Clear things up

August 9th, 2008 at 21:51 · Filed Under Blogging, Days in My Life, Education · 3 Comments 

I wrote an article earlier today and after I have gone through it again this evening, I found some statements which some readers might have misunderstood. The reason I write this post is to clear things up so that the aforementioned article will not be misunderstood.

No one has given me a tick off or spark. I found my inspiration while working to help some undergraduate students to plan and secure scholarship for their graduate study abroad.

I wrote another post much earlier about Ada tasking on multi-core and received couple of comments yesterday. I have been a mentor to dragon and apparently she knows more than me about distributed computing with Ada. It is not about pride but an assessment to my knowledge which needs to be upgraded. I then got a bigger inspiration after I read some papers about distributed computing, quantum computing, computational physics, computational mathematics etc. These papers or articles have fascinated my imagination and of course have excited my long sleeping inspiration. Hence, a powerful spark has enlightened my stimulus.

As in the comment, the baggages which I mentioned were certainly not people around me. What I meant was that I was ready to let go many things like changing my car to a smaller car so that I could liquidate some fund for aid. What I meant was that I was willing to let go material things I was owning or longing to own.

I will be very sad if people has misunderstood my intention and purpose so I decide to write this post to clear things up.

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Huge disappointment and backing off

August 9th, 2008 at 4:11 · Filed Under Blogging, Days in My Life, Education, Family · 4 Comments 

I used to be firm with my principles in most things but there’s a huge disappointment after all I have done. It makes me realize at some point, I will have to back off and start thinking about my own ambition. In the past 5 years of experience working with university students, I learned a lot from them in the way of handling disappointment and also enjoying the fruits. One of the project I will never forget is the 2006 FYP at UTAR. My team won a trophy, a consolation trophy to be precise, but the students decided to present it to me for memory. I have seen most of my teams to pull through their projects and graduated. Some are continuing their graduate study which I am somehow proud of their achievement.

I have not revealed my feeling towards them so far. But somehow this comes to me suddenly and I realize it is time for me to move on and leave behind my principles and pride for the betterment of my life.

I have decided to continue my study and to pursue my goal once I dreamed so much. Some readers or friends may say I am impulsive. But this thought has been in my mind since 2 years ago and I am waiting for the spark to light it off. I have found the spark though.

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最棒的奥运圣火

August 9th, 2008 at 0:42 · Filed Under Blogging, China, Chinese, Days in My Life, Sports · 3 Comments 

最撮目以待的奥运圣火点燃仪式在经过四小时的开幕仪式之后，终于在北京的夜空点燃。中国体操王子，李宁，手握奥运火炬，系上钢索，飞上鸟巢顶上，有嫦娥奔月的意义。然后用像武侠小说里的轻功，在鸟巢顶上奔跑。他双脚踏过之处，有动人画面以投影机投影出来。到了终点站，巨型奥运会圣火炬终于出现。李宁以手中圣火将之点燃。

李宁在鸟巢上踏步飞行的情景非常动人。自从1992巴塞罗那奥林匹克，西班牙神箭手以弓箭把奥运会圣火射向奥林匹克火炬将之点燃之后，再也没有比那更精彩的奥运会圣火点燃仪式了。今晚，北京再创神奇，以罕为观止的呈现方式，把圣火点燃。

要吊在半空，离地大约一百公尺，有点倾斜的顶上奔驰，非要有相当的体力和耐力不可。李宁这一幕，有很大、很远的意义。李宁就代表了中国，他那嫦娥奔月的姿态就代表了中国的能力、耐力和决心，走向世界，冲出太空。

科技奥运，名符其实。中国再一次让全世界的华人引以为豪。再一次，祝福中国北京。

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My car repaired

August 1st, 2008 at 21:55 · Filed Under Autos, Blogging · 1 Comment 

Regarding my car, read here.

I went to the Honda service center personally this Monday because they did not call me last week as promised. I had prepared to go there to bang tables because I had rescheduled my business trip for the whole week so that I could send my car in for repair, but no one gave me a ring at all.

When I arrived there, I put up a cool face and demanded very seriously to see the service manager. They told me to wait for 10 minutes and when the manager came to me, he apologized before I could speak. So, he was prepared for it. Good grief.

He explained to me the problem would be resolved by changing the knock sensor. He also told me that the Honda engineer told me to change the petrol to the more expensive one. I responded quickly and said it was ridiculous as though I was car-illiterate and retaliated, “Why doesn’t the Honda engineer recommend me to change my car?” He smiled and replied, “Yeah, I told the engineer that the customer would fire him if he was to tell the customer to do so.”

After they had registered my car at their computer, they quickly took my car in to work on. No need to wait in queue. Oh yes! I reaffirmed with them that I paid nothing at all.

About two and half hour of waiting, my car was finally done!

I don’t know if the problem is totally resolved until I take my car for a high speed drive on the express way next week.

After all, thank you Honda and the Honda service center.

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