Born Legend

Everyone is born a legend.  It seems that most people don't know or don't realize it.  There are so many things out in the world that it doesn't really matter if you are poor in math or simply hate all those geeky formulations and other seemingly difficult subjects that other so called geniuses can handle easily.  Think about it for a moment, can those people who are good with numbers and equations be good with something else?  What about them pro-gamers?  Them StarCraft players that reach up to 300+ APMs (Actions Per Minute), they can't possibly be good at solving math equations, well some might but that's not really the point.  The point is that everyone is unique, you will always know something that others may not and they may know something that you do not.

Ever since we were being conceived, we already were champions.  Imagine, of all those countless sperms swimming or fighting their way towards the egg, you were the winner.  You won the race and you come out into the world, a champion.

It's merely preference, if you believe that you are simply no good, then it's either because you gave up on your dream and believed that you are indeed "no good" or you just don't realize that there is something in you that no one else has.

As I delve back into the dark ages having no computers, I began to think about what I have done in the past.  So far, nothing much really has happened, I did improve somewhat on my programming skills but I have not really made much progress as to how to use it.  Maybe not having a computer is a going to be a good thing.  This time I can focus on everything that I love doing which includes drawing, coding(will mostly be done on paper), thinking, reading, and simply enjoying the world.

I guess gaming really kept me at bay but then again I learned a lot from all the games I played.  Not just creativity, but also how the game works in such a way that coding a similar one without the fancy graphics would not be such a hard thing to do.  But hey, not everyone will love a text-based game.  Which is why the more reasons to keep searching on what you are good at.

Keep trying!  You are a genius and we were all born to be a legend.

Running on reserves...

The time has come for a student programmer to write codes without a computer.  Just a few hours ago, the computer I was using, which belong to the sister of my grandmother was revoked.  It was revoked for the idea of starting a computer gaming station business did not entice my other "grandmother."  To think that we had a deal, that I manage and improve the site at which the shop would open and that she be the one to handle the computers for she had an internet cafe some time ago.  But at my request to improve the graphic cards and the memory of the systems, she insisted that they were not needed for they were still working.  Of course they are working!  But to what end?  Simple gaming?  Browser games?  The computers can't even manage a smooth frame rate on one of the new games of that time, "Left for Dead 2." How am I to promote the business if we don't have much to offer?  Price? I was bringing it down for pure satisfaction.  Imagine playing on a wonderful machine where you don't lag and you won't have troubles running the latest games for a fraction of the price!  But no matter how hard I try to convince her that upgrades were needed, she looked at them as more liabilities and risks.  How can you start a business without risk?  She complained that the price for the upgrades were too expensive.  How can 15 video cards and RAMs be too expensive when the money would be earned back relatively quickly.  And to top it all off, my old system died.  Actually it was already dying and I guess it just gave up.

And thus now, I am here using my mother's netbook, which is by the way not that fast writing this blog. I wonder how I'll fare in computer science without having a system that would compile fast and provide me with bugs or errors without waiting and allow me to configure and re-compile my code within the same hour.  Besides, this netbook is not mine and I can't possibly fill it with bits that belongs to me.  It seems that I'll have to find other ways, this city does not have public libraries or other public stuff that are relatively free in other countries.  I wonder if internet cafes here will let me compile my work.  It'll be a shock if they found out that the system I used had additional files without them knowing I put them there or without them knowing what the hell I was talking about.

Anyways, perhaps paper and pen will do the trick for now.  Compiling and tracing it by hand would be fun and be a challenge.  Real programmers use a magnetized needle and a steady hand!