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Muni-muni

Hindi ko alam, pero bigla kong na-miss ang Pilipinas. Na-miss ko na magsalita ng Tagalog, hindi Ingles, hindi Hapon. At bigla ko na-miss magsulat sa Tagalog. Tapos napagmuni-muni ko na hindi pa nga ata ako nakakapag-blog ata sa wikang kinagisnan … Continue reading →

Specks

I spend a lot of time imaging my samples. It is one of the routine characterizations I perform on my samples. It usually doesn?t take that long to get an image using a conventional SEM (scanning electron microsope) measurement, but … Continue reading →

A Bit of Sleuthing at Saizeriya

It’s been a while. I had to forego blogging for a few months in order to focus on the demands at work. Now that I’ve hurdled the two major conferences of the year, met deadlines for research proposals and other … Continue reading →

Aya, The Pokemon Artist

Aya has been bitten by the Pokemon bug. She plays it on her DS every chance she gets. Well of course I let her play from time to time, kids will be kids! She is quite taken with it, that … Continue reading →

Piano Recital

Finally, a chance to perform on stage! Actually, Aya started taking piano lessons (in a group) as early as four years old; unfortunately, when we went to the UK, there had been no opportunity to continue her lessons (it was … Continue reading →

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Generate your own ?research wordle?

Wordle is an online app for generating ?word clouds”, a kind of visual representation for text data. It gives greater prominence to words (e.g., by using larger font size or different font color) that appear more frequently in the provided text source or in the text of a given URL. SciVerse has a new app called “Author [...]

Time series-based bifurcation analysis

Re-posting this one from my old university website. A brief introduction of my graduate research topic. Studies in nonlinear time series analysis have provided reliable techniques for the evaluation of signals from dynamical systems. Some of these techniques are used to gain insights into the unknown physical processes, to do prediction, as well as to [...]

Splitting 4D Nifti file into a series of 3D files in Matlab

NIfTI-1 is a data format proposed by the NifTI (Neuroimaging Informatics Technology Initiative) DFWG (Data Format Working Group) that can be used for storing neuroimaging datasets (e.g. MRI, functional MRI, etc.). This format is adapted from the widely used ANALYZE 7.5 format from Mayo Clinic. A Nifti file consists of a header part containing the meta-data and the [...]

Looking at how the brain works in real-time

Re-posting this article on real-time functional MRI I wrote several years ago. The technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been extensively used to elucidate the functions of the human brain. Functional MRI provides a “window” where we can see what part of the brain is involved when we think, smell, taste, feel, [...]

When the virtual world merges with the real one

Just want to share this YouTube video from MicrosoftResearch. It’s just amazing. The idea is to augment the real environment with a virtual one and interact with it. Using four ceiling-mounted Kinects, the entire room is mapped into a virtual 3D environment. Virtual objects can be placed in this virtual environment and projected into the [...]

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Thunderbird 3 and the Lightning Calendar Extension

I just upgraded my Thunderbird email client to version 3. This version offers several enhancements including tabs, search, message archiving, among others. Emails are now loaded in separate tabs (just like Firefox) instead of windows, enabling users to quickly jump between them. It also now offers email search with search results displayed in a tab. [...]

Got an invite from Google wave

Google Wave has been making a lot of buzz in the online world recently. According to Wikipedia, "it is a web-based service, computing platform, and communication protocol designed to merge email, instant messaging, wikis and social networking." It's an all-in-one application touted to change the way we communicate on the web. Currently, it is only [...]

VMware Player Updated

I have been using VMware Player for sometime now. I used it to run Linux virtual machines on my Windows PC. It is really convenient. Instead of dual-booting the PC with Linux, you can just used VMware player to run Linux in a virtual machine. You then have two operating systems running at the same [...]

Yokosuka and Hakkeijima Aqua Museum

We were visiting Kanagawa last weekend. Kathy attended a research meeting in Yokosuka City and Aya and I tagged along. Yokosuka is along the coast and we did have a wonderful view of the Yokohama Bay. The hotel is facing the dark blue sea. Nearby is a 'boardwalk' where you can stroll along the seashore. [...]

Autumn is here

Its getting colder these days. The trees are shedding off their leaves. Leaves scattered all over the ground. Brown, red, orange, and yellow colors engulfed the mountains. Even trees in the park are changing. Night arrives early and sunrise is a bit late. Noon time is cool and the night colder. Fall is here and [...]

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Summary: Warriors Power of Three Outcast

Hellooo!! To who ever is reading this right now. Here is another summary about the Warriors Series book. A secret prophecy shapes the lives of Firestar’s grandchildren, but only one of the three knows about it. Jaypaw is enveloped by the power it promises, and he believes the key to that power may lie buried [...]

Dragonvale and Warriors

Hello Readers! I forgot if there are any warrior crazy fans out there reading this post I’ll tell you that there is a site http://warriorcats.com/warriorshell.html. Anyway there is a game called DragonVale I play on my Iphone and I will keep in track with combinations you could use for limited editions dragons. See You [...]

Firestar?s Quest Summary

Hi again Readers! This is another special edition in Warriors. I have a Kindle anyway so it is where I read, read, read!! Book: Firestar’s Quest The ThunderClan leader Firestar, starts having strange dreams about cats fleeing the forest. He soon discovers that his most trusted warrior ancestors have lied to him about there were [...]

Pokemon White!!!

Hey Readers! I am publishing this the same date as the summary but just wanted to update you readers about my life outside of school! I am crazy about Warriors right? I told you on the last post. But I also am crazy about Pokemon. I know it is on the DS. But I still [...]

Bluestar?s Prophecy Summary

Hi people! Sorry I don’t post often but school is driving me crazy! Well, I started to read Warriors. It is an ongoing story about cats and it’s got me so captured I got crazy about them, in total I have (already!) got 16 books!!! >:D Anyway here is a summary! Book: Bluestar’s Prophecy A new kit (it is [...]

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