Like a Magic Lan Yi's passing is absolutely shocking and sad, just checked email and found it yesterday. Read thru some of your postings, here's my brief encounter and reminiscence of her.

It was summer of '83, some of us signed up to make an amplifier board (Gong Fan) in the electronics lab. It was probably a one-week session. Nan Yi and I happened to share the same work bench. She was quiet and even a bit up-tight, like most of us then. What was amazing to me was that at the end of the first day, she was almost half done with her board, while I was still playing with first few components, soldering them on and off. And I believe she was the first to get it all done by the 3rd day, left, and didn't show up again, all seemed effortless and with style, while I hadn't got to the point to put on the power cord yet.. Like rest of you, I have had several lab partners in Beida years, but hadn't seen anyone who did things so fast and correctly in a lab, right in fronnt of your eyes I haven't seen anyone like her since, either.. I never had the chance to talk to her again and tell her about this... Not till our re-union last year, did rest of us outside her class find out she was also a good laughter too.

As Liao Bing says, things (truth) seem to come to her so naturally. At that time she seemed to have an uncanny intuition about how the entire circuit works and got right to it. This was probably why she would be a much accomplished ee researcher later on.

Rest in peace, Lan Yi, my heart goes out to your family, Mu, Xin-Dong (8002-3)