お餅でフレンチトースト！

おもちでフレンチトーストができるというのをピアニスト氏に教えていただいたので決行！　もちの食感に味はフレンチトースト、とても斬新で美味でした！！　メープルシロップをかけてシンプルに。もちって…万能なのね……！

レシピはこれを使いました。砂糖はほんの少しにしています。
もちをフライパンにおいて、そこに卵液を流し込んだ時にはどうなるかと思いましたが、上手く行って良かった。

おもちのフレンチトースト　おいしいコープ
https://cookpad.com/recipe/4851739

芽吹き

おもちレシピ覚え書き

切り餅にハマっている、もとい、傷む前に食べ切ろうとしている。
低糖質はおいといて。。。でも切り餅一つならご飯半杯くらいなのでそこまでははないのです。

打ち合わせ宣誓、自分の時間、煮熟中

絵で描くと何を考えたかパッとひと目でわかるのがいいな。ビジュアル万歳＼(^o^)／

春爛漫 〜洗濯かごは突然に〜

 アーモンドかな？

 モクレンかな？

３年半使った洗濯かごがボロボロ（分解寸前！）だったので同じ型のをずっと探していて、ついに発見！　別の用事で行ったドラッグストアにおいてあった幸運。常にアンテナ張って、役立つものとか学べることとか、目を光らしておく笑の大事だなと思った。関係ない事柄でも、ひょいと繋がることがあるから。

攻略！

いちおうラスボスまで倒したけど、そのやり方で本当に合ってるかというのは難しい問題。
合ってる合ってないというよりは、その手法を用いた理由をちゃんと説明できるのが大事だ、と思う。

プログラミングで四苦八苦してるときの時間の経つのがなんと速いこと…時間を費やしたら費やしただけ成果が出る、分野かもしれない。ある意味。

感謝

Always thankful for essential workers who make our lives possible!!

Work progress and Green Revolution by Dr. Norman Borlaug

Watched Norman Borlaug - The man who tried to feed the world on PBS. He is a plant breeder that developed dwarf, fertilizer responsive, high-yielding crops that increased grain productivity in developing countries in 1960s.  This revolutionalizing improvement is called Green Revolution. Though it is criticised for its intensive chemical fertilizer and irrigation use, he developed plant breeding methods that are standard operations in today's world.

Unfortunatelly, the world population is still growing, and despite Borlaug's miracle crops, hunger is still present in many parts of the world.  "The food problem in the world has two aspects - one is production, and  the other is poverty and low purchasing power of the population in some countries."  The inequality in distribution is a deeply rooted problem in almost every society where the economy is liberated.  Those who have more get more, and the cycle perpetuates.

It's obvious that the Earth cannot support 50 billion people.  No way.  It's not the matter of plant breeding, but it's more about how to slow population growth. There is not an easy answer for it. 

   

ひじきと大豆の炊き込みご飯

炊き込みご飯するとご飯が美味しくてしかもご飯のおかずになるものを考えなくて良いのでとても便利！

2合にみりん小さじ2と醤油小さじ2入れたけど、思ったとおり少し少なかった。次回は増やしてみよう。普通に美味しいけどね〜

春のはなまつり☆☆

やっぱり青い空に桜が映える～～～

晴れた日は例外なく風が強いのでブレるブレる…

八重桜も！　キャンパス内にこんなに桜があったとは。一眼（と画像編集ソフト）サマサマ。

運動と桜と小豆の飴ちゃん

サイクリング一時間したら、生まれたての子鹿みたいになった。。。笑

風が強いからすーごいこがないといけない！

桜を見に行くためなら何度でも行くよ！！

春の花たち

桜っぽい花、というか桜を発見！！たった一本、寒さと風に負けず、咲き始めていました。こんな近所にあるなんて感激！

Zoom meeting cartoon & This week's highlights

そろそろジャケット着てかっちりしてどこかへ行きたくなったよーー

Highlights of this week

1. We worked out the outline of our next paper!
2. Learning a lot about color standardizaion. Am I overcomplicating it??
3. Finished and mailed tax filing documents!  I hope I will get return smoothly.
4. Snowed and hailed 3 times this week.
5. Youtube &Twitter live of my favorite artists!
6. My phone is REALLY running out of storage space.  I've got a microSD card, but some data of some apps can only be saved to local storage, and it's occupying a lot of space.
7. Learned the basics of cheese and looking forward to picking my next one to try.  
8. Essential research exemption applied. I hope it will get approved. 

ZENB trial vegetable bars

Tasty and it tastes very much like vegetables. The crunchy rice puffs give good texture. 

Paste paper, Zumba, and snow in April

I'm glad to have such good labmates!!

The last snowfall of the season I believe will come tomorrow! Printed out my tax forms and scanned an extra copy of them, ready to stay inside all day.

Daffodils on Easter Sunday morning

Spring is beginning no matter what.

Genetic analysis progress

The new normal - thankful for being able to keep normal

鮭、ダン、キムチ

Lab meeting presentation done!

The only time I needed to present this academic year!  Again just like the night before my oral exam, I had to write down scripts, read some related papers, and add some finishing touches to my slides. 

There were about 40 slides because I added some more that explains the basic consepts of my genetic study so that my collaborators from Engineering will also understand my talk.  That was a great thing to spend time on.  Totally worth it.  Appreciate positive feedback from the Engineering professor!

I got to talk with one of my labmates after our the meeting was concluded. I really appreciate it that he always gives me advice and help with bioinfomatics! I got some new codes to try.  I hope it will work out for me.

Positive, flexible, and cheerful attitude helps greatly when you give a presentation. You want to be your best self so that your audience will be engaged and find your talk (and the person who is delivering it) interesting. It is a comprehensive presentation of you as a communicator!  Getting up 2 hours before and rehearsing my presentation gave me energy to get going smoothly.

Giving a presentation is a lot of work, and it makes me super nervous, but it is at the same time the best part of being a researcher.  It is a great feeling when I get good questions and helpful insights from others. It feels like my researech is meaningful and I want to continue my effort.   

Update delivered!

The feeling of being able to show what I did right away when asked about my progress in analyses. Mmm!

After one week of working remotely, it really felt like "Oh, this is my workplace. I need to do my job and get results here." It didn't take that long to get used to it, well because I live alone with no children around at home, although I'm a bit worried about my communication.

Meeting with myself for a meeting

One of my former labmates was having a "meeting with himself" before a busy day starts when he was doing a lot of things. Now I understand how it feels! I need to keep track of everything and a time to sit down and plan what to do is a precious moment for productivity.

キムチつくってみた

こちらのレシピを使いました☆

https://cookpad.com/recipe/1000316

手作りキムチは美味しいなあ…漬物大好きなのでいろいろ作ってみたくなった。

白菜が高いのがやや驚きだった。1.5キロの白菜が8ドル。それから1キロのキムチができるので、買ったとしたら16ドル。半分は材料費ですか！　手間はかかったけどたまにはいいな。韓国唐辛子を入手したい…！

花の春

今日はエアブラシでなく面塗りに挑戦！

疲れ目をいかんすべきか

My eyes hurt~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Data science, milk foamer, and strength training

合唱したいよーーー

声を筋肉に変えるのだ（熱血！）