bleeehh.....

In the past one week I have tried to understand about something, by reading one paper, two thesis (what's the plural form for thesis?) and with Wikipedia and Google being ready (and they have been a great help *clap*).

So one foreign researcher (read: not-so-good English) volunteered himself to give a brief run through of it today. Thanks God, I think, at least I would know where I stand in understanding this foreign topic.

So we met in the meeting room. He, being very patient, tried his best to explain. And I understood. *Light bulb blinking*. I could follow his explanation and he has such a good way in revealing (almost) all clouding mystery which I encountered during my lonely reading about the topic.

But he scribbled here. Scribbled there. His handwriting climbed uphill. Sloped downhill. Blob here. Blob there. Threadball (a messy one) here. Another one there. Striked through this. Striked through that.

But the discussion kept on flowing. Trellis diagram here. There. Formula here. There. Alpha. Beta. Gamma. Code. Code rate. Decoder. Encoder. Interleaver. De-interleaver. Blah. Blah. Blah.

I was on the ride and almost there. Until he told me "OK, I guess we're done here. Now you take this and try to start on the program. Actually I have had the program already but it would be easier for you to understand it deeper by programming. Let me know when you have some questions or doubts and let me know when you're done."

And 'this' referred to the up and down scribbles plus blob here and there blah blah blah that he had energetically put on poor 5 sheets of paper.

Bleeeeeehhh.... *blank* So I have to "trace back" his scribbles and start programming. He hinted though "this matrix that matrix thet matrix thos matrix... it should be simple."

Back in my cubicle, I was hungry, got stomach cramp and it was almost end of the day already. So instead of using my precious time to start working, I enjoyed myself taking some pictures of them instead (well, at first I spread them out with the hope that I would be able to surmise where I should start... but then my Nokia phone took action already.. so what to do?). Somemore, I quite like my desk's color, it goes pretty well with white, no?

*start rolling up sleeves for tomorrow's battle*
*menyingsingkan lengan baju*