Tuesday, September 28, 2004
Today's a good day to blog. Alone in the office, trying to get some reading done. A side issue is to not have to compete for parking spaces the next morning. It's usually around 10 am that I get up and by the time I get to school, all permit parking spaces have already been taken up. Now my utilisation of the permit is almost 90% and I'm already getting much more than what I've paid for it.
Just thought I'd write about anything that's on my mind. My heater-cum-fan broke down about a month ago. I remember my friends from Canning College in Perth bought it for me for my birthday. They were my housemates. It was pretty crazy at that time. Eight guys in one unit. People used to call me 'Fish' by then. I'm not gonna elaborate on that 'cause it's too long ago. And i'm kinda embarassed. Ah, that was the good old days. Heaters can be replaced, but friendship is not easily replaced or maintained. I wonder where they are now? One's probably an international chess player at the Grandmaster level. One's doing some IT consulting in Brunei. The rest, I do not know.
Trying to get my Thesis Proposal Review planned and written. Hmmm.... should I write about the literature review here? It will probably bored everyone to death, I'd imagine. How about tossing ideas about my thesis topic? People probably wouldn't be able to understand. Or I should just blog about my current situation.
I think I want to get a laptop pretty soon. Hopefully I can get one before my conferences at the end of November and early December. Depends on the budget that I've got. That reminds me of another thing that I need to do... Get my conference presentations prepared. Wouldn't be good if I screw up in front of international researchers and audiences. I would wanna be impressing them and getting them to come over and talk to me about our work, which I've got just the right thing to impress them with.
My application for 3 months' suspension for the first three months next year has been put through. It should be approved. During my last discussion with my supervisor, he told me that he's quite happy with my progress. I'm also surprised myself about the amount of progress i've made in erm.... eight months (that's until 30 September). Who'd imagine i'd have three papers submitted so soon? Apparently, the head of department is quite impressed with our work. Despite all that, we've still got something cooking up. Just have to get the stuff ready.
My younger brother's pretty stressed out with his Year 12. I guess the pressure and burden of three overachieving older brothers are really weighing him down. But it looks to me that he's dealing with it quite well. He has the calibre and quality to follow in on our achievements. I think he's already done a good job already. We will all be there to support him. I hope he knows that.
Went into a book shopping spree the other day. Bought a fantasy novel but realised that I missed the previous book in the series. So I bought that today. Don't really have the time to read anything else besides the thesis literature, but I hope to squeeze some time for that. Long stories are always my favourite, but it's already frustrating to have to reread previous books just to follow the storyline.
Long weekend ahead, and I look forward to it.
Just thought I'd write about anything that's on my mind. My heater-cum-fan broke down about a month ago. I remember my friends from Canning College in Perth bought it for me for my birthday. They were my housemates. It was pretty crazy at that time. Eight guys in one unit. People used to call me 'Fish' by then. I'm not gonna elaborate on that 'cause it's too long ago. And i'm kinda embarassed. Ah, that was the good old days. Heaters can be replaced, but friendship is not easily replaced or maintained. I wonder where they are now? One's probably an international chess player at the Grandmaster level. One's doing some IT consulting in Brunei. The rest, I do not know.
Trying to get my Thesis Proposal Review planned and written. Hmmm.... should I write about the literature review here? It will probably bored everyone to death, I'd imagine. How about tossing ideas about my thesis topic? People probably wouldn't be able to understand. Or I should just blog about my current situation.
I think I want to get a laptop pretty soon. Hopefully I can get one before my conferences at the end of November and early December. Depends on the budget that I've got. That reminds me of another thing that I need to do... Get my conference presentations prepared. Wouldn't be good if I screw up in front of international researchers and audiences. I would wanna be impressing them and getting them to come over and talk to me about our work, which I've got just the right thing to impress them with.
My application for 3 months' suspension for the first three months next year has been put through. It should be approved. During my last discussion with my supervisor, he told me that he's quite happy with my progress. I'm also surprised myself about the amount of progress i've made in erm.... eight months (that's until 30 September). Who'd imagine i'd have three papers submitted so soon? Apparently, the head of department is quite impressed with our work. Despite all that, we've still got something cooking up. Just have to get the stuff ready.
My younger brother's pretty stressed out with his Year 12. I guess the pressure and burden of three overachieving older brothers are really weighing him down. But it looks to me that he's dealing with it quite well. He has the calibre and quality to follow in on our achievements. I think he's already done a good job already. We will all be there to support him. I hope he knows that.
Went into a book shopping spree the other day. Bought a fantasy novel but realised that I missed the previous book in the series. So I bought that today. Don't really have the time to read anything else besides the thesis literature, but I hope to squeeze some time for that. Long stories are always my favourite, but it's already frustrating to have to reread previous books just to follow the storyline.
Long weekend ahead, and I look forward to it.
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