The first entry of the year 2009

Okay..
I'm not a regular blogger, and that's shocking!

I'll skip the apologies et all, instead I'll jump to what I want to write now (sorry peeps!)

I've graduated, finally, from my BSc Hons..
I, however, chose the path of "furthering" my studies (when the truth is that I couldn't find a job that I'm passionate about out there).
I was admitted to do a research on the performance of specially design lenses for subwavelength regime (i.e. THz), a research granted by the Min. of Sci & Tech NZ to IRL (industrial research ltd) NZ, subcontracted to UoA. So, here's to make the story short--I'm going to slave myself doing experiments (mostly) for some company commercial purposes. In other words, as a PhD student, all I have to do is spent my 4 years in a lab and I better get decent results. I really hope that's what Physics brings to this wide world! (is it?)
So that gives you rough idea on what I am studying? Good! So far, even the closest family member to me did not understand on whatever it is. I see it from his fake look of interest over my answer. Some even dropped the subject in the middle of the sentence. That much of an alien Physics is to my family, I tell you. I bet my whole wages that none of my school friend ever heard of my research, and I bet you didn't care either. But anyway, I'll just continue to be naive and assume you're interested. :)
Currently I am reading Brian Greene's "The Fabric of the Cosmos". An awesome book on Physics, on the whole for laymen. I bet after you rummage through the book until it's very last page, you'll look up at the stars above and ask yourself "what is it all about?". It's a very captivating book, the writer himself is a physicist, yet describe such subtle matters of modern physics in a way that is observable in our daily lives. I must admit, having studied Physics for more than a decade now, I would never thought of his thinking lines of how space warps, how time froze, general and special relativity in daily encounterances. I bet if I have a 9 year old daughter, she would be amazed on how much she understand her surrounding just by the physics itself. It's lovely, and you should try reading it!