29 Jan 2021

Digress, regress, progress

时而呆滞,时而后退,时而拐弯。

但至终,都会发现这些分叉路,都可以是前进。



27 Apr 2019

24 Aug 2018

Caffeinated entropy

Often I wonder why people stir the milk in their coffee or tea for more than ten times. Cling cling cling cling cling. How annoying.

That's overstirring. A good mixing can probably be achieved in less than ten stirs. That is, the distribution of milk particles in the coffee quickly becomes uniform over time and plateaus after just a few stirs.

Funny. A uniform distribution of milk particles is then the goal of coffee stirring. I couldn't help but imaging what happens to the milk particles when you cease stirring. Well, assuming the latte as ideal fluid and a closed system, do the milk particles perform Brownian movement? If so, then the distribution of milk particles over time becomes...random? Maximum entropy?

Hang on. There's a reason to keep stirring then. To keep the milk particles from becoming randomly distributed. To keep them uniformly spaced in the coffee, or tea. To ensure each sip are consistent in taste and texture.

Can't really blame the old man next table for clinging clinging and clinging now, can I?

20 Jul 2017

马在呼唤

眼见背负的包裹即将落地,那匹马,又在呼唤。

Gatton, QLD

24 Jun 2017

他方

再多几步。
再多几步?
他方,才变成立足的港湾?

无妨。有你,就好。

Of her

6 Oct 2016

抬头

过于专注于自己的小生活时,不妨抬头。

Dhoby Ghaut, Singapore


MRT, Singapore