Impactful; Visual representation

A friend of mine said to me once, "It makes no sense to go through so many years of college and then just be perceived as a 'NUMBER' amongst the people in your field"
Hopefully the above sentence is explanatory in the context of being unique and aiming to be the best.

Now, study the diagram below and afterward, consider the questions beneath.

Would you rather be Student A or Student B

If you picked Student B, how do you define the role of such an individual in the society

Are currently on track to appear in the society mimicking Student B

What then is your ultimate goal, and why do you think its important to appear in such manner considering the current technological advancement in the world?

Keep in mind that the picture depicted here asks the question in a scientific point of view.

New Ideas. Unstoppable

Like that movie "unstoppable," new ideas can actually be unstoppable sometimes. Every time new ideas pop into my head, I'm thinking "Um... this can be a world changer" ... then right after that, another one pops in. I refrain and begin saying "maybe this is the better idea." Really, of what impact is a novel idea if not implemented in some way. Hence, I've decided to put this into works.
Build a life with my ideas. Then at 60 look back and say "Um...what a good lived and impacted life"
Or maybe I will just sell my ideas. But who will buy 'em?
Funny that I speak of ideas, most people just go on and do it without making mention of it in anyway. I guess I'm just always willing to share what I know with everyone.
If I may ask, of what use is this skill and how can I change the world with it?

Already, I'm breathing hard. Looking at the clock and wondering when to go sleep with my bed. 2.18am . Ok, I'm exhausted. I have to go now. Strange since I began writing my day.

the beginning of a new semester

I don't know what to post today, but school starts now and I am a bit shakey considering the amount of work I have to do this semester. Last semester was quite an unexpected ending, but I'm glad this semester can pay off for the mishap.
Eight classes and a research class. One of the class I completed last week. This week the others start.
First, my sincere thanks to God who has made it possible for me to be where I am right now.
In spite of the easy fun things to do around, it seems like this semester will rather leave me wondering how to finish strong while ignoring all there is to do around here. Somehow I've concluded that my appearance during this semester on the school environment will be perceived by very few people, narrowing down the number to my departmental mates.
Well, as for stress relieving doings, I do not hope for much right now. Maybe soccer here and there, but even with that stress is increased.
As I write in this blog right now, for reason unknown to me, there is a sense of free flowing sentences emanating from my quite mind. My guess is that this comes from the fact that I'm just writing for fun. Um... if this feeling persists, I will write more of just "my day" as supposed to "strictly success" just like I've been doing until now.
Ok its already 1:19pm. Its time to stop writing. Chao.
Dear Spirit of writing, please bring me back everyday to just pour out my mind.
Um...how do I end?
Ok, I guess I will just say Bye...
Bye for now.

Christmas Break

A youtube video I watched of Will smith was quite informative considering that he broadly discussed his perspective on success. Somewhere in this interview he spoke highly about work ethic and its importance. T D Jakes also spoke of non-stop hard work in his message "It shall come to pass." Also, during the school year a friend of my said once "I hate the word HARDWORK." Umm...What then am I trying to say here? The one who wins the "gold medal" never STOPPED working hard. Thus, smart work is key but so is unceasing work.
This is my strive --aim for the sky, but never stop working toward getting there. Sometimes its tough, a lot times I slack, several occasion I disappoint or is disappointed. Then I pray for strength from God to continue working.
Just today, my friend and I read an essay of a high school senior where she starts of the 6-page paper with "Life is hard..." My comment afterward was "If I read that in my hype moments, my first response will be to keep the paper off for when I'm willing to hear a tragic story because that's what it sounds like." Of course Life is hard, this is supposed to be the case. If its not hard everyone will be like Bill Gates. Hence, starting a sentence with such beginning tells me you are about to pour out some negative words...
In this life, I do two things that I consider necessary. First is pharmecuticals, the other web design. For me, this do not work hand in hard...but they really have to.
The reason to write is christmas. And for this reason, I shall hit the nail at the pont.

...to be continued

A vision; one long ignored

Day after day, Its drawn to my attention the honest truth behind the quote of a very brilliant scientist decades ago. He said that "to be impactful takes more than just being smart because there are so many unrecognized smart individual in science." That's just my break down of his full paragraph, and sincerely I don't recall his exact words.
This is very true. From experiences, I can certainly attest with ample amount of examples about such instances in which someone who is brilliantly smart, so to say, did not quite make the culmination of his goal. And this is due to numerous reasons, for which I shall only highlight a few.

First, Focus. One might question the order in which I present this points, as there are preferably far more important points to throw out first. However, I do believe that focus is a big key here. Focus literally means "to fix attention" as purported in the modern dictionary. Why fix your attention? What ever happened to "don't put all your eggs in one basket?"

The notion of fixing your attention may differ, but in the context of having a vision, this is crucial. Several times I have been told to fix my attention on what I'm doing. In fact, one of the few words I remember vividly from my previous years working as an undergraduate in the lab is "if you put your mind in what you do, you will do good" from one whom I shall leave unknown. Because I consider myself a thinker and as such love to do it often, I find my self thinking deeply when something inspiring is spoken or seen. So I thought hard about the latter quoted sentences. I review the sentence over and over again, while sitting in front of the computer with my leg wobbling under the desk and causing a cracking noise beneath to disturb other lab mates. After accessing this sentence, I concluded it was absolutely true. When I put my mind in what ever I did, there was a higher success rate.
At times I wonder if I there needs to be another (crucial point). Perhaps I'm supposed to perfect the former in order to move on. Umm...
Second point brings me home -- hardworking. This one I am confused about. Several times I ask myself, how do I know that I am hardworking? Does it really mean when I stay in school all day, or when I am consistently in the lab trying to get an experiment done? Well, maybe this is not for me to ask. However, I do think its as important as my goal to know the rate at which I am progressing. This point reminds me of a quote "Anything that refreshes you without distracting from, diminishing or destroying your ultimate goal is a legitimate pleasure." Thus, does hardworking necessarily mean sitting at the computer/library all day studying? I can't say. Hence, I shall leave your with that point to further elaborate for yourself.
Another rather interesting point is relentlessness. Never giving up, always striving. Someone ones commented on this aspect saying something in the lines of ...the difference between the one who wins and the others is that the former was relentless in his strive to reach the top. I like this word, and this is also my strive --to be and remain relentless until I achieve the goals I have set prior to starting this journey.
A friend of mine, one whom I shall again leave unnamed, usually speaks of how he would not make it because he seems to have failed so many times even after trying so hard. What if he's destined to become the president or a nobel laureate or a world changer? How does this attitude propagate one to attain this goal? Maybe I ask too many question, but questions are just meant to help understand better.
Right attitude and motivation, I believe, should go along with relentless. This is a reason why I very much support Isaac Newton's quote “If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.” Because the truth is that everyone fails. But you need motivations and to keep the right attitude in order to succeed.
Sometime I fret at this being a crucial aspect to making a big impact in the world because I lose it ones in a while. For example, if I keep the right attitude for a long time and still nothing meaningful or improvement is perceived, I tend to drop out for a while. Sometimes its okay, but sometimes its not. What if you've almost reached the goal before giving up?
This is where the word "God" comes in. Even the bible is enough to convince you of the fact that you are the right person to make the goal you've always wanted. No Ivy league school, no nobel laureate, no president, no father can help as much as being a christian will help. Atheists might question this paragraph, but I am certain that this is very true.


"To succeed in science, you have to avoid dumb people... Even as a child, I never liked to play tag with anyone who was bad as I was. If you win, it gives you no pleasure. And in the game of science-or life-the highest goal isn't simply to win, it's to win at something really difficult. Put another way, it's to go somewhere beyond your ability and come out on top."
James Watson. James Watson, "Succeeding in Science: Some Rules of Thumb", Science, 261, 24 (September 1993): 1812. September 1993.

Web Tool: nextDate.js

Type : text/javascript
Description: nextDate.js is helpful if you are trying to embed an automatic countdown timer on your website. It simple and less complex that the idea might seem. Basically, you just have to input the day you request. For example, if you'd like to obtain next Monday's date.
Future Path: I will be working on functionality for holidays and so on.


INSTRUCTION
Create an html file and include the content below.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

<title>Get next Date</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="nextdate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function()
{
//To fetch how many days to Next Sunday at 5pm(12+5 = 17 G.M.T).
tDay = "Monday";
tHour = 17;
tMin = 0;
tSeconds = 0;
var daysTillNextSunday = day.Next(tDay,tHour,tMin,tSeconds);
document.getElementById('timetillnextSunday').innerHTML =daysTillNextSunday.getMonth()+"-"+daysTillNextSunday.getDate()+"-"+daysTillNextSunday.getFullYear();


//right now
ds =new Date();document.getElementById('daterightnow').innerHTML+=ds.getMonth()+"-"+ds.getDate()+"-"+ds.getFullYear()+" "+ds.getHours()+":"+ds.getMinutes()+":"+ds.getSeconds();
}

</script>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body
{
background-color:#999;
}
p {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
}
h1,h3 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 24px;
font-weight: bold;
background-color:#FFF;
display:inline-block;
padding:0px;
margin:2px;
text-shadow:1px 1px 1px #ccc;
}
h2 {
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px;
margin-bottom:0px;
}
-->
</style>
</head>

<body>
<center>
<div style="background-color:white">

<h2>Right now is </h2>
<h3 id="daterightnow"></h3>
<h2>NEXT Monday at 5pm is</h2>
<h1 id='timetillnextSunday'></h1>

</div>

</center>
</body>
</html>

Then right click and save nextdate.js in the same directory.
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Finished!
This should be your result. DEMO

Even when all hope seems to be lost

Two recent events, which happened between this week and last week, that proves (more to me) the goodness of a loving God. First, my phone fell into a bucket of dirty liquid mixture, and stopped working. After a week, I somehow resuscitated it back to a good working condition without expending any money. Secondly, I was outbid on a wrist watch at ebay in the last few minutes because I fell asleep. Afterward, I found the same wrist watch for even a lower price than I had bidden before. Truly, God is great.
Trusting in the lord is the best thing to do in any situation, good or bad. In fact, my favorite passage of the bible, Psalm 125:1, reads "those who trust in the lord are like mount Zion which cannot be moved, but abides forever," And following this in verse 2 "as the lord surrounds Jerusalem so He will surround you forever." He also said "never will I leave you no forsake you." Hence, he is my stronghold anytime anywhere.
As per unknowingly trusting my phone into the bucket full of water mixed with some detergent, I thought "this is the end of another new phone in three months. Well, God thanks...good day" This all happened while I bent down to pick up something, and my phone was uncovered in the upper pocket of my shirt. A minute ago, I had forced myself to move its location from the desk to my pocket because I inadvertently hit it down while writing. Little did I know that this was the beginning to an end of it's use for a week. Suddenly, while it dropped helplessly into the water, I heard a sound somewhat like a ball of metal being dropped into an endless pit.Then I peeped to ensure my eyes were not mistaken-- there laid my phone in the bottom of the long cylindrical bucket three-forth full of liquid.
At first I contemplated putting my hand into the liquid to take out the phone thinking the chemicals might be irritating to the skin, but then it was blatant that was my only option unless I never want to use the phone again. So finally I summoned some courage to take it out after a 1-minute hiatus. Turning it ON was easy, but I had to blow off the moisture from the phone before use. It worked after I turned it On,so I switched it off in order to disintergrate and blow off the liquid from its intricate parts. This was successful, but now it was impossible to turn it ON again -- the reason for which I am still obfuscated.
For a week I tried several means to get the phone working again. First, I got it checked out at a t-mobile retail store. Then tried to dry it under the sunlight, and once with a drying machine, but all to no avail. Soon I was running out of options to restore my phone. Even the t-mobile representatives said my warranty couldn't cover a water damage so I was left helpless with a phone that would only charge. I was timorous knowing that buying a new phone might be the last resort, but I committed everything in prayer to God nonetheless.
Even though I felt and believed that somehow the lord will come true for me, to have increased the stakes of losing the phone by leaving it in the liquid for 1-minutes was undoubtedly the root of my despair.
Exactly six days after this unforeseen tragedy, I recalled that one of the t-mobile representatives had mentioned storing the phone amidst a bag of uncooked rice. He said rice was capable of sucking up the moisture in days, but this was just a mere believe. Knowing that was almost my only hope, I set-out to try... believing that God is capable of using this procedure to restore the phone. I was a bit doubtful after trying other means that never worked, but I wanted to see this outcome of this one-last-trial.
To my greatest surprise, rice was a powerful moisture absorber. My phone now works perfectly. Even in my wildest, I would never think that storing a phone in a bag of rice was capable of ridding it of moisture. But nevertheless, I believe the lord had a hand in this so I am grateful. Actually, this is the high of my week thus far.