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For lack of a better title I am using this popular quote from the endurance running community. It says that the marathon is fair and unforgiving. A PB or even a finish is not always guaranteed, even after putting your 100% effort into training and race prep.

¡2025 esta aquí! Estoy emocionada y feliz cuando reviso que paso en 2024 porque hay muchos cambios y muchas experiencias nuevas. En este blog quiero revisar mi 2024.

Como se puede ver, estoy escribiendo en español. Empecé a estudiar español en noviembre de 2023 en Duolingo, y llevo estudiando por mas que un año. En augusto mi colega me dijo italki, un sitio de web donde puedo encontrar maestras que hablan español y practican conmigo. Mi maestra es de México y me gustan nos clases mucho. ¡Estoy segura vamos a practicar mas en 2025!

It is the familiar holiday season again and I feel it’s time to look back at 2023, reflect and summarize what had happened as a result of this year’s hardwork.

This year, I’ve been trying to read something other than statistics. My new-year gift for myself was a Kindle PaperWhite, and I didn’t plan to let it collect dust.

So far, I’ve read:

Time passes unbelievably fast and here comes the end of 2022! It has been a year with a lot of personal growth and I want to pay it a tribute with this brief post.

Recently I traveled to Houston and got my first tattoo done. I have been thinking about getting a tattoo for years although it has been long regarded as a sign of rebellion in most eastern cultures. Honestly this aspect did not bother me. What I worried about most is what tattoo I want to get - text, abstract shapes, or figures? Given its perpetuality, I wanted to be as cautious as possible. Finally I decided to get an abstract version of this photo to honor my late grandma. She was 65 then, and I was one month old. As far as I recall, we have only taken two photos together, the other one being when I was in middle school. The original copy of this photo has been lost for years, but I am glad that my father and I made digital copies of several old photos back in summer 2004. All my cousins on my father’s side are a few years older than me, and after I was born, I was the one that enjoyed almost 100% of my grandma’s unconditional love. My grandma passed away at 81, and I was in my first year in high school. I have been regretting for not being by her side at her last moments for every day after.

Today something good happened in my life. I will share more when it is appropriate. Overall I am exhausted, having worked hard for a while…but also really happy.

Tiger’s birthday is coming up! This princess is going to be two years old. Her meowjesty is almost a fully grown adult cat now. She is less active compared to when she was a kitten (and I miss the little sweetheart of 3 lbs), but has the charm of an adult cat’s glory.

Here is a bucket list, and it will be actively updated (and hopefully also actively checked) in the future.

Below I added some updates from 04/04/2022. The newest updates were made on 01/25/2025.

This winter I took my very first paid time off (PTO) in my life after starting a job. During a period of 18 days, I have taken a total of 8 flights, both domestic and international. Being a statistician I am quite interested in numbers, and being an aviation amateur I want to view the routes I have flown. In this short post I will share three websites that I have found to be very useful.