Two years ago I was trained to work in the machine shop,but I wasn't able to get confidence to work there without others.
Last month, I got the safety training for the machine shop again. Finally, this week I was able to touch a lathe and drilling machine.
I been waiting for the care package to arrive since My family asked if I needed something for Chinese New Year.
it took three weeks for EMS package to arrive my apartment.
Due to heavy snow everything is slowing down for sure.
Need to drive with snow chains on. Looks easier to just walk on the street instead of driving around.
Since we are parenting in a pandemic, I spend more time on cooking for a healthy meal. Especially I start to eat more veggies than meat during this difficult time.
You are what you eat.（人如其食是英文俗諺。）
Taking courses primarily remote keeps me sit in front of my laptop for long time. When I see the blue sky outside, I take a short walk on campus.
冬季的校園因爲持續線上教學，顯得格外冷清。
Since we are living in the global Pandemic, I had long time not to enjoy the outdoor park. Luckily the Bank of America offers museum on us, I was able to take the walk in Japanese Garden for free.
The garden designs the walking paths into one way route, and it is nice to see some pictures of healing Nature.
Each time when I was on I-84 from Hood River to Portland, I always curious what made lots cars parking along this outdoor park.
Finally I had a chance to enjoy this easy hiking trail.
It costs a lot for international shipping, but my lovely family sent me a package full of love today.
Thanks again for all your support.
Mid-Autumn Festival is an important holiday for me when I was in Taiwan. Not only I can get days off but also I will enjoy BBQ time with my family.
Even I wasn't able to visit my family this summer, I got myself moon cake as comfort food for Mid-Autumn Festival.
In the past, I heard about wildfire from the news, but this is the first time I feel the impact from the wildfire.
https://katu.com/news/local/beachie-creek-fire-has-not-yet-merged-with-riverside-fire-officials-say
Stay safe is the only thing we mention to each other.
When I was in Taiwan, it's easy to get any kind of dumplings, but I am in the USA now, I need to learn to make what I want to eat.
I used 3 cups of all purpose flours, one cup of hot water , less than one cup of room temperature water, and half teaspoon of salt. It took a while to make a dumpling dough.
When I first received the cell broadcast, I wasn't sure what's going on. My first thought was heavy rain forecast or something else, but I reached out the phone and found out it was curfew. The announcement was meant to control protests, which I believed most of my friends saw the news and worried about me.
Here is a link to the local news https://katu.com/news/local/mayor-does-not-extend-curfew-in-portland-hopes-protests-remain-peaceful
Actually it was happened around the end of May, and I was busy writing the progress review , prepared for the final exam , revised for the final science writing report. Therefore, I would not be outside my apartment after eight pm through the next morning six am. I knew that everything will be ok. So, no worries!
When the Rose starts to blossom, it's time for Portland Rose Festivals, but this year it is happening on line.
If you're interested in the festival, you can check out the website by using key words "Portland Rose Festival."
This is something new for me about Astrophysics from a conference.
The speaker,Professor Orsola De Marco, who focuses on collecting data on separation of binary stars, and is well-known as an astrophysicist. She works for the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Macquarie University Sydney, Australia. Professor Marco received her Bachelor degree in Astrophysics from University College London in 1994, and three years later achieved a PhD in Astrophysics from University College London, United Kingdom.
The speaker used story telling methods to introduce the viewer to how stellar birthoccurs, including fusion reaction and stellar equilibriums such as gas pressure vs gravity. After giving audiences some background knowledge, she started to show us what Planetary Nebulae look like in the sky. She not only described the shapes of Planetary Nebulae, but also tells us how they form. With simple cartoon illustrations and video shows in the simulations, she was able to explain why giant stars do not rotate fast enough. Just like ballet a dancer opens their arms to slow down the rotation, the star has a magnetic field with an Automatic Giant Branch super wind that reduces the rotation speed. The fact that the universal may change the conditions so the parameters may not reach the requirements for things to happen. Maybe in the future Asymptotic Giant Branch super-wind speed not at low metallicity but at high end. Who knows what will happen?
Once again this is just an assignment to turn in a summary for the seminar .
The speaker, Philp Ball, is a writer whose focus is science and who has worked for the journal “Nature” for more than twenty years. He received his Bachelor degree in Chemistry from University of Oxford. Since he is interested in Science, he pursued a doctorate degree in Physics from Bristol University. He wrote several books that were best-seller such as “Critical Mass”, and “Beyond Weird: Why Everything you though you knew about Quantum Physics is Different”.
As a Physics major student, I do agree with Richard Feynman claim that “Nobody understands quantum mechanics.” The speaker also quoted from Niels Bohr who said that “Anyone who is not shocked by quantum theory has not understood it”. We might have been misled by quantum theory in the past when we were trying to learn Quantum Mechanics. Once the challenge of wave functions had been overcome, we understand that the position in space in the time domain is not as simple as rocket science. Therefore, we learn to look at objects as one huge system in which two things can happen simultaneously even if they are separated far away but somehow related to each other.
