Uhm.. honestly, I can't think of 101 reasons whiy I love watching Naruto. I just thought that it was a cool title and that it is used a lot (e.g. Basketball 101, 101 days, etc.) :D Im sure a lot of people out there also watch Naruto.. and just like me, a lot of persons out there are addicted to this great Anime.. This is one Anime that I get to watch a lot whenever I get so down. But what makes it so great anyway? What makes it so damn addictive?
Well, Naruto is a story of the struggles and successes of this kid ninja from Konoha who wants to become the Hokage (the highest ninja in the village). Things aren't always going his way but still, he keeps on trying and trying even if all the odds are against him. It's the burning desire to become great is what keeps him going; his determination to accomplish his dream is what makes him special. He says big things like "I'm gonna surpass the hokages and let the village acknowledge my strength" and "I'm gonna become the hokage" but inspite all of those braggings, he is still just a kid with armed with nothing but his big dream. I like the anime because in a sense, I can relate to what Naruto is experiencing. I also have a great yet seemingly distant dream. Sometimes, I think that I cannot have my dream come true because I don't know a lot of things for heaven's sake. But whever I feel that, I always say to myself.. "Fuck this brain.. I can learn those if I want to!!" "All I need is a lot of determination and an iron will to follow my dreams no matter what!!" "I've gotta be tough no matter what.." "Everybody has a dream.. but will it always remain one?? "..yep.. life can be very frustrating.. chasing a dream that you know is very distant from you makes you wanna give up a lot of times. To be honest, I've failed more times than I've succeeded.. but I firmly believe that its the will to get back on track and continuing on the fight is what matters the most. If everything seems lost and you don't know what to do, just believe in your dream and nothing more and you'll get back to track in no time. Its against all odds indeed :D
Naruto is a very lousy ninja. He is a very stupid boy who knows very little ninja techniques, unlike his comrades who has these large arsenal of skills at their disposal. But even though this is the case, he still wouldn't give up. He trains night and day just to become stronger than his comrades (he always boasts that he is strong but he knows that he is not). He is willing to sacrifice even his life for his dream.. for something he believes in.. and for those that he cares for.. And boy, these principles are so true.. without Jen, there wouldn't be anyone at all that will support and guide me. My parents don't believe that I can achieve my dream. All they say is that I should be focusing more on the ones that are more "reachable".. But what do they know about a kid's dream anyway??! But I don't blame them for that.. They only want what's best for me and they do not want me to push myself too hard.. but regardless of what they think, I'm still sticking to my dream so step aside mom and pops!!
Its really nice if you have someone beside you, believing in what you can do, acknowledging you, and supporting you all the way. It's really nice to have someone that you can lean on too whenever things get really tough. And for that, I am so grateful that I have my girlfriend with me. Without her, I don't know if I could have survived this journey alone.
Indeed, what separates cartoons from the real world is that cartoons are far more perfect than the real world. Cartoons always has a happy ending.. the heroes get what they want and everyone is happy. The real world is far more cruel than that. But I believe that similarities do exist between the two.. and that is to never give up and keep fighting until you find your own happy ending . Cartoon heroes don't get a happy ending only by sitting on a corner (unless the producer wills it to) but instead, they work hard for the antagonist to be defeated in order for the story to have a happy ending. And again, it all goes back to hard work, determination, and an a whole lot of patience.
Okay.. I think I'm all out of words now and I'm only just repeating myself over and over again :) So this is it for now. I've gotta watch part 5 of Naruto :D See yah.
Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Thursday, June 9, 2005
A step closer to a distant dream...
With the term coming to an end, so does the tremendous increase of school work that the professors give their students. Well, I'm one of the unfortunate but lucky to experience that. This means that I have to work less with my Math self study and focus more on this project first. Basically, I have to work on this term project that we have in Java and it involvs creating a BlackJack game using the standard DOS Console. The purpose of the project was to see if the students can properly apply object oriented concepts into a working application but I definitely want something more than just demonstrating that. As an aspiring game developer (harharharhar!!), I want to be able to see through the challenges of implementing a BlackJack using a console interface and be able to reproduce that same experience when playing BlackJack in a GUI. This is pretty challenging since not only do I need to have a working game but also, I need to apply some good aesthetics to interface the game engine - but I'm not concern with that just right now coz I need to create the game engine before anything else. Right now, I am finished building the logical model of the game. I'll then translate those models into working classes maybe next week - after I full-proof my designs that is.
I know that this is an opportunity for me to practice developing games although its nothing as grand as Counter Strike or some popular games that you know. But hey, everybody's gotta start from something you know?! I'm gonna give my best shot at this one coz I know that this is a step closer to a distant dream that I have.
One the other note, a classmate of mine sent me a C++ file demonstrating 3D transformation. Honestly, I wanted to LEARN those badly but I kept the excitement to myself since I know that at the current level that I am right now, I wouldn't probably appreciate the value of it and even if I understand how it works, it would still sound Russian to me. I really should speed up with the math book!!
I'm planning to enroll a Game Programming subject and probably Calculus after this term (oh yeah!!!) and drop my XML course since I got bored at it.. and to tell you frankly, I'm really really really REALLY very excited!! Things are finally starting to go my way :D This is what I've dreamed of ever since I was a child and now, I'm finally getting a shot at it! Even though I still know very little about higher level maths, I'm gonna give it all that I got to learn those even if I end up wearing very thick glasses!! I really don't give a damn! Its all about determination baby!!
Saturday, June 4, 2005
Eureka!! Take that number 37!!
I finally solved it!! After almost a week of frustration, I finally found a solution to exercise number 37!! Damn!! It really is very amazing how problems look very complex at first but once you get into it, it becomes so darn easy.. "You'll know when you know", as my professor always say. So, I don't wanna waste some time and brag about Naruto (its only just about 12 minutes away before the download for episode 13 is finished!!!!!) and proceed directly with the problem.
Here it is: the very simple which took me a freaking 6 days of frustration before finally coming up with a solution:
The radiator in a car is filled with a solution of 60% antifreeze and 40% water. The manufacturer of the antifreeze suggests that, for summer driving, optimal cooling of the engine is obtained with only 50% antifreeze. If the capacity of the radiator is 3.6L, how much coolant should be drained and replaced with water to reduce the antifreeze concentration to the recommended level?
So, what's this problem all about? Well basically, the author of the problem obviously wants us to find out how much of the coolant solution should be drained and replaced with water so that the total solution will contain 50% water and 50% antifreeze. Solutions (or mixtures), as we all know from our Chemistry subject are made by mixing by two substances together. Examples include mixing of salt and water (called brine) or maybe as simple as a mix orange powder and water (which is orange juice).. uhh.. okay, I've gotta watch Naruto first (YEEEESSSSSSS!!!), the download has already finished :D
AMAZING!! I've just finished watching episode 13 and it just gets better and better each day!! Another minute of it and I could have been carried away by doing a jutsu here in front of the computer and shout KAGE NO BUNSHIN JUTSU!! :D Well, off to another long wait again for the next episode *sigh*
So, where were we? Ah yes, that stupid exercise number 37. As far as chemistry goes, whenever we mix two substances, we can express the concentration of one substance in the solution as Percentage of Concentration of the Substance (C) x Volume of the Mixutre (V). Going back to our problem, we have:
Total concentration of the Antifreeze (CA) = Percentage of Concentration of the Antifreeze (pCA) x Volume of the Coolant Solution (VC)
CA = pCA x VC
CA = 0.6 x 3.6 Liters
CA = 2.16 Liters
Concentration of the Water (CW) = Percentage of Concentration of the Antifreeze (pCA) x Volume of the Coolant Solution (VC)
CW = pCW x VC
CW = 0.4 x 3.6 Liters
CW = 1.44 Liters
From that formula, we now know that the coolant solution is made up of 2.16 liters of water and 1.44 liters of antifreeze. So now, we have to find out 1) how many liters of the coolant solution should be drained from the radiator and 2) replace it with an equal amount of liters of water 3) so that the total concentration of the antifreeze drops down to the recommended level (which is 50% of the coolant solution or 1.8 liters of antifreeze). An assumption that was made on the problem was that the total volume capacity of the radiator is 3.6 L. This means that the amount of coolant that we drained from the coolant should be equal to the amount of water that we will be added to the coolant. Hence, we have:
Amount of coolant to be drained = Amount of Water to be added
From that, we now form the following equations:
Concentration of Water(CW) x (Volume of the Coolant(VC) - Amount of coolant to be drained(z) ) + Amount of Water to be added (z) = Desired Concentration of Water (dCW) x Volume of the Coolant(VC)
tCW x (VC - z) + z = dCW x VC
0.4 x (3.6 L - z) + z = 0.5 x 3.6 L
Before solving for z, I should first what this equation means. If you would recall the problem, we are requred to increase the total concentration of the antifreeze by reducing the coolant to a certain amount and adding water of the same amount that we reduced to the coolant.
tCW x (VC - z) + z translates just that. Notice that we take the total concentration of the coolant that has already been drained (tCW x (VC - z)) and then add the same amount of liters of water to the already drained coolant (tCW x (VC - z) + z). Now, the right hand side of the equation suggests that the amount of coolant drained and water added should be able to produce 50% concentration of water out of the coolant. = 0.5 x 3.6 L says just that. But wait? isn't it that what we want is to have a 50% antifreeze and not 50% water? Well, yes, but basically, if we increase the water concentration to 50%, then it is implicit that the other part of the solution (which is the antifreeze) would be 50% too! Now if we will solve for z, we will have:
0.6z = 1.8 L - 1.44 L
z = 0.6 L
Eureka!! This is the answer! Hence, we must drain 0.6 liters from the coolant and add the same amount of water to the coolant in order for the concentration of the antifreeze to be reduced to 50% and for the water to be increased by 10%.
Simple isn't it? So what made me took 6 days just to solve this simple problem? Well, I've done some soul searching on this one and found out that I was overdoing the entire thing by adding the antifreeze as part of the equation (and partially because half of my mind was monitoring how many minutes left before the download for episode 12 is completed :D). Basically, I've been forcing the antifreeze and water to work at the same time and this made it unclear for the other side of the equation what the condition is that is needed to be satisfied when all the while, I only needed to know how much desired concentration of water is needed in order to solve the equation. So what's the moral then? Not everything that you see is the real thing! Some facts are only there just to confuse you :D
So, now that I've finally gotten over that, it's time to move on to the next numbers. I still have 30 more questions to answer before I can move to section 1.7. But before that, I think I'll go to sleep first :) Till then..
Here it is: the very simple which took me a freaking 6 days of frustration before finally coming up with a solution:
The radiator in a car is filled with a solution of 60% antifreeze and 40% water. The manufacturer of the antifreeze suggests that, for summer driving, optimal cooling of the engine is obtained with only 50% antifreeze. If the capacity of the radiator is 3.6L, how much coolant should be drained and replaced with water to reduce the antifreeze concentration to the recommended level?
So, what's this problem all about? Well basically, the author of the problem obviously wants us to find out how much of the coolant solution should be drained and replaced with water so that the total solution will contain 50% water and 50% antifreeze. Solutions (or mixtures), as we all know from our Chemistry subject are made by mixing by two substances together. Examples include mixing of salt and water (called brine) or maybe as simple as a mix orange powder and water (which is orange juice).. uhh.. okay, I've gotta watch Naruto first (YEEEESSSSSSS!!!), the download has already finished :D
AMAZING!! I've just finished watching episode 13 and it just gets better and better each day!! Another minute of it and I could have been carried away by doing a jutsu here in front of the computer and shout KAGE NO BUNSHIN JUTSU!! :D Well, off to another long wait again for the next episode *sigh*
So, where were we? Ah yes, that stupid exercise number 37. As far as chemistry goes, whenever we mix two substances, we can express the concentration of one substance in the solution as Percentage of Concentration of the Substance (C) x Volume of the Mixutre (V). Going back to our problem, we have:
Total concentration of the Antifreeze (CA) = Percentage of Concentration of the Antifreeze (pCA) x Volume of the Coolant Solution (VC)
CA = pCA x VC
CA = 0.6 x 3.6 Liters
CA = 2.16 Liters
Concentration of the Water (CW) = Percentage of Concentration of the Antifreeze (pCA) x Volume of the Coolant Solution (VC)
CW = pCW x VC
CW = 0.4 x 3.6 Liters
CW = 1.44 Liters
From that formula, we now know that the coolant solution is made up of 2.16 liters of water and 1.44 liters of antifreeze. So now, we have to find out 1) how many liters of the coolant solution should be drained from the radiator and 2) replace it with an equal amount of liters of water 3) so that the total concentration of the antifreeze drops down to the recommended level (which is 50% of the coolant solution or 1.8 liters of antifreeze). An assumption that was made on the problem was that the total volume capacity of the radiator is 3.6 L. This means that the amount of coolant that we drained from the coolant should be equal to the amount of water that we will be added to the coolant. Hence, we have:
Amount of coolant to be drained = Amount of Water to be added
From that, we now form the following equations:
Concentration of Water(CW) x (Volume of the Coolant(VC) - Amount of coolant to be drained(z) ) + Amount of Water to be added (z) = Desired Concentration of Water (dCW) x Volume of the Coolant(VC)
tCW x (VC - z) + z = dCW x VC
0.4 x (3.6 L - z) + z = 0.5 x 3.6 L
Before solving for z, I should first what this equation means. If you would recall the problem, we are requred to increase the total concentration of the antifreeze by reducing the coolant to a certain amount and adding water of the same amount that we reduced to the coolant.
tCW x (VC - z) + z translates just that. Notice that we take the total concentration of the coolant that has already been drained (tCW x (VC - z)) and then add the same amount of liters of water to the already drained coolant (tCW x (VC - z) + z). Now, the right hand side of the equation suggests that the amount of coolant drained and water added should be able to produce 50% concentration of water out of the coolant. = 0.5 x 3.6 L says just that. But wait? isn't it that what we want is to have a 50% antifreeze and not 50% water? Well, yes, but basically, if we increase the water concentration to 50%, then it is implicit that the other part of the solution (which is the antifreeze) would be 50% too! Now if we will solve for z, we will have:
0.6z = 1.8 L - 1.44 L
z = 0.6 L
Eureka!! This is the answer! Hence, we must drain 0.6 liters from the coolant and add the same amount of water to the coolant in order for the concentration of the antifreeze to be reduced to 50% and for the water to be increased by 10%.
Simple isn't it? So what made me took 6 days just to solve this simple problem? Well, I've done some soul searching on this one and found out that I was overdoing the entire thing by adding the antifreeze as part of the equation (and partially because half of my mind was monitoring how many minutes left before the download for episode 12 is completed :D). Basically, I've been forcing the antifreeze and water to work at the same time and this made it unclear for the other side of the equation what the condition is that is needed to be satisfied when all the while, I only needed to know how much desired concentration of water is needed in order to solve the equation. So what's the moral then? Not everything that you see is the real thing! Some facts are only there just to confuse you :D
So, now that I've finally gotten over that, it's time to move on to the next numbers. I still have 30 more questions to answer before I can move to section 1.7. But before that, I think I'll go to sleep first :) Till then..
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