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Starhub Checked My Connection

Last week I upgraded from 100Mbps to 300Mbps, after that I didn't see any difference in the speed so I logged a case with Starhub, today they sent their helpful staff to help me check, the staff said it's my cable problem, he suspected that my cable is low quality even though it is CAT5e, he did some speed tests with his own cable and he said he managed to get 300Mbps both wired and wireless. So I brought my laptop home, plugged in directly to the ONT using the CAT5e cable from Starhub, the one that came together as a package when I first signed up at my current address, wow, I got 303Mbps, then I switched back to that "low quality" cable, drop down to 93Mbps, really my cable problem lol. The "low quality" CAT5e cable running into my room is not what it seems, stupid unbranded cable that I bought at Sim Lim Square, I think it's a CAT5 labelled as CAT5e, really chee birds dishonest business people, no wonder the store keeper who sold me the cable had
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Blogger Spam Filter

Just recently when I checked my comments section, I noticed that some legit comments got picked out by the spam filter, so if you noticed that your comment disappeared, it's not my doing, I don't delete legit comments, only comments from spammers. Anyway I have restored all the legit comments, thanks for visiting!
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Ice Cold A&W

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Ice cold drink on a super hot day, shiok!
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Moved My Wireless Router into Room

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Wife was complaining that surfing speed on her iPad is slow sometimes, actually I also noticed that sometimes my iPhone don't get full bars, so I decided to move the router inside our room, now seems to be much faster. From my iPhone: From my desktop: By the way Starhub still haven't upgrade my speed to 300Mbps, now I think still 100Mbps. The tech support contacted me and I guess they are going to do something soon.
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Went to Jurong Bird Park

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So last week we applied for the Friends of Wildlife membership, today we decided to check out the bird park, it's a beautiful place and it was much less crowded than Singapore Zoo or Night Safari, and after walking half the park, we then know why it is less popular, the stench of bird droppings. The stench can be overpowering especially at areas where there is water, I think the ponds are full of bird droppings, wife felt like puking lol, I also cannot take it, but other than the smell, the staff were very friendly, the environment is very beautiful, actually I think bird park is more beautiful than zoo, but bird park seems to be smaller than zoo. I think maybe because it rained a few times which made the smell worse. And the bird I like most are penguins, especially those smaller ones, the way they walk is very cute, anyway I didn't take photos of them, but can see in my video. As for spending, didn't really spend much there, only bought 3 scoops of ice-cream
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$2.20 Chicken Rice from Ananas Cafe

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Cheap and taste is not bad, chilli is alright, actually this is the second time I bought from them, first time I bought $3, so today I try $2.20, actually only difference is the $3 version slightly more rice, so buy the $2.20 version still more worth it, why pay $0.80 more for a little bit more rice lol. $2.20
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Upgraded Starhub Fibre from 100Mbps to 300Mbps

I saw the 300Mbps fibre broadband promotion at $29.90 on Starhub website, just nice my contract is ending in Jun so I decided to sign up, now also paying $29.90 for my 100Mbps so basically I get 3x the speed at the same price for the next two years. So fast coming 2 years already, I remember signing up for the 100Mbps plan in Jun 2014 , if you read the post some things changed but I didn't update, end up I didn't transfer to my father, I keep the Starhub connection at parents house under my name, been paying for them ever since, but now switched to M1, paying $34 per month for 200Mbps speed. And also end up I paying $29.90 instead of $39.90, somehow they put me under the new price, so I saved $10 every month. Now May 2016, the next time my Starhub contract ending soon means I will have stayed in my new house for about 4 years, now is about 2 years, how time flies. I think by then can start to plan to upgrade house, now baby getting bigger, this month one year old, haha so f
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Bought a Chair Cushion at IKEA

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One of the wheels on my office chair came off so I decided to throw the chair away, also because it is squeaky and wife is always complaining lol. So I end up using my dinner chair as my work chair, but it was very uncomfortable because there was no cushion, so instead of spending more money to get a new chair I thought might as well just get a cushion. Cheap and good! Only $4.90, problem solved!
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