Life is

“Life is an opportunity, benefit from it.
Life is beauty, admire it.
Life is a dream, realize it.
Life is a challenge, meet it.
Life is a duty, complete it.
Life is a game, play it.
Life is a promise, fulfill it.
Life is sorrow, overcome it.
Life is a song, sing it.
Life is a struggle, accept it.
Life is a tragedy, confront it.
Life is an adventure, dare it.
Life is luck, make it.
Life is too precious, do not destroy it.
Life is life, fight for it.”
? Mother Teresa

Happy New Year 2012!

Haven’t updated this blog for the longest time with actual text. So I thought that it wouldn’t be such a bad idea to start this year with a blog post (and may be a regular post as a new year’s resolution?). Looking back, there are a couple of bold beats that happened in my life, which I want to thankful for:

Graduation

Big deal right? I’m the first person who gets into college and graduated with a master’s degree in my family. That makes me the 3rd person in the bigger family (from my mom and dad’s side), who earned a master’s degree. Quite cool. The other two person are my aunt and uncle from my mom’s family. But it’s kind of embarrassing too because my dad, doesn’t even earn any degree (paid my tuition).

Zynga

I think it’s one of the best decision I’ve ever made to join this company. I love what I do. I learned a lot. Had taken a lot of responsibility. An awesome team. Awesome manager. Awesome perks. And last but not least, awesome location. I work at the Los Angeles office upon my own request, as a new college graduate (I never thought that it would worked out!).

Friends

Memories of good friends shall never perish. Good times. Bad times. Formed a distinct mark that sticks as part of life history. This year I made all kinds of friends: new friends, old friends, special friends, cool friends, awesome friends, and last but not least, ass holes too (I’m jk). The plan is to increase the rate of new friends for the upcoming year.

Faith

I watched Stephen Hawking’s documentaries about the universe. The whole theory about the big bang and how the universe is created from nothing, makes me even wonder, even if the theory was proven as true, be something greater that would even started the nothingness. The theory itself is obviously has a lot of flaws. At the same time, I also watched documentaries about the Gnostic gospel such as the Gospel of Judas, which opens the other perspective about Judas and the gospel. Last but not least, a cool church.

Startup

Worked on a startup at the final year of college, and launched it at the DEMO Conference 2011. Our startup won the DEMO god award, and went to several publications on the web. Raised some money. And still working on it. Awesome team. Learned a lot of things. Super fast iteration. Lead the a mobile and a front-end developer. Let’s see what’s next.

Family

There’s nothing greater than to have a happy family that’s always supportive.

Those are the bold beats last year. Lots of things I learned from each of those bold beats. And I have a lot of plans that I want to do this year. There are some sets of goal that I wanted to achieve this year. While some of them are carrying over the bold beats from last year, others are something new. May be skydiving this year? Need to gather some people!

Happy New Year 2012!

Recursively remove .DS_Store files

Here’s the command:

find . -name ‘*.DS_Store’ -type f -delete

Reference: http://alex.tsd.net.au/2010/09/14/recursively-remove-ds_store-files/

Try something new for 30 days

Is there something you’ve always meant to do, wanted to do, but just … haven’t? Matt Cutts suggests: Try it for 30 days. This short, lighthearted talk offers a neat way to think about setting and achieving goals.

Matt Cutts works on search at Google, specializing in search optimization. He’s a friendly and public face for helping webmasters understand how Google’s search actually works, making hundreds of videos that answer questions about SEO. (SearchEngineLand made this handy chart of all of them.) He’s an advocate for cutting down on poor practice such as link spam. He also wrote the first version of SafeSearch, Google’s family filter.

Neil Pasricha: The 3 A’s of awesome

Neil Pasricha’s blog 1000 Awesome Things savors life’s simple pleasures, from free refills to clean sheets. In this heartfelt talk from TEDxToronto, he reveals the 3 secrets (all starting with A) to leading a life that’s truly awesome.

Attitude, Awareness, and Authenticity

I Wanna Be An Engineer, So Freakkin Bad