I am extremely glad that I got to virtually attend my alma mater’s 2022 Women & Engineering Leadership Society Summit as an alumna. …

I haven’t written frequently on Medium recently, but I am glad that I kept writing my new year resolutions. I learn a good amount about myself when I look back: where I have made progress and where I need to keep working on. Looking back at my goals for 2021…

I started writing this 3 years ago, but never got to finish this. Now when I look back, it obviously no longer applies, and I already lost how I felt then, so I could not finish it. I will publish it as it is. It surprises me how much I…

Read A Philosophy of Software Design (author’s link). I wish I read it back when I started my career. I read this book maybe 3–4 years into career as a software engineer, and I had many aha moments. This book put into words many senses that I had but could…

Almost April so this is pretty late as resolution, but late is better than never, or so I think. Mindset: Don’t aim for perfect. I am not perfect. I don’t want to be perfect. I don’t have to be perfect. Accept myself, and be patient with myself. Believe whatever I…

That “awkward silence” we all know, when no one speaks up in a group. Out of personality, quite frequently I try to talk to fill the awkward silence, either in friends conversations or work meetings. On one hand I find it hard to withstand the silence. On the other hand…

2020 flew by without me noticing. I’m taking a look at my much-adjusted 2020 resolutions: Review Japanese and take JLPT N2 at end of 2020. => The actual N3 book materiel I covered was very little, but I was able to practice listening and reading quite a lot while watching…

First I’m taking a look at my much-adjusted 2020 resolutions: Review Japanese and take JLPT N2 at end of 2020. => Reviewing N3 has been slow at the moment right now. However JLPT seems canceled this year in US. Watching TV shows in Japanese has been helpful though. Do one…

What a strange, confusing and challenging year 2020 has been so far! First I’m taking a look at my much-adjusted 2020 resolutions: Review Japanese and take JLPT N2 at end of 2020. => I started with N3 but have not kept up studying everyday. A little bit everyday goes a…