Winter days

Yeah, been a while since my last entry. Got a bit overwhelmed with so much to do, despite I do enjoy most of the stuff.

Being back on the blog, it's been depressive short days - the sun set at 4pm, how nice! Ggrrrrr...

I realise I don't mind UK winter days that much, as long as it doesn't rain too badly - only wish day time is longer. Can't wait for Spring.

Things to eat... yet again

Yes, and now I continue my nutrition matters... and there you go my typical lunch, well guess you don't know it's a pizza!

Today...

... it felt like a Thai day, my Sunday meals had been very Thai - lunched chicken red curry and dined broccoli stir fried.

Yes, there're also mushrooms, green beans, tomatos and the ultimate ingredient - chillis.

Bonfire

This was followed the firework display. I had no ideas why we should be watching this flame, perhaps you did! Alright then, later the morning my friend advised it was a part of 'Remembering the 5th November,' their Guy Fawkes day. More info www.bonefire.org

Oxford fireworks

Displayed at South Park, today 6.30pm.

My YouTube page

Yes, the URL is www.youtube.com/itropical - its colours does "look and feel" like my www.tropicaldiary.com now :)

"What is real?"

2 Nov 07, 3pm: Tom Shannon of Vicon presented their work at a guest lecture session titled "What is real?" at Brookes Wheatley Campus. Tom who is also currently doing a Ph.D. at Brookes was the company founder. He showed us all the cool motion capture they do for film industry, i.e., Titanic, Gladiator, etc. Aside from presenting what they've done, he also mentioned how they see this developed in the future that is producing a system that can capture motion without having to attached devices on actors/actresses.

Motion capture: Their work seemed orginally for medical purposes; for example, they captured how a boy walked in a not-normal way so that physicians provided effective surgery to help on his moves.

How they capture: Having devices on actors/actress, cameras capture movements then giving them their outfits and background.

Good news: We do have the facilities to do this in our studio provided by the company, of course. Who knows I may know how to 'master' that by the time I finish my MSc!

Vicon is the new name for the combined businesses of Vicon Motion Systems and Peak Performance Inc. Vicon is part of OMG plc, a public company trading on the London Stock Exchange.