sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2012: People-centered entrepreneurship — Practically all the books I’m reading about entrepreneurship assume that you start with a big idea for a product or [...]
• 2011: Kaizen: Thinking about presentations — I’ve just finished a presentation (The ITSC Guide to Conference Awesomeness) and I’ve got a few presentations coming up: Remote Presentations [...]
• 2011: How I spent my Family Day weekend — New recipes: chapati, curried chickpeas, vegetable biryani (from sauce), Tex-mex lasagna Lots of time spent putting together presentations. Worth it, though! [...]
• 2010: Seeds — It was sunny and almost spring-like on Sunday. I rode my bicycle 5km to the Artscape Wychwood Barns, shedding my [...]
• 2009: LifeCampTO: Tweaking the plan! — Yesterday, Jordan Baker and I had a great conversation about how to make LifeCampTO even better. We wanted to figure [...]
• 2007: Yes to social networking, no to MLM — Because of a matter involving some people I know, I ended up taking a look at Success University. I have to [...]
• 2006: ‘tinerant Tuesday — I firmly believe that the best way to get to know a city is to wander around. With that in mind, [...]
• 2006: Boston Science Museum — I cannot resist science museums. I am endlessly amused by models and hands-on experiments. As a reward for good behavior or [...]
• 2005: Watched kabuki — Watched one act of a kabuki play at http://www.kabuki-za.co.jp/ . It was _beautiful_. Props to dagbrown for that excellent idea. Also, [...]
• 2005: Baguio plans — how's this plan leave manila thrusday night be here friday morning have your talk saturday afternoon be in manila [...]
• 2005: Geek Love — Revision from Dominique Cimafranca: One of the hallmarks of the stereotypical male computer nerd is his ineptitude with members of the opposite [...]
• 2004: Sample array code — import java.applet.*; import java.awt.*; import java.awt.event.*; /** * Demo class for arrays * @author Sacha Chua (sacha@free.net.ph) * @date 22-Feb-2004 */ public class ReallySimpleAddressBook [...]
• 2004: YASD: Don’t cast sleep on the priest! — Thought I’d help my pet baby green dragons out by casting sleep on the priest. This, apparently, is a Very [...]
• 2004: CS161 Finals — The following students are to take the CS161 final exam on Thursday. They can e-mail me at sacha@free.net.ph to find out [...]
• 2004: Exemptions for CS161 — No MIS student qualified for exemption.
• 2004: Fantastic news! Wonderful news! Excellent news! — We get to postpone finals for juniors in CS161 to the normal time. Wheee! I feel so much better now. Of course, [...]
• 2004: “View From the Alpha Geek” — From ACM Technews: Programmer Rael Dornfest keeps track of IT innovation and innovators as part of his job putting together O’Reilly & [...]
• 2004: “Inventors Strut Stuff at Demo Show” — From ACM Technews: Dozens of high-tech innovations, ranging from small PCs to blogging tools to “augmented reality” software, were spotlighted at the [...]
• 2003: my dad and his vaio — tech — So my dad has this really sweet Vaio U1. I walked into the room and saw him using it… to play [...]
• 2003: Finished “The Human Condition” — school — Only one ream of paper to go. My highlighter looks like it’s running a bit low on ink. I want to [...]
• 2003: back to work — school — Armed with my makeshift strawberry sugar-er and my trusty highlighter, I return to work.
• 2003: sugar-coated strawberries — personal — The strawberries are nothing spectacular – a bit on the old side, with strange dark spots – but hey, they’re strawberries. [...]
• 2003: a ream of arendt — school — I still have to go through a ream of Arendt later… Ah well.
• 2003: done with the smaller readings — school, tips — I’ve come to appreciate the value of light yellow highlighters, but I still refuse to use them on anything but temporary [...]
• 2003: not going to party — personal — My mother strongly feels that I shouldn’t go to the party later, since my finals are next week after all. I [...]
• 2003: gospel exercise — school — Okay, the gospel exercise is more or less done. Whew! That’s out of the way.