幸好昨天沒有衝上去北部，
台鐵、高鐵都停開，
對我這個趕時間的人，
如果要搭客運回台南，
肯定會暈倒。
不過這回颱風來襲，
感覺各方面都有好好的作準備，
從好幾天前就已經開始預報，
颱風剛開始走得慢，
掃到台灣卻只停留一天就要離開，
很幸運吧，
把我的台北行掃掉，
但我至少還有中秋節可以過。
昨天不怕風雨的去了高雄，
第一回去COSTCO，
卻是颱風前夕的週六，
人滿為患，擠的我連呼吸都困難，
加上COSTCO的東西SIZE過大，
少人數的家庭還是無法負荷吃不完的風險，
就買了一盒水蜜桃就走啦。
後來還好繼續去夢時代，
買了MANGO漂亮的衣服，
蠻開心的，
這牌子的衣物我注意很久，
卻遲遲無法動手，
因為標價很貴又不打折，
昨天他們2件以上就打85折，
廳小姐說業績超好。
挑了一件洋裝，
一件毛料的外套，
跟我小妹一起，
蠻容易就拿到了貴賓卡。
今天睡晚晚才起來，
中午風勢強大，
把家裡的剩餘東西煮一煮兩個人一起吃很開心。
雖然閒的發慌，
不過想到學姐說的：
"好好享受生活"，
也覺得...該是放慢腳步欣賞日子的時候囉！
要告訴自己，
不要以自己的標準放在他人身上，
這樣自己會過得不快樂。
2010年9月17日 星期五
2010年9月1日 星期三
2010年6月30日 星期三
A letter from VS Chang
Dear Chief & colleagues:
I ran my check-in procedures and met my lab boss today. As a new comer, I needed security exam before entering NIH, similar to that at the airport. NIH has a big campus, 27 institutes, and many many buildings and trees, similar to a big American university.
My lab is Neurobiology, Neuroregeneration & Retinal Repair Lab (NNRL) at the National Eye Institute. My boss is an Indian with a kind smile. He lead me to go through the lab and introduced me to everyone one by one. I'm amazed that this lab has 55 people, consisting of official NIH employees, post-doc, MD PHD, and students. They came from various countries, including China, Korea, Japan (a male Tokyo ophthalmologist), Thailand, India, Poland, Netherland, Russia, a female neurosurgeon, and so on. However, perhaps I'm the first of the lab from Taiwan. This lab is much bigger, compared to any NCKU lab, and can be divided into three or four branches or groups. Every bench is clean and is not crowded. Every worker, including I, has a seat and table in the lab, a desk computer, and a bench.
It seems that my first job is to do subretinal transplantation of gene-modified stem cells. Two researchers will discuss with me tomorrow.
I currently lives a temporary room at a house in Rockville City, neighboring to Bethesda City, which is the location of NIH. I need to walk 20 mins to the station, take the subway for 20 mins, and walk 20 mins to the lab. My wife and 2 younger children are now at my friend in Deleware State, 2 hours away from here. My first son is now at my brother in law in New Jersey State, 4 hours away. I'm finding a suitable house rental for my whole family and hope to settle down before semester. We saw a beautiful house (USD 620,000), but the rent is USD 2,400 per month (= NTD 75,000/month). Everything is expensive here: bread and other food are twice than in Taiwan, health & car insurances are 4 times higher. Only oil, coke and car may be cheaper.
It's a totally new life, new job, new thinking and new style. I can not totally understand English that people say, can not totally figure out the money card of subway, and do not know most of the lab work. I'll stay here for 100 weeks and hope to achieve some wonderful experiences and results before coming back.
I already opened an account in Skype, and created a Facebook with my Chinese name and probably will post my photos some day after. You can not imagine that the sunset here is 20:30 and the weather is as hot as in Tainan. But there are trees, wood, small animals and birds everywhere. I saw a racoon 浣熊 at night, a wild rabbit and many squirrels. I was told that deer and fox would appear at the back wood if I would decide that beautiful house.
See you soon.
Sincerely,
Yi-Sheng Chang
2010年6月29日 星期二
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