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- Just got home from #bikeventure to library and hair salon. Now for a vanilla popsicle. :)
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- Woohoo, 4 cell line experiment is a go! Hey, wait, that means I have to set up a 6 hour experiment tomorrow. (-｡-;
- @ryankanno @scrivener I downloaded opera mini for iPod touch, it syncs your settings from desktop browser but doesn't have mail panel. :(
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Posts
- May 17, 13
here's my friday5. see others' answers or answer for yourself here: http://f.riday5.com/?p=793
- The motto of the Brownies is “Lend a hand.” If this were the personal motto of someone you know, who would it be?
my former coworker, Mike L., one of the hardest working people i know and would help out in any section if you needed help... and always with a good attitude! i never forget those who lend a hand... i miss his bring it on battle cry! - The motto of the Olympic Games is “Citius, Altius, Fortius” (“Higher, Faster, Stronger”). If this were the personal motto of someone you know, who would it be?
micon g.
^ congrats on your $30k scholarship, you've really earned it!!
paige t.
^ this little chica is a soccer and cross country star already... not to mention straight As! - I don’t think it’s a motto, but Apple, Inc.’s tagline for some time has been “Think different.” Grammatical iffiness aside, if this were the personal motto of someone you know, who would it be?
sam m.
^ our last picture together was 2010, it's been too long! - Here are some food-related marketing slogans: “The incredible, edible egg.” “Beef: It’s what’s for dinner.” “Got milk?” What would be a cool marketing slogan for something you’ve eaten in the past twenty-four hours that doesn’t already have one?
i've heard recently from antony bourdain "food is feces in waiting". i love that! molecular gastronomy... it's cool, it's neat. gold leaf and sculpted chocolates. foams and flavored dusts. it's all novel and luxurious... but in the end... it's still food. food is feces in waiting. so cut the B.S. and just give me something delicious.
recently, i haven't had an lakerol salmiak (or any other flavor of lakerol, for that matter) because it's hard to come by in hawaii. but i remember when i first had lakerol salvi and i began to hunt for the other flavors, i came across this blog and his description- which is spot on- never left me.
These things would probably be quite good for you if you are an oral masochist with hypertension. With regard to its taste-appeal, possibly the same effect is at play here as with American salt water taffy, but Salmiak Liquorice is the very antithesis of salt water taffy – a dark, introverted, miserable Ingmar-Bermanesque plague victim to the American product’s blue-eyed farm boy.
Eventually, sadly, the liquorice softens and melts away; your tongue is left moderately darker. Your breath smells faintly like floor wax, and you feel like something is missing from your life. …and then you want another one. - Here is a very long list of cool Latin phrases. Which will you adopt as your personal motto for the upcoming week?
booooo, scrivener! you already picked my favorite- ad astra per alia porci- which is the motto of john steinbeck (to the stars on the wings of a pig... and he also had a little logo of "pigasus". i also happen to know that he considered himself a "lumbering soul trying to fly"). after that, i usually defer to carpe noctem (not only because of my work but i think of it as meaning to make use of ALL of your time, not just the day!) or cerca trova (because if you want to find what you are looking for... you must seek it for yourself!). but since i have been presented with such a long, lovely list, full of phrases i've never heard of i will pick something totally new to me:
scio me nihil scire
and now off to colorado to hang out with microbiologists, brb! - The motto of the Brownies is “Lend a hand.” If this were the personal motto of someone you know, who would it be?
- May 09, 13
here's my friday5. see other's answers or answer for yourself here: http://f.riday5.com/?p=790
- What’s something you know about constellations?
these aren't random holes, they make up a wearable constellation!
get one on fab.com - What’s something you know about bugs?
many of them emit phenols as a defense mechanism. - What’s something you know about a car’s engine?
people who build or restore custom classic cars like to use "hemi" engine. (i get all my car knowledge from TV, ok?) they are internal combustion engines that are very loud but make you go really fast. or something like that. i guess they will be out of favor soon because they use a lot of gas. - What’s something you know about wine or beer?
beer is made with the help of yeast, Sacchromyces cerevisea. congratulations, home brewers. you are a microbiologist! - What’s something you know about the Pacific Ocean?
the pacific ocean contains the marianas trench. it is the deepest part of the pacific ocean, over 10,000m i believe.
but i know.... nothing ever keeps us safe for sure... - What’s something you know about constellations?
- May 03, 13
here's my friday5. answer for yourself or see others' answers here: http://f.riday5.com/?p=787
- What are you like when you are very nervous?
sometimes i'm not feeling nervous- in my mind- but i will uncontrollably start quivering. must be adrenaline! nervous seems like a negative word, i like the term "nerves"- as in excitement and anticipation- better. - How do you deal with nervousness, especially nervousness about something that’s going to happen several days later?
i will rephrase this question to "how do you get up and face the world each day?"
i believe the entire world is after me and i must conquer them with my bad-ass attitude because i'm awesome. it's like a game and you have to fight to win! - In what circumstance are most people nervous, but not you?
most people hate presentations and public speaking. i really don't mind. i feel confident enough in my skills of B.S. and persuasion that a misstep... could never be as bad as you think. not that it happens a lot. i mentally go over presentations in my mind- almost like a little story- many, many, many times before the real thing. - What conditions seem to be fine for most people but make you feel nervous?
so... i really feel uncomfortable talking on the phone. as long as i can remember. something about not seeing the other party's face combined with not knowing how they will respond to me is unsettling. also, i remember learning before i even went to preschool how to pick up the phone and dial 9-1-1 in case of an emergency and it established a "PHONE = EMERGENCY = DANGER" kind of feeling. :/ thanks mom.
i feel less nervous about public speaking because you are mostly talking AT people as opposed to conversations where you are talking WITH people. - When did you last feel nervous about something that turned out completely fine?
hey! our fusion went well! took... a bit longer than expected and i had a mini methanol fire (quickly extinguished with some wet paper towels, not a huge problem) but everything seemed ok. i looked at the monoclonals today and there are no contamination and i can start to see little cell colonies growing. i was so worried i was going to contaminate because the water bath is a little gross looking and i use the same hood/multi channel pipette for campy work. but it was fine! also worried i added the PEG too fast but we shall see if the fusion worked in a few days when we really look at the plates and start to assay them.
- What are you like when you are very nervous?
- Apr 28, 13
here's the friday 5!
see others' answers or answer for yourself here: http://f.riday5.com/?p=782- What was the last play you saw?
do operas count? i think the last i saw was cosi fan tutte about five years ago. - What kind of experience have you had as a performer in plays?
speech and debate included acting out some plays by myself or with a partner. i think the last one i did was Oedi by Rick (Rich?) Orloff. i still remember some of the lines. in fact, i remember some of the lines of every thing i had to memorize for speech and debate. strange, the things you remember. as for the last full cast play... maybe elementary school. an adaptation of the phantom tollbooth? - In general, what kinds of plays most turn you on?
i like musicals. or folktales/fairy tales... hansel and gretel is my favoritest story! mysteries are really fun too! - There are many movies* where the characters say, “Let’s put on a play,” often as a means for raising funds or bringing attention to some cause. If you and your friends decided to do that, what would be the play, who would be its star, and what role would you play in its production?
i would pick my most animated friends to be the stars! chungy, dev, and jet. i would love to be a set/costume designer or prop master or make up artist. or back stage photographer. but video or cinematography? i'm really no good at videos. - If I handed you a lump of Play-Doh right now and asked you to sculpt me something, what would it be?
i love to make food out of clay! it is instantly recognizable and fun to see how many details of an everyday object you can remember.
- What was the last play you saw?
- Apr 27, 13
MOVIES I WANT TO SEE
^ a film that theory11 had a hand in!
^ from the mind that brought us primer!
^ those planes look like pelicans!
MOVIES I JUST WATCHED
[OBLIVION]
ok, i wanted to post the trailer here but all of the official trailers give away too much of the movie! even i didn't watch the trailers; i decided to watch this based on ONE PICTURE:
that's all i should tell you. weak plot? well, it's been done before. but if you DON'T WATCH THE TRAILERS. JUST BE SURPRISED AND TAKE IT AT FACE VALUE. you will be happy! the cinematography is nice. the soundtrack is fantastic (and i've listened to it at home on itunes after the movie and it's good but just not the same... needs the pictures to go with it and the giant theatre speakers). the future tech is cool! just watch it, ok?
^ borrowed from the library. ummm... phones in the future are cool! so are the police droids! and... they didn't forget about 3 boobs! and there are girls kicking ass! and it didn't take place on mars (whaa?) and it's very politically motivated. :/ it was an average movie for me. i expected better. - Apr 26, 13
hey it's almost friday again. how time flies...
(isn't the back interesting? get one for yer self or your favorite gal at f21: here.)
last week friday i got home from work and shoved a bunch of stuff in my bag and put on human clothes (as opposed to the pseudo-pajamas they make us wear at work) and biked up to kcc. crammed some last minute malonic ester synthesis in my brain then plowed through the ochem exam.
then, research meeting!
had a last minute run through of my ASM oral presentation. lots of good feedback about rearranging the graphs and formating my slides.
after meeting, i coerced my research buddies to join me on a bicycle ride. rob and tom also have red bicycles but in different styles! one mountain bike, one fixed gear track, and one single speed road- we make a fun group. we went down on 6th ave and rolled along date street. then they went to tend to their kids and i continued on to town. i biked to beretania foodland to buy a vitamin water for le pauvre boyfriend, stuck at work until 3pm.
// side note //
i finally graduated to a real, plastic maika`i card! woohooo... no more paper card, and i can finally rack up some rewards! i was so excited i told the person in line behind me, haha. i think it's taken me about 3 years to finally pass the trial card?
// end side note //
crossed the street and left my bicycle with le boyfriend in his car, caught a ride with my mom and sister to ala moana. i bought this dress
and i ran into yummiestars and la girafe! we walked and talked a bit until le boyfriend swooped me away... we went to eat dinner on the beach with his cousin, jet, back from the mainland for a visit, also d&j, the don wong, and ktengan. average food, average weather, infinte laughs and good company. :)
i got home after midnight. did my powerpoint edits at 2AM. -___-
saturday morning! up bright and early for my presentation. wore another f21 dress (sorry no pics) with a sweater and leggings, thank you cheap business wear. lol. rob was also presenting a poster there and got some good comments and interests from the big university brains. i'm excited for his phage project to finish up! as for my presentation... went well! i only had one question at the end, though so i was slightly disappointed... not sure if everyone digested my info right away. but in the end... got 3rd place overall! take that, you people with fancy degrees and equipment! i'm so grateful for the travel award and hope to do my lab proud at the general meeting. blog post about things i learned there: RETRACTIONS.
// side note //
i was sitting with some DOH people and i mentioned i wanted to go to the ASCLS meeting next months but would be out of town. not so sad because there is only one talk i wanted to see; using luminex for IDing things besides dengue and west nile...
well what do you know, two other presentations at ASM were about using luminex and the person giving the specific luminex talk at ASCLS is sitting next to me! i learned about the beads and the receptors and everything i wanted to know about luminex so now i don't feel guilty about not going. :)
// end side note //
after spending a whole day at the meeting in manoa, i bussed it home and take my bike out for a ride around the block. nice to stretch my legs after being cooped up in a tree (literally... i was hanging with the roosters at treetops restaurant) all morning! then i had a mini block party to celebrate the 2nd birthday of my cousin. my pops was the chef so good food to be had! party people:
more here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/synonyme_c/sets/72157633339964823
sunday, up bright and early again for bai san. after many years, we have finally gotten our shit together and we are super organized! we can set up with out too much chaos and am happy to report there were no forest fires from us this year. another nice thing about prepping for bai san... kitchen snackings while dad is cooking everything up. ^^
my vacation days were mainly for those events but no point in vacation if you're not going to have fun! sunday after bai san i had a halo lan party. monday after AM class, i watched Oblivion (more on this later) with le boyfriend and co. then more halo! tuesday, more bicycleage and more halo! i also (finally) installed our new printer- has wireless capability, hello 21st century (hello, minecraft references).wednesday, mexican food with yummiestars! waaaahhh we ate so much, toritos is the bomb! then we went to faceshop, because that's what girls do, and then i came home to play halo and edit photos.
the end. - Apr 23, 13My last post was actually written on Thursday 4/18 but I didn't have a chance to post it right away. Still, I wanted it to be posted so I could point out the amazing coincidence and chance of this universe.
First off, I'd like to note that I knew I'd be having a busy weekend so I took some extra days off so I wouldn't be dying at work every night.
// side note //
I think I've been feeling guilty about have so many days off in a row because I've been having dreams about work. Dreams about blood banking in particular. Apparently I can type and screen and cross match in my sleep, and also do the right paper work for it, haha! I remember thinking "don't forget to ARC type this unit and put the sticker on"! What a waste if days off if I'm still dreaming I'm at work!
// end side note //
i will tell you about the rest of my awesome mini vacation next post, for now i will tell you about the ASM local meeting i attended on saturday! i will go over my retractions in the order i posted my worries in.- burkholderia! did you know it is a BSL 3 organsim (for reference, tuberculosis is BSL 2 so that means BSL 3 is something even worse than that)! besides messing up the mice, i had the thought of BSL 3 in the back of my mind but wasn't too worried since we are working with antibody and not antigen. still, the idea was in the back of my mind. at the meeting, i met the people we are making the antibodies for. in fact, i saw their presentation on the particular strain and learned it is specially modified to be safe for BSL 2! it is approved by CDC and has documentation so i feel better about the whole thing. i feel like meeting these people, who are just like people in my lab, make them more trustworthy. :) ahhh, the soothing power of social interaction. nice work by the researchers of UH!
// side note //
my invasion research could benefit from some of their work too, i'm hoping for a collaboration in the future so people can visualize- with photos and videos- campy invading host cells. :D how cool is that!
// end side note //
also, my fears of the fusion work are dissipating. i got the updated protocol and it's all coming back to me now... aseptic dissection and then some centrifuging, counting cells, and pipetting- all things i do on a daily basis at my real job- are going to be simple enough to do. - taq project results! phase one complete... and only a partial failure. my competent cells didn't grow... but i have some back ups in the freezer, no big deal. my plasmid helper grew, yey. my other organism... ??? need to pcr that shit.
- flu season is coming to an end! i didn't mention that i've been seeing a lot of type B flu because i didn't know the implications of it. at the ASM meeting i talked to some DOH peoples and they said B usually marks the ENDING of flu season. hooray! so, should i still be worried about type A (this is the one with all the sub types... H1N1, H7N9, etc.)? the correct answer is when SHOULDN'T I be?! at least it will be less prevalent when the season is over. just keep washing your hands and you should be ok.
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HAPPY MEDICAL LABORATORY PROFESSIONALS WEEK! - burkholderia! did you know it is a BSL 3 organsim (for reference, tuberculosis is BSL 2 so that means BSL 3 is something even worse than that)! besides messing up the mice, i had the thought of BSL 3 in the back of my mind but wasn't too worried since we are working with antibody and not antigen. still, the idea was in the back of my mind. at the meeting, i met the people we are making the antibodies for. in fact, i saw their presentation on the particular strain and learned it is specially modified to be safe for BSL 2! it is approved by CDC and has documentation so i feel better about the whole thing. i feel like meeting these people, who are just like people in my lab, make them more trustworthy. :) ahhh, the soothing power of social interaction. nice work by the researchers of UH!
- Apr 21, 13
- this morning on the news i saw the temperature in denver is 25ºF.
dear weather gods, i would really like it to be a minimum of 50ºF in one month. ideally, 70º would be great. pretty please!? hawaii girl can't handle cold weather! - next week fri i will work on monoclonals against burkholderia. i hope i don't mess things up; haven't done a fusion in... three years? mice that have been immunized for months will be sacrificed, this is not something you can "oops, try again" with.
- today i started the minions on a new project that is an intro to PCR and recombinant DNA. i used some parts of a kit- brand new, never opened- but several years old. :/ i noticed some of the reagents were of questionable quality... i hope everything we want grows and contaminants don't grow. how disappointing if their first project is a failure after only 1hr of hands on lab time!
- i am transferring to UH (finally) (again) and even though i have senior status i can't register until august. :( transfer students- even in the UH system, even if they have continuously taken classes at CC (i've NEVER taken a semester off)- are considered new students and have to pick classes last! TOTAL BS. i hope the classes i need are still available.
- i used all my spare bike tubes. if i get a flat somewhere, i am screwed.
- influenza type A viruses. nuff said.
i worry a lot. and that's just the tip of the ice berg... - this morning on the news i saw the temperature in denver is 25ºF.
- Apr 16, 13
♪ with nothing to do...
sunday, sweet sunday,
i'll spend it with you...
Sunday - Part 1 from Flower Drum Song (1961) by Anyclip
(flower drum song, one of my favorite musicals)
on sunday, i spent the day with le boyfriend. we had lunch at paina, then comic book store (constantine #2 is here!!!!!!!!! and batman post death of the family, post requiem), then headed to makiki to see the comrades.
d&j have been busy in terraria for xbox, but personally i like minecraft better. jojojo and i did some baking- chocolate peanut butter coookies- then headed out for a bikeventure. my first on the red campy!
where do i go on most of my bikeventures? shave ice, of course!
milk flavor!
surprise, it's a camera!
we beat the rain to waiolas but caught it on the way back. we went at a nice leisurely pace, i think i've been overly worried about having only one speed; it was a short easy ride, and i wasn't too tired to head back uphill. uncle c was recommending i switch to a 48/16 or 52/18 but i think i'll leave it at 52/16 for now. if i want an easier ride i can always take out the giant.
so yes, true to my word, i've been moving everyday, even while i'm still in pain from crazy dancing at metric. in fact, today i biked down school street to liliha area, something diffrent from my usual route to see how long it would take me to get to my new dentists' office. a note to bike riders, 1520 liliha st. does not have bike racks, boo hoo. i'm going to have to chain up to a stop sign or something. :(
but i digress...
when we got back, the boys were mostly playing terraria and i showed jojojo portal (the first) for the first time! what can i say, instant attachment to companion cubes. :D they will never speak or threaten to stab you. when i left, she was on lvl 18... i can't wait to see her reaction to the ending!
that's my weekend in a nutshell, now back to work, back to school, back to research, back to reality. *sigh* guess it's the hard work that makes the fun times funner, right? :)
one more thing before i go-
mr. phonograph spotted a picture of yummiestars and i at metric concert on nonstop! don't we look happy?!the rest of the nonstop pics are fantastic, of course, see them + a video here: http://www.nonstophonolulu.com/blogs/party-pics-metric/ - Apr 15, 13
alternate title: I SAW METRIC LIVE AND DIED OF HAPPINESS.
what is it like to meet the people who changed your life?
metric is definitely the soundtrack of my world and i have finally got to see them in concert and it was amazing!!! not only do they sound just as good in person as in recordings but the energy of the whole experience made it 10000000 times better! and if that wasn't enough...
i also saw it with my best friend, yummiestars! ♡
and we got there early enough to stand in the FRONT ROW. i mean, i was directly in front of the stage, right in the middle, in front of the amazing emily haines. ♡
and the opening band was alt/air ! ♡ i would go to a concert just to see alt/air so having them both in the same night was perfect!
there was a great mix of songs, several newer ones from synthetica, dead disco from old world, empty from live it out, and several from fantasies. PLUS, freddy/black sheep (my favorite song!) and they finished up with an acoustic version of the hooks/gimme sympathy. i was so moved i started crying! totally didn't expect that! i was just so happy to be there and i felt like it was one of the most awesome experiences in my life that would probably never happen again... and i just mentally decided that i was going to hold on to this moment forever... and i started crying. i don't know if it was from joy or sadness of losing the perfect moment- it was just. euphoric.
i love photography; i love to take my camera everywhere and shoot anything and everything. but after the first time i listened to gimme sympathy i took the song literally. all the BEST moments of my life... i don't have pictures because i would rather experience it than watch it through glass.
so i have no pictures of this momentous event, just my own memories of a night of music and dancing (ok, i guess one souvenir i have is the pains of mosh pit, haha).
but hey, what are friends for? helping you do the things you can't:thanks yummiestars for amazing phone camera! thanks for being there with me (and the yumm yummm food afterwards)! and thanks emily, joshua, joules, and jimmy for the show!! hope to see you again someday, somewhere. ♡ - Apr 13, 13
my company is hosting a get moving campaign for employees. you individually or in a team (up to 4) log exercise hours every week. if you complete 150 minutes each week for 4 weeks you are entered in a prize drawing.
participation requires that you fax your activity log sheet every monday.
also, the campaign takes place during a month where i will be out of town for a week.
ughhhh... too much hassle.
(really, a fax machine?)
instead, i'm going to do my own "moving".
150 minutes is about 25 minutes a day? sounds do-able, even on non sleeping days!
especially with my shiny, new bicycle. ^___^
i've been riding short distances every day, usually just around pauoa. i'm like a baby again! the chain ring is a bit bigger than on my giant- me legs were tired just going to booth park for the first time! :X also getting used to riding with both feet in the toe clips, haha. i usually ride the giant with only my right foot strapped so i can hop off at red lights. left foot, you will learn to be smart and find your place in the pedal! 8| anyway, there are some advantages... with the big ring it's pretty speedy once you get going. :) i also noticed it's easier to steer with no hands... for some reason i tend to veer to the left when i bike with no hands on the giant. *shrug*
next week i'm planning longer bikeventures, we'll see if i can handle the hills! my marker is queen emma street- if i can conquer that slope, i'm not worried about biking anywhere else (because i outright refuse to go on auwaiolimu street unless absolutely necessary. *pout* )
this week's library haul... nothing new. i renewed microcosm again, despite what i said last time, and i also renewed packing for mars. i am excited to finish it so i can move on to mary roach's newest book, Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal.
because, you know, i'm all about food and body processes. i was about to include defecating as another interest but poop is only interesting when it has interesting things in it like campylobacter or white blood cells or parasitic worms. in all other cases, it's just a bunch shedded cells that we don't need. also, it smells.
i watched all the movies i borrowed.
Atlas shrugged pt. I | story good, acting bad. might have to conquer the book now! fountainhead didn't take too long to read...
Blade Runner | too stylized, wanted to like it more but the clothes and hair were too distracting (i feel the same way about the hunger games movie. in ten years people will watch it and be like WTF going on with the outfits?!)
12 monkeys | cool idea, i love time travel stories! the psychiatrist reminded me of Harley Quinn.
Adjustment Bureau | i feel like this is strongly related to the dark tower (but in my life, what isn't?!).
in related news, looooooook! a leukophage! it's a macrophage that phagocitized a white cell!
my job is cooler than yours.
:) - Apr 09, 13
TODAY I DID SOMETHING CRAZY!
I BOUGHT A FIXED GEAR BIKE! D:
yes, i already have a bike, don't judge me. :X
a couple months ago i rode a fixed gear for the first time and i couldn't get the idea out of my head.
so i looked at wikibikes for something i could practice on and found a gorgeous, red campagnolo frame! i really couldn't justify having two bicycles so even after test riding it, i went home empty handed.
but again i couldn't get this idea out of my mind.
it became an obsession.
i was checking every week... sometimes twice a week to see if it was still for sale on the website.
and i would pass by the shop and see if i could still see it in the doorway.
weeks became months and today i had an opportunity to claim it... so i did!
this purchase makes no sense. because there's only one of me and now i have two bikes! and it has less gears (it has 20 less gears, because it only has one, haha!) than my current bike!
and yet i am so excited to ride it some more, i'm giddy just thinking about it! ^___^ - Apr 06, 13
i haven't updated since last month. because nothing interesting happened.
april will hopefully be more exciting; it will be busier month, to say the least.
i've got several research presentations, metric concert, national medical laboratory week, first dentist appointment in many years, bai san, hawaii geek meet...
some how i will survive.
movies i have borrowed from the library and liked recently:
- primer
- jiro dreams of sushi
- batman dark knight rises (i saw this in the theater and have an extended discussion here: http://www.liquoriceblack.blogspot.com/2012/08/b-is-for-brutus.html)
movies i have borrowed and not watched yet:
- blade runner
- atlas shrugged (pt 1)
- 12 monkeys
- the day
for books, still halfway through all of these books at once:
- packing for mars
- microcosm (about to give up tho, and reborrow it later)
- the enlightened cyclist
- at home
here's my friday5.
answer for yourself or see others' answers here: http://f.riday5.com/?p=772
How do thunder and lightning make you feel?
lightning is fun to watch but i don't like how the atmosphere feels. usually heavy and muggy. also, i've seen lightning touch down in the grassy field next to my house and it was scary! the grass smelled burnt. :/
How do spiders make you feel?
spiders are fascinating! i used to catch them in jars and keep them like pets. i would catch bugs for the spiders to eat too! fruit flies and small millipedes are the most fun to watch get caught in webs. :D
How do recent threats on America by North Korea make you feel?
i may regret this in a few weeks but right now i feel like they are empty threats. N. Korea is not exactly prepared for war.
and since we are on the topic, i would like to say that kim jong un had a great opportunity to turn things around. the general public had no idea what to expect of this new ruler. if he had gone the complete opposite of the late kim jong il it would not seem like a sign of weakness but rather as a sign of change and great leadership! it would have been a very convenient time to do this- no one was forced out of position and we had no expectations. kim jong un had the opportunity to be a hero- the ruler who changed his country and got rid of communism! a man of progress and support for his people! but instead he is about to make a fool of himself.
just my opinions. am i interpretting the news wrong?
How concerned are you about having your identity stolen?
i am probably less cautious than i should be. i just have the trust that someone smarter than me is working on the issues. however, two things worry me: 1) my parents get chain email and friggen click on every one and forward them around. i can't get them to stop clicking on these things and one day we might get a phone call from a nigerian prince. i just know it. 2) i don't trust bitcoin. it's a good theory but i don't trust the security... one accidental click and all your money gone!!
How cautious are you about food spoilage in your refrigerator?
oh, you know old germaphobic me...
but to be honest, my bigger refrigerator problem is keeping things from freezing! i bet most people don't have to worry whether or not they can make lunch because the eggs or salad or sliced cheese is frozen. i've had frozen poi and frozen carrot sticks.i swear the thermometer is always 2-4ºC but some how things still freeze in there. :P
and now i leave you with one of the best things i've heard in a long time. it's from the mouth of my research professor and out of context will have you rolling on the floor with laughter.
"we can't send all of you to the conference, someone has to stay back to feed the clones!"
i'll let you wonder about the implications of that statement. ;) - Mar 20, 13
so how is everyone coping with the eminent loss of google reader?
i am mad. and sad. but mostly mad. i was in deep... folders, tags, shares set up. even my rss feeds had an rss feed- my starred items get sent to the feed and they pop up on the right panel on this blog so you can see things i've read and liked! and soon it will be no more. :(
i've already decided i will move on and try something new. since i am almost an exclusive opera user (90% opera, 9% safari for incompatible sites, 1% firefox for things requiring a microsoft browser) it was natural that i look to see if opera had any recommended extensions. the first i saw was tiny tiny rss, but i'm not knowledgeable enough to use it. instead i went straight for the more obvious answer: send feeds to mail panel. it was easy import/export, built into the browser, easy to set up, can use tags and folders. seems to fill the rss void so far. however, there is no sharing function, no way to read from ipod touch/iphone, and i haven't figured all the key board short cuts yet. i'll let you know if i'm still on the wagon in a week or so of using it.
since i won't be able to star items and share them any more, i've beefed up my delicious account so you can see my interests there. (hey, remember when it used to be http://del.icio.us ?)
to eliminate redundancy, i'm also killing/boycotting my pinterest account; it was irritating anyway because you couldn't pin pages without photos and you couldn't pin the same link to multiple boards. how stupid is that?! i am fully back on delicious now and hope you will explore some of my interests. i am going to do a tag clean up soon (many links are from 2007, 2008 and have underscores in the tags or need to be merged) and then i will really be in business. if only there was a pinterest export tool like how google let me export my rss feeds... - Mar 19, 13
athis weekend i played halo 4 avec mes amis. i'm several levels ahead but this was the first time for my pals. they are really hooked now and hopefully we will have a little consistent gaming. :) it was also one of the few times jo has picked up a first person shooter and is still figuring out all the different weapons. she's doing good and it will be nice to have more girl power on the team! :D
we had a shave ice break at shimazu store and i have to share the pictures!
it feels good to get out of my black and white phase, finally. :3 most of the pictures are over exposed and crazy saturated. OTL spending a lot of time in a b&w frame of mind or shooting low light indoors, i think i forgot how to shoot in color properly. :/
PS, the shave ice was really good. recommending flavors: longan & green milk tea royale
now for some analog news,
i finished reading Bonk by mary roach!
i enjoyed Stiff very much (in fact, i enjoyed it more... but just because i'd rather talk about dead people than sex. is that weird?) and thought i'd go for another scientific-comedy. bonk doesn't disappoint, many useful facts about sex and also many facts about sex that i won't get to use- mainly because it explains how certain research was done or a surgical procedure takes place. yes, you heard right. this is a book about sex- so not for the extremely prudish- but it's not at all erotic. it's about the science of studying this slightly taboo field.
personally, i had a hard time finishing this because i read in my spare moments- often in public, while waiting on the bus or the grocery line and you know... people often ask what you are reading... and i have to tell them "it's a book about sex" and then they look away... so i decided it was best to read at home. later this month i will pick up her newest book [from the library], packing for mars.
now i am working on microcosm by carl zimmer.
another science subject, another author i discovered from a magazine (actually, i first read carl zimmer in Discover magazine, ha! but you can also find him in wired). haven't gotten too far in, but i've found a few gems already:
"Bacterial viruses make themselves known by the bacteria they destroy, as a small boy announces his presence when a piece of cake disappears."
- Max Delbrück - Mar 18, 13
one of the most vivid months of march i recall is march 2010.
i remember so many details of that month, i am surprised! i suppose that means it was an important milestone in my life, although why that month and not any other parts of that year is a mystery to me.
some things that come to mind:- my parents were in california for a week, just me and wild_twinkies at home together
- i made my own corned beef brisket for st. patrick's day... and subsequently ate corned beef sandwiches every day for lunch the rest of the week
- i remember the corned beef because the person who was training me was saying this was her first time making corned beef in her whole life!
- i had to catch the first AM bus (4:30) to get to dole cannery on time. it was nice to see the same people every day. plus it was my favorite bus driver (i see him at 9:40am now)- the cheerful, friendliest bus driver! he waits for people, he says good morning and "have a nice day at work" to every one. he brings news paper for the riders.
- a man with active TB was walking around in public because he left the hospital against medical advice. (see, this is pretty random but i remember this story as clearly as if it was yesterday)
- my trainer was reading this in the paper to us during lunch.
- the man was later found at ala moana beach park and treated.
- he had active TB but in his abdomen- not in the lungs.
- the hospital he left was Leahi- some one had seen him on the number 3 bus wearing a face mask (not an N-94) and i had that cartoon look of a person gulping. my brain was racing through my mental filing cabinet to see if i had ridden the bus recently with a face masked person or if i had passed any one at research meeting with a mask on...
- Metric album Fantasies had just come out
- every morning i would wake up to Front Row
- walking to the bus stop every day i would listen to the song Life Magazine by Cold Cave
- i had a pink pen that had three stylus in it: red ink, black ink, blue ink, mechanical pencil. i don't know where that pen went, i might use it now if i could find it....
- i still had my diagonal hair cut.
- i would keep it until december- when Tron Legacy came out. then i saw Quorra stole my hair cut and i HAD to change it. i am still grumpy about this. she practically stole my whole look! even my love of adventure stories and hot guys who work on computers! :(
- what i really miss the most is my green hair! had to color it a "natural" color before i went into the real work force. haven't had any interesting, fun colors since. :(
- i went to watch a horror movie with my classmates- it was fun because for a year, we worked together, in close quarters, every day in every class. then we went off to do our clinicals at different sites and didn't see each other any more. even now, i feel like we bonded a lot in class and am disappointed we don't see each other much any more.
- we made our first custom heroquest boards
- i briefly met a resident, Dr. Kodama, who was also doing a round through micro with Dr. Bankowski. i always hoped to run into him later because he seemed nice.
- i encountered an unusual clinical specimen, Bordetella petrii.
- attended one of the most awkward and reluctant family reunions. i played scrabble on the beach and didn't socialize much with my condescending distant relatives.
- still shooting a lot of film, my lomo site was really active.
- fall asleep every night at 8pm (i had to get up super early, remember?) to Lali Puna.
- Mar 17, 13
has it been a week? here's the friday5 again!
answer for yourself or see others' answers here: http://f.riday5.com/?p=764- What’s the longest line you’ve ever stood in?
waiting to get in to TBS concert! we were pretty close, decided to check if our tickets were at will call, they said yes but we had to wait in line! got back in line... at the end. :(
totally worth it though. best concert i attended. ♡ - When did you have the most fun waiting in line?
black friday with yummiestars! one of the first all nighters i pulled in my life! unbeknownst to me, the first of many years of all nighters i would have. ;) - What line, no matter how long or short it is, always drives you crazy?
they should have a separate, express line at the grocery store for people buying ice cream! - When did you last behave in a manner that was over the line?
one time at work, i was having trouble with the coulter LH not advancing racks. our QC is dependent on a specifically barcoded rack so i couldn't run the QC. i called tech services and they said a part needed changing and they would send someone in the morning. in the mean time, i ran our back up machine and wrote a mailbox to the other hematologist explaining what happened. i also attempted to run the QC manually (with out the special rack) but the data was not going in to the QC folder.
the next night, the day shift tech had written me... CCed to the entire department that i should not have left the QC un-done and next time i should have run it in the manual mode and typed in such and such ID number so that it goes in the QC folder and the machine is still usable in the manual mode...
i was so mad! i did everything i could think of and i had a contingency plan (use the back up) for AM rounds and i left appropriate notes to let everyone know the machine was not running, i looked in the SOP for instructions on entering QC data manually but it was not in there, and even scheduled an appointment for the service tech to come in to change the part in the morning!!
so i wrote back a mailbox, in all caps, CCed to the entire department: I AM SORRY I DID NOT KNOW HOW TO RUN THE QC IN MANUAL MODE, I DID WHAT I COULD TO MAKE THE DEPARTMENT READY FOR THE DAY TIME, I AM SORRY YOU WERE DISAPPOINTED. YOUR INSTRUCTIONS WERE VERY HELPFUL AND NEXT TIME I WILL USE THIS INFORMATION.
immediately after i sent this sarcastic angry note... i regretted it. i was sure i was going to be called by HR and talked to by the bosses... but! the coworker i intended this message for did not take it as sarcasm! she responded to me- i am glad i could be of some assistance, please let me know if you need more instruction in the future. 8'D some how she didn't pick up on any of my wrath! this is a fortunate thing, seeing as i really enjoy having a job.
what did i learn from this?
STOP. CALM DOWN. THINK BEFORE YOU SEND. - What are some lines of poetry you can recite from memory?
Not in cruelty, not in wrath
The Reaper came today
An angel visited this gray path
And took the cube away.
in other news...
i recently read this article about flourishing vs. magic: http://visualmadness.com/articles/magic-no-magical-hell-yes/
and he mentions the riffle fan as a visually stunning effect.
which led me to this video, i saw on theCuso. years ago (fyi, featuring mr. cuso, dimitri arleri) but it disappeared shortly after it was posted!
it is back! it's amazing! here, watch:
2:41 riffle fan, amazeballs, right?! i also love the 3:29 table spread to fan. both simple looking enough but really beautiful. (and if you try it, not so simple at first. deceptively, your left hand isn't moving...)
ok, that's all i got for now.
back to crunching campy stuff for the up coming poster season. X___X - What’s the longest line you’ve ever stood in?
- Mar 12, 13
friday5 again! answer for yourself or see others' answers here: http://f.riday5.com/?p=760
- Who’s the fastest talker you know?
??? - Who’s the most soft-spoken person you know?
my hearing got destroyed at concerts (HEY DID I MENTION I AM GOING TO SEE METRIC IN CONCERT!!!!!! MIGHT BE THE HAPPIEST DAY OF MY LIFE, SO EXCITED FOR APRIL!!!!!!!! BEEN IN A SUPER GOOD MOOD EVER SINCE I BOUGHT THE TICKETS!) and standing in fireworks,
i also listen to podcasts on high volume while riding the bus, etc. so i have a hard time hearing people of certain tones and volumes. especially on the phone. i've been to the doctor and they don't think i have any deafness. i just... have a hard time hearing certain people. is that normal? also, i'm chinese. i grew up listening to people yelling at me or talking to me while sounding like they are yelling! haha.
silence is such a stoic and powerful trait. i tend to be on the more boisterous side but i am making conscious efforts to lower my volume, sorry! - What are some words you know from a language you don’t speak?
I know some french but my grammar is so bad. how about a few interesting idioms instead? i use these with @wild_twinkies
... don't really know anyone else who knows french well enough to use slang and also wade through my mushy sentence structure. :P
The french word for "chopsticks" is "baguettes"!
some people like to use abbreviations when texting. i'm sure you know OMG, LOL, WTF... ok, how about in french?
"i bought" = "j'ai acheté" = GHT if you say the letters in french it phonetically sounds like that phrase. (pronounced "jay" "aush" "tay")
"are you busy" = "t'es ocupée" = TOQP (pronounced "tay" "oh" "cue" "pay")
"someone" = "quelqu'un" = QQN
"sorry" = "desolée" = DSL
interestingly, if you put abbreviations in google translate sometimes it will also show the slang translation! for example, i was trying to see if there was an alternate definition for "mort de rire" besides the literal "die of laughing". if you put the slang MDR it translates to ROFL! heheheheee... - To whom did you last speak your own name?
a 4th floor nurse when i called a critical during AM rounds. i get so irritated when people (mostly at work) answer the phone with just "hello". i try assume the other party does not have caller ID and respond with "hi, this is C from the lab" or "laboratory, this is C". even if i call (or text!) a person whom i don't normally contact i start with "hi, this is C" just as a reminder.
and now for additional laughs, if you call me when i'm sleeping or if i've just left work, i might answer my cell or house phone with a "lab, this is C" to the surprise of the contacting party! - If everyone had to be a national spokesperson for some cause, what would be yours?
ANTI NAIL BITING and INCREASED HAND WASHING.
also, please stop honking at me to move aside for you (you, car drivers, you) when i'm on a bike! i see you, i hear you, and i will let your impatient ass pass when it's safe for me to get closer to the sidewalk! >:U
yesterday i spent the day with le boyfriend. we stayed indoors mostly because the rain has returned. he bought me borderlands 2!! i was playing on ps3 because he already unlocked the mechromancer character but i will resume on my xbox (going to make a siren again) if anyone wants to join me...
wild_twinkies likes to play halo so i am waiting for her so we can finish the second episode pack together. i think we have two left? she is a night sleeper and works/schools during the day so we don't hang out together even though we are sisters and live in the same house! (and if you are wondering how i manage to have a boyfriend too? well, he is perpetually mad at me and deserves some kind of medal.)
i want to share a bunch of music instead of just one song today!
i've mentioned on here [a long time ago] Boy Who Cried Wolf by Futures:
i might have even mentioned that they might have an EP, Karma Satellite, of acoustic tunes. yesterday, out of the blue, i decided to see if said album was available on itunes. to my surprise (ok, not that great of a surprise because i haven't checked in a few years) they have karma satellite AND a full length, The Karma Album! previously, their first album, The Holiday, couldn't be bought on itunes at all. now, all three can be found there! but i recommend just getting the newest, The Karma Album, because it includes the songs from The Holiday. Support Futures, they are awesome!!! and if you fancy physical media or tees to proclaim your love of good music, here's the official store site: http://futuresmerch.bigcartel.com/
boy who cried wolf is one of my top plays and the new album is even listed as an itunes best of 2012, so i don't know how i missed the new release! better late than never, i suppose.
i recommend: Islands in the Sea
and Start a Fire:
this week, i have three top songs:
heard this on the radio and had to have it: Trojans | Atlas Genius
super fun music! makes me smile.
i also have an acoustic version from a silversun pickups tour ep (free! download here: http://silversunpickups.com/2012/09/free-tour-ep-2/ ), but i don't like it as much as the radio edit. (would have killed to go to the concert though- sspu and sviib in one night?! *swoon* )
been listening to this on the bus home from work: You, Me & the Violence | Birds in a Row
morning rounds gets me all riled up, have to listen to angry music! i really like the discernible "IT'S ONLY YOU... ME... AND......... THE VIOLENCE" in the middle of the song. so powerful.
more angry music! passed this album to my research partner and Chelsea Smile | Bring Me The Horizon got bumped up in my itunes "recently played" playlist so i've been listening to it a bit lately. the lines are so catchy!
i'd like to note, this is the first time i've looked up the music video and... this is not what i thought this song was about! XD
phew, a long post, sorry!
that's all for now! - Who’s the fastest talker you know?
- Feb 26, 13
i've mentioned here before that sometimes i wonder about my own sanity.
well today, chalk one up for the crazies again...
we have this mandatory meeting about patient satisfaction and safety that i attended today. it's for the entire hospital and they (the various department managers) give a presentation to groups of ~20 people from all different departments- nurses, labbies, house keeping... everyone has to go to this. it's a power point and video that's supposed to be interactive, they give examples or ask questions and anyone who wants to pipe up can give an answer. and one of the questions was:
HOW CAN WE PRESERVE QUALITY CARE AND HOSPITAL EXCELLENCE?
ok, do you have an answer in your head?
just think of the first best answer.
well, i was about to say out loud to an entire room of people:
REMOVE NON EXCELLENT WORKERS.
(-____-) • • •
thank goodness a nurse spoke up before me with "give consistent quality care".
that is obviously an excellent answer and that didn't even cross my mind. of course we should treat everyone with the best care! it makes total sense! ugggh, why can't my brain just process normally... "remove non excellent workers" is such a dumb answer.
this is why i don't get a lot of patient interaction.
just give me your blood so i can go back to the lab and look at your cells alone with my microscope. - Feb 23, 13
HEY! friday 5 time!
answer for yourself or read others' answers here: http://f.riday5.com/?p=754- What’s had you spinning ’round in circles lately?
ummm... cyclic hexadienes? LOL. been studying benzene reactions for days to prep for ochem exam. and it helped! finished that tough mother with enough time to check work, but whether or not i got a good score... have to wait and see next week. - When were you last on a bicycle?
rode on thursday, but no exciting bikeventure. just down to the store for toothpaste. - Who’s the best storyteller you know?
Dr. B has some of the most interesting stories! very hilarious too. - How well do you handle carnival rides?
during the ride i'm ok. after the ride i'm usually about to regurgitate my lunch. - What do you think of TV gameshow Wheel of Fortune?
i love word puzzles! but wheel of fortune doesn't guarantee a win even if you can solve all the puzzles. you could land on a bankrupt or just not spin enough dollars than the other contestants. hence, i would never go on that tv show. i also noticed the prizes are harder to win. in order to win a car you have to land on the "1/2 car" space TWICE (you know, 1/2 + 1/2 = 1 whole car) and then you have to solve the final puzzle, meaning you have to make it to the final puzzle in the first place, before you can get the car. i also think i'd be pretty good at jeopardy but could never win because my reflexes are so slow... can't buzz in fast enough.
today i was feeling lazy and didn't want to go out. instead i stayed home and made scones with lemon curd because i have a whole carton of milk expiring today. later i will finish up the carton by making tapiocas and umm... cereal. haha. need to find more milk recipes.
for the scones, try them for yourself if you like. my recipe is super simple and can be made quickly however, it's not an AAAA recipe. it tastes good, but i'd still pick liliha bakery scones over these any day of the week. as for the recipe source? sorry, it's hand written on loose leaf paper in a binder that i have, not sure who the original author is. they also aren't the prettiest looking... but i tried to make them homey and delicious so you would be tempted to try them out too. ;)
mix in a bowl 2 1/2 c flour, 1/2 tsp salt, 1 tsp baking powder.
cut in 1 stick (8 tbs?) COLD butter.
add 1/4 c sugar (or 1/3 c if you plan to have it plain).
add 2/3 c milk
make a dough ball, try not to mix too much. may be a little crumbly.
split into 6-8 pieces and bake 425ºF on a greased cookie sheet for ~20'.
* optional: brush top with egg before baking for a golden sheen.
for the curd, it's a standard recipe that i just eye ball. sorry!
don't worry you only need a few ingredients and it's fun to be a mad kitchen scientist!
super low heat butter maybe half a stick or less.
add lemon juice.
continually whisk... add in milk, tbs at a time, don't let it curdle!
add powdered sugar to taste (still whisking on low). it should thicken up by itself. :)
pour over baked scones, then soak up the rest with toast for breakfast. om nom nom! - What’s had you spinning ’round in circles lately?
- Feb 16, 13
- ran two campy invasions, both flat lined. = 12 hours of work, 6 days of incubation, 0 results.
- need to submit campy abstract to local ASM meeting. hoping to win travel $$$ for the general meeting, but it requires oral presentation... which i haven't prepared for this project. not a huge problem, but i like to be extra prepared to answer whatever questions and i haven't had time to do that yet. if you are interested in current micro research and a keynote speech about on bacteria on mars please register!
- i taught a person how to ride a bicycle! check that off my bucket list.
- i went to The End of minecraft. i saw a LOT of endermen ♡ but i didn't get to beat the ender dragon.
- more phlebotomy this week! i guess i'm not that rusty after all, haha.
- i had a crazy dream that i was walking home from school and a bunch of kids came out of the bushes walking a camel! A CAMEL! i asked them where it came from and they said around the corner... i went around the corner and ended up at the back of lincoln elementary school cafeteria. i looked inside and the cook was motherfcking saddam hussein! and not grungy, bearded looking sadam hussein but a prim looking guy with a mustache- like his military statue (the one that got toppled)- and he had an apron on and was holding a wooden spoon. crazy.
he totally looked like this but with an apron and hair net: - who's been participating in the gaia valentines/10yr anniversary event? i'm all decked out in gaia party gear. ^^
- today's meteor in russia... i was more excited to see what neil degrasse tyson had to say about this. #startalk #nerdistchannel
- happy st. valentine's to me... i splurged and bought myself this snake: http://fab.com/sale/17743/product/119917/?usid=13
- fontaines came out! (and i heard vintage holdout is built in to the design!)
but i'm more excited about USPC steamboat and reprint fan!
i ♡ vintage designs. i think i'm unconciously wanting to learn vintage hold out but right now i don't think i have the skillz to do it.
also, i've never had any stripper decks (i'm generally not into trick decks, i like the idea of doing tricks with the ordinary stuff. ) but am kind of drooling over these........ - i need to do my taxes. :(
breathing underwater ♡
breathing underwater // reflection ♡♡
breathing underwater // acoustic ♡♡♡ !!!! - Feb 06, 13
hey, it's wednesday already! half the week gone ahhhh... where does time go...
after the best day ever, i had another day(s) of awesome stuff!
friday, i went to night in china town to celebrate the year of the snakesssssss! first, dinner at my favorite place, hong kong noodle.
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in a few months i am going to be very sad. the owners are retiring and a new owner will take over... i'm sure the food will still be good but the atmosphere will be different. can't go in any more and have cecilia ask if i'm having "the usual" or chit chat about her grand kids and work. even my parents have been eating there since before i was born... before they were even married! but it's all for the best, really happy for them to enjoy retirement. :)
i was with yummiestars and we walked all around china town, watching different kung fu clubs blessing the shops. i love the sounds of the different clubs and the different colored lions. and fireworks. looooove the fireworks. chinese new year, yo... so they use the real stuff. loud and red and smoky. i ran into a lot of people i knew. great to see old and new friends. celebration always brings people together. ^^ still sorting through pictures of the night, but here are a few to get started with:
(i ran into the great and infamous sau again!)
(yummiestars!)
(R & Doug making *kawaii-peace-sign!*)
after walking, we went to hang out with some other friends at five ocean until midnight.
and then i got home and passed out after another 24 day, lol. sooooo much for new year resolutions!
on saturday, i biked back to cultural plaza to peruse the booths. i bought a cool opera mask, a bracelet, and a narcissus plant. then i biked to punahou carnival for lunch/dinner... gyros!!! i also walked through the white elephant tent but didn't see anything to strike my fancy. i biked home the short way... up and over auwaiolimu street. ugggggh... i really dislike hills. >___< but i made it! go legs, go!
when i got home i was thinking, oh good, shower, make a quick snack and then four hours to snooze before work. but i got called in early again. it was like a cartoon moment- where a spoon of jook was half way to my mouth and i stopped to answer the phone and then the jook never gets finished. haha.
so that was the end of my fun awesome weekend!
work has been uneventful (except that i've been doing more phlebotomy than usual, but that's ok, i could use the practice), school has been junky (except for lunch at 220 grille ;9 ), and research has been making progress (hopefully moving on to carbon dioxide assays if we can locate a regulator for the gas tank we have).
that's all for now!
PS-
for today's music selection i wanted to share walk 'em with grace by the get up kids, but it's a bonus track on there are rules and can't find a video or link for it. :( sowwwie, guess you'll have to itunes or amazon preview it. instead, you get keith case (because i share rememorable, my favorite song, too often!) - Jan 31, 13
yesterday was so awesome.
1. tues night/weds morning was the first in a long time that everything went ok. after the network outage fiasco, then the water, then the chemistry "wash valve 2" error, then the over time i put in, and just the general busy period... it was amazing that everything went ok! i even had daily AND weekly maintenance to do and i didn't care, because i was so glad to not have any unexpected errors! oh, and also i had to recalibrate one of our drugs (i was in chemistry, btw) and i still was unphased. the last two weeks of work was really the shittiest time... everyday i'd have to clock in and go "what's broken or what did we run out of?". so everything is back to normal now and i was in a super good mood when i got off in the morning.
2. we had a super heavy morning rounds but because everything was in good order we finished morning rounds on time! i set my am relief crew up for success and clocked out exactly on time and caught the earlier bus home! so i got home 15' earlier! awesome. this let me study for ochem quiz 15' extra minutes...
3. i ended up studying 30' extra minutes and was so convinced i was going to be late for class!!! i got on a later bus than usual. so i got on a *different* transfer bus in downtown than usual... and some how i got to school *EARLIER* than if i had taken the earlier bus from home?! i don't really know how this is even possible!?!! but i will test this out again and if it works, i can leave the house 15' later and still get to class on time!
4. i was already in a good mood. and i studied. so i aced that ochem quiz! IN YOUR FACE DIELS ALDER REACTION!!1!!!1!1!!!!!
diels-alder I: mechanism:
5. i treated myself to lunch at 220 grille. i had the braised short ribs. - w - soooooo delicious! a good size portion of meat that was fork tender. had a demi-glaze on the meat (the description says bernaise sauce but it was most definitely NOT a bernaise sauce. maybe the description is reffering to the sauce on the mash potatoes?); an asparagus, carrot, hamakua mushroom sautee; and kale and bacon mashed potatoes. for $8 you can't go wrong. it was so good, i would have paid more than $8 for this in a real restaurant. props to the students who prepared it, so delicious!!!! i always encourage people to eat at 220:- it helps the culinary students
- the food is fucking delicious
- you don't have to dress up like at ka'ikena dining room (but the food at ka'ikena is also amazeballs and if you ever get a chance to go down there... esp for the dessert buffet on friday nights...)
- good portions and good prices
6. went up to leahi after lunch. had a good training session with the new recruits. hopefully i can pass off some experiment duties so i'm not in the lab 5x a week. then took care of some business i've been putting off for a while- picked up new bus pass, talked with my research professors (came to some constructive conclusions), & checked on my inbre status.
7. on hte bus home, i txt my sister to see if she still wanted to meet me at ala moana but she said no. when i got home, i decided not to waste my energy and happiness high so i went for a bike ride around pauoa valley. :)
8. i got home and was approaching my 21st hour of wakefulness. decided to make good on my promise to not stay up for 24º again since i was did almot everything i wanted to do today... when @yummiestars sent me a message! she was going to ala moana!! yey girls night out and i get to go shopping- the one thing i didn't accomplish today! it was a serendipitous excursion. i found some way cool boots for $15, nike shoes for $30 and a cute tiny necklace for $3. don't judge me. shopping is my weakness. -__-
9. and then we got $1 ice cream cones form mcdonalds. best. dinner. ever.
10. got home and crashed after the best day ever. :D - Jan 28, 13
so much for new year resolutions.
after failing 2012, i decided this year i would not stay up more than 24 hours again! seems bad for your health- and bad for your temper, haha. but here we are, not even past the first month. on friday i was in the waking world for 29 turns of the clock! disappointed. i guess there's always next year.
luckily it's the weekend and i was able to catch up with 6 luxurious hours in my bed, under a blanket, dead to the world. :)
saturday and sunday i put in extra hours at work, covering for a coworker. i don't really mind, it's more interesting when you get to do something out of the normal routine, and it's better for sick people to stay home and recover instead of working and infecting the world. only problem was... i was tired! i think this might be the first time since starting night shift (over two years ago) that i've been tired while at work. i was fighting with every nerve in my body to keep my eye balls open- pulled so many pending logs because i was paranoid i would miss a test from lack of attention! also, i ended up having to do phlebotomy for a few hours... and i haven't drawn blood in several weeks! luckily for my victims- uhhh... i mean patients- i didn't have any misses. got 4 sets of blood cultures and several other routine draws. hell yeah, so proud of myself! i was so excited and relieved when i saw the blood coming out, haha. i always worry if i don't do phlebotomy as often i won't be able to do it anymore.
here's a video i found about blood cultures (there is veinipuncture involved so don't watch if you're squeemish about needles) so you can see why i was somewhat apprehensive about drawing them. two sets means two seperate draws (which doesn't make people happy) and you have to use butterflies (which i hate) or syringe only- no straight needles. and ea bottle is a minimum of 7ml so it takes a while to fill up...
anyway, if you are curious about the job of lab people or why certain tests are ordered click below!
two exciting things i did over the weekend:
1. finished reading MICRO by Michael Crichton
an exciting fiction about nano bots in hawaii!!
super fast read and very exciting, especially if you like hiking/nature. ;D
five star rating from me. my other favorite Chrichton chronicles are: SPHERE and AIRFRAME. i know, the popular ones are jurassic park and andromeda strain. i think sphere and airframe are better. just sayin'.
2. ate dinner with le boyfriend at Olive Tree in kahala
falafel is yummmmmmmmmmmmmy!
i also played several hrs of minecraft but we won't mention that...
today i got off work, went straight to kcc. powered down some ochem. then bussed it home and took my bicycle out for short ride. i went to longs, then the bank, and then the comic book store. on my way home i ran into a friend! he was unhappy with his job so he quit and will be starting his own business. it's always nice to hear someone pursuing happiness. :)
i didn't bike with a camera today (was planning on hauling groceries back and didn't want to add to the weight) so here is a picture i took when i got home:
SO WHO ELSE IS EXCITED ABOUT DEATH OF THE FAMILY STORYLINE?!
ok, sleep for me now. staying up all night again. :) see you at the lab! - Jan 24, 13
ughhhhh... it's been officially a whole week of chaos at work. •____•
last tuesday, mostly computer problems (stemming from certain damaged phone lines) that really slow down our work flow. then on wednesday we had a water outage... chemistry analyzer had to be manually pumped with water to run tests. thursday, more chemistry analyzer problems some kind of overflowed wash valve. friday, another minor network outage while they repaired the fire-damage cable. then, my first weekend off for this year! quite relaxing. :3 back to the grind on monday night... don't even remember what happened. i got off work on tues morning and headed straight to leahi to do a 6hr campy experiment. then on tuesday night, chemistry analyzer wasn't reading barcodes again (turned out they switched the network lines for an hour and forgot to tell us.)
last night, wednesday, a different person, in the same area, cut the same network cable as the one that was damaged last week. really guys? again? i'm pretty sure lasers were coming out of my eyes, i was so mad! luckily, the IT guys came to the rescue and we were only down for a few hours. then we spent the next few hours cleaning up unresulted tests from the down time. then a bleeder got transferred to us from another hospital; i ordered platelets and BBH accidentally switched my order with queen's! haha. would have worked out in my favor because i only needed one but a box arrived with six (!!!) but we switched orders with them and all was well. :)
i'm working chemistry again tonight, makes me wonder what else could possibly go wrong. :X
on the other hand, working hard makes you appreciate your time off more!
nothing like a long night of work and coming home to your minecraft house and findinga present in your living room!or a cat on your roof!or an enderman rearranging your cave!ok, you can stop laughing now. i know minecraft is a pretty nerd thing to talk about but it's like having a whole other world to live in and explore! :)
what else did i do on my day off? checked out this book about jello at the library.watched new episodes of young justice (zatanna is back! death stroke is back! angry roy harper joins the team! lex luthor is going to... form The Outsiders? i'm calling it! heard here first, on the blog!)discovered li'l gothams has a series (it's only 99¢ so no excuse in missing out in the batman cute overload!)but the real highlight of my weekend was meeting the great and infamous sau!he's super cool and has lots of interesting ideas!he professed he doesn't really want pictures of himself so here's a picture of his awesome bicyclewhich he let me ridebut most of the time i had pained expressions and looked ridiculousso i gave it back.we went on a rapid jaunt to moiliili where i met another bicycling lad- the cycle manoa organizer! (i'm sorry, i don't recall your name) together, they righted my bicycling wrongs (thanks for flipping my quick release to the correct side) before i departed.thanks for the bikeventure, hope we can ride again some time!!PS-please vote for me in the chrome street photo contest?or maybe submit an entry for yourself! prize is a fuji xpro and some chrome gear. :D
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Tin is a material made from tin ore. The bright, silvery, delicate metal has been used for years in making tinware sake cups and tea-related goods, flower vases, and religious paraphernalia. Satsuma tinware is a traditional craft of Kagoshima prefecture. This week, PingMag MAKE visited a shop in Kagoshima City called Ootsuji Asahi-do. The shop was founded in 1912. This old, historic shop is run by a man with a heart full of love for modern science, and the combination is a surprisingly good one.
Interview by Takafumi Suzuki
Translation by Claire TanakaA tea caddy finished in the “Kagayaki” style, which is done by making countless tiny cuts.The illustration is etched into the surface.I had no idea there was such beautiful tinware in the Satsuma region.
There used to be a mine about twenty kilometers south of Kagoshima City called the Taniyama Mine, and it came into being during the Edo period. The finely carved finish, the frosted finish, and the pale lacquer accents are all features of Satsuma tinware.
The surface texture is so beautiful.
Our tinware has won several awards. But, it’s not exactly traditional Satsuma tinware. If I may speak plainly, this is a result of techniques I developed myself. I used old techniques as a base and analyzed them and evolved the techniques.
A tea caddy marked with randomly placed cuts sparkles darkly.This is the hand-carved “Tsuchime” style, an original technique.Could you give me an example of one of your original techniques?
One technique, called “Kagayaki” consists of small scattered cut lines which are physically cut into the metal. The light reflecting off the fine lines becomes the design itself. Another one is called “Tsuchime” and it consists of carving the metal by hand. It’s a very rare method. Look, the inner side still shows the lines from where it was carved. Isn’t that beautiful?
So it’s not necessarily techniques that have been passed down through the generations after all, then?
I came back here when I was forty, and the techniques they were using were so corny, from my point of view they seemed pretty spoiled. That’s why I decided that it was time to revise the old sloppy techniques that they’d been using. For example, the nitric acid that is used to make a frosted finish on the tin: I started controlling the temperature and specific gravity of it. Then the things that came out of it, my father said, “I’ve never seen such a wonderful piece.” All I could think was, “Of course you haven’t!” (laughs) I mean really, the craftsmen we had back then had no qualms about saying “Today just wasn’t my day” when they failed to make a good product. If you’re a manufacturer working for a corporation, you can’t get away with that kind of talk.
The surface is lathed to a mirror finish.Mr. Otsuji tells us this is a very important step in the production process.Mr. Otsujii, what were you doing before you took over the family business?
I worked making parts as a technician at a manufacturer. I just naturally developed a modern, scientific way of thinking while working at the company. In the world of traditional craft, once you hit on one case of success, that becomes a traditional technique and it gets set in stone. Of course, the public only ever sees the finished product. But if you don’t analyze the processes which contribute to the improvement of the product, make careful comparisons, build hypotheses, and apply a modern way of thinking, then the process of evolution will just stop.
Had you wanted to become a technician ever since you were a child?
The act of making things was a part of daily life for me. I didn’t like people, and I was what they called “yasenbo” in the local Kagoshima dialect. People made fun of me because I was so quiet. At playtime, I either played house with the girls or made things. But you know, give me enough time and I’d make anything. When I was in Junior High, I even made a pistol. (laughs) But even so, I wasn’t particularly good with my hands. Until I got good enough, I burned off all my hair in a chemical fire and made lots of other mistakes too. I did a lot of trial-and-error.
Freshly lathed containers. They already sparkle like a mirror in the sunlight.A sake kettle with a beautifully curved spout.Did you take over the family business because you’re the oldest son?
No. Actually, I’m the fourth son. My father wanted to get his eldest son to take over the business. And he sent him to the Kyoto Institute of Technology and had him study design. But when he came back and started work, my brother who had just come back from learning the latest technology at school, and my father, a true craftsman to the bone, just couldn’t see eye-to-eye. So my eldest brother wound up working for the government. My father’s second son wasn’t interested in tin at all so he didn’t do it. The third son was raised spoiled and even when he tried to take over the business he never did any work and always skipped out. So that’s how I ended up being the one to take over the family business. (laughs)
Were you upset that you had to quit the technician’s job that you loved?
Yes, I was. But both my wife and I were born in Kagoshima, and we wanted to move back here. The thing that pushed me to come back was when we had a conversation about, “My future is to become the factory manager, and then that will be it.” And then after a while, my father called me up and said “Hey, come back here. We can’t make anything good and we’re in trouble. You’ve got to solve the problem.” Right then I’d been thinking about my inevitable future and work was very stable and I was feeling bored. I’d say it was perfect timing.
The workshop is small, but clean and orderly. It seems like a comfortable place to work.The workshop faces the street, and light is always shining into the workshop. People outside can also see the craftsmen at work.But wasn’t it hard to come from a different field and jump into the world of the craftsman?
I went through a lot at first. I’d try to introduce something new and of course the old craftsmen would reject it. They’d all spent years learning how to cast metal, and years more learning how to carve it, which seemed totally over the top to me. But there I was, thinking I could master it all in a month. (laughs) My thinking was that I was a technician, not a craftsman. I figured that if I could understand the theory then that was enough. But the craftsmen got angry and wouldn’t listen to a word I said.
And then what did you do?
Well it’s very simple. I improved their work environment. Their old workplace environment was very rough. The sound of the lathe motor was terribly loud, so loud you couldn’t listen to the radio. Plus, it was so hot and humid in the summer. So I put the lathe up on some cement blocks and cut out a lot of the noise, and made it so they could listen to the radio. Then, I fixed the roof and improved the air circulation. I made lots of little changes like that. That gave them a bit of a surprise. Then they started to listen to what I had to say. (laughs)
Mr. Kozo Adachi started working as a tinsmith at this workshop in 1976. He’s a true master of his trade.The “Kagayaki” style on the left, and the hand-carved “Tsuchime” on the right.I think it must be very hard to introduce new techniques into a traditional craft, but it must also be hard to make sure things get carried on to the next generation.
I’ve got to raise a successor, I’ve thought about that plenty myself, and I also hear it from others a lot. But, traditional techniques, they are something that stay inside individual people, and it’s not something you can teach. That’s why it’s not just a matter of simply passing it all down to someone. If you want to help traditional craft progress and stay relevant, you’ve got to have an interest in all kinds of things in the world. You’ve got to have curiosity, a scientific mind, and a sense of a goal or you’ll never make it.
Ootsuji Asahi-do
Nishida 2-17-17, Kagoshima City, KagoshimaKenichi Ootsuji
Born in Kagoshima City in 1935. - Mar 12, 13
Trabajando con viejas grabaciones de mi primer viaje a la India en 2005. Llevaba mi antigua y fiel PC8 de Sony, nunca llegué a utilizar el material en vídeo que me traje, es curioso volver a encontrárselo ahora y reinterpretar lo que grabé hace 8 años. - Mar 06, 13
We spent this past weekend in Madera, California at the 2013 Central Valley FRC Regional, a FIRST robotics competition. We went with Firebird Robotics Team 3501 from Fremont High School, who we are mentoring and sponsoring.
The challenge of this year’s game, entitled Ultimate Ascent was to build a robot that could compete to score points on a team with two other robots by shooting frisbees into goals and climbing a pyramid structure while defending against an opposing alliance of three robots.
The Firebirds named their frisbee shooting robot “Oddjob” after the James Bond villain who throws his bowler hat with lethal results. One of the green-shirted safety advisors at the event was coincidentally named James Bond, and he was a good enough sport to allow us to take his picture with Oddjob.
We ran into a robot from team 840 sponsored by our friends at Skallops which had a wonderfully appropriate warning sticker on the frisbee shooter reading “DANGER: DECAPITATION HAZARD.”
We’re relatively new to the world of FIRST, which can be almost cult-like, with participants identifying themselves by team number like a code word or secret handshake. A smaller number means a team that was established earlier. Over the last 20 or so years, the organization has managed to channel the enthusiasm of teenagers which is normally directed toward athletes and celebrities instead toward engineering, programming, and building. The teams are fiercely spirited, bringing their mascots and supporters to cheer them on at competitions. It is truly incredible to see this much energy directed towards a science and engineering event.
Robots are awarded more points for goals scored during autonomous play, and the highly competitive field is steered toward collaboration and mutual assistance by the alliance aspect. The teams work hard to make sure that their robot will be an asset to any alliance in the hopes that even if they don’t rank highly enough in qualification rounds to be a team captain themselves, they’ll be chosen by one of the alliance captains and advance to the finals. They actively share tools and materials with the other teams, as any of the other robots could be on their alliance during a given match. Parts request announcements in the pits are filled almost as soon as they are announced, although when we heard “Team #### needs an FTL drive” over the PA, we could only laugh.
One of the more visible ways we were able to share was with our yellow gaffers tape, which team 3495 used to make their engraved sign stand out with their team color. We were the beneficiaries of parts, too, with another team generously sharing a metal shaft when one of ours bent during a match.
The teams are typically student driven, with mentors playing an advisory role, supporting the students as they work through problems of design, mechanics, building, programming, and team dynamics. The students work incredibly hard to design and build the robot during just six weeks allowed as the “build season,” and then during the competitions fine-tune, fix, and improve their machine. Even the mascot works just as hard on the robot as everyone else.
Through a combination of determination, hard work and luck, our team came out of the qualifying rounds with the top ranking, and then made it all the way to the final game of the elimination rounds, with their ally teams 3970 and 2643. However, our friends from team 840, along with allies 295 and 1678 bested us to win the finals, 2 matches to 1, earning a spot at the championships.
Besides strict competition, there are additional awards and honors are given at these events to recognize technical ingenuity, good design and spirit. Our team received the Judges award, which was summed up rather accurately by one team member as being the award for “general awesomeness.” Congratulations to all of the participating teams, every one of which pulled off building a robot that could play an incredibly challenging game! Our team is headed next to the Silicon Valley Regional event April 4-6, but there are events every week all over the world leading up to the championships April 24-27 in St. Louis. All events are free and open to the public, so get out and cheer on your local robots!
If you have a chance, find a way to mentor, sponsor, or otherwise volunteer to help out your local robot team or competition. FIRST, and its several associated programs directed at younger students, are some of the best ways that we have to inspire youngsters to pursue careers in science and engineering. And that’s something that benefits us all.
- Mar 07, 13"Check it out, looks like she's gonna bake something now!""Hey Lardee, I got an idea:
Let's hide in here, and when she opens it we yell, "SURPRISE!""First we gotta make some room -
Let's hide two of these.""I suppose that was inevitable.""Heheh, we're so sneaky.""Tee-hee-hee...""Shh-Shh!!""I'm sure she'll be baking any minute now..." - Mar 11, 13
Today I'm wearing Dolce & Gabbana...and lusting after both the Spring/Summer and Autumn/Winter 2013 collections.Summer...
and fall...
So extravgantly beautiful!bunny kissesFifi Lapin - Mar 02, 13
nabiis and FTC introduce their second collaboration frameset called the A2, and it’s just in time for the Taipei International Cycle Show this month. See more details HERE! - Mar 02, 13
That is just nuts! Elliot Miner taking heights to a whole new level.Photo credit: Matt Spencer
- Mar 03, 13
Spring is coming, but many parts of the world will remain cold… so swoop up this sweet Velo Cult All Weather pullover hoodie. - Feb 27, 13
Lasso is a pair of flat-packed slippers. Made from one piece of wool-felt with a leather sole and laced in the colour of your choice...
(Want more? See NOTCouture) - Feb 28, 13
Everpurse is a clutch that lets you charge your iPhone on the go without any wires
(Want more? See NOTCouture) - Feb 28, 13
AÃRK Collective is a new watch company based in Melbourne, Australia who is trying to redefine the way we see time.
(Want more? See NOTCouture) - Feb 28, 13
Titanium Escape Ring - a saw and handcuff shim pick combination tool hidden inside!
(Want more? See NOTCouture) - May 16, 13
I hate Valentine's Day.
Because it's always reminded me of the day my dad passed away since I was 13.
We all have to get over a wall sometimes, so I started my coffee bike at Circles Nagoya on Valentine's Day 3 years ago. Now it's my special happy day today.
It's been so great meeting with you so many wonderful people and I made so many wonderful friends through my coffee bike.
Thank you and Happy 3rd Birthday to CharRie's Café!
Photo by: Yohei Morita - COG
I've heard that people have 3 years cycle, like boys & girls relationship giving up or sticking to each other longer after 3 years...? :D
I feel it's the same for my coffee bike. I was away for long time from this blog. I even forgot how to write it here. I was a bit embarrassed... I need a something big change happens to my coffee bike otherwise I would be a faded flower...
OK, it's the time. I will write this down what I am planning on this year and do it!
"I'm crossing Europe over 4000km from Berlin to Portugal making my hand-brewed coffee on the way with my new Hunter Coffee Bike this summer."
I am all thumbs but only I can do well is making my special hand-brewed coffee with much love.
Want to make more people smile with my coffee.
Ride the Talk!
「バレンタインデー」はきらい。
毎年毎年パパが死んだ時のことを思い出すから。
でも、そういうのって乗り越えなきゃいけない。
３年前、ちょうど新月だったし、バレンタインデーに名古屋の自転車屋さん サークルズ でチャーリーズ自転車カフェをやってみんなをハッピーにしようと思って始めたのがきっかけ。そしたら自然と毎年バレンタインデーが私にとって、私を支えてくれた人たちに感謝しお祝いする日になった。自転車カフェのおかげでたくさん友達ができたよ。たくさんすてきな出会いがあったよ。
Happy Birthday my coffee bike チャーリーズ、ありがとう。
３年というのは何かの節目な気がする。例えば、彼氏彼女が別れるか長く付き合うかを決断する時がくるのも３年ごととかだったりするんじゃなかったっけ？そろそろ何かおっきな変化を起こさないと、このままチャーリーズもきれいな思い出にしてフェイドアウトしてってしまうところだった。
月日が経つのもあっという間で、気づけばブログも１年間おやすみしていた。もうブログの書き方忘れちゃったよ。思ったこと書けばよかったんだっけ？なんか恥ずかしいね。
じゃあ、とりあえず、今の私の頭の中でプランしていることをここに書き残しておきます。
そして、有言実行。
「 Rick に新しいコーヒーバイクを作ってもらって、今年の夏ベルリンからポルトガルまで４０００ｋｍ、コーヒーを淹れながらヨーロッパ横断する！」
私は何も出来ないけど、コーヒーはおいしく作れる。
たくさんの人を一瞬で笑顔に変えたい。 - Feb 03, 13#346 Two tetrahedrons in adjacent cubesfrom Geometry DailyFor the cube enthusiast, compare the above illustration with our Blackbird cube soaps below. Then see which one washes you better. Email results to aaron@blackbirdballard.com, or post on facebook.BlackbirdGreen Clay Cube Soap$13.50BlackbirdRose Clay Cube Soap$13.50BlackbirdBlackbird Soap Set$28.00
- Feb 25, 13
Motherland Chronicles #4 - The Waiting
Photography: Jingna Zhang
Hair/Makeup: Lindsey Rivera
Model: Giuliana/Ford L.A.
Photo Assistant: Xun Chi
Outfit from Max Tan
Los Angeles, 2010
Week 4!! From the archives because no timeeeee. Can't believe I've even managed to keep up with this crazy schedule. I mean, weekly personal work posts, I haven't managed this since my first year! And that's like 7 years ago now. Allow me to be proud of myself please. .___.
I've to apparently block in "Off Day" in my calendar because I'm incapable of keeping track when the last time I took a day off was.
Also also, my new intern is starting this week!!! I can hopefully finally stop writing emails till 8pm before I can have dinner and start retouching. So looking forward. - Feb 22, 13
I found an old forgotten undeveloped roll of film during the move!
Here's my second batch of splitcam pictures! They got a lot better after I sealed the camera from light leaks with some black electrical tape :) See my first try here :) - Feb 05, 13
John posted some pics of his FBM Sword SQ build today and it looks great. I’ve always been a fan of the FBM Sword because it’s a quality made frame. Head over to Prolly and see more of this steel pony. - Feb 21, 13
- Feb 22, 13
Last year @ NAHBS, this gorgeous 70s inspired track bike by Bishop Bikes was submitted in raw format. This year @ NAHBS, it received a brand-new coat of blue and it screams elegance! John snapped some really nice detailed pics of this head-turner, so head over to PINP to see more! - Feb 23, 13
My man Kemalreza Gibranos of Woof emailed me some photos of his newly built Leader KAGERO. I love everthing about this build… including the purple anodized 44RN chainring. See more photos within this post. Also, check out the time-laspe video he made during his build… right HERE!Photo credit: Rangga Panji (Pancalen Cycle)
