2009年6月28日星期日

6月27日,青年公园

今天只有5个同学出席集会。
我到达集会地点时,传宾和秀权已经在那儿热身了。
我到达之后不久,明长和华丰也陆续到来。
秀权因为速度比较慢,所以他一个人先起步。
由于庆成没有联络我说他不来,所以我们就等待庆成到来之后才开始跑。
可是等了一阵子,时间已经超过5点05分了,庆成还是没有出现。
我只好打电话给他,原来他忘了告诉我他不能来。
庆成的父亲身体不舒服,入院了。
希望他老人家快快康复!

今天我们又提高难度了!
明长跑12圈(13.16km),我、传宾和华丰跑11圈(12.22km),秀权则跑10圈(11.28km) 。

结果是:
我第一个抵达终点!时间是1小时11分钟03秒,平均每公里5分钟48.85秒。
我觉得纳闷!那怎么可能! 我不可能跑在其他人前面的!


3分钟之后,我的疑问终于获得解答。
我看见其余4人一个接一个跑抵终点。
原来,他们全部忽然改变主意,一起陪秀权跑回来。

明长以1小时14分钟跑完13圈(14.1km),平均每公里5分钟14.90秒。(这不是他真正的实力来的!他不可能跑这么慢的!)


接着下来是Ah Pong(华丰)。他以1小时14分05秒跑完12圈,平均每公里5分钟37.77 秒。


传宾1小时14分13秒跑完12圈,平均每公里5分钟38.37秒。(留意秀权就在传宾身后不远。)



秀权由于跑到中途还上厕所放掉“负担”,减轻体重,所以时间是1小时14分钟(10圈),平均每公里6分钟33.62秒。
坦白说大家今天的状态并不理想(除了明长之外)。华丰、传宾和我都有力不从心的感觉,跑到一半时真的不想再跑下去啊!不过,大家总算顶下去了!不错!加油!

最后,华丰和他的儿子要求上镜。
来吧!笑笑。。。“咔嚓”!


之后,庆成从Island Hospital特地来到青年公园和我们聊天。很不错啊!庆成,谢谢你的支持!
对了!我们好怀念其他好久不见的同学——Ah Kay(继勇)、中华、双安、铭辉。。。还有脚伤伤还没康复的书修!你们千万别掉队啊!



2009年6月22日星期一

7月4日同学集会通告

郑重向各位中华85年毕业生宣布:

我们将于

2009年7月4日,星期六,

晚上7:30pm

假日落洞巴刹Lorong Ipoh (Peter 陈振源同学的旧家那条路)


“阿友伯肉骨茶”餐室(傅升友同学开设)

举行一个同学聚餐会(肉骨茶)

欢迎各位同学踊跃出席。

这次的聚会的目的有:

(一)联络各位同学的感情

(二)让远从美国回来的黄文秀同学有机会和大家见见面

(三)筹备明年《中华85年毕业生》毕业25周年纪念的庆祝活动

有兴趣参加这个聚会的同学请联络我(汪锦贵),

电话:016-4511379

注:聚餐会的费用将会到时由所有出席肉骨茶餐会的同学共同分担(喝酒的同学另外再计算)。

2009年6月20日星期六

6月20日集会

近来槟城的天气很不好,气温高而且烟雾很浓,其实是很不适合做户外运动的。

不过我们CH85的成员依旧准时到达青年公园会合,进行我们每个星期难得的集会。

我驾车路过协和中学时,天空忽然滴落雨点,而且还不小的。我在想,下雨了,同学们会不会因此而不来了呢? 不过,想想最近的天气,虽然偶尔会有下雨,但是雨从来不会持续超过10分钟。

我到达青年公园时,已经看到传宾一个人在躲雨。他看见我来了,就躲进我的车里避雨。

不久,秀权和庆成也相继到来。然后,明长也出现了。

我们5个人躲在我的车里,我拿出我打印出来的Malakoff 比赛的成绩来给大家分享。大家都针对这个成绩发表意见。看得出大家对明年的比赛(如果明年有举办比赛的话)感到很有信心。大家已经开始对明年的比赛定下目标了!

果然不久之后雨就不再下了,我们走出车外准备热身,这时蔡叶华丰也从青年公园里走出来。

大家默契十足,决定跑长途(10圈)。

秀权因为速度比较慢,所以比我们先起步。而明长因为速度最快,所以他一个人将会跑11圈。

以下是今天大家跑步的成绩:

明长,11圈,12.22公里,1小时00分钟30秒,平均每公里4分57秒

传宾,10圈,11.28公里,1小时01分钟11秒,平均每公里5分25.43秒

华丰,10圈,和传宾相同时间,同时间抵达终点。
庆成选择跑2大2小圈,7.76公里,43分钟,平均每公里5分钟32.47秒

我,10圈,11.28公里,1小时03分钟56秒,平均每公里5分钟40.1秒

秀权,10圈,11.28公里,1小时15分钟,平均每公里6分钟38.93秒。

2009年6月19日星期五

Malakoff 26 km Penang 2009 成绩

MALAKOFF 26km, Penang 2009
Preliminary Results
Men's Veteran
1 B1024 Lim Teik Meng 02:00:04
2 B1102 Wong Kim Tain 02:01:42
3 B1136 Liew Tho Fatt 02:02:54
4 B1125 Kevin Ooi Teow Khoon 02:06:29
5 B1031 Tan Ah Chin 02:07:24
6 B1101 Liew Chien Sioen 02:10:39
7 B1214 Abdul Aziz Ahmad 02:13:33
8 B1206 Lim Kok Cheong 02:14:36
9 B1044 Lu Eng Huat 02:15:58
10 B1036 Lim Leong Hock 02:16:09
11 B1006 Yap Wai Hong 02:18:30
12 B1209 Goh King Aun 02:18:46
13 B1126 Lim Chin Leong 02:19:06
14 B1043 Alex Ong Poh Beng 02:20:16
15 B1212 Lee Wei Koon 02:20:18
16 B1207 Ng Beng Teong 02:22:28
17 B1004 Lau Tee Wooi 02:22:31
18 B1154 Loh Keong Kong 02:23:14
19 B1037 Bakri Md Noor 02:24:17
20 B1130 Chua Chin Lee 02:24:21
21 B1142 Lim Thean Seng 02:25:28
22 B1151 Yusran Yusoff 02:25:34
23 B1216 Chan Chee Onn 02:25:51
24 B1149 Lee Hean Cheng 02:27:16
25 B1007 Phoon Kim Wooi 02:28:48
26 B1236 Kee Kok Kang 02:28:50
27 B1104 Tsen Seong Fook 02:29:34
28 B1056 Ramli Nayan 02:30:53
29 B1131 Oh Kean Cheong 02:33:25
30 B1001 Mak Chin Kow 02:34:53
31 B1205 Ang Beng Ee 02:35:00
32 B1124 Yu Song 02:35:50
33 B1119 Michael Fong Kuan Yew 02:35:54
34 B1110 Loh Seng Lee 02:38:52
35 B1122 Khoo Kay Seong 02:39:06
36 B1027 Loh Poh Khim 02:39:10
37 B1113 Loh Lip Choon 02:40:14
38 B1032 Heng Chong Lim 02:41:05
39 B1148 Lee Swee Peng 02:43:11
40 B1035 Khoo Chee Wai 02:43:13
41 B1054 Ahmad Zuhaidi Dali 02:43:29
42 B1226 Chan Peng Kheong 02:43:45
43 B1140 Terence Chan Chee Wai 02:44:27
44 B1123 Lim Guan Choon 02:44:47
45 B1103 Leong Siew Kee 02:45:49
46 B1143 Khor Tuan Pin 02:46:07
47 B1243 Goh Kim Moon 02:48:11
48 B1111 Krishna Kumar 02:49:00
49 B1108 Lim Chong Ho 02:49:53
50 B1203 Lim Kim Kooi 02:50:10
51 B1013 Ong Boo Soon 02:50:22
52 B1141 Mohd Subri Abdullah 02:51:07
53 B1018 Chuah Weng Chang 02:52:09
54 B1105 Yeoh Teong San 02:52:24
55 B1118 Tan Meng Lee 02:52:39
56 B1117 Khoo Bak Kiang 02:53:15
57 B1220 Oong Gim Kooi 02:53:36
58 B1127 Abdul Hamid Ramli 02:54:18
59 B1201 Lee San Kooi 02:55:22
60 B1016 Yusof Mahmud 02:56:21
61 B1217 Mohd Zakaria Fadzil 02:57:20
62 B1129 Koh Hiun Weng 02:57:25
63 B1133 Tang Poh Chong 02:57:29
64 B1028 Oh Lee Wah 02:57:32
65 B1210 Lee King Aun 02:59:13
66 B1008 Lim Soon Yean 02:59:19
67 B1238 Ooi Thean Soon 03:00:04
68 B1021 Kuan Chin Nguan 03:00:41
69 B1049 Tan Kok Khiam 03:01:21
70 B1138 Terence Ng Heng Kwong 03:02:11
71 B1005 Wong Wai Kong 03:04:20
72 B1030 Chee Wee Man 03:05:08
73 B1135 Lim Eng Peng 03:05:42
74 B1055 Manja Bidin 03:06:17
75 B1208 Yeoh Leong Poh 03:06:29
76 B1242 Tan Lai Lai 03:06:30
77 B1002 Rosli Yaacob 03:07:05
78 B1144 Kimura Makoto 03:07:54
79 B1106 Teh Khim Huat 03:08:40
80 B1232 Che Yazid Sirat 03:09:13
81 B1235 Lim Kheng Seng 03:10:16
82 B1150 Thomas Zeiler 03:12:00
83 B1107 Wong Chung Hao 03:13:09
84 B1045 Abu Sar Abdur Rahman 03:14:30
85 B1014 Yeap Yean Thiam 03:14:50
86 B1213 Jamil Hashim 03:15:03
87 B1011 Tam Siew Chong 03:15:12
88 B1048 Al-Ishsal Ishak 03:15:59
89 B1240 Ruslan Ghazalli 03:16:32
90 B1202 Lim Kim Aun 03:16:40
91 B1146 Dayalan Vadivelloo 03:19:47
92 B1121 Tai Kok Keong 03:20:18
93 B1057 Zulhimi Kamaruddin 03:25:14
94 B1052 Ng Hwang Meng 03:27:32
95 B1033 Lim Weng Cheong 03:32:21
96 B1026 Ng Soo Chai 03:32:24
97 B1010 Lim Leong Khyoon 03:36:27
98 B1019 Teo Boon Huat 03:38:11
99 B1020 H'ng Kiang Boon 03:40:04
100 B1047 Choy Sow Kheun 03:40:52
101 B1034 Chew Yik Oon 03:41:27
102 B1112 Leong Kook Weng 03:44:00
103 B1022 Chow Kok Fee 03:46:00
104 B1051 Hussain Ahamed 03:49:02
105 B1017 Beh Meng Hock 03:49:52
106 B1145 Tan Hor Chin 03:51:37
107 B1023 Liong Nget Fah 03:52:03
108 B1025 Andrew Tye 03:53:27

2009年6月17日星期三

6月13日的集会


6月13日,距离刚刚结束的Malakoff 26 km比赛正好要一个礼拜。

担心同学们因为Malakoff的激烈比赛而感到疲累不出席集会,所以我刻意发出信息提醒大家要出席下午5点在青年公园的集会。 
结果,这一天的反应特别好,一共有8位同学出席:秀权,继勇,中华,华丰,传宾。庆成,双安以及我(不在镜头内,负责为他们拍照)。
传宾跑9圈,10.34km
庆成跑8圈,9.40 km
秀权跑5圈,6.58km
我跑2大圈再加2小圈,7.76km(早上我已经一个人在家里跑15km了,所以下午不跑太多了)。
其他同学没有向我报告自己所跑的圈数,所以没有记录。

2009年6月9日星期二

我们中华又出了一个出色的科学家

这是我从美国Lehigh's University转载下来的报导,是关于我们中华一位毕业生(Tan Chee Loon) 在美国大学所取得的辉煌成就。

This summer, Chee-Loon Tan will receive one of the top honors in his new field, the D.J. Lovell Scholarship from SPIE.


Chee-Loon Tan had only a passing acquaintance with optical technologies when he enrolled as a Ph.D. student in electrical engineering at Lehigh in the fall of 2006.At the University of Malaya in Malaysia, where he had just earned a bachelor’s in electrical engineering, Tan had focused on wireless communications. Among other projects, he had built a wireless ECG (electrocardiogram) monitoring system and fashioned a walking stick that warns the visually impaired about obstacles.



Today, Tan has an international reputation in lasers and semiconductors, having published 35 journal articles and conference papers in less than three years. He has traveled to California, Singapore and England to give presentations at conferences of the major optics professional societies.



This summer, Tan will receive one of the top honors in his new field, the D.J. Lovell Scholarship from SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering. The $11,000 scholarship, the largest given by SPIE, will be presented in August in San Diego at SPIE’s annual Optics + Photonics conference.



How does one change scientific fields so quickly and so successfully? Tan, who has published 35 journal articles and conference papers in less than three years, cites several factors: preparation, systematic effort, clear direction from a mentor and long hours.Mathematics is the foundation of engineering, says Tan, who took four years of calculus at a high school that is based on the British education system and located on the Malaysian island of Penang.“Mathematics is a must,” he says. “Without it, you will be afraid to tackle a problem. Your motivation will be undermined.”



The change from wireless communications to optical technologies, says Tan, required him to gain a firmer grasp of quantum mechanics, the branch of physics that seeks to describe the behavior of light and matter at the atomic and subatomic scales.Step by step“Quantum mechanics is the basis of what I do now. It is totally different from the electronics that I learned at the University of Malaya. But if the knowledge is different, the approach to it is the same. When I came to Lehigh, I took courses in quantum mechanics, quantum electronics, semiconductors and lasers. To learn how to apply quantum mechanics, I had to keep building, step by step.”



Tan’s adviser at Lehigh is Boon Ooi, associate professor of electrical and computer engineering and a member of Lehigh’s Center for Optical Technologies, where Tan conducts his research. Tan has also worked with several other professors in the electrical and computer engineering department, including James Hwang, who directs Lehigh’s Compound Semiconductor Technology Laboratory, and Yujie Ding, director of Lehigh’s Terahertz Nonlinear Optics Laboratory. IQE Inc. helps the group grow semiconductor nanostructure materials, while the Army Research Laboratory helps with materials processing. The group receives funding from the National Science Foundation.



Tan says Ooi, who also hails from Penang, helped him get off to a fast start at Lehigh.“When you start in a new field, you need a distinct problem, a clear target to aim at. Professor Ooi provided this for me. Without a clear problem, you get sidetracked. You go off in too many directions at once.”



Much of Tan’s research at Lehigh has focused on developing broadband semiconductor lasers, which emit light simultaneously along multiple wavelengths, thus achieving greater spectral range than conventional lasers, which emit light along a single wavelength.



“Chee-Loon’s diligence in picking up essential knowledge enables him to perform his research in a very short time,” says Ooi. “By the end of his first year at Lehigh, he had already begun to develop a new theoretical model to analyze broad optical gain semiconductor quantum dot media."



Tan is working on a laser made of two semiconducting materials that emits light from quantum dashes packed at a density of 1 billion per square centimeter. (A quantum dash is a variation on a quantum dot, which is a nanoscale semiconductor that spatially confines electrons and hole pairs.) The laser developed by Ooi’s group, says Tan, has an inhomogeneous structure that enables it to emit light along a broader band of the spectrum.Ooi’s laser is several orders of magnitude smaller and less expensive than other broadband semiconductor lasers, giving it potential applications in optical telecommunications, biosensing, and biomedical imaging and diagnosis.



In Lehigh’s Center for Optical Technologies, Tan and the other members of Ooi’s group utilize semiconducting materials that self-assemble into quantum dashes, and then monitor the dashes’ mechanical, material and optical properties.The work requires long hours, says Tan, as experiments cannot be shut off until they are completed. Tan also creates mathematical models to explain experimental results. This work can be halted in midstream, but Tan prefers not to do so.“I don’t like to go home until I get the results I want. I spend most of my time in the lab. I come in at 8 in the morning and usually leave at 10 or 11 at night or later. That kind of schedule is not unusual for an engineering student.”



Tan hopes to complete his Ph.D. later this year and seek a career as an entrepreneur.“I would like to start up a company that develops and commercializes broadband semiconductors,” says Tan. “That will require a very different approach from what I do now. It will be very challenging.”--Kurt Pfitzer



Posted on Thursday, May 14, 2009

2009年6月8日星期一

文秀的email

文秀寄给我一封email,张贴在这里给大家读一读。他将在7月4日回来,希望到时老同学都能出席集会,和我们这位从美国回来的教授聊一聊(因为他真的希望和大家见见面!)


Hi Gim Kooi,

Congrulations on completing Malakoff in such an impressive time. Also, please help to congratulate the gang on completing the run. The thing that I missed most in Penang, as I told Keat Boey, was not being able to hang out with a group of good friend.

Anyway, I am going to make up the lost. I will be in Penang on 4 July (Sat). I have to run a one-day workshop in Singapore with a group of colleage from London on Friday (3 July), and will arrive in Pg on 4 July at 9am. I hope to see you, and other friends at the same location at 5pm on Saturday. I am not sure whether I can run continuosly for 15 min, but I will try.

Due to the swine flu, I will be travelling alone. I will spend two days in Pg. I need to be in KL to a Public Lecture in UM on 7 July, followed by a meeting with UTAR's president on 8 July before flying home on the night of 8 July.

I cann't wait to catch up with you.

Best wishes,
Boon Siew

2009年6月7日星期日

Penang Malakoff 26 km (7-6-2009)

6月7日,星期天。
晴。
烟雾很浓。
天气炎热带点郁闷的感觉。
清晨4时30分钟,我到达青年公园后面大停车场对面的马路旁。
传宾、秀权、庆成、明长陆陆续续到来。
大家都在猜测继勇到底会不会出现。

结果,继勇在我们等待开跑时出现了。

这表示我们CH85团员,除了书修因为脚伤而不能出席比赛之外,其他平时都有参加比赛的都出席了这次的赛会。

比赛结果:

明长以2小时24分钟抵达终点。




继勇的时间是2小时36分钟22秒




接下来是传宾,时间是2小时45分钟22秒。





我用的时间2小时52分钟30秒。






庆成抵达终点时,时间正好是3小时10分钟。


秀权也完成比赛,时间3小时40分钟。


总而言之,我们6人都获得了奖牌,完成比赛。













最感到意外的是我们遇上了我们中华中学91年毕业的学弟,Koay Yew-Chin 。他也是我们CH85部落格的跟踪者。这个学弟来头不小,拥有PhD博士头衔。看来我们中华人才济济,实在可喜可贺!(下图最左边就是我们的Koay Yew-Chin 学弟。)



比赛完毕,大家在等待秀权回来时坐着休息聊天。




传宾和秀权品尝胜利的甜果。


我们下一个目标:11月22日Penang Bridge Half Marathon。
加油啦!