Pieces of my life

Skyrim Mods

▲ Skyrim's Paraglider mod

In Skyrim, with mods, imagination is your only limitation. Here are some important things to know about Skyrim mods.

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Sony XM4 Review

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Solo Traveling in Scotland

▲ George Square, Glasgow

Since my first-authored paper was accepted to IEEE WCNC 2023, held in Glasgow this year, and the spring break of Taiwan was luckily right after the conference, I had the opportunity to do a small subsidized solo trip in Scotland for about 10 days (excluding flights).

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Skiing in the Scottish Highlands

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After a huge anticipation, I finally managed to complete my fourth day of skiing alone in Cairngorm National Park.

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A Day in Edinburgh

▲ a random Sakura (?) on the streets

Edinburgh is a very beautiful city. It feels more open and big than Glasgow, though it may not be. The roads are bigger, and there are more things to see. Not saying it’s “better” than Glasgow, but overall it just feels more like a big city.

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Glasgow Review

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▲ University of Glasgow

The biggest city in Scotland.

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Sekiro Review

Sekiro is arguably the hardest game of all time, and I haven’t even played any of the FromSoftware games before. I did play Jedi: Fallen Order, which is soulslike, and I really love the combat, so after beating it, I finally bought Sekiro to experience the ultimate sword fight.

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My Judo Journey

The Start

In my sophomore year, I took the Judo course because the names of the waza (techniques) sounded really badass, like 大外割 (Osoto Gari), 小內割 (Kouchi Gari) etc.

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Musical Artists - Hidden Gems

Artists with less than 500k monthly listeners on Spotify yet have I scrobbled for hundreds or even thousands of times.

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My Taekwondo Black Belt Journey

As a Wuxia novel fan and someone who is generally good at sports, I’ve always wanted to try out Taekwondo. However, due to the myth (or fact? idk) that stretching your legs too much as a kid will damage the growth in terms of height, my mom never let me learn it.

When I first got to college, since my body growth had already become stagnant, I went to a training of the Taekwondo club in my school to get a taste of it, and boy was I impressed. The staggering physique of the black belters hitting a pad at high speed with their foot and the loud and crisp sound accompanying it is just so damn shocking, and I immediately fell in love with it.

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