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It's Year 2020 but I still have draft posts from a long time ago so I will be taking my free time this week to complete them. (Last few very free days since circuit breaker period is ending in less than a week.) This post is half written and saved as draft since 17 Apr 2019. and I finally got time to do it. without further ado, let's get on with the post. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Do you hear the people sing Singing the song of angry men It is the music of the people who will not be slaves again When the beating of your heart Echoes the beating of the drums There is a life about to start when tomorrow comes. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My partner and I subscribed have recently subscribed to Netflix (Since the start of this year 2019 ) and I have been spending sometime watching Netflix when I am back home from work. At the start I was just watching anime. But seriously ? Anime on Netflix? I could just watch them...

Only 2 weeks left before the circuit breaker period is over. Although I really enjoyed my time during this circuit breaker playing games and goofing around, But looking at the situation, I have got no choice but to start catching up with what I've missed while goofing around. A second extension seem unlikely at this conjunction. Despite still having 600 over new cases tested in the dormitory, the number of cases in the community is quite low. (OR JUST THAT WE ARE ALL NOT TESTED) That means that if everyone follow safe distancing and ensure personal hygiene, it should be safe for people to head out. Furthermore, some of the sectors are already opened for business. Which means that if there is no sudden surge of cases in the local community,  there is no need for further extension. As we are expecting no extension, it is time for us to start working hard to catch up on whatever we have left off while goofing off (Only applies if you are like me). Staying at home makes it hard for me ...

Hey guys! Yesterday our PM announced that there will be extension to the circuit breaker period. It will only end on 1 June 2020. and more things are deemed as non essential now. And yes ! That includes our all time favorite bubble tea. I've spent like 2 weeks at home now. The first week at partner's place cause I was previously staying with partner before the circuit breaker period. but I decided to move back home with my parents because that is the address registered in my identity card and I don't want to get into trouble. Also, I wanted to spend more time with my parents <3 But then again, I miss my partner and the last week has been a terrible experience. I've been staying at my partners place for too long and I can't stand how hot and dusty my parents place are. Pimple breakout, Rashes and Heat Rashes. Now that I've spent a week at parents place, cleaned up some areas, I am no longer tortured by rashes and pimple breakouts. I am however fee...

Day 3 of "Circuit breaker measures" Working from home  -> very inefficient cause I keep thinking of doing other things If work is being done on a turtle pace when we are back in office, that means work is being done on a snail pace. I think I made progress from Day 2. I was spending more time off work on Day 2 than day 3. but still, I'll need to start to do more. Although it is off work timing now, But I think there is a need for me to continue working so that I will eventually get things done. Tomorrow is good friday. Since I also can't go out, Might as well spend the night doing work so I can slack of some other time. XD Time to try and finish up what I'm supposed to complete today while waiting for my maple mirror link for full client to finish downloading. Didn't go out for anything today. Family members cooked for me. I feel bad making them cook and not contributing most of the time. But I can't cook so. Better just eat the food th...

Power supply is interrupted by virus! The system is now unhealthy and we will need to do a shutdown so that we can detect where are the faulty parts. However, we cannot do a full shutdown as we will need to keep the power for essential areas working. Hence we will isolate the following areas whereby we need troubleshooting. The shutdown will take place on 7 April 2020. On that day, we will open some of the circuit breaker. The circuit breaker will remain open for 1 month and might be extended depending on the situation. Although the circuit breaker has not been open yet, we seek your cooperation to close all final sub-circuit so that your equipment will not spoil due to surge current when we close back the circuit breaker. Jokes aside, COVID has to be taken seriously. Please stay at home as much as possible so that we can win the battle against this virus.

This is my after thought of the 4 day course which I have attended. It's 3 and a half day of lecture with the remaining half day for tests. In order to clear the course and get the certificate, I would have to get 100% correct for the written exam consisting of 3 case studies and also at least 65/100 for the multiple choice question paper. Although I know the criteria to pass from the start of the class, But it is just so hard to keep awake in lectures. I'm just glad that I was not the only one. This course kinda brings me back to the time when I was doing my 8 months specialist diploma course when I'll be either sleeping or playing on my phone during lecture. Kinda regret spending most of my time not playing attention especially when I don't have enough time to study. and still it felt like I have not learnt my lesson. For the first 2 days it was really hard to keep awake as I think I had insufficient sleep. So I went ahead and slept for 9 hou...

Booked ticket to Vietnam before the covid thing started and we decided to cancel the trip 3 weeks before the flight due to how serious the virus is. Luckily, we didn't go. Otherwise, today after my flight reaches Singapore, I'll be on stay home notice  which means that I'll probably say bye to my project on hand I usually don't follow the news very well,  But there are covid news and comments everywhere over the internet... And, my colleagues love to talk about it. I'm not crazy over covid but I'm just gonna share an image which I saw online.  Second wave of panic buy due to Malaysia lockdown news. (It is so sad. That means no more short trips to Malaysia for the time being) There is no need to stock pile for years. Though you do need to have a month supply of food at home.  Also, why didn't you start buying after the first wave die down ? I guess Singaporean just like to queue.

以上的照片是我两三个月前拍来上传的 但是博客上传失败所以一直到现在才上传 之前刚换工作还没有什么东西让我做 现在工作量多了也没太多时间去想放工后要做什么。 反而我放工后还在想工作上的事。 我想这个礼拜后就会轻松了。。。

Is it too hard for me or is it that I didn't put in enough effort? There are many things I didn't noticed before (Or that I deny that is the truth)... But I'm slowly realizing those issues while working at this new place for the past 4 months... New Project came in. I'm placed to be the second in charge.. I want to do it well. But the truth is, I am too lazy to do it well. I procrastinate way too much and tend to put off things which I deemed hard / difficult / time consuming things. I question too little about things and doesn't point out things which I know is wrong although I already see them. (I mean it is obvious you don't actually need me to point it out to you.) I know little and yet I don't ask. I used to be curious and ask question all the time. Don't know what happened. Maybe I'm not suited to be here. Yet I'm having a hard time to leave because they gave me a chance and believe in me. Then again, I don...

After 2 years of play Royal Chaos, it was finally time to go. There are many times throughout the two which I make me want to leave the game but I have stubbornly stayed on, sticking to this time consuming and money eating game. This time, major guild players from my server decided to quit the game. Hence I decide to join them and spend more time off the game. It has been a few weeks since I stopped playing royal chaos. Few things in my life have changed. 1. I no longer have to keep track of what time each events are and keep alarm to make sure I attend those events. 2. I no longer have to spend 30 minute to 1hour of my time playing the game 3. Spending less money on game 4. Have more time to do what I want to do. Eg. Read novels / webtoons 5. Sleep when I am tired. No need to force myself awake to complete all the daily quests. Though I have quit the game, I have yet to uninstall the game.  I guess it is time for me to uninstall the game since it is just taking space in my phone....

Throwback to a few weeks back 9 January is a day which I should have bring along a book with me. but I didnt.  I thought I will be returning back to office after the site visit but I was wrong. In fact, next time I should bring a book to whereever I go so that regardless where I am going, at least I will still be able to have something to do when I am free. (there's more that I have written on my book regarding my reflection on my new workplace but I guess that is for a later post.) Flash forward till today, I stopped bringing books to anywhere cause I don't really read them and they are additional weight which I have to carry around. What I do instead is to carry my non camera phone around so that I can at least be able to surf the net and communicate with people through messaging apps such as whatsapp, telegram, wechat, line and etc.  The remaining time is spent watching the workers work, dozing off, singing songs and walking back and forth. Ri...

4th day of Chinese New Year and I am back at work ! I was given an option to either work or forced to take leave until next week. Since I have just started work in this company and have yet gotten my confirmation,  I don't have any annual leave so, no choice just work. I'm not even celebrating Chinese New Year this year anyway. But I actually semi regret not taking leave today cause I am sososo tired and I keep on dozing off. I should have taken leave to continue to nua at home. Anyway the company given us 2 days of leave ahead of cny. but I kinda just blew it off without doing much things. Throwback of the past few days; 23 Jan, I went to meet my brother from my previous company for lunch. I promised him that I will treat him before I leave but I didnt managed to treat him as he is needed on site the very day. Hence the treat has been delayed till now. Went to Mr Prata to have lunch. We ordered Chicken Fried Rice, Seared Salmon, Spring Chic...

Woke up really early today as I was thirsty and also I had a lot of things in my mind So after waking up, I decided to use the computer. By using the computer, I realised that it has been a long time since I put in effort in keeping my online diary alive ... Keeping this online diary a ME space which I can refer to and count on retracing my thoughts at that time. (My memory is getting worse each day.) and.... I started with updating my webtoons list! The first and the last time I actually updated it was in 11 November 2018. Thats like 1+ years ago. (In fact same for the other pages. But it's the first page ..) Now that I've updated it, my next plan is to change the layout of this page. I realized it since last year that the mobile version of this page looks different and weird looking. but I didn't really look into it since I hadn't been using the computer for a long time. Oh, I also decided to remove twitter from this page since I am...

It's a new dawn It's a new day It's a new life  For me... And I'm feeling good !!! Well 2020 is here and today is the second day of the new year which marks the first working day of 2020. It's so sad that the holiday just ended like that. It felt like I haven't enjoy much of the holiday. And once again, I've been wasting too much time watching videos instead of doing what I want to be doing.  Well, we just have to endure another 3 weeks for the next big holiday which I can't celebrate this year. Though I am unable to celebrate this year, but I am still looking forward to it. Instead of going out visiting, I'll be able to spend the time resting and spend the time researching and learning more stuff (And that is if I don't waste my time like how I did usually) It's 11.17pm now and I'm feeling really tired.  Been dozing off at work so I guess it means I have to start sleeping earlier. I'll be back with another meaningless post soon. See ...

2 days more till the new year !  And it is time for a goal review!  The goals which I have set for myself at the start of the year are as follows ; 1.Plan a short trip / staycation with my partner before May this year 2. 每个月要主动带伴侣出门一次  3. Practice the music sheet from Lindsey and be able to play it well by April 2019 Apparently, I have gave up all my goals before the end of the year because 1. My partner doesn't want us to spend money on short trip / staycation 2. I'm going out w my partner almost every day for dinner that planning one every month to somewhere special is making us feel tired. especially when we also have other commitments. Eg: friends, family & interest group.  I only gave up on this goal after August so I completed at least 50% of my goal But I would say that even if I have not completed 100%, I have already achieved the results that I wanted.  3. I don't have a violin at my partner house and I don't want to bring mine over cause I don't wa...

The weather for the past week and the following days to come is so cold that I don't even need to on air con at night !  But it makes me feel like staying at home all day as I do not want to be out in the wet weather. But then again I really have no choice since I had to work for money. :( So, recently I'm looking into how I can get passive income so that I can rest a little.  With the weather like that, I have to start bathing the moment I reach home. Otherwise the water will get colder later into the night. (Partner's house has no water heater) Can't wait for next week when Christmas comes so that I can have a day of rest in the mid week. It has been almost 2months since I've started my new job. I definitely learnt different things within this 2 months but I feel that I didn't do many of the job well. At first when I started the job, I was hoping that I will be able to perform well and hopefully get a pay raise after I get through the probation period. But as ...

Wooo! Blogger mobile app have a new layout ( from a few months ago ) And I think it looked so much better than the previous one. Didn't explore much of the app yet. I'm just submitting blog posts only. Let's move on to my life cause you know, I haven't really tried exploring the app hence I got nothing to talk about it.  Now that I switch job, I have to wake up earlier as the working hours 8.30am-5.30pm instead of 9am-6pm I used to think 30minute isn't a very long time... But it actually is !  Now I reach home at 6pm and is able to finish showering eating (take away at home / nearby home) and playing royal chaos by 9+ 10!  I will even have time to blog every day if I don't spend them on going out to inconvenient places to have dinner / hanging out with friends and family. But well, spending time with friends and family is important so you guys just got to wait for my update. (I'm pretty sure nobody really reads my lengthy posts anyway) Back to talking about ...

Yesterday, I started my second full time job. The HR in this company was so much better than my previous company.  Everything was prepared beforehand. You don't have to wait for IT access/ for people to set up the computer system. They also prepared some common stationaries on my table. Everything is good so far except that I haven't see the person who is supposed to guide me.  He will be away for 2 weeks.  (I wonder why they keep asking me to join earlier. Maybe should have stick to my original plan of starting on 4 November instead.) Expanding company. Not much people in the office yet.  There are so many things to compare to my previous company. Not much of a bad thing. The only thing that bothers me is that I can hear the sound of airplane flying every now and then. It's loud and noisy and my office is super quiet. There are things that I definitely will miss about my first job environment, culture and people. BUT I really have to leave the job environment. ...

Goal for the year : To bring partner out for a date on my own accord monthly I initially thought that it would be quite easy since there are at 28 or more days in a month. But I guess it is still quite a challenge as I have to work even on Saturdays. Dinner dates seems to be the most convenient for me. However, my partner usually end work earlier than me. So partner will end up buying food back for us / initiate our dinner location.  As I have to work half day on Saturdays, the moment I reach home after work, I don't want to leave the house anymore.  On certain weekends, I'll also meet my friends out together with partner. Hence we couldn't have our date together. Ultimately,  it seems like I'm getting back to my lazy days. Month of September, I didn't initiate any dates with my partner. My partner did initiate one though (Many if you include dinner dates) The rest of the time, I initiated going out w my family & friends. But we will...

Goal for the year: To bring my partner out for a date monthly. As I mentioned on Goal Review 5/6, I did not go out on a date with my partner on July hence failing the goal. What I did however is to bring my partner out on 2 dates on August. Had a dinner date as usual. At Bugis plus after work! We had curry rice at CoCo Ichibanya I think the food there is not bad! My partner didn't really like the place as the table is a little bit too small.  After dinner, we went to shop at uniqlo! Bought a few shirt for my partner <3 (Oh but the shirts are still inside the plastic bag beside the wardrobe.) Next, we went to Tampines iSteaks for dinner on Saturday. We reached the place at around 5.45 to have early dinner. Thankfully, the dinner crowd have not arrived yet otherwise we would have been stuck outside queuing. Food is awesome as usual. We had ordered a Mushroom soup,  1 450g NZ Striploin (Medium rare) and a chicken steak. Parmesan Asp...