I am working on this day, so time flies when you had to sort out all the steering committee files, and extracted a bunch of sub sites from SharePoint. I also copy all the previous extracted files into a USB drive. Then I did the following
1. Watch Aquaman, quite a good installment of DC movie, one of the best, good story line. Who wouldn’t like the story of Atlantis?
2. Prepare the towels to get apartment ready for tomorrow
Things to do when you are bored – Day 6
Day 6 is not a holiday, so I was at work, and moving from Springvale rd office to Wellington rd office. We packed up all our belongings and put it in our colleague’s X5 an drove it to Wellington rd office.
Then we went to lunch at Brendon Park, I had the Mie Goreng with chicken curry. It was quite yummy.
After lunch I am busy archiving all the SharePoint docs to usb drive as backup. In struggling to keep my eyes open for some reason. So I went to her some hot chocolate and tea to keep me awake. We are busy trying to find the location of the steering committee minutes in the network folders and SharePoint, then finally we found that it was located in a separate SharePoint site, I will have to migrate them tomorrow.
The rest of the night I had done the following:
1. Pick up the cup cake paper from Surrey Hills garage for Mom, it took me a while to find them
2. Went to Burwood one trying to find the ice cream scoop, but there is none in Kmart, Coles, or Reject shop. We are after the one with that can push the ice cream when you squeeze the handle
3. Went back to Surrey Hills to clean up the front bedroom, it was so dirty and I couldn’t finished it until 11:30 PM. I did clean some of my figurine on top in the shelf
4. Washing some towels and hang them dry
5. Ironing some towels
6. Post a blog about how to connect a “touch switch” to replace Bluetooth Amplifier buttons.
Then I went to bed at about 2 AM in the morning.
Things to do when your are bored – Day 5
Day 5 star started to drag on a little bit, so here is what I had accomplished.
1. Taking Mom to the Eye and Ear hospital for her eye injection. Yeah sounds quite scary
2. Went to buy some bed sheets
3. Drive Mom to the market and while waiting, getting her prescription medications
4. Post a parcel on behalf of Wifey
5. Patch some holes on the wall, I counted about 11 of them.
6. Sorting out old boxes of motherboards, video cards, modem and mobile phone
7. Throw out old letters and keeping all the stamps
8. Ironing the quilt cover and bed sheets while finished watching Zoolander 2.
9. Watched “God of Egypt”, quite a good movie about the life in acient Egypt and search for eternity.
I might not seems alot at the start until I listed it all out. Now I feel much better.
Things to do when you are bored – Day 4
Day 4 was first day of New Year 2019. What a year 2018 was. I had an early breakfast as usual, then running a few errands as below.
1. Helping Mom Delivering cake and cookies to an aunt in Narre Warren. I learned from her that you can be a Buddhist monk for 2 weeks followed by meditation class another week in Yun Yang temple.
2. Cleaning up the apartment
3. Swim for 45 minutes nonstop with various styles
4. Finish cleaning up the kitchen wall in Surrey Hills, and finish cleaning up one of the bedroom wall and window
5. Install Ubuntu on Mom’s old Toshiba laptop
6. Ironing quilt cover and bed sheets while watching Zoolander 2
7. Eat Lontong for lunch and dinner at Jerri’s place and socialize with uncle Hotman’s family. We talk about plants for the backyard, what to keep and what to throw and what to plant.
Not a bad day for the first day of the year.
Things to do when you are bored – Day 3
Day 3 is the last day of the year of 2018. I went to work and having a lunch with college that are finishing up and moved on to another company.
There are a few activity that are still outstanding, here are the list that I do.
1. Installing printer driver and open office for the neighbor’s computer.
2. Went to strip all the Network cables from my home in Surrey Hills.
3. Went to Elwood beach to watch fireworks, it was quite crowded, but now I know where is the best spot. The fireworks lasted exactly 10 minutes.
On the way back to the car I called my wife and kids and wishing them Happy New Year.
Things to do when your are bored – Day 2
On the second day, there are still plenty of things to do, here are the complete list.
1. Fixing my neighbor’s computer, he is desktop motherboard died, so she is getting a new laptop and need to be setup and files transferred across.
2. Cleaning up the whole apartment for a new arrival of guest
3. Hang the laundry
4. Put away the green rubbish from my brother’s home
5. Continue to clean kitchen wall and window for painting, also help deep cleaning of the oven
6. Strip all the temporary network, audio cables and power cables from the conduit
I didn’t finish until about amost mid night, and I feel also quite productive after listing this out.
Things to do when you are bored – Day 1
My family went overseas, so I thought to share the journey I went through as I have some free time up my sleeve.
1. Go swimming for 20 laps
2. Ironing some bed linens
3. Clean up kitchen wall
4. Finish up my spiderman mask
5. Went groceries shopping
6. Buy some milk powder and vitamins for cousins in China and ship them
7. Testing DIY Bluetooth speaker
8. Call my wife and kids to make sure they are OK.
That’s all what I had accomplish in the first day. I’m feeling very productive.
Mad Robot Dog
We are celebrating a festival, and there is a symbolic dance performed on stage in front of a crowded room. The dance was performed by a robotic dog.
The dog looked brown, and made out of leather, which makes the body looks like a pinyata.
It all went well and after a while something strange happened to the dog. It started to act strange, shaking is head and opening its jaws. And then all hell break lose when it started to charge towards the audience. Every one was panic including me who sit at the front we all run towards the exit, I looked back the dog bite one of the audience and started to charge towards the crowd again.
Clubbing
I went to one of the night club, and meet a bunch of people, seems to be quite a friendly bunch. At one stage we took one photo together and then say good bye.
I went back to the station to catch a train back then I realized that I don’t have my wallet in my back pocket. So I rushed back to the venue and the guy let me in to search whether I had dropped my wallet. I searched from run to room and the wallet is no where to be found. Then I realized that I might have put the wallet at my front pocket, and round about the same time I woke up.
7 new features in BMW 5 series that you need to know
I had the opportunity to step into the BMW 520d touring. I know, you would say “what are you doing in a station wagon”, Yes I am saying that too. But I had the car packed with all the features worth bragging about. So where do I start?
1. Instrument panel
The redesigned instrument panel look more slick and expensive. The speedometer is completely digital, so it is packed with features, and customisable as well on what you want to display, whether you want to have everything, or more simplistic.
2. Console with gesture control
The Console is a touch panel, and also supports gesture control. For example you point your finger towards the console and rotate it to the left to turn down the volume, and rotate the the right to turn the volume up. Pointing with 2 fingers toward the console will play next (next radio station or next song), it is a pity you can’t go previous. You can also swipe to the left to cancel an action (this one is a bit clunky).
3. Dynamic cruise control with lane keeping assistant
This is probably the feature I like the most. At the flick of a button on the steering wheel, the one that have a picture of a steering wheel will activate the lane keeping assistant, basically you can take off your hand and the car will take over turning left or right as long as there is a guiding lines on the road. This combine with the active cruise control, make you want to take your eyes off the road. You can practically takes your hands off the steering wheel, the car will steer itself, and with active cruise control you can take your legs off the gas and brake as well. So it is almost an auto pilot. But the car will complain if you didn’t touch the steering wheel for a long time. Just make sure you pay attention as this feature can disengage when the car can’t detect any line marking any longer or crossing the intersection. It automatically disengage when you activate the turning indicator as well, so use with care.
4. Remote controlled Parking assistant
The Parking assistant feature is now had added function which allows you to steer the car remotely via a remote control. You need to have this remote to be able to move the car into a tight parking spot. I haven’t play around with this feature much, as it is quite daunting to move the car using the touch screen while holding one button on the right of the remote. Response is also a bit lag, so no James Bond style remote driving yet. I am also not sure what happen if it detect object or you park slightly slanting whether the car self corrected or not. I will have to play more with this feature when I had the chance.
5.Wireless charging
Finally, wireless charging is included, and you can not only charge your phone, but also the remote control. However I find that the wireless charging resulting very hot phone, and I have an iPhone. This will need to be addressed in future release. It almost burn the RFID card that I attached to the back of the phone (not good).
6. Apple Car play
This is the first time I use the Apple Car play feature, it is good and bad at the same time. Good means that it allows you to use the phone apps (limited number of them), calling become a pain as you need to now fiddle around the Apple Car play or touching the console screen.But this can be turned off so that you refer back to the usual way of calling using the button on the steering wheel, but you also lost the car play. The good things with the car play, you can get it to read your messages and reply to it by talking, listening to podcast, and switching form one app to the others, like Spotify and Music.
7. Remote 3D view
Given that the car have 5 cameras, it is able to capture it surrounding when parked. You have to activate this via the Connected drive app, the default view is the BMW Welt in Munich, and once you capture the image, it will get stitch together to form a 3D image of the surrounding. The second photos shows how it looks.
You can rotate the car to see the surrounding view, presumably if you know there is someone trying to steal your car you can take a photos of them too, assuming your car can alert you and give you a chance to snap their photos.
Despite all the goodness that comes with the car, there is always room for improvement. Some of them are:
- The programmable buttons looks cheap and not very responsive, there are times that I press the button and it doesn’t register
- the 3D image capture is quite slow, and sometimes it might fail taking snapshot
- The remote control is lag to be able to drive a car like a toy (probably intended)
- Wireless charger gets the phone really hot even for a 30 minutes drive
Thats all for now, if you like this share this with your friends, or subscribe for more info of similar types.