HongKong Super Series 2009 (Final Review)

HK SS 09 had been done. it was over 2 days ago, sunday afternoon. According to my glasses, the matches we watched together was predictable except Mixed Doubles sector was beyond expectation. Why do i say so? it’s  just as my introductory sentences this time. Let me start to begin this writing.

WS : Wang Yihan [CHN] vs Jiang Yanjiao [CHN]

On the paper, pretty Yihan should take this one. No reason to say that because Yihan was being on top form recently. I don’t say Jiang has no chance to beat Yihan. She brilliantly killed seeded 1 player, Wang Lin (another pretty gal i’ll say) in the semifinal. When facing Lin, she was damn good in crossing, netting and attacking. She has lethal hitting too. And hey she’s also calm when playing, not much talk on court. It’s different with Yihan who always create ‘noisy’ sound after getting point. I put much expectation to Jiang, although i can’t lie bottom of my heart i love Yihan too. I like supporting underdog lahhh

On the score board, Yihan won this match with straight set 21-13 21-15. Take attention to scoreline, seems easy to Yihan to win but it’s actually not. they both often played in rally points, but yihan had a trick to excel Jiang. I hope Jiang will win against Yihan next time. Yihan has grabbed so many titles this year, she should spare to others 🙂

XD : Nova Widianto/Lilyana Natsir [INA] vs Robert M/Nadiezda K [POLAND]

Red and white flag was colouring the match. INA red-white and POL white-red. This two flag look symmetrical when mirrored. That’s not what i will talk about. just intermezzoo za. If the reference is world rank/seeded, INA pair has the edge to be crowned. But in the court, world rank/seeded does not mean anything. it happened to this match. no wonder i call it as out of expectation.

beginning of the first set, Nova / Lily immediately skyrocketed 4-1. However the polish catched up the point. Nova / Lily could pull away in the final phase with a 18-15 and 20-18 advantage. But they could not finish the game because they were suddenly out focus and love making unforced errors. Because of their foolness, Polish pair equated the score 20-20 and finally won the opening set with 22-20. In the second set, the situation was the same. INA pair still loved making unforced errors and made the victory to Polish pair. 16-21 for closing the match. The seeded player gave up to unseeded player just in 32 minutes (the fastest match in final) with straight set 20-22 16-21. This result is not sweet farewell for Nova/Lily. As rumors, this pair’s gonna split up after HK SS 09.

The complete result of HK SS 09 can see here

My Doubutsu Uranai

DID YOU KNOW DOUBUTSU URANAI??? YEP YEP…DOUBUTSU URANAI uses the date of birth, based on the Four Pillars of Destiny, that breaks down the human characteristics into 12 different kinds of animals.

Well..it started from Mr Pangab, my friend, that tagged me for his note about his Doubutsu Uranai result. I was looking around right there and scrutinize every part of the words. I considered that was cool result to describe somebody’s personality. So i ask to Mr Pangab “Ngab, could you tell me the site address please?? i wanna know my true personality, it makes me wonder”. After seconds, he pulled the address away to me via fb chat ^^. I opened the website, i put my name and my birthday (month-day-year)…and then CHECK IT

AND THERE IT GOES…..I AM GOLD RACOON TYPE…eh???

You are Gold Raccoon, who is modest, and your rather round appearance makes you look gentle and kind.
You will not show aggressiveness toward others, but instead you tend to take a passive attitude.
Nevertheless, you are full of fighting spirit inside, and will put in great effort to whatever you do.
You think highly of courtesy, honesty, diligence, and perseverance, so people around you appreciates you.
You can not leave those people who is in need of help, and therefore, you would go abroad to dig a well, or go to place of disaster as a volunteer.
You are a person of quick action.
You can make quick decisions, and are able to act fast.
You can handle perfectly those works that require speed and efficiency.
For you, social recognition and praise is not the end goal.
You think work like your hobby, and something that you enjoy doing.
You tend to come up with innovative ideas.
You have strong mentality, and will not get turned down so easily by failures and damages.
Even if you fail, your recovery is quick.

YOU WANNA TRY????

RIGHT HERE

ABSTRACT : Study Ab Initio of Hydrogen Desorption from Magnesium Hydride as Hydrogen Storage Material

i had been investigated for ab initio study of H₂ desorption from magnesium hydride (MgH₂)₅ by performing total energy calculation based on the density functional theory (DFT). On the calculation, i used 6-31G(d,p) as basis set and B3PW91 as DFT function. FYI, My research is based on last project in Kasai Lab, Osaka University.

My first step was calculating geometry optimization of (MgH₂)₅. Geometry optimization is to find the stable geometry or equilibrium state. This optimized geometry is used as the initial state for calculating potential energy surface (PES). Calculation of PES for system, as a function of r and z, shows energy variation every the H₂ motion away from the surface. The dashed curve corresponds to the reaction path along potential minima on the PES. From the reaction path, we consider the H₂ desorption process. The two desorbing H atoms are bound to the surface until they form H₂ molecules (r=0.74 angstrom). The activation barrier for the H₂ desorption is high (2.76 eV).

Based on the total atomic charges of the Mg and H atoms at the equilibrium cluster according to the Mulliken population analysis, the ratio of the charge magnitude of the Mg atom to that of the neighboring H atom is almost 2 to 1. This means that the Mg-H bond is ionic like. Because of this, the activation barrier for the H₂ desorption is considerably high. So, it’s needed catalyst to weaken the bonding between Mg atom and H atom. (MgH₂)₅ cluster has band gap 4.56 eV (isolator).

Carbon Nanomaterials In Hydrogen Storage: Nano-sized But Big As Catalyst

Our energy-hungry world has become increasingly dependent on new methods to store and convert energy for new, environmentally friendly modes of transportation and electrical energy generation as well as for portable electronics. Mobility — the transport of people and goods — is a socioeconomic reality that will surely increase in the coming years.

Hydrogen, which can be produced with little or no harmful emissions, has been projected as a long term solution for a secure energy future. Research into safe and efficient means of hydrogen production, storage, and use is essential to make the “hydrogen economy” a reality.

Car manufactures are showing interest in using solid state hydrogen storage materials, e.g. NaAlH4, as new energy storage media. The functional properties of these materials however have to be improved by catalysts. The effect of earlier catalysts, e.g. Ti, has been difficult to explain. The current results give an unambiguous understanding of the mechanism at work in the new carbon nanomaterial catalysts.

The researchers set out to understand the mechanism behind the catalytic effects of carbon nanomaterials, specifically on the example of sodium alanate, which is a popular material for hydrogen storage studies.

“Now that the catalytic capabilities of carbon nanomaterials have been demonstrated so clearly and the mechanism that makes this behaviour possible has been understood, we expect a strong impulse on putting this effect to use in practical applications.”, says Professor Rajeev Ahuja.

“Certainly, our findings have the strongest impact in the field of hydrogen storage, but beyond that, the same mechanism that we revealed can make carbon nanomaterials a very important catalyst in many other systems as well.”

http://www.sciencedaily.com

Cleopatra Stratan

Cleopatra Stratan (born October 6, 2002 in Chişinău, Moldova), the daughter of Moldovan–Romanian singer, Pavel Stratan, is the youngest person ever to score commercial success as a singer, with her 2006 album La vârsta de trei ani (“At the age of 3”). She holds the record for being the youngest artist that performed live for two hours in front of a large audience, the highest paid young artist, the youngest artist to receive an MTV award and the youngest artist to score a #1 hit in a country (“Ghiţă” in Romanian Singles Chart)

source : Wikipedia

This child’s very cute and i like the way her “expression” and her “adult” style.

She’s definitely funny. First time i heard “Număr pân’ la unu” from my mp3’s brother and directly i’m falling in love with that song, to be my ringtone then. ^^

Recommended to watch:

Numar pin’la unu

Ghita

Zunea Zunea

Annie Wan or Anyone?

Caller: Hello, can I speak to Annie Wan ?
Operator: Yes, you can speak to me.
Caller: No, I want to speak to Annie Wan!
Operator: Yes I understand you want to speak to anyone. You can speak to me.
Who is this?
Caller : I’m Sam Wan. And I need to talk to Annie Wan! It’s urgent.
Operator: I know you are someone and you want to talk to anyone ! But what’s
this urgent matter about?
Caller: Well… just tell my sister Annie Wan that our brother Noe Wan was
involved in an accident. Noe Wan got injured and now Noe Wan is being sent
to the hospital. Right now, Avery Wan is on his way to the hospital.

Operator : Look, if no one was injured and no one was sent to the hospital,
then the accident isn’t an urgent matter! You may find this hilarious but I
don’t have time for this!
Caller: You are so rude! Who are you?
Operator: I’m Saw Ree.
Caller: Yes! You should be sorry . Now give me your name!!
Operator: That’s what I said. I’m Saw Ree .
Caller: Or…..God…….

Money Theorem

taken from Rileks ITB Forum

Sonnawabitch!!!!

The Italiano tourist wrote a complaint letter to the Manager of a hotel in London. The letter read as follows:

Dear Signor Diretorre,

Now I am tella you the storry how I was treated at your hotella. I am comma from Palermo as tourist to London and stay as a young man at your hotella. When I comma in my room I see no shit in my bed. How can I sleep with no shit in my bed? I calla own the Receptione and tell: “i wanna shit”. They tella me “Go to the toilletta “. I said “You no understand. I wanna Shit in my bed”. They said “You betta not shit in your bed, you sonnawabitch”. What is sonnawabitch ?!

I go down to ristorante for breakfast. I order bacon and eggs and two pisses of toast. I getta only one piss of toast. I tella waitress and point to toast. “I wanna piss”. She tella me “Go to the toillett” I say “You no understand. I wanna piss on my plate”. She then say to me “You bloody fella better not piss on the plate, you sonnawabitch”. Second person who do not even know me and call me sonnawabitch ! What is sonnawabitch ?

Later I go dinner into restorante. Spoon and knife is laid but no fock. I tella waitress “I wanna fock”, and she tella me “Sure everybody wanna fock”. I tell her “You no understand. I wanna fock on the table”. She then tell me “So you sonnawabitch, wanna fock on the table? Get your ass outa here!”

So I go to the receptione and ask for bills. I no wanna stay in your hotel no more. When I have pay the bills, The porter say to me “Thank you and piss be with you “. I say “Piss on you too, you sonnawabitch”. I go back to Italy ! I never more comma stay in your hotella, You sonnawabitch.

Chip for Orgasm

Good news for the two couple, wife and husband, who difficulty reach the peak when make a sex. No worry for you guys. Because British scientists from Oxford University have found the good way to overcome that problem. They have created a chip that can stimulate the brain to program orgasm.

Chip will radiatte waves that stimulate the part of brain called orbifrontal cortex. Stimulation in that part produces very very happy feeling or anhedonia condition.
However, this chip may still require the development up to 10 years into the future to be used and consume by people because the design is still “rough” and will disrupt the brain if it’s planted into it.

“When the perfect technology is coming, we can use brain stimulation for any purposes,” said Tipu Aziz, one of the researchers.

Super Sonic Car

In three years into the future, supersonic car of which speed can exceed the speed of sound is not fantasy again. The British researchers expect to be ready to make their new world record attempt in 2011.

Cars named Bloodhound SSC (Super Sonic Car) are designed to run faster with speed more than 1,600 kilometers per hour. Of course, this car will only test on the surface such as salt lakes in the U.S. The project is done in secret since 18 months ago in airplan in Bristol with the cost of making around 12 million pounds.

Bloodhound team planned to complete their project less than a year longer. However, the desired record speed will be achieved in three years. The engine car uses a Eurofighter Typhoon jet with a rocket that generate additional thrust 20,000 kgf. Each of wheels has diameter 900 millimeters, made of high quality titanium material.