Who are you?
I am a self proclaimed stay-at-home thinker on the brink of social crisis. I live in the pleasant city of Singapore (or so I believe) and currently studying in the local National University of Singapore pursuing a degree in Electrical Engineering, which seems to be quite distant from me. You can spot me in several forums bearing the nick “jakesee”. I’m not an active member in any one of them though, but I always try to contribute back as much as I have gained from the wonderful communities these days.
What do you do?
Come to think of it, I don’t really know what I am doing these days. It’s almost random. I usually surf the internet, see what I find and then go in-depth. Like at one time I could be actionscripting joint movements in flash then another time ponder about biogenesis. In short, I think too much about everything. My social circle has collasped into a point ever since I had my girlfriend-wife and so other times I’d most likely be staying with her as well. But the thinking never stops because she thinks as much as I do except she not a wee bit interested in tech stuff. Then when I’m sane, I’m a web developer cum consultant kind of person. I do websites, flash, desktop applications and recently integrated web applications. Keeping in touch with trends is imperative for me but still I’m jack of all trades and master of none, but that’s what I do for extra pocket money.
Why do you blog
I actually had many failed attempts at blogging mostly because I’m such a lazy and busy person. But a horrible API wiki doc served as the last straw. I used to maintain a temporary.txt on my desktop and keep various pieces of info I scavaged online. Lines and lines of URLs, chunk after chunk of random codes soon occupied hundreds of lines until it was actually quite hard for me to find what I want. And whenever my computer died, I usually never get those stuff back. Hence if I were to rewrite the docs I needed a central location. For such reasons, I blog.
What is “I Love Jake”
It’s actually spoof of the local money lending service under GE Money, of which they had a massive advertising campaign and all around you can see billboards writing “I Love James”. It was initially meant to be a joke when my girlfriend wanted to borrow money from me, for the first time, for a large sum. I made her sign an agreement (seriously) to pay back according to the prevailing interest rates. I created that logo and added to our contract. Funny. It has since became my avatar.
How can I contact you?
You guessed it right? [my nick] at gmail.