Magic mouse lost connection when lifted up (quick fix)

As bizarre as it sounds, Apple's Magic mouse design flawed with a weak battery cover. This article will be really short as nothing much I can talk about.

Apparently after time, the battery cover widen the gap with the battery itself and thus resulting in a split second disconnection between the battery and the terminals when you lifted your mouse and you lose the connection.

How to fix it?  

Remember using a piece of unwanted paper folding it and slip it under a 3-legged unbalance table? Well, that's exactly how you do it. Simply open up the mouse cover and put a folded paper and cover it back to eliminate the undesired gap.

Voila, you had your mouse back in no time!

Magic mouse quick fix

Using CPF monies for HDB flat purchase

It is part of many Singaporean's life event where you sign on the dotted line and commit to a life long loan repayment.

In Sept 2009 I got news that I'm eligible to choose a flat unit and given an appointment date. My wife was just about to start her CPF contribution and mine was a pathetic 17k on my OA. Nonethless we chose our unit and pay up $2000 for deposit.

We continued going about our daily life and soon enough it was mid 2012. Our house is ready for key collection and our combined OA is only $70k. Our house is priced at a whopping $260k. Instead of letting HDB wept out all the money, I parked $10k in a safe investment. I called my friend working in the bank and ask to invest my $10k on a safest stock.

Tips about engaging a Bazi Practitioner

(Disclaimer: I'm not a practitioner nor expert in any ways. I'm just sharing my point of view in this subject.)

Bazi

It's an ancient Chinese art to understand oneself using birth chart reading with symbols of nature namely Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood aka the 5 elements.

Everyone is born in blocks of 2 hours thus having 12 different timing in 24 hours. Since there are ying and yang, the element also splits into example, ying fire and yang fire. There are 12 months in 365 days creating 4 seasons represented by 5 elements thus we have 60 pillars in combinations.

Our birth chart is presented in 4 pillars in the hour, day, month and year.

I'm not going to write every detail of it because it would be impossible. I would just like to express my thoughts in this subject.

Many people engaged a Bazi reading practitioner to read their fortune and seek advice. Nothing is wrong with that but understanding what to expect is important. A practitioner (in my context) can only predict your luck to a certain extent. There is no practitioner that can tell you for sure that at a certain timing in detail what you are going to encounter. That's simply not possible. Do you know on a day within a 2 hours period how many babies are born? Are they all going to be knock down by a car at the same time? NO...

How to save money?

Saving money is easier said than done. All people agreed that it is important to save up for the raining days but with the temptations and sales going on from time to time, many fall prey to marketing strategies and end up with unnecessary stuffs.

Many people adopted a way of saving money by setting aside a predetermined amount and stick to it. Think about it, if you were to set aside $300 once you got your salary and forgetting having that money, nothing is going to stop you from saving $3600 a year. This method is when a unpredictable situation occurred that needed money, you have it. That's the purpose of it! Raining days and you have the umbrella. The problem with it is that people tends to target these saving in blocks of success. They might need $2000 for the situation and thus rendered the balance $1600 as an extra (Well at least for me). Instead of thinking that now they already had 5 months of $300 saving and 7 more months to hit the target again, they feel that the $3600 vows has broken and $1600 has to go in order to "reset" the clock for monthly $300. Another problem with this method is the inflexibility. We all need different amount of money on different month of the year (yearly road tax, insurance, property tax,etc). Saving a fixed amount of monthly seem easier for some months and not for the others.

6 years old teaches you about life

Dialogue:

“Imagine yourself 90 years old, on a porch in a rocking chair looking back on your life. Got the image? Good! Now let me tell you. Studies shows that the biggest regret from the elderly people on their deathbed is not what they did. It’s what they didn’t do. The risk they never took. How sad would it be to get to the end of your life and realized you never truly lived.

This is your life. Nobody else’s. No matter how much this society, your parents, your friends want you to live the way they want to live. You run the show. When you shut your eyes and go to sleep at night the entire world ceased to exist and when you wake up, it is born again.

This is your life. You’re in control. You gotta do what feels right in your heart. Now go back to the rocking chair and think what would your future self say about the ideas you never created, your books you never wrote, the words you never spoke because you were tired, because you were scared or you wanted to fit in and be cool.

The European car mechanic in Singapore. Ah John!

Before reading this article, I urge reader to look at the comments too. Altought I write this article based on my best knowledge of John, there are people which encountered very bad experience of him. I also started to doubt myself about him. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that I fully agreed with the information provided by the comment. It is just that every driver encountered bad workshop... I mean who hasn't. So you are absolutely right to read very thing in the internet with a pinch of salt.   

14 Sin Ming Industrial Est Sector B, Singapore 575658
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When it comes to brand like Citroen, Renault, Opel cars, drivers in Singapore have a goosebumps all over the body. The repair cost can be a nightmare for most. Lucky for me, I found John. I bought a Renault Kangoo van back in 2006 and got myself in pretty deep shit. The previous owner did not really take care of it and the van is always in constant troubles. I had been to a few workshops and didn't got the problem solve, until I googled in the internet and read some forum posts about John.

On my first visit to John's workshop in Sin Ming industrial park, upon pulling up on the shop's car pouch, the first word he said was,"Your clutch plate is fucked up!". I was like WTH... I told him no way because I bought this van less than a year and the dealer changed a new set of clutch plate for buying the van. He asked why am I so sure about it and I told him the old clutch plate is still tossed behind the van. He took a peek and burst into laughter. He say I have been conned as Renault clutch set come with the housing and stuffs. The old clutch plate lying behind my van was probably from some diesel Japan van or mini lorry. My mind was contradicting about this man that I just met. Is he really that good? I asked myself. Just by listening to the sound when I drove up the 3% gradient sloop he diagnosed my van?