Chinese-style bo ssam
I didn’t know what the hell a bo ssam was until my friends and I were discussing our hypothetical epic Secret Santa dinner (we share the same passion for mouth-watering deliciousness). Then I managed to flip through a copy of David Chang’s Momofuku book and realized that it’s originally a Korean invention. A bo ssam … Read more
introducing a new category: nom therapy
Due to my obsession with How I Met Your Mother, mostly NPH’s epic character Barney, I’ve adopted some words that are now a part of my ordinary vocabulary. Examples: “the ____ theory”, “___ therapy” (case in point), “the ____ maneuver”, “this is totally going on my blog”. In honor of that lexical influence, I’m now … Read more
calm down, people, it’s just cancer.
A few days ago, Lindsey Miller (who happens to be my close friend’s sister), bravely posted a short video on YouTube asking Joseph Gordon-Levitt out for coffee: Since then, her video has been featured on facebook (I like to think my profile was one of the first :D ), then Huffingtonpost, E!Online, Perez Hilton, and … Read more
Science nerding
Okay I’ve jumped the bandwagon and stole this from someone’s site because this probably explains my life better than my own words. Going to insert my own comments when appropriate: “You know you’ve worked in the lab too long when…” Linguistics: You say “mills” and “migs”. Yes, definitely guilty. You say “orders of magnitude” in … Read more
Celebrate World Hepatitis Day
Long overdue post, but here is the link to the official White House announcement for World Hepatitis Day on July 28. Read the full press release here. This is a big step toward global health awareness, especially amid the healthcare chaos domestically and a big discrepancy in health benefits in other countries. Go new health … Read more
Lits Rant: #2 – Sense & Sensibility
Continuing this thread. I mentioned Austen in my Whitman post, so I typed up this journal entry I wrote for my seminar class on “A Brief History of Enthusiasm” Austen’s take on enthusiasm in relation to tempering “sensibility” with “sense” is completely different from the classic Romantic poetry we are used to. Elinor and Marianne … Read more
The future of young scientists
This is adapted from an article I wrote for the CAIES newsletter last June, with some stolen phrases from a commencement speech I wrote a year ago (now deleted from this blog so you can’t compare the two haha). I kind of forgot about it, but in light of all the recent graduations from my … Read more
Happy One-Year Anniversary, PKP 2010
Um, I totally lied when I said my last post was the last cambridge post. Just thinking about this time last year, and how this summer will be pretty mundane in comparison. I guess you just had to be there to understand.
Oh the places you’ll go…
This will be the last official entry I make for PKP Cambridge (almost a year later, oops!), and then I have to move on with my life. Basically, most of my summer vacations since high school were spent on extra classes or slaving away at internships; so I suppose my baseline expectation wasn’t that high … Read more
The planetarium of my childhood
I am genuinely upset. Growing up, I was taught that there were 9 planets in the solar system with Pluto being the farthest planet. Ever since I discovered the western zodiac, I’ve been enthusiastically calling myself an “Aries” because strangely, part of my growing personal identity was affiliating myself with an archetypal group identity. So … Read more
A Picture Speaks 1000 Words
