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Lately I am starting to feel that my lingering days are soon to be ended, and that I should utilize this time to do whatever I needed to put vast amount of time on, which certainly includes website maintenance. Just fixed some search page problems, after updating WHO? and front page. For rest of the week, I plan on applying better looks to FOTO page, and possibly migrate some of attached photo albums to WordPress, so that I can finally detach from using iWeb service and avoid updating every single page when I enumerate the menu bar for more features. In the midst of all that, I realized in the BLOG section, having categories make no use since no one is likely to understand them. So I am gonna let go aristocracy of having menus written in Latin, and choose utility over it by renaming the category items to simple English words. Apparently, the literal meanings have not changed, as the old category names were all written in first person, singular, present tense. Also, as with the boom of "i~ phrases" initiated by Apple, I will put them in a way that they become friendly one word names. So the following are the changes and brief introductions.

canto → iStream music streaming, where visitors can listen to the music files I put up through streaming.

cogito → iThink Pretty much anything that passes my mind, random thoughts on personal matter.

constructum → iConstruct Everything related to site design and development.

disco → iLearn My learning routines and outcomes.

dissero → iDiscuss Another section for my thoughts, mostly reflection or criticism following public news.

doceo → iGuide Helpful tips or guidelines that might help those who seek for such information.

edico → iAnnounce General announcements on personal aspect.

facio → iTravel Travel notes, photos.

pingo → iSway This used to be named pingo, literally "I dance". But as I recognize I am a performer indeed, not a dancer, so I would like to expand this section as which includes anything related to my music performance activities.

a new section added, iConnect Personal encounters and reminiscence; it used to be part of facio, literally meaning "I do", which sounds vague enough to serve no purpose in categorising.

As for next few weeks of planned stay in Tokyo, I figured I would need a new business card since I will be getting a new number with Japanese country code, name need to be written in both kanji(Chinese characters) as well as furikana(phonetics in Japanese kana), and lastly because I hear exchanging business card is a crucial part when you meet someone for the first time. Moreover, attendance to a business party for foreigners is scheduled to take place on the second week upon arrival; therefore, justifies my need to design a new card despite only few weeks of planned stay. Moving onto a talk on design, as compared to the previous design, logo had been updated as in the site, with addition of names written in various languages. As optimization from the previous design, redundancy, such as having site url printed on both sides, and address were removed for simplicity. And after the phone number was replaced with a Japanese one, there still were too much space left to fill. Since I was still not comfortable with Japanese communication skills back then, I decided that I would add few information that represents who I am and what my situation is. So on the front side, three city names were engraved in to show where I came from and where I am about to head to. Whereas, for the backside, somewhat unnoticeable, unless scrutinized closely, icons were added to summarize my profession and expertise. Few flaws observed later include:

As the card maker uses CMYK color codes, using a blue color was a risky decision to make. On the print, the color of aqua bar came out as a dull, sky blue.

QR code was already getting popular in Japan. QR code could have better filled the gap in left margin of back side than those lousy icons.

Quite a number of Japanese people were confused by the presence of the country code. There is no point of putting country code on the name card unless majority of people you meet are foreigners, or more specifically visitors from abroad.

Has there been an adage that everyday is a practice? Well, the world of life is always comprised of contradictions. and this is no exception. For the extent that no time machine has developed just yet, each day cannot be repeated nor forseen ahead of time, people should rather live each day if it were part of the real performance. Then what to do in order to meet necessary conditions for fabulous performance and practical preparation? Unfortunately, they will just have to be carried out simultaneously. There had been a time when I asked myself a similar question of how to effectively seize both, the solution I came up with was to provide myself a mechanism to record each day and have it readily available to any possible uses.

If ECE was my first turning point, which provided me with confidence that all my goals can be achieved with extra-efforts and a sense of optimism,this site, Hoonio.com gotta be my another turning point which empowers me with refined directives and consistent maintenance. While I view myself in the early stage of career development and self-re-investment, I feel that this phase will las as long as my service with LG Electronics continues, meaning that a transition to another phase would not happen until then. Though it seems that next turning point will involve me learning to give up something valuable fore the greater good, while at this stage, I will continue on building up whatever I can because I believe knowledge and experience are priceless. This happens to be still in on-going process in the present.

With contents growing in terms of amount and size, and accruing requests for speedy browsing and convenient redirection, another mega-scale renovation was inevitable.  In addition to introduction of major new features including: 1. Integrated drop-down menu 2. In-site search feature 3. Photo pages enumeration There also had been few minor speed-up efforts in order to reduce the user anxiety of waiting for pages to open up, primarily by elimination of iWeb created iframes and extraneous java scripts. Hope all visitors will have pleasant time here, and for purpose of aesthetics and convienience, use of the following browsers is undoubtedly recommended: Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox