{"id":5136,"date":"2021-05-05T22:59:23","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T02:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/?p=5136"},"modified":"2021-06-08T04:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T08:14:30","slug":"an-unfortunate-grey-white-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/2021-solar-terms\/an-unfortunate-grey-white-sky\/","title":{"rendered":"an unfortunate grey-white sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span lang=\"zh-Hani\" title=\"Chinese-language text\"><span lang=\"zh\" title=\"Chinese-language text\">\u7acb\u590f<\/span><\/span>\u3002<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5137 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-1-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-1-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-1-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-1-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-1-1080x540.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-1.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Small-talk introduction: The weather&#8217;s been real nasty recently. It&#8217;s been raining a lot the past week and a bit, and the sky is colourless. I feel lifeless. It&#8217;s reminiscent of the general Burnaby vibe, which is sad also because apparently the weather&#8217;s been nice and warm over there. Sunny like actual cusp of summer weather. Summer school has also begun this week. It&#8217;s 3 hours every Monday and Wednesday night, which is mostly okay, schedule-wise. I get hungry halfway through, and by 9PM, when it&#8217;s over, I&#8217;m really sleepy. It makes sense for studio courses to be 3 hours in-person because only half the time is instruction, and the rest is work time&#8230; but since we&#8217;re online, I&#8217;m just sitting in one spot for 3 hours and I have become One with the Chair.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, the picture above is from when it was slightly warmer. I went for a very short walk to the convenience store, and finally saw some signs of life. I also took a photo from my window of some clouds. I hope the secondhand camera I bought some time ago comes soon. Sometimes I think my phone camera takes some very bland photos. There&#8217;s no real&#8230; personality, unless I forcibly inject it through a surplus of adjustment filters. The picture below are from inside my room. There&#8217;s no editing done to these. I guess it&#8217;s just a slice-of-life moment, I don&#8217;t know. I look at my phone camera roll sometimes and I have no recollection of why I took some pictures.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5138 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-2-1024x512.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-2-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-2-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-2-1536x768.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-2-1080x540.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/lx21-2.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I think lately I&#8217;ve also been in a &#8220;collecting&#8221; phase again. It&#8217;s like&#8230; a cycle of making things. There&#8217;s a stage where I absorb and read\/save a lot of things, and then a stage where I synthesize and write\/plan, and then the actual doing occurs. It makes sense considering I&#8217;ve just finished one semester, and I still have a bit over a week until my first assignment is due for the summer photography course. I think it&#8217;ll be fine. I&#8217;ll be fine. Maybe.<\/p>\n<p>Not much to say this time. I reread my post from last year just now. It feels like a very long time ago. Every year feels very long but very short. A kind of redundant sentence&#8230; but then again, so is writing on this blog. At first I was thinking it would be nice to have a sort of Overview\/update, but in reality it&#8217;s just a watered-down, safe for family view of my thoughts. This was because I don&#8217;t really call home all that often compared to some of my friends who live away from home (some call everyday, some have a weekly scheduled call, and I call whenever I need help\/am really, really bored. Yes, I know I kind of suck), and also even when I lived at home I rarely talked about school\/work\/my interests and thoughts. I don&#8217;t know why. It&#8217;s not like my family isn&#8217;t supportive. I just don&#8217;t feel the need to talk about it. My siblings talk about their school things a lot more, which is great. I don&#8217;t know why (or perhaps I don&#8217;t want to get into why) I&#8217;m so attached to this notion of independence. Maybe that&#8217;s also why I&#8217;ve been putting off buying a plane ticket. I mean, the other reason I didn&#8217;t book my flight yet is because I&#8217;d like to be vaccinated first. That might take some time&#8230; but again, we&#8217;ll just have to wait and see.<\/p>\n<p>Right. So I don&#8217;t really know what to do with this blog (as usual). It&#8217;s a recurring identity crisis for this site, which is actually kind of funny. In the end, it&#8217;s come full-circle: a child writes about stuff they notice in their life and then occasionally posts school work\/personal projects. It doesn&#8217;t really mean much, and really the only audience is themselves. I guess that&#8217;s cool.<\/p>\n<p>No actual suggestions for this post, either. I&#8217;ll list things I do sometimes when I&#8217;m bored:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Online window shop for cameras\/clothes<\/li>\n<li>Find\/bookmark\/buy books to read later and then forget to read them<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/secure.flickr.com\/photos\/ibisbill\/albums\/72157638320224335\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Look at photos of things that give me a semblance of emotion<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Walk to the convenience store to buy chocolate bars for 2 dollars and forget to eat them<\/li>\n<li>Stay up really late and annoy whoever else I know is up at that time<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u7acb\u590f\u3002 Small-talk introduction: The weather&#8217;s been real nasty recently. It&#8217;s been raining a lot the past week and a bit,&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/2021-solar-terms\/an-unfortunate-grey-white-sky\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">an unfortunate grey-white sky<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2021-solar-terms","excerpt","even","excerpt-0"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5154,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5136\/revisions\/5154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yinzhuohan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}