Arzakem's Biotopia

A month ago I saw this man, he was on his bareskin clothing. He's got scars all over his body and he's howling and talking to himself. Lately on my way home, I saw him with hands on his pocket and wearing a jacket and with a hidden face he walked past by me. Folks in the neighborhood treat him good-for-nothin' and his wife went away defeated by her purpose of bringing her husband back to reality. He doesn't care. A few years back this same person used to borrow Nintendo rom cartridges from me. I'd laugh thinking old people also had time for playing. He'll play with his youngest son till their thumbs would ache. He's proven to me a few times that he's a man of few words. He doesn't talk long and he just say what he thinks. That's particularly rude for me, though. Gone crazy he could be but that does not remove my respect to a man who once saved his eldest son's life in no regards to the condition that he could be paying it for his own. So many...

Ok, here goes another simple flash clock that can be in your blog like mine. For a good example of this clock, see my current clock on the right. Currently, I'm still working on my flash templates for blogs. It's just a very busy month for me and I can't seem to find more time for such. I'm not a complicated Flash coder so sorry if you find my clock bland. Anyway, it looks simple and fit for me. :P For the codes, please see my previous post. Type 2 Red and Type 2 Blue Here are my links: Type 2 Red: http://my.opera.com/arzakem/homes/files/2red.swf Type 2 Blue: http://my.opera.com/arzakem/homes/files/2blue.swf Please download my flash files and upload it on your own server because at any time I might be removing it when I ran out of space.

Would you like these clocks on your blog? (See my sidebar for working clock. The following are just still images) If you think they're cool you can put it into your site by putting the following tags on your template e.g. your sidebar or wherever. [Note that you must change the line in red with the URL of the clock you liked as given below and that you can personalize the size of the clock by changing the values in red]: <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" width=" 176 " height=" 200 " name="clock" src=" PUT-LINK-OF-CLOCK-HERE " bgcolor="#FFFFFF" quality="high" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="samedomain"> </embed> Links for each clock: A. Red Clock URL: http://my.opera.com/arzakem/homes/files/redc1.swf B. Blue Clock URL: http://my.opera.com/arzakem/homes/files/bluec1.swf C. Purpl...

ARZY the Archer Fish Lately I've been engrossed with my aquarium fishes. It's a great stress reliever considering that I work 12 hours and commute 32 kilometers every day. At home I have a pond and an aquarium that I put my much attention nowadays second to my PC. No more guitars and that concludes my post last July. This night I made a flash movie for my fish and I started with Arzy, my archer fish. He should have a partner but the poor thing died when I put them both in my pond. Arzy got well and he's a great shooter. Last Sunday, I was surprised when he spit-shot me while I was watching him. See my swishmax-done flash for Arzy by clicking here to download or view. CHICO the Betta Here's my majestic fighter. Actually I have many fighting fishes but I like Chico most. He's definitely not afraid of anything, even Oscar the Cichlid. Bettas or fighting fishes are abundant here in my place and cost very cheap. Chico had been with me for 4 months already and I made a ...

Now I just got tired of looking into my former "lifeless" Blogger template. Moreso, I needed to change and improve my dirty old CSS-infused template. Actually, this CSS-infused Template is a sort of Mr. Frankenstein to me - being made up of so varied CSS stylings I took from other templates. Okay, anyway, here it is and I don't know if you like it. Well, conceit as I would always do but I really liked it. I mean it's "alive", it has sound and you can turn it off anytime, and it has that gloomy look. I was experimenting for almost an hour already and finally it's done. What got me into much reencoding was when I tested it to too many monitor resolutions. I'm planning to create free templates (CSS/HTML) with Flash content like this. Sound's good? What do you think?

Yesterday we succumbed into an emergency. My aunt next door was quivering and wasn't responding to us. Immediately she was sent to a hospital about 7 kilometers away. I was really surprised considering my aunt is a strong woman even at 62. It was such a revelation to me that every person doesn't have a clue about how healthy we are really and just at a sudden be crawling into a hospital. Life really is a mystery and more to death. Somehow, we are glad she is okay now and just this morning, my brother who was watching over her on the hospital exclaimed that she is okay. I recalled my hospital rush yesterday and I just couldn't get a clue either to what I witnessed - it seems that there are more nurses and doctors than patients there. We were galloping on the halls of the hospitals and we couldn't see anybody around. The wards are in 4 beds but yet only one sets of the 4's are filled. So why surprising? The hospital we admitted my aunt is a hospital labeled as "p...

It has just been announce - tomorrow we have a "national strike day". Jeepney drivers, operators and other concerned NGO's will be back on the streets but in opposite directions with the thousands of students, workers and employees willing to go to school or go to job yet without any means of going there. If some have their own cars and other transports yet there will be vigilant "strikers" swearing to get the streets free of movement. I don't like strikes. Why? Because "strikes" are bad for business - that I learned in college. Let me blurt out with my personal observations... Strike means no class tomorrow. Students get blunt for a day; Strike means no money for drivers of passenger vehicles; Strike means violence (always a case here so don't argue); Strike means business is down; Strike means discontent; Strike means injustice; Strike means higher transport fare and lower peso-value; Strike means politicking; Strike means the rich gets riche...

This is actually something I should have posted weeks ago but I just had no time. It's about a seminar I attended together with some colleagues. Actually, I believe I was just forced by our principal to attend. Being the youngest in the faculty really is a pain. With all the bullyings, they always work for me. The seminar, which was held in another school about 18 kilometers from us, was about the introduction of what the trainers call "Learning Intervention Materials". Not really a super-unique, stellar idea, but this is just worth a try. This so called "learning intervention materials" are actually teaching aids that are targeted basically on the most difficult parts of the lessons taken from each grading period. Before you would make such teaching aids, there are some things to identify first. The steps if you would: &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp#1. Identify the question from the periodical exams that got the most mistakes. &nbsp&nbsp...

[ read this on my Opera Journal ] The Intramurals has just got over and I'm picking up pieces of confetti on the floor. Looking closer, of course, it wouldn't be confetti but cement sacks torn into bits! Oh no, not my room again. This time the Public Works are totally bombarding my room with a smear-up campaign. But anyway, it's for my students own safety. You see my classroom is part of a 4-room edifice who seems to be a good example of how Corrupt Projects always happen in constructing Public Buildings. I could easily apply for the "2005 Search for Leaning Towers" with my classroom. This is why I am always worried. Inside the classroom, you'll easily sense that somehow the room is like inclined to the left in a few degrees. Hopelessly I just tell my students to refrain from jumping. Seems like the cavalry has arrived. Our congressman funded for the repair (I could label it as a scaffolding! anyway thanks.) of the 4-room building. This time, they are making...

I've got nothing to do lately so I pour some brains out on a marvelous software like SketchUp . For those of you who has never met the software yet, it's pretty CAD-like, it's 3D, and what's so cool with it is the short learning time. You can draw a pretty good design quickly and with less effort. What's more, you can apply textures in your creations. Download more textures from their site above or you can use your own photos as textures to make your work look realistic. All its features are just what you need from any CAD software. Only thing, I don't know how to create spheres or maybe it just has no functions for it. Hmm? Anyway, here are my creations (the first one is my Drugstore design with my logo on the side and the second one is my transparent 2-storey computer store plan). Design 1. Arzakem's Drugstore Design 2. Arzakem's Computer Solutions Believe me but it took me just about 5 minutes for each design. Now, how do you find them?