Christmas decorations at Orchard
07:08 PM on Sunday 15 December 2019

We took a photo with the Christmas decorations at Orchard road.

Donut in a bag
03:12 PM on Saturday 14 December 2019

We got Donut a new carrying bag in the hopes that she will like it and we can bring her around more often. The first attempt resulted in her trying to get out of the bag.

Donut and I on the bed
05:50 PM on Friday 13 December 2019

Donut relaxing on our bed.

Seagate Exos X14 12TB failed
08:18 AM on Thursday 12 December 2019

The cheap Seagate Exos X14 12TB which I got off Newegg has failed. After connecting the drive, I got a bunch of connection errors which I attributed to the SATA port. Took it out and connected it via USB and the smartctl short test was fine. So I thought it was the SATA port. Got a old Dell H200 car ...

Leather craft
05:37 PM on Wednesday 11 December 2019

Pauline and Esther went for a leather craft workshop where they made a notebook.

iPhone Night Mode
12:34 AM on Tuesday 10 December 2019

The new iPhone Night Mode is quite good. This is donut on our bed. The room was actually pitch black as shown below without Night Mode.

Gardens by the Bay Christmas Wonderland
05:17 PM on Sunday 08 December 2019

For some strange reason, Esther likes the Christmas Wonderland at Gardens by the Bay. We went for it last year and we are back this year.

Lunch at Tenderbest Makcik Market
03:24 PM on Sunday 08 December 2019

We had lunch at Tenderbest Makcik Market at Bedok Point with mother. The food was not too bad but it was mostly the unhealthy stuff. The pricing was quite good I thought. Saw this beautiful light which was part of the deco.

Migrated to MySQL
09:01 PM on Saturday 07 December 2019

SQLite was great but concurrency was a problem, so the website has now swapped to using MySQL. Some code changes were needed due to data types but nothing major. Some settings specific to MySQL needed to be done but again nothing major. Took the time to update the code not to rely on cron but to use ...

Chocolate budding
07:40 PM on Friday 06 December 2019

Is my chocolate undergoing budding like yeast? Not a bad thing to have 🙂

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