大年初二，四马路观音庙，姻缘签

成就大吉
赤线裹足有恩情，不用求媒事已成。
明月夜深丝竹下，静中琴瑟凤凰鸣。

难成夫妻不和
若问姻缘事不成，纵然成后也相刑。
不然破败男同女，久后方知卦有灵。

不成若成有头无尾
若问姻缘鬼贼多，虽然成后不谐和。
会少离多奚可用，不宜无信说媒婆。

有贵人和合成后大吉利也
若问姻缘大吉昌，少年夫妻两相当。
亲戚两途同和睦，今生同结白头郎。

What is your Perfect Major?

Haha, i need to undergo a tie-breaker. In the end, I choose the meaning of life

菩提本无树，明镜亦非台，本来无一物，何处惹尘埃？

一剑西来，千岩拱列，魔影纵横；问明镜非台，菩提非树，境由心起，可得分明？


too zen already. :P


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You scored as Philosophy.
You should be a Philosophy major! Like the Philosopher, you are contemplative and you enjoy thinking about the purpose for humanity's existence.


Mathematics
100%
Engineering
100%
Philosophy
100%
English
67%
Sociology
50%
Linguistics
50%
Chemistry
33%
Dance
33%
Journalism
33%
Psychology
33%
Art
33%
Theater
33%
Anthropology
17%
Biology
17%



http://quizfarm.com/test.php?q_id=119158

Settled down, finally

Finally settled almost everything in MIT. After a meeting w Tony yesterday, I finally understand what my proj is, why I am doing such coding and how useful it might be. Now, after a few more testing, I should be able to move on to Reduced-basis, first 1D then 2D.

That is what I did for 2D 2nd order wave equation. It is a 13 sec clip showing the deformation the wave. This is its shape at the end of 2 sec, real time. Beautiful, isnt it?

That is my lab, same lab as MT, but this is revanth seat. Mine is right across.

Quote from Tony "But note that although it is certainly O.K. to work from home on occasion, in general I expect that students will be in the lab."

It snowed for several days in MIT, very cold but quite fun. Wore army track shoes the first day n step right into a puddle, freezing ice cold water. Next day wore boots, then become very fun, leave footprint everywhere in the snow.

That me in Kilian court, in front of MIT famed dome.

My footprints in the snow :P

MIT - Hell on earth

Spent 1 week in MIT, the world famous university. Today, a day of intensive coding in my room, I finally finish the main part of the code which solve the 2D 2nd order wave equation.

Suddenly it flash across my mind that I can follow SH to NY tonight or follow SW / MH to NY tmrw and come back on sun or mon to meet Tony. But I just told the gang that I am not going NY yesterday. Then the cold hard fact that I havent actually finish the code and havent made a trip to the library to read up on the wave equation sink in.

Finally convince myself that staying put in MIT is the correct choice.

Then SW told me that S,YM, ZL, SD are all planning to go NY. 80% of the class are going. wow, almost sunk into depression.

Spent the rest of the day reading zaobao to de-stress....5 days of back-tracked news to read

Dinner time n realise that my house-mates, both of them, M just came back yesterday, went out. Fri night, me all alone at home....


My lab is within the main buildings, those roman columns archit, solid n impressive, telling the world that we change the world within these buildings. Everywhere is history in the making. remember the first day, i was inside building 7, the smaller dome beside the main dome. I was inside, staring towards the ceiling. there was inscription, "Established for advancement and development of science, its application to industry, the arts, agriculture and commerce"....I feel so small.

S n G, both under Tony, were kind n friendly. helped me alot in easing into the lab environment. All the pple in the lab were forever busy, what they r discussing, i dont have a clue at all....


Suddenly, remember these words " 科以人重科亦重，人以科传人可知 ". Realise that I am forcing myself to work, giving myself alot of pressure, to live up to the expection of what is worthy of a MIT student. Half the class are treating mit as a chalet or holiday while I am coding matlab, frustrating myself with the weak form and the elemental mass matrix; spending 2 days trying to solve an area integral, but failed. Had to convince myself that the answer is that simple formula in prof liu textbook, convince myself to use that formula, convince myself to code in a way that is different from lecture notes, convince myself to take the risk that if all is wrong, i will have nothing to show tony....

我佛慈悲, the codes finally show the correct results.

Dont want to stay in a big quiet apartment w nobody. Played some music n heard this:

命运就算颠沛流离命运就算曲折离奇命运就算恐吓着你做人没趣味别流泪心酸更不应舍弃

波士顿/麻省理工 杂想 １

MIT is in Cambridge, a place beside Boston, seperated by the Charles river.

Never never wear just sweater n jean out if the weather forecast predict a temperature of less than 5 oC. Always wear long john. The cold will kill u, 寒风刺骨。Btw, yahoo weather forecast is very very accurate for Boston.

Except for the area near my room door, that is echo all ard my room, surround sound!

Had 2 meals of 波士顿 大龙虾, big n firm n juicy. Feel abit bad in speding close to USD 50 in it. But come again, this cold, harsh, boring n stressful place, if we dont pampered ourselves w food, confirm will die.

Missing Chilli n string ray of 85.

Wind here is very strong. 顺风，like flying in the air. 逆风，like 逆水行舟，cant walk. was walking today towards ashdown, sudden the wind blows n all the leaves on the ground flew towards me, circling like mad, suddenly feel like in movie "英雄"。

First fortune cookie: "You would make a good lawyer" Toto for u "24 1 41 3 15 37"

Second fortune cookie: "You will enjoy good health, you will be surrounded by luxury" Toto for u "41 35 15 47 33 50"

本已无一物，何处惹尘埃。

First few days in Mit

now, something abt MIT...

Flew from Narita to Chicago then to Boston. This time, flying after 911 n to USA, I realise the power of the Singapore passport. It take less time going throu the customs and "random checks" are less likely to fall on u.

Flew like mad from Narita to Chicago n to Boston, sleep like nobody business on the plane. Then due to bad weather, the plane cant land in Boston. after waiting n circulating in the air for quite a while, the captain say we r short of fuel, he is going to land in "currier Q", upstate NY, refuel then fly off n landed in Boston again. hence, we finally reach boston at 11+ pm.

settle down in Tangs, first night, area cleaning, clean like mad, then surf online, hungry like mad, have a drink from the vending machine.

next day, look for patera before he fly to spore. discuss abt the masters project but miss the time to meet w the rest of the gang for admin, opening bank, shopping etc. went back dorm, jet lag, sleep from 4 pm to 9 pm.

SH bought a vacuum machine only to realise when i told him that we can loan it from the front desk.

woke up, late in the night, hungry like mad, only have a "decent" meal which is lunch, ever since I board the plane in Narita, that is like 48 hrs!!! no food in dorm, luckily JJ got some food.

MIT really dont have much stuff to help pple settle in. Dinner is hard to get, still cant get a lamp in the room. can u believe it, the room has no lamp provided! SW n MH were saying that how nice Spore is. Really feel so, 书到用时，方恨少。孤身在外，方知家的好。

only good thing i notice till now is the view of charles river is great from tang. i only got a side view but it is good enought. tony was telling me that he stayed in tangs during his studies in mit too and it is the only affordable place to have a view of the charles river. once u r out of mit, u need to be earning millions to afford such a view.


went over to Chinatown yesterday, nothing interesting, got alot of black n viet pple. heard cantonese speaking thou. walk like mad to the super 88 supermarket, but feel like home inside cos got alot of chinese food from China n taiwan. they were playing cantonese new year songs!

Now is 11 am, sat morning in mit, just finished running my simulation n emailed to tony. it is time to buy the lamp that i badly need.

Tokyo trip

Finally got time to write something here, after all the hectic of settling in, doing admin paperwork n running codes / simulations at the same time.

Talk something abt the 4 days in Tokyo first.

It feel like home arriving back in Tokyo. Narita airport, Shinjuku, Shibuya and even Odakyu train feel some familiar. Only when I arrive at the lodgging that I realise that the olympic youth hostel JJ is refering to is the one that YK n I visited during the 1st weekend of our stay in Tokyo. Was surprise as I remembered that YK told me before that it was in Ikebukuro.

Meeting Matsuba was another high pt, havent seen him for 1.5 years, still the same, loud laughter and good english. chat quite a bit with him. But he has been posted to another dept of Yamatake and didnt have much contacts w the rest of the co-workers I know.



for those who r blur reading this, I went for an overseas internship in Tokyo in Yamatake Corporation 1.5 years ago, for a period of 6 mths. http://community.webshots.com/user/alextanyk

Tokyo was fun, as usual. made a mistake of storing the big baggages in airport, 500 yen per day per piece while it only take 250 yen to deliever it to hostel. Then at shinjuku station, we were asked to pay an addition of 240 yen cos the station masters calculated the fare wrongly.

A pity that the gang cant see mt fuji due to poor weather at tokyo metro building.

We walk alot, covering all the major pts of downtown tokyo in a day, SH n MH were screaming that walking is killing them. Food is gd, esp the sashimi in Tsukiji. They bought Yukata at Asakusa happily. The highlight of the trip is the 100 yen shop where gifts are cheap n big. JJ spoted a mini mahjong set. :P

Last day

Tonight I am writing this article at my home, last article from my home PC till i come back from MIT. No much feeling, cos it seem to be just another oversea trip. With the Tokyo trip 2 year ago, i am much prepared and not much excited as before.

Saw WH and BT today at Shawn wedding, just nice before I fly. DH n V treated me for supper at usual 85. XW, WY and ZY gave me a last go at mahjong and i happily won $28 from them. of cse n the rest of 97S24 whom we meet for dinner, MC, MY, DN, AA.

That's all folk! See u all in 8 mths!

I wonder who I will see at Changi tmrw morning....

Today

DH show me the rock on V hand last night. Finally, all is settled. That rock didnt cost much, but i believe a bigger rock is on the way. :P

Attended Shawn n Yimin wedding this afternoon. Nice and warm ceremony.

Read an article recently abt the 物质享受 and 精神享受. I know myself that I am not a guy that emphasis alot on 物质享受, 鱼片米粉 is enough to last a meal. Money spent shldnt be more or less but instead 有没有价值.

Was chatting with lao shi that day, she cant imagine a guy spending so much money on a gal, esp if they just know each other. I agree with her. This is a catch-22 situation, such a gal wont interest me much. I believe that that gal wont have much interest in me either.

sometime i do wonder, what is the pt of spending so much money on a rock to prove your love? Society norm may be 1, all the diamond industry fault. 钻石恒久远，一颗永留传 is all rubbish. Do u know that most of rock produced by the world (except Australia and Canada), are extracted using child labour? Every rock u wear is smeared with the blood and sweat of some children.

The most impt thing is to treat her nice for the rest of your life. My grandma married my grandpa using 4 golden ring, no pattern, just plain rings. 情比金坚 is another slogan? They are married for 53 years.

DH told me that if i tell this story to any gal, that gal will ask u to marry your grandma.

The impt thing is not what u do at the ceremony or what u offer at the ceremony. the impt thing is what u do afterwards.

Again, 精神享受 is more than enough for me. Of cse i cant expect a gal to share the same mindset w me. 物质享受 is impt for most gals. See how it goes.