This shows how back-dated Singapore is. Tesla and charging ports were already in Kaohsiung Taiwan in 2018. I saw the charging ports at an open-air car park. Even their motorbikes are electric and quiet. They also have charging stations for the batteries.
Even Taiwan's Ikea is faster than Singapore by 2 years. Meaning their Ikea had products that Singapore Ikea didn't have, and it will be 2 years later that the products appear on Singapore Ikea shelves.
27 Oct 2021 Wed
Both are RNA viruses. As Covid is still being understood...No one knows the future of injecting Covid vaccines into adults and now, in children.
Ebola resurgence report 4 Oct 2021:
At the height of the pandemic, I was telling Bro that this Covid virus might just suddenly disappear, just as it had suddenly appeared. Like locusts. It comes and then it retreats. True enough, recently, Japan is baffled by the sudden plunge in number of cases.
Oct 25 Mon 4.14pm.
Employers in Singapore have just been given another tactic of not hiring people at the slightest excuse. They have been discriminating based on age, gender, etc.. And now whether an applicant is "vaccinated" or not. If they could discriminate based on the number of horns people have (if people grew horns), they would "select" based on that.
Stupid companies across the board aren't really even hiring. They put up an ad but when you go there, it's fun and games for them. An interviewer can go so far as to breach your privacy into your family, your parents even when this has nothing to do with the job application.
If you have a degree, you are over-qualified. If you don't have a degree, you are not good enough. If you have a lot of experience, you don't have the "relevant" experience. If you have experience and a degree, you are over-qualified. If you have no experience, they want some experience.
If you are a woman, they actually prefer a man. If you're a man, they prefer a woman. They don't advertise this, so you waste your time going to an interview even if your resume makes it through (which is itself odd when they prefer the other gender).
What people can do, is note which companies are discriminatory in this "no vaccination no hire" criteria and avoid or boycott such shortsighted and small-minded companies.
Even students in the US are smart enough to say that they would rather not go to university if a vaccination is required to get in. They would rather forfeit getting a degree and just work to earn money.
In Singapore, or even around the world, you don't need a degree to get around and make money. In fact, the ability to get money has nothing to with intelligence.
It is ridiculous for a country to follow the methods of China that spread the virus in the first place. China says no vax no entry to shopping malls. Other countries do the same.
Europe or US says no vax no hire. Other countries follow.
Just for once, I wish Singapore is different. But of course, it never will be.
Nothing but disappointment.
Is it guaranteed that vaccination equals hire? If you're dead from a vaccination, that's just too bad. There's always another applicant behind you. If you don't want to get vaccinated, that's just too bad. There's another applicant who is vaccinated just behind you. And even if you are vaccinated, gee, you go to the restroom too many times anyway, so you're fired.
A country can be very beautiful but if the people are discriminatory like this, then it's just an ugly piece of land.
More and more brains are choosing to work as digital nomads. Vaccinated or not, they don't need to come to office anymore. By insisting on having only vaccinated workers, the company loses out.
And a lot of companies are having difficulties finding people for jobs. There are simply no takers. People just have better things to do with their lives than work for peanuts. Covid has forced people to assess or reassess their work and their lives.
20 Oct Wed. 9.17pm. The last things I bought from Daiso on 18 Oct a day before the malls closed on unvaccinated people were: 1 pair of scissors. 1 storage bag. 1 pair of elastic belts. 3 pairs of men's socks. 1 box of spectacles wipes. 2 watches. 1 waist pouch. 2 boxes of potato soup powder. 1 packet of dried seaweed. 1 luggage belt. It's hard to tell myself that I won't be able to eat the Daiso chocolate cookies ice-cream anymore. Nor have it put into those uniquely small blue plastic bags that fit the ice-cream cup size perfectly. Small things like that, you know? And let's not forget those little spoons given by the cashier for the ice-cream. Daiso, I am sorry I cannot wait for your Tiramisu ice-cream shipment anymore because it's taking longer than this malls closure.
10月20日（水） 9.17pm.予防接種を受けていない人々がショッピングモールを閉鎖する前日の10月18日にダイソーから最後に買ったものは：はさみ1組でした。収納バッグ1個。 1組の弾性ベルト。メンズソックス3足。眼鏡ワイプ1箱。 2つの時計。ウエストポーチ1個。じゃがいも汁粉2箱。乾燥海苔1袋。ラゲッジベルト1本。ダイソーチョコレートクッキーのアイスクリームがもう食べられなくなるとは言い難いです。また、アイスクリームカップのサイズにぴったり合う、独特の小さな青いビニール袋にも入れていません。そのような小さなこと、あなたは知っていますか？そして、アイスクリームのためにレジ係によって与えられたそれらの小さなスプーンを忘れないでください。、ティラミスのアイスクリームの出荷が、このモールの閉鎖よりも時間がかかっているので、もう待てなくてごめんなさい。
In Goblin, the Grim Reaper doesn't lock his new phone because he doesn't know how. And when he finally locks it, he forgets the symbol to unlock it...
Ahh... I also don't lock my phone for precisely the same reason. For my own convenience. I don't trust these technological crap. True enough, the phone will lock you out if you keep getting the pass code wrong. Locked out of my own phone? No thanks.
The Grim Reaper cried the first time he saw the jade ring and the woman...
The first time I heard a Buddhist prayer music on Youtube, I cried. However, I am not religious, don't have a religion and am a skeptic. I told myself it must be because it sounded so beautiful even though I don't know the meaning or the words. Only that music.. I can't recall which one now. It must be because I felt forsaken by Buddha despite my devotion in my previous life. I have been told by 2 different spirit workers on separate occasions that my soul has spiritual practice. I don't know what sort of "spiritual practise" and I don't know what it means.
In Nine-tailed Fox... Shin Ju the vet prefers cash over credit card...
I also prefer cash when I sell something. Cold hard cash. Can't go wrong with that. I read online reports about someone who said she didn't receive payment from a buyer because buyer sent via Paylah instead of PayNow. I refuse to get PayNow or Paylah. I don't want to understand them. As a seller, I don't want this type of crap. I don't want delayed payments either, so those escrow Shopee seller platform or other platforms that hold my money after the buyer has received the product... is out for me.
The way the (ex-) mountain spirit ate his choco mint ice cream made me want to go to Korea to try it too. But checking online, there don't seem to be such a shop in existence. Was it just a decal pasted onto a glass panel of another shop?
The Choco mint ice cream in a tub that he loves to eat however, has been covered by other bloggers. It's Peacock brand Yolow @ nearly 6000 won (SGD$7) which isn't cheap, similar to Singapore's pricing of foreign ice-cream tubs in supermarkets.
This drama is even better than Lee Min-Ho's time travel drama... what's it called? ... (checks online)... The Eternal Monarch.
Nine-Tailed Fox ... the guy is very lovable and cute. The writer created a very memorable character who is both powerful and resourceful but not invulnerable. Sexy man (Lee Dong-Wook). Makes me watch certain episodes a 2nd time. Makes me miss him after the show such that I have to watch him again by replaying from ep 1. This is the first time I have seen this actor.
Music however, is not so good and Eternal Monarch has slightly better OSTs.
2pm Aug 31 Tues 2021
Now we have money from the sale of the house. We manage to stay in a hotel-like room with some amenities. Yet happiness eludes us. Due to Covid, we remain stuck in Singapore wasting our precious money for every day we are here.
Bro just walked out in a foul mood and he went ballistic over just 1 comment I made while at the escalator at 100AM after Donki. I just said, "Why do you keep looking at your phone?". These few days, he has been taking out his phone and abruptly becoming engrossed with it despite lack of Wi-Fi connection. And it's irritating to see while we are shopping every time I turn around.
I can understand why it's socially unacceptable when going out and a person keeps looking at his/her phone instead of interacting.
With that comment, he shot back that "That's what it's made for.". Meaning, the phone is made to be looked at. After that, he just went on and on about "So I don't have to look at the world... this also cannot, that also cannot. What you want me to do?". He said my tone in my question was rude.
I don't like having to defend myself to anyone, having to justify and explain. I am used to the freedom of independent thought because our parents never cared except pinning our physical bodies down with regulations. I never had to ask anyone their opinions in order to do my things according to my decisions. The only thing my parents couldn't touch was my thoughts.
He said the room has problems, he can't clear the symptoms. I said if he don't like the room, move out and sleep at the X and when the 10 days are up, I will look for him. Or he also has money (from the sale of the house), he can rent a room for himself.
He said it's not about that & went on to say all kinds of things until it became the compromises he had to make too .. for example, when I want share something with him on my phone and ask him to see and he has to interrupt his own watching of his video or music on his phone (which goes to sleep when he isn't paying attention and he has to turn it on again and get his video/music back on...) to look at mine.
I didn't know it was a disturbance to him. I didn't know about his phone. I just in my exuberance to share with him, didn't think I had to be considerate like towards an outsider. No wonder every time, he would peel his eyes away from his phone to look at mine, and he was taking longer these days to turn to me. I didn't realize the meaning of it and was somewhat annoyed that I was made to wait longer these days, which ruined the significance of what I wanted him to see.
As he talked out his thoughts, I realized he felt he was making compromises which he was defending because as he said, "you are my sister.". Compromises, sacrifices.
He said despite this, it's not enough. "So what are you going to do, what can you say now that I feel like jumping off a roof?".
I said nothing. I just thought that the more and louder he grumbled while I was showering, the more I wondered if he had really gone insane.
I finished showering, sat on the bed with my phone. He said, "So what do I do? The room is quiet and you are not saying anything?".
I was thinking, he is worse than Evi (my ex-girlfriend from Indonesia). At least she was quiet and I never got to hear her thoughts even though I asked. In the end after 5 or 7 years, I broke up with her.
I start to understand why siblings go from each other to live apart. It's not that they don't love each other. Not that they are not close. But that, siblings have different thoughts and personalities, and different needs and wants. So it is not possible for siblings to be inseparable. I don't know of any brother and sister who live together like husband and wife.
I asked Bro what else that I do that he feels is a compromise on his part. He said it's not about compromise, why I wanna know etc... etc... I said, "So that I don't do it again.".
I was thinking even better the more things he tells me that bothers him. Cause it will save me from doing all those things. Less effort on my part. Giving less. Because it always bothered me to give him less. With his admission, it's as if I have been freed from the obligation of my love to give him more.
In all things, I put him first. Even money. I rather deplete my account for both our use than deplete his (although I am hoping that we can share his when mine is down).
Now that he has spoken his thoughts and letting the room door swing back on me without holding it while I came in with the tray of ice and hot water... and recalling the psychic's words about not giving away 100% of my love... I understand how risky my trust and giving have been to myself.
I realize he has gotten worse. I don't know if he is insane or not. I don't know if it's safe to sleep in the same room with him or not.
It would be best to hold onto my money carefully. As I already learnt, it's best to have a close friend on hand. Friends and money. To get through life. Not family. Not siblings.
Be very careful about trusting family. It cannot be emphasized enough. Always make sure you have money, the more the better. And get as many guy friends with money as possible.
This morning if not for the rain at 11.30am, I would have gone swimming. Had I went, this argument wouldn't have happened. But because it seems he has been bottling up his thoughts and irritations, it is only a matter of time. If not today, then tomorrow.
I made one big mistake in trusting my parents and they betrayed us. If I continue to be blind to Bro's words, then it will be a repeat mistake and this time, it will hurt more.
Siblings are outsiders because we don't know what the other person is thinking. What they are hearing. What their hearts are feeling. Money has no such need for such considerations. It's also why people prefer animal pets to humans.
The psychic is wrong at one part: I don't have a "couple" of reliable people. I don't even have 1.
The best is to be an orphan and live alone in adulthood with a lot of money and generous male friends who have a lot of money. Parents are useless and siblings are outsiders because you trust them completely but you never know them completely. There lies the danger of unexpected betrayal. My advice to anyone: Find your way in the world yourself quickly without being tied down to family or friends. They serve their own interests not yours. Your youth is your asset. Trust no one except yourself.
Update: 31 Aug 2021 Tues
Their support is fast although not 24/7. When they do get online, it's responsive and helpful. They offered to link my site to Google for me. Wow. But I already managed to do it myself.
It just takes a while to learn their cPanel and how everything works. It does take some time. Since I already bought the domain name, I have to make it work. I just got Google to recognize/verify my domain name without "Support" help as it was a Sunday. But the site is still not appearing on my phone Google.
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3.26pm 26 Aug Thurs 2021
Just 2 days after paying $24.61 ($2/month on their website) for 1 year's sign-up whereby I tried and couldn't even get a Wordpress theme up on my website... I got a domain name & that was all. The cPanel was useless.
Their customer chat quoted me in PHP currency. Weird. Can't she see in her system that I am from Singapore? And here in this screenshot, it shows they are using Philippines as their center. If I had known it's not Japan, I wouldn't have signed up.
I find today I can't access my cPanel due to their maintenance. I don't know if the more expensive Bluehost or Dreamhost do that. They are more expensive in that they require 3 years' up front payment to get the same price per month as Z.com that requires just 1 year's up front of just $26+ ($24.61 with GST + $2.62 bank transfer using debit card to pay).
Prior to paying, I found only 1 brief good comment on Z.com. No other reviews. Z.com seems to belong to a big company GMO (?), so I thought it should be ok... And it seemed Europe and US don't know of Z.com that operates in Asian regions with HQ in Japan.
9 Aug 2021 Mon
As expected, predictably, everyone got the idea that vaccination equals safe. No need to wear mask. MRT and busloads of mask-less students on the way to NDP. Perfect with the more infectious Delta version floating around.
Recent reports warn of fully vaccinated people coming down with Covid and spreading the virus.
These vaccinated people can spread among themselves or get it along the way. No mask?
At first, I thought I was mistaken when looking at the photos: the students had no masks on. A second photo confirmed that no one was wearing a mask.
