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Day 23 at New Job

It's true about the saying that the more you do something, the more you get used to it, now my 23rd day into the job and I think I'm getting more proficient already, so far many interesting and new things, even though mostly are older technologies but I think still have many things that I can learn. So far the overall experience is good, boss nice, colleagues nice, but come to work all very serious which is a good thing but I notice a subtle division among my colleagues, like left hand and right hand don't talk to each other, cannot communicate or not interested, who knows, but for me I don't really care about this kind of things, I'm the focus on work type so it doesn't bother me. Anyway I got my first full month salary, the company paid me last weekend, very early payday and they go by calendar month which means even though I haven't really worked for the full month of Sep they still pay me in full, nice.
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Want to Buy Laptop (Part 2)

Last week  I was thinking of getting a laptop for mobility, for gaming, and for work. Gaming-wise I'm not playing any hit title, the most graphic intensive game is just Path of Exile , the rest are just Indie or MOBA games which the likes of GTX 1050 Ti can easily handle. After searching around, the Apex-15 from Aftershock seems to be the most value for money, anywhere else this kind of specs for a laptop can easily go over S$3000 which is just too much. Aftershock APEX-15 laptop - S$2534 Intel® Core™ i7-8750H Processor (Six Core 8th Gen) NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1050TI 4GB GDDR5 15.6 Inch FHD IPS wide color gamut display (1920x1080) 32GB DDR4 2666MHZ (16GB X 2) Brown Tactile Mechanical Switches (Silent Linear Feedback) 500GB SAMSUNG 970 Evo NVMe M.2 SSD (Read up to 3,400 MB/sec, Write up to 2,300 MB/sec) Intel® Dual Band Wireless-AC 9560 (High Performance Wifi) Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit But I realised that for a laptop especially one with a dedicated graphics card, there is
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Got $20 Ang Pao from DBS

I signed up for the multiplier account in Jul this year, didn't know I qualified for a promotion where they give $20 to people who open new account. So this morning when I checked my bank account, noticed extra $20 referenced as "Online Acct Gift", thought who send me free money lol, actually is from DBS. Anyway the multiplier account not bad la, interest is good, for me I like all in one bank, since I already use their services so might as well just continue, any problem just look for one entity.
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Want to Buy Laptop

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Thinking of getting a laptop, now looking at some of the more popular brands, did a comparison and seems like Aftershock laptops are the most value for money. The worst is Acer Predator, expensive and lousy specs, see the last one is 128GB SSD, personally I find that minimum for primary drive need to be at least 256GB regardless of SSD or HDD, but nowadays SSD is cheaper so I might as well make it the de facto for primary drive, so I won't even bother to consider laptops using HDD as primary drive. As for operating system, laptops running on Windows 10 Home also can forget it, because I want to run Docker so Windows 10 Professional is mandatory, so the last four confirm out. Graphics card I think 1050 Ti is good enough, 1050 can forget it, but I hope the new 2050 can come out soon, not sure when Nvidia is going to release it but so far no news on it. Right now I'm liking the MX-15 ELITE, it's just right for me. The MX-15 PRO and APEX-15 also nice. Hmm.
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Collected Passport at iCollect

This morning went to ICA building to collect my passport, the collection mode is iCollect, but very strange that I still need to book appointment for it, even though it is fully self-service. Anyway when I reached there so many people at the eLobby, now they have so many kiosks there but not sure those are for what purpose. The iCollect kiosks only two, only wait for one couple to collect then my turn. The procedure same like my first time , only difference is now need to do iris enrolment, it's just a new piece of device to scan for eye images, need to scan 3 times, quite fast. Overall I think less than 3 minutes done, technology is awesome.
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