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Health Screening Detected High Blood Pressure

Yesterday I went for health screening, did urine test, took height & weight, checked body fat, checked blood pressure and extracted two tubes of blood for tests. I'm waiting for the complete report but the nurse told me my blood pressure was 146; first time was higher so she asked me to rest 10 minutes after drawing blood and re-take. According to this link , 146 is Grade 1 Hypertension, so I think it's a red flag since it is higher than normal; normal is less than 130. I also read that hypertension is a symtomless disease , and it can quietly damage my body and possibly lead to sudden death, now maybe that explains why there are cases of people who suddenly died, maybe they are also like me who neglected themselves. I think after my wife got pregnant in 2014, and have baby in 2015, during these periods I mostly neglected myself by gaining too much weight, but good thing is I decided to go for this health screening otherwise I will just keep on living my unhealthy life
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Poor Bonus and Increment This Year

Previously I estimated my bonus to be 2 months and increment to be 3%, the end result is worse than expected. Bonus I got 1.13 months, increment is $81 which is about 1.79% of my basic salary of $4,504, but then again I got a poor rating this year so nothing major to complain about, but it's kind of pathetic right, furthermore we don't have 13th month bonus, this is the only bonus that we have so it really sucks. Overall my annual income for this round would be $59,137.52, last round I got $60,794.20, difference of $1,656.68. Ah well, definitely disappointing but moving forward I want to improve so that I can get a better rating next year, from now until next round of review I don't have plan to take any long leave so hopefully it can help to boost my rating. Sigh.
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Supposed to See Wife's Surgeon Today

Appointment was at 9am, she refused to wake up, say why so early, appointment at 9am of course wake up early and go early, she think 9am means go out at 9am, now even best, 9am appointment she wake up at 9am, but it's very obvious she don't want to go la, told her it's to see the surgeon to talk about the surgery, she is not keen, more like against the idea. She says she feels ok and don't need surgery, I think what she meant is when something really happen then send her to the emergency, like that who knows what will happen, if lucky then ok, or else how. Anyway if she don't want to go I also cannot force her, I can only encourage her, ultimately she is the patient, she has to make the decision, but if I'm the patient, of course I would go for the operation, do it while still young, why wait, why avoid the necessary, today don't do some other day also have to do, doing it in a controlled situation is definitely better than doing it during emergency.
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Delete Pre-Installed Apps in iOS 10

Source Sounds like great news, can save some space but most importantly can get rid of those pre-installed apps which I never use, podcast, voice memo and etc, also don't know what they are for, I like clean interface so I like to get rid of useless stuff. But so far still happy with my iPhone 6S, no problem so far.
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Guess My Bonus and Increment

As spoken previously , I expected my performance rating to be worse than last round, this has been confirmed, it is one grade lower than last year, but still not bad la, I heard someone still can get 2.1 months bonus, as for increment I don't know how much, I'm guessing at least 3%. So I'm expecting at least 2 months bonus and 3% increment, but see how it goes, who knows how differently it will end up, but I think that is like quite low already, work one whole year 2 months bonus and 3% increment is kind of slow. Actually I feel that my current package is good, of course some people at my age are getting way more, or some fresh grads already close to my salary or more, it's not impossible, I heard of a degree fresh grad starting pay $3.9K, that was years back, now it could be more, but that guy is probably a scholar or somebody impressive, for normal grads maybe $3K to $3.5K starting pay very possible. Too bad private companies don't pay more for national serv
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CDL Hospitality Trusts Changed Management Company

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Today I tried to search for CDL Hospitality Trusts at SGX website but I could not find, after that I went to their website  and saw this announcement that they have strike off the company, if you look at the first link, the reit is now managed by a different company: "CDL Hospitality Real Estate Investment Trust is managed by M&C REIT Management Limited, an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Millennium & Copthorne Hotels plc." So if you go under Company Information > Company Announcements at SGX website, you can find CDL Hospitality Trusts under M&C: Apparently it's just a change of management company, didn't seem to affect the share price at all.
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Fried Prawn Noodle and Braised Duck at 448 Clementi

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Google map. The prawn noodle is not bad, I find it a little bit bland but it's still alright la, I have eaten better ones. This plate is $4. This braised dish is super power, this plate cost me $11, I ordered a mix of duck, pork, tau pok, pig skin and egg. The sauce is ultimate, I think I like this one more than the Yu Kee Duck Rice sauce, and their rice is also very nice, this dish goes extremely well with rice. The sauce is so glossy, I wonder how they make it like that lol.
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Received My RT Pay

Today I received a notice saying that I will be paid $19.08 for my RT session, not bad, go RT also can get money lol. So if go 20 times, can get $381.60, quite decent amount, so if I only take bus, that means go exercise also can earn money. Now RT also easier, longer period to clear, last time 3 months must clear 20 session, now 1 year to clear same amount of sessions, finally they give NSmen a break.
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