Alohomora post 16, Skills and habits

One of the fundamental key in successful living lies in the bedrock of knowledge and understanding. We come to the point that knowing and understanding liberates or gives us that exhilarating feeling. But we can not rest on the feeling, the knowledge of the skill should be practiced and becomes a habit. Thus, you can "perfect" your presentation skill by practicing over and over. When you do this, the skill becomes trained to your neural brain connections. If you add more practice then these connections become entrenched, thus they will now become habitual on your part. Thus we have this term, "force-of-habit". When you keep on performing the force-of-habit becomes a part of you. Fundamentally, we start with knowledge, then we get to know that knowledge or skill. Once we practice and repeat a magic act, the act becomes trained into our body that becomes a part of us. If you fail to practice or repeat it, they they get lost, perhaps forever.

Alohomora Post 17 Magician's code

Remember the magician's code: 1. Don't reveal the secret, even to your best friend! 2. Don't perform the same trick twice before the same audience, 3. Don't do any trick until you have practiced and perfected it thoroughly, 4. Don't knock other magicians. Do unto them as you would have them do unto you. Contributed by Allan Lambie, Reference: Practical Magic Edited by David Robbins (c) 1953.

Alohomora Post 16

You will be having a long vacation. I am encouraging you to practice your routine over and over again until you perfect your moves. At the beginning it will be difficult. One of my former summer student will be performing at Aura this coming Sunday. His interest led him to do magic performance. Note that YouTube can teach you a lot of moves in magic. Keep on performing.

Alohomora Post 15

Should you lost a given magic props please ask your parents to order the item by emailing me at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com. The subject is Lost Item. I will respond to that email and will give your parents the details of the order. Should you want to order a magic props which is not in your kit which you saw at school, you can order it with subject: Additional magic items. I will respond to your parents for the order. Your order may take a three weeks to arrive. I will be indicating the date as to when I will hand over the items. Thank you very much

Alohomora Quiz 01

This will be for classes of Monday and Tuesday. Part 1. Instruction: 1. Answer the following or identify: 1. What do you call a soft round red ball that we use in our COCA? 2,3,4,5, What are the four suits in a deck of card? 6. What suit has a red color? 7. What suit has a black color? 8. When you perform the three hanging one peso coin, where do you place the one peso coin? 9. When you produce a coin, there is a technique to produce the coin, it is placed on your hand, what do you call that technique? 10. Where do you place your magic stuff? Part 2. Name all the magic stuff that were given to you from the start to the last day of class this December. Subject: Quiz 01. Kindly submit your answers via email: leonidas.jose@yahoo.com with the subject: Quiz Alohomora. The deadline is 30 December 2015. Please ask assistance from your parents. NB: I am encouraging our parents to review the Alohomora posts that they might have missed. Salamat po.

Alohomora Post 14

In case you are wondering as to the Leonidas chocolate store as a background picture of this blogspot, it was taken at MOA last 2006. I do not own the said store. The Leonidas owners came from Belgium. Indeed they produce superb chocolates. My Leonidas roots come from, Calauag, Quezon.

Alohomora Post 12, Lost magic props

Dear Students, Part of your magic performance is your props. Thus, you should have a bag for this. Preferably a bag you can sling onto your shoulder for security. The bag also organizes your magic materials. If you have lost your magic materials, ask your Mom or Dad to email me at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com with subject: Magic order. I will respond to you just the same. It may take weeks to replace what you have lost. Thank you.

Alohomora Post 10

After the last day of our classes, I will be posting a short quiz for you to answer. This is to measure how much you have learned on our COCA. Of course we will continue the performance session that you are going to do inside our class. Thus, you have to practice, practice, practice your magic routine. And do not reveal the secret of the magic. It is for you to keep. Thank you.

Alohomora Post 9

Part of your magic kit is a magnetic ring. Please bring an empty mineral water plastic bottle with a cap in it. You shall bring this bottle on the 23rd and 24th November which is on your assigned schedule. Also bring one peso coin. The mouth of the bottle is fitted for the one peso to enter the bottle. Please do not remove the plastic brand name of the said plastic bottle, we are going to use it and is vital to the performance. The magnetic ring should not be dropped because it might break. Again, please bring your magic bag every time we have our COCA session. Also, ask your Mom and Dad to buy you a cloth hand gloves. We are going to use it in the coming days. If you have read this, or your Mom or Dad, send email immediately with subject "Read Alohomora Post 9". If you are one of the first five responder you will have a gift magic prop. Always take care of your magic props. If you lose it, then it will take sometime to re-order it. Re-ordering shall be done via-email. Thank you.

Alohomora Post 8

On 16th and 24th of November in your respective schedule, please bring a brown envelop size 9 inches by 12 inches (one only). The envelop is your protector to a new magic props to be given on the next meeting. Reminder: Always check on this website because the first students or their parents who responded to a request for an email will get a surprise magic props gift. Thank you.

Alohomora Post 7 Learning from You Tube

This is entitled "Best card trick in the world". It is made by Ultradeep with 20M views. Please learn this with your parents. This will be a fun family activity. Alohohora Post 6 is the same card routine. One of my request is that, I need confirmation if you have viewed this video. Ask the help of your parents by emailing me at: leonidas.jose@yahoo.com Subject: Seen the video.

Alohomora Post 6 Learning from YouTube

I call this magic trick the different colored back card. It is a tutorial and can be learned at your home we will discuss this next month. Just to check viewership success, if you were able to open the link please email at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com for cnnfirmation. Subject: Viewed link. Thank you.

Alohomora Post 5

This coming week, students shall be perform at least two magic moves either using card, coin, coffee cup and other tricks that were taught inside the classroom. I will be observing and correcting your performance. This will also be part of individual assessment in your learning. My reminder to you is that you practice your favorite magic trick. I want a good performance. Good luck!

Alohomora Post 4

Alohomora Post 4. For those who have not paid their dues for our activity, please remind your parents to pay on or before 15 October. We need the fees so that we can purchase the magic props that we will be needing. Some of these props will be used for our gala presentation which closes our magic class. Second, please bring your magic magic in our date sessions so that we can hone your skills in the deliver of your magic presentation. I am noting down those who have brought their magic bags. For the Monday class we will have a teacher-visitor to observe our class in magic. For the Tuesday and Monday classes please be prepared for two card tricks for you to perform. Know how to perform the empty bottle trick and the floating coffee cup. Thank you.

Alohomora Post 3

Dear Students. Just to remind you certain things on presenting magic. 1. Never present any magical act unless you have practiced, practiced, practiced your act. Thus, when you learn an act in our classroom session, practice the act for 22 times. Best to do it in front of a mirror. Then present it to your Mom and Dad, then to your elder brother and sister. Do not get discouraged. Always present if you have time, but you have to ask permission first, as you enter, "Do you want to see magic?" 2. Here is the list of what I have taught you: a. The empty mineral water bottle and the cap. b. On cards, know the bottom card by simply peeking the value of the bottom card, then have your audience pick a card. With the method by using your thumb to pull out the bottom card which you already know, then you can say what selected value card. c. Card palming, practice palming a one peso or five peso coin for one hour. Make it natural. Look at the mirror if you are palming naturally. d. Back palming: Clip the coin in between your index and middle finger. Then make a grabbing action to make the coin appear. e. Practice the alluminum can (with a P.25 centavo coin already inside. Hard to explain here best to see me on how to do it and I will demonstrate). Your assignment: 1. At home, you should practice the four routines that I taught you. Then you will be asked to perform only one magic routine in our next meeting. 2. Bring your magic bag with its contents. Also bring a one-peso coin. Also bring an empty styro coffee cup, the white one. Good luck to all and make your day magical! For feedback from Mom and Dad and you: Please email: leonidas.jose@yahoo.com with subject Alohomora.

Magic Club

Session 01. 1. This blogspot will serve as our communication center for my student taking up a beginners course on magic. 2. For session two we will do a practice on the empty mineral bottle. In our last session I taught you how to present the empty bottle routine. Continue to practice this routine because this possess a strong illusion-effect. Go in-front of a mirror and practice 14 times. See if you are comfortable with your performance. I the answer is Yes, then perform first to your parents or your significant others. 3. Second, we are going to learn the basic of card manipulation and the nature of the playing card. I am leaving here a link that will direct you to Wikipedia. Just click on the link. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Playing_cards You have a month to read this, then we will have a quiz on what are the suits of the card. 4. In this link, (only in picture) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sleight_of_hand David Blaine is doing a magic act with Bill Gates of Microsoft, Henry Kissinger of the Nixon era, Bloomberg of New York City. Do read this article. You have two months to read this. 5. Bring your magic bag. Your magic bag is your loyal companion when you present magic. It contains your magic stuffs or props. 6. Again, Never Reveal the magic secret to your audience. Always be prepared to perform.

Amazing Filipinos

Amazing Filipinos, this is a subject that you may want to do a research. It is voluntary paper. It sets off a 5-points plus in your general score points. Deadline: June 4, thursday. For reference go watch, CNNPhilippines at 6:00 pm news, daily weekdays. Include photos of your subject.

Boat people, Rohingya

Recent events focused on the Rohingya. Do a research on who they are. Second, what made them flee from their land? What is the response of other country on their plight? What is the response of the Philippines. This paper shall be submitted on 29th May. Answer the 3-questions. Do not forget to site your reference which shall appear at the end of your report. 2-3 pages. Use 8x11 paper. 12 points font. This will be a group paper of 5-members. Further questions on this project please email me at leonidas.jose@yahoo.com All submission shall be on 8x11 inches paper or small size unless a new rule is announced.

Roll the die

This article caught my attention and I decided to give this a required reading for the course. Please click on the link: You are to submit a reaction paper on the 20th of May. Site a statement in the article that you can related with and why. Thus, in the body of your paper, eg. 1. "...quoted from the paper." I can relate on this statement because.... (site at least 3 statements. Submit on a word processed report on a short bond paper, printed. No handwritten report. Double space your work. Write your name at the left top side of your paper and your class schedule. Write the date of submission. 100% points.

My Rear View

My Rear View is my social commentary on our society, on the micro and macro level. It is nested on this blogspot: sociologymall168.blogspot.com. I chose this title after musing on what title to pick or formulate so I decided on My Rear View. I likened this title as to the rear view mirror of a vehicle. I quipped one time that, the past is past but it is all over us up to this time. The past is history and I am convinced that we can learn a lot from history. ***** Reading from North Frye, I came into these reflections on how humans will fulfill the human agenda as it relate with nature, though he is part of it: Humans: 1. Will always make a meaning on how it relates with nature, 2. Will discover the use value of nature towards human projects and human ends, 3. Will contend with the morality of its relationship with nature and humans as how nature is used for human purpose, 4. Will define the limits of these relationships and will project to regulate human actions, 5. Providing a meaning of these dynamics as it comes into play, having in mind the direct outcomes and the indirect or latent ones. ***** A friend of this Catholic country, Pope Francis of Vatican came for a five day memorable experience by the faithful. Estimates by authorities say that close to 6 to 7 million people attended the open Eucharistic celebration held at the Quirino grandstand at Luneta. The ocean of people shown by the media is a political message in itself. For in numbers, there is power. Today, Monday, Pope Francis will bid the country goodbye. The euphoria was expressed and will settle down. We will be back to "business-as-usual", the slow grind of justice in our court systems will take its own toll. The traffic jam from EDSA to Baguio City will still be experienced. Jockeying for positions in the 2016 election machinery will the gears be oiled. I would like to suggest that the Catholic Dioceses will take seriously the studying of Pope Francis messages. The faithful should go back to the text, read, study and apply it to the Christian demands of living in society. If this will not be done then the visit may go into oblivion. Pope Francis in a way was changed by this experience as much as the faithfuls of this country is also changed. ***** In Pope Francis' message last 16 January at the Malacanan, "[T]ogether with many other countries in Asia, faces the challenge of building on solid foundations a modern society - a society respectful of authentic human values, protective of our God-given human dignity and rights, and ready to confront the new and complex political and ethical questions." With this quote Pope Francis believes that the march of modernization cannot be stopped. The main feature of this modern and complex society is that knowing will be based on scientific activity. A new set of "priests" will be the scientists studying intently the behavior of nature and predict its outcome. Thus, we will be seeing the continuing establishments of centers of learning like universities, colleges and now the huge open-online system of learning propelled by computers, search engines like Google and Yahoo platforms. This new millenium will be the talk of humans wherein knowledge, its production and usage will be the talk of the town. The good news is that knowledge is now easily accessible and it lies at the top of one's palm by using a smart phone. *****