Quite busy...

It has been quite long since i had my last post. I became more busy to other sites and ignored my personal blog here. I was just recently introduced to one social networking site and i find it interesting. Compare to the other social networking sites i am in to, that site is more interactive and flexible. From the time I created my account on that site up to now, daily, I log on that site. 

My First Two Months in Abroad

Living in somewhere outside from a place you get used to live in is totally different. More specially when the place is unfamiliar to you. But being open minded, wise, courageous and responsible seems helpful in adjusting to such new place.

It's been two months since I came here in Hiroshima. Although I felt homesick at the first weeks but now, gradually I get used to the environment.

In food, Japanese taste is not too different to what Filipino have, since we're Asian, not difficult to adjust. In terms of the climate, it is too early to say. Japan do have four seasons, in which case very different in the Philippines' climate.

When living in other places, there are really a lot of things you have to adjust to. Especially when you are experiencing them on the first time. Having friends who been in such place for longer time than you were is helpful. You could ask them for some advise, tips and other important information. But you should not depend too much, learn to work with your own and do more mature decisions.

The Safety Line

If you stroll the along sidewalks of Hiroshima and maybe in other places in Japan, you will observe a usually colored yellow pavement or lane/line in center. It is the safety line intended for the blind. They call it "truncated dome" or tiny bumper/tiny humps. The bricks are slightly elevated and loosely arranged so that the surface becomes irregular and can be easily noticed. See pictures:

http://www.thats-japan.com/images/sidewalks.jpg















http://blog.jpopdb.org/index.php/blog/japan/curiosities/yellow-safety-lines-in-japan


Along this line, connected on almost all street sides in a City, the visually different society can confidently stroll over the sidewalks, even at the least of none escorted. They will be on safety during their walk as long as they consciously follow the guide.

Such a nice effort on the the side of the authorities of the city/country to create such safety line for the blind. This effort is observed not only in Japan but also in other countries.

Filipino Groups

Nowadays fellow Filipino are courageously journeying abroad, generally to seek fortune. And seems every year, more and more from our fellows exit the country. That's why, somehow we Filipinos already in abroad are expecting more to meet some fellow countrymen on this foreign place.

Fortunately in Hiroshima, Filipinos are getting intact. Even not on a single group but Filipinos are coming out their place and find their fellows. One good group/organization here in the prefecture is the Hiroshima Filipino Association. It is a church based group and founded by few Christian members (Filipino priests, nun . . .). It formally started last year. The group is still young with less than 50 members. Currently, HFA is fast spreading and tries to embrace other Filipino groups and inviduals in the City of Hiroshima.

Presently, I am joining the group. With them, I fell the environment of the Philippines. In fact most of members are bisaya, "Ayos kaayo, makarelate ko". Since the group is church based, usual gathering and bonding is every Sunday on the Hiroshima Catholic Church.






try to visit: http://hfa.nexo.com/

Kusatsu - Nigoshi

The usual residential area found in Kusatsu - Nigoshi in Hiroshima. Houses are built with exterior and interior designs. And commonly, there are good cars parked on each resident.

On a single realization...

When you go on a place for the first time, for sure you will be thinking of a lot of things most especially when you are alone, plenty of expectations and (maybe) hesitations if you don't have the courage. .

Sa airport pa lng, patingin.tingin na ako kung ano tlaga itsura ng Japan. Nasa isip ko talaga, high.tech facilities yung nakapalibot at matataas na gusali. Eh, totoo nga, may mga automatic bukas na mga taxi at buses at matatayog na mga gusali. Pero sabi nila, ordinaryong siyodad nga lng daw ang Fukuoka at Hiroshima kumpara sa Tokyo.

Pagkalabas ko sa arrival lobby pagkatapos ng final inspection regarding a h1n1, nkasalabong ko na agad yung naghihintay ko na sundo. Isa din kasamahan na Pinoy sa trabaho. Mula doon, sakay kami ng bus (bus na bumibayahe lng sa loob ng compound ng airport), and as expected nasa bandang kanan ang driver seat at baliktad talaga yung kalsada. Papunta kami sa istasyon ng tren kung saan magdadala samin sa shinkansen train station, isa sa mga bullet train station na pawang kilala sa Japan. Pagnasa Japan ka talaga, kung gusto mubumiyahe from City to City, either mgba-bus ka (matagal) or yung long distance travel ng bullet train na aabutinn lng ng isang oras o mahigit depende sa lugar na puputahan. Yung biyahe namin eh diretso na sa may centro ng Hiroshima kng saan may maraming tren na umiikot at bumibiyahe sa buong lungsod.

Sa japan, pangkaraniwang transportasyon ng mga tao ay tren, bus, taxi, sariling sasakyan at bisiklita. Madalas kahit matatanda na, eh nagbibisiklita parin sa kalsada, yun na yung nakasanayan sa buong Japan. Tulad ng MRT at LRT sa Manila, ganun parin yung tren sa Hiroshima kaso mas malalayo lang yung iniikot ng tren. Halos lahat na ng sulok ng Hiroshima ay dinadaan na ng reles. Sa lungsod ng Hiroshima, wala masyadong pinoy akong nakita hindi daw tulad nung nasa Tokyo.

Anyway, the real score of this post is about why there is difference on Japan. On that very first day that I was traveling the major streets of Hiroshima, I instantly figured it out why. The streets are really clean. On around four days of my stay in the place, it is not only on the main streets that are clean but almost everywhere. The garbages are kept organized, and disposed on proper place and time and segregated accordingly. Even at the apartment where I stays, they are all practicing the same.

On the company where I belong and as they say to other Japanase companies, every morning the usual first session that employees and even the employers do is cleaning the work site. Even at the formal attire, we clean with rugs and brooms. Actually, my very first assignment was removing the grasses near the parking space together with some Japanese co-worker. There are no janitors. They truly work.

And this shows discipline. Discipline truly make sense. With this aspect, you can see how progressive their country is. And this is very mean.

In fact, I also observe their strict compliance on the traffic policies (less/no traffic actually).

(And this could be just the first realization, it may differ)

Davao to Hiroshima

It was 6.30 in the morning, when i got the first flight from Davao. It was cebu pacific.　The destination was Manila since their is no international flight direct　Davao to Japan. It was around 8.15 when i reached the terminal 3 of NAIA (Ninoy Aquino International Airport). Then from Manila　I took another flight heading Japan. Hiroshima City currently has no international flight direct from Manila, so I need to get a flight to a nearer city and it is Fukuoka. So the next flight was Manila - Fokuoka. The departure time was 10.15.. And around 3.20 (Japan Time) in the afternoon when I safely reached Fukuoka international airport. My very first OC (out of country). It was actually 4 hours of travel, not 5 since Japan time is about 1 hour ahead over the Philippine time. From there, we commute on a bus going to a train station. Then around 20 minutes of a train until we reached shinkansen train station. From there, we travel using the ideal train of japan, the bullet train heading to the city of Hiroshima. It was an hour of nonstop travel, so you can imagine how far is Fukuoka to Hiroshima. From the downtown of Hiroshima, we travel again by a round routing train to get to our proper place in Hiroshima, which is Nishi-ku.I reached the apartment where I will be spending most of the time in Japan very tired.

Early Summer...

Most of my April and early May days, i spent it at home and on my Japanese tutorial. More time of rest and weight gaining. . .I became thin in that university, i am heavy at around 47 klg only, "Payat" in deed.

At this time I know already how to read/write the hiragana and katakana japanese characters.

These are the basic/fundamental nihongo characters a beginner must learn. It's fun and very interesting to learn the japanese language. You perhaps learn their culture. Our "sensei"s are all good coming from Mindanao Kokusai Daigaku (Phil Nikkei-Jin Kai Inc).

My summer days is still good.

Image Source: http://www.alpha.ac.jp/japanese/img/moji.gif

Graduation

Good luck to Batch 2009!!!!

Congrats to all!!!!

Nice One. . .

At last, my paper is on the binding stage. . .fewer steps before the submission. .

It truly pulled a torn on my neck. . . No more tiring days to encounter and few more days
to recieve my award. . .

I had experinced a lot and learned.

Wishing all the lucks to my classmates and friends in the university.

Nice One.

Paper Update

At last, my paper is almost done. Completing a study was never that easy but as long as we are persevere; there is no reason for us not to finish such study.

Starting from data gathering, we must always exert effort. Then we start data tabulation and computation. We must consider beforehand our data, the research framework and result we want to generate in line with the study’s objective.

We must be consistent in the computation method we will use. Currently, we can make use of some softwares that employs statistical methods for us to have easy computation.

Lastly, the important point to consider is willingness to finish and learn.

Future Technology for Waste Management

In our subject; Future Technology, we students are required to think and propose for a new technology that could be useful in the near future. We are encourage to make technology in our own concept and design.

Our group, we have decided to have an environmental technology. This means creating new technology that help preserve our environment in good condition. As we observe, the world is facing a lot of crisis such waste disorder. Waste today are of different forms; metal waste, plastic, gaseous, oil spill, chemical waste and others. People are getting careless and mismanage in their garbage. Dumping waste to improper places are observe anywhere. Some waste management systems employed are still insufficient.

Now here is the new technology for waste management we proposed. . .

Major Machine Parts

1. Program Storage – A storage location where the core program for waste management is installed to run the whole machine.

2. Liquid Waste Container – Liquid form of waste are separated in this storage drained from the separator machine.

3. Roller – Runs the crashed and separated wastes coming from the separator machine to be segregated after.

4. Solid Waste Container – Solid form of waste are segregated through this storage. (Plastic, Metal, Others). Inside every solid waste container are granulators that refine and make granules of solid waste ready for recycling.

5. Robotic Hands – Every robotic hand have dedicated type of waste to pick-up and segregate into its dedicated solid waste vessels.

6. Separator Machine – Performs crashing, separation and heating of waste.

7. Open Back – Portion of the machine where people can directly throw their waste

This futuristic waste machine is as big as regular cargo container. It can process kilos of waste daily. It produces recyclable waste for both liquid and solid. With this machine, zero waste future is possible.

My Other Photoshop Exercises

My Feb Post

Hey I'm back! My blog was indeed so silent several weeks had passed. My last post was about my photoshop exercises and had no more related post in succession.
During those times, I am a bit busy especially with my academe. As student, "Sort of many" things to follow-up particularly when its the later part of the semester.
I did also several follow-ups to the PhilNITS office here in Davao, regarding the result my FE-October exam in IT.
This time, I will try to have atleast 5 post for this month or even more.


Busy Student Pic

My First Basic Photoshop Exercises

3D Button

Steps

1. Create empty canvass in desired size to become a button.
2. Using Rectangular Marquee Tool, create smaller rectangular shape inside the canvass.
3. Choose desired color in the Foreground Color.
4. Use Gradient Tool.
5. Use Linear Gradient and pick reverse.
6. Drag from top left corner to the bottom right.
7. Go to select, modify then adjust contract by 6 or any desired.
8. Drag starting from bottom right to upper left to draw gradient.
9. Adjust again contract now to 3 or any smaller than previous contract value.
10. Go to select, then feather by 2.
11. Drag from top left to bottom right.
12. Go to select, then deselect to see final result.

Bevel and Emboss

Steps

1. Open one image.

2. Use Rectangular Marquee Tool.
3. Create rectangular selection in your image.
4. Copy the section and put to another canvass.
5. Choose any button style in the Style Palette.
6. Remove overlay effects.
7. Double-click bevel and emboss to adjust desired depth and size.
8. Click Background Layer.
9. Go to Foreground Color and adjust color to Black or any dark colors.
10. Fill the background by using Paint Bucket Tool.
11. Go to Filter and Choose Texturizer in the Texture menu.
12. Adjust scale and relief to desired one.
13. Choose invert.

Superimpose

Steps

1. Open two different images.
2. Using pen tool, create a section from one image to be transferred to another image.
3. In the path tab of Path Palette, choose Load path as a selection.
4. Go to select, the feather. Adjust to 20 or any desired value.
5. Delete the Path in the Path Tab.
6. Then copy the section to the other image.
7. Adjust to desired location.

"Photo or image editing is fun." If we only have the willingness and desire to learn, then we can have and experience something nice.

Possible Future Technologies

“Technology Never Stops”. Technology was created due to human desire and necessity. Since human have always needs and desires in life, so there is always technologies that will be made. Technology is already part of the people’s everyday lives. As repeatedly said, some people can’t live without the aide of technology.In many centuries have passed, technology was always there. Every period of time there are a lot of technologies that people are starting to use, most of the technologies are just evolving from some previous technologies and few of those were newly created or invented. Technology changes accordingly. It changes based on what is demanded, in accordance to the environment, sometimes with the culture and to some other factors. Some people predict what would be technologies are in the future, how these technologies will look like and how it can be useful and harmful to human. But others truly say that future is hard to see and to predict. In one article posted by Ted S. Hasselbring of the University of Kentucky said that technologies like Education Technology is hard to predict however we can actually invent some these technologies for it to become available in the future. Right now there are a lot of predictions regarding the technologies for the future. In one site called Future for All listed possible technologies for the future according to fields.

These technologies mentioned above could possible be seen in the future but if we based it with the current technologies we have and the capabilities and knowledge people has today, we can surely say that most of the technologies listed above are not yet possible.
Talking with the possible effects of these mentioned technologies, it will surely change people’s lives. If I were the author of that article posted the possible technologies in the future, I might reason out or think of following:

Artificial Intelligence
If we have those machines as mentioned, people will no more hard time of interacting with machines. Machine itself can adjust to the people it is interacting with. Machine now acts like people. Since machine already can decides, the problem is if they do the worse things and people can never take control.

Biology/biotechnology/medicine
Technological inventions related to medicine and health are now of the greatest inventions. Since people wanted to live, he needs something to preserve his good health and strength to last long. Today there are still unknown and unresolved diseases and people are always hoping for good medicines and machines to be created.

Brains
The technology listed under this field seems part of curiosity of people. Since electronic devices are interoperated with natural matters like human’s body, people would surely try to create technologies like this. It is so very interesting if someone can see his /her own self from the time he/she was born until the present time. If this can be in form of marketed devices, it could be a great hit.

City
Unusual cities built underwater or underground could also be possible. Since human race is predicted to boom until land is never sufficient, then society would surely think living out of the land. But having one mega city for all, I think it is very impossible. Individuals have different perspective and interest in life that sometimes prefers not to follow others.

Communication
Today, communication is very amusing. No matter how far we are as long as we are still on the land of the earth, we can communicate using the current communicating technologies. Communication is very essential to the lives of people and this will never change even in the future. Thus human will try to make new inventions or innovations to make best communication. So this mentioned technologies are truly possible.

Computers
In the future, it seems that there will be no more computers since the computer itself functions much more than a basic computing machine. It is expected that computers and AI are joint and will act as human. All possible machines are computerized and these machines are utilized widely by people. The recent studies about making processing units of computers like human brain could have good result and become implemented in the future. Sooner, problems can be solves not only by one head but with two heads since computers are already are functioning like human.

Earth
Presently, human is facing crisis like food crisis and environmental change. People are fully alarmed to this problem and they are looking for the best solution for this crisis. And so, these mentioned technologies could possibly be the right solution of the problem. If only we could have enough resources like food, people no longer experience greater problem. Controlling the weather is still questionable for the today’s time, but in such case a lot are really affected. And this could be a start of war.

Electronics
ll manually done systems in human activities are getting automated right now and due this, employment of electronic devices like computers and other machines are very often. Electronic devices are applied to many things like for entertainment, education, business and others. All these machines are affecting human’s lives and some activities no more function without the aide of these devices.

Energy
As part of the employment of technologies is the use of energy for to it to run or function. Good source of energy are natural resources like fuels. Since millions of electronic devices and technologies are being used by people right now, consumption of natural resource for energy is very heavy which causes right now crisis on fuels and others. Prices of these energy sources are getting higher since there is scarcity on the present supply. In addition, some energy source causes side effect to the environment like excessive heat or air pollution. So possibly in the future, there are new technologies that allow friendly effect to the environment and problem regarding scarcity is resolve with the innovative technologies. Maybe, the huge business of oil in the Middle East would twist in the future if such technologies would be implemented.

Home
Possible, home architecture will also change in the future. It is very expected to have high-tech homes in the future since at present, homes are starting to get automated already. If all people would truly support the evolutions of things into something automated or electronic, smart homes will really be possible. But unless there are still people that preferred the old-fashioned comfortable houses, so the future regarding these types of homes is still not sure.

Nanotechnology
Another field of technology that is rapidly ongoing at present is nanotechnology. Here the technology is applied to the very foundation of nature and try create something new that will very useful to mankind. Right now, the researching community focusing this field is much funded so in the future, nanotechnologies of any sort are still possible. Nanotechnology is one field of Artificial Intelligence.

Physics
The studies about black holes and light speed are continuously being done. But the result of this study seems get less impact to the people. Most of the people are focusing to things like food, environment, entertainment, business and other personal matters. But maybe in the future, studies and technologies like this would be very useful.

Robotics
Most robots are built as laborers. Most of these machines are designed to perform some job or function to help human or to work in behalf of human. Robots will surely evolve in the future. The mentioned technologies are greatly possible in the future. In fact, the development of AI is equal to the creation of robots. Currently, robots functions less unlike humans. Some robots are created for entertainment.

Society
If all these mentioned machines and technologies will be created in the future, surely the society change will follow. Human adjust to its environment. They live according to what the things around them. Since people are very resourceful, then they will truly try to make use of the materials or technologies that are available. They will create new applications of the technologies that were created.

Space
In the future, the earth will be so very small for the people. Human’s minds are very huge to only think about the earth but also with the outer space. People would surely think on the ways for him to try to live in space. Sooner, cities will not only be in underwater or underground yet it could be in the outer space. At present, human is studying the outer space if there are any places like earth where living things can survive. So human, is thinking to live not only on earth but also outside the earth. If only people can live on space, then people will never have problem regarding over crowding. Regarding aliens, future about this is still questionable because there are still less studies and unfinished studies about aliens at present. If there are real aliens living on space, so living in space will surely be not the usual living on earth.

Transportation
Transportation like communication is another essential activity in human’s lives. Since time is very precious to human, then they will surely make ways for them to maximize time or possible no more time to use when doing activity like transporting. Traveling long distances consumes a lot of time, so new technologies like almost elevating trains, jets and sea-ships for traveling long distances are developed with great speed to consume less time. Also, locations like undergrounds and underwater are used to maximize space thus avoiding the hindrances of fast travel. If sooner, there will be technologies like these then it would be a great help to human lives.

If all of these technologies would truly exist in the future then let it be. We can't truly control fully the future unless we take some steps like inventing new technologies that would surely affects or dictates the coming future. All there are a lot of predictions regarding the technologies in the future, but most of these has less basis. We people, we must evaluate from ourselves and try to think if these technologies are truly possible. For me what is very important is the helpfulness of these technologies to mankind. If most of people would benefit to the technologies created, then my support is for these technologies. I believe all developers of technologies have their good purpose and I think they design these machines to truly help and serve the people.

If we try to create new technology, what we need to consider first is evaluation. We figure out if these technologies we create will truly be helpful to the people or sooner it will just become a problem to the most. Also if we continue creating useless technologies, it will be just become a big waste. We waste effort, time and resource.


Source:

[1] http://jset.unlv.edu/16.4/hasselbring/first.html
[2] http://www.futureforall.org/whatspossible.htm

The Usual Sang Song During Christmas

Joy to the World
some Children Filipino Version



Joy to the world,
The Lord has come.
Let earth berting, berting.

In every come,
Prepare Him room

In ever, in nature sing
In ever, in nature sing

In ever, in ever
In nature sing
. . .