Year: 2014

  • Building confidence while traveling

    Building confidence while traveling

    It’s been a while since I traveled ‘alone’. When I studied for a semester at NUS, living alone abroad was a very liberating experience that pushed me to become more independent and I missed it. Since then though, I’ve mostly traveled with friends and family. When I had to fly to Hong Kong alone for…

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  • Going out of town and re-energizing for the week

    Going out of town and re-energizing for the week

    Last weekend, C and I went with our friends to Tagaytay and did nothing but eat, drink some good wine and beer and alcohol, play The Resistance (which messed with our friendship so bad), and meet some work deadlines. The weather was so cold (Manila standard of measurement) and the place was so very beautiful.…

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  • Risk of Rain: simple and creative

    Risk of Rain: simple and creative

    The premise is pretty simple: collect [randomly picked] items as much as you can, to give you power-ups and other weapons to kill enemies and bosses so that you can advance to higher levels and finish the game. But finishing the game isn’t that easy. The longer you stay on a stage, the stronger the…

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  • Spark Camera on iOS (and circles on your interface)

    Spark Camera on iOS (and circles on your interface)

    Spark Camera is free on the iOS App Store for a while, so C suggested that I download the app since it was really pretty for a video recorder+editor. I’m not used to taking videos, more less editing them, so I don’t think I did pretty well compared to C’s tests. It’s interesting because it seems…

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  • Corregidor Island Daytrip with C

    Corregidor Island Daytrip with C

    C and I were looking for a place to visit that isn’t too far from Manila (basically, something we can do in a day). He ended up treating me to Corregidor Island for my birthday last December. There’s only one tourist company in charge of visits to the island: Sun Cruises Philippines. The PhP 2,300…

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  • Best of 2013: My Favorite Games

    Best of 2013: My Favorite Games

    I took a very long break from blogging, and I want to keep making an effort into turning this into a habit (again), and I start with very late posts I should have written around New Year. At least I’m not too late for Chinese New Year? Hahaha. I haven’t really grown up as a…

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  • WordPress Development with Roots  (Bootstrap, SASS/LESS) and Grunt

    WordPress Development with Roots (Bootstrap, SASS/LESS) and Grunt

    Requirements XCode Git (easy via Homebrew) node.js – http://nodejs.org/download/ or https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/installation SASS – http://sass-lang.com/install LESS – http://lesscss.org/ GruntJS – http://gruntjs.com/getting-started   Grunt Plugins SASS – https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-sass CSSmin – https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-cssmin Watch – https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-watch Uglify (for compiling JS files) – https://github.com/gruntjs/grunt-contrib-uglify Example: npm install grunt –save-dev npm install grunt-contrib-uglify –save-dev   Use with SublimeText For a faster…

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