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We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Posted on February 10, 2017 by sinyaw

Books rarely surprise me anymore. A suspense, mystery, or SciFi could, and frequently do, surprised me with their plot or storyline, but fictions do not venture into an area that I have not been before, let alone not even thought … Continue reading →

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One Month a Teetotaler

Posted on February 5, 2017 by sinyaw

As the ball dropped at Times Square, everyone hugged and kissed, I finished the last drop of red opened for dinner hours earlier, the resolution began. I was to abstain from alcohol for a month. This was not the first … Continue reading →

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Napa Country

Posted on January 30, 2017 by sinyaw

December, 2016 I learned there is such thing called “palate capacity.” It is the number of good restaurants or wines to over-whelmed one’s ability to appreciate them. Napa country is where one discover his palate capacity and train to expand … Continue reading →

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How We Got To Now

Posted on January 24, 2017 by sinyaw

Steven Johnson attributed innovation less to giant genii. Instead, he believed a combustion of innovations come when all the right elements evolved to the right maturity point. Innovation is a continuous incremental improvements and tinkering, mostly waiting for the right … Continue reading →

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Memory Lane down Pixar

Posted on January 14, 2017 by sinyaw

It was such a nostalgia seeing Luxo Jr. at Pixar Studio. When I was in computer graphics, the industry leaders were Evans & Sutherland and Pixar; the show was SIGGRAPH. I attended the nerdy conference probably every other year. There … Continue reading →

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47th Samurai

Posted on January 5, 2017 by sinyaw

Stephen Hunter’s #4 of the series took a strange turn. I have been reading Bob Lee Swagger slowly. I like Stephen Hunter and also the character, kind of the modern lone ranger more human than Jack Reacher. Up to now, … Continue reading →

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Work on Productivity.

Posted on December 15, 2016 by sinyaw

Taiwan was in the news recently when President-elect Trump accepted the congratulatory call from President Tsai. Giving her the title legitimized Taiwan as a country and infuriated China. On this island, the hot news was the new labor laws. From … Continue reading →

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The Girl in the Spider’s Web

Posted on December 5, 2016 by sinyaw

Stieg Larsson died soon after finishing the Millennium Trilogy. The end of Lisbeth Salander or Mikael Blomqvist was a sad certainty. When I heard this novel, I dismissed it as a knock-off. One day, Kid mentioned the book. Seriously? It … Continue reading →

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Under Preparation for Job Interviews

Posted on November 28, 2016 by sinyaw

“If they don’t like me for who I am, then I don’t want to work for them either,” said the job applicant. Seriously? Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty.– Theodore … Continue reading →

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Getting to know Carole King, again.

Posted on November 20, 2016 by sinyaw

I have never heard of Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann. But I knew many songs they wrote, and I bet you too. This is the bane of pop composers, people only knew the songs or singers, but not the song … Continue reading →

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