This I Believe

I’ve been interviewing, and I’ve been asked open-ended and broad questions such as, “Tell me about yourself”, and “What do you want to do?”. When I was fresh out of college, I remember gushing, “I want to work with smart people!”; or identifying myself with my degrees, “I am a Business Major”, “I am an [...]

How Companies Hire

Or, How Do You Hire The First Person To Walk On The Moon?

I’ve noticed that there are two broad strategies companies use for hiring, and I have given myself the liberty to use them as predictors of how those companies or organizations view Growth and Innovation–yes, that I word that we all vie for. (I [...]

Visit Pandora, Again!

I got some awesome feedback from my Design Instructor on my last Visit Pandora guide cover, and here’s the new and improved version.

What I did:

Drop shadows and beveled edges for framing and separating images.
Remove All CAPS or small caps … tough top read than upper and lower case.
Anti-alias the headermore
Decrease the leading between the head [...]

Before Sunset

One of my favorite movies is Before Sunset. For one of the Photoshop exercises, I created an imaginary poster for this movie.

I wanted to show the two lead characters, in fact the only ones, in a silhouette-ish layer to convey the idea that they have been living in the shadow of their encounters 9 years [...]

Kim Yu-Na, Figure Skating, and The Asian Pressure

Before I say anything, let me first clarify that I’m calling it the “Asian” pressure because 1) I’m Asian, and I’m writing from a personal experience, and 2) The people in the story are Asian. I’m well aware that it’s not just an Asian thing, so please feel free to insert_your_label_here.

As you probably already know, [...]

A Yoga Room to Call My Own

Tonight’s lecture was on using Adobe Bridge as a Digital Asset Management tool, and one exercise was on the use of shadow and lighting.

I was to transform this room into anything I wanted:

Just another empty apartment room.

I thought, hey, why not my own Yoga space? And so, making it into my dream yoga room, [...]