BKK 2... Reunion

My cousins, my sister and I got together yesterday. We had Sukiyaki for lunch, played bowling, went shopping and got home to get our grandma and had dinner at a Chinese restaurant.

My niece (almost 3) and my nephew (around 4) has much grown up. They got taller, heavier and more stubborn. Though they were so cute. :)

BKK 1... HOME!

It was a longgggg trip.
I reached home last night. My sister and my cousin were in the airport to pick up another cousin and me. My cousin came from Singapore.

Bangkok has changed a bit as I saw when I was on the way home. At lease there was some huge building I have never seen.

Nothing much for the first day. I was so tired because I didn't sleep for 2 days. I could not sleep on the flight. Do not know why.

Day 426... Ready for Going Home

Today is my last day in Ruston. Tomorrow in early morning (say tonight) I will leave for my home. Yeah!

Home Sweet Home - Mötley Crüe

My First Paper

I just submitted my first paper a minute ago. :D

The title is "Stream Experiments: Toward Latency Hiding in GPGPU", submitted to HiPC 2009.

Alright, now I am ready to go home. Soooo excited!

Day 422... Two Parties

There was a party at Wei and Lee's apartment last Friday. P Noon and I got there around 6 PM. P Noon had prepared some fried eggs with Thai style source. There were couple of egg menus on the table. Moreover, there were some chicken, vegetables, etc.

After eating we played games and talked. The game that I played was a sort of gambling. (Just for fun, no money.) Let's see the pictures



And yesterday, I was in another party since James had invited me to explore Louisiana. It was James' grandmother's birthday party. The place (Sea and Sirloin) was in the middle of nowhere. We got lost because James took the wrong turn. Instead of heading to the south, we went to the north. He realized it when we almost hit I-20 which could lead us back to Ruston in 20 minutes. Then he turned back. We left home around 3:45 and reached the restaurant around 5:20. It was fun though since he talked all the way and told me many things about country lives, red necks, nature of LA and the U.S.

James told me that there were three stages in the party like this, (just for his family) eat, talk and say goodbye at the parking lot. We exactly followed those stages. It reminded me the birthday parties of my grandparents back in Bangkok. They are almost the same but the food and languages. His family was so nice.



From that day, I have realized that Ruston is not too small. It is just small but it is not in the middle of nowhere. Some places, like Friendship, Lucky and Campti (the names of cities) are much smaller. They are so small that I wonder how the people there can live.

Day 419... Let's Party!

It is the last day of classes!!... Wooohooo~

I am looking forward to going back home. But before that, I am going to join some parties here. The Chinese students are going to have a party tomorrow night. And they have invited P Noon and me. It would be fun.

I am going to join James' grandmother's birthday on Saturday as well. He has invited me since I have never had an activity with his family while the others (Aig, Monn and P Noon) have gone on adventures with them last winter. It will be a formal dinner party. I am wondering how it is going to be.

Day 405... I Did It!

Yesterday was one of my great day because I got an email said that I have passed the CS Qualifying Exam... WooHoo! However, I still have to pass the Math one. It would be a hard part as well. :(

I have been very busy in these couple of weeks. The paper submission ends next week, and I have to get the term project done by next week as well, and another term project dues next two weeks, besides the homework and finals... Hell! :(

Day 402... Thai Noodles at Wesley

David Glasspool had invited P Noon to cook Thai food in Wesley last week. We did it today. :)

เดวิด แกลสพูล ชวนพี่นูนไปทำอาหารไทยที่เวสลีเมื่ออาทิตย์ที่แล้ว ก็เลยได้ทำกันวันนี้

It was Pud See Euw. I only helped him chop vegetables. In the meantime, Kevin, Gray and the other guys were cooking as well. I just helped them watch and taste the food. :)

มันคือผัดซีอิ้ว ไอ้เอ๋ช่วยหั่นผักอย่างเดียว ตอนนั้นเควิน เกรย์ กับอีกหลายหนุ่มก็กำลังทำกับข้าวด้วย ไอ้เอ๋ช่วยดูกับช่วยชิม :)

After dinner, we hung out there for a while, talked to people there. Then Nathan ride P Noon home.

หลังกินข้าว ก็นั่งคุยอีกพักนึง แล้วเนธันก็ขับรถพาพี่นูนกลับบ้าน

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.

Day 365... It has been a year

Today is the Day 365... That means I have been in Ruston for a year!!

Nothing much for today. Around noon we (Thai students) went to have lunch at Ronin Hibachi in Monroe. I was so glad because there was SUSHI!!

After lunch we went to Bao Bao to buy some food for International Day that will be held on Tuesday.

Day 359... Rabbit VS Snake

Let's see who will win.

Day 358...Wesley House Parties

เมื่อคืนมี Wesley House Parties กัน (คือ ประมาณว่าหลายๆ บ้านจัดปาร์ตี้แล้ว เราจะไปบ้านไหนก็ได้ แล้วแต่) เริ่มแรก แอชลี่มารับไปบ้านมาร์ซาก่อน ก็มีกินอะไรนิดหน่อย เจอโมยาดกับคริสตัลด้วย โมยาดทำขนมมา เป็นช็อกโกแลต แต่ไม่รู้เรียกอะไร คนอื่นๆ เลยเรียกว่า ช็อกโกแลตซูพรีมของโมยาด

There was Wesley House Parties last night. Ashley took me to Marcia's house. We hung out, met some new friends. Moayad and Krystle were there too. Moayad got us some chocolate that he had made. We (girls) called it Moyad's chocolate supreme.

เสร็จแล้วแอชลี่ก็พาไอ้เอ๋กับเมแกนไปบ้านจูลี่ต่อ บ้านจูลี่อยู่ใกล้สุสาน ถนนเส้นเดียวกับบ้านไอ้เอ๋ ตอนเข้าไปมีคนกำลังเล่นเกมกันอยู่ เรียกว่า Apples to Apples (เล่นยังไง กดอ่านที่ลิงค์เอาละกัน) ไอ้เอ๋ชนะตาเดียว แต่ก็สนุกดี

After that Ashley took Megan and me to Julie's house which is close to the grave yard and on the same street as mine. Many people were there. We played a card game called Apples to Apples. It was fun even though I won just once.

เสร็จแล้ว เดวิดก็พาไปบ้านเมแกนต่อ (คนละเมแกนกันกับข้างบน) ไปถึงที่นั่นกำลังเล่นเกม ประมาณว่าให้แต่ละคนเขียนหรือวาดอะไรก็ได้ลงในกระดาษ แล้วส่งต่อให้คนข้างๆ เขียนต่อ เขียนแบบขำๆ อะ :)

After left Julie's house, David and I walked to Megan's house. People there gathered in a room, sitting in a circle with pieces of paper and pens in their hands. Each of them wrote or drew something on the paper and passed it to the next one to write something and make it fun. :)

Day 355... Spring Time!

I have noticed these pretty flowers for a week. But just took the photos of them. :)

I took them in the afternoon. They sky was so clear that they looked very (too) bright.

Day 348... Postponed!

The CS qualifying exam has been postponed. How come? I would like to get it done as soon as possible so that I can do other things without worrying about it. T_T

By the way, it has been raining all day today. The weather is cooler of course. But I do not like to get wet.