Tasty ramen and dumplings

This afternoon , I and my wife had a tasty lunch at garden city. We went to hakataya for lunch.

We ordered a ramen with a free bowl  of  noodles. That was lovely.

Moreover, we had a dish of half priced japanese dumplings.

That was so full. After that, i spent an hour to do exercise. I wish to burn the weight gained by this lunch .
Address:
Shop 2072 Westfield Garden City Shopping Center
Cnr. Logan & Kessels Road Upper Mount Gravatt
Trading Hours:
Mon-Fri 9:00-21:00
Sat, 9:00-17:00
Sun 9:00-18:00

Nitrogen Ice Cream - Nitrogenie

Yesterday, after ANZAC Parade, I had a walk in southbank parkland. I found there is a Nitrogen Ice Cream shop, Nitrogenie. They used Liquid Nitrogen to make ice cream. Well, they are still ice cream, I cannot think they are not much different from normal ice cream, just because Nitrogen is in a super low temperature, it can make ice cream instantly! However, watching the staff making Nitrogen Ice Cream is a kind of fun!

Easter Monday Tour

Yesterday, that was a super nice weather. I and a group of church brothers and sisters went to glass mountains and maleny for some walks. That was fun!

Brisbane Software Development Company have to go Globally

Recently, my Company,AdvanGeneration, setup an online store to sell our software, moreover, we have our account in Google Player to sell our paid app long time ago. The reason to setup them is we wish to go Globally. Brisbane is not big enough, that is too small! We have to sell our software to everyone, not just about Brisbane!

Selling products online is not free of charge!

Some people believe selling products is very low cost, even free of charge. In our example, I have a C# library, AdvGen SQL Backup, which can trigger a SQL backup via C# code. Some of friends believe, I just put the details of online and hooked up PayPal. Then my job is done, I can sit back and relax, lastly, waiting the payments.
My friends, that is not that easy. I need to do the marketing. I have to invest a lot of money for online advertisements. I even talked with a lot of people offline for the product promotion. In this case, our product is only a small project. If we put some major products online, even I need to put advertisements on some local papers, put leaflets into the local people mail box. All of them requires "$$$"(money). You can say comparing the rental cost of a physical shopfront. Running my online shop  is much lower! But that is not cheap!

I am not well

Brisbane Autumn has arrived, out weather got cooler. Yesterday, that was a sunny day, I felt warm around 3pm. That was the time I was about to go out for Brisbane .Net User group at Microsoft Brisbane City Office. Brisbane.Net User Group meeting was good, I know more about Telerik Platform. Their Online IDE is great. You can run a lot of emulators via their web interface, such as IOS, Android and Windows Phone. 

However, after the meeting, that was about 8pm, the weather was very cold. That is the reason I got a cold today. I cannot work today.

Running I.T. Company is not easy.

Some people think that is very easy to setup an information technology company. You just need to do a business registration and buy a laptop. Then you can be the CEO of your own I.T. Firm. Yes, we don't need to a big office and even you can use a home office.  But, I wish to ask where we cam get customers. You may say the customers can find us from our company website. There are  thousands companies doing similar things with us. We still need to do marketing same as other companies. We posted advertisements online and local papers. They required to invest some money. Moreover , we needed to deal with accounting and legal matters. These requires other professionals to help us. Some fees are involved. These are not as simple as you thought

Kessels Road back to normal

Last night, around 6.15pm, I was driving on Kessels Road, near the intersection of Mains Road and Kessels Road. I found the traffic has improved a lot.  Few months, there was a long queue of cars in there around that hours.  I can say the traffic in there are better than "normal".

Facebook has a new interface

This morning, when I got up and turned on the PC, I found Facebook has a new interface. It looks more "Metro"!  Do you like it?

Sunny week

Last week, there was a lot of raining. This week, the sunny Brisbane came back. That is good. I go out for jogging. Just only one side effect. The weather is too hot. That wasn't very nice to work at afternoon without air conditioning.

Raining again!

Most of the time during this week, that is raining. Until now, that is still raining. Moreover, it is getting cool. Well, it sounds we are in autumn. But I don't like this kind of cool and wet weather! 

My first IOS application are still pending

I have spent around a year to build my first IOS application. That took too long. Well, that is because I need to learn a complete new language, Objective C. It took a few months to learn. Moreover, at the mean time, there were a lot of higher priority projects needed to be complete. Those slowed my first IOS application development. I wish I can finish it within a month, recently, I got some "free" time to do that.

I need to keep receipts

This week, our food streamer is out of order. That is around 9 months old and still under warranty. However, I lost the receipt as the proof of purchase date. At the end up, I can't get it fixed and have to buy a new old. This times, I stored the receipt safely and scanned it into my computer!

Busy Weeks

During these few weeks, I am very busy. I have a few projects will be closing off soon and I got a church training. These two Sunday, I got a fellowship after church. Moreover, I got some personal stuff need to sort out! That's why, I have not written any blogs for a few days. Well, I have not done a proper house cleaning during these three weeks too! That is too bad!

Qantas job cuts

I just heard the news about Qantas job cuts. The company did not went very well last year. I love to fly with cathay if that is an international travel. For domestic flights, I must choose Qantas. Thus, that news is a bit sad for me.

Time is going so fast

I am in Brisbane for around 14 years. I cannot image I have lived in this city for that long!  Time is going so fast. Brisbane sounds more like home than Hong Kong for me. 

I need Coffee

I am so tired now. During these two weeks, I worked around 10 hours per day(according to the standard in Hong Kong , that is very normal). I need coffee!

Most of my websites went normal

During last two weeks, some of our blogs went not very stable. I did some fixes. I upgraded them into the last version of blog software. I enabled all caching of pages where I can and enable cloudfare on all websites. Even I moved some blogs into a new web host. In addition, I asked more memory allowance from the web host too! I did a lot of work!
Finally, they are stable!

Performance Gain

Last two weeks, I have spent fair amount of time to update the content management system of my websites. Moreover, I enabled the cloudfare to all of them. In addition, I have some tuning on the cache level too.
Lastly, I moved a website to a more advanced performance web host. This morning, I ran some testes, those website loaded much, much faster!!!!

I did a lot of things during this weekend

On last Friday, I was sick. I did not completed many tasks. However, during this Saturday and Sunday,  I did a lot. Firstly I did around 12 to 14 hours training at church. Secondly, I did a deployment for a client. Lastly, I moved one of my own websites into a new hosting. I reached a big milestone!

Running out of energy

I got a busy week again. These two nights , I need to work after dinner. Busy is good, that means we have some businesses. But that is too tired. Moreover, the rest of this week I need to have training at my church. On sat, the training is from 9am to 8.30pm. That is very challenging. Please pray for me.

A hot day

That is another hot day. I wish to have afternoon sleep

Hakataya Ramen Dinner

I am still not feeling very well. That is still too tried to cook. Moreover, i want to have something tasty. Thus we went to Hakataya for dinner. That was great and we had a enjoyable dinner.

Hakataya Ramen

Sunnybank Plaza Shop

Shop 27B Sunnybank Plaza,

Cnr. Mains Road & McCullough Street. Sunnybank

QLD 4109

TEL:07-33441313

I think I got a flu

I feel headache, tired and muscle pain. I think I got a flu again! I took a cup of chinese herbal drink and I will go to bed earlier. Tomorrow, I will be fine again!

Still in a recovery mode

Last week, I worked very very very late night last Monday, actually, I went to sleep at 5.30am Tuesday. I had some catch up sleeping hours afterward. However, after a week time, I am still feeling very tired. maybe, I am getting old.

Finally friday

I got a big week this week. I worked from 8.00pm Monday to 5.30am tuesday. Now, finally ,that is friday. I am off from work and having some exercises at gym.

Big chinese new year dinner

Today is chinese new year. We went out to have something good. End up , we are having buffet in casino.

Hong Kong Style Milk Tea

I love coffee. I drink at least two cups of coffee every day! However, I love Hong Kong Style Milk Tea more. When I was in Hong Kong, I must have one for my lunch! Even I back to Brisbane, I need to have one every week! That was so tasty! I felt this kind of tea is as smooth as silk! Moreover, when I have this kind of tea, feel like going back home!

Dinner at Morrison Hotel

Last Saturday is a family member's Birthday, so we went to Morrison Hotel for our dinner as a celebration. I had a lot of friends said that is the best steak house in Brisbane.

Well, that was not a bad dinner. The Birthday girl ordered a 400g Black Angus Rump with pepper sauce. Because of, Angus is one of famous Australia Beef. the birthday girl was happy about her dinner

I ordered a Beer Battered Barramundi. That was very good! The fish sounded very fresh! Moreover, the chips and side dishes were tasty!

 That was a enjoyable dinner. The restaurant was very comfortable , not noisy at all! The service was good. Moreover, this dinner for two was only around $53. That was value for money.

Address
640 Stanley St
Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102

Tel:07 3391 1413

Training Time

Today is a public holiday for Australia day. That is not a 100% day off for myself, I need to do some training sessions. Finally, I can have time to watch Google I/O and some IOS tutorial videos!

A big feast at sunny seoul

Yesterday, we had a gathering / birthday party at Sunny Seoul in mains road. That was a big feast. We ordered two sets of $99 barbecue and hot pot combo dinner. We had a big plate of combination of meats, including beef, pork and chicken. 

Moreover, we had a big beef and vegetable hot pot too!

 So huge!

Somethings more, we had a lot of Korean Side dishes, including Kim-chi  and salad.

We felt very very full for a whole night. I worked very hard in gym this afternoon too, I wish to burn the fat from this dinner! Moreover, our group had ten people, and just spent $198. That is a good deal!

Address:

Shop 3A, 95 Main Roads.

Sunnybank , QLD 4109
Tel: 0733447589

Internet Literary Review

In my time at university, we already had internet. The most of sources were from internet. However, they were still some conference papers, just rather than getting them from library. We got them from a electronic database. Moreover, we had to check about the background of authors and conference, whether that is relevant to our research. That was very rare to use any internet websites. If we use them, we must have a very very excuse!
Nowadays, we have "google". That sounds everyone can be a professional researcher! I have a lot friends who claimed they are some kinds of experts on a specialized field. They can talk a lot and sounds know a lot too! After I asked "how do you know about that?", they started to show some websites, in some cases, they even showed me some video blogs from youtube. How can I trust those sources? Who is the author? How do they do the research? Even the authors have a "Dr." in front of their name, where they got their Ph.d and what is their research area. We completely don't know these information. I cannot treat any sources to be reliable with them, or even putting them into my "literary review".

Going to know more about bootstrap

I am going to microsoft office for .net user group. Today topic is about bootstrap. The latest responsive design framework. I wish to know about that. But i am so hungry now!!!

Finally, I got a break.

Today, that is Saturday.  I can get up at 10am, enough sleep.  I can find some time at gym and reading. That is great to have a day off.

I am thinking to buy roses

That is the first valentine's day after we got married. I am thinking whether I should some roses from our friend, Blooms, Baskets and gifts.

Using Mac

I got a Mac Book Pro about a year, but I only use OSX to build iphone app. Until recently, I got Android Studio installed in Mac Book Pro and my laptop. I found Android Studio working better in OSX. That is more easier to install and it got a better performance in OSX. I started to OSX more!

Home Office

I worked in my house most of time,even I got a part-time staff worked in my home too. Some of my friends from Hong Kong heard about this, they found that is very strange.Actually, in Queensland, that is not something unusual at all. I know a lot of people running their own business in their home. That is because we are not overcrowded as Hong Kong, that is no problem to put a office in our home. Moreover, home office can save a lot of money. Of course, this can save the rent for office space. In addition, that can save the travel cost and time between home and office. Thus, this is a great option for a small business, such as ourselves. 

Redcliffe - Day off

Finally, I got a day off. I got busy weeks before, I need to give myself a treat!

So, when I went to Morgans Seafood in Redcliffe. I bought a one and half dozen of fresh oysters. It tasted great! I want to have them again them!

Todo for Christmas

Most of people has already prepared the wishlist for Christmas. In my case, I got a to do list. I have so many things I have not time to do past few months. There are my to list items:

• Finish AdvGen Contact Manager
• I need to use it for the contacts management system in my fellowship
• Finish our first iOS App
• Learning deeply in Android Development
• Learning deeply in iOS
• Finish off AdvGen Shop System

Well, that is long one!

Sunset in Calamvale

Yesterday, we had a raining during daytime. The rain has settled down near evening. After that, when I jogging in calamvale community sporting fields, I found the sky is beautiful! What's a amazing sunset!

Bring your own lunch

I went out for lunch every day, when I was in Hong Kong. That is not a big deal. However, in Brisbane, that is a different story. If I buy a lunch box in a food court, that will cost around $10. If I go to a proper coffee shop, you have to prepare a 20 dollars note from your pocket! If I have a lunch box from home, that is just around $2. I can save a lot of money during the week.

Just finished work

I am heading home from city. I finished the first round of work. I am so hungry . Well after dinner i still need to work.

So many tasks

A lot of my friends have started their Christmas Holidays. I am still working hard to get a lot of things for work, church and myself. I am still trying some Android and iOS done. I went sick for last Saturday.  That is the situation more worse.

Christmas party

I went to a company christmas party . I went to a restaurant near the brisbane river. We ate a tasty meal, good chat with other staff.

Airport Express

Every times, when I need to back home from Hong Kong Airport, I prefer use Airport Express which is the express train from airport to the CBD of Hong Kong. The train is fast and comfortable, that is less than 30 minutes to the CBD.  But the fare is a bit experience. The fare from Airport to Tsing Yi is $60 which is around 6 times of bus fare!

That is Friday! I nearly fall to sleep

During this week, I am so busy , I worked around 10 hours per day this week.That is great! Today is Friday, I can get some time off. But I am already so tired, when I was jogging outside, I nearly fall to sleep. I want to sleep, well, I still have a church meeting to go tonight! Brothers & sisters, please prepare a cup of coffee for me!

Hard to save money

I found that is very hard to save money during these recent years. Firstly, the fuel price is so high, around 130 to 150 cents, sometime, that was around 160 cents. Bus fare is high too, if we need to city, that is around 6 dollars! The electrical bills is very expensive too. The living cost in Brisbane become less and less affordable during these years.

Breakfast In Hong Kong

I just had my breakfast, that was toasts and a cup of coffee, Classic and simple. When I was in Hong Kong, I was able to have somethings better. That was so convenient. I just need to go down from my apartment, walk 5 minutes, I can go to a fast food restaurant. I buy a breakfast set. That is only around HKD$30. I can have a bowl of noodle and a cup of coffee. In other hand, in there, I need to grab my car and drive 10 minutes to sunnybank. And then I need to spend around AUD$8(around HKD$60) for a similar breakfast set. So, I feel so reluctant to do that!

French Toast in Hong Kong

That is around 11:30pm. I started to feel hungry again, because I only ate some left over pasta. Suddenly, I remember somethings I ate in Hong Kong last month, that is French Toast.
Although that is very fatty and very unhealthy, that is so tasty. The skin is deep fried, it is very crunchy. Moreover, in the middle of that is full of peanut butter. Yummy! I want to have it now!

Food, Food, Food in Hong Kong

Last month, I went to Hong Kong for about a month! Of course, I ate a lot and a lot of sushi!

Not just sushi, I ate a lot of Hong Kong style food, such as BBQ pork and Fake shark's fin soup.

That was great! 

In our plan, we wish to have enough budget for visiting Hong Kong next year again.

Hotpot and BBQ in South Korea

Last month, I traveled to South Korea with a Hong Kong tour group.  During this tour, I had a lot of Korean Style Hotpot and BBQ! That is not too bad and I ate a lot! Moreover, I found I love Korean BBQ most!

Happy Rainning

This morning, we got a sunny day again. However, last few nights got some heavy rains. That is good, my lawn got watered and my empty water tank got filled too. Moreover, this can reduce the risk of bushfire!

Seoul visit

I visited south korea for few days last month. I had spent about two days in seoul. I really like this city. There are a lot of places for shopping! But the time in there was too short. I want to visit there again

Storming is coming

The sky is going to very very dark, full of cloud!
I can feel some winds are coming too!
That sounds a big storm is coming.
Hi all, please take care!

Back to Brisbane

Last month, I had a great time. I traveled to Hong Kong and South Korea. I just went back Brisbane this week. That is so tired after 8 hours flight. I wish I can have some more hours to sleep this weekend!

Travelling in south korea

I have spent a few days in seoul. I found that is very hard to travel by ourselves. I have asked some people in the street about where is the shopping center, but very few people can speak english. I think that is better to travel with some one can spread korean well!

After hours work

Running a start-up company, you have to prepare working during after hours. In a start-up company, all resource is very tight. That is nearly impossible to have any after hours staff which is too expensive to have. So, you have to do by yourself. Well, if you want to have your own start-up, a lot of things you need to do by yourself.

Backup is so important, but a lot of people always do not pay enough attention on this!

I have spent a lot of money to buy the backup storage and effort to get the backup working.  But that sounds a kind of useless in the normal situation. This is the reason, a lot of people are not keen on spending money on that! However, when the system is down, the backup is very very valuable!

The places I went during these two weeks

I took some days off past two weeks and my family came to visit me too! So, we did some traveling. Including:
Kangaroo point Brisbane

Brisbane China Town

Surfers Paradise

mount tamborine

north stradbroke island lookout point

north stradbroke island brown lake

Wow, I did a lot of travel!

Super Tired!

Last Saturday,  I went to helping out my church carnival and then I assembled a desk and wardrobe which we bought last week, that is super tired. Yesterday, I spared some hours to take a rest. But I am still super tired! I want a holiday!!!!

Sunny day again

During the start of this week, there was quite heavy rains. That was good. I got my empty rain water tank filled again. Today, we got a full sunny day too. That is another good thing.

Continuity Plans or Systems

A friend asked myself why we(AdvGen) always recommend all of our clients have some Continuity Plans or Systems if their IT system is essential for their business. She said if all go well, there should be not any problems. I asked her what if something goes wrong, they may lose money or clients. We cannot assume the things go well. This is not a prefect world, if anything can go wrong, there is possible to go wrong. Thus, we have to assume the worst situation can happen, how we can deal with that.

The reasons to have many blogs

A lot of people asked me why I have a number of blogs. Firstly, some of them are more professional. I did a proof read and someone did a proof read too! I even shows them to my clients. Some of them are very personal blogs. I do not bother there are some typo and grammar mistakes. That is for myself only.
Another reason is more technical. Blogs are separated into a number of servers and hosting providers. It will separate out work load. Moreover, no single point of failure! This is very important!

Very Tired

Today is the first day back to office. I am very tired. I got married on sat, and I spent two days in gold coast with my relative and my wife. Moreover, there are so many pending tasks need to be finished. I am exhausted.

A gateway holiday

Gold coast is a day trip option for myself. However, i have spent a few days in gold coast with my family. We stayed in an holiday apartment. That was a quite good. I did not need to rush back to brisbane during night time

May not able to do it better.

That is very easy to make some comments about other people work and make some suggestions to them.
In the most situations, we have considered those situations beforehand. In the majority of cases, we had not time or budget to take those suggestions. Also, in some situations , we are lack of experiences to carry out the tasks. My friends, we always try our best. However , that is the real world, nothing can be perfect .

Backup Plans are activated

The wedding is an important moment. However, that is a big project. I treated that as a project too. Thus, I have some backup plans in places to deal with the situations. For example, I found my own suits are not fitted for me anymore. I hired a suit.

The problem is all backup plans required extra budget. Actually, that is the reason, I treated those options as a backup before!

Checklist

I am so crazy. Next week, I will start my holiday, Moreover, I will have my wedding on that week too!
So many things items need to do in my head. I start to put them into checklist. I can solve them one by one.

I just backed from .Net User Group Brisbane

I just backed from  .Net User Group Brisbane tonight. That is a great session about the latest testing tool from Microsoft. Moreover, we have talked the news in .Net community too. I love  .Net User Group Brisbane meeting. We need to have this kind of meeting to stay updated as .Net developer. Also, we can have chances to do networking with other developers.

Crazy, Busy

I got a ton of tasks to be completed today, such as finish the first ios, writing a post on liveinbne, house cleaning and two reports done for clients. So so busy.
But even I cannot get a task done. I am so tired. Moreover, my wedding is only around two weeks. That is so so stressful!
I am getting crazy, wedding and a lot of personal stuff too!

I got up at 7.30am even I was off

I got a day off, but I had an appointment about 10.30. So, I got early,7.30am. I found in this way, I can get more things done. I went to gym for an hour, then I went to yum cha and I did some gardening, house cleaning, wrote a blog post and some apps developments. That was a very effective day!
Getting up early is great!