I’ve been grumbling about my alma mater‘s campus events calendar since I was a freshman (5 years ago), and nothing has improved since then.  My major gripes include its slowness, unreliability, the fact that you’re not able to easily link to a specific page, and how long it actually takes to get something posted on [...]

After helping my good friend and fellow photographer Chris Cheng set up his own website, I realized I should actually make an attempt to update my own blog. Earlier this summer, I attended this year’s NYC Obon Festival in Bryant Park.  You may remember my post from the same event in 2008.  This year’s was even better, [...]

So it’s been awhile since I last posted (over a year).  You know what they say, time flies! My last year at TCNJ was quite enjoyable – I caught up with a lot of old friends, met a bunch of new friends, and still found time for class and other projects. This year saw (among [...]

So as some of you may already know, this summer I’m going to be interning at Apple Inc.!  Needless to say I’m thrilled! In two weeks, I’ll be heading out there for the 15th Annual Intercollegiate Taiko Invitationals, coming back to NJ, and then heading back a few days later to Cupertino, CA until September. [...]

Why backup? Hard drives fail.  All the time.  (Google says so.) It’s happened to me before, and I’ve seen it happen enough to my friends to know it’ll happen again.  They just weren’t built to last. Somehow, I’ve been lucky so far in that I haven’t had a major loss due to hard drive failure [...]

Last Sunday, a number of us had the opportunity to go to the New York Buddhist Church‘s 59th Annual Obon Dance Festival in Bryant Park, NYC. Most of us had never been to an Obon before, so we weren’t sure exactly to expect, but it turned out to be a very enjoyable experience and I’m [...]

On the weekend on May 23-25, myself and two other members of TCNJ Taiko, Chris Leone and Stephanie Pypniowski, had the opportunity to travel out to Stanford University in California to attend the 2008 Intercollegiate Taiko Invitationals.  This was the 14th annual gathering of collegiate Taiko players from across the country, which started in 1995 [...]