It was a long weekend so basically friday was a holiday (Eid al-Adha - Hari Raya Haji). I have completed most of our chores during this holiday specially the dry cleaning of the sofa. Saturday we drop around the block for Joyce to use her Bicycle and Jace to play in the park. Sunday was a rest day, woke up late and cooked Kare-Kare. Monday I got a call from AIA for a placeholder application and other pre-processing stuff. We also got the our 32 inch Samsung monitor this week. I am also trying to push my JJekyll like Java implementation. Joyce had her first remote schooling via school, and it was terrible. Auto generation of favicon favicon and converter.
Bicycle weekend
Riding a bicycle around compassone...
Balance is very important for kids, getting to ride the bicycle and learning it is I think is part of growing up. Normally kids will remember the time they spent with their parents learning things. Key skills and traits are important in being part of your kids life. I try my best to instill key values during this age, I believe I should do more for Joyce and much more for Jace.
Interview in AIA
Techlead interview for AIA...
The first time I tried going in to AIA I reached to the offering stage. They offered a considerable amount of salary but during that time, the amount is quite far from my target asking so I declined. The this second time to avoid wasted effort in the interviews, I clearly stated my reasonable targets but it seems the opening role is incompatible with my job scope.
Doing interviews myself there are a few factors that is worth checking. job compatibility, technical experience compatibility, asking salary, communication and character. Once or twice a year trying out interviews are quite fun and engaging.
Samsung Curved Monitor
Bought a new monitor to be used in the kids room...
My old 24 inch Samsung monitor still serves me for like 10 years already. It still works fine and as intended, currently it is my work monitor. This new curved monitor went out for sale in qoo10 and since we seem to need another one in the study / kids room, we just dropped the cash and bought it. This 32 inch curved monitor, we got it around $290. The price is a steal since most of the items should be around twice of that price.
Joyce Studies
PCF in the morning and ESLR in the afternoon...
Joyce attend PCF classes in the morning and online classes in the Philippines in the afternoon. If im not working from home this setup will be imposible for us. Hopefully we can still do this work from home setup until end of this year. Joyce will graduate in PCF by mid November and during that time we can focus more on ESLR studies.
Favicon Converter
Creating a simple favicon is important in any website...
Lack creativity, plain lazy or just wants anything to occupy this image so that browser will not throw 404 upon hitting its request. https://favicon.io/
Space Time: Can Viruses Travel Between Plan ets?
Alot of conspiracy theory going around about that COVID=19 came from outerspace this video is why it is probably false...
With the global pandemic of Covid 19 still encompassing the world, we are generally not big fans of viruses right now. But we sure are thinking about them a lot. That’s right, even astrophysicists are pondering these bizarre little critters. In fact, astrovirology, although very new, is actually an emerging subfield of astrobiology. And that’s because it turns out viruses don’t just influence organisms - they’re incredibly important on a planetary scale. Perhaps an interplanetary scale.