sacha chua :: living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2011: Learning by imitation: getting inspired by Exploding Dog — I like the way Exploding Dog has these colourful, creative drawings. It is awesome. I’ve never seen anyone less afraid [...]
• 2010: Two days of awesome — I spent Saturday at Lee Valley’s Women and Power Tools seminar. In the process of building a toolbox, we [...]
• 2009: On sewing and improv — By golly, I think I’m getting the hang of it. Today I started working on McCall 8107, a simple sleeveless princess-seamed [...]
• 2008: Year in review: Life as a 24-year-old — I’m turning 25 in a little over a week. Birthdays are a terrific opportunity to look backward and look forward–what [...]
• 2008: Switching to Ubuntu — Switching my laptop to Ubuntu took much less time and effort than I thought it would take. I couldn’t resize [...]
• 2007: What do you do on holidays? — Today is one of the floater holidays at IBM. I think floater days are there so that IBMers in different Canadian [...]
• 2007: Got my study permit extended — Yay! No longer have a strict deadline for completion. Not that I should let my schedule slip anyway, but it’s nice [...]
• 2006: Research report: Schedule — I like these one-on-one meetings. I find myself in the zone, asking questions and figuring things out. I had another good [...]
• 2006: Philippine fashion — What would it take to convince, say, someone like Pitoy Moreno to transform Filipino clothing from formal wear to everyday wear? He [...]
• 2006: The malong and other fragments of Philippine culture — One of the good things about Canada is that I can wear funky ethnic outfits. I invariably get complimented whether I’m [...]
• 2006: CookOrDie: Bacon, eggs and toast — I think I’ve figured out a neat way to store bacon. If you roll slices up individually and loosely pack them [...]
• 2006: Bookmarklet for the Toronto Public Library — Thanks to Simon Ditner for this totally cool bookmarklet! Did Dan mention the bookmarklet creator compatible with the TPL? This will [...]
• 2005: Shopping trip — The bright red gash stretching across half my arm stings. Red is my favorite color, but I could have done without [...]
• 2005: Shared Computer Access Locally and Abroad — Engineers Without Borders has an excellent project called SCALA: Shared Computer Access Locally and Abroad. I learned about it from [...]
• 2004: Testing Japanese output again — とても嬉しいです。
• 2004: Happy girl, although with an involuntary perm — -----BEGIN PGP MESSAGE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) hQEOAzQ6c9jHW5SMEAQAqGGGPdaQM67/OI99kbIxygC0ygbNbnekBbBYCs95jmin WWSrPe4pR0dsxOQrBp2ahzITWvyWZ0jaFrSj+e+kwtUNGb14Qvx1xznokTvO7U6s jCoOco2Y03czTEtbJLGQlHLXwQoBzb/9bdoaf3P6U7S+ctTk61bIsfvUZoLtK/0E AMFpawtmL/jZ543U+FQbhFIFfL13N8XWm7AzJmorpW/CFb8M6vT/rWiPOKzJpGCj HH71yCBqh2hRZg/LFrl/cMA9ZAFNuF9FqLLuCs1Tt8+qSsFh2beOLRd5fnYLhvjZ yuZdDHQeZmoD/Y4RcR+Cww0QcILmOqHwdpBhX7h8Qovs0ukBH6KoDH/1WpHg0vWk 7nO+F7+oNLHahWE17AH2KKcQbPBZqbMOGMra3kUnrprqGe3u1EbQ8MDfDBTHlZ/2 To4Xp2BZFCuAN2v8H7r5/1ZZc3rMT58ksF+z8m0A1x0ux5FGgGAGqBjHr5O8GXeg 1g6R0R9wRvqb2CYlxwBCO4tJkiqboWLW5yjIcZeu9+wcnyj/PFyFNCV4EFmg5BfK N+0G38lCgBJ1iNhHr406QTmilAppVc2cCElT93xwdziGgRg6H5y9RgH0v5Wa1pPh PEC5LUzJsEE1q31aZWGwRPT4S0TUepp+bAqy9sNM5vKjguV89aSR5CGf/u/rTy0I p9SiMApZay7tJhEBgoWuB9QkPuBEXn9+vdD98c7uvL9lXce5QycvZkzB0JPAHwL/ 4TS+AVcDveTdmW/DG1/nVkq+nItCkm0Dt+brxk2ywK8u/vDnMLhsH5oTn9LSEpwv Nyb615Nr1eVcb3jYCHWOnJ5vQDNBkuc7Xv8YCJiN0V1/b8rzAvtErnAE/jeK/Bjq Fk8nz141Ot9PzutIxecFuwKdMGEocJF4bMtUDYiSkBPlyQx3eq13jrEKH71UQjQv rl/O+FIEfv8IXSCQ1O6qT0ItqdsDNe56GXhYN1TCEdSt6yONvDKNsDDvY4ZjAahB PEAKNIKaOWdMHoT92BCsE4Yg3xm/MUAP40hrxjsQTqHC+WzsrEttKBv9bOcB =vwQO -----END PGP MESSAGE-----