Finally everyone left me alone in the UK. Most of my friends have left the country a while ago and recently, my mom and brother left me too :( Though I am feeling a little upset to be alone, but on the other hand, probably much more freedom.


Caption: an upset face from mom and Daryl


Caption: Daryl seemed happy to leave the country

I could see Daryl's face changes from time to time on that day. He looked upset at the very beginning but changes significantly at the end, lol. I was wondering: "What's up with that face" in the second picture while uploading it on blog.

I received a very bad news yesterday. That is, my grandma's elder sister just passed away in the morning. No one told me how she died yet, but will try to find it out soon. Why am I sad? Because she is an extremely soft and nice person who can sit down and listen to every single words that you spoke to her, either something happy or sad. Hope she will rest in peace :( Therefore, as a lesson, do treasure people around you when they are still around.


Caption: Cyberkinetic research - Braingate

Anyway, I managed to spend some time to look at T3 magazines the other day, and spotted some really interesting futuristic technology. I am sure everyone know what a pen drive (or memory stick) is? A while ago, I wrote a post regarding to the design of technologies which concerns both the brain and the functioning of a particular machine to solve different bottlenecks (click HERE). In that post, I did mention the interaction between the brain and microchip to control computer applications, and perhaps more ambitiously, controlling limbs. If so, people with motor-impairment (unable to move their legs, hand and / or other parts of their body) may now control different applications with the computer.


Caption: a memory card microchip for brain usage

Now, these scientists upgraded the usage of these microchips into something more advance. The engineering and computing scientist forged the memory stick and the microchip concept in one, which makes this a much powerful technology ever. In many cases, we could deliberately suggest to able to eat our knowledge with our brain. Okay, this is how this so called "pen-drive microchip" works. A computer professor, Richard Granger says "Replicating memory is going to happen in our lifetimes". If we able to replicate memory, then human should be able to upload whatever information they want directly into their brain :O This is also a very important approach not only to help minimising stress, but also a very supportive research to help people with various disabilities such as the alzheimer (alzheimer is a disease that results in the gradual loss of memory, speech, movement, and the ability to think clearly, and that is common, especially among the older people).

In fact, a person's brain is something very complicated. It is true that it is extremely difficult to understand human's brain completely. However, to produce some kind of microchip to gain access to brain memory, we do not need to understand every section of the brain completely. This concept is so similar to this: "To fix a cd player, we do not need to understand music". Similar to existing cyberkinetic researches such as the Braingate that will enable two way communication between the brain and the computer, which is also going to be launched in the market soon, the brain scientist utilises some tiny wires and insert this artificial chip into the brain, and therefore, we may upload any information we want into the microchip (something like a memory stick) and then inserting the microchip into our brain. Specialists were unable to reveal where this microchip will be slotted in order to make this microchip functioned. I questioned myself, probably the back of the neck?

Anyway, I think I missed uploading some stories of what happened to myself several month ago.

When Liz and my mom came to the UK at that time, we hang out quite often. Nothing really special, just walking around some famous places such as Oxford Street and some historical places and famous monuments in London. We did not really spend much time elsewhere since Liz only able to apply for approximately 10 days leave. Hopefully I would able to graduate my studies next year, and then she promised to spend more time in the UK with us.


Caption: trying on some jackets


Caption: Liz was trying on different sunglasses

A day before my mom and brother leave the country, they cooked plenty of foods, wrapping them into plastic containers and keeping them into the fridge for me. My mom knew I missed her cooking very much, and going to further missing it for the next few months :)


Caption: the foods that mom cooked before leaving the country

Anyway, the photos below are two random images found on my mobile. Firstly, I missed the steamboat (some people called that as Hotpot) in Malaysia where we can bring-in our own food (usually you cannot do this, but we are exceptional since the restaurant manager is our friend). It is extremely addictive for me :O I told myself, "wait till I go back for steamboat again, lol".


Caption: steamboat or hotpot

Oh by the way, I think I have totally skipped this in my previous posts. I have suggested to travel to different places with Ting-Ting since I promised to be her tourguide before. Initially, we planned to travel to some UK tourism spots such as Windsor, Slough etc. but I found those places quite common and bored. Therefore, we went for a different alternative, that is to travel to Egham, a place that is popular with its green surrounding. Besides that, the University of Royal Holloway was positioned somewhere in Egham. Royal Holloway University was ranked somewhere around 25th in the UK Universities League table in year 2009, and 30th in year 2010.


Caption: Royal Holloway University

We spend half a day walking around the RHUL (Royal Holloway University London) campus, taking photographs everywhere since that university has a very beautiful surrounding as shown in the photos. This place is really beautiful. Too bad Ting-Ting has one university in mind for her postgraduate, else I would strongly suggest her to submit an application form to this university. The photo below was taken somewhere the middle of the university. If you watch a movie called "Basic Instinct 2", then you will see the university near the end of the movie.


Caption: the middle section of the university


Caption: Ting-ting was stunned with the charming view of the university


Caption: somewhere near the entrance of the university


Caption: myself at the entrance of the university


Caption: Ting-ting standing at the entrance of RHUL

This is the second picture found in my mobile. Liz took this photo for me to show it mainly for my brother, Daryl since his favourite anime character is Doraemon and Gian (but I could see no statue of Gian anywhere, as yet) :)


Caption: myself and Doraemon