After a year and a half, I am bringing this blog to a close.
I launched Gaming Moments in the December of 2007, in anticipation of my work with BioWare in Edmonton, and in the hopes of providing readers a glimpse into the videogame production process. It became obvious after a few months that my preoccupations [...]

I’ve been holding back this little bit of information for a while… Allow me to make it public now.
Starting in September 2009, Helene and I will leave Canada to travel around the world for a year.
This has been such a major, staggering decision for myself, that just writing it – in bold text, mind you [...]

More and more, I feel compelled to do Good in this world.
I’m not talking of giving to charity, although I fully support this gesture. I personally give to Doctors Without Borders and the Canadian Red Cross, because I think their work is critically important in this world, and they do their work not out of [...]

I’ve been rereading my old blog entries from when I was back in Shanghai, and it’s starting to hit me: I miss being out of my comfort zone.
Edmonton is really nice, and quite comfortable so far (granted, this is the summer and not the dark end of February.) Montreal was also familiar very quickly when [...]

Helene and I have arrived safe and sound in Edmonton, where we’re now busy getting settled in.
Our cat, Xishi, had the toughest week of all of us, given that she spent a whole day terrified as movers took away all the furniture, then had to share my parents’ apartment with two cats. And if it [...]

Well, here we are, Helene and I. Back in hang time.
“Hang time” refers to the moment, in many types of sports, when the athlete seems to be hanging in the air, in a perfect moment of weightlessness. The weightlessness is a lie, in a way: it’s not absence of weight, it’s merely the tipping point [...]