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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MY HEALTH CHECK APRIL 2017

MY HEALTH CHECK APRIL 2017

A few days ago I used a Health Kiosk at Liverpool Hospital to check my health. It was free and I thought it would be interesting to see how my health was. I’m not sure how accurate it was but I seem to be doing OK with my health. The Kiosk asked for a few […]

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GAME TIME GRAND TURISMO 5 PS3

GAME TIME – GRAND TURISMO 5 PS3

Played Grand Turismo 5 on the PS3 today. It’s been a while since I played games and it’s quite addictive. I spent about 3-4 hour just trying to unlock cars. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Started playing around with a video editing tool to create a new video […]

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BUSINESS FAVOUR IS IT WORTH IT

BUSINESS FAVOUR – IS IT WORTH IT

This might be the last favour we do. Let me explain. A friend asked us to be the middle man ie reseller for one if their friend’s company since they needed To but several laptops. We agreed (everything was legal) since it was a friend… But since then this small job has turned to be […]

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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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SWAPPING HHD ON PC

SWAPPING HHD ON PC

Spent most of the day rebuilding two PC’s. One had a problem with the network drivers and reinstalling didn’t help so I just had to rebuild it. My other PC I swapped to a bigger HHD and used Clonezilla to backup the content from the old HHD and restored it on the new HHD. ACTIVITIES […]

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOTHER IN LAW

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOTHER IN LAW

Today we went to Millones for my mother in law’s birthday dinner. We ordered quite a lot of food, but I made sure there were no leftovers. Luckily, I had a big workout today! ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Interesting to see more sales from affiliate marketing [bar […]

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NEW THEME FOR WEBSITE

NEW THEME FOR WEBSITE

My brother is looking at changing the theme to our Advertise Me website. The last time we did that, (over 4 years ago) we paid the consequences. One thing to remember when changing anything with your website is that you may either increase your SERP (Search Engine Results Page) or bury it. A few months […]

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CONFUCIOUS TEACHINGS

CONFUCIOUS TEACHINGS

I had to do some research about the 5 Constant Virtues and came across this biography video of Confucious that I thought I’d share with you all. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: Missed out on the morning exercise workout Did some reasearch on Confucious teachings [bar group=”124″] FITNESS […]

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BUYING A BUSINESS

BUYING A BUSINESS

So my brother is thinking of purchasing a business and here are a few things I’ve learnt: carefully check the business information, in particular, the financials find out why they are selling the business are there any debts on the business is there growth can you market the product ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of […]

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new indoor shoes

NEW INDOOR SHOES

Tried my new Puma indoor shoes I ordered a few weeks ago. When I tried them on it felt a bit tight. They were US size 9. I also noticed the end of the shoelace section of the shoe was not located in the middle. When I first saw this I said to myself 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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double workout

DOUBLE WORKOUT

Did two workout sessions. My wife thinks I’m a gym junkie for doing two work out but I see it as an opportunity to get healthy – especially when I now have a bit more time. My kids go to Chinese school in the afternoon and instead of just waiting or going home, I decided […]

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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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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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