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Lunch Today - Chicken Sausage at Canteen 13

2009-03-26T20:03:00.002+08:00

Place : Canteen 13, NTU
Menu : Chicken Sausage
Price : S$ 4.50
Comment : Long and big sausage, nice taste and fresh! Only the bread is tough to chew.
Score : 3.5 / 5

Dinner Today - Tom Yum and Omelet at Canteen 2

2009-03-12T20:47:00.005+08:00

Place : Canteen 2, NTU
Menu : Tom yum, omelet, and rice
Price : S$ 4
Comment : It's very hard to find delicious omelet and tom yum in Singapore. But at here! my campus, I found both. Unfortunately, I forgot to zoom the bowl of tom yum :(
Score : 4.5 / 5

Lunch Today - Black Pepper Steak at Canteen 13

2009-03-12T20:39:00.003+08:00

Place : Canteen 13, NTU
Menu : Black Pepper Steak (medium)
Price : S$ 5
Comment : It's really medium! The beef is nicely soft. Although the price is quite high for students but it's worthy.
Score : 4 / 5

Lunch Today - Crispy Noodle with Seafood

2009-03-11T19:08:00.003+08:00

Place : Canteen 4, NTU
Menu : Crispy noodle with seafood (squid & prawn)
Price : S$ 3.5
Comment : Really crispy but I think it lacked something important.
Score : 3 / 5

Lunch Today - Korean BBQ Beef Set at Canteen 13

2009-03-10T19:25:00.005+08:00

Place : Canteen 13, NTU
Menu : Korean BBQ Beef Set (BBQ + Soup + Rice + Kimchi)
Price : S$ 4.5
Comment : The main course is soft cooked beef & good Taste. But I didn't like the soup and Kimchi.
Score : 3.5 / 5

[Reading] Uncapacitated single and multiple allocation p-hub center problems

2009-03-09T16:15:00.000+08:00

Authors: Andreas T. Ernst et. al. , ELSEVIE, 2007

The paper refers to "p-hub" concept using for reducing the total cost of any networks - telecommunication, postal network, and even airline. The idea is to use a set of hubs to consolidate something (e.g., data, passengers, materials, ...). Two kinds of allocations studied by the authors - uncapacitated single allocation p-hub center problem (USApHCP) and uncapacitated multiple allocation p-hub center porblem (UMApHCP). They need to minimize the discounted cost of the largest origin-destination pair path : min max (cost) by using integer programming.

Dinner Today - Mussels & Clams at Pastamania

2009-03-08T21:20:00.002+08:00

Place : Pastamania, West Mall, Bukit Batok, Singapore
Menu : Mussels & Clams Pasta + Combo set A (= soup, garlic bread, and drink)
Price : Pasta S$ 9.90 + Combo set S$ 4.90 = S$ 14.80
Comment : It's not my type, so insipid although I put more cheese powder and chili.
Score : 2.5 / 5

Lunch Today - Stir Fried Pork with Basil

2009-03-08T14:23:00.001+08:00

Yun & Tutu cooked Stir Fried Pork with Basil. Actually I don't know how to call this food in English. I know only it is my most favorite menu. This couple cooks so nice. Score 5/5 is too less.

Supper Today : Shochu & Roasted Chicken

2009-03-07T22:43:00.003+08:00

The supper is roasted chicken (only S$ 4.6). The drink is Shochu, a Japanese vodka-like with alcohol 25% (S$ 11). I drink it straight (without ice / mixture). I like this drink due to its purely strong degree.

Lunch Today - Fried Sa-Taw @ Home

2009-03-07T12:43:00.004+08:00

I bought Fried Sa-Taw (mixed with another) from Sky Thai in Jurong Point. If you don't know what Sa-Taw looks like, see the picture above. Cited from Wikipedia, Sa-Taw has many names - Parkia Speciosa (its binomial name), petai, bitter bean, and even stink bean. Yes! it has a strong smell, so we call "stink bean". The taste is bitter that's why we call "bitter bean" .But I think it's bitter-sweet. Although, it's bitter stench, I still enjoy to eat Sa-Taw.

Ok! this menu I give 5/5 score!

Breakfast Today - Coffee + Soft Boiled-Eggs @ Ya Kun

2009-03-07T11:30:00.002+08:00

Place : Ya Kun, Boon Lay MRT Station, Jurong West, Singapore
Menu : Hot Coffee and a couple of soft boiled-eggs
Price : S$ 2.70
Comment : Sufficient energy
Score : 4 / 5

LA MANDA and 21

2009-03-06T23:30:00.003+08:00

At night, I and Yun have wine and watch a movie. The wine is LA MANDA - Cabernet Sauvignon (Year 2008) from Chile. I don't know how much it is, because Yun treated me. The film is 21. They're nice strong wine and great film.

Good Night - 3 Leo

2009-03-05T02:35:00.001+08:00

3 Leo (Thai Beer) before sleeping. Good night!

Dinner Today - Braised Pig's Trotter

2009-03-04T20:26:00.003+08:00

Place : Food court, Floor 1th, Jurong Point
Menu : Braised Pig's Trotter
Price : Trotter S$ 4.50 + Bowl of Veggie S$1 = S$ 5.50
Comment : Fatty but Yummy! I cannot resist.
Score : 4 / 5

Lunch Today - Pork Chop + Spaghetti

2009-03-04T12:30:00.002+08:00

Place : Hall 16, NTU
Menu : Pork Chop + Spaghetti on Hot Pan
Price : S$ 4.50
Comment : NA
Score : 3 / 5

Where's my Money ?

2009-03-03T11:45:00.000+08:00

In this month I haven't got salary! Actually I should get it since the end of Feb. This salary is the stipend of the scholarship I've got from school for a year.

Yesterday, I asked a woman who could help me, but she said only the other man and my adviser can do. Unfortunately, both of them are not here on this week. So I have to wait for the assistance until next week. Today I went to ask the financial office to assist me. But they said they haven't got my annual report which is important to renew my scholarship. That's terrible! Because I used to submit the report since last year but why they haven't got it.

Ok! nobody can answer who's making mistake and it does not matter to know. I submitted the report again but I have to wait my adviser to sign the report. Poor me! I have to save money in this month because I might get the salary until the end of this month.

3 Dishes So Yummy and Save

2009-02-25T22:03:00.001+08:00

Poor me! I don't know how we call each one. It has sour + (weirdly) spicy taste. The place is Canteen 2 (not far from Canteen 1). We (me + Yun + Tutu) like this stall. The cost is satisfied (if rating it at the taste), S$ 18 or S$ 6 / person.

Lunch Today - Beefball Soup and Omelet + Veggie

2009-02-24T12:30:00.000+08:00

Again! the lunch was the same (as on 19 FEB). I usually remain the same menus and it's hard to change my mind from them. But today I added more veggie (just cost 50 cents more).

Red Wine Before Sleeping - Vina Maipo

2009-02-24T00:42:00.002+08:00

VINA MAIPO, a wine brand from Chile. This red wine is not so bad, only S$12+. I and Yun drank this one while watching Oscar 81th.

Aftern Lunch - Paulaner at Brotzeit

2009-02-23T12:59:00.004+08:00

Place : Brotzeit on 1st level in Vivo City
Menu : Two jugs (1 liter/jug) of Paulaner beer - Original Munich Lager and Weissbier
Price : Total S$ 41.40 (S$ 17.10 for Lager and S$ 18.10 for Weissbier)
Comment : Very famous German beer. The taste fits my type.
Score : 4.5 / 5

Lunch - Basil Chicken in Vivo City

2009-02-23T12:51:00.001+08:00

Location : Food Republic in Vivo City
Menu - Basil Chicken with Egg Set
Price : S$ 5.50
Comment : The taste is similar to Thai but cooked by Chinese. The soup also is OK for me (no photo of the soup). The price is reasonable too.
Score : 4.5 / 5

Thai BBQ at Golden Mile

2009-02-22T23:30:00.001+08:00

Menu : Thai BBQ (Hot Pan and cook BBQ by yourselves)
Price : I forgot but it's not so expensive. The price suits to 3 - 4, totally less than S$ 35. But I ordered one Guinness beer which is more expensive (S$ 10 / bottle).
Place : Golden Mile on 1st floor. It's near a mobile phone shop.
Comment : It's Thai style. I like the Thai taste with fresh veggie & meat. The location is quite fascinating me like I was surrounded by cute Thai gals (some are lady boyz).
Score : 4 / 5

Supper Today : Roasted Chicken

2009-02-19T22:30:00.008+08:00

Supper : Roasted pepper chicken bought from FairPrice Extra, Jurong Point
Price : S$ 5.5
Comment : Ok because of black pepper and moderate price
Score : 3.5 / 5

Lunch Today - Beefball Soup and Omelet

2009-02-19T00:50:00.009+08:00

Menu : Beefball Soup + Omelet + Rice at Canteen 2, NTU
Price : $S 3
Comment : Yummy like Thai food!
Score : 4 / 5

Prof.Barbara's Talk

2009-02-18T18:53:00.004+08:00

02:30PM - I attended a talk "OpenMP Beyond 3.0: Language, Implemenation and Programming Tools" by Prof.Barbara Chapman. She's much expert in the area High Performance Computing. OpenMP is widely used by many institutes. Some companies implemented it as commercial products. OpenMP has played more role today and the future especially on muti-core / many-core processors. Well, I don't plan to give much technical detail here. It's not the content of this blog. If you're interested in OpenMP, just visit the official website OpenMP.

Meeting 18-FEB-09

2009-02-18T12:33:00.005+08:00

10:30AM - I met up with Prof.Lee and Prof.Dusit was there before. The major topic was the research topic I'll continue in the next few months. I selected one since last week. It's "consolidation" + "optimization". We might call it "optimized consolidation". Actually I picked this topic since last JAN. It's arisen again when Gartner released a document "The Great Virtualization Dillemma of the Next Decade: What You Need to Know" on Feb 11, 09.

Nothing to talk much about the topic while I've derived anything yet. Ok! it's time to read more papers. Oops! I have to Prof.Babara Chapman's talk. I'll come back here again after the talk.

Watching Samurai Champloo

2009-02-18T01:00:00.005+08:00

While I was feeling bored, I looked for some movies to watch. This is not good way for PHD students to relax because of wasting much time. I found one anime "Samurai Champloo". Actually I heard this name for a few years ago. OK! let me watch.

Wow! it's quite funny. There're 3 major characters: Jin, Mugen, and Fuu (in Fig. from left to right). Maybe I've never watched the movie like this. I meant the making of this movie is so different since I've ever known. You should know more. Old + modern japanese styles are mixed together here.

I just finished the 12th episode. OK it's time to sleep, 1.14AM - SG. Good night!

[Photo source : Wikipedia]

Clarify this Blog Please ... OK!

2009-02-17T21:12:00.005+08:00

Previously I spent so much time on other blogs. Because I have many blogs for updating, I don't have much time to spend for all of them fairly :) Actually I should consider which unique content I will put for each one. For example, blog A is for being my diary while blog B is for posting technical stuffs. I planed to clarify this issue after finishing PHD (in next 3 years at least) hahaha!

The question annoying me is why I have many blogs. I still cannot find a right answer. Well! firstly I though I should register many places for trying their features. The second answer (and might be the last one) is that I want to register only my pen name "javaboom" for many famous sites however this active blog cannot be pointed at javaboom.blogspot because of reserving by others.

Now let me clarify the content for this blog. I'm going to post entries like a diary book. That's why we call a web blog (blog) because it is used to log our life. Although my English skill is suck, I post them in English. Why not? I wanna share my life with people around the world.

Valentine 2009 @ Brewerkz

2009-02-14T23:58:00.004+08:00

This is me!

I and a couple (Yun + Tutu) went to Brewerk, with its slogan "We do what Werkz". Actually I think that it should be "We brew what Works". Yes! Because it works, so we like to drink beer here often.

This is the couple : Yun + Tutu

We ordered a burger set.

Totally 4 jugs - drank by 2 guys (1 jug was taken out)

Wine on Valentine Eve

2009-02-13T23:30:00.005+08:00

I and Yun bought a bottle of wine to celebrate on this eve-valentine. No! we're not a couple of lovers. We're just someone who love the same thing , this is, we love drinking. This bottle cost S$17. The taste is moderate.

New High-End Cluster

2008-08-29T22:08:00.004+08:00

I've got sick because the air flow directed to my head. That was a bad thing when I moved to the new office. I hope I should be recovered soon. The air flow also was fixed.

BTW let see a new cluster in my lab. Actually it is located behind me. It consists of 16 blade servers, each one contains 2 Quad-core (8 core totally) with 3 GHz clock, 6GB of RAM and two 146 GB (mirror). All machines are connected by Infiniband 20 Gbps and legacy Ethernet (forgot what kind of the ethernet is).

From an equation to a solution

2008-08-27T23:06:00.005+08:00

Today at Dr.Tao's office, I went to discuss a research issue with him. Because I have less experience in math, especially optimization / linear programming; I need his support for my PHD research. Thankfully, he's a math expert and he helps me a lot. We just started with a simple equation. We were trying to find main factors for it and then review all related problems. We hope a final solution should be emerged by us soon.

Stare on Earth

2008-08-27T00:53:00.007+08:00

Yesterday the class quite bored me. It's an evening class too that I feel tried and asleep. After finishing the class around 9.40PM, I went to my office, took my stuffs, and went back home. While walking to bus stop, I found an under-construction site. It's quite nearby my office, and absolutely hosted in my campus. The front side has a big poster that has the message "Home of the Earth Observatory of Singapore". WOW! How it's interesting. So I looked for the information about the so-call "Home". Its website is http://www.eos-singapore.org/. So this home is the Earth Observatory of Singapore (EOS). Its goal is to understand & address most serious environmental treats. The main areas of research are tectonic, volcanic, and climatic. This home would help Singapore and South East Asia countries (including my homeland, Thailand) anticipate and adapt to the treats. Great! we could know when disasters will happen and how we can protect ourselves from them.

Opening New Office and New Blogs

2008-08-26T16:54:00.006+08:00

Hi! It's Boom, also called me JavaBoom. I've got a new office table , new Quad-core PC with 4GB RAM + 1TB HDD for my work, and also new blogs at http://boomary.blogspot.com/ , http://javaboom.tumblr.com, http://javaboom.livejournal.com/ , and http://javaboom.posterous.com/ . Actually I own many Web 2.0 communities but the main site is http://javaboom.wordpress.com where I've collected variety stuffs (mostly presented in my language, Thai). For the 4 new blogs, I plan to keep specifically my personal daily records (maybe not every moment). I still don't decide what different topics of each one are. Their contents are generally replicated. Please visit my any blogs any times.