It seems that ten years ago, I created a publicly accessible HTML page on my Dalhousie computer science server space with the following text. The URL was “borg.cs.dal.ca/~lock” which, not so sadly, is now a dead link. Sigh, them good ole days.
Then two days later, I made an update. Then another one a day after that. I was… weblogging! I changed the font colour every day and put a horizontal bar (<hr>) to divide the days. Here are the first three days, reversed from the reverse chronological order how it appeared …

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On Saturday and Sunday, I woke up excited to have the same delicious breakfast: fresh made crepes and a mug of malty Ovaltine. I puttered around doing “house things” and on Sunday even got myself out the door to get to the market and then settle in for some regimented study-play for the evenings.
On Saturday, I studied for an hour and then painted for an hour then repeated that twice. I set my iPhone Clock app to the Timer function and it counted down from 55 minutes to …

No sooner did I come upon a book I really need to read (Marinaomi’s Kiss & Tell), the Toronto Public Library workers were one day away from going on strike. Since then, I’ve been building my reading list and if I get through it during long summer days, it will make for a good year. Hearkening back to my Asian American Literature Summer of 2010, I want to do it again. Sure, I’m pigeon-holing myself but reading got done. I constantly stumble upon books that interest me (same goes with …

Let it be recorded here (because while dated March 24, this was only published on April 10) that after spending hours browsing hundreds then testing tens of themes, I elected to use Typominima, a typography-based and minimal theme.
I’ve been using Arthemia at the old domain for years upon years after I customized it fairly satisfactorily and filled it amply with content. It looks like a freakin’ magazine. Which has its purposes. When I selected Typominima, I justified using a very blog-looking theme over another magazine because [1] I hadn’t ported enough …

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To the online ordering system, I gave my work address as the delivery address because I didn’t want it to go through my apartment concierge for various reasons. I know that both work and concierge are upstanding and ethical people but you can’t blame a girl for wanting to get her hands on the product as soon as the courier brings it, can you?
Just after we hit the Submit button on the order, I cursed because I just remembered that for the rest of the week I …

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There’s a square of finger-oil you can see on my iPhone screen that shows up even better under different light. It comes from back-to-back-to-back games of Scramble with Friends (freshly brought to us from the team that introduced us to Words with Friends and Hanging with Friends). The latest game is like Boggle so I’ve been dragging my finger across the 4×4 grid of letters frantically for two minutes at a time to create as many words from adjacent letters as possible!
NPY and I are addicted to …

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Today was my first day at work after three full months with my firm.
Is it a bad thing to say it feels longer? Generally, yes, but I mean it in the best way possible. I was caught up in training for the first month and then there were Christmas holidays just a month after I joined. We have been super busy so it feels like I’ve squeezed in so much work in the past two months.
Today, I was able to work on a variety of projects and …

On New Year’s Eve 2011, I was frantically trying to finish reading this memoir. Since I worked until after 9 p.m. on the 31st, I wasn’t finishing it before midnight Atlantic Standard Time but I definitely did before midnight in the Pacific time zone! And then, as you can see, blogging about it took even longer….
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Unbearable Lightness is Porta de Rossi’s 2010 memoir of the dark and difficult events of 1998 and 1999 when she joined the cast of Ally McBeal. It has been sitting on my e-reader (i.e., iPhone) …

Yikes, so we closed November 2011 and my NaNoWriMo word count is 27,638, half of a fairly short 50K-word novel. I outlined quite a bit ahead but life happened. For full disclosure, I actually wrote seven days’ worth in October (!) because I knew I would be in New York 1-7 November and only wrote 8 days in November proper. :o
My very first gap in writing started on 11/11/11, the day I went from unemployed with no prospects to unemployed with future employment. Then there was the scramble to get …

When I visit a reasonably large city, I’ll raid the tourist shops searching for two souvenir items in particular both with the city’s subway system map screen on them: a shot glass and an umbrella. I suppose I don’t need too many umbrellas so I’m open to other paraphernalia that is useful like notepads and bookmarks. In recent history, I have been to London, Hong Kong, Beijing, and New York and only been successful in London. I like my subway merchandise to look official and not screened on crooked in someon’s …