EURO 2008

Well, my favorite season of all time is back. EURO fever is now back on and as always I hope my favorite team ITALY will be the winner of this EURO 2008.

Happy footballing guys!!!

LaTeX Workshop

I've attended 1 and a 1/2 day LaTeX workshop organized by the maths institute. This is my first time participation in a LaTeX workshop with a formality. Previously, I was using LaTeX by learning them by myself together with the guidance of my SIFU. Also perviously I used MikTek together with WinEdit as the LaTeX editor but joining the workshop, I have found out more nicer and acceptable editor which can make me learn and grabs the technique faster.

Just name them few, TeXniccenter, ProTeX,

I think later I myself might want to install this TexnicCenter since everything we want is in one window only. And furthermore there's more icons and everything which is very handy if to compare to the previous known editor. Or maybe it is because I used the old version of WinEdit.

I fall in love with this new word editor for REAL

Completion

Early this month I had defense my master thesis in front of few recognize faces as my examination committee. It was very strange and later on awkward to confidently present my work to them. It is becoming more churning to stomach that my external was now entitled a professor and he's a mathematical physicist which known to be precise and particular.

However, that morning also, the officer in charged gave me a very happy news indeed. My external won't show up as the report he send going well and he actually satisfied with the content. So according to the new university regulation, reports by external that written satisfied won't be invited to the defense session. Lucky me I guess.

I have now completed my master study. Thanks millions to my supervisor. His time, courage and energy have put me through all the hard and happy time during the digestion of my thesis. And of course for listening to all my cents.

Appreciation also goes to people around me, family, friends and so on.

Thank You.

Wraps Up 2007

It’s been half of year now I haven’t post anything. Perhaps towards the end of this year I come up with some of an interesting subject to share with. Its funny

I bought myself two books which absolute deviate from my personal interest reading which are historical fictions. I’m used to historical for quite sometimes and I was influenced by my cousin in reading a nowadays general fiction. I first introduced with James Patterson’s Suzanne’s Diary to Nicholas and I fall in love with that book instantly. Currently i'm reading these two books

I recommend both to readers out there who really needs a fund and interesting reading. I have move to the half page of those books (can't help myself to read both at the same). I am thrill to know their endings...

Happy New Year to all

Refresh!!!

It’s really been a very very very while…

Lots have happened. I’m totally a new me. With a new title and most important is welcoming a new little member in our family that makes the total of us of three now. How nice. Thanks to everyone who’s really being supportive and nice during the 2 months of a HAVE TO holiday. It make’s me wonder if I’m going to take that kind of holiday again.

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Things that I need to highlight is regard to the class of advanced mathematical physics which I took under my siFu concurrently. I sense that siFu has made a new approach in his lecture this time. His notes, his contents plus also his inputs. Even his style of lecture. I must say that during his class, somehow rather, I can understand them. Not just me, the other students feeling the same way too. Funny is that the feeling makes us wonder if we are actually becoming smart ourselves or just understand him in a very wrong way. People used to his talk and interest must find this a usual scenario. Knowing that this person is quite incredible with bizarre words and tantalizing ideas/minds.

One Fine Year

Last two weeks was a really difficult time for a ‘normal breathing’. As I did mention in my last post, both PERFIK and ESL 5 event has now finally come to an end.

PERFIK, 6-7 Dec06’- Both of us (together with my friend) was arriving late and missed the officiating ceremony at the Palace of Golden Horses. She just happened to print up her poster on the morning of 6^th Dec. And I was like trying very hard to control my feeling towards the fact that I’m going to be the 1^st presenter during the evening session on that very 1^st day. Two days before PERFIK I managed to prepare my full paper (one day) to be submitted during the registration and also my presentation slides (one day). My supervisor who was also the committee of the PERFIK had making ‘sound’ about the full paper and in the same time asking about the preparation for ELS 5. I was so relieved and happy that I’m not part of the PERFIK organizer. If not, my life would become an ultimately disastrous. Years I’ve been into the experience of organizer (plus participant) contributor. And I must say that becoming a purely participant was really cool. Nothing to worry and less of thinking about organizing stuffs...The morning session was started by a plenary session by two-invited speaker. The first was talking about “Microstructural Evolution in Ceramics: The Key to Property Control” which I found the talk very interesting due to his colorful slides and images but sadly I don’t understand a thing. I mean if I want to really get excited with the content. Second was more to my field. Taking into account that his work involved quantum mechanics per se where his slide’s content, includes theoretical work, equations which I recognized and so on. But again, it was so high level that I think that most of us would like to have time in completely understand it all. And, finally during my time of presenting, it’s running smoothly. Some Q&A and also had a chance to listen to new research by other presenter as well. Two days of absorbing kind of thing…

ELS 5, 12-15 Dec06’ – Apart that we facing lots of difficulties especially at the very last minute, including one of our speaker was calling it off for emergency, I might say that overall ELS 5 was a success. Personally, from my observations, speakers are really enjoying their time during their stay. Participants were totally giving their full support to every 4 consecutives days of lectures series. And for myself, I managed to discuss my work with one of the speaker. I’m really great full to that. Since his research was part of what I’m doing right now. I was able to ask him whether my whole idea was correct and I was also able to find techniques (especially mathematical tools) on encountering the problem. I was even more great full to find that the speaker was much a helpful to myself. During the two last days of lecture series, we have 2-3 hours of discussing. He was trying hard to give me in that short period of time as many things as he can. And with that attitude, all of a sudden I becoming energetic and just can’t get enough of it. But I was trying hard to follow his explanations and ideas. And later that evening while at home, I got a headache. Believed or not... Still, I'm quite amazed and wondered how overseas researcher pull up to a maximum level of their stamina in doing research. Sorry to highlight this but truly speaking, well… they work like hell.

Conclusion – this week would be my week of all. Coming soon, will be the celebration of X’mas holiday and next week was meant for Hari Raya Qurban. And it is also the countdown to year of 2007. So, what we're heading next?

Sayonara 2006...

Heading Where

Woww...it's been a very long long gap.
What I've been up to lately?
It's like I'm having a very own narrow of life...me.
I have to admit that I can easily get tired nowadays (really I am). Especially when I’m focusing with my stuffs seriously for the whole day. I can actually get dizzy sometimes but water really help me a lot. Yes, plus, I've been quite bundle up with the facts that next week I have short presentation to give to (national physics conference, how well did I prepare for this?) and another which is on the week after the conference we’re organizing our 5^th series of seminar involving outside speaker. Which in my part I have to prepare the forwarding text draft for the chairman and the officiator during the opening ceremony. Tell the truth, I kind of really don't like about having writing the draft. It can sometime take lots of my time (done it with 2 hours for two texts) and furthermore it could scratch my head too. Still, as an ultimate pure courage person is supervising me, I might say that, this task is worth doing. I mean the experience and also the extra extra knowledge (again being positive).

This year, our theme for the ELS 5 is on the "computational physical sciences". Its an interdisciplinary area at the intersection of three domains namely mathematics, computer science and biological and physical sciences (the chemist are there too). It’s very powerful that nowadays, scientist can have a possible new and powerful way of doing science. Promises are, we can deal with an accurate progress between the theory and experimental results. To think of it, scientists and engineers should be able to coupe with a higher state of development in technologies and knowledge involving computational sciences. It’s not just about using the computer but its more than that. Talk more and more, sometimes making me confuse on what I really like to be specialized in. At first, I’m just happy with maths, since at the infant level I work on a very nice interesting math works (really happy with), but in the following final year of my degree I start to jump into the physical interpretation (little have been touched) plus math works (again) a.k.a. mathematical physics. Now during my furthering, the math works are not simply the way I used to play around with. Numbers are rarely seeing while abstract figures are everywhere to found. Sentences are not supposed to be the way we have it but it’s the other way around. First thinking is not applicable yet thinks more and more is just a must thing to do. I get stuck here and there and smooth route was sometimes hardly to find. What a journey…its like Mr. Frodo’s journey in trying to destroy the one RING. But he succeeded anyway.

Once told me that theoretical physics are very wide area and now the computational method are there also. COMPLETE structure. Just look at the circles, its obvious right? I just have to admit that what I’m doing now is something more than I ever imagine. It’s more (I think I need a shoulder to cry on). Long time ago, during our studies me and my roommate used to imagine ourselves being in a very fun work environment having no much load to our brains. In reality, I’m facing this circumstance where much supports are really appreciated. Still, goods things happen from goods desire. I am very much believed in it.

Lets hope...