Aich I'm toired.
Kendo today was pretty full on in terms of cardio exercise.... But I'll get to that later.
The morning was cold, rather cold. I got in early since I drove, and I had to park in the second car park because they had trucks for installing the new field floodlights on number 1 oval. Hopped into the server room that is my office, and then proceeded to upload the dental images as requested by the dentist. I had to remember my ftp commands since I hadn't done a command prompt based ftp for ages since my computer didn't have a ftp program installed. About 20 minutes later it was all done.
I went across to the office and had a chat with Imtiaz and helped with his paper since he still had some issues with it and was struggling to get them changed satisfactorily to our supervisors requirements. Then, I called the research office.
I have been looking for work, and have been looking at Japan if possible. From advice here and there, I contacted the university research office to see if they had any leads, but as being a university department, as usual, they were pretty useless LOL. They told me to check the DEST (Department of Education, Science and Training). There was some information, but for most part, it was pretty useless too.
Nancy, one of the other PhD students in our research group had her upgrade seminar today. She was really nervous before giving it to the audience, so my supervisor and myself helped out by talking to her. She presented really well, a little bit quick but still clear. She had some stumbling because she was going a little quick, but she didn't lose track of her work at all. When it came to questions, she completely aced it and blew it away. Successfully answering all of them without flipping out even though one of them was totally ridiculous and unwarranted. I spoke to Nancy after her interview panel and our supervisor came out with thumbs up, so congratulations Nancy!
I had lunch with my friend that I hadn't really been out to chat for ages. We went down to pizzeria in Glebe, he had a parmigiana while I had a fettuccine boscaiola with a salad. It was a good catch up and we talked a little about Dungeons & Dragons v4.0 release, work and looking for work and just other random stuff. Steve from Kendo bumped into us and then joined us for a drink before lunch break was over.
I went to the EMU to have a chat with my 'supervisor' there for the dental work. We had a discussion in regards to the SEM images and what I should be trying to find, and how to proceed from there on. Short, useful, and his office was very warm.... I will have to do more SEM by the looks of it, and also get onto the TEM too.
Then comes the kendo part.
Aich. We did no laps in the warmup, the stretches were all out of order, then we did the usual suburi except only 50 hayasuburi. We did some very light footwork and then came the shocker, we were going to do more hayasuburi. The lead said we'd do 500..... that's 100 more than I've ever done in my life in a go and that was when we managed to upset our instructor a long time ago for him to give us 400 to do LOL. The way we did it was also rather peculiar, since we did 50, then 100, then 150, then 200..... I mean, increasing the number of cuts when you get tired??..... Crazy. I did the 50, 100, 150, but then I dropped out at 130, did only footwork until 180 and then finished the last 20 cuts with everyone else who survived the whole 200 block..... but seriously, my feet were numb, I couldn't feel them at all...... We should have done 200, then 150, then 100, then 50...... Oh well.
Waza training was fine as usual, the normalish routine and then jigeiko. I'm still really bad at jigeiko hahaha, ahhhhhhhh, I don't know if I'll ever get any better, it just doesn't feel that way =/ I'm hoping that if I manage to go to Japan, then I might get some lessons at a club that will fix my foundations up so I can be a better player. Hmmmmmmmmm. I ordered some shinais from Sankei through the club, but they haven't come in yet, I really want the new shinais since my deluxe from OnlineKendo is in the stages of dying......... Training three times a week is really showing its toll on my shinais, and although I'm not chewing through them like Peter does (and thus why he got a carbon shinai) it's much faster than I used to go through them haha.
Tonight, I did something a little crazy, even for me. I wrote an email to a professor at an overseas university. There has been a group of researchers that I have seen a few times at the international conferences that I've attended, and they seemed to be the only Japanese researchers in Spray Drying there. I looked up on Compendex Engineering Village for journal articles from Japanese researchers, and there was quite a lot, but very little in terms of spray dried non-materials research. The only group that did food related products and biotech was from Tottori University, Tottori, Japan. The same university that these guys at conferences come from. So, I found a contact email, for a takeshi @ bio . blah blah, which was the contact email for Professor Takeshi Furuta, the leader of their research group. In any case, I emailed the professor..... ah, crazy..... I don't expect to hear back, and I certainly don't expect to hear positive news back from him either. But it is always worth a try I guess. Aich.
My friend who got married last year is coming up to Sydney tomorrow with another friend and they want to see Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. I really want to see it too, I was hoping to see it tonight but no-one really wanted to see it, so luckily for me that they wanted to see it, so if it fits in during the day then I'll definitely catch up with them and see the movie too ^^ Yay!
If I'm lucky, I might get to go to TokyoMart on Sunday, and check out some groceries... I've wanted to check it out for ages but I've just not got around to it. Though I got paid, more than half the money went into my credit card and I still have money on it too LOL, but I guess it's ok to spend a little sometimes, especially if you have reason to celebrate a little. ^^
Kendo today was pretty full on in terms of cardio exercise.... But I'll get to that later.
The morning was cold, rather cold. I got in early since I drove, and I had to park in the second car park because they had trucks for installing the new field floodlights on number 1 oval. Hopped into the server room that is my office, and then proceeded to upload the dental images as requested by the dentist. I had to remember my ftp commands since I hadn't done a command prompt based ftp for ages since my computer didn't have a ftp program installed. About 20 minutes later it was all done.
I went across to the office and had a chat with Imtiaz and helped with his paper since he still had some issues with it and was struggling to get them changed satisfactorily to our supervisors requirements. Then, I called the research office.
I have been looking for work, and have been looking at Japan if possible. From advice here and there, I contacted the university research office to see if they had any leads, but as being a university department, as usual, they were pretty useless LOL. They told me to check the DEST (Department of Education, Science and Training). There was some information, but for most part, it was pretty useless too.
Nancy, one of the other PhD students in our research group had her upgrade seminar today. She was really nervous before giving it to the audience, so my supervisor and myself helped out by talking to her. She presented really well, a little bit quick but still clear. She had some stumbling because she was going a little quick, but she didn't lose track of her work at all. When it came to questions, she completely aced it and blew it away. Successfully answering all of them without flipping out even though one of them was totally ridiculous and unwarranted. I spoke to Nancy after her interview panel and our supervisor came out with thumbs up, so congratulations Nancy!
I had lunch with my friend that I hadn't really been out to chat for ages. We went down to pizzeria in Glebe, he had a parmigiana while I had a fettuccine boscaiola with a salad. It was a good catch up and we talked a little about Dungeons & Dragons v4.0 release, work and looking for work and just other random stuff. Steve from Kendo bumped into us and then joined us for a drink before lunch break was over.
I went to the EMU to have a chat with my 'supervisor' there for the dental work. We had a discussion in regards to the SEM images and what I should be trying to find, and how to proceed from there on. Short, useful, and his office was very warm.... I will have to do more SEM by the looks of it, and also get onto the TEM too.
Then comes the kendo part.
Aich. We did no laps in the warmup, the stretches were all out of order, then we did the usual suburi except only 50 hayasuburi. We did some very light footwork and then came the shocker, we were going to do more hayasuburi. The lead said we'd do 500..... that's 100 more than I've ever done in my life in a go and that was when we managed to upset our instructor a long time ago for him to give us 400 to do LOL. The way we did it was also rather peculiar, since we did 50, then 100, then 150, then 200..... I mean, increasing the number of cuts when you get tired??..... Crazy. I did the 50, 100, 150, but then I dropped out at 130, did only footwork until 180 and then finished the last 20 cuts with everyone else who survived the whole 200 block..... but seriously, my feet were numb, I couldn't feel them at all...... We should have done 200, then 150, then 100, then 50...... Oh well.
Waza training was fine as usual, the normalish routine and then jigeiko. I'm still really bad at jigeiko hahaha, ahhhhhhhh, I don't know if I'll ever get any better, it just doesn't feel that way =/ I'm hoping that if I manage to go to Japan, then I might get some lessons at a club that will fix my foundations up so I can be a better player. Hmmmmmmmmm. I ordered some shinais from Sankei through the club, but they haven't come in yet, I really want the new shinais since my deluxe from OnlineKendo is in the stages of dying......... Training three times a week is really showing its toll on my shinais, and although I'm not chewing through them like Peter does (and thus why he got a carbon shinai) it's much faster than I used to go through them haha.
Tonight, I did something a little crazy, even for me. I wrote an email to a professor at an overseas university. There has been a group of researchers that I have seen a few times at the international conferences that I've attended, and they seemed to be the only Japanese researchers in Spray Drying there. I looked up on Compendex Engineering Village for journal articles from Japanese researchers, and there was quite a lot, but very little in terms of spray dried non-materials research. The only group that did food related products and biotech was from Tottori University, Tottori, Japan. The same university that these guys at conferences come from. So, I found a contact email, for a takeshi @ bio . blah blah, which was the contact email for Professor Takeshi Furuta, the leader of their research group. In any case, I emailed the professor..... ah, crazy..... I don't expect to hear back, and I certainly don't expect to hear positive news back from him either. But it is always worth a try I guess. Aich.
My friend who got married last year is coming up to Sydney tomorrow with another friend and they want to see Indiana Jones and the Crystal Skull. I really want to see it too, I was hoping to see it tonight but no-one really wanted to see it, so luckily for me that they wanted to see it, so if it fits in during the day then I'll definitely catch up with them and see the movie too ^^ Yay!
If I'm lucky, I might get to go to TokyoMart on Sunday, and check out some groceries... I've wanted to check it out for ages but I've just not got around to it. Though I got paid, more than half the money went into my credit card and I still have money on it too LOL, but I guess it's ok to spend a little sometimes, especially if you have reason to celebrate a little. ^^
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