Immigrant
Note: I’ve had this post sitting in my drafts since Friday; had to spend some time appending the latter half of the post, oops! Gizelle’s small question launched me into a long, meandering post about...
View ArticleA Grand Gesture
A little hard for me to say now for sure…….. and I hope nothing in the universe will render this impossible to do. But this gesture meant a lot to me, and I think I would like for the first purchase I...
View ArticleMy Brilliant Idea
A good friend of mine who often comes to crash at my place has been in a textual relationship with a guy for over a year. The fact that this relationship-over-text has been going on for a year speaks...
View Article3 Lessons from Weekend Reading
Because of the cold weather, I was a lazy bum this past weekend and spent a lot of time indoors surfing the internet. Somehow, everything I read this weekend fell neatly into this “worldview” that is...
View Article2014 Productivity Experiments
IDEO’s Tom Kelley advises me to treat life like an experiment. This year, I am — given that I am the notorious dilettante, there are a number of things I’ve always wanted to do/be able to do but rarely...
View ArticleGreat Things on Etsy
Oh my god, Etsy has Distribution plushies. Life is complete. Also proves that Faces in Places automatically makes things cute. Filed under: Finds Tagged: cute things, nerdy, so cute i die
View ArticleSubway Spirituality & the Last 2 Months of My Life
Whoa! It’s almost March! I blinked and then two whole months went by. These past two weeks have been uncharacteristically busy, so much so that there were moments I actually wanted to blog about my day...
View ArticleJust Revisiting this Quote
OR ALL THREE!! ALL THREE! Just revisiting this one again, even though I still haven’t seen a single episode of Sex and the City. I looked at two apartments today where the room would be about 6′ x 6′....
View ArticleWordPress UI Change!
Whoa! WordPress changed its web interface to look more like its mobile one/like Tumblr. They might’ve done this a little while ago but I only noticed now. I’m a little disoriented — I had gotten used...
View ArticleA Glimpse of Spring
The entire previous post was a tangent from my original intention, which was to post some photos from the weekend. Ariel came and it was the 2nd warm(ish) weekend — Spring is teasing us; that coquette....
View ArticleSome “Real World” Lessons, presented as an unordered list
I’m in Seattle now for work; I don’t like the new project and have been kind of whiny about it. The consulting model in actuality is jarring – not knowing your office, having a place to anchor and call...
View Article2014 Productivity Experiments: March Check-in
I haven’t totally forgotten about my 2014 projects, though they were seriously side-tracked this past month because I started a traveling project. For 2014, I’ve been passively recording more video...
View ArticleGhost is Gorgeous
I posted about Ghost a little while ago (uh, almost a month ago), and since then, have casually tried it out. I wasn’t sure what to *do* with the blog, but I think I will start trying to write essays...
View ArticleBreaking News from the Atlantic
Die-hards may say it’s getting more poppy; but this is clearly the news I choose. ಠ╭╮ಠFiled under: Finds, Fun Panda Tagged: emoticons, Feedly finds, internet luls, obsessed with The Atlantic
View ArticleRandom Musing: Apathy & Love
Just some random musing here, since I’m stuck in Jersey waiting for my manager to finish up some work and dodge the rush hour traffic. First and foremost, has anyone noticed that the new WordPress UI...
View ArticleIn Need of a Photography Workflow
I’ve been trying to take photos more frequently now that I have my Ricoh, which is small enough to carry with me almost anywhere. Some shots are quite visually interesting, possibly because New York...
View ArticleThe Belated Birthday Post
Sometimes, someone around me will casually comment on something and my mind will spin it to be prophetic. For my 23rd birthday, Chiara (my coworker at the time) told me excitedly, “23 is a good year!...
View Article2014 Productivity Experiments: April/May/June
So… as the title may suggest, I failed on these projects when spring came around. It was a mixture of things: I like music and want to learn it but it is similar to dance, where I enjoy it greatly but...
View ArticleI might’ve been smarter 6 years ago
Very rarely on this blog will I suggest you click back to read something that I didn’t publish in the last year, but thanks to WordPress’s “related posts” feature, I couldn’t help but click to this...
View ArticleCasual Reflections: Designed Environments, Communities vs. Networks
Some miscellaneous thoughts today. HAHA do you get it? My Featured Image is a pun. Ohohoho, I am so great. Well, I caught this reflection photo on a photo hunt with Charley and JunQi but wasn’t sure...
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