https://www.sayajay.net/Recent content on sayajay.netHugoenSun, 14 May 2023 16:41:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/so-i-got-stood-up/Sun, 14 May 2023 16:41:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/so-i-got-stood-up/On the one hand, I’m disappointed. On the other hand, something different happened in my life.https://www.sayajay.net/post/happy-valentine-s-day/Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/happy-valentine-s-day/huh, at least i did something.https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-checklist-nothing-more/Sat, 12 Dec 2020 11:20:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-checklist-nothing-more/This is my silly attempt at making myself write a blog entry when no such desire exists.https://www.sayajay.net/post/last-verse-same-as-the-first/Sat, 05 Dec 2020 15:06:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/last-verse-same-as-the-first/See title. I really should adjust my blogging schedule.https://www.sayajay.net/post/my-schedule-doesn-t-apply-during-a-vacation-time/Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:39:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/my-schedule-doesn-t-apply-during-a-vacation-time/… and other meaningless thoughts I have that no one will ever know.https://www.sayajay.net/post/it-s-vacation-time/Sat, 21 Nov 2020 10:43:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/it-s-vacation-time/… but like my life, I’m going nowhere.https://www.sayajay.net/post/at-least-i-have-these-video-games/Sat, 14 Nov 2020 11:39:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/at-least-i-have-these-video-games/I often use Google Photos backup as a barometer of how interesting life has been in recent times. Bleh.https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-presidential-election-in-finally-over-and-other-things/Sat, 07 Nov 2020 11:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-presidential-election-in-finally-over-and-other-things/I’m looking forward to doom-scrolling through Reddit for nonpolitical reasons now.https://www.sayajay.net/post/so-i-voted/Sat, 31 Oct 2020 11:29:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/so-i-voted/… and all I got was this lousy sticker. hah.https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-highlight-of-my-week-is-getting-a-coupon-for-free-french-fries/Sat, 24 Oct 2020 11:01:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-highlight-of-my-week-is-getting-a-coupon-for-free-french-fries/I sometimes wonder what the “salience threshold” of something worth mentioning. I suppose it’s all relative.https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-ve-been-eating-out-way-too-often/Sat, 17 Oct 2020 10:04:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-ve-been-eating-out-way-too-often/… and other pieces of information, perhaps not worth remembering in the long term.https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-shall-call-her-pepperoni/Sat, 10 Oct 2020 11:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-shall-call-her-pepperoni/… unfortunately, my title has nothing to do with pizza or sandwiches.https://www.sayajay.net/post/so-there-was-this-tasty-looking-bento/Sat, 03 Oct 2020 11:14:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/so-there-was-this-tasty-looking-bento/Reall, I miss being on vacation in Japan.https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-often-think-i-m-getting-old/Sat, 26 Sep 2020 10:18:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-often-think-i-m-getting-old/But nothing drives the point of old age when I’m taking my medication and thinking about how sore I am for sitting so long.https://www.sayajay.net/post/should-i-really-be-snapping-more-photos/Sat, 19 Sep 2020 11:07:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/should-i-really-be-snapping-more-photos/One of the metrics I use to gauge how interesting the previous week was: how many photos did I take with my phone?https://www.sayajay.net/post/orange-you-glad-that-you-re-reading-this/Sat, 12 Sep 2020 09:40:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/orange-you-glad-that-you-re-reading-this/I can almost hear the groaning of my future self, as I’m reading this title out loud.https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-should-really-stop-saying-that-nothing-happened/Sat, 05 Sep 2020 09:50:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-should-really-stop-saying-that-nothing-happened/Even though, sometimes, it feels as if nothing really did - or maybe my threshold for what’s noteworthy should be lowered. Or maybe my life really is that mundane.https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-late-start-to-a-relatively-uneventful-weekend/Sat, 29 Aug 2020 12:29:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-late-start-to-a-relatively-uneventful-weekend/Also, my butt hurts.https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-suppose-writing-about-nothing-is-still-something/Sat, 22 Aug 2020 09:42:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-suppose-writing-about-nothing-is-still-something/Then again, the site is filled to the brim with nothings, so here we go.https://www.sayajay.net/post/down-and-out/Sat, 15 Aug 2020 10:18:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/down-and-out/For some reason, I’m remembering a blog post that I wrote in the early 2000s, where I said that I was, “stuck and it a rut”.https://www.sayajay.net/post/like-my-git-commits-there-weren-t-a-ton-of-changes-this-week/Sat, 08 Aug 2020 10:24:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/like-my-git-commits-there-weren-t-a-ton-of-changes-this-week/Am I actually gonna get to the fabled, “short-short version”, that I’m always on about?https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-void-of-last-week-is-almost-as-big-as-the-void-in-my-heart/Sat, 01 Aug 2020 09:52:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-void-of-last-week-is-almost-as-big-as-the-void-in-my-heart/it’s so easy to go from day-to-day and not really stop and think about what’s going on sometimes.https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-complete-void-of-the-last-week/Sat, 25 Jul 2020 09:16:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-complete-void-of-the-last-week/You know, there’s a time between going to bed and waking up the next morning, where I’m generally unaware of the goings-on of the world.https://www.sayajay.net/post/to-say-that-this-week-was-uneventful-would-be-an-understatement-1/Sat, 18 Jul 2020 09:42:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/to-say-that-this-week-was-uneventful-would-be-an-understatement-1/Sometimes I wonder where this is all going. I certainly do not have anything interesting or profound to put out into the world. But I keep writing anyway.https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-times-have-been-exceptionally-good-recently/Sat, 11 Jul 2020 09:24:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-times-have-been-exceptionally-good-recently/How weird is it that I can’t think of anything to complain about this week?https://www.sayajay.net/post/this-is-not-a-normal-week/Sat, 04 Jul 2020 09:19:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/this-is-not-a-normal-week/Happy 4th of July, I guess.https://www.sayajay.net/post/moments-of-reflection/Fri, 03 Jul 2020 09:30:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/moments-of-reflection/I’m not a particularly deep thinker, though I do waste a lot of time thinking about things.https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-m-here-where-s-my-prize/Sat, 27 Jun 2020 10:08:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/i-m-here-where-s-my-prize/Discipline can only get you so far I guess.https://www.sayajay.net/post/let-s-start-with-something-that-i-like/Sat, 20 Jun 2020 09:30:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/let-s-start-with-something-that-i-like/Examining the past few weeks of blog entries, it just struck me how negative they all are. I suppose this one is too.https://www.sayajay.net/post/it-was-a-good-day/Sat, 13 Jun 2020 10:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/it-was-a-good-day/Don’t know how we got here, but here we are.https://www.sayajay.net/post/for-every-step-forward-there-s-a-step-back/Sat, 06 Jun 2020 09:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/for-every-step-forward-there-s-a-step-back/see title, kthxbai.https://www.sayajay.net/post/this-completely-slipped-my-mind/Sat, 30 May 2020 10:30:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/this-completely-slipped-my-mind/writing in this blog doesn’t come easy. but it is a sacrifice I’m willing to make! (hah!)https://www.sayajay.net/post/everything-is-meaningless-without-one-s-health/Sat, 23 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/everything-is-meaningless-without-one-s-health/If something is broken, and I don’t want it to be, it becomes the only thing that I think about.https://www.sayajay.net/post/last-week-was-aight/Sat, 16 May 2020 09:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/last-week-was-aight/For reals, this is going to be the “short-short” version!https://www.sayajay.net/post/why-can-t-i-wake-up/Sat, 09 May 2020 09:30:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/why-can-t-i-wake-up/If I knew the answer, I would not be writing about it.https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-week-in-review-and-a-tiny-bit-of-blogging/Sat, 02 May 2020 10:30:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-week-in-review-and-a-tiny-bit-of-blogging/I’ve been wondering if I should split out my “week in review” habit, and make a separate blog entry; these things seem to be one and the same but, lately, it seems I can make a distinction between the two.https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-shorter-the-better/Sat, 25 Apr 2020 09:30:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-shorter-the-better/At least, I’d like to think so.https://www.sayajay.net/post/in-the-words-of-the-masterful-jean-luc-picard/Mon, 20 Apr 2020 21:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/in-the-words-of-the-masterful-jean-luc-picard/It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.https://www.sayajay.net/post/%E7%BE%8E%E3%81%97%E3%81%84%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%BB%E3%81%A9-%E5%84%9A%E3%81%84%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A7%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B/Sun, 19 Apr 2020 21:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/%E7%BE%8E%E3%81%97%E3%81%84%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%BB%E3%81%A9-%E5%84%9A%E3%81%84%E3%82%82%E3%81%AE%E3%81%A7%E3%81%82%E3%82%8B/美しいものほど、儚いものであるhttps://www.sayajay.net/post/it-was-a-bumpy-week/Sat, 18 Apr 2020 11:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/it-was-a-bumpy-week/I’d like to say it was all good though.https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-five-minute-journal-japanese-edition/Sat, 11 Apr 2020 22:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-five-minute-journal-japanese-edition/Here’s a translation of the questions used in the Five Minute Journalhttps://www.sayajay.net/post/it-s-been-a-little-over-a-month-now/Sat, 11 Apr 2020 10:30:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/it-s-been-a-little-over-a-month-now/… since I decided to start changing my habits.https://www.sayajay.net/post/intersection-observer-as-a-react-hook/Thu, 09 Apr 2020 07:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/intersection-observer-as-a-react-hook/Use an intersection observer to determine the visibility of an element in a browser window.https://www.sayajay.net/post/what-s-the-end-game-really/Sat, 04 Apr 2020 09:30:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/what-s-the-end-game-really/welcome to the trials and tribulations of attempting to change my life.https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-week-in-review-and-some-such/Sat, 28 Mar 2020 10:15:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-week-in-review-and-some-such/I’d like to say that a lot happened. But not much did, really.https://www.sayajay.net/post/my-leg-hurts/Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/my-leg-hurts/Historically, I’ve been unconcerned with my health. At least, until recently.https://www.sayajay.net/post/deleting-a-user-and-their-home-directory-in-ubuntu/Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/deleting-a-user-and-their-home-directory-in-ubuntu/nefarious users putting questionable contents on my server shall be smoted.https://www.sayajay.net/post/am-i-thankful-this-week-too/Sat, 14 Mar 2020 12:52:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/am-i-thankful-this-week-too/how now, brown cow.https://www.sayajay.net/post/about-writing-according-to-haruki-murakami/Sun, 08 Mar 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/about-writing-according-to-haruki-murakami/About writing, according to Haruki Murakamihttps://www.sayajay.net/post/am-i-thankful/Sat, 07 Mar 2020 01:15:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/am-i-thankful/I think I am. Or, at least, I’m trying to be.https://www.sayajay.net/post/formatting-a-date-in-javascript/Sun, 16 Feb 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/formatting-a-date-in-javascript/how to format a date in javascripthttps://www.sayajay.net/post/another-year-filled-with-video-games/Sat, 08 Feb 2020 07:30:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/another-year-filled-with-video-games/It’s not a waste of time if I had some fun, amirite?https://www.sayajay.net/post/another-year-more-resolutions-to-be-unfulfilled-yass/Wed, 05 Feb 2020 10:45:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/another-year-more-resolutions-to-be-unfulfilled-yass/Because why not make the list-making of things that I will never do into a thing that I do on the regular? Yeah.https://www.sayajay.net/post/that-anxiety-tho/Thu, 30 Jan 2020 15:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/that-anxiety-tho/I know other people have it. At least, I’d like to think so. But some times I just get anxious and I just don’t understand why.https://www.sayajay.net/post/posting-and-stuff/Sat, 25 Jan 2020 00:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/posting-and-stuff/Posting on my social media is like talking to someone who constantly interrupts me during a conversation. In other words, it really doesn’t matter what I say.https://www.sayajay.net/post/honeymoon-blogging/Fri, 22 Nov 2019 15:20:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/honeymoon-blogging/Is the honeymoon phase of writing over yet?https://www.sayajay.net/post/day-4-a-tour-of-vietnam/Sat, 26 Oct 2019 15:25:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/day-4-a-tour-of-vietnam/I spent a full day in Saigon. But call it Ho Chi Minh City, depending on present company.https://www.sayajay.net/post/day-3-the-journey-of-the-transfers/Fri, 25 Oct 2019 13:15:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/day-3-the-journey-of-the-transfers/The Jerry has landed, though it’s not very impressive. The journey from Haneda was definitely a long one, and my first night in Saigon was unexpectedly great.https://www.sayajay.net/post/day-2-not-a-thing-at-all/Tue, 22 Oct 2019 09:40:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/day-2-not-a-thing-at-all/Eh, well, I’d say it was worth getting out of bed, at the very least.https://www.sayajay.net/post/day-half-and-day-one/Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:10:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/day-half-and-day-one/What am I even doing? What am I even saying? Oh, right, I’m in Tokyo again.https://www.sayajay.net/post/an-ode-to-a-girl/Sat, 19 Oct 2019 13:25:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/an-ode-to-a-girl/have you ever met someone where, no matter how much time you spend apart, as soon as you’re together again, it seems that no time has passed? That’s how it’s like when I’m with her.https://www.sayajay.net/post/vietnam-and-all-that/Sat, 19 Oct 2019 08:35:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/vietnam-and-all-that/Come to think of it, a lot has been going on actually. If only I could get my head on straight and look forward to what is supposed to be a good time.https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-cringe-filled-legacy/Mon, 14 Oct 2019 22:45:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-cringe-filled-legacy/So I took a glimpse of myself from 2004.https://www.sayajay.net/post/does-an-outlet-work-if-it-empties-into-nothing/Tue, 21 May 2019 18:08:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/does-an-outlet-work-if-it-empties-into-nothing/It sometimes crosses my mind as I think about writing things herehttps://www.sayajay.net/post/the-four-mondays-origin-theory/Tue, 14 Mar 2017 05:03:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-four-mondays-origin-theory/I have a saying. I also often have a case of the Mondays.https://www.sayajay.net/post/so-its-snowing-in-tokyo/Wed, 23 Nov 2016 15:31:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/so-its-snowing-in-tokyo/See title, silly face.https://www.sayajay.net/post/shiny-stars/Sat, 04 Jun 2005 08:22:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/shiny-stars/I’m thinking about distance mainlyhttps://www.sayajay.net/post/slowly/Fri, 29 Apr 2005 22:02:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/slowly/there are many when an end seems in sight, within my hands, and it was only a matter of time before getting there would be a reality.https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-plethora-myriad/Thu, 21 Apr 2005 18:06:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/a-plethora-myriad/mid april coincides with a myriad of important dateshttps://www.sayajay.net/post/valentine-s-aftermath/Tue, 15 Feb 2005 19:12:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/valentine-s-aftermath/love is not allhttps://www.sayajay.net/post/best-left-alone/Wed, 08 Dec 2004 05:05:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/best-left-alone/did you ever get the feeling that you had something one day, and today you wake up and that thing was gone?https://www.sayajay.net/post/random-incidents/Tue, 05 Oct 2004 22:54:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/random-incidents/too much time has passed.https://www.sayajay.net/post/tsuyokunaritai/Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/tsuyokunaritai/…https://www.sayajay.net/post/moments/Sun, 08 Aug 2004 01:56:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/moments/many days have gone and past.https://www.sayajay.net/post/random/Sat, 24 Jul 2004 03:47:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/random/some people share the most interesting views on the most useless of debates.https://www.sayajay.net/post/ooooooold/Sun, 04 Jul 2004 22:24:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/ooooooold/yup.https://www.sayajay.net/post/drink-to-me/Mon, 14 Jun 2004 03:51:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/drink-to-me/following an idle Saturday…https://www.sayajay.net/post/muse-me/Sat, 12 Jun 2004 03:02:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/muse-me/“She must do whatever lies in her power to father her offspring”https://www.sayajay.net/post/frog-and-bug/Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:22:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/frog-and-bug/I was a big frog.https://www.sayajay.net/post/distance/Fri, 23 Apr 2004 04:18:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/distance/a restlessness as of late.https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-other/Fri, 23 Apr 2004 04:18:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/the-other/Hmm….https://www.sayajay.net/post/dad/Thu, 15 Apr 2004 06:50:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/dad/…https://www.sayajay.net/post/future-and-things/Wed, 14 Apr 2004 14:26:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/future-and-things/too many fragmentary thoughts. not enough time to make them commensurate. enough for now i guess.https://www.sayajay.net/post/general-copulation-and-grammar/Sat, 20 Mar 2004 20:16:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/general-copulation-and-grammar/what is even going on here?https://www.sayajay.net/post/peace-home-justice-and-love/Tue, 16 Mar 2004 21:40:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/peace-home-justice-and-love/i have a Lao name, don’cha know?https://www.sayajay.net/post/things-to-do/Mon, 08 Mar 2004 08:12:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/things-to-do/a pretty short weekend, as always.https://www.sayajay.net/post/dodos-and-servitude/Sun, 29 Feb 2004 17:33:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/dodos-and-servitude/I’m currently taking a Thai class, and we’re starting to learned how to write out the alphabethttps://www.sayajay.net/post/lonesome/Thu, 26 Feb 2004 00:54:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/lonesome/There are only so many ways that you can vent human frustration. When the loneliness sets in, there’s a reason for it.https://www.sayajay.net/post/another-end/Thu, 22 Jan 2004 01:19:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/another-end/the end of winter break is rapidly approaching.https://www.sayajay.net/post/new-year-old-stuff/Thu, 01 Jan 2004 15:21:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/post/new-year-old-stuff/happy new year! what did i do?https://www.sayajay.net/other/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://www.sayajay.net/other/