A photo I took at Bedwell Bayfront Park near my Apartment.

A fresh start.

Jenn Mueng
Jul 27, 2017 · 2 min read

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.

Baby Steps.

I’ve begun shy away from big risks and uncertainty and adopting this new philisophy of safer, more sure ‘baby steps’ instead of trying to go big all the time. Theres this one button in my fridge that I need to press for it to dispense cold, filtered water. That button was designed so horribly; it hurt my finger whenever I have to press it for more than 10 seconds, combined with the low pressure water stream it took at least a minute to get a good glass of water. Time to fix that — so I bought an Arduino.

Let’s see where this goes. Maybe the fridge button robot will turn into Skynet somehow.

Jenn Mueng

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16 letter surname. 17 years old.

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