Acropolis

Maybe because I am a tech nerd, I always pay attention to some weird things. For example (I actually noticed this on the first day), every business and website here ends in .gr, their national domain. The hotel website is xxhotel.gr, the restaurant is xxxrestaurant.gr, and the phone

Athens: A Tale of Street Art and Ancient Stones

I didn’t realize it yesterday, but when I got up this morning, I found my hotel actually offered a great view from the window: on one side is the sea, and on the other side, on the hill, is the Acropolis. We arrived at the National Archaeological Museum at

Arrival in Athens

So after around 18 hours of travel, I am finally writing this journal at the desk in my hotel in Athens. It is a pretty incredible experience, and it is my first time traveling alone, as well as my first time transferring alone. There are a bunch of timezone changes:

Chinatown hangout

After the Senior Day symposium, I hung out in Chinatown with Nina, Hugh, Jacob, Emma, Grace, Anya, Lissa, and Johnson. We first had boba tea at Jaho Coffee and then went to 小羊火锅 (Little Sheep Hot Pot). I wasn’t really stressed about Senior Day beforehand because I was fairly

2025 Year Review

Well, everyone is sending their 2025 yearly review. and since i missed the 2024 review already, i felt the need to look back at my 2025 for my future self. If i were to give a key phrase for my 2025, or would be dive deeper. …………. I’m still actively

Coming Back

Every time I set up my blog using Docker containers and a lot of network configs, the service gives me a default placeholder post, "Coming soon". But for me, I want to name this post "Coming back." I can’t remember how many times I’ve

Vital accidents in server & First week of school in 2025

This time it is not my intention to change the platform again, really there is a technical error backend with my cloud server in Oracle, so I can’t access my blog (and the discord stats, some of my shared files and etc). As a result, I have to use

That Hideous Strength

The spring play is fianlly coming to an end! Don’t ask me why I publish my blog now, many days after I finished the drama The Show This year’s play is That Hideous Strength, and it is big both literally and in terms fo me and BTA. We

Feb 15, 2025

This week is the peace before the storm. We had a lot of things going at the same time. Drama Drama is of course getting more and more intense, as there is literally around one week before first dress rehearsal. For instance, this is my schedule for next week: So

Trinity Term 2025

This week I had a lot of light meetings. I stayed until 9:33 on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and we still didn’t finish it. We bought 4 new LEDs, 1 Source Four, 3 Fresnels, 1 LED strip, and 8 LED strobes that we bought for Pinocchio. That is