3 Dishes So Yummy and Save

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Prof.Barbara's Talk

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

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

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!

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

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

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.