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Moving places 雀母三遷

While trimming a tree on Sunday morning, my dad ended up chopping down a branch with a nest by accident. He was too immersed in his task to notice it, let alone to hear the cries from the nest shortly after, until I told him what had happened. Dad thought the nest was empty, since the day before we spotted a dead chick on the grass directly below the tree. The keen wind and wildly dancing branches led both of us to think that the chick was quite likely tossed out of the nest by the wind and left to suffer this fate because of neglect. But we would not have expected that there was another chick, which was in fact clever enough to alert us for help. Dad and I considered for a while how best to care for the chick. Housing it in a box was probably not the smartest thing to do, so we decided to put it back to the nest and rest the branch in the flower bed underneath a bush in order to afford some cover. But we were also concerned that the chick’s mum and dad would not be able to find it. An...

Ground breaking, glass shattering 遍佈一地的新建築和碎玻璃

There’s a flurry of construction happening in my research institute and the hospital area in which the hospital is situated. The hospital is erecting a new building which has reached 4 storeys in height (left photo in the middle of this page) while the research institute is building an extension, the sight of which changes by the day. The extension was adjacent to another research institute that is still relatively new, only 6 years old and has received architectural awards of some kind (the white building behind the crane in the right photo in the middle of this page). But you would never have thought the building has been through some serious architectural issues already! The labs and offices are built along two sides of the building, joined by walkways with glass banisters. However, the two sides of the building have been sinking unevenly, and one day in the last two years (the exact date of which I would not know, since I’ve only heard about it now) the banisters have suddenly all ...