I received an email from CHI 2010 (one of the international most prestigious conference organisation for Human-computer Interaction) that will held in Atlanta this year (last year was Boston), Georgia in US this year, to voluntarily help in reviewing papers submitted to them. I am still considering if I were to reply them to accept the offer or rejecting them since I am planning to submit a paper myself to the same conference. If so, I should not accept to be a reviewer. Brainstorm :( Anyway, I still have a couple of months time to consider what will work best for myself.


Caption: Liz near the entrance of my flat


Caption: a day before leaving

Anyway, Liz (my brother's girlfriend) left the country. I was looking at some images stored in the camera. Sweet memories. Somehow, I missed the moment when she was here with us. Oh, by the way, we do miss the fun moment playing poker with her almost everyday after shopping. She is a very good player, probably a lucky gambler who won almost every games everyday, lol. Sometimes, we spend a day at home, chit chatting with laughters, playing card games, computer games, and perhaps doing some cooking with mom. This month is probably the only month when my mom really do much cooking when she is free. She seldom cook at home, in Malaysia since we usually not eating at home for dinner.


Caption: a grandpiano clay (i)


Caption: a grandpiano clay (ii)

Anyway, before that, I wanted Ting-Ting to accept my appraisal on her piano clay that she made herself. It looks so marvelous to me (probably I have not play with clay before, so I am feeling extremely excited to see one crafted by my friend).


Caption: final production (i)


Caption: final production (ii)

She send me plenty of pictures of her final production, and I have selected 2 randomly for this blog. Thanks Ting-Ting, your grand piano is marvelous!


Caption: carbonara pasta


Caption: my mom and I

I cooked pasta using Tracy's guide (click HERE), except I used carbonara pasta sauce and she uses a different one. Everyone said it tastes good so I am quite happy to hear that since I rarely cook for someone besides my brother :D THerefore, the cooking guide is really acceptable! Lol.


Caption: congee, scrambled eggs, caramalised fried anchovies, and steam meat


Caption: oat fried chicken, some eggs and vegetables


Caption: my tidy bedroom


Caption: mom in my office

I am also feeling extremely happy to have my mom here in the UK. If you take a look at the picture in the above, you may see a major reason of why I prefer having her staying with me than staying alone :) I am considered a very lucky person since my mom seldom cook in Malaysia. As a compensation, I promised her to study harder, lol.


Caption: a 'squashed' bachelor degree transcript

Oh, by the way, a terribly sad news. I assume an examination transcript (a paper with your results) is fairly important to everyone. In fact, this paper may determine in getting a job. Why? If your exam transcript looks like the paper in the photo above, then usually, you may not get the job. Why? Simple, you can't even protect the quality of your transcript, how would you be able to protect your job. But you may ask, this should be the post office's fault? Well, that answer is not acceptable since the staff will not be responsible over this.

A friend said she requested for a similar transcript for her programme, and she paid £10/- for a reprint. The letter delivered to my brother contained approximately 10 important sheets, one is a transcript and the others suppose to be important information related to the transcript. If we have to pay £10/- for reprinting one single sheet, then 10 sheets would cost £100? Oh no :(