Elementary School Graduation Message (from Principal)

Hello, people.

How have you been? Sorry if I haven't posted a Blogger blog in a long time! Anyway, I want to present to you a very touchy note written and presented by my old elementary school principal upon my graduation, Trudy Williams. It was presented on June 15, 2006.

Enjoy reading this touchy message!

Dear Graduates,

"True Colors" 
is the 2006 graduation theme at Boucherville Elementary SChool, your graduation theme. Over the year, you did show your true colours, each and every one of you.

You showed your true colors from the very first day that I met you in January. I saw evidence of good strong friendships being developed that I am positive will continue to grow for many years to come. You showed your true colors when you participated in the reading week activities in February. You demonstrated responsibility and wore a huge smile as you read with your younger reading buddies. You showed your true colors as you operated the telephone lines at lunchtime. Your professional manner was noticed by numerous callers who complemented me on your professionalism. And once again, you showed your true colors when you helped Mr. Sylvain (Lemarre, a Phys. Ed. teacher) organize and run the events at the Spring Fling. You demonstrated great leadership qualities as you explained each activity and guided the younger students through each event, step by step. You showed your true colors in many of our in-house competitions such as the Boucherville Public Speaking Contest, The Can-Spell Contest, and The Mad Minute Math Contest. Stomach butterflies surfaced and adrenaline soared as you demonstrated great academic skills at these events and many others throughout the year. You also showed your true colors in front of the camera as you proudly presented your work when we created the film with Heritage Regional High School and when you made commercials with Madame Valerie (Ducharme, a French teacher). Your true colors were more than just black and white. The color pink surfaced as hot pink as you performed the Pink Panther Dance for all Boucherville Elementary students to enjoy. The audience was in awe. You showed your true colors, true multi colors to be more precise, as you participated in the Arts Smarts Project, "Making a Difference." The beautiful ceramic mosaic table will indeed be a colorful mark left by you, the graduating class of 2006. You showed your true colors during the SSIAA (South Shore Interscholastic Athletics Association) soccer tournament. Yes, the Boucherville red and white is a winning combination.

As you leave your "Boucherville Elementary School Family," always remember to show your true colors, be true to yourself, make good decisions, and be a life long learner. Keep the wonderful colorful memories of Boucherville Elementary School alive in your heart and treasure them forever.

You're beautiful! Your true colors are beautiful!
Congratulations, class of 2006!

Mrs. Williams, Principal

The song "True Colors" was written by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly. The original song was actually performed by Cyndi Lauper (now at 59 years old), and was released in her second album, also called True Colors, on July 25, 1986. It reached #1 of the US Billboard Hot 100 of 1986, but it only stood at the top for two weeks.

You can listen to the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPn0KFlbqX8
This is the original music video produced in the same year it was recorded by Sony BMG Music Entertainment.

Lyrics are as follows (from lyrics007.com):

You with the sad eyes
Don't be discouraged
Oh I realize
Its hard to take courage

In a world full of people
You can lose sight of it all
And the darkness inside you
Can make you feel so small

But I see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow

Show me a smile then,
Don't be unhappy, can't remember
When I last saw you laughing

If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there

And I'll see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you

So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow

(When I last saw you laughing)
If this world makes you crazy
And you've taken all you can bear
You call me up
Because you know I'll be there

And I'll see your true colors
Shining through
I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show

Your true colors
True colors
True colors
Shining through

I see your true colors
And that's why I love you
So don't be afraid to let them show
Your true colors
True colors are beautiful,
Like a rainbow

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Need some help for other holidays to come

Hello, guys. How have you been this past week?

I haven't been typing blogs because I was occupied with trying to find work online, playing games (mostly Archimedean Dynasty by Blue Byte Software GmbH in 1996) and have been watching relentlessly the news on the 2012 Mayan apocalypse where other people were making rumors about the day that the Mayan Long Calendar completed its thirteenth bak'tun by Friday, December 21st that the world would end. Luckily, nothing happened; even six major points about the predicted doomsday were dropped down by NASA.

Now, I have been taking a look at several surroundings for Christmas and even tried out a few levels of the Season Greetings scenario from Angry Birds Chrome, and even wanted to decorate my father's house as well as get a tree with a stand, but unfortunately, it was a failure because of lack of finances on my side for leisure and holiday purposes.

As soon as I completed my Mechanics exam on Tuesday, December 11, I immediately took some time to try to find some work online, besides what I did the weekend before, for a full-time job where I would work at least 30 hours a week and earn $300 or more. But as I took more time to find jobs, I knew I was starting to get into trouble.

I got no calls nor e-mails for interviews, mostly because either my candidacy profile does not fit all the requirements or simply all candidates who were hired must speak French, which is sadly a language that even though I was born in, I have been doing really badly, all because I let English assimilate me. Still, I shouldn't be limited to just Quebecois traditions.

Anyway, I have tried going to a few complex buildings, two malls, a few restaurants, and even a computer shop in applying through the old-fashioned way, and I haven't received any calls or e-mails for interviews. I went through numerous job openings on Emploi Quebec's Online Placement Search Engine and still don't get any requests for interviews.

Last week, I took the time checking out the online job system on oDesk.com to see if there really is job openings that I can apply and help others out; I found out that the rates are lower than what Quebec's minimal wage is, mostly because oDesk.com is designed to outsource jobs to people around the world and help them out in their local economies.

I even tried signing up on sites where online surveys are taken, and guess what? No available surveys for me! Even if I would sign up for other survey sites right now, I would be out of luck because the marketing analysis is closed until sometime in January.

And just today, I went outside to see if I can get some money by selling my kept copies of my music videos (Traffic & The River) where I had ten copies originally with me and went around the neighborhood; more than ten houses out of those I went out to see (probably 15) said they are not interested. From there, I began to feel really discouraged about how I can't really get myself more money for me to enjoy a wonderful Christmas. I want a Wii U, and the occasion I had at my mom's house on December 16 allowed me to get $230, but I still need another $200 to get the Deluxe version of the system and a first Wii U game, which would be New Super Mario Bros. Wii U.

Earlier this weekend I've managed to sell two copies of my music videos to my neighbors around the street my dad's house is on and earned $20, which means I could use that to buy some games online. But I will still feel that I am not having a really pleasant Christmas, all because one, I am suffering from lack of French, two, I did not make any money from sales of my music videos during the summer, and three, I was too absorbed with the marketing process of my videos instead of getting a job during the summer.

Now, I want to get some help from you guys on the holidays during 2013, because I really want to have a more pleasant time instead of being off holidays for too long. For now, just leave me comments and I'll get back to you soon because my time on the Internet is about to go down, so I'll see you guys later.

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JAVA Program: Coin Toss

This is a JAVA program for an automatic coin toss; you enter the number of tosses you want to make and then the program does the tosses by itself, where it also checks to see if the result of the toss is heads or tails. This is from Chapter 5 of Tony Gaddis' Starting out with JAVA, 4th Edition.

Here's the program; a series of details follows onwards.

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;
import java.util.Random;

public class Chapter5CoinToss
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String input;
        int numberOfTosses;
       
        input =
            JOptionPane.showInputDialog("How many times do you want this virtual coin to be tossed?");
        numberOfTosses = Integer.parseInt(input);
       
        coinToss(numberOfTosses);
       
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Thank you and come again!");
       
    }
   
    public static void coinToss(int number)
    {
        int numberOfHeads = 0,
            numberOfTails = 0,
            currentNumber,
            currentToss = 1;
   
        Random tossMachine = new Random();
   
        while (currentToss <= number)
        {
        currentNumber = tossMachine.nextInt(1 + 1);
       
        if (currentNumber == 0)
            numberOfHeads++;
        else if (currentNumber != 0)
            numberOfTails++;
       
        currentToss++;
        }
       
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "Out of the number of tosses you asked, there were " +
                                      numberOfHeads + " heads resulted and " + numberOfTails + " tails.");
       
    }
}

It is simply three JOptionPane windows where the first, you enter the number of tosses to execute. Then, through one of the Random class methods and a custom method named coinToss consisting of four integer variables, one Random object, a while loop, an if-else-if statement, and the JOptionPane's showMessageDialog method, the program executes the tosses and checks if the resulting toss is heads or tails.

There are no images used; it's all computer logic, in binary numbers.  All of this invisible process happens within just less than 50 lines of code.

Well, I'll see you around! 

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JAVA Program: Lottery Class

Here's another JAVA Program I want to share with you guys, which is a demonstration of the Lottery class I was asked to design from my copy of Tony Gaddis' textbook.

Below is the code for the class:

import java.util.Random;

public class Lottery
{
    private int[] lotteryNumbers;
    private int matches;
   
    public Lottery()
    {
        final int maxNumber = 10;
       
        Random numberGenerator = new Random();
       
        lotteryNumbers = new int[5];
       
        for (int x = 0; x < lotteryNumbers.length; x++)
        {
            lotteryNumbers[x] = numberGenerator.nextInt(maxNumber);
        }
    }
   
    public void lotteryCheck(int[] playersNumbers)
    {
        int numberOfMatches = 0;
       
        for(int y : playersNumbers)
        {
            if (playersNumbers[y] == lotteryNumbers[y])
                numberOfMatches++;
        }
       
        matches = numberOfMatches;
    }
   
    public int getNumberOfMatches()
    {
        return matches;
    }
   
    public int[] getLotteryNumbers()
    {
        return lotteryNumbers;
    }
   
    public void noWin()
    {
        System.out.println("Sorry, you did not win the grand prize.");
    }
   
    public void grandPrizeWinner()
    {
        System.out.println("Congratulations! All of your numbers match the lottery; you win the grand prize!");
    }
}



Over here is the code that executes the class' methods:

import java.util.Scanner;

public class LotteryProgram
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        boolean safeEntry = true;
        final int arraySize = 5;
       
        int[] playerNumbers = new int[arraySize];
        int[] returnNumbers;
       
        Scanner Keyboard = new Scanner(System.in);
       
        System.out.println("This program will run a check for winners of a five-element lottery game. " +
                           "If all of your numbers matches the draw numbers, you win the big prize.");
       
        System.out.println("\nFor each element, enter a number between 0 and 9 according to your paper.\n");
       
        for (int x = 0; x < playerNumbers.length; x++)
        {
            System.out.println("Element " + (x + 1) + ":");
            playerNumbers[x] = Keyboard.nextInt();
           
            if (playerNumbers[x] < 0 || playerNumbers[x] > 9)
            {
                System.out.println("Invalid number. Please run the program again and enter a digit that is between 0 and 9.");
                x = 5;
                safeEntry = false;
            }
        }
       
        if (safeEntry)
        {
            Lottery drawNumbers = new Lottery();
           
            System.out.println("The numbers from the draw are as follows:");
            returnNumbers = drawNumbers.getLotteryNumbers();
           
            for (int p = 0; p < returnNumbers.length; p++)
            {
                System.out.print(returnNumbers[p]);
            }
           
            System.out.println();
           
            if (drawNumbers.getNumberOfMatches() == 5)
                drawNumbers.grandPrizeWinner();
            else
                drawNumbers.noWin();
        }
    }
}

Thanks for reading!

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JAVA Program: Car Class

Hello, people.

Sorry if I'm late with my Bloggers, but at least I know for sure that I need to upload one!

Anyway, let me show you one of the initial exercises I had in my JAVA Programming classes for creating classes instead of inputting those already from loaded packages.

There is no description of this, unfortunately, but this exercise comes from two JAVA files because the Car class is in a class file of its own.

Here it is:

public class Car
{
    private int yearModel;
    private String make;
    private int speed;

    public Car(int modelAndYear, String manufacturer)
    {
        yearModel = modelAndYear;
        make = manufacturer;
        speed = 0;
    }

    public void accelerate()
    {
        speed += 5;
    }

    public void brake()
    { 
        speed -= 5;
    }

    public int getYearModel()
    {
        return yearModel;
    }

    public String getMake()
    {
        return make;
    }

    public int getSpeed()
    {
       return speed;
    }

}

Below is the demonstration code for the Car class. In this case, the created car accelerates five times and have its speed displayed, then decelerates five times with its speed displayed. To make this simple, two for loops were used.

public class CarClassProgram
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        Car car1 = new Car(87, "Chevrolet");
       
        for (int x = 0; x < 5; x++)
        {
            car1.accelerate();
            System.out.println(car1.getSpeed());
        }
       
        for (int y = 0; y < 5; y++)
        {
            car1.brake();
            System.out.println(car1.getSpeed());
        }
    }
}

Well, I hope you've enjoyed checking this out! Later!

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String Letter Counter (JAVA Program)

Hello, guys.

This is another JAVA Program I want to share with you guys. It's a counter for a specific letter in an entered string straight from a program.

The code shown here shows how it works.

import javax.swing.JOptionPane;

public class Chapter4LetterCounter
{
    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        String enterString;
        String characterSearch;
        char characterSearchLetter;
        char existingCharacter;
        int numberOfMatches = 0;
        int enterStringLength;
        int characterCounter = 0;
       
        enterString =
                JOptionPane.showInputDialog("Enter a string. This program will enter how many times a letter in" +
                                            " the string exists.\nPlease note that it will only search for " +
                                            "characters that are distinct from its opposite case partners.");
        enterStringLength = enterString.length();
       
        characterSearch =
                JOptionPane.showInputDialog("What character do you want this program to search?");
        characterSearchLetter = characterSearch.charAt(0);
       
        while (characterCounter < enterStringLength)
        {
            existingCharacter = enterString.charAt(characterCounter);
           
            if (existingCharacter == characterSearchLetter)
            {
                numberOfMatches++;
            }
           
            characterCounter++;
        }
       
        JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "The program has found " + numberOfMatches + " matches of the " 
             + characterSearchLetter + " character.");
       
        System.exit(0);
       
       
    }

}

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Fun with Music, Drama and Comedy

This is a persuasive speech I did in my Sec. 5 English class. It wasn't a great speech, unfortunately, but I'm posting it anyway for the sake of building an audience for myself, including you people.

Anyway, enjoy!

            Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Lady Gaga and The Beatles are some of the most influential celebrities in the world in terms of visual arts. But sometimes drama and comedy would add up to the fun of music or combined with it, depending on what we understand about it and how we earn the “past-on” experience from experts. Just how do we earn incredible emotion and recognition from performing these kinds of arts? My purpose is to interest my audience with drama, singing with music, and comedy, looking into the ideas of them with a little bit of my experience. For example, knock, knock, who’s there? It’s me! Anyway, it’s time to call to listen to the world of music, drama and comedy as we move beyond into music.

            Music is a sound, a form of sound where its properties create a sense of melodrama from various instruments, such as drums or guitars, that may include voice-overs. I happen to have a story. In the Black History Month Variety Show, I consider this party as “Bieber Fever” when I sang “Pray” by Justin Bieber and everyone cheered for it, along with the relaxed, smooth popularity of the voice on the mic. The music themselves, the artists and the lyrics, all add up to the hearts and/or brains of teenage girls and the minds of teenage boys. Melodrama is out there, allowing us to go into the feelings of others and feeling so proud. The stage is the magic, the cheering is the vial and the performance is all together, the potion. The reputation stands out as the singer shares his or her voice with their skills, even though you may be scared to perform in occasions like this. “To be or not to be,” as Prince Hamlet says in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet. “That is the question.”

            The props, the literature, the emotion and the movement. Drama is a kind of fiction related to literature shown in performance. The most famous ones include William Shakespeare’s screenplays, including Romeo & Juliet, Macbeth and Hamlet. Only one day of the year, one day, a school here, either in Monterégie-Est, Montreal or even Ottawa, the Montreal Shakespeare Company shows up. Don’t wait till the last minute, ask the cast how passionate a play or drama can be. When you see a bunch of sets on the stage, you’re already absorbed into a new world, like the world of Star Wars, Mario or Pokemon. However, Lucas, Miyamoto and Tajiri are in the world of video games and movies. Instead of big plays where you say, “Throw your mistemper’d weapons to the ground,” why not small ones like Danny, King of the Basement? But sometimes plays can’t be presented with one thing our minds are manipulated by: comedy.

           

The cell phone. It rumbles as if Winnie the Pooh says, “I rumbly in my tumbly.” Comedy is a discourse in a humorous manner to let the audience laugh at through techniques of verbal communication, tone and body language. Consider Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox and Tom Green. They’re all silly men. They aren’t even going to play blackjack if they have to pay Rick Riordan all of Percy Jackson’s troubles. Of course, people try to look for jokes, but they ain’t always right. Only a soul would play a cartoon monster, yet it makes the public and the comedian’s friends feel happy and favourable. Although this person from Naples, Florida is going to college for broadcasting and/or narration, he’s still making jokes, along with the epic “No!”, in his video game walkthroughs. This person is Emiliano “Emile” Rodolfo Rosales-Birou, also known as YouTube user Chuggaaconroy. “Hey, everybody, it’s Chuggaaconroy!”

           

As a restatement, my purpose of the speech is to stimulate you to go up to the auditorium and show your valuable self with some speech and movement. Just don’t forget to hand in your CV or ask the director first! Take your chance and show what you’ve got, all to earn a big recognition. You’ll need a stage to do this. Don’t feel too proud before the director says his or her opinion, because you may lose your prize. And don’t feel too sad, have your friends help you. Although some of you are anxious to do it but feel that you’ll be happy with the strong recognition you can earn, just keep this in mind. “Never Say Never,” Justin Bieber. Whenever you’re in the cast or not, it’s there. A sense of entertainment and influence is there for you. I sing in music, I play in drama and I joke around in comedy.

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