Thomas Lopez (@tmomaslomez) has been busy with his Pre. Last night he tweeted "My fav photo from our trip to SF http://post.ly/1Gav nearly 2k more taken with my Pre."
Check his photo gallery and you'll find he's been busy -- and has been producing some high quality as well as huge quantity.
Wednesday, July 15, 2009
Thursday, July 9, 2009
Random Stories
I received an email from CHI 2010 (one of the international most prestigious conference organisation for Human-computer Interaction) that will held in Atlanta this year (last year was Boston), Georgia in US this year, to voluntarily help in reviewing papers submitted to them. I am still considering if I were to reply them to accept the offer or rejecting them since I am planning to submit a paper myself to the same conference. If so, I should not accept to be a reviewer. Brainstorm :( Anyway, I still have a couple of months time to consider what will work best for myself.
Caption: Liz near the entrance of my flat
Caption: a day before leaving
Anyway, Liz (my brother's girlfriend) left the country. I was looking at some images stored in the camera. Sweet memories. Somehow, I missed the moment when she was here with us. Oh, by the way, we do miss the fun moment playing poker with her almost everyday after shopping. She is a very good player, probably a lucky gambler who won almost every games everyday, lol. Sometimes, we spend a day at home, chit chatting with laughters, playing card games, computer games, and perhaps doing some cooking with mom. This month is probably the only month when my mom really do much cooking when she is free. She seldom cook at home, in Malaysia since we usually not eating at home for dinner.
Caption: a grandpiano clay (i)
Caption: a grandpiano clay (ii)
Anyway, before that, I wanted Ting-Ting to accept my appraisal on her piano clay that she made herself. It looks so marvelous to me (probably I have not play with clay before, so I am feeling extremely excited to see one crafted by my friend).
Caption: final production (i)
Caption: final production (ii)
She send me plenty of pictures of her final production, and I have selected 2 randomly for this blog. Thanks Ting-Ting, your grand piano is marvelous!
Caption: carbonara pasta
Caption: my mom and I
I cooked pasta using Tracy's guide (click HERE), except I used carbonara pasta sauce and she uses a different one. Everyone said it tastes good so I am quite happy to hear that since I rarely cook for someone besides my brother :D THerefore, the cooking guide is really acceptable! Lol.
Caption: congee, scrambled eggs, caramalised fried anchovies, and steam meat
Caption: oat fried chicken, some eggs and vegetables
Caption: my tidy bedroom
Caption: mom in my office
I am also feeling extremely happy to have my mom here in the UK. If you take a look at the picture in the above, you may see a major reason of why I prefer having her staying with me than staying alone :) I am considered a very lucky person since my mom seldom cook in Malaysia. As a compensation, I promised her to study harder, lol.
Caption: a 'squashed' bachelor degree transcript
Oh, by the way, a terribly sad news. I assume an examination transcript (a paper with your results) is fairly important to everyone. In fact, this paper may determine in getting a job. Why? If your exam transcript looks like the paper in the photo above, then usually, you may not get the job. Why? Simple, you can't even protect the quality of your transcript, how would you be able to protect your job. But you may ask, this should be the post office's fault? Well, that answer is not acceptable since the staff will not be responsible over this.
A friend said she requested for a similar transcript for her programme, and she paid £10/- for a reprint. The letter delivered to my brother contained approximately 10 important sheets, one is a transcript and the others suppose to be important information related to the transcript. If we have to pay £10/- for reprinting one single sheet, then 10 sheets would cost £100? Oh no :(
Caption: Liz near the entrance of my flat
Caption: a day before leaving
Anyway, Liz (my brother's girlfriend) left the country. I was looking at some images stored in the camera. Sweet memories. Somehow, I missed the moment when she was here with us. Oh, by the way, we do miss the fun moment playing poker with her almost everyday after shopping. She is a very good player, probably a lucky gambler who won almost every games everyday, lol. Sometimes, we spend a day at home, chit chatting with laughters, playing card games, computer games, and perhaps doing some cooking with mom. This month is probably the only month when my mom really do much cooking when she is free. She seldom cook at home, in Malaysia since we usually not eating at home for dinner.
Caption: a grandpiano clay (i)
Caption: a grandpiano clay (ii)
Anyway, before that, I wanted Ting-Ting to accept my appraisal on her piano clay that she made herself. It looks so marvelous to me (probably I have not play with clay before, so I am feeling extremely excited to see one crafted by my friend).
Caption: final production (i)
Caption: final production (ii)
She send me plenty of pictures of her final production, and I have selected 2 randomly for this blog. Thanks Ting-Ting, your grand piano is marvelous!
Caption: carbonara pasta
Caption: my mom and I
I cooked pasta using Tracy's guide (click HERE), except I used carbonara pasta sauce and she uses a different one. Everyone said it tastes good so I am quite happy to hear that since I rarely cook for someone besides my brother :D THerefore, the cooking guide is really acceptable! Lol.
Caption: congee, scrambled eggs, caramalised fried anchovies, and steam meat
Caption: oat fried chicken, some eggs and vegetables
Caption: my tidy bedroom
Caption: mom in my office
I am also feeling extremely happy to have my mom here in the UK. If you take a look at the picture in the above, you may see a major reason of why I prefer having her staying with me than staying alone :) I am considered a very lucky person since my mom seldom cook in Malaysia. As a compensation, I promised her to study harder, lol.
Caption: a 'squashed' bachelor degree transcript
Oh, by the way, a terribly sad news. I assume an examination transcript (a paper with your results) is fairly important to everyone. In fact, this paper may determine in getting a job. Why? If your exam transcript looks like the paper in the photo above, then usually, you may not get the job. Why? Simple, you can't even protect the quality of your transcript, how would you be able to protect your job. But you may ask, this should be the post office's fault? Well, that answer is not acceptable since the staff will not be responsible over this.
A friend said she requested for a similar transcript for her programme, and she paid £10/- for a reprint. The letter delivered to my brother contained approximately 10 important sheets, one is a transcript and the others suppose to be important information related to the transcript. If we have to pay £10/- for reprinting one single sheet, then 10 sheets would cost £100? Oh no :(
Another New Discovery
Have you watched Star Wars or perhaps, Harry Potter? If so, you should have seen the great invisible cloak. A group of specialist who were currently working at the Duke University in North Carolina in USA, utilises British profesor's theory, and has built a device from fantasies such as Starwars or from fictitious wizards (Harry Potter) by Rowling. Anyway, this has been a fact that these experts have created such a cloak - yes, the invisible cloak.
Caption: an invisible cloak
This cloak could only work as a device to hide object from view, only from a person's eye with a microwave detector. I did not read the entire article (from a 2007 new scientist magazine), but this cloak would very specifically rely on microwave frequency. From my personal opinion after reading the article, this device would only work in 2-dimensionals form. Since 2007, my friends and I have discussed about this cloak. It is an extremely amazing discovery though it was only a relatively small invisibility barrel.
Caption: the theory that lies behind the invisible device
According to the journal, the build of the invisibility cloak required complex materials. For such, they uses copper rings and metamaterials, artifical composites and arranged in concentric circles. This has shown that microwave radiation can be deflected past an object just as water will flow past an obstacle. When a beam (the signal) was aimed at the device, sensors were unable to visibly see the object hidden in the middle because the microwaves were not bounced back. As a result, the human body that lies in the middle of the device will become invisible. However, before scientists could make an object vanish before a person’s eyes, a cloak would have to be devised that simultaneously interacted with all the wavelengths in light. This is also known as their very first invisibility device.
Three years later, in 2009, scientist modified the cloak to provide greater illusion. A physicist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology suggests to extend the initial concept of invisibility. Instead of bending light around a central cavity to hide the object lies in the middle of the device (read above), the team has worked out the mathematical rules for bending light in a totally different way. For example, a material could be designed to bend light in the same way as a spoon would. So the light hitting the material would be distorted, making it to look as if the spoon were there. It is also possible to design a complementary material that has an opposite effect, that is to exactly cancelling out the effect that an object has turned on light. So light distorted by a spoon could be passed through a complementary material to eliminate these distortions. This has been revealed in the Physical Review Letters, in vol. 102, page: 253902. Their idea is to develop some surprising technology. For example, creating a 'fake' hole in the middle of the wall so that people could see what lies opposite the wall.
Caption: an invisible hole (or ultimate illusion) formulated by mathematical calculations
Sir John Pendry, a professor at Imperial College, London (UK) was expecting to produce total invisibility for larger objects. So what are they expecting? An invisible home in a busy street? Sometimes, I was wondering if this kind of great invention will significantly benefit us or will flawlessly destruct human being's life?
Caption: an invisible cloak
This cloak could only work as a device to hide object from view, only from a person's eye with a microwave detector. I did not read the entire article (from a 2007 new scientist magazine), but this cloak would very specifically rely on microwave frequency. From my personal opinion after reading the article, this device would only work in 2-dimensionals form. Since 2007, my friends and I have discussed about this cloak. It is an extremely amazing discovery though it was only a relatively small invisibility barrel.
Caption: the theory that lies behind the invisible device
According to the journal, the build of the invisibility cloak required complex materials. For such, they uses copper rings and metamaterials, artifical composites and arranged in concentric circles. This has shown that microwave radiation can be deflected past an object just as water will flow past an obstacle. When a beam (the signal) was aimed at the device, sensors were unable to visibly see the object hidden in the middle because the microwaves were not bounced back. As a result, the human body that lies in the middle of the device will become invisible. However, before scientists could make an object vanish before a person’s eyes, a cloak would have to be devised that simultaneously interacted with all the wavelengths in light. This is also known as their very first invisibility device.
Three years later, in 2009, scientist modified the cloak to provide greater illusion. A physicist at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology suggests to extend the initial concept of invisibility. Instead of bending light around a central cavity to hide the object lies in the middle of the device (read above), the team has worked out the mathematical rules for bending light in a totally different way. For example, a material could be designed to bend light in the same way as a spoon would. So the light hitting the material would be distorted, making it to look as if the spoon were there. It is also possible to design a complementary material that has an opposite effect, that is to exactly cancelling out the effect that an object has turned on light. So light distorted by a spoon could be passed through a complementary material to eliminate these distortions. This has been revealed in the Physical Review Letters, in vol. 102, page: 253902. Their idea is to develop some surprising technology. For example, creating a 'fake' hole in the middle of the wall so that people could see what lies opposite the wall.
Caption: an invisible hole (or ultimate illusion) formulated by mathematical calculations
Sir John Pendry, a professor at Imperial College, London (UK) was expecting to produce total invisibility for larger objects. So what are they expecting? An invisible home in a busy street? Sometimes, I was wondering if this kind of great invention will significantly benefit us or will flawlessly destruct human being's life?
Attended 2009 Graduation Ceremonies
Finally, the students are graduating. I feel proud to share the happiness and joy with all of them, including their parents. There were approimately 12 graduation ceremonies hosted at Middlesex University, UK this year, within the 4 busy days in this week. My brother's graduation ceremony lies on tuesday whilst friends convo on friday. So I have been busy in the 2 days in this week, very hectic but worth the time spend. I am extremely happy to see everyone smiling so happily on their day. Anyway, I wanted to wish Dr. Rajan who completed and graduated her PhD. I am so proud of her although I do not have the opportunity to take any photographs with her. She was too busy entertaining other friends :) I think the date of the picture was written wrongly. She suppose to graduate on the 7th of July 2009, so I assume the date on the picture is her PhD completion date.
Caption: Dr. Rajan
A big congratulations goes to my brother who has graduated for his bachelor degree this year. My mom, Liz and I attended his graduation on that day. Quite upset since we could not take much pictures on that day. It was raining heavily! *sob* So, most of the pictures were taken inside the college building. The first image (in the below) was captured in the college building by someone else, but due to the blurish quality of the image itself, I have turned the image in a completely different mode: sketching with paint brush, with Adobe Photoshop.
Caption: Liz, Daryl, mom and myself
Caption: Liz, myself, my brother and my mom in the quadrangle
Caption: My brother and I
We met Carl (my supervisor) standing happily at the middle of the quadrangle, smiling happily when looking at my brother. He said: "You are probably the only student who graduated with flying colours that I know, who did 8 modules in one semester, after teaching for 20 over years. From now on, I will not allow any students to delay submitting their work just because of you", Lol.
Caption: Carl and I
We then moved to the photo-shooting studio to meet the professional photographers. The photographer is a very nice person. He allowed us to stand in the studio to take photographs with our own cameras although there were plenty of people waiting at the que out there for photo-shooting.
Caption: myself, my brother and mom
Intentionally, I was bored to sit inside the graduation hall anymore. One reason is that every year by year, friends invited me to attend their convocation, and therefore, I have been repetitively sitting and listening to the same thing over and over again every year, lol.
Caption: my brother and Liz
Finally, the rain stopped. Thank god, but we only managed to capture few pictures since we have to proceed to return the graduation robe to the school soon. Finally, my brother has graduated. Congrats to him again.
Caption: my brother, mom and I
Three days later, I attended my friends graduation ceremony. I realized time passes very quickly. They were graduating! Too bad I could not complete my studies, else I would be able to join them for graduation this year :( Anyway, they will be coming back for their postgraduate (masters) studies soon, I heard in the upcoming intake (September 2009) but studying in some different universities.
Caption: in the graduation hall
Caption: candit
One, two, three! I yelled to them by saying to help them taking an image outside the graduation hall. Probably women nature, look at what are they doing! Lol. Some of them were tidying their hood, some were playing with their hair etc. Haha! This is the first time taking picture with a group of pianist, wait, I should recognise them as some professional musicians instead especially when most of them know how to use the so-called 'second instruments'. Therefore, I am feeling a little stiff on that day :)
Caption: Ting-Ting's cousin sister took this picture for us
Anyway, we took plenty of picture. Most of the pictures were posted on 'our' facebook. Therefore, I only pick a few images randomly and post it on this blog.
Caption: Ting-Ting and I at the quadrangle
Caption: Ting-Ting and I outside the college building
I remember someone telling me that the graduates who throw their graduation hood away in their graduation day should have no intention of continue studying anymore in the future. But since Ting-Ting is going to continue with a postgraduate studies soon, therefore, I was wonder what is she doing. She should keep the hood nicely instead of throwing? Lol.
Caption: Ting-Ting
Anyway, a guy friend approached us. I believe he is one of the music student.
Caption: myself, Ting-Ting and her friend
After listening to the announcement, all graduates proceed to the college building for some refreshments. They managed to take a picture for me with the crafted '2009' word located near the entrance of the building.
Caption: myself
I took a picture at least with everyone of them.
Caption: Ashley and I
Caption: Jess and I
Caption: Ting-Ting and I (left), and Ka Ka and I (right)
Caption: Ka Ka, Jess, Ting-Ting, Ashley and Wei Teing
Did not know where Wei Teing went, has been busy looking for her but she is not visible in sight. Probably busy taking photographs with some other people at that time. Therefore, I have no opportunity to take an individual photograph with her :( I will, hopefully when she complete her postgraduate in the future.
Caption: the four musicians
We spend the remaining 20 minutes in the quadrangle before the girls return their graduation robes. By the way, I met Ashley's mom. She is an extremely nice person to speak to. Generally, from observation, she is an extremely soft person, just like Ashley. Like what people says: "Like mother, like daughter"? Cool. She also offered us to pay her a visit at her home in Teluk Intan (a state in Malaysia, called Ipoh), and planing to spend us seafood as dinner. Yay! Lol.
Caption: myself, Ashley's mom and Ashley
Caption: Ashley's mom, Ashley, Ka Ka and I
Caption: Ashley, Jess and Ka Ka
Caption: Ka Ka (left), Ashley (right) and Ting-Ting (above)
Caption: Ting-Ting (left) and Ashley (right)
Caption: Jess (left) and Ka Ka (right)
I also randomly pick some of their photographs from their facebook (with their permission) and posted here.
Caption: Ashley (left) and Ting-Ting (right)
Caption: Ashley (left) and / with her mom (right)
By the way, I managed to capture some photos of the inner-section of the graduation hall with Jess's SLR camera (similar to THIS) :O Very nice camera, I like it very much, and will get one myself 'when' I am richer in the future.
Caption: the graduation hall
Caption: Ashley
Finally, they went home. Ka Ka and Ashley told me they made some desserts. Too bad I could not join them on that night since I am staying too far away from them. I heard it tastes delicious :(
Caption: Ka Ka and Ashley
Anyway, they will be leaving the country today, and so, I would like to wish them a safe trip again on this blog. Hope to see them soon.
Caption: Dr. Rajan
A big congratulations goes to my brother who has graduated for his bachelor degree this year. My mom, Liz and I attended his graduation on that day. Quite upset since we could not take much pictures on that day. It was raining heavily! *sob* So, most of the pictures were taken inside the college building. The first image (in the below) was captured in the college building by someone else, but due to the blurish quality of the image itself, I have turned the image in a completely different mode: sketching with paint brush, with Adobe Photoshop.
Caption: Liz, Daryl, mom and myself
Caption: Liz, myself, my brother and my mom in the quadrangle
Caption: My brother and I
We met Carl (my supervisor) standing happily at the middle of the quadrangle, smiling happily when looking at my brother. He said: "You are probably the only student who graduated with flying colours that I know, who did 8 modules in one semester, after teaching for 20 over years. From now on, I will not allow any students to delay submitting their work just because of you", Lol.
Caption: Carl and I
We then moved to the photo-shooting studio to meet the professional photographers. The photographer is a very nice person. He allowed us to stand in the studio to take photographs with our own cameras although there were plenty of people waiting at the que out there for photo-shooting.
Caption: myself, my brother and mom
Intentionally, I was bored to sit inside the graduation hall anymore. One reason is that every year by year, friends invited me to attend their convocation, and therefore, I have been repetitively sitting and listening to the same thing over and over again every year, lol.
Caption: my brother and Liz
Finally, the rain stopped. Thank god, but we only managed to capture few pictures since we have to proceed to return the graduation robe to the school soon. Finally, my brother has graduated. Congrats to him again.
Caption: my brother, mom and I
Three days later, I attended my friends graduation ceremony. I realized time passes very quickly. They were graduating! Too bad I could not complete my studies, else I would be able to join them for graduation this year :( Anyway, they will be coming back for their postgraduate (masters) studies soon, I heard in the upcoming intake (September 2009) but studying in some different universities.
Caption: in the graduation hall
Caption: candit
One, two, three! I yelled to them by saying to help them taking an image outside the graduation hall. Probably women nature, look at what are they doing! Lol. Some of them were tidying their hood, some were playing with their hair etc. Haha! This is the first time taking picture with a group of pianist, wait, I should recognise them as some professional musicians instead especially when most of them know how to use the so-called 'second instruments'. Therefore, I am feeling a little stiff on that day :)
Caption: Ting-Ting's cousin sister took this picture for us
Anyway, we took plenty of picture. Most of the pictures were posted on 'our' facebook. Therefore, I only pick a few images randomly and post it on this blog.
Caption: Ting-Ting and I at the quadrangle
Caption: Ting-Ting and I outside the college building
I remember someone telling me that the graduates who throw their graduation hood away in their graduation day should have no intention of continue studying anymore in the future. But since Ting-Ting is going to continue with a postgraduate studies soon, therefore, I was wonder what is she doing. She should keep the hood nicely instead of throwing? Lol.
Caption: Ting-Ting
Anyway, a guy friend approached us. I believe he is one of the music student.
Caption: myself, Ting-Ting and her friend
After listening to the announcement, all graduates proceed to the college building for some refreshments. They managed to take a picture for me with the crafted '2009' word located near the entrance of the building.
Caption: myself
I took a picture at least with everyone of them.
Caption: Ashley and I
Caption: Jess and I
Caption: Ting-Ting and I (left), and Ka Ka and I (right)
Caption: Ka Ka, Jess, Ting-Ting, Ashley and Wei Teing
Did not know where Wei Teing went, has been busy looking for her but she is not visible in sight. Probably busy taking photographs with some other people at that time. Therefore, I have no opportunity to take an individual photograph with her :( I will, hopefully when she complete her postgraduate in the future.
Caption: the four musicians
We spend the remaining 20 minutes in the quadrangle before the girls return their graduation robes. By the way, I met Ashley's mom. She is an extremely nice person to speak to. Generally, from observation, she is an extremely soft person, just like Ashley. Like what people says: "Like mother, like daughter"? Cool. She also offered us to pay her a visit at her home in Teluk Intan (a state in Malaysia, called Ipoh), and planing to spend us seafood as dinner. Yay! Lol.
Caption: myself, Ashley's mom and Ashley
Caption: Ashley's mom, Ashley, Ka Ka and I
Caption: Ashley, Jess and Ka Ka
Caption: Ka Ka (left), Ashley (right) and Ting-Ting (above)
Caption: Ting-Ting (left) and Ashley (right)
Caption: Jess (left) and Ka Ka (right)
I also randomly pick some of their photographs from their facebook (with their permission) and posted here.
Caption: Ashley (left) and Ting-Ting (right)
Caption: Ashley (left) and / with her mom (right)
By the way, I managed to capture some photos of the inner-section of the graduation hall with Jess's SLR camera (similar to THIS) :O Very nice camera, I like it very much, and will get one myself 'when' I am richer in the future.
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Caption: the graduation hall
Caption: Ashley
Finally, they went home. Ka Ka and Ashley told me they made some desserts. Too bad I could not join them on that night since I am staying too far away from them. I heard it tastes delicious :(
Caption: Ka Ka and Ashley
Anyway, they will be leaving the country today, and so, I would like to wish them a safe trip again on this blog. Hope to see them soon.
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