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With the government announcing a slew of measures last week , my company started the work from home policy today, actually even before government announce, my company already told everyone to start today, previously there was the team A and team B segregation, now is everyone work from home. Actually last week already started for me, I feel that working from home seems to be more productive, as in no need to travel to and fro, that already saved me around 1 hour to 1 hour 30 minutes. I wake up, brush teeth, immediately can start work, usually I wake up around 7 AM, now I wake up a bit later at 7:30 AM. So today managed to get a lot of things done, and have a lot more time with family, more time for rest, same amount of work or maybe even more was done, I like working from home. If have meeting or need to travel to customer site, then just go and then come back home straight, really good. Anyway this will last until 04 May at least, hope the virus stop spreading. Everyone stay

When I changed my Starhub XS plan to no sim , they gave me a free 3 months Amazon Prime membership. Note that it is for amazon.sg, not for amazon.com, even though my amazon account is same but the region is different, so is the prime membership. So today happened to need to get a new ethernet cable, so might as well make use of the free membership. By the way it is not auto-activated, need to manually activate it. They will send a SMS to your mobile number with this link: http://mystarhub.page.link/AmazonPrime Then on your mobile, you need to have the Starhub app, click the link, it will open up the page to activate it. Or you can also manually go your Starhub app, under the mobile number with the Amazon prime offer, go to Add-ons > Featured Services > Amazon Prime > Manage. Then you have the option to subscribe for the mobile number that you want. After that just login to your amazon.sg account, you will see you now have prime membership, something like this: Hello AB

Yesterday heard my friends saying our prime minister will announce something at 4PM regarding the virus, after that all sorts of speculation started flying around. I wasn't taking much notice because I still have to go to data centre to check some issue, stuck down there until 9PM+. Anyway today went online to see what happened yesterday, wow so much new information, don't know where to start. So I went to gov.sg instead, thought I might get something useful there, indeed found this link that pretty much summarised everything:  https://www.gov.sg/article/covid-19-updates-and-announcements I outlined the following for convenience: Kindergarten closure from 8 April 2020 until 4 May 2020: https://www.ecda.gov.sg/PressReleases/Pages/Advisory-to-Parents-Keeping-Our-Children-Safe-Against-COVID-19-Preschools-to-suspend-general-services.aspx No IPPT, no ICT, until 4 May 2020: https://www.mindef.gov.sg/web/portal/mindef/news-and-events/latest-releases/article-detail/2020/April

The contract for my line ended on 31 Mar 2020, I took leave to go Starhub shop to change the line, to my surprise the service staff told me on the last day if want to change, there will be a S$25 termination charge. Alamak, good thing is I have too much leave, so go walk walk with family also not bad, take a break from the never-ending work. Previously my wife's line I also did on the last day of her contract, but maybe Starhub changed their policy, well they did have a clause saying they reserve the right to change their policy at any time. So you guys take note to do whatever you need to do AFTER your contract end, no more last day. I even called Starhub 1633 just to double confirm, the phone support confirmed I can only do after my contract end, otherwise there will be a charge, he also told me I can actually change to no sim plan online. So today I went to Starhub website, did the change, quite straightforward, so easy, like this actually don't even need to go to th

Just came back from Sheng Siong, quite surprised to see queues, usually weekdays afternoon not so many people, but today see so many people, some even rushing, wonder what they are rushing for. Then saw quite a number of people buying full trolleys of goods, kitchen towels, toilet paper, canned food, packed fish, got one auntie even bought like 8 packed fish, looks like she is going to have a party tonight. Yesterday even more funny, my army friend posted a message on whatsapp saying his friend's boss do digital marketing for NTUC Fairprice, the friend's boss say government will lock-down SG next week, then tell everyone to go buy necessities. I have no idea how the above even gel together. Anyway better to stick to substantive information, the MOH link below is probably a better choice than information coming from "xyz's friend's boss", well unless the boss is the health minister or prime minister then different story. https://www.moh.gov.sg/covid-1

https://www.todayonline.com/world/he-has-17700-bottles-hand-sanitiser-and-nowhere-sell-them https://www.todayonline.com/world/man-17700-bottles-hand-sanitizer-just-donated-them There was a period when my wife can't find any hand sanitiser, I wonder if people in SG also did the same thing, bought out the stores and then try to resell it for profit, but now my wife say the stores restocked already, most shops selling but those cheaper brands sometimes sold out, but those more expensive brand still have stock. Kind of disappointing that people would actually try to profit off this kind of thing in this time of need, I think SG still not so bad because we don't run the risk of running out of stock of anything or at least not that I can see so far, yeah there was one or two days where toilet paper and such were really cleaned of the shelves but it was quickly restocked the very next day. Then again I really don't think hand sanitisers are really that big of a deal in stop

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/singapore/covid19-coronavirus-mar-7-cases-12512420 I read the article and feel puzzled, not just this, I read a few earlier ones about how people in SG got infected, I also puzzled. See of the 8 new cases, 6 didn't travel, 2 are imported, then of the 6, 1 mostly stayed at home also can get the virus, or maybe she walked past somebody with the virus who sneezed, or touched something, that means more people have but never report? I wonder how many actually report, how about those who kena, recovered, they probably don't even know their symptoms is actually from coronavirus, thought it's just the common flu because both symptoms are the same. Best is still avoid crowded places, seems like it's the best place for the virus or any virus to spread, keep hands clean where possible, drink more water etc.

Ordered the headphone last week through Amazon and got it today, finally can get rid of my wired headphone. My new headphone is really nice, I put it on and my surrounding noise sound less impactful, I think maybe this is what they mean by noise cancelling. The audio is also good, volume can go very high, at 34 I think it's quite loud already. But one thing I notice is when playing there is a tiny bit of lag, not that super noticeable but maybe I'm a bit more sensitive. The keys on the headphone is also very handy, one to increase volume, on to decrease and one to stop or play, it actually works with youtube so I can pause videos from a distance lol. Very good buy for S$70 I say, also next time just take the Amazon SGD price, pay by USD seems to end up a bit more.

Last weekend suddenly thought of getting a wireless headphone so that I don't disturb wife and baby, these days they sleep early because baby have to wake up early for school. So went into Challenger to casual browse, saw this JBL Tune 500BT headphone, looks very nice and surprisingly not few hundred dollars, usually branded wireless headphone S$300-S$400 or more also have, review also seems pretty good, selling for S$89.90 for non-member price, I don't have their membership by the way. Almost wanted to buy but when I did a quick check on Amazon, it was 39.95 USD, around S$67.XX after delivery charge, wow around S$20 difference. In the end never buy from Challenger, thought of going home then order online. So today bought at Amazon, including expedited delivery is S$69.49, think next week will receive. I also went to Lazada, some even selling for S$55.00 but ships from overseas, most probably is used, some is S$69, I guess those is they resell from Amazon, then some is S$

https://www.moh.gov.sg/news-highlights/details/risk-assessment-raised-to-dorscon-orange Yesterday company suddenly called for meeting, I busy so halfway run road already, end up it is to split our team into groups, like a buddy system, one work from home, one work at office, I think the objective is if office get hit with the virus, those at home still safe and can continue work. Heard from co-worker people buying out things at supermarket to stock up, don't know real or not, seriously really need meh haha, anyway I think it's safer for family to just stay in and not go out during this period, but work and school cannot avoid la.