Most of the time when I'm paying for stuff, I will use my credit card. When I'm back to Jakarta, I would also want to use my credit card, because it's convenient. Turns out some place need the customer to pay for the credit card fee, it was 3%. Ouch. No choice, I need to pay it because I didn't bring my bank token to do any bank transfers.

​My sis recommended GoPay - she usually use it through Gojek application. Gojek app used mostly for transportation and food, and there's wallet attach to it, so you can use it through this app. I didn't have Gojek app at first, I searched it as GoPay, so I used this most of the time, and it's convenient. I can top up the money to this app, and use it to do payments. Most of the stores accept e-payment nowadays more than credit card.

One day I went for holiday to Gili Trawangan, power just goes off for the entire island, I tried to make payment at the restaurant using GoPay when the electricity back on. Money got deducted, but the restaurant didn't receive the money. Turns out the island will have no power any time of the day, everyday, so all the business there need a power generator, but this is a story for another day. So. to proof that the money actually get deducted I need to submit a ticket, putting in all the necessary document/receipt from the restaurant. This is very troublesome, in the end I got my money back. Actually didn't think that the money will be returned, but finally did. (It took about 1 month)

Second problem is even worse until I decided to uninstall the application. One day, suddenly the app just opened and seems like someone taking control and trying to go to the menu, as if I want to transfer all the money to a local bank account. I tried to close the application, but was unable to do so. I remembered a video talking about someone that nearly scammed, that the app in her phone just opened by force, she then turned on airplane mode. So, that's what exactly I did. After that, the app, seems still trying to open and do something, but since there's no network connection at all, there's no effect to it. I uninstalled the app, waited for a while and turned on the mobile network again. I tried to google if anyone have similar case like mine, it's more that the person experiencing money deducted from the wallet even if the person never do anything in the first place, so a bit different. I updated my phone software, and thought maybe I can try to install the same app again, this is just because I didn't update security patch in my phone. I got the same results. LOL. The app already been uninstalled, I since then, use Gojek app, that already cover the e-wallet portion inside. Until now, I'm not sure what happen to that app. Just for curiosity if anyone knows? 

I nearly lost my phone. Twice~ on 2 different days, one day after another. I left it in the toilet, but remembered it immediately after. I went back to the bathroom and it's still there. The next day, the same thing happened again. This time, I didn't realized it until some time (maybe about 1 hour). I went to the building management to report the lost of my phone. It was lunch time. I tried to ask the reception to call, but no answer at that time. Lucky, my colleague came this Friday, I asked his help to call my phone few times, but the phone is on silent. After some time, finally someone answered. Someone from different company, but working in the same floor, actually took it. So grateful that I can find my phone again. She actually asked if I left it since yesterday. Oh, no. She also saw my phone the day before when I left it, but I took it soon afterwards. No, it's not an expensive phone, in fact, it's a cheap one, but my credit card, photos, all data, actually there. I actually can't imagine my life without a phone. The same colleague actually helped me last time when I accidentally left my wallet in a shop. Forever grateful T_T. Feeling old all of the sudden as I keep forgetting things.

Hey you. It's been nearly 1 year since the last time I posted anything. Mainly, end of last year, my dad fell down, and rushed to the emergency. That was the time when I thought I can bring my parents to my home in sg. Turns out, he needed to stay in the hospital for 2 weeks. Nothing too serious fortunately. It became a bit serious, because sickness not treated for a very long time, also a mix of other common problems. So, all sickness coming at the same time. Hospital bills are crazy, but we all agree nothing is more important than health (my sister mentioned all of us can go for holiday in Paris for 2 weeks at least). Since then, he's under treatment, and I go back home frequently to visit my parents, and to bring my dad to the hospital for check ups. It's a wake up call for all of us, that we need to take our health seriously no matter the age. Since then, my sis and my brother in law has been restricting their diet, my mum and me also trying to lower down the consumption of unhealthy food. That's that. 

Early this year, my dad seems to be better, but suddenly on one day in March, I got unbearable stomach pain. I thought it's more like gastric problem, since I just had lunch 1 hour earlier (1 pm). I felt so much pain, and tried to sleep it off, but it didn't work. lol. I threw up few times, and felt a bit better each time. When I felt better (about 4pm), I changed my clothes and went to the clinic. The doctor in the clinic actually told me to go to the emergency. I went to emergency, they tried to do some blood test, but I was too dehydrated from loosing much liquid when I threw up. Waited for some time, finally can draw some blood, they gave me pain killers, but it doesn't work, then I need to wait for the blood test results to come up. It was then about 7 pm. The nurse suggested I need to go for abdomen scan, I waited until the result available (10-11 pm). At this time, nurse suggested I need to get admitted for at least 2 days, and a surgeon will come and explain what's the next action. Turns out, there's inflammation in my gallbladder, surgeon suggested to remove it immediately. I got a shock, because what's causing the inflammation? I thought I'm eating better these days. I remembered some people say gall stones are results of eating oily food. I remembered I asked the doctor, he said, the gallbladder seems to be not good. It's not because I eat oily food. There's a stone also, and it's sharp, and it pokes the gallbladder causing the inflammation. But, what causing the stone? Until now, I'm still not sure about it. Doctor just said, it's a bad one.

Doctor said, after operation, I cannot do any kind of exercise for about 2-6 months, other than walking. I cannot take so much weight (>10 kg kind). I  cannot eat oily food. I remembered before my operation someone actually asked what I wanted for dinner, and that day, I got really hungry, because I threw up all my food the day before remember? And because the next day I need to go for operation, I need to fast - cannot eat or drink at all. So. when they asked me what I want for dinner, I got too hungry and ask for fried rice. Didn't know that I'm not suppose to eat oily food at all. Well, it turns out, they brought toast. ~ (totally no point of asking what I want to eat at all). Worse, after I got home, my sis and her family came over to visit me, and helped me to do stuff at home. Then, she brought all the food that can be fried. T_T
Totally watching from a far. I lost 4 kg, but since then it gone back to normal now. lol.

It's been about 3 months since then. I've been healthy, I do exercise normally now, and my dad's health also better. I hope everyone is healthy and happy. That's all for now.  

I went to Garden by the Bay for a walk after work last week. There are lanterns setup as a part of mid-autumn celebration. A lot of tourists also roaming around. Seems tourism already back to normal. Marina Bay Sands hotel also full of people, at least at the taxi drop off point.
​Here's some of the photos I took while there. The skies looked a bit dark though, it's because it was really going to rain heavily. 

Since last year, I've been starting to walk more for exercise. Usually I'll go walk until Rail Mall, but since Railway Corridor opened mid of this year, I went few times, but usually I will stop until around 3 km, and go back home. Today I went a bit further until Buona Vista area. It's approximately 6 kms+ and total around 8000ish steps. Started to walk around 7 am this morning.

Finally reached Buona Vista area after 1.5 hrs (roughly). Went for breakfast at McDonald's near Metropolis. That place is not as crowded because mostly people go to office there. After that, I walked a bit to Holland Drive market, went to NTUC to buy some groceries, went back to Holland Drive market and bought some food. Then finally took bus to go back home. Reached back home around 11 am. 

I hope everyone have a great Sunday!

Today, my housemates and I went to Shen the T-Rex exhibition in Victoria Theatre and Concert Hall.
The exhibit open from 10 am - 10 pm from Friday - Sunday (28-30 Oct 2022), before going for auction in Christie's in HK. We didn't get any reservation because it's fully booked! But, as mentioned in the article in the internet, walk in visitors are allowed. 
We reached around 10.10 am this morning, and the queue is a bit crazy. lol. 

When we saw this sign, we thought OMG. should we not waste our time by queuing? Fortunately, the security mentioned this is just estimation, by a lot* Just to be a bit kiasu. He mentioned, maximum people in the room should only be 120 (by government regulation), and usually people will be around only 10-15 mins to take photos. Shen is the only exhibit there*. LOL. He also mentioned there are other exhibits of paintings and jewelry in the other building, we can register and see it also, after seeing Shen. 
So, we waited a bit, around 30 mins queuing. Lucky the weather has been good. 

We took a few pics, selfies etc. Then in total, I think we spent 10 mins the max here, didn't go for the other exhibits. because. hungry. lol. 

Finally have some time and tried to create my first NFT collection. Go to Opensea to check them out.
Will work on new collections in the mean time.

Created fruit flash cards for kids.
Here some sample low res image. 

It's listed in my Etsy shop.
Visit when you can, also there are other products available now. 

I've recently went for dinner with a few ex colleagues. The question that struck me was, what did you do this year? Anything new? Everyone seems to do things that they loved to do. 

I think the whole year 2021 gone in a flash. I think I didn't do much in 2021. I didn't answer this question. ~somehow I was blank, didn't know what to say.

When I think again, I didn't do as much drawing as I used to. I didn't read as much books as I wanted to. Also, I feel burned out from doing those things and instead found something that I didn't think I have as much interest as I was with drawing, but I picked up this skill. I learned a bit of python. It helped me to do some web scraping of information, it's also, somehow helped me a few times in my current job. I'm so glad I did it. At least, I did something that's helpful.

So, what to do this year? I just hope things get better, so we can go back to travel, at least so I can go back to my home country and see my family.

​Happy New Year 2022. Stay safe!