Sharing of Cycling, Travel, Baking, DIY and personal feelings
Once the booking of the ABRSM Performance Grade Examination has been made, candidate or his/her guardian has to upload the performance examination recording to the ABRSM Portal.
完成了 ABRSM Performance Grade Examination (英國皇家音樂學院表演評級術科考試) 的預約後，考生需要於選定的限期內呈交錄影到 ABRSM 的考試網站。
Back in early 2020, I had not written any review post for year 2019 or resolutions for the coming year. Partly because I was very busy running my own takeaway shop, but the major reason was that I was feeling down at that time, couldn’t charge up to work out any plan for myself.
2020 年初，我沒有為已過去一年埋數，更沒有訂下新的一年目標，除了是忙於食店的事務外，主要是因心情低落，提不起勁去思考來年的方向。
When my blog has accumulated 50000 pageviews, I had written a milestone post to mark this little achievement of my blogger journey. Other than this, I had also started taking Advertisement.
十一月中在我的網誌完成了50000次瀏覽的目標後，我寫了一篇里程碑的文章，作為我博客人生上的一個小小標記。除此之外我還做了一件事，就是為我這個網誌開啟賣廣告之門。
Early in September, I had upgraded my old Windows based Intel NUC with a SSD. It ran swiftly for all my day-to-day works except one thing, Wireless network support is still missing. In case I would like to use the NUC as a multimedia player, this will impose some constraints especially on cabling and device placement.
早前為家中的 Intel NUC 更換了 SSD 後，日常運作已非常暢順，用起來亦很稱心。稍為美中不足是欠缺無綫網絡的支援，如要作其他用途，在擺位及網路配線上便較不方便。
On 18 October 2017, I published my first post on this blog.
For a typical techie like me, taking up blogging might seem a little bit wired and quite a lot of my friends were really surprised.
2017年10月18日，我在這裏發放了人生的第一篇文章。
對於一個從讀書、工作都是典型 Techie 的我，入手寫網誌是一個很奇怪的開始，亦令身邊很多朋友感到驚訝。
Hello guys! It has been a long time since my last blog!
Today I’m going to share some interesting rules in Mathematics that is about “How to determine whether a given integer is divisible by a fixed divisor without actually performing the division”.
I have a 6 years old desktop Windows PC in my home that is mainly used by my wife. However, as my little boy is getting older and needed to use the computer as well, it became quite inconvenient to have them sitting in front of the desktop. I ended up buying notebook computers for them subsequently.
Despite that desktop PC is a little bit old, it still got the works perfectly done if just for daily home use or web surfing. The only downside is the slow PC startup time and that’s why I decided to replace the hard disk with a SSD.
家中一台已購置六年多的桌面 Windows PC 主要是給太太使用，但隨著兒子長大並開始接觸電腦，要他們安坐書枱前便有點不太方便，於是便轉用了筆記簿電腦。
雖然這台電腦有點舊，但如只用作日常的資料處理及上網，它還是升任有餘。唯一不足處是開機時間稍長，最近便決定為它的硬碟升級至 SSD。
我在上一篇關於開學的 post 講過一般家庭如有數位適齡學童，要為他們購置電腦或平板電腦作遙距上課會構成一定的經濟壓力。
那刻曾想過怎樣去舒緩這問題，經過數天沉澱後，今天就來試試探討一下。
Shortly after my retirement, I had bought a number of Raspberry Pi Single Board Computer for fun and DIY works. Projects that I had engaged included network based time-lapse camera and multi-nodes Docker Clusters. Later on, as I needed to focus on running my own cafe, all my Pi projects were shelved.
In my current setup of the cafe, I do have an electronic display system built on top of the Raspberry Pi. Relaxed and let me share with you my shop display box.
剛退休時買了數片 Raspberry Pi （樹莓批）單板電腦，學習製作一些簡單的 DIY projects。先後做過些網絡縮時攝影機、Docker Cluster。後來因為需要集中精神攪好我的食店，只好暫時放下。
其實在食店內我也有利用 Raspberry Pi 整合了我的電子顯示屏，就在這𥚃和大家分享一下。
One of the measures taken here in Hong Kong to address the outbreak of Novel Coronavirus is “Work from Home”. Such practice had been extensively adopted by me before my retirement. The impact to...
Just like most of the people in Hong Kong, I queued up at a pharmacy early in the morning hoping to get some surgical masks.
周三下午，我們從樟宜國際機場出發，前往新加坡理工大學。旅途中欣賞了導遊Jessy關於新加坡文化和歷史的介紹。到達後，我們參觀了充滿學生創作遊戲的圖書館，包括各種機械遊戲和一間研究鐳射切割的小房間。隨後進行了三小時的自由活動，大家玩得非常開心。
時間比我想像過得更快，2018年尚有不足一小時便成歷史，回望這一年，部份的目標叫作落實了，但也有些尚未開始，更有些事情完全是意料之外; 好的、不如意的，我也會照單全收。
2018 will be leaving us within an hour, looking back at what all those targets that I had established for 2018, seems like some of those had been achieved while the rest are not yet started. In fact, there were other things that came all out of expected. Anyway, this is life and I have to accept them all.
Today’s journey started at the Tatara Shimanami Park in Omishima. Major reasons are availability of bus service from Imabari and the Rent-a-cycle Terminal. Moreover, it is close to Setoda Sunset Beach where we would have our lunch. The only downside is that we have to ride the Tatara Bridge twice just like what we had for the Kurushima Kaikyo Bridge in yesterday’s ride.
It took around one hour to arrive at the Omishima BS. Quickly we picked up our bikes at the Rent-a-cycle Terminal and started our ride towards the Tatara Bridge.
When I looked out from the hotel window early in the morning, I just couldn’t believe what I had seen. Blue sky, bright sunny day and flock of seagulls. That’s completely different from what we had the day before!
Weather report stated that typhoon Noru had moved across Honshu, the main island of Japan, towards the Sea of Japan. What an excellent forecast work by JMA (Japan Meteorological Agency)!
To allow more time for the ride, we planned to take the 9am local bus to Innoshima/Setoda.
Woke up in the morning after having a good sleep, my wife and I were busy checking the weather report on TV and from the Internet.
It was mentioned that typhoon Noru was moving over Shikoku and towards the main island of Japan during the day. Due to the slow pace of Noru that might result in extended periods of heavy rain, evacuation advisories in Shikoku and warning for river flooding, landslides, strong winds and high waves in other affected areas had been issued.
During my Lunar New Year holidays in Hiroshima in early 2017, we had an one-day trip in the city of Onomichi. Fascinated by one of the top cycling courses in the world, Shimanami Kaido, my family and I had an ad-hoc short ride from Onomichi, crossing Mukaishima (向島) and arrived in Innoshima (因島) via the famous Innoshima Bridge (因島大橋).
On the return trip, my boy asked if we could come back again and ride along the Shimanami Kaido from Onomichi to Imabari.
Why not! I said.
Like a lot of the Hong Kong people, egg-tart is one of my favourite pastries.
Here in Hong Kong, we have two different styles of egg-tarts, one comes with a butter pastry (撻皮) base while the other one comes with puff pastry (酥皮) base.
Personally, I prefer butter pastry base which is more crispy over the puff pastry base.
This week, instead of making bread, I will practise making my first Hong Kong style Egg-tart with butter pastry base.
Hong Kong Style
Schedule for my boy’s Experiential Learning Journey in Singapore is quite tight. Students have to visit a secondary school, attend STEM related training at Singapore Polytechnic, doing programming work and finally present their works.
My boy is going to Singapore for a 4-Day Experiential Learning Journey.
He has never been aboard without the company of us and this is the first time he is on his own along some of his classmates and teachers. A challenge to him as well as to us.
Just joined the 2018 Cycle Life Challenge initiated by Cycle365.life. The rules of the game are very simple as highlighted in their site: Cycle Life Challenge Rules Since it’s a Challenge, there are Rules....
Two years ago, I took another challenge – Walk around the Hong Kong Island in one day.
Shortly after I had completed my round-the-island cycling in Taiwan in late 2015, I felt a little bit desperate and would like to look for another challenge of my life. One day while I was surfing the net, I found a young Taiwan undergraduate who spent over 40 days to walk around Taiwan all by herself. All of a sudden, an idea came to my mind – I could do this as well, of course, just in Hong Kong …
兩年前的今天，我又作出另一個挑戰 – 單日徒步環香港島。
2015 年末，我剛完成第一次的臺灣自行車環島，心情有點失落，很想尋找另一個挑戰自我的目標。有一天在網上看到一位二十多歲的臺灣女大學生，用了四十多天的時間，獨自完成她的徒步環島之旅。心想，臺灣那麼大，香港這麼小；她那麼年輕，我這麼成熟，怎麼可以給小女生比下去呢 …
