| On Vox: Spring in the desert |
[08 May 2008|09:49pm] |
I spent an extended weekend in the beautiful Joshua Tree National Park in California, where spring has sprung and the desert is anything but deserted. I lugged along my swanky new DSLR camera and here are the results (uploading photos...
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| On Vox: Morning pick-me-up |
[06 Mar 2008|06:41am] |
The windows in my new place face east, and on a really clear day you can see the snow-capped Cascades in the distance. On a cloudy day, you can get the most amazing sunrises. I've started to sleep with my head at the foot of the bed so I can wake up to sights like today's:
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| On Vox: Northwest history meets Monty Python |
[05 Mar 2008|07:36am] |
A couple of Sundays ago marked two years since I moved to Seattle, and I wanted to do something to celebrate this little corner of the world, so the B-team and I went to Pioneer Square (the oldest part of Seattle) to do the Underground Tour. Here's the concept in a nutshell: the city of Seattle you see today isn't actually the original city. The first buildings in this area were in fact built at a lower elevation, closer to the level of Elliott Bay, on top of what was then just a bunch of mud flats. The tour takes you down below the current city level to the old city underground, while you hear about the city's history at the same time.
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| On Vox: Year of the Rat |
[07 Feb 2008|10:23am] |
Boy 2008 is going by quickly - it's already getting to the middle of February. Today of course is Chinese New Year, and one of my Chinese colleagues brought a treat to the office for the occasion - Water Chestnut Cake. It was amazing. I need to get the recipe from her, but here is one I found online. All this time I've been putting water chestnut into curries and stir fries when I could have been putting it into cakes :)
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| On Vox: Whistler madness |
[26 Nov 2007|03:10pm] |
It must be a uniquely tech-industry thing to come back from a vacation and within hours see an email that the digital footage of your escapades has already been edited and posted on YouTube. As you can see we got up to quite a lot of fun, even outside all the skiing which isn't featured in this video. » Read more on Vox
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| On Vox: Sign of life |
[20 Oct 2007|06:14pm] |
It's been a while since my last entry; I haven't really been in a writing mood, but I thought I'd post something as a sign of my continued existence. Some things that have been happening:
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| On Vox: Lighten up! |
[25 Sep 2007|08:04pm] |
Actor Shah Rukh Khan, Bollywood's answer to Tom Cruise, has recently come under fire for promoting Fair and Handsome, a skin-lightening cream sold in India and Indian shops around the world (the ad is viewable on Youtube here and speaks for itself). The ads for Fair and Lovely, the original cream for women from which F&H was spun off, aren't much better. Here's one I found in English:
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| On Vox: Home again |
[23 Sep 2007|03:06pm] |
It's nice being back in Sydney. The last few days have been very relaxed, I've mainly been bumming at home, going for walks with my mum, eating good food, not much else.
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| On Vox: Fortunately/unfortunately |
[09 Sep 2007|09:54pm] |
I have never been this sick before and it is scary. I have a throat infection and it's really painful to swallow. When I do get something down my body mainly rejects it. There have been more days this week that I've hurled up all my food than days I've kept it down. I've lost 7 pounds in the last 6 days.
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| On Vox: Poetry slam |
[03 Sep 2007|11:09pm] |
I've never had much of an appreciation for poetry. I've always considered it too emo to read voluntarily, and when forced to study it at school I always resisted through ruthless reductionist: breaking down the whole, wrenching meaning and rhetorical device out of every syllable, memorising it for my exam and reducing it to just another thing on the checklist to rote learn. I can name a dozen books that have changed my life, but not a single poem. Maybe Tagore managed to raise a few hairs on the back of my neck, but that's about the extent of my engagement with verse.
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| On Vox: High Divide: Take Two |
[31 Aug 2007|01:52pm] |
A few weekends ago, I did the classic High Divide hike in the Olympic range, a few hours west of Seattle. My excuse for taking this long to get this entry up is that I got a new laptop with Windows Vista, and the Vox bulk uploader only works with XP, and damned if I was going to bother uploading photos three at a time from the web interface. Anyway. It took a few weeks for me to remember that one of my work computers still has XP, so I uploaded them from there. So that's my story.
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| On Vox: Sub-alpine adventures |
[09 Aug 2007|10:20am] |
Last weekend I organised a backcountry hiking trip in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness. The Alpine Lakes are a beautiful protected area of craggy peaks, lush forest, sub-alpine meadows and cool blue lakes just an hour or two from Seattle - and on the drive there, I thought for the thousandth time how lucky I am to live so close to such things. Our destination was Lake Caroline, a 6 mile (one way) hike that starts just south of the town of Leavenworth (one of my favourite places in the universe... or not). In the way of company I had Astha, Sean, Jon and Punit, all backcountry first-timers who wanted to come along on a warmup hike to get a feel for the weight of the pack and so on before a longer hike in the Olympics that we have planned in a few weeks.
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| On Vox: Utah Part 4: Driving and driving. And driving and driving. And driving. |
[23 Jul 2007|06:02pm] |
The final day of the road trip started early - it was going to be a good twelve to fifteen hours getting back depending on how many stops we made. We were planning to leave Salt Lake City by 8am, which meant that everyone would have to be up by at least 7am. But we hadn't walked up the hill to the Capitol yet, and I'd heard the view of the mountains was pretty good up there, so a few of us got up around 5:45 and headed up the hill for a gander. The sun hadn't peeked up yet, but it was already light and fairly warm. We couldn't get too close to the capitol building, since it was under renovation, but again it looked like all the other state capitol buildings I've seen in the US so no big loss there. The air around the mountains was really hazy so we didn't get too good a look at them, but we saw a couple of nice churches and old buildings on the way down.
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| On Vox: Utah Part 3: Canyon Country |
[18 Jul 2007|11:13am] |
Previously on Utah: The Series...Jon: Don't stop believing!Milly: Look, arches!Spaghetti: Windows Vista... he he.Astha: Look, even more arches!Sean: Shit guys, I'm out of water.Kosta: Yeah, this better be a frigging good arch.Jon: Don't stop believing!Sam: I wonder how long I can hide the fact that I got converted to Mormonism. I was alone, and they were just so friendly!Karl: Sneeeeeeeeggghhh... vroooooommmmm... *stall*
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