So a while back Skype launched an update to its new App.

Although I give praise and personally like the general design style, it massively just lacks usability, which, with only some simple changes, along with nips and tucks and they would’ve had a great app. But sadly it’s plagued with weird button placement and confusing menus.

I was one of the people running the Relay For Life in Menlo Park that is held every year by the American Cancer Society, where for 24 hours we walk in solidarity to honor those who survived and lost to cancer — cancer never sleeps, they say.

I woke up early at 6am, showered, called my mom, ate a little breakfast, and headed off over in a lyft. I arrived just in time as the supplies arrived. After coding a behemoth of an algorithm for an assignment for a class in Computer Science the previous night, and still couldn’t get it to work, with the deadline was approaching; I wasn’t in the best of moods. Stressed, but still put a smile on my face. Socialize. Be Humble. Be Happy. …

Endless praise and recognition over inflates your ego a lot it seems. I thought — after a while of pursuing endless tunnels. So how did that turn out?

After trying endlessly create this dream, it became stagnant. I had enough.

A new world.

Thus, I made the decision to move all across the world from Bangkok to Menlo Park to give myself a fresh start. After all — I always dreamed about moving back to the US since the day I left back in 2007.

But that was 10 years ago. I grew up on Thai culture and community, even though everyone back home said I was more American than I was Thai, I still wasn’t 100 percent certain I’d fully fit in, sometimes couldn’t even speak correctly and mess up my pronounciation. …