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Big brother is watching you!
2025-6-13 05:21
On at least two other prior occasions, I have partial evidences that the government monitors my e-mail communications with other as well as my blogs. Not that I have anything to hide but here is another example I encountered recently. Starting in April 2025 I find that my social security payment we ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|285 次阅读|没有评论
夕陽無限好,只是近黃昏
热度 2 2025-6-8 21:36
The Chinese title of the this blog above translated into English says: The scene of a setting sun is so beautiful except the duration is so short. This is just another example of the 80-20 rule which says that if your life is 80% perfect, we need the other 20% to keep you in perspective. 100% ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|808 次阅读|7 个评论 热度 2
An unexplained and unexpected blessing for my health
热度 1 2025-5-17 20:22
For nearly a decade I was bothered by a skin condition that has psoriasis covering 100% of my body skin. How that condition came about is another story for another time. But this is most unpleasant due to constant skin shedding, itch and pain, as well as unsightly. I was prepared to live with thi ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1958 次阅读|6 个评论 热度 1
Luck do not arrive in pair, Misfortunes never travel alone
2025-5-5 07:41
This is the famous Chinese wisdom about the vicissitude of daily human lives. My current slow recovery from flu infection fully illustrated this. A few days ago, while still in recovery I was hit with a painful GOUT attack in the ankle joint of my left foot. While the cure for gout is well known an ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1996 次阅读|2 个评论
The Physiology of a 91 year old body
2025-5-5 03:29
The average human heart bea 365/24/7 for 3 billion+ times in a normal human life of 78.5 years - what human technology has invented to rival such a machine? In my case of 91.5 years, the count is.3.5 billion + A health body at 91 year of age due to good genes may still function in a healthy way bu ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|1888 次阅读|没有评论
The 250th birthday of the American Republic
热度 2 2025-4-24 03:58
A country's birthday is a big event in any nation's history. This year is the 250th birthday of the US. My home town, Lexington is arguably the birthplace of the country where the first shot that was heard around the world was fired in 1775 on April 19th. These facts was taught in ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|2145 次阅读|7 个评论 热度 2
A reunion with students (Re-post with changes)
2025-3-31 03:27
I have stated earlier that my lifetime output of teaching can be presented by the 53 Ph.D. students I supervised from 1961-2007 with Harvard (47) MIT (3) and Tsinghua (3). Of these 53 students, 30 of them are of Chinese ethnicity from various parts of China including Taiwan, Chinese Mainland, and H ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|2728 次阅读|5 个评论
Lessons from my life experience of 91 years (II)
2025-3-8 00:03
This article is an addendum to my first article on this topic https://blog.sciencenet.cn/home.php?mod=spaceuid=1565do=blogid=1474060 First, learn to be your own financial adviser: This is because the task is really not that complicated and can beco ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|3787 次阅读|3 个评论
Lessons from my life experience of 91 years
2025-2-20 23:56
For yourself 1. Start saving early – I started as soon as I started working after 46 years what I put in becomes 10 times more when I retired. 2. Buy-Diversify-Hold. Don’t trade - Compound interest works wonders in th ...
个人分类: 生活点滴|4143 次阅读|1 个评论

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