上周为詹姆士做了一周的PPT，中间不知道修改了多少次，郁闷得要死，不过好在我还能克制自己假装自己很喜欢做这个东东，反而让他觉得我很有想法~

很巧的赶回北京的时候，詹姆士刚刚开始在会议上做Presentation. 我又假装很积极的去听，然后被James派着给他照相，然后中午又让我跟他参加会议的午餐。本来自己和一群学生们坐在一起，正要很开心的大快朵颐，又被叫到James的那一桌，和参加会议的外方代表坐一起。我开始吃不下了，那个日本人和他的日本翻译在聊天，james和他的业务伙伴在聊天，还有两个国内的DOC和DOT的两个人，在那很趾高气扬的指着我和旁边的英国人和法国人说，你来当我们翻译。MD，知道不知道本姑娘当年没有过六级才被迫来到北京这鬼地方的阿?!我当时就想跟他们讲sorry, I am not your translator.看看他们也年纪不小，也肯定有子有女的，当个什么官，就觉得高人一等，别人都是为你们服务的，神经病。

没有睬他们，自己用中文想了好大一回，才和这两个英语语系的专家开始聊。不过没怎么涉及专业的，因为法国的TGV我也仅仅知道名字，suburb railway是巴黎最值得骄傲的，那个法国人眉飞色舞的讲了好多，唉，仅仅能听得懂一些很零散的单词。倒是除了专业之外的话还行，不过这些中国菜实在是太难以解释，自己的这方面的词汇量太少了，再次感叹一下！自己觉得自己英文还是挺差的，不过那个法国人还是很优雅的赞扬了我的good manner.虽然一直挺自卑自己的发音，但他们好像都能听懂，无所谓了，再回公司我要发誓把新来的可爱的manager当作口语伙伴~恩，加油，加油！

虽然有时候觉得james电脑差英文差几乎可以被我代替，但是还是不得不佩服他的商业头脑，这么敏锐抓住机会，推介自己，推介公司。一个过了不惑之年还敢于从国企跳到外企的人，他的业务涵养和勇气是值得让人敬佩的。

晚上和小徐看水母的一个帖子，内心被强烈的震撼，是一个在伯克利任教的中国教授写给实验室人员的信。有时候我回想起一些事情，比如我导师比我仅仅大18岁，我现在公司部门经理-华东区业务代表-同济道桥毕业的比我大15岁，一个项目组长比我大10岁，季华姐姐比我大12岁，那么我10年后、15年后、18年后会是什么样？会比他们做得好吗？有时我会很羡慕他们早生几年竞争不大，但是我也看到了同样在人生的旅途中，有的人在跑，有的人在走。那些很优秀的人不乏有年轻人，他们的人生速度超越了同龄人，超越了年代……那么，还有什么理由去为自己身边的东西停留呢？

晚上躺在床上，回想起自己本来在一帮学生那里坐着，看着满桌的好吃的正准备好好犒劳下自己，一下子就被叫到这个地方，然后就是那两个很可恶的中国人让我招呼这两个外国人。人生是多么跌宕起伏。一个机会一下呈现在自己面前，自己准备的还不够好。即将可能要面临的陶瓷、电面，我一定要好好的准备。我没有任何可以退的路了，所有人给我安排的、期望的路我都不喜欢，不想接收，惟有前进前进前进，离开这里，跑步前进。

------------------------------蒲慕明致实验室成员的信-------------------------------------------------

lab members:

Over the past several months, it has become clear to me that if there is no drastic change in the lab, Pool lab will soon cease to be a productive, first-rate lab that you chose to join in the first place. Lab progress reports over the past six months have clearly shown the lack of progress in most projects. One year ago, when we first moved to Berkeley, I expressed clearly to everyone my expectation from each one in the lab. The most important thing is what I consider to be sufficient amount of time and effort in the lab work. I mentioned that about 60 hr working time per week is what I consider the minimal time an average successful young scientist in these days has to put into the lab work. There may be a few rare lucky fellows like Florian, who had two Nature papers in his sleeve already, can enjoy life for a while and still get a job offer from Harvard. No one else in the lab has Florian's luxury to play around. Thus I am imposing strict rules in the lab from now on:

1. Every one works at least 50 hr a week in the lab （e.g., 8+ hr a day, six days a week）. This is by far lower than what I am doing every day and throughout most of my career. You may be smarter or do not want to be successful, but I am not asking you to match my time in the lab.

2. By working, I mean real bench work. This does not include surfing on the computer and sending and receiving e-mails for non-scientific matters unrelated to your work （you can do this after work in the lab or at home, and excessive chatting on nonscientific matters. No long lunch break except special occasions. I suggest that everyone puts in at least 6 hr concentrated bench work and 2+ hr reading and other research-related activity each day. Reading papers and books should be done mostly after work. More time can be spent on reading, literature search and writing during working hours when you are ready for writing a paper.

3. I must be informed in person by e-mail （even in my absence from the lab）when you are absent from the lab for a whole day or more. Inform me early your vacation plan. Taking more than 20 working days out of one year is the maximum to me. In fact, none of you are reporting any vacation and sick leave on your time sheet （against the university rule, although I have been signing the sheets））, but you know roughly how many days you were not here.

On the whole, I understand and accept the fact that you may not fulfill the above requirements all the time, due to health reasons, occasional personal business. But if you do not like to follow the rules because it is simply a matter of choice of life style, I respect your choice but suggest you start making plans immediately and leave the lab by the end of January 31. I will do my best to help you to locate a lab to transfer or to find a job. If you do accept the conditions I describe above, I am happy to continue to provide my best support to your work, hopefully more than I have done in the past. I will review the progress of everyone in the lab by the end of June of 2002. I expect everyone to have made sufficient progress in the research so that a good paper is in sight （at least to the level of J.Neuroscience. If you cannot meet this goal at that time, I will have to ask you to prepare to leave my lab by the end of August.

Mu-ming

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As a scientist, you must dedicate everything to this business

作为一个科学家，你必须把一切都献身给科研事业.

Working time: 8-hour is unpractical. There is NO way for a scientist or a Ph.D student to work only 8 hours a day!

每天仅仅工作8个小时是不行的。对于一个博士或者科学家，每天仅仅工作8个小时根本根本就是死路一条！（“NO way”）

Go to your mother’s house for afternoon naps and never come back!

如果有人敢午休，那就马上卷铺盖走人，永远不要再回实验室！

Vacation: 5 weeks per year (Chinese New Year, the May Day and the National Day breaks are included)

包括春节，五一，国庆，每年全部假期一共5个星期。

Start your morning work not later than 8:30 am and afternoon work no later than 1 pm

上午必须早于8：30上班，下午早于1点上班。（注意，没有规定几点下班。）

Surf over the Internet for non-scientific purposes should be less than 30 min a day

每天用于看网页以及其他与科研无关事情的时间不得多余30分钟。

Reading newspapers should be limited less than 30 min a day

每天看报纸的时间不得多余30分钟

Novels or other non-scientific journals/magazines are not permitted in the lab and office

小说和非科研性杂志不准带入实验室

If you are absent from the lab more than one hour, get permission first.

如果离开实验室超过1个小时，必须事先请假并得到允许。

Everyone has personal business, but the lab business always has priority unless in emergency

除非紧急的事情，否则实验室的事情永远大于私事。

In this business, an “average” student who works seven days a week is definitely more productive than a “genius” who works five days a week

在这行里，每周只工作5天，即使是天才，也比要低于比一个工作7天的资质平平的人还要差。

If you are able to make any major progresses by working 8 hours a day and 5 days a week, every fortunate in this world must be on your side!

如果你即使每天工作8个小时并且每周只工作5天，居然也能成功哪怕只有一次（any）。那除非你是上帝（主宰了世界上一切的人）！