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Day 15 at New Job

Today marks the completion of 3 weeks into my new job, so far so good, noticed that this week passed by really fast, maybe because I'm starting to blend into the new place, getting to know the people more and understanding more about the the work processes so now feel quite comfortable, which is a good thing I suppose. But so far my job scope seems to be first level support like sifting through emails related to my scope of work, then log case for developers to fix bug, file request for back end data or log retrievals, tracking cases, replying to enquiries and liaise with users to check stuff. My mentor did code walk-through and gave some briefing on the infrastructure, but other than those, nothing much technical. So now I feel like I'm a helpdesk support lol. I find it quite strange that they pay me quite well to do these low level stuff lol, I mean a fresh grad or intern can do all these stuff too, but I don't mind, all these are just very repetitive stuff, do for a
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Nice and Simple Dinner

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Simple home-cooked meal is the best, cheap and good.
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Day 11 at New Job

Today is the 11th day at my new job, so far two hiccups, one was I accidentally deleted quite a number of files in a google drive shared folder via the google drive file stream, but luckily managed to recover, phew, got a warning from the big boss though but I suppose it was well deserved. Another one was the sudden stomach pain last week , but good thing my project manager was very understanding and he covered for me so end up no need to take MC, because now I'm on probation so if take MC is considered unpaid leave. Other than the hiccups, so far so good, but today got a surprise because the guy who is showing me the ropes tendered his resignation, phew, so now a bit of pressure to quickly pick up more from him before he go because he is the only one who really understands this particular back end functions, but good thing is that most of the stuff that he showed me are stuff that I have worked on previously so technical-wise not too much of an issue, just that the business proc
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Windows 10 Superfetch More Like Superslow

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My new office laptop is running on Windows 10 Home edition, I find it a bit too cluttered for my taste so after tweaking and removing all the crap, it finally is decent to use. Then today when I was setting up some stuff, found it super slow, disk usage was at 100% even when I'm not even opening any program or clicking anything! Wtf?!? So I googled and found this "Superfetch" windows service which runs in the background, a lot of articles were telling me to disable it, and so I did, and now the laptop is so much faster. Anyway out of curiosity I checked my home computer which is running Windows 7, it also have this service but somehow it doesn't cause any slowness. By the way what the service does is just to act smart and pre-load your frequently used programs into the RAM, I find it quite stupid, I rather just click on the program that I want to use rather than have some program guess it for me, so it's actually safe to disable it.
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Sudden Abdominal Pain

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Today early morning around 3 AM+ suddenly woken up by an unbearable pain at my abdominal area, pain until cannot go back to sleep, woke my wife up to see if she have any medication, she gave me some pills to try but no help. Previously I also experienced similar pain and she gave me some liquid Antacid after that was ok, unfortunately ran out of this magic liquid, she bought it during our Phuket trip . So I quickly went to the 24 hour Sheng Siong, bought one pack of Actal tablets, ate two but still pain. Then really no choice, I took taxi to NUH A&E, reached there around 6 AM. Now A&E price increase to $115, used to be $108, but for my case I think quite ok because they did quite a number of stuff, see the Total Charges $342.30, and I only paid $115. They did the following: Oral medication to stop the pain, a combination of liquid Antacid, Gaviscon and 3 pills. Blood test. Pain killer via 2 injections, one is painkiller another is to counter the vomiting side e
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Update on Usana

My last post on Usana. So I consumed for about one week, the sore pain on my lower left back is gone within the first few days, this sore pain haunted me for a very long time so I am glad that it's finally gone. But other than that, overall my lower back still aches on and off but recently was worse, not sure if it was due to drinking too much coffee or my bed getting softer so it is not supporting my back sufficiently. So since a few days ago, I have cut down on coffee consumption, I also changed to a harder bed, I also stopped taking the Usana, and my back seems to feel better. I think what I can gather here is that Usana is useful I guess since it got rid of that long running sore pain for me, but it's not a miracle pill which can solve every problem, good lifestyle habits is more important.
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Submitted My Utilities Meter Readings

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Last month saw my electricity bill suddenly so much higher than usual, thanks to one visitor for pointing out that it's due to estimation which results in less consistent billing, so I decided to take the readings myself for this month. So electricity Sep 1475 minus Aug 1200 is 275. Last month was 361. As for water is Sep 428.9 minus Aug 418.4 is 10.5. Last month was 10.7. Now this month looks more normal, I guess I'll be taking the readings myself, actually it's super easy to do it, especially using the "SP Utilities" app, instructions very clear.
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Day 4 at New Job

Today is my 4th day at the new job, so far so good, colleagues have been very kind and helpful, especially the guy assigned to be my mentor to show me how things work at the site, he explained to me progressively so it was easy to understand, but I guess my prior experience also helps a lot so not too difficult for me to digest. Comparing to my previous company, I think this new company feels more organised, for example who is responsible for what is very clear, unlike my previous company where I have to work in multiple roles at the same time, and my previous company was only paying me one man's salary, and it is lower than my current salary. And also I find the new team to be very proficient in what they are doing, and also very proactive, so I'm quite impressed, unlike my previous team people were confused, or you waiting for me I waiting for you, or don't know how to do act blur keep quiet, it was pathetic, I mean for professionals to behave in such manner is just e
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Day 1 at New Job

Today I started my new job, wanted to make a good impression by reaching early so I woke up at 6:30 AM and left my house at around 7:15 AM, but ended up reaching too damn early. Supposed to start at 9 AM but I reached there at around 7:50 AM, the direct bus was much faster than I planned, Google map forecast was 40 mins, but actually took around 24 mins. But good to be early than late, at least now I have a good idea of the morning traffic to work. So first half of the day was just the usual admin stuff, collect laptop, access card, submit some forms, met up with project director, project manager and team members, everybody was very nice, noticed majority are locals unlike my previous company mostly foreigners. Good thing about working with locals is very easy to connect, don't feel strange at all, especially guys, immediately can tell served NS before, you know la NS guys very easy to click. Then second half of the day went to project site, they show me how to do timesheet, pr
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Received My Fifth Adsense Payment

Last payment. This time received $165.98, they sent on 21 Aug 2018 and I received the money on 24 Aug 2018. Thanks all for the support!
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