sacha chua living an awesome life

On This Day...

• 2012: Twenty-nine; life as a 28-year-old — Today I turned twenty-nine years old! This is fantastic. I’m making good progress towards my goal of becoming a little [...]
• 2011: Living an awesome life as a 27-year-old: a year in blog posts — Happy birthday to me! =) I’m celebrating my 28th birthday today. Here’s the year in blog posts (August 2010 – [...]
• 2010: Networking events — It’s my birthday, yay! (Happy birthday, Mom!) But I’m away at training, so the annual review + sketches will have [...]
• 2009: Reflecting on relationships — For my 25th year, I focused on building a wonderfully loving relationship with W-. We developed shared hobbies (cooking, photography), [...]
• 2008: Sweet! Facebook in Emacs! — So here’s how to access Facebook from w3m, one of the web browsers in Emacs: 1. Enable cookies by setting w3m-use-cookies to [...]
• 2008: Why browse the Web in Emacs? — “Are you browsing Slashdot in Emacs?”, W- asked me after he glanced at my screen. With Emacs’ reputation for including everything [...]
• 2008: Happy birthday to me! — Last night, I figured out how I wanted to celebrate my birthday. I’ve never really been one for gifts, and my [...]
• 2007: Fitness landscapes — I have a good reflection to share which uses the idea of fitness landscapes, but it will need to wait until [...]
• 2007: Cream meringue tart cockaigne — Finally, a chance to sit down after one solid morning of baking! We made cream meringue tart cockaigne and devil’s food [...]
• 2005: Exhausted — I was going to bake lasagna today, but the elevator broke down and all the shopping I did this afternoon totally [...]
• 2005: Quiet lab — Friday afternoon at the lab. It’s so quiet I can hear the water rumbling in the walls. I have a birthday [...]
• 2005: Geeks and birthday parties — Twelve hours’ time difference didn’t stop my friends from a proper birthday party for me. What can you expect when your [...]
• 2003: New blog! — http://sacha.free.net.ph/blog now points to http://servlet.techscene.com/roller/page/sachachua/Weblog, which will probably be my primary blog because it can do XML excerpts. I’ll try to find a [...]
• 2003: Java dev day? — something similar to this perhaps? link: http://asm03.assembly.org/