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Down with Flu and Slight Fever These Few Days

It started last Saturday morning, after I woke up I didn't feel well, remember it was raining that morning so I waited for the rain to stop and went to have my weekly run as I thought I will feel better but mainly because I don't want to skip my run, it's now like a religious thing, have to do every Saturday. After that Saturday, the feeling of sickness comes and goes, I took medicine and now I'm feeling better but that taste in my mouth, not the medicine taste but the taste of sickness still lingers, I feel like I can fall ill anytime, hope I get better before my Thailand trip this month end. Now my wife is also a bit sick. I think it's the haze, so annoying, the burnt smell in the air is really irritating, also makes my eyes feel itchy, when will it stop?
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Planning Trip to Thailand (Updated)

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Last post. I have bought tickets, overall is about $435 for 2 pax. I bought Jetstar from Singapore to Suvarnabhumi ($249 for two) and Scoot from Don Mueang to Singapore ($186 for two), with standard seat selection and 20KG check-in baggage for my wife to and fro. Just want to highlight something, when I bought my Scoot tickets, they offered to let me settle in SGD which is my card's currency, they offered $195.18 for 4710 THB so I did a quick check on Google and found that 4710 THB is about $184 SGD so of course I didn't accept their exchange rate and choose to settle in Thai Baht instead. Never Accept Airline's Exchange Rate So after I confirmed my payment in Thai Baht, I checked my credit card transaction online and found that my bank charged me about $186, about $9 cheaper than what I would pay if I choose to accept Scoot's SGD settlement instead, so always check the exchange rate before you choose, anyway I think it's better to let your bank settle fo
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Received U-Save Rebate for Oct 2014

Last month I have a $97.61 credit from the Jul U-Save, this month government gave another $65 making it $162.61. My utilities bill for this month is $76.67, very surprising, much cheaper than last month of $97.39, I think it's because last month was estimated and this month was checked by SP staff. Now I still have $85.94 credit, if next month also $70+ then also no need to pay.
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Planning Trip to Thailand

Finally I am this stage, screw that ICT and time to plan for my break from this urban jungle! Ok, this is my tentative planning: 31 Oct - take plane from SIN to BKK 11pm, reach BKK 12:30am. 01 Nov - take bus from BKK to Udon in the morning, should reach my wife's house by night. 02 Nov to 03 Nov - slack at her home, maybe ask her family bring me around to admire the natural beauty. 04 Nov - accompany my wife to her doctor, I'm going to do a body checkup since I'm there. 05 Nov - take bus back to BKK, still haven't decide should take morning or night but doesn't matter much though. 06 Nov to 07 Nov - enjoy BKK food, shopping. 08 Nov - go home. I just check out the tickets at Airasia, Tiger, Jetstar and Scoot, seems like go is Jetstar cheapest and come back is Airasia, I think I can budget $400 for tickets, then maybe bring about $1500 for spending, should be fine since the exchange rate is so good now.
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New Movie Dracula Untold

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I saw the trailer and it looks really good, Luke Evans has that Dracula feel, I can't think of anyone else who fits the role, I think would be nice to watch at the cinema. Imdb rating also quite high at 7.5, I think everyone is looking forward to watching.
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