Boston Harbor (6/18/2005)

Happiest day of the year...because of you...


Boston Harbor

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Holocaust Memorial Park Re-visit (6/18/2005)

Holocaust Memorial

Holocaust Memorial Park

The words in the picture:

BETWEEN 1933 AND 1945, THE NAZIS CREATED A REGIME OF HATE and victimization in Germany that eventually comsumed most of Europe.
Driven by racist beliefs, they killed as many as eleven million men, women and children in their quest to dominate Europe and to create a "pure and superior" race. The Nazis singled out the Jews for total extermination - their very existence to be erased from history and memory. Before their defeat in 1945, the Nazi regime murdered six million Jews - more than half of Europe's Jewish population.


THOSE WHO HAVE PERISHED HAVE BEEN SILENCED FOREVER. Those who witnessed and survived the horrors carry with them the burden of memory.
Through there voices, we seek to comprehend the acts of inhumanity that can stem from the seeds of prejudice.

TO REMEMBER THEIR SUFFERING IS TO RECOGNIZE the danger and evil that are possible whenever one group persecutes another. As you walk this Freedom Trail pause here to reflect on the consequences of a world in which there is no freedom - a world in which basic human rights are not protected. And know that wherever prejudice, discrimination and victimization are tolerated, evil like the Holocaust can happen again.

Statement of Pastor Martin Niemoeller @ Holocaust Memorial

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A new look of my kitchen

On 8/15/2004, the first day I moved in, it was a "full house" ...












Now, after my roommate move out, kitchen revolution! (VV also help me a lot in cleaning it up, thanks!! Photo taken on 6/12/2005)

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6/10, pass the exam

Oral presentation + course work question, 3 hours -_-!!
An interesting question was asked...
The last question is a "joke" question, which P said it would not be something relevant in advance. The question is -- I could hardly believe what I heard at first -- if an ice-cube is floating on a cup of full water, when the ice melts, would the water overflow? I said it would not, theoretically. Then he asked me to show why... I drawn a picture, and said something about density, volumn, ... sadly I do not have the exact phrase for wording. Then he asked about the assumptions I was making. He asked why with global warming, people would worry about the rise of sea level. I said the iceberg does not necessarily float on the sea. Bingo, he then said in his original question, it could also be possible that the ice is seated at the floor of the cup, depending on the relative size and shape of the ice-cube and the cup. J jumped in and said that was a problem of the definition of "floating". ^_^

Then P asked me how to prove it, if all of us do not know whether the water will overflow. My mind is running more slowly now... I said, maybe by experiments. He asked, how to do that. I said, consider situations, make other factors as irrelevant to the problem as possible, and do the experiment. I felt lucky that I saw him nod his head when I mentioned that was only an "observation", and we might want to repeat it for many times. Then his said that the reality would be more complicated, for example, we might expect problems of measuring the level of water, "how full" it is, etc., and other factors (such as surface force?) occur when we choose different sizes and shapes of the cup or ice-cube...

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