Reallyā¦donāt bother with BT! They are so uselessā¦They are the total embodiment of British inefficiency. Also, I wonder if āBritish Telecomā actually operates in āBritainā cause I am certain that I was calling Indiaā¦Ahh, I blame Margret Thatcher for so many things!!
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New domain
» WandererYou can now access the site with www.kamilshah.net
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Paths
» WandererIts been a very strange few weeks for me. There is a concept in Islam called Qadr, and its been the thing which attracts me most to Islam - of course also the certainty that this is the truth. Its very strange - this concept of certainty. Its almost boolean - you are either certain of something or you are in doubt. Even if there was 1% doubt its still doubt. For me, time after time I feel like the doubt has been lifted and what lies beneath it is certainty.
Yes, back to this concept of Qadr. One can translate it as pre-destination. Iāve still much to learn about this concept. Its the idea that everything which happened and will happen was of divine decree. However, this must not be confused with the lack of free-will. Its the idea that all our choices in life was already known, that we wouldāve made the choices we made irregardless of whether there was a plan or not. In other words, whatever we will choose has been chosen by us and its already written down. So whatever happens will happen and whatever happened could not have happened otherwise. More so I believe that I am walking down the path I know I should have walked down maybe a few years back, but yet I would never have walked down the path unless everything which happened had happen to lead me to where I am at the moment. Perhaps lost, helplessness, darkness was all part of the path Iām supposed to take.
I am definitely a man of faith. If I were to play a character in Lost, I would definitely be Locke. I cannot begin to explain to anyone what Iām going through except for the fact that I believe there must be a reason - perhaps in this life and most likely be for the life after. My friend once told me truth is something I canāt handle. Now that Iāve experienced part of the truth I totally understand why its so mind blowing. When things out of the blue happens and everything comes together so eloquantly you canāt help but allow it to confirm my philosophy of life. Its a feeling of blissfulness, feeling of total trust and a feeling that its going to be ok.
Iām standing here reading Randyās blog. I admire him for making such a decision, and I believe that he will find what he is looking for as long as he is patient. I believe the path is laid and sometimes the hardest thing is to find the courage to walk the path.
I know Iāve been led spoon-fededly down my path, but the most daunting thing is I just donāt know where the destination is. I guess this is why they call itā¦Destiny.
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1:20
Updates
» WandererNot that there are anything definite which anyone doesn’t know about anymore. But seeing that I don’t update this blog regularly, many people who used to visit this site no longer really visit it anymore.
Well, family is here in the UK until 26th. Well, Rakin and my parents will go to Barcelona for a few days before heading back to Liverpool whilst they continue with Madrid and Dublin. I will stay here with my grand mother.
End of the month, I’m off to South Africa. It should be a lot of fun, get to meet up with a very good friend of mine, Randy. Hopefully doing some cool things over there again after all the different Moron no Tabis.
I just paid off my car, hence the broke-ness. But as YGG did correctly point out since I am going to South Africa and that I should not have any right to complain about my financial situation. But because of this situation, I have decided not to upgrade to D90, and I have many reasons not to buy extra lens for the S.A. Trip.
I am beginning to enjoy work a lot. It gives me a sense of purpose I suppose, and because of the people around me, who are mostly from Asia (and Sri Lanka), I feel more alive at work. I think I suit the Asian working environment a lot more, and this company is absolutely perfect because it feels like Asia but its in Europe. It comes with all the perks of European company such as working environment and time, and also the perks of Asian working attitude. In short, I am glad, in fact, very glad I am working here, and even though I am taking a lot of time off this coming months, I do feel a sense that I miss work -> Which is very rare for me.
In short, I am happy with life. There are some things which can be better, i.e. the social aspect - the fact that I am no longer in London means that I am feeling the chore of going back to London every week to ’socialise’. I miss the good old times. But at the same time, I know this is my destiny, and I shall wait patiently for my destin(y)ation to reveal itself.
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SBWR 15th birthday
» talfryn.net
The GoH: SM Goh
Unveiling the SBWR Master PlanLink :: CNA article on SBWR’s 15th anniversary
Photos :: SBWR 15th anniversary
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You can try, but you wonāt stop me
» talfryn.netHaving done street or events photography for a while, negotiating your way through officials attempting to discourage you from taking photographs comes easily.
“It’s not for commercial purposes.” is the first thing I say to them. “It’s purely for personal use”, or “The people and places in my photos will not be brought into contempt” and other tried and tested phrases usually work.
On Friday night at the Singapore Arts Museum, however, I was further asked if I would be putting my photos online. I was truthful and told the lady that I may blog about it to help promote the Japan Media Arts Festival; but she was still hesitant but she was too polite about it to successfully forbid me from taking photos.
Then at the next zone of the exhibition, I was approached by another staff member, clad in black, and he asked me to refrain from photography. I did the usual rhetoric, and that I was not going to use flash. He was adamant, and said that it was a ‘museum policy’. So I pointed out the absence of ‘No Photography’ signs about the gallery, and that if they were really against the public taking photos, they should really put signs up. “That would make your job easier too,” I added. I passed him my namecard, and told him that I can be contacted if they wished to take this matter further, but I was going to continue snapping shots. “How many, and which ones?” He asked. I replied that I couldn’t say for sure - it would depend on the lighting of the exhibit, and whether or not I’d be able to frame any good shots. He wanted to call for his manager, and asked if I had any photo ID to indicate that I was a bona fide photographer. Well… I lacked the Singapore equivalent of a BAJ Press Pass and so gave him my PSS membership card instead. He seemed happy enough. So his manager came; we talked - she tried to do what her staff failed to, and I questioned her about their ‘policy’ and asked her for the rationale. She wasn’t too sure about it herself, only that the ‘directives came from the top’. I explained that if this was an exhibition with artifacts, then I’d understand. But the JMAF was all contemporary objects and there was nothing too sensitive about it. In the end, she relented.
I’ll be blasted if I am forced to follow some non-formally-enforced rule which I cannot make sense of. This reminds me of the No U-Turn syndrome: ‘In Singapore, drivers are not allowed to make a U-turn unless a sign specifically allows them to do so, while in some other countries drivers may make U-turns freely so long as the ‘No U-turn’ sign is not present’. I bet photography in Singapore is almost like that: ‘photographers are not allowed to take any photos unless a sign specifically allows them to do so, while in other countries photographers may take photographs freely so long as a ‘No Photography’ sign is not present.’
For all that fuss…
Photos :: SAM JMAF 08
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17:48
FreeCell
» WandererLately, I have been bored at work, so I have been becoming an expert in all the games on Microsoft Windows. I am bored of Solitaire, Minesweeper and now I am working on FreeCell. The thing with Freecell is that every game is solvable. That means that there must be a logical way in approaching this game. So I wiki-ed up FreeCell, and found that 1 method of solving a game is by using something called Genetic Algorithm. So, here I am waiting for him to go on telling us about object oriented programming, playing freecell, talking to Randy about salt and sugar and reading up on Genetic Algorithm. Who said men can’t multi-task??Anyway, yes, this thing about computers solving games is very interesting. Optimisation, control theory and signal processing all put into 1. But what I find more amazing is how the human mind can solve a game. I am paying a lot of attention on the logic I use to solve this game. But for a game which does not follow much rules, its very hard to find any logic to it!
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Zoto uploads update
» talfryn.netIt’s been a busy month for the shutter. For November so far…
1: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve & Int’l Year of the Frog
6: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
7-9: Trip to Sedili, Johor Malaysia
15: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
18: Huntsman spider
18: ISEAS/WWF talk by Dr Chris Hails
22: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve & Kranji countryside
23: Sungei Buloh Wetland Reserve
24: Bishan Park 2
25: Bishan Park 1
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Deepavali
» talfryn.net
Light-up along Serangoon Road
Hindu devotees at the Sri Srinivasa Perumal TempleLink :: More photos on Zoto
Deepavali, the most important date of the Hindu calendar, occurs on one day during October, and in the ethnic quarter of Little India, the festivities last practically for the whole month of October.
Deepavali is the Festival of Lights, and marks the defeat of the evil King Narakasura by the Lord Krishna. All round the world, Hindus celebrate this day as the triumph of light over darkness, and of good over evil. It marks the new beginning for Hindu devotees, and is a great time of rejoicing and renewal. During this time, Little India throbs with evening roadside stalls, booming music and strings of colourful lights. Shoppers throng the streets in search of the perfect sari to wear, or to fill their baskets with Indian foods and spices. Hindu homes are lighted with oil lamps , and offerings of sweetmeats and garlands of jasmine are placed at the family altar.
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1:39
On my way to work (over a week agoā¦)
» WandererHuh!…I never thought the day would come that I actually would wake up, put on a shirt, working pants and a tie to go to work. Still unable to iron my own clothes, I put on what I consider half-iron shirt and headed to work. Same old londoner taking the tube and all. But instead, this time I am travelling out of London into High Wycombe. I must say that its a very nice town from what I have seen yesterday, and I really don’t mind moving out there when I come back to Sri Lanka.
So its kindda strange that my 3 months break where I have seen a significant increase in carbon footprint has finally come to an end. And yes, strangely enough I am quite glad that I will be entering a more routine life. I am glad that I took 3 months off. I don’t think I would ever be satisfied to go straight from finish studying to entering work. Whats more? I don’t actually think that my holiday is over…3 weeks from now I will be on the plane to Colombo. Never been there, don’t know what to expect. But I think I will like it.
*** 1 week later…. ***
Can you believe this? 1 week of working life just gone…like that. Its been a crazy week in terms of commuting. You see, my office is in High Wycombe, and I live in central London. So it takes me around 2 hours to get to work. Sometimes its faster with a bit of running. But you know what? The fact that I can still wake up every morning at 6:30am with a big smile on my face, looking forward to the 2 hour commute is remarkable. The office is very spacious with large desks for about 100+ of us in the office. Of course big bosses get their rooms with glass doors whilst we hardly get a desk for ourselves. Its very different from what I am used to. Surely, there are supervisors who share the same floor space as us, but there is an atmosphere of freedom in a motivating way, which no other jobs had given me. Perhaps is the fact that there are 6 of us starting and its quite a good group culture here.
I can’t wait until I get a car and be able to drive to work. In a way, I could see myself starting a life here in this little town called High Wycombe. I have experienced the big cities like London, lived in satellite cities like Atsugi and now is a nice change to a small English town on the suburbs. Perhaps its the initial excitement. Nevertheless, I am excited about learning new things, but moreover, it is the structured training which I like. Its unlike AK when I was free to do anything, and that nobody cared if I was not working or that I had too much free time. Over here, I get the right amount to keep me going. Going to talks and presentations on different departments, learning about warehouses and finance. Its the flexibility and the technical knowledge I am acquiring everyday. Now I’m learning Oracle, PL/SQL, I will be learing C# later, and before you know it, I will be an Engineer who programs.
I am grateful for everything that happened in Japan. I am grateful to my housemates who helped me grow as a person. I am grateful that I could take 3 months out to do what I had always wanted to do, and do it for myself. It will inevitably make me a better person and a more sucessful person in the future. I am excited and optimistic.
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Sun Festival opening
» talfryn.netRobert Redford was supposed to narrate Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf at the Sun Festival opening concert on Saturday, but he had to cancel his appearance and was replaced by Geoffrey Rush. I asked my parents what they’d think would be different if Redford narrated instead of Rush, and my mom commented that “at least he’d look a lot better”. I admit that Rush seems to be having a hard time keeping up with the years (I was sitting three rows from the stage, and could see his face quite close and clearly), but he delivered the lines and dialogue with the dry wit and cold humour as befitted the story. Think Captain Barbossa with a smirk.
The other highlights of the evening most definitely were Dame Kiri Te Kanawa and the Vienna Boys Choir. What beautiful, angelic voices! If I may be so bold to declare, I think this may be as close as Singapore can get to staging a truly ‘world class’ concert. My only gripe for that evening - which had be transfixed the whole while (unfortunately not so my dad - he went fishing) - was the orchestra. It was a humble attempt to bring together the talents of musicians (students, mostly) from the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of NUS, the Peabody Institute of John Hopkins University, and the Guildhall School of London… but the orchestra was amateurish and musicians sluggish in appearance, and the music sounded flat. If only one of the world-famous Philharmonic or Symphony Orchestras were to make an appearance… but I guess that’ll be too much to ask for, for one night.
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Spices and condiments
» talfryn.netAs the trend goes, I usually select an assortment of plugins to accompany the adoption of a new theme. This round’s pickings are:
- Category Icons - See those little icons by the categories? And at the top of every post? It’s easy to install and configure. They’re cute, too.
- Flexible Upload - Integrates with the default WP media/image uploader; enables you to resize and stamp a watermark on images as you upload them.
- Lighter Menus - I used to use Admin Drop Down Menu, but found this to be even better. Aesthetically, and technically as well. A must-have for the admin backend.
- Now Reading - a customisable library of books (info fetched from Amazon.com or .co.uk) that you can display on the sidebar… or on a separate page. Needs some knowledge of PHP to tweak if you’re picky about presention.
- Sideblog - It’s what I use for the mini-posts in my ‘latest wruffs’ box. Works like minor status updates. Posts under the categories assigned to the Sideblog will not show in the main posting area.
- WP Automatic Upgrade - Does exactly what it says.
- WP-Cache2 - For a faster site. Reduces the server and database load (I hope. Given how my site likes to exceed its bandwidth limit every so often.) by caching pages.
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Back to white
» talfryn.netNo more blotchy notebooks and vivid colours for me. I felt like I’d lost myself in that notebook theme… it was too messy, too fancy. I like things clean, simple, white. Minimalistic stuff. So I found this theme which hovers somewhere in between all the previous white-based themes I had… and there. I’m back. My photos in the headers are, too.
Comments now support Gravatars, so you can have a pretty little avi by your name whenever you leave a note on the blog.
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12:17
Brain Transplant
» WandererDo you think it’ll be ok to change different parts of our body to keep it from dying? Today I performed a brain transplant on my friend: my Fujitsu S6240. I replaced its old 60Gb hard disk with a brand new 120Gb one and the original 512Mb and 256Mb with 2 1Gb ones. Now is as fast as a…new laptop.
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3:39
Xandros on Asus eee 901
» WandererI seriously don’t understand why anyone who does not have pre knowledge of linux and computing of a higher level would choose this machine. It took me more than 2 hours trying to configure this machine to go online. After doing that, I wanted to install an application which can do web conference. I don’t know how to install applications. You would think the installing application button would send you to a site which you can just download and install. But no…It just tantalise you. When you click install, it the firefox download dialogue comes out and asks “Which program do you want to use to?” - The .cnr file (click ‘n run) file is not supported unless you have a cnr client, which does not have support for Xandros yet.
I think I will sit here for another 1 or 2 days and find a way to customise it the way I want it. I am so tempted to install Ubuntu on this because Ubuntu just works so much more beautifully. Should I just wait for cnr support or just stick with these crappy softwares Asus had given us - see I really don’t see the point of putting a webcam there when you can’t use it for MSN! Sigh…This is so badly designed!
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2:40
Messing with my head!
» WandererNoooo! All the American series I like are coming to an end. I have just watched the last episode of LOST in season 4. Its messing with my head too much I’m telling ya!!! Ahhh, I must take my hat off for the writers of this show. It has just put a whole new twist to the story. There is no way of guessing what will come next in this show. I can’t wait until the next season.
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19:05
Language Identification
» WandererThe spoken Language for english is english with a perplexity value of 11.8002
The spoken Language for farsi is farsi with a perplexity value of 11.7123
The spoken Language for french is french with a perplexity value of 11.1847
The spoken Language for german is german with a perplexity value of 11.8344
The spoken Language for hindi is hindi with a perplexity value of 8.9421
The spoken Language for japanese is japanese with a perplexity value of 11.3453
The spoken Language for korean is japanese with a perplexity value of 11.7025
The spoken Language for mandarin is mandarin with a perplexity value of 12.5102
The spoken Language for spanish is spanish with a perplexity value of 10.9696
The spoken Language for tamil is tamil with a perplexity value of 8.7680
The spoken Language for vietnamese is vietnamese with a perplexity value of 10.1379My project works! Except for Korean - who cares about Koreans anyway! =P
…Then my supervisor tells me that its a good start!! Oh great. I am going to have a long long road…He said I should concentrate on classification task. What is classification tasks??
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23:27
Determined?
» WandererI have climbed Fuji, I have climbed the tallest mountain in South East Asia - Mount KK, cycled the whole of Route 70 in Okinawa and I have swum faster than I could swim. It was all 1 thing which got me through it all: Determination. Sometimes I wonder where my determination comes from you know? Just like tonight, after a long long day, I’m still sitting here revising. My head is hurting and I know for sure that tomorrow’s exam would probably be the toughest of my exams. I really hope that I could do it. I can’t say I did spectacular in my previous exams, but it was all I could have done. After tomorrow 4 down, 3 to go. I just need to concentrate, concentrate and concentrate, which seems to be the hardest thing for me to do right now.
Also, I am trying to find my heart - my real heart. How come I don’t feel anything for all those people who died in Myanmar this weekend?
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0:37
Feeling way too relax
» WandererSo, here is the deal…I am having exams. Woohoo…But I am feeling waaaaayyyy too relax for someone having exams. For one, I believe that the exams are not an end in itself nor is it that big a means to something. I am just in this transition state of nothing-ness as one would say.
I am putting more eggs in the speech recogniser I am making for my final year project than I am in my exams. Yes, I am revising hard. Yes, I don’t know that Hyde Park still opens after 7pm. I am seriously stuck in this room which is around 1/2 or 2/3 the size of my roon in Japan from 10 to 10 and then from 10 to 10 when I am sleeping. This is perhaps not so healthy as one might suggest - especially given the fact that there is no natural lighting in the room - which means that I am lacking vitamin D big time. Which is good in some ways I suppose - so I won’t take too much calcium from the hard water in the London Water. However, it might stay in my kidneys :S which is a scary thought.
I am not too hyped up about exams and that was probably why I found myself unable to answer at least 30 marks of the paper. WHY IS THAT PAPER SO BLOODY HARD?? I wish they do scale it and not take the marks as it is, because I am sure I won’t score more than 60% AT MOST. Blah…then again, exams are exams and they will happen again and again in life, and perhaps its easier to brush it off and say…Whatever!
I’m trying my best…but reality seems to surreal. I am studying Japanese for tomorrow’s Japanese Orals - and I don’t even think I can answer the questions they would ask me about my speech on influence of religion if they were asked in English, let alone in Japanese. Well, a good thing is I know God is kamisama. That is one vocabulary ticked off my list :S AHHHHHH
Ok…1 down…6 to go…
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21:52
Survival
» WandererJust watching the 1st episode of season 4 of UK Apprentice. It had left me in utter shock and reaffirmed my opinion that I probably would not like it in the commercial world. Of course, it is an extreme version of what a commerce world would be, but basically, I don’t like to work with people who cares only about winning and less so the people around them.
Tomorrow I will be doing a presentation to one of Walmart’s CEO (not Scott Lee) on sustainability business proposal. I don’t think that our idea is very strong, but whatever there is, it will be workable and as long as its presented well, we will have a chance of moving on to the States next month to present it to more board of directors.
Then on Saturday I am driving a van 1/2 way across the country to help Terry move from Poole to Oxford and catching a plane at night back to Hong Kong. I really hope I can survive until then.
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Tibet - Support the Dalai Lama
» talfryn.netDear friends,
After decades of repression under Chinese rule, the Tibetan people’s frustrations have burst onto the streets in protests and riots. With the spotlight of the upcoming Olympic Games now on China, Tibetans are crying out to the world for change.
After decades of repression under Chinese rule, the Tibetan people’s frustrations have burst onto the streets in protests and riots. With the spotlight of the upcoming Olympic Games now on China, Tibetans are crying out to the world for change.
The Chinese government has said that the protesters who have not yet surrendered “will be punished”. Its leaders are right now considering a crucial choice between escalating brutality or dialogue that could determine the future of Tibet, and China.
We can affect this historic choice–China does care about its international reputation. China’s President Hu Jintao needs to hear that the ‘Made in China’ brand and the upcoming Olympics in Beijing can succeed only if he makes the right choice. But it will take an avalanche of global people power to get his attention–and we need it in the next 48 hours.
The Tibetan Nobel peace prize winner and spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama has called for restraint and dialogue: he needs the world’s people to support him. Click below now to sign the petition–and tell absolutely everyone you can right away–our goal is 1 million voices united for Tibet:
Click the link below to sign the petition >>
[www.avaaz.org]We will deliver our petition directly to Chinese officials in London, New York, and Beijing, but it must be a massive number before we deliver the petition. Please forward this email to your address book with a note explaining to your friends why this is important, or use our tell-a-friend tool to email your address book–it will come up after you sign the petition.
The Tibetan people have suffered quietly for decades. It is finally their moment to speak–we must help them be heard.
With hope and respect,
Ricken, Iain, Graziela, Paul, Galit, Pascal, Milena, Ben and the whole Avaaz team
Here are some links with more information on the Tibetan protests and the Chinese response:
BBC News :: UN Calls for Restraint in Tibet
Human Rights Watch :: China Restrain from Violently Attacking Protesters
Associated Press :: Tibet Unrest Sparks Global Reaction
New York Times :: China Takes Steps to Thwart Reporting on Tibet Protests
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1:03
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» WandererIts been a long time since I have to have a sleepless night to finish off my work. I have not stopped for the past 2 days, and my mind seems to be on this wheel which is rolling from 10am to 11pm everyday. Sometimes I take a break, walk in the park, grab a bite. Its good in a way, because I feel that I am living a constructive life and that I have actually learnt something this year.
Makes me more certain of doing a PhD, but at the same time, I am having concerns over my lifestyle outside work. I am thinking that perhaps it would be best that I live on my own or in halls next year if I do fail to get a PhD placement in Cambridge or Reading.
But for now, I have my cup of tea, a calculator and a pen. I will begin my sleepless night of shadowing effect on mobile radio communication networks…This is student life!
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23:55
Beefed up
» WandererAs part of my resolution to go swimming everyday, I realised that nowadays I could swim with a lot more ease. I think I know the reason - and it is because I am eating beef again. I know everyone is scared about mad cow disease or killing many cows, but we are buying from the Halal butcher from Nottinghill Gate, and the beef seems to be quite good quality.
You see, I think the beef is giving me the iron to build more haemoglobin so that I could last longer swimming.
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Apart from that, I try to have dinner with Andy (my cousin) twice a week now. He seems to be enjoying London and his work, which is good. However, as much as I admire his ability to work in the commerce world, I don’t think that it is very possible for me to survive there. Today after a chat with Mu Li, I gathered that its best to stay as an engineer. I told him what Vincent is doing since he’s choosing about the same subjects as him. But the question is why is it so hard for Chinese people to do engineering in this country, and why are they so attracted to Ā£Ā£Ā£???
****Heard from my brother that one of my swimming coaches passed away from a heart attack at the age of 38. Its quite a shocking news. It makes me wonder why we bother troubling ourselves in many unnecessary affairs when God can take away our lives at anytime He wants - and yet, it seems so difficult to concentrate on things which matters.
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Chinese New Year coming up. Going to have hot pot next Wednesday, asked over Andy and mentioned it to a friend from lifesaving (who joined very recently) who might be coming. I heard that Hong Kong is colder than London today. But why was it so hot last year when I went back?! I had to wear short sleeves last year. What is happening to the world? I heard Jerusalem saw its first snow in a long time, and many Middle Eastern cities also suffer from cold temperatures. I wonder why!
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I have to stop procrastinating! I should just submit my PhD application soon. It does seem odd that I will be Dr K Shah in a few years (if I suceed). I wonder if it is just an excuse to keep me in an environment where time is not a real factor and that I could have a more flexible lifestyle. I heard from Jon today that Spinvox seems quite interested with the idea of PhD…but I don’t know, they still haven’t really gotten to me about anything yet. I also saw something called EngD which seems very interesting, perhaps if Spinvox were to sponser me, I could do a EngD instead of a PhD, but it will take 1 more year to complete.
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Japanese test tomorrow…Why do I suck so much??
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22:58
Oxford Street: A nightmare in London
» WandererSeriously, there is no point in catching a bus from here to Tottenham Court Road. Whilst a night bus might only take 10 minutes, in day time, there is no way of getting from one end to the other end of Oxford Street without the temptation of getting off the bus and just walk it. [...] -
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Flew away
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Excitement
» WandererMany exciting things happened today, I got woken up by a call from Accenture this morning telling me that I have an interview with them. Then afterwards, I went to a meeting with my professor only to find out that he is going to change my topic which will be in line with something his [...] -
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Sports
» WandererSports is a mind wakening tool for me. Most of the time, after a hardcore training, despite how tired I feel, I feel very refreshed, and happy. I am the sort of people who needs to keep in constant contact with people around me, and I guess I prefer to hang out with people who [...] -
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Mental Preparation
» WandererI think mentally preparing for something is more important than you think. For me, I rarely mentally prepare myself for something, unless its for a presentation (which to be honest, I have stopped doing) - actually, maybe because I have stopped taking these things seriously, hence I stop mentally preparing for them. There is a competition [...] -
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å¬ē·ēé: Its my Final Year!
» WandererSuddenly feeling the pressure from my courses as my coursework are kicking in, and mostly programming. As much hard work as it is, I must push myself to finish it because it is only with this mentality that I will be able to do better… I think its good practice for me as well…I will be [...] -
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Urgh
» WandererI am once again frustrated by people who try to impose conflicts and unrest in my life. If there is something to say, why must one try to take sides, especially in such a close group of friends? What good does it bring to the harmony? I can see the problem, but why must one [...] -
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Draggedā¦
» WandererHow come I am dragged into being the one toĀ organise London Lifesaving Competition and LIMUN??
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Greening Hong Kong
» talfryn.netI know, I’m late and overdue in doing a post on the environment for 15th Oct. But if it’s blogging in support of a cause, every day can be blog action day… there’s nothing too special about this post in that it isn’t anything I wouldn’t normally write about; the only difference being that I’m [...]
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N95 Tips and Advice - Especially for Sky Broadband Users
» WandererI have had my N95 for a while now, and I have been playing around with the very powerful functions that this phone comes with. You can read a lot of reviews about this phone already here, here or here. I have been using the WIFI function quite intensively, especially after I have debranded it. This [...] -
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Life back in London
» WandererI guess a lot of people have been waiting for this post. How should I put it? Strangely familiar would be the words I will use to describe this feeling. Well, actually, today was the first day school really started for me. For the past week, I have been getting ready for work, fitting together [...] -
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ICMUN regathering
» WandererIt was great. Just…great. I was reminded of all the fun I had when I started this club. There was Sun, Anna, Michael, Richard and I. Quite an international bunch again. Funnily enough, after spending around 2 hours in a pub (only Richard drank his beloved Czech beer, the rest of us drank juice or [...] -
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Truphone: āSky not supportedā
» WandererSo, why is it that I could not make VOIP calls from my house using the network I have got? Well, at least successful ones which can last for more than 2 seconds. So I wrote to Truphone about this problem. They are very prompt and has a very good customer service. Copy and Pasting from [...] -
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The Geek within myself
» WandererOk, now, the story continues… So what happened was that I got N95 - yes, the gadget of the year. I have been playing with it for a while now, and I found a lot of problem with it. Yes, its Vodafone version. The phone itself is supposed to be great. Its got a 5 MegaPixel [...] -
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Strangely Familiar
» WandererThese are the words I will use for my feeling after these couple of days in London. Everything is so…European. The gray sky, the dryness, the people. Its strange though, I kindda lost that “homey feeling” to London - the feeling that I belong. Somehow I feel like I am complaining a lot. In actual fact, [...] -
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Confusion
» WandererI really need some rest - ever since coming back from Atsugi, I don’t think I have had enough rest. I felt such a great sense of calmness until coming back to Hong Kong, when I was told something to which he claim would cause me to have more trust. Trust is a very funny thing. [...] -
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Assimilation
» WandererNot quite assimilated but at least integrated. How do I know? When I am lying in bed after the snooze function of my alarm rang 3 times and at 9:20am I am still telling myself, don’t worry - you can sleep more… Today the sky is unusually blue. Why do I know? I think I have [...] -
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Fell down again!
» WandererJust now after dinner when I came back I lost control of my bike twice and fell with the bike. You see, there is a paddle strap and when I loose control I cannot use my leg for balancing so instead of standing up, I fell with the bike. My dad also told me that [...] -
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Useless Weekend
» WandererThis weekend was probably the most useless weekend I had since I came to Japan. Originally I thought of going to Tokyo to take photos of the life and culture around the metropolitan city. Instead, something else happened… You see right, Fridays have become a day where all of us come around to play computer game. [...]