I also have another good news of which I'm particularly proud, and I would like to share with you.
Around one week before my oral exam, one of my manuscripts was accepted to publication... This one is #11 of mine... All of them are not related to my PhD work.
This one is the one I feel so proud.... :)
It started around a year ago... There was a paper about a chemical I was interested in from a group of investigators. They proposed that irregular results caused by Mechanism A.... I read through the paper and felt that their interpretation wasn't right... In addition, I just recently published a paper about this chemical... So I convinced that this strange result may be a result of Mechanism B...
So we (3 PhD students in our lab) built a mathematical model to describe our data and the newly built model could fit with the data reasonably well suggesting that our hypothesis about Mechanism B is likely... So we submitted the manuscript in a letter form to the journal to argue with the paper I read.... Few weeks later, we got a response back... The reviewers liked it and would like us to modify it to a full paper....
In that time, we didn't have time and we were during a chaos of moving our lab to a new building... So I didn't respond to the editor for almost a year...
Last week, they contacted me again... asking whether or not we are going to revise the manuscript... I replied back that we're lacking of resources so that we couldn't revise it to a full paper... Was there any chance that the journal could accept it in a letter form as we originally intended to?
I didn't expect to hear a yes as their reply.... So it was surprising to me that the Editor-in-Chief responded positively to my inquiry...
So that's a story of a newly built mathematical model from 3 PhD students... We spent around 2.5 days for each of us to come up with this accepted manuscript with a zero penny spent!!....
True interest in one thing and constantly reading new results about it can surprisingly pay you off.... You have to be persevering and have reasonable gut feeling about what you choose to do.
================================= Note: My life has been intertwined with works and many others. New responsibility has emerged, resulting less and less time for my ordinary life. Although, a love to write is still intact... But having less time is related to having less imagination.... Therefore, I could not come up with new writings for quite some times.
It might be a good time for me to leave this forum for moment.... Please take it as Mr. A.T. is having a sabbactatical leave or something like that....
As noted above, my love to write is still the same... and will not be changed. Sometimes somehow, I hope I could come back and give some thoughts in this blog once more.
Cheers, Mr. A.T. June 6th, 2008
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Hello,
My pen-name in Pantip is amatuer translator. Actually, I'm a lousy translator with lame translation. My pen-name is somewhat misleading, I have no background in linguistics what-so-ever. Anyway I love to read, write and communicate with people...
Reading is my most favorite hobby. I read everything from shopping bags to articles in theoretical physics. I do research and teaching for my living. So, reading, writing, thinking and doing research works are my everyday routine.
I would like to define myself as a person who is accepting new ideas and adopting those into my way of life.
I believe in power of knowledge/education. I think every society can be a better society with knowledge. Ignorance can be dispelled by it. Humanity can live sustainably and harmoniously with each other along with its biosphere with understandings in the nature surrounding it.
Apart from my philosophical thoughts reflecting who I am, I can tell you something I like or love in particular;
I love dogs.... Particularly, labradore retrievers.... One day, I would like to spend my time and life with them as a big part of my family.
Zhuge Liang is my hero. With his wisdom and faithfulness, he led a tiny army to a mighty and formidable kingdom. He left his humble residence with a hope to come back. But, sadly, he had never returned and died far far away from home in a horse carriage in a battle field. If I could choose where I would, I would say where-ever my lovely wife was nearby.
I value happiness and my family as my first priority. My profession and my philosophy come in the second. Pursuit in wealth has never been in my desire.
I'm glad to be your friend, and look forward to seeing you around krub.
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How does it feel to be so clever?
I wish I was half as clever as you.
Congratulations.
Best wishes.