Author Archives: sinyaw

Marriage Is For Losers

Posted on June 17, 2012 by sinyaw

Dr. Kelly Flanagan is a therapist. His blog “Untangled” has a recent entry that touched me. There are three kinds of marriages. In the first kind of marriage, both spouses are competing to win, and it’s a duel to the … Continue reading →

Posted in Peek into my mind, Witness to my life | Leave a comment

Chris Kuzneski

Posted on June 12, 2012 by sinyaw

People in this condo building put books in the common area as a free and do-it-yourself library. One of them caught Kid’s eye: Sign of the Cross by Chris Kuzneski. She grabbed it. Several days ago, she mentioned, nonchalantly, that … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reviews | Tagged , , , , , | 1 Comment

Edgewater Hotel

Posted on June 6, 2012 by sinyaw

When The Beatles came to Seattle, they stayed at the Edgewater Hotel. That was in 1964 and the picture of them fishing from their room became a piece of history. This hotel was built for the World Fair and has … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reviews, Seattle, Witness to my life | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Man Jewelry and Mansome

Posted on June 1, 2012 by sinyaw

Bling bling. I am not. When I became aware, around my mid-teenage years, I observed the world to have two kinds of people: those who tailor-made their school uniforms or those who wear the standard-issue, designed for durability and cost … Continue reading →

Posted in Witness to my life | Leave a comment

Design for Testability

Posted on May 25, 2012 by sinyaw

Many years ago, I wrote a program that converted Gregorian date to Chinese and vice versa. I researched the topic, found the formula, designed the user interface, and finished the code in several days. I ran it, tried several dates … Continue reading →

Posted in Management Thoughts | 1 Comment

eReader saga continues..

Posted on May 20, 2012 by sinyaw

Kid passed a book to me, Sign of the Cross by Chris Kuzneski, and said that it is interesting. The general understanding between us is that I will read whatever book she thought interesting to me. A year ago, I … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reviews, Witness to my life | Leave a comment

Michael Crichton’s Micro

Posted on May 16, 2012 by sinyaw

Michael Crichton strikes again. Again. Crichton’s signature research (does he have a team doing his next book?) was impeccable and his craft superb. This book submerged you into the adventure: the horror, the bizarre, the cuties, and the heart-breaking. It … Continue reading →

Posted in Books & Reviews | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

Las Vegas

Posted on May 12, 2012 by sinyaw

Last time I came to Las Vegas, Siegfried and Roy were breeding white tigers, Mirage just opened, and the Jubilee show was the hottest show. There was no Venetian, Wynn, MGM Grand, or Mandalay Bay. Just the newly opened Luxor … Continue reading →

Posted in Witness to my life | 1 Comment

So you will live to 120

Posted on May 5, 2012 by sinyaw

I have reached the age that the most frequent topics of conversation are chronicle diseases and retirement planning. (This is actually an improvement from mid-life crisis and marital disasters.) In one of those gathering, we realized that many of our … Continue reading →

Posted in Peek into my mind | Leave a comment

What’s Wisdom?

Posted on April 29, 2012 by sinyaw

Would getting older at least make you wiser? For Americans, that appears to be true. Japanese, on the other hand, become wise much younger. More interestingly, first time I glimpsed at the definition of wisdom. There are five elements of … Continue reading →

Posted in Peek into my mind | Leave a comment