🌄 Diaries

This entry embeds some toots timeline of mastodon. Currently, it’s just me and Huan.

09:34 Say it again This song is very warm and soft, I was listening to it during my morning walk. 09:45 #Concrete is stone I wanna find some cutting-edge topic about concrete, perhaps we can see concrete as a stone where we can control the components. Is there any cutting-edge research about how to utilize these stones? 13:58 Lab Training For having the capability to do lab experiments, #Jian gave us another training today. It was about all lab that we might use in the future. ...

10:41 Wrong Common Knowledge It’s colder than usual during snow melting We should create a deeply touching work, such as a poem, a song, an essay, whatever These two common knowledge are most likely some basic #truth in our past education, but they are actually wrong in my experience recently. Regarding the first one, I found that during snow melting, the temperature is actually higher than usual days. Because the sun is shining strongly, and the snow is reflecting the sunlight, so the overall temperature is higher. Especially in Edmonton, when the snow is melting, it means the temperature is very comfortable rather than so cold in other winter days. ...

09:24 Start determine the topic This is a last week for term paper. Everything is difficult at the beginning. Trying to use Perplexity #AI to help me select the topic, but it couldn’t give me a proper, innovative, realistic topic. I think the best way to find a meaningful topic is to do some things. The idea for solving the real problem will come up casually. 10:09 Candy I found three ‘j’ shape candies on my desk when came to my seat. I guessed these were from #Luis, I messaged him for thanks. After I got some water back, Luis came to my seat talk with me, and invited me to attend a GSA election event; he even promised me, “No talking there”. ...

🕒 Morning | Time Flies Time is moving so fast. So far today, I’ve had a video call with Huan, spent some time lying in bed scrolling on my phone, and played Honor of Kings for an hour. 🕒 Afternoon | Tech Troubles I spent the entire afternoon trying to get my ** #terminal to support image rendering**, but I failed. Around 4 PM, I decided to do some laundry. Meanwhile, a DVD drive I ordered from Amazon a few days ago arrived. However, it’s unstable and keeps disconnecting, so I’ve already applied for a return. ...

🕒 13:58 | Exhausted Last night, I scolded Huan again. She mistakenly thought a 12-year-old girl was a single mother; I felt her perception of reality was way off. I made her stay up late again, and now I feel a bit guilty about it. 📝 Obsidian & Neovim I ran into an error with my Obsidian template in Neovim. It took a long time to troubleshoot and fix. 🍕 The Buffet Experience Jian messaged me this afternoon saying he was coming to Southgate Mall to hang out. We decided to grab a box of buns and then head to a buffet. ...

🕒 10:04 | Social Overload There are several new faces in the office today. When I went to get some water, a fellow compatriot—the one who helped us find chairs at lunch the other day—started talking to me and asked to add me on WeChat. I felt a bit uncomfortable; I’m not really interested in joining or forming these kinds of social groups. There is also a new Chinese girl in the office sitting right behind me. I haven’t spoken to her yet. There are just too many people this term for my liking. ...