A few weeks ago, my foxy friend mentioned that there was a pretty bright comet in the skies: C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy). There was too much light around here to see it with the naked eye, but it was easy to photograph with a digital camera and an exposure of a few seconds. It sure is green :) I also took a look at it through my Astroscan telescope that I ( Read more... )

Got back from Taiwan last Monday, actually... had lots of fun :) The flight over there was pretty uneventful, but as I had expected, the food on American airlines is pretty crappy compared to the food on Asian ones (by "American airlines," I mean US carriers in general, not specifically American Airlines, although this time I actually was flying AA ( Read more... )

Yay, summer vacation is almost here! Heading off to Taiwan tomorrow morning to see what the relatives are up to, etc... and will be gone for about 3 weeks. The last time I visited was around 1997... The Taipei 101 skyscraper went from not existing, to being the tallest building in the world, to being demoted (apparently it's all the way down to 4th ( Read more... )

So asterickpup mentioned that the Dragon Boat Festival was coming up, and brought out the bamboo leaves, so I took that as a hint that it was time to make zongzi again :) Despite the instructional videos that I found last time I made them, I still had trouble wrapping them... and things weren't really any better this time. I guess I need more ( Read more... )

A lot of the news coverage of the current flooding in Thailand have mentioned that it's the worst flooding in 50 years. My mom said that she didn't remember any severe flooding there 50 years ago, so I looked around for more details on what flood the reports were referring to, and it turns out that the flood in question actually happened in 1942- ( Read more... )

Happy Chinese New Year! It's officially the year of the rabbit, which is my birth sign. Apparently, this sign is known as the cat in Vietnam, so I guess that's appropriate :)

The moon is new tonight, but there was a particularly interesting full moon not long ago-last year's winter solstice+lunar eclipse combo. I tried taking some pics by holding a ( Read more... )

asterickpup bought a pack of bamboo leaves from the Chinese grocery, which I think is a hint that I'm supposed to try to make some zongzi-a while back, I had bought some frozen ones from the store for him to try out, and mentioned that I wanted to try making some myself someday.

The tricky part of making zongzi is wrapping them, and my parents weren't any ( Read more... )

No, not the regular New Year and not the US Independence Day :) Chinese New Year was two weeks ago (February 14), but one of the local Asian grocery stores had their celebration on the following weekend. asterickpup and I decided to go check out the festivities, in particular, we wanted to watch the lion dance. Longcat sure is long :)


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Happy birthday to wytelyon! The big 3-0, eh? :)

มี anime ใหม่ชื่อ あにゃまる探偵 キルミンずぅ ที่ใช้เพลงไทยเป็นเพลง OP กับ ED... แปลกและขำดีนะ :)

คิดว่านักร้องเป็นคนไทย แต่ไม่ทราบว่าทำไมออกสำเนียงแปลกหน่อย เช่นในเพลง ED แทนที่จะออกเสียง "จ" เป็น [tɕ] เขาออกเสียง [ts]

ผมยังไม่ได้ดู anime นี้ แต่มันท่าทางน่ารักดี :)

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