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Day 65: Start the production!

Finally, the prototyping stage!

About 2 months since the official Day 1 of Project Proton, we enter into fabrication of the e-trike we are designing. Finally, it's taking shape in reality from just the 3D models, system concepts, and electrical diagrams the company is working on (a lot of debating ensued too) for the past days. I can't release the final look of the product yet to the public, since we're still making last updates for its patent.

To cap off, chassis is the first to be created, as it will be the primary basis for the casing and shape of the trike, along with the weight and capacity relations of the whole product. I can say pretty much the frame (shown below) was done in less than two days. Minor errors did occur though they were fixed immediately. Here's a tip: one (especially designers) must always take in mind that precise measurements in working drawings are not always the same when being done in production. There will be an offside more or less to the actual measurements. The best thing to do is to monitor the production and instruct the builder well. Don't be afraid to discuss what you want to come out from the creation process. (But also allow the builder to work on his own. Do not supervise them round-the-clock; they will hate that.)

We're projecting that the whole lower frame will be done by the end of the week, and the rolling cage (the top structure) will be finished by next week. Final chassis then will consist of the wheels, fork, handles, and the axle and brake systems all combined and working well together. Hoping we get on schedule, production of body will start within two weeks. Now that's more exciting to see!

YAY CHASSIS! Apparently, my hands were shaking when I took this photo.

We're estimating that the whole production of this first e-trike will be completed before December. That will be the fastest the production team can handle, and we think it's also fair. We'll see to it that the prototype will roll-out as soon as possible, so we can have more testing done, details revised, and then release it out on the market early next year. This is going to be an interesting last quarter of 2012! Who's getting pumped up? Well, we are.

Til the next update, mates!

You & the Nite, and every stories in between

It's never too early or late in the evening. The night is your comforting shroud.

Ladies, gentlemen, and people from out of this world: the fourth and last single off LEO37's EP album, FANFARE. I can still remember the release of Firedance, the kind of music enough to jump start the energy in any one who listens to the song. Now we've come to a more mellow type with soothing beats, honestly my favorite song from the EP, You & The Nite. Still present is producer John Poon's perfect rhythms and bass lines that go well with Leo's style, and also features the vocals of Lillian Chan, another talented and creative artist not only in the field of music but also in animation and film as well. If you give notice to every detail of the song: the lyrics, the rap, the drums, the tunes, you'll feel the same excitement I'll get.

Jumping from the street scene in the video of last single Gorgeous, You & The Nite showcases a blend in of reality and the animated 2D world. The story of the video tells of Leo's relationship with the night: the special time of the day when ideas come and an unusual kind of serenity envelopes the mind of any creative thinker. Artists, musicians, writers, adventurers, and a lot of people alike find comfort in the calming background of the velvet skies and the hovering dance of the moon. The song and this video describe that surreal scenario really well.

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.