Htam::Diary

Five Hours of Sleep

Sat, 04 Feb 2012 22:02:10 -0800

This Saturday, I was woken up by an accidental phone call from Hannah at 7:45. Usually, I would have been awake by now, but last night my neighbours were very loud, and kept me awake until past 2 AM. As such, I only had 5 and some hours of sleep. I decided to get up anyway, spent some time reading the Bible, and then went to pick Hannah up for Bible study. Afterwards, people were slow in deciding whether to get lunch, so I left, ate a snack from 7-11, and then came home. In the afternoon, I ran some errands while calling a few people, as usual. Then I did some work, watched a movie, and then called it a night.

[Non Sequitur: Old school 80s heroes in fancy dress]

Hannah

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 23:54:31 -0800

This Friday, I went to school as usual for class with Igor. Then I had lunch in the lounge since I don't meet with Athipat on Fridays (I reserved the right to go to the gym and postpone lunch, since I have nothing planned in the afternoons). However today, I did have something planned. Hannah came over to visit, and we sang some hymns. We also recorded ourselves singing 224 More Love to Thee in four-part harmony. We sang four separate tracks (she sang soprano and alto, I sand tenor and bass), and then I mixed them together. That was fun. We also spent some time working on the chordbook together. She helped me on some songs that I don't know. Then I took her back before dinner. In the evening, I finished producing the recording, did some more work, and watched a movie.

[Non Sequitur: Swede pulls up carrot bearing long-lost ring]

Long Day at School on Groundhog Day

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 21:55:10 -0800

This Thursday, I worked at home in the morning, had lunch at home, and then went to school for seminars, as usual. The GSO talk today was quite combinatorial, so I sort of attended two combinatorics seminars today. Well, the combinatorics seminar was very geometric. So I am not entirely sure. I also played some tablet tennis. I ended up doing more work and only coming home past 8 PM. Wow, so late, so tired. I decided to re-watch Groundhog Day. I liked the movie enough to perhaps make this possibly a new tradition?

[Non Sequitur: A splash of rose]

More Work

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:08:27 -0800

This Wednesday, I woke up at five something and continued where I left off last night, and fleshed out more details of three dimensional tilings. I went to school, as usual, for class with Igor. Then I had lunch with Athipat and Jeff, thought some more about my problems, and then went to meet with Igor. I presented the close packings result in full, and then introduced my thoughts on the three dimensional tilings. Igor war quite excited about these new results. Yay! I then went to meet with Amit for a while, and then came home to do more work.

[Non Sequitur: World's longest straight staricase has 699 steps]

Tilings in Three Dimensional Space

Tue, 31 Jan 2012 22:40:40 -0800

This Tuesday, I went to eat breakfast at Whole Foods since my breakfast I defrosted last night was mysteriously spoiled. Then for the rest of the day, I worked on mathematics, as usual. Today I worked out an idea regarding geometric realisations of arbitrary relational Wang tiles in the framework of tight packings as opposed to tilings, and also came up with a new idea (which is yet unfinished) regarding NP-completeness of a single tile in . Together, these two things should provide me enough to talk about in the meeting tomorrow. I also spent some time starting to prepare for a talk at Caltech's combinatorics seminar next week. In the evening, I went to prayer meeting, which is why I am sleeping so late. It's always Tuesdays when I am forced to stay up late if I go to prayer meetings. But lately I've been sleeping relatively late enough that it is not that hard to go. There are advantages to staying up late!

[Non Sequitur: Marvel lawyers insist mutants aren't human]

Back to Work

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:00:51 -0800

This Monday, I woke up relatively early still, did some work, and then went to school for Igor's class, as usual. Then I had lunch with Athipat again after missing last week. In the afternoon, I did some reading, went to Benny's class, and then came home. I gave Steph a call to check up on her, then cooked dinner and ate. In the evening, I continued doing some light work until now. Apparently I still work hard.

[Non Sequitur: Paper sculptures]

[VB] After Several Months

Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:02:39 -0800

This Sunday, I picked Hannah up for church, as usual. I then translated, went to the youth group sharing meeting, and then led the high school group planning meeting. After we were done, pretty much everything was wrapped up by then. I locked the building up, and then I went to the field. The last time I was at this field was the day before school started in the fall. Since then, I have been very busy working and preparing for my ATC exam. Once I was done with the exam, I emailed Eddie, Mari, and Priscilla, and suggested playing 2v2 volleyball. Mari has been asking me for weeks when I will have time again, and I kept putting it off to come home to work even on Sundays. Now I definitely intend to stop working as furiously, at least for a while.

[Non Sequitur: FBed concept]

Hoagies with John

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:54:22 -0800

This Saturday, I woke up after sleeping for about 9.5 hours, probably to compensate for less than 6 hours the previous night. I went to Bible study as usual—there was a lot of sharing, just like last week. Afterwards, I went to meet up with John Shen for lunch at Hoagies & Wings to use a Groupon deal (essentially half off). It was nice to get to catch up with him a little, and also celebrate my ATC again. In the afternoon, I watched some TV in the background while cleaning my apartment (scrubbed the stove top), and then did some work in the evening.

[Non Sequitur: Oustanding tents]

99 Ranch Market

Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:05:52 -0800

This Friday, I was woken up by Caleb's IMs after not quite six hours of sleep (I have since made it automagically silent at night so this will no longer happen). I felt sufficiently refreshed, so I got up and began my day. I walked to school a bit earlier, did some work, and then went to class, as usual. Afterwards, I bought lunch but brought it home. In the afternoon, I went to 99 Ranch in Van Nuys. It took me about forty minutes to drive, and twenty minutes to buy. However this was fine since I was talking to Caleb anyway, and I probably don't have time to shop this weekend. In the evening, I decided to relax and watch a movie (The Book of Eli) that I borrowed from Dan. It's quite a fun movie and surprisingly enjoyable once I ignored all the violence and action scenes going on.

[Non Sequitur: 20 bizarre works of public art]

ATC Celebration

Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:28:06 -0800

This Thursday, I worked at home in the morning, cooked and ate lunch, and then went to school for combinatorics seminar, as usual. Afterwards, I immediately went to the last DLS talk, of which I understood very little. This was followed by department tea, and then a bit of table tennis doubles. Afterwards, I went to meet with Igor, and we went to have dinner with Cris Moore, as promised on Tuesday, to celebrate my ATC. We went to a Japanese restaurant in the village.

[Non Sequitur: To boldy go where no mailbox has gone before]