All Things Yummy

I lost my Iron Ring today. I think it must’ve fallen off when I took my gloves off to get my car keys. I walked around everywhere trying to find it, but by then, there was another inch of snow on the ground… It didn’t help that I was running around jumping into snow banks and generally horsing around with Chris P - it could’ve fallen anywhere between Engineering quad and the UWP parking lot, or somewhere around Morty’s.

Well, now I know I should’ve gotten a smaller size. Well, I guess I’ll go get a new one tomorro… the refitting is tomorrow at 4PM.

The sun just slipped its note below my door
And I can’t hide beneath my sheets
I’ve read the words before so now I know
The time has come again for me

And I’m feelin’ the same way all over again
Feelin’ the same way all over again
Singin’ the same lines all over again
No matter how much I pretend…

I’ve been listening to a lot of Norah Jones over the last couple of days. It seems… somehow appropriate. I feel like I’m stuck in this place where you’re trying to move but your limbs are not responding to your commands, just like in those dreams where you’re being chased somewhere and you can’t move the way you want to. Maybe it’s due to general uncertaintly about the future, maybe it’s just general stress of some of the recent happenings, maybe it’s the weather… In any case, it definitely hasn’t been a good reading 2 days. 2 days really isn’t enough to be able to really relax, and I ended up wasting a lot of time doing nothing at all. I guess the biggest monkey wrench that was thrown in was the ECE687 exam on March 1st. I had completely forgotten the fact that February has only 28 days, so I thought there still was like a week left to study… but no, exam’s tomorrow.

I’ve been dreaming with some regularity lately - that means I’m getting too much sleep, heh This morning in the dream, I was at some kind of mall or shopping area of some sort. I walked out and found a parking ticket on my windshield… so I put it in my pocket and drove out of the lot when I realized I forgot to do something. I drove back, parked the car, then walked into this Doctor’s office where I was told to sit down and fill out a questionnaire… I started writing it down, but I had a lot of problems actually being able to write anything legible… and then I started worrying about the fact that my car would be ticketed again because the previous parking ticket was in my jacket pocket. So there I was, sitting in a waiting room, filling out a questionnaire with short little itty bitty pencil, worrying that my car would be ticketed for parking violation. Any armchair Freud want to take a shot at explaining this dream?

Maybe I just need to relax more, take things in stride, not worry so much about everything that’s going around… or maybe I should just sleep less so I wouldn’t have to deal with dreams at all. I guess the second solution is easier…

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Looking at things like The Greatest Saturn Portrait… Yet makes me awed by the awesome beauty and splendour of the world around us. Don’t you ever look around and look at the wonders that surrounds you and question whether random selection could’ve brough together something so amazing and wonderful?

Bobby has an interesting point on the whole Missile Shield issue. After reading through the news articles that are out there… I guess I’m in complete agreement with Bobby here. One of the things that really confuse me is people’s hatred of USA - you have to stand ground where you must, but you also need to take advantage of them and work with them when that’s to your advantage. This rabid hatred of everything American is counter-productive, counter-intuitive, and just plain silly.

But politicians must do what politicians must do, I suppose. That’s the one thing I miss about Jean Chretien - for all his faults, he was a leader, willing to press on with his ideas and beliefs. Paul Martin, on the other hand (and even taking into account the fact that he’s leading a minority government), seems like just another politician, ruled by the opinion polls and the latest hack that’s getting attention by the mass media…

So, I guess IRS came and went… just like that. The pictures that I took can be found here, though I unfortunately forgot to bring my camera to the Iron Ring Stag, so I only have the photos from the Champagne Breakfast and the Craziness that ensued afterwards.

It was fun. I was surprisingly excited about something that I didn’t expect to get excited about. I guess it’s partly because it’s the beginning of the end.

• Buy ECE428 Lecture Notes
• Bind ECE484 Lecture Notes
• Make changes to 484 Lab1 userintf.vi file
• Submit 484 Lab1 (server’s down!) (Yay, server came back up!)
• Pickup new key for EIT3111 Room
• Drop off the crane report for Dr. Aplevich
• Call Sethi at NGM
• Take care of misc. Solar Car business
• Finish ECE486 Project
• To go scotiabank and change some US$ to CAD$

Hmm… Pretty good for only 1:15PM… but I keep thinking whether I’m forgetting anything… I swear there was something else that needed to be done… D’oh! I really should write things down when I remember stuff that needs to be done.

Probably most of you who reads this and goes to Waterloo knows it already, but Lawrence won the election - he’ll be the next VP Internal for FEDS. Congratulations!

He’s starting to put some of his thoughts about the campaign down on paper (electronic paper, that is) - the top 10 things learned from the election.

I don’t think John reads this… but in any case, Happy 18th Birthday!

It’s only 3 days to IRS!

I had my third midterm yesterday for ECE428, computer organization. The midterm was one of those exams full of tricks that you have no idea how you did… Maybe you’ve got most of the tricks? Or maybe you missed a whole bunch and bombed it? Ah well, it’s done and over with. Since my next midterm is on March 1st, this means that I’m free! IRC and IRS is next week, then I have reading week (where week is defined as 2 days) where I’ll be able to finally work on some electrical stuff for the solar car.

I still have a lot of stuff on my plate. This morning, I finished 3 business proposals for the solar car team which means I have 1 more to go, for the time being. I have to get 2 projects finished for this weekend, start on my ECE687 report on force control, work on solar car’s electrical side of things, and get some homework done that had been neglected over the last little while… But so far, it’s manageable. Oh yeah, the Aerobody was cut today, so here are some pictures.

I upgraded to WordPress 1.5. It took me a while to get everything back to normal but it’s looking good now. Hopefully it’ll do a little better job on spamming control. I’ve already got couple of trackback spams, so the verdict is still out on that.

Anyhoo, back to LaTeX and control systems…

1. I like PMS 292
2. . . . which is also known as light blue or #6699FF
3. . . . though that’s still just an approximation. My true favourite colour is that faint, extremely light, and almost shimmering blue that you see toward late afternoon on a clear and crisp autumn day.
4. My name is Daniel Yum
5. . . . yes, it really is Yum. You pronounce it as you’d say Yum! after a delicious meal
6. . . . as a result, the nickname I’m most often stuck is Yummy! though I’ve been called plenty of other things including Gorilla, Village Idiot, and Lt. Dan
7. I am currently 22 years old
8. . . . so I have a deep sense of loyalty and am honest
9. . . . which is another way of saying I was born in the year of the Dog
10. My favourite book is The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry
11. . . . besides the Prince, I really like the fox
12. . . . I would also like to be tamed
13. I was born on September 7th
14. . . . which makes me a Virgo
15. I am a Christian
16. I enjoy jumping up and touching things that are hanging from the ceiling
17. My blood type is B/RH+
18. . . . I found out the RH+ part when I donated blood
19. . . . where I was told that I had very good iron content in my blood
20. . . . where I also realized that I’m not cut out to be a doctor
21. . . . . . . I wanted to become a doctor after watching many episodes of Scrubs
22. I’m a romantic
23. I’m an Engineering student studying Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo
24. . . . where I’ll be graduating in June, 2005
25. . . . I like laplace transforms
26. . . . I also like state space
27. . . . I’m not a big fan of Z-transforms, though I like them better than fourier transforms
28. . . . but I’ll take fourier transform over random processes any day of the week
29. . . . I like my control courses
30. . . . . . . especially the ones with robots
31. I love taking photographs, though I’m not very good at it yet
32. I was born in Pusan, South Korea
33. I am a Canadian Citizen, currently living in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
34. . . . though I used to live in Mission, BC, Canada
35. . . . I miss the mild winters of British Columbia
36. . . . I also lived in Burnaby, BC and Sugarland, Texas
37. . . . I don’t say ‘eh’ at the end of every sentence, though I do catch myself using it conversationally from time to time
38. I love Dark Chocolate
39. . . . I’ll eat just about any type of chocolate, though I’ve rather have dark over milk, and milk over white chocolate
40. I am bilingual - I can speak both English and Korean
41. . . . though my Korean writing skills are little rusty
42. . . . by rusty, I mean terrible, like grade 6 level, which is when I came to Canada
43. I’m not very picky when it comes to food
44. . . . though I don’t like anchovies in my pizza
45. . . . and I don’t like beans in my rice
46. Longest I’ve stayed up was from Friday morning to early monday morning, 65 hours or so
47. . . . after 50 hours, I started losing big 30 minute chunks of my memory
48. . . . after 60 hours, at any given point, I was always half asleep with those nasty little micro-sleeps, though I was still working away (on the solar car aerobody for Midnight Sun 6)
49. I’m the Project Leader for Midnight Sun Solar Race Car Team
50. . . . the team set a record for the longest distance driven on a solar powered vehicle at 15,079km in the summer of 2004
51. . . . the team takes a lot of work
52. I don’t watch a lot of TV
53. I’ve played piano for little over 10 years
54. . . . the last piece I played was Beethoven’s Grande Sonata Pathétique
55. . . . I like romantic period pieces
56. . . . my dream is to be able to play Listz’s Hungarian Rhapsody
57. I remember pi to 8th decimal place
58. My favourite tea is Earl Grey de la Creme
59. . . . before I found Earl Grey de la Creme, I liked Lady Grey from Twinnings
60. . . . I’m not a big fan of Coffee, though I think it smells nice
61. I swim and play squash
62. . . . I used to play basketball and ultimate back in the day
63. . . . Phil beats me all the time in squash - I’m happy if I can take one game from him
64. . . . I play with yellow double dot ball
65. I use Firefox as my main browser
66. I use Thunderbird as my mail program
67. I like dogs, and dislike cats - I think cats have attitude problems
68. I’m not very fashion conscious
69. . . . I basically wear 2 pairs of shoes all year round. Dress shoes when I’m dressed up or wearing khakis… and pair of runnings shoes for every other day
70. . . . . . . I wear khakis maybe once a month. I’m dressed up maybe once a month too
71. . . . I’m currently on my second pair of running shoes since I’ve started University in 2000, though they’re on their last legs
72. When I’m out and about, you’ll find a blackberry on my belt
73. . . . yes, I’m a crackberry addict
74. My favourite mathematical constant is e
75. I like to play board games
76. . . . I’d like to think I’m a decent Scrabble player, but Lily easily beats me everytime we play
77. . . . . . . one day, I’ll memorize all the two letter words like the smart people
78. . . . I like to play Risk and Monopoly as well, and I’m known as a ruthless strategizer
79. I am an INTJ
80. . . . I’m fairly strong INTJ. The descriptions match me very closely
81. I like Mangos
82. I like Papayas too
83. Actually, I like most fruits out there
84. My favourite mathematical equation is the euler formula
85. I love eating
86. . . . I love spicy things! I have very high tolerance for spicy food
87. I enjoy baking from time to time
88. . . . I can make a very good Cream Cheese Pound Cake
89. . . . I’m currently working on perfecting a recipe for a chocolate mousse cake, which actually tastes more like dark chocolate truffle on an eggy crust at the moment
90. I’ve been to Korea, Japan, USA, Canada, Germany, Italy, Vatican, Switzerland, Netherlands, France, and Belgium
91. I listen to pretty much everything, though it’s tilted toward Classical and Classic Rock songs
92. When I was in highschool, I built a search engine that searched the internet for media files
93. I’ve rather be too hot than too cold
94. . . . my ideal weather would be around 23 to 24 degrees with low humidity
95. If it rains, I’ve rather have it pour than drizzle
96. . . . regardless of how much rain there is, I usually don’t use an umbrella
97. I love Tigger from Winnie the Pooh
98. . . . I also like roo
99. . . . but I dislike Pooh, Eeyore, Piglet, and pretty much everyone else
100. I think I can easily find 100 more things about me to write here

This list was updated on February 17, 2005 at approximately 3AM