Did my first presentation in the IEEE MICC-ICON conference which was held in Berjaya Time Square, KL. The paper is related to “802.11 MAC implementation using SDL”. Not much scientific research contribution in this paper, but just to highlight the design methodology used by our research team. SDL has been widely used in the Europe, especially Germany and Scandinavia, but not so popular in Asia, except East Asia. It is particularly useful for modeling distributed and real time system, and a lot of protocol specification by ITU-T is written in this language. Another language, known as TTCN, is useful for testing and verification purposes. Few peoples in Malaysia heard about this…There were more than 200 papers in the 2-days conference and hence it’s hard to put high expectation on this conference. I have been assigned to chair my first ever session in a conference. One of participants from Iran did not satisfied with too many parallel sessions at the same time, seven in a time! Able to meet new friends in this conference… Guillaume (Pic. 1) from French, asked me to bring him to Chinese Restaurant. So, we ended up in Nam Yong in Petaling Street and he bought the Chinese tea for his “wife” or more precisely "special girlfriend". Claus (Middle in Pic.2), a German who speaks fluently Mandarin after staying 5 years in China, kept asking me about alaysia during our dinner time. He amazed that majority of the Chinese here speak in Mandarin and condemned those Chinese in Singapore who give up their mother tongue language. He actually criticized a lot. He even said that “Fxxx off, Bush”. Ah, fyi, he is now working in California…. Met my seniors as well, Sum, who studied in Niigata University in Japan. He came back for the conference cum vacation. We spent our coffee time in Starbuck located in the Boarder Bookstore. See the picture!! A “pig” was surfing the Internet and looking for AV using his stylish VAIO…:-P
A birthday party for Siew Ling and Xu Zhuang on Tuesday night...... a small farewell for Jinho on Thrusday night as well! We all expect the girfts from him on 3rd Dec... Alright… it’s time to back to my FP/ATM work on 8260 board.
7 comments:
No, we don't speak in Mandarin. We speak in Cantonese, Hakka, Hokkien, Hockchiew, etc.
PK, you are correct! We have different ethnic in Chinese as well. But for them, they just know that you speak "Pu Tong Hua"....I used to explain to him that I also speak Hokkien, although I am a TiaoChew....
teow chew, not tiao chew...
U shud learn teow chew..only u ler..hong & I know..
wowow..u called yr friend a "pig"...he looks like a jap to me...anyhow, how's the presentation ?
Nothing special. No question from the audience at all. The conference was too general.
That's the problem with Malaysian conference. To get enough participants, they accept all sorts of papers from all sorts of fields. Then, all the participants can't understand what each other are doing.
PK, I agreed with you. I was in a session which contained the following topics:
- Adminstration Tool
- Mail Server Architecture
- P-2-P File Sharing
- OS architecture for WSN
- etc.
It's really hard for the audience to give idea, comment or suggestion to each others.
Anyway, it's always very hard for the conference in Malaysia to attract ppls from outside. That's why they have to make it general.
They should promote Malaysia as a holiday destination so people will come. Offer some prize for best paper.
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