Good evening you guys welcome to tonight's video, so I am going to be showing you guys my Nighttime self-care routine. I don't do these things every single night because it's hard to keep up your self-care routine every single Day obviously because sometimes you just don't have time for it It's unrealistic But I'm gonna show you guys a night in my life that I do pamper myself like I said I do like to pamper myself Yeah, we're gonna do it together I've been honestly not feeling my best lately because my Zima has been flaring up I got an IUD and it's giving me a lot of like hormone imbalances, which is making it flare And I just honestly have not been feeling my best So I think I deserve a self-care night and it's also nice to do this one in a while because I haven't done one in a while So yeah, I hope you guys enjoy this video. It is currently six o'clock actually. I just ate dinner finished up my work I just had leftover soup for dinner or something special. Yay I hope you guys enjoy and it makes you calm and relaxed and we can have a cute evening together Okay guys, so the first thing that we're going to do is we are going to change. I mean not change We're gonna wash our bed sheets I've been washed our bed sheets in a couple weeks and they're supposed to be done every single week because if you think about it You are literally on your bed eight hours a night at least you're sweating You're rolling around you're rubbing on the sheets and it's kind of disgusting if you don't wash them frequently You know and when I was younger I used to be able to go like a month without watching washing them And then I realized like I saw this thing that said you should be washing them every week And I was like shit that actually makes a lot of sense. So Anyways, we're going to wash our sheets because I haven't done it in a while And so this is your sign to do it too, but also one of the best feelings literally ever is getting to crawl into bed Cleaned like you've done yourself care routine into brand new freshly washed sheets I think there's just one of the best feelings in the world. It's just so good. So that's what we're doing tonight We're setting ourselves up for success, baby I just literally tonight got a separate package in the mail and I wanted to unbox it with you guys because there's Selfcare products in here that I want to Obviously show you and I have some repurchases in here too of products that I've already like tried and stuff And then I ordered again that are a staple part of my routine. This is from the Sephora sale by the way Let me know if you guys ordered from it. I just got like a few things I didn't go too crazy.  I missed it. But whatever cute Okay, first of all here are the samples that they gave me these aren't the ones that I picked out because you know I can pick them out on their website. I literally already have the shampoo because show that's funny So the first thing that I got that's actually a repurchase I just actually ran out of this this morning when I was using it in the shower But this is the oak cleansing balm by the inky list and I love it so much I have been like I said flaring with my Xima. I usually use this therapy hydrating Cleanser this one's really popular. I used to use this every single night and it was completely fine for my skin I loved it. I've been using it for years now but Ever since I started flaring with my Xima my skin has been Irritated by this which is crazy. So I'm just like holding off until my skin gets better from using this But I was looking for a cleansing balm anyways And I came across this one because it's supposed to be good for Xima and dry skin because of the oak in it Apparently oats colloidal oatmeal oatmeal can really help with Xima So like holy shit, this is perfect because it's a cleansing balm Cleanser and it's made for sensitive skin. So I actually really love this It actually soothes my skin 10 out of 10 would suggest this especially if you guys have dry skin and it's only $13 Canadian it's so cheap I don't even think this was discounted from the sale because I think this brand was excluded But it doesn't even matter because it's so cheap and I love how it's like a two-in-one because it takes your makeup off and cleanses Anyways, second repurchase is this hyaluronic acid from the ordinary I use this morning and night and just a little bottle I actually have like half mine already left, but I didn't want to run out So I just got it back up, but I love this so much. So cheap is only $7 and it just Really helps lock in the hydration in your face It helps it's good for dry skin and oily skin definitely what suggests if you guys are looking to add something into your team Okay, so these are two new products that I wanted to try So this is the ordinary multi peptide serum for hair density. So this is basically a Hair scalp serum that you're supposed to like dot in your hair just to help with hair growth and everything So I thought that I tried this out because I've heard really amazing things about it and like before and afters Apparently maester scalp a little greasy. I don't know if that's true. So we're gonna have to try it out I did just wash my hair. Okay, last product that I bought is this SOS tower 28 daily rescue facial spray and the reason why I bought this is because I heard about it on a podcast and apparently if you have sensitive Skin eczema like apparently this is just a holy grail spray and I was looking at the reviews for this on the Sephora website And I saw girls with eczema like all the way down their neck and then they use this spray And it's like a miracle worker like their eczema literally heals so fast and I'm like what in the world I have to try this out, especially because I have been flaring recently The girl said that when she was going through pregnancy Her eczema was flaring on her face and she started using this and it was like a lifesaver So I am so excited to try this. I've been waiting for this to come in and then this is just a thing that I got with my points This is my favorite cream ever. It's the first day beauty ultra Repair cream. I have a big tub of this and I just wanted to get a mini version with my points because I was like I use this daily so this would be nice to just have on the go, but I use this on my face I use this everywhere. Honestly, it's the best thing. Yeah, what suggest but definitely get it in a bigger tub because this Will not be enough. But yeah, so that is my little Sephora. Oh, I'm so excited to try these two out I just made this tea called the everyday detox tea I actually haven't had this one in a while, but I because I forgot how much I love it I love having some sort of hot nighttime drink because it kind of just like sets me in the vibe And it just like relaxes me. Yeah, so I think I'm just going to relax now watch a show And then after I'm finished my tea then I'm going to run a bath And then we can really start our self-care with the face mask and then skincare routine and everything so Cheers, I just put a little bit of honey in this too. Let's go Watch a show and drink some tea. I've been watching Gilmore girls right now. I've also been watching the Kardashians I've also been watching dancing with the stars because those episodes come on weekly Oh love is blind to me and Joel are watching this together. We're only on episode I think we're like in the middle maybe near end of the season now But apparently it's been getting really juicy and we're not caught up So maybe we'll even watch an episode of that right now But I think that is it comment down below any recommendations But I'm honestly excited to get the Christmas movies going we already have a Christmas tree set up as you can see behind me It's not decorated yet or anything, but we just wanted to put it up So that vlog will be in December, but we're so excited to do it since our first Christmas together in this apartment So we're excited, but okay. Let's enjoy this tea. Cheers So while we wait for the bath to run I just decided to put on a face mask and I didn't put it like all the way like I left some skin here because I have been like flaring with eczema here So I didn't want to risk it and put a face mask on it just in case but anyways I want to talk periods you guys know I'm very open about that topic on my channel because I Think I have I was never formally diagnosed but I think that I have endometriosis and I have suffered for Years now like I'm telling you years with the most painful periods I would throw up with pain and it was the most horrible thing literally ever I have tried prescription pain killers obviously Advil Tylenol all that stuff and Nothing helps literally nothing helps. I would be an excruciating pain every single month It would affect my week because it would prohibit me from doing things and it was just horrible I always had to plan around it and I knew that the day that I got my period I was just bedbound it couldn't even leave the house couldn't leave the bathroom like it was horrible having my periods actually Held me back from doing so many things and it's just so annoying to me because I feel like a lot of doctors They don't take you seriously They don't know what your pain feels like even I've had some female doctors that have done that to me who didn't take my pain Seriously, and I literally was in the emergency room one time because I was in that much pain So anyways, I would like to introduce today's sponsor Which is Rea and you guys don't even know how excited I am to be working with them Because period pain is something that is close to heart that I've dealt with and suffered from for years now And they are providing a solution to that problem, and it's nothing artificial There's no painkillers involved that are horrible for you because putting that shit in your body is so bad for you guys and Especially when you're taking very high doses of it, which I was and it still didn't even help So this is a sticky patch that Rea made but basically what you do is you peel it off And you put it on your stomach on your lower abdomen and then you can turn it on up down like really alter it to the Massage level that you want but what it does is it does like some shia Japanese shiatsu massage and Basically it delivers exactly what your body needs to produce and get rid of your pain and what I love about this It's not invasive. It's drug-free. You don't need to put anything in your body so I personally I got an IUD a few months ago because I didn't know what else to do and I wish that I found this sooner because that was kind of just my last resort There was not I just felt like I couldn't do anything else at that point But anyways, I've been getting I've been still getting my periods on my IUD and they've been pretty painful And not as painful as they used to be but the last period I got I tried this within like 10 to 15 minutes My pain was at like a level eight and then it reduced it to like a level one Like I can still I still felt a little pain and then it slowly tapered off.  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But yeah, anyways, thank you so much to rare for sponsoring this video I am just so blessed universe put us in alignment and I'm so happy that I can be promoting this to you guys But let's get in the bath, baby We made it in the bath, this is just so aesthetically pleasing right now I set up my starlight projector and my sunset light and it's a vibe It is such a vibe. I don't take baths as frequently as I used to But I always forget how nice they feel because just like going in the nice warm water just feels so good And it's so therapeutic even just doing a little meditation in here So calming and peaceful and relaxing and it's a necessity for a self-care night But anyways, I'm just going to scroll up interest right now if you guys don't follow me on there go follow me because I recently just like organized all my boards and I've been pinning a lot of stuff lately I've been active on there. So go follow me because I live on Pinterest Like I have been spending so much time on there because it just gives me like so much inspiration for everything like my videos Um pictures like just like everything So go follow me on there if you guys aren't already Because Pinterest is just such a vibe and I love scrolling on there. So that's what we're gonna do right now Okay, so time for my skincare routine So tonight I'm trying out the tower 28 spray and just putting it on like a toner Then I'm going with the ordinary hyaluronic acid I like getting my face a little bit wet before using this because it's supposed to lock in the moisture Then I'm going with the ordinary eyelash serum. This stuff is seriously the best Then here's me just brushing my teeth as everybody should then I'm going in with the first aid beauty Ultra repair cream and the isla paradise tanning drops. I love these two mixed together so much It just gives my skin a really nice radiant glow And then I'm just going in with some aqua four to slug just because my skin has been extra dry lately Okay, I just wanted to quickly show you guys this so I just recently bought this on amazon and it's actually a humidifier and apparently it's really good for Exema dry skin Especially in the wintertime when there's barely any humidity since I'm flying with eczema I was like researching what helps and apparently getting a humidifier is Game changing because it puts a lot of moisture into your skin, etc. And apparently it's good for a lot of other things too So this is only like the third day that we have it running So I'm not sure if I've seen a difference with my skin yet But I'm so excited to have this and I'll link it down below if you guys if you're interested Yeah, apparently this is something that can help with dry skin in the winter in case you guys suffer as well Okay, guys So I'm just applying some aqua four on my lips because I cannot live without it I literally have like eczema Around my lips and it's flaring and it's really annoying. So I'm non-stop applying Vaseline aqua four whatever it is Around my lips because I just need it.  I mastered the Not going on my phone before waking up But I've been trying to master the not going on your phone before going to bed because I do love doing some scrolling In bed, so I'm trying to not do that anymore. One thing that's been really helping is I've been reading ask and it is given I've been reading this book for so long now because I am now rereading it because it's a manifestation like self-help book It's all about all that kind of stuff. So it's good to kind of just like always be reading it Honestly, because it really motivates me and it reminds me how powerful we are and it just like puts me to sleep In a really good way in a really nice way and keeps me on my phone I don't always go for a self-help book before bed. I sometimes if I'm reading like a fiction novel I really like calling Hoover Right now. I don't really have a new fiction book to read But I just like doing reading before bed because it really does like make me tired and it calms me down Instead of like so much stimulation on my phone But yeah, so I'm just going to read a few pages of this ask and it's given book then it's going to be time for bed I just wanted to share a line from the book that I'm reading Within only a few seconds of focusing your attention on a subject You activate the vibration of that subject within you and immediately the law of attraction begins to respond to that activation The longer you keep your attention focused on something the easier it becomes for you to continue to focus upon it because you are Attracting through the law of attraction other thoughts or vibrations that are the essence of the thought you began with The lesson that I'm learning from this is that it's very important to Realize what I'm focusing my attention on and what like that all plays into what I'm manifesting and What I'm attracting into my life So yeah, that's why I just love this book so much It's like such a good reminder because if you don't keep practicing Then you're going to kind of forget and it's going to phase out But anyways, I am going to head to bed I usually go to bed around 10 o'clock every single night because I do seem to wake up by 7 So I need and I love my long sleeps. It's like necessary for me. Um, so anyways, thank you guys so much for watching. Love you guys


Hi everybody, Joe for Jaspy's Case Breaks.com coming at you with Jaspy's high roller mystery crate number four, random letter break number four. There's also a hit list promo, so if you go hit list you got a chance to win a spot in the next crate break. Four cards per crate, only ten crates made, high risk, high reward, and we're going by the first letter of their first name. Big thanks to this group for making it happen. There are the letters right there. Let's roll it and randomize it. Five and a one, six times. One, two, three, four, five, and a one, six and final time. We got Steve down to Taylor. Five and a one, six times for the letters. One, two, three, four, five, and a one, yes, six and final time. Good luck. We got J down to M. All right, Steve with J, Carl, R plus Z, Joshua with S and W. Gretchen with L, Joshua with HK, Gretchen with NP, Will with D, Douglas with G and A, and Josh with a lot of letters here. Five, five, F, T, B, C, and Taylor with M. First letter of their first name. Let's sort by letter and we're actually gonna keep your names right over here as well so we can keep track of who got hits or not. I'll just be deleting your names if you get a hit. All right, we're gonna pause, we're gonna pause the video. When we come back we're gonna see if there's any trades and then we will have the break. Stick around, we'll see you on the other side. All right, welcome back everybody. No deals were done so there are no trades. Now, let's select a crate number and we're gonna do number four. We have not done four yet. Nice. Justin, there's still plenty of other meat-filled fast food restaurants around here. Just not Arby's. Not a lot in this area. All right, so it's nothing to do with the eating habits. Still plenty of meat-eaters out here. It's a big place. All right, so big big thanks to the crate. Holding mysteries in here. There it is. The mystery inside of mystery number four. Good luck everybody. First, Teddy would enjoy that Greek experience. All right, first one out of the gate. First letter of their first name. Dwayne Wade from Topps Letterman basketball. 14 karat gold. It's a one-of-one. The unique gold letter featured on the front of this card was manufactured exclusively for 0708 Topps Letterman basketball. The 10.8 grams of 14 karat gold used in the creation of this letter was embedded within the car possessive value of $204.55, at least back in 0708 based on the price of gold on the New York commodities exchange as of March 17th 2008. Wow. That's awesome. Letter D, that's for Will. Where there's a Will, there's a way. Will. All aboard the Big Hit Express. Next is another train whistle. It's Jerome Bettis. Wow, that's really cool. From 2021 immaculate football. I think he's drawing a football right there, right? I think that's what it is. Jerome Bettis. Letter J, Steve Birch. With Jerome Bettis. And all aboard the Big Hit Express. All right, next two cards feel like they're graded. First one is we got football. We have Trey Lance. Nice. From 2021 contenders rookie roundup autograph. PSA 9 auto at 10. Nice rookie auto and number 13 out of 25. And that's Joshua with the letter T for Trey. Fourth and final hit. We've got a, we got another crate in the store, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, we got soccer. Wow. It's a sell sheet hit. 2004 Panini Sports. Mega cracks. Barça. Campio. Lionel Messi. That's awesome. Letter L. That is going to be for Gretchen. Yeah, that card made in Italy too. It must be some high quality cardboard. Some, some F1 stuff made in Italy too. Some top to F1 stuff. All right. Nice. Thanks everybody. No more hits here in break four. Another mystery crate in the store. Check it out. Jaspy's casewrakes.com. Now, unfortunately, there are some people who went hitless. So there was the D-Wade, Jerome Betis, Lionel Messi, Trey Lance. So now let's gather all the names of the people who went hitless. Name on top. We'll get a spot in the next break. So a little bit of a little hitless promo here. Thanks for trying. Thanks for getting in. Let's roll it. Randomize it. Six and a five. 11 times. Top name after 11. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. And good luck. 11th and final time. It's Joshua. After 11 times, an extra spot going your way. I'm Joe for Jaspy's casewrakes.com. Thanks for watching. Thanks for breaking with us. Again, these mystery crates are pretty awesome, I think. So if you think the same, go to Jaspy's casewrakes.com. Buy your full spots. Join the fillers to try to win spots, and maybe you'll stumble into a pretty amazing hit. I'll see you next time for the next mystery crate. Bye-bye.


Well, we're kicking things a little old school for this video, mostly because I haven't actually gotten ready for today yet, definitely not camera ready. But the interesting thing about not being camera ready is, as I was sitting there figuring out what I'm going to wear today and I don't know, getting my kids off on the bus and stuff, well, some news dropped that I didn't really expect to see so soon. Nintendo is handing out leaflets out at stores in Hong Kong and the leaflets are advertising things like the Nintendo Switch Online service, HETRUS 99, all of that stuff, pretty standard fare. They're not necessarily talking about how you can pick up the Famicon controllers anymore, which I guess that doesn't surprise me, the Famicon, the NES controllers, all of that. I figured those would end up being a limited run thing, they just wouldn't keep those always available to Nintendo Switch Online service people, which again brings in the question what kind of cool exclusive deals we're supposed to get when all the deals are temporary with nothing new on the horizon. That being said, in the tiny fine print at the bottom of the games list they have in the pamphlet, it says this, Famicon games will stop being added to the Nintendo Switch Online service after a certain period of time. Now, obviously we had to have accepted at some point that they weren't going to add any more NES games to the service. This is a given, there's only a finite amount of NES games they have rights to, only a finite amount of third-party companies that want to offer the rights for their games to be on the service, and obviously they weren't going to be able to just add NES games forever. Now, if you actually look at the giant list of games Nintendo published on the NES over the 5, 6, 7 years that they were making games for it, you'll notice that Nintendo is nowhere near close to completing just their own library of NES games on the platform, let alone third-party library of NES games on the platform. So arguably Nintendo has years and years and years of NES games they could keep adding to the platform, especially if they insist on only adding 2-3 new games to the platform per month, which is a very minuscule amount of games in comparison to the total library available on NES, and it's a minuscule amount of games compared to how many NES games they used to add to the library back during the virtual console days on a week-to-week basis, not a monthly basis, but I digress, that's a criticism we've had of the service for a while. We also know, or at least presume, I mean we had to presume at this point, that Super Nintendo games are going to be coming to the Nintendo Switch online service eventually. We all know about the data mining that showed off what might be the launch games or something for it that we found inside the NES online app, but that being said, nothing's actually been announced. And it's interesting that we are, I mean what are we now, 5 months, 6 months into this online service, and we still don't really know when we're getting more than NES, but now we know that NES is eventually going to come to an end. Isn't that interesting? That before we're even aware of what else is going to be added to the online service to their virtual console replacement, they're already talking about it coming to an end. I don't know what the people at Nintendo are thinking. And obviously you could argue this is not news, because we could just subconsciously know that they weren't going to add NES games forever. But to basically in fine print in a pamphlet, this is the only mention of it by the way, it does not say this on their official websites, it does not say this in any emails they have sent out about the online service, this is the only place it's ever been mentioned, are in these pamphlets that Nintendo handed to retailers in Hong Kong. But the fact that in those pamphlets it says that they're going to stop adding NES games before they even announce what else they're going to be adding is a bad look in my part. And I think what the Nintendo Switch Online service doesn't need right now is any more reasons for us as consumers to look at it as a bad look. Now yes, Tetris 99 is a good look for the Nintendo Switch Online service. It was a free game, it's exclusive to the service. I know I might not be the happiest that it's exclusive to the service, but it's a free game that you need the service for. And you could argue that could justify at least one purchase of the Nintendo Switch Online service, plus obviously we know Twitch Prime slash Amazon Prime is partnered right now with Nintendo and offering a full year of the Nintendo Switch Online service for free. So basically you could play Tetris 99 for free for the next year. But still, this is baffling. A lot of us really care about Virtual Console. Now I've gone on record saying that I'm not a big proponent of these retro games. I think it's really neat to kind of dip back into my childhood once in a blue moon, but my general interest level in playing at least NES games in particular is pretty low. I grew up on these games, I played the heck out of them. I don't really have a strong desire to play them again. When the service came out I played dodgeball for a little bit, which you've probably already seen in this video. And that was pretty much it for me. I didn't really feel like playing much of the other games. Now when SNES games do eventually come out, there's probably some that I'd be willing to try if they do come out. Things like my second favorite game of all time in Secret of Mana, if that arrived. If for somehow they got the licensing rights to re-release Turtles in time, I'd probably give that a play again too. But honestly, I don't really care that much about it. I'm more into what's coming out next, right? What's the new games? The Animal Crossing, the Pokemon Sword and Shield, Luigi's Mansion 3. Daemon X Machina, etc. etc. etc. Like I'm more interested in the new games, the new experiences I haven't played before than ones that I grew up spending hundreds and thousands of hours playing. But maybe that's just me. Reality is that I don't think they should be talking about getting rid of NES games or I guess not adding any more NES games before they're ready to talk about what else they're going to be adding. The Nintendo Switch Online service was promised to get better over time, right? They talked about how whatever is happening at launch, we're going to continue to improve the service over time. We are six months into the service and we have yet to really see any improvements. Unless they think those improvements were, I don't know, the NES and Famicom controllers that gave us the privilege to purchase or maybe it was supposed to be Tetris 99, which I do think was a brilliant addition. But again, that's a free piece of software that's not necessarily an improvement to the actual service. They haven't made it so Splatoon 2 and other games can be backed up with their Cloud Save feature. They haven't made it where there's dedicated servers for most of Nintendo's online games. They haven't shown any notable improvements to the Nintendo Switch Online app, which they are the ones that want to push that as a companion to your games that also has voice chat and yet they haven't really improved that either. It's weird because it's like Nintendo launched this service and then they're just not doing anything with it. And now the one thing they do do, which is add NES games granted at a snail's pace to the service, they're already talking about that coming to an end. This is the disconnect I think Nintendo has with their fans and with just online services in general. We all know that Nintendo has not always understood online gaming at the same level as their contemporaries. And that's because Nintendo was late to the party when it came to online features and all that jazz. Even though Nintendo was one of the first companies to have like virtual console style library or like an e-shop for indie games and stuff like that, they were like one of the market leaders at one point back in the wee days for that. But obviously Nintendo's contemporaries who are already much better with online services in general quickly caught up and even surpassed Nintendo in many ways when it comes to especially today. I mean if we wanted to talk about PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, it is much easier to play their back catalog of games on PlayStation 3, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 1, Xbox 360 and the original Xbox on those other platforms, both natively in the case of Xbox, where Xbox One you can literally put in an OG Xbox disc and play that game on Xbox One to just having them available through different services and different packages. Whereas Nintendo offers a service that has a very limited selection in 2019 and now they're talking about not releasing any more of that selection at some point in the future. Now obviously when you talk about after a certain period of time, that certain period of time could be five years from now, it could be six years, it could be 10 years. But if it's so far off, why even mention it now? Because it's so far off that you're not really falsely advertising because this is an advertisement, a 2019 pamphlet. Like why even talk about it if you're not going to end it this year? So again, I'm not saying that Nintendo is going to stop adding NES games anytime soon, but it's very clear that they know they're not going to add them forever and now they're telling people that before they're willing to tell us what else they're going to add. Guys, I love the Nintendo Switch. I know, I feel like every time I'm this critical of something Nintendo is doing that I need to remind everyone of that because I know a lot of people run to the comments and they start tapping away that I'm a hater and I'm too critical and this is like, I love the Switch man. Oh my gosh, I think I've been talking positively about the Switch for quite some time and then the only time I've even mentioned criticism is when we talked about the potential for the Switch Pro the other day. Like, okay, maybe the Switch Pro is this, X, Y, and Z, because these are the flaws that exist with the current Switch and have been there since day one. Like, besides that, I've been mostly talking about how there's an amazing library of games coming, how the Nintendo Directs have been really, really good, the NINDI Showcase was really damn good, you know, Cadence of Hyrule and Link's Awakening and all this crazy stuff is happening that has just got my mind just, like, all in a tizzy for the rest of this year. We're going to E3 this year as a company because we believe in what Nintendo is doing and we want to be there to go hands-on with these games and try to bring our experiences to you guys, our opinions, our impressions, our gameplay and everything we can because there's just so much going on with Switch that is massively in the positive. But on the other side of the coin, you may have to remember that Nintendo is still so far behind in what an online service should be. Because remember, most people, most consumers of video games don't actually enjoy having to pay for online services to play games online. When it comes to the bare premise of give us money to play a game you paid for online, a lot of console owners just accept it because that's the way it is but it doesn't mean that we actually like it. And PC gamers often laugh at us for just accepting paywalls basically to use our own internet for peer-to-peer gaming. Like, it's kind of mind-boggling when you think about the fact that we're just paying to use our own internet connection with these peer-to-peer games. We're not even paying to use Nintendo servers or paying to use our own internet connection. And I admit it is a mind-boggling thing that just consoles just keep getting away with. Sony and Microsoft try to justify the price by saying, look, yeah, I mean, it is kind of crappy that we charge you and paywall you for peer-to-peer multiplayer. But we are offering you a bunch of these services, XYZ, ABC, whatever, because we're trying to make it feel like a better value for you. Whereas Nintendo is like, hey, look, we're charging you to play online. We're not charging you much. But we want to make it a value as well. And our value to you is to offer you these NES games that now we're telling you we're not sure if we're going to keep adding to it or actually we know we're eventually going to stop keep adding to it and forget telling you that we're going to add more before we tell you that we're going to stop adding these because why be transparent? And I think that is the interesting thing here because this is a little bit of transparency, right? You can't say that them telling us that they're eventually going to stop releasing new NES games on the service isn't them being transparent. That is them being transparent. That's them being very transparent. The problem with this form of transparency is you shouldn't really be talking about this until you have something else to announce for the system. Like if you want to say, if you want to just come out and say, hey, look at some point in 2019, later this year, be ready. We're going to be bringing a bunch of, we're going to bring SNES games to the online service. And here's like three games we can guarantee are going to be there. They can easily find three games they can guarantee are going to be there at launch. And just say, hey, and just so you know, we're not going to add NES games forever to the platform, but this is our plan moving forward. Now they're not going to tell us any of that, right? And I'm not even saying that they have to or that I should be entitled enough as to expect them to. But what I do expect them to do is offer a competent service. And while I do have a video in the works that shows that maybe possibly the actual online gameplay isn't as bad as we thought, or heck, maybe it is as bad as we thought. I'm still in the middle of testing. Beyond the actual act of playing games online, the rest of the service does not feel good right now. Anyways, you guys let me know what you think about this decision by Nintendo to put this in a pamphlet in Hong Kong in the comments below. Do you think that maybe they thought this would fly under the radar and they did it for legal reasons? I'm not really sure. You guys let me know what you think. And if you liked this video, be sure to drop a like on it. Subscribe for more content. Be sure to enter our Nintendo Switch Super Smash Bros. Ultimate Bundle giveaway through the Gleam.io link down in the description. As a reminder, we will announce the winner of that giveaway when we hit 50,000 subscribers, which we are well on our way. 46K is on the horizon. I want to thank you for choosing to watch this video right here at Nintendo Prime. And I'll catch you in the next one.


I'm here at Iqlouf Hospital in the rehabilitation center. I came here to meet Shirel, an Israeli hero She was at the Nova party on the 7th of October and she was shot by a Hamas terrorist She has an unbelievable story Come with me 7th of October You were there. Yeah, what were you doing there? I was at the party. Walk me through 6 30 a.m Hamas starting to launch rockets towards Israel Towards the party as well What do you do? At that moment, I was alone because that party is I usually just go around a lot and there was a lot of stress coming up in the air and I remember seeing a friend of mine that I didn't come to the party with he was like come with me, so we We go on the ground. We cover our heads and we're We're waiting for everything to calm down Then what happened? So we did that and I call my dad and he was on the phone with me And we're waiting and my friends are convincing me. They were on the phone as well It was like this for a little while until I was like, okay, they won't stop. They're all in the car I have to go So my friend was like I'm coming to get you I ran to her. We ran together. We found the car So let me just explain how it is you go out of the party and you have a road two three two and Then you either take left, which is north right to the south And you've already took left Going towards north What happened? Why didn't you escape? Just Hamas put a barrier We drive a bit and then we go into the bomb shelter. There's a lot of people inside a lot of chaos People stressed out. I was trying to Get people's morale. I was stressing out a bit of course But I saw people losing it, you know people crying saying they don't want to be here saying they have to get out of here There's terrorists in the area and I'm I'm just like you're okay. We're okay. There's missiles right now It'll be fine Roughly how many people were inside the bomb shelter? I think about 30 about it. Yeah, then we hear the gunshots outside Shouts in Arabic and then they come in they came into the bomb. They came in There's no doors so they can just come in whenever they want and I was on the ground with my legs bent a lot of people were standing up and They started shooting at everyone and you know an instinct of a human being when they're being shot is to run So basically what happened? There's nowhere to run. You go to the end of the bomb shelter so they everyone just fell on me and Basically dying on me, you know and at that moment. I was very very Responsive and what I got into survive survival mode What's going through your mind? My parents Are they on the line? No, my phone it got this the phone call got disconnected So my dad didn't really didn't hear the gunshots But after that happened after a little while when it was safe to look up for a second I took my phone and I texted him There's people there's people people got shot. We need an ambulance ASAP Get the police. We need them right now and that's what my dad understand that the terrorists got to the bomb shelter How many dead people were there out of the roughly 30 people? A bit more than half. I was very I was in survival mode most of the time But there were times when my mind would slip away from that and then I'd start thinking and I remember I had this very vivid thought about Me being in a gas chamber like in the Holocaust I felt as if I was in the Holocaust because every time they would throw grenades, you know, there we choke on the grenade smoke and And and it was hot and we were all there's dead bodies around me and I just remember feeling like I'm in a gas chamber and There was this lady in front of me that she was screaming now at that point most people died So we were all quiet and when we were quiet We would be able to pretend to be dead So then they wouldn't hear us and come back inside because we were all very scared but then her space started Blowing up as a sort of like Infection in her body from the bullets. I don't even know Maybe her her systems collapsing inside And we all are like we all remember her screaming look what's happening to me look what's happening to me and I Didn't say this but you know people said be quiet for how long You stayed in that bomb shelter seven hours seven hours with More than 15 dead bodies. Yeah with a bullet Yep, that what hit your knee it hit my knee and it broke both my knee and My calf. I was just wondering With the terrorist Hamas terrorists, did they try to make sure like during the seventh hours that you were in that Bomb shelter did they try to come and To make sure that everybody is dead once in every while.  Yeah, yeah, I was ready. I told myself.  There's really people and there's a lot of people in the world as well Not only think but knows that you are here and you should be proud of yourself being seven hours in such a Unbelievable conditions like this. It's it's not something for human beings. No and still surviving and seeing you From time to time if you put a smile on your face, that's the biggest win over those terrorists Any message to the Israeli people? We're strong we're very strong and I miss my high And I think this is exactly the time we can finish this video. I miss our high and just like Cheryl She is strong. We are strong and we will win


Good evening and welcome back to the first time home by a show. I'm your host, Esty Klaassen. Tonight we chat into an absolutely amazing guest and I'm sure the background behind me looks extremely familiar. Last week we chatted to Papa Boachiyadum about his journey through property investment and tonight we chat to the one and only, Hetty the Entrepreneur. How are you this evening? I'm so good Esty and really excited to be here. Thank you so much for allowing us back into your beautiful home and I introduced you as Hetty the Entrepreneur. So I'd like to know is Hetty and Hetty the Entrepreneur two separate people? Hetty the Entrepreneur is one person. I am an entrepreneur through and through. I love entrepreneurship particularly African-led businesses. So who is Hetty at the core then? Hetty at the core is a Pan-Africanist, a lover of our beautiful continent, an entrepreneur and I really love to travel and meet new people as well.  You're always willing to share and give help and so I want to find out from you because you're obviously a mentor to a few people. Being a mentor what does that mean for you? You know being a mentor really is walking a journey with our mentees in terms of their businesses. So I work with numerous African-led businesses. Some of them are in the property space, others are in other types of businesses. It's walking a journey really understanding your mentee's vision, what they want to accomplish with their lives and their businesses and helping them put proper structures in place to achieve their goals. So why African? I know we're South African in Africa and but I want to know why you chose that as your main goal because we could have worked anyway we've gone to the States to the UK. You chose to stay at home and work you know child of the soil. Why here? Absolutely so my mentorship takes place online so it's digital and I have a specific passion for African-led businesses because I believe that those are the businesses that are going to transform our continent and also the world's perception of Africa. I believe that we have creative people, innovative businesses that can really trailblaze our economies and take us to the next frontier. So I really want to be able to play my role and my part in transforming our continent but and I also interestingly enough work with quite a number of entrepreneurs around the world. So there's one lady in particular she's based in Russia but she's from Ghana so I love that beauty of being in the online space because it opens up the world to you. So COVID-19 did not affect Haiti the entrepreneur? You know I would honestly really be amiss to say that it didn't affect me at all. We've all had our moments of introspection so you know when the pandemic hit our retail stores were closed our factory was closed and we were in hard lockdown and I remember actually having a conversation with myself where I thought okay Haiti you are forced to slow down now. If you could do anything else aside from your retail business what would it be and I'd always done mentorship but rather on a small scale and I thought to myself I want to be able to impact my continent, I want to be able to impact businesses and that's when I really ramped up my mentorship business and I'm so proud and happy for all of the mentors, mentees that I've been able to impact. So in 2020 I was able to materially impact 100 African-led businesses and I thought I would be impacting them through mentorship but I didn't realize the impact they would have on me through just giving me a sense of purpose. Yeah and I know we always talk about the wall of fame behind us and your name is also here you in the article you've done a few things tell us a little bit about what you've achieved up until now. All right so together with Papa we own the largest African print retail brand in South Africa and that's called P&H Boutique. We've got P&H Homes which is our cash positive business where we deal with residential properties and then of course I've got my mentorship business which is Haiti the entrepreneur and you know when you're in business you don't really in it to accumulate accolades you're kind of in it to work within your business so when the accolades come you're like oh my goodness I didn't think that anybody's recognizing what we're doing so along the way we've been able to become male and guardian top 200 young South Africans, top 50 thriving female founders, top 1000 African voices and all of this is validation that we are on the right track so we're deeply deeply grateful. So you've spoken about what you've achieved and we can see it and I know I love what you said that when you start something you don't know that you're gonna get these awards or become this person going in on your journey and someone who people look up to you inspire me you know I watch your videos and I learn so much from you and we know what you've achieved but let's say because you know when starting every business you need an end goal your main goal what does the future for Haiti the entrepreneur look like? It's interesting because every year I try to challenge myself I try to have a new goal for myself so in 2021 my goal is to materially impact 300 African-led businesses to monetize in the online space through the use of digital products so that is my big goal for 2021 and then once that's achieved then we'll tackle 2022. I'm just kind of taking it one bite at a time for now. Let's double tap on that monetize because you call yourself the monetized monetization guru yes so where did that name come from why where did that what inspired that for you? To be honest with you it's inspired by my own journey ST so you know when I began the mentorship program I realized that the best way to actually impact businesses is through digital products so that was through you know webinars masterclasses courses etc and I realized that I was able to generate an income through those products and also teach people how to do the same as well and so I realized that this is actually a replicatable formula people can monetize in the online space through their skills their passion their experience their talent can be monetized and a lot of people don't know this and so I'm really passionate about teaching people how they can convert what comes naturally to them what they're really good at into a monetizable business online right and I want to go back to bringing you and papa back together because we a lot of this you can't do by yourself yes so there's a support structure absolutely and tell us about that journey with you like when going along and a lot of the awards you've gotten with papa by your side so what was that like you know having that support let me take it back to last week we spoke about a power team yes that papa refers to as a tribe yes you know that's your tribe yes so what was that journey like you know it's absolutely remarkable um you know doing life with papa is an absolute privilege because we are able to boost each other up so even in our property business for example he's the numbers guy he knows how to figure it out is this does this make sense are we going to make money from this and I really appreciate that and then I also come in and I say okay but let's look at the aesthetics what are we doing from a marketing perspective how are we putting ourselves out there so by being able to leverage on our collective strengths we're able to build each other up and create magic together so it's it's truly such an honor to be able to have not only a life partner but a business partner as well you're each other's mentors yes at the end of the day which is absolutely beautiful I love that and I know you've got a lot of businesses and you're obviously still planning more and they're all growing they're booming at this time which is amazing so well done thank you I want to take it back to being a mentor and the responsibilities we briefly spoke about it last week with papa about everyone you can't be everyone's mentor yeah people have a vibe they're going for yes maybe this person does not speak your language I'm myself I'm very for a spiritual kind of level so if my mentor can you know align with my vision yeah is what we need so what type of mentor would you say you are and what would you say your biggest responsibility is being that mentor for other people so for me I am what you would refer to as a results based mentor so I'm very much results based I've had several mentors over the years and a lot of times when people think of mentorship they think of having a coffee date with someone maybe chatting about your business and then you part ways I'm very much into the practical implementation into your business so that you can see the return of your investment you can actually see the return of the work that you're doing so we I like to put in practical steps to say this this is what we want to accomplish and then we have timelines so that we hold each other accountable and we're able to come back to the drawing board to see what's working what isn't working what can be tweaked etc so I'm very much a results based mentor and you're absolutely right I think it's worth investing the time to see which type of mentor is good for you it might not be heady but it might be somebody else I really encourage people to look for mentors people who are a GPS to show them the path to go because then the road to success is so much shortened because you don't have to go through it alone how do I find the right mentor can you guide me with that how do I absolutely number one you want to do research so you want to look into the person's background where is their area of specialization so mine for example I'm very strong on marketing and sales but if somebody is looking to get their finances in order I then refer them to papa if somebody is looking to from an HR perspective I've got somebody else to refer them to so not everybody that comes with me ends with me it really depends on what your needs are within your business and you want to be able to go to somebody that responds to those needs so do your research look at their track record look at where their strengths lie and then also look and see if you've got a good rapport with each other do you enjoy their teaching style you know everybody responds differently so it's important to make sure that you pair together with the right mentor and I love that you because I know there's mentors who will not refer you will sit with you and try and make it work because they they want to be a mentor and I love that you actually refer people because like we're not everyone is not your foot absolutely so in audit and you're able to let go you know because you have you have your tribe yes yes you have that you don't need to keep looking and fishing for it which I love I just before we end off because I know we're still going to chat to papa in a minute what so we're talking about home and we're talking to first time home buyers your journey to being a homeowner what was that like you know it's it's actually been really quite interesting because you know we purchased this property and which we absolutely love it's in the heart of the mabunin precinct it's a heartbeat of entrepreneurial energy and creative spirit so we also feed off the energy of this environment and then when it comes to our property investment journey I must be honest with you ST one of my biggest limiting beliefs when it came to investing in property was the assumption that you need to have wards of money like truckloads of money in order to invest so imagine our surprise with papa and I when we discovered that number one you don't have to have wards of money number two you can invest in cash positive properties you know oftentimes you see you when you hear of people investing in properties it's cash negative so they have to add more money every single month they their properties are not serving them so I have been pleasantly surprised by our property journey and really taking it one step at a time and the way that we've done it has taught me and has been able to teach our mentees that they can be able to do it too exactly where they are so you don't have to wait for 10 years time you can actually do it right now and I like that you said that so that was one of the things that you assumed yes no idea that no you do not need yeah a lot of money but what was one of the rewarding things for you when you when you got this home what was it about it that you love I know that you said you're in your central and this is it's very funky vibe and this it speaks to you and papa that's when we came in that's exactly why we gave us energetic fun loving yes but what else was rewarding about making that first purchase realizing that I don't need a lot of money and it's mine now yes and it's positive cash positive yes I think really it is that feeling of it's mine now it's mine now you know when when you look at our communities owning property is a big thing it means that you always have a roof over your head it means that there's a place that you can call home it means that you can make it your own you can decorate it and let it be a representation of who you are so even if I'm not here and you walk through the door this space should be able to tell you a story about me and for me that is something that's truly special so what what does we asked papa this last week what does home mean for you so what does it mean for Haiti home for me is the place where I can just be and rest where I can replenish where I can recharge where I can truly just be myself that is home for me I love that so much Haiti we're gonna go over to papa now but I just want to thank you before you leave thank you so much for taking the time sitting with us and I love to hear from different mentors because we're at the point in our life right now where we need you absolutely you guys more than anything and just to find the right one and that's what's so important that's one of the most important things I'm taking from today's conversation is find the right one for you yes which I really appreciate so thank you so much Haiti thank you Isti we'll see you guys again soon hopefully there should probably be a part three at this rate is gonna be so much more but thank you so much we're gonna go over to papa again and we're gonna chat a little bit more about numbers you heard papa is a numbers guy so let's dive into that all right as you know without further duty back with papa this evening how are you doing today excellent thanks for having me back here we go coming back um you've you seem very ready we just heard you a numbers guy but before we dive into that there's something I want to touch on with you that we just spoke to Haiti about which is this assumption of what property is like before you even go into it and you also said that one of the assumptions that we need a lot of money and that's not to what are the other perceptions around property that maybe you've heard from your mentees and you had to pull them pull them out of that journey and what I think one of the two biggest perceptions that I've had to work on for myself and with others is especially that if one's gonna get onto property it's specifically got to be uh you know the area that they're going to be looking into uh that that's one of the the biggest things and then also the second thing which often comes up especially preventing people from getting involved is that oh no what am I going to do when my tenants don't pay and and the thing is that I mean that is a that is a valid concern but they I mean the majority of people generally do pay and there's well mitigating actions that one can take to ensure that the type of tenants that one gets can provide peace of mind because the main thing getting into property is we get into property because we want peace of mind there's no access to passive income if we don't have peace of mind and and those are the things that one needs to just take cognizance of yeah you're right it is a mind game and remember we spoke about a few books last week um where it is really about the power of your mind and your mindset and that's how you can kind of change the narrative and make it easier for yourself make the ride easier now just before we go we we just spoke to her about how she kind of mentors people so let's find out a little bit about you how you so let's say these are the challenges will my tenant pay and is it am I is it going to be a passive income at the end of the day what do you do as a mentor just to to help ease my mind look I think the the first thing that I like to start off with is just finding out what what actually is your goal what are you trying to achieve here because every person's situation is different and then understanding what the goals are and if somebody's goals actually is in terms of I've read some of these things in these books and I want to have money coming in every single month rather than taking money out and this is the area that I'm looking at then I attest and say okay cool is that actually the correct area these are other opportunities that are also available what type of structure are you going to be looking at and just the main thing is actually how can I assist them to be able to achieve those goals I do find often one is almost looking at a specific strategy because they don't know all the other strategies that are actually available and and for me then I just come in there to just be act as a guide act as a guide where I can provide more information more information in a manner that is easier to digest so that one can then be able to assess for themselves what's going to make better sense for for them and also for for their family so you said to make it a little bit easier to digest which I love so let's talk about you know you're the finance guy you're the money guy the numbers guy so let's talk about these numbers we we talk I mean first time home buyers do we know what ROI is return on investment do we know how do we look for these things how are we sure that this is the one how do you then explain that to you I mean or how can you explain that to me today in layman's terms look I think it's to keep it quite simple I mean there's lots of different numbers that one can look at but of course if one is looking to become a first time buyer in most cases for me it's its first time investors that that's the space that I play in quite a lot with and I just relate my journey because my journey is quite a simple one where obviously I'd read a lot of books and now I was going through analysis paralysis going through all these different types of properties and not really going anywhere and then what actually happened is that I sat through in a presentation where my mentor was then presented to a room full of I think we're about 100 people and when he presented there he showcased an example where we could participate it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to participate in a deal where we could buy up to 40 cashflow positive properties okay so he explained and I thought this makes a lot of sense then he invited everybody who was interested on the Saturday to come and view this building to see these cashflow positive properties I'd heard about this I'd read about this I wanted to see if it was real I think there were about 50 people that put their hands up I went there on the Saturday at that lot of time and here's the saddest thing when I got there and I'll let the viewers know we were 12 people there we were 12 people there I was the only black person in that space there in the meeting room everybody was mixed at different races and so on and I was the only black person that came to view this opportunity and I didn't understand why that was the case and what actually happened afterwards is I looked at everything I looked at the building the numbers made sense and and I put up my hand I said I'd like to participate here at the time we trade cautiously and we went and we applied with the bank and the bank approved for us to purchase four of the units now when I look back because it's been five years since we purchased those when I actually look back I mean the bank of the time they would have granted us to purchase I think we would have been 20 of those units because you know we're both working and we had saved quite a bit and so on and they would have granted that and we didn't we only took four of the units and do you know how many times those apartments you know how many times the the tenants have skipped rent they've never skipped rent they have never skipped rent in in that period of five years and that's when it started to trickle into me as I was going through our entrepreneurship journey but but this type of model makes sense you know we were cautious some people didn't even participate but this model actually made sense and it was then that I said okay I'm gonna look to replicate this type of model those units at the time when we purchased them they were I kid you're not there were 160,000 rent each 160,000 per apartment the rentals that we get on each apartment they range between 4,200 and 5,000 rent that's per apartment yeah and and so that that was the thing where I looked into it and like I said there's lots of jogging there's lots of jogging in terms of figuring out return and internal rate of return and all types of different things but sometimes the easiest way to look at it is how much money will I get into my account after all the expenses are paid I purchased this investment what's going to be my bond what are the other expenses and will I get any money extra in my account or do I have to spend extra money every time to pay for the all the other expenses and that's something that that I just look to share with other people and and move forward from that because you talk about the jogging and the little things that I'm sure when you first went you said okay cool you understood what he was saying and you took a chance and you went and it is quite sad that you were the only black man there at this time and on this day and look now you know we report so and you're sitting happily and you've made that investment now I know you're a mentor but tell me about do we have more black people investing in property now oh no look I mean I think the specific reason why uh no there's lots of black investors that don't don't misunderstand me I think the specific reason why and that's that's why I've had to I engage with um other investors and other main teas right it was the area that was the biggest stumbling block because the area actually was in jenniesburg cbd and for a lot of people that was like no go area you know but the thing is that for me I was focusing on the numbers and opportunity and I was trusting my guide because the view had been you know if you go into places like jenniesburg cbd buildings are hijacked tenants don't pay it's a mission I don't want to go there and things like that but I found contrary contrary to that what I actually did find you actually find the working clause they're really off focused on making sure that the roof over their head they maintain those payments it's actually more important to them than somebody where you know their rental is 10 15 000 rand uh they've got other types of uh credit and liabilities that are chasing off to them so sometimes to skip the the landlords a rental payment it's an easier thing to do as opposed to in in in the cbd and so since then that's what I've gone through and I've looked at um other types of places within there we've invested in other apartments and other buildings and within the jenniesburg cbd and I've formed relationships with different different agents different agents where we've had a connection where they they send me deals and often quite a few times in the week and I'm not somebody who's going around purchasing you know three four properties per week I mean and so that's where you know sometimes and I let my network know I'll I'll let my mentees know this opportunity is available um these are the type of numbers this is something that I think might make sense and things like that because you're right the the the area determines the tenants and I mean Johanna's proximity is scary I mean if I was there I also probably wouldn't have been have invested in it because you think that they're not going to pay but you're right the people or your tenants that you you tend to get yes I love that you said that these are the people who will pay because the most important thing to them is security first where other people are worrying about other things which I love so back to us knowing as first time homebuyers what our return on investments is and you all about cash positive property and just like what other things do we look for what is key when looking at the property it's the area you've mentioned what other things is key to look for to know that this property will be cash positive well look I mean obviously the the biggest mistake that I find that people make is sometimes okay I find that they've selected an area and they're going through for it perhaps they're only looking at what the bond is going to be and then they're looking at what the the rental is going to be but I mean there are other things that they're coming to play simple basics like the levies if they are levies that need to be paid your rates and taxes and things like that as well as insurance or maintenance those all need to be added so you can see if I put all of these type of expenses how does that compare to the rental that I will achieve the second thing actually that makes sense as well is looking at the specific place and seeing can I add value to this place can I add value that will allow me to get more rental than either what is the average or what the current tenants are paying and then there's simple things to look at in terms of adding value either a light renovation things like perhaps you know adding a cleaning service or things like adding a free wi-fi so there's all types of different things one can look to but it's it's also looking at the value that one can add that will make sense for the type of tenants that would partake in your type of place that you've purchased and the area as well I want to take it back to you because the whole I like that the session is really about mentorship that's what I kept to seem to you and Haiti and being a mentee we are trusting you with so much decisions you're holding our hand you you're helping us you're guiding us and your responsibility being one because I mean I've never been a mentor but would you say that being a mentor and advising people on something that you clearly cleared up on that journey for you of being a mentor what was that like for you well I mean it's it's quite enlightening I think what I have seen is that back when when I started I wish I had somebody like guiding me throughout the way that I'm guiding people at the same time I mean I think because I'm a more practical person and I like to focus more on the numbers so sometimes when somebody will talk to me about something that they're thinking about or an area in property that they're thinking of it's fine because it you know when it comes to property it is emotive it's emotional it's it's big investments and things like that but what I have come to see is that you know I'll just give an example where I had somebody where they were looking at you know they're looking at investing and there were places that they're looking at specifically around Santa and this is going to be like their first type of investment that they're looking into and when I probe further I realized what they really wanted was what you know they'd read about in these books with Robert Kimisaki and things like that and passive income and what they were buying into was going to be taking quite a bit of money out of the account every single month and and then I guided them I just said here's another type of opportunity and it doesn't even cost that much money because the places that he was looking at was 800 or closer to about a million and and with that same availability of credit that the bank would have been able to get him I was able to guide him and show look here's an opportunity you can actually purchase three or four properties with that same amount 801 million and and with that I mean look at how much money will come into your account every single month and look at these type of buildings they actually managed quite well the cheaper and the tenants are going to pay so you know this is another type of opportunity that is available that you can just compare the two and when he was able to compare the two on paper it's like no but this makes a perfect sense for him obviously something that was important is he didn't want to keep coming back and forth into the Janisberg CBD and with us we do offer as we manage people's properties as well so there's something where we're able to manage their properties as well and give them peace of mind so that was passive income at its finest and I know passive income leads us to financial freedom so just before we close up what is financial freedom for Papa? So financial freedom it's different things for different people I think for me and it's part of the goal that's what we work towards is financial freedom is actually being able to make decisions that are best for you and your family regardless of the money situation you see because sometimes I mean there are things either in terms of where you want to live or where you want to be or where you want to work and sometimes those decisions you're making them solely based on on financial reasons but if one's able to get to a point where you're making those decisions based on what's most important for you and money is a secondary concern then I think that's the direction to go towards financial freedom. Yeah so I just want to close off and I you can have a few last words for the viewers because I'd also like to ask the first especially for first-timers first-time homebuyers I wanted to find out the importance of having a mentor and I think that there is obviously a cost involved and maybe you can't afford to have a mentor like now or maybe you have the wrong mentor but you're not sure what do we do as first-timers in that case? I think the most important thing to understand is that we all spend money okay we all spend money and in the way that we spend money either it's as an expense or we are investing okay and I think that the most important thing to understand is that I don't know I might have mentioned before people will ask me this property is it a good investment or is it a bad investment and I spoke about it before is that I don't know if it's a good investment or a bad investment my thing is are you a good investor or a bad investor and a bad investor is somebody who's partaking into something and they don't have the education so the thing is for me I'm always trying to partake my knowledge to allow people to get educated and listen don't get me wrong I get people coming to me all the time within the industry where they ask papapa I mean you do all of these sessions on social media for free and all of these things why are you telling the people all of these things that I mean that you've learned and you spend money on and so and so what are you doing but for me that's that's not where my heart is for me I want more people to know so that the pot can get bigger of course there are different elements where sometimes there's a cost involved but it's important that people are able to invest in themselves because once you invest in yourself you've got that knowledge and that you're able to impart yourself and your family and you own that for yourself and we grew up knowing that education is an investment and having a mentor who educates you it might not be theory or anything but its property is still education so I think that's what we need to know as a people is to just keep investing not only in assets or something that because I feel like education or often I'm done with my mentor I don't have like a degree a piece of paper that I can see you know we did it and I think that's something we need to kind of again mind think change your mindset and understand that if I do pay for mentor at the end of the day I still am educating and feeding myself yeah and I think that that's that's very keen and I mean not only that because it is a normal thing where what certificate am I going to get after this but this is something that I got to experience when I went through my own mentoring I mean years ago is I really felt the impact in my bank account and because I could see the impact in my bank account I knew okay I'm on the correct path I didn't need a certificate because the evidence is already in my bank account and what I got to see was that because it was a real cling I mean we've spoken before about property and entrepreneurship and the link and where the penny dropped for me was when you know after building all our retail stores and some are open and some had to be closed and it's a very emotional journey and when I looked through that whole process I was thinking but this is very strange because my tenants have kept paying all of this time they really have kept paying all of this time and at the time we only we had a couple of units and then I realized why don't I grow the number of units why don't I invest the gates in terms of what other areas what other types of buildings are going to make sense and invest more there and then and then one can just take it forward yeah I agree thank you so much again for sitting with us this evening and I really appreciate I love again we said this last week about you need to be a good investor you know it's not about a good investment which I want to echo on and again what I'm taking away from tonight is investing in yourself which is very key so thanks again papa thank you so much thank you to our viewers at home that is all we have time for tonight again I think take away to invest in yourself that is key thank you so much


Hello everyone and greetings. Welcome to the presentation on V4L2 controls from the perspective of reader capture devices. Myself Satyakam Mehtawaram, the co-author for this presentation is Inbaraj Ilengavan. We are from Samsung semiconductor India research that is based in Bangalore in India. Inbaraj is my colleague. We are working together on VPCSI2 controller development for various Samsung SOCs. We implemented CSI2 drivers based on V4L2 that have multiple sensors serializer and DC laser combination. We prepared this presentation based on our experience with capture devices and the V4L2 controls being used. So, here is the agenda for presentation. We first looking to the structure of V4L2 framework and then we will see what is a V4L2 device, what is a V4L2 sub-device, what are the video device nodes and what are the V4L2 control objects provided by Linux kernel. And then we move on to the topic of controlling V4L2 devices. That is why controls are needed, the control methods provided by V4L2, how the user applications can leverage these controls and we prepared few nodes based on our experience and implementing the controls. Finally, we will look into the application with, we will present a sample capture application with the control methods that we discussed so far. Also, we present the V4L2 CTL utils provided by the V4L utils package. At the end of this presentation, we hope the audience will gain fair knowledge of V4L2 controls and using these controls for the capture devices. Typical video streaming involves multiple devices. In order to explain the structure of V4L2 framework, here we introduce a sample system that consists of camera sensors, serializer and DC laser combination and a host cluster interface to the cameras. For this topic, we assume the host cluster interface to be MPCSI2 interface which is found in most of the systems. In this configuration, cameras are connected to the serializer which then aggregates the camera streams and then transmits over them to the DC laser. The DC laser inter transfers the image streams to the host cluster where the host cluster interface. Here we introduce the term bridge device that is responsible for transferring the image data to the memory using the DMA transfer. Any off chip device or on chip IP are considered as sub devices. In the next slide, we will see how V4L2 framework abstracts these devices. V4L2 framework provides the canal data structures to describe the devices. Struct V4L2 device describes the top is the top level data structure that describes the bridge device and is responsible for managing the child devices. Struct V4L2 sub device describes the sub devices attached to the bridge device. These can be the camera sensors or the MPCSI controller that we shown in previous sample system. Struct video device describes the video device nodes and exposes these device nodes under the slash div directory for the user applications. Struct V4L2 CTRL describes the control properties and keeps track of the control value. Struct V4L2 CTRL handler keeps track of all the controls within the device that are registered with that handler. There can be multiple controls for a device and these controls which are registered with that handler, the V4L2 CTRL handler keeps track of all those controls. Here is the block diagram for the sample system which we discussed in the previous slide. First, we have the struct V4L2 device that represents the device instance and we have the struct V4L2 subdev that describes the sub devices that are attached to the bridge device. Like the sensors, the serializer, the decelerizer or the control interface and we have the video device nodes that are exposed to the user under slash div directory as a slash div video x or slash div V4L sub div x where x is the device number. The total of 256 devices can be registered. Okay, so why controls are needed? Advanced screening systems usually have multiple devices or IPs such as the image sensing processor or the multi-format codec that will be encoding and decoding of video screens. Often, these devices provide configuration parameters that are controllable by user and controls provided can be specific to the device which can be vendor specific and device control needs can be application specific as well. V4L2 framework provides methods to set these controls such as the standard controls, extended controls, custom controls or the private controls. The capture devices can implement all of these controls or some of the required controls. Each of the available controls are identified by the respective control ID values. V4L2 framework arranges these controls into classes which serve as the base for this control ID such as the user controls, the impact controls or the camera class control all the way up to the RF and the detection control. V4L2 framework provides standard controls with predefined IDs. The user class serves as the base for this control ID. The standard controls are defined for brightness, contrast, saturation and all the way up to the color effects. The last one V4L2 CID last P1 is not a control ID access but serves as the tag when applications are carrying for the controls. The standard controls provided by the framework were not sufficient enough as the hardware capability of devices became more sophisticated. Personally intended for complex drivers like encoders the controls were extended for other classes as well such as camera, FM tuner, RF tuner and others. The extended controls for camera class are defined for auto exposure, pan and tilt controls all the way up to pan speed and tilt speed. The extended control I have tells expect a pointer to struct V4L2 X controls which has a pointer to struct V4L2 X control. This allows multiple controls within a class to be grouped together as an array and configured by the applications. Aside from the controls available in framework depending on the system sometimes additional controls are required. These are defined using the custom control IDs. Coming to the capture devices this can be for sensor app for specifying sensor parameters or controlling the test pattern generation or to set the number of data lanes and MAPC SI2 interface or set per stream control such as errors are shown or the DMA controls for each stream or any other controls that are diverse specific. V4L2 also provides methods to inherit the control that is controls defined by one handler can be added to another by calling the API V4L2 CTRL add handler. This adds the controls defined by the control handler passed in the second argument to the control handler passed in the first argument. A filter function can also be defined to specify which controls can be added. The fourth argument specifies to the framework the controls that the controls being added are actually defined by another device. Inheriting controls is useful when the controls implemented by two devices are same thus avoids the code re-reimplementation. This is useful for example when the controls defined by gain brightness or exposure are already defined by sensor which can be reused by the bridge device. There can be occasions when adding the controls some of them might not be needed to be added for example when a debug feature is implemented by a sensor such control is not always needed to be added to the bridge device node. In such cases struct V4L2 CTRL provides a bitmap variable eSpyVeq to inform the framework to exclude the control to be added. Also the controls that are added from sub-device can be overwritten by the bridge device driver during the sub-dev registration call. Setting the eSpyVeq parameter prevents the controls from being added from sub-device to the root device during the V4L2 device register sub-dev call. So far we have seen the control methods provided by V4L2 and below are the control flags which the drivers can use to inform about the controls to application. When a control is no longer being used or no longer sorry when a control is no longer supported it is advised that the driver set the V4L2 CTRL flag disabled so that the applications can ignore such control. When a control is being used by one application and cannot be reused by another the driver can set the control as grabbed. If any other application tries to reuse the control the framework will throw an eBZ error. The read only flag is used to indicate that the control cannot be modified such as the link frequency or the blanking periods. There may be occasions when a control is being modified it can also update the control value of others. In such occasions in such occasions the drivers can set the update flag. Also a control may not be applicable when the device configuration is changed. In such cases the drivers can set the control as inactive. This can be the case usually when the inputs are being switched. The write only flag is meaningful when setting the control triggers an action but reading the control is not meaningful. The control can be changed by hardware. Example setting the control for auto gain or the auto exposure. In these cases the volatile flag should be set for the control by the driver. If user can set a new value for such volatile control the flag execute unwrite should be set by the driver. Finally a control that changes the buffer layout such as for the rotation controls the drivers can set the modify modify layout flag for that control. V4L2 framework provides control notification method wherein any change in control value can be notified to the other device. This is particularly useful when controls are inherited such as when bridge device has the controls of sensor sub device. Any changes in control value by the sub device can be notified for the bridge device. Only one notify function should be used for control handler. You can set the notify callback using using the V4L2 CTRL notify API. Before we discuss about integration of V4L2 controls with the Linux media controller framework we like to introduce the basic terms. As the number of devices participating in the media streaming pipeline and their functionality increased, Linux provided the media controller framework that helps in device discoverability and configuring these devices wherein the hardware devices are represented as a media device consisting of media entities and media pads. The media device is represented by the struct media device. The media entity is any basic hardware block that is participating in the media streaming pipeline. These can be off-chip devices or the on-chip IPs such as ISP. These are represented by struct media entity. The media pad is a connection endpoint through which the data is transferred. So the pads can be a source pad or the sync pad. These are represented by struct media pad. A media link is a connection between two pads either on the same entity or between different entities. The media links are represented by struct media link. To illustrate the terms described in the previous slide we present here a sample media device which has two media entities. This camera sensor and the host and the host processor interface to the camera. In this case we assume that to be MPCSA2 interface controller. The sensor is the source for the image data which has source pad number 0 and is connected to the input source pad of CSI entity on the sync pad 0 of CSI. The CSI controller also has source link which can be input to another entity in the media device such as DDR memory or another IP such as ISP. The connection between these two entities the media link is represented by the black arrow. The media controller framework abstracts the V4L to kernel objects as below. The struct media device pointer mdev abstracts the V4L to device. V4L to sub devices and the video devices are seen as media entities. The type field of struct media entity is set to media entity type V4L to subdev for sub devices or media entity type video device for the video device nodes. Drivers initialize the entity pads using media entity pads in it and register the entities with the media device by calling media device register entity. V4L to driver initializes the media devices within struct V4L to device using media device in it. Each entity driver initializes its entity and pad arrays using media entity pads in it. Thus the controls set by V4L to driver are applicable for the media entities. So, the media controller framework leverages the controls provided by V4L to. So far we have seen the control methods provided by V4L to and now we will look into how the user space applications can leverage these controls. The framework provides IAC terms to enumerate the controls that is the query CTRL and for extended controls VDAC query XCTRL. Applications can set the can get the control value by using VDAC GCTRL and for the extended controls using VDAC GXCTRLs. Applications can set the control value using VDAC SCCTRL and for extended controls using VDAC SXCTRLs. Applications can also try setting the control value by using VDAC TRYXCTRLs. Drivers must implement these actiles whenever the device supports one or one or more controls. Custom control IDs must be exposed to the applications from the header file under the directory include slash give API slash line X. Here is the code snippet for applications to enumerate the controls. Applications can query for all the controls using CTRL ID V4L to CID base and all the way up to V4L to CID last P1. Applications can enumerate the private controls provided by driver starting with the control ID V4L to CID private base. When changing the control value applications can first query for the desired control using VDAC GCTRL. Here we intend to change the value of a custom control. If the control is available then get the control value using VDAC GCTRL and then go ahead by setting the control value using VDAC SCCTRL. Here are a few notes on implementing controls. Driver implementation of controls need to be documented that is under documentation slash USPAC API slash media slash drivers. This is particularly useful when controls are implemented when custom controls are implemented. V4L to subdev control can be overwritten by V4L to device during subdevice registration. So decide which controls need protection and set the ease private flag for such controls. Another point is adding controls to V4L to subdevice after the device registration will not have any effect. So add the required controls for the subdevice prior to calling V4L to device register subdev. A good practice is to initialize the hardware with default values for the controls that configure the hardware. In such cases the drivers can call V4L to CTRL handler setup and initialize the control values for that hardware. This helps in applications to avoid setting the hardware to default values. So far we have seen the structure of V4L to the control methods provided by V4L to an integration of the controls with media controller framework and notes on how to implement the V4L to control. And now we present a sample capsule device to illustrate the control. The media device consists of two cameras connected to serializers. The image screens are regulated by the serializer and the serializer combination and are received by the host and the MTCSI to RX port. The green boxes here represent the media entities. The camera sensors each have the source pad connected to the sync pad of serializer 0 and 1. The serializer entity connects to the source the serializer entity connects to the DC laser. The DC laser has two source pads connected to the each of the RX port. The yellow boxes here represent the media device notes. So how do we add controls? Drivers need to first fill the structure V4L to CTRL config and V4L to CTRL OS. We will see in the next slide the contents of the structure. After initializing the EBO structures, controls can be added for custom controls by calling the V4L to CTRL new custom and for non-menu standard controls by calling V4L to CTRL std. For standard menu controls, the controls can be added by calling V4L to CTRL new std menu. Here are the contents of the structure V4L to CTRL config. The desired operations for the control can be set in the V4L to CTRL OS parameter. The control id in the id parameter. Drivers can set a meaningful name for the control in the name parameter. The type of control can be set in the type parameter. The minimum control value allowed by the control can be set by the driver in the min parameter and the maximum value allowed by the control in the max parameter. For integer type controls, a step value can be specified. For example, the number of lanes and MPCSA to interface. The default value for the control can be set in the left parameter. Here are the contents of structure V4L to CTRL OS. The GCTRL gets the new value for the control, generally relevant for the volatile or the read-only controls, such as the signal strength. If not set, then the currently cached value is returned. Try CTRL test whether the controls value is valid. This is only relevant when the usual min, max or the step values, step checks are not sufficient. SCTRL sets the control value. SCTRL is compulsory. Here is the example for initializing V4L to CTRL OS structure. For the sample device we discussed in the previous slides. The CSI captured driver uses the SCTRL operations to set the number of lanes of the MPCSA to interface by using the custom control ID here. And here is the example for setting the contents of V4L to CTRL config. The OS parameter is set to capture CTRL OS shown in the previous slide. The ID value is set to the custom control ID which sets the number of lanes on the MPCSA interface. The type of control is set to type integer since the number of lanes is an integer value. The minimum number of lanes configurable is 1. The maximum number of lanes configurable is 4. And the step value to increment or decrement the lanes is 1. The default number of lanes is 1. Once the structures V4L to CTRL config and V4L to CTRL OS are initialized, the driver can add the controls, add the new custom control by calling the API V4L to CTRL new custom API. The drivers can implement a control handler by adding the V4L to CTRL handler structure to the top level structure or the driver's private structure. For V4L to drivers, the control handler can be added to the at the same level where the V4L to device is present and initialize the control handler and all the necessary controls for the handler as discussed in the previous slides. Optionally, any control that is interacting with hardware, the driver can force initialize these controls and free the control handler when the device is leaving or removed. And here are the steps for adding the control handler to the sample capture device. Struct capture dev is the top level structure describing this bridge device. This has the structure V4L to device to describe the device instance and has the control handler. We initialize these structures as described in the previous slides and call V4L to CTRL handler in it with the number of controls handled by the control handler. The custom control to set the MPCSI to number of lanes is added by calling V4L to CTRL new custom. And finally, V4L to CTRL handler setup is called to initialize the default number of lanes for this device. The control notification can be set by calling V4L to CTRL notify API with the control handler and the control ID for which the notification is required. For example, here is a sample code where the sensor driver after adding the controls to its handler requires a framework to be notified of the changes for setting the number of lanes and MPCSI interface. The sensor CTRL notify function is called whenever the application changes the number of lanes and the video device mode or the sub device mode. And thus we have shown the sample capture device using V4L to controls. And now we will look into the utilities provided for controls. The V4L utility package provides command line tool to control the devices. The list device argument lists all the V4L devices along with the video device number and the device name. The driver and device information can be obtained by the arguments all followed by device followed by the device node name. And the controls owned by a device can be obtained by the arguments list CTRL followed by the device node name. And the command can be used to get or set the control value for the device nodes. And the current value of all the controls owned by a device can be specified by the argument log status for the device. With that we conclude our presentation on V4L to controls from the perspective of capture devices. We have seen the structure of V4L to framework and the control methods provided. We also seen how applications can leverage these controls and nodes and implementing these implementing the controls. Also a implementation of sample capture device with the V4L to control methods. We hope this presentation provides fair knowledge of V4L to controls and they are used by capture devices. Please let us know any questions that you have. Thank you all for attending this presentation and see you at the exciting events. Thank you.