Tokyo is covered with snow again today, and it’s nicer from the last time because instead of snowing the whole day while the wind blowing crazily, the sun was shining brightly while the ground was covered with white. The sky was really bright and blue today, which made Mans commented on lunch that it looked like the beginning of Sweden’s spring. The only down side is that because the snow was thin and it’s starting to melt, some part of the road was covered with slippery mix of water and ice. I’m only glad that I wasn’t wearing that silly ski boots that has no friction whatsoever, otherwise I would be covered with bruises from falling down before I even reached the station.
View from our room balcony when the snow fell down. I thank my heater for defrosting me after taking this photo.
The school's brown grasses was covered by snow, and the sky was amazingly blue
I spent today morning trying to do my research and attending a lab meeting. I finally tested to use the feature vectors I’ve been trying to work on these past few weeks as an input model and I got some result, a progress that I’m currently happy with even though according to my professor when I asked him later today, I’m doing it a little bit wrong. I also asked him about some things I don’t understand from the paper which I’m supposed to follow in this research, but ended up more confused and since I assumed that this was because my lack of knowledge, I decided to tell my professor that I’d try something, which means more reading this week. Besides that, the final exam of our Japanese class will be held this Friday, and I’m a little bit scared because I still can’t remember the meaning of many words and often stumbled on choosing particle. Oh well, I’m sure it will be alright; I’ll just put “ni” on everything if I really have to.
After lunch today, I spent most, if not all, of my time chatting with Arlan (known better as “Chocolate Gorilla”) via MSN. I asked him to teach me some statistic test because my statistic skill is non-existent, and I think I have to do some statistic test in my current research. I told him wrongly yesterday that I’m supposed to do t-test and ANOVA, while in fact I have to do chi-square test and ANOVA. He was trying to teach me something while I continuously threw him silly questions like “What’s degree of freedom?” after he explained about it less than 2 minutes before (I’ve told you, my statistics knowledge is non-existent) but I still understand nothing and decided that I will try to learn things on my own before bombarding him with my stupid questions again. The discussion went to many random directions, and at some points I threaten to cut Shin-chan‘s private part so he can’t make it an elephant again because Arlan threaten to tell Shin-chan’s fans that I said he’s a liar because he claimed to be able to walk by his butt alone. He then posted my exact line to twitter which further tainted my already tainted reputation among his followers.
