You want to protect your child with an experimental injection that cannot stop or prevent the spread of the virus and where children almost have a 100% chance of recovering?
Below is a post I found on Facebook to Lawrence Wong which I find very good points, so I cut and pasted it here.
Dear PM Lee and your MTF, may I clarify the following on behalf of the very confused nation:
1) Most vulnerable elderly do not frequent malls or supermarkets, nor cafe or restaurant, they prefer to go markets, coffeeshop, hawker centres. How would the new measures protect them effectively?
2) Since SG is multi racial countries, your sms system should be in qua-languages as we are reaching out to the vulnerable elderly. Most seniors staying in some very matured estates were totally lost with such English sms when receiving such warnings sms, not to mention those staying alone.
3) Shouldn’t ART be distributed to per household MEMBERS instead of per households? Eg, 10 kits to 2 pax per household vs 10 kits to 5 pax per household
4) How do you ensure vaccinated symptomatic ART +ve cases refrain from going out especially to crowded places, especially if on public transports, since is self-administered? Many have knowingly been out and about even after testing positive. History has shown there are many defiant people who flouted covid rules. Aren’t these peoples threatening the health and safety of others?
5) How about people vaccinated with mRNA vaccines more than the 6months effective period or 143days and did not go for booster? Are they not considered unvaccinated?
6) Is giant @Tampines a standalone supermarket? Pls provide a clear list of such supermarkets for ease of nation reference.
7) How would the unvaccinated go for their vaccination where the appointment is with vaccination center at Raffles City convention center?
8) Coffeeshops are not fence up currently and do not have safe entry. How are coffeeshop and stalls owners going to check on every single diner for their vaccination status? Any govt official checking as well?
9) How would those unvaccinated continue to go for their routine medical checkup/dental appointment/TCM treatment inside the malls, eg? Paragon, Takashimaya, neighbourhood malls?
10) Kids <12yo are not vaccinated, how do they go for their enrichment classes inside malls, eg. Forum, United Square, Bedok mall?
11) How about retail staff working inside mall who might not have been vaccinated due to (said) medical grounds?
12) Why rush into opening the borders to 8 more countries from 19 Oct when healthcare workers (HCW) are currently overwhelmed and with inactive registered HCW being activated?
13) Hotels are not considered places of attraction, so the unvaccinated can still goes staycations with family to utilise SingapoRediscovers Vouchers?
14) Singapore has said that vaccination is non-mandatory; our nation should be given the option to choose, why then all such measures towards unvaccinated? These measures are not targeted at the right pool of people. The vulnerable elderly who is mostly not working and not restraint by these rules at all, no WFH, no HLB, no malls! They are at the void deck, at coffeeshop, at hawker centres, at markets. Are you penalising the wrong group of adults who can better exercise care and discretion and personal responsibility?
15) Unvaccinated now have to travel further to go standalone supermarket on public transport. Please advise the measures on mrt/bus to ensure they will not be infected cases onboard?
16) Many cyclists on the road are riding in companies of >2pax. Why no enforcement on those? Next;For many unvaccinated individuals who find today’s announcement troubling, here is the takeaway:
1. I do support that our country needs to open up and declare the situation from pandemic to endemic. However, we have a government that is practicing endemic for foreigners but pandemic for its citizens, further discriminating and ostracizing the innocent unvaccinated citizens and individuals.This is why:
2. Unvaccinated cannot enter shopping malls but stand-alone supermarkets are exempted. If the unvaccinated are seen as posing risks to the vaccinated, then such supermarkets will be a haven for the unvaccinated. Hence, in order to protect the vaccinated, should you not ban the vaccinated from visiting these stand-alone supermarkets? Why is there this need to segregate and divide the harmonious community?
3. You close your doors to your unvaccinated citizens (due to so many ostracizing policies removing their very basic rights to live normally) making them stay in a Pandemic situation, but you allow the foreigners quarantine free, practising Endemic. May I ask is this a fair manner in treating your own citizens? You already have a compliant 82%.
4. So it is said vaccines wear off after 6 months and therefore booster shots are recommended. Hence, what is the difference between a person fully vaccinated 6 months ago vs the unvaccinated/partially vaccinated?
5. Government or rather the PM told us not to be alarmed or fear covid19 and should treat it like a flu. Is this not hyprocritical when there remains further restrictions in the economy and community especially the F&B sector, further tightening our own market when the unvaccinated now cannot be the spenders.
6. When the ministers and PM tell us not to fear and especially with now only the vaccinated can dine in restaurants and go to malls, why is the 2-to-a-table restriction not eased? What is the fear or concern in allowing dining back to pre pandemic days? Preach Endemic, but act Pandemic?
7. Telling us to respect Covid-19? Hello, would you respect your enemy / killer?I know of many who have health problems who cannot be vaccinated; I know of an unvaccinated friend who is just earning a living operating a small store in a shopping mall but with this new further tightening rule (it is not an opening up), she ended up crying because she does not know how to continue to run her store in two days’ time, where she will certainly chalk up more losses during the shop closure. Why is she not vaccinated? She is pregnant and although they say it is safe for pregnant ladies, her concerns to protect her first pregnancy is definitely valid.It is an opening up in disguise back to what it seems like a 90% circuit breaker, further tightening and constricting our own market by sending our elites and wealthy out of our country spending outside our country, leaving the unaffordables to continue in this struggle and the beauty now is government no longer has to pay and subsidize struggling businesses. Brilliant.
Vaccination is not by choice in Singapore. Devising it mandatory but Not declaring it mandatory is for obvious reasons. The wisemen know why.
Really poor Singaporeans
PS: And I have one more question:If I stay in a one room flat and tested Covid positive with mild or no symptoms and the direction now is not to visit any hospital but to isolate and recover at home. Obviously, I don’t want to infect my beloved family members. Can I go to either of the MTF’s ministries to look for OYK GKY or LW and seek a solution? A squatter in your bungalow will do.Thank you for your time and hopefully your MTF can address the above.
I bought my “Uber” computer way back in 2010 way before Uber is a thing. It had 12 GB of 4GB x 3 triple channel ram. I had installed the Kingston Hyper X DDR3 RAM on it and it had a fairly current Nividia Graphics card for its time a Palit GTX 570 with 1.2 GB of Video RAM. It was rock solid for the 1st couple of years until the Palit starts to show artifacts. Luckily for me, it was with in the 3 years warranty and I got a one to one exchange. The replacement graphics card lasted another 3 or so years before it also blew.
I replaced it with my current ASUS STRIX GTX 960 which has been great. Over the years I also replaced the Enermax Powersupply 480W with a Andyson 600W powersupply after it decided to quit after 5 years. Last week the Andyson Powersupply decided to die on me on Christmas morning, I had to go to Sim Lim Square to procure a top of the line Seasonic Focus FX-650 powersupply. After replacing the power supply, the PC just refused to boot up. It powered up just fine but no Post. I did the usual trouble shooting removing the ram and graphics card. The only thing I got was the mother board beeping when no ram is installed. I was puzzled and frustrated, spending the Christmas holiday trying to repair my PC. I finally gave up in the late evening, put everything back together and shut off the power but leaving the phantom power on.
On Boxing day, I powered it on again hoping that maybe it might just boot up again. And it DID! Somehow it sort of fixed itself over the night I thought to myself. Could it be because the phantom power is slowly filling up the power on the mother board and making it more stable to boot up? It doesn’t make any sense to me. I ran tests and the PC booted up fine and it was as if nothing had happened. Over the years I have changed my hard disks from moving spinning ones to solid state ones and now it ran on 2 solid state drives from Crucial. A M550 1TB for the boot drive and a MX500 2TB for the data drive. To make them run well, they are set to run on AHCI mode in the BIOS. For some reason over the years, the motherboard would sometimes go crazy and the BIOS settings would run, never did I know that eventually I think I may have found out what is causing the instability.
After I successfully getting my PC to boot again, I checked my motherboard’s BIOS and realized I’m using the 2nd oldest BIOS and there were 5 new versions released after I bought my computer in 2010. I updated my BIOS to the last one which was version 008 which claims to fix stability issues. The repaired PC seemed to work well for the first few days, but after that I noticed a memory error pop-up resurfacing again whenever I shut down. I attributed that to the old memory modules. They were the same 12 GB 3 x 4GB set I had when I bought the PC . Annoyed by the error, I thought that my PC’s CPU fan could do with some cleaning as the cooling fins are caked with dust and dulled with corrosion.
So today on my Sunday weekend, I decided to open up the PC again, which is working fine up to this point to do some maintenance on my CPU Cooling fan. I also decided I might as well reapply some thermal compound and re-seat the CPU after doing some cleaning. The CPU I got was at 2010 the best consumer CPU money can buy, the Intel core i7 990x Extreme Edition. After I removed the fan and cooling tower, I was shocked to see dust caking around the LGA 1366 CPU socket. The metal retainers are also rusty and it appears some of the corrosion had got onto the CPU metal cover and it is slowly corroding away. Removing the CPU chip, I noticed one of the pin contacts has started to corrode and rust. I was wondering whether that could be causing the memory errors. I used some polishing compound and cotton buds to gently polish away the corrosion. I used an exacto knife blade tip to scrap away corrosion on the chip cover and polish as much of it as I could away. There are 1366 pins on it and one of the pins appeared to be slightly corroded. I used a cotton bud to try to clean it the best I can. After cleaning the heatsink fins and polishing the copper contact plate, I reapplied some thermal compound and screwed it the heatsink and fan attachment back.
After reassembling the computer and powering up, that’s where my problem starts. At first I thought a resetting of the BIOS settings would help but now the PC will boot and restart a couple of times before booting and instead of showing all 12GB of ram, it only showed 8GB of ram on the POST settings. CPU-Z managed to detect 12GB but Windows 10 only showed 8GB. Changing the slots around also didn’t help. It went on for hours, the PC would Post 2 times without booting to windows before booting to Windows with less RAM. After testing the RAM slots one by one, the last RAM slot did not seem to work. At first I thought it was a bad RAM but all the RAM worked when they were tested one by one on the first ram slot. Eventually, I came to the conclusion and after searching the internet for solutions, I saw some posting about re-seating the CPU might fix the problem.
I finally realized that in my zeal to clean the LGA CPU socket pins, I might have accidentally bent ONE of the pins…..
So back to removing the connected cables and unscrewing the cooling heat sink and fan. I used an magnifying glass to inspect the pins and sure enough, one of the pins is bent way out of alignment. Bending it back is going to take some fine movement skills of a Swiss watch maker which I don’t possess. The thought of removing the entire motherboard to do this doesn’t bring any excitement to me. So I decided to fix the socket while it is still screwed in the casing and boy was it damn hard! I had to use a bicycle LED torch light to provide enough illumination. My 46 year old eyes can’t see and focus anything that is closer than 30 cm. I first tried to use a pin to nudge the bent socket pin but it was no use. Then I remembered I have a pair of extremely fine tweezers for pimple removal ( yes you heard that right, a pair of pimple tweezers) Using a small plastic magnifying glass on one hand and the tweezers on the other. The torch light perched on another part of the PC casing, I carefully nudged the bent pin back in line. After completing the delicate job, I carefully go through all the pins with the magnifying glass to check that they are not bent or corroded. Once that is done, I re-seated the CPU, installed the heat sink and re-assembled everything back.
As I powered up the PC, I waited for the first few seconds for it to go through the memory checks, then I heard a positive beep. This time no re-post or re-boot and it showed ALL my 12GB of memory!!!! It booted straight to Windows 10 with no problems. My PC is finally fixed and all because of one bloody bent CPU socket PIN! Doing a search online I realized that this problem is more common than it is. It would appear that my problem is due to the fact that I did not remove the CPU for maintenance. That CPU was sitting there for the past 9 years and the corrosion is slowly getting in and finally one of the pin is slowly losing its contact with the CPU; that pin it would appear is responsible for talking with the 3rd RAM Slot.
I have learned a LOT from this experience. If you want your PC to last longer, you must be prepared to open it up every few years and do some serious maintenance. In Singapore where I live, the weather and environment is very harsh to electronics as it is very humid and dusty.
The fact that my CPU, RAM and motherboard has survived for the past 9 years showed that with constant maintenance, you can keep your PC running for many years. I have replaced hard drives, power supplies and graphic cards and the only thing that is still original are the Motherboard, the RAM and the CPU and of course the Casing. I hope this article will be helpful to anyone who is facing the same issue. I’ll be happy to answer any questions regarding this fix.
Back in 2011, when I have a lot of time after leaving my full time job. I started to dabble in DSLR cinematography and resumed by remote control aircraft hobby. Around that time, there were many cheap Chinese made quad copters that was pre-assembled and ready to fly. Flying one was not easy though as the early quad copters are not dynamically stable and you have to be flying them all the time by observing their horizontal orientation to the ground. The early quad copters used quartz crystal gyros that can get damaged in a bad crash, with a broken quartz gyro, the entire flight controller is as good as gone. The ESCs or electronic speed controllers for the brushless motors were also not as responsive and they can over heat and shut down randomly. After crashing my first drone, I decided to learn to assemble my own starting with the 1st KK board, several drones later, I updated to KK2.1, 3D robotics flight controller and the multiWii. I built and flown tricopters from kits, a hexa copter and many many quad copters. I probably spent a couple of thousand dollars on Hobbyking.com and many other online hobby online shops from China. I even programmed my 3dRobotics equipped drone to follow me using its GPS guided controllers. It was a lot of fun then exploring and building my own drones.
Then came the rise of DJI which single-handedly cornered the entire drone market with quad copters that are ridiculously easy to learn and fly. You no longer have to learn how to fly by eye and the drone DJI makes pretty much flies itself. Around this time, I settled down and have next to no time to indulge on my hobbies and flying quad copters is one of them. No thanks to DJI which made entry into this hobby so easy that any tom dick and harry can now fly and these novice pilots will fly with absolutely no care in the world and it caught the attention of the authorities. Eventually the authorities have to come out with many rules that made flying drones in Singapore extremely restrictive. With everything so nicely packaged for us, there is no more incentive to spend the time and effort to build, tune and fly your own custom drone. I guess that’s why I don’t see the point in building and flying my own drones anymore.
Now all my hand assembled quadcopters are sitting on my closet, hanging on the wall collecting dust. I am thinking of selling all of them cheap to anyone who wants to tear them up for parts. I really don’t have any more space to keep them around. I will be posting them up online to see if there are any takers.
At the age of 45, contracting HFMD is the last thing on my mind, but that was what exactly happened on the 19th of June 2018. The week prior to my infection, I was playing tour guide and host to my relatives from my wife’s side for almost a week. They were visiting Singapore for the first time and I wanted to make sure they enjoy their experience here. After I sent them to the airport, I prepared for my own vacation. A week long trip to Taiwan with my mother, wife and 4 year old son. I have to admit that planning the logistics and hosting my relatives have left me stressed out and tired. In fact, originally I looked forward to the Taiwan trip but it turned out to be a very stressful and rushed affair for me. Coupled with lack of sleep and a sudden change in my dietary cycle ( I was doing intermittent fasting for the past 2 months), my body’s immune system was compromised.
On the first couple days in my trip I still felt fine, however on the 2nd day, my son developed an ulcer and I had to go to a local pharmacy to get medicine for him. There is a possibility I could have caught the infection from him, but he didn’t develop full blown HFMD. On the 2nd day I noticed a small blood spot on my left index finger. I squeezed it and a drop of blood came out and the pain was prickly sharp. I didn’t think much about it. That was on the 19th. Subsequently the 2nd day saw more spots appear on edges of my fingers and touching the spots caused a sharp pain. Then small ulcers start to appear in my mouth between the gums and inner lip, these started to spread till I even had them under my tongue. More spots appeared under the palms and on and under my feet. Opening and closing my fingers became painful, eating became very annoying due to the ulcers. I had to use some of my son’s medication to keep the ulcers from stinging. On the 2nd day, I had to take some of my son’s fever medication to keep a fever under control. I was getting very lethargic and have very low energy levels. By the 3rd day of infection, my body couldn’t take it anymore and I had to ask the tour leader to retreat to my bedroom for rest, not before purchasing some Panadol from the Watson’s pharmacy.
By now the dots on my hands and feet had become full blown blisters bleeding internally when you pressed them and filling with angry red blood. My mouth had canker sores and they grew and joined and eating was pure torture. I kicked myself for not bringing a big bottle of Colloidal silver, something that could at least keep the coxsackie virus under control. On the 4th day, I recovered enough to go out for some sightseeing, shopping and night market tour, however the blisters and ulcers are still causing massive discomfort. At this point I just look forward to go home as soon as I could
On the last day of the tour, immediately after I reached home, I downed about 1 liter of Colloidal Silver. It was Saturday 23rd June when I drank the 17 ppm strength colloidal silver. I went to bed almost immediately. I spent the whole Sunday resting and drinking more colloidal silver and swishing my mouth every few hours with more CS. 24 hours after my Colloidal Silver treatment, I began to feel the pain and negative effects of the blisters and ulcers beginning to subside a little. 48 hours later, I continued to drink cups of Colloidal silver and swish my mouth with it, I began to feel the virus retreating. Exactly 1 week after infection and with the colloidal silver protocol, the worst effects of the HFMD are gone. My blisters don’t hurt anymore and the ulcers subsided.
As I am writing this, it is exactly 2 weeks 2 days after I got infected. The blisters are gone and ugly red spots have completely subsided. For those of you who believe in the efficacy of Colloidal Silver, I highly recommend packing at least a pet bottle 1.2l of it on your overseas trip. Rather than buying ready made Colloidal Silver, I made mine using pure Distilled water and a Colloidal Silver Generator
I firmly believe that if I had my Colloidal Silver with me, I didn’t have to deal with the pain and discomfort that HFMD brings along. I guess I had it much easier than some other adults, or perhaps the strain of HFMD I got was not as horrendous other adult experiences.
I started roasting my own green coffee beans this year with the belief that I will get the freshest coffee beans all the time. It was not as simple as I initially thought, but it was a great learning journey figuring out how to roast my own coffee.
I have always been a coffee drinker . I probably started drinking coffee when I was about 4 or 5 years old. The taste and aroma appealed to me right from the beginning. I learned to make sock coffee watching my mother and as I got older, I progressed into getting a coffee drip machine using packaged ground coffee. I discovered that freshly ground beans gave the best tasting cup of coffee, so I again upgraded from pre-packaged ground coffee to freshly home ground coffee. After using a small Braun coffee chopping grinder for a couple of years, I upgraded to an expensive Braun burr grinder and I swore by freshly burr ground coffee for almost a decade. A few years back I heard that folks in the United States are using air pop corn roasters to roast green coffee with some success. It piqued my interest in roasting my own coffee. It was hard to get green coffee beans in Singapore several years back on small amounts so I shelved the idea. Recently I discovered many sources of green coffee beans on sale and online in Singapore. I managed to get a reliable source and started my Green coffee roasting adventure.
I have a 20 liter toaster oven at home, large enough to roast a large batch. I got myself a rotisserie wire basket online.
My first attempt ended with coffee that was slightly under roasted. It was okay but not great. In my research, I began to understand the different temperatures the coffee bean goes through during the roasting process.
My set up was not as professional as dedicated coffee roasting machines, but through experimentation and with different coffees from Colombian, Guatamalan, Ethiopian, Indonesian Java and Sumatran Mandheling and even Burmese coffee, I developed my own roasting method. I used to monitor my temperatures closely with a temperature probe but I found the best way to monitor the roast is to look at the colour of beans as it is being roasted. Look for the smoke and especially LISTEN to the cracks. If the beans does not produce any cracking sounds, then they will be most likely under roasted; which still produces a decent cup but perhaps with a more fruity and less “toasted” taste. I like my coffee dark but not too dark so I go for a city roast plus. I have roasted coffee way pass City Roast before and after resting the coffee, they produce way too much oil. Now I try to keep it between City and City plus roast. This produces the nice balance of taste and fragrance without the oily beans clogging my SAECO All-in-one espresso machine’s burr grinder.
In the above, Indonesian Java or Mandheling coffee is being roasted and producing the 1st cracking sounds after around 25 minutes from a cold toaster oven without pre-heating. The oven is equipped with the rotating roasting wire basket with metal spoons and scoop added to agitate the beans during roasting. Maximum temperature setting was used on the toaster oven at 250C. Mechanical timer was set to 30 minutes but roast was stopped before that, probably around 25 minutes. In the past I used to pre-heat the oven, but I found it was not necessary. Aluminium foil was used to reflect heat back from the clear tempered glass door. A small hole was cut to observe the roasting colour of the coffee beans. A powerful white LED light was used to shine into the observation hole. Roasted coffee in the wire basket was removed with thick oven gloves and agitated to remove the coffee silver skin or parchment. Then beans are emptied into a large Ikea mixing steel bowl and stirred with a wire egg beater against a fan to cool down. The freshly roasted coffee beans was then stored in a single way valve container to allow the Carbon Dioxide to escape. Coffee reached maximum fragrance on the 2nd or 3rd day and ready to grind and brew.
Through this experience I now have possibly the freshest coffee I can enjoy. For those of you who live in Singapore and want to get a reliable supply of Green coffee beans, I highly recommend – Blendnew Coffee
Setting up my X-CAM Tech X100B Brushless Gimbal and test flying it.
This is the first test flight I am attempting while using the X-CAM Tech X-CAM 100B 2 axis Brushless Gimbal. The initial results are very promising. Although there were some roll jitter issues (which I smoothed out using Deshaker), overall the 100B worked very well. I was also concerned that my re-configured Reptile Quad will not be able to handle the weight, but the test flight proved that the motors, props and battery configuration can more than handle the additional weight. All that is left for me is to re-tweak the roll gimbal settings. On another note, the previous carbon fiber propellers doesn’t seem to be generating much lift, changing to carbon nylon Gemfan 11×4.7 props improved the lift efficiency. 11 inchers are about the biggest props I can use, 12 inchers will hit each other. Overall, I’m very impressed with this product.
The X100B is powered by a 850mah 3S 25C Zippy Compact LiPo.
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