As promised, I took a few snap of the HKU Main building. I used the night mode and I didn't have a stand with me, I got to discard many of them; they are blurred. The filtered ones are: I also take the entrance of the lab:
and the lab opposite of my lab, but I dun know what the heck they are doing, since it's open for all. Oh... I thing, I must complain about the card reader. The student card IS a contactless smart card, but you still have to slide the card along the card reader. THEN you need to punch in the 4 digit card number. But the 'Enter' key for the card reader got some connection problem, and it;ll time out after a few seconds if you dun punch in the code plus and 'ENTER' key. I was very irritated and sometime I need to re-try 5 times. Mr BLOG

I found out that Baleno down sized all their pant! Since last year, I've been wearing size waist 28' for my pants and jeans. Today since I'm broke, and I'm in urgent need for a pair of jeans, I went to Baleno since it was the ONLY shop of such kind near to the campus. I tried the size 28' first, and it's does fit. I suspect that I put on some weight. So I tried size 29'. I was better BUT I could still feel the tension. I concluded that Baleno make all their pants size 28' to 29', 29 to 30'... and so on. Tonite, it was the only nite that I can walk around the place in campus. HKU is on a hill. But it wasn't as high as I expected. It was about the height of climbing from Jurong Bird Park to Jurong Hill. Around the neighbourhood, Although it's in the district of The Peak, besides the Central and Admiralty. It seems to me a small town that has been abandoned, the feeling walking on the street is like walking in China Town, everything seems so old, and not maintained. No modern shopping mall, no U2. But I could see lots of 2 storey shopping complex like the Pearl centre. I walking 3 street up, down, left, right from the point I reached from HKU downhill, I could find a computer shops that sells CDR. Of course, all the building are at least 20 years old, no new building. Once I reached back campus, I think tonite it's good time for taking photos, since tomorrow is a public holiday, most people should have gone by now. Mr BLOG

Today I really can't concentrate on the work I'm doing, or work that I'm supposed to do. So, instead of reading up, I've reduced it to just plain surfing, with my headphone. Tomorrow is a public holiday, Natinoal Day for PRC, so of cos it'll be a holiday. I'm not going back home, as nobody will be home. Will I be spending the day tomorrow in campus tomorrow? I do not know. Mr BLOG

Evonne Hsu. Xu Hui Xin! Wow! Superb album! The links to the songs work most of the time, at most 2 songs from same IP isit? I couldn't exceed 2. Mr Blow

Over the weekend, there are close to 10 new albums posted on xuxule, as I didn't use the computer at home to download them, I can only download when I got back to campus. Those guys in xuxule was smarter nowadays. They dun allow simultaneous download frrom the same IP. So I can also run the script to download one by one. Mr BLOG

Just went chinese tim sum with my parent. got to know that there's a new HKD 10 dollar note. It sucks. It doesn't have the classic look that the other old notes have. It's worse than the singapore curreccy note.
This is the new hk$ 10 note:
and this the old HK$500 note:
MR BLOG

Have added the button by the left side, so that you can just go to the post section to type in your post, if you have enable cookies.

Err meaning the solution found in the paper is crap right? Wow if you improve to N, wouldn't you be famous? I still remember our Operating Systems tutor is a Chinarian who speaks non-understandable English, but when you spoke to him in Chinese, he speaks English back still. I'm sure DesC will know who I'm talking about. My sup also speaks the lang that you're comfortable with. Mr Blow

The reason why it's was neat is beause we just moved it, and that guy took 3 day, many many trip with the trolley to shift the stuff over. I can see that he is a neat guy. Compared to my desktop, can't really compare.

And after the presentation, the chinaman told me the introduction I presented is a crap, and those lecturers actually do not care, but they need to "see" that part.
And now I'm under stress again... they told me to improve on the problem, from N^4, to N^3, or even N^2. At least I now can continue to stay in tha lab for the moment and people will not disturb me, even I'm just surfing around.
After the presentation, there was another chinaman, asking his sup questions on the paper that I just presented. They conversed in Mandarin, with the supervisor speaking 1/2 understood mandarin. It was a funny and interesting phenomenon. In Singapore you can't really find such things happening in NUS where the lecturers trying speak students' native language. Mr BLOG

U c? I was right, right? Ppl who normally say they can't make it do very well! I would deem your presentation to be excellent, from your description. Why? cos it's not easy to explain some qim qim solution and your 2 sups can still say it's crap. Or maybe it's your personality or character to be able to belittle everybody elses' work except your own! Hehee. Still remember the good old days when Ang was publicly humiliated by you? You had a great start of your career now, errr... studies. Now you can make it big! Jia you! In any case, the motivation of this problem is still very important right? Your 2 sups never even ask you to jump off the building. They beg you to think of a better solution for them. WOw! They look up to you! BTW, the Sun Yanzi song that you've uploaded for me is finally on national radio in s'pore. Also, how can that pic be the ideal desktop? It looks like the books haven't been touched for decades. So neatly placed. Mr Blow

Here's the ideal desktop of a student:

The presentation is over. got some setback, but overall, it's was okay. I got asked to write down the formal formulation off hand. I took 5 min to write down the correct on, it's it's a summation over 3 variables, I forgot what it was written. But finally I got it correct, it was a close shave. Then I presentation the short version. then they ask me to explain in detail, so I had to open up the long version, and switching the 2 versions here and there. In the end, they said that the paper was a crap, and ask me to think of a new and more efficient method. The entire presentation lasted for 1.5 hr. I can say I finally throughout the presentation, I focus only on the 2 sups. I ignored the rest. I didn't care whether the rest understood, as long as the 2 nod their hrads, I go on. I guess the rest dun quite understand. Mr BLOG

wow! Your lab is so well-litten by sunlight. Not like mine. so enclosed. like caged animals. Mr Blow

I reach my lab at 8:30 am, I see nobody is in the lab, and since I got a camera, as today I'm suppoed to pass it to my mum for her passport application. I quickly took a few shots. I also I also uploaded 2 pictures of the old (3 persons) office. I avoid slow loading of this weblog, I post the seat with the best view, and the rest are in http://www.csis.hku.hk/~nlho/pics/

I just check and the main weblog page is not available at http://postgaruda.blogspot.com/. Will check it out. : : : Now it's fine. Mr BLOG

To pre-empt the 2 main posters on this site from jumping to their guns and flaming me instantly, I've this to say. Don't worry about your abilities man. I've been your friend for about 5 years now and I don't doubt your capabilities. If anybody can make it, you guys can certainly do it. At least being in a school with strong competition is better than hacking up programs that don't matter and get thrown away by management. Now that doesn't mean I'm not irritated by the poor-me tone so far. So take the previous post as some light-hearted sarcasm. :) PaperD

Din know the postings come so fast and furious... else would have checked the site more often. So far the postings are about the conversations between a married man and a 90% life-expired man. Herein begins the story: Conversations between a Married Man and a Life-Expired Man. Married man: (begging for alms on a cold, lonely, deserted street) Me dirt. Me suck. Me no money. Help... (strangled, anguished hoarse whisper) Along comes the 90% life-expired man, just as browbeaten and downcast Life-expired man: Life sucks. My supervisor looks down on me. The competition is a nightmare. Sob... They sink into a state of collective symbiotic lamentation. What will happen to our protagonists? What will dredge them out of their unrelenting misery? Will more benovolent manifestations of their supervisors and/or HK serials save the day? To be continued... PaperD

Woh! I just went to library to search for a conferenece paper. Before that I had to go department office to get a photostating card, placeing $50 deposit, for a free 500 pages for photocopying. I knew that I'd use to when I get to library. It was the first time I stepped into the library. Admission is like MRT system where you have to place your student contactless, smart cards on the card reader in order to get into the library. The main library is quite well renovated compared to NUS central library. There was a enquiry section right after the gate, I ask where the conference paper it, the lady search for the conference for me again, to make sure that the library has the conference and the year. After I found that it's located on the first floor, I headed up to the 1st floor. There are 2 different sections on the 1st floor, one "special collection section" even have 2 reception ladies siting in the front. I asked to one of the ladies then to know that the conference that I was looking for is not the "special section". After some searching, I found the conference that I was looking for. all sorted in SSN number, by year and pubblication number. The best thing I found out is, different conferences are bound in difference colours. It makes searching very easy and it look neat on the shelf. I got the paper I wanted and I went to a photostating section; I got another shock. The photostating machine doesn't accept the cards that I drew before. It accepts the Optopus card. S'pore calls it the EZlink card, you can even use it for buying lunch in the canteen, buying can drinks from vending machines. After I got back to the lab, I searched for the conference I again. And that conference that I wanted has an electronic version!. I tried to search for it in the web, but no avail. So I wasted $4 for photocopying and 30 min to search for a paper. But it was a good experience and eye-opening. Mr BLOG

I partly agree. But I feel strange that NUS is afriad of no one coming in for postgrad, while HK is under presure of justifying reason to the media getting in oversea talents, especially now economy is bad and quota for higher learning is very much limited. I think to grad to highschool ratio in quota is very small, not likeS'pore.

OICCCCC! Actually, do you know that Singapore doesn't hv many locals doing postgrad now cos they think it's of no value in the market? NUS really has no choice but to recruit a huge pool of foreign talents to do so, even though some are really not that talented. If they dun do that, you'll find a ghost division in postgrad studies. Recently, there was a rumor that they rechannelled the funds for research (e.g. conference grants...) into hiring more foreign talents. Quite a few of the staff are given very little for their conference leave. I think if the economy in Singapore grows worse, then locals will start pouring in. I also received some feedback from some of my foreign frens that they regret taking up the degree course in NUS. Now they're stuck here for 6 years. Cannot pursue further studies. I question them,"during that time, if they had stayed back in their own country to complete their degree, would they be in better position now?" They said no. I told them that they're very lucky cos if they're locals, they would be stuck with repaying the loans for 6 years ($500 every month). So it's like they're earning much more than we do. But nevertheless, they're talents. We're dirt. oops no. I'm dirt. U also foreign talent mah. BTW, *sung's lectures are very humorous. If you need a break, can attend his lecture to have a good laugh. Mr Blow

Just to highlight some facts / reasons I found out. *sung@comp.... is happy in NUS because he's treated very well I heard. Moreover, if he were to stay my present U, he can only be a "Teaching Consultant". The jobs scope for "Teaching Consultant" is primarily to teach. And I heard from others saying that it's hard to raise from TC to A/P, you only do things that normally professors do like to do; moreover, I see that some TC are quite bad, some have to teach 2 modules, with 1 module having 2 time slot, one for comp sci, one for comp eng. I think that's why he should feel quite happy, as he get a full 'xxx prefessor' title, having his own lab. Mr BLOG

What I think is: Past reason is that people need to get more $$$, so do postgrad. Now it's the other way round, they dunno whether they can get a job, so they apply for postgrad first. So they use it for the last resort if they can't get a job. Secondly, market rate for comp sc grad droped by 1/3 in the past few years. From the top HK$15000 to now only HK$8000 - HK$9000. News always report say that Uni grad going for a HK$2500 position. So doing a postgrad can at leadt guarentee then something. I think, NUS got so many foreign student is because NUS recruit many 'foreign talent'. Saw in news few days ago, HK only started a few years back. So the chinaman i know is the "pioneer" of PRC scholar. Mr BLOG

BTW, what's the past reason of doing postgrad? What's the present one? Mr Blow

May I know why there are so many locals doing postgrad studies in HK? Why NUS is the other way around? What has consistent income got to do with postgrad? Mr Blow (i re-amended the prev prev post).

I've modified the last post to reflect the real situation. *sigh*, but I feel more iolated in this way. There's lots of local students here, that makes me more like a chinaman. *sigh* And which channelMr BLOW refers to? Today, I talk to this Chinaman (yes, I have no other to talk to, 'cos everyone is so busy going home after 6pm). He said that he thinks that reason people nowadays doing posrgrad is no longer the reason during our days. People are just trying to get a consistent income, others only come into secondary consideration. I'm begining to feel that very soon, someone will drop school. Mr BLOG

To say the truth, ppl who normally dun think highly of themselves do very well. Get the hint? It's farni that you feel like a Chinarian. I tot you'll feel more at home in HK than S'pore? Maybe you shd open up this channel for everyone to announce their joy, pour their sorrows, curse their companies and peers... So are there more locals in your present lab? My own lab with close to 30 in strength has only 2 singaporeans. 1 is leaving this week. left me only. Mr Blow

Well. This blog is mainly for me to write my "diary", it's not so much for others to write/post. Anyway, I'm feeling like I'm a chinaman, I dun speak as fluent as others. I dun go home with others, no one goes for breakfast or dinner with me, I'm pathetic. Every nite, only he's the one who stay up late in the lab, blasting those faye wong 'oldies' that only Mr Puxxman listens. Always plays those mandarin song and ask me to guess what's the title, sang by who.... etc Whenever I play those mp3 that I listen, he says "why you listen to such songs?"... And now I can't blast mp3 in the lab... poor thing. Mr BLOG

all the best, seems like all of you are having fun doing your masters :D hmmm.... only few people here using this blogger thingy? Mr SecretService

I've come to modifying the slides *again*. Although I used to slides for last week presentation which was cancel last minute, I still find that the slides are not good enough to give a good presentation. That's why I need to change it. I can't sense that something is not right on the slide, but I can't really say what excatly is wrong with them. This is discouraging when you know that something can be improved but you just do not know what or how to improve. This afternoon, I could only add in more and more detail to the slides. I'm not sure whether this is desirable by my co-sup. He said that either you present everything of the detail, or you presentation none. The most undesirable case, is that you presentation halt the detail and hide the rest, audience could understand nothing. And he made a strong statement: Do Not Make Everyone Wasting Their Time. I'm starting to have a feeling that I'm going towards these 2 directions. Mr BLOG

After reading lecture note on S-T connectivity, my impression on it is deeper, and I asked myself: is it what was taught in 2 weeks? Although I still can't understand the psuedo code (probably I didn't copy down nicely and completely). Mr BLOG

Finally bought a lamp in my lab. I paid myself, it wasn't that expensive. After installing the lampI find that the lighting is not as bright as I thought, I hope that tonite, I can work with this lamp. Very scary, today, another guy told my co-sup that he wants to change topic after working on topic B for 3 months, he wants to change to topic A. The co-sup says he's very disappointed as he was afriad what will happen if he doesn't like topic A again after 3 months. I better speak to him with this pointin mind. I can't let him fight back like what he did to this guy. Mr BLOG

I was trying to read the S-T connectivity paper that's was put on the cource homepage for supplementary notes, but it appears as totally unrelated stuff from the lecture! I can't understand a thing. Mr BLOG

Just read Mr Blow's post. Actually I got no idea what it means, but it seems that it's from a professor!!! "drive me to the grave", "they have done nothing!", "give them something to do".... wah... You found the difference? "....two other Engineering students under my co-sup[Co-supervision]..." I think the rest of the schemers will be very proud. Someone, graduated from honous for just 1 year plus, now co-supervise a 4th year engineering student. Unbelievable! Anyway, I heard that being tutor here is more tough than NUS. Besides tutorials, consultation, tutors have to mark assignment, answer newgroup or email within 2 days (documented). And of course webpage is compulsory. I'm designated as tutor for discrete maths in 2nd semester for comp. eng people. I heard comp eng people are supposed to be the smarter ones and I can't even do those predicate question for computer science stream. I could do the predicate logic question, I remembered in IC1105, we didn't have to do prdicate logic, did we? I knew nothing about predicate logic as I skip basic maths in NUS. Worse, down here got no proper tutorial classroom. tutorials are held in the LT itself; so it adds presure on me too. I'm doomed! I'm back from a lecture. The course is what my co-sup name it as one-star. I understood nothing, i.e. 0% of the 2 hours. It's on S-T connectivity, and I can't find this topic even in the thick thick thick book "Intoduction to Alogrithm". I think I can't accumulate this until exam. I have to get this thing done ASAP. Anyway, that girl who was given 5 choices chose choice 1. She told my co-sup, and he respected her decision. But I heard that he want her to choose choice 3 or above. I'm really frightened. When will be my day? Mr BLOG

Wow! Mr BLOG has his own personal webpage siah! BTW, I've been to NTU today for a seminar on robotics stuff with two other Engineering students under my co-sup. Also supposed to discuss with them what they've done so far so that they'll be ready for next week tuesday's meeting. Since the previous one 2 weeks ago, they've done nothing! Today they ask me what they shd say on that day. How the hell i know? So damn stressed. In the end, I've no choice but to give them one of the topics that I'm working on. Ask them to try the simplest case first. Hopefully they won't disappoint me again. Sighzzz... One is from China's best uni, one is 4th yr mech eng student. Driving me to my grave. Mr Blow

Since the lighting is so dim, I can't really work at night. I can't really concentrate. Today what i did is a sat at the chair near to the lobby. Since the lobby is also the entrance to a LT, there are metal chairs for students sit. The view is quite nice as there's a glass windows by the site from the top down to the floor. Sitting there has better lighting than in the lab. But the bad thing is, just before the start or after lecture, lot of students crowd around there and talk. I had no choice but to stop reading for a few minutes. Today, I've found the best way to fight sleepiness, this afternoon, I was quite sleepy, and what I do so to programme. Since the www server can run PHP, I made all the PHP script log down the infomation like date, time, requesting IP... etc. What I did was today I wrote something to analyse these sets of information, it's available at http://www.csis.hku.hk/~nlho/log.php . I 'll continure to modify this tomorrow when I feel sleepy. Mr BLOG

Just when you are wondering who the xxxx is this Mr SecretService, he is our long lost friend shihhsia. Mr BLOG

yup, get a lamp Mr SecretService

The new lab is quite good. Felt that I'm in S16 lab now, the last office was like S15. But the lighting is abit dim. I can't do my things here at night under this dim night. What can I do? should I get a lamp?

just came back from dinner and hair-cut. I had the most expensive haircur and a relatively expensive dinner. I was walking a round near to the campus looking for a salon, I was mentally prepared for something more expensive than the S$15 haircut. After walking 2 rounds, I finally settled for a less renovated salon, I walked for a haircut and it cost me HK$190!!! That guy was trying to pretend he was very professional, and crossing his hands, looking at my hair and trying to think how to cut. After that I settle at a small and normal chinese cook restaurant, I cost me HK$46.

After that I tried to withdraw some money from the ATM. As usual, I got the ATM card and recept, and waiting for the $$$ to come out, I didn't know why but no $$$ came out. I double checked the recept and the recept says that the transaction is withdraw HK$xxx. I stood down there, trying to find a number to call. I didn't know someone was standing behind me, waiting quite impatiently. I told her the ATM machine is at fault. She didn't believe and inserted hers, but in the end she canceled the transaction and didn't withdraw any $. Then I walked back to hostel, still trying to find a number to call in the recept. Then I read that there's another column "Cancel", and "***" was printed on in that column. I finally understand why no money came out: the transaction was canceled but the receipt printed says that "I'm trying to withdraw HK$xxx but transaction was canceled"

Mr BLOG

Just moved to a new lab... I didn't have much things to move. they're now unpacking, while I typing this.

I just got reminded also. I'm supposed to write a diary style blog, not a converstion. Actually, impression for me that he did so much admin works was because he was asked to. Now, since he's stepped down, he can do more things. Just a reminder to ALL, please identify yourself. Mr BLOG

actually the situation's still the same. no one knows what I've doing now still. what a lonely world. i think it's quite harsh to ask a student to move on if he or she can't produce. I'm wondering what is the life span of each of his student before he axes them. BTW, i think it's funny that the Schemer King suddenly switches from introducing new programmes in school to doing active research. Recently, he also borrowed the books of the conferences that I've attended. Suddenly very active again. wonder why. you reminded me. this site is public rite? ho ho ho. Mr BLOW

It's hard to say. You can't really judge a person in just a few weeks' time. Anyway, my position is like what you were in your chi??e lab a year ago. Nobody knows and cares what you are doing. I think he just speaks out of his mind when he's seeing someone he knows quite well. Which is after he knows you enough, he starts cracking jokes... etc. For me I dun think he's doing that to me rite now, cos I always showed him the serious look when I see him, so he had to do the same to me. And I'm trying hard to maintain this distance. Actually, both ways have the pros and cons, maybe one day I'll just crack some jokes to him and things get better. In order to keep the people' name anonymous, I suggest using the *nickname* or short form, it's easy to get sued if you do not do that. As you know, he's now going the bioinfo field, or getting interested, so he get student doing bioinfo project, like *lion king*, dun have to know who is *lion king*, just for example. So he went for confs on this topic. What he meant was he see lots of opportunities in this area. Mr BLOG

so the conclusion is that he's a sexist. He's a sado masochist. Has to be. Who knows? He may be gay. Hee hee heee... BTW, you also have a maid. Your sis! Wow. A school for rich and famous. Any prof that sees your Best Thesis Award will be enticed to recruit you. The fact is you choose others, not the other way round. BTW, why did you mean when lhw say that your area has a lot of problems? Example? MR BLOW

Anyway, let's be fair to him. Without him, no one would reply to my 'mail-from-stranger', he was the only one that replied to me, while professors in the other U just threw the mail to admin stuff, admin stuff replied and told me to 'refer to the web site'. Mr BLOG

Heard from the another gal (she was given same trestment, was told to "bring her brain along when going for meeting") said, even though he does thing abit hard, in the end you'll find that you achieve more than others. I may not argree with her though, but I'll keep it in view. History of HKU is very long, and the campus has never move since it was founded (1905 i think), I heard that from documentory, some 20 years ago, only rich people could go there, and the students were accompanied by their maids.

Hey. Maybe it's a good thing to switch supervisor. He seems very sadistic. Is that typical of all sups in HKU?

i think muz ask KK about schemers. Your uni looks very british lei instead of cheena. anyway, if that girl jumps, she'll at most fracture her legs. i really cannot understand how you can do programming when you hv nothing in mind to program! This is outrageous! Even a software engineer knows that proper design precedes implementation. BTW, is your sup very sexist or mcp? You won't be part of the 7.8% in HK cos you're a singaporean! Haha. Anyway, just wanna say that since Honours, ppl hv been laughing at me for reading so much and not doing implementation. It's common. I wonder if I'm doing it all wrong. But there's one guy who told me,"Do what you think is right! Hv faith in yourself!" So here i am, still doing what i used to do. Perhaps your sup (like all other sups) wanna see immediate results of good research. In my opinion, that can't be done unless 1. you strike jackpot AND 2. you've a lot of relevant knowledge in you to be able to reason about what's good research and what's not. To do so, you need to think about it all the time, when you eat, sleep, shit, bathe, cross the street, ...

What happened to schemers? I want to host the pictures that I take in schemers! hope nothing is going to happen.

Google image search is really impressive huh? just a simple search on HKU returns too many pictures:

Want to take pictures of HKU at nite for a long time, but could find a good time. I want to take it at nite, because there are less people at nite, and the nite scence is really not bad, just imagine how and will look at nite.

after an hour on hacking on the template code, I declare that the blog adz can not be hidden. Initially I thot just adding a start comment and an end comment to the part that insert the adz code, but I found that the code is added right from the start, so there's no way.

Tomorrow I'll be moving to a lab. That lab is specially delicated to people working on bioinfo. I really wonder how long I can stay there before being thrown out. Just heard that that gal (that gal who was asked to burn herself alive, jump down from his office) was given 5 choices:

1. Choose another paper to read
2. Do not do o much therortical topic, do more programming
3. Choose another topic to research n
4. Choose another supervisor
5. Drop school

I really felt fightened, and I wonder when I'll be part of the 7.8% unemployment population in HK. Mr BLOG

I only managed to read Mr Blow's post today. What I can say is: I may not like reading english novels, cos the english words used are just too difficult for me, something whom even chinamen laugh at (of course, I can't read bible either). But I remember I manage to read something during my trip back to Jurong West on 198. So i could read about 2 hrs everyday. I but I can no longer keep this habit of reading because I can no longer find a seat. Anyway, I found that reading in a bus is quite effective with me. But resently I found that at around 4:pm to 5:pm, I tend to fall asleep, no matter wheher I'm outside shopping or in my office. Even coffee or Coke does not effect. Mr BLOG

I got the reply from lhw few days ago, he was in conf in ROME. He said see lot of prob in the area that I'm looking at. I believe what he said. Because I forced myself to read the notes again, I got deeper understanding, although the cheem cheem words still look foreign to me. Mr BLOG

Sunday. I didn't doing everything this sunday. Probably because I dun want my parents know my things in HKU. To them, they always thought that for this degree, you just study, mon - friday during the day, you'll just get the degree at the end of 2 years and get paid. I tried explained to them but they didn' understand. And I've given up. Hopefully tonite when I went back to HKU, I still have the energy to do something, if not I'll be just wasting my nite surfing the net. To them when they see me sitting in front of computer, they will only associate it as those activities when secondary school using computers after school: they only surf around, playing online games and make friends through ICQ. Mr BLOG

Let me start another thread: Really feel appreciated that you people to take time to read this boring uninteresting weblog, some even give comments. Mr BLOG

I'm not good. Still have alot to learn but the current environment forbids me to learn from my peers. Different field mah. So i muz self-learn lor. Anyway, research is about doing what you like; in this manner, you'll be driven full fletch by your immense overwhelming interest. If you feel you're doing research for your sups and not for your own knowledge, then there's no difference between this new role as a sponsored student and your previous job. Interest and the thirst for knowledge should be your primary motivation! Oh and very important, reading muz be your hobby! Few singaporeans like to read (exceptions ccl, ck, esther, KK...). If you tend to fall asleep after reading something, means you're not interested in that thing. Otherwise, you should feel your adrenaline pumping thru your veins and your heart's at work! Mr BLOW

I finally found what Bryan is good at. He's good at doing research, he's always that self-motivating to do what he likes.

Finally back home for mooncake festival tomorrow. Think about what happened just now. I'll mean that next week, it's harder to get myself thru the proesentation, there'll be the primary sup addending, therefore cannot be for smokey as what I want to do today. I really dunoo what to do to hance the presentation.

argh! it supposed to start at 2:pm. I when there to prepare at 1:20pm. I waited until 2:05pm but no body turned up, I called my friend then I know that it's cancel!. The mail was sent at 1:17pm. Urgh!

This maybe my last post. After that I'need to draw the keys to the semina room, before the office closes for lunch break. To me, it cannot be a failure. Wish the co-sup is not doing what he did to me later, publicly.

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今夕是何夕
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但愿人長久 千里共嬋娟

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明月几时有 把酒问青天 不知天上宫阙
今夕是何夕
我欲乘风归去 唯恐琼楼玉宇 高处不胜寒
起舞弄清影 何似在人间 转失阁 低绮户
照舞眠 不应有恨 何事长向别时圆 (月时圆)
人有悲欢离合 月有阴晴圆缺 此事古难全
但愿人长久 千里共婵娟

BTW, I'm not middle-aged man, I've already used up 90% of my life time. BTW, happy moon-cake everyone.

Zhong1 Qiu1 Jie2 Kui4 Le4
Bu4 Zhi1 Bu4 Jue2, You4 Guo4 Le Yi1 Ge4 Qiu1

I wanted to delete your post bryan. I said in the begin someone will sure say that I over-worry mah. If I do that, if tomorrow heng heng can siam, I'll feel extremely happy mah. It's sort of psychological thing, married man.

The way you put it is as if no matter how well you've presented, he will say it's not good. Then there's no point worrying anymore. I guess his golden mouth doesn't know how to praise someone, esp one who tops NUS. Did everyone get screwed after their presentations? Or is it like the good old days that newcomers get screwed no matter what? At this point of time, I've to quote our prime minister,"R u a stayer or a quitter?" Do us proud, middle-aged man. Mr Blow

I knew that after reading this, people will again say that I'm over-worrying. But my concern is true anyway. I was calculating the chance that I won't be screwed tomorrow, and the chance is 0.00%. I believe he won't let me off so easily, either says it's too short or too easy. Oh, should I start packing my stuff? He's decided to move everyone to a centralised place, like a xxx lab in NUS. Bcos currently, everyone is scattered in tutors' office in wich 3 shares one room. Do I still have to move if I were to pack my stuff? Oh no, they are moving tomorrow, probably before the presentation, wha should I do?

tonite I didn't feel like doing the slides... although I went back to my room quite late... near 11pm. But what I did was configure my sis' laptop. I can't imagine that why a 1-inch think laptop can't even squeeze in a floppy. Weight is already light then dell.

I borrowed her IBM R32 to present tomorrow. her laptop is as think as 3 cm, yet, I didn't know it's doesn't have floppy buit-in. More all-over, the laptop cover is no longer made of titanium, it's now plastic. Although it's only HK$5500 (S$1200) I felt lucky not to buy that. And now I finally realise that IBM sells laptop to first year undergrad at low prise, but sell to postgrad at a much higher price.

finally finished the slides... i chose the short version. but after rehersing once... I found myself repeating all my points... the whole presentation is just about 2-3 points. I repeat these points so often that even I, the one speaking knows I'm repeating. Basially, it IS indeed a smoking session.

count down, it's now 23 hrs to presentation, I still need to pass something to my sis, and get the IBM laptop from her. *sigh*

wahx2... I'm wondering why Ken Sung didn't inform you on all these. So is it true that HongKees are all so rude or is he a psychopath? Mr Blow

wah... how come it sounds so drama-mama? :X Mr SecretService

Well, thinking back, what I experienced today is quite "mild". There's a female student, once cried in front of him, and yet he said, "no point crying, You can't trick me like this.". Got once he said, "let me open the window for you to jump down" and "you should burn yourself alive to death!" So what I got today wasn't really that big deal. BUT it is probably because of the fact that I talked to him in English, so he didn't have enough vocab to say this kind of things.

i shall use the universal online greeting "HELLO WORLD" :P - Mr SecretService

i guess he muz hv always used this to spite his students to work harder. In any case, you hv to be interested in your topic to do it. (For example, you might as well kill me to make me do a networking project.) With interest, everything is possible. Try to be motivated by multiple sources to play safe. If one loses its power, others can still take its place. Maybe next time if he says something wrongly, suan him! Ask him to go and do some road sweeping. Mr Blow

Although I'm used to be screwed by people, I still cannot get over what's happen today. Knowing that he said that to everyone, e.g. "considering changing topic", "I'm a bit worried for you." ... etc... I can't help but taking those as he actually meant. He would possibly think that by doing these, it might make people worker harder. But what would happen if I really take him seriously? Should I change topic?

At this point in time, I'm still trying my best to give a good presentation, with my limited knowledge on the topic. What still motivated me has always been my motivation (although this motivation may not be a motivation, any time). I've been thinking, "why am I here?". That would at least makes me work for about an hour.

Just got screwed by my co-sup for 1 1/2 hour. I heard that he's known to scold students. After that, I chatted someone who has been screwed by him before, found out that it was excatly the same things! Things like "I'm a little worried", "It seems to be that you don't really understand", "After this friday, we'll see what you can do, maybe you can move to some other areas, like system."... etc...

Yesterday nite, got the email from co-sup. I thot all along he's just busy and didn't reply my email. It turned out that he didn't received it, and send an email to me asking why I didn't arrange to meet. I was terrified and I'm meeting him later at 12:30pm.

errr I'm IT illiterate mah. What's the diff. between "post", and "post and publish"? arghhh liverpool lost. Mr Blow

UH oh!!! I finally got it!!! Downloading from xuxule can use wget to download again!!! E.g. :
wget --referer=http://xuxule.com/downl/02/02-0232/02-0232-01.html \
--cookies=off --header "Cookie: EtenFSEAntiLeech=1" \
http://free01.xuxule.com/02/02-0232/02-0232-01.zip
YES!!!!!

I can't imagine why some people just type in their log and log off without checking they are committed. Anyway to not use the "Post" button, use "Post & Publish". If you make a mistake, click on the "edit" to edit your post, after that, click on the "Post & Publish" again.

Another troubling thing crop up. Shd I study locally or overseas?!?!!! Recently I've received this snail mail from ASTAR on another better offer (better than the ASTAR Grad Fellowship). It's the NSS Scholarship for Local PhD. Ask me to apply. Deadline is 30 Sep. How now brown cow? Mr Blow.

Finally finished my paper writing on Sunday. Now can sit down to plan for my big day. After a few seconds of planning, it is settled. I manage to find a function room over at the NTUC club near to Park Mall. Lunch buffet is catered for. How I wish Ngai Lam can fly back to attend. Sighzzz... Also, wallet one big super duper hole. Will FORMALLY announce to you guys about my big day soon. Nobody knows when is that day right? I didn't tell anyone right? Mr Blow.

I declared now that I'm in alert red state. I talked to some people just now and I found out that how little I know about the topic I'm presenting this friday. I now have to hide myself in my room to really plan what to say this friday.

Oh, finally got news of CCL! He mailed me at 1:54 AM to ask me on work related stuff. He must have tortured by work. CCL, take care.

I changed the skin! The function is very very cool leh! BTW anyone want to try to design a NOVA skin?

What happened to CCL? I can't imagine that we are doing something that he used to follow quite closely and now he keep silent. Strange.

Just tried to customerize the weblog and it can put in the username in it! that's powerful, if any of you want to have your own personal a/c, just mail me, and I'll create one for you.

I left my room, wanting to buy a coke from the vending machine. AfterI closed that door, I realised that I didn't take my keys along! I had to asked the security guard to open the door for me as they keep the keys for all the room. The strange thing is, he just ask me to sign in a book, but didn't check my identy!

HonL

Suddenly, I want to backup this log periodically. What will I feel if I read this 5 years from now?

HonL

there are news in last 2 weeks commenting that train and bus fares should be lowered due to the poor economy, deflation. Anyway, use the "post & publish" button to publish your weblog, otherwise others cannot see unless they go into the editor mode.

HonL

*sigh* Talking abt buses reminds me the fare hike. I wonder if increasing fares in HK make that much noise as well or not. Or are they too busy with making money and are not bothered by "mini" hike? :-P DDBelle

As usual, tonite I was going back to graduate house on a sunday nite. I didn't take the bus after the train. Instead, I tried the new mini-bus route. Mini-bus is something that doesn't exist in Singapore. The way it works is, the driver would wait at the terminal for people to board the bus. Once the mini-bus it's full, the mini-bus start moving along the destinated route. You can shout and tell the driver where to stop anywhere. It was really first one, because it doesn't stop along the way to pick up more people normally (since it's already full). Before mini-bus was speeding like mad along the highway. I wondered, did the people in HK advance like mini-bus and singaporeans are only going as the SBS bus speed?

HonL

Back to home on this weekend yesterday later afternoon on a sat. I got a lecture to sit in which ends at 4:00 pm. I had the feeling of book-in and book-out like in the army.

HonL

This afternoon went for a seminar by a postgraduate. Throughout the talk is just definitions and maths symbol, no example, no explanation. It was just like taking out from a paper important parts like definitions and put it into the slide. I was just thinking, isn't better if you throw and the paper to read at my own leisure time? I caught 0.000% from the talk.

HonL

hurray, this is my first post! As we are using a shared account, must remember to sign off. PM

I did the slides using openoffice in linux. I was quite satified with a diagram with (transparent) rectangles overlaid and stacking on top on each other. While you look at the animation, you can really see than the as more ractangles are stacked up, the colour changes (like the alpha-blending effect). Then I save as powerpoint file and bring to office to edit, that effect doesn't show up. Simple because in powerpoint, transparent effect is actually just a dotted pattern in the colour. That means, no matter how many layers you overlay, the colour still remain the same. And the colouring effect is important to my presentation. And now I have to adjust the colour of *each* layer so that the colour changes as you stack in my layer. It's new to me that something can be done in OpenOffice, but NOT powerpoint.

HonL

Was doing the powerpoint slide for next friday. I roughly know what to present, but I didn't know what to put into the slide. It's until 3am yesterday before I went to sleep. Today I don't want to finish the slides, partly because I've dun have he mood, and partly because there is still some time before next friday.

At around 7:50pm, the fire alarm in my block rang. I though at first was just a routine mock up fire evacuation practice. But my friend told me that they would have waited until so late when everyone has gone home. So we walked to the podium dowstairs and waited, for about 15 mins. I could see the firemen walking in and out the lift. I later found out from the security guard that there was a small burning in a lift near the lobby, and it traggered off the alarm.

Hoo hoo! I created another account myself and now other people other than the create can post to this board!!!

Just discovered that this weblog can add in more user to post in this forum. It is a cool feature!

Have been trying to write a script to download mp3s from xuxule.com. Seem that the webmaster mad very stringent on downloading of mp3; request has to come from the web browser, and you have to go through the directing page. I now hope that boxup will not do the same.

Oh... my co-sup asked me if I can present next friday. I was thinking to myself that I can't even explain the title pf the paper, how could I possibly present the paper well?

just had a meeting, and they were discussing moving together to a PC lab converted room. That is, the 8-10 of us will be staying together in the lab. But regulation that was set says mobile phone should be switched to silent mode.

Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:24:23 +0800 (GMT-8)
From: Low Kian Hsiang
To: Ho Ngai Lam
cc: chunren@pacific.net.sg, nlho@pacific.net.sg
Subject: Re: Pre post garuda updates #2

Wow! CCL shd know about this! The color combination for this weblog site is so much better than his philo site. Really looks more presentable.

BTW, after reading your log on Wednesday, I realize NUS is in fact offering whatever you've said only in graduate courses. It's like a crash course whereby they core dump every shit to you in the course. I somehow feel that they shd teach the basics of these courses during undergrad (comp. geometry, sequence matching...) in 3000 level courses. Then in postgrad, they can offer more in depth ones. Maybe that's why you also feel a bit siong when you take their post grad courses.

Heh! BTW, I'm also interested in sequence matching and classification. I know in bioinformatics, they're more into discrete symbols/atoms matching. Me interested in the continuous type, for eg. a time series. Just in case you come across, inform me ok?

Bryan

After annoucing this blogger yesterday... I spent the rest of the time on that paper which I was given to read. Until 3am, I finally understand the core part of the paper. This made me feel so fulfilling, and I think this time is worth more than 3 days sitting inside the office. It's really a pity that the air-con in the office automatically shutdown after 11pm.

Time flies. Time flies without you even notice it. It has been a year. I still remember last year 11 Sep, it's was the first wednesday after I got discharged. In this year, I could say that the way I think changes. The way I see things is very much different.

I finally got the power socket plugged to the power source. And I've brought the PS2 with the transformmer to the graduate house. Just when I though that I can at least play DVD in my room, I found that that TV doesn't have TV-in socket. And initially I was just thinkng that the TV is use for the PS2, so I didn't bring any antenna. Now I can't watch TV programms and play any games.

Got another shock. I was browsing some of the undergraduate courses, there was at a course called 'Applied algorithm'. I was shocked to see that I knew *NONE* of the topics taught in the course. Topics include string matching, KMP algorithm, aproximate algorithm, computational geometry and many others. I didn't even heard of the names. I started to wonder why I didn't know them, even though I studied a 4 year programme in NUS. Is it that NUS hide things too well that we, students in NUS, always thinks they are best? Or is it that mp3, AVI, mpeg, iso... etc are so hard to find in Singapore that we had to spend much more time than the others, while we should be studying?

I was elected to be the "Head of demostrators". No big deal, bcos it's just like IC. you have to do that kind of shit job.

I'm finally back home after a week. Suddenly I started to wonder if i've made the correct choice. Am I struggling, trying to break out and escape from the cage? Is it possible? Anyway, it's a no-return path, I could only step forward.

A postgrad student gave me a small TV set. I though that it will be useful to me if I can take that PS2 to the graduate house.

Tomorrow is my third weekly seminar that I'm going to attend. My room-mate was going to present something. He was stressed throughout the night. I though that I should feel more sressed as I don't know what I'm going to doing.

I returned to my office. the other 2 were still there. I didn't have the mood to do anything. I just tried to listen to mp3 and look for songs that I wanted to listen at that time. I installed WinMX (gnutella in windows) then I remember that the university block off the port. I then returned to the inefficient way of goodle-searching.

Have been staying in the Graduate House for 5 days, but I haven't seen the guy who's sharing the toilet with me. We have our own room, but for every 2 single bedrooms, we share a bathroom. I finallly felt that I myself i so anti-social. I went for a safety briefing this evening for the new residents like me. During the photo taking, I tried to bring myself to talk to the german beside me, but he seems not very interested and friendly. After one failure, after dinner, I told my office-mates that tonight I'll be spending my time in the graduade house to socialise more. I tried to stay in the pantry at my level, watching cable TV. But I only stayed there for about 15 min, b'cos no one were there. Only a chinaman came in to get some water. I tried to talk to him and ask him which room is his (Mandarin) but I had to ask him to repeat his answer 3x before I knew that he's speaking in cantonese. Of course after that he just went away. One thing to add, I watched channel news asia. Without looking at the Adobe logo, I could sense that it's a Singapore channel. It's a special accent that only Singaporeans speak.

Wanted to have my own web log for a long time. But I've been searching for a good one. I found one, created an account, but I wanted to post back those things I wrote before. Eventually I just forget about those things and start my "2weeks after garuda flight" weblog.