I’m officially on a 7-day MC since Tuesday.

Takes 3 days to find out I have a persistent fever that doesn’t go away.

Location-based systems
Applying existing location technology to useful scenarios. Information integration to provide value than just location. Examples: bus arrival timings, freight tracking, driving directions (including jam/toll avoidance). For the mass mobile market it could be ATM finding, toilet finding, friend/child finding (at a crowded IT fair).

Location technology
GPS is extremely useful in the U.S., and it’s free. However it has severe limitations here, such as cloud cover, tunnels and tall buildings. To proliferate mass market use of location based systems, an alternative location technology is required. Perhaps something targeted at urban areas such as cell towers.

Mobile Power
Mobile devices are hungry for more power now, and are restrained by the necessary weight for its battery. How can we achieve a significantly higher capacity/weight ratio? Mobile charging without wires? Kinetic charging like watches? Or no battery necessary? Biological power?

Biomimicry
One word covers it all. Path-finding. Drug manufacturing. Materials engineering.

Software Reliability
End-users are suffering from software bugs. What methodologies are other software companies using? Are there many with quality manual testers and high automation? Strategy difference in testing web and app? How many systems are matching end-user needs? How fast are their needs changing?

Relativity
Space-time relationship. Astrophysics?

isn’t it good enough to be 2nd? why must be the best? how can everyone be the first? are there many people who just want to be normal? (read: in the middle mass of a normal distribution)

I don’t think I wanna be kept alive for very long if I go into an unconscious state (either coma, or awake but not conscious). Let’s make it no longer than 3 months, or whatever time that 50% of available monetary resources can, whichever time is shorter. I love life. So if I can’t enjoy it, fuck it.

I somehow got stuck with another of Cheer’s song.

Song of the Moment: 陈绮贞 – 鱼

if i really become a lecturer, i will ask the students to write an app for 1 semester, then swap their projects in the next semester and ask them to add a module to it.

I know I have 160 characters per SMS, so when I was tasked to tell everyone the meeting plan, I threw in the following:

Let’s gather in tamp at 6 tonight for a xxx dinner. xxx please help to spread the word to xxx. Bless us all…

Different replies came back, the best:

Amen.

Song of the Moment: Michael Buble – Home

just some notes to myself.

Nice ferry.
Lok kok ferry terminal.
Comfortable bus transfer.
Confusing reception.
Old villa.
Room features e.g. toilet, kitchen, aircon below average, just passed the usable mark.
Bed not bad, maybe because i only have a mattress.
TV has many channels.
Many flies and insects.
Caught a toad.
Beautiful pools.
Fine soft sand.
Seas not clear. (where got clear water? Phuket got?)
Food below average for given price.
Massage ok, i think preferred Batam. But free SUV transport was good.
Glad didn’t do anything much.

i’m so lazy.

Song of the Moment: 林宥嘉 – 伯乐

bathroom wall tile spoil.
bathroom door spoil.
washing machine spoil.
aircon spoil.
fan spoil.

Song of the Moment: 南拳妈妈 – 下雨天

I strolled in the rain again today. Still feels great but again worried about getting my stuff like phone and wallet wet. I’ve always wished I’d walk the way I wanna walk. Hm. Hard to describe.

I wonder why walking in the rain will become sick. Does it mean showering with water will become sick?