I’m Bryan Veloso, an ‘ewan ‘evengan (which means “young boy” in Na’vi) from the Philippines. For more than a decade now, I’ve been based in Singapore working as a SAP Consultant.
Life in the Lion City has been an interesting journey, swapping the laid-back chaos of home for this hyper-efficient, multicultural garden city. In my usual free time I do what a lot of software engineers secretly love doing: staying up way too late on random side projects and homelab experiments, chasing the latest gadgets and open-source tools, binge-watching sci-fi movies or series, and diving down Reddit rabbit holes about theoretical physics, space exploration, or molecular biology.
When I actually manage to unplug, you’ll find me hunting down the best chili crab, chicken rice, and Chinese dishes in hawker centres, chasing ice cream and peanut-butter sandwiches, or escaping for a quiet fishing trip on the weekends. There’s always room for a good strange-fiction book, a camera walk through the green spaces, or late-night thoughts about Na’vi linguistics while staring at the (surprisingly decent) city stars.
This is my personal blog for all my geeky ramblings about gadgets, technology, programming, the web, and whatever random topics happen to interest me — whether or not they’re interesting to you. My passions range widely: from search engines, Linux, and web administration to strange fiction, space exploration, molecular biology, theoretical physics, etymology, prehistory, fishing, Chinese food, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, The Big Bang Theory, cameras, laptops, and anything else that drifts through my gray matter.
I’m the youngest of three siblings and the geek son of Antonio Veloso and Luisita Veloso.
A quick note: I’m not the more famous Filipino Bryan Veloso who worked at Automattic and Facebook (avalonstar dot com). I’m just the regular one, your friendly neighborhood Filipino hoi-polloi.
If you’d like to get in touch, you can reach me at [email protected].
Irayo!