Factors that Make up my World

            Google now provides new services that are very crucial to people, business and education. These services does include documents, articulations, emails, group communities, photo sharing and a lot more, the services were definitely blasted with so much positive remuneration to all their users. It’s free, it provides ease and effortless sharing of files, but before I dig deeper on it let me first make a background on how google had started.

        Before Google had been deployed as an official online site it firstly started as a simple research project managed by Larry Page a student from Stanford University with his supervisor Terry Winogard who had encouraged him of taking the idea into consideration. The project was intended mainly for exploring the logical flow of WWW (World Wide Web), the research is focused mainly on creating a page that would possibly use all the links on another website to identify the value of it for those who would suppose to browse for useful information online. In that same school he had also met Sergey Brin on year 1995. Brin helped him in the development of the research on which they called “Backrub”. In those years search engine’s most common searching algorithm was based on the total number the term was being repeated in a particular page on which they didn’t make a choice of using it due to dismaying reasons that they had identified during the development of the project, but instead they develop a new algorithm which they late called “PageRank”; by the use of these algorithm their page would be able to analyze the importance of a particular link which is much more better than the other one being mentioned earlier. After such developments and studies the page had started to make its first web crawl at around March 1996.

            The deployment didn’t take the domain name of www.google.com instantly, but instead was firstly associated with the name of the university which is google.stanford.edu before it made its independency on September 15, 1997. On September 4, 1998 they are able to put up a company namely Google Inc. occupying their friends lot at Menlo Park, California.

            Many had appreciated the project during its’ reign at the end of the year 1998, on which Google page was able to index for about 60,000,000 pages; it became on top above all of their competitors, they had became technologically innovative and begun to be growing and growing in popularity all around the globe.

            On the March of 1999 the company transferred to 165 University Avenue in Palo Alto. They rented buildings in Mountain View. They stayed at that place until year 2000 came and they decided to buy the land for about $ 319 million from SGI(Silicon Graphics).

          Through the years they keep on improving, making a breakthrough in the history of internet and even now that they are one of the most leading search engine online they still don’t stop on searching for ways of how to make the internet a better world to discover.

            Some of the services that they provide are as follows:

Blogger

This service enables you to create your own personal blog. Unlike some other blogsites that you may already known online, you may find it more easier to manipulate because of the drag and drop interface and the administration is more much more friendly if compared to other blog-sites such as wordpress, livejournal etc.

Gmail

Google’s email service, unlike any other email you’ll find Gmail with a more state of the art service. It’s faster in loading, the theme is customizable, has a shortcut key service and lots of more services that an ordinary email may only have.

Google Docs

A very great service that Google had ever provided it provides you with the services that is comparable to Microsoft office (Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint) the only difference is that it’s accessible anywhere you maybe as long as you are connected on the internet. You may also share it to your friends privately or publish it online where the whole world may be able to see it.

Google Reader

A service that you may find very useful most especially if your on search for some useful articles that are available online. The articles are categorized to suite your needs, it’s accessible everywhere and is easy to use.

Google Calendar

If you are the kind of person who wants everything to be in their proper order Google Calendar is just right for you. You may list all your appointments on the site and let it notify you through SMS when it’s time for you to take the task. Google may allow you to publish it online, to share it to limited person or to make it privately personal all depends on your wants.

                One time at our bed room Flora my mother was busy organizing my clean clothes and me playing with my toys when I suddenly broke up the silence by raising a question “Ma… Who are my parents?” I couldn’t really figure out on how in the world I was able to formulate a complicated question like that, as young as 3 or 5 years old a child should not start to talk and question that way face to face with somebody who is from the very start had become my bodily incubator when my formation was still at a cycle and had fostered me with so much love and care during my first steps of breathe in this world. She had stopped what she was doing before she faced me and we start to have the eye contact, fortunately I didn’t see any signs of anger or disappointment in it before she start to ask in a very soft and gentle voice “Where did you get the idea?” for about seconds of silence she had made another word when she knew that I wouldn’t be able to make even a single thought to come out “I see…” I don’t really get what she mean about that; was she able to read what I’m thinking and realized that I don’t have any basis for the question or she was expecting that I was only influenced by what I see in television, hear outside or something else that I could had been possibly be affected. She knew I was confused when she saw those tiny wrinkles in my forehead, so she asked a very basic question still maintaining the quality of her voice “Is there anyone else who are known to be your parents?” I just rolled my lower lips to remark my answer was negative and I instantly returned my focus on playing my toys ending up the topic instantly.

In the year 1997 there came an Asian Crisis, it had negatively affect the economical status of most countries that are part of the continent including the Philippines that had caused many companies to layoff employees and some to be bankrupt because other companies had avoided lending some of their shares to those who are part of the epidemic crisis. Our family had felt it; my mom had just received her early retirement and my dad had his last payment for his job cause the mall where his working with was bankrupt due for the reason. Though they want to have another job they can’t because both of them are college undergraduate. We still have our savings in the bank but that is not enough to hold our stay in the city so we decided to just migrate in Mindanao where my father owns a small piece of land that produces copra every 3 months though the income is not that big as had been expected at least it will give us the hope that our pockets will not get empty. We lived in Davao City for 1 year before we fully transfer to a province at Davao Oriental where we’ve made our permanent residence.

The life in the province is very different from the life in the city; no malls, no bars, very silent, people are civilized but not that much for there are still the remarks of influences from ancestors who believed in folklore and beliefs like witch crafts, fairies and other else. The first days of my stay were a bit harder, as much harder when I became the topic of rumors to some people living there. I thought the issue of adoption was only an idea of my past when I was about 3 or 5 years old a topic from nothingness or either scenes that we only see in televisions or somewhere else, but when I start to hear it from others connecting me to the topic it had caused a little fear of “What ifs” to arise, but then I made myself convinced that it was only a rumor from people who were not really part of the family and I shouldn’t listen to what they say cause their only people who are nothing to deal with. One early morning I ate my breakfast together with my mom and dad, when we were in the middle of the meal Danny my dad had started to talk “Er…(My nickname) if you are to encounter Sally and Arnold anywhere or have a talk with them, call them the same way as you have been calling us” I was shocked to what I’ve heard, I knew that Sally was my fathers younger sister and Arnold is her husband and to hear those sentence coming from my dad was very unusual to me so I responded instantly “Why should I? Their not my mom and dad” dad had uttered “Even though… You can still treat them the way you treat us” before everything else burns I start to pack up my things and say in instance “That doesn’t make the idea clear” and had my way to school. I couldn’t clearly hear what they had in response but I only had my rush way heading to school very confused and hurt to what the idea had brought me about, to realized that the thought of the rumors I hear from people and the idea of that talk during the meal were just pointing to only one idea that I always hate to think was for real. I still made myself believe that it’s only just a fiction to make my living still the same as if nothing it had happen to cause me and my life goes on the same until I reach the last year of my elementary years. About a few months I’m going to graduate in elementary and all of us are very busy in fixing many stuffs till one of my classmates got so bored and made the step to begin scanning the records of our teacher who was at that time is in the other classroom negotiating for some important things that needs to be negotiated in connection to the upcoming graduation rites. My classmates had started to call the attention of that pupil saying that it wasn’t really a good idea and she replied “It won’t be if we only remain silent”. With all curiosity I myself got also tempt to approach the table with her and take a share scanning it, I try to read it carefully and had find out that it was a book of biography for each Grade 6 pupil in our section. I kept turning each page to search for my name and it didn’t fail I found my name written on top of those plenty of sentences which in assurance was all about me, I try to take span of the all the sentence and words till one sentence had stroked my attention “… he was an adopted child of …” I became absent minded for about seconds I lost the presence of my mind that should allow me to be aware of the surroundings, till one of my classmates had decide to push me that awaken me like being from a deep sleep setting me a warning that our teacher is coming and had to fix those things like nothing had happened. Yes nothing had happened that for about a single moment I felt like a bomb in my chest was about to burst, I don’t have to finish the whole written story in that short biography to puzzle out who was being identified by that single word that had quoted my mind “Adopted”. Rumors from people who had been able to interference with my personal life are not the once of whom caused the pain that had sprout within me, neither the topic that had been opened during our breakfast or either the sentence I had read and discovered from my teachers’ biographical book but the wholeness that connects each ideas that made me realized the truth. I got hurt, confused and frustrated with what may come up next but I have to endure the pain if I don’t want to make my life busted all along the process.

The confirmation of the truth was truly painful and it was not even an easy way to accept it, but one thing I have realized is how it took me. The love, the care and support that my second parents had given me are definitely a great gift and blessings that I had treasured all those years I’ve spent my life with them. I could not change the fact that I’m an Adopted Child but being one is not a curse instead it’s an extraordinary experience, not because I’ve been to so many painful ways and process but it’s despite of that truth that had been with me all throughout my life that I was still able acquire the love, the care and the support that is much more than what I should be expecting. And all throughout the experience I have realized the true meaning of becoming a son is not just by being called by the title but having to felt it as well is much more important.