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We are always on a constant journey once we set foot on this earth.

During childhood, we discover the basic things in life.
Back then, we learn with our senses.

Little things quickly amazed us; Simple stuffs made us happy for a while.
Curiosity overwhelmed us; and discovery offered the best smile. 

At adolescence, we start seeing the two faces of life.
Here, we learn by experience.

We earn friends by gaining adversaries. We stand stronger by falling down.
We seek love by losing ourselves. We appreciate beauty through its ugliness.

When we become adults, we strive to stabilize our life.
We learn by self-realization and growth.

We shall discover that both the best ally and the worst foe of ourselves is ourselves!
That sharing our life with other people was the best gift we can ever receive.

But when will our worldly journey end?
At death? I don't think so.

It is when we personally experience
True Happiness and Contentment.

Thus, we shall stop traveling when we finally find...

a HOME.

Oops Sorry! Nothing Personal.

I am not actually an avid fan of NBA since I literally do not watch it on television.
BUT Yahoo Sports Minute indeed made me watch a few intriguing seconds of game 4 of the best-of-7 finals series between Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers.

Here is WHY.

Seeing a flying punch toward a referee, though unintentional, is absolutely very RARE and had become quite a shocker to all sports fans out there. Now I can personally say that the NBA FINALS SERIES IS REALLY A MUST WATCH EVENT!

Meanwhile, the latter part of the video showed us an excellent display of sportsmanship when the San Diego Padres made a triple play against the New York Mets . Triple Play in baseball, by the way, is making THREE OUTS during A SINGLE BAT, and once again another RARE event in the the world of sports, or in baseball for that matter.

To all the SPORTSMEN and SPORTS FANS out there:
ALWAYS KEEP THE GAME SPIRIT BURNING!!

What An Ideal Leader Is For Me

An ideal leader does not need to possess godlike characteristics or perfect interpersonal skills.

In my eyes, there are ONLY TWO vital guidelines required to achieve such stature:

NOT DOING ANYTHING that shall insult human dignity; and
DOING SOMETHING that will uplift human integrity.

Doing no bad stuffs at all is NOT JUST ENOUGH!
A good leader seeks ways to grow, but most importantly, SHARES.

Whether it only involves a little gesture or a well-planned course of action, a simple affair or a much more complicated event, it does not actually matter.

Great leaders, for me, are not exclusively famed by history.

True leaders are the ones who opt not to impose respect despite of power at hand but still been rewarded by recognition from his followers.
They are the ones who lets their actions do the talking.

Is The Sun Excited For Something?

An article at space.com, entitled More Active Sun Means Nasty Solar Storms Ahead, sees the sun's activity as "coming out of a slump and gearing up for a more active period".
Solar storms are the best examples of very noticeable solar activities, which occur when sunspots erupt and release massive amount of charged particles. In effect, it can cause SERIOUS damages ranging from our hand-held gadgets to our space stations. Of course, that is not to mention its corresponding biological and geological impacts.

Notably, most of the technologies of our generation, if not all, can be KNOCKED OUT by intense solar activity and in fact, the National Academy of Sciences warned that even one major solar storm could cause approximately TWENTY TIMES more economic damage than Hurricane Katrina or any other major hurricanes recorded in the history of human kind.

Of course, the scientific community does not take this for granted and actually, they already started a few steps to mitigate the possible damages. Top scientists, including Richard Fisher met at the Space Weather Enterprise Forum, which was held at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C, and discussed the best ways to protect Earth's satellites and other vital systems from the coming solar storms.

Space weather forecasting is also making a rapid progress as said by Thomas Bogdan, director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)'s Space Weather Prediction Center in Boulder, Colo.

As of now, NASA and NOAA work hand-in-hand to monitor the sun and help predict its changes through the continuously evolving space technologies like the satellites, the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO), the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), etc.

Just imagine what we could be dealing with the next few decades most especially, in the controversial year of 2012.

Is the sun somehow excited for a major astronomical event in 2012 that's why it becomes more active than ever? Does the upcoming GREAT RIFT or the GRAND ALIGNMENT of 2012, makes the sun somehow react unpredictably due to the fact that we are getting closer to its realignment with our galactic center? Nobody knows and only one thing is for certain:

Just be READY.

credits to http://www.space.com for the article and photos

A Great Leap for PHOTOVOLTAICS

Since I am currently taking up Electronics And Communications Engineering, there would be no wonder why a specific article caught my utmost attention.


It was entitled: "Solar Cells: Coming to a window near you?" by John D. Sutter, published at the CNN website, June 9 ,2010.

Swiss Professor Michael Gratzel was recently been awarded by Finland's Technology Academy with the Millennium Technology Prize - which is none other than the biggest award in the field of technology!

His innovation of the solar cells, now called the Gratzel Cells, were credited by the scientific community because it not only presents large-scale solutions for the carbon/energy crisis through renewable resources, but also offers such solutions in a much lower-costing scheme.

What's the catch here? His discovery is simply amazing because it could convert a regular window into electricity-generating solar cells! Much more, also according to him, solar cells of this breed could be integrated in almost any objects we encounter everyday like furniture, lamp, street posts, etc.

But how? Professor Gratzel was inspired by the photosynthetic process plants use to generate charges. He is now on his way in duplicating the primary charge separation step through an artificial means, more likely, an artificial photosynthesis. This technology would be a great alternative for the silicon photovoltaics which cost a lot more.

There's something else. I am just so happy with the acknowledgment of this promising technology because for the record, photosynthesis-inspired solar cells was once our feasibility study by my group mates in my university.

This is just awesome!