Last October 15, 2007, the Rotaract Club had Medical Mission with the Rotary Club of Laguna Technopark at
The serving is wider than me... :)
Nowadays, many youths are not in school. Some causes of this are lack of motivation, financial problems, and other additional factor. In addition to these, their living environment can also be a cause. In fact, if these youth are with people with no thought of going to school or having a bright future, they can be more prone to being included in the out of school youth.
Being an out of school youth is not the last part of the situation. Furthermore, it is just a phase in their lives. Many graduates are unemployed, therefore it is more likely that those who didn’t finished schooling will also be unemployed. Nevertheless, we can’t still say that out of school youth have no bright future. In fact, they may be luckier to get a decent job. However, they may encounter hard time because of their lack of experience and training. For instance, they work with those professionals and expect them to do more than their capabilities. They can easily be fired if the employer thinks that the employees are incapable.
Being an out of school youth is not an excuse for not doing well in life, therefore one must really strive hard to surpass some struggles. In addition, hard workers are well compensated in the future as long as they have goodness in their hearts.
Yesterday, I went out with my friends after class. They played billiards and ordered some beer. I only drank two bottles but I felt that my head was really heavy. In addition to that, I have to withdraw some money because my roommate was asking me to buy something. What makes my head worse was that there were so many barricades because of the construction. It was like a maze going to that ATM machine and getting out of there. There were also many people that I got bumped to. I think that was also the effect of alcohol.
After their game, we ate at the public market. It was still early that we decided to stay at Paseo for a while. We just chat and listened to the music at Guilly’s. We talked about so many things and before we knew it, it was almost nine in the evening. We decided to go home so we all went home. Hehehe…
We have fun last night. I think we will do that again soon.
My dinner... :)
(Using technology developed to construct microchips, engineers can now construct microscopic machinery (like the gears shown in this electron microscope image, dwarfed by a mite). Future generations of nano-machinery promise to be even smaller. Source: Sandia National Laboratories.)I have learned that nanotechnology was not that easy to explain. It was said that nanotechnology is very small. Its size is smaller than a nanometer. I’ve learned that nanotechnology is still in its infancy. Because during the mid-90’s, most engineers don’t think about small. They were thinking about big objects like big atomic bombs, big cars, and other big stuff. But there were other researchers who focus on making things smaller. Thus the invention of transistors and integrated circuits took place. But these small devices made the large devices. I’ve learned that during that time, electronics engineers were focusing on making things smaller and other engineers and scientists focus on smaller things. Those smaller things are atoms and molecules. They were studying how atoms are made and what’s the force that binds them together. They also understand how to combine atoms into molecules to produce useful things. Because of these, new studies were developed during the 80’s.
It was understood that nanotechnology was developed from the field of physics, chemistry, and electronics. There was this idea of making mechanical devices from atoms. But these resulting devices are bigger. Because the idea was to manipulate those atomic things.
There were these molecules that look like soccer balls. Scientists looked for practical use of these molecules. While they were searching for practical use of these molecules, other scientists discovered another thing. They invented this thing which can move atoms around. Because of these discoveries, new computers and software were developed for the scientists to stimulate and visualize chemical reactions of atoms and molecules. This is very helpful to them especially if they are dealing with complex molecules like DNA.
Genetic engineers were able to figure out ways on how to modify chemical reactions of DNA molecules and use them for scientific research. They were also able to replicate any DNA molecules they want to study. Because computers and other tools were available during the 90’s, they use DNA for construction of new chemicals and making tiny machines. There were able to make materials to interact with other materials and also attack diseases.
(Artist's rendition of the space elevator of the future. Source: IEEE Spectrum, Aug 2005)
As of now, the future of nanotechnology is not yet assured. But even so, engineers and scientists have a good vision about it. There was this thought that there will be long nanotubes to be used for space elevators. In the medical field nowadays, nanotechnologies can only detect diseased cancer cells for them to be easily targeted. But it is predicted that in the future, because of nanotechnology, nobody gets ill, gets old, or even die until they want to. There will be molecular machines that will be injected to us to repair unhealthy and aging cells. That means we will always have healthy cells.
Some researchers also believe that eventually they can assemble circuits atom by atom to create computer chips. The circuits in these chips will be much smaller and producing more power computers is possible. We can even upload and download our own personality into that computer.
Although many are optimistic about the nanotechnology, there are some researchers who evaluated the risk of this. Some say that there is a risk of allowing nanoparticles into the body. Others say that nanotechnology might get out of control that may lead to a great human disaster. There can be also a great competition of the bacteria, plants, and humans for natural resources.
The future of nanotechnology is still unsure. But whatever it is, the marvels of nanotechnology can come to life and downsides will be avoided if wisdom will be properly used.
We experience various happenings in life. There are times that we are up and there are times that we are down. Happiness is very easy to accept because it gives us good feeling. But during the time that we are so low or if there’s something hurtful that happens to us, we tend to give negative response to it. But our emotion is our own feeling and we can control it. It is our own decision that we are over powered by our inner thoughts. When something tragic has come our way, we have an option to deny or accept it. If we deny it, there can be so many regrets in our mind and all we can do is cry. It will be a burden in our heart unlike if we accept it. If we accept all things whole-heartedly then we won’t have a heavy feeling in our heart. During the time of regrets and denial, we think of many things. There will be times that we are mentally-absent. This can be a reason why there are some who space-out because they are very distracted. But if we can accept and move on, we can have peace of mind. We will not think of what if’s and if only’s because our thoughts are calm. If we continue in resisting the real thing, it will give us stress. And stress makes people older. But if we let go of whatever hurtful things in our own heart, we will be relieved. We can look prettier because we were able to carry our problems.
It is not that easy to accept everything that happens in our life. We should develop our accepting skill because it will benefit not only ourselves but also everything that surrounds us.
There was this Beagle who was not doing well in the force. There was an incident that they have to let him go. Wandering around the street, he was captured to become a guinea pig of a scientist. This scientist is making strengthening capsule and experimenting on dogs. During an experiment, this Beatle was able to intake the formula and became super strong. He was able to escape from that scientist.
He was walking along the alley when he was bumped by a security guard with his car. Seeing that he has no collar, he brought the dog home and gave it to his son. At first, his son was not thrilled of having a dog as his pet. When he learned that his dog has super powers, he was shocked at first but later on supporting his dog. They met a girl and her dog. That boy likes the girl and the Beagle likes her dog. The boy and the Beagle kept the super power secret. And the Beagle became very popular in saving the world.
Because of this, the scientist was able to pull his self together again with the help of his ever-loyal side-kick. He searched for that Beagle and he succeeded. He was able to make strengthening capsule again because of the Beagle’s DNA. Unfortunately, the boy’s family was at stake that the Beagle gave up his super powers for their safety. As expected, the scientist didn’t honor their agreement. Instead, he gave the three German Shepherds capsule. They were able to have more strength. And because they were army dogs, they were trained to follow only their boss’ order. And their boss is that scientist.
The scientist was able to have a moment of taking over the world. Unfortunately, there was a slight accident that the Beagle was able to swallow a capsule again. He regains his strength and talked to the German Shepherds. That Beagle was successful to convince the German Shepherds that the enemy there is the scientist.
The scientist and his side-kick were captured and are sent to jail. They were cell-mates. The security guard father got promoted and returned to the force. The son was happy with his girl and so is his dog. They live in their new and improved life and the Beagle remains a super hero.
Last Saturday, September 29, 2007, twenty two Engineering students and two faculties went to 
Still in school...
This is how a cooking oil bottle looks like originally...
This is a machine where the cooking oil bottle is being formed.
A cooking oil bottle...
Souvenir...
Souvenir...
Souvenir...
Engkantadia as background... :D
