Finally the art is here

Decommercialize our life

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:32:45 +0000

Tonight was first time going back to Qt Kaki community after Hanoi + Japan trip span over 4 months.

Lewin planned Spain and Mexican night and we prepared Squid sear and roast potatoes. Most of them love our squid. Met up with couple of kaki who love to play picker ball.

Lewin shared his life as a non profit job. He thanks god for giving him opportunity to stay invested in a friend’s condo and he carry on to help out in graceful retirement planning in Queenstown estate. He say other than able to pay for his bill he is not really joining in monetary market. He barber for services and food around his condo block. He sort of able to enjoy life and other services without really paying for it.

I call it de commercialisation. A lot of things like we are able to enjoy dinner that cost $100 for only $20 if we can bring in enough like minded people who love to share. He say he begin to be appreciative of being dependent on other people and stay away being independent.

I find his life fill up with purpose if we can remove money out of the equation.

Low effort man I am? I take it as a compliment

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 18 May 2026 02:58:37 +0000

Osaka Furoya

2nd time visiting Japan, this time round I stayed for 2 months. Beside leaving out one week to host my 4th uncle most of my time will be staying in this hostel. Initally I stayed for 1 week and I met a lot of nice people on the road. Therefore I found the owner and nego for 1 month stay which she reduced to 45,000yen which converts to SGD$360 a month in a private room on level 2.

Level 1 had full kitchen facilities, 4 toilets and 4 shower at level 1 and I had no problem in using them, meaning don't have to queue to use it. Nice. Laundry and kitchen full set with free tea and coffee. I will recommend solo traveller to Osaka to review the hostel Furoya.

Low effort man

I met this Afician Amercian lady, named Mariah. I went on a day trip with her to Akashi. I just so happen to like this low effort, low pressure outing. Slow and chill and it is away from tourist places. The place is also mostly locals and none westerner found around.

Beside seeing some old town hall, hanging at seaside to see people fishing for 1 hours (too bad I didn't bring my rod which i left it in the hostel). Tried the famous Akashi Yaki, which I didn't like it at all and last stopped at the castle before heading back to hostel, 2 hours to and fro.

We spoke a lot and exchanged lots of conversation on our cultural differences. She misheard my pronounation many time, once in the train got me laaughing so hard. I say "i don't usually date people that often" was being misheard as "i don't usually date people that are fun". She was confused and kept asking me to explain why I don't like people that are fun. Regardless many time I pronoun she could heard me right and I had to type out on the phone. That was hilarious.

After hearing my KINK policy and non marriage idealogoy, she just highlighted me that in the US I will be called the "low effort men". Hearing effortless men, I took it as a compliment. But she insist that I should be offended if people call me that. But I had a hard time understanding why man that is off low effort is a concern to her. Well, if you literally google the meaning low effort men, it can completely describe me. I ask google if that can be taken as a compliment but the result tells me no.

However, in my perspective, I felt being low effort is a personal choice and its okie that the public or people generally cannot accept that. You know I just couldn't care less. In life, we should be like DAO. which water flow thru the path that has the least resistance. Having effort is like difficult and it mean that is friction. Which mean it wasn't mean to be that way. Men should alway do what they feel they like to do which happens to be frictionless. If you find that you are putting in a lot of effort in it mean it is not suitable in the first place.

I don't agree about putting the extra effort and you get the so call "improvement". I think people are simple, they hunt for the next meal and many of time, they just hang around doing nothing or crafting or sharpening tools. If meal taken care of, human is un nature to find something hard and keep trying to put in effort and fail and feel that they are doing "work" and be happy about that. That is just stupid.

But we human just want to find a job that they don't like but pay well (and wealth not really utilized properly) then climb the fake corporate ladder in levels. Trying to meet KPI, therefore they are always on the look out to "improve" themselve by looking out for things they are not good, like presentation, networking, salesmanship, small talk, they will create these problems and then try to fix this problem. And then they didn't realise that the end goal was never important at the first place.

Human just like to create own problem and find time and effort to solve these problem. Wasting time in the mean time. That is the answer human give to make our meaningless life meaningful.

Availibility bias can let you overstimate, and journaling help

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:17:00 +0000

Took this picture of sunset when I was exploring some fresh market in Chiang Rai. I was pointed to the old clock tower which I didn't know of. Fresh market in Chiang Rai is hard to come by.

I am still reading think fast and slow at my Mercy hostel. Writting from the same old table of per yesterday post.

Today I got to read up on availability bias which say that an event occurance which attract your attention will increase the general estimation of the occurance. Like people who drawn to news of celebrities divorce or sex within politician, therefore they can wrongly estimate that this even will happen more often that not.

Also if you have difficulties in recalling "happy moment" and easily remembers your "sad moments". Therefore you would have a higher tendency to rate yourself being a sad person, subconsciously.

It make me suddenly realise that I am not able to recall much happy stuff in my life, could I be getting depressed? Also Chatgpt had rightfully point out that I had been avoiding pain too much as my mechcanism and the by product of that will be the numbing of joy in life. Which mean that I became nonchalent on things therefore nothing can hurt me anymore, at the same time I tend to reduce expectation, and enjoyment for the fear of it leaving.

Therefore, I think posting good moment of happiness in blog or journal can really you know helps in rememberance of these events. I notice the effect now I have to work on my mistake. I slowly wants to be a more joyful person and should smile more often.

I deservse it mah.

A small pond at Chiang Mai university, where I rode the old Japanese bike from W2 hostel and got there to realise that I was not allow to fish in the pond. But I took this clear reflection of a sunny evening. Its nice still.

Discounting the positive might make me depressed

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 06:39:00 +0000

Was standing at the desk inside Mercy Hostel, Chiang Rai. Charging my macbook, just happen to come across "This mental habits fuels depression".

Realising I might be depressioned if I follow the video defination that depression is not the present of pain but instead it is the absent of happiness. It mention that I might be discounting the positive in life and no let happiness touch me as a defend mechanism.

I first must realise that this thought is present in me so that I can break down my defensive mechanism and then slowly recover to allow joy entering the body.

Looking at the sight of the temple, I took a picture and appreciate the nice view and feel that I am living in the present.

Don't take profit, just rebalance your portfolio

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 14:24:00 +0000

Today had the chance to review portfolio with ChatGPT. It gave me reassuring questions. It correct my mindset that dividend investing should not be focusing on captial gain. Non you should sell to "take profit" when stock appreciate by 30% for example.

Instead, it told me that pricing is irrelevant in income focused investor. Volality in market isn't risk if you are planning to invest long term. The real measurement is income stability.

3 point I take away from today session:

1. You don't have to sell in market correction to capitalise on it. The less I trade the more win i have.

2. Don't sell because price appreciation. Only sell when the dividend income become weaker.

3. Don't have to sell to take profit, just rebalance it once a year and stop looking at the chart daily

The portfolio is suppose to be no stress, no volality pressure. The reciept is not selling at correct point but just let time compounding work for itself.

1st week solo travelling at Chiang Mai

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 11 Jan 2026 07:13:00 +0000

Last year I did came to Chiang Mai for the 1st time for a month. I like the weather Nov - Feb in Chiang Mai as it get comfortably cool after evening. Therefore I went back in Jan 2026. This time I will be travelling alone up to 2 months visa free in Thailand.

7kg bag for 3 months travel

Jackie is not with me as she had found a new full time job. After trying out 2 years travelling and remote working with me, she find its better if she can still stock some saving up for another 3 years. This time round as she undergo training with me, frugal man system so she will be able to save up quite quickly.

I came here already 3 days, I went back to W2 hostel and catch shrimp and fishing at Ping River. This time I am able to show you my first lured fish of my life. Caught a snakehead on a gold spoon lure.

First lured fish sankehead on pen rod using spoon

Then I revisited Chiang Mai, Fishing pond which is super cheap, 100b whole day if you bring your own rod. But since the catfish is pretty big, I rent the rod, bait, fishing pass for whole day for only 300b. It is the cheapest fishing pond in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Chao Phraya Catfish caught at Chiang Mai fishing pond

First Sunday in Chiang Mai I know where I suppose to go. Nong Ho Flea market was the biggest second hand market in Chiang Mai. I am surprise that the vintage Japanese bike is still available after 1 months. Before that he quoted 1,200b but this time round, I tried a couple of bike and found his bike not in the most good condition, I was about to walk away from his 800b price discounted. He called me back and said he can sell me at 600b. I counter offer 500b and he agreed!!!. End up he doesn't have change so I paid 560b instead. Giving some tips for the uncle. I think he still got a earning as the bike was put there for sometime now. Cashflow is King. For me I got it at a steal I think. Althought its full steel bike which is heavy and somemore is single geared with some cranking sound when peddling. But for $23 SGD, I just can park the bike everywhere.

Japanese old bike with basket and back rack, dynamo light included but not working

To note, some only bikes with gears are at ranges from 1,500b to 2,500b. Although they are quite nice to ride, but I am still a sucker for vintage item :)

Some very nice micro, mini fishing reel I would like to get my hand on

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:10:00 +0000

I was in Chiang Mai flea market, where I saw some vintage reel going to 300B each. I bought it and give it a play at home. I decided to keep the Shimano Club Demi 20RL as it is more castable than the Olympic New Mideget No. 4.

Currently I am very into vintage reel which is slightly castable. I love small reel as I am able to bring them around easily to play luring or micro fishing.

I started with my Pen rod but most of the configaration is non castable.

Today as I browse the internet, there are a couple of reel which I want to note down in the blog, as they are not easy to come by in Singapore so I have to go around, Japan or Thailand to hunt these in flea market.

Daiwa Coronet Mini

Daiwa Minicast (Set)

Finally bought Macbook Air M2

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 04:07:00 +0000

I had been contemplation for so long if I were to upgrade my Macbook air or not.

Firstly, I just replaced a new battery in 2024, a year ago on my Macbook air 2017 running on intel. This unit was bought in Vietnam when I had lost my older Macbook in HCM.

Secondly, although the unit was old and a bit slow. But it still able to run my required task like browsing, youtube and excel fine. Just sometime things bothering me are like no MacOS 15 support hence not able to use Microsoft etc. And the irriating macsafe charger will need me to bring the adaptor out oversea if I need to use 2017.

But after discussing with Jackie for many months, I convienced that I had to start doing some spending as I had been saving up for too long. Furthermore Moomoo is also helping me part time and there are sulpus and we had to buy things that improve our quality of life. Playing with laptop is something that spark joy for me under the 10 things.

So also after going thru my before buy decision tree, I had a good steal for $958, brand new with 16gb RAM and Macbook Air M2 starlight. $300 off usually price so why not.

Just coming up to the internet and booast around. Now typing on the new macbook :)

Lossing motivation in life but I can care less

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 25 May 2025 18:10:00 +0000

I had been getting more and more difficult to be entertained by computer games. I really tried to buy and play those AAA titles. I bought Bulgar's gate 3 and really try to get entertained my the game but I get tired watching the stories and fell asleep so many times. After 6 months i still have difficulty completing the game. As I grew older, I get less interested in stuff, people, event, places and games. My only past time I enjoy is to indulce in youtube and wechat videos. Sucking my life aways minutes and hours away.

I lost motivation to earn money, work, build a business and basically not interested in doing anything at the moment. I used to love travel and now had been travelling for 2 years but I don't really like to explore anything as well. I just love to stay in a different city, without people knowing me and talking to me so I can stay in room for the whole day and watch youtube. I know this can be really unhealthy for me physically and mentally. I love to get out but having lack the motivation to do so.

Is it something that worries me? The answer is NO. I believe there is a devine plan for me. I meant to do things that was planned for me just that I am still seeking what the thing is. Am I pessimisstic with life? No. I believe the life I had choosen is the best out of all narrative. If I were to die and ask a question will I live my life differently I believe I will say No.

Google

Back Singapore for 1 week and we painted new paint for the room

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 13 May 2025 19:10:00 +0000

Been back for one week already. We had just ended our 3 months travel to Hainan, Yuenan and Yunnan. I had so much video clip to backlog to upload to youtube. I was late to update these video due to no internet connection to youtube in China.

Recently, Jackie found a great food or choice. We pick up the habbit to eat cold soba noodle in Japan. I love the noodle as it is chewy and use no oil in cooking. Soba has a lot of health benefit like high fiber and potein while lower in calories etc. And it helps in controlling blood sugar as it uses buckwheat flour. So we just get the soba noodle for $5 buck and the source for $5 which we can eat for 4 portions. So kinda simple lunch we can cook for ourselve.

Since back I had done some very important things at home. First is that my 2 years tenant Shakirah had moved out to Europe as her boss is not renewing the lease for the cafe business at Margrate drive. She left the room very dirty and we had be do a fresh paint job for the room. Painting is one of the most value of money renovation one can do to a unit. A white paint $75 for walls and $30 gross paint for the door will made the room return to the initial nice state.

这一次我们户外烧Trangia的还算是不错!煤气罐会比火水来烧得快。

We also uploaded our bilibili first video so that our friends in China are able to view our content. Ok lah. I will be busy playing my new game FF7 remake while see if i got time will push out my Kunming video soon. Meanwhile see our old short update:

A kind of lifestyle call Dali

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 01:15:00 +0000

Update these 2 days in Dali. We experienced an earthquake just 60km away from us. 4.5 magnitude but good news is I don’t feel any vibration in our room. World is getting weirder everyday.

In Dali, we get to really meet different type of people. I become very E suddenly and start talking to random stranger suddenly. We get a meet an 50~ man name ah Wei and he talk to us and ask our Brompton. Thru him we get to meet other very strange hipper on the road. Last night we went to a cafe and bar to get some drink and we sit around and start pulling people and talk. One even can play piano very well and we start to sing KTV in the bar live. Many people stopped and listen.

Today morning we went to 无为寺 to eat veg meal prepared by monk. During the meal, which is free we are not allow to talk and take photos. We also have to finish all the food in the plate and wash them ourselves. Eat like this opens up our five senses and we get to appreciate the food bought to us by the farmer. I didn’t pray to the god even I was in the temple. I did hesitate to even acknowledge the god in the temple but ends up I did inform them to excuse me for being in the temple. Let them know that I was here. I suddenly realise that the best thing is not to pray for anything. It’s not about having is about not having pain, sickness, misery etc. The most ideal stage is not having anything and not to ask for more. The more we have the more we away from the path. Whatever god give us is the best and there is nothing more we should be asking for.

It’s very hard to explain my feeling in English. But kinda just pen down my thoughts for future reference.

7 days in Kun Ming

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 03:40:00 +0000

Had been missing from blogging these 2 months. As I had been travelling in China and firewall had blocked blogger and google services.

I had been to Hainan to cycle and then we land back to Hanoi and Sapa to renew visa. Stayed there for one month and then we took a bus to enter China Kun Ming via Lao Cai to Hei Kou. This is different from the custom that we enter China to Nan Ning via You Yi Guan.

So now I am stationed at Dali the most beautiful place and full of crazy people place. But this post I want to wrap up my experience in Kunming. We stayed for 7 days and stay at a very nice loft at one of the condotel. It is a small room that was partition into a mini loft via a double decked metal bed. What drew us there is that they provided us with 2 desktop to play game in the room. I think it belong to a single men where he rent out the studio maybe while he is away to another place to work. We enjoyed the unit that cost us $20 a night. We love the food street below and close to MRT that can take us to any place we want to do shopping.

Then our first stop to explore the city we landed at 五一站 where we happened to stumble over Brompton junction kunming where we rode our Brompton to the shopping Center. This is all where the magic starts to happen, the store owner offer to add us to the group and so happen that the next day there will be an event between Brompton and Lululemon in kunming. We decided to join since it is a free event.

The whole event was very new to us and we met a lot of friends that own Brompton and we spend the next 6 days with 3 groups of people.

Alan and Liza bring us to eat branch and teach me to smoke a cigar and offer some of his own collection of cigar. I do learn a lot of the young man. He was in finance investment group. He had a lot of 文玩 and it inspired me to buy one as well.

Liang Liang and Xiao bai is a Alibaba consultant and an education consultant respectively. We stumble over them the next day and they took us to round 萃湖.

Kunming was surprising good and according to Alan it is better than Nan Ning as this is a tourism city which the support and culture will be better. Earning potential is also better than Nan Ning. What is so nice about Yun Nan is that the weather is always spring. They told me the highest weather is 25 degree. I went in month April so it is winter ending.

We now station in Dali. Tmr update more.

Finally we had concluded our Hainan trip with Brompton bike

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 06:05:00 +0000

Finally have the time and internet to post my Hai Nan Brompton trip. Due to China have firewall to disable google etc. Currently I am seating in Kohibito near Hanoi, Cat Linh writing this post on my newly bought iPad mini keyboard. I am still getting use to the small keyboard and I immediately is able to feel strain on my forearms. Keyboard is really too small to be type comfortably on. A video speak a thousand words let me use video to do the talking.

It is winter time and places like japan and mainland china is cold but Hainan being a separate island is hot and humid especially in Sanya. What I hate about this place is the splitting culture and eating of bing nan where people chew the fruit and split Silva all over the place.

This trip I learn that all China iphone is able to support 2 physical SIM card from iPhone 11 onwards. I didn’t know about this since I stop following iPhone since iPhone 7. Furthermore, iPhone which is bought in Sanya airport is duty free and with heavy discount and units sold are generately 25% cheaper for the new phone. This is super crazy. I didn’t get to buy one as the shop only allow same date purchase, my flight was in the early morning straight after midnight hence the shop is technically close by then and the salesman was not able to be flexible on this.

Finally we concluded that it is although possible to fly with Dimpa bag alone but you must have correct protection with your clothes as layering. The rear rack is also very prone to knocking and bending which Jacky experience when we fly from Hainan out to Hanoi with no card box protection. Her rear fork one of the metal is bend and this affected her rolling balances. Jacky was super sad about her black lacquer then but had get over it as bike is safe in the harbour but that is not what the bike is built for.

Moving forward since I have internet in Hanoi I will try to post more often moving forward.

Raining whole day and we stuck in 万宁

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 13:29:00 +0000

We end up staying in 万宁 for 3 nights. The first 2 was cause we need a break after backside sore due to 50km cycling. The 3 days was due to raining small droplet of rain the whole day.

Tonight we stayed in the room to find Brompton bag and think how our stuff that we buy in China can courier correctly to the location which we will arrive only 6 days later.

We watched the free show “envy” on the MI TV. And order food via 饿了吗 the whole day. Today nothing much. We will leave by train tomorrow to catch up with our schedule.

2 days in 博鳌 and left for 万宁

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 15:53:00 +0000

博鳌镇 we stop over for 2 days. The highlight of the trip is that we get to know a couple running a cute van that sell coffee at the booth. We sat and we talk the whole day and keep drink coffee one after another.

They inspire us to start coffee business on our back of kelisa. Our player really try to give us hint and tips. We are taught to use 拼多多 and 饿了吗？These are app in China to do online shopping and order food.

Today we reach 万宁 via didi. Cause we really tired after 40km ride from 博鳌. The hotel is 108 and able to do laundry and drying services. We went to eat the 甲鱼机子牛鞭煲. Super full. I had problem walking back to the hotel. I even eat 清补凉 as desert before coming back to hotel. Tonight we going to turn in early.

On the road when we saw people is herding bull and goat on the road. I sort of thinking about how the capitalist is trying to breed cow just to slaughter them. Even before cow were turned into wagyu beef, they had to produce dairy or fur and what not. If you realise your fate as a cow is like this will you still want to give birth to small cow? Your off spring will be born into the vicious cycle of being breed and slaughter by farmer. Just like us human is being make use to work for the banks and capitalist.

Cycle 56km to 潭门镇

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 17:52:00 +0000

This morning we left 文昌for潭门镇。Total 50+km. We broke it into 3 parts and stop over for food in between.

会文镇 is 14km away. We stop for lunch and eat goose meat (gnan) very fatty skin and thin. Meat is very little. Paid 110rmb. Hui wen is a place of many industries factory and they are famous for doing 佛珠。

长坡镇 is 20km more. We started to fail tired when we reach this place. We stop at one of the 清品凉. Owner very chatty and keep asking about our country and our foldies.

潭门镇 is another 20km away. This trip is already enduring already. Backside super pain. I guess <40km each day is comfortable for us. More than that we starts to get aching all over the place. Suppose to be a seafood place but we too shag to go eat seafood. Or maybe we are sick of seafood already. We almost had it every other day. We met a couple selling coffee on the back of the car. We sat at the beach and start talking.

2 days in 文昌

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 14:10:00 +0000

First round island trip cycling is Hainan. We left Haikou and start cycling to 文昌. 90km away we cannot finish the whole trip so have to break into smaller pieces. We cycle 5 hours for around 50km and reach a half way point and stay in the small town 大致坡 for 2 days. We damn relax. I think we can take us 1 month to finish the island if this is the speed we are going.

What 大致坡 had in store for us? Actually only 2 things that is memorable there. First is the 上央视的包罗粉. Super nice like beef noodle and a small little aunty shop that sell great bakery.

The whole small town only have 2 cafe which is cotti and luckin coffee. And what we eat every evening is 猪脚饭. Stay 2 days leave for 文昌 soon.

Next we travel to 文昌。one of the 老爸茶 is really good and we even can eat crab for lunch. At night we go to harbour and buy fresh seafood and get them to cook grouper fish for us. Now we are very tired. Tmr might have new place to go.

First time flying Brompton with Dimpa Bag

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 15:36:00 +0000

Yesterday we arrived in Hainan airport. What is different this time is that we had brought Brompton to travel with us for the next 3 months. Yes our travel got longer and longer. After last Japan trip which last for 2.5mths we didn’t get enough so we had plan to travel again in 2025. However, we had temporary put Japan on hold and replace with Danang instead due to the flu.

We travel with dimpa bag alone without much protection. Only a bit of cardboard that we pick up at the lobby. We really only decide 1 day ahead that we are bringing our bike hence everything is rush. But still good that we are used to 7kg travel. After packing all my stuff into Brompton T bag my weight is only 5.2kg. Whao. Even I am impressed with myself. I didn’t imagine I can survive outside for 3 months with only a Brompton bag half filled!

First day is too tired as we fly morning 4am flight, the whole night we stay awake in the airport. End up when we reach Hainan Lao Jie at afternoon we already low battery le. Book a hotel and sleep the whole day. After recharge we did 2 must visit place in Hainan.

老爸茶 is something very famous in Hainan and we get to experience it. So it basically something like a Hong Kong dim sum like that.

Hainan being an island, the seafood must be cheap, we got slaughtered the first round by 啊浪海鲜which is expensive. Then now we smart. We know how to use deepseek to search for better result. Compare to google search which is very ad heavy and result is more or less the same. XHS also usually promote 网红打卡点. So asking deepseek is more clever approach nowadays.

Young baby got addicted to iPad early

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 14:35:00 +0000

Kelisa, change engine oil and repair light and lighter port for 400rm supper expensive

Nowadays I see young parent came into the food court to eat lunch with their baby. Baby like less than 1 years old sit I to the baby chair straight away the mother pull out iPad to “distract” the poor baby.

This is so that the parent can have time to take their meal or deal with noise and unwanted crying.

This reminds me about my childhood when we do not have internet when young, our parent just ditch us at grandparent place so that both parent can go working to so call earn enough to bring back to the family. I think all these contribute to detachment issue. When we grow up we often ask why is this world so unfair and we are not given a choice but to put us thru this.

Now, with internet so popular. Giving iPad is like feeding a soft drug to children which will create addiction earlier than us. When they get older they will also ask why give this to me when I am young. I didn’t ask for it. But human will always take the easier way out.

Got a chance to travel Europe in my dream

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 25 Jan 2025 01:47:00 +0000

Last day at Setia Alam before driving to JB

Dream of flying to Spain with Jackie. It was due to a very special ticket discount of $22. SG to Spain discount.

I realise in the dream I am a very messy person. Disorientated and very unorganised. The mind is all over the shop. The dream is not very continuous and will tend to hop from one moment to another moment.

We met with 2 couple outside a casino and started to hug each other. Jackie went hugging with men and women until they fall down on the floor. These 2 couples I think they come from Asia as they can speak Chinese so we recognise them once they alight from the bus.

The story goes like this. We are very excited on a news that there is a ticket sales of less than $50 to fly to Spain so we connected on a phone with some people on the phone. Initially it was a normal call and later we convert the call to a FaceTime. The person is a thin female hippie with tattoos in her late 40s.

The call was very messy and loud so in order to hear the person clearly we have to fly to Spain to find the person. The next moment the sense moved to Spain and we tried to talk to the person but she was interrupted by other task on hand. I remember the whole Spain experience only have casino, bars, clubs and nothing else in my dream.

Then what we pay in the casino and bars is very affordable as in comparable with Singapore so we ask ourselves why not we don’t go back and travel longer in Europe then. I remember I didn’t bring anything just a shirt, jean and a paper and pen of course wallet.

Later near the end I realise the dream become lucid and kinda can control the dream if I want to but I didn’t push on. This dream happen at my dad JB place.

Bought another SLK, small little kelisa

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 20 Jan 2025 16:35:00 +0000

Today we just went to petaling Jaya to view the manual kelisa gino. For the price of 9k on the road including transfer and inspection cost. It was down from the 9.8k initially quoted on Mudah. Since its manual so it will be slightly cheaper as no many people like manual car. We decided to bite the bullet and just buy straight cash from the dealer.

Insurance we went for 3rd party fire and thief which cost us $380 without NCD. 3rd party allows other to claim on your insurance company already. For the machine price of 6.8k average, insurancer does not want to cost cause it’s too cheap also. Road tax $20 and top up Touch and go card for $50. Bought a handphone stand for $32.

I left with a balance of $500 for touch screen music player and others. Tmr we plan to go JPJ to get the vehicle card.

Got a tire lock on the highway when I speed a little and jammed on the brake. Need to be careful in the future. Lucky skid forward only without freewheeling the back tire.

All for less than 10k ringgit. $3,037sgd still got change.

Good night for today

What propel me forward is pain

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 07:05:00 +0000

Today went to Chinatown to visit aunty. Since my mum wake I had not been visiting her for more than a year. Feel so guilty. When I sort out my mum photo album ytd then I realise she is my other mum. Or the closest I can call a mum liao. Therefore, I should really need to take care of her. I will want to put in more effort. So today I went down with Jackie and Clement to visit her for a short while.

Bring her to Chinatown Point to eat Toast Box and coffee. Order ham cheese set for her and I think she enjoyed the meal. Simple people like her needs very little to be contented I think. Simple food like Toast Box will give a lot of happiness. As we who have work and what not will overtime feel Toast Box is less of a treat. I start to want more and more and we are unable to feel happy for all these small little things.

What impress me is that she is able to read all the Chinese words on the zodiac board. She hasn’t went school but she self taught Chinese by reading magazine and read subtitle on Channel 8. Some more she is intel challenged. Very impressive how people are picking up knowledge. If you want we can almost achieve anything.

Lastly I was thinking to get her a phone to play tik Tok. But I scare to get her addicted to all these social media. Maybe by not having all these tech is something of blessing. I think she is kinda boring just to watch TV everyday and all days. I thinking a

Phone with tik tok may benefit her but now I think I shouldn’t introduce all these to her is better.

Today also met Liting and her sister Limin at Chinatown to eat fish head. Her sister is a warden officer and she is so alike to me.

-No friends,

-No empathy to people

-Either right or wrong but no grey area

-Don’t want to have children.

So on and so no. Very similar to me. I was thinking is it of our defence mechanism that made us become a super “I” person.

Liting mention a verse that impact me very deeply that what empowers her to overcome obstacles is love. I start to reflect on how this statement can apply to me. I try to think of an event that propel me forward is by way of love. I cannot think of any.

2 event obstacles comes to my mind, one losing love one and the other one is near death experience in Vietnam. Although both event I can think back and realise that there are people who love me are around to give me support. But this is not what I remember the incident for. What really drive me forward is using pain and suppressions. How I manage obstacles is to bite the pain and pull thru and once I got used to pain then pain is no longer painful. Apparently there are people although not a lot think akin to me.

Packing my mum’s old photos

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 12 Jan 2025 18:31:00 +0000

Jackie cook lunch again. Clean and healthy meal again. Someday I weighted myself I am 73kg going to 75kg. Really suck. I need to do more exercise but now is like moonson period the rain had not being stopping for 2 days straight. I never had seen so much rain fall in Singapore before.

Healthy meal of saba fish and Cai Xin

Today we do spring cleaning. I moved the newly bought metal shelf and move it to the kitchen. Sort out of leather craft tools box and clean up more of my mum stuff. I even sort out all of my mum’s photo albums and compile them to only 3 books. This will be all my physical photo moving forward.

I don’t know if I still working when will I never work on the photo album. I doubt my mum will even work on her photo as well. But today I spend the whole day sorting out her photo and I am loving it. Slowly take all out and select. Keep track of numbers of slot and then slowly fix it back via chronological order. I am really grateful that I do not have work at the moment so I can do simple and memorable task like this.

I had a feeling that my life purpose in life is to back track on my ancestor, grandma and so on. Those things that they had left for me, I do need time to look into it, assess the worth and think how to generate value out of it. Those value that was not enjoyed previously by these owner, I felt my job is to use up the value if not these item will always be bought and stored without any purpose other than passing it down to your children and then they will have a lot more things of a burden. You know things that was passed down by parent is hard to 断舍离. It really takes effort to let go of these things.

Packed for Clement to stay for a short period of time

Went to Jurong East shopping on a rainy day

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 16:14:00 +0000

Today Jackie cooked simple meal. Luncheon meat and stream veg and brown rice. Oh. Still have the microwave chicken tight and mushroom. Still raining whole day. We decided to go out to walk.

Then we stumble over Collin’s having CNY promotion. A barramundi while fish for $16 and wagyu beef set for $21. Beer one pint for $5.80. Super cheap!!

Collin suddenly dinner

Went to Jurong Westgate and went Nitori to buy a floor mat for my bathroom. For $12.90. Then also Jackie decided to upgrade our old mattress from origin mattress to just futon. So we bought $119 for the nitori one.

Notori futon we buying to replace our origin mattress

This spec looks nice, wanna buy the next time, save it first

After that head to foot locker retail shop to buy a basketball shoes. Since I will be playing basketball on a regular basis. It’s is for health and safety that I invest in a proper basketball shoes. I need to stay active with at least 3 times of 30mins moderate exercise therefore now i had been actively playing basketball weekly.

Went up to Lazada to buy the LCD monitor arms. 2 arm for 2 monitor one F160 is selling $48 online with free laptop holder. So I think it’s cheap online. We will be waiting for tmr to cart out as there is a $15 voucher to snatch at noon 12 tmr.

Jackie said my shopping spree comes again.

Buy so much this week

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Fri, 10 Jan 2025 18:21:00 +0000

Today rain the whole day. So I cannot play basketball again. Jackie spend the day doing leather, notebook and a cat figure to sell with our scrap leathers. I spend my time to install back the T line brake lever on my 3sixty.

Yesterday we went to Jurong East to collect the T line brake lever. After that we went shopping in IMM and I end up buying a new speaker for my computer. Creative sound blaster RG3. Sound is not bad. I need the bass for movie night on my desktop.

Today I super happy as I got my MacBook Air adaptor. Next time if we fly oversea I can bring MacBook Air without the needs to bring the power brick already.

This week also bought a metal shelf for $50. The metal is thin so cannot put too much stuff or I guess it will bend.

We also have been discussing that after chinese new year in mid Feb we shall start of 2025 travelling plan. Initially thinking to go Chang Mai but we found a better route. In Feb and March, basically Hanoi, China Nanning and Osaka is all in the winter. Weather is between 25 - 10 degree range. This time if we were to fly to nanning from SG is $135 and then from China fly to Osaka is $120. This route will be better over if we fly to Hanoi or Japan directly from Singapore.

We are really contemplating to bike travel in Hanoi, Nanning and Japan. These place is very bike friendly. I am starting to see bike trailer and big bag to pack brompton thru the airport and train station.