九月的感想(二)

在九月二十一号，我一整天都很不舒服。从早上，肚子就有阵阵的痛，檫了风油和休息了好一下，但好像没有什么效果。到了旁晚的时候，不知什么原因发烧起来。到七点半的时候，还量到37.2度。这个时候的我显得很担心，不知是不是中骨痛热症。想想还是先去看医生较好，反正体温超过37.5度的话，百货公司都去不了。

到了诊疗所已经晚上8点了，一进去，首先要量体温，就量到36.6度。医生用不同的方式再量一次，才量到38.3度。因为没有其他病因，医生建议自己拿个 swab test看是不是冠病。这样一来，自己就拿了4天的病假，其中3天中shn (不能出门)。家里的东西只能靠母亲买了。幸运的是发烧隔天就退了，冠病检验在48小时后出来，结果是碱性的。想想如果自己真的中冠病，多少人会中隔离，情景也蛮严重一下的。和自己说，没事就好吧。

生病当中，第一次叫GRAB的外卖。第一次叫了“素雅轩”的排骨饭。因为照片没看清楚，结果只买到排骨肉，里面没有饭。虽然贵了一些（10.80）但效率相当好，30分钟就来。下次有机会还是可以再外卖来吃吧。

自己的生日在一个平静的星期五中度过了。有在FB 和whatsapp中收到40多个祝福，应该是不错了。关于一起吃饭这回事，有留言了，但除了SKY 之外，没有人回应，大概大家都“忙”没空或没心吧。最少晚上和母亲吃个饭，也当做是庆祝过生日吧。

星期六的时候，自己也来个国内半日游，去到了滨海花园走走。风景都好，人也不是很多。走的路程真的就是跟着感觉走，有走迷路的时候，但最终还是走回地铁站吧。之后去到 bugis 的fortune center 吃饭，然后在哪里的素食蛋糕店买了蛋糕才回家

讲到生日愿望，希望这个世纪大病毒能在明年头就能结束，并且有疫苗的面市。让大家的生活能回到正常的水平上，自己就能回马六甲看外公。去日本的计划，最早也要等到明年11月了。个人方面，能有段恋情会是好的，但除了等以外，我还能做什么呢？最重要的是，自己要有所进步，多看书，多学习日语。学会一个人也是可以很开心的。

写到这里

GOD bless all the time , 慧台

九月的感想

计划往往赶不上改变，跑步方面，我在八月总共跑了91公里。最长的时候，还一次跑了6.8公里。最快的时候，一公里只用了5分30秒。感觉上努力还是会有好的成果。上个星期六，在跑步当中，不知怎样，弄伤了左脚。这几天走路都有问题。看来这个月100公里的目标是达不到了。想想什么东西都不能超之过及，脚还得休息多一个礼拜，才能开始慢跑吧

自从冠病开始，我已经好几个月没有机会约朋友出来喝茶。大家算是良好市民吧，都听从政府的建议，没事不要出门。因此，我也见不到他们。上个星期六（九月五号），终于见到我的一个朋友 , 南明.我们约了在宏茂桥的一间咖啡店一起吃午饭。我也把借来的饭锅还给他。话题主要还是在旅行发面，没有讲到政治的东西，以免他不高兴。自己又讲起明年去日本的建议，他比较想去欧洲吧。因为我们想去的月份不太一致，所以一起出国的机会不高吧。之后，他也有讲起隔天和耀焜等人去麦里池跑步，但自己心里还有些顾虑，所以没有答应去。这次错过了，下次不知还会有机会吗？

在九月20号，有和alan 出去喝茶。因为他给的时间有些晚（下午3.30），想想中午就去唐人节走一下，之后一路走到clarke quay . 本来一向很多人的旅游区，现在都显得冷冷清清，大部分的店也没有开。一路只看到几位洋人（大概是住在本地的员工吧 ）。不论如何，能走一走新加坡的景点也是一件好事。之后也在mc 和alan见面，他工作还是不稳定，替他担心一下。他也给了自己一个小的生日礼物，真的要谢谢他。

新加坡的疫情和上半年比起来，有明显的好转。工地客工的病例都已经稳定下降了，每天的新病例都在双位数。虽然这几天还有几宗社区感染，但因为大家出门都有带口罩的缘故，至今也没有大规模的传染的迹象，这也是好事。希望不久的将来新加坡能进入第三阶段，下个月开始就可以考虑买车的事情。

我的生日又要到了，能不能约到朋友吃饭呢？或许这两天应该在whatsapp 问一下。和自己说，如果朋友没有回应，也不好太失望。最少有母亲陪自己吃饭，已经是间好事了。不论发生什么事都要乐观一些。或许我下个星期六可以去garden by the bay 走一下。当作国内半日游吧。什么都好，学会一句话，永言配命，自求多福。

写到这里，和自己说，不会谈恋爱的，一个人也可以很开心。

God Bless all the time 慧台

八月的感想

Since 4apr till today , it has been 4 months since I had work from home. The coronavirus has strengthen over the months with more than 21 million people infected and 750K of people dead. Although several countries has come out with vaccine to cure the virus, but the 3tier trials that’s will take months to be completed, it would probably be at least jan next year before any effective vaccine to be used in the world. For the next few months , the virus don’t seem to be going away any time soon, and probably I might need to work for home for the next coming dozens of weeks in not months .

During these months at home , work load have been relatively inconsistent . there are times where workload are high , that I need to work till midnight ( without any overtime). During other times , there are simply nothing to do. I would strive to find things to do , probably watching youtube or do some Japanese studies

This is the forth month I started jogging. initially , I was only able to cover 2.1 km in 17 minutes. After some effort , I was able to complete 5.6km in some 32 minutes . Although I got a little slimmer in the process ( that’s what my friend told me ) , as long as I can be a little healthier , I think that’s is a good thing

As for my fathers assets , my sister in law managed to set up a combined account, and I have transferred 145K to the account. Other than the money issues , my sister in law would not respond to any other things including coming over to my house . Looking forward in the future , the relationship may just fade away . I might visit my sister once a while ( after phase 3 kicks in )

Looking forward, I just hope that the virus could end sooner, so that I can go back office . although working in office means time spent on travelling everyday, but I get to see and chat some of my colleagues and work don’t get to be so boring. If anytime overseas travel is permitted, I would hope to go to Malacca to visit my Grandpa. My birthday is coming soon next month , I do hope to meet up with a few of my friends soon

GOD bless all the time 慧台

2020 ( 下半年)

2020年可说是多灾多难的一年。从年头开始，冠状病毒的肆虐，影响到全世界。七个月后的今天，病情依然没有消退的迹象。有些国家如美国，巴西和印度，每日新确诊例子都创新高。至今，全球的病例已经过 1700万，超过60万人已经死去。很多国家纷纷锁国，结果很多服务和旅游等的生意都一落千丈。很多公司都面临倒闭的厄运，很多人也面临失业的窘境，没有工作，就没有钱买吃的，面临饿死的命运。一些国家一开放，病例不知从哪里来，就不停的涨。这可真是进退两难。经济开放不可以，不开放也很多问题。是病死好呢？还是饿死比较好呢？对我来说，都是“死”，没有什么差别。这股病毒接下来也没有消退的迹象，除非奇迹出现，病毒突然自动不见，不然也只能等到明年头，疫苗的面市。出国的机会是没有了。

再来说说今年的水灾，今年从六月份开始，就进入了雨季。新加坡本来比较干旱的六月，就不断的挂起东风和东南风 （090-130），而连续下了好几天的强降雨。有些地方还淹起水来。亚洲各国非常严重，如日本南部，中国和印度都有很严重的水灾。

特别是中国来说，真是多灾多难的一年。中国中部37省发生80年来的最大水灾，而南部广州就来了几十年一遇的旱灾。从六月开始，再长江上游（成都，重庆）连下了40多天的暴雨，以致上游多处淹水，在三峡水坝中承受倍多压力。为了避免三峡水坝决堤，在七月二号开始泄洪，以致中游的湖南省和湖北省和下游的安徽省和江西省都变成了水乡泽国。安徽省在这一次的水灾最为严重，受着长江和淮河的影响，同时相应政府的弃小我保大我（就是弃乡村保城市）有90巴仙的地被泡在水里一个多月，农作物全部毁坏了，真是损失惨重啊。听说“五朵”的家乡河南漯河市也淹水了，只希望不要太严重。接下来几天，希望雨势会减缓一些，万一三峡水坝决堤的话，下游的六亿人民的性命就危险了。

同样的中美关系也非常紧张，美国先关闭中国在休士顿的领事馆。之后，中国关闭了美国在成都的领事馆，以示报复。这一来一往，会不会演变成世界大战呢。真让人担心！

讲回来新加坡，大选之后，也过了2个礼拜了。还好没有出现大规模的社区感染，工地客工的病例还是每天几百起，这样的情况还要到八月中吧。在老爸家住的马来西亚同事，还是没有办法回到马国。他们已经住了4个多月了，看样子，最少还会住到十月后，新马的管卡才可能开放让他们每天来回吧

很快的，七月又要结束了，来临的八月，就有新加坡的国庆节。因为疫情的缘故，没有大型的表演，大部分的人，也只能在家看国庆日。政府给了每户人一个国庆礼包，也是好事。 写到这里，一个人也要很开心

GOD bless all the time 慧台

GE2020 (4) – Polling day and results

9 days of campaign passed in a whiz. During the campaign period, there were a lot of instance of crowd more than 5 or even more than 20 people, but fortunately, the COVID-19 cases didn’t jump up too much. On my GRC wise, I did went out a few times around my neighborhood, I didn’t managed to meet up with any of the PAP candidates from Jurong JRC. Presumably they might be so confident in winning the GRC that walking around might not be necessary. After all, the danger of losing comes from the nearby west coast GRC, they might be just going there to help canvass for votes. On the TV, I do see Mr. Tharman going to Bukit batok to help Mr. Muralli.

On the other hand, I managed to meet The RDU candidates at Jurong west. They have been very hardworking these few days going around neighborhood, from Bukit batok, jurong west, Taman jurong and to clemeti. Compared to the previous opponent that comes before, 2015 (SingFirst) and 2011 (NSP), they are indeed more credible and sincere. But then, the team is simply too new to give any threat to Mr Tharman and his team. at the end of the nine day campaign, none of the candidates came to knock on my door. there's only once that family members of Mr tharman came instead, but we didn;t say anything.

On the day of polling, In order to reduce crowding on the polling station, everyone have been given different specific timing to go for voting. My mother considered as the elderly, got the morning slot, between 10am-12pm. I make a glimpse on the voting ground around 0930, and the place is already crowded with people queuing it. There were news (or rumors) that the pen chop given on the voting ground wasn’t functioning well, I decide to bring my pen along. When I reached the usual voting place (below HDB) where I have voted for the past 2 elections, there were dozens of people queueing up for voting. Due to the safe distancing, the queue were pretty long (around 200M) I think. I waited for 15 minutes before entering the place to vote. I was also given a compulsory one time gloves (which is a waste) to use. Finally, I marked on the party I wanted, drop the vote into the ballet box and left.

After dinner, I just stayed at home to watch the results of GE2020. Due to large numbers of people queueing in some polling stations, the ELD surprisingly extend the voting time to 10pm.According to the media, safe distancing and wearing of gloves are few of the main reasons for these mess-up. In some stations, compulsory use of gloves were removed to speed up the voting process

And finally, the sampling results were out around 12 midnight. In most of the seats, PAP has seen its votes shares dipped significantly. It’s very disappointing that the Opposition could not win the prized east Coast and West coast GRC, neither could Dr Chee and Dr Tambyah succeed in Bukit batok and Bukit panjang. However, there are still good news for the workers party. Besides holding on the aljunied and hougang, they managed to win the 4 seats Seng kang GRC, upsetting 3 ministers in the process. With this, they managed to win 10 seats (historical since independence of Singapore). 2 NCMP seats went to PSP too.

Going down the road, with PAP holding on the super majority in parliament, I don’t see any major changes in government policies. Mr. Heng should be in line to succeed the prime minister post in these one or two years, although I believe he would still have a tougher battle to fight at east coast next coming election. Just hope that the government could do more to reduce the living cost in Singapore, do another downward review on the minister’s salaries, and be more prudent in expensive government projects, so that Singapore can still be liveable for years to come

Election aside, time for us to move again as Singaporeans. Since today, COVID 19 cases around the world had exceeded 14Million and death toll coming to 600K. The future would have to be tougher before it gets better. Everyone need to stand behind the government effort to fight the virus, practice safe distancing and keep safe. Beside these efforts, I do wish more people taking up vegetarian and eat less meat, it would definitely be beneficial to the world.

写到这里，一个人也要很开心

GOD bless every time 慧台

GE2020 (3) – Days leading to Polling days

The 9 days election of election campaign were pretty smooth. Since there weren’t any physical campaigning, most activities were have to be online. Although Candidates are allowed to do house visits, the number of Candidates plus volunteers cannot exceed 5 people for each group, and different groups are not allowed to mix together, so as to reduce the chances of cross infection. Although the idea is good, it is simply not practical. Candidates going around the neighborhood indeed attract many attentions, either the public supporters of the media. At any people, it seems that they are more than 10s of people mingling together, and even at times (at yishun), there were both supporters (PAP and PSP) shouting slogans. Are they not worried anyone might get covid 19?? It’s really the worst of the time to have elections.

As usual, the slogan used by the ruling party centered about COVID-19, jobs and jobs. Most opposition slogan centered on accountability, diverse voice in parliament and preventing a 2/3 majority by PAP. Unfortunately due to COVID 19, the mistake of PAP (or lack of 20/20 foresight of the ruling party was seldom addressed in most of time). Example of the PMDs, shared bicycle scheme was not even mentioned by any candidates, presume most Singaporeans might have overlook on the matter.

One of the main issue in debate by the SDP and PAP center around the future projection of 10M population. The 10M figure was initially bought up the ex-planner Mr. Liu on 2014 on the population coming 2100. This figure was repeated by Mr. Heng on 2019 on a University forum and he “endorsed “on the figures (or not??). SDP relied on the reports on straits times (which many believe 10M figure would come earlier than latter) to come out with the 4Y1N policy campaign. Finally, the government rejected the 10M saying that Singapore would never had 6.9M, not to mentioned 10M. When I review the forum on YouTube, I realized that Mr. Heng didn’t exactly say yes, neither has he say no. these are exactly the reasons why the general public or even the national papers got misleaded. Looking ahead, as Dr Chee says “ Trust is not what you say, is what you do”. While PAP strongly denies the 6.9M population, its action seems otherwise. Looking around Singapore, there are so many lands being cleared, forest disappeared to give way for thousands of flats to be built. MRT tracks and station will be increased tremendously by 2030. We are worried that PAP might do a policy U-turn (or policy shift) in the days ahead, saying Singapore need more than 7M?

On the prevention of COVID 19 early Feb, When one of the first cases appears in Singapore and particularly in one of the dormitories. This was the time, when the virus had spread throughout china and many lives lost. Experts had mentioned the importance of mask, but in Singapore, our government taking the WHO recommendation rejected the advice on compulsory use of the mask when going out. All the ministers acting like medical experts telling people NOT to wear mask unless sick. The MOM even to the extent threaten employers to prevent them in sending their workers to hospital for COVID test. All this mistakes (or lack of 20/20 foresight ) leads to a massive jump in COVID figures by early Apr. Partly due to these mistakes , Singapore have to implement a 2 months lockdown (circuit Breaker) and resulted in economy is Singapore stalled , many companies risking folding up and workers losing their jobs. In the end, government had to spend near to 100Billion (mostly from the reserves) in helping Singaporeans tide over the situation. Looking backwards, if the government had done a good job recommending mask instead, will we have saved all this 100B worth of nation monies? Even when today, the cases of COVID 19 hits 45K (almost 5 times compared to Malaysia) our government leaders still refused to admit to their mistakes, and presumably that they done a good job

Talking about the NCMP scheme, which allows up to 12 best losers from the opposition in case PAP gets a clean sweep of parliament seats in the house. Obviously this is a tactic used by the PAP to discourage people from voting the opposition. From my point of view, NCMP is not necessary as they are not elected by the residents.

In regards to my friends on the election fever, I couldn’t meet up with any of them for any election discussion. From WhatsApp, many of my friends were rather political neutral and not willing to discuss on their political stance, presumably that election had nothing to with their lives. They seems to indicate on voting for status quo (voting PAP as the government has given lots of money since 2020. Instead of quarrelling with them, I choose to keep quiet for a while. After all, everyone has only 1 vote. That’s very little thing I can do if the majority loves PAP (Pay and Pay), and all the increment in cost from 2016-2018.

写到这里，一个人也要很开心

GOD bless every time 慧台

GE2020 (2) – Nomination day

Seven days has passed on since the dissolution of the parliament on 23rd Jun. Many parties are working hard on preparing for the elections. My mother didn’t seem very interested in the coming election, saying that whether who wins the elections, we still has to work to earn a living. Although this is true at a certain extent, but bad policy from a poor government could spell disaster for our future lives.

There are 12 opposition parties in Singapore, including the newest red dot United (RDU) contesting for 93 seats. Days leading up to nomination days has shown some dramatic events. One day after the dissolution of the house, news of LKY’s son, Lee Hsian Yang joining the opposition party (PSP) shook the world. Workers party took a surprising conservative tactic, contesting only 21 seats. PSP also contested only in 24 seats. Looking at these, a change of government in this election is almost impossible.

The previous party (singfirst) that had come to jurong on the 2015 election has surprisingly self-disbanded few days before the nomination day. PSP didn’t want to contest in jurong and SDP is not coming either, probably because there was a powerful mr Tharman here, and there are no chance of winning , but fortunately , the new RDU party has decided to come to jurong to challenge Tharman and give jurong residents a chance to vote. I never believe RDU would ever win, but I hope they could get some pretty good results (30 percent)

In regards to the famous Ivan Lim saga, PAP has introduced Ivan as a potential new PAP candidate for the election, posing to be fielded in my GRC (Jurong). Within hours of the introduction, many negative comment appear on the Facebook from either his school mates, army mates or work colleagues and most comments rallied about his elitist and non-compassionate behavior. In spite of all the denial and reasons he give, the negative comments only serve to grow more. At the end of the day, he has to withdraw his candidacy. What lesson can we learn from such a saga? Although all the allegations cannot be independently verified for now, it tell us a valuable attitude a good candidate should possess and that’s is being humble. As for my personal opinion, Ivan should have eaten the humble pie and apologies for all the allegations. Since all the allegations come from his ex-classmates or friends, he could have just called them to patch up, and things won’t get to be so bad. After all, if he stands in Jurong, 99.99 % chances he will be MP, and if he isn’t humble enough, many jurong residents might have to repent for the next 5 years

On the nomination day, all the process were very smooth. All the constituency were being contested, no walkovers. The opposition surprising kept 3 corners to the minimum ( only 1 GRC and 1 SMC has 3 corner fights ), that’s a good thing , I think. On the sad part, LHY didn’t participate in the election as I hope. His participation would have increased the chances of winning at tanjong pagar and denying CCS his parliament seat. On the surprising part, Mr. Heng turn up to contest in the WP strong ward of East Coast GRC. This is definitely a gamble for Mr. Heng as the future PM in waiting and it might be good for him if he is able to win the toughest battle. But if he loses in east coast (and I hope he lose), PAP will have to source for a new PM. This will be the most hotly contested seats in the GE2020

Looking forward, since there were no physical rally this time round, I should spent most of the night watch e-rally at home. Results wise, I hope the opposition could pull a good results in all of the WP contested wards (21 seats), west coast and tanjong pagar (10 seats), 2 seats from SDP (bukit batok and Bukit panjang) and one from potong pasir.

写到这里，一个人也要很开心

GOD bless every time

慧台

GE 2020 (election coming)

It has been 5 days since phase 2 of the pandemic recovery kick started. Most of the shops have reopened their shops, and we are allowed to eat in food courts and coffee shops. Since the pandemic is still on-going and there are still cases of community spread (single digit), there are still precautionary works to be done, and the government limit all outdoor activities to a maximum of 5 people. This include going to food courts and visiting friends and relatives. My mum started work, but I still work from home (until my manager informs me to go back to office).

Swimming pools was opened for public too, but the restriction make us very difficult to go swimming, the only allocated time (1830 – 2130) for the general public was very late (and little), and furthermore, we can only swim for an hour. My mother and I decided to postpone any visit to the pool until the rules was relaxed further.

At this crucial time, the government called for an election to be held on the 10th of July. Since the dissolution of the cabinet on the 23rd Jun, there are only 7 days to nomination day at 30th Jun and 9 days of campaigning to the polling days (the minimum days required)

I cannot understand why government choose to have election during this period when there is still high risk of the pandemic worsening in the coming weeks? Wouldn’t it be better if we focus on the pandemic and have the election during the phase 3 (or later) of the recovery period, so that everyone would feel safer going out to participate in any small size physical rallies?

The reason I guess, can only mean to ensure opposition has minimum time and opportunity to reach out to the public. There will be no physical election rally this time due to covid -19. Although there are e-rallies on the internet, it remain to be seen if it do have the similar effect compared to the physical rallies. There were also TV board cast allocated to different parties based on number of candidates, but The PAP will surely have a large chunk of time covered with all 93 candidates. To make things more skewed, the ruling party had started all kind of TV programs related to COVID -19 featuring many ministers and their “Good “job done.

Looking forward, the road to success look tougher for the opposition. As for my area (Jurong), I have yet to hear any opposition coming to my area. I just hope that all the opposition, whether WP or SDP or PSP could have a good performance, win enough seats to deny the PAP the 2/3 majority. If not, the life in Singapore could be tougher ahead.

I should stop for now , hope for the best in the days ahead, BE POSITIVE is important 写到这里，一个人也要很开心

GOD bless everytime 慧台

新加坡封城 （3）解封三个阶段

新加坡在6月二号结束了阻断措施，开始了解封三个阶段。第一个阶段从六月三号开始，预计会维持4到六个礼拜。一部分的生意和店面回复了营业，但感觉还是很少的。家人的探访可以恢复，但只限最多两个人探访父母和祖父母 （会不会太少了呢？）反正姐夫大概也不会来找我们的，对我来说，影响不大吧。只不过，朋友也不能见面 ，这些都要等到第二阶段之后了。买车的计划看来要等到八月以后的事了。一些社交活动，以政府而言，要到第三阶段才会恢复。换句话来说，佛堂的节目可能要等到十月后吧，出国更不用说了。虽然这么说，但乐观积极还是需要的。有时间就看看日本旅游的东西，如果明年一月还是出不了国的话，大概就要等到明年11月了。到时希望可以去名古屋走走吧

在家做工的日子不知不觉到了71天了。公司方面，从八号开始，有很少的同事能回到公司，但都是有需要才能回。回去也不是一整天的。把东西做好，就要离开了。Vincent 没有跟我讲到东西，在第一阶段，还是在家作工吧。在者非常时候，即见不到朋友，也看不到同事的日子里，难免会有些寂寞。所谓路不转人转，总要找些事情来消磨时间，才不会胡思乱想，生活也会比较开心吧

家里的电箱不知何故，一条比较大条的电线 （听朋友说是 neutral cable）被烧掉了，以致家里都没有电源。我也从来没有遇过这样的问题 , 一时也措手不及，但隔壁的邻居有过来看一下。我打电话给市政会请人来看，他们来了之后，说家里的电箱，他们不能修理，只有打给私人公司了。私人公司的员工要一个多小时才会来，隔壁邻居好心拉extention cable , 让我们家暂时有一些电源，我母亲才可以休息。这一次，共花了600元吧。乐观来说，家里没有着火，就是不幸中之大幸了

从五月开始，几乎每一天，都有到裕廊湖公园去跑步。开始的时候，也只能跑两公里而已，但经过了20多次的努力之下，也奇迹的跑到6.2公里。脚上的印吧，在每天早上拿温水来浸泡，也显得比较好了。日语方面，在不断的努力之下，也有一点进步吧。日本語を勉強するばかりでなく運動が必要です

写到这里 ， 对自己说，努力是必要的,不会谈恋爱的，一个人也要很开心

GOD bless all the time , 慧台