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On This Day...

• 2010: Backyard trades — We live in a semi-detached house and often chat with our immediate neighbors, Dan and Jen. Their kids sometimes [...]
• 2008: BarCampManila — BarCampManila drew over 80 people. There were 16 presentations ranging from 5 to 7 minutes each. What an amazing turnout! [...]
• 2008: The Leisure of Work — Many people hate working during vacations. Others hate going on vacations with people who stay just as connected to the [...]
• 2008: Many hats: Technical writer — I just spent the last three days updating the administrator's guide and related documentation for the Transition2 project, making pretty [...]
• 2006: Networking for Geeks: Advertise with your laptop! — UPDATE: See http://sachachua.com/advertise-on-my-laptop.html Want to meet interesting but don't want to have to make the first move? Use the back of your [...]
• 2006: Darn, can’t find my first-aid kit — I can't find the first-aid kit that Diane Lazaro assembled for me before I left for Canada. I know I [...]
• 2006: Three questions for success — Via the Business Opportunities Weblog comes this awesome story about Farrah Gray, who made his first million by age 14. [...]
• 2006: Bought a sari — Toronto has all these wonderful little neighborhoods. I've been meaning to go to Little India to buy a sari for the [...]
• 2006: MBA elective courses — I've missed the deadline for the Fall MBA courses, but I might be able to squeeze my way into 2012HF: Entrepreneurship, [...]
• 2006: Research report: Met with Mark — Met with my research supervisor, Mark Chignell. Told him about the cool stuff I'd seen at IBM Cambridge's InternFest last [...]
• 2006: Come and hang out at BarCampEarth! — Geek? Come to BarCampEarth. Organize one near you if you have to. In Toronto? Come to BarCampEarthToronto, Aug 26 to 27. [...]
• 2006: Living with others and living alone — The residence assistant introduced himself to me and explained that my roommate Kristin would be moving to another room for a [...]
• 2006: Trying something new — I've decided to do something about my media deficit. ;) Yesterday, we did a trial run of a video party. As [...]
• 2006: Cellphone — Okay, I have officially settled in now. ;) I used 437:08 local minutes and sent 579 text messages from July 12 [...]
• 2006: Credit card — Finally sorted out a Canada-based credit card. Yay! I no longer have to course credit card purchases through the Philippines, getting dinged [...]
• 2006: Whoa, maybe I’m onto something here — Lots of people commented on my entry about wanting to get into the clothing business. I've updated the entry with [...]
• 2005: Tired but I’m happy — Yes, this is one of those how-was-your-day posts. You can skip over it if you want. =) I tried returning my bike [...]
• 2005: Surround yourself with exceptional people — Steve Pavlina advises people to surround themselves with exceptional people. It's advice found in many self-improvement books as well, and [...]
• 2005: Pictures from the lab — Calum put up pictures of one of our lab meetings. I'm the leftmost girl in pictures 2 and 3. You [...]
• 2003: CS21A plans — education — Graphics IO Applet, interfaces Arrays searching, sorting, etc Polymorphism already From that point on, they can do games, so games would be the final project loop; [...]