Continuing Working

It is now Wednesday and it is also the first day of the September 2010. Next week, insyaAllah we will celebrate our hari raya Aidilfitri. Meaning that Syawal is just around the corner. How fast isn't it? I still remember two weeks back we're just started our first day of Ramadhan. How quick...so so quick.

Next week also, my class will officially start. I have registered for the advanced quantum mechanics course under the Physics department. Last Winter, I took an audit course for the quantum mechanics too but it was under the Mathematics and Statistics department. And just now I met my Russian friend who used to sit for the same class during the QM course last Winter. Good news is his supervisor also asked him to take this advanced QM course under the physics. This means that I have a known friend in that class. At least. Don't have to start a fresh conversation with a new face. I am so happy about this. Peter was his name, is a very cool guy, plus a very very nice in person. He has willingly gave me a permission to use his work place and his PC at our SGW campus office whenever I want. He was also working part time, so he's not in the office all day. I am so thankful and please by his generosity.

So now, I'm trying to finish the rest of the work that have been asked by my adviser. Next week, I will be bundled up with assignments and notes from the course.
Good luck to me...

Wednesday

What so special about Wednesday. I intentionally post something today just to highlight how the Wednesday effect myself. I haven't think of this before. Just recently.

Monday; we usually very excited as it is the beginning of the week. Also most of us feel usually fresh and energetic. Full of ideas and plenty of plans for the rest of the week.

While Friday tends to higher the energetic level of person even 'more'. Because most of us wanted to enjoy the weekend the most. With lots of free time activities. The not so good about this day is as it brings closer the weekend (Saturday and Sunday) , the mood or level of focusing within works or tasks during the day kind of decreasing. During the Summer, the office hour on Friday is just until 1 p.m. So people here does celebrate the weekend at their very best.

So how about Wednesday. First, lets highlight its special property. It was a day which divide the week into a symmetric order. So by having this kind of property I might say that, it rank on how fast the week will be gone or how far yet the week is still moving.

I'm talking this because, my usual meeting and discussion with my adviser usually happens on Wednesday. But this week I'm having my meeting yesterday. And it is very fortunate for me to do so since the rest of the week is not a good time of having a meeting with my adviser. He had other things to do. I found out if I'm having a meeting before Wednesday I feel like I have all the time to work on what I'm suppose to do before the coming of the new week after. If I met my adviser especially on Friday, I felt like the time is too short as usually Monday or Wednesday I have to update my progress again.

I also noticed that weekends fly by just like that. Perhaps like a speed of light. And the Monday is again so eager to show up and thus the normal thing you do is going to start all over again.

Having said all these, I plan to keep myself busy and focus, as I try as much as I can to at least meet my adviser twice a week. And I'm using the Wednesday as my monitoring day. If I managed to discuss before Wednesday, there's a big chance I can meet him again on let say Thursday or Friday. At least. So twice per week is somehow realizable.

I've met him yesterday and my next meeting is on Monday. So by not counting the weekend I still have two days to work on my case. I think there's a lot of time. So lets move on.

P/S-Friday for me, just shorten my time even faster. It's how my mind think of it.

Ramadhan 2010

This coming Wednesday would be the first day of Ramadhan. So the fasting month is just around the corner. And this will be my third time of having the month of Ramadhan abroad.

As usually spoken, we have 'more' time during this fasting month. For which we don't have to spend times for breakfast and lunch as always. But to me, having spend those days for almost two years here in Montreal, there's not so much different of a lifestyle. Most of the time, I usually took my brunch and lunch in front of my PC while reading online news, physics newsletter and sometimes updates my interest on current Malaysian news.

But the most important part would be to really embrace this year of Ramadhan and be thankful the most to our Creator as we meet again this special month.

Selamat Berpuasa to all

World Cup 2010 Goes to Spain

So here it goes the double winner, Spain. They won the EURO 2008 and now repeating the victory to become the strongest football team in the 2010. Sadly to announce, last champion of the World Cup 2006, Italy cannot even go to the next second round after the group stage. Very sad indeed.

After seeing most of the good team defeated. These include, Argentina, Brazil, Italy and France of cause. Before the final game, most of the fan predicted that perhaps Germany will win the title. Not to mention, they played very well in every game except only one game defeats to Serbia. German also have many young players which most of them are very skillful and talented. But during the semifinal when they meet Spain, they lose 1-0 (the same goal they missed during the final of EURO 2008).

So, the winning team left to be either Spain or Netherlands. Both team never win the world cup. Spain in the other hand had never go to the final. The final game was a bit highly nerve breaking and dramatic, since both team desperately wanted to be the winner. Both have a 50-50 chances to win. Casillas did performed well during the game. Being a keeper and a captain at the same time is very challenging. But he did safe most of the shots from the Dutch player. He definitely deserved to be remembered during this 2010 game. I've seen him played since I was 20 years of age. At that time, he played with Real Madrid (until now) and he was just 19 years old. It was so tempting to think of how at young age he was representing one of the top football club in the world.

This year also, mark a very important year as I was enjoying the game during the day time. I don't have to wait until early morning at 2.30 a.m. to watch the game. But still, this is not so nice since during the day I was at school. Thus missing few early games in the group stage. But I do enjoy the game as much as before in the repeated game.

Long live football...

Hot Weather in Town

All around the news, especially in the US and North America regions, people are complaining about this year summer. We also bought a new fan because we cannot stand the heat in our house too. Not to say, the whole family are now having cold water as usual water usage instead of the warm water we used to. As for me, taking the public transport everyday making the feel of the heat even stronger. One thing for sure, taking the subways is less hot than taking the bus.

Right now, I really missed my home town ...

Pelita by A.P.I.

A very nice song. Boleh bikin naik semangat. Layan...

A Next Level

Yesterday, I sit for my oral physics comprehensive exam. It consists of a mini-project of current interest that also relate to my future proposal of Ph.D interest. It took me approximately 30 minutes to talk and the rest is for the Q&A session.

All together there are three committee members whom two of them are my internal examiners. Both are from physics department. The first was a high energy physicist, and the other was a theoretical condensed matter physicist. I was told my by my friend regarding this professor of theoretical condensed matter (he was from Greece), of how he usually give the student a pretty hard time if he was one of the examiner.

And this is in fact so true, because the first time when I sent him my type written report, he got so many suggestion in mind. There are certain things that he asked me to do and until the last minute of the day of the exam (presentation day), he event sent me an email saying what he aspect to see in my slides. This I cannot do of cause because of the time constraint that I have to follow. But at the end of my presentation, he again asked me to prepare another additional report and sent him a copy.

The story during the exam/presentation was a bit hectic. My other examiner asked few questions plus some suggestion of what I've been proposing in the current project. This is absolutely fine with me since I know absolutely what I did. But, the 1000 millions questions were by my Greek professor. His question covered from the very little things of physics to a wide knowledge of quantum mechanics but still in the interval of what I have said in my slide. I was so lucky that I did attend my supervisor's course on quantum mechanics and plus do some exercises on certain topics on the so famous nowadays coherent states. There are times, I was stumbled a bit, trying to focus and remember of what will be the answer, but overall I made his satisfied.

At this point, I believed I have give the best that I can and well, I did passed my comprehensive. This is indeed a good news as I am now officially a PhD candidate.

Thanks to the millions people around me and may I be prepared for the next level of the real research work.

Peace...