咖啡。美少女。

Cafe in December

十二月的週末適合做什麼事呢？不用懷疑啦！當然是跟希芸妹妹一起出去玩！不過為了不要受寒，找個暖和的地方窩著，喝咖啡閑聊挺不錯唷！上個週末、上上個週末都是這樣過的～有了希芸妹妹的陪伴，讓我的每個週末都很幸福！

In December, how do you spend your time during weekends? For me, no doubt it is the only time in a week that I can meet my beloved Xiyun. With Xiyun, no matter it is to stay all the day at home or go out for an excursion, I feel happy and enjoy a lot. In December, the weather is always cold outside. However, it's really hard to reject the invitation from bright sunshine, especially in this season~



這一陣子，根據「陽光少年仔」阿坤四處打探的情報，找到這一家鬧中取靜的咖啡屋。坐落在新生南路的巷子裡，交通算便利的好地點，缺點是停車極困難。

Our friend Kun recently found a nice place in the downtown area. Near Ta-An Forest Park, there is a cafe shop located at the lane of Xin-Shen S. Road. The mass transportation system in Taipei makes it easy to reach the shop; however, it's difficult to find a parking space nearby if you drive.



愛喝咖啡的一家五口，爸爸、媽媽、乾爹、媽咪加上希芸妹妹，最近常常來這裡報到呢！然後媽咪繼續用著小小的 T11，為希芸小小的可愛模樣留下記錄。雖然已經有添購單眼數位相機的計畫，也看好機型及打算購置的鏡頭，不過這陣子公事家事都忙，買了也沒有時間用，就只能放著讓它變成過氣的機款～所以這個計畫就先擱著了。

We are a caffeine-philic family -- papa, mama, daddy, mummy and Xiyun. We came here quite often these days. With little T11, mummy continued snapping photos of Xiyun to record her childhood days. In fact, I planned to buy a DSLR and had the wished model as well as lenses in mind. Well, my recent life is like burning the candle at both ends. I hardly imagine the new DSLR would be kept in the damp-proof cage until it becomes an old-fashioned model. OK~ this plan is postponed.



來說說這裡的咖啡。這兒的熱咖啡都以沖濾式做法為客人提供服務。大部分的咖啡豆成品屬中至輕度烘培。客人點了咖啡之後，服務生先送上裝著現磨咖啡的濾紙以及預熱過的磁濾杯以及咖啡杯組；接著請客人先欣賞一下香氣，然後熟練地以神燈壺在客人面前濾出一杯美味的咖啡。

Let me introduce cafe here to you. When you make an order of hot cafe, bartenders here would no longer stay in bar. They first bring freshly crushed coffee beans in filter paper, pre-warmed cafetiere and cup to your table, invite you to have a breath of cafe deeply, and skillfully pouring hot water through cafe in front of you.



臨桌提供沖濾式咖啡的服務，是這個咖啡店的特色之一。而且就在咖啡完成的第一時間，客人幾乎「零時差」地立刻品嘗！喔～不要懷疑，入口的時間與溫度，可是決定咖啡口感的重要因素。

Serving on each table is an impressive feature of this cafe shop. With no time lag, you can taste your cafe immediately after it is made. Surely the time and temperature are important factors to tell you how good the cafe is.



【後記】對我而言，這裡的咖啡基調偏酸。同樣的咖啡品項，各家師傅的烘培手法會讓咖啡呈現各種不同的樣貌。若你喜歡耶哥雪菲清新的果酸口感，這裡是個好選擇；若你是黃金慢特寧的愛好者，那麼這裡的口味可能會讓你有點兒意外。不管我怎麼說，好喝與否，每個人的味蕾都長得不太一樣，還是請你自己去試試看吧！

2007。實驗室。大合照

大家一起來拍照囉！
Having a Picture Together?!

應該是十月下旬的事了～
所辦公室說我們實驗室的檔案照片太古老了，今年多了許多新臉孔，應該要交一張新照片做檔案更新之用。合照事小，不過說到要把大家集合起來，嗯～這個事情就真的有難度了！

It was around the end of October. The office informed our laboratory to give a lab photo to replace the previous one, which has been used for several years. Well, it sounds easy; however, it's a little bit difficult to get all labmates together.



正值學期當中，學生們要上課，而且每個學生的課表各不相同，不上課的人，實驗安排少說也是一週兩週以上的計畫，加上老師一共十七人的陣容，說大不大，但要把大家同時找來，為了實驗室大合照，還真是個詭異的理由。

During semester, junior graduate students have many classes to take. Besides, each of them came from different campus and/or institute, thus different schedule of classes for each individuals. For senior PhD students and research fellows, we don't have classes but we arrange time table for experiments in advance. It sounds mission impossible to gather everybody and take a photo.



不過，明怡果然能幹，不出半天，就搞定所有人的時間了！ 十月最後一個週四，上午十點半，好個吉日良辰，全員集合拍照啦！

How lucky we are to have Ming-Yi as an assistant in lab. She fixed the schedule immediately for everybody! The day to have a lab photo is the last Thursday of October, at 10:30am!



這又是另一件弔詭的事～ 我以為所上有指派的攝影師幫大家拍大合照，明怡笑了半天，說「學姊，你想太多了！」 結論是我們得自己來。

That's weird! I though we'd have a photographer assigned by office to take this photo~ Ming-Yi laughed and told me that we have to take this photo by ourselves!!



嘿嘿～沒有在怕的啦！不過就拍照嘛～還好我的小小 T11 向來都是隨身攜帶的配件，剛好前幾天帶了三腳架來實驗室，沒問題，給它拍了！

Heehee...It's no big deal, I have my little T11 as a part of me everyday! By the way, I had my tripod in lab last week for other purpose! Let's go! Have a picture by ourselves!



天空雖然不怎麼漂亮，但天光還不賴！所以在會議室拍好合照，當下就把人往外帶了。活動中心前的草地上，朱銘大師的太極「推手」成了我們的佈景～

We had the first lab photo in conference room. The sky though looked not blue, yet the skylight was good to take a photo outside. With T11 on hand, I walked ahead and led all labmates to the grassland in front of the activity center. "Tai-Chi", Ju-Ming's masterpiece, was the best scene for us! What a pretty picture we had!



才過一個多月，重看這些照片，該怎麼說呢？物換星移嗎？照片當中的臉孔已經跟現在不同了。實驗室原本就是個學生、研究人員來來去去的地方，明年十月的時候，不知道會有多少人離開或加入，看來每年都得重拍啦！

Just a month passed, one of the faces in photos has left lab. Is it the old Chinese idiom said "Stars move and things changed"? This is a quite common phenomenon in lab, people come and leave. I started to think about...shall we set taking lab photos on regular schedule every year!!