Miscellaneous
During my free time, I go hiking, taking photography, reading and play badminton as habits.
Photography
I studied painting and sketch since my very young childhood for more than 10 years. But now I only occasionlly do that as I find that spending hours without interruption becomes ever difficult to me. I take photography as an alternative since my undergraduate years.
For photography, I rarely do retouch and post-processing on images taken and I even can't use Photoshop. I shoot pictures by my mirrorless camera, point-and-shot camera and also my smart phones. I learned a lot about photography from the digital photography lectures by Marc Lovey.
Also, there are some photos not shot by me but I do like them. They are mostly some group photos with me inside.
* If you happen to have privacy concerns on any photo shared here, please let me know. I will apologize and remove that from being accessible to public.
Reading and Writing
I am a heavy reader about fictions and history, mostly in Chinese. I recently created a Goodreads profile and started to track my reading. Some of my favorite novelists include Lianke Yan, Cixin Liu, Ah Cheng, Kurt Vonnegut and J.R.R. Tolkien etc.
I have been writing a fictional novel since early 2020 and hope to make it public in some form before my graduation. But you know, writing without a deadline is always delayed... Though this is a the good news that graduating as a Ph.D. is either not fast to me.