little. yellow. different. A weblog by Ernie Hsiung

LMN

Last night I was at my friends house, where my friend Isabel was watching the worst 75 seconds of a TV Movie I’ve ever seen: I walked in on a scene where a mother and son were lying on a frozen lake bed, screaming at what I presumed was the mother’s other son that […]

Moving to San Francisco

All the talk about taking a new job at Brickhouse brings me to this point as well: Starting in July, I am renting out my unit in Fremont and moving to San Francisco. And not just anywhere in San Francisco, but in the Mission District. I used to joke that the Mission […]

Returning to Yahoo!

A couple of months ago, I had written a blog post where I had announced I was leaving Yahoo! to pursue an opportunity in Vancouver. Maybe if this website wasn’t so public I would go into some of the details; instead, I’ll simply say that lessons were learned, photos of myself sitting alone in […]

SXSW Story 1: Min Jung gets pwn3d

(The setting: The Salt Lick BBQ, somewhere in Texas.)

Min Jung: I love the Salt Lick, but if one more girl asks me if I’m Sandra Oh, I’m going to leave this convention and I’m never coming back to Texas.
Kevin: What happened?
MJ: Someone just said I look like Sandra Oh, from Grey’s Anatomy. […]

Post-Mortem

And, I am back from Vancouver, living the life as a consultant here in California. Being a consultant and working from home means many things to many people; as of this very moment, it means that I’m here in a wireless cafe splitting time between doing engineering work, being an editor/blogger for the start-up, […]

Why yes, this IS a perfect time to stop smoking

It’s 4:43am. I am in Vancouver. I am wide awake at the moment.
I’m not 100% sure as to why I’m totally awake: it’s not depression and I don’t think it’s anxiety and I haven’t had any heavy caffeine tonight. But if I were to venture a guess, I’m probably awake because […]

Introducing Rouxbe… now with embarassing alcohol story

Now that I’ve made the announcement that I’m leaving Yahoo!, I think it’s about time to talk about where I’ll be working, complete with embarrassing interview-related story.
I’m going to be working at a food based website named Rouxbe, pronounced “Ruby.” (Get it? Roux, like the sauce? It’s a pun. Yeah.) […]

Leaving Yahoo!

So, this is one of the most difficult decisions I’ve had to do in my life so far, but yesterday afternoon, I submitted my two-week resignation notice at Yahoo!. My last day will be Friday, January 26th. I’m going to be working as a full-time consultant for a start-up Internet company based out […]

The Ghettos of Vancouver

I’m currently blogging from Vancouver, Canada, where I’m staying with Ritchie until New Years Day. Whenever I need a break from the world and all the stresses that come with it, I seem to have this little habit of escaping to Canada, and for that (and to him and his girlfriend Cheryl) I am […]

Five things you didn’t know about me

Cameron has tagged me for the “five things you don’t know about me” meme. Who am I to say no?
Writing this list was surprisingly difficult - there’s been a lot of trivial stuff about my life I’ve already blogged about over the past five years but have since gone off-line. And while 90% […]