Future Technology: a bit of Human

Can you imagine your cellphone already talking to you? Which will be telling you what choice is which. Helping you out on your everyday living. More like your own best friend. Maybe it even has a better intelligence than you do.  That's how it is in the future.  Believe it or not. 

 

 Let's see how Fabian Hemmert suggests this possibility to happen.

 

 This talk about what the future holds for our technology opens our eyes to the possibilities that technology would soon be equivalent to humanism. As what was demonstrated by Fabian Hemmert in his talk, he demonstrates the possible living mobile phone. A living phone which adopts, moves, and feels. More like a human, huh? He based this “future living phone” from us, humans. He thinks of what advancements can be further made based on what we already have. He mixed the physicality of humans with digitality of mobiles and made it as a tool to find what is in the future of mobile phones...

 

 Fabian Hemmert talked about 3 possible options of what is next to touch phones and wii's with it's need of physical presence of a person for it to work.

 

 First, he finds the need of mass. The “weight-shifting mobile”. It is a mobile that uses gravity as a very important tool. It tells where a certain object is just by its gravity. It could be best used for navigation. It can lead you to where you want to go even only by touching it while carrying it. By its weight-shifting feature, you can identify on which direction you must go. It uses weight for you to identify where your center is and where you are. Where the mass is more likely to be heavier, is the indication that it is there, whatever it must have to be, it is there. Surely, you'll always find that phone as handy as could ever be. And that is all because of mass...

 

 Second, he looks for the thickness and thinness of its shape. And now shows a “shape-changing mobile”. It has the ability to adjust to what size or position you want it to be. It adjusts to the space it is inquired to take and takes the position of your hand as a guide to what position it must take. Where it is thicker, there is more content. What is best about this phone is that it can expand in all directions that makes it as useful as possible. It's adoptation to its environment and to its content makes it more amazing to have. You don't have to find a comfortable and accesible way just to enjoy the features of this phone because it will personally make that job for you. It offers you full quality time and a comfortable chance to enjoy having your mobile phone on hand.

 

 Third, he likes an intuitive kind. And there is the ”living mobile phone”. A phone that practically acts like a human. And has a heart and could breath. Not really so literally, but you could see its figure, moving and breathing as if it is really organic or some kind. You could imagine having it, from being relaxed and then getting excited, and when it is patted in its back, it would then be back to normal. Imagine having it like a pet of yours. A pet that gets excited when sees something that amazes it and would be calmed by its owner by patting it. It's like you can always know that that person is alive seeing him/her moving and breathing. That is the main purpose of this mobile phone. You don't have to look at it and check it just to know if it is still with you or if you received a phone call or a text message. By simply feeling it movement, you can easily identify what is happening or if there is happening in your mobile phone.

 

 So you see, this is how our future will become. Technology as more human. A good way for digital to be graspable to humans, by being like humans. You see, development of such creations can be useful to us. Hopefully, it wouldn't be a reason for humans to change their way of living from positive to negative. Let's use these technologies in the right way.

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Hungry Much?

Since I was young, I have these foods I kept craving for. I really liked them even though I don't get to eat them as much as I wanted to. But I think that that is better, at least I don't get bored eating my favorite food again and again until time comes that I don't like them anymore. Since they are my favorites, I prefer having them for me as gifts or rather having them only on special occasions. I don't want to grew tired of them and just find another set of favorite foods...Oh, that's awful.

Anyways, here below is the list of my top 6 favorite foods of all-time. I swear. I can remember craving for these foods when I was still little. And how dirty and fat I looked in the pictures because of my eagerness to eat these foods.

Okay, here we go:

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   my first love :D

   1. Belgian chocolates
    Whoever would tell me that he/she hated chocolates, I'll hate him/her. Because that is obviously not true. No matter what you do, there is still that part of yourself that you would get to love chocolates. The sweetness and the softness of the product would not only turn you from wild to calm but will also turn your world upside down.
    The best chocolates that I ever tasted were those from Belgium. My dad once went there and came back home with a lot of these chocolates. I miss them so much. Seeing it in pictures right now reminds me of how mouth-watering these chocolates were.
   
   
   
   

2. Strawberry Refrigerator Cake

  Well maybe, this kind of food is not that common to you. But you know it is really one of the greatest things I wanted ever to eat. My mom is fond of making cakes, cookies and recipes. She makes me one whenever I had my birthdays before...Oh! How damn I miss those days. I don't get to have them now because of too many more important things to do. So i just get to eat them only during long-time vacations...

3. Lansones and Pear 

3. Oh yeah, these are damn healthy and yummy. I loved these fruits. Whenever I wanted to eat these fruits, I can never go to sleep and simply forget how I crave for them. Even in my dreams, I could see myself eating these fruits. This causes me to feel hungrier rather forgetting about it. So it is better to not sleep unless I eat even just a part of the fruit.
    There was even one time when my friend gave me a kilo of lansones and a pack of pear with a letter that read: “SHARING as a virtue”. He even emphasized sharing. He knew at that time that I would keep it only to myself because, obviously, they were my favorite fruits. And he was totally right, I ate them all. How guilty did I feel afterwards... 
   
   
   
   
    4. Kare-Kare

  This is a major major recipe that I have always wanted. This is a special recipe in the Philippines. And it makes me feel proud knowing that this came from my country. I like that this recipe is filled with a lot of vegetables and is best eaten with alamang[yeah]. Even just by smelling its delicious fragrance makes it more appetizing. It seems as if you are already tasting it. Oh, I can imagine it again. My stomach's growling now...

 

 

 5. Shabu-Shabu and Sushi

  Ooh! I love these foods so much. 

 

 

I know most people, like my sister, thinks that Korean, Japanese and Chinese foods are disgusting. But excuse me, these are really amazing foods. They taste kinda weird but is very delicious. It is also healthy since most of their ingredients are vegetables.

  The best part that I like most when eating shabu-shabu is the part where I just get and get and get food from the pan and immediately putting them into my mouth. It tastes good. You can really taste the flavor of every ingredient. I always enjoy eating them. We just ate some of these just recently and in just some matter of days, I gained a pound... Great right? 

 

6. Fresh Lumpia

 Fresh Lumpia is the best lunch I could ever have. Even without any rice, this food is very accessible to eat. I always ask my mom to cook these recipe in special family-get-togethers in our compound. It is not only me that likes very much fresh lumpia but most of my cousin too. Maybe it runs in the blood.
 Simply seeing those vegetables popping out of the wrapper makes me feel that  it is calling for me to it them.
 I don't remember myself ever having hated this food. EVER...

  I promised myself that someday, somewhere, somehow, I would make sure that I get to eat more of these. And crave for it till I die. No matter how fat I'll be in that time...? I don't think so I can do that. I suddenly though that food is just one of the greatest thing in life and it is not life itself. I'll still eat more of them but not too much, Diabetes now adays is dangerous to oneself.

  These are only my top 6, there are much much more.

  So there you go, my favorite foods... Ta-da!

 

sources: 

http://www.picknmixsweetshop.com/guylian-finest-belgian-chocolate-sea-shells----250g-673-p.asp

http://www.figis.com/images/products/large/113227_lg.jpg

http://kemalandsheila.com/2010/08/no-bake-strawberry-refrigerator-cake/

http://www.pbase.com/image/33274412

http://checkitoutavesta.blogspot.com/2008/09/brie-with-caramel-pecan-pear-sauce.html

http://forum.philboxing.com/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=138738&start=75&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

http://www.japan-i.jp/food/sukiyakishabushabu/

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It's High School, Deal with It

 High School… Adolescence… Teenage Love… Those are probably all familiar to you. These are all interconnected to each other. Whether you agree with me or not, that wouldn’t change. High School is the best and worst part of a person’s life. And surely, everybody would go into this process. 

 

  Actually, I really don’t like this part of my life. I don’t know why. Maybe it’s just because of my own experience. Relationships aren’t in my vocabulary, really. But no matter what I do, I can’t just say that I haven’t been in one. Yes, I’m honest. Oh... Yes, I am.

 

  How about you? Do you have any idea about sexuality? Do you like the sense that you must be aware of it? In that age? I don’t think so you must. But you do, right? In our generation nowadays, its just right for a teenager, probably even an elementary student, to be aware of these things. Well, sexuality not only refers to the pleasure and infatuation one feels when he or she meets a person of the opposite sex. Sexuality is always inside us. It only differs in each person. And that’s what makes each one of us feel that burn inside us. 

 

 Teenage love is what everyone in high school experiences. That’s why high school is the best place for emo’s and lovers...you can say that. Here, there, in front, at the back, upstairs, downstairs, seems like everywhere… you would even grew tired seeing those teenage lovers who seem to be so sure ‘bout themselves and like forever will hold them both. Well, yeah, it’s out of my business. I’m just saying… just saying.  And that's just my opinion...

 

 As what was said in the seminar, these relationships seem to start from common point and ends up mostly in just the same end point. Starting from “friends” and would either end up with “marriage” or “heartbreak”. Okay, so what leads to marriage or heartbreaks huh? Well, of course, it starts with a little friendship, and then comes infatuation, and slowly getting to love... and boom, there it goes. You could choose, marry or break-up. But marriage is still too early for you… too bad, your gonna end up with heart breaks...right? 

 

 Okay. So enough with those stuffs. Pregnancy immediately came to my mind. I’m kind of afraid of that. Especially seeing the video of giving birth during the seminar makes me really freak out! Wooh! I have seen a lot of women who gave birth to their tiny winy look alikes. And felt the love that surrounds them both. But maybe the thing about me being afraid is not really the fear but it is just the status of my self. That I still am not ready for those things. That I don’t want to experience that at this very early stage of my life. That moment isn’t yet mine to have. And that is influenced and affected by what happened to my sister… Do you want to know about it? I bet you won’t, or you will, or you won’t, or you might… no, I you wouldn’t. 

 

 Okay, I’ll just won’t. Probably, you are good in guessing. I’ll leave you with that. I can’t take the risk of sacrificing the name of my sister and her life just for this blog, you know. 

 

 The thing is: why do something that you know what consequences you can have? You must know when and where is the right time and place to do such an act... please... keep your zippers shut... I am sure that there is quite the exact moment it can be applied, and that moment is far, far in the future. Juts wait for it. 

 

 Anyways, the seminar made things clear for me. And that’s what matters most. I don’t remember much of the seminar discussions… I easily get bored. And in that case, boredom really threw me up. At least, most of it’s lessons came to my mind. I would really apply them.

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10-point agenda of Pres. Aquino-good or bad?

 Pres. Aquino's 10-point agenda is a subject to be talked on town. Especially on the changes to be made on the 10 year basic education. Probably, Filipinos would think that this is a major major problem to them. Thinking that 10 years of basic education is a burden to Filipino parents, especially if they are not in a good state of life, then what more can two more years of education bring, right? But this is even more striking to Filipino students. They are already exhausted in 10 years of basic education, so, adding two more years, probably, would just be a reason for some to drop out of school. They would just be so tired and would give up.. probably..

 On my view as a student, I would think that this is even worst than eating raw horse meat. I don't want to go to school for 2 more years. That's crap! I wanted to learn, that's true, but its too much burden, pressure and stress in high school. Thank God that I still can manage them by now. But for 2 more years? I don't think so.. And, I am already excited to go to college. If you'll be having a survey, I'm quite sure that majority would agree with me.

  But that is looking in the bad part. If we look into the bright side, there is even better than what I have been exaggerating earlier. Well, technically, this would just be applied on students. But if we come to think of it, it is also for the benefit of not only the students but also of our country in the future.

 By now, you could see our country going down. This is actually one of the steps that should be made and applied in the country.

 Only the Philippines together with Somalia is having the 10 years of basic education and all the other parts of the world is using 12 years of basic education. Looking at these countries, they both have not that good economical status. And that's not good. Having the 12 years of basic education as a medium in the Philippines is a step ahead. Just so you know, others who are now finding jobs in the other countries after graduating here in the Philippines are having a hard time being employed in their chosen professions. Why? Well, mostly it is because they are questioned why at the age of 20 that they already have graduated college. These Filipinos are actually told to repeat their college degree thinking that they are undergrads and have less education than those of them there. So thinking about that, it is still better to have 12 year basic education here in the Philippines, don't you think?

  Of course, that's not just the topic of the 10-point agenda of Pres. Aquino. All the others are very agreeable ones.  We could see that by this agenda Pres. Aquino truly cares for the future of the country. That just great! This make us look at a bright future ahead of us. As we believe, Great education leads to great progress. I hope it would just be used in the right way.

How about you? What do you think about it?


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Me Here

Hello dear visitor! Well, you might want to get to know me first.

Well, where do I start? I'm really not the typical kind of blogger, you know.  Neither am I a writer. So probably by now your wondering on how the heck did blogging came to me. Actually, talking is my greatest fear ever. I never wanted to talk in public. In class, I don't recite that well.

Probably, looking at me right now blogging, is the worst view you'll ever see. But you know, I'd like to experience this. It's a part of me that's kind of mysterious. I don't know why I like it, its just how I felt, I guess. 'Cause honestly speaking, I kinda like to break out of the shell of shyness and make through the world of brightness. I have ideas, and I just have too find a way to express it. And that's how I came to like 'Blogging'.

It's a good start for me to understand myself, to express myself to others, and to turn that fear into a talent. Through blogging, I would get the chance to understand myself so that others would understand me too. Through blogging I would have the chance to dig up those ideas stored deep inside me.  And through blogging, That fear would be changed into a talent that no one would ever thought, including me. I know blogging is a great thing, and that's the reason why I ever wanted to try it. I have never done blogging before, till now.

The world around us is revolving, changing, and developing. What my blogs would contain is about what revolves in the world, what changes are happening, and what developments do we have and will have. And not only that, of course, my blogs would have to revolve about who I am. It would also have to change, because practically, I mustn't stay on just one subject, that would be boring. It would also have to develop, because as what I said, I am just beginning, I know that when time comes, I'll be a much more better person-probably, a writer too.

I'll be honored if you'll be interested to read some of my blogs. And if you'll join me in my journey through blogging, I'll be much much more grateful to you.

This is just the start. There would be much much more.
Have a nice day! May God bless you! :)


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