My nephew will go to college next year. But he hasn’t decided yet on what course he’s going to take. His dad is a mechanical engineer so he’s considering taking it as well, though he’s not sure if he likes his hands get dirty while working with machines. He’s also considering taking up, electrical engineering, computer engineering and chemical engineering. Actually he wants to be an engineer so the course he wants is related to that field. There’s no electrical engineer in the family so he doesn’t know what career path he could take. He knows what a computer engineer does and knows he might end up as a computer programmer. With chemical engineering, he have yet to ask my uncle on what jobs he can take. He knows there are fuel cell jobs for courses like that but he wants to know more. Seems like he’s more of interested on that course.
Oh well, he have this coming Christmas break to think because next year, he has to take up exams in different universities and by that time, he must decide what he really wants to be.
When I was younger (that was ten years ago), I tend to browse sites without any cautions. I click whatever links as well as ads that I find interesting. I also love to play online games. Little did I know back then that there might be spywares, phishing sites and viruses when you click on those links. Thus my computer always gets infected with a virus. I think I reformat my computer frequently that time. Good thing I don’t store lots of files that time.
Now, I’m old (I admit) and wiser, I am more protective of my computer. It’s disaster when my files got corrupted so here’s what I do to protect it:
Visit reputable sites
Have adblock plugin installed so I won’t get tempted to click on ad links
Have antivirus installed and scan my computer regularly
Be cautious of the links given by my friends on Twitter and Facebook
There PC Tools available that can be downloaded to protect a computer, free or with a fee. It’s hard if a computer gets infected with all these malicious stuff.
The weather is gloomy today and I’ve heard in the news that it’s bye bye summer already. Rainy season begins with a tropical storm here in the country. It hasn’t arrived yet from what I’ve heard but it’s already raining non-stop. I don’t like to go to work. Instead, I want to sleep all day. I also want to eat hot soup and hot chocolate. If I crave for halo-halo during summer, I crave for a hot choco during rainy days. I just hope it won’t get flooded much in different areas.
Guys are more techie than us girls and I have to admit that. But not only that, they are more inclined to buy gadgets, tools and electronic appliances than women, including my husband. He loves to buy amplifiers, subwoofers, CD players and mixers. We used to go to a surplus shop to buy amplifiers. I joked about the place as his mall. We used to go there twice a month, imagine? teehee.
The amplifiers he bought were working but he wants quality sound so we also frequent Quiapo (a place for electronic appliance parts and camera haven) to buy capacitors, resistors and other stuff to tweak what he bought. He is like that, like any other geek guy, I suppose.
But if he likes to tweak those stuff he bought at a surplus shop, he’s keeping his high quality speakers intact. He wouldn’t dare open it and keeps on cleaning its surface everyday. That’s how he takes care of those speakers. Oh well, maybe because they are expensive unlike those he bought at a surplus shop.
November 26th, 2011 
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