Never cook food beyond your skill.

Last week I tried a couple of new stuff to cook. The result turned out to be a disaster.
Peking Sauce Pork, one of my favorite food, was the first on my to-do list. I looked up its protocol on the internet and I followed it step by step. I seemed fine during each step. But when it was all finished, it tasted so bad. I tried some way to fix it but it did't work out. It must be something I did wrong with the pork or the sauce.
Another food on the list is Chinese pancake. My mum showed me how to do that once. I tried to make it based on memory. The first one burned, Second too dry, third too much salt, finally i succeeded on the forth one. I made a lot and kept the rest in the fridge. But It's too dry after microwaved.
Today I found the potatoes and cucumbers I stored went bad, so I have to throw them. I used to cook good potatoes, but I abandoned them for fail-cooked food. What a jerk I am.
From now on, I will stick to what I'm good at and never try things beyond my ability, at least for a long while.

The Deadline Phenomenon

Recently, a bunch of students catch an unusual disease. They suffered from that illness and pray for a cure. It is well-known as the Deadline Phenomenon. Let's take a deep look at this cruel monster.

*The Deadline Phenomenon*
Definition-Huge stress comes over before deadline. It will cause a series chain effect to people mentally and physically.
Susceptible population-It's a very common disease to college students, even graduate ones.
Pathogens-Complicate or boring assignments are way beyond students' tolerance or conflict with parties or other entertainments.
Major symptom-Headache, dark eye circle, lack of sleep, and all kinds of pains in waist, arms, wrists, etc. Even coma. Or fake death of related people or pets, Suddenly illness or accidents.
Cure time-Right after submitting, or never if failed.
Therapy or treatment-Cancel all assignments, or make them optional.

The Deadline phenomenon is still haunting around a lot of students. Call 911! The situation is getting more and more out of control. Government is still trying to find a way to set those patients free from the disease. Please keep noticing the following updates.

Tear comes with great joy.

For many times, I feel like to drop a little tear when I'm enjoying a great time in America. The reason, I think, is mostly those happiness reminds me memories with my friends back in China. I won't call it homesick or vulnerable. It's more like a kind of Deja Vu, which happens a lot to me. I think people have Deja Vu a lot are kinda pathetic, because they indulge themselves in the past so much that they can't precious present well enough. If this psychological excuse can't convince you, I would say alcohol may need to take some responsibility. Some of those tear time alcohol is involved. My feeling about alcohol is very neutral. But it does bring me some of the most unforgettable moments in my life. There are two times I was so drunk and cried like hell during graduation season. Maybe it has become a reflection that every time I drink alcohol I will feel like to cry. Either excuse makes me immature, but I am proud of who I am just the way I am.

First party in the US

My roommate invited me to a party he wouldn't attend on Facebook. I thought it might be fun and accepted the invitation.
Friday night arrived. After a long time cooking and feeding myself, I went there with excitement and fear. It took me a while to find the place in dark. When I got there, I hesitated a while for going in or not. Then the host walked by and asked me if I was attending. It was quite coincident to meet the host in front his door right before I was about to chicken out. Maybe that was fate directing me. I went in and met a lot of people, maybe more than the people I met in the whole month before. They were all welcoming and offered me a wonderful party night. I played beer pong, teaming with one of the host. He was so great. Even though I only hit one cup and we were three cups behind the other team, we won that round based on his talent.
Great music, alcohol, winning games and very nice people around. These make my first party the best I could ever imagine. Hooray.

Eggs in the Moon

The other day Chris told me that he was surprised that there was actually an egg in the mooncake. That is an interesting thing to explain.
There are variety kinds of mooncakes in China. Black sesame, peanut, egg, and even meat can be stuffed in the mooncake. And the most symbolic kind is egg mooncake. Fisrt, egg is yellow and round like the moon. It's like eating the moon in a cake. What can more represent the meaning mooncake than egg mooncake in this way? Second, egg is new life of chicken. It represents new life or harvest. Since the Mid-Autumn Festival is in autumn, it is important for farmers to have a symbol for harvest. People gather around and celebrate this year's harvest and wish for next year's harvest. Third, egg can mean happiness or good things because of its traits. One egg means one good thing. Sometimes people put two eggs in the mooncake to double the happiness. It means two happy events come one after the other or good things happen in pairs.
Overall, egg mooncake is not just about the taste, it's more like an explanatory to ancient Chinese philosophy.

Condensed Watson & Crick's Paper

Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids

A Structure for Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid

Watson and Crick

Structures for nucleic acid proposed formerly are unsatisfied. We suggest a structure of two helical chains each coiled round the same axis. We assumed that both chains are right hand helices and antiparallel. Each of these chains consists of phosphate diester group joining beta-D-deoxyribofuranose residues with 3’, 5’ linkages. This structure repeats after 10 residues or 34A. The phosphates are on the outside of the helix. Each of these phosphorus atoms stands 10A off fibre chain. The two chains are held together by paired purine and pyrimidine bases inside of the helix. The planes of the bases are perpendicular to the fibre axis. The ratio of the amounts of adenine to thymine and the ratio of guanine to cytosine are always very close to unity for deoxyribose nucleic acid. It suggests that they exclusively pair together. The specific pairing we have postulated immediately suggests a possible copying mechanism for the genetic material. The sequence of bases on a single chain does not appear to be restricted in any way. If the sequence on one chain is given, then the sequence on the other chain is determined. And the sugars are perpendicular to the attached bases. It suggests that it is impossible to build this structure with a ribose sugar in place of the deoxyribose. The structure’s water content is rather high and the structure could be more compact at lower water content. 

Modern Family's Emmy

What a terrific night for Modern Family! Every award they have nominated, I think, goes to them. The Emmy show begins with comedy and ends with comedy. The first 4 awards all go to Modern Family. Each award of these four they have about 3 nominates in average. Writing and directing go to them. Supporting actor and actress go to the Dumphys from Modern Family. And at the end, the most outstanding comedy also, with no doubt, belongs to Modern Family. Only Leading actor and actress go to other shows, because Modern Family has no nominate. Overall, Modern Family is the real comedy queen.
While congratulating Modern Family, I feel sorry for other excellent comedies. The cruel results of Emmy makes me wonder if it is right to allow one show has such many nominates in the same award. Taking supporting actor for example, Modern Family has four nominates in the total six ones. Even Ed, who used to be nominated as leading actor, is in that list. All six adults in the show are nominated as supporting actors or actresses. Whom are they supporting for? The kids? If so, I am surprised that those kids do not even have one single nominate. Sorry, kids. It's adults' game.