Holiday~~

Well, it has been a week since my start of holiday, holiday is basically a time for you to slack, slack, and play, eat, etc.. It is like living in a paradise, unless you wish to earn some cash you can opt for working instead, but you can't blame anybody =)

Anyway, winter has become not so cold already (but of course, still very cold!). So you can actually go out to have some walk if you like (wear thicker a bit).

I'm actually becoming lazy to blog at all now, looking to my past, I have been blogging almost everyday, it was for the sake of improving my English, not to say I don't need to improve my English now, but... I think facebook has slowly displaced blog, don't you think so? But facebook, there's many good and bad comments about it's usage, a problem such as privacy had always existed.. hmmmm

I have been playing facebook game lately, despite it can be a bit boring compared to console's game or computer games.. and it's expected value of earning a real prize is really small, so it is prudence to assume that there's zero benefit in playing it, however, many people still gamble right? Many people still buying lottery despite the fact that losing is always more dominant than winning, because those people believe in 'Luck', then I wish them "good luck"..

This is random, but I'm too lazy to type now, see ya.

PS: Even my sister got facebook ady lol!

The SWINE exam!

Finally I'm blogging, now I'm in computer lab, just having had my second last exam this morning, which is a stochastic wizarding exam, also known as S.W.I.N.E. LOL

Well, the exam is of the theme Harry Potter, so stuff about the exam is all about Harry Potter!! Serious.

Well, the first question is about Professor Trelawney predicting about Harry's death. (Which of course, not unusual.) She predicted that there will be a dementors attack on Harry soon, where the number of Dementors appearing follows some distribution with mean 3. However, Harry is able to cast the Patronum spell (The Patronus is a stag, with N number of horns), the stag's horn varies everything, which follows a Poisson Distribution.. So Harry is required to find out what is the probability of surviving...

Then, Harry is teleported to Transfiguration class, (of course, he is doing the SWINE exam so he got teleported) where the professor asked us to answer stuff regarding a markov chain, which is all about the sequence of transformation of a teapot to various stuff: Snake, Silk purse, Sow's Ear etc...

Next, it's Professor Severus Snape's turn (well notice the initial SS), he asked Harry to create a PEARL potion before SWINE (potion =)). Ingrediants are to be added into a couldron, while the colour of the potion changes with 80% when Harry added an ingredient, coulour changes with 90% while the same ingredient is to be used. To pass the exam, Harry need to change the colour of the potion into a rainbow colour, which occurs 10% whenever the potion changes colour, and the potion might explode with a probability of 5% whenever the potion changes colour... Well, actually the couldron is jinx, which means Harry will never success in making the potion.. So how many explosions are there in the long run??

Suddenly the cauldron explode with a large smoke!! Now Harry is with Hagrid, so Harry has to perform 5 tasks for Hagrid, which is (I kinda forgot): kill Basilik, swim through the lake, Riddikulus a Boggart, differentiate btw Hippogriff, something-ended-skrewt, etc.. Lastly, he has to answer an IPP question while riding a Hungarian Horntail (a vicious dragon). Well, Harry can perform the task with a "pure death" process, which occurs with rate = 0.2x (where x is from 0 to 5)........

Phew, the dragon is vicious... and... Voldemort appears!!!! (Well, I can't really say his name here though) The Dark Lord casts Avada Kedavra!! and Harry counter, and Priori Incantenum occurs!! Well, the ray between the wands is actually a Brownian Bridge!! So harry has to concentrate on the point where Variability is highest to beat Voldemort!!! (OMG DONT SAY HIS NAMEEE!!!!!!!@111111223444)

Well, Voldemort realise about this and change it's spell to a Geometric Brownian Bridge... Hmmmm, so find the covariance of the thing... swt..

Finally, Harry appears on a Quiditch field!! He caught the Golden Snitch!! 150 free points!!!!!! YAY!! Wait, Umbridge came and deduct Harry's point by 145!! (WHY?? Because it's Umbridge).. However, still got 5 free marks, eh?

LOL, well, the minimum score for this exam is 5 =)

PS: Hope I don't screw up the exam =)

From Autumn to Winter

It's time for frigging coldness =)

Long

Wow it'd been a long time since I blogged, however, I don't really feel like blogging now..

Anyway, will try to blog again soon =)

bowl bang!

So this is what happened when you pour water into a bowl:



yea while cooking indomee...

argh! my face!!

Acne growing on my face!!!! =(

It's a few at the same spot!! Gross!!


Lol, besides that, I've just attended a formal ceremony regarding my achievement in my studies.. No it's not a big achievement, there are tons of people getting award for this and that, I'm merely claiming my small part of scholarship from the University, which I gratefully accepted =)

Well, other than that, I was being able to see many prestigious people around the uni, which is actually a good thing, what motivates you more?? Of course it's the achievement of others that bring the stares of envious and jealousy, in the good way.

In fact, at that moment, I felt like studying hard and be like them, and shine. But, I guess I'm not so persistent, the mood gone when I came back and decided to cook Indomee to eat. Lol

Now I'm sitting in front of computer blogging and reading some blogs, well, I guess I really need to study soon, as I'm lagging behind in most of my studies, except Regression Modelling.. Hmmmmm....


Anyway, I'm actually wondering what made up of my blog readers? (As in uni students, old friends etc)

Cheers

After holiday update

Hi everyone,

after a long time for neglecting my blog, I have finally returned! Just to add some lines on it =)

Canberra is turning cold since a fortnight ago, this signifies the approach of winter session, which means real cold. Besides, worst of the worse is that it was raining the past few days (and now), which added (and adding) the negative value of temperature onto the thermometer.

Despite coldness, life is quite wonderful in the sense that there are mountains of works to be done, this is not the wonderful part, the wonderful part is that I have managed to complete most of my works: namely Stochastic assignment (which is 75% + 15% done), Financial Mathematics mid semester exam preparation (which I'm confident that I'm about 80% +- 5% ready for it), and presentation for my computing assignment (haven't prepared, not really know HOW to actually).

Life is even wonderful when I thought of the fact that my social life in ANU is kinda great, not too great but it's definitely satisfactory in my own level of judgement. I have many friends: some close ones, some play together ones, some studies-related ones, and someone =)

When the mood is good, cold weather doesn't really seem to be cold anymore, probably it's because of the mechanism in my room that generates heat. (Don't simply think! My blog is not rated 18SX) =)

Talked about social and study life, I must of course proceed to my gaming part of my growth. I have finished a game called Crisis Core (FF7) on PSP, which I borrowed from friends. The game is great, really, in the sense of the gameplay, graphics, but I would says that the game is a bit too short for my liking (don't take into account of missions aka side quests), yet, still nice =)

For those who doesn't know, this game revolves around a characted named Zack, who was the acquintance of Cloud, and the story about the life of Zack in SOLDIER of Shinra. Well, the story of FF7 is kinda confusing actually...

Anyway, I have downloaded the FF7 game (computer version), it continues from the PSP version although it was developed some time before the PSP's.. Despite the not-so-good quality of the graphics compared to PSP's version, I will still play it (actually re-play, since I've played it on PS1 before).

I have other games as well, mostly NDS (Nintendo DS) emulated games on computers, but my computer's graphic isn't good enough to support, resulting the lag-ness =( Probably I should buy an NDS instead, which cost something...

Anyway, JayChou's Concert is on 3rd of July in Sydney, but it cost a fortune too, most probably I will forgo the concert, to save money of course.. Well, I've never been to any concert before actually. Hmmmm, no, maybe once, which was the musical concert organized by ANU music faculty (I suppose), but I don't think it counts as a concert.. lol

Long post... It's time to end this =)

Good luck to myself!

Sydney Trip

and so... I've come back from Sydney Trip!

Trip was good.. Fun!!

But my mood to blog hasn't improved even with this, so it will be a short post..

Money is spent on food, shopping and accomodation...

Here's some photos:
This is a place called The Rocks, the place is built on rocks, hence the name. I personally need to thank the bus driver who explained lots about the bus system in Sydney and teached us to save some fortune =)


The opera house! Never went inside though..

The bridge!


The architecture is good...


Anyway, really had fun out there. and the food is cheap and nice. Hotel is cheap too, but not so nice when the policy forbid us to bring visitors up the room, plus a black face china man.. Well, to compesate that, another staff of the hotel is briliantly good! Excellent!

lol so that concludes this post. Cheers

Food for... human =)

It has been a while since I last blogged and I feel kinda bad for abandoning my blog most of the time...

Anyway it's holiday for me now!! Great Easter break plus 2 weeks of holidays! Sweet!

What's sweeter is actually the food I've taken weeks ago, here's the pic!


omg sweet honey lemon chicken! But it's vegetarian because it is not chicken, anyway it's so nice to yum! The food was eaten in "Vegetarian Restaurant" somewhere in Dickson (a place near Canberra).


and we actually cook fried rice yesterday!! Woohoo so tasty leh, especially when you eat it with tomato sauce (my preference)!! Hehe, judging from the photo you just know that it was nice nonetheless! Beside that, is kimchi chicken! which is nice as well!! =)


and Canberra is getting so cold nowadays...

Coldness

Even mosquito freezed to death:



(Note: Bad Macro-ing to the legs)