Hsin’s Update on Apr 20, 2012
After my progress presentation last Friday, I felt my thesis work was cut from 50% to 5%. For totally different approaches had to be carried out. I was pretty worried about that during the whole weekend for I had to rewrite every single line of code in my model and didn’t know how could I solve it.
In the beginning of this week, I threw dozens of cases I had solve before to trashcan. Restart again, with better programming structure concept, different approach.
After super hard working week, I finally reached a good progress. I was very happy to reach this step in 1 week, for my supervisor gave me 3 weeks to figure it out.
I was amazed at how personal potential could be spur when you are doing something you are really interested in, even you are not good at in the very beginning. (Also thanks my supervisor let me visit Hannover Messe, that made me very happy and excited)
Best Thanks to my secret weapon “Self-Motivation”!!!!
I really like the working condition within the company where I am currently in. Super easygoing atmosphere, super friendly colleagues, 99.9% fully empowerment.
Lesson from my internship experience so far:
“Only with the full trust, full empowerment and lots of personal free time and space, and make them HAPPY, the company can keep the talent, and they could be more creative and more productive than you can imagine ever before.”
Recent travel plan:
Germany to visit Janne Woicke in Hamburg with Ray, and visit Hannover Messe next week.
Coming Event:
Queen’s Night @ Apr 29
Queen’s Day @ Apr 30
All my friends~
Let’s PARTY in Amsterdam!!!!
Life is good~
Super~ Excited!!!
2012 Hsin’s Beer Adventure #8_Amstel_Golden
~ sunshine golden, thick fizzy head, with spacious taste ~
Time: Year-round
Color: sunshine golden
Hsin’s rating: Looks: 4 | Smell: 3 | Taste: 3.5 | Feel: 4 | Overall: 3.625
Hsin’s feeling:
Appearance: beautiful sunshine golden with nice carbonated bubbles; thick soapy head, with good lasting time
One joke after the acquisition of Instagram by Facebook:
One user writing under the name HTTP error 403 joked:
“Google: I will buy anybody who’s got a bright future.
Facebook: I will buy anybody who’s got platforms.
China: I will block anybody you buy.”
2012 Hsin’s Beer Adventure #7
Hertog Jan_Weizener
~ hazy yellow, thick soapy head, sweet aroma with easygoing character ~
Time: Year-round
Characteristic:obstinate
Type: wheat beer
Color: deep gold with a light mist
Taste: fresh whole-heartedly with characteristic bitter tones and a nice strong finish.
Hsin’s rating: Looks: 3 | Smell: 4 | Taste: 4 | Feel: 4 | Overall: 3.75
Hsin’s feeling:
Appearance: nice murky yellow hazy body, thick soapy head, with good lasting time
Hefeweizen
2012 Hsin’s Beer Adventure #6
Hertog Jan_Oerblond
~ Beautiful blond, light sweet aroma shining under the sunshine ~
Time: Year-round
Characteristic:Refined bitter
Type: Fermented blonde
Color: Copper blonde
Taste: pleasant tingling with pleasant bitterness that slowly
Hsin’s rating: Looks: 4 | Smell: 3.5 | Taste: 4.5 | Feel: 4.5 | Overall: 4.125
Hsin’s feeling:
Appearance: copper blonde with lots of carbonated bubble rising
Smell: light malty, corn, sweet fruit aroma
Belgian Pales consume the Belgian brewing scene, and were initially brewed to compete with Pilseners during the WWII time frame. They differ from other regional Pale Ale varieties, by traditionally being less bitter, using aged hops for a delicate hop finish, and boasting sweetish to toasty malt overtones. They should be decanted properly, leaving the yeast in the bottle. This will showcase their brilliant color range from pale straw yellow to amber hues. Most will be crowned with thick, clinging, rocky white heads. Flavors and aromas will vary. Some have natural spice characters from yeast and hops, while others are spiced.
There’s a recent growing trend to make much more “hoppy” Pale Ales, to entice the US market and its hopheads. See De Ranke XX Bitter.
Average alcohol by volume (abv) range: 4.0-7.0% [ ? ]
View the Top Beers for Belgian Pale Ale
2012 Hsin’s Beer Adventure #5
Hertog Jan_Grand Prestige
~ Serious powerful beer with distinguishable Sweet and bitter flavor ~
Brewed by: Arcense Stoombierbouwerij (Hertog Jan Brouwerij) Netherlands
Style Belgian Strong Dark Ale | 10.00% ABV
Notes:
Time: Year-round
Characteristic: Hertog Jan’s pride and joy
Type: High fermentation of barley wine.
Color: Deep brown
Taste: full and ripe, sweet and bitter distinguishable.
Drinking temperature: 10-12 ° C.
Hsin’s rating: Looks: 4 | Smell: 4 | Taste: 4 | Feel: 3.5 | Overall: 3.875
Hsin’s feeling:
Appearance: dark brown beer almost make carbonated bubbles invisible
Smell: roasted malt, caramel, sweet fruit order
Taste: sweet fruity in the first sip, then complicated spices shape the strong characteristic, soon after comes with bitterness from hop, the aftertaste is very dry and bitter. The aftertaste is surprising bitter. After that, I got used to it and start to like the bitter but balanced flavor.
Overall:
it a interesting beer, different layers of tastes are distinguishable, blending well with complicated species.
10% is hard to tell from the taste, how come they disguise it so well in the complex flavor
Cuisine:
I tried tonight with salad but it seems too strong. Then when I had soft, loose texture and smoked ham, it goes well with that. I would recommend it go with single flavor dishes ( not so many species) or some snacks, like ham, maybe some spanish tapas
““Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
Albert Einstein
Happy Birthday to you!!! on Mar. 14th
Worries_by Langhorne Slim
Don’t worry, to love, to be loved ~
——————-Lyric———————-
If you got worries, then you’re like me.
Don’t worry now, I won’t hurt you.
And, if you got worries, then you’re like me.
Don’t worry now, I won’t desert you.
If you get a chance, you put your dancing shoes on.
The country’s calling, and thats where I’m going.
Don’t know if you’re in my way, but, I’ll take you along.
I’ll take you along.
Maybe Blue eyes are more of my style, I don’t know.
But, I’m willing to try.
And, maybe I’m dumb for making you smile, I don’t know.
But, I will in a while.
We passed a gave yard and held our breath,
We better kiss if we’re getting closer to death.
I don’t wanna miss ya, I know it’s all in our heads,
She says “It’s all in our heads.”
If you got worries, then you’re like me.
Don’t worry now, I won’t hurt you.
And,if you got worries, then you’re like me.
Don’t worry now, I won’t desert you.
And, If you get a chance, you put your dancing shoes on.
The country’s calling, and thats where I’m going.
Don’t know if you’re in my way, but, I’ll take you along.
I’ll take you along.
2012 Hsin’s Beer Adventure #4
Hertog Jan_Bockbier
Time: Year-round
Characteristic: pronounced stubborn
Type: seasonal beer with high fermentation
Color: Dark / Brown
Hsin’s rating: Looks: 4 | Smell: 3.5 | Taste: 3.5 | Feel: 3.5 | Overall: 3.625
Hsin’s feeling:
Appearance: dark beer with little white top which disappear quickly
Smell: caramel, sweet with some brown sugar order
Taste: sweet caramel in the first sip, then comes with bitterness from hop and some spices, the aftertaste is a little bit dry with some irony feeling
Overall:
It offers a power taste, with variety in sequence: sweet -> bitter -> irony dry.
Cuisine:
Bock is a strong lager of German origin. Several substyles exist, including maibockor helles bock, a paler, more hopped version generally made for consumption at spring festivals; doppelbock, a stronger and maltier version; and eisbock, a much stronger version made by partially freezing the beer and removing the water ice that forms.
