LEARNING ABOUT GIT REPOSITORY

LEARNING ABOUT GIT REPOSITORY

Over the past several months, I’ve had to learn a new skill – a technical skill which I had no clue about and it’s related to software development. I decided to write some of the commands and stats I”ve learnt and may potentially forget. So here we go, let me share with you some of […]

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Marco Tran How I made Vegan Chocolate Egg and Bunny Video 1

How I made Vegan Chocolate Egg and Bunny Video

During Easter, I decided to create some Vegan Chocolate Eggs and Bunnies. My son is also Vegan (he’s allergic to Egg and Milk) so I decided to make my own chocolate Egg and Bunny. Here’s the recipe I used: https://www.veggiemeals.com.au/recipe/vegan-chocolate-egg-and-bunny/ It was also my first time creating a video recording and editing, he’s the end result: […]

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HOW TO REPORT A SPELLING MISTAKE TO INSTAGRAM

HOW TO REPORT A SPELLING MISTAKE TO INSTAGRAM – IS IT GOING TO GET FIXED?

I’ve done it. You’ve probably done it. We’ve all done it! I’m talking about making spelling mistakes in an email, websites or any text-based chats.  I recently noticed (on the 26th Feb 2018) a spelling mistake on the web version of the Instagram app (https://instagram.com) and was quite surprised to have discovered this. The word “someone” was incorrectly […]

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Vegan Breakfast from Woolworths Homebrand 1

Vegan Breakfast from Woolworths Homebrand

They say breakfast is the most important meal of the day and as a Vegan sometimes you’re limited to what you can have. What I’ve been having is cereal with Soy Milk, Traditional Muesli and a banana. It’s a cheap and very healthy meal. I sometimes even have it for lunch. Here’s the cost breakdown: […]

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my vegan journey

Starting my Vegan Journey

This month is the start of my Vegan journey. I’ve previously already started cutting down on eating egg and dairy. My son has been Vegan since he was born as he has dairy and egg allergies. Since he was born and knowing he couldn’t eat egg and dairy I also decided to partake in his […]

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UNICORN COMPANIES

UNICORN COMPANIES

For those Entrepreneurs that dream big and want to achieve Unicorn status, here’s some inspiration. The article from Business Insider lists 23 US companies that have been evaluated to be worth $1billion or more. After looking at each of those 23 companies, I came to the following conclusion: You need investors. All of those companies […]

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my reflections from 2017

MY REFLECTIONS FROM 2017

This will be my last post from 2017. It’s been a great year and as always I have learnt something about life. Here are my reflections from 2017: – Words are powerful. Being silent is more powerful. – Our parents are the ones that love us the most. As they age, learn to be more […]

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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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Motivation

Motivation

Life has its ups and downs. Sometimes you need that little push or motivation to get you going again. One of the hardest things I found is to have that self-motivation to do the things you know you need to do… but sometimes can’t. Whether it’s hitting the gym, working on your business, working on […]

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MY OFFICE DESK

MY OFFICE DESK

Sorry, it’s been a while since I last posted. I’ve been fairly busy with work and haven’t been able to commit with blogging – yes a bit slack but hope to continue blogging in the next few weeks. Anyways, I just wanted to share with you how my office desk looks like. If you think […]

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FREE GIFTS FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY

FREE GIFTS FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY

My birthday is coming up and recently I’ve signed up to several newsletters to receive free gifts so I decided to list them out here for those of you who would like to receive a free gift for your birthday. The list is in no particular order: Krispy Kreme – 6 Free Plain Donuts on […]

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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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DIGITAL WAYFINDING HAS NOW GONE LIVE

DIGITAL WAYFINDING HAS NOW GONE LIVE

As you can tell I’ve been busy hence the reason why I haven’t been blogging. The main reason is that work has been getting busier which means less time to write these articles. The main reason why work was busy is because we went live with one of our Digital Wayfinding projects. ACTIVITIES Below is […]

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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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happy birthday mum

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM

It was my mum’s birthday and she’s always been the type to prefer to stay at home than go out, so the TRAN CLAN gathered at my parent’s house for an early dinner. My mum is a gentle soul, she has always been a stay at home mum looking after her 4 kids. She doesn’t […]

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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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GOOGLE URL SHORTENER STATS 1

GOOGLE URL SHORTENER STATS

I’ve been using Google URL shortener to track whether people have opened the link in the emails I send. Basically, Google URL shortener makes long URL shorter by using goo.gl/XXXX. I’ve been using this for several years now but just yesterday it was the first time I paid attention to the text below the field box: I’ve […]

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