Remote Work

    

        Nowadays workers and companies are facing huge changes in the business world and remote work is one thing that is changing for many companies and employees around the world.. Remote work (also called telework) describes any type of work that doesn't have to be performed in a traditional company office. Remote workers can do their jobs anywhere in the world—including their home, a co-working space, traveling, etc. —where they have access to high-speed internet.

Letter to the editor

Video Games to help avoid Covid-19 spread

        "Video Games as an effective way to avoid Covid-19 spread"

I am writing to express my support for the article "Video Games as an effective way to avoid Covid-19 spread". I believe  video games can indeed help and support the population against the Covid-19 spread while they have fun and stay connected socially. I strongly agree that video games will help us deal with the problems we are passing through the Covid-19 because we can play with friends and other people that we might not even know to stay positive and satisfied at home during this lockdown.

        Firstly, people staying at home for a long period  doing nothing could be very harmful for mental health due to overthinking and focusing on negative news and problems we are facing on this lockdown. Personally, playing video games in these times will help me to stay positive and satisfied when I don't have many options to socialize and do outdoor activities.

Also, video games can be a good activity to build a good mindset for overcoming problems and be optimistic, especially during the hard times we are facing right now.

        I hope people will notice that video games are not a waste of time especially when we don't have many options to live a social life because of the lockdown. They should see the benefits video games could bring to society and to their personal lives. Personally I think playing video games could be a game changer for our society right now; people will stay home playing video games to save the world from the spread of Covid-19.

        I hope my ideas can help all the people avoid the spread of Covid-19 and while staying at home spend a quality time playing video games to improve some of the benefits of this activity.

Sincerely, Michael Kim.

Tetris for fun

Tetris for fun

If you never heard about this game or never tried it, today is the day to learn about it! Tetris is called a falling block puzzle game. In this game, we have seven different shapes called tetrominoes: S-shape, Z-shape, T-shape, L-shape, Line-shape, Mirrored L-shape, and a Square-shape. Each of these shapes is formed with four squares and by rotating the pieces  and combining them you need to form a full horizontal line in order to clean your screen, every time you complete a full horizontal line the line will disappear.

Using simple commands this game will help you develop useful skills, such as how to think fast and give fast commands
 at the same time. It will make you act and think fast and also synchronize your brain to your body. I played this game for many years and I had a lot of fun during that time. The most fun thing was to play against different kind of people because this game is for everyone, it doesn't have a specific kind and involve everyone like children, adults, men and women.

Tetris is a well known game because it is very famous all over the world. The game is played by people of all ages and it has different modes. You can play against players, or play by yourself. Going online you can even play against many players at once. The rule to survive is to clean the map by completing a horizontal line with the pieces and not accumulate many lines, and once you accumulate many lines and the lines hit the top of your screen you lose the game.

Playing against others the objective is to survive for the last and playing by yourself is to accumulate many points and while the time pass the game will get faster so you will need to think fast to rotate the pieces and be able to combine them to a perfect horizontal line.

The elements I will review for this game are: the gameplay, the game history, and the difficulty to learn and play.

-Gameplay

I like it because it is very simple and it is very fun at the same time. Basically you will use one skill but you need to use it very well. The skill is to be creative by rotating the pieces to make the horizontal line and you need to be fast, so you need to have a good synchronization between your body and your mind.

-History

It all began with a puzzle-loving software engineer named Alexey Pajitnov, who created "Tetris" in 1984 while working for the Dorodnitsyn Computing Centre of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, a research and development center in Moscow created by the government.

 -Difficulty

It can get really hard to play at fast speed, because you need to give the commands faster each time.

I think everyone from everywhere can learn and play Tetris. I would recommend you to try it because it is very fun and very simple. It won't take that much time to play and also learn. You can play whenever you want it.

It helps release stress, connecting socially and staying mentally sharp are some of the advantages to play Tetris and have fun at the same time.

My personal experience with this game involved three main points. The first one, is that I evolved an ability to be mentally sharp because the game made me be creative to combine the pieces and think fast making me use my mind having fun at the same time. The second point, is that I brought people to have fun with me and we had a good time playing the game and spending some time together even far from each other because we were able to play it online, so it was good for my social life also. And finally, I understood better how to play other games because of Tetris, the game gave me a solid start on how to play games and compete to others having fun. For many reasons, I think it was positive to play in many different ways and I would recommend to others try it.

Noodles to survive - Food

 Noodles to survive

Hey guys, I will talk about the first dish that I have ever cooked in my life.

You guessed it! It was noodles! And it was easy, simple and practical. 

Noodles are famous around all over the world and personally I think it is delicious.
It is a simple dish to cook but also it can taste really good if cooked well.

One thing you need to make life easy and be able to survive with low cost, anywhere and in
any situation, is to know how to cook a good noodle.
There are many cultures and different styles when you talk about noodles.
I have been to different countries and I've tried noodles in most of them;
For example, I've been to New York, Tokyo, Seoul, São Paulo, Guangzhou and ate noodles
from all over. I can tell you that in order to cook noodles, you use  the same skills
but totally different flavors and it is an awesome advantage because you can alternate
the flavor and the taste, using the same skills.

I made this choice because I decide to learn how to cook something and people
recommend that to me and they said it is really easy to learn that.
I felt insecurity because it was my first time trying to cook something,
but everything worked very well. 

Basically the skill for cooking noodles is boiling water, then putting the noodle or ramen or
pasta in the pot, then adding the sauce that you chose, for example,
homemade tomato sauce, then you can remove the water or have it in a soup style with water.
You can also add more ingredients as you want. Flavors like chicken, beef, veggies, spicy,
seafood, curry and many others are available for your choice.
Next I will present you some pictures of the options available for noodles.

Now, I will tell you on how to cook noodles and share my first experience cooking this dish.
The ingredients that I used were water and one dollar noodles.
I used a panel to boil water and after the water was boiling
I put the noodles with the sauce that came in the package,
then I cooked for 2 minutes and it was ready. Here is a photo from the
noodles that I cooked for the first time in my life.

After cooking my first noodles I was confident I could survive anywhere in any condition.
It was a game changing experience for me forever. 

Hope I inspired you guys to cook noodles and  take all the advice here.
If you never try to cook noodles, share your experience with me in the comments.

Skydiving in California.

Skydiving California (Tracy)

The place is called Skydiving California and it is located in Tracy close to Silicon Valley.
The picture above is from 13.000ft and that is the altitude fun jumpers like me use to jump from.

We built a circle in a head down formation, which is a modality called freefly.
To introduce a little bit of skydiving on this first day, it is important to know there are few
different modalities for skydiving; for example, belly jump, XRW (canopies and wingsuits),
wingsuits and swoop. In freefly you can reach the highest speed on freefall.
For people who are not skydivers it is a tandem jump in which one instructor will carry you
attached to you.

Tracy is a good spot for skydiving because of the winds, they are very stable not changing so much in directions and speed, and those two factors are important for safety while skydiving.

Also, the dropzone is one of the most famous in California because there are high quality jumpers and instructors from all over the world working there. The skydiving community in Tracy is considered a global community because we have people from many different countries like in Silicon Valley. Personally I like the vibe and the environment in Tracy, it is very friendly and organized. I recommend Tracy for all the people around the Bay Area, it is one of the most trustable places to skydive.

Skydive Taft (Taft)

Skydive Taft is a famous place to skydive for fun jumpers and professional athletes. High skill athletes and high performance skydivers like to go to Taft. The reason is because this place is well known for having the best skydivers from all over California; Professional jumpers from Northern California and Southern California get together at Skydive Taft because this place is located in the middle of California. The place is a beautiful desert and it is close to Bakersfield.

Some of my personal views and shots from Skydive Taft for you to check.

As I mentioned before, there are different styles for skydiving.
In the first picture we are doing a freefly jump, in the second picture we are doing a tracking
jump and in the last picture we are doing a belly jump and also a star formation.
The main difference between the type of the jumps are body position, direction and speed.
To understand better the direction of the jump you can imagine someone falling from the sky
straight to the ground or you can fall and move forward at the same time.
Those are some of the basic lessons and it could get way more complex including transitions
from directions, speed and body position. Skydiving is a new sport; for example,
freeflying modality started in the 90's and after Gopro launched the sport could debrief itself
and evolve a lot from there to now.

Skydive Elsinore (Lake Elsinore)

This is a skydiving place located in Lake Elsinore between Los Angeles, San Diego and
Orange County. The place is well known for the good structure, excellent professionals from
the skydiving community and the good service. The President of the Skydiving Association
used to jump in this dropzone. They have different types of airplanes, that is the biggest
difference compared to the other dropzones. The view is beautiful from above,
you can spot the lake, mountains and the city at the same time.
Here is a shot from a canopy flying above.

After the freefall comes the canopy flying. Here is where it becomes dangerous.
As you get closer to the ground, you need to be aware, because the goal is to land safe
and on the target.

It is a fun and beautiful ride while under a canopy, but you need to focus on the traffic
from other jumpers, wind, speed and distance. There are different techniques to land and
there are different types of canopy , so each canopy has its own technique.

So that is my skydiving experience from North to South in California. 
Hope you liked to learn a little bit about skydiving and glad to share my own skydiving
experience in California with you. Enjoy the ride.