January 2012
1 post
“Commitment is about having the Discipline to keep going, regardless of how...”
– via my facebook newsfeed
December 2011
2 posts
And then the question becomes: Do I write it under my own name, or under a pseudonym?
I should start writing personal posts again.
September 2011
3 posts
Last night I dreamt of you. After not seeing you for so many years and seeing you again recently, I suppose my subconscious started thinking of the good years we had together - the years we can almost never talk about again in the open.
You look happy now. And in so many ways, i’m really happy for you and him. All three of us shared something special I think. And taking that photo with him...
Something worth thinking about.
“But boys must be trained to take risks, which means being confident in the midst of the unknown… Courtship reveals how necessary this masculinity is. Many modern young men approach a girl, and they are quite serious as far as their intentions go, but they are afraid of interfering with her life. “You know, she is going to graduate soon, but she wants to go to school at Notre...
August 2011
2 posts
The emerging chauvanist
I took almost a year long (maybe longer) to decide to tell a girl how I felt about her. And all I got was her ignoring me the past month or so. This despite us being friends and talk almost everyday before.
I feel slighted. Insulted maybe? Maybe it doesn’t pay to take friendships and relationships seriously.
I also can’t help but to take my female friends less seriously now. I...
July 2011
1 post
Haiz. Perhaps I’ve been sharing too much of my life with my good friends. I regret it now because the danger of people knowing a lot but not everything is they all think they know everything about me.
I’m the kind of guy who commits. The guy who waited 8 years on a girl. When he finally called that one quits, got attached for 2 years only to get dumped. And despite that still spent 3...
June 2011
4 posts
Loneliness is something that is amplified by the no. of people one knows. For instance, when you have a really bad day and you know only 1 person, it’s easy to feel that your one friend is not free.
But when you have a bad day and you scroll through Facebook, your address book, gtalk, whatsapp and Skype only to realise there’s no one you can call, it rings really loud that a few...
Why? Why did you do this? Do you not know how much we love you?
Philadelphia University Commencement Speech – May... →
Be forever curious. Volunteer for everything. Show up a lot. Treat failure as a learning experience.
Live life with no regrets. Remembering…There is no undo button.
May 2011
1 post
Is it wrong to be idealistic? To refuse to accept the normalcy that is prevalent in everyone’s life? Can we not accept that this is how things are and so this is how things should be?
Expensive price I’m paying for change. bloody fuggin expensive. They say kingdoms fall in 3 generations. And i’m the 3rd generation in my family. Will I be remembered as the one who took a leap in...
April 2011
4 posts
It’s 3am and I’m very worried(and somewhat afraid) of what’s coming this week. I miss the days when I was so sure of my abilities and so sure it was enough to control the outcome of things.
It’s interesting how after I’ve sorted out my feelings for her, a part of me actually wants to take less risk because I’d like to be able to provide some level of security, not for me, but for her. I suppose this is what happens to most people but with much greater magnitude( since I technically haven’t told her how I’ve had feelings for her and hence am not even sure...
March 2011
9 posts
Make The Cheapskates Pay →
Embedded fonts →
I’m leaving one life behind in exchange for another. And while the transition is really very painful, I can’t help but feel very very very disturbed by how my old acquaintances wear their lack of ‘having a life’ because of their long hours at work as a badge of honour.
I was one of those people too. Now it feels so absurd. What was I thinking?
7 Ways to Prepare for Growth Spurts →
3 ways to avoid costly customers →
February 2011
1 post
Where it matters most
I’ve been laying low for a while now for many reasons that I can’t exactly put out here but I wanted to write a little about something that I’ve come to embrace - the new type of success I want to pursue.
I used to think that to build a successful business, it would require a lot of work and that would mean that large sacrifices had to be made. Time would have to be taken away...
December 2010
3 posts
Morning Thoughts - 9 Dec 2010
“I’m conflicted with wanting to support WikiLeaks for releasing so much information versus condemning them for not exercising more restraint. I, for one, believe in transparency but I do realise that people in general are rarely able to cope with the truth. And governments, sometimes, need to make tough calls for the greater good. Of course, who’s to say they wouldn’t abuse...
Project Rushmore is a go. I need this done in chop chop time.
I have the MVP requirements and I just need to figure out how to build it. 12 hours of time starting tonight(bah, I wish I could skip a meeting but I really shouldnt)
Making a trip to sparta is always exciting.
I used to have some really serious problems loading Tumblr…but after the recent crash, it seems I can access it quite perfectly.
There’s always a silver lining. :)
November 2010
13 posts
Another round of lessons learned from our new... →
Golden Rules
Speak only when spoken to
Answer only when presented with a question
Share only if there’s a cup of coffee present.
Someone tell me why people who claim to be Social Media practitioners generally sit on some kind of high horse?
Is it just that as they gain attention they also get over-inflated egos?
I hope an over-inflated ego is not a prerequisite for understanding the medium. It would be sad.
Sometimes, I just want to smack these online folks with a large trout…in real life.
Looking for a prize.
I haven’t had to do codiing run for a really long time… Especially since I stopped taking on development work in June. But now i’m back and i’m much happier because i’m charging what feels like an insane amount of money(and i’m intending to make it more insane over the next 12 months).
That said, it’s 4.50am and I’m i’ve hit that point where...
Was listening to a podcast just now and I realised how obviously childish namecalling could make a person sound.
Note to self: Namecalling is not classy and if should ever be used, should only be done once, or at most twice, in any given conversation.
DO NOT Split Equity Between Founders Equally →
October 2010
16 posts
I stay up really late and sacrifice a lot of my sleep. I’m not proud of it. I try hard not to use it as a badge of honour.
I think it’s sad when some entrepreneurs I know seem to pride themselves with constantly telling the world that they only have 2 hours of sleep everyday, 10 minutes for lunch, no time for friends, etc…
I think that’s just sad. A real badge is when...
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Accurate. Timely. Insightful.
The third is the hardest to do. But let me cross the 2nd hurdle first.
20 rules of thumb for building a great startup... →
I’d like to introduce you to me. The new one.
The one who left his job in June, went on to do odd jobs for the past 3 months and now…well…the one who’s quite in love with life again.
And now i’ve dropped all the business-y mambo jumbo that I’ve had to don for the past 18months(wtf was I thinking?) and i’m back into a newly online-found hoodie(thank you...