I've been very rarely write new post these days. There're so many thing to do in my daily life recently. The experiments, the company management, the thesis, the journal paper, another international conference, the guys inside my company... and where should I steer the company, my love, etc. Oh, I forgot about what I need for myself in every single moment...
Been spent too much money for obtaining some new infrastructure for my company. There is cloud computing dream in me which urges me to go further and further. But, that is for my company. As I said above, it's always myself who me myself forget. Should use the money to buy a Lexus... but now, it's just a Lexus dream. I can only afford a Honda, with money pouring in from my account in Malaysia. It's worse because of the pricey Yen in recent years.
What about Abg Wan's marriage party in November? Would I be able to attend it? I never attended any marriage party in my family since I entered University Malaya... up until today, except for Kak Ra's. Shame on me. Oh God, that's too bad. But how I could attend any of it while I'm hundred of miles away... and returning is not an easy thing, with me who think "my job first, family is next". Oh... maybe I should find something to settle down and get the truth and enjoyment of life... my current condition is too bad (I think, not you think!)
Maybe this is for me...
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Arrhenius Plot with OriginLab
Alhamdulillah, today, I've found the way to make Arrhenius fitting to obtain activation energy from my InGaN multi-quantum-well (MQW) temperature-dependent photoluminescence measurement.
I've been searching for the ways to make the fitting for activation energy (Ea) since last week. Thanks to Dr. Chen, he helped me to fit my data yesterday. After getting the fitting data today, I tried to do it myself using my Origin 8.0. He could help me with the fitting because he did it on his home PC running Origin 7.5. The interface is totally different, same as what I have with my Origin 6.0 and Origin 8.0. That's the root of the whole problem. But, now, it's okay.
I'll post the method here when all my data is properly calculated.
Alhamdulillah (Thanks God (Allah)).
I've been searching for the ways to make the fitting for activation energy (Ea) since last week. Thanks to Dr. Chen, he helped me to fit my data yesterday. After getting the fitting data today, I tried to do it myself using my Origin 8.0. He could help me with the fitting because he did it on his home PC running Origin 7.5. The interface is totally different, same as what I have with my Origin 6.0 and Origin 8.0. That's the root of the whole problem. But, now, it's okay.
I'll post the method here when all my data is properly calculated.
Alhamdulillah (Thanks God (Allah)).
Sunday, July 05, 2009
Miley Cyrus - The Climb - Scene from Hannah Montana The Movie
The Climb is the brand new hit single from Miley Cyrus available on Hannah Montana: The Movie Soundtrack in stores March 24! Hannah Montana: The Movie only in Theaters April 10
Click (more info) for Lyrics.
I can almost see it
That dream I'm dreaming but
There's a voice inside my head sayin,
You'll never reach it,
Every step I'm taking,
Every move I make feels
Lost with no direction
My faith is shaking but I
Got to keep trying
Got to keep my head held high
There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what?s waiting on the other side
It's the climb
The struggles I'm facing,
The chances I'm taking
Sometimes they knock me down but
No I'm not breaking
I may not know it
But these are the moments that
I'm going to remember most yeah
Just got to keep going
And I,
I got to be strong
Just keep pushing on, cause
There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes I'm going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb
There's always going to be another mountain
I'm always going to want to make it move
Always going to be an uphill battle,
Sometimes you going to have to lose,
Ain't about how fast I get there,
Ain't about what's waiting on the other side
It's the climb
Keep on moving
Keep climbing
Keep the faith baby
It's all about
It's all about
The climb
Keep the faith
Keep your faith
Monday, June 29, 2009
Finding answers...
Still writing my 3rd paper. Alhamdulillah (thanks God), every result for my AlGaN/GaN underlayer looks good... PL (photoluminescense) surface mapping, PL temperature-dependence, TEM (transmission electron microscopy) and also x-ray RSM (reciprocal surface mapping) is also good.
Last time there was problem with the RSM value when the x-ray data was opened on my PC. Today, Alhamdulillah, when I tried to re-do the measurements, I opened the data on the PC at x-ray room... and it seems like everything is OK. I did re-do for just 1 sample today because I think it is not necessary to do the same thing. And, the result today also perfectly match my previous result. So, no problem. Just finished the measurements and returned to my office room.
This 2-3 days is time to find answers to many questions in my mind... regarding to my research, especially. Also for my business. Also for the partnership for my business... hmmm...
Haha... checked SongYing's blog just now. It seems too long I haven't heard from her. Maybe she's busy with exams there.
Okay, I've to go. Not eat anything yet. Wanna go home and cook something before sleeping. I'm feeling too tired already because my mind works for the entire day... already 13 hours working. Go back Shuhaimi...
Last time there was problem with the RSM value when the x-ray data was opened on my PC. Today, Alhamdulillah, when I tried to re-do the measurements, I opened the data on the PC at x-ray room... and it seems like everything is OK. I did re-do for just 1 sample today because I think it is not necessary to do the same thing. And, the result today also perfectly match my previous result. So, no problem. Just finished the measurements and returned to my office room.
This 2-3 days is time to find answers to many questions in my mind... regarding to my research, especially. Also for my business. Also for the partnership for my business... hmmm...
Haha... checked SongYing's blog just now. It seems too long I haven't heard from her. Maybe she's busy with exams there.
Okay, I've to go. Not eat anything yet. Wanna go home and cook something before sleeping. I'm feeling too tired already because my mind works for the entire day... already 13 hours working. Go back Shuhaimi...
Saturday, June 27, 2009
いつか - 願い星～I wish upon a star～
作詩：いつか・奥村イオン
作曲：岩代太郎・前田和彦
編曲：岩代太郎
歌：いつか
いつの日か
あなたの腕の温もりに
包まれて眠る夜
I wish upon a star 帰り道を
導いて 私の元へ
I wish upon a star 迷わぬように
足元を照らしてて
降り注ぐ
遠き光は 女神のように
あなたをそっと守り続ける
forever love
I wish upon a star 夏の空に
いくつもの想いが浮かぶよ
I wish upon a star なぞってみる
愛の星 結んでる
耀いた
星の光は 海を泳いで
安らぎの場所 見つけて眠る
forever love
いつの日か
あなたの胸に
いつの日か
Friday, June 26, 2009
Sunday, June 21, 2009
Yay! It's new design!
Spent ~48 hours in front of the PC completing theme design for my business in Malaysia. Hmm... there're still many bugs, but I'm putting it on production now. You can view it HERE.
Sunday, June 07, 2009
Come Back to Me
I've been quite busy lately working on my research, and don't spend time to write here. There's 1 more publication that I need to finish before I could sit back and feel safe. The 3rd publication must be accepted in July (the worst case) to enable me to finish my study in October. Otherwise... I have to extend a little more, that I don't really want to.
Spent time web-casting with my family in Malaysia last night. It was so great because the whole family was at home, they just returned from my elder brother's engagement. I know, next is my turn...
Found a very good new song by Utada Hikaru at someone's blog on the net. I like the rhythm so much that I think I should put it here. Please enjoy the music.
Utada Hikaru - Come Back to Me
The rain falls on my windows
And the coldness runs through my soul
When the rain falls, oh when the rain falls
I don't want to be alone
I wish that I could photoshop on
Our bad memories
Because the flashbacks, oh the flashbacks
Won't leave me alone
If you come back to me
I'll be all that you need
Baby, come back to me
Let me make up for what happened in the past
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
Boy, you're one in a million
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
You're one in a million
Memories I have of Manhattan
She goes shopping for new clothes
And she buys this
And she buys that
Just leave her alone
I wish that he would listen to her
Side of the story
It isn't that bad
It isn't that bad
And she's wiser for it now
I admit I cheated
Don't know why I did it
But I do regret it
Nothing I can do or say can change the past
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
Boy, you're one in a million
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
You're one in a million
One in a million
Everything I ever did
Heaven knows I'm sorry but
I was too young to see
You were always there for me
And my curiosity got the better half of me
Baby take it easy on me
Anything from A to Z
Tell me what you want to be
I open my heart to be
You are more priority
Can't you see you punished me
More than enough already
Baby take it easy on me
Baby take it easy on me
Baby come back to me
Baby come back to me
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
Boy, you're one in a million
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
You're one in a million
One in a million
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
Boy, you're one in a million
One in a million
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
Boy, you're one in a million
One in a million
Spent time web-casting with my family in Malaysia last night. It was so great because the whole family was at home, they just returned from my elder brother's engagement. I know, next is my turn...
Found a very good new song by Utada Hikaru at someone's blog on the net. I like the rhythm so much that I think I should put it here. Please enjoy the music.
Utada Hikaru - Come Back to Me
The rain falls on my windows
And the coldness runs through my soul
When the rain falls, oh when the rain falls
I don't want to be alone
I wish that I could photoshop on
Our bad memories
Because the flashbacks, oh the flashbacks
Won't leave me alone
If you come back to me
I'll be all that you need
Baby, come back to me
Let me make up for what happened in the past
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
Boy, you're one in a million
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
You're one in a million
Memories I have of Manhattan
She goes shopping for new clothes
And she buys this
And she buys that
Just leave her alone
I wish that he would listen to her
Side of the story
It isn't that bad
It isn't that bad
And she's wiser for it now
I admit I cheated
Don't know why I did it
But I do regret it
Nothing I can do or say can change the past
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
Boy, you're one in a million
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
You're one in a million
One in a million
Everything I ever did
Heaven knows I'm sorry but
I was too young to see
You were always there for me
And my curiosity got the better half of me
Baby take it easy on me
Anything from A to Z
Tell me what you want to be
I open my heart to be
You are more priority
Can't you see you punished me
More than enough already
Baby take it easy on me
Baby take it easy on me
Baby come back to me
Baby come back to me
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
Boy, you're one in a million
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
You're one in a million
One in a million
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
Boy, you're one in a million
One in a million
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
I'll be everything you need
Come back
Baby come back to me
Come back
Boy, you're one in a million
One in a million
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Sultan Mizan Stadium Roof Collapse
The Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium roof structure before the collapse.
The Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium after its roof collapsed yesterday.
The Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium after its roof collapsed yesterday.
Billed as the pride of the state, the RM300mil Sultan Mizan Zainal Abidin Stadium in Gong Badak suffered a major blow when its roof collapsed yesterday – just a year after it was opened.
No one was injured in the 9am incident, but the stadium, which was the venue for Sukma (Malaysian Games) last year, has been declared unsafe.
The damage at the east wing has been estimated at RM25mil.
The impact of the collapse was so loud that an employee at the stadium thought that a plane had crashed-landed on it.
“I shivered when I heard the deafening sound,” stadium administration officer Noor-kumarasari Jamil, 31, said.
She panicked and screamed for her colleagues to leave the office as the Sultan Mahmud Airport was situated near to the stadium.
Noorkumarasari said her superior directed all the employees to vacate the office and take shelter at a nearby indoor stadium.
General worker Hajjah Shafar, 32, said she was terrified when she saw the roof structure tumbling down.
“I was sweeping the floor at the west wing of the stadium when the roof collapsed,” she said. “I just ran for my life.”
Nineteen workers, mostly cleaners, were at the stadium but they managed to flee to safety.
The stadium is part of the modern Gong Badak sports complex, which was built at an initial cost of RM250mil but the amount surged by an additional RM50mil due to soaring prices of building materials.
The indoor stadium, which is also part of the complex, was built at a cost of RM160mil.
The roof on the stadium’s left wing was ravaged after the iron frame structure supporting the 300m-long roof destabilised, causing it to fold. The affected zones were the main entrance, royal podium and the public seating area.
A Kancil car and three motorcycles were also damaged by the debris.
Works Minister Datuk Shaziman Mansor, who visited the site, said the Construction and Industrial Development Board, a wing under the ministry, had been tasked to form a team comprising architects to determine the cause of the catastrophe.
“It’s premature to point fingers at any party, including the contractor responsible for erecting the roof structure, until the outcome of the investigation.
“The stadium is still under warranty and the contractor will bear the cost of the remedial works,” he said, adding that the incident had tarnished the reputation of the country.
State Fire and Rescue Department director Puazan Ahmad said they received a distress call at 9.45am, and 25 personnel were sent to the site.
Saturday, May 30, 2009
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Fix GRUB MBR After Reinstall Windows
Update:
For CentOS/Fedora, it is very easy to do this using the "grub-install [device name]" command.
For me, I use:
(If you have an IDE hard disk, the [device name] is "hda", while for my SCSI disk, it is "sda")
I have a dual install, with Windows Server 2008 (for testing) in the 200GB first partition, a small unpartitioned space in the second partition, and CentOS 5 in another 200GB third partition. There is also unpartitioned space (in LVM) left afterward for my Xen virtual machine testing.
After a few weeks, I decided to install Windows 7 in the first 200GB partition removing the Windows Server 2008. However, after completing the Windows 7 installation, I found that the splash GRUB screen asking for which OS for boot-up was not there anymore.
Here is my method to fix it:
1. Boot with CentOS 5 CD, in rescue mode:
2. It will search for previous Linux installation. Mount the Linux installation:
3. Find your installation disk, by checking in previously working /etc/grub.conf file:
5. Restart the PC with:
Averything should return to normal now.
References:
1. http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html
2. http://www.increa.com/articles/GRUB-over-windows/index.htm
For CentOS/Fedora, it is very easy to do this using the "grub-install [device name]" command.
For me, I use:
(If you have an IDE hard disk, the [device name] is "hda", while for my SCSI disk, it is "sda")
# /sbin/grub-install /dev/sda
Installation finished. No error reported.
This is the contents of the device map /boot/grub/device.map.
Check if this is correct or not. If any of the lines is incorrect,
fix it and re-run the script `grub-install'.
# this device map was generated by anaconda
(hd0) /dev/sda
I have a dual install, with Windows Server 2008 (for testing) in the 200GB first partition, a small unpartitioned space in the second partition, and CentOS 5 in another 200GB third partition. There is also unpartitioned space (in LVM) left afterward for my Xen virtual machine testing.
After a few weeks, I decided to install Windows 7 in the first 200GB partition removing the Windows Server 2008. However, after completing the Windows 7 installation, I found that the splash GRUB screen asking for which OS for boot-up was not there anymore.
Here is my method to fix it:
1. Boot with CentOS 5 CD, in rescue mode:
$linux rescue
2. It will search for previous Linux installation. Mount the Linux installation:
$chroot /sys/sysimage
3. Find your installation disk, by checking in previously working /etc/grub.conf file:
$cat /etc/grub.conf
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE: You have a /boot partition. This means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
# initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=7
splashimage=(hd0,1)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.10.el5xen)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /xen.gz-3.3.1
module /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5xen ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
module /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5xen.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.1.10.el5)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.1.10.el5.img
title CentOS (2.6.18-128.el5)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-128.el5 ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-128.el5.img
title Other (Microsoft Windows)
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
$
As we can see, the OS is installed in hd0, with CentOS in (hd0,1) and Windows in (hd0,0).
4. Run the following grub command, and you can setup/modify/fix GRUB MBR:
$grub
$>root (hd0,1)
$>setup --stage2=/root/grub/stage2 (hd0)
$>quit
$
5. Restart the PC with:
$shutdown -r now
Averything should return to normal now.
References:
1. http://linuxhelp.blogspot.com/2005/11/how-to-repair-corrupt-mbr-and-boot.html
2. http://www.increa.com/articles/GRUB-over-windows/index.htm
Saturday, May 23, 2009
福山雅治 - 最愛 (Fukuyama Masaharu - SaiAi)
A very good song by Fukuyama Masaharu, now becoming theme song for new Toshiba Regza flat-panel TV. "SaiAi" means "the most loved".
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Change IE Title Bar Text
How to change "Provided by Dell" in your Windows Internet Explorer title window:
Change IE Title Bar Text
This tweak allows you to customize Internet Explorer by adding your own window title.
[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Modify/Create the Value Name [Window Title] according to the Value Data listed below.
Data Type: REG_SZ [String Value] // Value Name: Window Title
Value Data: [Enter The Text Desired In Title Bar]
Exit Registry and Reboot
Change IE Title Bar Text
This tweak allows you to customize Internet Explorer by adding your own window title.
[Start] [Run] [Regedit]
Registry Key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Main
Modify/Create the Value Name [Window Title] according to the Value Data listed below.
Data Type: REG_SZ [String Value] // Value Name: Window Title
Value Data: [Enter The Text Desired In Title Bar]
Exit Registry and Reboot
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
The worst oral presenttaion, ever!
I've finished all the presentations this evening. I think, my talk is the worst of all guys presenting at this conference... I was so nervous, and I've to see my text through the entire presentation. And, I exceed the 15 minutes time... they don't even give any question time for me because there's no time anymore. Everybody who see my face seems like saying, "You're the worst guy today!".
By the way, all have finished... and everybody who I met during the poster session (after the oral presentation) agrees that our data on Si(111) is the best result in the world! I think, here, they're good at presentations, but, their results are bad! In other words, they're good at presenting bad results! And the worse thing is they fabricate their results to look good! They do TEM, but when I asked about why their dislocation density is so good, they told me they estimate the dislocations by AFM. I wonder why they estimate it by AFM when they already do TEM (she is a professor, the meeting chair though). Seems like she don't like me much because I said during the oral presentaton that we're one of the few laboratory in the world who could achieve crack-free GaN on Si, and nobody attending this meeting could achieve that. The professor also did LED on Si, but she told me the IQE is just around 12% (no data shown though). Still, we're the best! Haha...
I like a professor (Prof Wang) from National ????Chung-Tao???? University from Taiwan. He advised me about his paper published on APL last year about threading dislocations, and he got almost the same result as mine. He's a very nice guy, we had a little discussions after my oral presentations. I like him very much.
The poster presentation went well though. There're people working with LEDs/devices who like it. And I had good discussions with them. A guy from Stanford who did a very good oral presentation during the session also spend his time at my poster. Seems like he's interested in what we're doing (maybe interested to copy my methods too! Haha..). I understand that he's also working on Si substrate for GaN. There's also a women working on GaN nanowires who shows her interest in my LED too. And, a professor from National Soul University... I think, he want to know comparison between LED grown on Si and sapphire. I didn't have experience working with sapphire though, so the simple question is a little tough for me to answer. But, I said it's 5-10 times higher intensity on sapphire, but the saturation current is 2 times higher for LED on Si. There're plus and minus in everything...
Frankly speaking, I met many good people during the poster session :)
By the way, all have finished... and everybody who I met during the poster session (after the oral presentation) agrees that our data on Si(111) is the best result in the world! I think, here, they're good at presentations, but, their results are bad! In other words, they're good at presenting bad results! And the worse thing is they fabricate their results to look good! They do TEM, but when I asked about why their dislocation density is so good, they told me they estimate the dislocations by AFM. I wonder why they estimate it by AFM when they already do TEM (she is a professor, the meeting chair though). Seems like she don't like me much because I said during the oral presentaton that we're one of the few laboratory in the world who could achieve crack-free GaN on Si, and nobody attending this meeting could achieve that. The professor also did LED on Si, but she told me the IQE is just around 12% (no data shown though). Still, we're the best! Haha...
I like a professor (Prof Wang) from National ????Chung-Tao???? University from Taiwan. He advised me about his paper published on APL last year about threading dislocations, and he got almost the same result as mine. He's a very nice guy, we had a little discussions after my oral presentations. I like him very much.
The poster presentation went well though. There're people working with LEDs/devices who like it. And I had good discussions with them. A guy from Stanford who did a very good oral presentation during the session also spend his time at my poster. Seems like he's interested in what we're doing (maybe interested to copy my methods too! Haha..). I understand that he's also working on Si substrate for GaN. There's also a women working on GaN nanowires who shows her interest in my LED too. And, a professor from National Soul University... I think, he want to know comparison between LED grown on Si and sapphire. I didn't have experience working with sapphire though, so the simple question is a little tough for me to answer. But, I said it's 5-10 times higher intensity on sapphire, but the saturation current is 2 times higher for LED on Si. There're plus and minus in everything...
Frankly speaking, I met many good people during the poster session :)
Monday, April 13, 2009
Blogging from San Francisco
Arrived at San Francisco this morning at around 9AM (it's 1AM in Malaysia, the next day). Had a tough check at immigration by US Home Land Security. I was redirected to the 2nd stage. Thanks God documents, esp the invitation letter from MRS was with me at that time. But, the officer there took allllllll information about me, my family, what I'm doing, even my VISA credit card number. Maybe it's only because my name is Ahmad... what the heck!
Came to my hotel (The Pickwick San Francisco) at 5th Street (near Moscone West and SF Center) from SFO using door-to-door van, costed 16 dollars. The hotel front desk told me it would be 12 dollars if I booked with them. Actually, coming to the hotel by BART (Bay Area Railway Transit) is far cheaper, just around 3 dollar. I took the van because I have too many luggage with me, the main big bag, a long poster case, and 2 briefcase with laptop in each. One is mine for personal use, the other one is my laboratory's for the presentation on Tuesday. But, mine is old... so, it's buggy and weighty... and many documents in there which I think I need to read before the presentations.
Hmm... just returned from going out for dinner. I wen to Mehfil Indian Restaurant and 2nd street. The environment there was great! The staffs are very friendly. I've no idea which is good, so I just ordered what the guy staff recommended me. Chicken briyani as the main dish, some appetizer and a drink. The best one is mango lassi for the drink. I could say this is the best lassi I've ever drank. (Lassi is a sort of Indian juice). I even bought another one for out. Just like the guy said, "You'll be addicted to it!". Haha... it really is.
After that, went around Powell Street. It's a really nice place, with many Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Korean, Japanese restaurant around. If I didn't find Mehfil earlier, I would've dine at any restaurants here. The area is better with many people around, and tram with crowded people inside. Maybe this is the nightlife area in SF, I think (not sure though). There're many hotels around, and you're searching for a Halal restaurant, there is a Indian & Pakistani Restaurant just near the Hilton Hotel at O'Farrel Street. I saw many people inside. Nice place I think. I'll probably try this place on the other day.
Haha... nice day anyway, at least I could gasp the atmosphere here. Just to make myself convenient with this totally new place for me. And, I'm alone too... maybe I'd meet somebody at the meeting tomorrow :)
Came to my hotel (The Pickwick San Francisco) at 5th Street (near Moscone West and SF Center) from SFO using door-to-door van, costed 16 dollars. The hotel front desk told me it would be 12 dollars if I booked with them. Actually, coming to the hotel by BART (Bay Area Railway Transit) is far cheaper, just around 3 dollar. I took the van because I have too many luggage with me, the main big bag, a long poster case, and 2 briefcase with laptop in each. One is mine for personal use, the other one is my laboratory's for the presentation on Tuesday. But, mine is old... so, it's buggy and weighty... and many documents in there which I think I need to read before the presentations.
Hmm... just returned from going out for dinner. I wen to Mehfil Indian Restaurant and 2nd street. The environment there was great! The staffs are very friendly. I've no idea which is good, so I just ordered what the guy staff recommended me. Chicken briyani as the main dish, some appetizer and a drink. The best one is mango lassi for the drink. I could say this is the best lassi I've ever drank. (Lassi is a sort of Indian juice). I even bought another one for out. Just like the guy said, "You'll be addicted to it!". Haha... it really is.
After that, went around Powell Street. It's a really nice place, with many Indian, Pakistani, Chinese, Korean, Japanese restaurant around. If I didn't find Mehfil earlier, I would've dine at any restaurants here. The area is better with many people around, and tram with crowded people inside. Maybe this is the nightlife area in SF, I think (not sure though). There're many hotels around, and you're searching for a Halal restaurant, there is a Indian & Pakistani Restaurant just near the Hilton Hotel at O'Farrel Street. I saw many people inside. Nice place I think. I'll probably try this place on the other day.
Haha... nice day anyway, at least I could gasp the atmosphere here. Just to make myself convenient with this totally new place for me. And, I'm alone too... maybe I'd meet somebody at the meeting tomorrow :)
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Sunday, March 29, 2009
♥♫ MICHAEL BOLTON - A love so beautiful♥♫
This is one of my favorite song in the 90's, sung by Micheal Bolton.
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
LED Process Redo...
Still at clean room, because I have to redo the entire process for my LED. The previous process had problem with the transparent electrode. I used a transparent electrode I developed during my M1 year for the previous sample... and, it's not good due to oxidation. The supposed-to-be-transparent-electrode became black and non-transparent when I saw it during the measurement yesterday morning. And, there's no light coming out of it... :(
Ya Allah...
Now working with the default LED electrode used by others in this laboratory. Hope everything goes well this time. Insya'Allah.
Tired...
Ya Allah...
Now working with the default LED electrode used by others in this laboratory. Hope everything goes well this time. Insya'Allah.
Tired...
Saturday, March 14, 2009
US Non-Immigrant Visa
Alhamdulillah. After just more than a week, today I already received my US Visa! Yahooooo! Alhamdulillah (Thanks God).
Now it's time to prepare and submit my MRS manuscript. Manuscript submission will open this Monday / March 16th. There're 2 manuscript that I have to submit... hope it's not that tough. Already finished the one for APL, now I have to make sure the data / graph I allocated for APL does not overlap with MRS.
There're so many thing to prepare in this 3 weeks time... the manuscripts, the presentation slides, the oral presentation text, and the poster for my 2nd presentation...
... and now the thing that's messing my mind is my server in Kuala Lumpur cannot be accessed... what's the problem there...? IP conflict? Not sure what's the problem. I'll contact Amran next morning. Need to sleep now...
Now it's time to prepare and submit my MRS manuscript. Manuscript submission will open this Monday / March 16th. There're 2 manuscript that I have to submit... hope it's not that tough. Already finished the one for APL, now I have to make sure the data / graph I allocated for APL does not overlap with MRS.
There're so many thing to prepare in this 3 weeks time... the manuscripts, the presentation slides, the oral presentation text, and the poster for my 2nd presentation...
... and now the thing that's messing my mind is my server in Kuala Lumpur cannot be accessed... what's the problem there...? IP conflict? Not sure what's the problem. I'll contact Amran next morning. Need to sleep now...
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Slumdog Millionaire Soundtrack - Dreams On Fire
I specially dedicate this wonderful song to my lovely Hui :)
I love this song so, so much! There's a humming version of this song titled Latika's Theme in the end part of the movie Slumdog Millionaire. It's so soothing and the lyrics is simply beautiful! Enjoy!
Lyrics
You are my waking dream
You're all that's real to me
You are the magic in the world I see
You are the prayer I sing
You brought me to my knees
You are the faith that made me believe
Dreams on fire
Higher n higher
Passions burning
Right on the pyre
Once far, forever yours
In me
All your heart
Dreams on fire
Higher n higher
You are my ocean waves
You are my thought each day
You are the laughter from childhood games
You are the spark of dawn
You are where I belong
You are the ache I feel in every song
Dreams on fire
Higher n higher
Passions burning
Right on the pyre
Once far, forever yours
In me
All your heart
Dreams on fire
Higher n higher
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Express visit to Osaka in 2 hours...
Just came back from Osaka for US Visa application/interview... and the good news is, I was at a place 500 km away south of Nagoya for less than 2 hours! No single second for travelling this time!
Went there by the fastest bullet train arriving at Shin-Osaka station at 9:36AM... and boarding an express train back to Nagoya at Namba Station at 11:00AM. What the heck!
I've to prepare Prof. Egawa's speech for an important international conference to be held at Nagoya University next week. So, there's a lot of time I need to spare for his 30 min speech. It's related to "Tokai Region (Japan) Nanotechnology Manufacturing Cluster Initiative" which our laboratory is gaining a lot of fund from. So, it's important to give good image for everybody's sake. Still working on his slides...
Okay, I'll post about the US Non-Immigrant Visa process in my next post. I just can't afford my time for that now. See ya'!
Went there by the fastest bullet train arriving at Shin-Osaka station at 9:36AM... and boarding an express train back to Nagoya at Namba Station at 11:00AM. What the heck!
I've to prepare Prof. Egawa's speech for an important international conference to be held at Nagoya University next week. So, there's a lot of time I need to spare for his 30 min speech. It's related to "Tokai Region (Japan) Nanotechnology Manufacturing Cluster Initiative" which our laboratory is gaining a lot of fund from. So, it's important to give good image for everybody's sake. Still working on his slides...
Okay, I'll post about the US Non-Immigrant Visa process in my next post. I just can't afford my time for that now. See ya'!
Sunday, March 01, 2009
“Praan” and “Where the hell is Matt”
I was really busy in the last month, otherwise what is the answer that I haven’t heard about Matt Harding! Whose dancing video has been watched more than 18 million times only on YouTube. This video has been spreaded through the internet like viral.
What is in the video that make it so special? Well to be frankly there is actually nothing. A 31 years guy named Matt is dancing in different places in different countries (to be precisely 42 countries). The dance is just some unique movements of Matt (which anyone hardly can call dance). But if you see the video, I bet you’ll feel happy from inside of your soul. The uncommon dance movement from Matt … the theme of the video … people from all around the world dancing with Matt … the colorful expression of joy … the rich , soothing and vibrant music … all makes an unfathomable feelings.
Oh! Here comes the background music part. If you listen the music keenly you’ll be amazed that that is a Bangla song. Surprised! Well here is the second part of the surprise. This song titled “Praan” is taken from Robi Thakur’s “Gitanjoli”. And the third part of the surprise is this song was sung by a 17 years old Bangladeshi teen named Palbasha Siddique.
The Bangla lyrics of the song “Praan” is given below.
The English pronunciation would be somewhat like following:
The exact meaning of the Bangla word PRAAN in english would be LIFE. But for this video, I think the English term should express more, and the appropriate term will be somewhat like “Stream of Life”. Here is the english meaning of the lyrics: The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and dayruns through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earthin numberless blades of grassand breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birthand of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Part of the details in this post was taken from:
http://maqtanim.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/praan-and-where-the-hell-is-matt/
What is in the video that make it so special? Well to be frankly there is actually nothing. A 31 years guy named Matt is dancing in different places in different countries (to be precisely 42 countries). The dance is just some unique movements of Matt (which anyone hardly can call dance). But if you see the video, I bet you’ll feel happy from inside of your soul. The uncommon dance movement from Matt … the theme of the video … people from all around the world dancing with Matt … the colorful expression of joy … the rich , soothing and vibrant music … all makes an unfathomable feelings.
Oh! Here comes the background music part. If you listen the music keenly you’ll be amazed that that is a Bangla song. Surprised! Well here is the second part of the surprise. This song titled “Praan” is taken from Robi Thakur’s “Gitanjoli”. And the third part of the surprise is this song was sung by a 17 years old Bangladeshi teen named Palbasha Siddique.
The Bangla lyrics of the song “Praan” is given below.
প্রাণ
ভুলবো না আর সহজেতে
সেই প্রাণে মন উঠবে মেতে
মৃত্যু মাঝে ঢাকা আছে
যে অন্তহীন প্রাণ
বজ্রে তোমার বাজে বাঁশি
সেকি সহজ গান
সেই সুরেতে জাগবো আমি
সেই ঝড় যেন সই আনন্দে
চিত্তবীণার তারে
সপ্তসিন্ধু দশ দিগন্ত
নাচাও যে ঝঙ্কারে
বজ্রে তোমার বাজে বাঁশি
সেকি সহজ গান
সেই সুরেতে জাগবো আমি
The English pronunciation would be somewhat like following:
Praan
Bhulbona ar shohojete
Shei praan e mon uthbe mete
Mrittu majhe dhaka ache
Je ontohin praan
Bojre tomar baje bashi
Shey ki shohoj gaan
Shei shurete jagbo ami
Shei jhor jeno shoi anonde
Chittobinar taare
Shotto-shindhu dosh digonto
Nachao je jhonkare
Bojre tomar baje bashi
She ki shohoj gaan
Shei shurete jagbo ami
The exact meaning of the Bangla word PRAAN in english would be LIFE. But for this video, I think the English term should express more, and the appropriate term will be somewhat like “Stream of Life”. Here is the english meaning of the lyrics: The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and dayruns through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earthin numberless blades of grassand breaks into tumultuous waves of leaves and flowers. It is the same life that is rocked in the ocean-cradle of birthand of death, in ebb and in flow. I feel my limbs are made glorious by the touch of this world of life. And my pride is from the life-throb of ages dancing in my blood this moment.
Part of the details in this post was taken from:
http://maqtanim.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/praan-and-where-the-hell-is-matt/
Saturday, February 14, 2009
A wonderful moment...
A simple gift turned it to be one of the most wonderful moment in my life :)
See the picture?
See the picture?
A short journey back to my Malaysia...
Went back to Malaysia for less than a week to meet my family and setup a few thing for my business. I also have to be there to change name for a land I bought together with my 2 other siblings Abg Wan and Adik Li. It was a busy and tiring week...
And don't forget, I got first time experience missing a domestic flight back to Kuala Lumpur from Kuala Terengganu on my final day there... haha :) I should've board Air Asia flight at 8:20AM, but missed it. Need to spend another RM660 to buy Malaysia Airlines ticket 2 hours later. I think, I should learn 2 things... 1) Never be late again to the airport, and 2) Never fly with Air Asia again... not anymore!
Setup a server at Jaring Internet Data Center (IDC) at Technology Park Malaysia Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur before boarding my flight to Beijing. My brother Adik Sani and a staff from AIST named Muzaffar accompanied me there. Everything was so goooood!
Went to Kamdar at Megamall KL with Adik Sani to buy a Baju Melayu before my flight. Abg Yie went there to meet me from Melaka. Adik Ilmi also went there from Cheras to meet me. Hehe... seems like I met everybody, except Kak Ra. Chatted with Kak Ra in the morning after I missed my flight, so I think everything's OK.
Abg Wan had 'kursus' (training & exam) at Petaling Jaya (Kuala Lumpur) on the day I fly back to Beijing, so he was not there. But, I already with him during my flight to Kuala Lumpur. He took me at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in the midnight of Feb 5th with his company friend he called Bujal. Stayed at Abg Wan's company house at ??? in the night. He sent me to Bukit Jalil STAR station in the morning of Feb 6th because I've to go to Chinese Conculate Office Kuala Lumpur to apply a Chinese travel visa.
Hmm... see my Flickr for photos...
And don't forget, I got first time experience missing a domestic flight back to Kuala Lumpur from Kuala Terengganu on my final day there... haha :) I should've board Air Asia flight at 8:20AM, but missed it. Need to spend another RM660 to buy Malaysia Airlines ticket 2 hours later. I think, I should learn 2 things... 1) Never be late again to the airport, and 2) Never fly with Air Asia again... not anymore!
Setup a server at Jaring Internet Data Center (IDC) at Technology Park Malaysia Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur before boarding my flight to Beijing. My brother Adik Sani and a staff from AIST named Muzaffar accompanied me there. Everything was so goooood!
Went to Kamdar at Megamall KL with Adik Sani to buy a Baju Melayu before my flight. Abg Yie went there to meet me from Melaka. Adik Ilmi also went there from Cheras to meet me. Hehe... seems like I met everybody, except Kak Ra. Chatted with Kak Ra in the morning after I missed my flight, so I think everything's OK.
Abg Wan had 'kursus' (training & exam) at Petaling Jaya (Kuala Lumpur) on the day I fly back to Beijing, so he was not there. But, I already with him during my flight to Kuala Lumpur. He took me at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in the midnight of Feb 5th with his company friend he called Bujal. Stayed at Abg Wan's company house at ??? in the night. He sent me to Bukit Jalil STAR station in the morning of Feb 6th because I've to go to Chinese Conculate Office Kuala Lumpur to apply a Chinese travel visa.
Hmm... see my Flickr for photos...
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Happy Lantern Festival
Happy Lantern Festival to all my Chinese friends all over the world! Hope everybody had an enjoyable time during the festival :)
Wo Deng Ni (我等你) --- Liu Ruo Ying (刘若英)
"I'll wait for you and half year is the limit. Exceed the time limit，then I'll forget you properly." Sounds like a good idea. I wanna take a crack at it. But I'm sure that I cannot win myself.
Note:I just simply like this video and added lyrics in HanYu PinYin,not for commercial use.Please support original edition if you like it too!
Lyrics: (in HanYu PinYin for all Chinese learners)
bu zuo kaolǜ ye mei bandian youyu
wo jiu shuo le zhe yiju wo deng ni
ni yanzhong shan guo le yixie yayi
geng duo de shi huaiyi suoyi ni keyi li qu
bu xiangxin ni haihui huixinzhuanyi
shi wo renxing cai jueding yao deng ni
wo yanzhong de lei mei diao guo yidi
zhishi sui ni beiying manman daoliu jin xinli
wo deng ni bannian wei qi
yuqi jiu henhen ba ni wangji
bu zhi shangxin de hai baokuo yiqie tianmi
wo keyi zongrong ni zai xindi
ye keyi dang ni zhishi luguo de ren eryi
bu xiangxin ni haihui huixinzhuanyi
shi wo renxing cai jueding yao deng ni
wo yanzhong de lei mei diao guo yidi
zhishi sui ni beiying manman daoliu jin xindi
wo deng ni bannian wei qi
yuqi jiu henhen ba ni wangji
bu zhi shangxin de hai baokuo yiqie tianmi
yao deng ni yao zhengming ziji
wo keyi zongrong ni zai xindi
ye keyi dang ni zhishi luguo de ren eryi
wo deng ni bannian wei qi
yuqi jiu henhen ba ni wangji
ni yinggai yijing he ta gongkai zai yiqi
yao deng ni yao zhengming ziji
wo keyi zongrong ni zai xindi
ye keyi dang ni zhishi luguo de ren eryi
ai dao tong zhi ji cai xuyao yiduan deng ni de xianqi
yiwang ziji
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Submitted...
Submitted my paper to E* sensei in the evening for him to check the content. I feel sorry to him because it took me 2 months to finish everything. My data was so good... but, it took so much time to investigate, understand and write the paper. I don't know why, but I felt very tired after submitted the paper. So tired...
Went home earlier today, at around 8 PM. Not because I feel tired, but because there's a parcel scheduled to arrived at home between 8-9 PM. I'm a little nervous what my supervisor will comment my paper tomorrow... hehe :)
Anyway, so tired... I'm sleeping now...
Went home earlier today, at around 8 PM. Not because I feel tired, but because there's a parcel scheduled to arrived at home between 8-9 PM. I'm a little nervous what my supervisor will comment my paper tomorrow... hehe :)
Anyway, so tired... I'm sleeping now...
Monday, January 26, 2009
Xin Nian Kuai Le :)
Happy Chinese new year to all my friends! Xin nian kuai le & Gong xi fa cai! Wish everybody good luck, good fortune and good times!
Sunday, January 25, 2009
A full blown day of activities
Did a lot of things today.
Started X-ray-diffraction (XRD) experiments with Pum in the morning. Pum was quite busy today because he has interview for his scholarship, but I glad he was able to come to the laboratory and join me with the XRD.
He left the laboratory for his interview in the afternoon. I also left the instrument and went to International Student House for a Malaysian student meeting. Actually, I went to the meeting just to eat the free lunch... haha :) So, had to sit down and listen to their meeting, etc... and yes, MAKAN! (eat!) Haha! (Actually, they need to give free food to attract people to come... what a bad management...). Hmm... after that, went to Osu Kannon with Kucai (Osu Kannon is a very famous downtown area in Nagoya selling many computer, fashion, foods, traditional goods, etc). Bought something very nice as a souvenir to 'somebody' I will meet next month.
Also, looked for some bags for myself... for my conferences. Last year, I bought a Samsonite leather shoulder bag, but that's too big for just a commute between hotel and conference hall. I saw a Tumi bag, that's pretty nice. Light and slim, just fit to put a lightweight small laptop and a few documents. I really liked this one... but, I'll search at other places for a better price. Haha... really need that I think.
Hmm... back home at 6, and had to cleaned my house because Kucai told me that my juniors will come to my house for a 'nabe' party (like Chinese hot-pot). They came and did some shopping at a nearby Jusco/AEON, came back again and prepare with the raw foods. I prepared 'konomi-yaki', my favorite.
Our 'kimchee nabe' and 'konomi-yaki' this time were the BEST! Not only the taste, but also because we got many more members... 7 person this time. Haha... it was 'saiko'! (the best!).
Before 11 PM, I left the guys with the party and went back to laboratory to shutdown my XRD instrument. When I reached there, Pum was already at the instrument, waiting for the final (204) omega scan to finish. All measurement for today finally completed at 11:20, and we left the instrument 20 minutes later after doing the shutdown procedure. Nomura was still there doing AFM (atomic force microscopy)... I felt very sorry to him because I asked him 2 days ago to finish all growth for my LED samples which I really need for another conference... but, I cannot tolerate with excuses, that's what I hate most. (Actually, I asked him for the sample in early December, but he kept postponing the growth for my sample... I was so angry with him last 2 days when he gave me another excuses... sorry, no more tolerate this time. We're working on schedules, not on excuses...).
In life, I never wanted to be a strict man. But, when I'm too soft with them, they don't listen. That's why I like to be viewed by my junior in the laboratory as a strict guy. Whoever who know me personally will know what kind of person I am... just another man passing by you on the street, and you never turn back to see him again... hehe...
Started X-ray-diffraction (XRD) experiments with Pum in the morning. Pum was quite busy today because he has interview for his scholarship, but I glad he was able to come to the laboratory and join me with the XRD.
He left the laboratory for his interview in the afternoon. I also left the instrument and went to International Student House for a Malaysian student meeting. Actually, I went to the meeting just to eat the free lunch... haha :) So, had to sit down and listen to their meeting, etc... and yes, MAKAN! (eat!) Haha! (Actually, they need to give free food to attract people to come... what a bad management...). Hmm... after that, went to Osu Kannon with Kucai (Osu Kannon is a very famous downtown area in Nagoya selling many computer, fashion, foods, traditional goods, etc). Bought something very nice as a souvenir to 'somebody' I will meet next month.
Also, looked for some bags for myself... for my conferences. Last year, I bought a Samsonite leather shoulder bag, but that's too big for just a commute between hotel and conference hall. I saw a Tumi bag, that's pretty nice. Light and slim, just fit to put a lightweight small laptop and a few documents. I really liked this one... but, I'll search at other places for a better price. Haha... really need that I think.
Hmm... back home at 6, and had to cleaned my house because Kucai told me that my juniors will come to my house for a 'nabe' party (like Chinese hot-pot). They came and did some shopping at a nearby Jusco/AEON, came back again and prepare with the raw foods. I prepared 'konomi-yaki', my favorite.
Our 'kimchee nabe' and 'konomi-yaki' this time were the BEST! Not only the taste, but also because we got many more members... 7 person this time. Haha... it was 'saiko'! (the best!).
Before 11 PM, I left the guys with the party and went back to laboratory to shutdown my XRD instrument. When I reached there, Pum was already at the instrument, waiting for the final (204) omega scan to finish. All measurement for today finally completed at 11:20, and we left the instrument 20 minutes later after doing the shutdown procedure. Nomura was still there doing AFM (atomic force microscopy)... I felt very sorry to him because I asked him 2 days ago to finish all growth for my LED samples which I really need for another conference... but, I cannot tolerate with excuses, that's what I hate most. (Actually, I asked him for the sample in early December, but he kept postponing the growth for my sample... I was so angry with him last 2 days when he gave me another excuses... sorry, no more tolerate this time. We're working on schedules, not on excuses...).
In life, I never wanted to be a strict man. But, when I'm too soft with them, they don't listen. That's why I like to be viewed by my junior in the laboratory as a strict guy. Whoever who know me personally will know what kind of person I am... just another man passing by you on the street, and you never turn back to see him again... hehe...
Friday, January 23, 2009
Michael Heart - We Will Not Go Down (A Tribute for Gaza)
A song for all Muslims around the globe regarding the fate of our brothers in Gaza, Palestine.
Monday, January 19, 2009
Trip to Hekinan Coal Power Generation Plant
碧南火力発電所への見学
Went to Chubu Electric Hekinan Coal Power Generation Plant at Hekinan city. I think, it's still in Aichi prefecture. I just want to put some photos here.
Went to Chubu Electric Hekinan Coal Power Generation Plant at Hekinan city. I think, it's still in Aichi prefecture. I just want to put some photos here.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Alhamdulillah, my abstract was accepted!
Wow! What a great day today. Wake up in the morning, switch on my laptop, and got 2 new mails in my Windows Live mailbox... and they were from Materials Research Society (MRS). They're about my submitted abstracts last November. And the good news is... both of my abstracts were ACCEPTED! Wow! And the better news is, one of the abstract about MQW enhancement by adding SLS cladding layer was accepted for ORAL presentation! Alhamdulillah. The other one about LED fabrication utilizing the same SLS cladding layer was accepted for poster presentation. Haha... it's great! (Sadly to say, the one accepted for poster presentation is planned to be withdrawn because my supervisor asked me to submit it to a different conference). Whatever it is, everything's so great!
Thank you Allah, ma & abah for your support!
Wassalam.
Thank you Allah, ma & abah for your support!
Wassalam.
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Trip to Shodojima Island (Kagawa Prefecture)
Just reached home from 2-day trip to Shodojima Island, just next to Kagawa in Shikoku Island, south of Himeji / Kobe city. Himeji is located 5 hours from Nagoya through expressway. We need to take a 90 minutes ferry ride to reach the island. The scenery during the ferry ride is just amazing!
I'm having very bad cold, and very tired too. Hope I could updatev this post with some pictures very soon. Just took some paracetamol and actifed tablets... my mind is so dizzy now. See you then ^_^
Miss you Hui :-)
I'm having very bad cold, and very tired too. Hope I could updatev this post with some pictures very soon. Just took some paracetamol and actifed tablets... my mind is so dizzy now. See you then ^_^
Miss you Hui :-)
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Iraqi Journalist Threw Shoes at Bush at News Conference
Wow! This is amazing! I wonder what would happen if the shoes hit Mr. President's face.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
"Jalan-Jalan" around Nagoya
Going around Nagoya yesterday with Prof. Gadkari. It was quite interesting, because he demanded to go back from Osu-Kannon to his hotel at Nagoya Station area by BUS. Frankly speaking, I never tried a bus in the city because train/subway is more efficient and has better reach in the city. That brought my first experience boarding a bus in Nagoya city, haha ^_^ We board a Meitetsu bus, not the normal blue/white-colored Nagoya city bus because the Meitetsu has better frequency (from the chart at the bus booth). Both have the same price plan. A Japanese guy helped us regarding the method.
We need to board the bus by back door, take a coupun (ticket??) at the door and get seated. When getting off, I need to change my JPY1,000 yen note to get JPY100 yen coin first (machine is at the driver seat). After that, put the coupon took at door during boarding into payment machine first, followed by JPY200 yen coin. [These are notes for myself actually].
Before that, I brought him to an Indian/Pakistani buffet restaurant at Kanayama. He was extremely happy being able to taste Indian cuisine, after a week of Japanese foods. Also met Brother Azlan and his family, and also Azmi, Rizal, and new postgraduate student from UTeM, at the same buffet restaurant.
Saturday, December 13, 2008
IUMRS-ICA
http://www.iumrs-ica2008.jp/index.html
Went to International Union of Materials Research Society - International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA) at Nagoya Congress Center, yesterday. Went there to meet Prof. Gadkari, actually. I had discussion with a Chinese researcher presenting about Gallium Nitride (GaN) bulk crystal growth from Gifu University (Japan). The topic was near to what I'm doing for my research, so it's quite a wonderful discussion. Also had discussion about TiO2 deposition with other researcher, also in my interest to be applied in mirror facet coating for my laser-diode (LD).
Gadkari also taught me new thing, it's about thermo-photovoltaic. This is really amazing! Normal solar-cell use photovoltaic mechanism to absorb photon (light) energy from sun, however, in thermo-photovoltaic, even small thermal energy from human body can be used to generate another energy! So, you can generate energy from not only sunlight, but also from sun-heat during the day. In the night, when there is no sunlight, heat from sleeping human body itself can generate energy! WOW! Gadkari is thinking to use his I*S* to enable this, due to its small band-gap, just around 0.2 eV. With small band-gap, even a small source energy can generate another energy. Haha... never been taught this thing at my laboratory. I realized today that my research group here're toooo stereotype!
Okay, that's all for this morning. Will go for "jalan-jalan" (shopping, eating out) with Gadkari this afternoon.
Went to International Union of Materials Research Society - International Conference in Asia (IUMRS-ICA) at Nagoya Congress Center, yesterday. Went there to meet Prof. Gadkari, actually. I had discussion with a Chinese researcher presenting about Gallium Nitride (GaN) bulk crystal growth from Gifu University (Japan). The topic was near to what I'm doing for my research, so it's quite a wonderful discussion. Also had discussion about TiO2 deposition with other researcher, also in my interest to be applied in mirror facet coating for my laser-diode (LD).
Gadkari also taught me new thing, it's about thermo-photovoltaic. This is really amazing! Normal solar-cell use photovoltaic mechanism to absorb photon (light) energy from sun, however, in thermo-photovoltaic, even small thermal energy from human body can be used to generate another energy! So, you can generate energy from not only sunlight, but also from sun-heat during the day. In the night, when there is no sunlight, heat from sleeping human body itself can generate energy! WOW! Gadkari is thinking to use his I*S* to enable this, due to its small band-gap, just around 0.2 eV. With small band-gap, even a small source energy can generate another energy. Haha... never been taught this thing at my laboratory. I realized today that my research group here're toooo stereotype!
Okay, that's all for this morning. Will go for "jalan-jalan" (shopping, eating out) with Gadkari this afternoon.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Pictures of Muslim Pilgrims in Mekkah (Mecca) during Hajj
Source: UPI.
Insya'Allah, I will also be here at least once in the future :)
Pilgrims pray at the birthplace of prophet Mohammed at the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest shrine where some 2 million Muslims have been gathering for weeks in advance of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on December 4, 2008. More than two million Muslims head to the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia to make the annual Hajj pilgrimage. All fit and financially able Muslims are expected to perform the Hajj at least once in their life. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
A sea of Muslims circle the Ka'baa, which Muslims believe was built by Prophet Abraham and his son Ismael, at the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on December 4, 2008. More than two million Muslims head to holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to make the annual Hajj pilgrimage. All fit and financially able Muslims are expected to perform the Hajj at least once in their life. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
An aerial view shows hundred of thousands of Muslim pilgrims circling seven times around the Ka'baa (C) which Muslims believe was built by Prophet Abraham and his son Ismael, at the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on December 9, 2008. More than two million Muslims head to the holy city of Mecca to make the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
Muslim pilgrims pray at Jabal Al Rahma, the mountain of mercy for the culmination of the Hajj, symbolizing the final judgment at the scene of Mohammed's last sermon 14 centuries ago, at Mount Arafat outside Mecca, Saudi Arabia on December 7, 2008. More than two million Muslims head to the holy city of Mecca to make the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
Muslim pilgrims have a meal in the plain of Arafat outside Mecca, Saudi Arabia on December 6, 2008. More than two million Muslims head to the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to make the annual Hajj pilgrimage. All fit and financially able Muslims are expected to perform the Hajj at least once in their life. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah).
Insya'Allah, I will also be here at least once in the future :)
Pilgrims pray at the birthplace of prophet Mohammed at the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest shrine where some 2 million Muslims have been gathering for weeks in advance of the annual Hajj pilgrimage in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on December 4, 2008. More than two million Muslims head to the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia to make the annual Hajj pilgrimage. All fit and financially able Muslims are expected to perform the Hajj at least once in their life. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
A sea of Muslims circle the Ka'baa, which Muslims believe was built by Prophet Abraham and his son Ismael, at the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on December 4, 2008. More than two million Muslims head to holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to make the annual Hajj pilgrimage. All fit and financially able Muslims are expected to perform the Hajj at least once in their life. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
An aerial view shows hundred of thousands of Muslim pilgrims circling seven times around the Ka'baa (C) which Muslims believe was built by Prophet Abraham and his son Ismael, at the Grand Mosque, Islam's holiest shrine in Mecca, Saudi Arabia on December 9, 2008. More than two million Muslims head to the holy city of Mecca to make the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
Muslim pilgrims pray at Jabal Al Rahma, the mountain of mercy for the culmination of the Hajj, symbolizing the final judgment at the scene of Mohammed's last sermon 14 centuries ago, at Mount Arafat outside Mecca, Saudi Arabia on December 7, 2008. More than two million Muslims head to the holy city of Mecca to make the annual Hajj pilgrimage. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah)
Muslim pilgrims have a meal in the plain of Arafat outside Mecca, Saudi Arabia on December 6, 2008. More than two million Muslims head to the holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, to make the annual Hajj pilgrimage. All fit and financially able Muslims are expected to perform the Hajj at least once in their life. (UPI Photo/Mohammad Kheirkhah).
Monday, December 08, 2008
Happy Aidiladha and Welcome :)
Tonight is a Muslim's special night because we will have Aidiladha celebration tomorrow. At 7PM last night, Malaysian students living in this city gathered and had "takbir", Islam-related talk, and dinner held at Nagoya Institute of Technology.
However, I only went for the "takbir" ceremony, as I have to take Prof. Gadkari coming from Mumbai University at Nagoya Chubu International Airport. He will attend IUMRS-ICA meeting at Nagoya Congress Center starting from Dec 9th till 12th. I departed from my university at 8PM, and arrived at the airport around 40 min later. Dr Gadkari came out of the immigration check at around 9:20PM... waahhh! Both of us were surprised to be able to meet again after almost half-a-year.
Actually, I came to know Dr. Gadkari when we were both attending MRS meeting in Chongqing, China. His work is in compound semiconductor, ... he's making the substrate to be exact. Mine is in the semiconductor growth and device... so, each of us have good interest in each other's work. He gave me a lot of advice in what I should pursuit in my research and life, and I appreciate him so so much. It's hard to find such easily approachable professor around me in Nagoya.
It's already too late now. I have to wake up early tomorrow morning as I will join my juniors to go to a special praying for Aidiladha next morning. I have to be at laboratory before and after that. In the evening, I will spend some time with Dr. Gadkari to show him some good restaurants around his hotel at Nagoya station area.
That's all for now.
You're always in my heart :) Wo ye xiang ni, Hui Hui ^^
However, I only went for the "takbir" ceremony, as I have to take Prof. Gadkari coming from Mumbai University at Nagoya Chubu International Airport. He will attend IUMRS-ICA meeting at Nagoya Congress Center starting from Dec 9th till 12th. I departed from my university at 8PM, and arrived at the airport around 40 min later. Dr Gadkari came out of the immigration check at around 9:20PM... waahhh! Both of us were surprised to be able to meet again after almost half-a-year.
Actually, I came to know Dr. Gadkari when we were both attending MRS meeting in Chongqing, China. His work is in compound semiconductor, ... he's making the substrate to be exact. Mine is in the semiconductor growth and device... so, each of us have good interest in each other's work. He gave me a lot of advice in what I should pursuit in my research and life, and I appreciate him so so much. It's hard to find such easily approachable professor around me in Nagoya.
It's already too late now. I have to wake up early tomorrow morning as I will join my juniors to go to a special praying for Aidiladha next morning. I have to be at laboratory before and after that. In the evening, I will spend some time with Dr. Gadkari to show him some good restaurants around his hotel at Nagoya station area.
That's all for now.
You're always in my heart :) Wo ye xiang ni, Hui Hui ^^
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
18 Hours of Photo-Luminescence (PL) Mapping
Seems like I miscalculated the time for PL mapping of my LD sample. Did many times PL mapping for blue-violet LED samples before, normally it takes around 4 hours to map a 2 inch wafer.
This time, it is a LD sample. When I tested it this morning, the light intensity from the surface is very low, probably due to the LD structure itself which holds light within the active layer region (prevents light from being leaked to the surface). Therefore, I need to increase the detector scanning time to 3 sec (normally 0.2 sec) for each scan. There're 97 times scan of the circle 2" wafer surface with 0.5 mm pitch between each other. The stage controller also needs a few seconds to move the He-Cd laser to each pitch position, and the workstation also becomes slower and slower with increasing scan times... altogether causing an extremely slow experiments!
Normally, I could finish 2 samples in a day for normal LED samples, but for this LD sample, it takes my 2 days working hours just to finish a single sample. It's already 1:15AM in the midnight, I wonder where I would sleep tonight...
This time, it is a LD sample. When I tested it this morning, the light intensity from the surface is very low, probably due to the LD structure itself which holds light within the active layer region (prevents light from being leaked to the surface). Therefore, I need to increase the detector scanning time to 3 sec (normally 0.2 sec) for each scan. There're 97 times scan of the circle 2" wafer surface with 0.5 mm pitch between each other. The stage controller also needs a few seconds to move the He-Cd laser to each pitch position, and the workstation also becomes slower and slower with increasing scan times... altogether causing an extremely slow experiments!
Normally, I could finish 2 samples in a day for normal LED samples, but for this LD sample, it takes my 2 days working hours just to finish a single sample. It's already 1:15AM in the midnight, I wonder where I would sleep tonight...
Sunday, November 30, 2008
RapidXen VPS
RapidXen
Ordered a RapidXen VPS yesterday to setup a LAMP server, and for testing some virtualization manager for my other server. Just got a mail from the admin there saying that my account has been provosioned. Yahooooo! ^_^ But, I mistakenly shutted down the server with "shutdown -h now" command, it should be "shutdown -r now". Alamak! Tersilap! Haha... I'm mailing the admin (William Pitcock) asking how I could start up the server... aiseyyy...
Ordered a RapidXen VPS yesterday to setup a LAMP server, and for testing some virtualization manager for my other server. Just got a mail from the admin there saying that my account has been provosioned. Yahooooo! ^_^ But, I mistakenly shutted down the server with "shutdown -h now" command, it should be "shutdown -r now". Alamak! Tersilap! Haha... I'm mailing the admin (William Pitcock) asking how I could start up the server... aiseyyy...
Friday, November 21, 2008
Akasaki Research Center 8th Symposium
Akasaki Research Center Website
Attended Akasaki Research Center 8th Symposium at IB Building, Nagoya University today (Nov 20th, 2008). The event started at 10:30 until 17:30, with speakers that are among professors and associate professors from universities around Japan, France and Sweeden. I went there together with Dr Chin, Pum and Shu. The weather was pretty cool since the morning, but we went there by bicycle as planned (even though I thought I just want to go there by subway... but Pum came to my place by bicycle, so it'd be interesting too to go together by bicycle, hehe ^_^)
I've seen some of the contents in the talks in another meeting I attended before, but I'm totally impressed with presentation by Prof Noda of Kyoto University! He's doing research on photonic crystal, and his approach to GaN is pretty cool! Maybe I could try his approach photonic crystal on my InGaN on Si laser diode that I'm working with. It would take another 2 years though... but it's good for the continuity of my research in the future, probably when I have my own MOCVD in my own laboratory in Malaysia. I really need a MOCVD to realize my future research! It's not good to speculate much what I'm gonna do in the future as this is a public blog, but it's worth to note. His talk on PC (photonic-crystal) was really easy to understand, not like some other professors who just show plotted graphs and datas on their slide, without really explaining to the audiences what the basis and real-world facts.
The other talk that attracted my interest is by B. Monemar who explained about p-type doping (by Mg) in GaN. The good thing is, this is what I'm looking since half a year before! His PL peaks from Mg-doped GaN samples were pretty much identical with what I got in my (*****) samples! That's impressive! I'll read all his papers in the coming weekend. He's answered most the questions in my p-doped samples... haha!
There're also some other good presentations, about InN, etc, that I believe a pretty good achievements. However, there're presentations like Moth-Eye surface LED that I already saw before, at Japan-China-India Workshop held at my university. The GaN growth on Si substrate presented by a student in Sawaki Group (Nagoya Univ) was also a blend of old and new results. I saw part of the content at Tokai Region Nitride Research Meeting last year, and there was talk about research on AlN growth by Mie university group which I saw during the same meeting last month (at Meijo Univ).
Okay, that's all. Bye ^_^
Attended Akasaki Research Center 8th Symposium at IB Building, Nagoya University today (Nov 20th, 2008). The event started at 10:30 until 17:30, with speakers that are among professors and associate professors from universities around Japan, France and Sweeden. I went there together with Dr Chin, Pum and Shu. The weather was pretty cool since the morning, but we went there by bicycle as planned (even though I thought I just want to go there by subway... but Pum came to my place by bicycle, so it'd be interesting too to go together by bicycle, hehe ^_^)
I've seen some of the contents in the talks in another meeting I attended before, but I'm totally impressed with presentation by Prof Noda of Kyoto University! He's doing research on photonic crystal, and his approach to GaN is pretty cool! Maybe I could try his approach photonic crystal on my InGaN on Si laser diode that I'm working with. It would take another 2 years though... but it's good for the continuity of my research in the future, probably when I have my own MOCVD in my own laboratory in Malaysia. I really need a MOCVD to realize my future research! It's not good to speculate much what I'm gonna do in the future as this is a public blog, but it's worth to note. His talk on PC (photonic-crystal) was really easy to understand, not like some other professors who just show plotted graphs and datas on their slide, without really explaining to the audiences what the basis and real-world facts.
The other talk that attracted my interest is by B. Monemar who explained about p-type doping (by Mg) in GaN. The good thing is, this is what I'm looking since half a year before! His PL peaks from Mg-doped GaN samples were pretty much identical with what I got in my (*****) samples! That's impressive! I'll read all his papers in the coming weekend. He's answered most the questions in my p-doped samples... haha!
There're also some other good presentations, about InN, etc, that I believe a pretty good achievements. However, there're presentations like Moth-Eye surface LED that I already saw before, at Japan-China-India Workshop held at my university. The GaN growth on Si substrate presented by a student in Sawaki Group (Nagoya Univ) was also a blend of old and new results. I saw part of the content at Tokai Region Nitride Research Meeting last year, and there was talk about research on AlN growth by Mie university group which I saw during the same meeting last month (at Meijo Univ).
Okay, that's all. Bye ^_^
Monday, November 10, 2008
alan - 心・戰 Xin Zhan ~Red Cliff~ complete music video (with English translation)
Watched Red Cliff movie with Mr Shimada last night. Really like this ending theme... the music is so soothing :)
Monday, November 03, 2008
Misha Omar - Dedebu Cinta
An exhilarating voice of Misha Omar, one of my favorite Malaysian pop singer.
Saturday, November 01, 2008
Some breath-taking view photos of my hometown city...
Owhh... I could spot my house, the nearby sport stadium, airport, and my playground... haha! Really miss this place.
A Malaysia Airlines B747 jumbo plane during landing at Sultan Mahmud Airport, Kuala Terengganu. See the stadium in the background? I pass that place everyday to go to my school last 15 years ago :) (at that time, there's not even a single building on that ex-paddy field area).
A Malaysia Airlines B747 jumbo plane during landing at Sultan Mahmud Airport, Kuala Terengganu. See the stadium in the background? I pass that place everyday to go to my school last 15 years ago :) (at that time, there's not even a single building on that ex-paddy field area).
Mid-term Presentaton
Finished my mid-term presentation for my laboratory in the evening... :) This is the first time I did it in English. Usually, I did it in Japanese, but today, Josephine and Pum did it in English, so ME TOO! I'm a foreign student, not a Japanese! Doing it in English is far more easier, but the problem is we cannot expect questions from the Japanese students, that's why all my previous presentation in the laboratory were made in Japanese.
About the presentation... hmm... just showing my old data. Six-month-old data. So, Even egawa sensei didn't ask me because he already knows what the content is. My new data is still very confidential at the moment. Probably, Egawa is the first guy who will see it, haha... I've gave him some hint about it a couple of days ago. So, he expect me to show him the data. Haha... most part of the analysis has finished, just a few corrections that I'm working with. Insya'ALLAH, at least another paper for this data alone... Insya'ALLAH :)
Okay, have to get some sleep. So tired because as usual, had seminar after the presentation, had some shopping at Jusco after that, and had hot-pot with my friend at home... haha! Too much activities in a single day... too tired.
See ya'!
About the presentation... hmm... just showing my old data. Six-month-old data. So, Even egawa sensei didn't ask me because he already knows what the content is. My new data is still very confidential at the moment. Probably, Egawa is the first guy who will see it, haha... I've gave him some hint about it a couple of days ago. So, he expect me to show him the data. Haha... most part of the analysis has finished, just a few corrections that I'm working with. Insya'ALLAH, at least another paper for this data alone... Insya'ALLAH :)
Okay, have to get some sleep. So tired because as usual, had seminar after the presentation, had some shopping at Jusco after that, and had hot-pot with my friend at home... haha! Too much activities in a single day... too tired.
See ya'!
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Monday, October 06, 2008
Nagoya Hari Raya Party
Today, wa had Malaysian Hari Raya party at International Students House Lobby, Nagoya Institute of Technology. The event was partipated by Malaysian communities living around Nagoya and Toyota city. We had a lot of Malay dishes! Haha... really enjoyed it! I'll post more pictures soon ^-^
Wednesday, October 01, 2008
Happy Hari Raya to All
Maybe it's still not too late to wish Happy Hari Raya Aidilfitri to all Muslims around the globe. I don't have much time to spend time blogging here these days, but I really miss this site. Called my family back home in Malaysia, but seems everybody's too tired with the celebration and open house... so nobody wanted to speak with me... hmmm. Okay, till then. Wassalam.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Turn off indexing and speed up Windows XP
If you don't use Windows XP's built-in search often (like every day), disabling indexing can significantly speed up your PC.
By default Windows XP indexes files on your hard drive and stores them in memory to speed up its' built-in search. But if you rarely use Windows search, turn off indexing to free up memory and CPU horsepower for the files and applications you actually do use. A few simple how-to steps after the jump.
To turn off indexing:
1. Open up "My Computer."
2. Right-click on your hard drive (usually "C:") and choose "Properties."
3. Uncheck the box at the bottom that reads "Allow Indexing Service to..."
4. Click OK, and files will be removed from memory. This removal may take a few minutes to complete.
To disable the indexing service:
1. In the "Start" menu, choose "Run."
2. Type "services.msc" and press Enter.
3. Scroll-down to "Indexing Service" and double-click it.
4. If the service status is "Running", then stop it by pressing the "Stop" button.
5. To make sure this service doesn't run again, under "Startup Type:", choose "Disabled."
Windows search will still work if you perform these steps, but it will work more slowly than if indexing was enabled.
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The document was taken from:
http://lifehacker.com/software/optimization/turn-off-indexing-and-speed-up-windows-xp-031440.php
By default Windows XP indexes files on your hard drive and stores them in memory to speed up its' built-in search. But if you rarely use Windows search, turn off indexing to free up memory and CPU horsepower for the files and applications you actually do use. A few simple how-to steps after the jump.
To turn off indexing:
1. Open up "My Computer."
2. Right-click on your hard drive (usually "C:") and choose "Properties."
3. Uncheck the box at the bottom that reads "Allow Indexing Service to..."
4. Click OK, and files will be removed from memory. This removal may take a few minutes to complete.
To disable the indexing service:
1. In the "Start" menu, choose "Run."
2. Type "services.msc" and press Enter.
3. Scroll-down to "Indexing Service" and double-click it.
4. If the service status is "Running", then stop it by pressing the "Stop" button.
5. To make sure this service doesn't run again, under "Startup Type:", choose "Disabled."
Windows search will still work if you perform these steps, but it will work more slowly than if indexing was enabled.
*****
The document was taken from:
http://lifehacker.com/software/optimization/turn-off-indexing-and-speed-up-windows-xp-031440.php
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Monday, September 08, 2008
Saturday, September 06, 2008
Finished temperature-dependence photoluminescence (PL) measurements...
So tired... finally finished TD-PL just now, from 5K to 300K (10K increment for 5K-100K & 20K increment for 100K-300K). There's 5 samples to measure... actually, it's not the sample which make it hard, but the temperature increment which make it very boring measurement. At first, I had to put my samples into a cryostat, cools the cryostat using liquid Helium until it reaches 5K, and increase the temperature according to the measurement parameter using a heater. And, there's a lot of waiting to get the temperature stabilized, before doing the photoluminescence (PL) measurement.
What makes it a tiring measurement is... there was problem with the diffusion pump when I vacuum the cryostat last night (after putting my sample in). Even after waiting for 2 hours, the pressure still at 2 x 10^(-2) Pa. It should be around 1 x 10^(-4) Pa after 40 minutes pumping...
Then, when it reached 5K this morning, I found that the He-Cd (helium-cadmium) laser [used to excite electron in MQW (multi-quantum-well) structure of my sample] didn't reflected properly / passing properly through mirror / lenses on the optical configuration. The worse thing is I found 2 laser spot on my sample, even though there's only 1 laser used in the configuration. I think somebody has accidentally touched the mirror/lenses on the optical table... I was soooooooooo ANGRY!!! But, who? Arghhh...
Fortunately, I fixed the mirror direction on the optical table to get 1 laser spot on my sample... fortunately... seems like it's ok. Dr. Ishikawa must be sooo angry if he found that thing happened again. Everybody who do PL must be angry if he/she found the laser is reflected to different direction... it's normal thing in this field. But, who did it? Hmm... no idea... maybe those guys... (no more comments)
Okay, I've to go home... so tired. I've to spend many hours to analyze the PL data...
Just hoping I could sleep well tonight... Insya'Allah.
~~~ So happy to see a mail from Chongqing in my mailbox just now :) ~~~
What makes it a tiring measurement is... there was problem with the diffusion pump when I vacuum the cryostat last night (after putting my sample in). Even after waiting for 2 hours, the pressure still at 2 x 10^(-2) Pa. It should be around 1 x 10^(-4) Pa after 40 minutes pumping...
Then, when it reached 5K this morning, I found that the He-Cd (helium-cadmium) laser [used to excite electron in MQW (multi-quantum-well) structure of my sample] didn't reflected properly / passing properly through mirror / lenses on the optical configuration. The worse thing is I found 2 laser spot on my sample, even though there's only 1 laser used in the configuration. I think somebody has accidentally touched the mirror/lenses on the optical table... I was soooooooooo ANGRY!!! But, who? Arghhh...
Fortunately, I fixed the mirror direction on the optical table to get 1 laser spot on my sample... fortunately... seems like it's ok. Dr. Ishikawa must be sooo angry if he found that thing happened again. Everybody who do PL must be angry if he/she found the laser is reflected to different direction... it's normal thing in this field. But, who did it? Hmm... no idea... maybe those guys... (no more comments)
Okay, I've to go home... so tired. I've to spend many hours to analyze the PL data...
Just hoping I could sleep well tonight... Insya'Allah.
~~~ So happy to see a mail from Chongqing in my mailbox just now :) ~~~
Friday, September 05, 2008
Yet another ω-2θ scan...
Doing omega-2theta scan for my MQW sample on GaN substrate. Got the BEST result I've ever collected for my MQW structure! And hope this is among the best result in the world! Alhamdulillah... berkat bulan Ramadhan.
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Japan Applied Physics Society Fall Meeting
Japan Applied Physics Society Fall Meeting is being held at Chubu University, not so far from Nagoya. I also went there to listen for special symposium on GaN research today. The speakers are Prof. Akasaki (Meijo Univ.), Prof. Amano (Meijyo Univ.), Prof. Shuji Nakamura (Univ. of California at Santa Barbara), and a guy from Toyoda Gosei (sorry, not remember his name) who is managing opto-electronics department there.
Frankly speaking, I've read/seen most of the contents in their presentations, but listening to their presentations gave me a perspective that they've devoted all their life for what they've done. They also have pride in what they're doing... that's very obvious. Although there's not so much I could learn from their presentation, at least their hard work gave me some glory for what I'm doing.
The most important presentation is about LED and LD on m-plane GaN which is scheduled for tomorrow at 9AM. I'll be there, for sure.
Met Prof. E* as soon as I returned to the laboratory this evening. There's a lot of thing on schedule to be done... but not to say anything here. Also got sample from Suzuki-san. And had some discussion with Nomura-san about the sample I asked him to grow on tomorrow. Now, actually, I'm doing XRD (x-ray-diffraction) scan for the sample I received from Suzuki-san just now. The characterization will finish tomorrow morning at 7:30AM (it takes 12 hour)... so tonight will be another sleepless night for me. I've to finish it before 8AM as it takes around 1 hour to go to Chubu Univ. from my university, by train and feeder-bus, to listen for the m-plane GaN LED/LD tomorrow morning at 9AM.
Okay, good luck for everybody! :)
Frankly speaking, I've read/seen most of the contents in their presentations, but listening to their presentations gave me a perspective that they've devoted all their life for what they've done. They also have pride in what they're doing... that's very obvious. Although there's not so much I could learn from their presentation, at least their hard work gave me some glory for what I'm doing.
The most important presentation is about LED and LD on m-plane GaN which is scheduled for tomorrow at 9AM. I'll be there, for sure.
Met Prof. E* as soon as I returned to the laboratory this evening. There's a lot of thing on schedule to be done... but not to say anything here. Also got sample from Suzuki-san. And had some discussion with Nomura-san about the sample I asked him to grow on tomorrow. Now, actually, I'm doing XRD (x-ray-diffraction) scan for the sample I received from Suzuki-san just now. The characterization will finish tomorrow morning at 7:30AM (it takes 12 hour)... so tonight will be another sleepless night for me. I've to finish it before 8AM as it takes around 1 hour to go to Chubu Univ. from my university, by train and feeder-bus, to listen for the m-plane GaN LED/LD tomorrow morning at 9AM.
Okay, good luck for everybody! :)
Monday, September 01, 2008
Sunday, August 31, 2008
Toki Premium Outlet Store
Yesterday, I went to Toki Premium outlet store in Toki-city, Gifu Prefecture with my room-mate (Kucai). I first thought that it was impossible to make it yesterday since the weather was raining hardly. But, we really made it! Haha! Kucai drove his car along the entire journey which took 2 hours for each single trip. Stopped at Sushiro (an Osakan sushi restaurant) at Tajimi-city (in Gifu Prefecture) on our way back to Nagoya. Happppy! :)
My Sacrifice by Creed : Tribute to Anwar Ibrahim
This is a Malaysian hero, the man who struggles his entire life for the nation. God bless you Anwar!
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Moved back to my old room...
As what I've been told by Prof. E* yesterday, my group members and I have to clear the room we're now which is owned by Assoc. Prof. I*. Today, Prof E* told me (and others in the room) to move to my older room, which is owned by him. So... since morning, we moved... until around 3PM. I appreciate Shu-san and Pum-san, both who helped me cleaning the (new) room and moving my goods. So tired... I should've finished my Hall measurement if there was no moving today. At 4:30, I watched Shu-san's presentation for his PhD entrance exam, together with E* sensei and Pum-san. Alhamdulillah, I could learn a lot from his presentation (and actively gave my ideas to improve his presentation and experiments). I also told E* sensei that I'll attend the conference in Malaysia next November, and all my ideas to improve my LD (aready made discussion with my junior, Maki-san yesterday) . There's a lot to do with it, but I feel very happy as my involvement with this research would be a very valuable experience for my own life and future industrial breakthrough... Alhamdulillah :)
The room I've to leave... really miss this place...
My new place... syukur dgn setiap kurniaan-Nya.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
本当にこれで良いのか、かなり悩んだ！
[I don't know whether this is the best decision I've made... but anyhow, I've chose it to be like this. I'm really sorry...]
From ****d *huh*im* <*huh*im*@m**.com>
To 王**
Cc *huh*imi@nano******.com
Date Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Subject RE: For the IMRC 2008
Mailed-by m**.com
Hide details Aug 22 (1 day ago)
Reply
Dear Prof. Wang,
Thank you for the invitation to be a reviewer for Symposium D.
However, as my field of research is limited to GaN-based material growth on Si-substrates, its characterization and device processing, I am very sorry because I cannot accept your invitation to be a reviewer for the attached papers. The materials used in the attached papers are totally different from my specialization.
Thank you very much.
Yours sincerely,
****d *huh*im* **n **u ***ar
*g*wa Laboratory,
Research Center for Nano-***** and Sy***m,
**go*a ******* of *******,
**go*a ***-****, *i*h*, Japan.
E-mail: *huh*im*@**n.com / *huh*im*@nano******.com
Tel: +81-52-73*-5*** (ext: 5*4*)
Fax: +81-52-73*-5***
From: 王** [mailto:wang**@**d.semi.ac.cn]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:36 PM
To: *huh*im*@**n.com
Subject: For the IMRC 2008
Dear *huh*im*,
Thank you for supporting the IMRC-2008 Symposium.
On the behalf of all the organizers, we invite you
to be reviewer of the Symposium D. The papers that
need reviewed are attached in this email.
Once you received this email, whether you want to be
the reviewer or not, would you please reply this email
as soon as possible? If you want to help us to review the papers,
please send the reviewed papers before 5 september 2008.
There are 3 journals for the papers to be published,
Journal of materials research , Science in China E and Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
If you want to help us to review the paper, in your replied email , along with your comments, please attach the journal that the paper can be published.
Thank you very much
Yours Sincerely
IMRC-2008 Symposium
From ****d *huh*im* <*huh*im*@m**.com>
To 王**
Cc *huh*imi@nano******.com
Date Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 7:54 PM
Subject RE: For the IMRC 2008
Mailed-by m**.com
Hide details Aug 22 (1 day ago)
Reply
Dear Prof. Wang,
Thank you for the invitation to be a reviewer for Symposium D.
However, as my field of research is limited to GaN-based material growth on Si-substrates, its characterization and device processing, I am very sorry because I cannot accept your invitation to be a reviewer for the attached papers. The materials used in the attached papers are totally different from my specialization.
Thank you very much.
Yours sincerely,
****d *huh*im* **n **u ***ar
*g*wa Laboratory,
Research Center for Nano-***** and Sy***m,
**go*a ******* of *******,
**go*a ***-****, *i*h*, Japan.
E-mail: *huh*im*@**n.com / *huh*im*@nano******.com
Tel: +81-52-73*-5*** (ext: 5*4*)
Fax: +81-52-73*-5***
From: 王** [mailto:wang**@**d.semi.ac.cn]
Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 12:36 PM
To: *huh*im*@**n.com
Subject: For the IMRC 2008
Dear *huh*im*,
Thank you for supporting the IMRC-2008 Symposium.
On the behalf of all the organizers, we invite you
to be reviewer of the Symposium D. The papers that
need reviewed are attached in this email.
Once you received this email, whether you want to be
the reviewer or not, would you please reply this email
as soon as possible? If you want to help us to review the papers,
please send the reviewed papers before 5 september 2008.
There are 3 journals for the papers to be published,
Journal of materials research , Science in China E and Journal of Physics: Conference Series.
If you want to help us to review the paper, in your replied email , along with your comments, please attach the journal that the paper can be published.
Thank you very much
Yours Sincerely
IMRC-2008 Symposium
Sunday, August 17, 2008
Wishing you a HAPPY life...
Sometimes, we're too focused on our own target a few miles away... that we forgotten somebody right beside us... who's seeking for our love...
Really prayed to God for you to live in happiness, with a loving family and cheerful friends...
Really prayed to God for you to live in happiness, with a loving family and cheerful friends...
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Don't know why... this blog is jamming...
Today I found out that the youtube video I shared in this blog using the "Sharing" panel inside youtube, which failed to appear at the time I shared them, just appeared... but with 4 videos appearing continuously in the posts. No... they looked not as I thought it should be... so I deleted them all. Actually, I don't want this blog to be a collection of videos. I have a large collection of videos at youtube... this blog should be a blog, with my own writing. I write to improve my own english writing (most of the time)... not to show my writing to others. This blog itself is only known by me and a only few people... no more than 10 persons. Blogging is a personal thing... the more viewer you got, the harder for you to write about them. I keep thing about myself private most of the time... :)
Friday, August 15, 2008
Grapes-picking in Okazaki
Have to take some time to update this blog. Actually, I'd some nice activities this week. After having tough time last 2 weeks, I went for a grape-picking at Okazaki-city, Aichi (JP). Okazaki is a city within Aichi prefecture, the same prefecture where Nagoya-city and Toyota-city are. It sounds close to Nagoya, but... when going there by car using normal road, it took 3 hours per trip. That means we spent 6 hours being stuck in a car just to pick some grapes to eat. Haha... maybe buying grapes at a supermarket next to my apartment is easier. But hey... we love something challenging, right!? At least I could get some relief from stress I had (mostly from laboratory jobs). Haha... see the pic? Everybody's smiling :)
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Ustaz Azhar Idrus - Sesungguhnya Manusia Itu Dlm Kerugian
An Islamic preach from an ustaz from Kuala Terengganu (Malaysia) in my nostalgic Terengganu slang... impressive!
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Monday, July 21, 2008
Sunday, July 20, 2008
鬼束ちひろ - 流星群
One of my loved Japanese singer with a wonderful voice. This is Onitsuka Chihiro with her Ryuuseigun song, a romantic lyric with a very inspiring melody. You can get a better audio version in my Imeem Best 100 playlist.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Ungu feat. Rossa - Tercipta Untukku (HQ Audio/Video)
Best lagu nih... added to my Imeem Best 100 playlist yesterday, after watching the movie Ayat Ayat Cinta. Enjoy!
