Sean Akizuki's Personal Blog

Nobody says movie productions haven't been easy. I wish I had written this last year because Ohsama Sentai King-Ohger had a huge budget. Rewatching the first Jurassic Park movie from my childhood can be nostalgic. The whole movie magic process involves animatronics, actual locations, and some CGI locations depending on what's needed.  Creating this scene requires a lot of complex actions. Filming inside and outside the gyrosphere can be challenging. Filming cockpit scenes is harder than I expected. What amazes me is the time and dedication that the crew had in filming these scenes. 

Blaze Toys It's no secret that Power Rangers was taken from Super Sentai . Super Sentai also has come blatant pop cultural references. One could even think of the older James Bond movies or those sci-fi movies where people talk through watches. I doubt everything that happens in superhero films can happen. Superhero shows are full of villains with crackpot schemes and get too good to be true. However, some things can happen (in part) such as communicating through a wrist communicator. The smartwatches may not control satellites or grant morphing powers. Morphing powers are purely entertainment. However, the smartwatch is a REAL COMMUNICATOR. Sure, there wouldn't be some weird power such as communication with a giant floating head or super powerful range. What can't be denied is that the smartwatch might remind some of some childhood sci-fi. 

One reason why computer-related courses such as computer science and information technology require a lot of math is that math is used in programming. Above is a video of Super Mario and the use of the parabola which is part of mathematics. Trigonometry and geometry are widely used though I think more of trigonometry due to all the angles. The mathematics is being used accurately though we really end up realizing one weird paradox - some basic physics is IGNORED. Floating blocks for one defy the law of gravity. Question mark boxes just can't exist.  However, the laws of physics are really ignored to a certain extent. True, Super Mario could climb up the slope slower and land down faster. Many of Mario's moves done are really deadly such as jumping from incredible heights. Do some basic trigonometry and geometry and it'll tell you that jumping from THAT HEIGHT will kill you in real life. Mario's butt slam in Super Mario 64 is bound to land him in the hospital. Also, Mari...

  I was thinking about several alternatives to lose weight. Some say to walk 10,000 steps casually though there's also the suggestion to burn THAT MUCH calories. I was thinking about how to get the steps. 10,000 steps is said to be 200+ calories - that's if we don't consider the heart rate. So, I decided to do 10,000 steps in two ways - casual walking in a peaceful subdivision vs. dancing your way. I find casual walking to be rather relaxing and at your own pace. In fact, I prefer casual brisk walking to be more fun and calorie burning than treadmill. An hour on the treadmill usually burns 200+ calories while brisk walking for an hour can burn 300+ calories.  What about dancing your way to 10,000 steps? Dancing makes you move your arms and legs. It requires lots of effort to get hand and eye coordination practiced. I don't think you need to be good at dancing to enjoy it and reap its benefits. You just need to diligently practice and do it without thinking about becomin...

Is the pandemic really making you fat? Well, it doesn't have to be. I was thinking about how having a Mi-Band (though mine is not the latest model yet) is helpful in monitoring the calories burned. One fitness instructor you might want to check out is Joanna Soh - a Malaysian-Chinese female fitness instructor. I usually prefer to work with a male instructor (and having women work with female instructors) but I don't see any reason why a female instructor can't do a co-ed calorie burn. Some men have handled co-ed classes so I don't see any reason why a woman can't handle a co-ed class.  I was thinking about Joanna's 3KM fat-burning indoor walk. What I experienced is that it didn't give me my desired number of steps (6K to 8K) BUT I did sure burn nearly 400 calories on my first try of this workout. It's much more calories burned than doing the treadmill or regular walking routine. Sure, hiking around several levels of elevation can burn calories but so far...

One of the many scams I nearly fell for was the detox foot scam. There were foot washes that claimed to remove toxins and another was the detox pads. However, when you do some basic chemistry experiment - you may find that it's actually a SCAM. Yes, a scam to get you to buy them in this health-conscious generation. But what happens next is that you realize it's all a scam. A simple science experiment of the foot washer and some salt reveals it. There's really that chemical reaction that creates RUST since saltwater creates more rust than fresh water.  How do the detox pads really work? It turns out that they don't. The mixture simply creates some mud and it's not even SOME TOXINS. I really find it crazy how they use this foot treatment to determine how much toxins you have.  The kidney is responsible for cleaning up the body. The urinary system and the digestive system do their job in removing pathogens. So why are we believing that these devices work? Shouldn't...

Just because something is new doesn't mean it's automatically good. We do have to embrace the new but also reject the new. That is to be careful of what new stuff brings. I remembered 3D TV craze and I tried playing Mortal Kombat (2011) and Tekken Tag Tournament 2 on the PS3 because of the 3D features. At first, it felt cool then I felt dizzy. Not to mention, battery-operated 3D glasses required charging of the battery AND it's heavy. I can't even wear them on top of prescription glasses which I need to read subtitles from afar.  Then an inexpensive alternative came out - just get passive 3D glasses. Since flatscreen TV is the norm then they work in some way. My flatscreen TV at home is dated a few years back. So, I decided to give passive 3D glasses a try and wore them on top of my prescription glasses. The best results were that I was getting a "3D view" from a flatscreen. It really worked in some way that old school shows I watch don't need to be conver...

It's no doubt that I like and dislike chemistry SIMULTANEOUSLY. It's one thing to consider to love the study of different topics like the applications of chemistry, linking biology to chemistry, or whatever memorization and simple computations are there. However, I do still dislike stoichiometry like I don't like performing accounting cycles on my own. Both stoichiometry and accounting are important though I get dizzy doing balancing while I understand why I need to study them. Stoichiometry is a subject that requires extreme precision otherwise EVERYTHING blows up. I get panicky about it though it does get interesting to rediscover chemistry even if I'm no longer pressured by problem-solving. The science of weight loss is one. I have been trying to burn calories since I got myself a pedometer. Now, I wanted to know how do you lose weight? It's not that emphasized in high school biology except in qualitative matters. High school biology teaches about the h...

Chemistry can be fun on learning the facts and figures, some computations can be fun but there's one specific part I really end up disliking -- it's stoichiometry! These days, I do still take an interest in self-studying basic chemistry but I just hate getting referred over or at least I dislike stoichiometry. My reason is that it has to do with this idea -- one wrong move and you are bound to go sky high! Hmmm, I guess it's only fair enough chemists who screw up should get their licenses revoked! Why I still don't like stoichiometry? Well, useful as it is (because it what manufactures a lot of stuff I enjoy using) but there's always the thought of a nuclear reaction or the laboratory blowing up. The wrong move itself makes me imagine the whole school is on fire. Recently, I try to watch the videos with basic stoichiometry and I'm just thinking, "Man one wrong move then BOOM!" It was interesting to know how chemicals can react but it's also fri...

It was back in my simple childhood -- back when it was those "good old days" or not. There was one Japanese cartoon that was intended to educate -- it was called "The Many Dream Journeys of Meme". It was Tagalog dubbed on ABC-5 in the Philippines as "Miem". Unlike most of the other shows I watched for nonsense -- this was pretty educational. A mysterious creature named Meme would pop out and narrate the story of certain discoveries. She would pop out of the personal computer to help in the events. She helps out both siblings Daisuke and Sayaka in their research about important figures. So far, I have a very blur memory of this one considering I was only seven or eight when I watched this one. But I hope this is one of those great days that can be relived or even remastered. I feel this is part of my childhood that helped me cope up with troubled times. 

Just when you thought that fat stupid people are just limited to stupid shows like Family Guy (and hence, Peter Griffin is my favorite mascot for that one) then think again. I don't know if I'm shocked or not shocked with the possible correlation between stupidity and obesity. Some people are not fat but they're stupid but it seems that being overweight also contributes to stupidity aside from watching anti-intellectual shows. Even if I'm not a biologist, cardiologist or a nutrtitionist but I still find this study to be amazing. I don't have the answers and I don't expect to find them but reading stuff I have little or no expertise on is an interesting thing to do. Here's an interesting excerpt from Men's Health article called " How Being Fat Makes You Stupid ": Packing on the pounds isn’t just bad for your body—it’s bad for your brain. According to researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the brains of obese people work harder than tho...

I do find this to be pretty amusing to try to use a certain degree of electric shocks to get better at Math or become smarter. After watching this video, I thought about it that I kind of wanted to do that to myself. I remembered this episode from Bioman.

There's the trend of going on a gluten free diet. There was even that book called "Wheat Belly". But how true is it anyway? Based on the video above, this short from DNews does feature something useful. While I didn't completely agree with his video on Mathematics but it doesn't mean he should be totally discredited for some mistakes. Like I can agree you don't need to be a math person to do math but there's such a thing as a math person (i.e. person who's really good at it).  The problem behind this gluten free diet trend is based on sensationalism and ignorance. To make something "gluten free" actually kills nutrients in the wheat and using chemical treatment. People are thinking gluten equals bad. It's bad if you've got celiac disease but if you don't have it then you can eat it but everything should be eaten in moderation. Some studies are showing that you really need to go to a doctor to check if you have celiac disea...

As a fan of Japanese entertainment, I can't deny that there are times when something just goes horribly wrong. Innovation may or may not work depending on how it's done and when it's done. Just because somebody innovates doesn't mean it's going to be good. It can be bad or good depending on what kind of innovation was being done. It's not all the time an innovation replaces something. While PCs and laptops have replaced typewriters in producing office documents but electronic books have not replaced paperback. Sure you can reduce stress in working with a PC but you can't deny you still need to print it. Paperback books have not gotten obsolete. The methods have improved but innovation doesn't necessarily get rid of the old in favor of the new.

I might share this random view. While the speaker has some valid points like Math requires practice, I don't agree with everything he says. I don't agree that there's no such thing as being bad at Math or that there's no such thing as a Math person. I would like to really address that his "tons of study" argument might be based on biases like the leftists say, "We have tons of study to show protectionism works." even when it doesn't.  Anybody can learn the basics in Math like the basics of Algebra, Trigonometry, and Calculus if they study hard. What needs to be noted is that not everyone can handle higher Mathematics but they can certainly achieve something with introductory Mathematics. It's just like my idiotic Math teacher before who's still stuck with teaching Elementary Mathematics even after two decades. This is funny considering he mentioned he wasn't that good in Math in this video which came before he said, "Th...

With the current outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, I was wondering is the Philippines even ready for an Ebola outbreak especially now it suffers from the "eh-bola" outbreak already especially in its capital Imperial Manila?  One may consider how Ebola spreads could at least, help gain insight to the question I'd love to throw, "If Ebola hits Manila, can it survive?" The Ebola virus is not airborne but it has other modes of transmission.  The killer disease actually transmits through body fluids.  I would just think about this one.  Imperial Manila has been one place where a lot of its people just don't obey rules.  A lot of its people just spit anywhere, pee anywhere and worse as for squatters, just poo anywhere they want.  More often than not, poor health standards would also involve blood being recklessly handled.  Ebola transmits through body fluids and just imagine, if anybody with an open wound happens to contact with these body fluids, expect ...

Like it or not, the idea of whose better in  boys vs. girls is getting old.  Men and women have different roles and can't always be equal because of differences.  For example, I prefer a woman to do events organizing while I usually prefer a man to be the manual labors of event preparation with a woman guiding the whole arrangement.  There is always a complementary opposite aside from a non-complementary opposite.  Now for some things I can observe women can do better than men: 1.) Women can usually handle stress better and are better stress councilors than men!  I've observe men tend to whine more in stress than women can.  The idea that men shouldn't cry is stupid.  For a woman, she can handle emotional stress better.  They are not afraid to cry if they have to.  A man would have told me, "Stop crying!  You are a man!" but a woman would have told me, "Cry now if you have to so you don't have to later!" 2.) Women are usually ...

Well the word jellyfish would create bad ideas into the head but there are varieties that exist in Indonesia, Palau and the Philippines.  In my case, I went to an area in the Philippines called Sohoton Island (it takes one ride by plane then you need to ride by a boat) to which has a rather remote place where it's hard to get a signal on your cellphone... grrrr.  Based on my experience, it was the first time I heard of jellyfish that lost their sting and being able to swim among them was a really different experience. One could try to scoop them up when they float into the surface but remember, please return them to the water ASAP because these are water creatures. There is also the transparent variety though I ran into the brown ones more. While you might think this guy is a fool, he isn't.  These stingless jellyfish are harmless and they are actually a freshwater type.  In my case, I have tried jumping into there and seeing the wondrous gathering of the s...

Just right in, half-Filipino and half-Canadian teenager Ann Makosinski had invented a flashlight that is solely powered by the heat of the hand.  What do I think of this?  This is a real great achievement on her and her alone, not for Canadians, not for Filipinos but her and her alone.  Nothing wrong with them being proud of her as long as the don't ride on her success. Now watch this interesting video... Here she is at the Google Science fair.  I hope her invention will soon be improvised as she has started a new trend.  Of course, this is subject to improvement as well.  But still, congratulations to her! And for Pinoy pridists, STOP riding on the successes of Filipinos who succeed on their own.  Besides don't they also hate non-Pinoys?  She's half-Canadian, half-Filipino so she's not a pure blood Filipino but so what?  I respect her for who she is regardless of what ethnicity she is!  Besides, when the Pinoy pridists make t...