Celebrating my little victories

Today I received Chris Brogan’s email and he wrote about “Success is made of little victories“. Doesn’t sound like his usual post and I was intrigued.
I glanced through it (while at work) and found it really meaningful. It’s inspiring, encouraging, which got me thinking what’s some of my little victories I had so far in [...]

Email woes

As of now, I have 17k unread emails. Yes, I am gulity of signing up almost everything on the web using ONE email account. And now it’s too full for me to handle!
Emails I receive:
Airline offers, Zuji & other offline travel agents newsletters.
Online shopping – Rebonz latest temptation, various blogshops, Victoria Secrets.
Other random newsletters that [...]

Steps to Creating A Personal Site (for the non-geeks)

I started this site early Feb 2010 and before I could not remember what I did, here’s how I started it. Besides, i want to create a list so that anyone who wants to create a personal branding site, is able to do so easily.
1. Decide if you want to get a domain name & [...]

Self-Motivation: To Gym Regularly

On thursday, I went for my first visit to my office gym after 8 months. Yes! It has been that long!
It wasn’t my best session as I ran only 2km, and took 15mins. However, I could ran at speed that I last trained, which peaked me up considerably.
To keep myself motivated, here’s what I am [...]

Inspired by Women of Ninja Warriors

The series originated from Japan and is called Kunoichi(wikipedia).
I first watched the episode, on wednesday on Channel 5. The only reason I switched on the tv was because Chloe wanted to watch Ninja Warrior and I vaguely remembered this series was going to be shown on that night.
It was my first time watching it (thought [...]

iPhone App of the Moment – Words with Friends

If you have an iphone and fancy a scrabble challenge with your friends, this is the application for you.
It’s called, “Words with Friends” and you can get it from the App Store. It is currently free. (Logo from here.
Ever since I was introduced to this social game by my dearest colleague (who got the iphone [...]

A Weekend of Food and Celebration

Typically, weekends are spent resting at home, meeting up with family, have simple meals and catch up with the folks. This weekend was slightly different as we had heaps of yummy food!
Friday night we went to a bistro as I was keen to get out of our usual routine and try something different. We ended [...]

How iPhone became a perfect toy for my family

Since unwrapping the device on Saturday night, hubby and I have been actively using it. Downloading applications, introducing new applications to each other, us trying to best each other in some silly game; what fun times it have been!
For myself, I started getting the social media applications. I am active in Twitter and Facebook so [...]

Reflection of Personal Goal

I set 3 goals early this month. Link to post: http://www.jacqis.net/2010/02/06/personal-goal-february-2010/. And here’s how well I think I have done and how I could improve.
1. To write once every 2 days
By 28 Feb, I had written 15 posts, excluding this. Using math, the number is about right and I did met my goal. Except when [...]

How my job brought me to blogging

2 year ago, I was fresh out of university (a great one btw). Then, my only real-world experiences were of 2 years of web programming and corporate design skills, internships of IT-training and IT-testing. I was eager to use my Bachelor of Science in Information Systems Management to get a IT, non-specialised job.
And I did [...]

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• Some thoughts on Android & iPhone OS
• Post from iPad
• Toddler: Setting Boundaries when using iPhone
• Celebrating my little victories
• Email woes
• Mobile User Experience: What Web Designers Need To Know
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• How to drive traffic to site
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