Santa Letters

SANTA LETTERS

When you send a letter to Santa, be sure to put the correct address.

Santa Claus

North Pole

If you sent the letter to the South Pole, the letter might not go to Santa, it will go to the dead post office where all undeliverable mails without return address go. It's just like sending an email to a non-existing address or invalid address, your email goes into outer space, essentially.

It's never too late or too early to send Santa a letter. The earlier you send your letter, even January, the more time Santa has to get your presents. Of course, after you tell Santa what you want, you need to be good until Christmas day comes.

And no matter what your age is, don't stop believing in Santa. It maybe the only piece of childhood you have left. And you might end up like Mr. Scrooge who humbug Santa until he was old and senile.

Don't try to ask Santa Claus for world peace, unless you're the president of a powerful country in the world, like Donald John Trump, but you can ask Santa for a world piece, like a piece of land or a piece of the American Dream, an apple fruit or computer, your own pony or your own phone, a good financial adviser, but don't ask to win the lottery because Santa does not believe in vices. These are the things that you can ask Santa in your letter.

I'm gonna make one right now (LOL). [Dear Santa ....]

Let me be the first to say Merry Christmas 2017! LOL! Ha ha ha, ho ho ho ....

John Sindayen

Reference websites:

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/01/happens-undeliverable-mail-no-return-address/

http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/507.htm

https://www.quora.com/What-happens-if-I-sent-an-email-to-a-no-one-used-email-address

Chelsea Story

CHELSEA STORY

Now, sit down all you boys and girls (including all those still in the womb up to those who are 200 years old) and I'm going to tell you a story. Everybody loves a story. Everybody has a story. And here's one more story for the history of the world stories.

Chelsea the Dragon and Monster Slayer
Copyright © 2017
By John Sindayen

Chapter 1

A long, long time ago in a land far, far away, there was a nipa hut where a certain girl played. Chelsea was her name and a princess she was, but in this nipa hut, she was the queen.
"Hail, Queen Chelsea!" the people would say.
"Slayer of dragons! Slayer of monsters!" the people would add.

One day a dragon appeared. From the sea, it came. And when the people saw it, they would run to the nipa hut and wake Chelsea.
"Wake up! Wake up, Chelsea!" the people would say.
"Wake up! Wake up, Chelsea!" the people would plea.
And Chelsea would wake and say, "Is it 7 yet?"
And the people would say, "It's past 7 and there's a dragon in the sea."
"Is that breakfast? I don't like dragons. Could you make mine cereals and milk, instead?"
And the people replied, "It's not for breakfast. It wants breakfast!"
And the people laughed and cried at the same time.
So they try to wake up Chelsea again.

What do you think of the story? Is it exciting? Does it have potential? Is it funny or sad?

What about the rest of the story, you might ask? Well, everybody has a story. Everybody is a storyteller, of their life, at least, even though you don't write the story of your life. So you provide the rest of the story and the end of the story of this story!

Make the story of your life and celebrate your 2017 story!

Happy Rooster Year each and every one!

John Sindayen

PS: If anyone out there in the world, or in the universe (LOL), is interested in joining a Writing Club, write me in my contact information below, and you can participate in the club online or in person, if you are in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Contact Information: jdsjr2012@gmail.com

First Grade Math

FIRST GRADER MATH

Ever wonder what skills you need to pass Grade I Math. Well, wonder no longer, here they are. The following are all the things you will need to know to pass Grade I Math, including sample questions that are easy to answer to get you started.

First Grade Math Skills Test:

Count 0 to 20.
Count 0 to 20 backwards.
Count all odd numbers from 0 to 20.
Count all even numbers from 0 to 20.
Identify all numbers from 0 to 20.
Write all numbers from 0 to 20.
Add 2 numbers that are both 1 digit numbers.
1 + 1 =
0 + 7 =
Add 2 numbers where 1 is a 1 digit number and the other is a 2 digits number.
5 + 11 =
0 + 20 =
Read the time.
12:00 pm
9:00 am
Read the length or height by feet and inches.
5' 5"
3' 0"
State which is higher.
1 or 2
7 or 5
State which is lower.
10 or 20
11 or 7
Identify the place value of each digit in a number.
19
20
Draw a line.
Draw a square.
Draw a rectangle.
Draw a circle.
Draw a triangle.
Write the numbers from 0 to 20 in a number line.
State if number is odd number or even number.
2
17
State the next odd number after a number.
9
10
State the next even number after a number.
12
17
Write the number using words.
3
19
Write the word number in numeral number.
Four
Eighteen
Write the number using Roman numerals.
6
16
Write the Roman numeral number into Arabic number.
II
XV
Solve an addition word problem.
Chelsea has two tomatoes and ten potatoes. How many tomatoes and potatoes does Chelsea have?
John has five apples. Chelsea gave John six apples. How many apples does John have now?
Subtract two numbers.
11 - 0 =
19 - 18 =
Solve a subtraction word problem.
Veronica has 10 pencil erasers. She gave away pencil erasers to 7 classmates. How many pencil erasers does Veronica have now?
Johnny has 7 books borrowed from the school library. He returned 2 books to the library today. How many borrowed books does Johnny have now?
Add money of coins.
5 pennies + 7 pennies =
2 nickels + 3 dimes =
Solve a money word problem.
Tina has 10 pennies in a piggy bank. She put 5 more pennies in the piggy bank. How many pennies are in the piggy bank now?
Nona has 7 dimes in her pocket. She spent 1 dime to buy a candy from the store. How many dimes does Nona have now in her pocket?
Put a set of numbers in order from lowest to highest.
7, 2, 11, 5, 19.
2, 7, 1, 18, 12.
Put a set of numbers in order from highest to lowest.
3, 4, 6, 8, 9.
10, 20, 17, 16, 15.
Name the days of the week.
Name which day of the week comes before or after a day of the week.
What day of the week comes before Tuesday?
What day of the week comes after Friday?
Name the months of the year.
What month comes after January?
What month comes before June?

Congratulate yourself if you know all or most of the answers in this test. You pass Grade I Math with an A, B, or C grade.

Remember to celebrate 2017! It only comes once in a lifetime!

John Sindayen

PS. Due to time constraints, the number of words posted in this blog is now no longer 700+ words but 500+ words, that's about 5 days a week, which is the entire weekdays.

Programming Basics

Introduction to Computer Programming

Program. A program is a set of sequential instructions for a computer CPU (Central Processing Unit) to perform. It can be written in machine language using its switches, binary, octal, hexadecimal, assembly, a programming language, or any language the CPU will understand.

Here is an example of a program I will call "Cooking a Pot of Rice".

COOKING A POT OF RICE PROGRAM
Line 1. Fill pot with raw rice grains.
Line 2. Fill pot with water until it is on top of the rice.
Line 3. Measure height of rice in pot.
Line 4. Fill pot with water until it reaches half the height of the rice in pot.
Line 5. Cook rice at medium heat.
Line 6. Cook rice at low heat when water is boiling.
Line 7. Turn off heat when water is gone and all rice grains are soft and moist.
Line 8. Serve hot and steamy.

This cooking program is an actual program that can be abstracted into a machine. Let's call this device a Smart Rice Cooker machine.

Now, all that is needed to create this machine is a mechanical engineer to make the machine, an electrical/electronics engineer to create the wires of the machine, and a software engineer to program the wires of the machine.

The software engineer needs to write a program or lots of programs to make everything work.

Variable. Variable is a place to store your data.

Here are some examples on how to use a variable and the type of data you can place in a variable in various programming languages.

C: unsigned variable = 0;
C#: int variable = 1;
C++: char variable = 'A';
Java: double variable = Math.PI;
JavaScript: var variable = '<p>John Sindayen</p>';
PHP: variable = 2017;
Python: variable = "Celebrate 2017!"
Visual Basic: Dim variable As Float = 0.00

Branching. Branching is an alternative to sequential programming. Here is an example of a branching program.

If she loves you, love her.
Else
   If she does not love you, do not love her.
   Else
      If she will love you this month, wait for her to love you.
      Else
         If she will love you next month, wait for her to love you.
         Else find another girl to give your love to.

Repetition. Repetition is another alternative to sequential programming.

Here is an example of repetition programming.

   While she loves you and you love her, love her.

Function. Function is another alternative to sequential programming.

Here is an example of a function programming. First the function is define, and then it is called in the program.

Celebrate 2017 Function
   Eat food merrily.
   Drink coffee merrily.
   Go to school merily.
   Go to work merrily.
   Sleep merrily.
While it is 2017, call Celebrate 2017 Function.

HOW TO LEARN HOW TO PROGRAM

There are many ways to learn to program, just like there are many ways to learn anything. Learning to program is much like learning how to speak in a foreign language like German or French or Spanish. Among the many ways of learning a new language are the following:

1. Read a book.
2. Watch a video.
3. Go to a class.
4. Hire a tutor or teacher.
5. Read the internet.
6. Something you can think of.

Everyone has their own learning style, but not everyone knows their learning style. A tutor or teacher may know how to tutor or teach using one learning style but may not know how to tutor or teach in another learning style.

Knowing your own learning style and having a tutor or teacher who knows how to tutor or teach in your learning style will save you time and effort in learning a new language. But the most important thing of all is for the student to be motivated to learn because the student is the one who will need to absorb all that new knowledge.

There are actually many learning styles. There's the audio style, video style, audio and video style, and other kinds of style which have their own names. The names I have mentioned are only simplified names of some learning styles. To learn more about learning styles, all you have to do is do some research in the internet or the library.

And if anyone should want to get tutoring or some teaching on some programming languages like the ones I have already mention above, and including HTML and CSS, I will recommend myself as your tutor or teacher.

Hope you enjoy this blog,

John Sindayen

New Year Resolutions

NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS

Happy New Year to all who have reached 2017!

An old tradition every time a new year arrives is writing or deciding on one's New Year's resolutions. It is a good tradition since it lets a person get rid of bad habits that's keeping them from living a happy or good life and acquire new good habits that will help them to live a happy or good life.

A good advice is to keep up the tradition of New Year's resolutions. It is like Spring cleaning! If you never do Springtime cleaning, you never get rid of the junks that accumulates in your house throughout the year. And if you've never done any cleaning at all in your house, your house can accumulate lots of junk, garbage, or extra baggage for your life. The same thing are New Year's resolutions. It get rids of the junks that accumulate in your life, in your house, and in your love. That is, before they become a bad habit in your life or before they become a hard and bad habit to break in your life.

You don't have to make a federal case out of making your New Year's resolutions. And you don't have to be religious doing your New Year's resolutions either. All it takes is 10 to 20 minutes of your time to think about them and to write them down. You need to write them so you won't forget them and so you won't have to trouble your mind to remembering them.

Here's a list of my new year's resolutions I composed while riding on the bus on New Year's Day around 4 pm to visit Fremont Street Experience in downtown Las Vegas.

MY RESOLUTIONS
1. Never say that girl's name again.
2. Always look good.
3. Don't take home anymore Las Vegas Weekly, The Sunday, and Vegas Seven magazines.
4. Eat healthy.
5. Celebrate 2017.
6. Increase my circle of good friends.
7. Follow the rules of the game of love and life.

Seven resolutions is good enough for me because 7 is a lucky number. That's what most people say, anyway. These resolutions are not in any way organized by priority. Their numerical order corresponds to my chronological way of thinking about them while I was riding bus number 206 towards downtown.

FOR ANYONE INTERESTED IN COMPUTER PROGRAMMING CAREER

Last fall semester, I ended my signing up for a contract as a CIT (Computing and Information Technology) department programming and software tutor. This actually ended all my time as a regularly scheduled and regularly paid programming and software tutor since I started as one in the spring 2014 semester at CSN or College of Southern Nevada. When CAS (Center for Academic Success) department has stopped funding the regularly scheduled programming and software tutoring hours, CIT stepped in and started funding it in the spring 2016 semester. Regardless, I will still keep my Saturday programming and software tutor hours because, normally, regular business hours are not on Saturdays.

Now, I feel it is time I get a new job and really embark towards my future, whether it is a computer programming career or something or other.

And for those of you who are considering computer programming, web development and design, or Computer Science as a career, better think twice. If you think you are only going to these fields because you are attracted by the high salaries, better think again. There are many professions that are comparable to the high salaries of these fields. All you have to do is research them using the internet.

You should choose a career not because you are attracted by its potential for providing you a big salary. You should choose a career, first, because you love it, and second, because of the money. You should not make your love of money block the way of your love of life. Because you can live without money but you cannot live without life.

And one other thing, landing a job as a computer programming or web development professional can be hard, but not necessarily impossible. Why? Because it is a very competitive field. There are strictly no entry level jobs in these field, unlike, say, the nursing field or the culinary field. In these two fields, you can land yourself a job right after graduation. But as for computer programming or web development, only big major companies like Google or Microsoft have the money to hire you as a trainee, but you do need a four year degree in Computer Science or a facsimile thereof.

Good luck to all of us in all fields of life and love!

Just another pilgrimer in 2017,

John Sindayen

IDIOMS AND MEANINGS USED IN THIS BLOG
Make federal case out of = make big deal of.
Be religious doing = be strict or conscientious.
Everytime = not a correct word; should be every time; see https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071224111839AAlehW3.