San Francisco Day one

We went to Berkley today. Berkley didn't appeal to me very much in the beginning. The building style is not uniform. No uniform color. No consistent building type. Some of them have Greek Temple design. Some don't. I even saw one of them having a Chinese type roof. Simply speaking, it's very unorganized. 

Maybe, it's a symbol of freedom.

We enjoyed the sunset in the upper hill of the campus. You can see the bay area far away in blood-red shining.

Seattle Day Four

Today is the last day in Seattle.

I went to the Art Museum of Seattle. This museum is actually only NOT-BAD to me, but it's a good place to kill time though. On the other hand, I found myself have never ever appealed strongly to the art museum, either in Chicago or in here. Anyway, there is still some master pieces impressed me very much.

After that, I visited Pike Market again. I ate a  sausage sandwich inside the market. And then I went to a very stylish bookstore near the market. The books there is categorized by some special theme like Cuba, female right.... Inside each theme, books were put casually unorganized, which made me feel it stylish. 

Tonight, I took the airplane to my final destination, San Francisco. A city looks so dirty but with feeling.

Seattle Day Three

What will happen when a city built in a place where tides flooded twice a day? In a time having no toilet system, the tide pulls crap out all over the street and make the city stinky. And what would happen if this city were burnt down after a desperate fire but everyone survived? After the UNDERGROUND TOUR, I realized Seattle is just this kind of city.

Although it's UNDERGROUND we saw as a dark, humid and basement-like place, this is actually the real ground level( first floor) of the city where sunshine was used to be so bright everyday 100 years ago. The citizens decided to rebuilt the city in a higher level. What used to be the first floor now became the basement. People opened a new door on the original second floor if the building was survived from the Great Seattle Fire.

I was astonished by the fact that what I thought to be the ground is actually not ground. Everything is elevated. Every road is actually empty under it. It just made me feel so unreal.
And it reminded me that I felt so curious about why Chicago had a first-floor-like basement. Now it's obvious the same reason, the Great Chicago Fire.

In the afternoon, we visited the Pike Market. It's really a fascinated place. It's like Taiwan traditional market. There is EVERYTHING in Pike Market like seafood, fruit, vegetable, old books, antiques, vendors of decorations and even entertaining people.

So, it's absolutely a nice place to look around.

Seattle Day Two

In the morning, we ate breakfast in the inn. There is a pie maker there on the desk. I put some source into it and started baking. However, the thing I put is something else. So, the tragedy happened. It overcooked and the room became smoky. I said sorry to the servant and immediately fled away.


After breakfast, we went to Science Fiction museum and Experience Music Project. I gotta say that loudly, this place is AWESOME! If I have a chance to be in Seattle in the future, I definitely will come here again. I love EMP especially.

In EMP, it introduce the evolution of music specially in Seattle, as well as the instruments. One man on which it especially focus is Jimi Hendrix, a representative of Rock'n Roll. I saw his video in the museum and I think he is really a genius. His guitar skill is mighty amazing.

In the second floor, there is a music lab. You can tried a lot of instruments like drums, guitars, basses, keyboard and many other things. They not only provided instruments but also the programs so that you can do just like playing in a band by following the instruction. Honestly, I respect the designer of EMP. Because it's really difficult to describe Music other than letting people actually listen to it. How come they can make visitors listen to so many things without making the room noisey? This museum is built brilliently.

Seattle is really a energetic city. With a sense of freedom and creativeness, now it's my favorite city in USA.

Seattle Day One

Yesterday is a day of flight.

We departed in the morning in El Paso in Taxes, transferred in Phoenix and then attend Seattle at night.

As the first image of Seattle is its rain. It seemed to have a heavy snow before our arriving, but now it's just raining. 

We ate in a expensive restaurant named Asian Breeze. I ordered a lamp with special sauce. It's very delicious. It looks like this.

The green thing is the mashed potato with wasabi, interesting. 

Asides from the meal, we also ordered liquids. I ordered a glass of tequila. It's strong and made me drunk quickly.

I think I like this city and am excited of it.

New Mexico Day three

Today we went to another national park, Guadalupe Mountains National Park. It's actually resided in TX. Compared to the trip two days before, this national park is a totally different scene to view.

It's extremely wide and spectacular.




We hiked into a valley along a trial named Devil's Hall trial. It took us about three hours. The view is nice, but the view is even better outside like the one I took from the road.

New Mexico Day two

Today we visited Carlsbad Caverns.

Actually, it's very similar to the cave I went by, Marengo Cave in IN. So, I didn't take much pictures in the cave.

However, there are still some differences.

First of all, Marengo Cave located in the hills of forest, but Carlsbad Caverns resides in semi-dessert mountains where shrubs and prickly pears grow all over them.

Secondly, Carlsbad Caverns seems to be larger but I think the formations of limestones in Marengo Cave is more delicate and beautiful.

Thirdly, the most famous sight-seeing of Carlsbad Caverns is probably not the limestones, but the bats. From summer to Fall, hundreds of thousand of bats will migrate to live in the cave. To see them flushing out of the cave is very spectacular.

At night, we went to boat taking along a river in Carlsbad city. The boat drove along the river where houses asides all are decorated with colorful lights (in a sense of Christmas). With the Christmas music on the boat, this trip is so Christmas! It's best trip for young lovers.

When starting getting down the cave I felt like catching a cold, although not severe. Anyway, I hope I could become better tomorrow.

New Mexico Day one

It's the first day of my winter vocation trip. My two travel-mates are my senior high school friend and her boy friend. And today we went to White Sand National Monument.

It's extremely beautiful.

It's as white as snow, but as dry as dessert.

The pure white sand is so soft that you sink into it once you stand on it. Further, the sand is so comfortable that it's not sticky at all. I grabbed a fist of sands and then let go, the sands just flew away with wind without a tiny little sand left in my hands.




We left after sunset. It's really a must-visited place. People said that it's better in summer when some flowers blooms.

Humorous American Professor

Today I helped Tung unpack some facility in the basement of Talbat. 

It's a pretty large box, maybe as high as a person. Very heavy as well.

One ME professor passed by and said "Oh~ is that a Christmas presents?"

We spent about twenty minutes to unpack the outer box. What's inside is another box( still pretty large). At the same time, the professor came by again and said " boxes inside boxes, what's going on? "

Pretty funny guy.

【梁正宏】邀黑面琵鷺跳一支舞

梁老師上課教的非常好

我一共修了他三門課

我的核工基礎是他打下的

以前經過他辦公室時就注意到他的門口會貼一些他的作品

【邀黑面琵鷺跳一支舞】是他的新作

我覺得很感動

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前奏起身，我緩緩向嶙峋的妳走近

如同孩提時，纏就阿母的環抱
熱情地伸出雙手，邀妳開步同跳第一支舞
左足前進，右足側踏，左足再後點
點點滴滴，隨我沿蜿蜒的記憶
重新勾勒阿母兜我入懷的繡圖
時間隨音樂的行進，彷彿拉近又推遠
曾是阿母偷偷遞給補習費
催促童年的我，循小徑趕往美術課的鈴響
小徑兩旁，玻璃空瓶高低排列
彷彿老舊的開罐器齒痕，迂迴繞進廚房後門
醬瓜拌飯，又是阿母稀鬆的一頓午餐日常
停步走，肩碰肩，背後換手
我聽到不遠處，縈繞有縫紉車的吱喳聲
針線起落，那是教授洋裁的阿母正兼職趕工醫院的制服
密密縫織，如快板般的詩行
平仄著貼補清苦生活的曲調
是降Ｂ大調還是升Ｃ小調呢？
雙手繞圈，左右換位，交叉換手
再近一些，還有高中聯考的鐘聲傳來無數的音符
復旋入，深夜裡疲憊的阿母端來溫熱的人蔘茶
漣漪紛紛，叩起教科書翻閱的每一擺幅
也輕扣著阿母收摺起的裁縫車頂蓋
懵懂詩句，伴隨縱容的稿紙阡陌
在阿母從未退稿的陪伴中，翩翩起舞
舞向大學的霓裳，也舞出人生無常的歡愉與傷痛
搭肩繞圈步，停步走，雙轉
年年，圍爐的話語總愛笑說
阿母炊煮時，被煤炭燻黑的臉龐最像妳
屬於一種超越色系的光譜暖度，慈愛的安靜
白色也是，雪花般地飄然落下
羽化翅膀，柔和地護衛翼下每一個永遠長不大的孩子
是不是阿母也像妳一樣，也擁有件絕美的羽衣
只因捨不得穿上，飛回天空離開
而將它平貼成爐灶前，漆牆上的一片潔白？
潔白一如竹竿上的晒衣，在風中飛舞著遊子思念的節拍
時間會在哪一段音節回首呢？
會不會自錯落的旋律中譜入遺忘
還是自我負笈遠行的腳步聲中悄然流失？
又是不是遠的近著，近的遠著？
從打狗到風城到陌地生（註）
我輕輕帶領，妳可要緊緊跟隨
碰肩，走步，轉圈
誰料，從急診室到加護病房到救護車
在趕返老家，歸回本位的途中
竟是我與阿母間最貼近的距離
樂章終了
我左手靠背，右手平伸
俯首感謝妳的一路相陪，並滿心期待地詢問：
若舞曲再度響起，我是否有幸能再邀妳同跳下一支舞？