Buying my own property

As some of you may already know that I've recently shifted to the city area with my family as mum has rented out our house in the east. Our current place is ok, its convenience but no matter what its still not my own house. FINALLY I am buying my very 1st property... and it's a penthouse. It's beautiful but it's rather expensive.... and I gotta pay very soon (few days time). Mum offered to help me, but I guess (maybe) I can still afford it with a bit of struggling to make ends meet every month. =P

What I love about penthouse.
1) Huge enough for my future wife, children, and friends
2) I can even suntan at my own house.
3) Nice view
4) Windy
5) High up, above the rest

My new laptop ASUS Zenbook UX21E

My new laptop from ASUS. I think it is damn cool, very light, thin and stylish.

Do you believe in love at first sight?

Recent conference/journal publications

My recent accepted international conference and journal publications

Jimmy A. Lee, K.-C Yow, and I. Kumazawa: A Robust Image Retrieval System for Mobile Guide Applications. In International Journal of Intelligent Systems (IJIS), pages unknown, 2012.
Abstract:
We describe the prototype of an image retrieval system used for mobile guide applications. It allows users to send image queries of urban scenes using camera phones. The system uses a database of views of scenes to determine the poses of query views provided by the users. Information are then mapped onto the query views. Our approach is based on a fully affine invariant descriptor, coined PRIUS, which can identify corresponding building facades across widely separated views despite the highly repetitive nature of the man-made environments. The system is substantiated by experiments which show that our approach outperforms the state-of-the-art approaches such as SIFT and MSER in image retrieval.

Y. Li, A. Guo, Jimmy A. Lee, Y. Gao and Y.-L. Ling: Visual Interactive and Location Activated Mobile Learning. In Proceedings of the 7th IEEE International Conference on Wireless, Mobile, and Ubiquitous Technologies in Education (WMUTE), pages unknown, Takamatsu, Kagawa, Japan, March 2012.
Abstract:
In this paper we proposed an application on smart phones for interactive mobile learning. Image recognition technology is used to link physical objects seen through the camera to relevant virtual knowledge. Through the built-in camera on the smart phone, visual interactive learning can be realized. With the GPS sensor, location activated learning is also possible. Combining both the camera and the GPS sensor on the phone, multimedia contents can either be activated by snapping a picture from a real world object or entering a predefined geographical area. This makes the learning process more interesting and intuitive. A web portal is developed for teachers to create the learning trails for different learning objectives. The mobile apps are also developed for iOS and Android platforms. A trial was conducted with school teachers and students and positive feedbacks are obtained.


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Auntie Jen left us today

Auntie Jen left us less than an hour ago today. She was fighting cancer for years. I feel really really sad as she is one of the nicest aunts I have. Why do many of the people tat i like jus left me one by one?

4th November

Sorry for "MIAing" for quite a while. I'm good, jus too lazy sometimes to blog here. What am I busy with? Hmm... last week was busy preparing for an exhibition, and preparing for a talk (as an invited speaker) in NTU. Mum was interested in a house and i had to accompany her to meet the agent and the owner several times, and maybe this weekend too. House is getting bigger and bigger, but people in the house are getting lesser and lesser. Sister has moved out, I've not seen her for quite a while too.

The coming Monday is a public holiday, I hereby wish everyone of you happy and healthy, enjoy the holiday.

快乐

在这个世界上，最难找的不是钱，而是快乐。

Fun weekend

Last weekend i met up with some old friends who i had not seen for ages, e.g. Tom, Zhui, Andrew, Lim, Keng, Simon, etc. Really jolly to see them again. Reached home in the middle of the night, extremely tired but enjoyed myself.

Work trip at Sentosa

We have a project at Sentosa, working on a new technology to be used in one of the existing systems in Sentosa. Therefore today we ran an errand there for a couple of hours. I'm officially a scientist in Singapore, it sounds kinda geek but yeah i'm used to it by now, people gave me a "wow" funny responses or an awkward look when they saw my namecard.

Sentosa is so cool, i always like it there.

People jus dun understand

A friend (not disclosing name) asked me for a loan of S$1000, and it wasn't the first time. I wanna let him learn to earn his own money, so i asked him to help me buy something from JB and I would pay him the transportation + S$1000 (as a token of reward or salary). He got the money, but he's now blaming me and commented in his blog abt me not lending him the money and made him work for it by travelling all the way to JB, etc. Its really so unfair to me. Do ya reckon its worth S$1000 to pay someone to go nearby to help me buy something not even cost more than S$200? It was a really simple job. I was jus trying to help him, let him get the money easily instead of borrowing and has to pay back later. Why people are so brainless sometimes and jus 不明白我的苦心? It reminds me of the gal i really loved and i was doing everything i could to help her, even to sacrifice myself, but in the end she said i was trying to harm her. It really upsets me alot. So anyway I jus wanna say sorry if ya think the S$1000 to make ya spent a few hours to earn it was too difficult or too little, my fault.

Batam trip

My 1st batam trip during the weekend. The scenery was pretty awesome, people were extremely friendly and nice too. Didn't really buy anything beside food, so shopping wasn't that fantastic for me. I stayed in this cabana suit, hmmm.... rather huge but to me it didn't make much difference from the normal hotel room.



Cabana suit


Hahaa... tats hilarious - Batam man!!!