I think I saw, I did, I did..

I woke up bout 530am this morning. I guess I slept right through again. I went out looking at stars. First attempt, I was kinda lost, dunno where to look. On the bright side, the sky was beautiful this morning. Went back to my room, checked for my virtual sky map and look for a more specific location. http://www.astronomy.com/asy/stardome/default.aspx. With specific location and time it'll show you how your sky looks like. So I looked for gemini since it's geminid shower. I've doing so for the leonid but disappointed. I got my location and head out again. Trying to find for gemini, i can't really identify though, but i kinda guess it's that direction, NW. Pretty close. At least my eye will scope down to a smaller area than a hemisperical sky. Waited, and waited. Stared and stared. I saw this airplane flying by. With its blinking light.. blip blip blip... as it passed by. Still no sign of anything. Then I saw the first, I'm not really sure though but i guess i was. Whatever it is, I'll just see and then figure out later. It's just a little dot, like a star but it's moving slowly. Is it ? Or is it not? I dunno. Probably it's just the stars in my mind after staring for so long. 

Then I saw another, same little one heading towards another direction. So I guess it is not the stars in my mind, it is something moving, and moving and moving. The first one disappeared after sometime but this kept going on and on. I guess, a plane would blink so this isn't a plane. It isn't the normal meteor, but i think it's prob is one of them. Prob at different height and doesn't burns as bright. And continue waiting. It was quite sometimes before I see the third. Just standing there staring at the sky is just tiring. I wanted to give up until I saw the third one and so I stayed on a little. Again, slowly flying by. Again, there couldn't be so many planes up the sky at this time. So i'm more confidence that it is what i think it is. As I watch it passing by, zoom... I saw a big one. That's what I normally saw in the pictures. Happy I was, that was a big one. Still not too sure bout the little ones, but i'm sure bout the big one. It was big but it was just less than a second. And I waited, neighbours' light started lighting up. One after another. Until the one next door who lighted up his porch. It's way too bright and glaring so I came back in. Satisfied.. Not sure bout the little ones, but i'm sure of the big one.

Solving mysterious codes..Success??

Sometimes working in the lab is fun, when everything was just so interesting and smooth going. That's the fun part. But there are times when work gets complicated and so messed up like searching a needle in the sea. That is what i've been facing this two weeks. All i see is just numbers and codes and more codes. Thinking how to convert or changing it into something understandable and representing the actual data. Looking it from left to right, right to left, up to down, down to up, column by column, row by row, character by character. Hmm.. all I get most of the day is just @_@ a blank look on my face, nothing in my head. 

Today was a little better. After consulting my prof, few words from him was really enlightening. And I solved the mysterious codes. Happy!! ^_^ What a relief and joy when things go smoothly. But .......... i found out after a while, i need to be listening to this language. Hmm.. Now my next problem is how to make it to speak this language. Something which I'll prob need to crack my head for the next few days, prob weeks... For now, bedtime.. Nitez. Need to give my brain a break..

10 days to Christmas!

3 more working weeks to go. And it's all 4 working days. Isn't it a great way to end the year. I'm back in campus this morning. Took a non usual bus back. Shamisha holiday i think, not too bad. No complaints. Since KKKL seems to be cutting off the night trips so i'll need to find for other bus services to get me back to PB. Anyway just a relaxing weekend back in mlk. Meet law, wah7, and loke. CY was back but was unavailable. but will be meeting him up soon in sg. Spend time at home and with agnes was great. A little bit shopping, wanted to watch some movies but was rather packed. 

Us in Kenny Rogers

It's Xmas next week, and the festive mood is in the air. Everywhere there's xmas deco, xmas songs, xmas sales, etc etc. I'm looking forward to Sg Xmas this year and also time to eat 'tong yun' which indicates CNY is coming too. 

Anyway, been facing the comp for whole day trying to crack some code. Now i feel my head is going to crack apart before I even get the codes cracked. Also a sore throat is also making my world upside down. Better get some med or 'pi pa kau'. Must get myself healed to fully enjoy the holidays.  Counting down... 

Santa enjoying a summer vacation in mlk

All i see now are just 1s and 0s. Try crack this. 01101001001000000110001101110010011000010110001101101011011001010110010000100000011101000110100001100101001000000110001101101111011001000110010100100001

Got it? 

The last month of the year 2009!

It's December again, last month of the year. Another 21 days to a brand new year. I've been slacking on my blog as usual which is not good. I must try keep updating even though it's just a short paragraph. Hmm.. Anyway, wanted to post this up for a while.. dunno wut took me so long. Prob some loads of work lately.. I've been sleeping early too, and waking up early. hehe.. 

Just a little on the race, PBIM. Though I was way behind time, could be the worst ever, but still i'm happy that i finished. I was more worried if i couldn't finish and end up hopping on the sweeper bus. I managed to survived half way, but struggled the other half. sigh.. Still i finished within qualifying time. What a relief. On the overall race itself, i would say the organiser did quite some improvements, timing chip, drinks station. But still there's room for improvement, finishing line. 

Timing chip tied on to my shoes. It has runner details and mark runner's timing as it passes through the sensor. In short, it measures our running time more accurately. 

The Finisher Medal

Photo @ the finishing line

Agnes was here last week. We went penang, met up with the archi gang and did some shopping. We actually rented a little kancil to drive up to penang. It was a little noisy car, with those big loud exhaust. I wonder why some ppl can stand those kind of noise driving in it. It wasn't super powerful, just noisy. LoL. It's kinda fun driving around in one of those noisy little car, where everyone would look at you when you drive by. vroomm~~

We went to the new Penang Time Square but nothing much there, and we saw 2 guys, thought of asking them for direction, but seems like they were lost themselves. Looking at one of them carrying such heavy stuff, I lent him a hand. 

The 2 lost guys

Me lending a hand

"ohh.. he's big and strong"

Dinner @ OXO, Queensbay , 
credit to OCK

We ordered set meals and they come with appetizer, main course, dessert and a drink.

My appetizer, salad

My Main, grilled chicken

Agnes' Appetizer, Mushroom soup

Agnes' Main, Fish and Seafood

And ice cream for dessert and a cup of tea or coffee. Coffee for me of course! The food were just okay, probably an average. 

The day after we went to Jusco, Prai and they had nice decorations too. Not bad. 

The big lovely present

I was trying to untie and see what's in it.

This looks good, prob I should sneak it home

They even had Christmas Trees, Lil' Frosty and Papa Frosty made out of recycled egg trays. Good idea. Thinking of the environment. It's something everyone should be concern about the environment, else in future we'd only have Frosty made out of egg trays.

That sure brings out the Christmas mood in everyone. Christmas is just round the corner.. mmm.. Looking forward this Christmas, will be celebrating it in Sg. Hope it'd be much more fun. 
~~bells ringing~~~