Well things seem to be going fairly OK. My professors are currently happy with my work and I'll get to finally publish a research paper on my work and do a presentation somewhere. Right now, I am aiming for Copenhagen, Denmark. If I am doubly lucky, I might hit another, perhaps San Fransisco too for another conference. There are a few other things in the works as well, but I'll announce them when they become more solid.
I also passed my interviews with Sony Japan and it seems like I'll be joining them in doing R&D for display systems. Sony just recently put out a 3 mm thick display system that has many people drooling and it seems like that these guys want me to work on fine tuning their manufacturing processes. It will be interesting to see how things go. Unfortunately, I will be based in Atsugi which is about 50 km South and West of Tokyo (in other words, a 1 hour train ride in). I just called a friend asking her about the city and the first thing she said to me was think "Country side." Doh! But I hear that there is some decent surfing in the area too!
I told my professor about my new job opportunity and he quipped that "it seems that all the students are leaving the lab for work." My supervising professor is a really nice guy (exceptionally patient too) and it's pretty obvious that he would like more students to stick around to do their Ph.Ds. For me, I just want a change of pace outside of a lab and my Saturdays back instead of going to my lab meetings on the weekends.
This next year is going to be rather interesting!
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
The recent downturn in posts
According to my logs, my posting rate has gone down significantly for the past month. I'm probably down to a post once a week which is quite slow for my posting pace.
Lab life for the past few months have been quite busy, but it's more of a self imposed kind of busy. March was spring break where students at the University graduate and there is a month lull before the new students come in. During this time, I have free reign over all the silicon wafer processing equipment. It was great, I was up to the point where I was running several machines in parallel all at once while doing multiple experiments.
The electron beam microscope was available about 90% of the time and I'd even just pop in on a whim to take some pictures of new samples. Usually I'd have to put reservations in 1~2 days in advance to take data! What a difference in turn around time.
Unfortunately, all that hard work comes at a cost and I think I'm facing sort of a mild burn out. I've been pulling 8~12 hours at the lab and working in the clean room doing experiments straight. We also have weekend meetings on Saturdays from 9 am to 4 pm usually. As of this moment, I have fairly little motivation to do experiments. A chance of pace would be nice, and I will be having a chance of pace happening in the next few months!
If things go well, I might be able to head to Denmark for a few days to do a research presentation at a conference. I am crossing my fingers that I will get accepted (because the trip will be all expenses paid by the lab :)
Aside from that, I will be taking up a new hobby in my spare time, a little something called "Poi" which a New Zealand art were you spin tethered balls to strings. I saw a demonstration a few days back and it was pretty cool. Looking forward to picking up some gear in the near future.
Lab life for the past few months have been quite busy, but it's more of a self imposed kind of busy. March was spring break where students at the University graduate and there is a month lull before the new students come in. During this time, I have free reign over all the silicon wafer processing equipment. It was great, I was up to the point where I was running several machines in parallel all at once while doing multiple experiments.
The electron beam microscope was available about 90% of the time and I'd even just pop in on a whim to take some pictures of new samples. Usually I'd have to put reservations in 1~2 days in advance to take data! What a difference in turn around time.
Unfortunately, all that hard work comes at a cost and I think I'm facing sort of a mild burn out. I've been pulling 8~12 hours at the lab and working in the clean room doing experiments straight. We also have weekend meetings on Saturdays from 9 am to 4 pm usually. As of this moment, I have fairly little motivation to do experiments. A chance of pace would be nice, and I will be having a chance of pace happening in the next few months!
If things go well, I might be able to head to Denmark for a few days to do a research presentation at a conference. I am crossing my fingers that I will get accepted (because the trip will be all expenses paid by the lab :)
Aside from that, I will be taking up a new hobby in my spare time, a little something called "Poi" which a New Zealand art were you spin tethered balls to strings. I saw a demonstration a few days back and it was pretty cool. Looking forward to picking up some gear in the near future.
Sunday, April 22, 2007
How do you even begin to choreograph this!?
I came across this CG fight movie using the main Halo character and Metroid and damn it is so beautiful. I just can't explain the sheer awesomeness of the moves, how do you even come up with stuff like that!? I have no clue but the guy that put this CG movie together is pure genius and hilarious! Awww man, I've seen it 5 times over and I still can't stop watching it.
Saturday, April 21, 2007
Thoughts of the day
I met some people the other day that I thought were kind of boring, all talk and no action. They told me that they were too busy to do much other than work. I vowed that I'd never want to be like them.
What is it that you live for?
What will you make time for?
Have you the guts to take a chance?
What is it that you live for?
What will you make time for?
Have you the guts to take a chance?
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Lily and Richard was Here!
Last weekend I had the honor of Lily and Richard visiting me in Sendai while they were in Japan doing their tour. They arrived on Saturday at noon where I took them around for a packed day of events. I even skipped out on the later half of my lab meeting to meet up with them at the train station.
There were 2 different exits to the bullet train section and I was waiting at the wrong end exit and caught sight of them from across the station, (a good 200 meters?). Spotting them was easy... there was something distinctly Canadian about their appearance that made them stand out of the crowd. I don't know how to put it, but North American clothing is distinctly different from Asian style.
After picking them up at the station, the first thing we did was take a 20 minute walk back to my place to drop off their stuff. After a bit of unpacking, our first stop was my lab's sakura party at one of the local parks. The meeting was going to end a little early today and everyone at lab came out to the park with food and drinks to hang out. One of my labmates brought out a good bottle of sake to drink, pretty strong but really smooth. Unfortunately, it was a little strong for Richard and Lily.
The one thing I realized at that point about Japan is how prevalent their drinking culture. Back when I was in Canada, I would hardly drink at all. I'd have a drink probably 4~5 times a year. Since coming to Japan, I could easily do that in 2 weeks depending on the season (Christmas and New Year's is especially bad on the liver).
Labmates at the park for our Sakura party
Next stop on the list after the party would be some Yakiniku at a restaurant on a recommendation from a friend. I thought it was Japanese yakiniku but it was more like a Japanese-Korean style yakiniku restaurant. $25 for all you can eat fried meat! Ever thought that you could do that in Japan?
Me, Lily, Mari and Benoit (France) together at yakiniku
Richard and Joe on the other side of the table having a good time!
We totally gorged ourselves on food that evening, it wasn't funny how hard we were trying to finish all the meat we ordered. Of an interesting note, Japan recently started using all sorts of parts of an animal for their fried meat dishes. In Japanese, they call it "horu-mon." In the Osaka dialect "Horu" means to "throw away" and in standard Japanese "mon" means "thing." Put the 2 words together, you get "throw away things," in other words, parts of an animal that are usually thrown away, like intestines, stomach lining and etc.
Unfortunately I made the mistake of explaining everything too far in advance because apparently Joe, isn't a big fan of eating misc. meat parts. Ooops. Whenever I took friends to Chinese restaurants in Canada that have never been before, I had a policy of "eat first, ask later," because some people are grossed out too easily before trying something out! Ah well. We had a pretty good time eating all sorts of food... and way too much of it.
To top off the evening, a Venezuelan friend of mine was performing at the local Irish pub in Sendai, which is a hang out or many international students and Japanese friends of mine. I decided that this would be a great opportunity to introduce Lily and Richard to Japanese people and people living in Japan! We walked across the downtown from the yakiniku restaurant to the Irish pub where my Venezuelan friend was in the process of bringing down the house!
Javier and friend rocking it at the Irish Pub
The concert that evening was just great. Javier sent word out to all his friends and there were at least 100 people out there that evening listening, cheering, singing and dancing. This was the biggest crowd that I've seen at the pub and it was simply great to see so many friends out that evening. Actually, Lily and Richard was kind of surprised at the number of people I knew at the pub that evening as I was greeting lots of people that evening. I do drop in from time to time and know some of the regulars, the rest are either part of the international crew or friends of the group. It's small world in the Irish Pub.
The crowd hanging out up front.
As for me and my crew, we settled near the back of the pub where there was only but a single table open that we took over. We ordered a few drinks and hung out chatting with the people around. Mari invited a few of her friends out to hang out with us, namely Mayuko and Yukie.
Joe, Richard, Lily and Mayuko hanging out at the table
Of course, since I was at the Irish pub, I had to order some Guinness beer.
A nice tall one of Guinness
While at the pub I invited a few friends to come out and meet Lily and Richard, which was pretty cool. Actually, one of things I like most about the Irish Pub here is that the community of people that come out are incredibly open. I could sit down at the bar and say hi to someone while they're getting a drink and then get invited over to their table. Sometimes there are people at different tables just drinking and they'll say "hi" and start chatting. I personally love friendly environments like these. Perhaps the pubs in Ireland are just like this? One of these days, I'll have to go and find out!
We hung out at the bar for quite some time and I was playing around with my camera and came out with a few pretty good pictures. Unfortunately, my hand wasn't so steady and there is a bit of blur in these pictures. But I thought they came out pretty good anyways. I'll have to invest in some mini tripod one of these days.
Left: Lily Portrait
Right: Yukie and Lily
We wrapped up the evening at about midnight where I took them for a night stroll around the Arcade street of Sendai (sort of like an outdoor mall) where the night musicians were playing music (but there weren't many that evening).
While walking home, we saw some girls walking home along the streets at night and mentioned to me that girls back in Canada would at least think twice before walking home alone at night. I was caught somewhat off guard because after living here for 2 years, I had become quite accustomed to seeing girls walk home alone at night. It's interesting how I've gotten so used to living in Japan that it's become hard to for me make comparisons between Japan and home. I guess that is what 2 years does to you.
The next day was the Sunday and their last day in Sendai. It seemed that Rich and Lily were in need of some souvenirs so we went shopping during the day downtown for friends back in Canada. I hadn't gone shopping in forever but it was refreshing going into town to take a look at the stores. It's been at least a month since the last time I was downtown doing any shopping.
Lily and I at the entrance of the shopping arcade
Apparently her stay in Japan and looking at Japanese clothing, Lily was hooked onto getting a trench coat which was so prevalent in Japan. To be honest, a good trench coat on a girl is quite classy so I was all for that. We went from store to store looking for a good coat (they were some that were good and cheap too! Like $40 bucks cheap!) but we couldn't find one that suited her well enough. Hopefully she had the chance to find one in Tokyo before going back to Canada.
It was nearly time for them to head off to Tokyo where they would say for their last night in Japan. Lily really wanted to take a spin on my scooter but unfortunately we didn't have time for that. But the day before, we did take a picture of her and my scooter together. I hope she buys one, scooters are a lot of fun, especially in the spring and summer. Scooters aren't very expensive either!
Lily riding on my scooter. Her jacket matches with it pretty nicely!
We got to Sendai station with barely any time to spare. Actually we had to sprint from the subway station to the bullet train section, which was quite a sprint. I even ended taking Lily's backpack half of the way. My bad on the timing. As a result, we said our short adieus and then they were off. I hope they caught their train OK... I just got an e-mail from Lily yesterday, so it seems they made it back to Canada in one piece. And so, Lily and Richard was Here and had a great time. And so can you!
There were 2 different exits to the bullet train section and I was waiting at the wrong end exit and caught sight of them from across the station, (a good 200 meters?). Spotting them was easy... there was something distinctly Canadian about their appearance that made them stand out of the crowd. I don't know how to put it, but North American clothing is distinctly different from Asian style.
After picking them up at the station, the first thing we did was take a 20 minute walk back to my place to drop off their stuff. After a bit of unpacking, our first stop was my lab's sakura party at one of the local parks. The meeting was going to end a little early today and everyone at lab came out to the park with food and drinks to hang out. One of my labmates brought out a good bottle of sake to drink, pretty strong but really smooth. Unfortunately, it was a little strong for Richard and Lily.
The one thing I realized at that point about Japan is how prevalent their drinking culture. Back when I was in Canada, I would hardly drink at all. I'd have a drink probably 4~5 times a year. Since coming to Japan, I could easily do that in 2 weeks depending on the season (Christmas and New Year's is especially bad on the liver).
Labmates at the park for our Sakura party
Next stop on the list after the party would be some Yakiniku at a restaurant on a recommendation from a friend. I thought it was Japanese yakiniku but it was more like a Japanese-Korean style yakiniku restaurant. $25 for all you can eat fried meat! Ever thought that you could do that in Japan?
Me, Lily, Mari and Benoit (France) together at yakiniku
Richard and Joe on the other side of the table having a good time!
We totally gorged ourselves on food that evening, it wasn't funny how hard we were trying to finish all the meat we ordered. Of an interesting note, Japan recently started using all sorts of parts of an animal for their fried meat dishes. In Japanese, they call it "horu-mon." In the Osaka dialect "Horu" means to "throw away" and in standard Japanese "mon" means "thing." Put the 2 words together, you get "throw away things," in other words, parts of an animal that are usually thrown away, like intestines, stomach lining and etc.
Unfortunately I made the mistake of explaining everything too far in advance because apparently Joe, isn't a big fan of eating misc. meat parts. Ooops. Whenever I took friends to Chinese restaurants in Canada that have never been before, I had a policy of "eat first, ask later," because some people are grossed out too easily before trying something out! Ah well. We had a pretty good time eating all sorts of food... and way too much of it.
To top off the evening, a Venezuelan friend of mine was performing at the local Irish pub in Sendai, which is a hang out or many international students and Japanese friends of mine. I decided that this would be a great opportunity to introduce Lily and Richard to Japanese people and people living in Japan! We walked across the downtown from the yakiniku restaurant to the Irish pub where my Venezuelan friend was in the process of bringing down the house!
Javier and friend rocking it at the Irish Pub
The concert that evening was just great. Javier sent word out to all his friends and there were at least 100 people out there that evening listening, cheering, singing and dancing. This was the biggest crowd that I've seen at the pub and it was simply great to see so many friends out that evening. Actually, Lily and Richard was kind of surprised at the number of people I knew at the pub that evening as I was greeting lots of people that evening. I do drop in from time to time and know some of the regulars, the rest are either part of the international crew or friends of the group. It's small world in the Irish Pub.
The crowd hanging out up front.
As for me and my crew, we settled near the back of the pub where there was only but a single table open that we took over. We ordered a few drinks and hung out chatting with the people around. Mari invited a few of her friends out to hang out with us, namely Mayuko and Yukie.
Joe, Richard, Lily and Mayuko hanging out at the table
Of course, since I was at the Irish pub, I had to order some Guinness beer.
A nice tall one of Guinness
While at the pub I invited a few friends to come out and meet Lily and Richard, which was pretty cool. Actually, one of things I like most about the Irish Pub here is that the community of people that come out are incredibly open. I could sit down at the bar and say hi to someone while they're getting a drink and then get invited over to their table. Sometimes there are people at different tables just drinking and they'll say "hi" and start chatting. I personally love friendly environments like these. Perhaps the pubs in Ireland are just like this? One of these days, I'll have to go and find out!
We hung out at the bar for quite some time and I was playing around with my camera and came out with a few pretty good pictures. Unfortunately, my hand wasn't so steady and there is a bit of blur in these pictures. But I thought they came out pretty good anyways. I'll have to invest in some mini tripod one of these days.
Left: Lily Portrait
Right: Yukie and Lily
We wrapped up the evening at about midnight where I took them for a night stroll around the Arcade street of Sendai (sort of like an outdoor mall) where the night musicians were playing music (but there weren't many that evening).
While walking home, we saw some girls walking home along the streets at night and mentioned to me that girls back in Canada would at least think twice before walking home alone at night. I was caught somewhat off guard because after living here for 2 years, I had become quite accustomed to seeing girls walk home alone at night. It's interesting how I've gotten so used to living in Japan that it's become hard to for me make comparisons between Japan and home. I guess that is what 2 years does to you.
The next day was the Sunday and their last day in Sendai. It seemed that Rich and Lily were in need of some souvenirs so we went shopping during the day downtown for friends back in Canada. I hadn't gone shopping in forever but it was refreshing going into town to take a look at the stores. It's been at least a month since the last time I was downtown doing any shopping.
Lily and I at the entrance of the shopping arcade
Apparently her stay in Japan and looking at Japanese clothing, Lily was hooked onto getting a trench coat which was so prevalent in Japan. To be honest, a good trench coat on a girl is quite classy so I was all for that. We went from store to store looking for a good coat (they were some that were good and cheap too! Like $40 bucks cheap!) but we couldn't find one that suited her well enough. Hopefully she had the chance to find one in Tokyo before going back to Canada.
It was nearly time for them to head off to Tokyo where they would say for their last night in Japan. Lily really wanted to take a spin on my scooter but unfortunately we didn't have time for that. But the day before, we did take a picture of her and my scooter together. I hope she buys one, scooters are a lot of fun, especially in the spring and summer. Scooters aren't very expensive either!
Lily riding on my scooter. Her jacket matches with it pretty nicely!
We got to Sendai station with barely any time to spare. Actually we had to sprint from the subway station to the bullet train section, which was quite a sprint. I even ended taking Lily's backpack half of the way. My bad on the timing. As a result, we said our short adieus and then they were off. I hope they caught their train OK... I just got an e-mail from Lily yesterday, so it seems they made it back to Canada in one piece. And so, Lily and Richard was Here and had a great time. And so can you!
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Kudos to Kate Walsh
It goes to show that you don't need to have a huge marketing and distribution company behind you to get music out. The songbird by the name of Kate Walsh recorded her latest music album from a recording studio made in a friend's place for less than $200 and recently made it to the top of Apple's iTunes store. All without the help of a huge music label.
I sincerely hope that this is the direction the business of music goes in the future and the RIAA and MPAA are left behind in the dust as they should be. No more greasy recording labels lobbying to restrict rights of people all for the sake of their profits and thievery from their own artists. I would be more than happy to see my money go directly to the artists, especially to the real ones like Kate Walsh.
If you want to read a news article on her, the link is right here.
I sincerely hope that this is the direction the business of music goes in the future and the RIAA and MPAA are left behind in the dust as they should be. No more greasy recording labels lobbying to restrict rights of people all for the sake of their profits and thievery from their own artists. I would be more than happy to see my money go directly to the artists, especially to the real ones like Kate Walsh.
If you want to read a news article on her, the link is right here.
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
Some nice guys have guts: Mr. Rogers in the Senate
I was poking around youtube recently to find a very interesting video of Mr. Rogers talking in the US Senate fighting (if you could even call it that) to get back cut funding for educational TV shows. It took him 7 minutes get $20 million in 1969 dollars. For a very simple sounding guy, he is incredibly deep with knowledge.
A video of Mr. Rogers on the Senate floor, here.
A video of Mr. Rogers getting a lifetime award, here.
Wish there was more of him.
A video of Mr. Rogers on the Senate floor, here.
A video of Mr. Rogers getting a lifetime award, here.
Wish there was more of him.
Sunday, April 08, 2007
Jack is Back!
And I am not talking about Jack Bauer! Nope, nope not at all. It's You don't know Jack! I love this game! And for the intellectually inclined, I suggest you take their test on counting to two!
Enjoy.
Enjoy.
Saturday, April 07, 2007
How I can't be sympathetic to people that make excuses
I have a friend who's been living in Japan for the last 2 years. She's the kind of person that complains and is picky about everything. I live with this person and she is one of my 2 room mates. We get along fine; we've never argued or been mad about anything before, but there are things about her that irritates me, but from those irritations I have learned a few things about being successful in life.
She's the kind of person that complains about a lot of things. For example, we had a few conversations on why she can't speak Japanese well and that "Japanese is so hard," which is practically her introduction all the people she meets in Japan. She also complains that her Japanese friends don't speak to her in Japanese (they try speaking in English!) so she isn't getting any practice. In my own eyes, it seems that she is causing her own problems by just complaining about things.
A few nights ago was sort of a therapy session where she needed some sympathy. She told me that Japanese was hard and that after being in Japan for 2 years, her Japanese level hadn't improved to the point where she could speak very well. She accredited the problems to being an English teacher in Japan and the environment she lives and works in is predominantly English.
To try and cheer her up, I've told her that there are many international students (whom are my friends) that come to Japan and become quite good after a year of living in Japan; if those people could do it, so could she. She then promptly mentioned that most these students probably started studying Japanese before coming to Japan, as opposed to her coming to Japan with no Japanese experience. This is true to some extent, but I had to rebuke that there were also a significant number of international students that came to Japan with no Japanese experience whom are learning pretty well.
For every point I made to try and make learning Japanese well a possibility she would come up with some kind of excuse. I would have conversations like:
"Try hanging out with Japanese friends"
"But it's so much work to try and invite them out"
"Try reading Japanese comic books"
"But there's so much kanji"
"Have you tried using that computer dictionary I gave you?"
"I've been so busy to do that"
"These Japanese people keep using informal Japanese that I've never learned in class and I don't understand!"
"How about asking them to explain it to you using simple Japanese? What about writing notes?"
and so on...
She then tells me "that [I] must be pretty tough for any girl to have a relationship with." I knew exactly that she was looking for sympathy from me but wasn't getting any of it.
To be honest, I am quite sympathetic to people that seriously put in an effort but ended up failing. These are the people that you might not usually hear about because they don't end up succeeding in the end, but I have a lot of respect for the work they do to try and succeed in the process. But the irony of it is the people that don't make excuses are the ones that need sympathy the least; they just suck it up and find other ways to try and succeed. The point is that I will be sympathetic if a person does put out a serious effort to tackle some challenges and if the challenge is really tough I will, on occasion, go out of my way to help.
But the problem is, how can you be sympathetic to someone that doesn't step up to a challenge? I am not saying that complaining is bad, complaining helps us identify things for improvement. The problem is not doing anything about it. Success is a frame of mind; a hurdle is something you overcome, not something you stop at.
She's the kind of person that complains about a lot of things. For example, we had a few conversations on why she can't speak Japanese well and that "Japanese is so hard," which is practically her introduction all the people she meets in Japan. She also complains that her Japanese friends don't speak to her in Japanese (they try speaking in English!) so she isn't getting any practice. In my own eyes, it seems that she is causing her own problems by just complaining about things.
A few nights ago was sort of a therapy session where she needed some sympathy. She told me that Japanese was hard and that after being in Japan for 2 years, her Japanese level hadn't improved to the point where she could speak very well. She accredited the problems to being an English teacher in Japan and the environment she lives and works in is predominantly English.
To try and cheer her up, I've told her that there are many international students (whom are my friends) that come to Japan and become quite good after a year of living in Japan; if those people could do it, so could she. She then promptly mentioned that most these students probably started studying Japanese before coming to Japan, as opposed to her coming to Japan with no Japanese experience. This is true to some extent, but I had to rebuke that there were also a significant number of international students that came to Japan with no Japanese experience whom are learning pretty well.
For every point I made to try and make learning Japanese well a possibility she would come up with some kind of excuse. I would have conversations like:
"Try hanging out with Japanese friends"
"But it's so much work to try and invite them out"
"Try reading Japanese comic books"
"But there's so much kanji"
"Have you tried using that computer dictionary I gave you?"
"I've been so busy to do that"
"These Japanese people keep using informal Japanese that I've never learned in class and I don't understand!"
"How about asking them to explain it to you using simple Japanese? What about writing notes?"
and so on...
She then tells me "that [I] must be pretty tough for any girl to have a relationship with." I knew exactly that she was looking for sympathy from me but wasn't getting any of it.
To be honest, I am quite sympathetic to people that seriously put in an effort but ended up failing. These are the people that you might not usually hear about because they don't end up succeeding in the end, but I have a lot of respect for the work they do to try and succeed in the process. But the irony of it is the people that don't make excuses are the ones that need sympathy the least; they just suck it up and find other ways to try and succeed. The point is that I will be sympathetic if a person does put out a serious effort to tackle some challenges and if the challenge is really tough I will, on occasion, go out of my way to help.
But the problem is, how can you be sympathetic to someone that doesn't step up to a challenge? I am not saying that complaining is bad, complaining helps us identify things for improvement. The problem is not doing anything about it. Success is a frame of mind; a hurdle is something you overcome, not something you stop at.
Thursday, April 05, 2007
Alive but working on experiments
Been a while since my last real post. Lots of things going on but haven't been updating. Right now, I am working on experiments for the most part. I hopefully will have some publishable results within the next month. The goal will be to put out 1 or 2 papers out before I graduate and make a presentation at a conference.
Things will be getting busy for the next 3 months as I have to get results, start writing my thesis, prepare a presentation, job hunt and more.
If I have time later today, I'll post some pictures of what has been going on recently. Actually, my labmates have been bugging me to even just upload the pictures to the server over here for them to download it. I've been that bad.
I've been doing nothing much other than research for the last few months and I think it's taken a toll on my hobbies... in the sense that I don't have any at the moment and I think I've gotten quite boring which is scary, but that will be a story for another time.
It's 7 am here at lab, woke up at 6... because the sun was out early. It's good to know that spring is on it's way... because without the sun, I have a hell of a time waking up.
Things will be getting busy for the next 3 months as I have to get results, start writing my thesis, prepare a presentation, job hunt and more.
If I have time later today, I'll post some pictures of what has been going on recently. Actually, my labmates have been bugging me to even just upload the pictures to the server over here for them to download it. I've been that bad.
I've been doing nothing much other than research for the last few months and I think it's taken a toll on my hobbies... in the sense that I don't have any at the moment and I think I've gotten quite boring which is scary, but that will be a story for another time.
It's 7 am here at lab, woke up at 6... because the sun was out early. It's good to know that spring is on it's way... because without the sun, I have a hell of a time waking up.
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