marco tran whats in a dumbbell

WHATS IN A DUMBBELL?

Yes, I still go to the gym. When I recently visited the gym I had to take this photo of a dumbbell. Now I know what’s in a dumbbell – just raw metal. Also this week, I ended up attending a workout class called “Cardio Burst”. From the name you can tell there were cardio […]

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Digital Wayfinding Solutions Enquiries

DIGITAL WAYFINDING SOLUTIONS ENQUIRIES

Today we received an email for our digital wayfinding solution. We currently only have a handful of clients using our wayfinding software but as we complete one of the projects we have been working one, we intend to start pushing the product to other industries and businesses. It’s currently being used in hospitals and it […]

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ROUTER PROBLEMS FIXED

ROUTER PROBLEMS FIXED

I had an issue with our TP-LINK router so I decided to video how to fix since it was an easy fix. Here’s the video I captured using the 360fly 4K camera in POV mode. You can read more about this here: How to fix a rebooting or stuck TP-LINK router W8960N ACTIVITIES Below is […]

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boys catchup

BOYS CATCHUP

Had a get together with a bunch of guys I grew up with. It was good to catch up and reminisce the good old times. Lots of laughter and fun times. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Tried fixing an iPhone 4S where the microphone wasn’t working and it […]

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KINDERGARTEN ASSEMBLY

KINDERGARTEN ASSEMBLY

[talk about something] ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Attended daughter’s assembly since he received an award Needed to upgrade WAMP to latest version Problems: Missing files, needed to install redistributable files both for x86 and x64 even though 32 bit WAMP was installed. Apache not starting. Port 80 […]

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YOUTUBE VIDEO TOO LARGE

YOUTUBE VIDEO TOO LARGE

It took about the whole day to upload the 2GB video to YouTube and at the end of the upload this is the error message I received, “This video has been removed because it is too long”. Sorry about that. Say what? Sorry? I just spent 2GB of my quota to upload this video and […]

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360 VIDEO EDITING

360 VIDEO EDITING

I captured a 360 video on the weekend and decided to see if it can be edited or trimmed as the original file was 9GB for 25min video. It was captured at the highest resolution 2880×28080 pixels with a frame rate of 30fps and recording rate of 50Mbps. The quality was amazing and you needed to […]

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valentine day

VALENTINE’S DAY

It’s Valentine’s day and for me, it’s just another normal day – yes boring but I don’t see the point of buying flowers that will wilt away. I love my wife dearly and buying flowers is not going to change anything. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Found out […]

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too much pizza

TOO MUCH PIZZA?

Had pizza for breakfast and lunch. I know it not healthy eating pizza for breakfast and dinner, but if I don’t eat it who will? ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Fixed up the issues with email. Turned out the issue was with the SMTP for zoho mail changed […]

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QUOTES TURNED INTO INVOICES

QUOTES TURNED INTO INVOICES

Had some good news and managed to convert a few quotes into invoices. It did take a week or so to get ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Exchanged son’s school shirt and shorts Quotes turned to invoices [bar group=”124″] FITNESS WORKOUT Today, I did a fitness workout which […]

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the backup process

THE BACKUP PROCESS

So I mentioned yesterday I was backing up files from the VPS server and zipping the files is taking so long. There’s about 100GB of data which needs to be zipped and then the zip files need to be FTPed across to another server. It seems to be taking forever and the site has now […]

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Start of chinese school

START OF CHINESE SCHOOL

Both of my kids started Chinese Mandarin school today. My son is now in Chinese Year 2 and my daughter in Year 1. When I dropped off the kids to school my eldest seemed a bit nervous and didn’t want to go and made several excuses. In the end, he had no choice but to […]

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the sleepless night

THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT

Hardly had any sleep and realised how much impact this can be on the body. As part of the Chinese New Year tradition, I had to make sure the lamp and the incense don’t go off so you pretty much have to stay up all night for this. The only time you can have a […]

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chinese new year 2017

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR 2017

Is it Chinese New Year and it’s a time to celebrate!! Why? Because it’s a tradition and it’s a good excuse to just eat, catch up with friends and family. More importantly, those who have certain beliefs can pay their respects to God, their ancestors and also pray for peace and harmony in their family. […]

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chinese new year eve 2017

CHINESE NEW YEAR EVE 2017

As a yearly Chinese New Year Eve tradition, we had lunch at my parents’ place and dinner at my in-laws. Lots of food to eat which meant more calories I needed to burn however I didn’t work out at all today. Arggg! ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Project […]

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anime war

ANIME WARS

I’ve been an anime fan since I was a kid watching Holly and Benji (also known as Captain Tsubasa) in Italy. I’ve watched quite a few animes in my younger days and when I came across an awesome anime with all the main hero fighters in the one I was hooked. It’s called Anime Wars […]

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COULDNT TURN THE CAR KEYS IN IGNITION

COULDN’T TURN THE CAR KEYS IN IGNITION

Another car problem today. I couldn’t turn the car keys in the ignition, it was like stuck to the O position. After some research. the symptoms were related to the ignition barrel. Some of the articles suggested to replace the barrel and it required the removal of certain panels near the steering wheel but I […]

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TO EXERCISE OR NOT TO EXERCISE FOR LOSING WEIGHT

TO EXERCISE OR NOT TO EXERCISE FOR LOSING WEIGHT

I watched this informative video discussing how exercising is great for the health but not so great for weight loss. It details how eating and controlling our calorie intake is the best way to lose weight. Watch the video below. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: I’ve received another […]

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