Letters from the Equator

The new This Body Broken EP is out on sale for RM8 (USD 2), so grab ‘em while they’re hot!
Four great tracks - Declaration of Independence, Folded Paper Trails, The Dissapearing Traffic, and Silent Movie are in this album. More at thisbodybroken.cjb.net…

“Ikea is the Linux of the furniture world. It’s cheap and works well, but you have to put it together yourself, the instructions are cryptic, and usually half the pieces are missing.”
- Some other Raymond, at some blog found here:
Find your way to “The Non-Expert: Ikea” … here:
This product has a funny name: An IKEA [...]

6th day in Bangkok, and I’m working on a Sunday. My laundry bill cost me 1000+ baht, and I will never send my clothes for laundry in a hotel anymore. Tokuii hasn’t called me, so it may be over. UAT is on 9th June, and we’re still writing code. But being in a foreign place [...]

I’m flying off to Bangkok tomorrow.
The interview with Tokuii at 6 this evening wasn’t an interview, it was just a Java test. I was kind of dissapointed about that. Not too comfortable knowing I’ll be away when they decide to call me up for a 2nd interview, but at least they’ve been informed.
One of my [...]

I went for a surprise birthday party today. It was really fun. I can’t remember the last time I did a surprise birthday party….. must’ve been a few years, at least. Anyway, it’s my cell pastor’s birthday, and the whole bunch of us sneaked by the back gate and hid in bedrooms waiting for the [...]

I just realized that R.E.M. doesn’t really write love songs.

I’ve been assigned to yet another project. This one is for a client in Thailand, and the team is rushing to finish the work by June. We’re scheduled to work in Bangkok, but none of us know when. I’m reusing the web framework from the previous project, and I’ve had some challenges with the learning [...]

Software Documentation (or any kind of documentation, for that matter)
I’m currently working on a new project, and one of the first few deliverables is a software specification document. And I realize that I get stuck on documentation not because I don’t know what to put on it, but that I don’t know where to put [...]

I started listening to so-called emo around 2002, when bands like promise ring and the get up kids were playing around the Lawrence area. Surprisingly, back home was a growing underground emo scene, so it wasn’t too bad that i wasn’t really able to go for emo shows in the US anymore after i graduated [...]

Good Friday!!!
The more I think of it, and the more I try to place myself in the context of this relationship.. the more I find out that I’m completely incapable of anything, save that which Christ has done. The week has not been easy and my futile attempts to salvage what I thought I had [...]