that was the question posed by one of my close friend before he went back to Malaysia upon finishing his study in England. We grew up in the same hometown. He loves the town, even more so as he ages. I asked ‘Why not stay in England and find a job instead? I’m sure the jobs there are better than what our crappy hometown can offer.’ His answer couldn’t be simpler. ‘Family and friends are all that matter to me. Being close to them is what makes me happy :)’. I can almost picture his grinning face when he typed that into his MSN chat window.
‘Are you going to come back to Malaysia soon? What are you looking for there?’ then he asked.
I couldn’t give him an honest answer back then because I didn’t have one.
As life in Toronto starts to settle in, I manage to pull some thoughts together and will try to give a less patronizing answer to that question.
I want to design user interface. That makes me happy. After that, I want to go home to my wife and make dinner for her and watch Heroes together and go to sleep. Maybe a little bit of sex before that.
I’m easy like that. I’m the guy who doesn’t know what the definition of horsepower is and is more than happy to let his gf chooses the car he will be driving. I’m the guy who doesn’t wear a watch and couldn’t care less about the latest gadgets (my workstation is not a gadget!). I’m the guy who likes piano but doesn’t know how to play one but will tell the girl he’s trying to impress that he knows how to play piano well enough to make her cries. I’m the guy who doesn’t get expressive abstract art but will buy that Picasso’s piece with half of his fortune if everyone around him says ‘yeah, this is indeed an amazing piece of work.’
Malaysia can give me that life, no doubt about that. But if I can’t get it here, I probably won’t get it anywhere else.
My goals in life are not something to go wow over. But life’s a bitch like that. The easy things are always the hardest to get. No wonder everyone wants world peace or talk to God instead. Obviously I’m still working on the wife part and I still have a lot to improve on in what I do for a living. But I know a person who already did it - my dad. Back in the days, he and my mom would watch ‘Wheel of fortune’ together while my sisters and I would take turns screaming every possible combinations of words for the puzzle, to their annoyance. He raised us well and enjoyed every minutes of it. He’s an honorable man.
I’m slightly more handsome than my dad, so it’s not entirely impossible.
to not shave until the beta of the project I’m currently working on comes out. Then I will shave once but not again until we are out of beta. Then another shave but not again until we reach 1M users.
Just finished Augustus last night and I love it. There is so much we can learn, not only from the Rome civilization itself, but also from the characters and players in probably one of the earliest and most well documented republic in human history. Cicero, Tiberius, Augustus, Livia, Mark Anthony, Octavia and a dozen more. I am searching for the next book about Romulus, the man who founded the Rome empire.
And you gotta hand it to their poets for their wittiness and playfulness :). In an age where a wrong choice of words can easily send one to Hades, they along side with the teachers and historians are probably the bravest bunch of all. No offense to the legionnaires of course. Here’s a two liners from Ovid:
All we need is your consent to some quiet love-making
It’s hard to imagine a more harmless request.
the thing about Kimya Dawson is I envy the moonlight out of her. She is in a band that plays the music I’ve always dreamt of playing. She wrote songs I wish I’ve written them myself. and secretly, sometimes, I wish I am a girl just so I can sing like her.
The Ones We Love is a project highlighting young and talented photographers from around the world. Each artist contributed six photographs of the person(s) who is most important to them, taken outdoors in a natural setting. The goal of the website is to portray the people who are loved, cherished, and inspirational to these artists, and also showcase the differences and similarities in the photographs each of them took within the same guidelines.
I couldn’t help but clicked through all the photos. Maybe it’s a desperate attempt to find out how it feels like to be that other person’s most important person.
After graduating from college in 2005, Alvin started working as a web developer, designing and developing web applications, for a Minnesota-based web marketing company. He joined UNL’s Internet and Interactive Media division a year later. His primary work is focused on designing and implementing usable user interface for web applications that adhere to web standards and accessibility guidelines. When he’s not at work, he likes to laugh at babies who are late walkers. Originally from Sarawak, Malaysia, where, he says, “hippie, tree-hugging people thrive,” Alvin loves cheesecake.
written by Sara Gilliam, Newswriter and Communications Specialist
One of the best tennis match I’ve seen in my life. At 6-0 and 2-0 down on second set, I was like oh there goes my little Ana’s dream of playing in this year’s Australia Open final. Such a shame because she looks really pretty in that Adidas dress. Seriously, every signs depressingly point to an early bed time for me.
Then she won the third game before leveling it at 2-2 in the next. Then 3-2 and before you know it she won the second set. She kept the momentum and the rest is history.
My little angel is through to the final and I hope her opponent Sharapova has a stomach ache that day.
