Belated Easter break :)

Yay! Paper done. And for once my supervisor said I deserves a holiday. Horray! Hopefully I'll get a nice long weekend break, and the weather would clear up. *figures crossed*

I have no idea how tired I am until I afternoon. Hopeully this weekend would do me good.

Again. Yay! :)

Easter Working Mania

Yeah I had to work my ass off this Easter break since my supervisor gave me a week to finish a conference paper. But I got it done, and I'm happy, and now I can get back to coding.

I've been pretty productive these days and it's kinda scary in a way. But it'd probably change this weekn, since I'm only going into uni tomorrow, then I'm off to Wellington for a long weekend :P

I'll see if I can update my blog there. ;) Wee! Can't wait. :)

Mmm... Coffee

Firstly I'm not gonna trust the stupid email blog update again. The entries just get delayed big time. Annoyed.

Anyway, went get coffee this morning to help my research block. It's not really working, but at least I'm happy about it. Caffeine is your friend...

And my baby's book may get published soon!! Yay!! Not just because now I have an excuse to buy a new dress and a nice nice hair cut and coloured... it's just good to see my baby's talent being acknowledged and all, plus now everyone can read his works :D

Okie... back to slaving on maths...

The Researcher's Block

The researcher's block is not unlike the writer's
block, both cause the brain to stop working and
are very serious conditions that can cause frustration,
anti-social behaviour, banging head on the wall, keyboard,
or any other surface available, and despair. There is no
cure currently available, however research carried out by
one Miss L Wong (PhD candidate, critical research block
patient) showed that junk food has a positive effect on
the condition. Whether it is the process of walking out
of the office, or the actual food, or the mere illusion
created by the presence of food, that helps the condition
has yet to be discovered. More research will be carried out
to proof this theory.

\got nothing

Slow day

Okay I'm hoping this get through...

Anyway, it's been a slow day. So far I've added one
tiny unimportant feature to my GUI, bought myself a
cup of flat white, and read my emails. Rather
pathetic if you ask me. But it's almost impossible
to get working on Monday. I also need to actually
get myself sorted to see what exactly I have to do
next. I got a few ideas, but I think I might read a
bit of the maths first, and then decide what I have
to do.

Another really tough, major decision: what am I having
for lunch?? I still haven't found a place that I like
for lunch yet. Just have to literally shop around I
guess.

Also desperately need some scrap paper so I can doodle.
Grr...

Aromatherapy

Ahh... peace and quiet at home... and done enough work for teh week to justify my slacking off. :P So put some essence oil in the burner and make my study room all nice smelling and relaxing. :P Now I can decide and dream about what else I can do next week... something I want to do and not what my supervisor thinks is a good idea :P

It's quite scary how much I can do when I'm under certain pressure. Maybe I do work a lot better under stress. Sometimes I look back and wonder how I managed to get through the bachelor degree with only one all nighter. Maybe I'm not pushing myself hard enough though, that's why my stuff isn't quite top notch. I wonder what would happen if I can drive myself at that speed all the time...

Ah well, the nice smelling room is telling me to relax a little. Maybe I shoudl do that instead :P

Temptation

Ok, fine. I gave in. The apple caramel slice looked
TOO good to just be ignored. So today's lunch is a
tiny sandwich and an almost evil looking apple
caramel slice. Hmm... Apple and caramel.

I've finished coding most of hte things I want to do,
and THEN realise Matlab is annoying and won't let me
return a value. Grrrr... I'll figure out HOW to
overcome that.

Meanwhile... Mmm... apple and caramel slice...

Coding.

Somewhat disappointed at the fact that I wrote an entry about me eating healthy and blogger decided to ignore it o_O The email submission needs serious works o_O

Anyway, Still working like mad at the moment. But it's looking pretty good, and I think I've finished a pretty big part of what I want to achieve today already. Just gotta do A LOT more tedious coding. Lovely.

Less chatting, more coding. Wish me luck!

Healthy Lunch

I was going to get sushi today. The queue was way too
long, so I went to the main cafe today.

I've decided to stay strong and not give in to the
temptation that is mince and cheese pie. (Hush. I went
through a LONG rehab program to get out of that addiction)
I actually took my brother's advice (shock horror) and
got a sandwich. Yes. A proper sandwich. None of those
half sandwich that I used to get either. Petey should
be proud of me :P

I'm starting to think I like it now, that beef sandwich.
Even with its little bean sprout/grass thing. It's not
actually that bad. I might make my own sandwich to bring
to uni sometimes. Save some money too.

Been an extremely productive morning. Almost finish my
goals I set for today, if I get this last nagging bug
out I can actually start of tomorrow's tasks. Fingers
crossed.

Now I'll go back to my sandwich :P

Personal Toilet

I thought I have the exclusive use of the female bathroom
on this level: Afterall, I can't really recall any other
girls postgrad on this level. That was one of hte good
thing about doing engineering. And today, this illusion
has been shattered as I swear someone else was in it at
some time. I'm kinda currious to find out who that is.
Coz I thought the only other female PhD is upstaire.
Maybe I'm just paranoid.

Okie, maybe I shouldn't keep wasting time :P

Music for every occasion

Found this gem on fark today.

I think I had a list of music I want to play for my funeral before. Although most of it tends to be Japanese (like Pieces by L'arc~en~Ciel. Gotta love them). Okay granted I can always hand out a translation on the lyrics, but it's not the same. Maybe I should've think about what English songs I can put there.

For a REALLY depressing funeral of course I'm going to pick Trouble by Coldplay. That's one of my favourite song anyway, would be nice to have Mad World there too. But hey, that'd WAY too depressing.

Always Look on the Bright side of Life would be the natural choice. There's always Greenday's Time of Your Life. If I feel particularily evil there's even The End is the Beginning is the End by the Pumpkins!

That brings up a very important issue: I don't even know what songs I want to play for my wedding o_O

All I know is that I'm not allowed to play Bullet with Butterfly Wings.

Stink. :P

/lucky I still have a few years to think about that one.

Yadda Yadda

Desperately trying to concentrate on getting SOMETHING
done. It's harder than it sounds, especially when you
don't even know what you are supposed to be looking for.
There is a goal of course, but it's such a long term goal,
and there's a missing link between where I am and where I
want to be. It's like being told to find Atlantis. How to
go about it? o_O

Yeah after all that whining, it could've been worse. At
least I have a desk in uni and they finally let me into
the office. I thought going into uni would help me work.
Nope.

Ah well, hopefully I'll think of something that'd help. :|
Won't count on it though.

Hmmm...

As I drink my very watered down mocha this morning, there is this sense of melancholy. Not too sure why. Maybe it's because I decided not to go into uni and stay home, or the fact that I was thinking about why I need to go into uni at all.

Low motivation is a constant problem with me. Especialyl when it comes to a long project and during times when it just doesn't seem to go anywhere at all. And when you all think about it, everything we do is pretty much all in presuit of happiness: People want to earn money to make their life better, people want to look better to attract others, various little tricks that we do to make ourselves happy. This whole convoluted way of life is sometimes a bit warped. Although I have to admit that I do get some sense of satisfaction out of research. Knowing that I'm doing something that no one else have done before.

But when it's in a rut, it's in a rut.

Grrrr!! I need to be inspired. o_O

Start of Year battle

Okay. I finally have a computer on my desk... AND a desk!
It's all looking good. Just need to decorate my desk and
it'll feel like home again. Access card STILL not working,
but I can't complain much. :)

Anyway, trip to Pete's bach was as usual excellent. So it's
all good.

Think I'll try get some work done now. :P

Damn Murphy!!

Day before I'm off for a long weekend with Pete, and I got a sore throat... o_O I'm hoping it won't develop into an all out cold, but I won't count of that. o_O Took a while to actually find time to get away you know... :( really want to make the most out of it.

Other than that.. it's pretty good. Research is surprisingly going somewhere. So I'm happy. :)

I'll update again after I had a nice long weekend at the bach. hehehe :P

Research rut

Every now and then, you get stuck a research rut. Not unlike a writer's block actually. It just happens that there doesn't seem to be anything outcome of the work. A lot of reading and maths playing and nothing can be done yet just because I still don't know what the problem is to start with. *sigh*

In other news I'm taking another long weekend off just becasue I can. I'll try to work a bit there though, at least the easy stuff. Hopefully that'd refresh my head a bit and I can get more done after that.

Exploring Windows

No, not MS Windows. Signal processing stuff.

After actually graphing my result with numbers rather than pretty colours, I realised that it's actually kinda really different from the stuff I get from the toolkit I downloaded. So what am I to do? *sigh* Supervisor suggested that it might have somrthing to do with smoothing windows. SO: Back to reading like mad and soak up as much stuff as I can.

Lisa: the human sponge.

Anyway, apart from that it's not too bad. Uni's now blaming the fact that I haven't paid my fees as the reason why they won't let me into my own office, regardless of the fact that it's not dued until the end of this month. (Yes. This month as in March.) Annoyed. I'm glad I'm not the only one, but really... WTF?

Anyway, back to reading. :\ So much to soak... so little time...