Journal of My Journey

Did you know our current millennium started with what people had thought would be an apocalypse? It started with a simple but vastly used in application programming bug  ⃰. Back in the 60s, even 1 kilobyte of storage was much expensive. So programmers were always finding ways to write codes as succinctly as possible to save up some storage space. One such way was to write the last two digits of a year instead of the whole year in date formats (12/3/95 instead of 12/3/1995). Everything was rolling on perfectly fine but one day someone poped up question– what would happen in the year 2000? Only having 00 instead of 2000 would leave computers with high chance of misinterpreting 00 for 1900 and that could be a huge problem for areas like banking, airlines, nuclear power plants etc where many operations are conducted based on time. This problem became known as the Y2K, also known as the 'millennium bug'. Solution to the problem was to expand the year digits to four or writing additi

Recently I've enjoyed two movies and a webtoon all of which coincidentally had a common theme. You guessed what it is from the title. They're literally so heart-touching that you might need a box of tissue with you while giving them a go. 1. Miracle in Cell No. 7 A mentally impaired man got falsely accused of murdering a young girl which separated him from his loving daughter whom he loved more than his life. After years, the grown up daughter looks back at the time and reminisces the bitter-sweet memory of that difficult time. This 2013 Korean movie has such a beautiful story, it has inspired remakes in four different countries. The Turkish remake in 2019 got the most popularity and brought this movie in the lime light. This one is slightly different from the original story for its different ending. 2. Ayla: the Daughter of War Süleyman Dilbirliği, a 25 year old solider  in the Turkish troop sent to help South Korea in the Korean War in 1950, found a helpless child amidst

  Wow, it's already the 10th month! I hope you all are doing great. Today I'm gonna share a few contents I enjoyed last month. They're listed in the order I read/watched them. 1. IKIGAI (book) As you can guess from the cover, Ikigai is a self-help book that tries to explore the secrets to longevity. The book mainly focuses on traditional lifestyle of Japanese people who are well-known for their high life expectancy. The book also sheds light on some researches regarding longevity . From the mindset towards p ursuing passion to a healthy lifestyle leading to a potential long life, this book has lot to inspire you about. 2. JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI (documentary film) This one is linked to the previous one since I knew about this documentary film from the book 'Ikigai'. The protagonist of this documemtary is Jiro Ono who has taken making sushi on whole new level with perseverance and passion for his work. He's currently 95 y/o and this month he's supposed to tu

  I'm one of those people who often prioritize what may happen in the future more than what needs to be done in the present. That's a troublesome mindset I got there and fortunately I detected it not too late. Here I'm sharing one of the many experiences that made me realize this. Once I bought a sketchbook with special watercolour paper. I was supposed to practise using watercolor there since I was a noob but I was strangled with the anxiety that the papers were so special, if I painted even one careless stroke on them, it would be the end of the world. I was worried about all the 'future masterpieces' failing to earn a place in the sketchbook just because of some worthless scribbles. And who can ever practise painting with that kind of mentality? So, lack of practice resulted in no improvement and soon enough, I became frustrated with my mediocre artwork. Now that sketchbook lies in a corner with most of its 'precious pages' unused. That's a fairly s

Crime and law related K-dramas have never failed to amaze me and my recently watched 'Law School' is another addition to that list. Here I'll discuss what I liked about the drama and a few lessons I took from it (yeah, I love to take nerdy approach towards everything). The story of 'Law School' starts from the suspicious death of a professor of Hankuk University's law school. While the mystery keeps branching in the process of capturing the murderer, Professor Yang tries to hunt down the root of evil along with his students. The whole story was like a jigsaw puzzle . Every charcters' incidents had connection and throughout the drama, the puzzle pieces were being put into place revealing the connections. I think Professor Yang's obsession with jigsaw puzzle indicates to this characteristic of the plot. Each individual's story fairly contributed to the collective story and they were interesting enough on their own too. If I'm talking about the less

I've just watched a video that addresses a problem I had to fix not so long ago. Here's the video. I love to watch anime. And there are a few certain directors whose works I really like such as– Makoto Shinkai, Hayao Miyazaki, Mamoru Hosoda, Satoshi Kon. The problem was— I used to feel that I had to watch ALL of their movies or other contents and I set it as my goal. I didn't even care whether I was enjoying the movie or not, I just had to finish one and tick off the box. Thus I watched all of Makoto Shinkai's works in a go and burned myself out. I didn't do so with the other directors' works but surely suffered for the list of unwatched movies and not ticking the unchecked boxes. Later I realized the problem with such mindset and fixed it. Hobby is no such thing you have to stress yourself out for. Well, that's the reason it's hobby; silly meh. I used to go through the same problem with my watch-later movie or anime list and to-be-read books. I never kn

  BITCOIN— a familiar name nowadays getting in the spotlight more and more with each passing year. If you have heard of it before, you know this much that bitcoin is a digital currency. But how does a digital currency work? Or what is the use of it when we already have digital banking? In today's blog I'm going to explain the basics in the simplest term possible.  First things first— we need to know how currency works to understand how it can be so much in an abstract form i.e. digital form. Let's look at the history of transaction.  At the beginning of civilization, people would exchange goods for goods in return and thus obtain what was necessary for them. This system had its limitations, so later in the history people  moved onto using metal coins (gold, silver) to buy stuffs. Since these materials are precious to people's standard and can't be obtained easily, they worked well as currency. However, carrying a good amount of coins everywhere was troublesome and s