Too Bananaz

We talk about our gaming history mainly focussed around console gaming.

We delve into our own experiences and what we experienced through to how we think of gaming as "older" people and the attitude towards gaming.

Show Notes

0:10 Our console history

5:55 Hand held history

7:15 First Personal computer

9:15 East v.s West

11:43 Non console games

13:00 Parents and gaming

17:14 New parents and gaming

21:15 Benefits of gaming

Links

Nintendo history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo)

Sega history (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sega)

Tamagotchi (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamagotchi)

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This is a special episode in time for people returning to school.

Our first and special guest is Miss Lim from Singapore. They joins us to share her experience in teaching during the pandemic while we compare the similarities and differences between Singapore and UK education responses.

Show Notes

0:44 Health and safety at school

7:36 Learning during lockdown

16:07 Return to school

18:31 Difficulty in teaching different such as music and physical education?

20:55 Preparedness for exams

25:15 Effect on students

26:44 What did you learn as a parent?

28:25 What did you learn as a teacher?

Links

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What are documents and how do you stay on top of documents?

We share details about physical documents such as passports all the way to electronic documents and how we do it and considerations about searchability and security.

Show Notes

00:24 Types and formats of documents

03:48 Physical documents, physical to electronic and organising physical documents

08:59 How long do you keep your physical documents (document retention)?

13:22 Managing electronic documents

19:48 Electronic format and file sizes

21:00 Electronic document archiving

23:22 Sentimental document keeping

25:48 Securing physical documents

29:12 Securing digital documents

31:54 Backups!

33:16 Sharing documents and collaboration

34:50 Summary

Links

FUJITSU Image Scanner ScanSnap S1300i (https://www.fujitsu.com/uk/products/computing/peripheral/scanners/scansnap/s1300i/index.html)

CamScanner App (https://www.camscanner.com/)

Document Organisation Part 1 – Physical To Virtual Documents (https://dannytsang.co.uk/document-organisation-part-1-physical-to-virtual-documents/)

Document Organisation Part 2 – Management (https://dannytsang.co.uk/document-organisation-part-2-management/)

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We venture into topics surrounding personalities, specifically using the Myers-Briggs model and more insights into our personalities.

Show Notes

5:14 History

7:15 Myers-Briggs type indicator (www.inside-inspiration.com.au/factsheets…arison.pdf)

10:32 Colours of personality

12:25 Celebraties representing personality types

18:19 Our take on personality test results

22:42 Perform personality tests as standard?

25:25 Ethical side of personality tests

30:50 Pitfalls of personality tests

Links

Myers-Briggs type indicator (www.inside-inspiration.com.au/factsheets…arison.pdf)

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A follow up show from our very first episode now that lockdown has gone and easing back to life as we not know it.

Show Notes

2:13 Our lockdown experience

5:50 Information overload

7:32 Emotion tracking (mymoodpath.com/en/)

9:42 Shopping experience

16:20 Data on pandemic follow up

17:30 Working from home follow up (dannytsang.co.uk/24h-streaming-fo…-cancer-support/)

21:00 Adapting to change

22:42 What would you do differently?

Links

Blog: streaming 24 hours for charity (dannytsang.co.uk/24h-streaming-fo…-cancer-support)

Moodpath (mymoodpath.com/en/)

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Let's talk about money! What is a budget through to why and how we do it.

Show Notes

0:49 Difference between bugeting and saving

2:30 Danny's budgeting

4:00 Rainy day fund

11:54 Stan's budgeting

12:32 6 month rule

15:54 Budgeting software

30:35 Open Banking API (www.ukfinance.org.uk/guidance/payme…d-open-banking)

31:16 What would you do differently?

35:59 Budgeting and children

Links

MoneyDance (moneydance.com/)

Money Lover (moneylover.me/)

Monzo tweet to HSBC (twitter.com/t_blom/status/1116664454521999360?s=20)

Emma (emma.to/dannytsang)

Two cents: 5 Money Questions to Ask Your Partner! (youtu.be/u3qNhJrFl2E)

We explore stockpiling and what it means to stock pile in times of crises.

Show Notes

1:09 Stockpiling or hoarding?

3:29 Hoarding disorder

4:18 Hoarding in pandemic situation

5:50 What do we stockpile?

6:52 Stockpile during uncertainty

8:50 Toilet roll saga

9:26 Lessons learnt from history

11:12 Delay and stock management

13:28 Data analytics requirement

14:30 Government's advice against consumer behaviour

20:08 Purchase sensibly vs overreaction

22:27 Rationing considerations

Links

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We go through our setup for working from home, starting in a new job and then working from home due to COVID-19 and lockdown.

Show Notes

00:00 Introduction

1:40 Flexible Travel tickets (www.thameslinkrailway.com/tickets/tick…rnet-tickets)

4:38 Home set up and ergonomics

5:37 Streaming for charity (dannytsang.co.uk/24h-streaming-fo…-cancer-support)

6:23 Experimenting home set up

8:34 Using software for collaboration

9:25 Personal tools - your mice and keyboard (kit.co/dannytsang/home-office)

12:01 Remote work vs face to face

14:26 From team culture to social norm

Links

Carnet tickets (www.thameslinkrailway.com/tickets/tick…rnet-tickets)

Blog: streaming 24 hours for charity (dannytsang.co.uk/24h-streaming-fo…-cancer-support)

Home office kit (kit.co/dannytsang/home-office)

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Stan and Danny talk about COVID-19 from work to life during lock down and what has been impacted and changes we're making.

Show Notes

1:41 Handling fear via communication

3:11 Handling uncertainty - Health and financial aspects

6:13 Planning - Where is the limit?

7:31 Leveraging tools

15:03 When to use the Tools?

17:00 Mood, Tools and Mental health

Links

Leveraging on tools- MiMind (mimind.cryptobees.com/)

Leveraging on tools - Moodpath (mymoodpath.com/)

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