Where Will I Take My Boracay Rum?

BORING! As in tedious, uninteresting, dull, unexciting --that’s how to describe my summer vacation.

Love at NUFFfamily Day!

 You've heard it right! Nuffnang Philippines will be treating us to a small weekend getaway before the summer ends. NUFFamily Day is going to be on May 28 (Saturday) at Crosswinds, Tagaytay. And we'll have an afternoon full of fun, prizes, and lifting lots of lanterns. Yes, this is so exciting!

Check out who's my date on the NUFFamily Day after the cut!

PLDT myDSL Modem Plus Wifi

“The Social Network is to Facebook, as PLDT myDSL modem+wifi is to my Degree in Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering.”

I'm on my third year now in the university unendingly persevering in order to attain a degree on Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering. Having an access on the internet is a big aid in doing school works for a student like me. Not to mention the most known as the fastest internet provider here in the Philippines, PLDT myDSL. PLDT myDSL will surely capture not just students' heart for the world wide web but the whole family with their newest plan, the PLDT myDSL modem + wifi! With simply amazing features:

Dancing Flight Attendants!

Cebu Pacific's flight attendants has a dance number. They made a way in conducting the safety facts quite entertaining than pure boring. They actually danced a 2-min mash up of Lady Gaga's "Just Dance" and Katy Perry's "California Gurls". They even received a round of applause from the passengers. 

I know you wanted to see now how the flight attendants made the new way of elaborating the safety facts before taking-off.

Free Unlimited Text from Globe and Telus!

 Hard to believe? Just give it a try and have your 1 day free unlimited text messaging from Telus via Globe.

Key in 'UNLITXT TELUS' and send it to 8888

That's it! Wait for your confirmation message and start texting all day.
Now, it's time for you to share! CLICK HERE TO SHARE it to your friends via Facebook!

Statistics - Hypergeometric Distribution

 Hypergeometric distribution is a discrete probability distribution that describes the number of successes in a sequence of n draws from a finite population without replacement, just as the binomial distribution describes the number of successes for draws with replacement.

Here's an example problem number 5.29 retrieved from Scientists and Engineers guide to probability & statistics eighth edition by Walpole, Myers and company.

History of Solar Panel

What is a Solar Panel?

A Solar Panel is a device consisting of flat-shaped collection of solar cells or thermal collectors that is connected to each other and is intended to convert solar energy into heat or electric power.

Solar Panel as the name denotes is a gadget intended to gather and capture the energy from the sun. The solar cells are also referred to as the photovoltaic cells. The term photovoltaic means light and electricity.

History of Solar Panel: Its Invention

Since the early times, man has seen the great potential in the sun as an enormous source of power and energy. And in the course of history, he has devised means to tap into this great energy source in the heavens. Indeed, the sun is an ideal power giver: the solar energy is ever-flowing and inexhaustible and free from creating pollution.

In ancient Europe, the Romans and Greeks realized the vastness and availability of the power from the sun, and they used this power through the designs in their houses. They also used solar energy to compliment the available means of energy then, which was twigs, logs and lumber for burning.

During the period of the industrial revolution, scientists and engineers searched to tap on the solar power as an effective alternative to the coal-dependent steam engine.

Auguste Mouchout is the inventor of the first solar motor – in the early 1960’s he was able to invent a steam engine that will run on solar energy. But because coal was becoming a cheap source of energy, his invention as an important landmark in the Industrial Revolution history came and went unnoticed.

John Ericsson in the United States is one of the pioneers in the development of solar power. He is the inventor of the parabolic trough collector, design still in use until today.

In 1921, Albert Einstein’s research on the photoelectric effect garnered for him the Nobel Price in Physics. The creation of energy from solar cells is the concept of the photoelectric effect.

In 1941, Russell Ohl is awarded the patent for the modern solar cell.

Help Me Win!

The voting on the contest I've joined in is now open. I need your support in order to win. Kindly follow the simple steps below to support me.

1. 'Like' the page of Powerbooks Store.

2. 'Like' my book cover.

3. 'Share' my entry to your friends to vote for my book cover.

That's it! Three simple steps and your done. Thank you for showing your support. I greatly appreciate it.

I Need Your Support!

 I really need you! I'm going to join a contest held by Powerbooks Store on Facebook. It's about making your own book cover design for Mockingjay, the third book of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. The thing is that you need to 'like' my own book cover design to have a copy of the book. The voting starts on 16AUG10 M and ends on 31AUG10 T. The announcement of winners would be the day after the voting ends.


UPDATE:
I've finished and submitted my book cover to Power Books Store! Time to see it now. Don't forget to visit here again on AUG16 for the procedure on how to vote for my entry. Thank you.

The Googleplex: Google Office

 Google is an American public corporation specializing in Internet search. It generates profits from advertising bought on its similarly free-to-user e-mail, office productivity, social networking, online mapping and video sharing services, YouTube. Google has more recently developed an open source web browser and a mobile phone operating system. Its headquarters the so called Googleplex, is located in Mountain View, California. As of March 31, 2009, the company had 19,786 full-time employees. It runs thousands of servers across the world, processing millions of search requests each day and about one petabyte, one quadrillion bytes or 1000 terabytes, of user-generated data each hour.

Now, we will take a look of a Googleplex, where googlers work and spend most of their time. NOTE: This is for real.

More photos after the cut!

History of Internet: Intergalactic Network

 Have you ever wonder where Internet originates? This now the right time to know Internet's history. Just scan over this long picture and you'll know more about Internet. Enjoy.

Will Hong Kong Ban Philippines?

 This is probably what's running on your mind now. Will Hong Kong ban Philippines after the bus hostage taking of a dismissed police captain, Senior Inspector Rolando Mendoza? There were a total of 15 hostages, 14 Hong Kong tourists, and 1 Filipino as the driver of the bus. It is not yet confirmed how many died in the said tragic event but what is sure for now that there were survivors.

President Benigno "Noynoy" Aquino III Website

 Our own President Noynoy Aquino launched his very own website last August 16, 2010. The main mission of PNOY Website is to create communication between President Aquino and the people, us. Another purpose is to get feedbacks from the society, telling the president their woes and grievances. It is to make a way for the Filipino citizens to interact with him in order to know the people's thoughts and problems to make the administration much more trustworthy. 

First Major Exams are Now Over

 My first preliminary examinations as a mechanical engineering student is now over. And I only have one thing to say, it is completely different compared to the major exams during my first and second year in engineering.

The exams for this sem has eaten 5 days while the whole 1st two years consistently used 4 days. The thing is that everyday it felt like I'm going to have an exam on a major subject so basically I can't afford to waste time. The subjects are more technical now compared to last year's subjects. This coming week there is still a preliminary exam for Kinematics where we will draw within 3 hours. Good luck for me.


This is only the beginning.

The Winners of Sony VAIO M Series

Here are the three winners of Sony VAIO M Series. Congratulations to the winners!

Thank you for participating the contest from our site. Hope to see you here again for the next contests. Cheers!

If you are still not contented, feel free to check out Sony Philippines site.

Kinematics - Instantaneous Axis (Plate #3)

 Here's my third plate. Like my second plate, it's about Velocity Analysis. I made this plate right after drawing the second one. It took me 2.5 hours to completely finish the plate. I had a hard time drawing it because the instantaneous axis of the links are too far, so I have to use a big compass. Here's the compass used by my classmate while making this plate.

Drawing after the cut.

Facebook 100th Like Achieved!

Days have passed so easily and Journey to Mechanical Engineering is now on its 4th week. As the time goes by, many friends, colleagues and even strangers visited our site. Early this week, our Facebook likes has reached over 100! Take a look at it.


Print screen after the cut!

Kinematics - Resolution and Composition (Plate #2)

 My second plate is about Velocity Analysis using the resolution and composition method. Velocity analysis is a graphical technique used for the determination of the velocities of the parts of a mechanical device, specially those of a plane mechanism with rigid component links. It was the first lesson on my Kinematics class and my third plate is also about velocity analysis using the instantaneous axis method.

The drawing itself is not that hard but you need to be very careful in executing the steps. Analyzing the problem is much more difficult. The more complex the linkage are the harder it will be. My second plate isn't that complicated but it took me about 3 hours just to finish this plate and I hope I will get a high grade on it. 

Drawing after the cut.

Machine Shop Shirt is Here!

UST Mechanical Engineering - Machine Shop

 The long-awaited Machine Shop shirt has finally arrived! Cheers, 3MEA. After waiting for almost half of a semester, we won't be entering the building wearing black shirts with random prints. We are now united as one. I feel like we are just about to start our Machine Shop class when we already finished a project. 


Photos of the shirt after the cut.

Meebo Widget: Communicate to Your Visitors

 Time to communicate to your readers with the aid of Meebo Me. Meebo Me is designed for anyone with a home on the web. If you've got a web page where you'd like to communicate with your visitors, meebo me allows you to see the people who are visiting your web page and chat with them!


If you wanted to see a sample, look at the right side of the site and you'll see a chat box that let's you send a message. So, how does it works? The Meebo Me widget allows your visitors to send you a message and able you to read it at the same time. Moreover, it lets you send a message back thus, private live chatting occurs between you and your visitor. 


Steps after the cut.