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"Very Virulent" Variant of COVID-19 is Here? Now Then You Know

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/virulent-mutant-virus-changi-airport-defences-ong-ye-kung-062454364.html https://www.tnp.sg/news/singapore/p1-pupil-yio-chu-kang-school-tests-positive-covid Seems like getting worse, unlinked cases going up, and now government announced a phase 1 kind of alert, meaning default is work from home now, cannot eat out and etc, starting from 16 May to 13 Jun, but I don't quite understand why, because if they know it is serious enough to rollback, why not start immediately, I mean it already spread to mainstream schools, why give it chance to go further. I find that our government react too slowly, not decisive enough, wait too long to take action, when India started to have that massive outbreak in early April, we should have barred travelers from India immediately, see now getting worse, typical civil servants, you see me I see you wait for miracle to happen, try to solve one problem end up creating another problem, now going back to lockdown. Fed up.
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Paramjeet Kaur - Sovereign Not a Person?

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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/jailed-sovereign-woman-breached-covid-19-regulations-101208206.html She then argues with a person off-screen, claiming, "I am a sovereign. This is something people are not going to know even what it is…It means I have nothing to do with the police…They have no say." A voice can be heard saying, "That does not even make any sense. If you are a person in Singapore, you have to follow the rules in Singapore." Kaur then replied, "I'm not a person." If she is not a person, then how come the news article still refer her as "woman", should be "it" right? So since she say she is not a person, so from here on I will refer her as "it" then. So "it" is a Singaporean, how did "it" get our citizenship since "it" is not a person? Let me see, "it" wants to enjoy the benefits of Singapore, but "it" don't want to follow our laws, and "its" argument is
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SPH Suddenly So Jia Lat

https://mothership.sg/2021/05/sph-ceo-apologises Last time their share price from S$3-S$4 now become S$1.52 as of 7th May 2021, that time thinking of buying but end up didn't buy, forgot why I didn't buy, but I notice their online straitstimes.com kind of desperate, asking for subscription fees when I can find the same news everywhere else. I ended up buying SingPost which is not any better, similar to SPH it also tank like shit, last Friday I finally sold off at S$0.73, made quite a loss (-S$17,583.31). Held on since 2017, thought it would improve, who knows it just keeps getting worse, recent financial announcement is bad, real bad, dividend shrink too, well at least I support for 4 years already. I remember one nice guy asked me to cut loss but I didn't, oh well. Singtel and StarHub also chui now, last time played a bit, earned a little by buying and selling fast. But whatever earnings I had all give back through SingPost already hahaha. SPH, SingPost, Singtel and Starhu
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Singapore Passport Change to 10 Years

https://www.todayonline.com/singapore/singapore-passport-validity-increase-10-years-applications-october Nice, somehow every 5 years feel like I got older, but then every 10 years probably will feel even worse, anyway the point is it will be less troublesome, no need to renew every 5 years. It will start from 1st Oct 2021, so if you want to renew passport, might as well wait after that, anyway most people will probably not be going anywhere this year, if you do have to go out of Singapore, then it will be at your own risk so make your own assessment carefully, think again, and again. And the application fee is the same, still S$70, cool, strangely ICA didn't take this opportunity to increase price, they could probably just increase to S$100 and people will be lan lan anyway. Speaking of going somewhere, damn bloody long never go Thailand, wish I could go Phuket or something, but then with the Covid not getting better, recently actually got worse, I think I will probably just stay p
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India Covid Getting More Jia Lat

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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/india-posts-record-daily-rise-040455271.html If the trend continues, I think they will become number one soon, I mean everyday new cases are in the hundreds of thousands. Looking at this video, not surprising how it got so much worse, really shake head. If I'm not wrong, I think BTO might get further delayed, many construction workers are from India after all, those already here, they should definitely just stay put, they go back later kena infected. Those who want to come here, better don't let them come, if really have to come, make sure they quarantine longer. But the scary part is the mutated strain of the virus, not sure if those already vaccinated will be protected or not. Jia lat, sigh, I think this year will not get any better, can start to look forward to next year lol.
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Wife Owes CareShield Life Premium

Previous post regarding CareShield Life. Today received a letter from MOH + CPF saying my wife owes S$252.87 of premiums, I thought they would just automatically deduct from my account since she doesn't have a single cent in her CPF. But as usual SG anything government related sure have e-Service, so easy to use and convenient, I think SG must have one of the the best government e-Services in the world if not the best. Just follow these steps: Go to  https://www.careshieldlife.gov.sg/ Under "eServices" > "Change Premium Payer" > It will redirect you to SingPass. After that pretty straightforward, just enter my wife's ID, the amount will appear, then just follow the instructions. Settle in less than 3 mins.
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DIY Upgrade Water Pipe System

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The red switch is spoil already so it doesn't work, so whenever need to replace the water pipe, need to turn off the entire water supply from outside my flat, damn troublesome. So yesterday I bought some parts and replaced it myself, there's actually 3 new parts, first one is the L-shaped to bend it outwards so that it will be easier to work with in future. Second is the new switch, see the grey switch. Finally is the split which allows two water flows; one to basin and one to hand spray. The 3 parts I think around S$3+ to S$4+ each, so total S$10++. Plumbing sure is very tough work, cut my fingers too, no wonder they charge so much for the labour, but if don't want to pay then just DIY haha. Just take note that plumbing service expensive is due to the labour, not the parts, the parts actually doesn't cost much, especially these days a lot of these parts come from China, mass produced and easily available, but quality is good.
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Going for Cloud Certification

By the way I'm still in the same company, still haven't throw letter yet because I remember that during one interview several years back, a wise HR personnel asked me if I tried asking for internal transfer, actually I did but my boss in my previous company outright told me not possible without even trying. So what I did now was I emailed to HR directly to indicate my interest to transfer to a more technical position, but this time more special is because the boss in the department that I wanted to transfer to already told me he is ready to take me in anytime but the catch is I need to raise to HR in my own capacity without mentioning him as poaching in the company is not allowed. Now just waiting for the transfer to be official, also confirmed this with HR again. But this new future boss requires me to go for cloud certification, not just me, I think the direction is all staff under him have to go, anyway some already went and gotten themselves certified. Talking about exam, I
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Crab Scam?

https://www.asiaone.com/singapore/2-crabs-990-man-loses-over-18000-after-falling-scam https://www.8crabs.com/shop A really strange case of a scam, this 8 Crabs actually have an online booking site, and then this guy decided to jump at a $9.90 deal from an ad from either Facebook or Instagram, and then ended up paying $18,579 and didn't get any crab. I think the lesson here is don't buy anything through ads, just buy directly from the merchant's website. And $9.90 for crabs is just ridiculous, if it's too good to be true, it usually is.
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Path of Exile Server Issue

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Path of Exile 3.14 is now live, but sometimes can't even log in, need to queue, even if able to log in, feels like the server is responding really slowly and getting timeout. Anyway some updates of the problems in this thread: https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-thread/3082616
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