Monday, July 16, 2007

onegai koto

I really really need a Doreaemon. I have an onegai koto that I couldn't ask to anyone. And I am not in a capable position to make it come true by myself.

I need the doko demo doa, the door that can leads to anywhere at the opposite side.
I really need to go to a place that was not meant for me.
I wish it was meant for me in the first place..

This feeling is so killing me that I think I should go back to the time before I was born so I could prevent it from happening so that I don't have to start to killing myself in the first place.

Doraemon ! Kite kudasai ! onegai ;____;

Friday, July 13, 2007

variation on a theme : reality

It was a good weather and usual day for Suneo's family to take another vacation that only his family seems afford to do so. This time it was a summer drive to the beach. Since Suneo was so kind, he kindly invites some of his friend to fill the vacant seats of his car. While the car was so mean that it only have passenger capacity that would be enough for everyone but not everyone if Nobita is one of them. Therefore, to include everyone that Suneo wants to take was simply by not including everyone that Suneo doesn't wanted to take. This makes Nobita out of the equation.

Who wouldn't enjoy the feel of summer breeze on a convertible cars and share that moment with all your best friends ?

Well, if you had Doraemon at your side, you really don't actually need an actual summer breeze on an actual convertible. He gave Nobita a remote controlled mini car and a contraption for the controller that was modeled after a car's driver seat with a steering wheel behind a 180 degree curved screen. In the 'Seri Peralatan Ajaib' comic series, this device was simply called 'Car Simulator'.

You may laugh at this gadget at it is not that sophisticated as a product of the 22nd century. But while you are laughing behind your 50 inch plasma tv and XBox 360 and it's puny vibrating wireless controller, this Doraemon's gadget can emulate exactly whatever happens to its RC car.

As there was no game consoles back in the time when this Doraemon was originally created, this was an absolutely brilliant idea. Game hardware developers are trying to achieve this. For example, that puny vibrating wireless controller of your XBox 360.

You can see this kind of device in the real world such as viking (the unmanned vehicle dropped by NASA at the martian land, Mars). But you see that they use those big sattelites as the medium between the operator at earth so he/she can control the vehicle at Mars. I don't see any kind of transmitter devices to control the Doraemon's car simulator. My best guess is that the gadget use wireless transmitter and receiver devices to send what direction the driver want to go and receive whatever happens to the car to simulate for the driver.

We already use this kind of technology in our every days live. We use it when we browse the internet at some cafe's hot spot. Hot spots are commonly known as Wi-Fi, and vice-versa. The technique to transmit data over the air is by modulating certain frequencies of electromagnetic waves. Radios and televisions works this way too. Your TV and radio can work because their station uses big and strong transmitter to send their data to you. The big problem for making it wireless is that you have to make a big and strong transmitter so the data transmission can reach far away.

whoa, I'm sleepy... . Until tommorow, つづく。。。

Thursday, July 12, 2007

it's all in the pocket

The first thought that came out every time I think of Doraemon is the tools that came from his pocket. It has so many awesome things ! But you have to wonder how in the hell Nobita could misuse most of the things given to him. Even tools that had been (or will be?) made in the future is not enough to help Nobita with his stupidity.

Most of you don't realize that you already had some of those tools already in your pocket^^ Yeah, time's fly and the imaginary tools that once upon a time was just an imaginary tools is now a solid state object that you could hit somebody with it. I'm talking about gadgets like computers, cell phones, GPS, not the time machine >< ! But of course, I will talk about that possibilities later, since science permits us all to think the unthinkable and allows it to be possible even if the outcome is impossible. So shout, 'Long live science!!' ...

Wednesday, July 11, 2007

or it's just me?

...Jeez, I'm 23 years old and still thinking about how good life will be if I had Doraemon by my side. My old manga keeps dragging me back into the mind of an elementary student. Well, at least that was I thought. The reminiscence of Doraemon's story reminds me of those science, non fiction books that I've read. After I read Doraemon manga again, all that I could think of is that Stephen Hawking had to made 2 books to make people understand easily(if not hard) about science (which the second book was a revision to the first one) and Fujiko F. Fujio already made it and hadn't meant it for adults ^^ !

For those who likes to read kind of books from Carl Sagan or Stephen Hawking, I would recommend you to read the Doraemon manga series. And those who likes to read the Doraemon manga, I would recommend you to read books from Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. After reading both kinds, I chuckle to myself as I found how vast and broad the subject is in Doraemon's stories. It make me think that Doraemon is not an ordinary manga. Behind those stories, lies different questions and answers about how we dealt about science, technology, social, belief, psychology, and the most important of all, laughters :D And besides, you will get the point.

Many wasted thoughts I have produced by simply not keeping records of it. Sometimes, funny thoughts came to me about how things that happens in Doraemon stories could be ridiculously brought to existence in the real world. And sometimes, ridiculous thoughts came to me about how funny it is to see things that actually exist were then a ridiculous imaginary gadgets made for kids in Doraemon's stories.

Doraemon stories is not funny anymore. For you, I mean. Not for kids^_^. Adults who wonders about the expanding of the universe may find the lighter side of cosmos in this cute robot's stories. I can't urge you to do so. But I would be happy to show the hints ! Adults who don't wonder why should the universe should expand after all could instead wonder why there are people who thinks that it should be, but in the meanwhile, find out about the real science of Doraemon here !!!

(yeah, I'll show you!)