Six days later I started noticing some roots came out from two of them.
More on the next day.
After 10 days, another two cuttings with small buds from the start blossomed.
Today; after two weeks and four days, there were obviously more roots.
Wednesday, June 06, 2012
I am Growing Basil!
After dinner at Dr. Box's house on the graduation ceremony day (see here), I had got some basil cuttings which are actually the leftover from cooking. Then I soaked them in water right after getting back home.
Six days later I started noticing some roots came out from two of them.
More on the next day.
After 10 days, another two cuttings with small buds from the start blossomed.
Today; after two weeks and four days, there were obviously more roots.
Six days later I started noticing some roots came out from two of them.
More on the next day.
After 10 days, another two cuttings with small buds from the start blossomed.
Today; after two weeks and four days, there were obviously more roots.
Sunday, May 20, 2012
Congratulations to My Friends/Labmates
Three of my friends just graduated this quarter, Narate, Mon, and Apurba. So I went to the commencement but did not take any photos with them because I had to go to Dr. Box's house to help him prepare some food for a party to celebrate them.
The commencement here is totally different from the one in Thailand. Here, people cheer and scream for their kids/brothers/sisters while in Thailand, it is so strict that no one other than the candidates is allowed in the ceremony.
Narate's parents also came to celebrate as well. His father is a governor of Chonburi province. We did not talk much. I just listened to them talking with Dr. Box and his son.
After the party, Dr. Box also gave me, P Noon and Bell the leftover since he was going to leave for Thailand next early morning and was not going to eat it. Well I was also going to give him a ride.
The commencement here is totally different from the one in Thailand. Here, people cheer and scream for their kids/brothers/sisters while in Thailand, it is so strict that no one other than the candidates is allowed in the ceremony.
Narate's parents also came to celebrate as well. His father is a governor of Chonburi province. We did not talk much. I just listened to them talking with Dr. Box and his son.
After the party, Dr. Box also gave me, P Noon and Bell the leftover since he was going to leave for Thailand next early morning and was not going to eat it. Well I was also going to give him a ride.
Saturday, May 12, 2012
The True Final Exam
Last Thursday, I had a final exam. It was the last coursework that I had to take in order to complete my plan of study as well. So it could be considered as the true final exam in my school life, couldn't it? Nonetheless, I still have to work on my research which I have two more works to do. (weep~)
Friday, April 20, 2012
A Creepy Night
Since summer is coming, some bugs are coming out of their hidings as well...
On Tuesday night, or you can say Wednesday's early morning since it passed past midnight already, I was sleeping while something woke me up. At first I thought it was just my imagination. Then I heard a noise like something crawling in my bed. Suddenly that something bumped on my arm!
I jumped up. My heart was beating so fast. In the dark, I pictured so many creepy creatures that it could be. I was too scared to even turn on the light to see what it really was. After gather my courage for a while, I turned on the light to see nothing in the bed. I moved it a little bit and found a HUGE COCKROACH in the corner between my bed and a tiny box that I used as a bedside table.
It took me over half an hour to remove it. The tools that I used were just a broom and a dust pan (both with 3-feet handles). Once I swept it, it squirmed which startled me. Oddly it did not crawl or run away. It moved as if it was a cripple or too weak. There were many times that I thought of calling my friends (they live next door) for help. Although I could eventually get it out of my apartment.
However, in the next morning, I found another HUGE COCKROACH in my bath tab. This time I could remove it really quick with a 3-feet handle dust pan.
Hopefully they will not come back, and none of their friends wants to get into my apartment again. I am so scared. T_T
On Tuesday night, or you can say Wednesday's early morning since it passed past midnight already, I was sleeping while something woke me up. At first I thought it was just my imagination. Then I heard a noise like something crawling in my bed. Suddenly that something bumped on my arm!
I jumped up. My heart was beating so fast. In the dark, I pictured so many creepy creatures that it could be. I was too scared to even turn on the light to see what it really was. After gather my courage for a while, I turned on the light to see nothing in the bed. I moved it a little bit and found a HUGE COCKROACH in the corner between my bed and a tiny box that I used as a bedside table.
It took me over half an hour to remove it. The tools that I used were just a broom and a dust pan (both with 3-feet handles). Once I swept it, it squirmed which startled me. Oddly it did not crawl or run away. It moved as if it was a cripple or too weak. There were many times that I thought of calling my friends (they live next door) for help. Although I could eventually get it out of my apartment.
However, in the next morning, I found another HUGE COCKROACH in my bath tab. This time I could remove it really quick with a 3-feet handle dust pan.
Hopefully they will not come back, and none of their friends wants to get into my apartment again. I am so scared. T_T
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Life Update on Mar 25 2012
Alright! It has been a long time since the last update. I just finished editing the paper to submit to a conference in Thailand. Nonetheless, I will not attend the conference. My advisor will go to present the paper. So I will not go to Thailand this year.
Also, I will have to prepare an abstract for another event on July 23. Lot of things to do.
Also, I will have to prepare an abstract for another event on July 23. Lot of things to do.
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Life Update on Feb 9 2012
It has been over a month since my last post. I am so busy with my research. I just submitted an abstract to a conference in Thailand. So now I am trying to extend it to a full paper. And hope it will get accepted so that I can possibly have a trip home for free this summer.
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Today Special Meal
To someone, it might not be special at all. To me, it was special. I did not remember the last time I had had it. I knew only that it had been so long.
Brown rice gruel with a hard-boiled egg, pickled mustard green, and fried shiitake.
Brown rice gruel with a hard-boiled egg, pickled mustard green, and fried shiitake.
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
My New Buddy: Vacuum Cleaner
It was delivered two days ago but I just had time to try it this morning.
Compared to my old one, which is very heavy and used to be powerful, but for some reason, it now does not pick anything.
It is small and light, which is good for my small room.
Compared to my old one, which is very heavy and used to be powerful, but for some reason, it now does not pick anything.
It is small and light, which is good for my small room.
Sunday, November 27, 2011
Once upon a time with a lost pup
She got lost from somewhere. Aig and Mon found her in front of our apartment. She was wet all over but still hyperactive. Aig and Mon were leaving for Austin, so they could not keep her. I took care of her for a while before deciding that I should went out to ask if someone lost a pup. Fortunately, our neighbor came home. They had had a dog so I asked them whether they could keep her. Fortunately again, while we was chatting the owner of the dog came by and picked her up.
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Seattle Day 6-7: A Pleasant Journey
It was the first morning at La Quinta which is a little bit far from the conventional center but they had breakfast. Though it was not too far to walk.
At the conference, I attended Checkpoint Optimization session and learned that whatever you would show on the screen, you had to be able to justify it clearly. The assumptions should be rationally clarified.
After that I went to a job fair. There were many national labs, universities, and industrial companies that came to recruit. Most of them had internships. Some of them also had post-doctoral positions. I had a great opportunity talking to Argonne NL, they were going to buy a huge cluster called BlueGene/P. Then they would need us soon.
Los Alamos NL was pretty interesting. I knew it when Clayton went there for an internship couple of years ago. Lawrence Livermore had a biggest booth there. They had many positions opened.
Some other NLs were also interesting, like NOAA, Lawrence Berkeley, etc. There were even a lab from Singapore and King Abdullah University from Saudi Arabia. They tried to present themselves a lot.
I spent a lot of time at the job fair. Unfortunately I did not bring my resume and business cards with me. I had not had intention to find a job at first but it turned out that I was pretty excited talking to those people (esp with a guy from Argonne).
Late afternoon, I went to Cray booth at the exhibition just to ask about OpenACC. A guy there pointed me to PGI which was the one that work a lot with the compiler. It was great talking to the people there.
In the evening, I was so exhausted but still stuck with Dr. Box to a party, just to have a free dinner. The food was just to fill my stomach, the music there was too loud. If I remember correctly they came from our neighbor, Texas.
Dr. Box and I did not wait for the raffle. We know that we had never been lucky this way. We went back to the hotel around 8 something.
The next morning, after breakfast at the hotel, I packed and tried very hard to stuff everything I had got from the conference into the bag. It turned out that I had to enlarge it a little bit.
Dr. Box gave me a ride to the airport and now I am waiting for the flight home.
At the conference, I attended Checkpoint Optimization session and learned that whatever you would show on the screen, you had to be able to justify it clearly. The assumptions should be rationally clarified.
After that I went to a job fair. There were many national labs, universities, and industrial companies that came to recruit. Most of them had internships. Some of them also had post-doctoral positions. I had a great opportunity talking to Argonne NL, they were going to buy a huge cluster called BlueGene/P. Then they would need us soon.
Los Alamos NL was pretty interesting. I knew it when Clayton went there for an internship couple of years ago. Lawrence Livermore had a biggest booth there. They had many positions opened.
Some other NLs were also interesting, like NOAA, Lawrence Berkeley, etc. There were even a lab from Singapore and King Abdullah University from Saudi Arabia. They tried to present themselves a lot.
I spent a lot of time at the job fair. Unfortunately I did not bring my resume and business cards with me. I had not had intention to find a job at first but it turned out that I was pretty excited talking to those people (esp with a guy from Argonne).
Late afternoon, I went to Cray booth at the exhibition just to ask about OpenACC. A guy there pointed me to PGI which was the one that work a lot with the compiler. It was great talking to the people there.
In the evening, I was so exhausted but still stuck with Dr. Box to a party, just to have a free dinner. The food was just to fill my stomach, the music there was too loud. If I remember correctly they came from our neighbor, Texas.
Dr. Box and I did not wait for the raffle. We know that we had never been lucky this way. We went back to the hotel around 8 something.
The next morning, after breakfast at the hotel, I packed and tried very hard to stuff everything I had got from the conference into the bag. It turned out that I had to enlarge it a little bit.
Dr. Box gave me a ride to the airport and now I am waiting for the flight home.
Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Seattle Day 5: Interesting Talk
I went to the keynote in the morning. The speaker was the CEO and co-founder of NVIDIA. The room was so packed that they had to split the other group to another room with video linked to that room. I was in that group. =(
After that I went to a paper session that was about GPU optimization. That was interesting. There was something that quite similar to my research.
I spent almost the whole afternoon talking to the people in the exhibition. Talking at NVIDIA booth was pretty interesting. They introduced me to the new standard called OpenACC which would change your serial code to parallel with just adding couple of lines.
I also got 6 more t-shirts. Just wonder how I can pack them into my bag.
After that I went to a paper session that was about GPU optimization. That was interesting. There was something that quite similar to my research.
I spent almost the whole afternoon talking to the people in the exhibition. Talking at NVIDIA booth was pretty interesting. They introduced me to the new standard called OpenACC which would change your serial code to parallel with just adding couple of lines.
I also got 6 more t-shirts. Just wonder how I can pack them into my bag.
Monday, November 14, 2011
Seattle Day 4: LittleFe Buildout
Nothing much in the morning. I just attended some sessions which are not so interesting.
In the afternoon, I had to team up with Dr. Bishop to assemble a LittleFe (a small cluster with 6 mother boards: 1 head node and 5 computing nodes, also had a GPU integrated on each board). Dr. Bishop was going to carry it back to Ruston. And hopefully, we can use it in our classes.
In the evening, the exhibition opened. I enjoyed hunting free stuff, got 3 t-shirts, pens, screw drivers, and some toys. I also won a car race at QLogic booth and got a box of car toys. I gave it to Dr. Bishop because he had a little boy.
In the afternoon, I had to team up with Dr. Bishop to assemble a LittleFe (a small cluster with 6 mother boards: 1 head node and 5 computing nodes, also had a GPU integrated on each board). Dr. Bishop was going to carry it back to Ruston. And hopefully, we can use it in our classes.
In the evening, the exhibition opened. I enjoyed hunting free stuff, got 3 t-shirts, pens, screw drivers, and some toys. I also won a car race at QLogic booth and got a box of car toys. I gave it to Dr. Bishop because he had a little boy.
Sunday, November 13, 2011
Seattle Day 3: Gather up
Dr. Box, Aig, and Mon arrived at Seattle yesterday but we could just get together today.
I went to have lunch with Dr. Box. He introduced me to Dr. Hong Ong and his team from Malaysia. They also work on CUDA too, focusing on data transfer between GPU and CPU memory because the GPU memory is so small. I recalled that I had also come across this problem when I had been working on Haplotype Inference problem with BIOTEC.
In the evening I met Aig and Mon at the conference and went out to have dinner with Dr. Box at a Chinese restaurant in China town. I made me miss Chinese food back in Bangkok. ^^
I went to have lunch with Dr. Box. He introduced me to Dr. Hong Ong and his team from Malaysia. They also work on CUDA too, focusing on data transfer between GPU and CPU memory because the GPU memory is so small. I recalled that I had also come across this problem when I had been working on Haplotype Inference problem with BIOTEC.
In the evening I met Aig and Mon at the conference and went out to have dinner with Dr. Box at a Chinese restaurant in China town. I made me miss Chinese food back in Bangkok. ^^
Saturday, November 12, 2011
Seattle Day 2: In the Conference
It was the first day of the supercomputing conference. After registration, I got a badge and a bag. I liked the bag. It was well designed for keeping a laptop, an iPad, etc. There was just one thing that I didn't like about it. It was a shoulder bag. Well, I preferred a backpack.
I also had a chance to meet many people from many fields because this event was not just for computer geeks. There were also physicists, biologists, mathematicians, etc, whoever that used huge computational systems to solve their problems. It was a good opportunity to make connections. ^^
I also had a chance to meet many people from many fields because this event was not just for computer geeks. There were also physicists, biologists, mathematicians, etc, whoever that used huge computational systems to solve their problems. It was a good opportunity to make connections. ^^
Friday, November 11, 2011
Seattle Day 1: Just Landed
I left Ruston around 10:15 AM with Dr. Bishop. He drove.
After a long flight (around 6 hours with one stop at Houston airport), we landed around 6 PM. Then we tried to catch a free shuttle but no luck. So we took the light rail instead. Around an hour later, we arrived at Red Lion Hotel. I got into the room 710, dropped the bags and went back to meet Dr. Bishop at the lobby again. We walked to the opposite building just to have dinner. Once we got back to the hotel, we saw 4 police cars at the front door. No accident, nothing to give a clue what was going on. No one knew why they were there. So I just headed back to the room because I was so worn out.
After a long flight (around 6 hours with one stop at Houston airport), we landed around 6 PM. Then we tried to catch a free shuttle but no luck. So we took the light rail instead. Around an hour later, we arrived at Red Lion Hotel. I got into the room 710, dropped the bags and went back to meet Dr. Bishop at the lobby again. We walked to the opposite building just to have dinner. Once we got back to the hotel, we saw 4 police cars at the front door. No accident, nothing to give a clue what was going on. No one knew why they were there. So I just headed back to the room because I was so worn out.
Thursday, November 03, 2011
A Little Bad Luck
On the evening I had a boring seminar class at GTM (Math building). This building is a little bit old. Though it had been renovated, the stairs were still slippery. I think it was also my fault that I did not step on the black strips which were to prevent slipping. I hurt my butt and my right elbow but still okay. And also thanks to my friends that were with me.
At least I could save my little laptop that I was holding in my hand. ^^
At least I could save my little laptop that I was holding in my hand. ^^
Friday, October 28, 2011
Our Activities Relevant to Thai Flood
I just got back from Dr. Box's house. He had asked us (5 Thai students) to go meeting with him in order to talk over about what we could do to help out in this crisis. We had a conference call with Raju, Dr. Box's ex-student. He has an experience with disaster management in Mississippi and elsewhere.
Raju provided us with some useful information regarding pre- and post-disaster, about supply chain management -- like evaluating how much gas would be provided for evacuation, etc, how we could analyze the data gathered from GIS based application to predict the situation long enough for planning ahead, how to stimulate the economics after the flood, etc.
We will brainstorm and would contact an organization in Thailand if we can come up with anything.
Raju provided us with some useful information regarding pre- and post-disaster, about supply chain management -- like evaluating how much gas would be provided for evacuation, etc, how we could analyze the data gathered from GIS based application to predict the situation long enough for planning ahead, how to stimulate the economics after the flood, etc.
We will brainstorm and would contact an organization in Thailand if we can come up with anything.
Friday, September 23, 2011
On Sep 23, 2011
After spending about a week fighting with the workstation that I just took possession of, it finally works. The issues have been solved and I can go back to focus on my research. (This machine is actually a part of my research though.)
Also, the trip to SC11 has been confirmed. So I will go to Seattle this November for 5 days. Travel again... ^^
Also, the trip to SC11 has been confirmed. So I will go to Seattle this November for 5 days. Travel again... ^^
Monday, August 22, 2011
About Birds @ Dr. Box's House
I went to fill the bird feeders at Dr. Box's house today. There were many regular bird feeders but I filled only two of them. The others were hung too high. Once I finished filling some seeds and got them to hung at the same branches, couple of tiny birds were waiting. I did not know what kind of birds they were, looked like sparrows, but I did not think they were sparrow. I could spot a cardinal too, and some others.
Dr. Box also has two hummingbird feeders. I had to get them to wash, removed some dead ants and filled in some syrup. I did not think it was nectar that Dr. Box had prepared for those hums. I thought it would be just water and sugar. While I was washing the feeders in the kitchen (which its windows faced the trees that the feeders had been hung), a little hum came to that spot, flew around as if he was wondering where the feeders were. He was so sweet.
While I was busy with those feeders, there were thunders and lightnings and the sky turned gray. Once I finished and got into the car, it rained very very heavily as if it had been waiting for me to finish my job. Though I got soak a little when I got home.
Dr. Box also has two hummingbird feeders. I had to get them to wash, removed some dead ants and filled in some syrup. I did not think it was nectar that Dr. Box had prepared for those hums. I thought it would be just water and sugar. While I was washing the feeders in the kitchen (which its windows faced the trees that the feeders had been hung), a little hum came to that spot, flew around as if he was wondering where the feeders were. He was so sweet.
While I was busy with those feeders, there were thunders and lightnings and the sky turned gray. Once I finished and got into the car, it rained very very heavily as if it had been waiting for me to finish my job. Though I got soak a little when I got home.
Saturday, August 20, 2011
About Dogs
My neighbor which is our landlady's son's family, had a gentle Labrador. His name was Sunny. Yesterday James came back to return the key since he had moved. We talked to our neighbor a bit but did not see Sunny which usually was the first one to welcome us. Then we just knew that Sunny had been dead and was buried somewhere in the backyard. Just about a week ago that I heard that he got sick. He was old though.
Last night, we went to a small party and Lisa's house. It was to celebrate Lisa's and James' graduation. Lisa has a tiny Yorkshire Terrier. She called him Ross. Ross was so cute and friendly and calm. I had never heard him bark even when he was so excited because there were many strangers stepped in his territory. Lisa's husband, Clayton got me some treat to befriend with him. After a while he slept in my arms.
Last night, we went to a small party and Lisa's house. It was to celebrate Lisa's and James' graduation. Lisa has a tiny Yorkshire Terrier. She called him Ross. Ross was so cute and friendly and calm. I had never heard him bark even when he was so excited because there were many strangers stepped in his territory. Lisa's husband, Clayton got me some treat to befriend with him. After a while he slept in my arms.
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