little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

things i would blog about on my trip to india, but was too embarassing so i ended up not blogging about it, but am writing down anyway as a note that it actually happened

How I got off the plane, I went into the washroom, saw the hole in the ground, freaked out a little, then was told by the next janitor that a western style toilet was right next door
How stepping out of the Bangalore Airport I was instantly surrounded by 50-100 different hotel drivers in a semi-circle, [...]

1,000 pages of anything

On a completely unrelated topic, I saved my five years of weblog posts to my hard drive and did a massive copy and paste into a word processor, in an attempt to self-publish some sort of LYD book.
I have over 1,000 pages and around 300,000 words of material. Seriously. On one hand, it’s [...]

this is the sappy five year post

So, it’s been a little over five years since I created my first post on this website. Well, technically the domain wasn’t at littleyellowdifferent.com - it was at a Mindspring account, later bought up by EarthLink. I named the blog “little, yellow, different” after a Nuprin commercial tag line in college. The [...]

and ironically, it’s an afterthought

Oh, one small thing that I just realized on my flight back home from India to California:
Last Monday, June 6th, was the five year anniversary of my first post on this website, littleyellowdifferent.com. I had good intentions on writing some deep introspective, and I still plan on doing that one way or another. [...]

written to a friend on instant messenger who was away from keyboard

Ernie Hsiung: so, fyi - india cable is totally bizarre
Ernie Hsiung: it’s all
Ernie Hsiung: playback movie
Ernie Hsiung: musical
Ernie Hsiung: musical
Ernie Hsiung: and then you see ESPN Sportscenter
Ernie Hsiung: and you think it’s normal
Ernie Hsiung: and then it says
Ernie Hsiung: WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP CRICKET
Ernie Hsiung: in a delightful british accent
Ernie Hsiung: and i’m all - goddamn, i’m [...]

bangalore: t plus two days

So, I’m in meetings this week with other Yahoo! employees all over the world, including employees from India, South Korea, Taiwan and Hong Kong.  Kind of like the United Nations of nerds.  Now, communicating with team members from Taiwan is awkward - I do speak a minimal amount of Mandarin, but for communication purposes, I [...]

bangalore: t minus 3 days?

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So, in theory: I am to go on a business trip this Saturday for one week to Bangalore, India.
I say “in theory” because I was officially informed about the trip Monday afternoon, and [...]