My Digital World

Recently I read a very interesting e-book about the differences of Men and Women. This makes me think about my friend who I could get along very well. I wrote something about our big differences in my previous entry: The chat of an Apple and an Orange. She is too strong as a Woman and I am a typical Man. That is why we have many different kind of views. Before I give any comments about the differences of the both sex, it might be interesting to do a short test to see if you how man/woman you are. So, do answer the following things:

The Brain-Wiring Test
This test is designed to indicate the masculinity or
femininity of your brain patterns. There are no right or
wrong answers - the result is simply an indication of the
probable level of male hormone your brain did, or did
not, receive around six to eight weeks after your
conception. This is reflected in your preference of values,
behaviours, style, orientations and choices.
Circle the statement that is most likely to be true
for you most of the time.

1. When it comes to reading a map or street
directory you:
a. have difficulty and often ask for help
b. turn it round to face the direction you're
going
c. have no difficulty reading maps or street
directories

2. You're cooking a complicated meal with the
radio playing and a friend phones. Do you:
a. leave the radio on and continue cooking
while talking on the phone
b. turn the radio off, talk and keep cooking
c. say you'll call them back as soon as you've
finished cooking

3. Friends are coming to visit and ask for
directions to your new house. Do you:
a. draw a map with clear directions and send it
to them or get someone else to explain how
to get there
b. ask what landmarks they know then try to
explain to them how to get there
c. explain verbally how to get there: 'Take the
M3 to Newcastle, turn off, turn left, go to
the second traffic lights... '

4. When explaining an idea or concept, are you
more likely to:
a. use a pencil, paper and body language gestures
b. explain it verbally using body language and
gestures
c. explain it verbally, being clear and concise

5. When coming home from a great movie, you
prefer to:
a. picture scenes from the movie in your mind
b. talk about the scenes and what was said
c. quote mainly what was said in the movie

6. In a cinema, you usually prefer to sit:
a. on the right side
b. anywhere
c. on the left side

7. A friend has something mechanical that won't
work. You would:
a. sympathise, and discuss how they feel about it
b. recommend someone reliable who can fix it
c. figure out how it works and attempt to fix it
for them

8. You're in an unfamiliar place and someone asks
you where North is. You:
a. confess you don't know
b. guess where it is, after a bit of thought
c. point towards North without difficulty

9. You've found a parking space but it's tight and
you must reverse into it. You would:
a. rather try to find another space
b. carefully attempt to back into it
c. reverse into it without any difficulty.

10. You are watching TV when the telephone rings.
You would:
a. answer the phone with the TV on
b. turn the TV down and then answer
c. turn the TV off, tell others to be quiet and
then answer

11. You've just heard a new song by your favourite
artist. Usually you:
a. can sing some of the song afterwards
without difficulty
b. can sing some of it afterwards if it's a really
simple song
c. find it hard to remember how the song
sounded but you might recall some of the
words

12. You are best at predicting outcomes by:
a. using intuition
b. making a decision based on both the
available information and 'gut feeling'
c. using facts, statistics and data

13. You've misplaced your keys. Would you:
a. do something else until the answer comes to
you
b. do something else, but keep trying to
remember where you put them
c. mentally retrace your steps until you
remember where you left them

14. You're in a hotel room and you hear the distant
sound of a siren. You:
a. couldn't identify where it's coming from
b. could probably point to it if you concentrate
c. could point straight to where it's coming
from

15. You go to a social meeting and are introduced
to seven or eight new people. Next day you:
a. can easily picture their faces
b. would remember a few of their faces
c. would be more likely to remember their
names

16. You want to go to the country for your holiday
but your partner wants to go to a beach resort.
To convince them your idea is better, you:
a. tell them sweetly how you feel: you love the
countryside and the kids and family always
have fun there
b. tell them if they go to the country you'll be
grateful and will be happy to go to the beach
next time
c. use the facts: the country resort is closer,
cheaper, and well-organised for sporting and
leisure activities

17. When planning your day's activities, you
usually:
a. write a list so you can see what needs to be
done
b. think of the things you need to do
c. picture in your mind the people you will see,
places you will visit and things you'll be
doing

18. A friend has a personal problem and has come
to discuss it with you. You:
a. are sympathetic and understanding
b. say that problems are never as bad as they
seem and explain why
c. give suggestions or rational advice on how to
solve the problem

19. Two friends from different marriages are
having a secret affair. How likely are you to
spot it?
a. you could spot it very early
b. you'd pick up on it half the time
c. you'd probably miss it

20. What is life all about, as you see it?
a. having friends and living in harmony with
those around you
b. being friendly to others while maintaining
personal independence
c. achieving worthwhile goals, earning
others' respect and winning prestige and
advancement

21. Given the choice, you would prefer to work:
a. in a team where people are compatible
b. around others but maintaining your own
space
c. by yourself

22. The books you prefer to read are:
a. novels and fiction
b. magazines and newspapers
c. non-fiction, autobiographies

23. When you go shopping you tend to:
a. often buy on impulse, particularly the specials
b. have a general plan but take it as it comes
c. read the labels and compare costs

24. You prefer to go to bed, wake up and eat
meals:
a. whenever you feel like it
b. on a basic schedule but you are flexible
c. at about the same time each day

25. You've started a new job and met lots of new
people on the staff. One of them phones you
when you are at home. You would:
a. find it easy to recognise their voice
b. recognise it about half the time
c. have difficulty identifying the voice

26. What upsets you most when arguing with
someone?
a. their silence or lack of response
b. when they won't see your point of view
c. their probing or challenging questions and
comments

27. In school how did you feel about spelling tests
and writing essays?
a. you found them both fairly easy
b. you were generally OK with one but not the
other
c. you weren't very good at either

28. When it comes to dancing or jazz routines, you:
a. can 'feel' the music once you've learnt the
steps
b. can do some exercises or dances, but get lost
with others
c. have difficulty keeping time or rhythm

29. How good are you at identifying and
mimicking animal sounds?
a. not very good
b. reasonable
c. very good

30. At the end of a long day, you usually prefer to:
a. talk to friends or family about your day
b. listen to others talk about their day
c. read a paper, watch TV and not talk

How to Score the Test
First, add the number of A, B and C responses and use
the following table to arrive at your final result.
For Males
Number of A's x 10 points =
Number of B's x 5 points =
Number of C's x -5 points =
Total points =

For Females
Number of A's x 15 points =
Number of B's x 5 points =
Number of C's x -5 points =
Total points =

For any questions where the answers didn't accurately
reflect your life or you left them blank, award
yourself five points.

So, what is your score? Mine is 95! Let me give you the analysis of what the score means:

Analysing the Result
Most males will score between 0-180 and most
females, 150-300. Brains that are 'wired' for mainly
masculine thinking usually score below 150. The closer
to 0 they are, the more masculine they are, and the
higher their testosterone level is likely to be. These
people demonstrate strong logical, analytical and
verbal skills and tend to be disciplined and wellorganised.
The closer to 0 they score, the better they are
at projecting costs and planning outcomes for statistical
data, with their emotions hardly influencing them at all.
Scores in the minus range are high masculine scores.
These scores show that large amounts of testosterone
were present in the early stages of the foetal development.
The lower the score for a woman, the more likely
she will be to have lesbian tendencies.
Brains that are wired for mainly feminine thinking
will score higher than 180. The higher the number, the
more feminine the brain will be, and the more likely the
person is to demonstrate significant creative, artistic
and musical talents. They will make more of their
decisions on intuition or gut feeling, and are good at
recognising problems using minimal data. They are also
good at solving problems using creativity and insight.
The higher the score is above 180 for a man, the greater
the chance he will be gay.
Males who score below 0 and women who score
above 300 have brains that are wired so oppositely that
the only thing they are likely to have in common is that
they live on the same planet!
Scores between 150-180 show compatibility of
thought for both sexes, or a foot in both sexual camps.
These people do not show a bias for either male or
female thinking and usually demonstrate a flexibility in
thinking that can be a significant advantage to any
group who are going through a problem-solving
process. They have the predisposition to make friends
with both men and women.

I personally think that the test above is a very interesting test while I was reading that e-book. In that e-book some points are made clear that I do not understand very well. One of those points are about lying. The writers (male and female) wrote about that it is very difficult for men to lie to women. Let me quote some part of that book:

Why Men Can't Lie to Women
Our Body Language research reveals that, in face-to-face
communications, non-verbal signals account for 60-80%
of the impact of the message, while vocal sounds make up
20-30%. The other 7-10% is words. A woman's
superior sensory equipment picks up and analyses this
information and her brain's ability to rapidly transfer
between hemispheres makes her more proficient at integrating
and deciphering verbal, visual and other signals.
This is why most men have difficulty lying to a
woman face-to-face. But, as most women know, lying
to a man face-to-face is comparatively easy, as he does
not have the necessary sensitivity to spot incongruencies
between her verbal and non-verbal signals. Most
men, if they're going to lie to a woman, would be far
better off doing it over the phone, in a letter or with all
the lights off, and a blanket over their head.

A very hilarious thing is about "going to the toilet". I always wonder why women can go to toilet together and men cannot or won't like to do that. When we, I mean men, go to the toilet, we only want to do our job as quickly as possible. However, it seems that toilet is a kind of social lounge and therapy room for women. Something strange can happen while women go to a toilet. In the book, they mention about that women can go to a toilet as strangers and can come out best friends and lifelong buddies. For me, as a man, I have many question marks above my head. Have you wonder what will happen if a man asks a man to go to toilet with him?

Well, I keep hereby. It is a long entry. Maybe you don't like to read about this. Or maybe you do. If you want to know more about this, do let me know ;) Since I am only 1/4 of the book. I can share more when I read more. :P

I am at TNO now while I am writing this. I should go to work on my thesis, but now I take a short break to write, because I am kind of free: I am preparing chemicals stuff and it took a while before it is finished.

This schoolyear, there are some courses left that I have to complete. Last year, I lost my motivation to do things well. I really lost the mood to open the books. This year, I told to myself to finish the remaining courses since I want to graduate.

The marks that I received back so far are 8's!!! The amount of energy and time that I spend on those courses are not very much. I just receive an e-mail back from someone who gives tuition in many Biomedical courses. In that e-mail he gave me a mark for my report, which is an 8. This is my second 8 and I have the feeling that more will come.

If I continue with getting 8's, I might get a big chance for earning the honor (Cum Laude) graduation. But the lazy me do not want to work. I like the way I am now: spend as less a possible time on study while keeping in mind that a pass (which is a 6) is enough. My principle collides with the principle of (all) Asian people who live in Asia and/or in Europe. Of course I am happy to have a good mark, but I don't want to spend hours on preparation.

Now, I have 2 open courses left for M.Sc. Biomedical Engineering (BM). For my M.Sc. Electrical Engineering (EE), I have 4 courses. Soon, let say next week, I will do an oral for a course in BM. If I pass, then I do another oral for my EE course. Hopefully, I can complete all the course by June.

Ow, I have a small biography, which can be found HERE. If you are at that webpage, go to select People (the left tab). Then go to K.Tang. Ya, I know they spell my name wrong. It should be K.F. Tang. But I don't care.

Ya, I suppose not being at home this weekend. But things turn out very bad this week.

Last Sunday, I ordered many stuff for my studio photography from two different stores. They suppose to deliver the items at Tuesday, which I had a meeting with Paddy, Dafina and a P.hD. Eduardo. We were discussing about my M.Sc. project. I was very surprised that they gave me many good tips which I can use and think about.

Anyway, after the meeting I have some things that I have looked into more details. I am glad to have good feedbacks. When I have a discussion, I am looking forward for opinions and attacks from others. Since from their words, I usually can learn alot.

My project goes well. The horrible thing is in the ordering the products. According to the post-office, all the items were shipped and received. I did not have any letters or stuff in which they tell me that my items were collected. I asked my neighbours and they said that they did not have my items. I trust them and I gave the two stores a call the next day, where I ordered the products.

Store A said that the items were collected and they did not feel any sympathy for their client. I really did not like store A, because they made mistakes twice! Why twice? I ordered the backgroundsupporter before (last December). When they delivered the supporter, there was a huge knock in one of the vertical rods. I sent them the item back and last week, ya I know it took ridiculous long, I get it back. After collecting the backgroundsupporter, which was delivered at my friend's house and after checking the it again, I noticed that they sent me the wrong set! I really say "oh my god!". They asked me to sent them back after I took pics of the items.

There are couple things that they do very bad: first of all, they blame me of the small scrape that I noticed when I open the box. They blame on me because I was forgotton to send them the bag, which was a kind of protection. Come on, I put all the units of the backgroundsupporter in a plastic bag and when I open the box, those units were not in the plastic bag. Am I really wrong?
Secondly, they push the responsability very easy to the post-office service. In the phone, they said finally that they will try to find out. But in the e-mail, they said that I better called the post-office service by myself. I ask myself: who is the one who is in charge with the transport? Who is the one who choose TNT as their transport team? Who knows better when the items were shipped, etc.?

Maybe I have done a big mistake too. That is that I give them an opportunity to do a better job. After receiving the bad backgroundsupporter, I should not give them the second chance by my second order. And I should not order in that store, which is 10 Euro cheaper than others. The lesson is clear. My principle of life is, I only will give once chance to people. Since this store does not know how to do a good job, they lost me as their client and my ways to be nice to them.

So far about store A. Store B did surprised me as well. When I said that I did not get my items, which supposed to be collected, they immediately say: "That is not our business!". That fires my heart man! I said fine and later I sent them a very furious e-mail in which I ask them a favor to trace where the items were. If they did not want to help me, then they have to face the Consumer's Association. Surprisely, they are very afraid of my e-mail and I noticed that they work very hard to get info of the lost shipping. I sent them an e-mail later, because I was running out of my time. I had to move to Eindhoven that day.

Now I know where my items are. They seem to be collected by someone who lives in 374 of my appartment. It seems that that person is my neighbour, because I live in the 376, but this is not the case. Next week, I will try to knock on the 374's door to check if he/she has my items.

Guess what?! This happened at the Valentine day! The day which many people were very happy. Holding hand in hand, walking down the streets and cuddle each others, while I faced to all these stupid phonecalls and settle all the things down. But I am not the worst. Jimmy is the worst at that day, because he lost the competition of Shell. At the Valentine day, Faruk, Shabir, Wati, Salleh and me were supporting Jimmy. We all went to TU Eindhoven. Before Jimmy's presentation, he got an interview at the radio centre about his work. It was great, but too bad that he was not chosen as the one with the most promising innovative idea.

I skipped working today since I totally have no mood to work. In stead of going to work, I spend my hours in reading for my oral since I want to do apply for an oral very soon.

Last week, I get the result back from the very tough course: Analog IC Design. This time, my result is not what I have hoped for. I have no mood to redo this exam, since I do not need to go for an honor degree anymore. Although I pass for that course with an 8, Sing and J.W. failed both for that exams. J.W. has worked very hard for that course and when we met each other for discussion, I noticed that he understood things quite well. However, he failed which surprised me a bit.

The evening before the exam, I showed Sing how to solve specific problems of the exams that came back regularly. If he understood my very fast tuition, he will get 50% of the whole exam correct. Indeed he got 50% plus bonus points from homework correct. Then he should get a 4 out of 10 and he did. But a 4 is a fail.

So far, my exam of last month. This month I want to do an oral. Hopefully I will pass since I am a very bad in learning stuff by heart. I lost my patience to know the facts.

Concerning with my M.Sc. project, it goes very well. Last week, I finally could start doing new measurements. The results are extremely good. Tomorrow I have good things to show to Dafina. The end of spending time in TNO almost ends. The start with new life in Delft and at Eurasmus Medical Centre almost start. I am so excited!

Last Wednesday, I also attend the meeting of Dafina, Paddy, Arie (one of my supervisors from TNO) doctors and student from medical study at Erasmus University for discussing about the CO2, and O2 project. It was my first time to see all the very smart people together in one table. Among all the smarties, I am the most stupidest one. The one with the lowest degree. All of them are at least P.hD. degree and I only have my crumb B.Sc. degree. Anyway, I liked the way of how they discuss about the project.

I received an e-mail of the conference in which they said they have extended the deadline for handling the abstracts in. That might be bad for Dafina and me since that means we have more competition. Those who are interested in the conference, can click HERE.

Tomorrow I have an appointment with Dafina for discussing of my project. I also have planned a shooting this weekend. Gaofei will go to Rotterdam this Saturday and Izabella (a new model) will come along this Sunday. So, this week, this is the only blog entry.

There is one thing that I usually face to. Once people are attached, they turn into a very different. Also, their analaysis skill is totally a mess.

I have friends whose relationship is like a traffic light: on, off, on, off etc. They said that having had some boyfriends/girlfriends might be good for you, since for each relationship you know better and better what you are searching for. I personally think that this is not the way to start with a relationship. Nowadays, people do think it is very common that a person has had some relationships. Maybe I am a very old-fashioned person when we are talking about relationship. But I personally do not like having had a few gf's before I meet the one.

I title this entry with "Love can make you stupid" because I notice that this happens to many people around me. No matter how smart they are, they can turn into a very different person. Also the way how they handle the problem is sometimes very not very understandable. Many of them will only focus their relationship and do not care about others. This is a very bad person.

Relationship is nowadays very weird. Many people start their first relationship at twelve years old age. I really do not understand how this could happen, but that is a fact. I do not say that you should be a mature before you can start with your (first) relationship, since many mature people also do not cherish the relationship, which leads to break up. When is it time to start with a relationship? In my opinion, the best time is when you know what you are searching for. Don't count on the trial-and-error way. The most succesful relationship start with knowing yourself very well.

Last weekend, I did not go to home, since I promised Bou to give a KTV party,
because of that Sing is leaving for China for his exchange programme. At
Wednesday, he bought Chinese cakes and brought them to Albumprinter.


From left to right and from up to down: Rudy (full time QC), me,
Tantra, Sing and Gabor (QC manager). This picture was taken in
the canteen.


Now we have have more companies. In this picture, the editor
builders are included. All the grouppics are taken by Barbara,
the account manager.

Last week, Jennifer (Jimmy's sister) came along to my place to do shooting.
Although, I did the studio shooting before with Gaofei, I encoutered a lot of
problem to set the white balance correctly with my new cam, which is D2hS.
The skin colors on the display of this camera looks like very saturated, while
on my calibrated CRT looks fine. Since this cam is very new to me, I have to
play with it more to understand him better.

The shooting of Jennifer ran into a big mess. While we wanted to start taking
pics, her boyfriend called her. It seemed that they had a very serious thing
to discuss. The final result of the call was break up. At that moment, I had
totally no idea what I should do or say. Jennifer was not sad, but she was
scared, because her ex-boyfriend threatened her.

After a short talk with Jennifer, she left my room and heading home. I sent
her text messages the next day to check how she was. I am glad she was fine.

Anyway, the weekend start with a very nice wedding-fashionshow. Bou, Fung,
CK and his four friends and me, went to Rijswijk to attend the fashionshow.
Bou left earlier because he had an appointment with his friends. After the
first catwalk, CK and his friends left too. Only Fung and me were left and
we decided to wait for the next and the last catwalk.

The catwalk is very nice. The perfomance differs from the ones I saw before
in Malaysia, Singapore and in Rotterdam. During the catwalk, there was also
dancing. A very remarkable thing was that many models are (looking) pretty
old.


I find a very good place to shoot.


The dancing show starts. This lady looks for me much younger
compare to the other models.


From all the models, I like this one the most.


Guess what they are doing before you scroll down.


Yeeeew! They kiss!!!

My last Sunday started with a call from Petty. I am very glad that she
came to my place to join the KTV and being my model for shooting.
Although we plannned to shoot, we started talking and talking till we
got hungry. We went to Sabu Sabu (Japanese restaurant) for having
lunch. We spent there for 1,5 hours and when we came back, Fung
arrived. Very soon Faruk and his sister arrived too. Before we could
start shooting, other people came too where we immediately end the
shooting since we started KTV.


This is Petty. She had attened Miss Benelux Peagant and won
a prize too!

Zhao Duan brought 3 new girls with him to join KTV. The
KTV itself was nice. I add the groupphoto of the KTV event.