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Dear Google Maps: Your public transportation options mock me

This is the result map that came up when I typed in that I wanted to take public transportation from my house to the DMV. (Public transportation since, you know, I forgot to renew my car registration. Ooops.)
I love how it’s all, “WALK THERE, YOU FAT FUCKER.”


Leaving Yahoo! (Again.)

I haven’t been to the office in the past two weeks.
Two weeks ago it can be easily explained; I was at the SXSW Interactive Festival in Austin, Texas. And while that in itself could be a separate post, last Friday was also my last day at Yahoo!. Yes, again.
Which is why I’ve been […]


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2 March 2008 @ 1am

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Going Unwired: Week #1

Last Thursday, taking Ariel’s advice, I attempted to go unplugged.
This is usually what I do after work: I get home, boot up my personal laptop and start heating dinner up in the microwave. From there, I usually sit on my living room couch and stare at my laptop for the entire night […]


Time Suckage

My old-school blogger friend Ariel is writing a book pitch around her 52 Nights Unplugged project, and recently sent out an e-mail:
The sample chapter I’m writing this week is I sat down to check my email, and woke up watching kitten videos: Internet addiction time warps.
I’d love to hear your stories of your worst web […]


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29 October 2007 @ 1am

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life

What you call a dictator, I call a Halloween costume

In case anyone was curious as to who I was for Halloween: thanks to my flatmate Laurie, I was North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il. Sometimes, being a chubby Asian man growing out his hair has its privileges.
Maybe next year I’ll go as Frank Chu.


Haircutting

For the first eighteen years of my life, I had a salad-bowl haircut. Worried about kids teasing me at school, I would explain this to my father. His response: to take portions of my bangs and cut them an inch or two higher so that my head would look like a fucked […]


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20 August 2007 @ 11pm

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life

On Holiday

On Wednesday, I’m hopping on a plane and taking a week and a half trip to Hong Kong and Tokyo. Nothing work-related, just a personal vacation with my friends Ank and Belinda, in another attempt to cross off more items on my “places I want to visit before I die” list. (If you’re […]


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10 August 2007 @ 12am

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life

YAY A CRYSTALINE STORK WHA?!

My friends Jen and Paris reminded me that I forgot my friends baby shower gift at their house. Oops, my bad.
Now, Mogues & Christine, if you read this: I’m totally stoked that you’re having a child, seriously! I’m completely happy for you, and wish all the good health on you guys and the baby. And […]


Not Quite the Mission Hipster

After two weeks here in the Mission, I think I’m giving illusions that I’m slightly more settled in San Francisco now. Some furniture needs to be sold and I need to somehow buy a drawer to fit all my clothes, but if you walked into my charming, Full House-like Victorian unit, you would say, […]


Pack Day

Tomorrow is the big move to San Francisco. Today was pack day, or at the very least, “pack as much as you can that isn’t tied down” day. As a result, my mother is spending the night, mostly due to a combination of her wanting to help and Asian parental obligation and child […]


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