Qiang Ma (Johnny)
My dear friends,
This is Ma, Qiang (Johnny). I want to thank all of you that e-mailed me and called me (my wife picked most of your calls) to express your concerns and show your supports. My work place, World Financial Center, is right next to the WTC. It is completely shut down today. However, I am all right. So I am able to write to you today.
Canyu Cao and Chongfei Shen
Chongfei:
I’m considering switching to analog circuit design. Does anybody have any knowledge in that field? To be frank, my knowledge in that field is equivalent to my knowledge in law.
How does it compare with device physics?
It’s a hard decision for me now, any information will be valueable.
Mark:
Analog Circuit designer <==> Lawyer, Doctor
Device Physicist <==> Clerk, Nurse
Analog Designer: You will trash your soul for the millions you will earn.
Device Physicist: You will be able to embrace your soul because you have nothing else to hold on to.
Analog Designer: Famous cook who make gourmet dishes.
Device Physicist: Blacksmith who fix cookware for the cook.
Analog Designer: Fashion models who show off their flashy silk shirts.
Device Physicist: Silkworms who originally made the silk.
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Gao, Huangyong
It always surprises me how soon the wind from north is coming. A shirt is no longer enough to keep you warm, but you still have a difficult time to remember putting on the jacket. In the night, the sound of the wind reminds you the long and darker winter of last year. You kind of feel lost, wondering if anything has changed.
But the afternoon sun becomes friendlier. You think of it as warm, not as hot. Even it does become hot, you do not complain, like you did ceaselessly just two months ago. Sitting in the sun with a cup of coffee in hand, you even begin to understand those people who lied on the beach when the temperature exceeds 100 degrees. Those people you called idiots just two months ago.
Xiaoming's wonderful photo blog, when blog didn't …
Li, Gang
It is now 9:00pm on Dec.24th, 1998. X’mas is coming, and so is the dreaming…
Time went back to four years ago when I just arrived at JFK… Luo Camel and Tang girl were waiting there, waving their hands and I rushed to them… Although only been to States for four months, T-girl and L-camel have already learned how to effectively hug you… I wondered they must have practiced it many times, but with who… ???
Wang, Jun
Mr. Zhuang has done a marvelous job, far beyond my expectation. Huang’s work of Phys’89 drivers is also fantastic. I am so thankful to them to be overpraised as the “best driver” of Phys’89, which is obvious an undeserved complimentary to me. But I do drive a lot at our meeting both in Washington and Boston, and lots of guys have been my passengers. So this article is made as replenishment to Huang’s job.
Huang, Xiaoming
Hi, buddies,
In this short report I just want to post some of my opinion about Phys’89 drivers.
I have ridden cars by some of 89 drivers. Among them, the most experienced (or appear to be) is Wang Jun. Great respect to him, and thanks for saving my life. When we were in Mount Washington, his brake didn’t work after we downhill from the summit. It was because he set the gear to neutral when going downhill, so he must use brake a lot. After a while, his wheel got overheated and didn’t work anymore. We waited some time for it to cool down. When we were about to go, I decided to sit in Jun’s car to accompany him to check out where we were going, the heaven, the hell or to see Marx. On the way, the leading car (by Lei Ming) led us to the reverse side for a short time to bypass a troubled car in our way. He did not even slow down a little bit. Both Jun and me did not notice that we were on the reverse side. So we headed on the coming car. Great great thanks to Wang Jun, he swerved our car suddenly back to our lane. Just within ONE SECOND. You know, he has an air bag in driver’s position but I don’t. So, strictly speaking, he just saved my life. Thanks to God, He let me still alive to write this stuff to entertain you (I hope so). Since I have sat his car for some times. I have to agree that he is the most experienced driver of 89 and the most dangerous one. The one who got drowned always can swim.
Reported by Yu Zhang in Boston
As time passes by, something happened in the past will fade out gradually in our memory, but our trip to Mt. Washington and Maine sea shore is the one full of happiness and unexpected excitement which is not easy to be forgotten.
Early in late September, when our 7 Boston guys met in a spacious sunny lounge room in MIT’s Tong Hall and playing “TRACTORS” excitingly, Lei Ming and Tao Kao brought out this plan to see around the beautiful fall scenery of New England. As US new comers as I, Xiaofeng Liu (who is a super photo taken fan) and Miss Tian, we were all exited and applaused this good idea, and then the background labor works were undertaken by our kind hearted forerunners, Lei and Tao. Two weeks later, everything was ready and since Oct.13 (Monday), happens to be the Columbus’ day, that means we have a long weekend, it is ideal time to take this trip.