Funny how other countries use a word one knows to be something to refer to a totally different thing.
Bawang is garlic in Filipino.
Bwang Goreng however is fried onions/shallots.
Sibuyas is onions in Filipino.
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Summer Plans
January is far from over but my kids are planning how to spend their summer vacation already. They want to stay with my parents and go to this school that teaches guitar and piano lessons. My youngest child can play the guitar while the eldest child plays the piano. Both didn’t have any formal lessons.
The piano player plays when there are yamaha keyboards at musicians friend available. Not that she is good unlike those with formal lessons but she could play.
I don’t want to think about summer yet because I want to enjoy the cool weather š
Posted in family
Iconpop Quiz
Iconpop Quiz is F.U.N.
The kids and the kids-at-heart had so much fun playing the app š
You can download Iconpop for Android here and from iTunes here.
Posted in App Feature, Visualizations, web tools
Tagged iconpop quiz
Avoid Being a Victim of Electronic Pickpocketing
Last night’s news about a man whose ATM card was just with him but had a big amount withdrawn from said account was something that looks like it was a clip from a movie.
But it wasn’t, it was real.
He was a victim of electronic pickpocketing.
Highly unlikely that people with ATM cards and credit cards can be victims of such high-tech crime but it can happen. There are a fewĀ precautionsĀ one can do to avoid being a victim:
- cover the ATM’s keypad with your hand when you withdraw money
- in establishments where you give your card to the staff for payment like in restaurants, do go to the cashier so that you can see how they handle your credit/debit card. You don’t want the staff to jot down your card details. They may not be the one doing the electronic theft, but they may give these information to others.
- use RIFD blocking products for contactless cardsĀ to avoid having your card details read by the gadgets that are made to do just that
In every way, always be careful with your things.
Online Safety
Has it ever felt to you that doing things in the past seems better than having the high-tech gadgets we have now?
Take for example doing book reports for high school students.When I was in high school, I have read a lot of books which I borrowed from the school library. I wrote the book reports myself, using my version of a PC or a netbook: my crickety typewriter. I graduated to using a electric typewriter in college, hah, I was high tech then.
Anyway, we were not only “studious” then, but we were resourceful, motivated and we worked hard. In other words, we didn’t copy and pasted works written by others but we wrote original thoughts and did original written works. And we had Ā that sort of security that our works were not digitally copied though being copied by classmates was highly likely to happen, lol.
Nowadays though, it is so easy for others to just get information that are not their in the first place. IĀ haveĀ been doing a lot of reading about these things like electronic pickpocketing, the use of ESET Smart Security, and the use of parental controls among others to better protect our family from being victims of electronic theft.
A few ways to protect online safety:
- do not divulge personal information like home address, work address, schools of children online
- if you feel you need to be a part of the social media, be discreet and have your online accounts accessible only by friends you personally know
- change your passwords every now and then and use a combination of alphanumeric characters that are unreadable
Posted in File and data management, Interesting Topics, Money Watch, Tech Talk, web tools
Tagged online security
