Saturday, 13 July 2013

Engineering advertisement done right

Hello everyone,

Not sure if there's anyone left still reading this blog but, here's a once in a blue moon post.

Back when I was younger but not-so-new to the internet, I've come across a handful of flash games created by a very creative Japanese guy (or girl, I have no idea). What this game was, was sort of a puzzle that solves itself as time goes by. Strange to describe but trust me, it's epicly creative. What the player has to do is basically select items in order, and each time you select an item, a round goes by. And as each round goes by, your previous selections "evolve" into grander items. And here's the kicker: The order matters as the items actually interact with one another!

So I found myself playing flash games and felt I want to play these Grow Games again. So I'm here to share one of the ones that impressed me the most. It seems to be sort of an introduction to engineering for would-be University goers.

Hope you enjoy it as much as I had.

http://shingakunet.com/school/9000621340/9000677582/special/grow/index.html


~Fox
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Thursday, 22 November 2012

Protein with longest name


Good day readers!

I was driving along earlier today when the radio presenter read out a little titbit that sparked the nerdiness in me. She talked about a protein with the longest name in English with a whopping 189,819 letters.

This protein is called Titin apparently derived from the Greek "Titan" (surprised? not.)

For those of you who want to see what it looks like, here it is:





No matter how much my inner scientist is sparked, I cannot help but see it as something reminiscent to the background effect in the Matrix movies.

And for those who are more of a listener than a reader, REJOICE! Here's a video of someone reading it to you. There's a catch though, it's a 3 and a half hour long video.



There's always more info at Wikipedia if you want to know beyond its name haha. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Titin


Cheers
~Fox
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Monday, 27 August 2012

Training for running herper derp stuff

Hi there readers! It's been a while (as usual) since I've updated. The recent weeks I've been training for a fitness test where I have to run 2.4km or 1.5 miles or 6 laps in at least 12 minutes. And I have to say, it's a massive difference between running on the treadmill and on the track itself. Long story short, running on the track for the first time last week totally destroyed whatever stamina I thought I've built up by training on the treadmill in the gym. Fortunately I soon got used to it and though performance-wise it wasn't as good, there have been improvements.

Yesterday I trained at a track and field next to le gf's house with le gf. It was a beautiful day and I am still wondering how I woke up at 6am to run. The track and field was quite new I reckon, really well maintained! Praise to the school if it isn't new haha.



Somehow the track felt small though, which made me wonder if it's really 400m per lap. But regardless, I was only doing stamina training so it was fine. I'm quite proud of my time:


However I'm not happy by the fact that I took one break after 30mins though I stopped the timer (kinda felt like I was cheating) as well as I kinda felt the fatigue get to me towards the end and had to walk for about 1 minute on the timer. When it comes to stamina training, for me, as I start to tire time seems to go slower and slower.

In this case as I ran for what seems like 10 minutes, in my mind it was like this:


And only about 1-2 minutes have passed. Okay.jpg

Oh! Though I find that running with headphones/earphones on with music playing is a good motivation and distraction from the pain.Which brings me to when I was on cooldown and just walking the track, this song came up:



I don't know why, but when it came to the chorus, it made me smile like some I don't know...


That's all peeps! Train hard play hard!

~Fox
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Sunday, 24 June 2012

It's a beautiful morning!



Wake up, readers!

Beautiful Sunday today, nothing much other than showering Pancake (my dog). Just listened to that song which was shuffled in my playlist haha and I thought "What a fitting song for today!"

Have a happy happy Sunday everyone! Regardless of you sleeping in or being an busy bee, always spend time with your family ;D

And here's a picture of Pancake, isn't he precious? lol


Until next time!


~Fox
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Thursday, 14 June 2012

2 Days of LiveWire Brunei - Bright Ideas


Hey all!

Just got back from a full day of activities and learning from an event by Brunei's LiveWire called Bright Ideas (BI). It's basically a little two day seminar aimed at teaching people the basics on how to start a business. I actually participated in another event a few weeks back called BSOM.

The turnout for the BI was alright, just 11 people including myself. I actually wanted to join 2 weeks ago however, it clashed with training at AIA. But I can finally join yay! And guess what, it's only $30! I believe that this event was a pretty good cool down and eye-opener for myself personally as well as professionally. We were thrown questions and when answered, the answer was questioned too until it concentrates down to a point. It's a pretty good two-way learning experience where trying is encouraged and there is no 100% right answer.

Most of the people who joined are the youths either in upper six form or in university or going to university. It felt fresh but many of them were quite shy; something they'll soon weed out when in University I'd reckon hahaha.

When I joined the first event, BSOM, I always felt a but awkward during introductions to the speakers... It was always name then "I'm a fresh graduate from so-and-so and I'm currently waiting for work". It didn't feel bad but it didn't feel good either; guess it was the feeling of not contributing? This time I can proudly say I'm employed as an insurance agent from AIA.

-RANT-
I don't really know how I feel about people's perception of me. A part of me am proud of who I am and what I do. The other part of me gets REALLY pissed off at so-called "friends" who not only bash what I do, but worst still, don't pick up my calls or reply my texts and so on.

OK, I'm getting derailed from the topic. Guess I just want to let off some steam hahaha.
-END OF RANT-

Anyways about LiveWire, I first saw an ad by LiveWire when I was in "Sims mode" looking at the newspaper everyday to see if there are any job vacancies available. The ad I saw was for BSOM, thinking I got nothing to do than waste away at home anyway, I went for it; it costed only $65 for 4 full days. Instantly, 4 days of my week was filled for once. BSOM was thoroughly satisfying in both what I learned as well as the people I met.

There's nothing much I can say here that will do them justice so if you really have an interest to start a business I do urge you to join it. You will not regret it I assure you.

If you wish to learn more, here's their website: http://www.livewire-brunei.com/index.php

All the best!


~Fox
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