As to most of you, the year 2009 has been a great year for me. I enjoyed the year to the fullest and achieved a part of my dream. I could commence my higher study, visited many places including San Francisco, LA, Hollywood, and Universal Studio.  I also gained few kilograms of weight.

The only mishap was that my dad passed away on 10^th February 2009 at the age of 77 years. Today is his final ritual ‘Thuephie’ (annual ritual) back in Lobneykha (my home village) which I missed. May his soul rest in peace.

I also missed my family especially my ‘Bumcho’ who turned two on 17^th October. I can’t wait any more to see them in Brisbane in early 2010.

I look forward to New Year 2010 with great aspirations and inspirations. I have miles to go but given the hard work, I am pretty sure they can be taken care of. Besides, I expect to visit more places abroad and travel around few islands in Australia.

This year the HCSNet (The ARC Network in Human Communication Science) was held at the University of NSW, Sydney from 30^th November 2009 to 6^th December 2009. I attended Summer School Program from 30^th November to 1^st December 2009. On the evening of 30^th November, I presented my PhD research proposal as a poster to Keynote speakers and other student colleagues. There were 15 of us presenting either the research proposal without research result or with findings. I like the nature of the program with presenter presenting and enjoying the evening wine and snacks at the university Pavilion.  It was great evening as I met researchers and scholars from different part of the World. Professor Mark Sanderson from the University of Sheffield was one of them. He presented a keynote on “An introduction to the Inner Workings of Information Retrieval Systems” earlier on the day which I attended. I requested him to have a look on my poster and provide a feedback. My research is more related to the work of Professor Nigel Ford from the University of Sheffield. Mark told me that he can talk with Nigel Ford to have a look on my proposal and the paper.

More Information can be found at :

HCSNet (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/)

Attendee (http://sf09.hcsnet.edu.au/summerfest09/attendees)

Program

 (http://sf09.hcsnet.edu.au/files2/SummerFest09DetailedProgram_0.pdf)

My HCSnet Homepage (http://www.hcsnet.edu.au/user/2137)