May 17, 1993: Intel® Corporation released its new Pentium® Processor.

Well that explains it, then.


I've never really figured myself to be someone inclined to technology. When I was a kid all I did was play with my toys and with some kid-neighbors. I even remember often playing that stupid chinese garter game. -_-'


I am pretty aware that I am the oldest student in the class. Come on, that's downplaying it. I may even be the oldest student in our batch for heaven's sake. But that's not stopping me to fit in. Ha, not at all.


IMO my generation straddled the line between being the old, traditional lifestyle of the "analog" age, with which term I used only to contrast with the digital age being the other side of the line my generation sat on. When we discussed about the digital natives and the digital settlers, I was at the end of my wits figuring out where I even belong.

I like to think that I was born amidst the boom of computing, computer gaming and the peak of the internet "revolution", but as it turns out it was then that I was growing up. I was able to use every computer processing technology from Intel's Pentium® Processor--which, strangely enough, was introduced on my 4th birthday, May 17, 1993--up to the most current Intel Core i-series. I was able to play game consoles from Atari to the FamiCom to the Playstation One, Two and Three. I saw black and white Televisions, we had CRT Monitors and TV's when I was growing up. I think we also had a plasma TV once and now, of course, LCD/LED TV's and monitors. I was fascinated for a few months how analog wristwatches worked but when my dad introduced me a digital Casio watch that has a cool blue backlight, I never reverted back to analog watches until I was in high school.


Well, I know most of us probably went through similar accounts, but I just feel that I did savor everything these tech products have to offer at the time and, thus, might have been the reason why I'm a techie nerd like me.


I'm also a music person. When I was young I got to listen to songs that my auntie like. So those were Eraserheads songs, Oasis, and that bit of stuff. Although I didn't really get into music when I was young (I was a J-pop fanboy in my early highschool years) I did like listening to them when they're being played, even to the point of me associating different songs to different points in my life. Yeah, "Total Eclipse of the Heart" reminds me of the day my dad introduced a certain computer game. Now looking at a site about my birthday here, there were a number of songs and singles released on May 17, none of which I recognize but most of which I think became hits. I assume as much because, well frankly I think of myself as a hit. HAHA.


My mother used to tell me stories about how catastrophic the Earth was when I was growing; I was a baby in need of looking after when the Pinatubo erupted years ago, and actually, closer to home, when I was born--I think it was around about 4pm on May 17th, 1989, there was a really really aggressive storm, according to my parents. My dad had to rush from Canlubang to Makati in heavy rain when my mom was on labor with me.

Looking up in the same website, there were a total of five nuclear tests in three different years in Texas and Colorado on May 17. On the same day in 1940, Germany began invading France. on 1976, an earthquake in Uzbekistan killed at least a thousand. Well, there's a fair number of tragedies during the May 17's on different years. Could it be that I'm a disaster myself?...


...NOT A CHANCE!

Jb Aquino

the "beatbreaker"

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