The course is over already...

Glad it's Friday already...and the course ended at 12.30 pm and we are currently waiting for our private hire to go back to Nottingham. Since the ID is still working, I'm taking the opportunity to write something in this blog.

What did I gain from this course? Well, I gained a lot on the methods frequently being used to tackle combinatorial problems. The recent one being branch-and-price. He was comparing it against branch-and-cut. The difference is that branch-and-price is adding variables while branch-and-cut is adding constraints. Whatever it is, I don't think I'll be using the methods as we are more on heuristics and certainly I'll be using the metaheuristics methods to tackle my problem.

I'm still worried about being able to produce my full paper which will be due on Nov 1st, 2008. I'm planning to do the experiment using ILOG OPL and hopefully I'll get a reasonable result to be included in the full paper that will be due sooooooonnnnn....

The cab is almost here already...

Away from the office again...

This week, I'm at the University of Southampton for NATCOR course on Combinatorial Optimisation. The course is very relevant to what I'm currently researching on. So far the course it ok but I must note a very unusual thing that really exist here - they still have the black/green board and believe it or not, they really use the chalk and duster that our school teacher used when I was in primary school!

I haven't got to visit the city just as yet. But I heard it's beautiful during night time. Probably we will explore some area tonight.

Water rafting at Rapides de Lechine in Montreal

It has been quite a while since the last post. Well, I just got the pictures on rafting that I'd like to post in this blog...


10 of us in a boat, plus the guard of course...It was really scary in the beginning but I enjoyed it. So happen that I was seated on the left side, easy for me to paddle as I'm a left handed...

It looks easy isn't it...you can see a smile on my face :-)














Looks like I'm the only one with the yellow helmet... Actually there are sizes for the helmet; I guess yellow one are meant for small heads!















Opps, can't see me...












These pictures are courtesy of Paula, the last two from behind (right side). It costs CAN 7 per picture sent through email.