Year: 2017

  • S0

     

    Not yet time for farewell,

         our tale I cannot foretell.

     

     

     

    Wreathed,
    my resolution,

         dreaming of words I’d spelt.

     

    Why can’t I speak?

         why do the words flee my mouth?

     

    “Please come,

         be by my side

     

     

    Silently,

    I screamed, wary;

     

     

    Unexpected,

    When I see you do,

         I breathe, fearless.

     


    Edit: In January 2018, I briefly visited UCLA Physics’s Galactic Center Group in person, and their work served as part of the inspiration of this piece. I used to play with Kepler 2-body systems for fun, and figured that they are fairly meaningful representations of relationships (they are not as complicated).

     

    Otherwise, let’s go for the old hashtag.

    # Stay in Friendzone #

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  • Directions

    I am still attempting to fit every academic desire into the schedule for next semester — last one at Berkeley, second last one as an undergraduate student: Quantum, Introductory Cosmology, GR, advanced mechanics, Stats mech, topology, complex analysis, cellular biology, music theory, existentialism, and perhaps a language, documentary filmmaking and theatre (thanks).

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  • Here’s to the First Year of f-STEM

    Not that I intend to celebrate the passage of time too ‘often’, as I do to myself when alone, but happy Anniversary to ftdsci.  It’s been good staying here.

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  • Three Anniversaries

    It’s noted on my passport, and, I guess, somewhere confidential where they keep track of things, that I, 16, entered Aotearoa for the first time on 13 July 2014, fresh out of my Grade 10 in continental Eurasia, as a visitor to a family member in this country, carrying from home some holiday homework, half-scribble PhO notes, a then four-year-old Hackintosh and a good habit of diary keeping (via Voice Memos on my phone).

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  • Fish Out of the Water

    Well, to say the least, to fill a chemistry presentation with every midnight-made segments of animation but not my growing reservoir of chemical data — an action discrediting my usual style — defines the problem with myself throughout the past few months.

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