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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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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MONITORING YOUR SYSTEMS

MONITORING YOUR SYSTEMS

As part of our service agreement with our client, we monitor their digital signage and wayfinding system. We specifically built some custom tools to do this. The first tool is a web based monitoring tool which sends out alerts when a device on the network does not respond to ping or if the web server […]

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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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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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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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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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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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not so mini king mushroom

THE NOT SO MINI KING MUSHROOM

I came across a little but big Mini King Mushroom whilst preparing dinner. My daughter looked at it and yelled out “That’s fat!”. I had to correct her and tell her it’s actually big not fat. Apparently, she said the same thing when she saw a large man at a shopping centre. One of my […]

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my car trouble is in the air

CAR TROUBLE IS IN THE AIR

Another hot day and what made it worse was the car had a problem with the air conditioner. It wouldn’t turn on for some reason but I’m assuming because the outside of the car hit 41 degrees – maybe? When I was inside the car, I was sweating like crazy. The other thing I noticed […]

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the vego party 1

THE VEGO PARTY

We had the party today. It was obviously a Vegetarian party and here are some photos of the food we indulged in: I don’t think many people ate my hummus lol. ACTIVITIES Below is a summary of today’s main activities, tasks and accomplishments: I’ve been creating new banners using GetStencil it is a fast and easy […]

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try something new 1

TRY SOMETHING NEW

Have you tried or learnt something new today? I sure did. I decided for tomorrow party to make hummus from scratch.  I’ve never done this before but decided to get out of my comfort zone and just give it a TRY. I followed a recipe I found on the Internet and replaced some of the […]

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