Why You Need to Learn Coding?

Let's be honest, computers are everywhere.

• In your office: Where you spend almost all of your working time. 
• In your pockets: Smartphones is a portable computer.
• On your wrists: Watches are now a very small computer.
• In your house: TVs today have an operating system that lets you watch streaming movies.
• In you living room: You now have TV "sticks" that you plug-in to your HDMI TVs to become smart.
• You also have gaming consoles with games and apps that you can buy.
• In your car: Like the Tesla electric cars which has a large dashboard touchscreen, where you can control your car (and a phone app for that matter).

Then there's the Internet of things which is defined in wiki:

"The Internet of Things (IoT, sometimes Internet of Everything) is the network of physical objects or "things" embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity to enable objects to exchange data with the manufacturer, operator and/or other connected devices based on the infrastructure of International Telecommunication Union's Global Standards Initiative.[1] The Internet of Things allows objects to be sensed and controlled remotely across existing network infrastructure,[2] creating opportunities for more direct integration between the physical world and computer-based systems, and resulting in improved efficiency, accuracy and economic benefit.[3][4][5][6][7] Each thing is uniquely identifiable through its embedded computing system but is able to interoperate within the existing Internet infrastructure. Experts estimate that the IoT will consist of almost 50 billion objects by 2020."

From stoves, to microwave ovens, to rice cookers, to refrigerators, to washing machine- all of the appliances we have at home will have software for it to run.

In conclusion, we need to learn coding. We need our kids to learn early, so they can be prepared on the onslaught of things which can be programmed to be efficient in the near future.

Nintendo Family Computer

Who doesn't remember the iconic family computer?

When I was a kid, I go to my neighbor just to play famicom all day playing little mac, punching bulls and even quirky opponents, figuring out its fighting patterns and ultimately winning the boxing game.

I hardly win without their help.

Those were the wonder years in my life: fun, free-spirited, stay-up all night playing, playing AND playing games.

Even when I got out from elementary alive, I played street brawling with new friends in hs. We escape from hs fair jumping fences, eluding security guards and went straight to the mall playing like a martial arts fighter who looks like Jacky Chan, or Bruce Lee and a fighter that resembles Vanilla Ice and a monster who is a woman? With a back-drop of supersonic jets, religious temples, cage fighting arenas and even a crowded flea market.

Later on, I can remember playing with relatives a game of tennis that features rock stars like you and me. Then, there's also the bowling game that even my less than ten year old niece, showing me how to do it and beating me every game.

Then later on, I saw my nieces playing Super Mario Bros. on 3DS while wondering why I never played.

Well, that's life.

Touch Me Not?

One word: "Hell!"

As Pao from Reddit resigned because she's just trying to stop hatred, it's like everyone thinks that it is wrong. We've come to the age of idolizing evil, and loves being evil. The younger generations thinks that evil is cool. But, what they don't know that evil will feed hatred, and result to our extinction. The world today is different. It's like heaven is falling from the sky: earthquakes, famine, floods, pestilence and unending wars that plague the news headlines everyday. Is this the new normal? I guess so. We might not like it but God in His goodness will destroy the earth and everything in it, just to save the few, and purge the evil, renew the earth then, life starts anew.

Taylor Swift is Maybe Listening to Bob Dylan Right Now

It's Saturday, you are FREE!

Now's your chance to go to a coffee shop with your sweetheart or your pet dog, and listen to Apple Music.

Bob Dylan!?! Haven't heard of him for quite a long time. I knew him but I don't know him or his music, so who cares? Jacked-in to my iPad with 3-month trial of Apple Music, then KABAM! It's back in time.

Seriously, I'm having a good time listening so much oldies that I haven't been born yet. But, even the greats have to admit, "It's good 'ol music."

Is it my fault? It ain't me, babe. :)

The Bad Guys Always Win?

Today, there is so much evil around us. Evil in school, evil in offices and even in our house; it's like everyone became Darth Vader. So much power, but so much hate. We turned our world into a dark empire that consumes us, and ultimately kills us. No one knows love anymore because it's boring. Being bad is hip or cool, and being good is corny or Spongebob. In reality, we need to be good, or else we pay for every crooked things we have done, and that's not cool. Maybe, it's fine to be evil in video games or movies but being evil in the meat world is something serious because we pay for the consequences of sin, and that is hell. There is hell. I've never seen it (because it is still to come), but we do believe there is evil and punishment; there is good a reward. It's that simple system that works in real world and the next. And by the way, good always prevail.

Word of the Day - We need you!

For the body itself is not made up of only one part, but of many parts. If the foot were to say, "Because I am not a hand, I don't belong to the body," that would not keep it from being part of the body. And if the ear were to say, "Because I am not an eye, I don't belong to the body," that would not keep it from being part of the body. If the whole body were just an eye, how could it hear? And if it were only an ear, how could it smell? As it is, however, God put every different part in the body just as he wanted it to be. There would not be a body if it were all only one part! As it is, there are many parts but one body.

So then, the eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" Nor can the head say to the feet, "Well, I don't need you!" On the contrary, we cannot do without the parts of the body that seem to be weaker, and those parts that we think aren't worth very much are the ones which we treat with great care; while the parts of the body which don't look very nice are treated with special modesty, which the more beautiful parts do not need. God has put the body together in such a way to give greater honor to those parts that need it. And so there is no division in the body, but all its different parts have the same concern for one another. If one part of the body suffers, all the other parts suffer with it; if one part is praised, all the other parts share its happiness.

1 Corinthians 12:14-26

Question: Can you apply this in your office, school, church, community, home with your family, or even in the government, and as a nation?

Word of the Day - Leave all worries to God

My dear friends, do not be surprised at the painful test you are suffering, as though something unusual were happening to you. Rather be glad that you are sharing Christ's sufferings, so that you may be full of joy when his glory is revealed. Happy are you if you are insulted because you are Christ's followers; this means that the glorious Spirit, the Spirit of God, is resting on you. If you suffer, it must not be because you are a murderer or a thief or a criminal or a meddler in other people's affairs. However, if you suffer because you are a Christian, don't be ashamed of it, but thank God you bear Christ's name.

1 Peter 5:12-16

In the same way you younger people must submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you must put on the apron of humility, to serve one another; for the scriptures says, "God resists the proud, but shows favor to the humble. "Humble yourselves, then, under God's mighty hand, so that he will lift you up in his own good time. Leave all your worries with him, because he cares for you.

Be alert, be on watch! Your enemy, the Devil, roams around like a roaring lion, looking for someone to devour. Be firm in your faith and resist him, because you know that other believers in all the world are going through the same kind of sufferings. But after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who calls you to share his eternal glory in union with Christ, will himself perfect you and give you firmness, strength, and a sure foundation. To him be the power forever! Amen.

1 Peter 5:5-11