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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THE PROJECT TIMELINE

THE PROJECT TIMELINE

I had to put together a timeline of tasks required to get a project completed. This involved liaising with the relevant parties and determine when their part of the work will be done by. This puts a lot of pressure especially when there is a tight deadline. Part of project management is being able to […]

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Thermomix Dinner

THE THERMOMIX DINNER

My sister invited me to her place to have some Thermomix dishes and they tasted nice but I wouldn’t pay that much money for it. It cost about $2k that’s a lot of money. We had several dishes so scroll down to have a look. We even had dessert – strawberry sorbet. ACTIVITIES Below is a […]

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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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TOO HOT TO HANDLE

TOO HOT TO HANDLE

Today we hit over 46 degrees. It was a hot and humid day. It was lucky I had the air con in the office and didn’t realise it was that hot until I came out. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Had to shut down digital signage players for […]

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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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Watermelon Picnic 1

WATERMELON PICNIC

Took the kids out today for a picnic at the local park. Despite the hot weather the kids still wanted to go. I decided to cut up a watermelon and bring it to the park so we had a watermelon picnic. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Cleaned up […]

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CONFUSION WITH SHOE SIZES

CONFUSION WITH SHOE SIZES

I ordered a pair of shoes from the online Puma store a few days ago. They are the indoor soccer shoes called evoPOWER 4.3 Tricks IT Men’s Football Boots. I decided to buy them since they were on sale and my previous Lotto shoes were no longer wearable (part of the sole tore from the shoe). […]

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WIFES BIRTHDAY AND OLIVIA STARTING SCHOOL

WIFES BIRTHDAY AND OLIVIA STARTING SCHOOL

Two major events happened today. It was my wife’s birthday and my daughter started kindergarten. As a present,  I gave my wife the 360fly 4K camera and the Ascent Women’s Self Inflating Mat. She was excited to receive these gifts especially when she needed the Mat for an event. We all enjoyed the cake we […]

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recovery from RM RF

RECOVERY FROM RM -RF

I panicked today after doing the worst thing anyone could do on their VPS CentOS server. I ran the command, RM -RF /* and what this meant was files from the Operating System was being removed. I managed to stop the transfer when access denied error messages started appearing on the console. That’s when I […]

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binding day

BINDING DAY

I learnt a few things about binding machines. There are two types, one for binding plastic combs and the other for binding wired combs. The holes for each is different and therefore you can’t mix and match.  I had to bind roughly 150 booklets and I stayed up until 3 am. Someone had a large […]

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sale time 1

SALE TIME

I share a sale today on a bargain community. I felt so product posting my first deal. I always saving money and finding good deals! Another really hot day – the car thermometer hit 45.5 degrees ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Lead generation through chat Enquiry for Digital […]

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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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