my sister... grimace

same size...
same color...
same appetite...

teng's birthday

go!!!

we've got tickets!!! we're definitely going to palawan!!! wohooo!!!

road trip

went on a 378 km road trip with lei and grace last saturday.

roadtrip highlights:

• first stopover for breakfast at sto tomas, batangas
• trip resumes, severe verbal bashing from lei... (and grace) begins
• at nagcarlan, we visited gabrielle... a's newborn baby
• had a's famous spaghetti for merienda
• a very loooong trip to san juan, batangas
• 2 hour trip from nagcarlan to to san juan ends with a 20 minute "hey, look at the beach!" session
• a quick peek at marikit resort (nice place... we'll be back)
• dinner at basil and mint at lipa... kwento galore...
• went around pansol looking for a quick dip and a place to stay...

• dipped at around 12am at a resort somewhere in los baños
• 4:30 am, after a 10 min attempt to sleep in the revo... we left for home
• a quick stop at jolibee calamba
• grace navigates... big mistake
• mad max drives... from alabang to las piñas... the scariest 15 min of my life
• 5:30 am... everyone's home

meg goes cooking

From geek to chef
posted September 14, 2004 at 01:33 PM

This past May, when I decided to go on sabbatical I wrote that I needed a break because:

I had no perspective on anything, I was so deep into my world of weblogs and tech that I didn't have much sense of what was going on outside of my geek circles... I've been burning my candle at both ends for years now, and decided it was time to stop. Emotionally I was drained. Physically I was drained.

But that wasn't the full truth of it,because there was something I'd been feeling that I wasn't quite able to admit. It's taken me several months of time away from computers and tech and geeks to accept the fact that computers and technology are not my passion.

My interest in the web and tech was always more about people. With weblogs, it was making it possible for everyone to write online and share and communicate. And while I was doing it, I really did care very deeply about my work -- the products we were creating, the people for whom they were built, and the people who worked with me to build them. As my career progressed, I pushed myself to be more visible as a technology speaker,dabbled at freelance writing, and started another tech company. But something was always missing, and I've realized that was true passion for what I was doing.

So last night I ended my sabbatical and began my new career doing something I've always felt passionate about: cooking. I'm working in the kitchen of a restaurant called Fifty-Six Union here on Nantucket.Yesterday at 3 PM I put on my black chef's clogs, my black pants and white t-shirt, pulled my Red Sox cap over my hair and got to work peeling and deveining shrimp. Seven hours later, sweatily scrubbing the kitchen floors, I was still smiling.

I've learned a lot this summer during my sabbatical but it all can be summarized in three words: follow your heart.

-taken from megnut

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