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Taiwan trip 2019

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DAY 1: This is my 1st time to Taiwan. Super excited. We took the flight from Penang to Hong Kong via Cathay pacific (about 4 hours), and from Hong Kong to Taiwan (about 2 hours). We went to airport at 5am, and reach Taiwan around 4pm. Upon arrival at Taiwan, we were pick up by our Taiwan tour guide. The bus took us to National Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall. Location:  https://goo.gl/maps/BCUkaxrEzpH2 . Because this place open from 9am-6pm, when we arrive, it was about 5.30pm. So we just took some photos and leave the place. Now it is time for some food hunt. We were brought to Raohe St. night market. Location:  https://goo.gl/maps/tAD67fvMamz . Before we head to the night market, we walk around the temple next to the night market for toilet. So much to eat here and we just bought what ever we can and eat. DAY 2: After 2 hours walk, we back to hotel and check-in. Next day, we went to Yehliu Geopark. Location:  https://goo.gl/m...

Taiping trip

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Taiping is about 1.5 hours drive from Penang Island. So it quite a near place for a short getaway. Not much there but for a leisure trip, we spend 1 night there. 1st thing after we arrive, hotel check-in. Then we go for 1st place which is the Antong Coffee factory since 1933. Location: https://goo.gl/maps/rd3A2owWc5E2. Over here you can have free coffee testing. Next to it is the office where Sun Yat Sen been here during the Kuomintang revolution. We tour around this place and have some coffee. Some props for photograph. Then we went to fill up our tummy at Larut Matang Hawker Centre. Location: https://goo.gl/maps/uXkobGXsLys. Here we try the ice mountain, char koey teow,  With tummy recharge, we went to the Taiping lake. There we can easily spend few hours but because it is quite late, so we just walk on the side near to the Taiping Zoo as we are waiting for the night safari which start at 8pm. Night safari (Zoo Taiping) location: https://goo.gl/...

Sword Soul by Li Wei (Well Lee) - The Legend of the Condor Heroes 2017

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OST from the TV series "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" 2017 I just finish watch the TV series and love it. The songs keep replay in my head, so I kind of go get the Chinese lyrics and translate it to pinyin along with the meaning. Not sure how accurate but it just based on my interpretation.  Lyrics: Silence Wang 汪蘇瀧 Composer: Silence Wan 汪蘇瀧 Singing: Well Lee 李煒 *** 风声飘飘 雨也潇潇 Fēngshēng piāo piāo yǔ yě xiāoxiāo  Fluttering of the wind, pitter-patter of the rain 夜半还睡不着 yèbàn hái shuì bùzháo Can’t sleep though it past midnight 忧伤怀抱 谁眼泪掉 yōushāng huáibào shéi yǎnlèi diào  Embracing the grief, who is crying? 窗外雨打芭蕉 Chuāngwài yǔ dǎ bājiāo Rain battered the tree outside the window 漫天繁星闪耀 人儿痴痴笑 màntiān fánxīng shǎnyào rén er chī chī xiào Stars are shining the whole sky, people ridiculously laughing 不管来世只看今朝 bùguǎn láishì zhǐ kàn jīnzhāo Ignoring the afterlife, only care of living in the moment 抛开宿命...

A story about my family

Sometime around year 2006, my mom found a small lump on her breast. That was the time when I was on final year of my degree. She told us about that. We had no idea what to do and told her that best if see doctor for further checking. My dad instead of advise her to see doctor, he ask her to go to the temple and ask god. The god mention that she can boil some leaves and drink with the burned paper talisman. It will recover after that. After several attempts for months, it didn’t turn better. So my mom go and seek for alternative source from magazine and books. She found few leaves or grasses that so called proof can cure cancer from others personal experiences. She tried all methods include qi kong, grasses, leaves and burned talisman. My dad told her that a type of direct sales ling zhi mushroom can cure cancer. The scenario turn worst. She started to get fits from time to time. In year 2012, my mom getting fits more frequent that she fits once every two to one day. We requested h...

Unable to obtain internal DNS server

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I encounter an issue that unable to ping to FQDN but able to ping to IP address after setting up a Fortigate firewall. The remote office do not have any DHCP server and DNS server. Therefore I setup the Fortigate 60D as the DHCP and create a IPSec to the HQ office. I then try to perform nslookup on the connected device and notice it provide me the ISP DNS instead of internal DNS. As resolution, go to Network > Interfaces > internal. Edit the internal interfaces and set the DNS server to Specify. Enter the internal DNS server IP.

Turn off Fortigate web access from public IP

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Accessing from external public IP to Fortigate devices are important especially for remote site. However, this might open up security loop hole for attacker to access to company environment via public IP. Login to Fortigate, navigate to Network > Interfaces > the wan interface > edit. Under Administrative Access > uncheck the HTTPS / HTTP. Also make sure the SSH & SNMP is not checked.