2020

How can I be a Shopee For Student Member? 🥺  

 Liquid understanding, Gas understanding. Differentiate abnormal. I prefer gassy understanding. It can reach where the solid couldn’t. It is contagious. Anger management. A person who is angry doesn’t understand it. A person who is not doesn’t need it. Happy management. A person who is happy doesn’t understand it. A person who is not doesn’t need it. I think the laptop is a curse. Maybe I should burn it. Or should I just crush it before burning it. But I worry it will still come back alive. It indestructible. Throw the ashes into the sea or find a volcano and dump it in. Or send it to NASA and ask them to help me send it to space. Ok. It’s time to sleep. Hope I dream about doing that. At least, it helps to get rid of this nasty feeling of it. When will I ever have a normal job and a normal laptop. It’s abnormal. Truly. Sometimes, I wonder if you need to tell upper management what you need or not. If you tell, it will be too much. If you don’t, then it will be just like that forever...

 Considering how I used my laptop,  https://www.linkedin.com/posts/javascript-developer_senior-engineers-fixing-bugs-in-production-activity-6958331883373916160-EzJc?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=ios_app How I am working. How I felt I am working like. That’s how it was. Sometimes, it’s a love hate relationship.  It’s a proven skill. It’s not necessary.

  Aunty cooked these for me for dinner. ☺️. Maybe worried about my weight. My family also… Everyone the first thing they called is asking about my weight. My dad, my brother and me now all same weight… hmmm. But they were 11 cm taller.. Mainly was my tummy. Today I ordered a Fried Carrot Cake. It was so small compared to the one I have downstairs. Like half the amount for the same price. I was thinking maybe by fate, it was a hint from God that I must go on diet. In the end, I rebelled and eat another plate of Charcoal Char Siew Wantan Mee… ai instantly regretted. Then I was too full. Guess I really have to change to salad… 

 The working laptop that I had was dual core… many days after I checked it has 8 GB RAM DDR3 and HDD… My kiosk spec is better than my working laptop… Although previously I was thinking if they don’t change by the time I recontract (if there is), I will move on. But one other thought why not I still use the computer but use twice or triple the time given to do a job. Will that be cheaper than the price of a laptop? Since it was the head who refused to buy a new laptop. The new laptop become my salary. Actually not bad. My laptop now is octa core. 4 times faster. 16GB RAM and SSD. Actually then I will need 4 times more time. Give and take for the changes midway or doing a request which after you did and then change again. Maybe I can do with 5 times slower. Given the time to compare and also if it’s new stuff. Let say, I figure out fast so I don’t add time to that. If no equipment given, then 6 times… 👍 let’s say. 6 months project becomes 36 months. 30 months x whatever amount is my...

 Today, I felt better and also no abnormalities on my throat anymore. Did ART and it’s ok. Chocolate, Ramen, Ice Cream and Coconut water were good. Normally, if I felt bad, I got better after eating them. Either let me grow sick faster or don’t grow sick at all. The people who sat beside me were coughing… x 2. Sigh… While on the sky train to T1, a lady talked to me as she entered the train and I don’t know why. Then walked over and told me my phone light was on. Ah… I said it happened then she said is that an iPhone. I said ya. She said hers too. iPhone problem.

万一 假的我是真的呢？ If it is going to be a prelude of her song, shall I tell about the high pitch note of a music, was what I normally avoided listening. Not sure about the majority but my opinion certainly doesn't matter. Anyway, can't listen to songs these days. I have unsubscribed spotify. The money I spent, I could have bought quite a few songs and keep as long as I wanted. On spotify, once unsubscribe, you can't listen or choose back. Although it's unlimited listening, but I only listen to few songs... new songs were quite little.  I guess lessen a little bit of coffee intake was good. Now my heart at rest was 80+ but my blood pressure increase a little. 3-4 cups now. Maybe soon reduce to 3 then to 2.  Tomorrow going to Kuching. Today no sore throat but the phlegm is like thickening on my throat. It felt better after eating chocolate, ramen, ice cream, coconut water. Hope it was the heat or the super cold room. Not covid as I will be flying. Drank lots of water. Felt thirs...

  While traveling home on Tuesday’s night, a kid was throwing up throughout as the train wriggling through the journey from Yio Chu Kang. The mum was holding on to the plastic bag while he throw up and the train was rocky so the more rocky he throw up even more. We stayed a meter away and then moved a little bit back and stayed further away. Maybe 2 to 3 meters. Well, maybe psychologically felt a bit contagious. Could be covid or I too cautious but well better be safe to stay away right. I was thinking if I should take the next train but my stuffs were heavy. This afternoon felt a bit of phlegm on throat yet not like sore throat. Felt thirsty mostly. Poked my nose and now my nose felt the same.  It triggered a series of sneezes and actually it’s quite relieving and my throat and nose felt better now.  It is not uncommon but just after a series of exposure, was a bit worried. Tested myself. I can still smell and taste my food. At night, and I am homed, the phlegm feeling w...

  Woken up by the bright light from the moon. It was much brighter looking out from my dark room. The sunset there and the moon if I did woke up by it, was there. Fun fact. Moon is in the sky even though it’s morning. Just that sometimes you cannot see it. Ok. Not that fun. Kitchen malfunction. Coffee with milk became Milk with coffee. One other time, After drinking, tasted like Milk with tea. It has a sweet smelling scent, like tea. Confirmed by uncle, my sis and me.  The tree is so straight. It reached 9th floor last year. Now going 10th. View outside living room. Once upon a time, a cloud decided to land there. Quickly took a pic. Solar panel installed sometimes but not sure if it’s in used. People spent so much money going to moon, exploring new earth. Why not spent the money to save this earth as in creating a new earth. You damaged it and therefore the money you earned from damaging it should be used to restore it. A tree planted gave you clean air. A tree destroyed gave...

 don’t curse me to get covid sia. I already too unhealthy. More unhealthy is bad. I barely make it alive. Well, if I am dead, I don’t have to deal with the bloody design. Real bloody. To me a few pages thing became like a few more. :p Design have nothing to do with most purchase actually. People just want to use it because they wanted to. If it is bad, people doesn’t want to use it mainly because the function is troublesome. We grew up with really bad design, We are still alive and probably used the old version of fb much more. Although the design back then wasn’t that good but we know where everything are. The current one, I don’t think I remember where to find my own page. Looks nice but not really nice to me. If I am alive, I can spend money to buy more keyboards and stuff and therefore, contributing to the economy. Not good for environment but I hope it can be.  UX is ambiguous. Baby food is nice. :) If baby can eat, I can eat. Less poisonous. :)))) Ah, one more thing, I f...

 I guess having drank 4-5 cup per day was my norm. My heart beat was consistently on the high side. Slightly more maybe I will die from heart attack. My weight also on the high side although blood pressure as per normal. Highest at 96 and lowest at 90 while resting. Normal range is 70-100 at rest. So have a google search. It could be due to a lot of things. But mainly mine was my weight and also I drank coffee which could increase heart rate. If you ask me to see a doc, the doc would ask me how I feel. Then the result would be how I feel and what I think is the cure. Hm… Well, I get my thoughts certified at least right. But most doctor said I am fine even my blood test was abnormal. I had a flu/cough/fever and they asked if I needed MC. That was pre-covid. Not sure if still so but now actually, can go MC without MC as long as ART considered positive based on gov. But then, we still needed proof for MC. Anyway, I would want to but the thing is, ART test, I have been negative. Suay. ...

 Just done changing something. The kiosk is there and I am not there. When I was there, the kiosk not there. We are lovers apart. Most like haters. Actually, I just found out I got a tonnes more thing to test because it is becoming more complicated. When I want to deploy and then don’t, then I added more things to let it run smoother and simplified some code. from 5000 lines to 3-4k lines. Mainly it was due to the Chinese characters and some other code that I wrote much earlier on. I think maybe it is possible to make everything faster. If we can do something so complicated, it might take shorter time if we can simplify them. The problem i guess is we never have a firm ground to stand on. Everything is floating. Everything started with a line and it has to start no matter how wrong. Sigh… I guess my poor colleague design all himself and make it happened. A bit less experience but to be able to do all that for a first job on his own, as time goes by and as I began to understand more...

In the end, the movie was in Chinese but the lips were cantonese. Anyway, don't forget to see til the end at the risk of missing the last train but nope, managed to catch up. I have been thinking to change my big laptop to a mini pc.... my bag is too heavy. The Laptop is like 3 kg and the ac adapter almost 2 kg. Almost like carrying rice bag everywhere. Why not just put a mini pc at the office? Cost about 1k excluding the monitor and everything else but the office already have monitor and I brought the keyboard already. The problem is onsite though :( To carry also ok actually, it's like 1kg. Just worry too much movement may spoil it.  Well, this is a weird job. Weird contract. Everything is weird. Imagine a cheque with no number written given to you but we are the one giving the blank cheque. I do wonder how money is earned.... Just hope it wasn't a sinking ship. Too bad, I gave up the chance to the one with mentorship. Learning by trial and error wasn't that bad. Just...

For Gigi.  

 I have been redoing my desk arrangement. Took out all the mouse that I have bought over the years. Since 2011. I had another 2: 2 thrown away. One, I forgot what brand but it has retractable wire and can be flattened and lock to bring around. To use, unlock and unflatten it. White with lime green lining. Two, HP gold. I gave it to my sis to use since I don’t use it anymore. Maybe there is more that I gave away or thrown away but the ones that I remembered were those two.  New arrangement. Clean up the whole desk today. Almost no place to place everything and, since wfh is getting less often, having them ready for dismantle is getting more important. Last one was meant for not moving around. Now, I can easily remove (still a bit difficult but easier) my laptop adapter and portable screen along with its wiring. Especially now, I also need the monitor to do my Ring-Fit exercise and Boxing on Nintendo Switch. Need everything to be shiftable so in the end I won’t use like half an ...

 I realised the headache and fatigue was because menstrual cycle was nearing. Normally, it was a day or 2 before… Maybe I am close to 更年期. I was hoping it was sooner so I don’t have to waste money on menstruation pad. Wasted 3-5 days of the month feeling bad. If have to wait until I am 40… I guess that will be another 12 x 5… 60 more times…. 240 more days… Why don’t God just let women have a womb lining during pregnancy but not when they don’t need it. It is like wasting time when you are getting menstrual cycle every month just to prepare for pregnancy that some people won’t and some people might only have a few kids. Preparation for nothing. Maybe we can change human genes for that. Well, if it leads to extinction of human, 👍. 

  The pigment determined the distance travel of each component in a substance. Each component has different velocity. It goes from bottom (where we drip) to top. I guess that is why we have to wait 15-20 mins. Reading after that does not count I guess. And if we drip too much, it might travel back and give a false positive? Too little… hm…  I recalled secondary school, where we had to draw the line on the Chromatography paper, did the measurements and finally compared the measurements to a booklet and determined what’s the component. Who ever invented chromatography must be pretty proud now. It existed since 1900 in Russia by an Italian-born Scientist, just as info found from Wiki. Then developed by more and more people… 👍 

 Gave a signature to my new fan. My current one like sometimes working and sometimes not. Only the 3rd button and turn it on. At the office, temperature ranged from 16.7 degree Celsius onwards. At home, it was 31.7 now. Just now, it was 32…   The variation in temperature is double… Crazy. Managed to get the 9 inch fan for a try. Current is 12 inch but I think it is blocking too much space and hard to clean.

It took just a day to turn the Silica Gel package from yellow to green in my room. Since mould started growing and after clearing them, I am checking whether it was the wood issues or my room condition issues. I took the Silica Gel that comes along with the ART test kit. Put one in my room. Just take one day to turn it green. I put 3 boxes of Charcoal Dehumidifiers. 1 at the top of the wardrobe, 1 at the bottom and beside the wardrobe and 1 inside the wardrobe. So far, Humidity is between 65 to 73 %. Before putting, it was about 73% plus or minus. Sometimes, close to 80%. At night being worst. Based on the internet, mould would grow at this level. The humidity in Sg is 83.9% on average. Shouldn’t all my furniture and stuff grow mould? Best to avoid mould at below 50%… Then my whole room will be full of dehumidifier… hm… Let’s see for another 3 weeks.

 Day 3. I don’t have sore throat yet. Temperature at 36.5. I got headache but like I usually do. Shortness of breathe like I usually do. Blocked nose like I usually do. I can taste the cranberries and chocolate. I can smell my coffee. Based on data. People after getting sore throat will only test positive after 1 or 2 days. I haven’t have the sore throat so it is actually pointless to test until then. I do feel very tired and out of energy these few days. My bags although the same weight or sometimes much lighter felt much heavier. I would be out of breathe and felt my bones crumbled at the weight just after a few minutes walk. Maybe my immune system is working hard.

  Ok. I am negative. Not sure when positive. Apart from neck sprain… I am ok today…

 It has been more than 2 weeks now. Targus or Shopee hasn’t refund me. I already received the refund from Under Armour via Lazada. I already done my passport. I think it will wait forever. I bought things from Lazada nowadays. Actually, my online shop experience starts from Lazada. Forgotten when I have changed to Shopee. Lazada was much easier to use back then. I used laptop instead of App. It’s pretty clean UI. When I first started using Lazada’s app, I guess too many features that I don’t really know what I am clicking most of the time. I only click Voucher and see what’s available. Skipped most content until I found the voucher that I can use. Then the second is find the thing I wanted to buy. Apply voucher. Last time, there was no voucher though but they will just reduce the price of that item. Normally I bought hardware things to repair my phones and some other smalls stuff. Mainly Redmart also long before Covid.  I don’t even know what the rest of the buttons were for. ...

 Again. Changes after countless of approved design. this change is not like adding a button or change/ add fields. This is changing the whole flow. I don’t mind to do work if I was given a proper tool. although I am saving time using my own laptop, But, I will have to waste time on versioning my software version. That is, committing my changes… That’s the part I get angry most of the time. Technical issues like email, slow startup, admin stuff issues kept on happening. It is bound to doom. Best security is not doing anything. Best is not to use the laptop. Time wasting solution was never a solution. I have been using hotspot to work. Anyway, if another year in this millennial has passed and they didn’t think that my tools were shit, then something is seriously wrong. Slow program. Imagine all your softwares were using older structures and languages, no matter how new, the application was written with a much older structure and pc systems. In the background, definitely, a lot of wor...

 Another Coffee Shop that I cannot drink kopi peng. I kept on sneezing and realised only that day I wanted to eat Fried Noodle breakfast. I woke up a bit earlier that day to eat there and had my normal kopi peng. Maybe they change supplier. I used to be ok drinking them or maybe I never realised. Also their price went up by 30 cents. I haven’t been eating downstairs for breakfast for quite a long while. Mostly tapao food. I do like their fried noodle but I have to have Coffee along with my food.  Most of the time (almost every weekdays) I bought from 711 because I can warm the food up. Then buy their 2 for 3.50 Nescafe. Sometimes it would be 1 dollar for 1. Now I cannot drink Coffee at Yakun and the shop downstairs. The old town white coffee. One good finding is that after eating chocolate, I stopped sneezing after eating a few. I wonder why the sneezing always in the afternoon though. I don’t have sore throat but I have itchy nose. On the bus and on the train, almost everytim...