sacha chua living an awesome life

About

About me

How to pronounce my name: SAh-shah CHEW-ah (Listen to the MP3). If you mispronounce it, don’t worry. =)

I’m Sacha Chua. I’m currently:

• Experimenting with business
• A blogger who tries to write down everything possible because (a) it helps me think more clearly, (b) I’m probably going to need it again, and (c) it may help someone else along the way
• A doodler sketching on my Lenovo X220i tablet or my Cintiq 12WX
• A personal finance geek who enjoys balancing books and tweaking systems, but doesn’t bother with trading (just index funds, thank you)
• 29 years old and loving life
• … and many other things

See my 5-year vision! =)

I have also been:

• A teacher of computer science – I loved teaching the introductory courses because I enjoyed convincing freshmen than computer science was actually fun
• A fire dancer (poi), because my sister taught me and then dragged me along on her professional gigs
• A fiction writer specializing in flash fiction (really short short stories)
• An open source maintainer of the Planner personal information manager and the Remember module, both for Emacs
• An open source contributor to projects like Emacs Relay Chat and the Compaq iPaq Linux bootloader
• … and many other things

About this blog

Here, you’ll find notes on:

• Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 – how social technologies can help us work and connect more effectively
• Cooking – I’ve gotten much better since my CookOrDie days!
• Presentation skills and how I want to get better and better
• Communication skills in general
• Social networking both online and offline
• Gen Y guides – sharing tips with other people my age
• New hire stories – I’m new! =)
• The Emacs text editor – a very geeky topic, so don’t worry if you don’t understand any of these posts
• Weekly reports just to keep myself grounded
• … and whatever else I think of posting =)

See also: Twitter: @sachac, LinkedIn, Google Reader shared items