diary of a cat in human skin
This week, I had my 4-day training on Architecting on AWS. It wasn’t that easy, not because the training was hard. It wasn’t easy because I had to wake up early, and arrive at the venue at 9am. I’ve been so used to coming to the office at around 1pm. Courses: AWS Technical Essentials (Foundational, 1 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …