2025-12-07

I didn’t sleep well again last night. When I finally woke up at 10:30 AM, Huan was still asleep. It was a boring day. I boiled some rice noodles for lunch, but I didn’t have much of an appetite due to having eaten so much at yesterday’s buffet. In the afternoon, I focused on working on Huan’s visa application. I honestly think her colleagues are completely selfish. They don’t care about your actual needs; they only care about things that might affect their own work or future. So, all they say is, “We can only give you this.” But is that what you actually need? I really dislike their attitude. ...

2025-12-07 Â· 1 min Â· 151 words Â· Ben

2025-11-30

The daytime is extremely short in Edmonton during the winter! I woke up at 12 PM and then cooked some food for lunch. After that, I took a shower and took some time to relax. By the time it was approaching 4 PM, the sun had already set (or the sun was gone). I spent some time studying my textbook, Writing Academic English. I recently discovered Zotero and found it to be a very good tool for taking notes and managing references. I plan to use it to take tons of notes going forward. ...

2025-11-30 Â· 1 min Â· 108 words Â· Ben

2025-11-29

My roommate decided to cut his own hair, but he failed spectacularly. He ended up knocking on my door and asking me to take a look at the damage. It was hilarious! In Chinese, we’d say his haircut looked like it had been “eaten by a dog.” I bought a secondhand microwave last night, and the seller dropped it off at the Southgate station this afternoon. The microwave was so heavy that I was sweating by the time I got it home. ...

2025-11-29 Â· 1 min Â· 108 words Â· Ben

2025-11-23

I did the presentation all day. 18:59 Adjust the fontsize in Beamer It’s hard to adjust fontsize in beamer, especially using Quarto as the writer. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 ```{=latex} \begingroup \fontsize{6}{8}\selectfont \color{red} ``` Target content ```{=latex} \endgroup ``` I found we can easily to control the style on some specific content. It was defined at Authoring > Markdown Basics > Raw Content This method can disable raw_text to avoid output the command, refer to Pandoc - Pandoc User’s Guide ...

2025-11-23 Â· 2 min Â· 305 words Â· Ben

2025-11-16

I argued with Huan again, and I also couldn’t fall asleep well. I upgraded my Xiaomi 10 to Evolution X last mid-night. Today, Amir broke the appointment we made last night again. He wanted to eat fried chicken before.

2025-11-16 Â· 1 min Â· 39 words Â· Ben

2025-11-15

I argued with Huan and caused her couldn’t fall asleep. It’s a little regret in my mind. It’s about learning. I made some shrimp and fish for snacks.

2025-11-15 Â· 1 min Â· 28 words Â· Ben

2025-11-11

Today I watched the Shrek 4. The series is good. Chatrangha delivered my new clothes to my home. I gave him some hot pot base. 21:14 Aurora this is the first time day I saw the aurora. It’s beautiful but the light is two much. and I hope I could see aurora at a quiet environment.

2025-11-12 Â· 1 min Â· 56 words Â· Ben