International Festival

13 March 2009. My 2nd year of attending the International Festival in the University of Dayton. However, I'm still wearing the same baju melayu.

June Feng, demonstrating chinese traditional musical instrument, from 桂林.

Who is more 串?

Posing with a Korean girl and Ena Lim

The food is not tasty at all this year.

Math Clinic Presentation

2009 March 12, Thursday, -3 Celsius, cloudy.

My research was about finding missing values titled "Bootstrapping with SAS and Exploring Dirty Data". At 2:30pm, we had free cookies. At 3pm, I started my saliva-splashing work. Blah...blah...blah... At 3:40pm, I was bombarded with big Q and small q. One of the questions was, "If I bump into somebody on the street and that person asks me to define bootstrap, what should I say?"

I would say, "It's a method where you perform sampling with replacement over and over again to find the relevant mean estimators such as the intercept and the slope, plug them into the equation and get your predicted y values." Just like the usual 串 Lulu, I added, "I just spent half an hour explaining about the methodology, that's the best answer I can give if you want me to wrap up the whole thing in one sentence". I looked straight into the eyes of Prof Paul Eloe who raised this Q. He smiled.

Reminded me of OYL's 你想怎样? during her presentation. Also reminded me of my own 串 answer to Nukman's Q of "You are blaming on the machine for your inaccurate result". Though it was 7 years ago, I still remembered vividly my answer: "Now we only have 1 accelerometer (to do measurement), they(the department/research team) are ordering 1 more accelerometer. Later, when they can take measurement at 2 points simultaneously, probably they can prove me wrong!" The very next thing I remembered was, Prof Zahari was trying hard to stiffle his laughter. And the guys sitting at the back row gave me a round applause.

Setting up the computer for presentation

After presentation, posing a photo with Schautan, the always-smiling new classmate.

with Li Qian.

Mini Cooper in the US

I have a Mini Cooper collection, ah-hem... photo collection lah, still a poor student and can't afford to collect the cars. In UK, posed with Mini at the front bonnet. In US, posed with Mini at the back.

Sycamore State Park

Last Saturday, 7 March 2009, the temperature turned warm. It was about 19 Celsius. We went walk walk at Sycamore State Park. The place had a gloomy look. The trees were still botak. The grass was still yellowish.

Hubby and Lulu

Oh... wanna talk/interrogate/interview him? Feel free to waicool2003@gmail.com him.