Category: Life
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An “Atomic” New Year Resolution
Hello dear readers, Happy 2023! May all your troubles and worries be left behind in 2022 and enjoy a refreshing start in 2023. (I know it is a bit late of a new year greeting…) Should today’s post not fail to interest you – we are going to talk about the “new year resolution” –…
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Strange World is a good movie – in a metaphorical way
“Spoiler alert”: This movie is about family reunion and reconciliation, living along with our environment, and finding our true nature, instead of being defined, or constrained by the legacy of our father’s generations. Three generation The conflicts and reconciliations among the three generations of the Clade family build the core theme throughout the story. The…
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Arirang & Beethoven No. 7
A combination of an epic classical symphony by Beethoven and the Korean folk song “Arirang” – the mixture of both can clearly demonstrate music’s power to transcendent across borders, languages, races, and every other difference on earth, through which we – human beings – reach a harmonic unification. I attended a free concert today by…
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What Motivates Me in An Academic Career?
The famous quote from John Muir – The mountains are calling and I must go. A typical academic career path would be like this – after 4-6 (or longer) years of Ph.D. training, fresh grads get into postdocs, and transitional positions, until finally apply and obtain a faculty position and achieve tenure. A big surprise…
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Run with the Wind and I Like the Sound of It
2022/08/27 – Today I am turning 28 (sounds like old errr) but running has kept me feeling young and passionate – that’s what today’s post is about (obviously). I want to reflect on my personal running journey and share some thoughts on this – maybe even better if this post can encourage you to go…
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Fire of Love – finite human lifes pursuing infinite love
(Spoiler Alert) This post contains review and discussion about the movie – Fire of Love – a documentary by the National Geographic. It is with greatest thrills and astonishes I am trying to write down my feeling and thoughts. This movie is consisted of thousands of first-handed, closely-recorded photos, videos, journals and interviews, revealing the…
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Run slower to get faster
People are always amazed when I first introduced myself as a marathon runner and asked me what is my secret to finishing a long run. Counter-intuitively it may seem, my answer is always, that I have to run slower enough to get faster. and this approach has proven it’s prudential not only in running but…
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Graduation Thoughts
After my graduation day, my friend Gabriel Tao asked me an intriguing question – “Do I feel proud of what I have accomplished or where I reach today? Research or academic wise?” It took me some moments to think through – there is something so immersed that couldn’t be wrapped into some simple adjectives, proud,…
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Running a PhD Marathon
Zhe Zhang, University of Saskatchewan This is my first post and it is about running (of course) – some of my personal thoughts about running experience during my PhD journey, that I cherish this memory so much. Set a goal and run to get it I arrived in Saskatoon, Canada on a dark, winter night…