Day 397... Farang Pood Thai

ลืมเขียนถึงเพื่อนที่พี่นูนกับเอ๋รู้จักเมื่อประมาณสองอาทิตย์ก่อน เจสซิกาแนะนำให้รู้จัก เขาชื่อแคเลบ ความพิเศษของเรื่องก็คือ เขาเคยอยู่เชียงใหม่มา ๗ ปี ก็เลยพูดภาษาไทยได้ โย่ว!

I forgot to write about a guy that P Noon and I met around 2 weeks ago. (Jessica introduced him to us.) His name is Caleb. The special thing of him is he can speak Thai because he has been in Chiang Mai (a province in the north of Thailand) for 7 years. WOW!

แคเลบบอกว่าพ่อแม่เขาทำงานกับมูลนิธิ ซึ่งมีฐานอยู่เชียงใหม่ มูลนิธินี้เน้นช่วยเหลือคนแถบบ้านเรา แล้วก็ทางใต้ของจีนด้วย เขาบอกว่าพ่อแม่เขายังเคยไปช่วยคนที่เจอสึนามิด้วย

Caleb told me that his parents work for a foundation that has a base in Chiang Mai. The foundation helps people in Southeast Asia including some part of China. He told me that they were involved to help the victims in Tsunami incident as well.

Day 391... Earth Day & Another 1 Buck Lunch

Yesterday was Earth Day and it was damn hot. :(

I went to have lunch at ACM. It was another 1 buck lunch and it was good. I liked it. I do not want to compare to another 2 places. They are all good in different points. Yummm...

There were also a sort of concert in Quad (near Lady of the Mist Fountain). I had no time to stop by and join them. :(

Alright, got a bunch of things to do. I had better go

Day 385... Faculty Concert Series

I was in the Faculty Concert last night. I was the same event that I had been last year. Though there was less audience than last year, not even a half. But I also like it, especially the first song. I like the soft sounds of violins and cellos. :)

ไปดูคอนเสิร์ตมาอีกละ น่าจะเป็นอันเดียวกันกับเมื่อปีที่แล้วแหละ แต่ปีนี้คนน้อย ไม่ถึงครึ่งห้องเลย แล้วก็ไม่ได้ประทับใจเท่าเมื่อปีที่แล้ว เพลงฟังเรื่อยๆ ไม่มีอะไรให้ตื่นเต้น แต่ก็ยังชอบเพลงแรกนะ ชอบเสียงไวโอลินกับเชลโล ระหว่างแต่ละเพลงก็จะมีไอ้หนุ่มเสื้อแดง!... ออกมาเก็บเก้าอี้ อิอิ

The Program



There was also translation of sopranos.

There must be something wrong with my 8800 GT

As I needed to record the execution time of matrix multiplication in order to show the performance of streaming on my paper, I got back to the GeForce 8800 GT machine again and ran the application. Once the results came out, it looked like this:

GeForce 8800 GT
MatDim: 16
Total with non stream: 0.11
Total with 8 streams: 47001.85

How come it took so long like that! So I ran the same application on Tesla C870 and the results looked like:

Tesla C870
MatDim: 16
Total with non stream: 0.05
Total with 8 streams: 0.16

There must be something wrong with my 8800 but what is it? :(

Day 381... Calm Down Guys

I have heard about the situation in Thailand. It got me down. I totally disagree with violation, no matter what it is for. Hope they be cool down soon.

Day 375... The Days With Nothing

I have nothing to write about...

My status:
- having two exams
- looking for a conference to submit my (shoddy) paper
- preparing to visit Thailand (so excited) :)

Day 368... International Day

There was International Day yesterday. We had prepared for that event the day before yesterday. Noon cooked Pad Thai, Aig, Mon and Gan prepared Som Tum (we used cabbage instead of raw papaya) and Satay Pork. Our food was sold out within two hours. :)

I tried many kinds of food from many countries. These are some pictures.