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 🙂
Genting Highlands
03:01 PM on Sunday 01 December 2019
We had a trip to Genting Highlands with Esther and her kindergarten friends Samatha and Megan. Everyone works up early at 5ish to meet up at 630 at Jurong East for the bus trip to Genting Highlands. It was a very long trip with us reaching the place at about 3pm. The bus was really nice, it was spac ...
Wedding dinner
07:43 PM on Saturday 30 November 2019
It has been a while since we went for a wedding dinner since most of our friends are married not. But we went for one for Pauline’s cousin.
Dinner at HANS IM GLÜCK
06:22 PM on Wednesday 27 November 2019
We had dinner at the German burger joint HANS IM GLÜCK which turned out to be really nice. The deco was good as well as the food and service. A very nice experience. Here is Esther having a kid’s beer 🙂 Esther liked it. Here is a close up of the beer Karamalz which is basically a malt beverage. Here ...