Jigglypuff Cubeecraft

I only know a little about Pokémon but one Pokémon that I know and I find interesting is Jigglypuff. 

Jigglypuff

The cute round Pokémon in the image above is Jigglypuff. Read more here. Jigglypuff can sing lullaby until its opponent falls asleep. Moral of the story: in the battle, no matter how smart or strong you are, if you're unconscious, you lose. 

Today I made a Jigglypuff cubeecraft. You can download the model here.

Jigglypuff Cubeecraft

Cubeecraft version of Jigglypuff is not round but it's still cute.

Converting Decimal to Different Base

In this post, I said that if you wanted to convert number from different base to decimal we could use table. Well, I'm sorry that I was wrong because I've just remembered that we use table to convert decimal to other bases. There may be table for converting to decimal but I haven't known yet.

In the image below, I convert 27 base 10 to binary.

Converting 27 to Binary

Another example below, I convert 27 to base 3.

Converting 27 to Base 3

Come Out and Play with Basic Genetics

Recently, the girls from Faraday's Candle write a post entitled "Dr. Brian May and the Zodiacal Light!" In that post they say that they remember Zodiacal light when they think about rock music because Brian May, Queen's guitarist, made his PhD thesis in astrophysics on Zodiacal light. Whoa, another story of smart musician.

When thinking about smart musician, I often remember Bryan "Dexter" Holland, the Offspring's lead singer. He studied molecular biology and is involved in HIV/AIDS related research. 

To be honest, in university,  I failed a lot in molecular biology subject. That's why I think Dexter Holland is a genius.

In molecular biology, we study biology in molecular level. We learn a lot about cell, chromosome, DNA, gene, RNA, and heredity. In this post, I want to share a website that helped me study moleculary biology in a fun way: http://learn.genetics.utah.edu/ To get started, you can click on "Tour of Basic Genetics". 

I give you some spoilers from that tour. Heredity is passing of traits from generation to generation. Trait is influenced by gene and environment. Now, what is gene? How can environment influence the trait? Well, I don't want to spoil too much.

More spoilers -> Nucleus of the cell contains chromosomes. In each chromosome, DNA is packaged. DNA contains "instruction" for the cell in the form of gene.

Let's end this post with something musical. I present to you, Come Out and Play by the Offspring. I personally don't like the video but I like the song.

The Liebster Award

Liebster Award

After procrastinating for quite a long time, finally I write this post. Sorry, Owlivia.

Yesterday I was nominated by Owlivia from Untainted and Odd. Thanks a lot, friend. Also, dear readers, you should visit her blog. It contains a lot of interesting things.

Anyway, what is Liebster award? It's an award from blogger to blogger. 

If you are nominated, you should do the following things.

1. Put the Liebster Award logo on your blog.
2. Thank and tag the blog who nominated you.
3. Answer their questions and come up with 10 new ones for you nominees
4. Nominate 8 blogs with less than 200 followers, let them know you've nominated them and link them in your post.
5. No tag-back

Now I have to answer Owlivia's questions. I have to admit that some quoestions are difficult to answer.

1. Who is someone, other than your family, who has had a really big impact on your life?

My close friends has had a really big impact on my life and I can't choose of them. There are 6 people anyway.

2. You have one hypothetical wish, what do you use it for? (No wishing for more wishes)

I wish I had a P.O. box. I really want to exchange letter and postcard but I don't want to share my home address. 

3. Do you have catchphrase? Explain the story behind it. If you don’t have a catchphrase, make one up, and explain the story behind THAT.

Haha... I don't have catchphrase but you insist me to make one up. Well, my catchphrase would be, "I'm going to the bookstore." I make that catchphrase because bookstore is the place I visit when I need peace and inspiration.

4. What question do you NOT want to answer?

Actually, no matter how uncomfortable I am with certain questions, I usually answer. If not honestly, then I lie. I still answer anyway.

5. What is your favorite ‘favorite’ question to answer? (Favorite color, favorite food, favorite laundry detergent etc.) And what is the answer to that question?

Favourite book :D Question about favourite book is actually difficult to answer since I have many but I like the question. One of my favourite books is Hujan Bulan Juni, a poetry book by Sapardi Djoko Damono, an Indonesian poet.

6. What is something you can admit?

Everytime I see Google doodle, I always save the image.

7. What is something weird about yourself?

My friend call me weird because I'm fine with going out and eating in cafe (or anywhere that's not home) alone. I really am fine with eating alone.

8. How introverted or extroverted are you?

I'm mostly introverted but I can be good at acting as extroverted person.

9. What fictional land would you most like to be in?

I want to be in Hogwarts. Why? Because it's magical.

10. Are glasses cool?

It depends on the wearer. I mostly don't care about what someone is wearing.

I've answered the questions. Now, I'm going nominate 8 bloggers:

1. transience
2. SOMETIMES
3. Fighting the Fat Kid Within
4. Michelle Luu
5. DeepLifeInsights
6. How About A Second Opinion?
7. the chaotic life of the toad
8. Homemade naturally

Here I have list of 10 questions I want to ask (jounalist mode: on).

1. Among your blog posts, which one is your favourite?
2. At what time of the day do you usually write a blog post?
3. What is your favourite word in your native language?
4. What do you like to eat in the morning?
5. Choose one: tea, coffee, milk, hot chocolate. Why do you choose it?
6. Do you have a close friend? Is there one thing that you can only do with that friend?
7. What is your favourite book and why do you like it?
8. What do you really want to learn but you haven't got the time to do it?
9. What do you miss from your childhood?
10. Where will you go if you just feel bored at home?

Done! Answer the questions, nominate other bloggers, and look at other blogs that I nominate.

2 + 2 = ?

Today's assignment in Blogging 101 is about writing with prompt. I've made one post for that assignment but I want to write again.

In today's assignment post, the prompt example is, "Two plus two equals four: yes or no?"

Reading that prompt, I remember Sujiwo Tejo, an Indonesian artist who is also interested in math. He once said, "Math is not exact science. It's a science of agreement. You can say 1 + 1 = 2 only if you agree to use base 10. If you use different base, the result can be different."

What is base? You can read this if you want to learn about it.

I will try to explain about base or numeral system. The numeral system we usually use is base 10 or decimal. It consists of ten numbers: 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. There is also base 2 or binary which only consists of two numbers: 0 and 1. Base 3 consists of three numbers: 0, 1, and, 2.

So, 2 + 2 = 4 in decimal. What if we use base 3? Let's see how numbers are written in base 3: 0, 1, 2, 10, 11, 12, 20, 21, 22, 100, 101, .... From this, we can see that in base 3, 2 + 2 = 11

In base 4, numbers are written as 0, 1, 2, 3, 10, 11, 12, 13, 20, 21, 22, .... So, 2 + 2 = 10 in base 4.

What if we want to convert number from different base into decimal? Well, you can use a table (not the table you see here) but I can't upload the table. Maybe later (procrastination alert!!!). Other method is like this I explain below.

For example, if I want to convert 111 base 2 into decimal, it will be

111₂ = 1 x 2² + 1 x 2¹ + 1 x 2⁰ = 7

Another example, converting 23 base 5 into decimal will be like

23₅ = 2 x 5¹ + 3 x 5⁰ = 12

It's been a long time that I haven't studied math. How is my explanation? Is it understandable or confusing? Sorry, if you're confused. 

Wayang on the Wall

I got a prompt from the Daily Post. The prompt is like this:

Wall to Wall

What do you display on the walls of your home — photos, posters, artwork, nothing? How do you choose what to display? What mood are you trying to create?

On the walls of my home, there are photos and artworks. We choose what looks good and we don't try to create any specific mood.

Among the artworks, I have two wayang which my cousin gave.

Gatotkaca and Hanoman

Wayang is Indonesian traditional puppet. There are many kinds of wayang. The picture above is an example of Javanese wayang kulit. The story performed in wayang is usually taken from Ramayana or Mahabharata, two famous Indian epics. Some parts and characters in Indonesian version are different to those in Indian version.

Those characters in the picture above are Gatotkaca and Hanoman. I'm going to write about them according to Javanese version. Gatotkaca (also written as Gathutkaca in Javanese version) is Bhima's and Arimbi's son. In Indian version, he's depicted as a rakshasa but in Javanese he's a human. He was thought to be invincible until he's killed by Karna in Bharatayudha. Hanoman (or Hanuman, or Anoman) is the son of Batara Guru and Anjani.

I guess I will write more about wayang in my future post. Now, I'm going to revise anatomy again.

The Cat is Revealed

I've ever written a post about a cat who often comes to my home and scratches me. I have some pictures of her when she is just nice and cute.

Relaxing on a Chair

Curling up

Does anyone know what breed of cat she is? I suppose she's a Japanese bobtail. Am I right?