Black chocolate with Macadamicas

It is one of the gift I bought in Hawaii while the other one is macadamicas with different ingredients. On Sunday, I gave a coffee flavor macadamicas for Moctar who is a black and a box of black chocolate of macadamicas for the other friend simultaneously. I said why I didn’t give Moctar the chocolate macadamicas because I’m afraid Moctar who bites his fingers when you ate the chocolate! Everyone laughed, including Moctar, but I felt something is wrong. I said quickly that Moctar won’t feel it’s particularly funny. Because I felt it may cause racial discrimination although Moctar felt it’s really funny, I felt sorry for him. I’m familiar with him and I respect black, of course, but I should be cautious about the joke of it :P

Screaming funny trick

It is an extra ordinary trick video which is screamingfunny, especially the people are going to escape quietly.
Haha, the"gorilla" really looks like a real one.

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Having a horse

I’m as a TA in English writing class. Sometimes I felt it’s really a nice job although it takes me a lot of time to mark the HWs. Today, I start to give marks of students’ HW which is related to horse feeding... I saw "There are (many) things you need to know before having a horse." Well, "having" sometimes means to eat a meal!! Thus, I felt surprised that he wants to have a horse. Wow, what a great appetite.@@

Massacre at Virginia Tech

The more we know the detail of the massacre, the more shock we have! Anguish. Bless the soul of victims.

My blog is quot;citedquot;

When I review the statistics information of my blog, I found there is one guy who cited my blog. Haha, I finally know there are some people who posted their experience of joining the Hawaii conference. You can see it here.

Surfing on ocean

Without accompanying with my lab mates in that I joined tutorial on 4/1, I went to Waikiki beach alone while my single lens camera and passport on hand. It is very dangerous that I went to swimming and left my belongings alone. Originally, I thought I just lay my backs on beach and don’t nothing. But I found there are surfing course I can take by passing 35 USD. Even though it’s not cheap, compared with my belongings were stolen, it is quite cheap option. I think I’m lucky to find out a stand provide a surfing lesson when most of stands are going to be closed around 16:30. When I asked this stand, they told me I should take it tomorrow while I have to present on 4/2. It seems I didn’t have chance but asking them to take care of my stuffs and payed tips for thanking them to keep it. After I changed my swimming suit, I was preparing to swim and they told me do you want to take a lesson? Wow, it is really surprised I can learn surf! I agreed cheerfully.

My coach is Mr. Huang who is the Hawaiian Chinese. Besides, I have two "classmates," Susan and Betty. We learn the procedures of surfing on the beach. First, you lie on board and paddle the wave. Supposed you are far away enough from beach (the wave is definitely bigger than the wave near beach.), you catch the rear of board and kneel down like the following figure:
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Haha, I think the above figure presents the action perfectly! Then, you stretch your left leg on board and then try to stand up. Of course, you should cured your leg, so you can surf with waves. It sounds easy but it is difficult to make it. I mean to stand up! As soon as I try to stand up, it takes no second I fall into ocean. No worry that the depth of the sea, but you have to spend more strength you climb up to the board. It consumes you energies as well as paddles the waves away from beach. You know, to surf with waves cpsts less than 10 seconds; however, you spend 3 minutes to go back~ So the procedures are repeated again and again. Although the course is lasted only for one hour, I felt I’m totally exhausted after 20 minutes. My arms were sored and painful.
I think I need a rest, so that I was floating on ocean and seeing beautiful scenery from this angle. My coach called me far away "Peter~~ come  back~~" I replied "Yeah, I will ~~" I did my best to be back. My energies lost quickly when I went back. Thus, for the last two times I surf, Mr. Huang "drag" me back. I’m as if a small boat and he drags me toward destination! He just used his leg to catch my board and I do nothing (I have no energy at all) but lying on board. Haha, I’m heartily grateful for his efforts for doing that twice. For my last time to do that, I decide not too greedy. I mean I won’t stand up completely which catches the board and stand half attitude! Yap, I succeed and enjoy the speed pushed by waves! Haha, it is really enjoyable at that time.^^
After the course, my classmates asked "Whether you surf successfully?"
"Nope, but I saw both of you can surf well" I offered. Thus, I felt it is shame I can’t do better than girls. Of course, it is relief that to know they surfed before~ Haha, we took pics after the lesson. Even though I was tired to death I vomited when I "landed" on beach, I did my best to smile. You can see the people below :  )

After I went back to hotel after 22:30, I told my friends and lab mates about my schedule of suring. They were admired it and one said "You are the son of beech!" So they must be regret they didn’t surf on ocean. Until I told it is really exhausted to surf, they breath a sign of relief about it^^

Introduction to Hawaii

To see Ellen and Canblue introducing Hawaii. Huh, you will know what does Hawaii look like and what is the must there.


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We celebrated Smile’s birthday in Hawaii

Neither she is the YZU nor the NCKU student. Instead she works in a pharmacy who went to Hawaii with us. The day on 31th March is her birthday. So when we had had breakfast, Chun-Hao asked why don’t we give her a surprise today. I responded cheerfully and said "We YZU students are excellent in making surprises for birthday people!"
Consequently, as Angel introduced the trip schedule and explain the background of it in bus, I whispered a plan to others. Angel noticed and said "Hey, Peter! What do you do in a secret way?" I declared it publicly by requesting the microphone on her hand.
Huh, because it comes earlier than my expectation, we didn’t have enough time to work out excellent plans. So we sang birthday song to her together. I was in charged the microphone and gave a hint to sing the song through "One~, two~, three~."

I sang " Happy Birthday to you~"
Others Sang "祝你生日快樂~"

It took no seconds that we burst out of laughs! Haha, we didn’t have any unspoken consensus. Angel helps me said "It is America, so you should sing it in English." So it’s really funny as a starting of giving her a surprise.

There are something special after the song and some NCKU students say something good for her. Just see the video and you will know.

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Polynessian Shows

We saw a show at Polynessian Cultural Center. Haha, although it’s Cultural Center, it’s not for academic purpose; instead, this cultural center performs 8 folks of culture belonged to different countries.... Just go to see them and enjoy it.
PS: Since Google Video is kind that I can upload them free, my blog will be full of videos in the future.

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Romantic cruise

We spent 68 USD by this cruise which circles the Oahu island. Passengers can have a supper, to see the sunset, and to enjoy the competitions among different groups.

Warming up to compete
The tour guider of our group is "Biggie" whose shape is accordance to her name! Each group needs to make noise as loud as we can. It is just a beginning and we won the competition than other three groups.

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Traditional Dancing
It goeswithout saying everyone who knows it. The dancer wears the shell ofcoconut and it makes them looks good. It’s a dance after our warm up so that our throat can take a break at this time.

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No good and add more efforts!

I took a simulation of IELTS exam today, which costs me one day of it. After I evaluate my scores, the listening, reading, and speaking are improved. It sounds optimistic but the best I have is 6.0 in average. I get to work hard more because it remains under my expectations.

Compared my IELTS scores, there is a bigger problem I currently have now. After I replied the letters from advisor and Prof. Mani about our two papers are rejected by IJPE and IJAMT in recent days, it makes me consider how to do better when we submit a paper. I think I know it’s difficult that one paper is accepted nowadays. Haha, although it’s not so terrible, I bet there is no comprise in doing research. Add oil.

Tutorials of 2007 IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence in Hawaii

Some academic achievements were done during my stay in Hawaii. Huh, I shall show how hard working I’m, or others will said I spend the money payed by their taxes! (Although it’s undeniable.)
IEEE CISched 2007 is part of the 2007 IEEE Symposium Series in Computational Intelligence, it means there are 12 conferences held in the same time at the same place (Hilton Hawaiian Village). In my opinion of this multi-conference, it servers a variety of research topics and we can access all symposia through only one registration. It sounds quite nice, doesn’t it? A better factor is they provided several tutorials gave by some masters. I felt you water mouse that is running now.

I joined the tutorial almost all day long on 4/1 while my lab mates and friends went to Waikkiki beach to enjoy sunshine and water activities. There are two tutorials which attract my attention. One is Multi-Objective lectured by Dr. Piero and the other is Dr. Coello which gave the speech of MO algorithms. Originally, the first tutorial is supposed to be introduced by Dr. Jin; however, when I went to there, Dr. Piero came in and it made me felt surprised. I think I may run into the wrong ballroom! However, he told us Dr. Jin was stuck in San Fransisco because there is no seat available for him. Dr. Piero further said Dr. Jin goes to the conference on 4/2; so I can’t see him in this conference. huhu, I want to greet Dr. Jin since he will visit our school in May. So I felt it’s really pity about that. (But I met Dr. Jin on 4/2 night! I’m very excited to see him. I explain it latter.)

Well, since Dr. Jin can’t present the Multi-Criteria on time, Dr. Piero applied his research topic in MO problems and corresponding approaches which is from easy to difficult ones. He convinced the trend of research topic will move from easy to difficult ones soon. Haha, maybe the easier topics are solved well now. Poor you and poor me. From his speech, this part is most useful from his tutorial. In addition, he also discussed how to construct a surface by Fuzzy algorithm. It means when we obtain a possible consequence from this surface, we are able to reduce the computational efforts. There is no doubt that we can use it in continuous problem. However, I think it is not applicable in combinatorial problem. So I raised my hand to ask him this question.

When he saw me I raised my hand, he returned back a mouse to me quickly because I helped him to borrow a mouse for him. Haha, I told him I raised my hand is not only to get the mouse back but also have one question. He said "Of course" and I heard some people laughed. Hmmm, according to his reply, I evaluate this method that may not be ok in combinatorial problem. But it is a good start to ask a question without feeling stressful.

After the session of Dr. Piero, I participated in the tutorial of Dr. Coello. Wow, there are so many people crowded in the ballroom! I seat at the 2nd row so that I can see him clearly. (Maybe my shortsightedness is too server.) He mentioned so many MO algorithms in the same time. Besides, he also had such works in these algorithms. For example, he had proposed a microGA in solving the multi-objective problem that competes with some benchmark algorithms such as NSGA II and SPEA 2. He joked reviewers or researchers don’t like his idea. Thus, there are few people who developed microGA. I shall know even for a well-known master, it is still hard to attract others attentions.

Before I joined his tutorial, I knew I should ask him a question since he reviewed so many papers in MO area. It’s what is the "3rd generation" MO algorithms nowadays. Haha, because he is so considerate of his speech, he told us there is no such definition now. Thus, it means after year 2001 to 2002, the MO algorithms are not improved anymore! Hmmm, of course, maybe there is no such trend he discovered as well. However, he said his student fall in love with Particle Swarm Intelligence. Consequently, it stimuated me to request his opinion about which method is the best among all the algorithms. I’m surprised that he treats the Tabu search is the best and GA goes to the 2nd place. I thought ACO may go to the 1st place... But anyway, it reminds me what should I do the comparisons in experimental results ^^Y

The day I listened the tutorial that was on 4/1. Yeah, it’s the foolish day but the descriptions above are true. Huh, so I work hard very much in joinning the conference without wasting your taxes. I will post my two presentations and my trip experience soon.

Shall go back to orignal track

It is no doubt that I should go back to my regular step soon. When I read a paper on Thursday, I felt rather sleepy. Huh, maybe I will say it’s because of not enough sleep. When I took a shower, one thing suddenly came to my mind, which is my HW of stochastic process! It makes me notice the reality of my current situation now despite I’m reluctant to work. (Crying)

Add oil of tommorrow’s simulation IELTS exam!