My Computer Frenzy

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My Computer Frenzy Forget your new iPhone, your GPS watch and all the other newfangled tech stuff you're so proud of. Now nobody does it better than me when it comes to gadgetry. I’ve been a gadget geek ever since I was a kid. Whether it was the Dragon Flamethrower Agent 007 used in Tomorrow Never Dies or the zero-cool Walther PP in Quantum of Solace, I’ve always been fascinated watching them. It wasn’t the movies that enthralled me. My ‘Digital Literacy’ evolved through robots, tech gadgets and computers. It could be an inheritance. My dad is a computer engineer and I’d definitely say that he was my primary inspiration. Through him, I learned to operate Windows 98 even before I entered my kindergarten. Computers and the Windows operating system were luxuries then. It was similar to having an indoor heated swimming pool today. Apparently, there wasn’t much access to today’s Internet then. Paint was my favorite application on the computer. I still have my first Paint file sketched in 1996 printed, framed and hung up in my bedroom back home. It was indeed a classy detailed drawing of a truck sketched out using the brush, pencil, and shape tools. However, over time I slowly learned to work with new softwares and programs. Whether it was accessing hidden folders or creating new ones in the directories, changing the desktop background or setting up a new screensaver, in about a year’s time, I had mastered every bit of the Windows 98 edition. Moreover, it was the computer keyboard that taught me the 26 alphabets and numbers. Hence, it became my literacy sponsor that taught me how to type and understand simple words and statements in the English language. I’ve tried typing every single word from my kindergarten textbooks to the computer. Probably just because it was displayed on a good-looking monitor screen, it always seemed that I could understand them much

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