Pedal Down

If the world would give me one hour left to write about something before running out for the day, what would I write, what would I share, to myself, and to those that are like me?

Of course the beach, call me crazy, call me needy and clingy, to this dream of mine, I completely agree. Maybe I haven’t really grown out of it. Innocent memories of running on white sand with them boys and girls, swimming while laughing, drinking salt water on multiple accidents, and the sound of those waves as the sun begins to hide. Now, I am all grown up, counting down day by day until it reaches another increment of my age. I still can’t quite understand, just yesterday I was sitting here, writing the same thing about my life, as always, the cloud is grey, sort of like limbo, you hop in hop out, like a clown, until the day I no longer frown. And yes, it is January again. Oh dear..

I suppose I don’t really know how to explain mother nature the best way I can. I guess this is practice writing? Of course, everyday is a practice writing for me.

How interesting is this? Sitting in an office full of hardware, five different phone devices, two xbox’s, four monitors, 2 computers, a song that suddenly set back the moments, and music sheets that are meant to be played but not yet played. She feels more lonely than I do.

Surfacing happiness is what my Mother encourages. Yet, at times, I sit here, full of beautiful thoughts? And portray unrealistic dreams, fantasy life, and impossible future.

I swear, darker sky will reveal soon, one head shake, and I’m back in the matrix.

An Angel Away

The beginning of my vacation.

Certainly there are many things to do, vacation is only valued after many days of working hard and launching successful features for xbox.com :)

Woke up super early this morning, walked the trail a bit, smiling to myself, recalling what it was like last year on this same trail. Running, thinking, well, still you, still the same thing on my mind as if nothing has changed, but this time better than before. Progression of my life, here it goes, oh yes...

All dressed up, going to hit the store for a new pair of speakers, should the next thing be something a bit more exciting? Perhaps, a new game, an arcade game, a bath or find a new song as my next companion? Oh so many things to do in this world of mine, it is forever a busy bee, aw yes she is :)

Redmond, waking up to this busy street on honking cars, angry pedestrians, and relaxing elders, I am finally hitting a moment of appreciation for this Winter season. For sure, it makes things a bit better with some clubbing music in this little condo :)

I'M FREEE!!!! WOOt!!!!

Cookies are not maintained when auto redirect is turned on for HttpWebRequest

I spent nearly two hours trying to make a request to a URL that had multiple redirects but kept on getting redirected back to the login page.  Since auto redirect is default to true, I thought I didn’t need to worry about detecting for a 302 and then keep on making requests until done with 302s. Unfortunately, this will be a problem if you need to maintain session cookies between each request, these cookies are not carried over whenever there is a redirect.  You’ll have to do the following:

1. Turn off auto redirect
2. Create a new cookie container and assign it to the request, make sure there is only one instance of the cookie container
3. Check for 302 until you hit a 200 or whatever else you are expecting here

I’ll post the sample code up here soon.

Armin van Burren–Youtopia

Perfect morning start

Great song, great sound, great vocal, perfect combination to start off a day. Will be selected for early morning run, but man this month is really cold, should do it anyway, back to life discipline shouldn’t be hard, been there done that, sad that the sun doesn’t shine east for me anymore, new condo, nicer than the old one I left behind, but missing my little sunshine to wake me up early like the usual. Oh well, life adjustments, here we go again…

Goodbye Paradise

Hmm…What a great way to start off with a sentence, you know

I had a nice walk around Redmond today, stopped by sushi’s 3rd day in a row, how is that for originality, same waiter, same food, it has not changed a single bit. Until this lifestyle changes, will promise to cook all over again, from Vietnamese spring rolls to home made traditional soups that no one has ever witnessed before.

I suppose growing up, stuff and things will alter or have they already? Could be bland at times. Like everyone else, I am another ant walking into the land of robotic corporations. Early mornings, I let society steal my soul, I followed the system, I played the games (literally), yet some days, things beg to differ.

20 something and soon to be ++.  Each year, it’s a new beginning, also a pair of good byes to yesterday. There is a difference between dreaming and pretending's, but neither was achieved.

So here it goes again, history repeats itself, smaller than a city, smaller than a chair, all curled up thinking of another one to play out. Trying to figure out this life, this youth, all scattered along the highway, leaving music is the only companion. Of course, they found angels in colder blue sky, but still did not find paradise, it was only a false reflection of my wanting's and needing’s, and what was missing in my life.

Still Fixing

Still fixing the css and all of the Javascript on here, going to try to get the layout at least completed by the end of next week.

In the meantime, here’s a song of the day.

Xbox.com Recent Players

Xbox.com Social now displays your recent players directly in your friends page. You can view your recent players by going to http://live.xbox.com/friends

We display a max of 25 recent players that you recently played with.

Xbox.com Anonymous Profile View

After the launch of www.xbox.com, today, I introduce you to the new anonymous profile viewing page, which does not require you to sign in. Meaning, you should be able to view someone’s profile without signing in xbox.com.

An example: http://live.xbox.com/profile?gamertag=chinarosesz

Meeting Autumn Again

I haven’t written much in the past months, maybe one or two entries at most. The more I look at it, the more I don’t understand why, it’s the beauty of it, it’s what makes life a bit more interesting than usual, but also a murderer for both worlds.

Books, magazines, TV, images, have they portrayed a life that someone could possibly be practicing? living? Possible, for sure not long, not sustainable.

Ok…I am honestly done writing today, the weather doesn’t seem very poetic, darkness is all I see. This is not getting inside my head. Autumn is here, I’m supposed to have the longest entry, for, this season is a season of change. Maybe I should wait for morning when those leaves reveal their dyeing colors, falling slightly, sacrificing for new ones to arrive in spring.

Oh Autumn, you are more gorgeous than I thought, and when you go away, my life will remain the same until you come back and bring another change.

New Look and Feel coming soon

As you can already see, it’s happening dynamically, whenever I find time after work that is

Today’s Women in Technology

As her day was just ending, another phone call, another ring, maybe this one will change her mind, will take her for another ride that could perhaps change her life. She thought about it, she stared at the phone as it kept playing her favorite ring tone for her favorite people until it died out, she then stared into space, dreaming, fantasizing of the incredible things that could have happened if she was there, if she was just one inch closer to love, she would have had it, she would have accomplished it, to its fullest, but quickly, she turned it off, due to a another sound of text message, and another one, and another one, wanting to respond, give back what others are asking, requesting for social engagements, instead, she thought about a keyboard, if it was a keyboard, a real physical keyboard with keys, maybe motivation would increase, her fingers would quickly crave for the attention of touching those keys, "but oh darn it, it’s just a soft one", she whined, texting, blogging, typing, feels like half way through her dark side of life, leaving her in limbo land, causing pain and agony, screaming like a cry baby.

Disappointment after disappointment as technology is not meeting her needs, for, she has fought what she wanted, but fighting a battle that isn’t hers? It is hopeless, forget it, it isn’t worth it. She picked it up, yet another touch screen device, the iPad, walking slowly to the balcony, hoping to dream more of beautiful days on images.google.com, another one of white sand, blue water, clear sky, couple small boats, and surrounding coconut trees, there it is, she went off again, dreaming, hoping that one day it would be true, just one day, and another day, another way of getting there, with the right crowd, with the correct one, and at the right time. Her high set of expectations, they don’t like reality, and yes, it is true, dreaming is demanding, dreaming is what will get us there, at least near there, so then she keeps on dreaming, while the iPad is on her right and Windows Phone 7 Series is on her left.

3 Doors Down–Here Without You

Used to be my favorite, now came right back on the radio :)

~ Camping ~

Seriously, here I am at work, day dreaming about camping.  hehe, not a bad deal after all, the mountains, the fire, and instant noodle soup vs my computers. Not exactly sure which is better, but for now, I would have to say camping beats work

Another awesome song. 

Paul Cardall–Sacred Nature

My Brother’s Wedding

So … I am thinking of contributing something to my brother’s wedding, which is smelling around June/July. It’s either singing a song or playing a song. I don’t want this to be an optional goal, rather, it should be required, after all it is his special day. I was going through a list of songs that I could possibly and can play, found one, but looks a little hard for my level. Also, been on/off with my piano, unable to discipline and reserve time for musical improvement. Eh, not so good…

Great song I found months ago, I can do a few measures, so far so good. I should and should and should keep on practicing.

Back to Basic–Hopefully …

I got 4 miles in today

Life discipline is tough, yet so rewarding

Edward Maya–Desert Rain

I hate homerun.com

Depressed today because I somehow signed up for homerun.com and now it's sending everybody on my contact list a spam email.  I sent an email to homerun.com asking to deactivate my account. What a trouble!

Cold Rain

I actually got home a little early today, early enough to write an entry before calling it a night. Hm..How can I really explain this? I keep on seeing the image of me running out to the car, hands covering my head until I’m safe from the rain. I guess I could do a better job explaining this scenario when I’m more awake in the morning, but tonight the rain is quite heavy, actually urging me to write about it. I suppose you could say this is perfectly wrong.

Finally, I made extra effort to call my mother more often. She understands almost everything I say in English, her English is better by the day, and so is her cooking, it’s always been perfect actually. I can count the number of bad dishes that she made in the past, mainly because I don’t eat tomatoes.

I have to apologize for not treating my body well lately, been missing my work out routine, this goes back to the behavior and the same pattern that I repeat every year. I am always too much and too focused on one thing only, forgetting the others, unable to balance my life in order to maintain long term investment in all areas. Short answer, I’m not well rounded.

Couple friends are leaving Microsoft and gone elsewhere. I should sync up, keep in touch, yawn, I suppose I can stop here for now.

Dry

Extremely tired, but I managed to write another row of life. hehe, what the heck you know, why not. My eyes are pretty dried, staring at monitors non-stop and the problem is I keep on staring. Nothing exciting, just lots of text on an LCD screen, standard day to day at work. For sure, not as hardcore when I was taking my Computer Architecture class a few years ago…

I feel like a robot, up early, walk myself to the bathroom, freshen up, hop in my Honda, and another day is started.

I’m not exactly sure why I blog tonight about common routine of an American, must be super plain today. Honestly, come on Lila! There must be better ones than this. Pretty plain I know.

Well, one cool thing happened last week. The open source project is going well, we are releasing in March, hopefully hehe.

Ok it’s time, my inner god is calling, the bedroom it is. Good night world. Sorry for the non-sense blogging tonight.