Amazing Google Desktop

Man! This is way cool!
Google Desktop Beta

Happy Malaysia 48th National Day

Today is the 48th National Day of Malaysia.

Merdeka! Merdeka! Merdeka!

I DJed an online radio for the online Malaysian community at www.hibiscusrealm.net last night from 11:30pm-1:30am. It was heaps of fun playing all Malaysian songs, mostly Chinese songs, some malay songs and Negaraku the national anthem at 12:00am. :)

Apart from that, I didn't participate any other celebration here in Perth. (Not that I know there's any.)

Wish Malaysia a good prosperous year ahead!

This is how Malaysian netizens celebrate Hari Kebangsaan, from www.jeffooi.com.

Purpose of Life discussion group potluck

(back trace blogging)

Shih Ching and Jason gave me this Purpose of Life 40 Days reading book. And we had discussion every Tuesday night at Rina's house. It was great, there are things can't agree more and things that I don't really believe. Anyway, the fellowship is fantastic. I like it. :)

This occasion is our 3rd or 4th week, we have potluck together. :D~
We have pumpkin with tinned fish (豆豉鲮鱼炒南瓜), Fish curry, soysauce chicken wings, spaghetti bolognese and my bakuteh. :D

photos here

Or here for bigger version of this collage.

Lecture done

I did my first lecture at UWA this afternoon. It's a first year course - Computing for Engineers and Scientists (CES105). EJ is away this week so I took over her lecture - guest lecturer. Haha!!

It went pretty alright. Spent n hours to prepare just to make sure I know what I'm really talking about.... :b

100 Gmail invitations

Gmail invitations increase to 100/day!! They really want to grow!!

Have you try out ?
I think it still needs a lot of work to make it comparable to MSN Messager.
However, no harm trying it out!

Dinner and Games @ Adam's place

Jason made Roast pork, Adam made an entree tart, grilled chicken wings & Souffle, I made Luohan vegetarian dish（罗汉斋）. Angie and Chris brought a truckload of games.

So we all ate, so tasty the food!
And we all played games, so much fun!
Somehow I won the first 3 games (Blokus, Bang!, and Set) playing it the first time. Cool! Luck was with me. :)
Then We played Carcassonne and back to Bang!

What a fun night!! Thanks everyone who came.

More photos here

PSA pizza party @ UniClub

Cute rabbit and cat love story...

www.sambakza.net

I love Salmon

My housemate bought some salmon 'leftover' back. It's the leftover of the fillet I think, consists of head, tail, bone and skin. it's $4 for the leftover of one whole salmon!! So cheap!

So we grilled the lot except the skin, which was fried. So good!! Yum...

The Elegant Universe - String Theory

Stumbled upon this website that has 3-hour science videos -
Eleven dimensions, parallel universes, a world made out of vibrating energies call strings - The string theory that amins to unify Gravity and Quantum physics. Interesting!!



The Elegant Universe | Watch the Program

Google Tutor & Firefox Tutor

Google Tutor & Advisor™ Tips, Techniques and Advice for Google Users
http://www.googletutor.com

Firefox™ Tutor - Firefox Help and Tips
http://www.firefoxtutor.com

Funny Karate Master

Something that's similar to the legendary Matrix pingpong. Stupid but funny.

Compfused.com - Karate Master

Amazing Drawing Skills

Check this out:
http://fcmx.net

Rottness 2005 - CSSE Research Conference

The School conference is again here. It used to be a biannual event before I joint the school. Then it become 1.5 year between 12th and 13th conference. This year the 14th CSSE conference is only a year after the last one. If this rate continues, then the next one will be in half a year's time, then 0. ???

Date: 20-21 September 2005
Venue: Rottnest Lodge, Rottnest Island
Titles and Keywords by 8 August to Lyndon While
Draft Papers by 12 August to supervisor(s)
Final Paper by 26 August via online submission
Registrations by 1 September to Jeffrey Pollard

Rottness 2005

DICTA paper submitted

My first conference paper submitted.
I've been awake for 36 hours working on the last bit. Now I'm on the verge of hallucination.. Haha!!

I'm glad I worked that paper out. Hope I'll get in.
Thanks everyone who helped me on the way.

DICTA final draft done!

After a whole night of brain drain, now the paper is coming in shape.
Dead tired now.

Nap for 1 hour and I'll be off to tute and lab from 10am-1pm.
Today is going to be interesting.

Tonight I will sleep. :)

Toy block balancing and falling games

Jason, Adam and me was bored after dinner. So we started playing the toy blocks. Some good critically-balanced structures were made and destruction shots taken.

LiangLiang left Perth

A good 10 days holidays had come to an end. LiangLiang left this afternoon back to Malaysia. [sad violin playing in the background]

It was a great holiday. We went downsouth for the first 5 days and hanged around Perth afterwards. Sampled some good food, caught up with friends, took lots of photos & videos.

I'm back into writing paper mode to catch up the work so that I can put a paper into DICTA by this Friday. So after that, I shall post some photos up here.

DICTA2005 Paper deadline extended

DICTA2005 Digital Image Computing: Techniques and Applications

Full Paper Submission August 12, 2005

Ah!!! Deadline extended... It's kind of like a tradition already that the deadline gets extended for a week but it's not official. Well, it's welcoming that it's extended, I got a second chance. And it's 12 days instead of a week this time.

Last minute Visa glitch Resolved

Good news! Somehow, Liangliang's visa to Australia got the approval needed this morning. I got an SMS at 08:58:10 saying I'm coming! :). Still waiting for the story to unfold...

Anyway, however she did it, I'm happy that she'll get here today. :D

We'll be going downsouth for several days. Expect lots of photos and fun when we're back here. :)

Last minute Visa glitch

Bad news! Somehow, Liangliang's visa to Australia doesn't get an instant approval through the online application. This means that she'll need to contact the Australia embassy in Malaysia to sort it out with the officers there.
The flight is on Monday morning. And the embassy is closed during weekends. Time will be extremely tight on Monday. Hope it'll work out fine and she can get on the flight on time. Fingers crossed.

Good things take challenges to realise.

Changing Firefox Cache location

Firefox cache keeps eating up my profile space. It's very annoying to see this:


So I searched and found a fix on Freeware Forum > Firefox Cache:

* Open Firefox
* In the location bar, type about:config and hit enter
* Right-click in the white-space, and choose New->String. Enter the name browser.cache.disk.parent_directory and click ok.
* In the next box, enter the full patch to the directory you want to store your cache in. I used E:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\
* Close Firefox.
* Delete your old cache directories in
C:\Documents and Settings\%username\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\%randomNum.default\
* Restart Firefox. It will create the directory specified above, if it doesn't already exist.

This same technique can be used to move your cache to a larger or faster disk."

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That's not it, the history.dat is huge as well. So I searched again and found out a way to move the whole profile. Well, not actually moving but create a new one at a new location and copy the old data over.

First close all FireFox browser windows. Then go Start>Run and type in the following (or the path to where you have FireFox installed).
"C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe" -P
This will let you create a new Profile without destroying the old one.

Thanks to FastEddie's post at broadbandreports.com.

It works generally, except for some extensions like googlebar, it can't find some elements. I'll worry about that later...

Toy blocks fun

If you ever wonder what we PhD students do in labs, here's one of our crazy/silly activities.
Shih Ching digged out some toys from our vision research old-junk cupboard and we just instantly have our age -20. I played for a little while, went out, came back and saw this nice setup left on the table. Can't help but to document it. Pretty good eh?

The NEP in the Islamic perspective

I got an email with a WORD attachment. Read it, searched the web and found the source, posted in April here:

Malaysia Today: MT-MMblues: The NEP in the Islamic perspective

Fellow Malaysians, some food for thoughts.

Wow! Certificate!

It's great to know that the computer is doing work when you're not working on it! This probably explains why I have this protein folding stuff on my computer.

My computer finished the first small piece in 2 days. And on the website, it generates certificate. Pretty cool!

Bored in Lab

Well, this is the first week of teaching in Computing for Engineers and Scientists (CES105). I had a tute at 10am and lab from 11am-1pm.
The lab is really simple this week, just log on and getting familiar with the Linux environment and firing up Matlab. Several students has problems with account not available due to late enrolment.

Quite a lot of them wants to change their password. I couldn't remember the passwd command, tried with chpw, pwchange, etc. =.=!
Then a student pointed out that it can be done under Redhat > ControlCenter > Security&Privacy > Password&UserAccount > ChangePassword. And somehow one student can't change it until he changed the new password to have a leading uppercase?! Finally a student pointed out the passwd command and it's like a lightbulb lit up in my brain. Haha! :)

By 12pm, half the lab is empty. Now 12:30pm, I'm dead bored. There are still 3 students working on next week lab (probably already finished) and they don't want any help. So, here I am, blogging in the lab. :P

Interactive DOM scripting

The source of previous post is actually from
Interactive DOM scripting.
Heaps of stuffs. It's under 2D > lately.

It's important to acknowledge the source.

Le squelette danse... Chez Maya !

Cool! shake the skeleton!!
It must have some code running, Firefox doesn't show it properly...
Have to use the unsafe IE.
Anyway, enjoy.

Le squelette danse... Chez Maya !

Greenpeace T-shirt arrived

Greenpeace T-shirt arrived this morning. Pretty cool! Click here for where it comes from.

However, they run out of size M and gave me a size L... See here and help me decide if I should wear it. Click here to let me know if it fits you better.

Money comes, money goes!

Part 1:

Monday night I got several missed call and SMS asking me whether I'd reach Margaret River accommodation that night. I was wondering what's going on!! Then I went to check the internet booking I made with that place for next week. To my astonishment, it showed that I actually booked it to be Monday night!!!
So I SMS back and forth with the manager and told her I had no idea how it turned out like that and I was very sorry to had her waiting for me. I also begged her not to charge me a big fee for that... But eventually she said it was my fault and too bad, I got my deposit forfeited! $33 flushed down the toilet!
Well, it was my fault but I really didn't remember anything wrong about the date when I booked. Well, maybe I rolled the scrollwheel right after I chose the date? I don't know.

Anyway, the next day I called her again as requested to make the booking on the right date. No drama, just made sure the date was right and that was it.

At night when I checked my email, the manager wrote "Great news! I was able to transfer your deposit to the new booking! You don't have to eat bread and water." I guessed my sincerity works. I was so very happy! It's like striking a $33 lottery! :D


Part 2:

Today, bad luck stroke on me. I parked my car in front of my carport on Monday because my housemate took the place in the carport already. There are always cars parking in front of the carports although there's a no parking sign on the footpath in front of the carport. So I thought it's not right to park there, but my housemate hasn't got a parking lot and other tenants always park like that... (bad bad bad assumption)

And it turns out that it's ok to park in front of the carport as long as it's not on the footpath!! So I got a $80 parking infringement!!
Sad sad sad! I try all my life not to break laws and ... (sigh)
What's "better" is that one of my housemate told me "Oh, I saw you parked there, but I thought you know, so I didn't tell you."
=.=!!!

It really took me many deep breaths to get over this. Haven't had this kind of emotional challenge for a long while... Eventually, it took me about half an hour to be alright with this event.

But to be frank, I really didn't know about the footpath thing. Or didn't paid attention I think... I've actually park there like that for many times but just nothing happened. So I guess I deserved this, and it's probably a late one already.

Right after that, I was shouting:

This is an era of information, knowledge is money, and the lack of it, costs!"

However again, I went to the website of City of Subiaco and found out that there is a Subiaco Photographic Awards. Took notes on that. I might put something in if I have any by that time...
So as the Chinese saying goes:

塞翁失马 焉知非福
A seemingly good thing may not lead to goodness, and a seemingly bad thing may bring new openings for goodness to come.

MeiLin & LiangCai are getting married!!

My two high school seniors are getting married!
I'm so happy!!

Beautiful wedding photos


Chinese version of the post here.

Folding@Home Distributed Computing

Have a computer?
Love giving?
Love to be a part of science advancement?
But don't want to forge out $$$?

Here's a great opportunity, Standford University has a distributed computing project which studies protein folding here:
Folding@Home Distributed Computing

Just go there and download and run the client software. It'll only run when your computer is idle.
And it has a cool visualisation of the protein that can be used as screensaver... :D

This is a no life week

I'm writing a paper for DICTA conference this year. Deadline is 31st July which is this coming Sunday. This is a no life week.

.......

Wish me luck. Give me mental support. Need them all to get this done!
=.=

What the Bleep do we know?

A good movie/documentary I recently watched, the name is "What the Bleep do we know?"

Using quantom physics to explain thoughts and emotion. It challanges the relationship between our state of mind and the material reality.

Can the state of mind affect the material reality?
Is the material reality the same before and after it's observed? Or do us, the observers, have any influence over the state the material reality turns out?


Check here for more information:
http://www.whatthebleep.com/

It's well worth to watch!

My first photography acknowledgement

My photo of the Pinnacle was selected in the 2005 July issue of Greenpeace's Making Waves newsletter.


TzuYen Wong - The Pinnacle
© T.Wong

Happy!! :D
Still waiting for the reward T-shirt to come... :)

Ascii Text / Signature Generator

Ascii Text / Signature Generator

Gotta check this one out!!

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An Introduction to Digital Image Processing with Matlab

Stumbled upon this good document, the name says it all:

An Introduction to Digital Image Processing with Matlab by Alasdair McAndrew

Chand's Home Page

Chand's Home Page

This guy is a PhD student at Stanford. There are some good summary of graphics papers on his page. Good way to break down a paper!

He has a good sense of humour as well. An example here.

3D body Scan

I sold my body for $25 today. Haha!! click here if you want to sell yours. :)

UniSA is collecting 3D body dimension data for a research to build aircraft. So I went for the scan.
It took only 10 seconds to scan but more than half an hour filling up forms, briefing and putting markers on my body. At the end, I got a copy of my 3D body data as .obj file and a 3D rotating movie like those character overview you get in video games. Haha!!
And they'll give $25 to me in post as well, bonus! :D

Below is the obj file loaded into anim8or:
(my standing posture is not very straight hey?)

My new computer desk

Kaz left me this fantastic computer desk.
It's a big upgrade! :)

First dinner with new housemates

topleft: David Chen Derong, bottom right:Luo Zheng

Two new housemates moved in straight after ex-housemates left. They are both from Guangdong, China.
There were a lot of house cleaning and furniture moving.
We decided to share food and take turn to cook dinner.
A very good start for a warm home, instead of a cold shelter.

Kaz and Akira leaving for Sydney

From left: Kazuhiro, me and Akira.

My housemates left to Sydney this morning. We took this last photo just before we headed to airport together. We all look really happy, don't we?

Intersection of three cylinders, but it's not a sphere

Is sphere the only object that has circles as plan, front and side views? Check it out here! Pretty Cool shape! From the legendary Paul Bourke.


Intersection of three cylinders

3D rotation: matrix, PYR, Axis angle resources

Some website I used to get my maths right, just for records.
CS184 Berkeley, Conversion euclideanspace.com, codeguru.com, UIUC.

PSA Research Week Presentations

A week after the PSA Research Week, the Presentations are up in the website.

Lots of useful documents on things related to research! And there are some photos of the cocktail party there which was from my camera. Hehehe!

Focus

If only I have this kind of focus in my first or even second year.
Working like this, I think I'll eventually graduate.

I'm glad that I'm getting off wandering around but actually start hitting the hard bit! Just feel a little bit late. So much to do!!!

Working on experiment - stressed!

Another peak of working hard frantic is here since the Yanchep Conference last September. I found myself getting in early most days and staying late. Coming in on Sunday afternoon felt like normal as well.

The generalisation of a small bit of codes seems to bring up lots of dirty hacks I can't even remember I did. So the last 2-3 weeks was on heavy code battling. Now still have the last two bits to get done. Then hopefully rainbow will come out. ~=.=~

When that happens (better happen soon), it'll turn into another phase - writing it up. Can I get it sorted out in 2 weeks?! Peter is on leave this week... I got stuffs to ask him... Hmm.. smells like my something is burning behind...

Nu li (努力)!!! Fen dou (奋斗)! I can do it! Ah~~~~
OK, I think I'm stressed!

Housemates moving to Sydney

My two Japanese housemates, Kazuhiro and Akira are moving to Sydney this coming Saturday. Now the house is full of boxes and debris.
As they are flying to Sydney, they don't want to bring too many things over. So I was asked to help to chuck a whole big box of books and DVDs to Cash-converter or secondhand bookshop. The good news is they read some good books that I actually wants. Since they didn't really expect to get much out of that box through 'recycling' them, I paid them the money first and I can read or watch or lend them at my leisure.

Stargate SG-1 DVD anyone? (I wish I have time to be a couch potato...)

Tzu Wei's Multiply Site - Photos

Koko's new photo album:
Tzu Wei's Multiply Site - Photos

No more leaking taps

The new housing agent, Suzanne is great!
I called her yesterday morning about the leaking taps at my place. I got a call from the plumber later the evening and this morning, the handyman came along and got 'em all fixed! Yeah!!

No more twisting the tap-cap 5 rounds with both hands and all my strength just to keep the leaking to dripping level. (sweat!!)

Got this in my letter box today.
The postmen are cool! :)

Bakuteh dinner party @ Adam's place

I felt like having Bakuteh and called a dinner party. Adam, Kes, Angie, Chris and Tone joint me and we had it at Adam's apartment.
Adam made the best pie(top left), I love it! I cooked the vegi(top right) and bakuteh(middle). Kes made the choux with chocolate and custard fillings(bottom left), yum!! And Adam's toasted sponge cake with xxberry fool and dark chocolate(botttom right) was good too even when I was very full already.
We played some tennis games on Xbox and watched a weird Japanese movie after the food....

Clubbing @ the Deen

To 'celebrate' Alessandro's departure back to Italy on Saturday, we went to the Deen in Northbridge for a night out. It was actually my first clubbing event in Perth.
It was great to be on the dance floor, but the blasting music was killing my ears and the smoke was killing my lung. I enjoyed it, but it's not a place to frequent for me.

Google Map Pedometer

Now you can even calculate the distance of the route you normally walk using this Gmap Pedometer!!

I found out that from my house to CSSE is ~160m, so my estimation of <200m is fine tuned. I can brag how close my house is to my office even better next time! Hahaha!!!

We went to PSA Cocktail Party tonight. Photos here

More thoughts: Am I being the best I can be in doing whatever I'm doing now?

Found a very empowering question to ask myself:

Am I being the best I can be in doing whatever I'm doing now?

Whenever I ask that question to myself, I answer is mostly "far from my best" unless I'm really playing full on (on which occasions, I feel really great). Then I can easily drop the time-filler and do something I really care about, or have lots more actions come into mind that I actually can be so much better and actually go and do them!

Life fulfillment is really not about how much one achieves, but what one achieves by doing one's best!
You really appreciate the achievement when it's your best shot, however small the achievement is. On contrary, however big the achievement others might think, if you got it by not doing much, it's not added to your fulfillment list.

Thoughts on Research Week

This week is the Postgraduate Students' Association (PSA) Research Week, there are a series of seminars about research issues related to postgraduate students, with a finale of cocktail party tomorrow night.

One of the best topic today is Dealing with the rudest question of all: 'How's your thesis going?'. One of the speakers Sajeesh, whom I know from a research workshop we attended together at the beginning of my candidature, shared with us his view on the phd life. He's very inspiring in his approach to just stick his neck out and do the thing he feels right, it's simply life oosing out of him. He got tremendous publications, even co-authored a book, started several local activity groups and even founded and chair international research group!!! But what really touch me was, there's no a sense of bragging that he's achieved so much in this 2 years as an international student in his warm and down to earth conversation.

Something he said at the very end:
What is Luck?

Luck is doing the RIGHT THING at the RIGHT PLACE on the RIGHT TIME.

Most people wait to be absolutely sure about the right place and right time, then they do the right thing.
People who really make a difference do the right thing anywhere anytime. So, when the place and time are right, they strike gold straight away, because the right thing is already there.

SVD is so cool!

I've been looking at using SVD (Singular Value Decomposition) to understand matrix components and analyse error. I had a meeting with Peter yesterday and he taught me more on it and got me very interested into really undertand what SVD really is.
So I search on the web and had a read on Singular Value Decomposition by Todd Will and watched a video lecture by Gilbert Strang in MIT. I also found some Matlab teaching codes that may be useful to help me fully appreciate some basic maths.

SVD is so useful! It's a good friend, not a threat! :)

Big butt leaned on my poor car

My poor car. Need to get it fixed!
Anyone knows where to get it done cheaply?
:`(

The story was my housemate drove it to Northbridge one night. He found out the damage when he came back to the carpark!! So, no one to claim insurance from! :(

Google Earth

If you think Google Map is cool, Google Earth will blow you away!! Here is my house and CSSE, UWA on the 3D map.

Check it out! http://earth.google.com

Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash

Fuel price is ever increasing! I found this link on Screenshots
about the predicted economical catastrophy that will have when the fuel production of the world gets to its peak (and starts dropping) which is predicted to happen in a very near future (~10 years)!!!

Go and have a read:
Peak Oil: Life After the Oil Crash

The current economy and monetory systems are really not build on sustainability!! It cannot last when cheap fuel is no longer available! It's alarming!!!

Phd Comics Songs!!

I was procrastinating after dinner reading phdcomics. And I found this two songs! Pretty cool! Click on the song name to download from its original website: http://www.phdcomics.com


p.h.d records - Tajel "Closer to fine"


p.h.d records - Tajel "Who will grade your work?"

What if Dr. Seuss did Technical Writing?

I saw this great 'poem' on our computer system supports' door today:

I would not, could not use my mouse
To connect to networks from my house!
It always says I need more RAM
I do not like it, Sam I Am!

Here's an easy game to play.
Here's an easy thing to say:

If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port,
And the bus is interrupted as a very last resort,
And the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort,
Then the socket packet pocket has an error to report!

If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash,
And the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash,
And your data is corrupted 'cause the index doesn't hash,
Then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!

You can't say this?
What a shame sir!
We'll find you
Another game sir.

If the label on the cable on the table at your house,
Says the network is connected to the button on your mouse,
But your packets want to tunnel on another protocol,
That's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall,

And your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss,
So your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse,
Then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang,
'Cause as sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!

When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy on the disk,
And the microcode instructions cause unnecessary RISC,
Then you have to flash your memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM.
Quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!
-Provided by: Judy Schultz

PK got his paper into ICCV!! Congratulations!

Peter, my supervisor came in yesterday to get inputs for a preliminary floor plan of room 2.09 because there will be some reallocation of desks to group students with similar research interests in close vicinity.
But the big news was his work on shapelets is accepted as oral presentation in the most prestigeous computer vision conference in the world - IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV).
The acceptance rate for oral presentations is of the order of a few percent (for 2005 there were 1200 submissions, of which 245 were accepted and 45 of those were for oral presentation).

I feel so proud to be one of his students, and he's such a nice supervisor! Yeah!!

So he'll be flying to Beijing, China in October. Cool!!

PK's website
ICCV2005 website

www.DurianSS2.com

www.DurianSS2.com
As the name suggested, it's a website about a Durian stall in SS2. Those living around KL may know where it is...
Include a photo here of the one I usually eat, in case you don't know what Durian looks like.

Yong Peng (my Hometown) under Google Map

Crime Scene in Jim's cubicle. Check it out in G.11 if you're in CSSE. :D

Student Cafe on Hampden Road near UWA. It's opened about a year ago and I love it! The Malaysian owner is very friendly and the food is nice and cheap.
Nowhere else in Perth can you find $3.50 lunch!! Well, please let me know if you find another one close by. :)

Nasi Lemak @ Student Cafe - my favourite lunch of choice. Well, it's not exactly nasi lemak, more like curry chicken with rice + bonus fish, egg and onion. Taste good and Super $3.50 value.

Tzu Yen's Photo Gallery :: Alessandro farewell pizza party

Tzu Yen's Photo Gallery :: Alessandro farewell pizza party

CSSE Cultural Food Lunch 2005

Tzu Yen's Photo Gallery :: Cultural Food Lunch 2005

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena

Optical Illusions and Visual Phenomena

Amazing human music beat mix

Amazing human music beat mix

Danno found out Easter eggs in Matlab

Only Talking Sense: Easter in June

The image of kids used to freak me out before I figure out which command brought it out!! Imagine coding late at night alone in the lab, and when the code is executed, suddenly an image of a kid poped up from nowhere!!! Took me awhile to figure out the stupid easter egg then!

Papa Mama Perth Trip Recap - Kings Park Night Bright Paranomic

Papa Mama Perth Trip Recap - Kings Park Night Paranomic

Promise-of-Philosophy-Landmark-Forum.pdf

Landmark forum and its philosophical content:
Promise-of-Philosophy-Landmark-Forum.pdf (application/pdf Object)

Kes is learnig Mandarin

Kes is learning Mandarin now. She is going to China net month for a conference in WuHan. And she knows that Chinese cannot tell that she's from thailand and cannot understand Mandarin. Well, Kes parent are both Chinese Thai, so she looks very Chinese to me. :P

But she's doing very very well. She got a little "Just enough Chinese" book and i help her a bit on the pronounciation. I found out that Thai is very tonal and has 5 tones. So it's actually a re-map of Thai 5-tone into Mandarin 4-tone. Within a day, she can read stuffs from the little book and I understand her. :D

It's a lot of fun teaching her the pronounciation structure of Mandarin and realise some part of it that I never questioned... :)

For more info, here's where she live, she got some nice photo shots also: Home page of Kesaraporn Techapichetvanich (Kes).

Hilarious Mime Routine

Hilarious Mime Routine

Landmark Advanced Course

"Anything you want for yourself or your life is available out of the participation in the Landmark Forum."

I really see that as a real possibility.

"You can have any result you want for yourself or your life that you invent as a possibility and enroll others in your having gotten."

That's how I'll live my life from now onwards.

The Landmark education enables me to know myself as an ordinary human being capable to produce extraordinary results in the area that's important to me in my life.

I have it, it's the turning point of my life. I invite you to have this extraordinary possibility for yourself, you'll see life as you've never seen before and experience profound connection to people in your life.
Why not check it out and see it for yourself?

Landmark Advanced Course

Off to Landmark Advanced Course.
Thurdays - Sunday, 10am - late night.

Unfolding the universe within.
See what new realm of possibilities will be brought into existence this time...

It's marking time!!

Been bogged down on marking lately......
code code code... And it's not even mine...
Good code is such a pleasure to appreciate;
Bad code is such a pain to stagger through;
Plain code is so plain that as if time ploughs through me...

Educational Methodology of Landmark Forum

Just found out on Landmarkeducation website about their Educational Methodology: "Standard educational methods often leave you having to remember the concepts you were taught or trying to figure out how to apply them. Landmark's method leaves you applying what you learned naturally and without effort.

Similar to riding a bicycle, in Landmark's programs you learn by direct personal discovery - a moment occurs when a new ability is yours. You become confident in what you've learned, and the new ability is yours forever.

The Landmark method is more like coaching than teaching, more like conversation than lecture. While conventional education methods focus on content (adding facts, rules, or skills to our knowledge), the Landmark method deals with context - the framework(s) in which content can exist.

Whenever we're limited in life, there is something - a context or framework - that we are blind to and that is holding that limitation in place. Landmark's technology allows you to create breakthroughs in a two-step process in which you:

• Uncover and examine the blind spots or context holding you back in your life.
• Find out where your current context originated and address it for what it really is.

Having completed these two steps, a new realm of possibility is available to you. The constraints from the past disappear. Your view of life, your thoughts, your feelings, and your actions, change - and the change is immediate, dramatic, and without effort. It is a breakthrough."

Papa Mama Perth Trip Recap - Kalbarri "Pot Alley" paranomic view downwards

Papa Mama Perth Trip Recap - Kalbarri "The Loop" 360 degree paranomic view

Resolution techniques to Conflicts between loved ones

A long chat with a friend tonight about conflicts between loved ones crystallized some of my thoughts:

1. When something happened, we can only GUESS what it means or what the intention is behind. We often believe this GUESS to be true and accuse people with it. But a same act can come from very different intentions! How can we be sure which one it is? If we cannot be sure, how can we hold on to our GUESS so strongly that all explanations to the real intention cannot be heard?

> Be humble about the GUESS of people's intention based upon the surface "what happened". Shouldn't the person know better than you what his/her intention behind his/her own action is?


2. No one can upset/provoke us, we generate the feelings ourselves. When we are emotionally unstable, we should figure out why ourselves and communicate that with our loved ones, rather than expecting them to figure out the relationship between 'what they did' and 'our emotional swing'. A lot of time, this relationship is not clear to others, primarily because we GUESS wrongly their intention behind, which they have no idea of.

Escape from the Crimson Room...

Escape from the Crimson Room

Warning: Amazing time waster! Enter at your own risk!

Papa Mama Perth Trip Recap - Pamason

Papa Mama Perth Trip Recap - Honeymoon

Papa Mama Perth Trip Recap - Papa in actions

Papa Mama Perth Trip Recap - Mama in actions

Papa Mama Perth Trip Recap - Great Food

The Freedom of Choice by Dr Tom Chalko

A friend of mine asked me to help her buy a bioresonant T-shirt. And from the website, I come across this extremely interesting book. I've been reading it this couple of days. It's only 128 pages, clear language, very easy to read, and yet inspiring.
It's well written with good logics, a lot of alarming truth and insights. You can get a free ebook from the website, well worth a read!

The Freedom of Choice by Dr Tom Chalko: "For the first time in the history of humanity on Earth The Purpose of existence of the entire Universe has been expressed and proven explicitly in writing for everyone to understand. Incidentally, it coincides with the purpose of your OWN existence... Are you ready?"

"The Freedom of Choice addresses 'the purpose of existence' - the most fundamental question, that intrigues humanity on Earth from time immemorial. Dr Chalko explains the purpose of human existence in the widest possible context – the Purpose of the entire Universe."