Two songs appear frequently in my life recently in two totally different ways. It only strikes me tonight that they shared similar sentiments, circumstances, and emotions. It’s my pleasure to bring to

About Me I am Fangqing Yuan, a PhD student in Statistics at Bocconi University, Milan. I graduated from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor with a Master in Data Science, and I received my Bachelor deg

Books I read in 2024Luckily, again, I did NOT have too much time to read this year, which could mean that I spent time on some serious business. This year, I would still categorize them into 3 classes

CookDuring summer 2018, my parents gave an intensive cooking training to be prepared for my new life abroad. Just some basics, stir-fry some vegetables, eggs and tomatoes, pork and green peppers, eggp

It is quite impossible now to assess what Tat Ming Pair, Wong Yiu Ming, and Chow Yiu Fai meant to me before September 2019. I would always think about them with bias generated in next few years. Witho

I love writing sports news, so here we go:Ding Junhui Won His First Ranking Title in Five YearsOct 10th 2024, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. Chinese legend Ding Junhui beat English player Chris Wakelin by 1

Just finished reading BaoZhengShi by Xu Ben. Obviously it is not on Douban, so I am marking it here. I seem to be bothered by this topic everyday, and reading it does not make things better. Other tha

Wojciech Szczęsny retired from professional football today. I’m not a fan of him or Juventus. It just reminds me of some good old days, when our dear microeconomics professor Dr.Marengo used Szczęsny

I am no literature critic, but experienced enough to taste the difference. Reflecting the suffering and history of a nation by stories of ordinary people, some become epic, some fall into cliche. None

SurpriseI was a little bit surprised to see El Shaarawy in the line-up. In the last 20 minutes of the game against Croatia, when Spalletti chose to send in Zaccagni instead of Stephan, I thought that