2020

 I got it wrong. Actually not the new one but the old one.. Yesterday night can't really add it into the App. Only this morning the thing worked. Then I realized I worked on the wrong thing.... sigh... wasted 1 day. They better want it next time to yesterday and today won't be wasted.

 Doing payment thing without test, from scratch, limited information and across borders. Within 4 days. Good thing this time, at least I have a requirement. They want approval end of this week or consider this Friday. Received the news 3pm today. Counting down. First, have enough rest before rushing. I did read up a bit for like 3 days partly but on separate things. To implement was another because it involved the whole structure. More like and additional branches but need to merge back at the end.  Great day for being here 1 year. Sarcastically haha. Like when I first started, never even seen the Equipment. Did the Receipt Printer and try to standardize as much as possible. Code is Raw. It was like the arduino type of printer. Then the Camera without a Camera on my laptop. Then the Payment Terminal (not much study but just implement from others) but at least the hardware was there. Then the wristband printer. Spent some times on the the user manual to troubleshoot. Weird but ...

 I only charged it once. That is like after Friday’s night until now. I played a bit of shopee, weibo and surf net.  Not all the time and still got 33%. NOT Bad for 20 dollars. I used the same wallpaper since my first job in Sg. Now iPhone cannot change to this. The thing about this wallpaper is the design. It scared me once. I thought my phone suddenly cracked but I can’t feel the crack. Then realised it was my wallpaper…

 I have worked 1 year! Today is the 29th. Ok. Bye

 Just decided to eat lunch now. Was doing things halfway then have a surprise news, I think I need lunch then start work again. Sometimes lazy dapao.  I have been eating this since like 10 year ago. There are also a time whereby I ate this everyday. I liked Chicken Rice and Shao rou. Normally I ate Chicken rice only only like few years back I realized they have this. Used to be 3 dollars. Only this year, 3.50. Sometime eating this, one meal is enough but if I am greedy maybe will eat something else. 

 Lots of work done to achieve very little kind of design...  Anyway. I can do any UI but just that time contributed is wasted on hard work that achieve very little. Some UI was really not compatible to the structure. Just showing the difference from others. Having multiple UI doing the same function weren't UX. It was the opposite. Now I felt like this is more of a design than UX. I went to Botanical Garden. I forgot to mention. The Cafe there using kiosk to order foods and drinks. UI really simple, nice and fast. Imagine hundreds of photos loading like less than 1 second! I think it is the photo loading.... but I can't tell how they did it. I wonder who did the program. Just one or two pages. They have items more than McDonalds. Although a lot of pictures but they were categorized. One view, you can see the whole structure clear and nice. Not comparable to the function but with so many list on the menu and to simplified into that, compared to lots of other app, that is brilli...

 It’s just a simple walk and it is fun!  We went to Botanical Garden. Being in Sg for my 10th year now but I have never been there. Friend just realized her phone not charged so delayed by 30 mins from 4.30pm. She even rushed there using a cab. I just used the extra time to shop around a bit and chase after chickens. Not normal chicken. With clouds like this, we went into the Garden. It stayed like that without raining until we are at the near end of our destination. We met a few interesting things. Although we were late but the timing is just right to see all that. What are the chances! We saw Black swan. I don’t remember whether I have seen it before but today it is there. I saw a turtle in between them and thought it was their child until a closer look. I didn’t get to see the white Swan though. Maybe they were home. Met the otters up close. Although many are taking pic of the otters. There are people taking pic of the camera people. My friend said she has been there but ne...

 Got the Glue this morning! I just fixed the phone yesterday. All came within the same week although I bought them separately. What are the chances! The digitizer came first, then the battery just like a day or two after. Both came early this week. I realised I didn’t have the battery adhesive tape, bought from Lazada. The the screen to phone frame glue also needed. I purchased both after I received the digitizer and battery. Received tape the day before yesterday but I don’t have the time to leave it for Friday night. I just worry if left untested, cannot tell if the digitizer or battery received were good. I just do enough to test both and with the tape, I can seal it after test while waiting for the glue. This morning, the glue came!!!! Story with the glue. I ordered T-7000 and instead of receiving T-7000, I got B-7000… Quickly make a report to Shopee. But I cannot wait so I said I will just use it. I thought B-7000 is Black and T-7000 is transparent. I will just have to be care...

 My Pixel 2 XL have been with me for quite some times.  3 - 4 years? Since 2018 June 7th. Battery life has been ok. Always 50% left after a day usage. One day usage ok. I have dropped it quite a lot though. The screen has dead pixel on two edges. Then the top got lines. I saw shopee selling the Digitizer at about 100++ so I bought it. Then the battery is about 20++! My phone was originally 1k+ so it seems fine with the proportion to replace. I still use it to access what iPhone cannot :) 4a was too expensive to replace although I bought it at 599. The digitizer like 200-300++. Battery also… So I decided to wait… I still haven’t transfer the file inside so I will keep it until the price reduced. Hopefully they are. After fixing this. Sony Xperia Z5 was really level 100. It is super hard to disassemble and assemble. The parts were expensive. Anyway, it wasn’t only the digitizer that was spoilt. I think the motherboard spoilt for Z5. It was still operational but lots of glitches....

 不是努力就有的东西。比如抽奖。已经每个小时能按就按。结果呢？我忘了十点进去看。想起来就过了4分钟。 😭 不过我的努力不是没有人看到。我得到了一声谢谢。

 Although just doing one project. Felt like doing a different one on the same project. :O I stared in awe....

Design to data mismatched... Welcome. But Goodbye too. Disaster. Everything needs micromanage.... 

 Took me a week to finally test the sewing machine. It wasn’t so hard. Set up was more troublesome than using the machine itself. Brilliant. No time to test. Asked Aunty for guidance.  She gave me some test. Pressed the pedal only. Happy. Forgotten about something else. I was doing work in my room. I got my new sewing machine but left it in the room because I have no time to test it out. Disciples of McDonalds. I felt like I am guilty.

When shall I lift my white flag and abandon ship.... It's 2am again... BUT I am satisfied that I solved one problem.... well, hopefully no problem tomorrow. I am so scared to go to the next page of the design. My Guardian Angel if you are there, guard over me. Although, I am old now. You are there right? Descendants of Shinobi - Final Fantasy VII Piano Collections [Advanced] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1V-iD3LBrI Promise (Reprise) - Silent Hill 2 (Piano Cover) [Beginner] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvgKQMWf3sU Bookmarked these two... Couldn't get it off my ears. Loooooooppppppp. Put everything behind me. It's going to be another month. My due date is coming..... The end of year...  I am already tired. Let's just hope the next has better collaboration. Not like war everyday. Anyway, Maybe I had the worst practice for a valid development cycle. The app that I did at least, I have some findings. From what I can tell, the code that works is enough for now. As for c...

 错过好过杀错。 宁可杀错不可放过。  I guess I will do the opposite. There has been lots of sms. So I guess I am not even going to click on any sms even though it seems legitimate. While we are improving, our spammers are also improving. Up to a point where they seems to be more legit than the legit ones... I have probably avoided all the legit ones... just in case, I avoided all.

 I have been blogging through my phone. Worst still, from my iPhone and typing using it on Blogspot takes some patience. One word wrong, correction was a pain. As for android, Blogspot wasn't hard to access. I guess it was never made for iPhone to begin with.  Reason for blogging on the phone. I want to practice typing using handphone. I am quite slow with it. I started using a handphone only when I was 16 or 17. People were like typing madly while I spent half an hour typing just one message. I decided to practice via blogging, especially, on the iPhone. Another reason hidden, simply because I forgot my password and didn't want to log in from my computer. My keyboard invitingly made me do so.  Without the above two, I guess my post would be very lengthy. Somehow, I cut short because I was lazy. A few days ago, there was a kid downstairs asking me for money. She was wearing school uniform. I was on my way back after dapao Chicken Rice. I paid using my phone but I usually ...

I realised it wasn’t structural problem but that the same db now has two different logics.  Inconsistency issue. Well, Either I picked one or I add another one? If I picked one, then the other will have minor issues. Occurrence won’t be that obvious but if you have one you will have two. It is a bet. Either one will have this issues. If I add another 1 meaning now there will be three kinds of logic. Not that sure if it will cause the issue but more like a combination of both. However, I cannot really assess the risk without any test by accessing the other two logics. I can only guess if that is the case. I guess this was what our instructor want us to have a group project for at least once but time instance was different so can only use reduction until the final logic is there. I just want to ensure mine wouldn’t cause the two problems but I also don’t want the other two to cause me mine. Sigh. This time didn’t spend too much time on ui but these sickening logic issues. Waste of ti...

  When I first use Shopee long long time ago, do you know they didn’t split by category? Also, if you search something, it must be the exact wording else it wouldn’t match. Now, still there is problem sometimes but they actually made a very big progress during these two years. However the categories still not so right. hehe. That’s what I found.  Remember a time when I brought books to their competition instead of using google two to three years back. Without any python background too. They were doing I guess to find someone who can solve their categories problem. Only 1-2 hrs given for each session to come up with the solution. I only managed to make the python and excel sheet work but never managed to solve though.  eh. 2 hrs 1st prize is a few thousands dollar. There were two different problems but I forgotten about the other one. It is a good experience though. Although not many people solved it within that few hours, but some were pretty close. Out of a hundred peopl...

 My color is Red but I liked purple and green. Just that I have fate with Red. 

 记得有一次，学院的数学老师算错了我的分数。我只错了一题可是只有80几分。我扣掉那4分。可是找不到还有那里被扣了。后来问了老师。在他面前用计算机把对的分数加在一起都不等于老师给的分数。就算是专业的不代表不会算错😏 我以为我把该消灭的都消灭了。妈早上发给我。我怎么漏了那张。她是藏哪里了。怎么还在。 有的时候向前走其实也就是走走。很多东西太迟了。

  I thought this is a mini portable sewing machine… It turned out like a full size although it is like 5kg. 😓🤔 Now my table quite full. i guess I can only use the floor. I haven’t try it out yet but will be during weekends.

I felt like I am in a fog. Suddenly I just use another block to remove the previous function and that can be solved more easily. I realised what I know is a weapon, actually should just keep it to myself, and why tell as if it doesn’t worth a thing. I paid for the course and mostly learn from scratching the surface. Shit code. I haven’t truly found any code that is written in a good manner as a role model. As how every lectures state. Doesn’t it look like any regular code. Or I have the wrong understanding. Mine too, not to say. Does the practice that some Engineers brag about really exist in this universe. Otherwise, why I never truly met any who does that? Good code, good maintenance, good whatever. So far all looked similar. Worst thing is when I carry on with a function that was done by a senior and the tester actually commented that why and it shouldn’t be that way. hm… I wonder if I passed on the code to another of what I have done and I listened to that comment, what would I fee...

 Received 8 items but few more to go. Since 11.11.21.

 Life is finding the answers from mistakes. 人都在錯誤中找到答案。 I have written a few thousands line of code. I do not want to clear it away despite having many errors. I would patch it up when I found the errors and adding more ridiculous code to it to correct them. Then it caused another problems like a jigsaw puzzle having similar parts and colours. I patched one side but it was more fitting on the other side and you do not know which one has been missing. I looked back at the code, there is actually a shorter better way. I ironed up my heart, delete the code…. and with all the iron heart I have just ironed out, do the edits with clearer picture and a few hundred lines less. Well, could I have done it earlier on? Maybe know. The understandings and realisation of a mistakes came from the patching and they gave me a clearer picture when I am finally tired with patching and catched enough errors to know how bad my code was. Though it is still bad but at least the problem handling is still p...

 I lubed a few clicky keyboard switch yesterday. Now I can do pretty fast and one about 2-3 minutes. Just tried 3 keys. Manage to make one sounded tactile or linear… After I against all suggestion.

 I liked the keyboard sound. I listened to music to cut off unwanted distractions. Now, if I listened to the music, I can’t hear the keyboard sound…  Double eleven has been drawing my blood. Bought a small sewing machine, a nintendo switch charger, a recording stand and I forgot! Received lots of things in the morning. My acrylic stands which people used for displaying, I used them to stack my adapters. And others As for work, many times I felt like killing the designer. Simple task made 😞 

It is almost 1 am now… I am still fixing the logging of errors. I think for this JS is auto catch? I never truly put error catch for JS as far as I remember but then when there is an issue, there will be an error page listing my errors. or at least at the console page. I was wondering why I have to log everything while learning Go. The different catching error methods were actually important. Just like C#. I think for coding experience, GoSchool gave me the most experience regarding code requirement. We were doing logins too… Then my first job as a software engineer is editing logins… As for micro services, I think luckily I was taught that and that is what I first use for the edit of another application. Without that, probably I wouldn’t even know what to do. The lecturers truly taught me anything I needed to know. Very grateful for that.  Another thing was that I was doing backend for appointment booking. Now, I am soon doing it… I did it within a week but I felt like it is the l...

 The keyboard switch lubing tool kit I ordered few days ago arrived today. My spacebar, shift key, backspace and enter key very noisy. Can hear the pinging sound every press. Saw a youtube video that actually I can lube it so I bought the kit. Just on time when I am off for dinner. Due to time limits I only lubed the Shift keys, Space bar, Backspace and Enter. It took me from 8:30 till 10:30 pm… Now, continue to work with the better sound keyboard. There is Switch Opener, Flat tip Paint brush, Stem Holder, Small tip paint brush and the Keycap/switch puller (this one from my previous switch purchased. They didn’t lube the switch though… I tried to record a video but too troublesome to upload. Hanged. Never lubed a keyboard before. It is really a good hobby. Stop you from thinking.

Customer: I want an api. Software Engineer: Let me know how big you want it. I will get the charcoal ready ;)

Customer: Please do an API for me. Software Engineer: My mother says not to play with fire. *grinned* While not working from home, I ate vending machine Chef in the Box or McDonalds for dinner. At home, I ate Nachos with Tomato Salsa for dinner *grinned*. Some notes to share although not that helpful but it does the work while tidying up codes or navigate around codes.  I have a sticky note printer which I bought long long time ago. I have to say it is nice and the app actually helps me gets through quite some things. It is a good buy 🤓. It is designed by Samsung though. I bought Samsung Note 1 because of the big screen and able to draw on it or making notes on document also pretty workable. On photos too. That’s my first smart phone and I think that’s a pretty good design and good thoughts with user experience in mind. Then there came many big screens. After that, they don’t have any that really attracts my attention to try. The shapes matter and they played along with it to make...

I brought my mouse to the office last time. The right click got some issues. Like it was a bit hard to click down ever since I brought it there. I thought I spoilt it because I spilled coffee on it and use water to rinse off ;) 99 dollars man. I decided to stick with that. After I brought it back from office last week, somehow I didn’t have the right click problem. I still had it when I used it for a short while at the office. I think the mouse is throwing tantrums on me because his brother is at home while he is in the office. I spilled the coffee on him while his brother gets away with it.  I think I have to control myself from shopee. Has been buying nonstop… It is too addictive that it is actually dangerous. I went Lazada which I originally used. They did the same thing for their app… I decided to stop both for a while. I still have some credits and deliveries not received. Probably after using will stop going in until I needed to. It is making me lazy. Now, the delivery people...

  After I tidied them up and tada. Today is 01.11.21. Monday. All 1 le. Just realised. I bought a splitter so that my big monitor can share between the two laptops so I can see Laptop 1 screen when I need it. I brought back my extra keyboard from office and the extra mouse. They have to share a fan though. I got my earphone. Really love the sounds. There is a hidden 3rd laptop on the table.  The mouse pad really helps. I am not sure if I want to go back. I really like this setup apart from typing off the wrong keyboard or clicking the wrong mouse. Still need some time to get use to. The vertical one I can make it Horizontal when needed. Actually now don’t regret buying it compared to a full size. I won’t have that flexibility if it is heavy. The screen a bit small to read off but no matter how big it is, can zoom in :) This week I am so happy about them. Everything arrived just on time.  I fixed my stackable cabinet too. I got two empty spaces, so during the weekends, man...

Website: I have no memory. Software Engineer: Give you a cookie. Me: I have no memory. Give me a cookie. Kid: I have memory. Parent: Give you a cookie. Kid: *forgets everything. Went downstairs to buy chicken rice and found out from the electronic bulletin that truck driver now has a salary of 4.7k. Another is a class 3 driver at 5k/month. So now what do parents tell their kids to study hard? If you don’t study hard, you will be a truck driver, dishwasher, wash toilet and whatever they could think of. Actually the pay now for all these are comparable to those who have studied hard. Not that bad wah. Now part time packing staff can earn 12/hr. Delivery driver 25/hr.  Anyway not a bad thing but at least people are finally treating these people nicely and gives them what they deserve when it is all hardwork.  I pitied the delivery guy because I think he has to send to my place which is furthest away from the lift and at the corner. Now, I think he should pity me more. Poor Engine...