Lament - mistaken break-through

It's hasn't been a good week last week. The research project that I've been doing is due to have a progress presentation this week followed by a large presentation to the project's sponsers 3 weeks from now. Unfortuantely my work hasn't been going quite as I have hoped. I've been able to implement something others have already done and published, but havne't been able to come up with my own new idea or understanding of the system.

Last week I thought I had a break-through twice. Once when I was playing around with the system diagram and made a miscalculation and thought that I was able to extract a very important property from the system with only a simple change to it. I even checked it twice knowing that I am not the most careful of person when it came to these things. However, the excitement must have over taken my sensen, and I informed my profressor of my findings since he happened to be around at that time. Only to find out a few hours later that I've made a calculational mistake. It's embarassing that I had to tell him the next day that I made a calculational error.

After that in the same week I thought that I could understand the system more when I was talking to a collegue and the talk gave me an idea to model the system differently. Unfortunately that didn't turn out as I have planned either.

Um... time is pressing

Finding Neverland

I went to see "Finding Neverland" today. It's probably a little old for the people in Thailand, but western movies arrive in Japan a little late. In any case, it was a supprizingly good movie, and I really like it. Well, can't say everyone likes this sort of movie, my friend thinks it's so so. For me, however, it's been a while since I've seen a well directed "life" movie, and I personally feel they've intertwined the people's emotions so well, both in the storyline and acting. The contrasts are so evident here. The kid actor really amazed me also. How could such a young boy act so well? He's better than most profressionals in the movie business!

Another thing I wanted to point out was something I noticed later on during the movies. The chairs! I've just realized that my liking for chairs as a symbol was also shared by these two movies.

If you haven't seen it, I recommend it!

Finding Neverland

Forest Gump

Tokyo museum

I managed a chance at visiting the Tokyo museum some time back. There was a particular day that they allowed international students free entrance, so ofcause how could I miss it? It wasn't a very big place, but it was big enough that we couldn't see all exhibitions in the 4-5 hours that we were there. It's strange that they did not have any limitations on photo taking in the museum itself, which is how we came with some pictures here.

Tokyo museum

Ancent kimono

Samurai Armor

Samurai armor

Temple upon the hill tops of Takao San

Maple at it's peak

Mountain view from Takao San

old worshiping shrine at Takao San

A stroll along the autumn road at Takao San

Takao San

It's been a while since I've posted any pictures on this blog, so I decided it was time I brighten it up a little with some slightly old photos I took this past autumn. Takao san or (Takao mountain) is a small mountain about 1 hour away from central Tokyo. It's especially popular to hike up the mountain during autumn as we managed to find the time to do, and ate lunch there. I would have posted these pictures sooner but... anyway they are up now.

That was one fine day with a lot of good memories, in all anyway.