微霞

Who am I?

Mizukoori. A student, hopefully forever. I stay alive mostly to see more beautiful things. Currently living very lazily.

What is this place?

This is my blog. I write essays, reading notes, random thoughts, and whatever else happens to fall out of my head. Most of it is in Chinese.

I started writing here because my Chinese was getting rusty in a very embarrassing way. I grew up around Chinese, but I don’t talk to people much, and at some point I realized I couldn’t even explain simple thoughts cleanly in my own language. So I write. Clumsily, but at least I write.

Also, random thoughts show up now and then. A blog gives me somewhere to put them before they disappear.

The English side wasn’t really planned. It started as a late-night experiment with i18n. After I got the routes and templates working, I ran into the obvious problem: my English is not good enough to translate all my posts without making them sound wrong. But since the setup was already there, I translated the about page and the links page, then wrote a post explaining why I’m probably not translating the rest. When my English gets better, I’ll translate more. Probably. Maybe.

The more I write, the more I notice how messy my thinking can be. If you read carefully, you’ll probably find holes, weird assumptions, and sentences that should have stayed in draft. That’s fine. Writing is partly how I catch those things. Maybe you’ll find something useful here. Maybe you’ll just enjoy watching me argue with myself.

You may also notice a lot of “reinventing the wheel” posts: explaining one concept, retelling a passage, trying to untangle an idea. Some of them are probably worse than a Wikipedia paragraph. Still, I need to write them myself. If I don’t take something apart and rebuild it in my own words, it never really becomes mine. And yes, I make mistakes. Feel free to correct me.

Names?

I go by many names, but these are the ones I use most:

• 「水氵冫」 — No deep meaning. I made it up on a whim, started using it in group chats, and somehow it stuck. Now it’s basically my official name. There’s also 「水水冰」 (easier to read in normal Chinese characters), 「氵氵氵」 (all radicals), and 「水水」 an affectionate nickname. “氵” is the water radical. “冫” is the ice radical.

• 「Mizukoori」 — My English-ish name, from Japanese romaji. “mizu” = water, “koori” = ice. It’s also my GitHub username. I originally wanted “koorimizu”, but someone beat me to it. This one works too. It still matches the 「氵冫」 in my Chinese name.

• 「㴇」 and 「沝」 — Derivatives of 「水氵冫」. No deep meaning either. I just think they’re fun.

• Plus names of anime protagonists that I use on less important platforms: Miyu, Elaina, Madoka, Illya, Homura.

What am I up to?

Currently learning:

• Chinese
• English
• Japanese
• Computer Science

Currently struggling with:

• Running
• Going to bed early
• Eating!

Long-term goals

• Total word count surpasses 100k

• Total post count surpasses 50

• 琴棋书画, sort of

  • Piano (piano is indeed a string instrument)
  • Go (this one is actually a board game)
  • English calligraphy (26 letters should be easier than 8000 Chinese characters)
  • Drawing anime characters (anime modern art counts as art too)

My retro hardware

• Phone / Tablet
  • Meizu X8
  • Honor 10 (natural death)
  • Xiaomi Redmi K60 Pro (got bored of it)
  • Xiaomi Pad 6 Pro
  • OnePlus Ace 5
• Wearables
  • Mi Smart Band 5 (natural death)
  • HUAWEI Band 6 (natural death)
  • Huawei Watch Fit 2
• Earphones
  • Xiaomi Mi Air2 SE (natural death)
  • EDIFIER Lollipods Pro 2 (lost)
  • Redmi Buds 5 (lost)
  • VIVO TWS 4
  • QCY H3 (made me dizzy)
  • HUAWEI FreeClip
• Keyboard
  • Kzzi K75
• Mouse
  • Logitech M750 M (left button died)
  • Logitech M720
• Laptop
  • Mechanical Revolution Unbounded 14
• Monitor
  • Skyworth F24G3
• Desktop
  • Built 2024-02-02:
    • Intel Xeon E3-1220 V2 @ 3.10GHz —44.82 CNY
    • ASUS P8H61-M LX3 PLUS —57.67 CNY
    • AMD Radeon HD 6450 1GB —30.29 CNY
    • 4+4GB DDR3 1333MHz Kingston —found under desk leg
    • Maxsun 128GB A6L SSD —found inside old DVD case
    • Western Digital 500GB HDD —21 CNY
    • GALAX 120GB JA1D0120A SSD —salvaged from old PC
    • BUBALUS 300W — 99.26 CNY
    • Stock Intel cooler — free with CPU
    • Taike Zhongdian H2 mini case — 29.87 CNY
    • Total: 283.91 CNY

Timeline

Earlier ~ 2023.7.12 Records missing / untraceable.

2023.7.12 Bought the domain yuuu.org, started a blog with Hexo, theme: next.

2025.2.14 Set up domain email, comments now support email notifications.

2026.5.19 Switched blog framework from Hexo to Astro, theme: typography.