今天在海弗利一家中餐馆吃饭时，突然想起了一幕场景。那是我高中时，大概是2009年或2010年左右，一个冬夜。那应该是寒假期间，我在外婆家——也就是我妈妈的妈妈家，我们用湖北方言叫她嘎嘎。
我当时正在用我爸爸在我奶奶的劝说下买的电脑玩（更准确地说，是“使用/运行”而非“玩”） 3DMark 06 演示版。
From 3DMark 06 to Rome: A Winter Night at Gaga’s House
Today, while dining at a Chinese restaurant in Heverlee, a scene suddenly came to mind. It was me in high school, probably around 2009 or 2010, on what I think might have been a winter night. It must have been a night during winter break at my grandma’s house, my mother’s mother, whom we call Gaga （嘎嘎） in the Hubei dialect.
I was on a computer that my dad had bought at the urging of my grandma, playing the 3DMark 06 demo.
候麦电影中的爱、愧疚与解脱：《女友的男友》（1987）观后感
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《女孩的男朋友》或者《我女友的男朋友》之类的。
总的来说，我挺喜欢这部电影的。它非常有名，据说是他一系列道德寓言故事中的一部。我之前多次听过它的名字，但从未认真看过。过去几天，我一直在等待英国签证申请的结果。我昨天提交了申请，现在正在等待，所以自然有点紧张。因此，我断断续续地看了这部电影，通常每天吃饭的时候看几分钟，最后分几次看完了。
Love, Guilt, and Relief in Rohmer: Some Thoughts After Watching “L’Ami de mon amie” (1987)
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Anyway, today I finally finished watching a film by Rohmer—the French director Éric Rohmer. The film is called something like The Girl’s Boyfriend, or My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend—something along those lines.
Overall, I quite liked it. The film is very famous and is supposedly one of his series of moral tales. I had heard its title many times before, but I had never watched it carefully. Over the past few days, I have also been waiting for the result of my UK visa application. I submitted it yesterday, and now I am waiting, so naturally I have been feeling a little nervous. I therefore watched the film intermittently, usually for a few minutes while eating each day, and eventually finished it over several sittings.
Public-Interest Web GIS Dashboard for the 2026 Venezuela Earthquake
I have been building a public-interest dashboard (so unofficial) for the 2026 Venezuela earthquake context, using public Copernicus EMS Rapid Mapping data for activation EMSR884.
The official Copernicus platform remains the authoritative source. My aim here is narrower: to create a lightweight accessibility layer for selected public satellite-derived data.
The Weight of the News from Venezuela
I had heard the news about the earthquakes in Venezuela earlier today, but I’d only seen the text headlines and hadn’t looked closely at the reports. That was until I scrolled through Instagram and saw the devastating footage: collapsed buildings, people filming the destruction, and a voice off-camera screaming for his mother toward the rubble.
In another video, a young man sat atop his home, which had been reduced to a pile of ruins. The video was shot in HDR and incredibly high-definition—a crispness that formed a jarring, almost surreal contrast with the devastated background behind him. Even though I didn’t understand the language they were speaking (presumably Spanish), you only needed to look at the screen to understand exactly what had happened.
Lunchtime Observations at Alma, KU Leuven: The Set Meal Rule
At the Alma 1 restaurant at KU Leuven, they clearly had chicken cutlets, but they absolutely refused to let you buy one separately, stipulating that you could only buy it as part of a set meal (5.6 euros for students).
If the set meal didn’t include the combination you wanted, and you just wanted to add something extra—for example, the set meal originally included a chicken cutlet, vegetables, and rice, but you only wanted the chicken cutlet—that was absolutely impossible there. You had to buy a whole set meal. But by then, I had already eaten lunch and couldn’t possibly eat a second one.