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Sabtu, 25 Juni 2016

Cloud TV APK

Date: Sep 13, 2015

This APK can be installed on any Android TV Set Top box, i.e. Xiaomi, FireTV, 10Moons, TMall, Minix, etc etc.

You can pay for your content using this App, if you want to.

The cost of it is from US$48 to $80 like that depending on which package you want to subscribe.

For me, I just use the FREE CONTENT.

There are just too many channels to browse. So, one way to make it simple is...

GO TO AREA menu.

SELECT Singapore.

It will list out the available Singapore Channels.

SELECT any channel you want to watch. For example Mediacorp 5 HD.

Make sure you can run that channel with no problem, no delay, decent speed, and picture quality is good or acceptable.

Then, you go back to the channel listing, select that channel again, and HOLD your OK button on your remote. Once you HOLD long enough, it will say “OK, this channel is in your favourites”. So, you have just added a channel into your favourite folder.

So, you continue do this and adding those channel that works.

Go different country. Like Malaysia, Hong Kong, United States, United Kingdom, and so on.

This is my Favourites folder.

I have all the Singapore channels, some Japanese TV channels.

I have ABC, CNBC, CNN, Bloomberg. Also BT Sport.

I have Hong Kong TV Channels and Malaysia TV Channels.

Malaysia & Taiwan Channels.

I also have some China TV channels.

Nowadays, I found no much different in terms of the performance from the pay content and the free content.

Some times these free contents will come and go. But it is good enough.

At least I have a way to watch Singapore channels.

You got to have patient in browsing thru all your channels and pick the one that run best on your Internet Service Provider.

Not all channels work the same on different ISP.

So, depend on the ISP your have, you might have a total different list of channels that work best for you.

This is only one of the APK I have for watching live TV.

Let It Go Butterfly

Date: Aug 23, 2015

One day, Blue Blue, my blue eye cat, was caught playing with “something” in his paws and mouth.

When you get close to see it, it was a bright green caterpillar, may be drop from the leaves in one of the pot in our balcony garden.

My wife thus place teh caterpillar into a plastic container. Of course, we place some leaves and water in it.

Few days later, the green caterpillar ate quite some leaves before turning itself into a pupa.

Another few days later… which is today.

Jay suddenly shouted and say “Mommy, mommy, the butterfly has come out…."

And there you go, the butterfly that we saved from Blue Blue’s paw.

As it is just came out from the pupa, the butterfly is learning how to flap its wings.

It is actually quite a nice butterfly. Very pretty.

She still flapping the wings. And she is ready to fly.

So, we have decided to “let it go”.

So that the butterfly can find a new home in our herbs garden downstairs.

We let Kay Kay do it. So, Kay Kay will let the butterfly go, and let her has her freedom.

She was a bit scare in the beginning, but as soon as she flapped a few times of her wings, she flew off.

Bye bye butterfly.

Of course, I did not waste this opportunity for Jay Jay to learn his Chinese Composition.

So, I quickly draw out my iPad and ask him and the brother to think about the Butterfly event, and write a small passage of it.

So, the journey from home to Millenia Walk is only 15-20 minutes.

As you can see, this is what he comes up with. Not too bad.

I recon that this will give him may be 5/10. So, thru out the day, we discuss about the whole event.

Instead of “my cat”, I asked him to think, where is the cat? Where he (the cat) finds the caterpillar?

Instead of “let it go”, how he fly away?

What about the conclusion, any thoughts he wanted to write down?

During lunch time, we talked about it.

After he took his Taekwondo grading, we talked about it.

While going from Millenia Walk to the Turf City, before the drawing class, we have another 20 minutes or so, for him to work on it.

And this is the revised version.

Much longer version.

He knows learned the important thing of “describing”.

Describe our cat is naughty.

Describe where our cat found the caterpillar.

Describe why the cat is naughty? See the caterpillar, wanted to bite it.

Describe the how he tell mommy about it.

Describe how the butterfly is scare and don’t want to fly out.

Tell who is the one brought the butterfly downstairs.

Describe how he touch the butterfly and make it fly away.

Describe what was his feeling? Happy.

Describe why? Because he let the butterfly regain his freedom.

This is a very short event. But writing it down involves constant thinking and asking questions about the 6 “Ws”.

Who?

Why?

When?

Where?

What?

How?

And after we have done with the Chinese composition, I will let him speak out from his mind in English. Again, asking him to “describe”.

He won’t learn it straight away.

But I am sure, thru the training, and exercising, he is more confident and grabs the concepts of writing.

Writing is about describing.

Writing is about asking the 6 “Ws”.

Why I love to read the Hardy Boys Junior Files for them every night.

That is because these Hardy Boys books focus in asking the 6 Ws to solve crime.

Hardy Boys: http://miniliew.blogspot.ch/2015/07/hardy-boys.html

And I show him a way how to use technology, the Dragon Dictation to quickly jot down the chinese sentence thru speaking.

First you learn how to pronounce things correctly. Second, you quickly write down the Chinese senates. For words you don’t know, as long as you can read, you can use the Han Yu Pin Yin to find the words. In P3 Chinese composition, they are allow to use the dictionary. Be it hard copy or electronic.

Hopefully, thru these methods, I can help my boy to improve his writing in both Chinese and English. Yeah, Dragon Dictation can change the languages to English or Mandarin.

Quite cool.

Dragon Dictation: http://miniliew.blogspot.ch/2015/08/learning-chinese-composition.html

And lastly, you notice that the brother Kay Kay is sitting besides. Do it in front of the siblings so that he or she can be inspired and wanting to follow his brother. :)

????My sons, if you guys can make it for your Chinese, don’t forget about the efforts your daddy put in to teach you guys. :)

Selasa, 21 Juni 2016

Lego Organisations

Date: Mar 10, 2015

Nowadays kids play Lego very differently.

1. Daddy daddy, I want you to buy this Lego set for me.

2. Once they build it. The Lego set will stay there for months or years to collect dust.

3. You end up with many Lego sets all fully build with lots of dust on it.

You wonder...

Lego suppose to help your kids creative. Not to follow instruction and build the Lego set.

Kids should learn how to build things that they like using their imaginations.

Luckily The Lego Movie has taught our kids one important thing.

Master Builder!!!

Is your kid a master builder? No? Neh-neh-neh-poo-poo!

Then, the next thing you know… all the kids wanted to be a master builder.

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In order to become a master builder, you need to build a correct environment for them to easily become a master builder.

Here is what I did.

A. Break all the sets up. Those that is not worth keeping, break them up into pieces. Of course, those like Star Wars set, if you wish to keep it, don’t break it. Once you break the Lego set up, you end up with lots of different Lego items. So, you will need to know how to organise it!

B. Of course, you can arrange all the same or similar part together. Such as like this. But one problem, there are too many different types of parts. So, it does not make sense to do so.

C. I used to keep them in here. But still too many variety makes it harder for you to find the parts. You simply cannot mix them together.

D. I try to keep them here too. It works, but still not enough. And the container is not so stable. Sometimes when you bring them around, one of the box lose the grip and drop on the floor, you end up with many Lego pieces lying on the ground. Haiz.

E. It can be a mess to leave on the ground just like that!

Solutions

F. I found these cabinet shelf at the hardware department of Giant Supermarket. It is OK affordable (from Giant). And it is quite useful. So, I slowly buy a few of them and slowly begin my organisation project.

G. You noticed those small Lego pieces “stick” on every drawer compartment? Yeah, to quickly identify where I store all the different Lego parts, I stick one of the same parts outside the drawer.

H. So, if you need any parts, just go to the drawer and pick. It is easier this way. All same or similar parts are placed in the same drawers and each drawers has a marker to indicate what parts it is.

I. So, how do I stick it on the drawer?

J. Go to hardware store to buy these heavy duty double sided tape for plastic.

K. I thought of using the super glue, yeah, Kra-gel. But better not.

L. See what I mean? After you organise it, it is simpler for you to look for correct parts so that you can build something you like using your creativity, and imagination.

M. Oh ya, forgot to introduce, under these uni-color blocks, underneath it is a House. Build by my son Jay Jay & his play dates Ashlyn. Under the big roof, you see table inside the house, you see stairs, and you see people inside. Got chair, got cupboard, etc. Beside it is a sky bridge. Under the bridge is car park space.

N. I am very happy with my work here. I will reuse some of the container to place more different parts in it. And hopefully my son will learn how to find parts to build what he wants. And thus become a real master builder. hahahaha

Selasa, 24 Mei 2016

I Am A Young Botanist Badge

June 27, 2015

Nowadays, it is not easy to raise a kid, man.

This June holidays, Jay has a couple of school project. It is voluntary project, but the kid says "must do”.

Because once you do it, you can get a badge. “I am a young botanist” badge. And this badge is given by Science Centre.

And the kid sure wants it.

It has a couple of categories. You can either become a botanist, or a zoologist or a environmentalist. But looking at the process of how to earn it. It is NOT EASY man!

At the beginning of the term, Jay says he wants to be all three of them.

And now, we figure out it is not easy. And this term, we can only accomplish one of them. Although I did bring them to the Zoo, River Safari and so on.

But after 3 weeks, we finally figure out, it is not easy project. And it takes time to do it. If the kids can do it themselves it will be ok, but the problem is, the parents need to give some guidance here and there.

That is what makes the project difficult for both me and my wife. We need to travel and we need to work. So, it will be impossible to finish all three of them.

But all of us were so happy when we finally done 23-24 stars out of the required 20 stars.

Here is what we did.

After discussion with Jay, we decided to do the Botanist project.

We have to find all kinds of seeds for him. And luckily, I bought a lot of seeds from Taobao. hahaha

Here is my seeds.

Let’s give it a box.

Place it nicely in the box.

The leaf press.

Every day, when Jay is free, he will go downstairs to pick up leaves. There are so many different kind of leaves. So, it will be parents job to match the leaves to a name.

Not an easy job. But slowly, cross referencing it here and there, and google it. We finally got it done.

Here is the plant press.

Next is to make the Eco Bottle Garden.

We even let Kay Kay help Jay Jay to make the bottle plant.

The kids love the process of making the bottle plant. Kay Kay has a larger bottle. Jay one is small. Well, just think about it, you still need to bring it to school. So, the bigger the bottle the heavier.