Call me pessimistic but generally I'm not a fan of Beijing's metro and genuinely I don't think that the city is going to leave visitors a good impression.

The typical rush hours start from morning, somewhere around 7:00, streching all the way to 9:30.

In the carriage, apart from weary working class who take almost 80% of the standing space, there are tourists, currently mainly domestic ones. It's easy to know from their empty gaze and disappointing look at the door that perhaps they're going to have to wait for the next one.

The capacity has been squeezed to its limitation. The interval between trains has been shortened to less than one minute during rush hours. And BT line trains are alreay running with 6 carriages (had been four).

Keep in mind that there's still a week from the actual opening ceremony. Imagine, if you are bold enough, a thousand nations of foreign visitors descend upon Beijing's punny metro... honestly I don't think there's room left on the trains.

42 billion RMB spent for the Olympic and the traffic is appalling discouraging. I wonder where all these money went? Part of that money is my fucking tax, for Buddha's sake!

Spent a few hundred bucks and arrived at the satisfying result of setting up my home wireless network. Connected all computers, laptops and desktops into a lan via a netgear wireless AP.

What the center does:

• Play vids on Youtube, on my 46 inch LCD and full 5.1 audio playback.
• Synchronize emails, documents and all sorts of offices materials on every computer.
• Audio on the go, enjoy live music and radio from the internet

Next, I'll be getting myself a set of wireless keyboard and mouse, which will be essential for the center to truly realize its fourth function: doing everything with a computer in my cosy sofa 

Spent a whole day, with the morning being a tedious but indispensable process of tutorial learning. The afternoon witnessed my endless experienments with different modeling techniques covered in the video tutorial... and at around 18:00, I arrived at the following results, rendered using mental ray in maya 2008:

So this, is the basic story of how an entire idiot of 3D modeling turned into a novice in the particular field in the duration of ... 12 hours.