The New Years is comming!

Well in less than 10 days, this year is going to come to an end... and you know what? It's that time of year again to make new years resolutions. Yay, actually, I'm kind of looking forward to making some new years resolutions (NB: don't let New Years to be the only time to make resolutions btw).

So what do I have in store for the resolutions? Not so sure yet, but I have a general idea... but I'll post it when I have them down. Also the other interesting thing is that I have my old resolutions on file from the psat 2 years on my computer after hosting my old blog. I'll make the post first and make a comparison of my resolutions compared to the past 2 years. Interesting food for thought.

Anyways, here's looking towards 2006. 2005 was a great year, just hoping that 2006 is just as good.

Time to get ready for the Lab's pre-new year's party (they really don't have x-mas parties here... they have pre-new years parties instead.

Season's Greetings.... and Farewell Firefly

I have no sense of time at the moment. Life, as usual is operating on a week by week basis. It snowed a few weeks ago and now that I'm looking at the date, it's almost Chrismas. Where the hell did time go? I know this for sure-- I don't have time to send out x-mas cards or do any real sort of holiday season preparation. I have learned something thus far-- if you're going to work hard on something, there had better be some value that you're going to get out of it at the end, or by the end, you're going to feel robbed... and you are going to feel robbed of alot of things. Fortunately for me, it hasn't come down to that. You just gotta deal with the mechanics of study, work, experiments and knowing what you want at the end. Simple... sort'a.

So Chrismas is comming up, it's a week away. Officially the lab doesn't close until the New years, but I'm taking the days starting from the 26th off. I'm tired and all I want to do at the moment is crawl into bed, hibernate and read. But that isn't going to happen, because the holiday seasons are here and the other students here at the dorms are going to be setting up parties and such... as a likely result, I'll be hopping along for the ride and will still be tired at the end :P I want a (real) vacation.

In other news, I've read on /. that one of my most favorite TV series is being laid to rest for the time being. Information here. Dispite huge support from fans, since the TV series was cancelled years ago and even after the release of the movie (which I still have yet to see but had great reviews but not a blockbuster turnout... [official link] here) it seems that there wasn't enough mainstream support to get the thing off the ground. What can I say, (I feel like I'm writing a eulegy...) just watch it. Fire up e-mule or a bit torrent, whatever download or buy the DVDs.. just watch it. It's good... I just wish there was more.

Back from Tokyo

Back from a semi-conductor conference in Tokyo. 2 days, most expense paid trip to help the lab run booth at the exhibition hall. Totally under dressed, dispite one of the guys telling me to go "semi-formal" (which I even brought down to semi-casual). Whatever, suit or no suit, I did my job.

Snow this weekend, midnight snow ball fight, a little bit of shopping this weekend, lab meeting on Saturday as usual and it's back to the grind this monday.

Speaking of the grind there's something cute a friend sent to me-- coffee too pretty to drink, here

Enjoy!

Back to preparing another presntation for tomorrow. I wish my professors would lay off the presntations and let me do my work for crying out loud...

Screwed! Well not completly.... but mainly

I have a presentation this weekend, this Saturday in particular. You see, in this lab we have weekly meetings.... on Saturdays. This isn't the norm, it's just the lab that I decided to pick. That and it turns out I picked well... the lab is also quite good.

Well every Saturday, everyone attend these meetings where members (3 of them a week) are to present to the rest of the 50 members to the lab their work for the past ~3 months. Well great, I've been officially been a part of this lab since the beginning of October and I've gone though 2 research themes and was going to present my most current one (yeah we know where this is going...).

So I've been prepping for this presentation for the past 2 weeks (I was supposed to be done last week because I got the date wrong and started preparing a week early). So, well here I am, 2 days before the presentation... and decided to talk to my professor to hear what points in particular so I'd have my bases covered. Well what happened, is that my proff wants me to go and present my previous research theme as well to everyone because he thoght my research was indepth and so that I would not forget it. I have 2 days before my presentation dude! My presentation is already going to be long; I can already feel it. NB. I've already slaughtered a group of students in a robotics class with my monstrosity of a presentation... weighing in about 63 slides and 2 hours long and I am going to do this again?

Well I don't mind the talking part, it's just the preparation. Driving me batty. Thursday night and I was looking forward to getting this presentation of mine down just barely but up to snuff for this Saturday. I'm also scheduled for a tour of a micro-fabrication plant for tomorrow that is going to eat up a chunk of my day. Sigh...

I wonder I'm going to watch the sunrise from my lab... haw...