153. Christmas and New Year on the Sea | 航海迎新年 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 1.10.2024 My wife and I had a unique experience of celebrating Christmas 2023 and welcoming the New Year of 2024 aboard a cruise ship. The journey followed our stay in Taiwan visiting friends and family. By chance, this…
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152. Life Is Becoming Bimodal |走向兩極化的現代生活 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 10.25.2023 In statistics, we learn that many events and large data tend to follow a normal distribution. The majority of the population or data will fall in the central section, and the average will fall in the middle. That kind of distribution seems…
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151. How Has COVID-19 Changed You? | COVID-19如何改變了你 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 8.13.2023 According to the World Health Organization, the pandemic is no longer a global health emergency. People are returning to their normal lives, students are going back to school, vacationers are booking trips, shops are reopening, restaurants are offering in-house dining,…
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150. World Village on a Cruise Ship |遊輪上的世界村 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 7.10.2023 Last month, we took a two-week cruise to London, Iceland, and Norway. There was marvelous scenery for us to enjoy and appreciate on various excursions through glaciers, lava, harbors, monuments, and city centers. We saw where the Eurasian and North…
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146. Joy of Immersion | “沉浸”的樂趣 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 1.13.2023 With the easing of COVID restrictions, I have been able to travel and engage in some activities. This has given me new opportunities to experience the joy of various immersions. Visual immersion in the art of Van Gogh: This laser and digitally…
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144. Be Interested and Be Interesting |成为一个“感興趣”和 “有趣” 的人 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 10.14.2022 Are you surrounded by friends who are interested in you and pay attention to your deeds and words? They make you feel important and valued. Interacting with them makes you happy and energized. Or, do you have friends and…
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142. How Do You Make Decisions? | 你，是如何作決定的？ – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 7.30.2022 We all make decisions, big and small, day in and day out. Have you ever analyzed how you make those decisions? Depending on the situation and importance, you may use one of the following criteria: Transactional Decision: This is a…
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139. Swimming and Interacting with Water | 游泳戏水的领悟 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 6.20.2022 Summer is here now and bringing out many people to the beaches, water parks, and swimming pools. Watching these people and experiencing my own daily swim at the gym, I have a renewed appreciation of the techniques in swimming and…
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137. Story of Windshield Washer Repair | 一則雨刷儲液罐維修的故事 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 5.20.2022 My wife and I encountered an interesting experience when trying to repair the windshield washer fluid in our cars. A GM dealer would have charged us $650, a Toyota dealer charged us $80, and we ultimately did it ourselves for…
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136. Trending Fusion Cuisines | 無國界的飲食趨勢 – Musings of Dr. Jamie C. Hsu, 5.16.2022 As we emerge from the pandemic and return to normal life, restaurants are starting to fill up with people. In our neighborhood, the faces of these restaurants seem to have changed. Some of the ethnic eateries have disappeared and been replaced by…
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