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Personal 5 April 20185 April 2018 by ridvanbaluyos

Reflections on love on this special day

1 John 4:18

1 John 4:18 “but perfect love casts out all fear…” What is love? Can it be love if it causes others pain and grief? Can there a love that will make everyone happy? But happiness is but a fleeting emotion. And the happiness of one person, of anyone even, a load too much to bear …

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Personal Technology 19 March 20188 May 2018 by ridvanbaluyos

Digging into Machine Learning

Machine Learning

I have not coded an open-source project lately for the past months so I decided to think of something to learn over the weekend. Since one of the responsibilities listed on the job role that I’d be taking at Rakuten was to “continuously investigate new technology trends and check feasibility to implement in current systems …

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Travel Work 13 March 20181 May 2018 by ridvanbaluyos

Weekend Chill at Liw-liwa Zambales

Zambales Surfing

For the past months, my weekends were spent just at home or at coffee shops. But this weekend, I decided to join my officemates for a weekend trip at Liw-liwa, Zambales! It was actually my 2nd time to stay at the Circle Hostel. The first time, we join the Aeta Village Outreach. This time around, …

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Personal Work 6 March 20187 March 2018 by ridvanbaluyos

Job Offer at Rakuten Tokyo HQ

During my first trip to Japan last April 2013, we were hosted by our friend who works at Rakuten. He is still working there right now. In fact, he has been recently promoted last year. It was the first time I ever heard of Rakuten. It is one of the largest e-commerce in Japan, and …

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Personal Travel 23 February 20181 May 2018 by ridvanbaluyos

Fluffy Gokayama Village in Winter

Gokayama Village

Kenrokuen Garden Gokayama village in winter was probably the highlight of this trip. This was day 2 of our Shirakawa-go Village Winter Illumination 2018 bus tour. Our hotel was at APA Hotel Kanazawa, and we had a great breakfast buffet at Seattle’s Best Coffee. I actually liked their cookies that I had to sneak out …

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Travel 20 February 20181 May 2018 by ridvanbaluyos

Winter Illumination Shirakawago Village

Candle Light Up

My girlfriend and I visited Shirakawa-go and Gokayama village under a flurry of fluffy snow flakes. We booked a bus tour trip over the weekend to witness the Shirakawa-go Winter Illumination. It was supposed to be the main event of the tour, but since it was already our 2nd time in Shirakawa-go village, we felt …

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Personal School 7 February 201823 August 2018 by ridvanbaluyos

My Keio University IGP Application Journey

Yesterday, I received the result of my application to the International Graduate Program (IGP) of Keio University. My application was accepted! Allow me to narrate my journey on how I applied for the program. I first heard about Keio University through an officemate. He was also a scholar way back 2011. It was during one …

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Personal 24 January 201828 March 2018 by ridvanbaluyos

Beyond Borders Church Mission

Jesus is our Hope

Last August, after our DGroup (Discipleship Group) meeting at CCF, a missionary gave a pitch for her short term mission to Jordan. I felt so convicted at that time to contribute since Bitcoin was really at all time peak. The day after, I contacted the campus missionary for further details. That’s when I met Suzi …

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Travel Work 17 January 20181 May 2018 by ridvanbaluyos

Teambuilding with mah OLX.ph homies

OLX Product and Technology

Last weekend, the Product and Technology department of OLX Philippines had a teambuilding at Al Fresco Springs in Calamba, Laguna. We used our the January lunch out budget and our cash prize that we won last Christmas party. There was an abundance of food actually and I felt bloated throughout the activity. We were given …

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Personal 7 January 201828 March 2018 by ridvanbaluyos

Organizing my digital workspace

My “digital workspace” has been so disorganized these past few years. I didn’t know where it started, but everything is topsy turvy from files, emails, passwords, expense reports, etc. So I began re-organizing everything. Below are some of my the things that I’ve worked on. Passwords First thing on top of my list are passwords. …

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Hello, I’m Ridvan Baluyos, just a humble Software Engineer, geek, and slave to 3 cats.

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