http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/zipdecode/ For the people like me who’s always trying to figure out zip codes. We need one for the world. Who’s up for that? Speaking of this, I wonder if there’s any attempt to standardize transport protocols for the entire world. We did it with the Internet, but physical mail is still pretty hard to [...]

Haven’t had a good time waster for sometime. And what do you expect? Me? A holy man? I think I need to spend sometime reflecting on my extremely bad behavior. The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Eigth Level of Hell – the Malebolge! Here is how you matched up against all the [...]

Here’s the picture of my new bike (originally from www.fujibikes.com ) I’ll put my own pictures of it up when I upload pictures from my camera. So far it has been holding up even though I have to ride through all the pot holes and rough roads of Beacon Hill, and I got it for [...]

Are you “Malaysian Hokkien”? Here’s a great article by Sim’s brother about the history of hokkien people in Malaysia, in particular the differences between nothern and southern hokkien, their origins and their fate as things currently stand. http://www.kwongwah.com.my/8fang/pf004.htm Somehow I feel great just knowing somehow that my great grandparents are from 南安 and my hokkien [...]

This is Hau Jia on Mt. Rainier  More recent pictures on http://www.jiinjoo.com/plug.php?dir=album.

So this is what I’m going to do. And I hope this time it will materialize (sorry about the delay Syamsul, it’s just not the usual me to sit down for hours trying to write some software that I don’t know how’s it’s going to end up like). First, I’ve registered a proper domain name [...]

Weeee… www.bombaycompany.com launched successfully. I’m done seeing my teammates screaming everyday and pulling their hair. Another merchant out the door. I wonder who’s next

Last weekend was extremely interesting. Since it was labor day weekend, I thought I could catch up with some work, but turns out I went running around for the most part. Saturday was a long hike up Lake Serene with Susie and Brenda and Sunday was a long ride from Kerry Park to Seward Park [...]