I was watching Netflix series Explained episode The Future of Meat when I first saw a vegan burger patty with the brand name Impossible Burger. Instead of ground meat, the patty is made of water, soy protein concentrate, coconut oil, sunflower oil and natural flavors. In the episode, several kids were asked to choose from... Continue Reading →
Diorama Kyoto Japan, Arashiyama
While we were waiting for the Sagano Romantic Train , we noticed that there's train diorama gallery in the same building as the Saga Torokko Station. Being a big fan of trains, I vehemently insisted that we go inside and have a look Inside we found a HYUUUGE train diorama made of HO scale trains. The... Continue Reading →
Sagano Romantic Train – 嵯峨野トロッコ列車
In our Spring 2016 visit to Japan, we wanted to explore Arashiyama, Kyoto and we read about the Sagano Romantic Train on the Sagano Scenic Railway line. The Sagano Romantic train is a sightseeing train line that goes between Arashiyama (嵐山) and Kameoka (亀岡) along the Hozugawa river (穂頭川). Depending on the season, you'll either... Continue Reading →
Naritasan Shinshoji Temple – 成田山新勝寺
Been a while since I wrote here for travels. Time to do one page!So, I went on another business trip to Houston a few months ago and like the year before, I had a 19 hour layover in Narita. Same as last year, landed in Narita late in the afternoon and get to stay overnight... Continue Reading →
Elasticsearch stack, Graylog and Traefik with Docker compose
The past several months (or perhaps the last one year) I have been trying to figure out a way to monitor our highly available distributed system. Over the past couple of year, the system have grown from around 20 virtual machines and now we have more than 100 virtual machines, running various applications and we're... Continue Reading →