Opinions and Musings
A gaijin in the wild
It's almost a year since but I still fondly look back at our Japan trip. I've always been a fan of Japanese food, history, rock music, and anime so Japan had been a must-visit for me. So when the family decided that we're all going to visit my sis-in-law in Osaka, I...
Boxing the fatness away
Weight loss has always seemed to be a Sisyphean task for me. We have a family history of obesity so darn genetics for giving me the fat gene. And having been obese in my younger years, my fat cells just want to swell up whenever I succeed in getting trim. My constant...
Onward to 2019
So I've been remiss writing end-of-year recaps for a couple of year now in this long-forgotten blog. It's 2019 and we're almost closing out the 2010's. I'm in my mid-30s now. I'm almost legitimately qualified to have my mid-life crisis even if I'm not sure I've even...
Polar Beat update renders H7 useless
I've had a Polar H7 heart rate monitor for about a couple of years now. I've been using it with the Polar Beat app to monitor my calorie burn and to make sure I don't overexert myself when working out. I have just recently gotten back to being a bit more active after...
The messy economics of funding gaming
I believe it was former president of UP, Dr. Nemezo (a champion of free and open source software back in the early 2000s) who intimated that piracy is the third-world reaction to the absurd licensed software costs. I can't quite recall but it's in the same vein that...
Trash or post?
After finishing my monthly online cleanup of my sites and accounts, I noticed that it's been almost 10 years since I registered this domain. I've been blogging longer than that. Ever since I shifted away from online content development some 7 years back, I only found...
Re-education
While not many publicly know, I am no longer with any of my previous affiliations. I thought finally pursuing game development to continue my career would be one of my last churns and that I'd be able to stick around doing it for long. Turned out my stint became more...
Goodbye for now, Ma’am May
Paying tribute to friends and mentors who have passed never gets easier and yet I write another one now. I am greatly saddened by the passing of one of my mentors - Prof. May Flores. She passed on last Saturday after years of health problems. She will most likely be...
Hello, IT department…
Ah... The IT department where the verisimilitude of the IT Crowd hits home so well. Just read Tales from Tech Support on Reddit. But the inverse also applies. Howe many of us has been screwed over by bad IT departments. I've been with startups and small organizations...