Test post.
Saturday, January 21, 2017
Test Post
Testing this app for the third time before it crashes again.
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Manchester United 1 Liverpool 1
A deserved result.
Pogba had a nightmare of a game, giving away a penalty, missing good chances, manhandling opponents, wayward passing. You name it.
Ibrahimovic was the saviour, heading in the equalizer after good work from Fellaini who could've scored off the post.
Herrera is still one of the best on the field.
This is 16 games unbeaten, the most of any team in Europe right now.
Long may this continue.
Onwards and upwards!
GGMU!!!
Pogba had a nightmare of a game, giving away a penalty, missing good chances, manhandling opponents, wayward passing. You name it.
Ibrahimovic was the saviour, heading in the equalizer after good work from Fellaini who could've scored off the post.
Herrera is still one of the best on the field.
This is 16 games unbeaten, the most of any team in Europe right now.
Long may this continue.
Onwards and upwards!
GGMU!!!
Blogging Is So Hard Now
Without the phone app, it is so difficult to blog anymore.
Funny that this was how it used to be 10 years ago, yet now, without pictures, without large font and easy blog typing, I cannot bring myself to blog more than I should. Maybe it is the age, as well as the inconvenience of squinting at the small font on the phone screen. Oh and we don't have a desktop at home too.
Whatever it is, let's hope the app comes back soon.
Otherwise, expect less posts!
Funny that this was how it used to be 10 years ago, yet now, without pictures, without large font and easy blog typing, I cannot bring myself to blog more than I should. Maybe it is the age, as well as the inconvenience of squinting at the small font on the phone screen. Oh and we don't have a desktop at home too.
Whatever it is, let's hope the app comes back soon.
Otherwise, expect less posts!
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Pokemon GO Super Hunt
Following the discovery that the Blogger app is down, I now have the challenge of blogging without posting pictures. I guess I'm forced to be as descriptive as possible when normally a simple picture would speak a thousand words.
Anyway yesterday after our fantastic crab dinner at Eng Seng Restaurant, we suddenly just decided to go on an impromptu Pokemon hunt!
After a quick check on SG Pokemaps, we found a Chancey (rarest Pokemon right now) in Bedok North spawning for 20mins! So we took a leap of faith and decided to just do our best to drive down to find it. After driving around and beating the Saturday jams in the east, we found Chancey at the carpark almost exactly as per the map!
So happy!
Then we decided to go catch an Abra, which was easy.
Lastly we decided to go back to Marine Parade and suddenly we found a Lickitung!
Then we parked the car at the gramps' place and walked to Siglap and encountered a Grimmer! Which allowed me to evolve it to Muk!
Three rare Pokemons to add into my Pokedex in one day!
Super happy!
Anyway yesterday after our fantastic crab dinner at Eng Seng Restaurant, we suddenly just decided to go on an impromptu Pokemon hunt!
After a quick check on SG Pokemaps, we found a Chancey (rarest Pokemon right now) in Bedok North spawning for 20mins! So we took a leap of faith and decided to just do our best to drive down to find it. After driving around and beating the Saturday jams in the east, we found Chancey at the carpark almost exactly as per the map!
So happy!
Then we decided to go catch an Abra, which was easy.
Lastly we decided to go back to Marine Parade and suddenly we found a Lickitung!
Then we parked the car at the gramps' place and walked to Siglap and encountered a Grimmer! Which allowed me to evolve it to Muk!
Three rare Pokemons to add into my Pokedex in one day!
Super happy!
Blogger App Is Down
Wow this will surely chase away a lot of bloggers off the Blogger platform.
The Blogger App is down and there are no suitable replacements. The top two replacements I've tested suck big time.
When I searched online, it appears that Google/Blogger has no plans to update or replace the app anymore, so latest iOS updates result in the app being unable to run, or crashing it easily.
Two of the key advantages of the app were:
1) Ease of posting - just open the app and blog and post, so easy! Going through blogger.com just meant trying hard to post something on a clunky small screen
2) Easy to post pictures - without the app, pictures are almost impossible to post
I'll try to make do with blogging with no pictures for a while more while considering making the switch to other platforms.
Sad!
The Blogger App is down and there are no suitable replacements. The top two replacements I've tested suck big time.
When I searched online, it appears that Google/Blogger has no plans to update or replace the app anymore, so latest iOS updates result in the app being unable to run, or crashing it easily.
Two of the key advantages of the app were:
1) Ease of posting - just open the app and blog and post, so easy! Going through blogger.com just meant trying hard to post something on a clunky small screen
2) Easy to post pictures - without the app, pictures are almost impossible to post
I'll try to make do with blogging with no pictures for a while more while considering making the switch to other platforms.
Sad!
Eng Seng Restaurant - One Of The Best Pepper Crabs In SG
Had a small window of opportunity to go out on a date night with the wifey. So she suggested we eat something that we normally can't when the kids are around, which is crabs!
And what better way than to revisit one of the best pepper crab joints!
Eng Seng Restaurant has been around for more than 30 years now at Still Road. The whole set up is still very old school kopitiam style, which is very nostalgic.
The crabs were fantastic! Standard is still as good as I remembered. But prices have gone up and I guess that is why the crowds have thinned too.
We had two small crabs and a 马来风光, which came up to almost $100.
Pity that the Blogger App is down so I can't post the pictures up.
Sunday, January 08, 2017
Manchester United 4 Reading 0
Emphatic win against lesser opponents!
Wayne Rooney ties Sir Bobby Charlton's all time goal scoring record.
Marcus Rashford scored a brace.
Anthony Martial score a beauty.
Ashley Young clocks 150 appearances.
Bastian Schweinsteigger makes a substitute's cameo.
Micheal Carrick my MOTM.
What is not to like about the match?!
We're now into the third round of the FA Cup.
Challenging on all fronts for the League Cup, FA Cup, the league, and the Europa League Cup.
Onwards and upwards!
GGMU!!!
Wayne Rooney ties Sir Bobby Charlton's all time goal scoring record.
Marcus Rashford scored a brace.
Anthony Martial score a beauty.
Ashley Young clocks 150 appearances.
Bastian Schweinsteigger makes a substitute's cameo.
Micheal Carrick my MOTM.
What is not to like about the match?!
We're now into the third round of the FA Cup.
Challenging on all fronts for the League Cup, FA Cup, the league, and the Europa League Cup.
Onwards and upwards!
GGMU!!!
Thursday, January 05, 2017
Fatherhood Reflections XXXIII - First Day Of School! First Day Of School!
What a horrendous experience for me.
It started off with sleeping late the night before. The wifey woke me up around 0630am. Now this is the first time in eons that I’ve had to wake up so early, and the start of a supposed routine. I’m all groggy and grumpy while the wifey works hard to get all the stuff ready for the kids, particularly the boy. We load up the car at 0705am.
The school is so near and I’ve almost never seen the slip road in jammed before but boy was I in for a shock. The actual distance in and out would take at most a 2mins drive in smooth traffic. I turn in. Horror. Jammed all the way from start to finish. We queue to go past one secondary school, queue to see the entrance of the boy’s school, can’t stop there nor drop off anyone. Queue to turn into the carpark that houses the side gate. Go through the parking gantry. Queue to turn into the dropoff shelter. Said bye to the boy and wished him all the best for his day at school. Make a quick loop around the small carpark. Queue to get out. Whole thing took 20mins.
We leave the carpark. I head straight for what looked like the shorter queue out. Wrong, it was longer because the road out was longer and we had to go through two traffic lights to get to the main road. Made a U-turn. Joined the shorter queue I earlier intended which had no traffic lights to wait for but was jammed packed all the way out. Took 25mins.
In total we took 45mins to enter and exit a slip ring road that would have taken 2mins under no traffic conditions. Geez.
At lunch, the wifey says she is worried about the boy since we didn’t clearly see him enter the school. Even though the distance between the dropoff and the side gate was a mere 20m. The teacher had sent a picture showing the class working out, but we couldn’t see the boy. The wifey is worried. Told me to call the school. I call. There was a prompt pick up, as though the staff manning the phone lines has been super busy all day inundated by kiasu worried parents. Told her to check if my boy is in school. She says he’s attendance marker shows that he is present. I ask if she could go check if he is physically in class. She accedes to my request. Calls me back in 3mins to tell me that he is. This is a good school, I tell myself. Excellent staff, understanding the plight of worried parents.
School ends. The boy and all the bus mates wait an hour before the bus leaves for their destinations. It’s been 1/2hr and the wifey is worried about whether the boy has reached the student afterschool care centre. The boy is not there. Worried. She calls the bus minder who’s on board the bus. The bus made a wrong turn and it heading to the city! WTF?! Another 20mins later, the bus finally arrives, as confirmed by the afterschool care center. The boy reaches only 2hrs after school ends, even though the center is a mere 10mins away by car. The boy misses nap time. Grumpy.
That was first day of school.
I need a beer now. And not sleep too late.
20 years ago I said goodbye to 12 years of having to wake up at 6am for school everyday.
Today I said hello to waking up at 6am to send my kids to school every day for the next 12 years.
- My latest FB post
It started off with sleeping late the night before. The wifey woke me up around 0630am. Now this is the first time in eons that I’ve had to wake up so early, and the start of a supposed routine. I’m all groggy and grumpy while the wifey works hard to get all the stuff ready for the kids, particularly the boy. We load up the car at 0705am.
The school is so near and I’ve almost never seen the slip road in jammed before but boy was I in for a shock. The actual distance in and out would take at most a 2mins drive in smooth traffic. I turn in. Horror. Jammed all the way from start to finish. We queue to go past one secondary school, queue to see the entrance of the boy’s school, can’t stop there nor drop off anyone. Queue to turn into the carpark that houses the side gate. Go through the parking gantry. Queue to turn into the dropoff shelter. Said bye to the boy and wished him all the best for his day at school. Make a quick loop around the small carpark. Queue to get out. Whole thing took 20mins.
We leave the carpark. I head straight for what looked like the shorter queue out. Wrong, it was longer because the road out was longer and we had to go through two traffic lights to get to the main road. Made a U-turn. Joined the shorter queue I earlier intended which had no traffic lights to wait for but was jammed packed all the way out. Took 25mins.
In total we took 45mins to enter and exit a slip ring road that would have taken 2mins under no traffic conditions. Geez.
At lunch, the wifey says she is worried about the boy since we didn’t clearly see him enter the school. Even though the distance between the dropoff and the side gate was a mere 20m. The teacher had sent a picture showing the class working out, but we couldn’t see the boy. The wifey is worried. Told me to call the school. I call. There was a prompt pick up, as though the staff manning the phone lines has been super busy all day inundated by kiasu worried parents. Told her to check if my boy is in school. She says he’s attendance marker shows that he is present. I ask if she could go check if he is physically in class. She accedes to my request. Calls me back in 3mins to tell me that he is. This is a good school, I tell myself. Excellent staff, understanding the plight of worried parents.
School ends. The boy and all the bus mates wait an hour before the bus leaves for their destinations. It’s been 1/2hr and the wifey is worried about whether the boy has reached the student afterschool care centre. The boy is not there. Worried. She calls the bus minder who’s on board the bus. The bus made a wrong turn and it heading to the city! WTF?! Another 20mins later, the bus finally arrives, as confirmed by the afterschool care center. The boy reaches only 2hrs after school ends, even though the center is a mere 10mins away by car. The boy misses nap time. Grumpy.
That was first day of school.
I need a beer now. And not sleep too late.
20 years ago I said goodbye to 12 years of having to wake up at 6am for school everyday.
Today I said hello to waking up at 6am to send my kids to school every day for the next 12 years.
- My latest FB post
Tuesday, January 03, 2017
Hello 2017, Goodbye 2016!
Another year gone by so quickly. Wow. I can't believe it. It is true that the older you get the faster time flies.
It hasn't been a bad year. And it hasn't been a really good year either. Just so-so I guess.
I seem to have a very bad problem with my memory and it is turning chronic. All I can do is blog more often in the hope that one day when I am old and senile, I can use the contents of my blogs to help me remember my glorious past. How sad and morbid that is.
In any case, in continuing with traditions, let's try to review whether I achieved last year's resolutions.
Here was last year's review.
And here were my 2016 resolutions.
The review:
1) Have 6 Month's Pay In Cold, Hard Cash FAILED
I won't consider this a bad failure, primarily because I managed to amass a far better amount of savings compared to last year, but have poured it into investments instead. Yet it would be nice to have such a warchest in place. Something to consider for the 2017 Resolutions.
2) Achieve $500/mth Dividend Income Stream FAILED
Again another failure. There has been a diversion in my own investment strategies. And passive income is not top of the priority list.
3) Exercise Twice A Week FAILED
This was an utter failure. From the weekend football and one-a-week jogs, it became none at all. Things are now so bad that if I do not manage my high cholesterol levels, I will likely have to go on medication soon. Time to make a serious effort to start exercising.
4) Score One Big Positive Life Achievement FAILED
This one is tougher to guestimate and decide. I honestly didn't achieve any very significant life achievements other than to survive another year. I failed my CAIA Level I exams in March. Then again we got a new car, which hasn't been the smoothest sailing as yet. A lot of little wins here and there, but nothing super significant. Still waiting to run my first marathon. Haha.
5) Less Online Games, More Time With Family FAILED
It's gotten even worse now. I have my Simpsons Tapped Out account, THREE Clash of Clans accounts, and TWO Pokemon GO accounts. Haha. The funny thing is that I think the time spent with family has not diminished. In fact, it has increased! What has given way is the drinking. I really drink a lot less now. So much so that it does not take much to get me drunk anymore.
So.
5/5 failure.
I will either have to try harder with this year's resolutions, or set more realistic goals for myself in the year ahead.
Will come up with something soon!
It hasn't been a bad year. And it hasn't been a really good year either. Just so-so I guess.
I seem to have a very bad problem with my memory and it is turning chronic. All I can do is blog more often in the hope that one day when I am old and senile, I can use the contents of my blogs to help me remember my glorious past. How sad and morbid that is.
In any case, in continuing with traditions, let's try to review whether I achieved last year's resolutions.
Here was last year's review.
And here were my 2016 resolutions.
The review:
1) Have 6 Month's Pay In Cold, Hard Cash FAILED
I won't consider this a bad failure, primarily because I managed to amass a far better amount of savings compared to last year, but have poured it into investments instead. Yet it would be nice to have such a warchest in place. Something to consider for the 2017 Resolutions.
2) Achieve $500/mth Dividend Income Stream FAILED
Again another failure. There has been a diversion in my own investment strategies. And passive income is not top of the priority list.
3) Exercise Twice A Week FAILED
This was an utter failure. From the weekend football and one-a-week jogs, it became none at all. Things are now so bad that if I do not manage my high cholesterol levels, I will likely have to go on medication soon. Time to make a serious effort to start exercising.
4) Score One Big Positive Life Achievement FAILED
This one is tougher to guestimate and decide. I honestly didn't achieve any very significant life achievements other than to survive another year. I failed my CAIA Level I exams in March. Then again we got a new car, which hasn't been the smoothest sailing as yet. A lot of little wins here and there, but nothing super significant. Still waiting to run my first marathon. Haha.
5) Less Online Games, More Time With Family FAILED
It's gotten even worse now. I have my Simpsons Tapped Out account, THREE Clash of Clans accounts, and TWO Pokemon GO accounts. Haha. The funny thing is that I think the time spent with family has not diminished. In fact, it has increased! What has given way is the drinking. I really drink a lot less now. So much so that it does not take much to get me drunk anymore.
So.
5/5 failure.
I will either have to try harder with this year's resolutions, or set more realistic goals for myself in the year ahead.
Will come up with something soon!
Sunday, January 01, 2017
Manchester United 2 Middlesbrough 1
What a way to end 2016!!!
From going 0-1 down in the 67th minute and comeback to win 2-1. Wow!
Super ecstatic. This is what we're talking about!
Pogba was awesome, Herrera was as usual impeccable. Ibrahimovic is the talisman.
But it is Martial who is MOTM for me. If he can play every game like this, the left wing position is definitely his.
6th win in a row in all competitions, let's head up the table!
On SAF's 75th birthday no less!
Onwards and upwards!
GGMU!!!
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