Admiration
Been digging through a lot of older artworks of mine that I didn’t get to post when I first drew them last year or so. This is one of those iPad finger painting art that I’ve done on Adobe Ideas before I became a fan of Autodesk’s Sketchbook. What I liked about the app is that the you can choose a colour swatch of only five colours as your main palette and the “constraint” does forces me to be creative in using opacity extensively to blend colours. (technically I can still swap the swatches – still it’s a bit tedious if I were to swap the swatches in and out)
Onto the art, it’s a bit of a reflection of how kids would admire the adults and wished that they would …
Continue Reading (211 words, 1 minute read)Major Shifts – The Adventures Continues
A lot has happened in my two months of blogging absence: I just changed my job, gave a public presentation (and yes, it’s still sends shivers and trembles down my spine) and travelled to Australia.
What I have achieved is the past two months still feels surreal after everything has transcended. Not all of them ended well, well… the public presentation in particular, still I’m feeling the exhilaration that passed through every fibre in my body with these new experiences I’ve acquired.
To others, these seemed to be insignificant baby steps – yet through these actions and experience I gained a strong sense of empowerment that I’m taking control over my life.
As for what I’m currently doing, I’m now pushing my limits actively – one tiny bit at a time …
Continue Reading (284 words, 2 minute read)Why Setting Deadlines for Yourself is a Bad Idea
Before starting the project:
Got a great project idea, feel really pumped up about it and getting ready to make that first dash.
Read Seth Godin’s Linchpin and liked the ideas that linchpins ship. Decided to follow Seth Godin’s advice of setting a deadline and ship no matter what.
“Let’s make something out next week then! Just this small tiny feature will do.”
Feel good about being so decisive and get to work.
One week later…
Staring at bits and pieces of stuff that has been hacked together. Everything seems to only barely being able to support itself while it wobbles around like jello. Worse, it does practically nothing while all it does is just taking space.
There I was: dejected and frustrated, staring blankly at the piece of junk that’s …
Continue Reading (562 words, 3 minute read)Going Through Rough Seas
Have been going through a rough patch for the past two weeks, and it’s comforting to see the first milestone among many that guides me towards the destination.
For two weekends I have worked on a new feature for Mutual Tracker after a year since it’s inception. It was a rough ride considering how much stuff that I had to learn about PDF parsing and scraping data off ASP.NET pages.
I still have yet to tie everything together and delivering them live. Hopefully I could achieve it by next week. Take it as a publicly announced deadline that I had set for myself.
Speaking of development, I have tons of fun with my iPad and even more recently the Kindle 3. Having too much fun, perhaps. By physically interacting with the device …
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