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Green light on Hourglass

Hourglass is a new jointed project which is not directly from Shiroyuki Studio. As it is close-source and it is the first non-software project I have ever done, I can’t tell you much about it. Currently, I asked two of my friends to join and one of them already replied and one was still making decision.

This project haven’t been taken seriously as I have a yellow flag on the confidentiality issue with Primal Fusion, my former employer. So, the planning has been on hold for a week.

Today, I sat down with Peter Sweeney, one of co-founders, discussing about the confidentiality issue. The good news is what Hourglass will be is okay with Primal Fusion. So, now the time of green light. I hope we can start working on it before I got a new job.

Moving on

As today, I’m no longer with Primal Fusion. It is quite shocking and sad that I can’t work with interesting stuff anymore.

Before going any further, it isn’t like I did anything bad or offensive that they let me go. I can’t discuss on the reason. But it is a fun place to work. People are friendly and smart. It is true that I’m kinda sad not to be able to work there anymore.

For now, as I’m technically unemployed, so I have full time to finish work on any projects I left off since 2008 until I get employed again.

Although I’m saying a lot, it has come across my mind for months now. I possibly go back to Thailand permanently this December unless something happens so I can become a teacher to pursue my dream as a high-school teacher. I originally planed to leave Primal Fusion anyways next year to pursue my dream but things unexpectedly arrived way faster than I anticipated.

Even though today I’m really mentally stressed out, I still have my poker face on all the time. Just because I need to set up my mind and move on.

Opinions about Thailand and enlightening idea

(Some parts of this entry are only memo of what is considered as classified information respectively to thinkers.)

I just talked 3 hours straight with my friend doing his Ph.D. in UK. We kind of talked all sorts of topics like Thai political crisis (what is going on, possible causes, possible outcome etc.), how to promote pure science in Thailand, what can be done in Thailand etc.

We both agreed that the situation in Thailand is deteriorating because of politics. As I mentioned many times here, we believed that all problems are due to lack of education, educational promotion, corruption, selfishness, unfairness, politicians and unreasonable course of actions by people.

This year’s conference of Thai students in UK shows that Thailand have no strength and full of weak points. We kinda agree that Thailand has no future if there are still no development in education and society. It is ironic that many of those with power and authorities do nothing to prevent the deterioration of society but ones without them seek for the solution. As an agricultural country, why can’t Thailand walk forward? There are many reasons. People know the answers. Nevertheless, nobody cares to resolve them. Even though His Majesty King Rama IX of Thailand stated something like that he will be happy if people are happy, and all Thais love him and want him to be happy, nobody actually tries to resolve the problem.

In our conclusion regarding to Thai political crisis, Thaksin may not be at fault unless he is actually that crazy. Nevertheless he still has to hold responsibility of what’d happened so far because people around him are badasses and troublemakers and all problems and chaos are undeniably linked to him.

After we were done with Thailand’s issues, we talked about what we can accomplish in Thailand that is new and no one in Thailand, and perhaps on Earth, has done. We came up with two solid projects which are related to data analysis, synthesis, visualization, audiovisual, vocalization and auditory. Although that’s all I can say about them, my friend and I still disagree about the scope of work. What we have are not profitable but they are fun and cool to accomplish. They may step into Web-3.0 (semantic-web) boundary but working with text analysis on Thai language is extremely difficult. Let’s see what we can do.

So, in the end, it might be unproductive quarter of 2010 but I have more time to think of what interesting can be done.

Bugs in Toyota’s software?

Change of plans

Although I might need to consult about this with other people, I am considering to apply for scholarship from 文部科学書 in Network Engineering in 2010 or 2011 if the program is still available.

The program is indeed very interesting but my chance to get is just a minimum of best. I need to polish my Japanese, my CS knowledge, my Maths etc. On top of that, I need to make clear decision whether I should finish the left-over academic research before March or discontinue it. I also need the recommendation from professors at UW. This is not really a fun part of this. My performance during the undergraduate study was so screwed that I didn’t want to mention.

In any case, I’ll need to talk to someone first. 2010 might not be a year for me but I’ll see if there is possibility to do it in 2011.

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