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Went to Buy CAT6 Ethernet Cable

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Bought the 20 metres cable at Challenger for $30.51, this is after 10% member discount, the brand is ATake, after I bought it then I read online that this brand not popular, some people say it doesn't deliver the expected speed, I don't know how true is that but at least it works for my 300Mbps connection, now I am able to get the speed that I signed up for after replacing my fake CAT5e cable . Mine is the flat cable, some people say flat cable has lower performance, I also don't know how true is that, but at least for this 20 metres and for my 300Mbps connection it works fine. From iPhone 6S From desktop computer (wired)
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Singlish in Oxford English Dictionary!?!

Yesterday while browsing news at Asiaone mobile site, I saw this article which mentioned Singlish and Oxford dictionary, on closer look I realized that it's The Oxford Dictionary, the same "brand" that I used when I was in primary and secondary school, all the way until internet became so common that one can google anything. I used to have a mini Oxford dictionary which helped me a lot during my early years, but nowadays I just google. Anyway I find it funny that they added Singlish into their dictionary because Singlish is really a mix of different languages and dialects and short forms, like many people say, it's a Rojak language, and Rojak is Malay for mix together. But then if these words are so commonly used by people, I guess it would be helpful to be included, but in a Singlish dictionary or something, but since they already included, so be it lol. These are the 19 words that they added, most of which I have used except Chinese helicopter, lepak an
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Starhub Checked My Connection

Last week I upgraded from 100Mbps to 300Mbps, after that I didn't see any difference in the speed so I logged a case with Starhub, today they sent their helpful staff to help me check, the staff said it's my cable problem, he suspected that my cable is low quality even though it is CAT5e, he did some speed tests with his own cable and he said he managed to get 300Mbps both wired and wireless. So I brought my laptop home, plugged in directly to the ONT using the CAT5e cable from Starhub, the one that came together as a package when I first signed up at my current address, wow, I got 303Mbps, then I switched back to that "low quality" cable, drop down to 93Mbps, really my cable problem lol. The "low quality" CAT5e cable running into my room is not what it seems, stupid unbranded cable that I bought at Sim Lim Square, I think it's a CAT5 labelled as CAT5e, really chee birds dishonest business people, no wonder the store keeper who sold me the cable had
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Blogger Spam Filter

Just recently when I checked my comments section, I noticed that some legit comments got picked out by the spam filter, so if you noticed that your comment disappeared, it's not my doing, I don't delete legit comments, only comments from spammers. Anyway I have restored all the legit comments, thanks for visiting!
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Ice Cold A&W

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Ice cold drink on a super hot day, shiok!
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Moved My Wireless Router into Room

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Wife was complaining that surfing speed on her iPad is slow sometimes, actually I also noticed that sometimes my iPhone don't get full bars, so I decided to move the router inside our room, now seems to be much faster. From my iPhone: From my desktop: By the way Starhub still haven't upgrade my speed to 300Mbps, now I think still 100Mbps. The tech support contacted me and I guess they are going to do something soon.
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Went to Jurong Bird Park

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So last week we applied for the Friends of Wildlife membership, today we decided to check out the bird park, it's a beautiful place and it was much less crowded than Singapore Zoo or Night Safari, and after walking half the park, we then know why it is less popular, the stench of bird droppings. The stench can be overpowering especially at areas where there is water, I think the ponds are full of bird droppings, wife felt like puking lol, I also cannot take it, but other than the smell, the staff were very friendly, the environment is very beautiful, actually I think bird park is more beautiful than zoo, but bird park seems to be smaller than zoo. I think maybe because it rained a few times which made the smell worse. And the bird I like most are penguins, especially those smaller ones, the way they walk is very cute, anyway I didn't take photos of them, but can see in my video. As for spending, didn't really spend much there, only bought 3 scoops of ice-cream
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$2.20 Chicken Rice from Ananas Cafe

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Cheap and taste is not bad, chilli is alright, actually this is the second time I bought from them, first time I bought $3, so today I try $2.20, actually only difference is the $3 version slightly more rice, so buy the $2.20 version still more worth it, why pay $0.80 more for a little bit more rice lol. $2.20
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