decide who are on the active roster everyday. You then accumulate scores based on the stats of the players on your team. You can choose how actively you want to manage your team. You don’t even have to do anything if you choose to (the draft can be done automatically) or you can spend all your life figureing out the favorable pitching match-ups and hottest hitter-du-jour. Anyone interested? We can even set up prices to provide some motivation (i.e., the winner gets to sing a really bad song at the next reunion).

For those who think baseball is boring, I happen to find the old American game the most Chinese game in sports. It is like reading 古龙（小李飞刀） or watching ”双旗镇刀客“。 静如处子，动如脱兔 pretty much characterizes it.
Besides, if you want your sons to play sports in the States, it is certainly much more feasible choice than “handball” or hoops.