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Hazy

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 01:21:00 -0400

There are times like these that I just want to sleep forever or wished I wasn’t born.

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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 20:32:31 -0400

Created and recorded March 9, 2013

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 21:20:58 -0500

Created and recorded March 9, 2013

The ABC of Architects, An Animated List of Notable Architects

Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:21:15 -0500

The ABC of Architects, An Animated List of Notable Architects

sciencesoup: tachypomp: sciencesoup: Graphene: The Miracle...

Sat, 15 Dec 2012 23:53:53 -0500

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Graphene: The Miracle Material

Graphene is 200 time stronger than steel, harder than diamond, super flexible, and an excellent conductor of heat and electricity—and yet is only one atom thick. It’s a material made out of a single layer of pure carbon atoms, arranged in a honeycomb lattice connected by the strongest bonds known to science. Basically, graphene is just a super-thin sheet of graphite, the material found in pencils—so thin that a stack of three million sheets would be just 1 mm thick. Physicists Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov discovered it in 2004, and later received a Nobel Prize for their work because graphene is an incredibly versatile material—comparable to the vast range of uses that plastic has—and can even be modified to take on different properties: researchers have successfully made it magnetic. Graphene’s amazing mechanical, electrical and optical properties mean that it could be used for vast range of applications, from stronger and lighter car and airplane parts, to super-tough textiles, to healthcare, to a replacement for silicon in nano-electronics—which could lead to faster, thinner and more flexible electronic devices. It may be some years before we see these applications fully realised because there are still obstacles to overcome, but there’s no doubt that graphene has incredible and unparalleled potential.

Read about recent advancements

Fun fact: There is a poster about graphene in my physics teacher’s classroom, I sit on the exact opposite side of the classroom from it so I haven’t read it yet but it features a cat, so I’m going to go ahead and assume that you can use it to support cats.

YOU CAN. Geim and Novoselov calculated that a hammock made of one square metre of graphene could support a 4 kg cat—but it would only weigh as much as a single cat whisker, and it would be almost completely invisible.

Another fun fact: Geim won an Ig Nobel Prize for his work on magnetically levitatating frogs. He’s actually the first person to win both an Ig Nobel and a Nobel Prize!

Carabao Dreams

Fri, 03 Aug 2012 23:39:00 -0400

by: Lara Nikaela A. Rubinos
Many things begin to make more sense with age. Funny memories, some of them, suddenly became not funny anymore.
One funny memory I had was during my first grade. My teacher gave us a recitation activity about what we want to be when we grow up. She made us fill the blank at the end of the phrase “I wish I were”. Of course, everybody said their own desired professions, doctor, teacher, nurse. I was six years-old at that time and I said “I wish I were a lawyer”.
Then, it was my classmate’s turn. He stood up and said, with confidence and a smile on his face, “I wish I were a carabao!”And everyone, my classmates and I and our teacher, burst out laughing.
We thought he didn’t understand the instruction and we all laughed in his little idea. Come on! Who wants to be a carabao, right? Carabaos work hard under the sun and they only do what their owners tell them so.
Years passed and life got harder. I lie in my bed one night, sad and frustrated of the problems in life. I wish I would not worry too much. I wish there is a way not to feel the loneliness. I wish I were a carabao! Yes, one lonely night I dreamed of not being human at all. I dreamed I was a carabao tilling the earth, working hard in a humid day under the harsh yellow sun, and despite of these, not feeling anything. No sadness at all.

The Town of San Jose camera: 28mm Vivitar T201

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 03:10:00 -0400

The Town of San Jose

camera: 28mm Vivitar T201

The Town of San Jose camera: 28mm Vivitar T201

Sat, 14 Jul 2012 02:59:00 -0400

The Town of San Jose

camera: 28mm Vivitar T201

WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE INANIMATE OBJECT?

Mon, 21 May 2012 05:08:30 -0400

lego

Baybay

Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Baybay or Beach

Lolo David’s House in front of the beach

Dustin and Fiona

row row row your boat

Shark!

Garage Camping

Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Excited for Mt. Napulak!

(L-R) Cheryl and my sister Marisse

Fiesta Day!

Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

With family.

Buho Pilis

Photoshoot in Buho Pilis. Now known as Boulevard because the crevice (buho) in the rock is no longer there due to the road widening.

Can you spot the rock shaped like a dog?

A statue of a fisherman. One of the workers during the road widening cemented that statue since most of the people in Fatima do fishing for a living.

In tambi-tambi. A wide rock near the seashore that resembles a tambi or a porch. One of my happiest memories during my childhood was spent here during the dangerous high tides when the water splashes towards the rock so hard. I remembered going home being scolded by my father because me and my cousins didn’t ask for permission to go.

Watched a dance battle aka disco derby.

Marisse and Manay dancing.

Disco with the Fatima people!

Spent my two days after this with sore ears because the music was too loud.

Brother's Birthday

Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

My mix martial artist.Hehe

The three of us. Mirror mirror on the wall who’s the most fair-skinned of them all?

Fatima

Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Weekend visits in Fatima.

A picture of my Lolo David Pelingon.

Guimaras

Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Went to Alubihod Beach in Nueva Valencia, Guimaras.

Island Hopping and my favourite part snorkelling!

Chinkyyyy

After Party

Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

My cousin’s graduation’s after-party with family at Smallville 21, Iloilo City. We were in the KTV room for almost 4 hours.

Going back to Antique the day after with my sister Marisse.

Boracay

Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Was in Boracay to celebrate Anafel’s ,my good friend, Graduation Thanksgiving party.

The front view from Neneng’s house.

At Mt. Luho View Point, the highest peak in Boracay.

The beautiful Long Beach

Boracay Rum Cappuccino (and Tanduay Ice) with my sister Marisse, Mark, Sir Elsed, and Anafel. Yes, it’s available all throughout the Philippines but apparently someone mistakenly thought that it can only be bought in Boracay.

Check out Anafel’s sentiments and memories of the old Boracay on her blog http://anafeldelrosario.blogspot.com/2012/01/breeze.html

Talahib

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Planted Mahogany and Calamansi seedlings in our ‘matalahib’ lot.

Through the eyes of a killer.haha

MOA

Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:00 -0400

Strolling in Gaisano Grand Mall of Antique with my pirate friend Labs Zylyll.Lol