Welcome to my website! I used to post on instagram,
but got completely fed up with the super below average word processing tools, the 2.2K character count, and the
frustrating album posting user experience... maybe I'll write about that some other time.
What I wanted this website to be is a place for me to document various interesting aspects of my life. Every day
passes by so fast, and quite honestly it's hard to remember everything that happened even a week ago. I want this
website to be a place where I can look back and reminisce about good family vacations, memorable moments with my
partner, remind me about simple and fast dishes I can cook for dinner, and overall reflect on how my life is
progressing.
Currently I am a software engineer living in the greater Seattle area, where I spend my days with my partner, Grace
and our cat Gurt (her legal name is Yogurt). In my spare time I like to go day-hiking, climbing, occasionally
cooking (what a unique set of hobbies!!), and help Grace spruce up our house by buying and building whatever IKEA
furniture she sees fit.
Currently, I have written 10 post(s)!
Recent Posts
Every now and then, I’m reminded about how lucky my life has been thus far - I have a great family, got lucky with my career trajectory (so far at least), have an amazing partner to share life with - and my recent vacation to China was one of those moments.
This vacation is actually the longest one I’ve been on since I’ve started work 4 years ago - a whole 3 weeks - Wednesday to Tuesday to take advantage of cheap plane tickets, and as a result I’m sitting at home, just barely made it to the weekend after being back to work for a few days, with a severe case of the vacation blues.
It’s been three Februaries since I started working at Facebook, and I feel like every time around this time of the year, work always accelerates to an almost unsustainable pace and becomes the new normal, never slowing down. The first year, it was releasing our next generation haystack to important AI customers. The next, a bunch of data loss sevs and reports kept me incredibly busy. This year, I get put on a high priority org level project because another senior person left.
When I went back to Vancouver for Christmas, I intended to rely on my company phone’s free roaming data when I was around, but a few hours after crossing the border, I racked up a 500$ Verizon bill tabbed to Facebook, and Verizon completely refused to offer me more service. And I also left my car with Grace in United States. So I was slated to spend hours on public transit with nothing more than a sleek black brick to keep me entertained.