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Foodpanda Delivery Fee Went Up?

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Even McDonald's is S$4.49, if you order from Mc directly it's actually S$4, doesn't make any sense for Foodpanda to charge higher than Mc.
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Getting Quite Obsessed with Monster Drinks

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The monster series of drinks arrived in Singapore for quite a long time already, but it's only in recent days that I finally tried one. The very first that I tried was the Mango Loco, got a real nice fruity flavour and good carbonated kick to it, a bit expensive though, one can for S$2.45. After this, I went and bought the green one which tastes like Red Bull but less overpowering, and the white one which I find alright, and a Khaos which is nice and big can. I think I still like the Mango Loco. I don't really like Red Bull, taste is too overpowering for me, super duper sweet.
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Received My Sixth Adsense Payment

Last payment. This time received S$150.53, they sent on 21 Mar 2021 and I received the money on 23 Mar 2021. Thanks all for the support!
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30% Tax for Adsense Earnings?

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Just noticed the requirement to submit US tax information to Google, which is required by their IRS. Looks like they are going to collect 30% of my Adsense earnings? My earnings is not much so 30% of S$150.53 is S$45.15? I think it is right for them to collect, just wondering how come they didn't collect all this time, I received a few payments from Google but it wasn't taxed, not sure if they will tax retrospectively though, then I probably won't get any payment, might even need to pay them the shortfall through future earnings or something. Update:  https://marrythaigirlsingapore.blogspot.com/2021/03/received-my-sixth-adsense-payment.html Turns out they didn't deduct anything from my recent payment so I guess the tax doesn't apply to blogs.
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Wow, Netflix is Incredible

Decided to try out Netflix today, been looking at it for quite some time but can't decide whether to try or not, and since it has a free 30 days "free look" period, why not. I must say I am very impressed with their system, very simple, extremely user friendly, and it's got so many movies and shows that I have never even heard of. So now I'm watching this Korean series "Sweet Home", great quality. I can see why Netflix is so popular.
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Ichiban Sushi Still Good

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The food is still great, standard never drop, I like the cereal chicken, decent serving size and very crispy. My wife had the tofu with beef and miso, taste really good.
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Network Didn't Auto Disconnect Any More

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https://marrythaigirlsingapore.blogspot.com/2021/02/hades-canyon-overheating-fixed.html Previously I thought it was the thermal throttling that was causing my network cards to auto disconnect, in the end it was the router, it was running DHCP, so daily the lease will expire, so I set to 365 days, now my network doesn't auto disconnect any more. But well at least whatever I did also helped to make the my Hades Canyon less hot which is good, so when gaming it feels smoother. Mine is a Linksys router, so I set the "Client lease time" to "525600" which is one year and the maximum possible value. So if your network also keep auto disconnecting, you can try to set your DHCP lease longer.
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Worst Case of Domestic Worker Abuse?

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https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/two-women-charged-murder-myanmar-maid https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/man-charged-phyiscal-abuse-myanmar-maid-her-death https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/life-imprisonment-sought-woman-who-abused-starved-domestic-worker-9-months-till-she-died https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/husband-woman-who-abused-starved-domestic-worker-till-she-died-interdicted-senior-police Such a shocking read, still can't believe this kind of thing can happen in our country, even more shocking is that the husband was a police officer some more, he abused the worker together with his wife and mother-in-law, really makes my blood boil. I have such high regard for our police officers, I thought our police officers have a duty to protect the vulnerable, how can he do this kind of thing, seriously wtf. He even tried to cover up some more, wah piang, this guy really lost his direction, or probably don't even have any direction at all, why did he even sign up
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Spent SingapoRediscovers Voucher

Yesterday booked the cable card ride, it's unlimited so can take as many times as we like. Adult is S$27, child is S$17 so total is S$71. Minus S$10 child subsidy so end up using S$60 voucher and paid S$1 by credit card. Daughter liked the cable car ride, we ride to Mount Faber then to Sentosa, then went to the beach but didn't go into the beach, now blocked off, need to book first then can go in, can also book there but we didn't, so daughter just played outside a small area with sand. Still left S$40 voucher don't know what to do, maybe just leave it there.
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Hades Canyon Overheating Fixed?

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https://marrythaigirlsingapore.blogspot.com/2021/02/thermal-throttling-on-my-hades-canyon.html https://marrythaigirlsingapore.blogspot.com/2021/02/bought-ugreen-usb-30-to-rj45-gigabit.html I tried replacing the thermal paste with a cheapo thermal paste, also tried buy an external network card, unfortunately the CPU temperature still shoots up to 90+ sometimes even 100 when gaming, then the network will auto shutdown, even the external network port will auto shutdown too. Since today on leave, thought I might as well try a few more things, first is to clean the fans and also make sure the chasis is clean too, realise the fans are damn dirty, see before and after cleaning. Just use a normal cotton bud will do, when the bud breaks off it's actually even better. Well after cleaning the fans didn't help, temperature is still crazy. So I went into BIOS and changed a few things. Under the "Cooling" tab, I changed: Fan Control Mode: Custom Fan off capability: don't tick P
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