Graduation on April 1

How would you feel if your graduation is on April 1?
Many of my friend got this honour. Actually in early 2008, my plan was to attend this ceremony myself. But things got delayed and eventually I missed out on this one and will attend the one in September.
Anyhow, because of that, my parents got another chance to travel to Perth since they already got the tickets long before anything is really confirmed. So we had a great time in the whole March when they were here in Perth and they will come in September again for the ceremony.

I attended the ceremony for my housemate DeRong - Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical).




Caught up with many friends.


Jingyu from China - Mining Engineer


Danno and Tone whom we spent our phd years together - Doctor of Philosophy in Computer Science.


Jayvis from Spore- Mechanical Engineer


Chris from Mauritius, Stuart and Kaysen from Msia - all engineers


James from Msia - a student I tutored in his first year Computing for Engineers & Scientists. OMG!


Peter, my PhD supervisor who came for Danno's ceremony. I got hassled for my correction. :P Yes, I would get it done real soon.


Du, Danno's another supervisor who is also in the visvis group I belong.


And the big group of friends who came for Derong's ceremony:
Zheng, KokSoon (my friends who's visiting Perth), Yeeting, Derong and Minli.


I also test out my 12x zoom with ISO800 for some long range photos in Winthrop Hall.


PhD recipients get to sit up on the stage (showcasing the variety in hairstyles).


Honorary Doctorate recipient - Michael Fitzpatrick. (caught Peter in the background)


Daniel who did CS honours in our lab. He now got his EE/CS double degree.


Evgeni my fellow modeller.


Fred I met through ShihChing and Jason's church.


Derong looking smart


Stuart


Tone contemplating the moment


Danno's name and shortest ever thesis title read out by Robyn, who was my supervisor for a year and used to be in visvis group before she became the Dean of graduate research school.


Danno shaking hand with Chancellor.

I'm pretty happy with the zoomed results given that indoor stage that's very far away generally is very hard to photograph.

The ceremony was great. The food afterwards are delicious too. And I found a new word I don't know how to pronounce -- ENGINEERNG.

AMWA gathering at Kardinya

AMWA had a belated Chinese New Year gathering at Kardinya community center on Labour Day (3 March). I was there helping up from 9:30am for 11am start. Good fun in the kitchen chopping cabbage, cutting water melon and running around taking photos. Event finished at 2pm and we cleaned up, packed up by 3pm.
See the blog and photo gallery for more.


Chinese New Year Gathering 2008

The modellers Theme Song

It's a crazy hour now but I just can't wait till tomorrow to blog about this!
Danno made a theme song for the modellers! I can't believe it!!!

It's so cool! And hilarious at the same time! And I now have a song with my name in it. You have made history Danno!

Read the post and enjoy the song on Danno's The Modellers post.

Oh ya, apparently Danno is having a Theme Songs on Request service. Danno I want one!!

Also, The Modellers has become my ringtone.

Super Horatio Song V2

Danno has done it again with Super Horatio song! This time with his high voice and violin. It's even better than the first version!!

Click here for the full story:
Super Horatio has returned!

Download Super Horatio’s New Song while you read the story.

Computer Network is cool

I used to think computer network is a boring subject back in my EE years.
But recently the perception has changed for me, the networking itself is boring, but what it makes available is really cool.
And this The Hack of the year which I stumbled upon prompted this post.
And I watched Die hard 4 recently, it's hackers too. So much actions. I throughly enjoyed it. And the hacker Mat Farrell kind of look like Nick. (follow the links to compare for yourself. Ahem!)

PSA quiz night photos

Some photos on PSA quiz night last Friday

Our CSSE team - Tone, Jason, Rina, me, Shih Ching, Bob, John and Minh


The CSSE team 2


Broadway Pizza was great!


The Wong


The pretzel coaster that spoke my feeling


We won the Australian citizen test.


That was a lot of wine.

PSA quiz night last Friday

We went to Quiz night organised by the Postgraduate Students Association (PSA) last Friday. There were two teams from CSSE, and one of them emerged to take the second place (tied). Fun!

Read PSA Quiz Night and Tied for Second on Shih Ching's blog.

The next level of Super Horatio

Here's a MSN conversation Danno and I had before the Super Horatio Theme Song come to live!

"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
you're gonna kill me...
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
uh?
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
why?
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
you'll see in the next hour or so!
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
The super horatio blog?
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
let's just say super horatio has gone to a new level
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
yeah i'm gonna post something as soon as i finish it.
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
Haha! Well, I shall see.
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
damn. I look for jobs to avoid work. I do super horatio stuff to avoid applying for jobs!
..........
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
this SH thing had better turn out good!
..........
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
super horatio is coming.
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
done?
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
just compressing it
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
What? A video?
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
:P
(i)TzuYen - does research, eats vegies says:
Oh oh....
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
hehehe
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
uploading now
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
there you go, link in my name
"Danno the Eternal Smartass" says:
or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJzhfvIHQpg

Here's the ingenious work our resident joker/musician Danno did:

Click here for Lyrics.

Chia and Joanne's ROM

Ah Chia and Joanne are engaged! Congratulations!!!

The Registration ceremony was held on last Sunday in Singapore and now only I get the photos together and post it here.

I was in transit back from Shanghai to Perth in Singapore then, my flight arrived at Changi airport at 5:30am, met up with YongQin and KokWee at around 7am. They brought me to have some Roti Canai and zuige (rice cake with fried salty radish). KokWee thought the Roti is really bad quality, but it was enough to satisfy me as I haven't had it for a long time. :P
Then we hanged around at their flat and the water front area not far from their place before we headed to the place Chia and Joanne's ceremony took place.


The ceremony was simple and sweet. They both look great! Black and red, classic! I took heaps of photos, the two models are great! :) After the ceremony, we went to a nearby park to took more artistic shots. That was nice too.


And we had a group photo for the University of Tasmania alumni presented there. It was a pity that Albert didn't make it.


We had a buffet lunch after the ceremony, then YongQin, KokWee and myself went to a nearby Fire museum, a digital superstore, and a camera shop. By then we were all exhausted. We went back to their place to rest a bit, loaded the photos into their computer and then it was time for me to get back to airport again.

I got back to Perth at 1:40am, took bloody half an hour to get my luggage and long queue at quarantine. My housemate waited for me for almost an hour, by the time we got home, it was 3:30am! And it wasn't bad enough, my housemate was leaving to China at 10am that day. So I sent him to airport at 8am and really struggled to kept my mind alert to drive home safe. I really had to make every effort to move my body every couple of second so that my eye won't close. It didn't feel that bad at that time, but thinking back, it was rather tough.