Birthadya Girl... Not Anymore
I turned 20 last Saturday, and amazingly, I felt absolutely nothing. My birthdays are usually very important for me, it's the time of the year I look forward to three months in advance. I used to bring candies at school and give them to everyone wishing me a happy birthday. Well, for a start, I wasn't in school for my birthday this year, and also, I totally wasn't looking forward to it. It's weird, though not so bad, since it wasn't that fun at all in the end.
The best present is the one I bought myself. I got a brand new laptop computer, it's really awesome. One problem though is that I still don't have internet in my flat, so I'm really not getting far. I can put my lessons on it, though, which forces me to study a bit more than I did last year.
My mother got me a cooking book for students, with cheap recipes that you can do without an oven and a thousand special ingrdients that nobody in college can afford.
My father helped me in buying the computer, and my siblings got me nice jewlery.
The big surprise for my birthday is that my grand parents came (well, it was supposed to be a surprise, but I totally expected it.) It was nice to see them, but they stayed with me for three days, and in the end, it got very annoying. They're very much your typical grand parents, thinking you're still five years old, and I wanted to yell all along "Hello? You're here to celebrate my 20th birthday!" Seriously. How can they think I still enjoy them affectionally pinching my cheek? In what kind of world do grand parents live?
Plus, my grand father was being really annoying about computers. I explained him how gerat it is to have internet, and be able to communicate very fast with people one the other side of the world, and all he could answer is that 50 years ago, they were fine without computers. Hello? Fifty years ago, people died in hospital! How is that good? Plus, if in fifty years' time, they tell me I can do things I couldn't when I was 20, I'm in! For example, if, say, we can go on vacation on the moon, why would you refuse on the simple reason that you couldn't fifty years ago and were fine? That's just very stupid if you ask me.
Whatever. I'm rambling.
On another topic (which is actually the one this blog is supposed to be about), now that I have a computer, I can write all the time! Which means I might actually put another short story up soon (if I find something interesting to write about, that is).
Enough rambling for today, I've got to go in class.
Quote of the day :
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
Unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
The best present is the one I bought myself. I got a brand new laptop computer, it's really awesome. One problem though is that I still don't have internet in my flat, so I'm really not getting far. I can put my lessons on it, though, which forces me to study a bit more than I did last year.
My mother got me a cooking book for students, with cheap recipes that you can do without an oven and a thousand special ingrdients that nobody in college can afford.
My father helped me in buying the computer, and my siblings got me nice jewlery.
The big surprise for my birthday is that my grand parents came (well, it was supposed to be a surprise, but I totally expected it.) It was nice to see them, but they stayed with me for three days, and in the end, it got very annoying. They're very much your typical grand parents, thinking you're still five years old, and I wanted to yell all along "Hello? You're here to celebrate my 20th birthday!" Seriously. How can they think I still enjoy them affectionally pinching my cheek? In what kind of world do grand parents live?
Plus, my grand father was being really annoying about computers. I explained him how gerat it is to have internet, and be able to communicate very fast with people one the other side of the world, and all he could answer is that 50 years ago, they were fine without computers. Hello? Fifty years ago, people died in hospital! How is that good? Plus, if in fifty years' time, they tell me I can do things I couldn't when I was 20, I'm in! For example, if, say, we can go on vacation on the moon, why would you refuse on the simple reason that you couldn't fifty years ago and were fine? That's just very stupid if you ask me.
Whatever. I'm rambling.
On another topic (which is actually the one this blog is supposed to be about), now that I have a computer, I can write all the time! Which means I might actually put another short story up soon (if I find something interesting to write about, that is).
Enough rambling for today, I've got to go in class.
Quote of the day :
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
Unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949
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