Christmas eve...

Today is X'mas eve, but I'm still in office, working. Why am I working? It's not because I don't like holiday, but I got to finish up with some outstanding work, so that I can go on leave till 28Dec.

Although, I don't really celebrate X'mas as a religious day, is a holiday to me actually, but, I do buy a gift for my little niece, as she is such as loveable girl. I always make a point to get her a present or gift on her birthday and X'mas.

I have also send e-greeting cards to my colleagues, wishing them a happy and joyful X'mas and new year.

Leaves approved! But...

Although, my boss had already approved of my two days leaves for Thursday and Friday, but, I still got some unfinished work to settle tomorrow. I got a meeting minutes to do, some documents to review, I reckon this should take me at least half a day, so, meaning I can still go on leaves in the afternoon. Also, I intend to take two or three days next week, after Christmas day, that would be good. Yeh.....

Take a break

I have applied for two days leaves for this coming Thursday and Friday, my boss has not approve it yet, anyway, as usual, I will still go ahead and clear my leaves. So finally, I'm going to have a long weekend till Christmas. I may even clear the rest of my outstanding leaves days next week, till the end of the year! How nice, huh ?!?!

Before going on leaves, I still have work to clear, got a meeting tomorrow, and I will be taking the minutes, supposed to be today, oh gosh! Then, there's some document reviews to do, not sure whether can finish them, but will do my best.

Any advice?

Some people has said that I'm too much into work. It seems like my life revolves around work, and nothing else, if you look at most my entries here, they always talk about work. Reading the posts, you will roughly know what I do for a living, right? I don't make alot of money, even though sometimes I have to work on weekends or overtime.

I think I need advice, perhaps plenty, if you do have any, do put in the Comments.

What's on Sunday

I'm thinking whether I should go back to work on Sunday. Just three week's ago, also a Sunday, I had tried to test swing over of SAN disk connectivity from one Windows server to another, but, this was not succcessful. So, i intend to do it again, this time, I had made some changes to the SAN's configuration.

Let's see whether I will be able to wake up early tomorrow.

I would like also, to share with you a very interesting blog at http://aaroninafrica.blogspot.com/. Aaron, a peace corp volunteer who is in Africa. Lots of video to watch.

Today

Today is Friday!

Today is the day, the day! The day you will return back home!

I am working today, so, not sure whether can make it to the airport to meet you, the time is pretty tight. I have got a couple of problems to solve today, application stuff, let's hope that they can be resolved today, or at least find something of what may have caused the issue.

Anyway, I will always do my best I can....

Questions from the team

I have finally completed the mount points setup for the second HP-UX server which is connected to a SAN system for another customer. The external SAN storage requirement was for at least 1TB to be configured solely for this server. This was done yesterday.

On the same day, I got questions from the team, asking me whether we should have a KnowledgeBase or 1st level troubleshooting guide for helpdesk. In order to address this, I spent about 3hrs last night creating the guide, will send to the team for comments or inputs.

There was also the question of data migration/batch support, one colleague claimed that he played multiple roles doing both in some weeks, which I presumed that he meant this is unfair. Ok, I will think about this, in fact, I'm more willing to scrap this batch support thing, let's see whether they are in favour.

Two more days..

Hey, how time flies, two more days and you will be back! Have you started packing?

I maybe busy for the next 2 weeks or so, have got another task to do in the afternoon, and this is due on Friday. Next week, I may need to provide support for another customer's disaster recovery exercise, mainly to assist if there's any server related issue. The other team who handles the Data recovery portion encountered some issues this week, so might need to help take a look at the server's configuration.

I still have about a week's annual leaves left, hopeful around the mid of next week, I will be able to clear them.

Hey, it's me!

Ya, it's me (not the man in the photo), way past midnight, and haven't sleep yet. I guess I got too much nap this afternoon, so I'm still pretty awake now.

Been troubled by an application issue for the past one week, did a search of the web just now, looking for solution or fix, but no luck, couldn't find much useful stuff, other than those I already know. It's just one of those times where you will spending time after office hours to solve work related problem, so used to it already. No worries, the storm comes and goes, will definitely get over it....

Coup in Fiji

Just heard from news today that there was a coup in Fiji, and the military has taken over the functions the government. Wondering what's going on there.

I remember that time you told me that you wanted to visit Fiji, hopefully, that it is not part of your travel plan.

How's everything? Have you been enjoying yourself?

I'm actually counting down on the day of your return. I have been keeping myself busy here, very tired sometimes, but I know I'm doing something very worthwhile.

Busy work week ahead

Mostly likely, next week is going to be a busy work week for me. I have planned work for some OS installation work at two different Disaster Recovery sites, software installation for two servers at my office's data centre, hmmm, maybe I will get our Windows Administrator to do that.

There's also my progress report to write, prepare learning plan for our team members and also preparation for take-over the duties of our DBA who is confirmed will be secondment to an overseas assignment next month. Let see how I can manage....

I read an article today, this guy said something interesting, it goes:

"If you are technically competent, but lacks communication skills, you will be struggling."

I think it's true, expecially in the IT line, most of the people I know are very technically capable, but when it comes to communication, it's just not there.

Here's another, a modified version by me:

"To survive in the IT industry, no matter what position you are in, you should continuously seek to enhance your technical, professional, communication and mangement skills, else you are just wasting your work life."

Go for training

I have also emailed my boss on a specialised skills (e.g. AutoSys, WebLogic App, PeoplelSoft Admin) learning approach for our team members, he supportive of it. My plan is to ensure that we can attend external training so as to supplement the knowledge learned from hand-ons, as well as build up team compentency, confidence and expertise, not only in running of current projects, but also external ones. In future, we do not have to rely on others, esp. vendors and other technical teams.

You know, this idea arose because I have been pretty frustrated at having to beg other external parties for help, alot of time wasted doing that, that's because we do not have that technical speciality skills. If we have them, people will look at us differently.

Overseas posting

It has been confirmed, one of our DBAs will be deployed for an overseas assignment. He will either be in Australia or Malaysia, working on a Sybase Database project for a Telco company. This assignment will last three months, starting early January next year.

I think this is a good exposure and experience gaining opportunity for him, so I'm not opposing to his overseas' posting, but hopefully he will be back with the team here after the end of the posting period.

Meanwhile, have to start preparing the hand-over and take-over process, critical for our only DBA who will be taking over his tasks.

HP-UX OS installation

I completed a HP-UX server installation yesterday for one of the customers. Really, this is probably the first time I did a OS installation of a HP-UX server, previously, I have only seen my Unix administrator do it.

For a start, I made a silly mistake, instead of loading the OS installation disk, I put in the documentation CD in the CD-ROM drive, of course, it couldn't start up the installation process, wasted at least an hour then found out the I got the wrong disc!

Eventually, managed to get the right installation going, plus OS patching, the whole process took about four hours to complete.

My Cousin's Big Day

Today is wedding day of one of my younger cousins, and I will be attending his wedding dinner later tonight, with my family.

How times flies, come to think of it when we were still young, playing as kids, now he's getting married and soon will have his own children.

I think I am probably one of last few remaining male of that generation who is still single and nobody wants, pity me! Haha...

Anyway, hopefully you are enjoying your trip with your mum.

Well, almost time getting ready to go to my cousin dinner.....see ya...

ITIL Course

I have just attended the ITIL foundation course from Monday to Wednesday. This is a very interesting short course, and at the end of the course, there was a multiple choice exam questions where you have to obtain at least 26 out of 40 questions right, hopefully I pass.

The ITIL is made up of best practices, and ITSM or IT Service Management is part of it. Basically, it touches on Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, Configuration Management processess, plus the Service Desk support function, all these part of the Service Support. Service Delivery includes Availablity Management, Capacity Management, Service Level Management, Business Continuity Management and IT Finanace Management. It also covers Security Management which is not part of Service Delivery, but related.

My company is currently practicing this process model, so would be good to have a basic knowledge of what is this all about.

Weekend peace time

I thought I will be spending the weekend in peace today, especially, it rained in the afternoon, cooler for taking naps, but not so.

Our new Windows admin guy "hit the panic button" and called me saying one of the server could not be logout, showed light blue screen on the console for half an hour. I thought he had seen this before, and I did told him what to do, simple, check the HDD light, if no activity, do a hard power off and on it back, resolved.

The second incident, one of the app guys email us saying he could not logon to the application using some of the user IDs due to logon time retriction. This has nothing to do with the servers, I wanted to tell him that application security admin is not under our purview and please check with his application team's colleague. But being helpful, told him what it can be done to enable logon. He didn't email back, hopefully it's already solved.

Our DBA guy will be away for the next one week, I will also on course for he first three days of the week, hopeful, the rest of the team mates can work things together.

Unsecured Wireless Network

Just last week, a guy was charged in court for tapping on someone's wireless network, indirectly access the Internet via the victim's broadband connection. This is probable the first time I'm have heard, and I have never thought this could happen, the court thing, I mean.

Over here, most people live in flats of close proximity, if you just do a wireless network scan, you will sure to find some (networks) which are not secured. I believe there are people out there trying to tap on to other people's wireless network without the other party's knowledge. Mostly, I don't think they did it with ill intention, e.g. hacking, cracking, sniffing, but, rather, to get free access to fast internet connections at someone's expense.

I heard in some countries, such as Canada, if you are caught not securing your wireless network, you will be charged, reverse of what's happening here. Anyway, sometimes it's difficult to draw the lines, it's the almighty Law that determines the guilty party and eventually mete out the desired punishment under the justice system.

System roll out

The Windows systems which I have been working on for the last two weeks have finally rolled out, LIVE! today.

I heard there were some issues, complaints from users this morning, but that's the application concern, shouldn't be serious, though. Usually, it he timeout, connection slowest, error message when navigating, etc.

I'm also in the midst of completing the technical documentation today, do a final edit and then send it to the Project team. I reckon that in future they may want our team to administrator or maintenance the servers for them, if that is so, likely I will get our Windows guy to provide the primary support and then I back him up.

Have a look at this photo

Nothing particular, just want you to take a look at this picture of the roller coaster track.

Looks scary isn't it? That's the new Superman Escape ride.

High speed, velocity, very very exciting, but too bad, I didn't try it, weak heart, don't dare.

Another Windows' issue

I installed a couple of Windows Server 2003 OS patches on two new servers, production and UAT environments, that was Monday. Then I tried to run the Microsoft Baseline Security Analyser v2.0 or MBSA v2, it failed. The error message was "The catalog file was corrupted" or "could not find the host to scan", something like that.

I couldn't solve the problem yesterday, so waited until today, got my new Windows admin guy to have a look. He managed to find out that it was due to the "Computer Browser" service that was turned off, which is required by the MBSA scan. That's good, that shows he's learning, I like that attitude. He is currently still worknig as a contracted staff, with this working attitude, soon, I may ask boss to convert him to permanent.

Number 100th

By the time you are seeing this, you would have completed your exams. This is my number 100th post, finally!

How times flies, I remember more than three months back, when I wanted to start this blog, I didn't know what to do, what to write or what kind of blog page design I want. With blogger.com, all these are simple to do, they provided the template for me to use, althought, maybe there's a lack of originity on this part, but ok.

If this is the first post that you are reading, there are 99 more to go. Hee...hee....8-p

System Security exam

Hey, you guess what? I passed the system security exam two days ago! Finally, after studying for the last eight weeks, I earned it. It was tougher that my previous system network exam actually, but my score was ok.

Sad also, I found out that I have lost my system network certificate yesterday. Don't know where I left it, maybe lost when I went for a job interview last year. I will continue to look for it, funny, usually I am quite careful. If cannot find, nevermind, anyway, my certification status is still recognised by the vendor.

This is Windows...

Yesterday, I had to go back home late, after midnight actually, because I was trying to resolved a Windows 2003 Server problem due to OS hardening. I spend almost six hours of my time in this, way passed midnight. I had to revert back all the changes I made earlier until I found out the main cause.

There is this parameter "Bypass traverse checking", which allows user to access (traverse) directories without if they are not allow into the parent folder. The initial permissions were granted for Everyone, Administrators, Users, Power Users and Backup Operators. I removed Everyone, Users and Power Users, and after server reboot, I could not even access the Networking panel, run the Backup or check the Dependencies in the Services. Managed to solved the issue by putting "Authenticated User" into the rights, and reboot server, it works!

Cha Kuey Tiao

I had Cha Kuey Tiao for dinner today. It has been quite some time since I last ate it, I don't usually got the chance to eat it, not that it is not available, but because I can't eat it too frequent due to my acne problem.

I just can't believe it, at my age, I am still bothered by pimples! Don't know whether is it due to the oily and fried food I eat everyday or just because I am too stressed out and can't sleep well at night.

The taste of Cha Kuey Tiao makes me water, it is actually chinese noddles fried with sweet dark soy sauce, chilli, chinese sausage, bean sprouts, fish cake and sea hums or cockles. It's a very filling meal, but not good to take it every day.

Pay a visit

I visited my cousin's shop yesterday, it is a small place, but there are heaps of clothes for sale. Although the place is abit messy, but most of the stuffs already hung on the racks were already in order. She was not there at that time as she had a full time job, so, her aunt was helping her to do the sales.

In that a couple of hours that I was there, I saw people, mostly women, visiting the shop, and buying stuffs. Really, these people can really spend their money, easily hit over hundred dollars per purchase.

Later, I told my cousin that she should start thinking of quiting her job and do full-time maning of her shop, because I think her aunt will not be able to handle it alone, as she also has other things to do.

Busy schedule

I have been busy.

Yesterday, my cousin called, wanted me to help out at her new boutique shop, I reckoned the business should be not bad, can earn a couple of hundreds, I guess. That aside, she also has a full time job, so it's pretty tough for her shuttling between her real job and her business, my aunt was helping her, but it's not the best arrangement.

I'll be taking half day off tomorrow, maybe I will go and visit her shop.

I was also been busy with, not really work, but studies, preparing for the exams and also read up on the other hacking course materials, it's tough. Now I know most of the hacking or cracking are aimed at Windows OS, tools like enum, pwdump, dumpsec, smbdie, etc. are pretty useful in exploiting or harming the OS.

I have been busy, really.

All cleared!

For the last few days, it has been clear weather, the sun is out, the haze is gone, hopefully, it stays this way.

I learned a lesson from this hazy weather; never to trust the weather men (or women), they are never near accurate in weather forecast. Earlier on, they said it the PSI will not go beyond 100, but on the next day, it was over that. Few days back, they said the haze condition would last till mid of next month, well, it's clear now. What's next? Don't know. I think the most accurate weather forecast is to look at the sky just before stepping out of any shelter.

Recent hot topic, read it, should be pretty interesting: http://www.womendiary.net/2006/10/22/wee-shu-min-the-slammed-rjc-girl/

Survivor Cooks Island

While people here are still arguing the new Survivor season is appropriate to be on TV, our only local TV station has already decided to go ahead and air it. In US, there are people not wanting stations to show it on TV.

Quote from one reader (country and people references have been removed, XXX):

"In a multiracial city that owes its peace and prosperity to good relations among the various races, XXX cannot allow the mass media to condone divisions along ethnic lines in the name of entertainment.

Airing the show is a blatant disregard of social sensitivities post-9/11, and it undermines the government's efforts at bringing XXX closer as one people.

If XXX walk away with the idea that it is all right to assess one's physical and mental abilities on the basis of their race, that it is all right for one race to feel superior to another because it wins in the challenges, that members of one race feel like they are losers because of the colour of their skin, then we have indeed not matured as a people and not learnt the painful lessons of the past."

Lesson no. 1

Attended the first lesson of the hacking course yesterday's evening, the teaching was totally different from the 1st introduction lesson previously, where the class was slow moving. It looked like the instructor has finally started his engine and engaged high gears in his teaching.

Two modules were taught, the basics, theories and also introducing the methods and tools that can be obtained in the Internet to gather information. It about Footprinting, meaning to map out the security profile of a organisation. The information gathering activity can be divided into seven phases: Gather inital information, locate network range, ascertain active machine, discover open ports/access points, detect operating systems, uncover services on ports and map the network.

We were told websites such as www.allwhois.com can be used to retrieve domain information and IP addresses. There are also website like www.archive.org, which we can access to checked archived or past webpages of any websites!

The course is getting more exciting now, lesson no. 2 tomorrow...

Rainy...rainy...

It finally rained, after weeks of no sun weather. Not sure, though, whether the rain did fully clear away the haze, the PSI had been around 100, which was still in the unhealthy zone. From a distance away, the sky still looks either qiote misty or hazy, can't really tell the difference, maybe have to wait till the rain stops. However, the rain did bring in some coolness and wetness as well, so it's good that it rained.

I just came from buying a food item, it's a pack of ready to cook Indian pancake, Roti Prata. My mum is also making curry for lunch today, so, we are going to have rice, Roti Prata and curry. It's pretty easy to cook the Roti Prata, just put some oil in the wok or fry pan, then put the Prata in, flip it so that both sides are evenly cooked then you can serve it. Yummy, I'm going for lunch now....

What's for tomorrow?

Tomorrow, two of our database guys will be going to office to perform the database upgrade for one of our servers.

They should not need the system guys to be around, but we will be on standby just in case. This is always the case, like last week, if I had not gone to office to look at the OS upgrade, some of the problems may not have been resolved, and probably won't be able to complete the upgrade in time. But, it's good to be ready and remain contactable, in case, they need help.

Prep for exam

I finally completed studying all chapters in the system security certification book today, will be going through the reviews and questions in next two weeks. Hopefully, at the end of the second week, I will be able to take the exam.

This exam is not an easy one, not all the topics are clearly easy to understand, so have to work hard and earn it. I got to pay for the exams first, and hopefully, my company will reimburse me later, they better do that.

So, how is the weather today? It's good, I went for my weekend jog in the afternoon, the sky is also clearer from haze. Hopefully, it remains this way.

Meet with customer

I said before, I don't like meetings, especially with customers. Basically, in the meetings, they will try all sort of ways to thrash you up. Most of the time it has to be with payments, they just like to delay.

We met up with our customer, a monthly meeting yesterday. Again, it all about money, most of the items have been discussing in circles for many months, never close. One of the payment items that was discussed, in the previous meeting, they told us to buy the equipment and set it up first, but, in this meeting, they just refused to pay, saying we should be the one paying. In the end, we had to take this item separately off the meeting.

The meeting took more than 2hrs, way past our working hours, and it was a Friday.

Also in this meeting, I found that I should brush up on my communication and presentation skills.

More more sweet words...

This one...

"If I could rewrite the alphabet, I would put U and I together."

This too...

"I looked up beautiful in the thesaurus today and your name was included."

So, now, after what were said, are you interested in me? Would you like to join me for romantic candle-lit dinner tonight?

Hacking lesson

I finally attending the first lesson of the hacking course, ya, computer hacking, that is. I made an effort to reach the school just in time for the lesson to start.

The instructor is very experience in security, network and systems. He claimed that his company manages systems and desktop world wide, and he also have experience in implementing security firewalls, etc..

I guessed maybe he was in a holiday mood because come this Saturday is a festive holiday for him. He was also not so eager to start the class, taking his time to try to download the instructor's slides, but was unsuccessful due to the slowness of the network.

The lesson ended without really going through the modules, and he said we will get another make up lesson.

Some more cool words..

Here are some more, in case, you haven't had enough.

"Can I borrow your hand phone? I need to tell my mom I've just fallen in love."

More?

"Can I have a picture of you so I can show Santa what I want for Christmas?"

And more?

"Do you believe in love at first sight or do you want me to walk by again?"

Got enough of all these? ;-)

Cool....

Gal: I'm going to call the Police.

Guy: Why?

Gal: It's because someone just stole my heart. 8-p

Guy: hee..hee.. 8-)))

It's cool, isn't it? Saw this in a news article, there are also a couple of others, but I can't remember. Some people are just so creative, nothing to do huh?

Air not fresh

Don't know why, seems like the haze problem has taken a hit on my health. I have been feeling weak, tired out and eyes feeling uncomfortable easily, this is not something that I would expect because I used to work in air-con environment and don't usually go outdoors, unless during lunch time.

The PSI still lingers around 100 plus daily, the burning smell is not that strong. The weather people says this problem will last till November, hopefully the rain will come then. Hopefully, they are right in their prediction.

Information Security

Question: What is Information Security?

Answer: Information Security is the Confidentiality, Intergrity and Availability of information.

This, must remember, as our security audit is coming, we were told to remember by heart after attending a briefing yesterday. We were also told to clear our desks, never to leave any network diagrams, sensitive or confidential information, printouts lying around.

I better go clear my desk soon...

Earthquake

Have your heard? There was a strong earthquake at Hawaii early Sunday. Some roads were blocked by landslides and buildings were damaged, but no casualty reported.

According to the National Earthquake Information Center, the quake measured 6.5 hit Big Island, but no possibility of tsunami. Hopefully, the quake does not create serious problem.

Remember that time when I suggested going to Hawaii next year? Well, I am still interested. No change of plan for now.

I just feel like writing more

Well, it's me again, don't know why I just feeling like writing more and more. This happens to be my 80th post.

My dear Friend, you asked me yesterday what I want so that you will buy for me when you are back home, I think I also don't know, maybe anything would be good. Food? Chocolates, sweets, red wine, lime juice? Yummy, anything else edible? Maybe also, pins? I like collecting pins.

Well, I just hope that you will be back soon, do you best in whatever you do, cheers and enjoy yourself there!

I love milk

I bought two packs of one litre milk yesterday, my favourite, with added Vitamin K and D. Althought it doesn't taste like the real cow milk thing, but I like the taste, not too sweet, and it's chilled.

Tell you something, I have not been drinking milk for the last one month or so, I craved for it, that's why I bought two packs, it's usually cheaper than buying one. I reckon that I should be able to finish them in one week's time.

Calcium intake is good for the bones, I heard in order to absorb these material into your body, you got to have Vitamin K and D too, they 'attract' the precious metal, just like magnets.

Back to Office on Sunday

I am back in office today, woke up earlier than usual on a Sunday's morning, reached office at about 9:30am. My two other colleagues were already there.

The plan was to do a OS upgrade for one of our Unix servers, we thought it should not be so complicated, but then, it took us more than eight hours, till now haven't finish. Earlier on, during the installation of the new OS, we found that one of the system mount points was not setup with enough disk size, again had to re-install everything.

The bulk of the time was used to do restoration of data files from the backup cartridage tapes, because the backup server and the server those OS was to be upgraded were in two different VLAN separated by firewalls and hardware loadbalancers, it exceeded our expected time. We are behind the scheduled time now...

Doing own business

My cousin told me on Thursday that she will be going into sales business, opening a boutique to sell clothes, to be exact. She said that she had already got the money to cover 80% of the costs, including rents, purchase of goods and utilities bills, etc.

I went with her to a wholesale shopping centre to buy some goods, i.e. clothes, mostly from China and Hong Kong. Price range of these clothes are from 10 to 35 dollars. According to the wholesale people, they can sell them from around 30 to 80 bucks, that's a profit of more than 100%! You could get a party gown for about 30 plus, which can be sold at 80 plus. There are a lot of different styles and patterns to choose from, although the quality isn't there. She spent about 300 plus to buy about 20 sets of clothes, well, let's see how many can be sold when her shop opens for business in a few weeks time.

What's wrong with the job scheduler?

What's wrong with the job scheduler?

There was a problem with the job scheduler yesterday, for unknown reason, a job was terminated. After carrying out the investigation, we could not find what was wrong with it, it doesn't seems to be caused by human error, just somehow it erred.

It was a critical job that was terminiated, an incident, the log file didn't give much information. I got this feeling that the job scheduler had gone haywired and failed to recover by itself. As a result of this issue, a couple of depending jobs were not triggered. I have one of our administrators to investigate further, but I don't think we will be able to gather any more valuable information for investigation.

An incident

An incident happened today, a foreign currency job was wrongly submitted to run, resulted in wrong report being generated and possibility incorrect updates on the database.

From the Operator's side of the story, he claimed that he did check and verify correctness before the submitting the report to run. From the Apps' side, they claimed an account ID was wrongly updated. Deadlocked!

What I was get the database table name from Apps, which is supposedly to be "updated", and ask the DBA to check the audit trail. The DBA couldn't find it, so we had to proceed to restore the previous day's database data and check whether changes were done, and by who. Need to recall the tapes from offsite, so have to wait....

Completed scripts for two new interfaces

I have finally completed the scripting for the two new SFTP interfaces and also updated the technical documentation.

Both interfaces go to the same remote server, put and get files, the difference is with the scripts used and the scheduled time to run. It is simpler if the run time is always, say, 1st day of the month, every day of the week, but may not be always so. Some of the jobs are set to run on working days, if a particular run is the last day of the month, how difficult can be it to set it on the Windows scheduler? Think again, Windows scheduler only offers very simple run calendar, you have to set all this 'last working day of the month' run date manually. The other way is to write a text file, pull all the run dates, e.g. 20061010 for year 2006, month 10 and day 10 in it, then write a script to check and compare this 'run date' with the system date, and only initiate a connection to the remote server to get or put files when there's a match. Also, setup your scheduler to run this script every day.

Clear sky

As at 3pm, the PSI figure has gone down t0 34, in the healthy range. The sky clears, although it did not rain. The burning smell that came with the haze problem has gone too. Take a look at the picture I post here, you will see the difference. Hopefully, for the rest of the day, it's like that. I think this is just so incredible, you can see what in one day the difference is by comparing this picture with the one I posted yesterday, don't you think so, too?

I also had the chance to going for a jog session and swim, I really feel good now.

Stays indoor

The Health Advisory says : Persons with existing heart or respiratory ailments should reduce physical exertion and outdoor activity.The general population should reduce vigorous outdoor activity.

As at 8pm, the PSI figure was at 143, still within the unhealthy range. I didn't go swimming or jogging today, will see whether the weather will improve tomorrow.

I will be calling my Friend tonight.