Hi Steemians,
Can't believe it's been a month since I joined Steemit. over the past month I had made a lot of friends and learnt a lot. I have been looking at other Steemians’ introduction posts and it seems that my own was on the short side. Since @choogirl had requested more information about myself in order for me to join #teamaustralia, I have decided to use this first anniversary to do a more detailed post about who I am.
So, to be considering joining #teamaustralia, obviously I have to have some connections with Australia. But the question of “where were you from” is a difficult question to answer, as it really depends on what you want to know. I call Australia home for the last 10 years, but I am a Kiwi. I grew up in Auckland, but went to Christchurch for uni (where I met my wife). But I was also born in Hong Kong, and was there until I was 11 years old. I strongly identify myself with all these places. So the answer to the question “where were you from” usually becomes so long-winded that the person who asked tends just to tune out. This is also why you may see posts in Chinese on my page. It is hard for me to prepare a bilingual post because I type really slowly in Chinese, and some of the posts are hard to translate. However, I will try my best to do more bilingual posts in the future.
Another question that I sweat a lot when I hear it is “what do you do for a living”. It is not a hard question per se – I am a researcher in semiconductors and nanotechnology. But then I get questions like – “Oh, semiconductors – its something to do with music right?” or “Nanotechnology? Like those things that they put in shampoos?” – and the answers to those become complicated and awkward. In fact, I once met a girl on a plane that thought I was a conductor and therefore awesome and cool, then proclaimed that I was boring after I explained to her what semiconductor really is. Sometimes I tried to simplify my answers by saying I am a scientist. But I once got drilled by a custom officer asking what science I was doing, and whether I was making biological weapons. These days I just call myself an engineer and leave it at that.
If you have a look at my posts so far, you can see that I love travelling and I love taking photos. Here is a fun fact (for @choogirl): I got into photography because I was robbed at gunpoint in the middle of San Francisco (well, he didn’t actually point a gun at me, he only said he had a gun… but don’t let facts get in the way of a good story). My point-and-shoot was taken off me, and I managed to claim travel insurance back for it. When I went to choose a new camera, the Sony A100 was on special and I ended up buying that instead. And here I am, can’t live without my DSLR!
My first month on Steemit had been epic, and I am now really addicted to writing posts and sharing my stories. I am really thankful of all the support that I am getting from the Steemit community. I am especially thankful for @curie and @hendrikdegrote, your upvotes had really motivated me to keep writing. I am really grateful for that and I am sure every new Steemian who have gotten your support feels the same. Thank you @pharesim and @adrianobalan, I really appreciate your upvotes, it is really encouraging for my work to be liked by someone with so many followers. Thank you @juliank for organising the photo contests which are fun to participate in and really helps in building my portfolio here. Thank you @choogirl for the Steemit world map and travel digest initiative, and of course introducing me to #teamaustralia :). But the people I would like to thank the most are the new friends that I have made on Steemit: everyone in the cn group, @kristinaljfom, @alexandraioana26, @brumest, @tanata, @nolasco, @deborahmack and others, I enjoyed very much reading and admiring your work and your encouraging comments, and I really want to thank you for making Steemit such a welcoming place for a newcomer like me. Last but not least, thank you to everyone who have upvoted me, resteemed my posts and followed my blog. I really appreciate all your support and hope to make more friends in the coming months, and bring you more beautiful photos and interesting stories that you can enjoy!
This is the best photo of me!
不知不觉在Steemit上一个月了。最近看別人的介绍帖都写很多很多的。所以我决定在我满月这一天好好介绍一下自己和蹭一下熱度，顺便感谢一下大家的支持。
首先，一个不是迷団的迷団。我是个男生。在我帖子里出现的，是我媳妇。我们在大学认识，已经十几年了。儿子今年也五岁了。我们现在居住在澳洲。我在香港出生，可是从十一岁就移民到新西兰。我的国语是跟我大学朋友，还有我媳妇她是武汉人学的。因为不会拼音和不会打中文，我的中文帖子写得特别慢。所以我之前的游记都是用英文写的，请大家见谅。我希望不久的將来为大家带来中文的游记。
我最大的兴趣是摄影。摄影这个兴趣是被我最好的朋友带动的。那时候他已经是个摄影发烧友，在一家摄影器材店当兼职。而我只是偶尔用一下我的傻瓜机照相(是没有智能手机的年代!) 有次去美国做短期研究，在三藩市的时候不知道那根筋抽了，竟然晚上九点去国会大厦照相。结果被一个老黑看上了。他先是过来说我照相机好想看看。被我拒绝之后他就说他只是想买照相机给女兒，就想试试相机，又说我不要看到黑人就这麽敏感。结果当我心软给他试试时，他拿起就走，还说他有槍，不要踉着他。我当时就懵了！过了半天才想起报警。
嗯，有点跑题了。总之就是傻瓜机没有了，我朋友就帮忙写了张单，硬把我傻瓜机的价值写高了一倍，最后保险就赔了这个价格。拿着这笔钱去买新傻瓜机时刚好索尼的第一款单反A100打折，於是在我的好友怂恿下，上了单反的不归路。
对旅行的热爱也是从大学开始的。读博的时候我有一个很好的导师。他给了我很多出国研究，开会议的机会。在短短三年內我去了日本，新加坡，澳洲，美国和德国。每一次旅程都觉得非常有意思，让我感觉到，世界这么大，我要去看看！之后，我爱上了旅行，去了很多地方，例如挪威，意大利，瑞士，奧地利和南韓。还有很多想去的地方，例如去秘鲁看马丘比丘，去希腊感受爱琴海风情。或者去土耳其看苏菲亚大教堂和会游泳的猫，去坦桑尼亚看非洲大草原和桑给巴尔的海滩。希望以后有机会去更多地方，能把所见所闻放在这里和大家分享。
在Steemit一个月，学会的很多。在这段日子里，我非常的感谢大家的支持和鼓励！特别要感谢我的好朋友 @bobdos介绍我进来Steemit, 还借我SP让我在这里站稳脚来，真的非常感谢！还有就是中文区里的大神们，例如 @abit, @tumutanzi, @htliao, @oflyhigh, @deanliu, @rivalhw, @skenan, 谢谢你们的大力点赞，还有对中文区的支持。希望以后可以从你们学到更多东西！谢谢 @justyy, @cnbuddy团队, 感谢你们让我们这些中文区的小鱼们可以抱团取暖。还要感谢这个月里认识的好朋友们: @victory662, @winniex, @vandadream, @travelgirl, @dancingapple, @aaronli, @xiaoshancun, @catwomanteresa, @nationalpark, @nanosesame, @wangwenjing等等, 谢谢你们的支持和留言，让我这个新人觉得特别温暖！最后要谢谢毎一个为我点赞的人，请原谅我不能一一提及，可是我非常感谢你们的支持，希望以后继续在这里认识更多的朋友，继续分享我的照片和故事！