tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-204036692012-02-16T22:45:46.574-05:00在這個很多樹的城市，有些人覺得很無聊，但我們卻活的樂不思蜀。林小風http://www.blogger.com/profile/02811051859005011047noreply@blogger.comBlogger1481100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20403669.post-39684499519891958282011-08-13T21:26:00.004-04:002011-08-16T23:16:28.685-04:00

Just recently realized a few things. My boss' eldest son is working in our lab for the summer. He is going to be a junior at UNC. He is here learning how to do PCR. I don't judge him not being the smartest person in the world, but I do think he lacks motivation. He does not know what he wants to do yet and he falls asleep whenever he is not at the bench. Besides PCR, he does not try to learn

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五月底六月初時回了台灣一趟，一直都沒有來寫日記。主要是因為森森越來越大了，活動力越來越強，每個週末都帶著他到處跑，沒什麼多餘的時間寫BLOG。不過還是想來記一些事情，不然以後就都忘光光了。回台灣的路上去洛杉磯拜訪語曲冰冰一家，還有CYC的表妹。阿伯特長好大了，很有禮貌也很會講話了，會分玩具給森森玩，也比以前愛吃東西，感覺是個好棒的小孩。希望森森長大以後會和阿伯特哥哥一樣棒。森森在回台灣的飛機上睡得很好，幾乎沒怎麼吵，主要是因為飛機上有多的空位，給他躺著睡。森森好乖。在台灣的第一個禮拜在台中住，阿媽每天給森森買不同的水果吃，台灣的水果真甜，害森森剛從台灣回來的時候，嫌美國的水東不好吃，還好後來沒再繼續挑。阿媽也愛弄很多不同的台灣口味，可惜森森有些吃不習慣，拒絕入口。媽咪個人覺得在台灣吃到最棒的食物是在清新溫泉度假飯店裡的景餐廳，日本料理點菜吃到飽，從生魚片到燒烤到茶碗蒸，每一樣都不錯吃。

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SYL這個月長了好多牙齒，左右上下四邊各長了一顆臼齒，所以一共有四顆臼齒；上下四顆犬齒也都在冒出中。所以前一陣子有幾天他會半夜起來哭哭，平常也比較黏人一點。有了這麼多牙齒，本來就很會吃的SYL現在更厲害啦！他也越來越會用湯匙和义子吃東西，不過還是比較喜歡用手直接捉。SYL現在最愛的遊戲應該是玩沙子，每天從托兒所回來，滿身都是沙子，有時候尿布裡也會有，真不知道他是怎麼玩的。老師說他現在也很愛玩溜滑梯。在家裡，他仍然是很愛拿書來給爸爸媽媽唸給他聽，聽久了我們講的故事，他有時候還會學書裡的動物叫。爸爸媽媽如果在忙沒空唸給他聽，他就會發一下脾氣。他也越來越愛出去外頭走走，對面有一個大他四個月的小女孩，很大方，如果看到他就會跑來跟他玩，叫做ELI。現在問他ELI呢，他就會用手指對面。附上SYL最近的舞姿，很愛轉圈圈。

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Sylvain is now 9.8Kg and 74.5cm tall. He is very petite but he is getting cuter and cuter everyday (from his mom of course). Life has no dull moments when you have a toddler at home. He can dance, drag his truck, ride his truck, say "dunk ou" (Thank you), clap his hands when mommy says Syl 好棒, run to get the ball mommy throws, and laugh so hard when mommy tickles him. He masters all these little

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Sylvain is going to turn 14 month in 3 days. He has been incredibly adorable ever since he gained his walking ability and got rid of a miserable cold shortly after his first birthday. He still eats mostly everything, but he knows how to push out the food that he doesn't like from his mouth now. So every once a while, he would use his tongue to get rid of food that is composed of too much fibers,

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After having a baby, it seems that all the other achievement has become forgettable. So here is my 3rd first author paper at Duke. It was actually published online since last November, but I just now remember to put it on my blog.

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Sylvain took his first steps 3 days before his first birthday. The teacher at daycare was very excited telling CYC that Sylvain walked on that day. So we were very anxious to see if he would walk at home as well. Without delaying our pleasure, he took his steps after dinner. It was another magic moment!!

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上個週末我們的小寶貝滿周歲啦，真不敢相信剛出生那時只會睡覺和吸奶的小怪物，現在已經會爬會走會搶東西吃了！小寶寶都好可愛，可是他們長太快啦，過不了多久，他就會跑會拌嘴；再過不了多久，他就會只愛老師同學不愛爸媽啦。想到這就覺得好可怕，我還是現在盡量享受小寶寶的可愛，別想太多才好。森森捉周第一個捉到了BMW的鑰匙，後來又捉了撲克牌，所以以後會是汽車工程師或是賭神？我想他捉這兩個東西是因為他們的大小剛好適合他的小手拿起來，他很愛把沒看過的東西拿起來敲一敲再丟一丟。再次附上他生日趴的錄影：

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As shown in the videos I just posted, Sylvain now can walk fairly well with pushing walker. We started to take him to the park with his wagon to walk around. He loved it! He could walk for 10~20 minutes and then he was tired. We tried to put him on swings and slides, but he didn't like either. He is probably still too small. He enjoyed playing with sands and leaves in the park though. Sylvain is

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Sylvain has become very good at cruising (move from holding onto one furniture to another furniture) during the last month. He is a little explorer. He likes to get into things he hasn't played before, like the TV cabinet, kitchen rug, coffee table shelf, bathroom rug...etc. His ability to get into troubles has increased dramatically, which is very worrisome and joyful at the same time. We

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森森在七個月半的時候，學會了扶著東西站起來。在他對這個技能越來越熟練之後，他變得很愛站起來，看到可以扶的東西就想要捉住邊邊站起來。在他心情不好亂哀亂哀時，把他放到客廳的茶几旁邊站，就不哭了。這招最近很有效。他這個月也很開始吃很多“人吃的東西“，目前為止我們餵的東西他都吃，cheerio, 面包，面條，飯粒，軟軟的蔬菜，和很多水果，弄成小塊小塊的，他都會吃。除非太難吞下去的東西，不然他來者不拒。我想這也是為什麼他很快就會爬跟站的原因之一，他說我健壯的手手和腿腿，不是只有長好看的哦！森森在六個月多的時候，開始會說 ba ba ba ba...., 那時候老公超開心；後來變成說 da da da da...., 但是只有在哭哭的時候會發出 mama 的音。為什麼小孩子都是比較晚才說 mama 呢？以下是森森站起來的影片，他己經爬到一半時才開始錄。

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Last week I was out of work, and had Sylvain with me everyday. I brought him to the southpoint mall and other stores every morning. Monday was his first time to southpoint mall; he was a little bit scared at first when I push him in the stroller walking around in the mall. But later he was happier and looking around to see all the colorful windows. Thursday I put him in the kids zone (the

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森森在他即將六個月的那個禮拜開始匐伏前近，把他放在 Gym 裡頭玩，一下子不注意這個小人兒就從裡頭爬出來，開始想要去其他地方探險；我趕緊買了彩色塑膠地板讓他有更大的區域可以爬，我們也做了一個地板大掃除，以免他亂爬就捉髒東西來吃。這個小孩應該會是個好動兒，竟然不會坐就開始爬，希望以後不會太令人傷腦筋。

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森森大約從兩個禮拜前開始吃固體食物, 其實說是固體, 也還是很稠的液體. 從"百歲醫師教我的育兒寶典"中, 有教父母怎麼做食物泥給小嬰兒吃. 我也看了小逸和文貞學姐的baby blog, 知道她們都很推崇做這種食物泥給BABY吃. 我也覺得這食物泥很有營養, 而且感覺比嬰兒罐頭好吃許多. 百歲醫師教我的育兒寶典"中, 丹瑪醫師建議每餐各類食物比例如下: 蛋白質三大匙, 澱粉三大匙, 蔬菜三大匙, 水果兩大匙. 一個例子如下: 米半杯, 三寶米一杯, 豆莢類米杯, 雞胸肉一杯, 硬的蔬菜類半杯(像是紅蘿蔔或是SQUASH). 全部放到電鍋裡煮熟, 然後打成泥即可. 一次可以做很多, 然後放在冰塊盒裡凍起來, 要吃時一個一個解凍，然後再用水果調味即可（水果較甜, 寶寶己經習慣有一點甜的母奶或配方奶）。當然其中的內容物可以每次做不同的搭配。這食物泥可以一直做為寶寶的主食, 一直到他長了臼齒為止

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森森滿五個月這個禮拜學了好多事情，翻身是其中一項；雖然他很久以前就有半夜趴著睡自己翻成躺著睡的時候，但不是每一次都會成功，最近翻的技巧越來越純熟，很快就可以從趴著翻成躺著。還有他現在可以從晚上快九點睡到早上六點左右；他爸爸前一個禮拜從他的房間撤離，他現在一個人睡，所以他真的起床時間沒人知道，不過我想應該是六點左右，因為之前都沒聽見喃喃自語聲（我通常五點半會醒來一下，豎起耳朵聽有沒有什麼動靜，然後再繼續睡）。不過他即便醒來，也會乖乖等人，很少開始大哭。他爸說他其實是五點多有時四點多就開始翻，還會發出一些聲音，翻一翻之後再睡回去，所以他爸跟他睡時老是會被吵；現在就還好，他自己都會睡回去。小森森真的長大了。在這裡還要感謝他爸之前一直睡在森森房間的地板上，辛苦了！！我們最近也開始餵他吃食物泥，一開始餵 rice cereal 加奶時，他不是很愛；後來我自己煮粥打碎給他吃，他還蠻能接受的。

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Last weekend we brought Sylvain to the Hatteras island at outerbanks for a 4 days vacation. We shared a oceanfront condo with friends, which was the first beach rentals we have ever stayed instead of hotels. The experience was great!! The condo was very new. Everything was clean and the kitchen was extremely fully equipped with all the cookwares you can think of. And the view was excellent as

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一個多月沒有寫文章了，在忙著面談的事，現在第一目標是去UNC一個做GVHD(graft versus host disease) 的實驗室，第二順位是在NIH的做T cell chemotaxis的實驗室；如果不小心UNC那個實驗室不要我的話，就只好跟CYC說抱歉，要把他和森森分開一陣子囉！下禮拜就會見真章了！忙呀忙的森森就四個月了，他長得很快，體重己經到達47﹪，6.75公斤；身高15%, 61公分。他的手開始捉東西，捉到什麼東西就往嘴裡塞，所有的玩具都是拿來吃的就對了，自己吸大姆指也可以吸得很開心。他趴著睡到快醒時，有好幾次自己翻成躺著睡了，不過還不是很熟練，並不是每次都翻得過來。他也開始笑出聲了，他托兒所的老師很會逗他，我和CYC都還不是很厲害，所以以下只有短短的笑聲錄影。

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陳浥森滿三個月囉！時間過得真快，森森不停地在長大。他上禮拜看病時體重己經到達5.5公斤了。他現在視力己經變得很好，可以看近看遠，在客廳玩時會偷看電視；頸子大部分的時候也能撐住頭了；也開始ＹＹ嗚嗚地說話，有時候可以講很久，還蠻有趣的。最好的是他可以睡過夜了（晚上十一點半到早上六點，六到七小時左右），終於不用半夜起來餵奶了，ＹＡＹ～～。以下是森森的自言自語

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陳小森上週末發燒燒了兩天（很輕微的）；為了保險起見，我還是帶他去看了醫生。沒想到美國的小兒科醫生看三個月以下嬰兒發燒的慣例是抽血抽尿照Ｘ光全套來，可憐的寶鼻就被東戳一下西戳一下。而且我們從下午二點在診所待到六點多，因為他被抽尿時剛好膀胱都沒尿，後來只好在他的寶貝上裝一個袋子等他自己尿，不過這一等就等了好久；後來醫生又想要等到結果才讓我們走，不過等到最後還是隔天再去了一次。但他隔天就自己退燒了，食慾也變好，也不會在一直睡，所以醫生都最後什麼藥都沒給他，他真是白挨了好幾針。森森在外面真的都很乖，被戳痛了會大哭沒錯，但只要一抱起來拍一拍就沒事了；他在被抽血前一直對著抽血的護士笑，被插針沒抽到後，哭哭再來，竟然還是繼續對那個護士笑，害那個護士好喜歡他。幸好抽第二次時有抽到血，不然還有第三次我就看不下去了。還有那天到他下午吃飯時間，我什麼都沒準備（因為以為看醫生最多一小時），

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This march madness began without me filling out a bracket. I thought about filling out one, but time just flew by when I realized it was too late. The sense of time is different when you have a baby. To everyone's surprise, Duke men's basketball played into final four this year. They become the only first seed in the final four, which increases the chance for them to win it all. They were also in

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Sylvain got two month check up yesterday. He is growing very well. He is now 4.855 kg, going up to 24% in the American baby scale. He also grows 5.5 cm in height (now is 55.5cm), which is 11% among all American babies. He can also smile spontaneously or in response to our smiles, can hold his head for a while when he is laid on his stomach. He loves his mobile on his bed. He watches it

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今天帶陳小森和老公的爸媽去吃飲茶，陳小森是第一次帶出門（除了去看醫生以外），不過因為上禮拜開他的滿月趴時，他從頭睡到尾，叫都叫不醒，所以我們想他在餐廳應該也是睡得很好；結果的確如此，他又是一直睡，我們吃飯他睡覺。後來我們去買菜，他也在car seat上一直睡，這個寶寶還真是個有趣的小孩，這樣我們帶他去吃飯應該都不用擔心他會大哭囉！ Sleep away~~

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陳小森滿月了！！去醫院做一個月例行檢查時，竟然已經長到了３９００克，比出生時多了一公斤多，可見他有多會吃，好像永遠都可以繼續吃的感覺。以下是他的測量指數：Height: 50cm (2%)Weight: 3.9kg (19%)Head cir.: 36.3 (14%)陳小森，你要快快長高，不要只往橫向發展咧！

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今天是寶鼻出生三個禮拜，他還算蠻乖的，哭哭都是有原因的，肚子餓了，尿布髒了或是濕了，睡不安穩之類的，只要解決他的需求，都可以安靜下來。不過他晚上都比較睡不安穏，不知道為什麼，總是有種焦慮的感覺，最後只好讓他睡搖椅或是和大人一起睡。需要開始用規律的作息來訓練他，不可以一哭就抱來來哄，我想。總之還是很愛他可愛的小臉對人微笑的樣子，乖乖睡覺也是非常可愛的啦！第一次坐推車出去玩

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Time really flies. Sylvain is now one week old already. Last Tuesday when I went to the hospital for induction, I didn't expect to stay there for 5 days long. My induction was a very slow process: the cervix dilated very very slowly; not until the middle of 3rd day, the doctors decided they should artificially rupture the amniotic membrane. Before the water broke, the contractions were only

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老公現在叫陳小森寶鼻（寶寶加北鼻），所以我也跟著叫他寶鼻；寶鼻在十一月底被醫生嫌太小後 （1700g)，三個禮拜努力長到了2200g，多了五百公克呢！沒想到醫生仍然嫌他太小隻，要把他催生出來。所以如果寶鼻沒有自己早點出來的話，媽媽要在一月五日去產房報到了！！Baby shower 那天收到好多禮物，真是謝謝大家了，尤其是那 car seat+stroller ，讓大家破費了真是不好意思。後來又陸陸續續收到更多禮物，決定把禮物全部照起來，這樣才會記得哪些是禮物呢！寶鼻的禮物都好可愛哦，衣服跟帽子真的很多，加上“前人“給的舊衣物，我媽說一天換一件可以不用洗；不過我想寶鼻應該一天不只需要一件，可能要好幾件吧？！吐奶和尿布漏空，應該就可以製造不少 laundry。 Car seat + stroller

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今年感恩節和去年一樣，弄了一隻 Turducken，火雞和雞的部分是 Vivide 和 Morris 出錢出力，我則是把鴨子去了骨；不過感覺沒有去年的好吃，火雞有點乾，鴨肉不夠多也不夠肥，下次得在ＨＴ買鴨，而不是小亞洲。今年在我們家開趴，媽媽也在，她看著烤火雞覺得好新鮮；媽弄了一個酸菜鴨肉湯，大受歡迎，我都沒喝到就見底了。老公生日今年剛好和感恩節同一天，我照例做了一個蛋榚給他，還給了他一個小驚喜：他的生日禮物。一個畫布相框，是一張他照得挺好的照片，停格在海灘上走的腳印還有我遠遠的身影。這禮拜老公和媽媽都在，很多事都不用自己做了；除了偶爾煮煮飯，其他所有家事，只要手指一指撒一撒嬌，就有人做了。當孕婦這一點蠻好的，放假可以每天睡午覺，好日子不多了，要好好享受一下才行。肚子很明顯大起來之後，去哪裡都有陌生人想跟我聊天，問我要生男生女，還有多久啊，不過這類人以女性居多；當過媽媽的人，

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NGSRF is an acronym for National Graduate Student Research Festival, which is held by NIH (National Institute of Health) every year. NIH has countless acronyms for its branches and agencies, for examples, NCI (national cancer institute), NIAID (national institute of allergy and infectious disease), NIEHS (national institue of environmental health science), etc...... The main purpose of NGSRF is

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老公做我的代表回台灣參加我妹的婚禮, 他帶了一大包的攝影器材回去, 包括兩台單眼相機, 三四顆鏡頭, 還有閃燈, 妹妹似乎還蠻滿意他在婚禮上幫忙照相. 可惜我被阻止不能回去, 都沒有親眼看到妹妹穿白紗的樣子, 只好以照片充數. 祝她以後一切幸福, 我最親愛的妹妹!!很久沒有一個人生活了, 一開始不太習慣, 覺得很孤單, 沒有老公疼我不是很開心; 過了幾天就還好, 自己一個人想做什麼就做什麼也不錯, 只是大著肚子有些事不太能做, 像是幫魚缸換水或是除草, 也漸漸地不能自己剪腳甲. 不過完成了陳小森的床的Shopping, 還幫冠君做了一個蛋榚. 蛋榚不是自己一個人做的囉, 佳珊和冰冰來幫忙, 連張爸也插了一腳, 做了一個芋頭布丁蛋榚, 多了一些蛋榚被大家一起吃棹, 還不錯吃囉!!陳小森的床；床單跟他的名字一樣，是森林哦，而且是彩色的。陳冠君的蛋榚側面照；做裝飾可是很花時間的。

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This year we went to Chimney rock and a very small part of blue ridge parkway for our annual fall foliage trip. Why only a small part of blue ridge park way? Because when we tried to drive up to Mount Mitchell, the highest mountain east of Mississippi river, the roads were closed due to the snow over night. Our fall foliage trip suddenly become a snow-seeing trip. It was pretty, both colorful

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肚子越來越大了，大一號的衣服也藏不住懷孕的樣子，開始可以感覺到寶寶在肚子裡動來動去，家裡電視的低音音響似乎很容易嚇到他，有個槍聲或是Disco Music，他就會動一動。吃完晚餐時似乎也是他最愛的活動時間。關於寶寶的東西，衣服還是買最多的，尤其是前幾個禮拜夏天衣服在大打折時，去 Outlet 買了好幾件兩塊錢的六到九個月的小衣服；寶寶的衣服都好可愛，都很想買說.....還好我沒有要生女生，不然我的荷包應該會消得更快。得開始想想還要買什麼別的了，哈哈；在這裡要感謝 Jason 和佳珊給了我們兩大袋衣服，還有語曲和冰冰給我們阿柏特的小床。至於寶寶的名字嘛，英文還是在 Sylvain 和 Peter 之間掙扎，Peter 是個好叫又 Sweet 的名字，Sylvain 則是和我們想取的中文名字有關係，因為它的字義就是森林; 中文我們想要最後一個字是森，紀念他在這個北卡的森林出生，

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Trying to catch the end of summer, we went to Virginia Beach and Williamsburg during this past weekend. Here are the highlights of our trip: (1) Riding a 4 wheel bike with CYC on the beach boardwalk. Virginia beach is a highly organized and structured beach. Along the sands for several miles, lays a paved boardwalk that constitutes a very long park with a lot of artsy statues. A lot people were

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Hrisavgi is a hard-to-pronounce Greek name, so she goes by Chrys. I wrote her real name down so that I won't forget it, hopefully. She is my classmate in graduate school, and she was also my roommate when we interviewed at Duke in Spring 2003. Anyways, she got married over the past weekend in Portland, and I was there!! She had a Greek Orthodox ceremony, and then a very Greek reception with a lot

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Last Friday we went to our ultrasound appointment, and found out our baby is a boy. People at Duke really seem to have higher percentages of having baby boys. It would be interesting to find out if Duke hospital have statistics on the percentages of boys and girls born in the past few years, and see if boys percentage is really higher. Or not Duke hospital, maybe Duke human resources can do this.

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Jason Shih is a Taiwanese professor in the department of Poultry Science at NCSU. I got to know him because I went to the exchange summer program between NCState and NTU. 9 other NTU students and me were 1st year students of the program, which was initiated and coordinated by Dr. Shih. The program was special because it was not an English-learning program. The program actually assigned students

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這句成語可能不太適合用在這裡，它是說三個普通人整合起來的想法計劃，會比一個聰明人的想法好。我想表達的是三個普通人告訴你一件新聞，會比一個聰明人告訴你更來得可信。如果有人知道更適合的成語，請不吝指教。這個想法是來自於一個回台灣的學長賣美國電話卡的事。他說現在有別的公司跟他們競爭，但是他覺得有競爭更有幫助；因為如果只有一家公司在各補習班和新生說明會上，宣傳在台灣可以買到能在美國用的手機Sim卡，大概很多人都會覺得他們是詐騙集團。但一旦有好幾家公司都在賣同樣的東西，大家就會覺得是真的可以買到在美國用的手機Sim卡，對學長公司來說也省了不少廣告費。I thought about this concept again when I saw three papers in Nature Immunology this month trying to demonstrate the same idea

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上禮拜去海邊玩, Harkers island, Cape Lookout national seashore, and Atlantic Beach. Harkers island 是一個小小釣魚島，沒有太多觀光客，不過有去Cape Lookout的渡船和解說中心。Cape Lookout national seashore 是個遠離大陸的長型島嶼，只有坐渡船可以到，而且從 Beaufort/Harkers island 一帶並沒有可以載車子的渡船，要開兩個小時往北才有。島上沒有鋪好的柏油路，只有四輪轉動的車子才能行史。而且大部分的地方都沒水沒電，要露營也非常克難。總之是個十分荒野的國家海岸，適合給熱愛大自然的探險青年，至於懶懶的我們，只有坐船去看燈塔，和在燈塔附近的海灘晃了一下。第二天去kayaking是整個旅行的高潮，一起去的六個人加一個小不點，都是第一次划Kayaking.

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Yesterday we went to our first appointment with OBGYN. We did some blood work, urine samples, and she also did a pap smear. All very routine, nothing exciting except the moment we saw the heartbeat of the baby by a simple ultrasound machine. CYC's first response was " hmn....interesting...." The doctor said that was a very "scientist" response. But that was the first time I felt very real about

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Yesterday CYC's college friend visited us with his two friends from Rutgers. We brought them to guglhupf for brunch, and then to Duke garden and campus, of course, and then to Francisca for afternoon coffee. These three people were very good company. They talked, laughed, and shared things very genuinely. After coffee, we made some circles in Durham downtown, and then went to Fearrington farm to

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爸媽大老遠從台灣來參加我的defense, 所以連續兩個週末帶著他們去海邊和山上玩，都是有點累的行程。海邊去了Myrtle Beach, Charleston, and Savannah GA; 去 Myrtle Beach 是為了住很便宜有大海窗景的旅館，Charleston 和 Savannah 則是很美的古老小鎮。不過我媽對歷史小鎮不太有興趣，再加上腳受傷，無法走來走去走太久，所以不是很愛我和阿巧都十分喜歡的 Savannah. 我倒是十分開心地吃了一大堆海鮮，Snow crab legs (雪蟹腳）, steamed shells （各式蚌殼）, shrimp salad sandwich （鮮蝦沙拉三明治）, grouper sandwich....嗯，好吃好吃。去大煙山我爸媽就可高興了，他們都很愛爬山，所以有這麼多走道可以走是很開心的事。我們去了 Cataloochee

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Yesterday I passed my defense and got my Ph.D.. It was just like that I became Dr. Lin. It doesn't feel particularly exciting, not like going to a favorite meeting. It is not like the time we learned the paper was accepted in Nature Immunology, either. It's like something that eventually would happen in the end, sometime. I guess I need some time to get the perspective to sink in, to realize that

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The trip to Banff, Canada, was a little bit shorter than usual. Because I had to come back to finish my dissertation, I did not spend more time there after the dendritic cell conference. Although I have been to Banff about 10 years ago, I did not experience its winter beauty. This time I just saw too small portion of the place to fully feel I actually "was" there. The mountains and our castle

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Recently I really have had enough with our lab technician. She is a short black girl in her mid-20s. I have nothing against black people. I have had good working experience with some black people. But this particular girl is really not the brightest person in the world. She has been in our lab for half year already, but there is still not much she can do well. She cannot infect mice well, cannot

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Finally, our Nature Immunology paper comes out. I share the first author with Hideki Naknao who is a former research assistant professor in our lab from Japan. I guess I am very lucky to pick up his project to finish. I also have to thank him for all his guidance on my research. I really miss working with him. Now this paper is published, and Hideki and I are both going to the dendritic cell

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Writing dissertation is a work that you feel you will never finish it after you start. So many papers to read, so many tables and figures to create, and so many pages to write. And after you have done all that work, you are probably one of the very few people who will read it. So I guess this is a work you are doing for yourself. Through writing a book, all the readings and experiments get

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Today is a very special day for America. The inauguration of its first African-American president is happening. The national mall is filled with people witnessing the historical moment. Outside my house, it is probably snowing to the record inches in the triangle area. Just want to make a note to this special day.

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日本是一個發人深省的國家；國民工作認真，社會井然有序，什麼事都要注意到所有的細節，似乎是個生活壓力很大的地方。不過他們的創造力卻不輸人，科技發明很精采，電玩動畫更是有想像力，他們寫的書也讓人佩服作家對整個世界的知識與了解的程度。日本人相對也很神秘，由於文化上不重視個人表現和語言上的溝通不良，日本人在想什麼很難理解；可惜我不懂日文，不然我很想知道日本人到底都在想什麼，什麼是他們的價值觀。京都是一個比東京小很多的城市，大概跟台中比起來差不多；有很多古蹟是當然的，但是散落在城市的各個角落，不像巴黎的整個市中心都古色古香。有點小小的失望吧，本來期待它和巴黎一樣全部都是古老的房子；不過木造的古蹟本來就很難像巴黎的石頭建築那樣保存。不過日本還是日本，京都街道整齊，有古蹟的地方還是蠻有味道的，而且不像東京那樣擁擠，即使是一月初，仍然有許多外國觀光客在街頭遊走。我們去了很多廟和宫殿，

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這一趟回台灣，做了很多事情：請了兩次喜宴，也去彰化吃了一次同學的喜酒，還順便去鹿港逛逛；還和阿巧全家，去合歡山玩了一趟。也按照慣去配眼鏡，洗牙齒，修護頭髮，添購新衣妝。反正在台灣什麼都便宜，錢真的比較好花；在台中夜市，一副耳環只要五十台幣，大概是美國十分之一的價錢，又更好看許多，價差實在是太大了。兩次喜宴都是雙方家長各自負責的，我和阿巧只有幫到一小部分，十分感謝他們還有其他幫忙的人們；兩次都進行得十分圓滿，大概都是二十三桌，場地佈置和菜色我都很滿意。只有在桃園的化妝師實在有點笨手笨腳，貼假睫毛貼得兩邊不對稱，很是糟糕；還好照相不要照太近的話看不出來。不過整個妝的感覺我也不是很愛，早知道自己化還化得比較美。在台中是請蘿蔓蘿蘭的Mita弄的造型，她快手快腳很厲害也很熱心，如果有人要在台中結婚的話很推薦。去合歡山的那一趟，讓我感受到台灣中橫附近的山還是非常美麗的，可以和歐洲的Alpine比美，

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前幾天看了阿巧捉的台灣電影，九降風。是一部背景在我唸高中時的高中生的故事，電影片段裡有時報鷹的比賽片段，廖敏雄還客串了幾分鐘。很神奇的是，廖敏雄似乎完全沒有變老。這部電影真是讓我懷念起高中時候的日子，在看時就和阿巧說這導演一定和我們差不多年紀，才會對時報鷹情有獨鍾。在晚自習時和同學一起用隨聲聽聽時報鷹比賽的轉播，然後和是味全龍球迷的同學拌嘴，是我在無聊乏味的高三生涯裡，最值得回味的事情。後來Google了誰是導演，果然林書宇才大我兩歲；是新竹實驗中學雙語班後來轉到普通班畢業的。他的電影記錄了一些他高中時和朋友們打混的故事，但是重點是高中生有時不懂事，不知天高地厚，常常不小心發生悲劇。牯嶺街少年殺人事件，和一一也是在同樣的主軸上發展。不過對於這部電影的感動，還是來自於對時報鷹的回憶，那些球員在１９９２年拿到奧運銀牌，成為國家英雄，９３年進入職棒，四年後即因為簽賭事件而被終身禁賽；

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Our wedding pictures are finally out. Still some of them aren't, so I will add more later. But more or less, these are almost complete....

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Heroes is a NBC science fiction TV drama series. The plot tells stories about ordinary individuals who develop superhuman ability, and how they cope with it. For example, the ability to regenerate very fast after injury, the ability to move things without touching, the ability to read people's mind, and the ability to become transparent, etc. There are also evil abilities, like the ability to

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CYC and I got married during the past weekend. It was a small wedding in our backyard, and a simple reception at our house. But because of the help from all of our friends, this wedding has become bigger in my heart. It was like a dream wedding with perfect music and decoration, excellent wine (from my dear sister) and cakes, and most importantly, priceless love and friendships. 在這裡要特別感謝 Phil 和

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After the meeting ended, I moved on to Paris with a little sadness. It is always sad to say goodbye, especially to people you had such a good time with. But when I got to Paris, the city just totally wiped away all the unhappiness. The rich history and art on the streets just filled up my eyes, and drove my hands to press the shutter of my camera. I especially love all those sculptures on the

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My first 5 days in France was at a chemokine conference, which was in a remote town, Aussois, close to French Alps. The mountains are absolutely beautiful there. I met so many fantastic Europeans, and I learned a lot for both scientific and non-scientific purpose. Europeans are very friendly to Asians like me. I think they only hate obnoxious Americans, hah. And they generally dress better, more

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I went to California again in under two months. This time is for my sister's defense, but I also went to San Diego to see Kowei and Long Beach to see Guai. I have always loved to travel and hang out with old friends and my sister, so I was pretty happy the whole weekend. Southern California is really pretty if you can block out all the traffic and people sea. Although they don't have many trees,

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又去了一次亞特蘭大，為了我去法國的簽證。這次沒有再去水族館，可口可樂或是ＣＮＮ。時間花在逛動物園，看勇士隊比賽，和到處走走吃吃喝喝。勇士隊的球場很新設備超棒，光那個螢幕，就比洋基的大上許多，還有許多小遊樂設施給小朋友玩。但是他們的球場座落在亞特蘭大最槽的區域，走出球場到停車場，就會經過四，五個乞丐在討錢，那還算好，有時候還會出現有人借故幫你什麼忙，然後直接跟你伸手要錢。和我上次來的感覺一樣，在這馬丁路德的故鄉，在他去世四十年之後，他的故居所在地的黑人們，依然十分貧窮。不過downtwon以北的亞特蘭大，有一些很不錯的區，像是Virginia highland，房子都十分古色古香，有超大的 front porch，可以放得下八個人坐的大桌子，有好幾戶都有客人在那聊天。Buckhead 則是有許多在森林中的房子，住在裡頭應該有像在山上住小木屋的感覺，每天都被大樹掩蓋。美國的城市都有好區和壞區

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A "much younger" fellow student in the department got married during the past weekend. A lot of people from the department attended her wedding, and all the girls put makeups and pretty dresses on, and surely, jewelry as well. The bride was a white girl, but she was marrying to a Cantonese boy who grows up in England, so her wedding gown is actually a Chinese gown, called cheongsam or qipao. It

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Just went to LA area for a 4 days trip. The purpose of this trip was very different from my other trips, which was not for exploring a new place or for a conference. It was to see old friends and relatives instead. It was for one of my cousins' wedding. This cousin is very different from my other cousins, who actually grows up in China instead of Taiwan. My second uncle went to China 30s years

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Albert is Ping and Yuchu's son, who is the first baby whose birth process I have followed in detail. Ping and Yuchu are my favorite couple at all time. We came to Duke in the same year, and have been good friends ever since. Both of them are extremely nice and intelligent. So we threw a baby shower for them, we saw the ultrasound pictures of Albert together, we also visited Ping at hospital one

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Just watched this movie. It was made in 2000 by Christopher Nolan, the same director who directed insomnia. The movie is interesting because of its reverse chronological structure. The story is about a former insurance investigator who suffers short-term memory loss because of head trauma caused by gun shot. He is unable to remember anything recent, probably as short as 15 minutes ago. To cope

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Savannah 是一個在喬治亞州靠海的小鎮，自１７３３年以來，一直是南方的一個重要城鎮；美國政府在１９６６年時，把Savannah的市中心規劃成一個國家歷史區，所以他們的整個downtown都十分古色古香，是全美國最大的Historic District。 上星期Memorial Weekend去的時候，到處都是遊客，不過Trolley上的解說員的重南方口音，處處都是的公園的大橡樹，the Lady and son's 餐廳讓你吃到飽的比司吉和炸雞，還是讓人覺得有到了更南方的感覺。可能是那裡的古老但美麗的房子太多，或是公園和雕像太多，讓人腳步不知不覺慢了下來，可惜我們這次去的時間太短，也沒住在downtwon的bed&breakfast，沒有太多時間享受那悠閒的感覺。After we came back, we rent a movie called "the midnight in

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I have always admired beautiful, intelligent, and confident professional women, like our dean of graduate school, Joe Rae wirght. She is a very smart pretty women with a very modest and kind personality. I really like her a lot. Though I do not like successful women who look extremely cold or try too hard being like men. I think my high regard for career women started in my senior high where the

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Thursday was my 30th birthday. It feels kind of weird not being 20s anymore. It feels OLD!! Sigh.....Thursday was also Bernard Amo's day in the immunology department, so we had poster sessions, lunch with speacker, seminar, and the reception. It's a day you cannot do experiment, and it almost feels like it's for my own celebration. Especially when Chantal brought me a handful of balloons and a

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For some reason, Kansas won the tournament championship after a very close game that should have been won by Memphis. Kansas was down 9 when only 2 minutes left. Somehow, Memphis' free throw stopped getting in the basket; somehow, Mario Chalmer hit a 3 pointer with 2.1 seconds left to push the game into the overtime, although Kansas' 3 pointers were actually 2/9 tonight.People can say Kansas is

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Just read an article titled "why we flirt" in Time magazine. I suddenly realize why Americans like to go to bars or parties with alcohol, because that's where they can flirt without intent. Quote "people can flirt outrageously without intending anything", and quote "flirting is a decaf affair, a way of feeling more alive, more vital, more desirable without actually endangering the happiness of

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Last weekend we went to DC. We wanted to see the famous cherry blossom around Jefferson memorial, but we were about 10 days too early. The buds were still small and not flowering yet.Nevertheless, we still had a great time there. We visited inside the capitol hill, saw all the orchids in national botanical garden, walked around potomac river trying to see if there is any flowering cherry trees,

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上個週末兩天都在煮菜或是做甜點，星期六是去Ben的新居落定的party，我做了可樂餅和提拉米蘇。可樂餅是第一次做，有些炸得太黑了一點，但綜合來說還不難吃。提拉米蘇則是我的名菜，去年八月曾經帶去系上的 welcome picnic, 結果前幾個禮拜 interview weekend 去酒吧喝酒時，有個我根本忘記他叫什麼名字的學妹的男朋友，還提起我的提拉米蘇，說他很期待下一次的 picnic, 害我洋洋得意了一會兒，好像更醉了一些。不過我是真的很愛提拉米蘇，有酒有咖啡有巧克力有起司有奶油有蛋榚的甜點，把所有我都愛的味道溶合在一起，對我來說是百吃不厭，不過為了身材著想，並沒有常做。星期天做菜則是為了給可薇辦一個送別會；其實本來想烤肉就好了，但是阿巧突發奇想說他要做薑母鴨，所以我就捨命陪君子做了其他五道菜，有韓式燉鷄肉，韓式烤牛小排，鳯梨蝦球，牛肉餡餅和滑蛋豆腐。

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It is my first paper for my PhD degree!! Hopefully there will be one more to come. The other happy thing about this paper is that one of my classmates, Mike Quigley, also publishes a paper in the same volume of this journal.

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Recently, a young pulmonary doctor fellow visits our lab quite frequently. He is here to learn how to do flow analysis on mouse lungs. As a white male medical doctor, he is surprisingly humble and easy to get along with. One day we went to lunch together, and started to talk about the movie, Sicko. He agreed with us (2 Taiwanese and 1 Canadian) that American health insurance system is just so

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Djoker is a nickname the media has given to Djokovic when he played Roger Federer in the semifinal. The news title goes "the Djoker and the king take center stage". This name suit his personality and his last named very well. I like it. And this time, he is not the loser anymore. He defeated Federer and then successfully won his first grand slam title this early morning (5am here, 9pm in

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回台灣買了一本"烘出麵包香"的書，照著書上的方法又做了肉鬆麵包和椰子麵包。自己做了才知道椰子麵包的餡有一半的成分是牛油，雖然很好吃以後還是少吃為妙。

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幾乎整個十二月都在日本和台灣度過，三個禮拜的假讓我們做了好多事：去日光和東京玩耍了一趟，回台灣辦了訂婚和拍婚紗照。三個星期也很快就過去了，現在已經開始期待明年回台灣結婚的事（因為可以打扮得很美再加上吃喝玩樂）。在日本的時候，覺得什麼東西都很好吃，心想這個國家到底有沒有不好吃的食物呢？連在７﹣１１買的飯團都讓我覺得是人間美味，更不用說到高級溫泉旅館的懷石料理和築地市場的壽司了（想到還在流口水中）。對於日光印象最深刻的是紀念德川家康的東照宫，建造的十分華麗，每個屋簷和圍牆上，都有滿滿的雕刻，有些雕刻還有深刻的意義，例如非常著名的"非禮勿視，非禮勿言，非禮勿聽“的三猴。再來就是在"戰場的原“跑來跑去的野生皮猴子，他們很愛跑到馬路上玩耍，但是人一下車他們就會溜到樹上去，還是會害羞，不會和遊客們太親近。在湯元溫泉住宿的高級旅舍，每個房間都有自己的溫泉池，我和阿巧都給它泡了個夠，尤其是外面很冷很冷，

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We watched Michael Moore's new documentary, Sicko, the past Sunday. The movie is about the deteriorating USA health insurance system, which is what I dislike most about America. Nearly 50 million Americans are living without health insurance currently, and 2 % of them die each year because of that. But this movie is not about people without insurance, it is about people who DOES have the health

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As a Taiwanese PhD student in the USA, I have seen a lot of people come and leave school as a constant scene. Most of time I am not really affected. I think that friends come and go is a part of life. But A-te's leaving somehow feels different. Probably because he has been a consistent presence during my four years at Duke. He was my host when I first got there. Although he was not particularly

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前一陣子買了一台麵包機，因為覺得自己手揉的麵包怎麼樣都不夠柔軟，還是得靠機器來揉麵才行。用了這台麵包機做了兩次芋頭土司，用它揉麵做了菠蘿麵包和丹麥麵包，都非常好吃，對這台麵包機非常滿意。不過下一個月不能再做太多好吃的東西了，要下定決心減肥才能回去拍美美的婚紗照呢！ 丹麥麵包

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Last weekend CYC and I went to Grayson Highland State Park to do our annual autumn hiking. It is a little bit far, about 3 hours driving, but the fall color there seems even stronger than North Carolina. The weather was perfect and the scenery was breath-taking. We also met several "wild" ponies during our trip. They are very friendly, even letting people to touch them, probably because people

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Today Wang took his second loss in 4 days in the post season, which also ended Yankee's post season. Yankees actually got more hits than Cleveland tonight. Somehow they just cannot connect these hits together. And why these stupid Indians suddenly know how to hit Wang's sinker ball so well? Maybe they study secretly through recorded game videos. Now my two least favorite teams are gonna play for

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蛋榚做膩了，現在來做麵包。這第一次做的菠蘿麵包，吃起來有點不夠鬆軟，可能要發酵久一點；不過這純手工做的麵包剛烤出來時超香的，所以即使己經晚上十一點了，我還是忍不住吃了一整個。 發酵後還未進烤箱前 烤完之後

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CYC and I went to Outer Banks last weekend, trying to catch the end of the summer (像台灣的外傘頂洲）。We did playing waves, photographing 4 lighthouses, and camping. The photographs of lighthouses turned out very beautiful, proving that CYC's new camera is really superb. The pictures are posted below, but if you want to see higher resolution, you can go to http://picasaweb.google.com/linkaifengCamping was

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People who have watched US Open would know Novak Djokovic by now. He played Federer in the final, had plenty of chances to win but lost in straight sets. I didn't really expect him to win Federer this year because he still has too many flaws in his techniques, and tends to commit too many mistakes. What's appealing about this 20 years old Serbian is his engaging personality, uncommon maturity,

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During the past two years, a lot of Taiwanese students in USA has become Yankee's fans, including me. Although I have loved baseball since high school, I never really liked Yankees. I was laughing at Yankees pretty hard when they lost ALDS to Red sox in 2004, being the first team in the MLB playoff history to lose 4 games after winning the first 3. However, it changed after Chien-Ming Wang became

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CYC and I flew to NYC with other three people plus a small kid last Friday. We wanted to see Chien-Ming Wang pitching in Yankee's game. We saw the game with Kansas city, and saw les Miserables, and went to metropolitan and modern art museum. And, of course, ate a bunch of delicious food. The game we went to was one game before A-Rod hit his 500th home run, so every time he came up to the plate,

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想做芋頭酥己經許久了；自從做過台式蛋塔後，就知道自己是可以做出中式酥皮的，只是過程很麻煩而已。上星期五為了帶去上野先生家給他們一家大小一個驚喜，終於動手做了一批芋頭酥。以前我們每次從台灣回來，都會帶芋頭酥到實驗室，所以上野先生和惠子太太也都愛上了這款台式美味點心。果然帶去做客時，他們都很驚訝這是可以手工做出來的，也非常高興地吃著。第二天也帶去了湖邊和一群台灣朋友野餐，大家也都十分驚艷；芋頭酥,成功！

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This strawberry mousse cake was made for a friend's, A-te, graduation party. It contains two layers of cake and two layers of mousse. The mousse is made of fresh strawberry puree, milk, whipped cream and gelatin. Cake is sponge cake. I ran into several problems while making the cake, like mousse was leaking from the bottom of the mold, and the cake kept floating up above the mousse. After I fixed

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CYC found a super big zucchini in our garden. Never thought zucchini can be this big..... The two zucchini at front is normal size. The third one is almost 4 times big as the other two. Amazing, isn't it? Zucchini in the garden Our cherry tomato. Cherry tomato in the garden. We got so much more tomato this year, probably because using very good garden soil in the spring to plant them. Snow pea

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上星期突然很想吃粽子，所以照著兩個網站的食譜，和記憶中阿媽做的料，包了十二個粽子。阿巧很愛吃，兩天之內就吃了六個，有三個給了兩個男生，他們也說超好吃。以下就是照片囉！

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Recently I have seen a lot of good movies on DVD, including Letters from Iwo Jima, Pan's labyrinth, Volver, Little children, and Apocalypto. Well, Apocalypto is not really my type because I am not a fan for the violence and bloodiness in Mel Gibson's movies. I didn't like Braveheart and the Passion of the Christ, either. His lens are always too close to flesh and blood for me. However, Gibson's

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I made another cake for Jason and Suzanne. They finally got married after 9 years being together. Isn't it amazing? Their first love and final love are to be the same one at a very high probability. Can we really find soul mates when we are only 18?

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最近在家閒下來的時候總是想做些什麼特別的食物，很想把愛在廚房的食譜全部試一次，以下就是一些成果照片。 雞蛋布丁；其實挺容易的，只要混合蛋，牛奶和明膠粉，然後煮焦糖，冰到結成固態就可以吃了。 蘿蔔糕；最麻煩的地方是要把一整個蘿蔔削成絲，然後和在來米粉混好拿去蒸；那天削得我手好痠。 正在煎的蘿蔔糕 煎好的成品；味道還蠻像的。 牛肉餡餅；自己桿的面皮哦，昨天煎好的忘了照相，只剩下還沒煎的。 前幾天做的波士頓乳酪蛋榚，檸檬味很重，因為放了許多檸檬皮屑，好吃哦！

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My parents is visiting from Taiwan. Last weekend we drove them up to Frederick, Maryland, to meet my father's college friends. On the way back, we drove to Shenandoah National Park to do some sightseeing. Shenandoah is a native word of American Indians, means a river flow through mountains or daughters of skies. The skyline drive in the park is pretty much like blue ridge parkway, 105 miles drive

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Last Friday the Office of the North Carolina Attorney General released a report explaining the attorney general's decision on April 11th to dismiss the remaining charges against, and declare the innocence of, the indicted players in the Duke lacrosse case. The whole Duke lacross incident finally came to a closure. Mike Nifong has also been charged with ethics violations by the North Carolina

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I used my birthday present, a cake decoration kit, to make this cake. The recipe is from Eupho Cafe: http://www.euphocafe.com/, which is a great website. I highly recommend it.

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這次去科羅拉多州遊玩和開會，覺得獲益良多。見著了妹妹和小乖，經歷了在大雪中開車的經驗，在高原中的沙漠爬行，見著了結成冰的瀑布，也試了雪鞋在雪上健行(snowshoeing)。會議的主題是"巨噬菌細胞球“ (sounds weird in Chinese)，遇見許多有趣的人，也學到一些新知識。I like this keytone conference very much, better than the AAI meeting I went last year in Boston. Because this meeting was held at a isolated ski resort, and there were just about 300 people, it is so much easier to interact and chat with other people

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Today is my 29th birthday. Since I just got back from Colorado, I only made a cake for myself, and ate sushi with CYC. Guess what gift I got from him? A huge cake decoration kit!!

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The NCAA Men's basketball tournament finally finished yesterday. Florida gators won their consecutive championship, and unexpectedly, I won the tournament challenge in the immunology department. Suddenly, I am $100 dollars richer and pretty proud of myself. Although I don't watch basketball very often during the season, I did browse all the ESPN experts' opinions before I filled out my bracket.

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Duke is done after the first round in the NCAA tournament. This season this Duke team has been very inconsistent and unstable. Losing more than 10 points lead in the second half seems to be a common practice to them. People kept finding excuses for them, saying that their season schedule is too tedious and very challenging in the end. People hoped they would be better when March came. Well, March

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昨天去參加了一個一共有五個學校的台灣學生壘球比賽，Duke, NCState, Clemson, Georgia Tech, and U Tennessee (Knoxville). 我們打的是循環賽，在一天之內我們跟四個不同隊伍打了四場比賽，打得非常過癮，但是非常累。我們最後的戰績是三勝一敗，和UT是一樣的，但是因為我們打敗了UT，所以一直到頒獎之前，我們一直以為自己是冠軍；結果他們是用比賽的失分來判定冠軍，早知道我們最後一場就好好打，應該不會輸。這個故事告訴我們，比賽時要弄清楚比賽規則才是，自己決定自己是冠軍是沒有用的。喜歡壘球，恐怕是喜歡和一群人共同努力，往同一個目標邁進的感覺；或只是對於“勝利“有所執著？ Lunch at Lucky Buffet Take a picture with our new flag A picture attempted to include

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農曆新年的時候也是朋友的小孩的周歲生日，做了一個巧克力蛋榚帶去慶生。對於做生日蛋榚越來越有心得，因為其實基本材料是一樣的，只要會做出兩層海綿蛋榚，然後在口味和裝飾上加一些變化，還蠻簡單和有趣的。我做的黑森林蛋榚，Birthday寫成Birday, 實在是寫不下，而且比想像中的難寫。另外一個蛋榚是水果蛋榚，敏嘉做的。這個就可愛的小壽星囉！

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昨天情人節收到了花和巧克力，阿巧很少這麼主動的，讓我覺得心裡很開心。貓咪喜歡在我打電腦的時候，躲在螢幕後面和我玩，牠會偷偷把頭和腳腳伸出來，要捉我的手，表情超可愛，總會把牠抱起來打打親一口。今年冬天下了兩次雪，雪花飄飄很美麗。上禮拜去中野先生家吃午餐，他有一個超賢慧的妻子和三個可愛的女兒，他們準備了海苔和許多壽司料讓我們自己包壽司，hmn....好吃好吃。大冷天和一群人一起打壘球和打屁似乎也是個不錯的活動。My life is good, and I really enjoy it.

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