Category Archives: Work

Catching Up

I’ve been submerged in work for the past two weeks or so, not having much time to do anything else aside from work and the DS, which lets me sneak in some Professor Layton, FFTA2 or Civilization Revolutions while waiting for bug fixes to be confirmed.
So I took a break this weekend and won’t be [...]

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Sunday Distractions

For all of my working life I’ve gotten used to sitting at a workstation where I do not have regular internet access. So while I’ve often read a lot of those articles about how to maintain focus, I’ve never actually realized how difficult it was until I brought home a bunch of work-related reading material [...]

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Job Hunting for Programmers

No, I’m not job hunting. But other people are, apparently. I got a comment on an old post I made about my job hunting days. Not only that, but the guy IM’d me asking to talk (I put my yahoo id on this site somewhere me). It’s a bit strange, but I figured, why not? [...]

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Going to HK Again

For two weeks, starting next Tuesday.
Maybe the time away from everyone will be good for me. Work has been a chore lately.

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Down Cycles

No matter how much of an optimist I am, I have to admit all people will have down cycles. The last few days seem to be one of mine.
Health-wise: My stomach has been in a rebellious mood for the past three or four days, I actually went to work with a fever last Friday. Also, [...]

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Should I Go Across The World?

I’ve been asked if I would be willing to be temporarily posted in another country, halfway across the world, for around half a year.
On the surface, it seems like a good idea - I don’t have any definite plans for the next few months, so there’s nothing in the way. It would be new stuff, [...]

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I’m Going to HK…Again

So much for my nefarious plan to take it easy until I can get a Christmas break.
I leave on the first available flight Thursday, and they plan to keep me there for around three weeks.

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My Job, Such As It Is

Nice post on Salary Averages Comparison over at the Pinoy Tech Blog. It got me thinking about my own job. I work at a foreign-based software development company that caters to clients outside the country. These days, I work mostly on JSP-based web projects. My starting salary, three and a half years ago, was higher [...]

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GMail raises the bar for everyone…

So I was at work, and one of the HK guys asks me if we can have a themed button for the file input control in one of our screens. So, I’m all “alpha geek” and stuff, and I go: “No we can’t. We can’t style the ‘Browse’ button directly, and IE will throw an [...]

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How to Organize a Cluttered Mind?

Yeah, I haven’t been posting lately. I still have a lot of thoughts running around my head, and often throughout the day I find myself thinking, “I should post an entry about this.” But at the end of the day, I’m tired and I’m exhausted from thinking about two hundred different issues and juggling twenty [...]

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