F1 in Singapore!

It's the weekend of the Formula One race in Singapore, and i'm all excited about it. After watching the races for many years on TV, since 1998, this will be my first time attending the actual race!

So last night i was at the practice session, and the sound was just blasting. The engines sound like jet planes on roads! I think it's akin to 10 times the volume in a dance club. It's impossible your heart beat will stay normal, even just listening to the sound of the mega machines.

One thing that i immediately noticed, the teams with the 2 best cars, Ferrari and McLaren Mercedes, the sound of their engines is like music to any fan's ears. The Honda cars has an amazingly loud sound, which is very bothering. But sitting at the Bay Grandstand area, even though the speed of the cars are slowed considerably in this section due to the sharp turns, i couldn't take a good picture with the phone's camera. The only thing i caught is the shadowy trail of the cars.

i will upload pictures from this with a better camera from tonight's qualifying session. till then, got to go!

Siggraph 08 demo reported in Sing Tao Daily Los Angeles

A couple of weeks back, during the week of 10th August, I was in Los Angeles showing a demo of a programming interface and methodology for robots using touch. This is a project in collaboration with NEC in Japan and was developed on top of their robotic platform, PaPeRo.

News link here: http://www.singtao.com/oversea/0813ao42.html


Mr Peter Ye from Sing Tao daily was at Siggraph, and interviewed me on the project that i was showing. According to him, Sing Tao Daily is the largest Chinese newspaper in North America with 3 major offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York. With its headquarters base in Hong Kong, Sing Tao Daily has an extensive global network. They have offices in Toronto, Vancouver, Europe and Australia.

Well, not bad, i think :) At least Chinese people living abroad get to know about this project, and hopefully be inspired to do research in similar field.
Anyway, thank you Peter!

Also, a picture he took of me with PaPeRo-san.

By the way, i will give a more detailed account of what happened in the Siggraph 08 conference, and more pictures!