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July 11 Daily StuffFinally have time to blog again~! No slacking off from now on!
donated blood today in the morning. ^^ so happy that I helped one more person in the world.
didn't do any real-time stuff today, phew, a break from school
drove back to toronto, went to night market with chloe, so happy to see dad again~
also registered and given skin sample to blood service, to be added to bone marrow database. really hope i can help someone.
May 17 Daily stuff Finally I'm all by myself again, and got time to write stuff down. It feels like I just lost a whole lot of events in the scheduling queue and freed up one gig of my ram. Now I have all the cpu power to think about how to make myself productive and happy. Eat: Today was udon day. I ate udon in soup for brunch and stir-fry udon for dinner. Udon is truely awesome cuz it only takes 3 min to cook. =) Study: Read thru half of the textbook, almost 11 chapters. I'm so determined to start on the assignment early..then figured out that the assignment isn't even out yet. I also went thru people's graphics projects from last term, made some screenshots. Sleep: I skipped dinner and slept for 12 hrs last night. I guess sleeping is the best way to kill time. Fun: Spent a lot of time on tvb.com. Spent some time walking around, spacing out, thinking about random things. Had some spirited coffee at Williams. November 11 Thngs you do every 10 yearsThe last time I played in a real basketball game was almost 10 years ago, when I was in junior high school in China. 40 min, I scored 2 points...or maybe 4 points....Today I played in another real basketball game. I was on the court for 40min cuz we only had 5 players. I didn't contribute too much to the team, even tho I tried my best to "be useful". This coming Thursday I get to be a bench warmer again. =) still happy.
The game was reminiscent of my life in junior high school....the fun, the people, the hard-work. *sigh* can't believe 10 years have passed.  November 09 Summary for Past WeekEvery Tuesday I have to meet with my supervisor to talk about "what I did in the past week and what I'll be doing next week". So far, most of my answers have been "I was working on my AI assignment/projects and I read some graphics paper...and I got to go play badminton now". During the past week, I finished my AI group project. I spent quite a lot of time on researching and writing up my part of the project, and a lot of time on formatting and checking references.
I also spent a lot of time socializing......went to sing k on Friday again, with a different group of friends. It's kinda interesting that I felt so different singing K with different groups of people. One big difference is the type of songs people sing....other differences...I don't know, just feelings I guess.
Main goal for next week is the presentation on Friday. More more research and BS!
November 01 Happy HalloweenI had a really great Halloween~ It was soooo nice to hang out with my cs group again. Almost felt like my undergrad life was back. None of us have changed much. It was nice to know that most of us are staying in Toronto, and sad to know Vincent's going to NY and Paul might go back to HK. Jeremy and Ben are already in the states...I guess one major reason I really miss undergrad life is that I miss the people I used to hang out with.
Four most popular artists: Eason Chan, Leo Koo, Hins Cheung and Jay Chou. Paul and I are always the Jay Chou fans....we almost sang every Jay Chou song. Vincent is definitely the master of sing k...knows every single song. All the other people are hk-ish, so they mostly sang Eason and Leo's songs. I solo-ed every song I could solo and the feedback I got was pretty negative. =.=
It was definitely worth coming back from loo for tonight. I hope the cs group can get together again during Christmas. =) October 31 Crazy againThe best way to "untire" your mind is to tire your body. I went to gym at nigt to tire my body in order to feel mentally better. I spent 40 min on treadmill. 3.5 km at 0.5 incline non-stop. I was completely soaked and had a hard time pulling myself up after the exercise. My body is still sore from yesterday's weight training. I know I shouldn't have done any exercise today...but life is all about pushing your limit. Weird as it sounds, I'm in love with treadmill. October 29 TiredHad a really really busy and tiring day today. Got up at 7:30, which is considered pretty early for me. 9-2:30, marking midterm. I saw two really funny answers: Q: Name two things a Java interface cannot have. A: constructor cheesecake so I put a check mark beside "constructor" and drew a slice of cheesecake beside the "cheesecake". Q: Write the precondition for "public Object add (StackInterface stack)" A: //pre: stock != empty My comment was "economy is bad but you should still think about 'stack' instead of 'stock' during exams" 2:30-4:30, AI group meetings. 4:30-6:00, Finish AI outline and diagrams 6:00-8:30, workout + conditioning class 8:30-11:30, more AI stuff October 28 Time to work hard againFinally I think I got what I needed the most - a nap. I took a 2-hr nap in the graphics lab today. Now I feel great and ready to work hard again. On the other hand, I'm still resisting on going to bed early at night. It's kinda sad to know that what happened before could follow me for two years and maybe more. October 26 Cheesecakewakakaka....so happy~~
I made my first cheesecake this morning. Then I let it sit there for 5 hrs (as it said in the receipe) and went to school to study and do yoga. Study was great. I had quite a lot of work done. I read a lot of papers and learned a lot of weird things about AI. Yoga was not so great because it was more like a stretching class. I really miss the power yoga class in california. It always made me soaked. I always feel extremely good after excising~
When I checked out my cheesecake, my first expression was "what the heck?". Before I left this morning, the cheesecake was like...1" tall and after 5 hrs, it was like 1/2" tall. Well....I guess cheesecake shrinks?....I'm trying hard to find a word to describe my feelings after taking my first bite. It isn't a "wow~~" and it isn't a "eww~~"...so I think I'll say it's an "mmm~~"
=) can't wait to bake my second cheesecake~practice will make a difference~ October 24 FridayListened to another 5 presentations in AI in the morning. At the end of the class, the prof said "....we've listened to 17 presentations in total, in 4 different areas of artificial intelligence. I hope you all have found something valuable to take home with". I think the only valuable thought I had was "thank god I'm not doing researches in AI".
Went shopping in the afternoon. Bought a "super long" hoodie from Aritzia. I think everything in Aritzia is expensive. Just wish I had found cheaper "super long" hoodies somewhere else.
I also bought an electric mixer. Gonna make cheesecake on Sunday~~~ October 23 CrazyI did 3 crazy things today:
1. spent 30 min in the morning putting on makeup
2. spent 1 hr on cardio and 30 min on weights
3. had 1 bottle of cooler at night
October 20 NoneI can't stop asking myself: why did I choose grad school at that time. Working and living in San Jose would have been a so much easier path of my life. why why why......I AM really really really selfish. October 17 Feeling busyI'm happy when I'm busy. I suddenly have a lot of school work to do next week.....one paper to read, one presentation on thursday, one group meeting on wednesday, one page of AI stuff to write up, one project topic to come up with, study and write cs 134 midterm.......ah, and one club to go to =) One more thing I feel happy about: I get to take the cs 134 midterm again~ This is like a chance to re-gain honour (don't remember where I picked up that line from)...Five years ago I failed the midterm. shame on me cuz even those people in actsci and accounting did well. =(. Actually after that midterm, I had my first thought of giving up cs. (Othertimes I just thought about 'quitting'). The giving up/quitting didn't actually happen cuz I was too lazy to go through all the admin stuff to switch to other programs. So, if I do well on this midterm, I'll feel good about my first year undergrad again and live happily ever after. What if I don't do well again?....I guess I'll just be cursing cs and hating cs people forever. October 16 Smartie~Wakaka~ I finally got the algorithm right....so happy I'm still as smart as when I was in undergrad.
I think.....overly confident is one part of 自恋  and the previous sentence definitely has some grammar problem. October 11 SongsI like different songs at different times. Music reflects feelings. I wonder why I like Hacken's music now.
October 06 Summary of PaperI'm so bored. So I wrote this master template for summarizing all the papers I have to read. ======== This paper presents a kick @$$ way of doing blah blah blah blah [insert millions of symbols, formulas, equations and algorithms]...our research is great because blah blah blah blah [insert thousands of complimentary words] However, there are limitations in implementing what we proposed such as blah blah blah blah [insert thousands of impossible things]...so it is really hard to do it in the real world" conclusion: my research is a waste of time and piece of shit. ======== Maybe one day my prof will read this and give me an A for being honest. |
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