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Jun 23
3 min

Bringing In Some Heavy Equipment

As some countries around the world are slowly relaxing their quarantine rules, and people are cautiously allowed out while maintaining (m...

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Jinx Chin

Jun 9
3 min

My Most Idiotic (And Most Watched) Video on YouTube

Now that even more people are watching YouTube and Netflix than ever before, due to the lockdowns around the world, it makes sense that ...

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Jinx Chin

Jun 5
2 min

I'm Officially An Old Man

As you get a little older in this game called life, life has a way of giving you subtle and sometimes, not-so-subtle-hints about this ine...

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Jinx Chin

May 28
1 min

Plex Server Not Visible Outside Your Network

For those of you who have Plex servers and would like to stream your movies outside of your home network, and you have tried the followin...

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Jinx Chin

Apr 25
1 min

Fun Video Project

I have this strange habit of wanting to shoot video of my wife baking or cooking. I don't know if it has anything to do with those foodie...

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Jinx Chin

Apr 21
1 min

How To Make Money When You Have To Stay At Home

I have been having a lot of fun getting back into the art of Magic, and this particular coin vanish or appearance is one that is quite ol...

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Jinx Chin

Apr 20
1 min

Card Flourish - Goldston's Card Flower

Here is a card flourish that I thought was quite pretty and unexpected, the first time I saw it years ago. That last part was unexpected.

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Jinx Chin

Apr 19
1 min

Shopping at a Food Distributor - Foodlink Australia

In the age of Covid Quarantining, I try to stay at home as much as possible, except for days when we gotta get groceries. On these grocer...

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Jinx Chin

Apr 19
1 min

More Magic - Cigarette Trick

Here is a trick I used to do with an actual lit cigarette. Since, smoking is on the decline (and that's a good thing), and I don't smoke,...

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Jinx Chin

Apr 19
1 min

Blast From The Past - Magic Time

I found this old video of me performing a magic trick for some friends at a Buka Puasa (Break Fast) get together in 1997. Wow! I had hair!

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Jinx Chin

Apr 3
2 min

Dalgona Coffee - Nice and Lethal at The Same Time

So there's this thing that's been trending recently about this drink known as Dalgona coffee. Supposedly this trend started out in Korea,...

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Jinx Chin

Mar 28
1 min

Day Nine or Ten...Who Cares! It's Magic!

I've lost count of the days in my little self-quarantine, but in my isolation, I've been doing what I can to keep from going stir-crazy. ...

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Jinx Chin

Mar 26
1 min

Not Your Father's Sungei Gombak (Gombak River) in Kuala Lumpur

The name of "Kuala Lumpur" literally translates to "muddy confluence". Basically, it refers to the part where two rivers meet to form a l...

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Jinx Chin

Mar 24
1 min

Coronavirus Quarantine - No Gym? No Weights? Hmmm...

While we all continue our unprecedented collective "house arrest" for our own health's sake, I thought it would be somewhat fun to try to...

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Jinx Chin

Mar 20
1 min

OK I'm Quarantining Myself - What Now?

So here we are in the midst of keeping ourselves away from our fellow man, and woman....and we seem to find ourselves in unfamiliar terri...

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Jinx Chin

Mar 19
1 min

Travelling to Sydney in The Year of Corona

We are going through some really unprecedented times. Doesn't it feel like a premise of a disaster movie? The only difference is, it is r...

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Jinx Chin

Aug 28, 2019
1 min

How I Ensure I Don't Slit My Wrists When My Hard Drive Crashes (The 3-2-1 Backup)

I hope this never happens to you....when you're working on your project and you're just about at that point when things are coming together

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Jinx Chin

May 28, 2019
2 min

Road Trip #2 (The Epic One)

After the fun that was had during our epic road trip #1, it was only natural that we were looking forward to the super epic trip that was...

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Jinx Chin

May 5, 2019
2 min

Lightbulb Removal Hack

How many people does it take to unscrew a lightbulb where the glass part of the bulb has come off, leaving only the metal base still screw...

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