Obligation: Human vs. Citizen

March 11, 2008 / Daily Life, Opinion / 28 Comments

The other I was walking down my street with my boyfriend. It was snowing. The whole street was peacefully silent – almost as if the snowflakes were absorbing the noise. But then a man started shouting desperately “PAY THE RENT! PAY THE RENT!” I ignored it at first. Then my boyfriend and I saw two…


Checking Website Statistics

Question of the Month: How do you measure your site’s success? (i.e. doing what you want it to do) Having owned a site from the world of Geocities back in 1996, and many frequent hiatuses, the world of Web 2.0 is, for the most part, still quite alien to me. I don’t fully understand the…


Positive Love #2

March 7, 2008 / Daily Life / 12 Comments

8.30AM. Bzz. bzz. bzz. Bzz. bzz. bzz. The phone-alarm rings. Just a little longer… Snooze. 8.45AM. Bzz. bzz. bzz. Bzz. bzz. bzz. Not again. I can still make it… Snooze. 9.15AM. Bzz. bzz. bzz. Dammit. 45 minutes left until class starts. Drags myself out of bed. Takes my customary morning shower. Zombies my way out…


Gratitude: The Joys of Blogging

March 5, 2008 / Daily Life / 21 Comments

Alert! Ego boost in effect! Please skip this post if you don’t wanna watch my head swell. My web host, TopHostingCenter just wrote an awesome review for Nanyate?! and presented me with Speedy Tophostingcenter Blog Award! It’s one thing to have a little 200×200 trophy image to display on your site, but another to have…


One Thousand Blood Sweat Words

March 3, 2008 / Daily Life / 26 Comments

Disclaimer: This entry is my first entry written in Chinese. The English translation is kinda awkward and contrived, akin to a second-language English speaker. It’s because I wrote the entry in Chinese first, then translated it back to English. I purposefully did so to show non-Chinese speakers the level of my Chinese. And yes, that…


Five Vices: An Internet Meme

March 1, 2008 / Daily Life / 10 Comments

So, looks like the five meme has leaked from YouTube vloggers to the old-school bloggers. Thanks to Teddy, I’ve been tagged. And these are the instructions: 1. List five vices you have, with a description if you want to. 2. Tag five bloggers for this meme. 3. Link back to the blogger who tagged you,…


Positive Love

February 28, 2008 / Culture / 9 Comments

Ever remember watching a friend hit a piñata or maybe pin the tail on the donkey? What did you say? Were you the one that shouted, “NO, NOT THERE!!!”? Or did you say “OVER HERE! CLOSER!!” instead? Aria (the cat), Alicia (the instructor) and Alice (green haired girl). I was watching ARIA the ORIGINATION today,…