Jerry x Germany x Taiwan

Yesterday, the HPAIR committee informed me of an upcoming interview today, hence I started sifting information on their website and asked google how can I get myself ready for this. With time constraint, since I still need to work during the day, I had little time to prepare, but they made the call on time, I picked it up, our conversation thus began. The guy from the other side of the phone is a undergraduate student from Harvard Univ. (I think), he quickly asked me to briefly introduce myself, why would I want to apply for HPAIR 2017 in Sydney. Simple question, simple answer. That was the first one. Later on, he followed up with Asian countries are facing environmental injustice, along with disproportionate energy use, what phenomenon did you see and how would you tackle this problem? You got me, this is too big of an issue. “if I claim that I have a solution or a technique that can solve this problem, call me bluffing.” But I am here to propose some simple solutions that...

On mother’s day, Taipei seems to me like an empty town again as mostly people are coming back home to spend time with their dear moms. I was going to stay in my tiny room and watch bunch of movies then call it a day, but Amy randomly threw this idea of going mountain climbing at Xizhi while we were having dinner with Terumi and others from Mengyen family. We came to a consensus very quickly, we were praying the weather would be good. Not to our disappointment, the sunlight came creeping in my room, I had a feeling that today will be very exciting. Amy invited her cousin, Orika, to join the trip. So here we go! 2 locals plus 2 Japanese, I knew this could be a lot of fun! We planned to take bus F911 to TianShiu Temple but we missed it, and it would take another 90 min. until the next came, that’s why we grabbed taxi instead. It was raining when we reached there, luckily it didn’t last long. There were not many tourists, I guess people prefer to go somewhere less energy-consuming on th...