My Mother doesn't just teach

I have a teacher for a mother, and every time we had periodical tests in our school back in my elementary days, she prepares reviewer tests for me and my siblings, much like how they will appear in the exams. Pretty neat, but still I get fair scores. Came high school and college, my mother did not make me those reviewers anymore. I had to do it myself. And lo, I could say my grades did better that time. What I realized was that, when I found out how to mimic what my mom did in teaching me to actually learn from studying (it's like the knowledge-wisdom paradox; you have the ability to know, but simply knowing is not really wisdom), I had a better chance of storing the information I need and using it in the situations I come across up until today. Not that I say my mother spoon-feeding me like that in my younger days is not good, but it kind of taught me in a subliminal way the strategy I have to use in growing up. She may or may have not known of that all along. But hey, it's already embodied in me. For me, she isn't just a teacher who teach from the textbook. She's someone who knows how to teach a life-worth of education.

Thanks Mom. :)

9 Life Lessons from Gordon Dean

1. Never lose your capacity for enthusiasm.
2. Never lose your capacity for indignation.
3. Never judge people. Don’t type them too quickly. But in a pinch, never first assume that a man is bad; first assume that he is good and that, at worst, he is in the gray area between bad and good.
4. Never be impressed by wealth alone or thrown by poverty.
5. If you can’t be generous when it’s hard to be, you won’t be when it’s easy.
6. The greatest builder of confidence is the ability to do something--almost anything--well.
7. When confidence comes, then strive for humility; you aren’t as good as all that.
8. The way to become truly useful is to seek the best that other brains have to offer. Use them to supplement your own, and be prepared to give credit to them when they have helped.
9. The greatest tragedies in the world and personal events stem from misunderstandings. So communicate!

Putting it here so I can read it every time I log on to this blog.

Found on INC.'s website. http://www.inc.com/harvey-mackay/9-life-lessons-every-entrepreneur-needs.html

日本語で (Part 1)

ときどきだれかは他言語で話したい。今日は私のためがその日です。恰も好し、少しでも私が日本語が話せます。たとえ簡単言葉で使って、私の意味は人が分かられます。長い時間に私は日本語話せないんでした。前回は私がタイに住みました。日本に戻って来たい。東京のタワーをもう一回見たいです。そうして、大阪と静岡にまた行きたい。静か気持ちまたほしい。もうすぐ。多分。

'I think you just need someone to talk to'

A new formulated hypothesis for a never-ending social experiment I'm doing: just maybe, we need to meet new people not to always fall romantically in love with. Maybe we need to meet a new person, accidentally, just to talk and have plain conversations with, about fresh topics and funny stuff, minus the romance part what your typical movie, book, or even your closest friends tell you the scenario should be.

At least, the feeling of pressure of having someone to fall in love with will be out of the equation. You'll just get to enjoy that sparingly moment with a stranger, or who knows, a future friend.

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Video has no relation to the topic of this post. I just woke up this morning with Drip playing inside my head. Very wonderful wake-up songs.

Hitler flirter

Because great leaders (and by great, I mean a leader who has ruled a country and tried to expand it; commanded a grand army; wages war against super countries without fear; one who has formulated his own ideals and influenced his people with it; his power felt worldwide; not on the grounds whether he was good or evil since morality I believe is based upon a person's own point of view) have smooth flirting moves too.

This was, as described, taken from Eva Braun's filming of the Führer. More discussions here.

Day 42: E-Trike 70% done, finalizing details, things to come

September. If you've seen August, a sea of red covered all the dates. Note: thesis means consultation services

I know I've been documenting the updates regarding the electric tricycle project we're working on right now just in words on this blog, and I really haven't included pictures of the product itself. It's not that I don't want to show it to you, just that I really can't show pictures yet at this stage. I'm bound by company secrets, you see. But once the prototyping comes soon, I will be able to upload pics about it so don't worry!

The total shape of the electric vehicle is done, and probably will just have minor details to modify over the days to come. Final details regarding the battery system, and accessories including the hand rails, safety features, and stuff are currently last in development. The electrical parts though has been halted in operation due to some other problems the company are currently handling right now. But we are hopeful to complete our goals and milestones before the end of the month. (That means busier days to come!) So yep, cheers?

But I still have time to do other fun things though. Coming up this week:

Forget about your house of cards

Current mood: track no. 4 on Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club album. Last time's emo-senti outlook in life: look what's on track number 3. :P

I'm running out of ideas to write again. That means I'll have to say goodbye to melancholy days soon. Ah, no no. How I missed these days, and how I'm going to miss them soon. No more lonely stuff to talk about. Once I sense a new kind of adventure is set, my mind clears off and the sadness that blinds my thoughts are vanishing in exponential (mathematical!) speed.

Last night was spectacular. Finding old friends in unexpected places, talking about philosophy and idealism, listening to live sets of metal and indie music, planning future "saving-the-world" adventures. Fun always starts after 10 in the evening. I did not let a series of mishaps earlier that day to end my Thursday in shame. It was like a dazed night with Minus the Bear's new album playing in my head.

Last truth revealed: it's about a girl. Not really the whole though; there's about stress in business, work, communications, and confusing principles piling up in my head. But yeah, the majority is about the girl. The girl. My friend affirmed "it's always about the female class." Yet the feeling I get is not sadness from rejection or failure of not getting the girl you like (again, psssh). It's about finally deciding to forget. And there are two sides of fear when trying to forget: 1) fear that you'll forget the feelings for another person after all those times you think are now wasted but not really, and 2) fear that the other person will forget their memories of you too, and two you will fall into an Abyss of back to being strangers. Who would want that, of course. But a lot of people have accepted that and have done that already too. We do what we need to do, that is part of human nature. Well I guess, I'm about to embrace that too. The closure is here.

Coming back to the province earlier, I felt the urgent need to take a break from this dilemma again. Problems from the past six months are already cramped in and I haven't had any vacation yet. Good thing what happened last night contributed to ideas of a bright plan ahead.

A new set of cards.

Nothing feels good being under the gun

Today, I found myself listening to Mae's Breakdown over and over again. It's a song that keeps my aura in chaotic pattern, but something that keeps me at peace as well. The roll of the snare drums, the tune of the bassline, and the flow of the words in the lyrics. Damn, that poetry really sticks to the soul.

Funny how one song can calm a mind busy about serious business stuff.

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Anyway, here's a wonderful topic me and my friend Marius was talking about earlier:

Marius Black: 
if guy1 say the sky is blue, then guys (sic) 2 says its red
then a third guy says it's not red it's blue
you don't necesarily believe in guy 1, but you now believe in guy 3
so ayun nga, where do you stand ba talaga? what if guy 4 comes?
and says all of them are wrong?

Evan Quinay: 
shouldn't I believe in what I see rather than believeing (sic) in what they say?

Marius Black:
what if you're blind?
hahaha

Evan Quinay:
if I'm blind, would it still matter to me if the sky is blue or red? 

Marius Black:
exactly!

Whatever you can decipher from this conversation, it will turn out right. :)

Hey, I'm already old! But here's a cute baby pic.

He not angry. He just cute.

This movie is not about you

The whole idea of a movie is for it to tell a vivid motion story about human interactions with their surroundings in a one-in-a-million chance of happening. Every scene, every episode tells the ultimate what-could-have-been. Gazing beyond the shore, contemplating about life and finally understanding what you must do. Picking up a coin by the gutter, then using it to gamble, and winning the lottery by the jackpot. Tripping on a small rock landing on the arms of your future love partner. It's so easy to believe in this type of movies, falling into belief that someday, somehow, your life will be the same as the last romantic-comedy, or drama, or even horror film you have seen.

Oddly enough, the same in a one-in-a-million chance, the right movie becomes your story too.

If that instance happens, how do you think you would feel? Will you recognize who the main characters are? Yes, it might be your life as the story, but are you really the protagonist who will encounter the greatest lesson of the whole tale? You could be the supporting actor, you could just be an extra as well. Or worse, you could be the enemy of the real star of the show.

In a complexity pattern of life being turned into movies and being turned back into your own story, you can never know what's going to be your part. You can never tell what's the total plot is all about. You can never guess if there will be a happy ending.

Before midnight struck

It was an incredible experience when you listen to music you love being performed live. The night of the 7th of September, before the next day arrived, I was swaying to the beats and rhythms of the songs I never knew will give me a new direction in life.

And that's when I realize, yeah, we have to let chance pass by, so that we can move forward.

Cheers to good music, and good life. :)

Day 29: Project Proton update

I'm in a company of electronics geeks and I'm feeling awesome :D

So we're on day 29 already of Project Proton (a substitute name for what I termed Project X before). So far, certain issues have been tackled, and the design for the whole housing and chassis is near preliminary completion. Modelling in 3D is until the end of this week, and revisions and smaller details will be tackled on next week. Electronic component testing is also being done in parallel. If you can just see how our office looks like today, it's not messy, but every corner has some electronic bits working, humming and lighting up. Pretty awesome, I tell you. Working with my engineer friends was a good choice! And hoping all goes well, by the third week of September, the fabrication of the prototype shall begin.

I'm kinda nervous on how it'll turn out. My first ever automobile design, and the first ever marketable (of course it should be marketable) product of our own ReThink Tech company. Who's not gonna be thrilled by that?

I'm also happy I got my friends as my workmates, and we can debate and argue about things in a professional level and still keep the brotherhood as cool as it should be.

Til the next post! There's still a lot to be done. :)

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Plug it off BMO. Not sad, but that chapter ends here.