So let me introduce myself. I am Mick Thomas Lim (as shown in my display name). Just to be clear, Mick Thomas is my first name and Lim is my last/family name. I am just called "Mick" though by most of my friends.
I hail from the South-East Asian country called the Philippines.
As you can see, it's a pretty small country, especially when you compare it to the likes of the U.S.A. Let's get a closer look...
Ah... Now that's much better. Before I moved here to the U.S. almost a year and a half ago, I lived in the capital of the Philippines, Manila, which is marked by that star on the green part of that map above.
Though I am Filipino, born and raised (Well, technically, I am half Chinese supposedly.), I grew up with the (U.S.) American culture, at least to some substantial extent. I would say this is due to the American media that I was exposed to, mainly cartoons and other TV shows. Aside from that, my parents decided to raise me and my siblings using the English language. It was a pretty great advantage being fluent in English, but this also bit us back later on when we had difficulty with our own native language, Filipino, due to us not being as fluent in it. Though now that we've moved to the U.S., it has proven to be especially useful.
That aside... My interests include pretty much anything. Though, I'm particularly interested in computers, more specifically, hardware, programming, and other stuff. Those comprise some of my hobbies as well, another one being reading articles online on a plethora of different topics. I mainly buzz around a tech site called Tom's Hardware. (Actually, college has been tearing me apart from it. Hehe...) You should expect some future blog entries about topics related to computers. With that in mind, I won't go any further into more specifics for now.
So, I'm here studying at Glendale Community College in order to get an Associate's degree which I would then use to hopefully get into a university to take up B.S. Computer Engineering/Science. Like a lot of other students, I plan to take classes first at GCC instead of just taking all of them at a university to begin with because it's a lot cheaper, aside from the fact that GCC is pretty close to where I live, thus I don't need to live in a dormitory or similar. During the New Student Orientation that I attended a week before classes started, I also learned of more advantages of taking classes here at GCC as much as I can. One of which is that classrooms, more specifically the number of students, tend to be smaller, thus professors may be more accessible in more ways than one.
Well, that's it for an introduction. (Whew! I sure did make it pretty lengthy. I hope I didn't end up boring you.) I hope you stick around for future posts, and I also hope to hear from you in the comments section (of this or other posts). Thanks for reading and have a good one!
