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I am asked to do some photo-editting for the photos of my cousin. Below I have added one of the photos that I have editted.



My cousin likes pink color very much. That is why I have make this collage pinky.

There is a friend that I know from Singapore who surprises me time and time. At the meeting of last Thursday she know what my principle is about drinking. And there are also other things that she knows me quite good. I am surprised that she knows me quite well in very short time. Some of my friends who knows me for many years, do not know get how I am.

Oh, there is something typical that some friends have asked me about my exchange programme in Singapore. Some of them wonder if I get know of a girlfriend or meet some nice girls there. I have met some nice girls there. I think that they will know who they are when they read my blog. But I don't want to have a relationship when I am in oversea for study since I don't think that a long distance relationship will last. As some of my friends know, I am not a person who is easy fall in love. It is not that I require a lot, but it is that I am so born. And besides I don't think that I am attractive.

Yesterday I met my friends that we knew each other from Singapore. It has been more than 2 months ago that we last saw each other. And for Shuk Yee, a friend who I know for 6-7 years, it is shorter since we have met when I came back to Holland. The weirdest thing of the meeting was, was that everybody took their boyfriend with them. I am the only single one. I don't have a weird feeling among the couples, but if I can choose I prefer to meet my friends only, without their boyfriends. The bad thing of that day was that I did not have the good chance to talk with my 3 friends. Upon all these things, it was a great day. We eat dinner together, playing cards and singing karaoke. We also took photos. But this time I am not the one who hold the camera.

Today which is 25th of August, I went to my U to play sports with my friends. As usual we played badminton. Before we went to the sportcentre, a friend called me for asking me to have a lunch with her. Since I skipped my breakfast today I made a move first to meet her for a lunch after the phonecall. That friend is currently stressing for her Master thesis. All of her friends are graduated. So there is no one who can have a lunch with her. I told her that she can also calls me for having lunch together and that is why she calls me now. When we ate she complained ahout her professor. I understand that it is very difficult for her to build up a good relationship with her professor since they cannot get along with each othet. After keeping my ears open for a while, I go to meet my friends for badminton. I ak her if she likes to play with us. And she says YES!

It is very nice to play badminton with my friends from the U. Since they are guys and since they can play badminton well, I don't need to hold myself. I smash and run for hours and after the game, I get a very good feeling. I am not tired though.

After playing badminton I went to my (other) friend's house. She goes to Barcelona for a year for an exchange programme tomorrow. And she leaves for Sweden and a week later for Barcelona where she will stay there for 1 year. Today it is my last chance to see her. Therefore I go to her room and wish her goodbye. But when I was in her room, I helped her with moving her room out which I come back to home (my parents' house) very late: it was almost 1AM!!! But it really doesn't matter since I like to help my friends and besides I have nothing important to do today.

I finished with my exams yesterday and I went back to my parents' place (Groningen). I think that in the futher I will stay at home less and less. Since now I am busy with my study and after graduation I will busy with my job. Maybe I won't live in this country too.

I manage to get some part-time jobs. I will pay my friend and my mother back with the money I earn. I am glad with a job as tutor for the Master International Students of my university. Next week my tuition will start and then I am the one who can help the International Students. Together with a friend, we create a forum for them. I am doing the design part andmy friend does the programming. We are not asked to do that, but we like to bring the best thing for the students who come to study here.

There is one more job which I don't like very much, but I want to do that for the money only. The silly thing I have to do is, doing the archives for the Central Library of my U. Next week I have an interview. Hopefully they pass the job to me.

So far I have 2 jobs. And so far I pass for my exams. Things go very well. But there are things that hang on my head currently. That is, I am not sure for which Master I would like to be mine main focus. I specialize in Micro-Electronics (my main concern) and I also take a minor which is Biomedical Engineering. Biomedical Eng has a very promising further and in Micro-Electronics there are many challenges and I have studied that for many years. It is a bit of waste my time plus all the energy if I change my main concern now. But I don't like to have a job in the area of purely Micro-Electronics. Next week I want to talk with the head of Biomedical Engineering about my choice and further. It is a very though trade-off.

The last thing I want to write is about my train trip back to Groningen. There are three dark tinted people in the train who sitting a few chairs behind me. Two of them are around 20 and there is one wife who is around 40. It seems that they don't have bought the correct ticket when the conductor checks their tickets. They have a single way ticket from Arnhem (the east part of Holland) to some of the small town in its environment (I forget the place) although they are sitting in the train on the way to Leeuwarden/Groningen (the North part of Holland). The people say that they don't know that they are in the wrong train. They wonder if they can make a round tour to their destination. But that is a very stupid thought since your ticket is only valid for the route of what you have paid for. The conductor is a very nice man. He said that they have to get out of the train when they arrive in Amersfoort (a station in the middle of Holland). But these people are still sitting in the train while the train departs from Amersfoort. Then the conductor comes along and he notices the 3 passengers. He decides to fine them. But they are not agree with him since they said that they are not well informed, although the condcutor tells them very clearly (plus a couple of time) that they have to get out the train to take the train back to Arnhem. The discussion takes about 30minutes. The lady is a very weird woman. Her son translates everything of what the conductor tells her but when she gets angry she seems to understand Dutch very well and she can also speaks the language. This a sign for me that she is not honest to the conductor. And I hate people who is not honest. The second thing is, they anyhow blame on the conductor that he does not know the rule of how-to-use-a-ticket. They think, when you pay for a ticket, no matter where you start and to which destination you want, you can set your own route since you have the ticket which is a very stupid thought, right?. The third thing is, is that they are not well informed of when they have to get out the train. These people are really very bad. They lie and they are non-listening people. At the beginning, when the conductor comes back and notices that they are still in the train, he wants to fine them. But after a long talk (for 20minutes) he takes a step back: he gives them a chance. He pretends to hand out wrong information so the ticket from Amersfoort to Zwolle is free. But they have to pay the ticket to their destination immediately and also the fine for not showing their ID. But these people don't agree with his agreement. I have never seen such a (I don't have the correct word for it) foolish(?!) people before. They don't think that they are wrong and they become mad without a reason. They also don't notice that the conductor wants to give them a chance by taking a step back. How can I sit in he train with these very foolish poeple? The very typical thing of the dark tinted people is, is that they seldom sit together in the same chair. Well, let me continue on my story of these people. The conductor gives them too many chances. He asks them again and again to pay the ticket from Zwolle to Arnhem since that it is best solution. But they don't want to accept his offer. Therefore the conductor has to call the police. He walks away for a phonecall (I guess) and when he comes back to these 3 people he only writes a fine and ask them to buy a ticket when the train stops in Zwolle.

From this, one can see that we have two opposite poeple. A good one and (3) bad one(s). It is always that the good people never get the best thing. To be a good people is very hard. The conductor takes a step back. He is trying his best to find the best solution for them. But his effort has not been appreciated. Bad people are very to be. There are too many of them in this world. Since good people are very rare, I will cherish them very much!

I solved yesterday's problem in MATLAB. Now I know why I cannot plot. It is since the dimension of the input vector does not matched with the function. I was glad that I solved this problem one side. But on the other side I am still not glad how I have solved the problem.

Anyway, I was very curious how my approximation-figure looks. When it plots on my computer screen I am very disappointed since it is totally wrong. I look at my implementation of my function again and I notice that there are small errors. Solving these errors, the approximation is still bad. Especially when I approximate the function in higher order polynomial function, let say above 50 order. I expect more accuracy, but it is still not what I want. Now I have to find out in which step I have done wrong.

Tomorrow I have an appointment with one of my professors. I will tell him what I have done so far and why I think my approximation should be a good.

My uncle and his family come back from holiday today. In the morning my auntie calls me to let me know what time they will arrive. When they are arrived, the first person I see and the first person who calls me is my cousin Patsy. We bring all the bags in the house and then Patsy shows me her studio-shooting. Her album with photos is nice. I can get some inspiration of doing such photos. I can do that as well if I have time and some equipments.

After looking at the pics, we move to my house for lunch. For my uncle and his family, it is already a dinner since it is in the evening in Asia. After the lunch, Patsy makes a move to her house since her friend is visiting her. My uncle and auntie stays for chatting with my mum. I take the bike of my cousin to cycle to the town where I cut my hair (very short). Today, it is a rainy day! On the way back to home I become wet. I take a shower and go to my uncle house to collect my things. I am surprised that Patsy doesn't fall asleep. When I am at her house, we continue talking. From a certain moment she was tired and sleep on my legs. It likes many years ago when she was a little child who sleep on me a lot.

After getting my things back, I go to home to have a dinner. Then I move to my other cousin's house for repairing her PC. I turn mad when I am asked for fixing her PC. It is not because I don't like to help her, but her husband never listen to me. The result is that the computer is infected by spies and virus. I have solved the PC problems many and many times. I don't like to be the one who they can always count for my help since I have many important things to do. Since I have fixed his PC today (also other days), I don't have time for working on my research or revising for my exams. I cannot blame on him fully...but I tell him not to visit some "restricted" sites. But why does he never listen to me? Why can't people learn from their fault? Since people like to make the same fault again and again, I will only give them 1 chance to forgive.

I am surprised to receive a tag of my friend. Hereby thanks for visiting my blog!

This is my last weekend of my summer holiday. From next Wednesday I will stay in Rotterdam for preparing for my exams and continueing with my research. I am glad that my implementation of the Mathematics, that I formulate, is almost finished in MATLAB. There is one very annoying error in plotting the figure. For those who is a bit familar with MATLAB, knows that in MATLAB every variables are seen as "vectors" or in programming languages "arrays". Because of this property some of the principles for plotting figure cannot be easily applied. I have to find a way to solve this problem.

After my creating "my own" Maths, it is time to convert the function into a different domain for further analyze. This is a very crucial step since the problems can arise.

Apart from working on my research, I have called my relatives who are in Malaysia. My uncles and his family are in Malaysia, Singapore and Shanghai for holidaying. Tomorrow they will come back. That means that I have stayed at their house for exactly 1 month! Time flies by.

This week I called my relatives in Malaysia. I talked to my small cousins who like me alot. Surprisely, Xin Lin (a small cousin who live in Holland as well, but is now in Malaysia for holidaying with her parents and sister) talks to me on the phone. It is very funny to talk to her because of her sweet voice and it is my first time that we have a phone chat. We used to chat on msn and she talks more to me after my operation.

The one who hangs on the phone the longest, is without doubt Xiu Wen. It is very nice to hear from her that she is seriously thinking of how to write me a letter back.

In the last few days I thought about my research topic very hard: trying to improve the pacemaker design so the power consumption is reduced as much as possible. It is a very hard task since I face to many subjects in the Mathematics that even my two professors have no clue. People may wonder if I am doing my Master thesis which the answer is NO! I take this subject since I wish to contribute some good things for human life. And I have to thank my professor for supporting me.

After the exchange programme in Singapore, I finally know what I like to do in the near future. My main concern will be in the Medical field. Some of my friends may know why I like Medical matters. For those who does not know, it is very "paiseh".

Thinking about my reserch is very headache-ing! Reading the papers that my two professors gave to me, more and more questions arise. Despite of my research, I know to relax myself in Holland. Here there is nothing else you can do than watching TV. I am not a person who likes sitting in front of the sqaure box four hours. Except this time! A long time ago I downloaded tons of Singapore and Japanese dramas that I saved on my external harddrive. This summer I start to watch some of the Singapore dramas since I want to get the feeling back at the time I was in Singapore. My first Singapore drama is "Women of Times".

This is a very good drama! It is one of the best of Singapore dramas I have seen so far. I don't know why I have chosen this drama. It was just a random grab! After 2 episodes I realize what the title of the drama is. I have watched some Singapore dramas before, but I have to admit that they are not nice. The average score for all dramas was around 6/10. But in the past I only liked to watch those dramas with my good friend since I liked to share my most lovely things with her. But we couldn't make to watch dramas regulary since she was busy with her study, relationship and more. All those dramas are saved in my harddisc and finally my disc is full. Then I go to Singapore and now I am back. It is waste of my time and effort to download all the dramas without looking at them. I also want to see things from Singapore back as I mention before. So I decide to watch all the dramas alone. To be quite honest, I really want to watch with some friends, friends who also like the things I like to share with them. But I haven't asked any of my friends to watch with me. Why?

Anyway, in the "Women of Times" there are many things happened that I haven't expected. I like surprises since I am bored of the basic stories that you can find in the most TVB (Hong Kong) dramas. I like this drama very much since I think that this drama is quite realistic and well-thought in many aspects.

Now it is dinner time! I will continue later...