Horay!!

Horay!!!

My simulation results finally seem normal. Phew!

Ok, will try to sound as lay man as possible.

You see, after doing the simulation, i need to extract the strain data from the simulation to compare it with my experimental data of the same setup, expect it is the real thing. The reason why i wanna do simulation is so that i can use the simulation to test out the material properties of the 3 types of solder i have experimented with, to see if it can be used to predict the results of the actual experiment. If it indeed can, then its a success! If it can't, well then too bad. Edison tried thousands of materials to be the filament for his lightbulb before succeeding didnt he? haha.

Anyway, i digress. So the simulation was giving me rubbish strain results!!! the strain output from the simulation resembles something like a 1 yr old trying to draw something... anything. just zig zagged lines. rubbbish (although recently, some elephants in thailand has developed the skill of painting with their trunks. and the painting was auctioned at a price of S$60,000, isnt it better to be an elephant these days?) I digress again, so the funny thing is, the stress value is however very nice, very similar to what i expected the shape of the graph to be like. Which doesnt make sense!! Coz,

Stress = Strain X Young's Modulus
and since Young's Modulus is defined to be a constant in my simulation, then the Stress history graph should have the same shape as the strain!!! But it doesnt!!!

But after me and 3 other PhD students brainstormed for a while, we finally found out its because we had to change this setting for the calculation to be at double precision rather then single precision! >_<

Thus, to keep the long long story short, with a click of a button, my life seems so much less bleek out of a sudden.

Hor!!!
Breakthrough!!! Motivated now liao!!!
Work work work!!!!

Rain! Finally! . . . . . its a rainy day... very rainy.

After a dry spell, bush fires and smokey skies for the pass month, it has finally rained!! No more smokey smell of burnt ashes in the morning, nor misty foggy skies. Ahh!! Its sooo good to breathe and see clearly again.

Its just after lunch, and i just cannot imagine starting work. The inertia must weigh a few million tonnes. >_< Cos during lunch, i just calculated the time i need to do that 54 simulations (note that i REcalculated the number of simulations i would be required to do, twice! and it still adds up to 54. -_- arent the numbers suppose to go down everytime you count it? Ah! maybe i got it confused with my wallet -_- )

Calculation process:. . . . . . . . .

3 Different Materials,
3 Different Microstructure per Material
3 Different Striker Velocity per material per microstructure
AND!
2 Different dependence PER material, PER microstructure, PER striker velocity. . . . . . . . . .

-_-"

= 3 X 3 X 3 X 2= 54. . . . .

time taken PER simulation. NINE HOURS!

Total time taken for ALL simulation = 54 X 9 = 486Hrs
Number of Days to run simulation = 486/24 = 20 1/4

i need almost 3 WEEKS to run that 54 simulations on ONE computer!!!!
Lucky i got 2.. but still... its like a minimum of 11 Days!!!!!

-_- and i still havent been able to start yet... Hahahahaha....

This is SOOO FUN! >_<

 

 

1st of March!

I cant believe it! its the first of march, ITS MARCH ALREADY! and i am still here. where? nowhere! The word Depression sounds like wonderland for my present mental state now. >_< I kept thinking that I would be able to complete this by end of Dec after my Japan trip. I didnt. I TOT i was going to complete it by end of jan or by cny, but i DIDNT! And then i told myself, "no worries I will complete by end feb", guess what? I DIDNT! >_<

Siighhh.... now i hope to complete it by end of march, hopefully before my birthday. Although the data processing is done, I am about to start doing the simulations, which leaves the simulations, and the rest of the thesis writing (simulation, results, discussion and conclusion) but it seems FOREVER!!! Can i do it in time? CAN I?!!!?? ARgg!!!! I hands itch to hit some heads. and mind to get some rest....-_- Moan~~~~

a word a day (issue 1)

Making up new words.

I like to make up new words.

Making up new words. It make me feel like i contribute to society(on top of the research i do on solder material which will one day, revolutionalize how mankind smashes their portable electronic devices such as cellphones, discman, mp3 player and the ugly looking ipod, elk!). But more often then not, its most probably that i just mis-spell the word (on msn/icq). -_-

The first word i will be making up today, that i will be so generously sharing with u guys is,

Bluffer
noun

1. A person who mislead or deceive.
2. A person who impress, deter, or intimidate by a false display of confidence.
3. A person who deprives others of gossip which they have promised to talk about, but fails to deliver and should be dragged out onto the streets to be tickled, fed with bowls of wasabi (through the nose OF COURSE), made to drink Luo2 Han4 Guo3 juice, have cockcraches/lizards (depends which the offender fears most) put into his/her pants and forced to watch local variety shows over and over again.

Bonus issue 1+:
Dame
adj

1. Damn gone wrong.
2. Synonym as Damn.

e.g. Dame YOU! Dame it! Dame!

Just one of the 30 batches

Each of these specimens were personally and carefully crafted over 20-30minutes each. And smashed up in a matter of micro-seconds. T_T My babies!!!  

Cool collection of CANS of JAPAN my friend has. & of course, no doubt, a SMAP fan -_-" 

Green Light!!!

Finally, after many breathless moments, actually, 45 minutes of it, of presenting my analysed results of my experiments, my supervisor has given me the green light to go ahead to do the simulation and start drafting the chapter on discussion!!! WhooHOooo!!!

2 of my lab-mates have just given us a treat at the nearby seafood restaurant. It was great man! The hot plate tofu, fried cod fish, boiled prawns and pork ribs were FANTASTIC!

Now back in lab again, will start rearranging my results and start simulation soon! hopefully in the next 1-2 days can test drive already. I have a staggering total of 54 simulations to run . . . . . . . . gasp!!!

cool patterns 

Bad Day for SEM

1030am, i went to the materials lab to polish my samples before coating them with Au(GOLD) to help conductivity when placed into the SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope). All seems easy. Polish my specimen. Etch it with chemicals to make the microstructure more define, coat it was gold, and there you go! SEM sample ready for use. NOT!

Whats suppose to be a 1 hour task lasted for 3 WHOLE hours! Because the Au-sputtering machining went haywired and deposited a thick layer of Au instead of the usual thin layer. Then i had to redo the polishing and etching, oops... over-etched...so re-polished....and Opps.. over-etched AGAIN! ARGG~~~!!! So after 3 failed attempted, i finally got them done and coated my samples with Au.

This only left me with 1 hour to chop chop settled my lunch and prepare for the SEM session.... which turned out to be 2 hours of frustration of hide and seek and focusing nightmare!!! >_<

*Stress alert activated!!!*

COKE TIME!!!

Sigh.... glup glup glup....

Burb!!!!

*tummy bulges out*

-_- Grosss.....

Love Letters

Last Saturday, I went to my friend's place to Bai4 Nien2. Basically just another hanging out session with lots of laugh and eat and playing of PS2, and of course, LOVE LETTERS! Those with chocolate twirls on the inside. Yummm.....

I got so addicted, i almost single handledly finish half the can >_<

But the addiction didnt stop there. Yesterday, during lunch, i went to the nearby supermarket and bought a tin of it for myself! And guess what, the addiction was spread to the rest of my lab. Within 2 hours (the time taken for me to leave my tin of love lettes UNPROTECTED) it was half empty!!! Gasp! But its good to share good things with friends :)

But things got too far. This morning, even the TIN was gone!

-_-

I didnt even get a chance to take a photo of the empty tin.....

My Future office a.k.a. Central Business District ^_^ 

On Shear Bridge itself 

Taken after a light morning shower in Arashiyama-Eki, Sagano, Kyoto, Japan  

Tada! My Red Shoes! ^_^  

CNY SHOPPING!!!!

YESH!!! TOday, I went Chinese New Year Shopping!!!!

Thanks to my Dad's generous contribution to my save-the-scholar campaigne, I HAVE MONEY TO BUY NEW YEAR CLOTHES!!!

So first things first. office wear. I needed to go some clothes that i can use for future interviews and possibly WORK! >_< So i roamed around in Taka to look for them. To my disappointment, they either are too flowery, or too old fuddy duddyly. -_-" I tried a plain white shirt ( official formal office wear ) from Daniel Hecter, and i look like an 50 year old OLD MAN!!! >_< the cutting is all wrong man!!!

Then i move on the G2000. Vowing that i will not purchase any shirts from that place as i always tot it was too common and the tops are too plasticy, i went there in search of a decent (CHEAP) pair or office pants, and maybe the simple plain white top i was looking for. So i grabbed a pair of pants, and asked for a white shirt. But the sales assistant asked me to try on a pale PURPLE SHIRT!!! for size....... ........ i obeyed reluctantly. But to my suprise, the pale purple shirt looks quite good. gasp!!

Ok! listen me out here. i KNOW what it seems like, but neither did i ever dare to imagine i would look ok in purple. But it DOES look not bad. Maybe i like that cutting, but like my faithful friend said, maybe i am more suited for warm colours(watever that means) so maybe that purple goes. nevertheless, i like it. And after testing several stuff, finally to go with a plain pair of dark navy blue (almost black) pants, AND THE PURPLE SHIRT!!! Heh! ok guys, u guys gotto trust me here. My taste of clothings isnot THAT bad righT? RIGHT? right??? ..... hello......? hello?

But the BEST BUY was actually a pair of thin soled sneaker i got from Tangs. I have ALWAYS been looking for a pair or red shoes to go with my jeans. Always tot it look good. But after missing the chance to buy the one from Nike ( the one without shoelace, elastic type... er...nevermind), i have been searching high and low for sooo long. And thanks to "BAKA" who apperently have HIGH HIGH HIGH (translantes = EXPENSIVE$$ expensive$$) taste in clothings, for the first time, suggested i try somethign actually affordable. And thats the 69.90 dollar pair of RED SHOES!! ^_^ I love it! Honestly, i would have never tot of trying it as it might be too LOUD, but after her persuasion, i tried it on, and Liked it a lot! :) Thats why i like to shop with girls. They always make me try on stuff that i will NEVER even dream of trying, and SOMETIMES, just sometimes, it turns out to be a good buy :) So, i am although a sick, but a happy shopper :)

*prancing around with my red shoes*

^_^


Oh! i also just trimmed my mane again at shinji matsuo.... so so la..:( i never like trimming my mane :(

Being Sick

Being sick is no fun. When you are sick, you cannot do what you are donig well. In my case for instance, I am suffering in lab mugging my thesis. And i cant even SUFFER properly now, thanks for my flu. I cant bang my head on the wall properly, I cant pluck out my hair strand by strand properly, I cant even curse and swear at my project and results properly. So being sick is no fun. It takes out the joy in being tortured by your thesis.

Aachoo!!  

I IS SICK!

*Sniff Snifff*

ARggggggg!!!!!

>_<

First a sore throat, then today, or more like mid of last night, a horrible runaway nose and cough. The week before NEW YEAR!!!! ARgggG!!!!!! It always seem to happen at this period. Its like some predestined prank that has been cast upon me at the period before the Lunar new year!

Its a curse i tell you! I am almost certain, that those whom i have visited during the previous new years had come together to place a curse on me, just because i have cleared out all their BA4 GUA1 everytime i visit them. I mean WHAT IS THIS?? Wheres the spirit of giving here? Even if i dont finish them, it would grow moldy after a while and they would have to waste it into the trash. I am actually doing them a favor. Sigh, unappreciative bunch of people... sigh. What has the world become.

*Cough cough*
*Sniff Snifff* ARrggggggG!!!

>_<