Today has been a hectic day man. I wake up, brush my teeth, and then I usually get back into bed to finish waking up. Then the phone rang, my sister answered it. she comes to my door, and tells me to go pick up my mom & dad cause the car broke down. So i drove my sister's car to work. But this kind of derailed my plans for the day.

It all satrted two nights ago, I went to school to look at the Design projects for this year. My point in going was to find flaws. Anyways, so I was talking to some guys also on PEY. And it so happens, they had chosen the same project we wanted for Design (we being my partner for design). But they had proposed another idea, but anyways, i told my partner that night we had to get a hold of MacLean. It was imperative to get this project. After leaving many messages, we finally got a hold of him, only for him to tell he he promised the project to another group, who he doesn't remember who anymore. So it could of been the group I talked to. Anyways, so that was about 6:15PM last night while I was driving downtown for more design projects. So my partner made a meeting with him for 10AM this morning, although I hate going down in the morning, and I would have to be late for work at least 3 hours. So on my way home last night, I went to my design-partner's place, and we chose some alternatives for design, to propose to him. I left late, so I did not get much sleep.

Fast Forward to this morning, so I went out to pick up my mom. Because I usually drive the van, probably don't want me to drive sister's car downtown, so I called my partner to tell him he had to go alone, I could not make it. Fast Forward now to about 12PM when I called my partner after the meeting.

So the meeting went well, he liked one of our proposed ideas. It's a Computer Vision idea dealing with determining in an image whether an image is a shadow or real object. So my partner was saying how the prof would like to write a paper on it, and then because we'd be doing part of it, we'd get credit for it as well. Sweet! Publications!

And then my partner told me he said if the project went well enough, he would think about taking us on as grad students. Another sweet deal! Man, this doesn't get any better. Sure I never even thought of doing grad school. And I didn't even think I'd ever get an opportunity, and I don't really want to. But possibly having this chance has brought a whole new perspective on this issue. I guess if a position were to be given to me, I might just take it. Depends if i have a job or not. But although I really don't think having a Masters right now will help me much, it might give me opportunity to meet people with higher connections to get a job. So I feel kind of excited again, even though I never really wanted to do a Master's. But given the opportunity, I'd have to give it some serious thought, because market is not good, no jobs, maybe I should stay in school? who knows right now, we'll see what happens.

Tonight at fellowship, we're joining the high school group for "Gym Day". I never really was good at gym. Never really talented in sports, although I did post the best average for Team Sanctuary last season in CCSA softball. But although generally saying, I am tall for a Chinese guy, I have not played basketball since grade 9. I can't even shoot a ball anymore. It's odd actually, I've lost all talent. I used to be an okay player, not bad, but after one of my friends went to another school, I stopped playing period. Don't know whatever happened to him. So tonight shall be interesting. Although I heard last week, this is a gym day, with no basketball. Weird huh, what gymnasium does not have a basketball net?

I even started playing volleyball again this summer on the beach. I guess my serve has been pretty good, although I can't do overhand, only underhand. Whatever. But other than that, i still can't play. Anyways, point of the matter is, tonight, it's gonna be pure embarassment in front of young teens. Oh well, I can't deal with it, i don't go to their church! Who cares, I don't know their name, and they don't know mine.

I was debating whether to buy the 8 Mile DVD. It was $19.99 at Futureshop early this week. Not anymore. But I went to see it in theatres, and it was really good. I really enjoyed the movie, and the battles, actually started listening to what they were saying. And the dvd comes with more battles. Surely, I'm not like to keen on the music still, but the movie was good, the "Lose Yourself" song by Eminem is good too. But I think I'll forgo buying it, but someone tell me how it is.

After going to the Design Fair, one thing I noticed is how many people don't know enough information about their project. Although i can understand some of them not knowing, but the one thing, the worst one i caught was this. There was a project there, the poster had some sheet with these numbers, three columns, one row. they all headings, but the numbers had no units. So what were those numbers? The headings did not say enough, they said what it's associated with, but not what it was. So I asked the group, they said they didn't know, the computer spit it out. I was like, oh, okay. I didn't want to make them look bad or something, cause one was a good friend, but it was like, that's dumb. And there were so many posters with graphs and such, but many times I found they did not say what the axis were measuring. So it's like an X-Y graph, but the X had no label, or it had a label, but no units. It was dumb really. Anyone out there, make sure you know units! Describe what you show, otherwise, people like me will find your problems. I know, I suck.
Yesterday going home I was so tired. After I left my design-partner's place, I filled up on gas. When I left the gas station, was going to make a left. I went straight to turn left, then I noticed something. There was an island in front of me, there was no left turns, one way only! Man, I was so tired I did not even notice it. Luckily I saw it with enough time to turn and avoid going straight into the island. Gotta be more careful.

That's update for now.