Morning routine with bringing Joyce to school. Evangelion, Fixed our microwave, Kobasolo Cruel Angel' Thesis cover.

Joyce and Daddy Morning PCF

Nowadays I always bring and fetch Joyce from school...

Working from home always has its Pros and Cons. As part of the new norm, now I bring and fetch Joyce everyday from school. Anyway it is just below our block, the school is literally below our HDB flat. It is really is convinient and fast to pick Joyce up.

Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion, an action phyco anime...

Aside from the action story the anime mainly focuses on the team of loneliness, depression, acceptable and life. This is as far as I get the plot though.

Microwave Fixed

Bought the magnetic plate replacement and it fixed our microwave...

Fixed our microwave for $2 and saved ourselves from buying a new one.

Erin and Katleen Baby Shower

Erin and Katleen's 2020 babies

We were quite surpised that both of them are having babies this year. I think the gap between the kids are quite timely.

Kobasolo: Evangelion OP

One of the better version of Cruel Angel' Thesis...

Cruel Angel's Thesis / Yoko Takahashi Cruel Angel's Thesis / Yoko Takahashi. One of my favorite version of this cover.

Watched Escalafone series for the first few episodes, I haven't completed the series when I was young but it's premise is quite outstading during its time. Went back to the office during the CB due to production issues and desk cleaning up. Our project is quite critical thus working on site was on this days was an exception. While doing the desk clean-up I was able to take our team photo taken 7 years ago.

Escaflone

A youtube ai learning recommendation...

Medieval mecha anime from the creators of Gundam franchies.

Back in Office

A day in the office during the circuit breaker...

A day's work in the hub.

Team Shot

Dev team screenshot during the breaker....

An old photo 7 years ago, when I started working in NCS.

Weblogic 12c Migration and Library Upgrade

This past few months and a few more will be upgrade changes, compatibility fixes and a few enhancements...

This is really time consuming with seemingly little changes. Compatibility migration is 80% of the work is research, 18% is testing and 2% is code change. The difficult part is when people see the work as easy based on the changes. Identifying the correct and compatible code changes is hard when migrating old system to a new one, specially if you have other interdependecy such as JDK version, Weblogic internal jars, other services such as Oracle service bus, Oracle Content management, Oracle Reports, Oracle BPM and other products such as Leadtools, Signature pad. The hard part is we upgraded our UI component, so need to check browser compatibility. The list goes on.

Escaflowne: The Movie - A Girl In Gaea

One of the better underrated anime OVA of its time...

Escaflowne didn't really got the same attention in Japan compared to the US and Europe. It created by sunrise, the same animation studio of Gundam franchise. When I was a kid the tv series was really amazing, the medieval mecha was a bit different during its time.

A busy and stressful week. Did a quick work on Pstahl for exports. Managing stress. Rating expectations. No photo week. No time to write.

Pstahl Updates

Modified pstahl to have minor changes in saving and exports...

Some minor updates. I coded a few items to relieve stress and to get some inspiration.

Stress in work and at home

Work from home can be stressful if not done right...

Coding priorities and targets. Keep up on the schedule and ensure a buffer. Meet the deadline before the buffer date. Relax on the buffer date.

Rating results

Performance and rating...

My rating aint bad, actually it is above average. I was just targeting to get a higher rating this year since I delivered more. A bit disappointed but it looks fine, the bonus hopefully be ok given the current pandemic. End of the day we work to get an acceptable set of salary based on the amount of responsibility and work load we do.

Plan to for a free websocket server

Free services online...

Planning to create free niche services. Maybe by creating small services I can have a managable side project with enough traction.

Crash Course: Entrepreneurship Growth from Failure #17

In business, growth basically means making a company more successful in some way: finding a new revenue stream, revamping the cost structure to minimize expenses and increase profit, or adding new people and knowledge to the team.

Started reading soul land 4. Planning for stuff in the kids room. Busy with the library upgrade and migration. Sometimes speaking stuff when one is hungry or not in a mood results to a terrible conversation.

Soul Land 4: Final Douluo

The fourth book of the Soul Land Series...

I am reading Soul Land 4 in machine translation by lnmtl: douluo dalu 4 final douluo. It is more like a continutation of Soul Land 3, but the story revolved on the kid of Tang Wulin (Son of Tang San, Inheritor of the Golden Dragon Bloodline) and Gu Yuena (Soul Beast in Human Form, Silver Dragon King). Wulin and Yuena still appears in Soul Land 4 but with memory loss. This fourth part is really exciting, and I can easily comprehend the events that took place during the previous book.

Kids Room. Covid Face Shield.

Getting one of the rooms for the kids, bought face sheild and a couple of mask...

We are planning to clear out one of the rooms for the kids to use. We also wanted to reduce the risk of more people moving inside the house. We bought a face sheild for Joyce and Jace usage. A room basically cost an additional $700 per month on us, at first we feel the loss. Either way we just think that we are a big family now and as part of being a big family here in Singapore we need to rent more space for the kids. We can also think that in is an insurance cost or loss that we need to cover. It is just a part of the expenditures of having a family. Worst case we just need to find another person to cover it or find another flat in the future.

Tech Refresh Migration Spring Hibernate Jsf Webglogic

This the real pain in my task, migration a legacy system to a new one...

If you have a fixed immovable deadline the only way to finish it is through overtime. If the you're estimates are rejected and the schedule is forced upon you, then you ended up having no option but to compelete it. If you hated it then switch job, sometimes you just get this trouble task once is while.

Basically we need to upgrade from Weblogic 10g to 12c. Java 7 to 8. Oracle BPM, Oracle OSB and all sort of our interfaces. No value is added except for the extension of the support, some minor fixes that dont really affect us. This kind of things and activities, the cost and time is not worth the value.

Agitated

Just don't speak, more words doesn't solve anything...

Busy life often leads to bad arguments over simple stuffs. The more you say things, the more things gets complicated. A good relationship do really require when to shutup and just absorb the nags.

Crash Course: Depressive and Bipolar Disorders #30

Knowing and understanding other and one's self is key for a successful relationship...

Understand others it the key.

NCS next hack we won a consolation prize of four, $80 grab vouchers. The next hack consolation prize is not bad given the effort spent. Switching my default java version in linux, ok I can call the bin/java directly but it is cool if I want it as a default. I don't have anything to write so I just place an overly used GREP and FIND command. Being a technical lead in the team is hard and cool.

Next Hack

Converting your basic thermal scanner...

It was a busy month. We lacked a cool idea. We made a simple prototype and a lousy presentation. Overall the grab voucher are worth the minimal effort.

Change Default Java in Linux

Blah blah a linux command...

check sudo update-alternatives --config java

Find all java process in Linux

Blah blah a linux command...

ps -fea|grep -i java

Project Technology Lead

I am the team's tech lead...

A few things to note why I am our team's tech lead. First technology lead just basically means I know alot of the project technical details. I am versed enough to address the project technical needs. I am competent enough to assign and resolve project technical issues. End of the day it is about delivery and efficency on available resources.

I wrote a few automation scripts / code to make life easier. I writethis blog poorly because It is just work flying of my mind. No revisions just post, nobody reads this anyway.

Crash Course: Value Proposition and Customer Segments #3

Learning a few basic overview on customer segments...

Crash course is really like a good pie. It is nice at the start, but it is actually messy if you don't know the eating technique.