Sunday, December 19, 2010
Wednesday, September 22, 2010
THE WAY OF A NINJA
Tuesday, September 21, 2010
HOW DO MEDIA AFFECT OUR VALUES ???
In last 50 years media has grown so much that it influences our daily lives. We live in a time that people only depends on mass media when encountering about right facts, health care, daily activities, education, entertainment and etc.
A common person in the city usually wakes up checks the tv news or newspaper, goes to work, makes a few phone calls, eats with their family when possible and makes his decisions based on the information that he has either from their co workers, news, tv, friends, family, financial reports, etc.
Values is the most important factor to tell a character of a person, to know what kind of a person. By the influence of the mass media to people right now there are several effects to people especially to children. On the early age of a child half of the child's brain is still developing, it develops and gain informations and other valuable things from the outside world. This outside informations fill up half of the child's mind and building up the child's character.
In our time right now children are on the state of media addiction, some of the media example Cartoon shows that are not yet good for children are just laying just in front of their eyes. Some of this shows are rage and action. Children don't know what is reality and fantasy, some of them are patronizing these shows that they are doing it in real life. Some of this shows affect the children's mind and build up a character that is not appropriate for the society.
Media really affects the values of people and it affects our daily lives.
NANOTECHNOLOGY: A CURE TO CANCER?
I was so electrified when i found out that there will be a cure to cancer. A technology that was built and discovered by our most valuable and brightest scientist in the whole world. The name of the technology is NANOTECHNOLOGY.
Nanotechnology, shortened to "nanotech", is the study of the controlling of matter on an atomic and molecular scale. Generally nanotechnology deals with structures sized between 1 to 100 nanometer in at least one dimension, and involves developing materials or devices within that size.
Nanotechnology is very diverse, ranging from extensions of conventional device physics to completely new approaches based upon molecular self-assembly, from developing new materials with dimensions on the nanoscale to investigating whether we can directly control matter on the atomic scale.
Nanotechnology has the power to radically change the way cancer is diagnosed, imaged and
treated. Currently, there is a lot of research going on to design novel nanodevices capable of detecting
cancer at its earliest stages, pinpointing it’s location within the body and delivering anticancer drugs
specifically to malignant cells.
Nanoscale devices smaller than 50 nanometers can easily enter most cells, while those smaller
than 20 nanometers can transit out of blood vessels.1 As a result, nanoscale devices can readily interact
with biomolecules on both the cell surface and within the cell. Nanoscale devices are already proving
that they can deliver therapeutic agents to target cells, or even within specific organelles.1 Yet, despite
its small size, a nanoscale device is capable of holding tens of thousands of small molecules, such as a
contrast agent or drug.
The major areas in which nanomedicine is being developed in cancer include:
• Prevention and control. Developing nanoscale devices to deliver cancer prevention agents and
designing multicomponent anticancer vaccines.
• Early detection and proteomics. Developing “smart” collection platforms for simultaneous mass
analysis of cancer-associated markers.
• Imaging diagnostics. Designing targeted contrast agents that improve the resolution of cancer to a
single cell.
• Multifunctional Therapeutics. Creating therapeutic devices that can control the release of cancerfighting
drugs and optimally deliver medications.
This technology can lead us to more advance discoveries to our near future. Still our most formidable scientist are experimenting to discover other uses of this technology. Lets wish that our world brains can discover more useful uses of this technology.
Friday, September 10, 2010
PAL: Booking cancellations from HK, China increasing
Hotels, tour agencies experience cancellations too
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATE) - Flag carrier Philippine Airlines (PAL) said Thursday that the number of booking cancellations from Hong Kong and China has started to balloon after the bloody hostage drama in Manila, where 8 Hong Kong tourists were killed.
The PAL said that as of Wednesday, a total of 558 Manila-bound bookings from Hong Kong and mainland China have been cancelled.
"PAL is beginning to feel the initial impact of a Hong Kong government advisory warning its residents to refrain from all travel to the Philippines," PAL president Jaime Baustista said in a statement.
Bautista said the bookings were made by tourists from Hong Kong, Beijing, Xiamen and other points in China.
The PAL president added that two Hong Kong- and Macau-bound Filipino tourists have also changed their destination.
Despite the increasing number of cancellations, PAL said that it continues to dispatch 5 daily flights to and from Hong Kong
Bautista said that the airline may decide to reduce the flights if booking cancellations continue.
But he noted the airline is hoping that "fears of travelling to the Philippines will be temporary."
A day after the bloody hostage drama, the Hong Kong government issued a "black" travel alert for the Philippines. It advised all its citizens to refrain from visiting the Philippines because of the incident.
PAL said it has yet to determine the financial impact of the booking cancellations.
The airline is currently engaged in a dispute with its employees. It was forced to reduce flights because of the recent mass resignation of its pilots.
Baustista said they are hoping that the government's effort to appease the Hong Kong government will "soon lead to the lifting of the travel restrictions."
Governments of neighboring Asian countries have also reportedly issued warnings against travel to the Philippines because of the bloody hostage drama.
Hotel cancellations
Meanwhile, hotels and travel agencies have also reported cancellations, and they fear that more tourists from mainland China, and even Taiwan, may also cancel their bookings.
For one, the Waterfront Cebu City Hotel said it has lost bookings from groups of Chinese nationals.
Earlier, the Department of Tourism admitted that Monday's hostage drama may affect tourist arrivals in the Philippines, and could undermine government targets.
Data from the DoT website showed that from January to May this year, a total of 33,395 tourists from Hong Kong visited the Philippines, 14.43% higher than the 29,185 reported in the same period in 2009.
Of the number, about half or 13,775 went to the Philippine capital, Manila.
The DoT said that East Asia -- composed of China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea and Taiwan -- is Manila's major source of foreign visitors.
COMMENT:
As I've watched the news day by day, i was so disturbed by the occurring events that is not pleasant to the eyes of other countries, specially to tourist that had plans on visiting our country, a tragic event brought by the hostage taking took place at Manila, many cancellations of hotel bookings, the government must do whatever possible to find possible ways or strategy to resolve the problem that we are facing. We should not put the blame to our forces and our government because they did everything to got to resolve the hostage crisis, in times like this we should be one to make our country a better place.
Thursday, September 9, 2010
GRANDCHASE- BEST ONLINE GAME EVER
Grand Chase has servers in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Brazil, Philippines, United States, Thailand, Japan, and Indonesia. Alternate names for Grand Chase include 3小俠 (Chinese: lit. Three Young Heroes) used on the Taiwan server; however, the Hong Kong server does not use the Chinese alternative.
While gameplay in Grand Chase is primarily keyboard-driven, the game menu's interface is, by contrast, primarily mouse-driven, although some in-game key commands may be user-defined. Due to the combos and special attacks, the game has a feel that is similar to side-scrolling fighting games such as Double Dragon, while the appearance and design of the backdrops, as well as the characters and monster, puts the game in an anime-esque setting. While it is an action game, the designers took care to not make a "button masher".[1]
The game is free-to-play, where players need to earn currency known as Game Points (GP) from completing dungeon quests, individual missions, or defeating other players to buy better equipments or items, but there are some items that can only be purchased with real-world currency. In Grand Chase, players start off role-playing as one of three main heroines (or Sieghart on the Korean server), and will be able to unlock more playable characters by completing specific missions. However, the player may freely switch among the characters he or she has unlocked before entering combat, each with their own specific equipment, skills and experience level.
After each expedition into a dungeon, characters gain experience points. While the amount of experience gained is partially dependent on the player's performance in a dungeon, and the player's character's level, every player will gain some experience. The player's character is also given additional experience upon the completion of every mission. When sufficient experience is obtained, the player's character will advance by one level. Higher levels improve statistics and grant access to better equipment. Experience can also be gained through player versus player, and the amount of experience gained through this game mode is significantly higher than the amount awarded through the completion of dungeons at higher level.
Right now, The Grandchase Philippines is still on the state of update from the mainframe.. but i have high hopes to this game.. and i'm really enjoy playing grandchase...This addiction of mine is not a hobby, just for fun as we say. but i'm not letting it blocked my way to attend my classes and be a good student and study my lessons. It is always in you, how you control your addictions..
Friday, August 13, 2010
CONFLICT
Friday, July 30, 2010
JOURNAL WRITING:: THE MYSTERIOUS MOUNTAIN
Mount Apo is a large solfataric potentially active stratovolcano on the island of Mindanao in the Philippines. It is the highest Mountain in the country and overlooks Davao City-40 km northeast, Digos City-25 km southeast, and Kidapawan CIty-20 km west. Its name means "master" or "grandfather". Apo is flat topped, with three peaks, and is capped by a 500 m wide Volcanic Crater containing a small crater lake. It is a source of geothermal energy, but the date of its most recent eruption is unknown, and none are verified in historical times.
The information given in the article is quite interesting, I've learned all about Mount Apo in Davao and the tribes living on that mountain.
In reading the text i enjoyed it because the words that was used was familiar words and understandable.
QUESTIONS:
1. What city on Davao does the mountain Mount Apo belong to?
2.What are the tribes living on Mount Apo?
3.What is the element or substance that is crowning Mount Apo?
VOCABULARY:
1. Monastery - a building or residence for monks or others who have withdrawn from the world for religious reasons
ex. The monastery in our village is huge.
2.Tropical- very hot; sultry
ex. Philippines is a tropical country.
3.Majestic - gallant: having or displaying great dignity or nobility.
ex. The people on england when attending a party are majestic.
4.Ancestor - One from whom a person is descended, whether on the father's or mother's side, at any distance of time; a progenitor; a fore father; An earlier type; a progenitor; One from whom an estate has descended.
ex. Spaniards is one of my ancestors.
5.Magnitude - order of magnitude: a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10
Ex. They tried to predict the magnitude of the explosion.
JOURNAL WRITING:NO ONE STOPS TO SAY "THANK YOU" ANYMORE
As I've watch the world as i grow, people are changing as years pass by, children are raise by many ways of the parents and some of the parents are not good on raising kids that's why in my time right as i relate it on the story, on our generation people don't know what manner is, they know the word but don't get the meaning yet. The story is a true form of the generation of the people right now.
Questions:
1.What is the main reason why some of the people right now don't have manners?
2.What are the factors of the why people are not well mannered right now?
3.What is the society that was built today by the people and feel proud about it?
1.Society
-an organized group of persons associated together forreligious, benevolent, cultural,scientific, political, patriotic, or other purposes.
ex. Some of the people right now on our society are not well-mannered.
2. Chick
-Slang: Often Offensive . a girl or young woman.
ex. I saw a chick in the bar.
3. Manner
-a person's outward bearing
ex.The person's manner is awful.
4.Oversensitive
-excessively or unduly sensitive.
ex. Jenny is oversensitive when taking about boys.
5.Scruffy
-shabby, unkempt, or untidy
ex. Squatters living near the river are scruffy.
Friday, July 23, 2010
3 ABILITIES TO ACQUIRE ON FULLFILLING A LIFE'S DREAM
Thursday, July 8, 2010
SHERLOCK HOLMES MOVIE REVIEW
The movie is structured essentially as an adventure romance, as Holmes (Downey Jr.) and Watson (Law) try to break up and, through crooked schemes and explosions and near escapes, realize by the end how much they mean to one another after all. At the beginning Watson is preparing to move out of 221b Baker Street, with plans to propose to pretty and proper Mary (Kelly Reilly) and leave the detective business entirely. Holmes, bored and hilariously jealous, attempts to sabotage Watson's engagement and also draw him back into the game, now that an old closed case has suddenly reopened.
Months earlier Watson and Holmes put away Lord Blackwood (Mark Strong), an aristocrat who murdered five people via some kind of dark arts ceremony. Watson himself supervised Blackwood's hanging, but when he appears to have risen from the dead, everyone from the police to a secret cabal wants to know how he did it. Blackwood and his legion of followers have plans for world domination via drinking potions and other hocus pocus, while Holmes goes about finding Blackwood in the only way he knows how-- using his "not inconsiderable knowledge" and foolproof logic. Meanwhile, Holmes's old flame Irene Adler (Rachel McAdams) is back in town, a criminal beauty working secretly for a shadowy boss with a penchant for fancy weaponry. Adler pops up from time to time to help Watson and Holmes in their investigations, and it's clear to the audience that she'll throw a wrench in things even when Holmes hasn't quite gotten there.
Dipping into chemistry and pentagrams and the earliest forms of electricity, the plot is all over the place, and I'm not entirely certain I understand how it all fit together in the end. But the story really just provides a vehicle for the action and the fantastic character interactions, one of which delivers slightly better than the other. While some action setpieces, like a fight at a shipyard and the final race against the clock, are brilliantly structured, the fight choreography gets chopped up into bits, with Ritchie cutting too quickly for the audience to see a punch or a kick all the way through. The editing often works directly at odds with Downey Jr.'s physicality, as he throws in a funny movement or a particularly sweet punch, only to see it lost entirely to needless slo-mo and quick cuts.
Then again, all that Ritchie noodling works great in Holmes's investigation scenes, allowing him visual flashbacks to all the clues that led him to his conclusions and avoiding the dreadful slowness that comes with most mystery-solving monologues. Miraculously the audience is right there with Holmes even during his most out-there epiphanies, and the equally out-there camerawork pays off well in making this period piece feel unstuffy, but also not gimmicky. He's helped immensely by Hans Zimmer's loose, wily score, one of the best action movie scores I've heard in years.
When Ritchie holds the camera relatively still and lets all of the actors play off each other, there's nothing better. Eddie Marsan is hilarious as the frustrated Inspector Lestrade, and Strong's Blackwood makes for a great intellectual equal against Holmes, but when Downey Jr. and Law are together the screen lights up so brightly it could catch fire. Bantering like Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell or trading off punches in a fight, the two actors have rarely looked so self-assured or in synch with an onscreen partner. Watson and Holmes squabble over clothes and the dog, tend one another's wounds and protect one another from injury, and generally make the best action-adventure duo since Indy and Marion. The one downside to all this energy between the boys is that Adler is sold short, flitting in and out of the plot seemingly at random, and rarely getting much out of Sherlock beyond a stolen kiss or two. McAdams is excellent and fiery in the role, but it seems much of her part was trimmed in order to make more room for Downey Jr. and Law. But oh, what a consolation prize that is.
As the movie winds down it begins to brazenly set up a sequel, and given the manifold adventures of Holmes and Watson that Arthur Conan Doyle wrote, it's hard to imagine two heroes better suited to a modern franchise. There are surely simpler Holmes stories to tell that won't get so bogged down in plot, and maybe there's a way to let the brains beat out the brawn next time, at least if the fights are going to stay so incomprehensible. But keep this iteration of Watson and Holmes together, and we're likely to follow them anywhere.