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hebdo
  • January 7, 2015

Perspective

I was fretting over some personal stuff yesterday. And then Charlie Hebdo happened. And then suddenly my stuff doesn’t matter anymore. #JeSuisCharlie  

sunset
  • December 15, 2014

Toastmasters speech #3: Love at Second Sight

We have all heard that story before. Boy enters room, catches sight of girl across a room full of people, their eyes meet, time slows down to a standstill, a romantic song starts to play, they fall in love and live happily ever after. “It was love at first sight. We were meant to be.” […]

savanna
  • August 12, 2014

Toastmasters speech #1: The Crazy Antelope

Two weeks ago I went to this conference and I noticed something. Almost every speaker who went on stage had a formula: the five ways to achieve your goals. The top five myths about marketing. Five interesting facts about shoelaces, etc. I thought to myself, hey I could do that too. I don’t have a […]

startups
  • July 4, 2014

Unique Value Proposition

As mentioned in my first post, one of the main challenges we are facing with CodifyMe is to create our Unique Value Proposition (UVP). In other words, what makes CodifyMe different and worth getting attention? Ever since I found out there is a direct competitor to our product, I have been struggling with this question. […]

startups
  • June 30, 2014

The Journey Starts Here

I have decided to start blogging about my experience building CodifyMe. I am not sure where this road will lead to or how this journey will end. But I be damned if I don’t learn something from it. And the best way to learn is by documenting my thoughts and experience in real time when […]

sydney
  • June 2, 2014

Hello there, Sydney

Arrived to a sunny winter in Sydney. Hi there, new life. I have also started a “A Photo A Day” project on Tumblr as a keepsake of our lives in Sydney. My goal is to keep this up and alive for at least 365 days. #determined http://yilinghwong.tumblr.com/  

poetry
  • April 14, 2014

Bad Poetry

All bad poetry is sincere. – Oscar Wilde  

birthday
  • February 19, 2014

Thirty One

The past year has been a steady stream of incremental changes. Like hot lava preparing for rupture, the murmuring bubbles are a premonition of what is to come. You seem to have come to terms with the demise of your carefree youth, and gotten a stronger hold of your insecurities. Good for you. But try […]

AmandaPalmer
  • January 17, 2014

The Ballet of Life and Death

Reading Amanda Palmer’s blog always makes me feel agitated and overwhelmed. Like the dormant notion of my mortality is suddenly awakened. There are so many ways to live, so much to life, so much to live (or die?) for, so many experiences to have and so little time to do it all. She wrote about […]

labyrinth
  • January 16, 2014

Navigating Stuckness

“In the tradeoff between timeliness and timelessness, choose the latter. The zeitgeist rewards timeliness, but your soul rewards timelessness.” Best article I have read in a long while. It came at exactly the time I need it. Navigating Stuckness by Jonathan Harris “[…]each time I’d been majorly stuck, it meant that a life chapter was […]

photo-day
  • January 10, 2014

Christmas Reading

I spent a huge chunk of my xmas break on Chris Arnade’s tumblr page. He is a wall street banker turned photographer. He photographs addicts and prostitutes in Hunts Point, New York. It left me feeling simultaneously sad, indignant, baffled and mostly incredibly grateful for my own fortunate life. One thing that stuck with me after […]

sonder
  • January 1, 2014

Resolution

I have only one resolution for this year. Write more. Even if only one sentence a day to document what I read/see/hear/create.