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@littlenewthings in February 2022

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Finally have time to do some editing and uploads! Happy Lunar New Year to all who are celebrating ! I got this fascinating glowing "prosperity" tree right before #cny and just glad that it looks so beautiful replacing the Christmas tree. The living room glows beautifully at night and my parents have no problem finding the toilet with the laminated areas too. How was your Lunar New Year decoration if you are celebrating?

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Finally got the time to retrieve the loot chest. It isn't the best but it is not the worse so far. Good thing is that I got a rare card and there are more and more archer cards that can be at the front line. However I think the Gargoya Devil can only be strong for front line if it is upgraded to high levels

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I have to get a new car... my poor little pegasus is dying Yeah.... when things keep happening and burning my wallet, it doesn't stop; and this time it is hitting my 15 year old car. Recently I was thinking that my carburetor is not working properly, and I was hoping to save up to change it; however, due to the fact that my car is already 15 years old, it does take time to search for an old model carburetor that isn't from a super famous model. However, just yesterday when I…

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My little "Pegasus" is really dying now... after 15 years of service it is now giving more and more signs that its "heart" (engine) is clogged and I can't even drive more than 40km without it taking a short break under the hot sun. Time to have to look for a new car to replace it.... but it is such a headache with the market going sideways at the moment. Which car will I be planning ahead to get?…

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Stop playing candy crush when you can earn satoshi especially when #BTC is down. However there are some things you need to take notice while playing this game from Bling: 1. You need coinbase as starters. It only sends to coinbase. 2. Beware of scam games on the ads. The more they "guarantee" you to earn big, the bigger the scam is. 3. Every finish of a game you will need to let an ad run (that's where your revenue comes) , so you might waste a lot of data if you are 100%…

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Planning Ahead. Things You Need to Be Ready Before Buying a Car 3 years ago, I was working very hard towards getting my first house, thank goodness the painstaking process is finally over; so as it is like a taking care of a kid for a house, so it is the same for a car; another baby to take care. A lot of people mentioned, "ah, get a new car, and just pay the hire-purchase so that you don't have to worry about the car for the next 5 years" But these very same people do not…

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Getting a car is not easy. After calculating all the fixed expenses I realised I am almost $30 USD short a month just to own a proper (not too tiny) car that can ferry my parents to the hospitals when needed. It is really a crucial process to realise what we can afford before we over leverage ourselves ended up unable to sustain the current lifestyle expenses. Especially additional monthly hidden charges for the long run! Want to know more? It is all in my read.cash log…

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On the eve of #CNY in order to celebrate my brother's "covid jail free day" my sister in law's relative blessed us with this seafood layered pot. I think this is an inspired version of the "盘菜" (layered dish pot) where it is usually layered with meat, vege, lots of mushrooms and perhaps some seafood too. These days, they have the frozen commercial version. Do you have similar version of such a dish in your country outside the Chinese community? I think there is a similar…

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If Solana wasn't having this hacking issue (as I have roughly heard), this would be a perfect gateway to move funds around from one chain to another. Like it or not, a centralised service is still one of the "safer" route for "bridging" so that there isn't any stealing hack happening during the bridging process, especially for wETH (as I have roughly heard last night). Good thing is that Solana team managed to catch the address that hacked the smart contract; but will they…

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Finally able to get an almost 300km away "staycation" to the older side of the town, away from highrise urban jungle, and enjoy the distanced mountain range and silence on the rare Friday where most families have left to the capital to resume work. Probably tomorrow will be a very busy Saturday, but today is just a relaxing day for me and my family who needed it.

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Making a trip back to hometown after unable to get back for almost 2 years; but because the old house have been vacant for so long it is full of dust, decided to rent a triple room for $120 USD in the heart of Ipoh. Interestingly it was once a really run down hotel, and with a new owner, the whole place have been through a face-lift with such comfortable theme making us feel at home. Painful at the pocket 💸 but parents' comfort is most important. 🗺 V-plus Hotel, Ipoh, Perak

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Wanted to rent the car back to my hometown to test drive how the feel is; but ended up getting an upgraded sedan model #bezza to drive in the city. Always preferred a hatch back over a sedan, but at least I can have a better decision after comparing different models while still scraping for a down-payment. So far not really liking 100% of auto because the gears are reversed 😅 and there is no gear paddle , but having a powered steering is definitely a plus. This new model is…

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After left unattended for almost 2 years , my ancestors' house has turned into a jungle, to the point my neighbour aunt had to use meds to kill the weeds. And this is what I need to work on after breakfast this morning. Took me 4 hours to have a decent (not totally done) clean up. I used to be able to clean this up in 2 hours when I was younger. Now my bones are cracking 😅

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Keys returned and my rental is completed. Taking a train (MRT) back to my own residence the second time in my life after this line was built. All in all the car rental experience was good enough for me to understand how an auto gear car works these days after decades just driving a manual. Not too bad, but I am now still scrapping more cash for down-payment. Gotta need to be more active and write more often again. 🤣

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My Test Driving Experience - Perodua Bezza The search and decision making continues! Oddly how God sometimes plan things so differently than what I have planned earlier. For those who have read my previous 2 posts before would have realised that I have unfortunately experienced my most faithful 15 year old car (that also protected me from getting really hurt a quite horrible accident) has been showing signs that it is ready "to retire" and move to its "possibly heavenly junk…

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Decided to open one Chaos pack and am delighted to see an epic card in it! Hopefully I will have a chance to use that card.

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Mental note: Target ideal $100 USD a month... min $50 USD a month.... min $50 USD a month.... min $50 USD a month.... min $50 USD a month....

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The countdown has started. Now I have 3 months to gather $2,500 USD for the down payment. My brother said that he would help 50%, now I am hoping my little Pegasus will still fetch a good trade in price, and that it can still retire well with an owner who will care for it. Some people said that getting a new car would he exciting, but this time for me it isn't because if my car would have still carry on like the rest of the old cars , then I would have kept it. But the parts…

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90 days, $1033 USD; Possible?? It is done, the ball has started rolling. In another 18 hours I might know whether I will need to gather around $1033 USD within 90 days for the new car. Wait... didn't you mention about $2,500 earlier at noise.cash post ? So why the sudden reduced amount? https://noise.cash/post/1xg0x357 That is because something miraculous happened today. Besides my brother mentioned that he is wishing to help 50% of the $2.5K, a good friend and a fellow…

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After calculating what I have and what I might have incoming, I still have $1033 USD balance to scrap around in the next 90 days provided my car loan is approved. Will I be able to achieve this via crypto? I still have some tricks in my sleeves and this is where it is time to let diversify finance shine. More details are in my read.cash https://read.cash/@littlenewthings/90-days-1033-usd-possible-4fa76cda

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Thank you so much for the surprised sponsorship @francis105d1 ! I am truly grateful of your support for me to achieve my every cent counts goal!

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I briefly remembered that there's a Pinoy family who are staying in Abu Dhabi. She plays Splinterlands and her hubby is here too; and occasionally she will post about the desserts she makes for her kids. But recently I have not seen their posts on my feed and I just saw the latest news alert about bombings in Abu Dhabi, now targeting high rise and residential area. I hope they are all right. #RandomThoughts #WorldNews #TerroristAttacks

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After my brother's covid encounter of omicron, sad today there are extra few new #covid cases happened at my residential area, they all who had omicron symptoms, were tested negative with saliva but positive via nasal tests. Maybe it is high time to learn how to do nasal swab test that is more accurate, especially detecting omicron. Good thing is right now these kits only cost around 1€ , a little over a dollar us. That serves affordability as basic RTK Nasal test. It's…

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Such a nostalgic feeling having this with my parents. The last time I had this with my parents were when I was a kid, and at the time, Ipoh had a hotcake branch where you got to queue for that special rootbeer with the Coney dogs and waffles. Dad used to be the paymaster; decades later, I am the one paying for the food and my parents get to enjoy it. These are rare privileges that not every grown up child could do for their parents enjoying food that brings memories when…

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Risky Business... Will I be able to pull this off? ***Warning! This is*** *****not***** ***a financial advice; and this is sort of a*** *****risky***** ***gamble.*** I have been looking at all possibilities via active blogging to come up with my remaining $1K USD worth of down-payment, and with whatever I have right now and the market is going into such a rocky place, I can't rely on their value with minimal compounding interests to fulfill my ultimate down-payment by crypto…

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I actually didn't realise that Sun Bears existed in Malaysia, particularly Sabah. I actually thought that Sun bears mostly exist at the West Asia (India , Bangladesh) area, but to know that there is a conservative sanctuary for Sun Bears is special. I only know that Orang Utan, the Malayan Tiger and the Leather back (long-ish shell) turtles were Malaysian conservative animals. Never too old to learn something new.

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As #cny is about to end , house visitation (with proper pre-visit swab test) is highly important . The old fashion gift packs from family to family used to be ground nuts, biscuits, Mandarin oranges and sometimes even meat jerkies, usually for kids to enjoy. Since #covid19 happened , the idea steering towards health emphasis to the seniors becomes a trend instead. And every Chinese speaking custom practicing family always have a give pack for visitors too. In Cantonese…

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Took some day off today to have a #movie marathon; and one of them is The Tomorrow War. Storyline could be slightly predictable, a bit of a "Terminator" parent child relationship; but I must say the action packed CG were very impressive. It's like "Aliens" in daylight, but a more positive vibe kind of Sci-Fi movie. There is a tiny bit of a background moral story here: Family is important, and there should be 2nd chances for sincere people. (Image was taken from Koimoi.com) I…

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One thing bad about bank loans compared to we borrow from centralised / decentralised crypto loans is that the banks make decisions how much you can borrow. So instead of around 2.5K USD down-payment, I now need to come up an extra $100 USD for the down-payment and I have 70 days (instead of 90 days) to get ready as it takes time to process. Crypto Loans no doubt need some collateral, but it is definitely immediate #FiatVsCrypto The only up side is that I do not need so much…

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This is fefinitely good news for me as I have weekly dividend in USDC. I do not need to change to USDT, incurring more conversion losses, to withdraw anymore. (Just bridging cost) Kudos to Remitano! My long term P2P tool changing my crypto to fiat. Reminato's country coverage is getting bigger. Unfortunately you will require KYC if you want to link your fiat to the P2P trade. https://remitano.today/renec/my/join/2332093

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Interesting how the brain reacts. #RandomThoughts Choosing to comment like an idiot / robot for the sake of people tipping you ... Worse still, copy and paste almost the same comments to people posts, including using Google images with a short sentence spamming all the way in the platform then saying "I have done nothing wrong " clearly is too lazy / not bothered to learn how the platform works; thinking it is "easy money tree" I wonder who's still advertising about Noise to…

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This is why having crypto as your "Real Life Layer 2 Solution" portfolio away from all KYC is very important. Canadian truck (trailer / lorry) drivers who are not vaccinated / refused to be vaccinated, not only cannot do their work delivering goods cross the borders between US and Canada, they have all their banking assets frozen as well. Don't spend all your crypto you earned here. Make sure you find a way to make those crypto work for you: on centralised / decentralised…

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My Train experience in the Deserted City during Chinese New Year This has been a delayed post as I had a bit of a writer's block after overly exhausted from the recent trip back to my hometown with my parents + tons of work + much paperwork for the car loan. Now that I am more or less settled, time to share a surprising unusual "haunted" train ride when I decided to take a train back after returning the rented car to the rental company. One of the busiest train station in…

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How to invest in Sandbox Metaverse with Minimal Income Metaverse, NFT, Gamings... Whenever you hear about them and tries to look at how they fair in investments and owning some NFT in the game, you will soon realise that all these are for investors with **deep pockets** and had the privilege to be first in the game. Even Hustle from Crypto Banter speaking so easily about earning $75 a week passive incomes, never really reveal how much he has invested into it because these…

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Often times when I heard about Sandbox, the next biggest Metaverse after Decentraland, I often thought that I have already missed the boat (again!) But apparently, Sandbox has create a new way to not only have metaverse, but with defi capabilities as well! Needless to say, the moment I hear it, I jumped in to see how good it is and will an average joe like you and me can invest as little as $13 USD? To know how my process went, it is all in my read.cash…

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Oh! I opened another chaos legion pack and I got a summoner this time! So next time if anything happens I will not be afraid that I will lose that whole deck. However I am now wondering: how much does this summoner cost to level up to level 2??

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Apparently.... the 40K - 42K BTC narrative could be coming true!

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This looks like a massive liquidation / someone is determine to kill crypto by severing the head of it all (BTC)?

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A fascinating break of dawn that looks a lot like sunset view today. Heading to the hospital for mom's dye CT Scan today and we're welcomed by this beautiful morning. Pray all will be smooth sailing. Already a lot of people before us waiting for their turn. #Malaysia

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Good morning noise-rs! Happy and blessed Saturday! I hope this is a day where you can either rest or slow down a little apart from the super busy weekdays. Thanks so much to @dbfoodbank for blessing my family some frozen bread that was donated by a notable bread maker factory, where I get to just use 3 eggs and a cup of almond milk (or any milk of a kind) half teaspoon of sugar (or 1 teaspoon of honey), and voila! A nice french toast for the morning. I even had enough to…

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Happy Sunday noise-rs! How's your Sunday so far? I hope those who needed time to renew their strength will have a slow and steady day. Mine however started busy as my mom hasn't fully recovered from the Contrast CT Scan side effect, so at the moment I am in charge all the meals. So I have decided to make the "good old fashion Kopitiam style" soft boil eggs, and though I was slightly 30 seconds off, they were not entirely overcooked; still perfect to dip with kaya butter…

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My Carburetor Died before My Car Retires Yes, the time is up for this part of my current 15 year old car.... While waiting patiently for the queue of a new car (yes it is queued due to lack of assembly parts, back log orders, and slow labour due to covid restrictions), my trusty Pegasus "had a heart attack" yesterday while its engine gagged for air. Turns out after servicing the carburetor on Saturday its condition became worse, and yesterday was the last day of the old…

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Sometimes I feel so old that I forgot how teenagers behave anymore. The hormones that courses through their blood veins could explode so easily into their expressions on their faces and on writing. haha. At least rants should clear those toxic out of their systems, like sweat. #randomthoughts

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#Polygon feels really crazy today. Took me 1 hour just to unstake my LP and unpair it.

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Hm... will the next #btc 34.37 K support break? Looks like massive sell and massive buy at 34.8 just now A little over an hour ago Putin said "NATO crossed the red line". He's pissed that he's being poked and his generals are now called to the "Bunker (war room)". The one who is suffering is #Ukraine . Keeping everyone there in prayers.

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First time #pancakeswap dropped dramatically since its inception. This is the first time I am at a loss when I was just about to cash out some to pay my overdue bills.

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My car is finally out of ICU; but I need to pay an extra $50 USD on top of the current carburetor's price, because China goods is faulty, have to use Taiwan parts. 🙈🥲 Sigh. Hope it is all OK now. 🙏🏼 No more breakdowns #RandomThoughts

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Praying for #Ukraine . Apparently there are a lot of panic and hyped news to FUD the market. But in the mean time. Any Ukrainians here? How is the situation there? Some mentioned they can hear blasts from afar; but there were verified news that certain parts of Ukraine the ATMs are no longer working. That's why, as long as there is internet and there is no EMP strike, "layer 2 emergency" from good quality crypto projects are very important in times like these.

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One last look at the original carburetor from the car model that has served faithfully for almost 16 years. If it survived pass April, it would have been full 16 year old. Thank you for serving faithfully to keep my car going from point A to point B every day, especially extra work the last 3 years more than ever before from hospitals to hospitals, East coast to West coast and back. R.I.P

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Woes of learning web2..... took me one whole day to find out certain javascript do not work because of the new browser features of "security" (https) and non secured (http) sites! 😵 I am not sure if I can pass my javascript tests at this turtle 🐢 rate! So annoying! haha 😂 #programming #UI #RandomThoughts

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Weirdest Named DEX and Super HIGH RISK Farm for Fantom? Yes.... it is ridiculously named hahaha... A token that actually has nothing to do with the brain that first read its abbreviation of the pair... 😅😂 Not only that, it is in EXTREMELY INSANE YIELD! A invalidated union? 😂 If it is this high yield, yeah, probably you must know you are **doing it at your own risk** consenting such "pairing" But did I fall into the lure? 🙈 Unfortunately.... it was too good to be true... I…