A lunch for four!!

Today we went to have lunch at McDonalds and I could not help but to take a photo of the junks we are having!!! Gosh I was still full during dinner (it will be even worse if I say we went to a steak house tonight!!)... now it is around bed time and I am still stuffed!!

A lunch for four!!, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Google Module

Just started to use google personalised home page. It offers many useful modules and also allows users to develop (they should be called developers) their own modules which are actually xml codes. These modules resemble a bit like firefox search plugins but only modules allow users to embed html content into their modules. I have created the following module for Baidu Music Search. ^_^

- Google Module (new)
- Firefox Search Plugins (old)

Bike from London to Beijing!!

From maverick2000 who blogged about the following from facebook:

'Hi, I am James Fraser a second year mathematics student at the University of Warwick, England and I am taking a year out to cycle to China for my chosen charities. My journey would take me from England through continental europe, central asia, Russia and finally into China where I intend to end my journey in Beijing in June 2007. The aim of this endeavour is to create an awareness of the ailments that afflict young children and raise funds for the charitable institutions to further their work in this field...'

I think this is pretty cool... I did some charitable work before but nothing like biking from London to Beijing!! ... well keep up the good work!!

Just received this email...

Congratulations. Your abstract "Towards A Unified Model For Workflow" is accepted as an oral presentation in the PRG-student conference 06

Well actually I did not expect to be accepted... I guess I am a PRS and get priority in this hahaha...

On the other hand... this was received earlier this month...

We regret to inform you that your submission to the research track of 4th International conference on... "A Process Algebraic Approach to Workflow Verification" was not accepted for publication.

And apparently it is pretty competitive this year.

The review process was highly selective as in the preceding years, admitting only 34 papers from the 200+ papers submitted.

So now I am not going to Chicago but only next door to Keble umm....

Well hopefully I can make my OWN way to a cool conference next time (through a good paper obviously) ....

Non-allergy cat bred

Non-allergy cat bred: "An American designer pet firm claims to have bred the world's first hypo-allergenic cat using selective breeding techniques."

This is cool... as I am sure and "many" will agree with me that cat is one of the best pets to have although there are always ethical issues with controlled breeding (I think so is the whole notion of having a pet hahaha)

A big nice cake for dessert!!

This is a massive cake I have had for lunch today.... I think I have stuffed my face again aaahhh..... Incidentally I actually have 3 meals a day while at conference (healthier I suppose).....

A big nice cake for dessert!!, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Breakfast at Ancaster

It was a full english breakfast at All Hands... it was not too bad... let's see what Gala Dinner was like tonight umm....

Breakfast at Ancaster, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Thai Food at Nottingham

I thought I was going to have my dinner at the meeting tonight (Tapas Buffet)... I did have some and it was not terribly nice... however the CancerGrid people with the MRC (i think) decided to have Thai food tonight and this is what you get: gaeng khiao wan gai with lots of kao-niaw with a glass of red wine hohohohoho!!!

Umm just for the record... we were having Thai food when the Thai PM was "overthrown in army coup"...umm....

Thai Food at Nottingham, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Keynote - All Hands, East Midland Conference Centre

A keynote session in at the beginning of the e-science meeting. Very glam indeed!!.... Only to find the meeting does not attract industries umm.... Overall it was a good day at All Hands today... ^_^

Keynote - All Hands, East Midland Conference Centre, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Ancaster Hall, Nottingham Uni

Got up real early for breakfast today... still very tired.... breakfast is not too bad at all (I suspect all English breakfast tastes the same!!... Let's see if there are any insights to be gained from today ^_^

Ancaster Hall, Nottingham Uni, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

East Midland Conference Centre

I attended the first day of All Hands today. It was not too bad... seeing some familiar faces including Ligang who used to be a phd at Warwick HPSG and now at Cambridge e-Science (apparently he is going back to Warwick to teach). The OMII people demonstrated the use of BPEL in clinical trial (specifically in orchestrating services for clinical randomisation) however I felt there was clearly not enough time given for the demo and hence the setting up of the BPEL instance using Eclipse looked very laborious....

East Midland Conference Centre, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Pass into All Hands, Nottingham

Finally at All Hands, now only an hour before the first session commences.... well Nottingham Uni looks pretty good (a very campus uni... a bit like Warwick hahaha) hopefully I can get some insight for my work in the next couple of days ^_^.

Pass into All Hands, Nottingham, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

The opening ceremony by Luangpor

This was an openning ceremony for the new shrine room at Wat Pah Santidhamma (Forest Hermitage). It was conducted by Luangpor Khemadhammo, Phra Manapo and Samanera Thitasīlo.

The opening ceremony by Luangpor, originally uploaded by peterwong1228.

Mango Tree

Went to mango tree for lunch and I have to say it is not THAT great other then this dessert.

GLOBAN 2006

A recent release of the group photo of GLOBAN 2006 at DTU, Denmark. Now we should see if people can spot me hahaha....(click on the photo to find out)