SMA data was finally given to the three of us working on low-mass star formation yesterday. It should be very interesting to see how well I can reduce the data. Finally I ate something with which my stomach did not agree. Lunch yesterday was a big plate of god knows what; bubble-gum flavored tea (I thought, anyway), noodles that tasted like waffles, all covered in thick sauce, seafood (octopus, shrimp, some mystery white animal components), a little beef and pork, very interesting (and tasty). Later in the afternoon it gave me some pains that eventually subsided in my sleep.

After work some of us in the summer program hung around the office to watch Satoki-san (and some grad students?) do SMA remote-observations. The SMA antennas can be operated from the Hilo office, I think from California, and from Taipei. Somewhat interesting but it turned into a nice informal hang-out session for us.

Woke up at noon today, very strange. My plans changed through the course of the day; Luis and I eventually ended up walking from the MRT main station to the Confucius temple (which is closed for renovations). The temple across the street (I believe is Bao-an, not sure, though) was easily accessible. Very much like Longshan temple in architecture and layout, less crowded. Very good for the spirit. Lots of walking today, i'm quite tired.

I've come to realize bloggers can put pictures directly into their blog, though that would make things very ugly. With photobucket apparently you can make a slideshow of photos and put that into a blog on blogspot. I've put my pictures on Flickr, though, so I'm just gonna give you the URL hyperlink and tell you to go there and see my pictures. I'm not photographer, I just document things with my camera. I credit some photos to Meng-yuan.

http://flickr.com/photos/28336996@N08/