Archive for the ‘ Ruminations ’ Category

Well, back after exactly a year. Hopefully, I am back this time with more goodies and less breaks. The last year has been extremely busy – here’s to hoping to a more toned down rest of 2010.

Home after spending 5 glorious computer free days in Yosemite. Who can believe there are actually so many stars in the sky! Where are the stars in San Jose? Hiding out??? Anyways, I climbed and conquered Half Dome – I nearly chickened out once I saw the cables. But when a guy came climbing down [...]

A long while ago, I saw a plain blue canvas in the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. At that time, I was flabbergasted that was considered art – after all, it was a canvas of flat blue. I started laughing and I could not stop for a long time. Today, a few years later, [...]

As usual, the “change” bug kicked in late Friday night and I decided to redo the blog layout. I found one ready to be used here and decided to build upon it for this site. Some quirks might still be needed to be ironed out, but this latest upgrade is certainly going to help me [...]

I am in the process of hunting a new guru for my Yoga practice. As a faithful Bryan Kest student, I think it’s time perhaps to move forward. This guy has blown me away with his abilities. Some day, I wish I will have the strength to do that – and still be humble.

I’m in the process of learning Rails right now and I have to say, I am enjoying it. I love the object oriented aspect and can’t wait till I know enough of it to begin working on some projects. I always have had this fear when starting something new that it will be insurmountable, but [...]

Will watching Supersize Me and reading Twinkie’ Deconstructed push me over the edge? Perhaps teach me a lesson or two on what I should be having in my fridge? As someone not raised in the United States, I believe a twinkie or a ho ho or anything remotely like it has never passed my lips. [...]

One of my New Year’s resolutions is to keep in touch more with my family and friends. It started off with emails in the new year and phone calls following soon after. Keeping fingers crossed that I will be able to keep it up.

Just picked up a jQuery book last week. Can’t wait to dig into it. The first couple pages I read about its wide variety of selectors just made me want to say WOW.