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Friday, August 23, 2013

Riddles And Horrors Of The Night


I don't know what brought me remembering those days, or I'd rather say nights, right at a completely unrelated moment. The memory just suddenly popped out of my mind. And I found myself loving the feeling of it, reminiscing those childhood excitements filled with the crave for challenge and adventures of imagination. Then I realized, perhaps the fun we had in the office a few weeks ago about riddles might have sparked a little of the thought. Maybe, but I'm not so sure.




Those were dark nights. A time, which for us, comes with fun and excitement and challenge or fear. Young as we were, our curious and knowledge-hungry minds were eager to hear, learn and imagine a world we haven't seen. Those were the nights when the lights in our sight are but from the lamps and candles. Sometimes when lucky, the bright moonlight in a clear night sky made rightful of the moment. Perhaps for others, it meant missing episodes of their favorite shows and early bedtime. For us, it meant riddles and horrors of the night.

Yes but just that it wasn't the scary kind of thing but we felt challenged and scared. Gathered in a crowd with my siblings and cousins, we huddled around our grandfather. Sometimes our grandma and parents would joined the young audience. It was a family time together, a sort of. Either a challenge of riddles or story telling of horrors, it sounded so interesting. Like any of the TV shows but with our grandpa as the host in a live telecast at our living room. Sometimes, at the porch which made it a little more scary but more fitting. 

Our grandfather would take the time to gather us and then if not riddles thrown, we got stories of ghosts encounters being told. We were just innocent kids then. Youngs minds, indeed. I couldn't remember all of his riddles or the stories he told but a few of them I have managed to keep. Perhaps we could do it again on yearends and I do hope. It still sounds interesting, challenging and scary but I love it.

The world we see in our eyes on those times were truly darker. Silent than the usual nights. But our eyes were brighter and minds more focused. Those riddles up to now are challenging, not for us anymore, but for those whom I share it with. And the stories still sounds as scary as not wanting it to happen, again, in either of us. 

Those were blackout times but those were good moments, good nights.

Monday, August 19, 2013

Mathematical Fallacy: Prove 0 = 2

Yesterday, my roommate and I were discussing on his friend's post for a proof that 0 = 2.
Really? Well, let's check this out and examine.





0 = 2

Step 1:     0 = (100 - 100) / (100 -100)

Step 2:     0 = (10(*square) - 10(*square))  / ( (10)(10) - (10)(10) )

*means 10 squared - 10 squared

Factoring out numerator through "Difference of 2 Squares" gives us:

Step 3:     0 = ( (10 + 10)(10 - 10)) / ( (10)(10) - (10)(10) )

Step 4:     Using the distributive property into the denomator, it gives us:

                0 = ( (10 + 10)(10 - 10)) / ( 10 * (10 - 10) )

Step 5:     Thus divide out (10 - 10), gives us:

                 0= ( 10 + 10) / ( 10 )

Step 6:     0 = 20 / 10

Answer:   0 = 2


Haha...As we can see, it seems right. Where is the problem?

The problem is in Step 5, it is invalid since "division by zero" is undefined.
0/0 has no value and is this is called an indeterminate form.

If you carefully examine Step 5, it would turn out that 0 is equal to any number, which is very wrong.
Check this out using another representation of Step 5.

Equation. 1:    0 = (2 * 0) / (1 * 0)
Equation. 2:    0 = (3 * 0) / (5 * 0)

Both equation are correct but if using the invalid process in Step 5, it would be the same as:

Equation. 1:    0 = (2 )(0) / (1)(0)
             
                      Divide out 0 in the denominator

                      0 =  2/1

                      0 =  2

Equation. 2:    0 = (3)(0) / (5)(0)  

                      Divide out 0 in the denominator

                      0 =  3/5

Now, we've seen where the problem is. :)



Thursday, August 15, 2013

Bohol's famous snake, Prony, dies


Prony, the famous snake in Alburquerque, Bohol, died last Tuesday (August 14) of still an unknown cause. Visitors and tourists often include in their province travel a visit to this famous snake in Bohol. I haven't seen the snake in person so I will have to see her in a preserved state as the owners plan of preserving her and exhibiting her at the snake's den.



                                                       Photo source

Prony was captured in Alburquerque last October 31, 1996. When captured, she was at 5 feet long and 5 kilograms in weight but has grown into 23 feet and around 280 kilograms.

Tourists and visitors who have visited her will surely miss the snake and sadly, future visitors won't see her alive now.

Saturday, August 10, 2013

FIBA Asia 2013: Philippines vs Korea Semis Replay

These are the links to the replays of each quarter of the 27th FIBA Asia Championship Semifinal game between Philippines and Korea.

These are not clear copies but you can still enjoy the game. :)

First Quarter:




Second Quarter:




Third Quarter:




Fourth Quarter:




Friday, August 9, 2013

Watch Live Free Streaming: 27th FIBA Asia Championship Quarterfinals: Philippines vs Kazakhstan

27th FIBA Asia Championship Quarterfinals: Philippines takes on Kazakhstan in a do-or-die game.

  
                                   VS
                                                       

Go Gilas Pilipinas!

Watch live FIBA Asia game here:
http://www.day.to/watch/live/streaming/online/free/en-vivo/m11/14/august-9-2013/basketball-fiba-asia-championship-2013.html

Monday, August 5, 2013

Philippines Wins Second Round Opener Against Japan

The Philippine Basketball Team takes 90-71 win against Japan in their second round opening match up in the current 27th FIBA Asia Championship. The Philippines bounced back with an impressive performance lead by Marcus Douthit in a doutble-double performance with 19 points on a 50% shooting (7/14 together with 5/5 free throws) and 10 rebounds. Jeff Chan had 16 points with 4 triples from the team's total of 12 treys in the game. It indeed was a great team comeback from its previous outing against Chinese Taipei. Meanwhile, JR Sakuragi leads the Japan team with his 19 points and 13 rebounds.

Stats for Philippines vs Japan in their second round opener:



It was indeed a huge win for the Philippines. Tomorrow, Philippines will play Qatar at 8:30pm. Qatar shares the same record with Chinese Taipei in their bracket with no loss. While Japan and Chinese Taipei meets at 3:00pm.  

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