Sean Seah

We have all heard how Gartner forecasts that 6.4 billion connected things will be in use worldwide in 2016, up 30 percent from 2015, and will reach 11.4 billion by 2018. It’s a bright future for the Internet of Things (IoT) indeed. Let’s start small. How do you incorporate IoT into your home to make it smart? Let’s start with a few definitions. Trigger Controller Let’s start with the entrance. The entrance is the gateway to enter or leave your home. Perhaps when you return home, you would want your lights to turn on, water heater to start so that...…

It’s August the 9th, 2015 - a day to mark 50 years of our nation’s independence. The whole country was abuzz with patriotism and covered in red / white motifs as the SG50 celebration was in full flow. Yet, there’s a wedding to attend. I was decked in a light gray suit, engaged in groomsman duties for friends (both the bride and groom were my classmates) that I’ve known for over 15 years. …

All aboard! We were onboard the Sapphire Princess for a 4D3N cruise that would call at Klang (Kuala Lumpur) and George Town (Penang). The Sapphire was a marked difference to my other cruise experiences, which were limited to Star Cruises operated by Genting. On the scale of cruise lines, Princess can be considered as an upper-middle class brand and things were pretty nice. Especially the food. They had different themed dining rooms and food was served via a sit-down dining concept. …

My education background has largely been more tech focused and my tertiary education was in engineering. Yet, I have been writing online articles for some time now and thought perhaps I could improve myself and my writing further. One aspect could be through education and with the variety of MOOC courses currently, I figured I should attend one such course to pick up some knowledge in this arena. …

I have decided to set up a personal page on Github, and currently in the midst of migrating my past blog posts over from Blogger. I have been dabbling with computers, web design, python, wordpress, php / mysql, django and the likes, but really just scratching the surface for each of them. This is my first step into the world of Git and also the use of Markdown / Kramdown syntax. …

29 August 2014 changed my life forever. I had ended work early that day after an event and was looking forward to the start of the weekend. J was at the 18th week mark and had a long day at work. She was tired but it didn’t seem like much initially. She cabbed home after her work event and was resting after dinner. …