tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81006086243647824542024-03-14T17:43:07.696+08:00Tatoru Yuki's RantingsThis is Tatoru Yuki's Rantings.
What were you expecting, really?
Arts. Books. Coffee (or Cheese. Tough choice). Dogs. Eggs. Fries. Garlic bread. Horror. Ice-creams. Jonathan. Kittens. Love. M&Ms. Nutella. Otters. Pianos. Queen. Roses. Salmon. Turtles. Udon. Vanilla. Watermelon. xPizza. You (if you are my Jonathan). Zany. Tatoru Yukihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14561837338573017127noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100608624364782454.post-44829205715028704562023-02-13T15:02:00.002+08:002023-02-13T15:02:46.520+08:00750 Words: Let's do this again<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAgFc8-13GpkLnvblyZcYbPCXGGaT4LdQgdA_MSmjkszac0fWHwHiUxkRnMf_qBI2StIN-JnSL1vA7wZ9APVf50PSyyXniXS1jTWgCNbwMPEYmDQD75G-GTA8yREsUw3Yz89MVV5TrEgG5vXM4rfayPAUtoDw2LO9skQu1-w0PvB7LGsYaqt_bx2f-bQ/s560/Tatoru%20Yuki%20Blogspot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAgFc8-13GpkLnvblyZcYbPCXGGaT4LdQgdA_MSmjkszac0fWHwHiUxkRnMf_qBI2StIN-JnSL1vA7wZ9APVf50PSyyXniXS1jTWgCNbwMPEYmDQD75G-GTA8yREsUw3Yz89MVV5TrEgG5vXM4rfayPAUtoDw2LO9skQu1-w0PvB7LGsYaqt_bx2f-bQ/s16000/Tatoru%20Yuki%20Blogspot.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>It's 2023. <div><br /></div><div>I've almost forgotten that this blog existed. But I came back anyways, and unpublished a lot of my old posts from 2013-2017 and beyond. Let's be honest. When you look back at anything you've written 10 years ago (Holy fuck, I feel old), it's almost completely sure to be cringe material.<div><br /></div><div>I still love the effort I've put into creating a nice-looking blog here. As cringe as they may be, it's still nice to look back at my old posts and remember what I've been through that my old, forgetful brain can't.</div><div><br /></div><div>I already know that I'll be spending a lot of my time the next few days just looking back at what I've written. There's lots of memories that I've shared with the world here, and so much has happened since my last real-life update.</div></div><div><br /></div><div>But we live in an era where digital footprint matters now. </div><div><br /></div><div>I don't feel as safe sharing all that personal information for literally anyone to just stumble upon and see, even if it's just my silly day-to-day events and thoughts. There's also way too many identifying details that I think is better just kept private.</div><div><br /></div><div>I still can't part with this blog though, so maybe I'll be sharing other types of life updates, general writing and so on. We'll see :) </div><div><br /></div><div>It's just nice to be back. </div><div><br /></div><div>Kind of like a little safe haven where I talk to everyone but no one at the same time, if that makes sense.</div><div><br /></div><div>Sometimes it feels like this blog is a sounding board, just for me to pen my thoughts and process them, even if they may not amount to much.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the years I was gone, I've earned my Bachelor's degree which I ended up not utilizing, switched jobs a couple times, got married, and found a job that's very nurturing, caring, and positive. I've learnt a lot, and there's still so much more to learn!</div><div><br /></div><div>As far as life quality goes, I think I'm at a pretty good spot :) </div><div><br /></div><div>I'm content -- I'm not really looking for more, no longer wondering all those what-if's that I definitely did even 3-5 years ago, and I'm just... I just am.</div><div><br /></div><div>It doesn't mean that I'm not striving to be better or improve my life quality. It just means that I'm more capable of giving myself the love and compassion that I was not able to when I was just several years younger, back when other people's ideals of who I am mattered more than my own happiness.</div><div><br /></div><div>Not everyone gets it, but I think it's okay as long as I know what I'm doing and I'm happy. </div><div><br /></div><div>One of the biggest things I've learnt was self-love, really. </div><div><br /></div><div>I had a lot to learn in terms of regulating my own emotions, separating my emotions from someone else's actions, and toned down my anxiety by leaps and bounds. I learnt not to be upset by other people's behaviours, and generally I found comfort in solitude and silence.</div><div><br /></div><div>It IS nice to reach home and be away from big crowds, noise and all the non-stop talking. It's absolutely LOVELY to wind down and relax, even if that means just sitting on the couch in silence and reading comics while your spouse plays CS:GO. </div><div><br /></div><div>I still socialize at work, and like every introvert adopted by their extrovert mates, my boy brings me to his social gatherings, dinners and such.</div><div><br /></div><div>At this point, I definitely know more of his friends than he does mine, considering I don't really meet up with my friends or have many of them. In the rare few times when I do, he usually doesn't join as well, either because he's busy or just because he wanted to rest at home more -- which is fine.</div><div><br /></div><div>Hmm... Maybe I should host another meet-up with my friends from uni or previous workplaces or something. </div><div><br /></div><div>I do quite want to go visit the zoo and have been wanting to since the pandemic started. It's been a while. This rambling may be a good sign that it's high time I organize my own little trip to somewhere I want to go, or do something I wanted to but never really found time to.</div><div><br /></div><div>I just need to think and plan it out... when I'm done with my work tasks at hand.</div><div><br /></div><div>That's gonna take a while, eh? </div><div><br /></div><div>Well, this looks about 750+ words already, I think. If you're somehow reading this, thanks for reading my ramblings, I guess? </div><div><br /></div><div>Hopefully you'll see more rambling tomorrow, or even better, something with a little more focus than just these random talks.</div><div><br /></div><div>In the meantime, ciaos!</div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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</script></div>Tatoru Yukihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14561837338573017127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100608624364782454.post-39077356025203698922022-04-28T11:40:00.002+08:002022-04-28T11:40:09.244+08:00Like Puzzles<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m an unfinished puzzle</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-efd35290-7fff-2e1a-46a7-25cfcbf4548b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">with so many pieces. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ever-changing</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sometimes I replace a piece with another</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">It fits,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> snug,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A bright, colorful piece in between other dark, worn out pieces</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Then a wave of emotions wash over me</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m convinced putting the bright piece there just feels stupid now</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">So I tugged it out and</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 7pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">put the dark piece back</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A familiar piece</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dark and heavy</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, yet oddly comforting</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I knew it, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’ve been it,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know how it feels in me</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know I </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">should</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> want to replace these pieces with brighter colors</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The core of my puzzle pieces yearn for it</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I remember feeling the bright piece fitting in</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The calm</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The peace</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The subtle happiness passing through me</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I could do anything</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">U n s t o p p a b l e</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">But how am I to let go</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">when the dark pieces have been a part of me for so, so long?</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I know I’ll get there someday</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The pieces of my unfinished puzzle</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">will form</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">a beautiful collage</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each piece something I love</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A lesson learnt</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A new perspective gained</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A little pebble I picked up </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">– just because I liked it.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each piece would make up a part of me</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And I just need to remember</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">that the dark pieces won’t stay there forever</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ever-present, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 72pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">absorbing </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">your body, your motions</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like the flow of a river,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">flowing fast,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">pulling you along,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 36pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Impatient</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like the waves lapping at the beach,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">reaching out just to be able to touch you </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I subside, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I shy away</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">And suddenly, in a big wave, I swallow you whole</span></p><br /><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I needed you</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your whole being</span></p><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your hot crown of fervent, bright lights</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your tangled shadows creeping in your footsteps</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your strength</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your-</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I love you strongly</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Intense, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ever-needing</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Your whole being submerged in me and still, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I needed to be within you</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Like you need me</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">As much as I need you</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I contain you</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">calming your fiery blaze, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Ground you,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">You can feel my heat rise when your temper glows like a hot iron</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sway you.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 0.6em; vertical-align: super;">Float</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial; 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font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am constant</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am here</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I am present</span></p><br /><br /><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I’m like water, </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; 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I love the banner that I made on Canva with my villager line-up, and I love all the cute little beings in this game.</div>
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Aaaand I recently bought a Nintendo Switch Lite! I bought it from Impulse Gaming in Sunway area because I saw that they were having a small discount on the yellow Switch Lite model.</div>
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I was definitely interested in the Animal Crossing Switch, trust me, but it was a bit out of my budgets, and a gaming console with some skins is not exactly a priority in my finances. </div>
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So, I opted for the discounted switch lite. </div>
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I immediately went home and pre-ordered my own ACNH copy in the Nintendo eShop.<br /><div>
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I'm honestly just hella hyped about the game, to be honest.</div>
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ACNL was launched in like, what, 2012? And I only started actively playing that in the past year or so.</div>
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Nintendo slowly released the graphics, new gameplay styles (the terraforming!!!) and what we could expect, so us Animal Crossing fans are getting more and more hyped for it.</div>
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I'm stuck between not wanting to know anything about the game at all and also finding out every small detail that I can from the internet.</div>
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At time of writing, there's still another 17 days before the game will be released, and I'm honestly just looking forward to it so very much.</div>
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I can't wait, okay.</div>
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It's the first proper console I've ever had and yes it's so expensive but I know it'll be worth it because it's ACNH. </div>
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I have also been watching a lot of ACNL streams from <a href="https://www.twitch.tv/dagnel" target="_blank">Dagnel on Twitch</a> (Shoutout yooo); the ACNL fanbase there is just as hyped! We even streamed & discussed the new ACNH direct from Nintendo the other day.</div>
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All's good.</div>
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Maybe I'll figure out how to stream ACNH from my Switch Lite someday, but till then - it's pure bliss playing with some online friends.</div>
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At long last, Citra managed to run Animal Crossing: New Leaf (ACNL) smoothly on my laptop. </div>
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So of course, now I can play this game as much as I want :D </div>
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<br />It seemed like some people actually watching this game - longer gameplays, especially. This is why I installed OBS to record my gameplay.</div>
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Took a few tries to get the settings right and the resolutions clear, but I think I got it down by now and I can start uploading gameplays in 720P from today's gameplay onwards.</div>
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Here's an example of a gameplay I did over 2 days ago.</div>
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Oh right, I am actually playing the latest update for ACNL, which includes the Welcome Amiibo stuff.<br />
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I basically summoned some of the characters from The Legend of Zelda to Toodles, which is super cool, but only because they look better than some of the default characters in the Animal Crossing franchise.<br />
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In any case, if you like to listen to Animal Crossing background music or gameplay sessions while you work, here's a <a href="http://youtube.com/c/nickisim" target="_blank">shameless self-promo for my channel</a>.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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So much for just continuing this 750 words journey! The second day after I started this challenge, I had to go for a full-day training and by the time I was back, I was already exhausted.<br />
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The day after? Well, there was work to catch up on, me being tired as usual, and lots more work. Did I also mention work?<br />
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Yes. So anyhows that's how I ended up missing a few days of writing here. I really should try to write more! I did sign up for the October challenge after all.<br />
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Anyhow, I haven't been well for the past three days or so. On Saturday, I started feeling a little bloated. It was about time for my PMS symptoms to start showing, so I wasn't too concerned. It was more uncomfortable than usual, and I thought that I had air in my stomach and that was it.<br />
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But the next day the pain continued, and it was getting kind of excruciating. I even went out to get some of those medicine for getting rid of air in the stomach. That didn't work. I was very gassy, but nothing helped. Not the burps, not the hot water packets, not the many farts I let out like the beautiful lady that I am.<br />
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I went to the clinic.<br />
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The doctor asked many questions. Did I eat on time? Did I have any abnormalities in my pooping or urinating habits? Have I been drinking enough water? Where does it hurt?<br />
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Initially, he thought that I might have some UTI thing going on because, well, I pointed to my bladder area being painful. But then I corrected myself. It was around the navel area, and kind of the area below my ribs.<br />
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Then the doctor told me that it was gastritis. I wasn't sure why though, I told him, because I ate on time and I didn't eat anything particularly acidic (except for the coffee every now and then, but even coffee also hasn't been strong that week!).<br />
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He then asked me if I was stressed.<br />
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I thought about the pending work from my freelance clients that are all due within the same week. I thought about the meeting in my full-time job and all the things that I need to do. Oh yes, I definitely remember feeling stressed that week. I was very stressed and demotivated, but I managed so far, didn't I?<br />
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Well, I told the doctor that yes, I felt stressed that week. There was a lot going on.<br />
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He then kind of had an eureka moment, and told me that it was stress-induced. He explained to me how stress can cause your stomach to release more acid than usual, and that may lead to gastritis. And so, there I was.<br />
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Painful stomach, super gassy, and I couldn't really sleep well because every turn would make my stomach feel painful again. It was just so painful, and I told my boyfriend that the pain was probably about 5x more than my usual menstrual pain. It isn't a lot, but there were times throughout the night that I just curl up in a fetal position and try to steady my breathing because it was hurting so bad.<br />
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By dinner time, I had to eat the painkillers. I tried to stay off it, but it was too painful not to do so.<br />
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The painkillers didn't help, and I woke up in the middle of the night in pain again. It didn't feel like peaceful sleep at all.<br />
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So this morning, I went to the doctor again. Today, it's a different doctor sitting at the clinic.<br />
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"Is it normal to be feeling so much pain? The painkillers didn't work."<br />
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The new doctor asked me about the painkillers that I received. What color was it? What shape was it? I told her that it was the white one, round shape. And she told me that it was basically Panadols, and that wouldn't really help with the gastric pain.<br />
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She prescribed me with a stronger painkiller and I was more than happy to ingest that one once I had my lunch. I also asked her to issue me an MC because I already informed my colleagues yesterday that I'll be on leave due to the pain I was experiencing.<br />
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So I had my new meds, and I got to rest.<br />
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After having lunch, I took all the medicine I had to take, took some painkillers, and took a long nap. I ended up feeling a little woozy and nauseous after a while, but I think I'm okay now. There isn't so much pain anymore, and I can actually get some work done again.<br />
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Sooooo.... Well I guess now I need to watch out for my stress management!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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So, I'm starting with this 750 words thing today. I don't know how long it's going to take me to write this, but I think it would be a great initiative?<br />
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I don't even know what I'm babbling on about to be honest, but I have to admit - this sounds a lot more fun than just thinking about a topic and writing about it. I was actually looking for the desktop version of write-a-day when I stumbled upon <a href="https://750words.com/" target="_blank">750 Words</a>.<br />
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It's kind of like a writing challenge, something to motivate you to write more everyday or at least get into the practice of it? So, here it is. 750 words.<br />
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IDK though, I might like this one better, or I might not. All I know is I fell in love with the Writeaday aesthetics, and the idea of being prompted to write 750 words a day is also a fun thing to do, especially on desktop.<br />
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Years after using a mobile phone and I still am not too used to typing on phone. It's just so uncomfortable in comparison, pressing all the little buttons and pressing the wrong ones all the time. I don't know if others would prefer typing on the phone, but I know that I don't.<br />
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I just noticed that there's this counter at the bottom counting the number of words I've written. That's kinda cool too. And now that I'm half the page down, the super minimalist and clean interface is starting to appeal to me.<br />
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Maybe clean is good. Uncluttered. No need for fancy colors and features. I can go all deep-mode by saying shit like 'remember to be grateful for all the simplicity in life!' and so on, but that would be kind of pretentious, wouldn't it?<br />
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I'm still babbling on, aren't I?<br />
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As it turns out, it's super easy to just type out whatever's in my head - any thought that come to mind and all. The words just flow, and I haven't had that privilege for a while! The words have been feeling a bit forced recently, and I haven't been producing write-ups that I feel incredibly proud of.<br />
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I haven't been writing those sweet little love letters to my darling either.<br />
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I think it's just that we have been seeing each other everyday and spending so much time around each other? He must have moved in with me for the past 2 months + by now. Aside from our working time, we spend the rest of the time together for most part.<br />
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It's nice. He's always there.<br />
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Well, sometimes he's just playing his games a lot or taking so many vaping breaks, but that's part and parcel of staying with him. At least he's been feeling super comfortable and loved here :)<br />
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I remember how happy I felt when I moved out, finally gaining a daily life freedom that I never really had the chance to experience. This is his time, even if he's still in the internship period in the last run of his studies.<br />
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I'm quite excited to see what's waiting ahead for him. It would be fun, wouldn't it? He's going to get even more immersed in car race stuff, that much I can guess. Car drifts, car races and track days.<br />
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Speaking of track days though, yesterday he was actually sleep talking again!<br />
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This time it's a little different from the usual though. Usually it's just super short phrases and mumbling of strange words.<br />
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Yesterday he was speaking super coherently. Somehow he was speaking in Cantonese, and it's a pity that I didn't hear the first half of whatever he was saying. It has to be at least two complete sentences there.<br />
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All I heard towards the end was "And then they hold a track day there".<br />
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Which shows that my boy is thinking of car races and track days even in his sleep! My goodness. Just how much does he love car stuff? ... I guess it's a lot, isn't it? That was kind of a dumb question.<br />
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Eh, whatever. He's cute that way xD<br />
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Recently he has been throwing more tantrums like the little boy that he is. I can't blame him fully for yesterday though. I mean... After giving him a playful smack I actually accidentally supplex-ed him?<br />
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I meant to carry him in his curled up position, but by some wrong movements and whatnot I just ended up rolling up upwards before we both fell to our side and his head made a soft 'thunk' noise when he hit the floor.<br />
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I didn't mean to though, I swear xD<br />
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Now that the tantrum is over, I'm seeing it as a funny experience!<br />
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Aaand that's 750 words. 11 minutes. Not too shabby a time huh?<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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First-time experiences are often memorable if not hard to forget. </div>
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The same applies to our relationships. As silly as those relationships have been, it leaves a lasting impression. After all, it also led to our first heartbreak. </div>
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I jumped head first into mine, and things went sour pretty quickly. </div>
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I was heartbroken, and I emerged stronger, with more experience and understanding of how relationships should or should not be.</div>
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What I Want is Not What I Need</h3>
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I imagined Mr. Perfect as someone who loves reading as much as I do. He would be smart, strong and patient.</div>
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Mr. Perfect is not going to be a loud guy, and he won’t have any prior relationships.</div>
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When I chanced upon someone that fit the criteria, I thought, “This is The One!” and pursued him. Of course, I can’t choose a partner like how I choose to purchase a product. </div>
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I wish I knew that.</div>
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He had what I was looking for, but that did not make him an ideal partner. We had different needs, and we soon parted ways. </div>
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As it turns out, what I wanted was not what I needed. </div>
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The one that I will be marrying barely fits half the list of criteria that I dreamt of as a teenager, but he’s much more than that in ways I never knew I needed.</div>
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Thankfully, we fit just like puzzle pieces. </div>
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I still knew what I wanted in my partner and what I did not want, but the list has changed. </div>
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It no longer focused on similar interests or personality. Now, it’s all about how well we work with each other, and whether we are putting in effort to grow and maintain our relationship together.</div>
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Arguments are bound to happen. </h3>
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I dreamt of perfect relationships like what I saw in TV dramas and read about in novels. </div>
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I’m talking about dreamy anniversary celebrations with roses and candle-lit dinners, sun-kissed vacations by the beach, and no arguments at all.</div>
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Dumb me. Of course there were arguments.</div>
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In fact, there’s going to be a variety of arguments.</div>
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I had arguments that helped me to know my partner better. I had some that made us realize we were not working together as a couple. </div>
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There were also some small conflicts blown out of proportion because we were hungry and tired.</div>
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It’s not going to be like in the movies or viral videos where the guys apologize with a bundle of roses, begging for forgiveness.</div>
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No one’s going to give in for every argument, or stop being angry at just because you cry every time an argument happens. </div>
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Instead, I had to learn to argue constructively. Being part of a relationship also meant that both of us had to practice giving helpful feedback to one another.</div>
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I was not good with arguing, and I still am not. </div>
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I can however, expect arguments to happen at some point, and I can deal better with it than I did during my first relationship.</div>
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Know when to end it.</h3>
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I was not the one who ended my first relationship, but I remember not wanting to end it, ever. </div>
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I was lucky, because I was not in a situation where it would be good to end it.</div>
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A friend of mine in her first relationship with a boyfriend who was clearly a compulsive liar as well as abusive.</div>
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His stories would range from being buried alive to being chased down by a mob and injected with foreign substance - all as an excuse for not responding to her messages or phone calls the night before because he was actually out with his exes.</div>
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She didn’t want to break up with him because it was her first relationship. She couldn’t let him go. So she put up with it and is still with him today.</div>
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No doubt the first break up is going to be painful, but a red flag is a red flag. Don’t ignore the warning signs.</div>
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As hard as it is, leave the relationship when it’s toxic. My friend might not have found her Mr. Right on her first try, but I hope that she’ll find the courage to break it off with him one day.</div>
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It’s still up to us and us only.</div>
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I might be here talking about what I should have known, but my own mother and peers have given me similar advices from the start.</div>
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No one really listens when it’s their first relationship, right? </div>
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In the end, we’re all just too blinded by our first loves. </div>
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Working in the race tracks is no easy feat – it’s a unique experience to be in the stands watching cars speed by, and a different one altogether when you’re there as a driver or as a pit stop crew.<br />
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Monkey works in the pit stops and helps with scrutinizing the vehicles pre-race. After visiting Elite Plus Speedway Circuit, MIMC Track and Sepang International circuit with him, I asked him to share his experience with me. This is what he has to say.<br />
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Sepang International Circuit is Ranked Among the Most Difficult Race Tracks in the World</h3>
It’s for a reason that we are all familiar with – the weather. It could be sunny when you’re preparing for the race, and drizzling 20 minutes later during the race.<br />
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The race track could be wet from the rain in one area and dry in the rest.<br />
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The drivers’ skills are tested to their limits.<br />
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They have to navigate the tracks with changing conditions around the corners. Most tires are better-suited either for dry or wet roads only.<br />
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Every choice and technique matters.<br />
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Road Surface Temperatures Can Go Up to 60°C</h3>
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The Sepang International Circuit has no trees around the track. There’s barely any wind, making the tracks hot even on normal days.<br />
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Vehicle interiors are stripped down to the bare minimum – just the driver’s seat, no air-conditioning. Passenger seats are often removed to make the vehicle lighter.<br />
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Drivers must wear a helmet on the tracks. Some also wears a thick and stuffy racing suit for protection.<br />
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As race after race goes on, the tracks grow hotter from tire friction, reaching high temperatures. The interior of vehicles heats up with the engine’s workings and exhaust gas from surrounding cars.<br />
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Imagine being covered from top to bottom while you’re parked in a hot parking lot with no air-conditioning and windows up – the thought itself is uncomfortable, isn’t it?<br />
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That’s how the drivers feel, but they need to stay focused on the road and vehicles around them while bearing the uncomfortable sensations.<br />
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Some drivers will have a pipe that directs air into their car through the window, while others will have an ice box where the passenger seat should be, just so that they do not suffer from a heat stroke.<br />
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Drivers who completed their race would exit the car with a soaking shirt, wet hair, and skin red like a cooked lobster.<br />
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There’s Barely Any Rest for the Pit Stop Crew Either</h3>
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Have you ever heard of the 1000km endurance race?<br />
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Like the name suggests, drivers have to complete 1000km inside the Sepang circuit, often requiring two or more drivers to take turns driving for their teams.<br />
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The fastest completion still takes longer than 8.5 hours.<br />
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Of course, there are other events – track days which anyone can join, official races which are more competitive, international events where the country pride is concerned.<br />
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Normal race events take up an entire day from set up to post-event clean-up. There’s not much time to rest in between.<br />
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Prior to races, the scrutinizing team must check each vehicle to ensure that they fit the regulations. When the event starts, the pit stop crew has to hurry to change tires and fix vehicle issues in between.<br />
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They have to alert the drivers when it’s time for them to exit the compulsory pit in once that job is done too.<br />
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They can only manage a few spoonsful of food before the next car comes towards the pit stop and it’s back to work.<br />
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Sleep is almost non-existent. If you are lucky enough, you might have a few minutes when you can sit down, fall asleep immediately and rush to work again once you hear the cars speeding in.<br />
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The pay for racing events are good, ranging up to several hundreds ringgit for a day.<br />
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Are you prepared for the exhaustion though? Remember, there’s also the long drive home after the event.<br />
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Motorsports enthusiasts know how fun it is to watch the races – especially the prestigious Formulae One races – but how many knows the struggle?<br />
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Update 10 August 2019:<br />
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If you have read a little bit about my introduction and primary review for <a href="https://tatoruyuki.blogspot.com/2018/10/kodenshi-fiber-heat-retention-aulora.html" target="_blank">KODENSHI Aulora Pants</a> before, you might find this detailed review a little more helpful.<br />
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You can also send me a message here: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PohmahtoeTurKey/" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/PohmahtoeTurKey/ </a>if you want to ask other questions related to these pants!<br />
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TL;DR: I attribute some of the benefits to placebo effect, but seeing my close elderly relatives benefit from wearing AULORA Pants over several months with better mobility and flexibility, I'd recommend it for the elderly. If you're intending to purchase these pants, I'll recommend to buy two pairs because you're supposed to wear it consistently to see the effects, and you'll definitely need an extra pair for when the other goes to wash.<br />
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An Honest Review for KODENSHI Aulora Pants</h2>
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Several blog readers have come to ask me about the pants' efficacy this week, so here's a better, more detailed review.<br />
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Introduction & Initial Perception</h3>
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I'm 24 years old - still young compared to the target audience of these pants, so I guess I'm still relatively healthy? I work most hours in office setting, so my lifestyle is quite sedentary.</div>
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From the moment I heard about it to purchasing and trying it out for my mom who's venturing into the KODENSHI business, all I think is, "It's just a pair of pants! There's no magic pants that can just get rid of all your health issues for you!"</div>
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I still think this way. It's just a pair of expensive pants that gives you some sort of placebo effect to me.</div>
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Throughout my intermittent testing phases, I never wore it for more than a week straight - not disciplined enough to keep that routine, plus I need to wash the one pair that I have.<br />
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Need to Be Careful Wearing It</h3>
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If you have a pair of these pants, do wear it under another pair of looser pants long enough to cover the entire Aulora pants. </div>
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I once wore it with a pair of shorts on top and the Aulora pants' fabric ripped a small hole at the side when I passed by some metal gate areas :( </div>
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That's a rip in RM800+ worth of merchandise!!!</div>
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You're also not supposed to put it to wash in washing machine or wash it with tough detergent stuff because the materials are sensitive (?) but I'm not too sure. I threw it in the washing machine several times by accident but nothing major seems to have happened.<br />
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It Helped with Bloating for Me</h3>
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I'm 24 years old - still young compared to the target audience of these pants, so I guess I'm still relatively healthy?</div>
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I usually experience lots of stomach bloating issues. While I can't say for sure if I FEEL healthier wearing those pants, I do feel (and look) much less bloated when I wear those pants. </div>
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But then again, don't most tight leggings or other figure-hugging pants give you the same effect? Still, KODENSHI Aulora did help with the bloating, so there's that.<br />
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I Don't Feel the Heat Retention</h3>
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KODENSHI Aulora pants boasted about its heat retention features which would help with health issues the most, but I'm not too sure about that. </div>
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I feel like any UNIQLO thermal shirts or pants would trap heat much better than Aulora. </div>
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I never tried working out in KODENSHI Aulora - the idea of working out in tights feel a little uncomfortable, but I was able to jog around with no issues.<br />
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It Helped to Choose the Right Size</h3>
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Picking the right size for myself helped though. After wearing it for the entire day at work, I came home and just took off the pants. </div>
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As with most other tights and leggings, I can feel the blood rush to my legs after they have been constricted by the KODENSHI pants for the whole day. I usually get numb legs quite often, but maybe because my leg areas feel constricted by those pants, I noticed that the occasions where my legs go numb have decreased quite significantly.</div>
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The pants do stay elastic even after I accidentally put it to wash in the washing machine at least 3 times though, and so even today when I wear it once in a while, it fits super snug. </div>
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If you want to purchase your own, you should choose the right size. If I didn't remember wrongly, they give you a size recommendation based on your hip measurement and your weight.<br />
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KODENSHI Aulora Pants Helped My Grandparents Get More Mobile & Flexible</h3>
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So maybe I'm still young and so I don't get all the good stuff KODENSHI Aulora advertises. I don't have major back aches, blood circulatory issues or anything, so maybe there isn't much to fix for me. </div>
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On the other hands, my grandparents seem to have benefited greatly from these pants. Mind you, my grandparents are leading a much more active lifestyle than I am.</div>
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They're about 85+ this year, and they frequently join my mom for walks in nature parks nearby. Uphill, downhill, straight roads - they go for it all.</div>
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But still, old age is old age. My grandma has no trouble putting on the long loose pants that old people usually wears, but you can imagine how difficult it would be for her to wear KODENSHI Aulora.</div>
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For the first few weeks, my mom helped her to wear the tight-fitting pants. The pants do require you to pull it upwards slowly and with care, and my grandma simply wasn't flexible enough to wear it how it should be worn. </div>
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She wore it to walks with us afterwards, and kept it on for most of the day. 1.5 months later she reported feeling much fewer aches around her body, and she was able to bend downwards and wear her Aulora pants just right with no assistance.</div>
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A month later, my mom called and happily told me that my grandfather now wants a pair too, losing his skepticism after seeing how the pants helped his lifelong partner.<br />
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It Could be Placebo Effect, but It's Still Effective</h3>
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When you buy a pair of pants that expensive, a part of you would still think, "Shit's expensive. It better f*cking work."</div>
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Okay maybe it's skeptical ol' me, but I'm sure that there would be others who are thinking the same thing out there.</div>
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I personally never kept track of whether or not my neck pain and back pain decreases after wearing KODENSHI Aulora, but I'll try to keep track of it in the next few weeks.</div>
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What my grandma experienced might have been placebo effect, of course. She might have worn it believing that it would work, and then it somehow helped. </div>
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Still, placebo effect or not, my grandma did feel and move better after wearing it, so who am I to say that the placebo effect pants don't work?<br />
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My Conclusion</h3>
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I might have been able to give a better review if I actually stick to wearing it more consistently than I did in the past months, and keep track of physical changes.</div>
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Still, I personally feel like these pants would work its wonders better on those with bigger issues - major back aches, mobility, etc and especially so for older people.</div>
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Even if I don't feel like it is the miracle pants that many resellers are advertising it to be, I suppose at the very least it was comfortable to wear for me. </div>
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I hope this review helped with your purchasing decision a little! :) #Aulorakodenshi #BEinternational #BEslim #BEsexy #BEstylish #AULORA #kodenshi #mykodenshi #Kodenshi光电子塑身裤</div>
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People think that it’s always a major conflict that leads to a couple’s break up. Granted, things like catching your spouse cheating or having your relationship turn toxic can be two of the major things leading to a break up. However, more commonly, it’s the small things that pile up and eventually, the straw breaks the camel’s back.<br />
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Just the other day, I saw a story being shared. I just did some simple rewriting based on my what I remember of it.<br />
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The girl was eating dinner with her boyfriend, when boy’s phone received a message. It was from another girl, who asked him, “Hey, can you come down and fix my computer for me? It’s acting up again. If your girlfriend doesn’t like it, it’s okay.”<br />
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The girlfriend appeared unhappy, and asked her boyfriend, “Didn’t you tell me that you were going to delete this green tea bitch from your contacts?” (green tea bitch is a slang in Chinese that refers to girls who appeals to guys by appearing weak, needing help and siding with him with sayings like, “You’re so nice, why doesn’t your girlfriend appreciate you? I know I would.”)<br />
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“You are just being dramatic now. She’s just a friend.”<br />
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“You promised me that you were going to delete her two weeks ago.”<br />
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“Well then if it bothers you so much, take my phone. Delete anyone that pisses you off! Are you happy now?”<br />
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The girl stormed off into her room, visibly upset that her boyfriend had not only gone against his promises, but also got angry at her for bringing the promise up. After a while, the boyfriend came in to apologize to her.<br />
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“I’m sorry. My temper got the better of me. I’ll delete her now, okay?” he then proceeded to delete and block the girl’s contact number in front of his girlfriend. “Come on, don’t be mad now. I’ll buy you some of the puddings that you like, okay? Let’s get some nice food.”<br />
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Her worries were resolved, and she let it slide. They were okay for the day. The day was saved.<br />
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A few days afterwards, it was their anniversary.<br />
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The girl remembered when her boyfriend apologized in advance last year.<br />
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“Babe, I’m so sorry I can’t celebrate our anniversary together this year. I couldn’t get myself out of this business trip. I’ll have to go, but I promise you that I’ll throw you a grand anniversary celebration next year, okay?”<br />
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The girl was joyful, and dressed up nicely, waiting for her boyfriend to come back from work and bring her out for their anniversary celebration.<br />
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Night falls, and even midnight passed. The boyfriend only returned home around 3AM, drunk.<br />
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“Hey babe. Why are you still up?” The boyfriend asked amidst his hiccups. “Oh right, I forgot to tell you. My colleague was celebrating his birthday and I followed. The party lasted all night after work and I got drunk so I forgot to tell you. Go sleep, I’ll join you after I’m done showering.”<br />
<br />
He then saw that his girlfriend was still seated on the couch, not moving, her face showing that she was upset.<br />
<br />
“Hey, what’s up?”<br />
<br />
“It’s our anniversary.” She replied shortly.<br />
<br />
The boyfriend then realized his mistake.<br />
<br />
“I’m so sorry babe. I got so busy that I forgot. It’s my fault, okay? I’m stupid. I’m so, so stupid. Can I make it up to you by celebrating tomorrow? Please?”<br />
<br />
The girl appeared a little better, but just quietly said to her boyfriend, “Fix the shelf with our pictures on it, will you? The hinges are loose.”<br />
<br />
“Oh come on, don’t worry about that now. I’ll get to it. Now let’s focus on making you happy again okay? Go lie down and relax. I’ll treat you to a nice supper that will make you feel like a queen before we go to sleep tonight, okay?”<br />
<br />
The day was still saved.<br />
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******</div>
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A week later, as the couple were strolling on the streets, a motorcycle suddenly swerved towards the couple.<br />
<br />
The boyfriend pushed his girlfriend away from him and ran off, leaving the girl standing there in shock as the motorcycle stopped just inches away from her.<br />
<br />
She was still in shock and disbelief when the boyfriend, having regained his composure, came back around to scold the motorcyclist.<br />
<br />
“Hey, watch where you were going! You could have hit us! Look at what you have done, you’ve shaken her up so much. What were you going to do if you really did hit her? Can you pay? Grow a proper pair of eyes and ride safer next time for God’s sake.”<br />
<br />
The motorcyclist apologized and went back on his way.<br />
<br />
“See, I scolded the motorcyclist for you. It’s okay now, isn’t it? Let’s go get something nice to soothe your nerves, shall we?”<br />
<br />
“I’m not hungry anymore. You can go and eat whatever you want. I’ll head back first.”<br />
<br />
“Oh, is that so? Well okay, have a safe trip back. I’ll have something to eat before I go back.”<br />
<br />
The girl went back home with even more disappointment. Her boyfriend, someone she trusted and loved so much, did not try to protect her from the oncoming threat. He ran away. He did not even try to console her even though she was still shaken from the possible accident, and only cared about his own stomach at that moment.<br />
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Still, she was alive, and the day was somewhat saved.<br />
<br />
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******</div>
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Cue to another week or two later, the young girl came down with a fever and was feeling unwell. She was resting in bed when her boyfriend called.<br />
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“Hey babe, what’s up?” she asked with a few small coughs.<br />
<br />
“Oh, just calling to update on some things. You’re not feeling well?”<br />
<br />
“No, I think I got the flu and a fever. I’m so uncomfor-"<br />
<br />
“Drink more warm water, okay? That would be good for you. Ah by the way I’m just letting you know that I’m bringing some colleagues back after work later. You might want to clean up around the house a bit, don’t make it look too messy.”<br />
<br />
“Babe-“<br />
<br />
“Well I got to go now okay? I’ll see you after work.”<br />
<br />
The girl then looked at the phone, dumbfounded. Did her boyfriend actually just asked her to do more chores when she’s not feeling well? He didn’t even care about her being sick. He only focused on his own agendas.<br />
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Still, she looked around the house. She could do some cleaning up, she supposed. She downed some paracetamol and went about her chores. When she was finally done, she sat down at the dining table and took out her favourite pudding from the fridge.<br />
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She took a sniff of herself and contemplated whether she should shower first before she sit down to enjoy her little treat.<br />
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She decided to shower first.<br />
<br />
The moment she came out from the shower, she saw her boyfriend seated on the dining table, finishing the pudding.<br />
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“Oh hey babe, I’m back home a bit early to shower before my friends come over. I didn’t eat enough during lunch, so I’m a bit hungry. I’ll eat this first if it’s okay.”<br />
<br />
The girl stood in the doorway in silence for a few seconds.<br />
<br />
“Let’s break up.” She went into her room and started packing her things up.<br />
<br />
The boyfriend stood up. “What for? Over a pudding? Are you for real? Come on, I’ll just get you like 99 more of these puddings tomorrow. What’s the big deal?”<br />
<br />
The girl packed things that she needed and headed for the door.<br />
<br />
“Seriously? Over a fucking pudding?”<br />
<br />
As she closed the door, the hinges came loose on the shelf with their pictures. The picture frames smashed on the floor.<br />
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******</div>
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It was the pudding that broke the camel’s back. Little by little, the disappointments worn the girl off.<br />
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I like to think of these little disappointments as poison damage that you see in RPG games. The damage is usually very little, and you can always regain some health points automatically as you go. However, the health points that you automatically regain usually do not cover the poison damage fully, and in the end – Game Over.<br />
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It’s a little harder to communicate about this form of damage in relationships. If it’s the bigger issues, it’s easy to point it out. “Hey, I didn’t like that you are still talking to your ex.” Or “Hey, I hope it’s okay but I am not very comfortable with you being so close with that other friend/ colleague of yours.” Or even something that goes like, “Hey. Your alcohol issues. You need to get it sorted.”<br />
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That’s easy. It may not be 100% easy to deal with or resolve, but at least, it’s easy to get it noticed.<br />
<br />
What about all the problems and small disappointments that the girl experienced?<br />
<br />
“I don’t like it what you text that girl.” That’s fine.<br />
<br />
“I don’t like it when you can’t even see how that girl is trying to make you like her.” How so?<br />
<br />
“I don’t like it when you forget to tell me about plans that come up suddenly.” Well…<br />
<br />
“I don’t like it when you break your promise from last year.” Uh…<br />
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“I don’t like it when you forget our anniversary.” Well, reasonable.<br />
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“I don’t like it when you acted on reflex and put your own safety before mine.” Hmmm…<br />
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“I don’t like it when you ask me to clean up the house when I’m sick.”<br />
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“I don’t like it when you don’t take good care of me.”<br />
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“I don’t like it when you help yourself to my pudding without asking first when I intended to eat it in a few minutes.”<br />
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“I don’t like it when you don’t fix the shelf like you said you would.”<br />
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“I don’t like it when you think only of yourself.”<br />
<br />
“I don’t like it when-“<br />
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It gets harder and harder to point out, and eventually some of these might sound unreasonable. When facing these situations, do you intend to pick fights with your partner over all of these seemingly small issues? Or would you let it go and just keep the disappointment inside your heart for a bit until you finally cannot take it anymore, and end it over a pudding?<br />
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I had expectations, and I had disappointments. I think that's enough said.<br />
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10 Expectations Versus Reality for Freelance Writers</h2>
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The Wanted Platform vs. The Received Platform</h3>
Expectation: I heard that UpWork is a very good platform for freelance writers. I can probably get some good work done here if I get my profile approved!<br />
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Reality: Too many freelancers with freelance content writer title in UpWork. Will not get an approved profile in the next 2 years because there are too many content writers. It does not help that I write and translate and transcribe with an awesome education and employment history. I will never be approved on the one site that I want to promote myself on. Oh, here's a platform that totally leaves their freelancers with no payment protection. I guess I'll have to hop on.<br />
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The Projected Income vs. The Actual Income</h3>
Expectation: Okay so other writers are charging between $10 and $50 for 1000 written works. I have a fair amount of experience and so I will charge $20 per 1000 written works on all of these freelancer platforms.<br />
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Reality: All platforms take at least 10% off my earnings and PayPal takes an extra 3% off that amount when I transfer it into my bank account so I get about $17.46 in my bank account. Optimally the exchange rate is 1:4, so from that I can probably get about RM69.84 but it is currently 1:3.5 so I’m only getting RM61.11. My projected profit was RM80 from 1000 words and now I’m getting RM20 less, which means that I did about 250 words for free and I gave away 15 minutes worth of free labor.<br />
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The Too-Much-Work Freelance vs. The Too-Little-Work Freelance</h3>
Expectation: I get to work on my own terms, whenever I want, wherever I want!<br />
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Reality: Last month, I had 5 clients with 18 pending articles and 30-minute transcriptions due in a week so I told 2 clients that I will be busy for the next 1 month to pause the job with them for a bit. I had a good break for 2 weeks after a week with minimum sleep. Now I have 1 active client and they only provide me $10 of work in a week and all the other clients already found themselves a freelancer with better time and client management so I can’t make more money even if I wanted to.<br />
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The Prices You Want vs. The Prices They Pay</h3>
Expectation: I can charge my own price. I know my work quality and I just need to wait for the clients who are able to pay me that average rate long-term!<br />
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Reality: Clients approaching me directly can only pay $5 per 1000 words written when my actual rates currently are at $20 per 1000 words. The one client who is paying me $20 per 1000 words is asking for super tight deadlines, is mean and unreasonable and a lot of research is needed. He doesn’t think I deserve a raise and he can’t afford it anyway. Also, he pays up only a month later and I don’t know when he is going to escape without paying one day.<br />
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The Skills You Have vs. The Skills You Need</h3>
Expectation: I’m good with biology and health related articles. I can produce 1000 words within an hour maximum. I can find some good work with that!<br />
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Reality: Clients are asking for 5000-word manuscripts about cryptocurrencies and the history of one specific rock in the bottom of the ocean which I have zero knowledge about. The only companies accepting health and biology-related articles are full-fledged scientific journals that I need a proper research paper for, or maybe they don’t pay for any contributions unless I am a certified doctor.<br />
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The People You Want vs. The People You Get</h3>
Expectation: If I’m nice to potential clients or exiting clients, they will be nice to me too!<br />
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Reality: Potential clients turn out to be creeps with fetish for Asian girls hoping that I am willing to get paid $25 to show them some skin or sell them my used underwear. I tell the clients that I got sick and need to rest and suddenly I was an irresponsible freelancer because I am not submitting my work on time. I chase the clients that don’t pay up and eventually submit a complaint through their official website and was accused of defamation of the company.<br />
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The Optimism vs. The Pessimism</h3>
Expectation: People are trustworthy. Trust people unless they show signs that they are not to be trusted.<br />
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Reality: Client blocks me off after I spend 5 hours writing short paragraphs for them. They reverse their payments from completed assignments and I end up receiving nothing in return for my work because they closed off their accounts immediately after getting what I give. Turns out there was a small little clause cleverly hidden in the terms and conditions of the freelancer platform that says, “We reserve the rights to reverse the payments in situations deemed necessary,” which, in many scenarios that happened to other freelancers, meant that they will let the scammers get away without paying.<br />
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<h3>
The Work-Life Balance vs. The Actual Productivity</h3>
Expectation: I have a full-time work which covers my commitments and some food. If I take this freelance job and work 4 additional hours after work, I can earn enough to spoil myself once in a while.<br />
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Reality: I’m so tired after meeting clients and doing everything I did at the office earlier. By the time I’m done showering and having my dinner I need to rest a little before I start working so in the end I can only work an additional 30 minutes to one hour before I get so tired that I need to sleep. I haven’t had a proper resting weekend for two months because I need to catch up on my freelance work.<br />
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The Price Hike vs. The Incoming Funds</h3>
Expectation: I have earned enough experience and my writing skills have definitely improved compared to two years ago. I can also write on at least 8 more new topics that I couldn’t write when I just started. I can raise another $10 to my price for better research and faster turnaround time.<br />
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Reality: No one has contacted me ever since I increased my rates. Bidding on projects with my new rate is also a failure because no one wants to pay $30 for 1000 words even if I include free stock photos, give the entire article a professional and neat look, and create a citation section at the bottom to show that it is indeed a well-researched article.<br />
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<h3>
The Wishful Bonus vs. The... Lack of.</h3>
Expectation: I have some clients who have been with me for 2 years now. That’s awesome! Maybe they will include a small bonus for me this year?<br />
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Reality: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH<br />
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Paid survey opportunities. Sounds good, doesn't it? Some of the websites pay really slow, or maybe you just don't really fit the demographics they want. If you are staying in Malaysia, can speak, write or read Bahasa Melayu and English at least, then these survey sites will be good for you.<br />
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Of course, if you're a Chinese-speaking Malaysian, most surveys also give you the choice of answering the surveys in Chinese as well. You can get paid to do surveys on some websites in Malaysia, but you need to be diligent about it.<br />
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Before we start, it's important to note the following details:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Paid surveys is not a way for you to get rich in a few days. It may take a few months before you can get even USD5. </li>
<li>It is advisable for you to have a PayPal account. Most survey sites listed here pays out via PayPal, or through vouchers for AEON, KFC etc. If you want cash, then it's good to have a PayPal account ready.</li>
<li>You need to update your detailed profile. The more info you input into your profile, the easier it is for the survey sites to find surveys that match your demographics. You can then get more surveys to answer.</li>
<li>Some websites give you surveys everyday, and some only once or twice in a week. Be patient. As mentioned in point 1, paid surveys is not a way for you to get quick cash.</li>
<li>Check your inbox frequently, or switch on the email notifications for desktop. This way, you get notified immediately once there is a survey available for you on any of these survey sites.</li>
<li>Sometimes, when you open a survey, it immediately tells you that you are not a good fit for the demographics that the survey is looking for. It happens. Just make sure that your profile is updated. </li>
</ul>
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Last but not least,</div>
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If you are signing up for these websites, please do so from the links on the website names below :)</h3>
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It's for my own referral bonus, and if you share a post like this of your own, you can also gain some bonus from people who signs up from your link.</div>
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<h2>
Get Paid to Complete Surveys in Malaysia from these 15 Websites</h2>
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<a href="https://my.yougov.com/en-my/refer/eASRdeH51Sy6C1OanXs8Cg/" target="_blank">YouGov</a></h3>
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<b><a href="https://my.yougov.com/en-my/refer/eASRdeH51Sy6C1OanXs8Cg/" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up</a>: </b></div>
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Update: I have stopped receiving survey invites ever since I'm one survey away from my payout :( There were usually steadily one or two surveys every week, but I have not received any invitations since two full weeks ago. I guess there isn't a proper payout for this one :(<br />
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When you sign up for a YouGov account and complete 6 surveys, I gain an additional 200 points. </div>
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I have had the account for: 7 Days</div>
<div>
I now have: 590 Points from 5 surveys</div>
<div>
Payouts: 5000 points required for :</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>RM70 via PayPal</li>
<li>RM60 Mobile Credit Top Up</li>
<li>2500 Air Asia Big Loyalty Points</li>
<li>UNICEF Donation</li>
</ul>
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There is an app available for YouGov. I love this platform the most, simply because the surveys are very clean and easy to understand compared to other platforms. </div>
</div>
<div>
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<h3>
<a href="https://my.m.aipsurveys.com/s/member" target="_blank">Rakuten Insights</a></h3>
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<b><a href="https://my.m.aipsurveys.com/s/member" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
<div>
Bonus epoints for both the new user and myself after completing some surveys, but I am not sure how many. There is no referral link for this, but I can send you an invitation e-mail from Rakuten Insights if I have your email address.</div>
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Leave your email address in the comments section below if you want me to send you an invitation.</div>
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<div>
I have had the account for: 16 Days</div>
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I now have: 720 Points from 16 surveys</div>
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Payouts: 2000 points required for :</div>
</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>RM20 Voucher for KFC, McDonalds</li>
<li>RM20 Voucher for Giant, AEON/Jusco, Guardian, Watsons</li>
<li>RM20 Prepaid Reload for Hotlink, Xpax, Digi</li>
<li>RM50 Petronas Prepaid card (need 5000 points for this one)</li>
</ul>
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<div>
There is no cash payouts for this survey platform, but 2000 points is a relatively low threshold for the vouchers that I can get. The platform looks a lot more professional that some other survey paltforms that I will introduce here. There is also a clear disclaimer of how my information will and will not be used at the end of each survey.</div>
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<a href="https://www.mobrog.com/my/paid-online-surveys/sign-up-malaysia.html?membership_promotion=0&i_invite=8180143-5c92f441d2030&rkm=38" target="_blank">MOBROG</a></h3>
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<b><a href="https://www.mobrog.com/my/paid-online-surveys/sign-up-malaysia.html?membership_promotion=0&i_invite=8180143-5c92f441d2030&rkm=38" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
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Once you complete 3 surveys that fits your demographics successfully, I will get USD1.00 in my account.</div>
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I have had the account for: 17 Days</div>
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I now have: USD2.10 from 2 surveys</div>
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Payouts: USD6.25 Balance required for cashout</div>
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<div>
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<div>
There's no point system on this survey platform. They will directly credit USD currencies into your account until you have completed enough surveys for a cash out. If there are no surveys suitable for you, it usually recommends other platforms where you can get more paid surveys done as well.</div>
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However, the interface is a little wacky. The interface to update or fill in your profile information is not very convenient, and may require you to update it again when there are new spaces to fill in or if it failed to save.</div>
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<h3>
<a href="https://enmy.toluna.com/referral/loverdyllmerrilyn" target="_blank">Toluna Influencers</a></h3>
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<b><a href="https://enmy.toluna.com/referral/loverdyllmerrilyn" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
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I will receive 500 points for each successful registrations, but only up to 10 referrals a month. </div>
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I have had the account for: 19 Days</div>
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I now have: 8700 Points from 15 surveys</div>
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Payouts: 11000 Points Onwards</div>
</div>
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<ul>
<li>11,000 Points - 250 AirAsia BIG Points</li>
<li>16,320 Points - RM20 via PayPal</li>
<li>16,800 Points - RM20 Voucher for AEON / Giant</li>
</ul>
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You receive 500 points once you sign up. Each profile completion surveys can get you an additional 100 points, and external surveys can even get you up to 5000 points! For each of these surveys you complete, you get a ticket for the Toluna Daily Lottery.</div>
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Even if you don't qualify for some of the surveys halfway through filling it up, you might still get a ticket for the Toluna Daily Lottery. The interface has better aesthetics than some other platforms - a nice bonus! The survey fill-up interface is also very neat and tidy. </div>
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<h3>
<a href="https://www.prizerebel.com/index.php?r=8616336" target="_blank">PrizeRebel</a></h3>
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<b><a href="https://www.prizerebel.com/index.php?r=8616336" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
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I will get 15% of your point earnings for every successful referral. There is no limit to the number of referrals I can get.</div>
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I have had the account for: 9 Days</div>
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I now have: 164 Points from 3 surveys</div>
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Payouts: from 200 points onwards.</div>
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<ul>
<li>200 Points - USD2 Amazon Gift Card</li>
<li>500 Points - USD5 via PayPal/ Amazon Gift Card/ Visa Prepaid Card. Incremental amount.</li>
<li>5000 Points - Lobster Grams Gift Card</li>
<li>Points in Varying amounts for in-game credits, including League of Legends, Steam Wallet, Nintendo e-Shop etc.</li>
</ul>
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The experience so far has been good. PrizeRebel has links directly on its website where you can earn points for successfully completing surveys from other sites such as PeanutLabs, YourSurveys etc. I haven't tried all of these other sites yet, since there are many offers and tasks available. It looks promising though, with the payout being very valuable and reasonable.</div>
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The more points you earn on this platform, the higher your rank is. You would then be eligible for prize discounts, special bonuses, and an incremental rate of points earnings from referrals. Looks good! </div>
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<h3>
<a href="https://www.globaltestmarket.com/" target="_blank">GlobalTestMarket</a></h3>
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<b><a href="https://www.globaltestmarket.com/" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
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Nothing, but I can extend you an e-mail invitation from the platform to get a few points. </div>
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I have had the account for: 17 Days</div>
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I now have: 770 Points from 30+ surveys (including those that I don't qualify for)</div>
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Payouts: 4931 Points - USD10 Payout + several other merchants including 11 Street & Zalora</div>
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The best part about GlobalTestMarket is that you will still get 5 points for participating in a survey even if it turns out that you don't qualify for it later on. There interface is simple and it's easy to answer the questions, although a little tedious sometimes. But there is a steady stream of survey invitations, from which you can always get 5 LifePoints minimum. </div>
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However, be sure to log your log-in details somewhere. I keep confusing the password for this site for another one, and after several attempts, you can't log in until probably a day later or so. Because of that I currently can't update you about my current points and what payouts there are. I'll update this section soon! </div>
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<b><a href="http://www.surveyon.com/home" target="_blank">SurveyOn</a></b></h3>
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<b><a href="http://www.surveyon.com/home" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link about to sign up:</a></b></div>
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Nothing. There is no referral program for this platform as of now. the FAQ section shows that a referral program is in the works.</div>
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I have had the account for: 7 Days</div>
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I now have: 9404 Points from 51 surveys + 4 Polls</div>
<div>
Payouts: 20,000 Points for USD2</div>
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You can get up to 6,500 points from just updating your profile. External surveys from their clients can get you anywhere from 200 to 4000 points, which is great too. You can get 3 points from answering 3 polls a day, and you can get twice that amount on the 2nd, 12th and 22nd every month.</div>
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The only payout available here us the USD2, but it should be achievable in perhaps 2 to 3 months max if you are eligible for the surveys. Quite a small payout in comparison to the other platforms. </div>
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<a href="https://www.triaba.com/my/Log-In" target="_blank">Triaba</a></h3>
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<b><a href="https://www.triaba.com/my/Log-In" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link about to sign up:</a></b></div>
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Nothing. There doesn't seem to be a referral program here.</div>
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I have had the account for: 17 Days</div>
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I now have: USD1 for 1 survey</div>
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Payouts: USD6.25 for PayPal cashout</div>
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Triaba has stated that users can expect to receive between 1-7 survey invitations per month. Most surveys I receive, I turned out to be not qualified for, so there are no rewards. Updating the profile on this site is more of a pain compared to other platforms I suggested here, and there are no ways to check your past surveys or anything. </div>
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However, like MOBROG, you get credited with USD instead of points right off the bait, which is cool too :)</div>
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/What%20I%20get%20when%20you%20use%20the%20link%20above%20to%20sign%20up:" target="_blank">Viewfruit</a></h3>
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<b><a href="https://www.blogger.com/u/1/What%20I%20get%20when%20you%20use%20the%20link%20above%20to%20sign%20up:" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
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If you have completed filling in all the personal details required on this platform, I will get 10% of the points for every survey you successfully complete. If you don't fill up all the required details, I will not get anything. </div>
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I have had the account for: 7 Days</div>
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I now have: 995 Points from 8 surveys</div>
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Payouts: 2500 points required for :</div>
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<ul>
<li>USD5 Payout. Multiplies for subsequent values:</li>
<ul>
<li>5000 points for USD10</li>
<li>10000 points for USD20</li>
<li>15000 points for USD30</li>
<li>25000 points for USD50</li>
<li>50000 points for USD100</li>
</ul>
</ul>
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It's difficult to understand what the platform is trying to say. Even when filling in the profile information, the Malay and English language interface of this website is bad to say the least. It looks like someone directly translated it from Google Translate. Even when you switch to English language, some phrases are still in Malay because it wasn't translated properly.</div>
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However, some surveys that you successfully complete will give you 1 chance at spinning the wheel for bonus points. From the 5 times that I spin the wheel, I managed to get 10 bonus points twice. The other times it landed at 'Thank you for your participation' and I didn't get anything. Most surveys also clearly indicated that it is for men, but it will not be excluded from your recommended surveys even if your profile clearly states that you're a female. </div>
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<h3>
<a href="http://thepanelstation.com/my/home" target="_blank">The Panel Station</a></h3>
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<b><a href="http://thepanelstation.com/my/home" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
<div>
If you sign up with my referral code UG3MUI both you and I will get 500 points. </div>
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I have had the account for: 1 Day</div>
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I now have: 300 Points from 1 Survey</div>
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Payouts: 3000 Minimum for RM30 Equivalent</div>
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This site is based in India. It's still quite rough, honestly. You can't even view the things that you can redeem or from what value. All that I can find is their information of how much the points are equivalent to in each participating country's currency. They did show that you can redeem from PayPal and Amazon among some others, but no value is given. When I tried to click the 'redeem' button, it only says that I need another 50 points to redeem.</div>
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<h3>
<a href="https://www.yourvoice.com.my/" target="_blank">YourVoice</a></h3>
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<b><a href="https://www.yourvoice.com.my/" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
<div>
Nothing. This survey site is very bare and has no indication of having a referral program in its plans. </div>
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<div>
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<div>
<div>
I have had the account for: 17 Days</div>
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I now have: 40 Points from 3 surveys</div>
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Payouts: from 100 points onwards.</div>
</div>
<div>
<ul>
<li>RM10 for 100 points - A-cash, Run Up Runs Card,</li>
<li>RM20 for 200 points - 11Street, Lazada, RazerGold, Zalora</li>
<li>RM25 for 250 points - Cubicard, </li>
<li>RM50 for 500 points - GoPlayPlay Game Points</li>
<li>RM100 for 1000 points - Metrojaya, Parkson, Robinsons, Starbucks</li>
<li>RM200 for 2000 points - Popular</li>
<li>$7 for 285 points - MyCard</li>
<li>$10 for 425 points - Skype Credits</li>
<li>£5 for 270 pts - Spafinder Wellness 365</li>
<li>€10 for 465 points - Forzieri.com </li>
</ul>
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So there's plenty of redemption choices as you can see above. Perhaps 25% of them are relevant to me personally. The surveys are rare in between, but at least the points have more value compared to other platforms. The threshold is not too high, but with the time between each survey, you might need at least 6 months to get something that you want.</div>
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<h3>
<a href="https://featu.re/8XXYW6" target="_blank">FeaturePoints</a></h3>
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<b><a href="https://featu.re/8XXYW6" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
<div>
When you use the link above or my referral code 8XXYW6, you will get 50 points straight after you successfully register. I will earn 25% of the points you earn, and after 3 successful referrals, I will earn 50% of the points that you earn.</div>
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<div>
I have had the account for: 6 Days</div>
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<div>
I now have: 60 Points from 2 surveys</div>
<div>
Payouts: 600 Points for USD1 via PayPal</div>
</div>
</div>
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<div>
I haven't actually received any e-mails for survey invites from FeaturePoints for the past 6 days. I almost forgot about this platform! They don't ask for a lot of information here, but they do show survey opportunities at the home page once you log in. So far, I haven't qualify for any. The payouts can be anywhere between USD1 to 1000, but it's going to take a long while if you're also not getting any surveys like I am. </div>
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<h3>
<a href="http://www.clixsense.com/?14446720" target="_blank">ClixSense</a></h3>
<div>
<b><a href="http://www.clixsense.com/?14446720" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
<div>
Each successful referral and active member on ClixSense will earn me anywhere from $0.10 to $0.30. Once my referral hits $5, I can get a $20.00 bonus. Sounds good!</div>
<div>
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<div>
<div>
I have had the account for: 6 Days</div>
<div>
<div>
I now have: USD0.00 from 0 surveys</div>
<div>
Payouts: USD10.00 via Skrill or USD20.00 via Payoneer minimum.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
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<div>
This platform is still relatively new for me and I haven't qualified for any surveys here yet. However, the referral program does look promising. The interface definitely isn't the best though, with it appearing like a very old-school website. Like MOBROG and Triaba Panel, ClixSense directly pays for surveys. </div>
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<div>
ClixSense encourages participation in Figure8 Tasks, but I have not looked into that yet. </div>
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<h3>
<a href="https://www.clixsenseresearch.com/Pages/Referrals.aspx" target="_blank">ClixSense Research</a></h3>
<div>
<b><a href="https://www.clixsenseresearch.com/Pages/Referrals.aspx" target="_blank">What I get when you use the link above to sign up: </a></b></div>
<div>
Nothing, but I can get $0.50 for each survey you successfully complete.</div>
<div>
<br /></div>
<div>
<div>
I have had the account for: 1 Day</div>
<div>
<div>
I now have: USD0.00 from 0 surveys</div>
<div>
Payouts: USD10.00 via Payoneer for cashout.</div>
</div>
</div>
<div>
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<div>
Based on my understanding, this is a partner of ClixSense. I am still very new at this and will need more time to review.</div>
</div>
<div>
<br />
<h3>
<a href="https://getvase.com/?referral=y4a0dc" target="_blank">Bonus: Vase.com</a></h3>
</div>
<div>
<a href="https://getvase.com/?referral=y4a0dc" target="_blank">What I can get when you use the link above to sign up:</a></div>
<div>
I'll get RM1.00 for the first 5 referrals, and then RM0.20 for each subsequent ones afterwards.</div>
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<div>
<div>
I have had the account for: 1 Day</div>
<div>
I now have: RM1 for 1 Survey</div>
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Payouts: From RM1 onwards straight to your bank account.</div>
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After sharing this blog post with my friend, she suggested this platform to me. You can get RM1 right after you register by completing your profile! That's a really good start, I think. Surveys that you can get from this site will go straight into cash - no pesky points or anything, which I think is kinda cool. Direct transfer to your bank too. Truly a Malaysian survey experience *claps* </div>
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If you have other platforms that is applicable to Malaysian users as well, please don't hesitate to let me know in the comments section below! :D </div>
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<h2>
Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King - General Information</h2>
Author: Stephen King<br />
Published in: 2014<br />
Genre: Crime Fiction<br />
Pages: 436<br />
ISBN: 978-1-4767-5445-1<br />
Additional Details: Book 1 in the Bill Hodges Trilogy, followed up by:<br />
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<ul>
<li>Finders Keepers (2015)</li>
<li>End of Watch (2016)</li>
</ul>
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Awards Received:<br />
<ul>
<li>2014 Goodreads Choice Awards in the "Mystery and Thriller" category</li>
<li>2015 Edgar Award for Best Novel from the Mystery Writers of America</li>
</ul>
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<h3>
My Reviews of Mr. Mercedes</h3>
My Rating: 5/5<br />
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I have always been a fan of Stephen King, but for the horror genre rather than crime or mystery. I mean, when we think of this author, we immediately relate him with the horrendous clown in the gutters from his book It, the young girl with telekinesis abilities, drenched in blood during her own prom night from his first book Carrie, and the dead animals that returned to life but not quite in Pet Sematary.<br />
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We don't think of crime or detective stories when we think of Stephen King. Not really. That was how it stayed until I finished Mr. Mercedes.<br />
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This is the first book that I read from Stephen King that was not about supernatural beings or other undead thingies. Just like his other works that I enjoyed, this book did not disappoint.<br />
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The story started a little slow, and I was a little lost at where it was going for the first few pages, but as I became more familiar with the characters and who the perpetrator was, it was just a matter of hours before I flipped through the remaining pages.<br />
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There were parts where you can guess what would happen next. There were also parts where you would want to scream at the characters, "You're going the wrong way!" and there was a roller coaster of emotions involved in the entire book as the characters try to find out who Mr. Mercedes is.<br />
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I loved it.<br />
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If you are curious about what happens in the story, you can take a look at summary that I have written below. It's still quite lengthy though.<br />
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<b>Contains spoilers from this point onwards</b></div>
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A Summary of Mr. Mercedes by Stephen King</h3>
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This novel focuses on three main characters - Bill Hodges, a retired police detective, a black teenage boy Jerome, and a neurotic woman Holly. These three characters form an unlikely team to stop the antagonist known simply as Mr. Mercedes from committing his second massacre after the infamous City Center Massacre.</div>
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The first few chapters of the novel focused on the bleak economy, when thousands of job applicants gathered for a chance to get interviewed and land a job. Amidst the long queue, there is also a mother with her baby, who she carried around because she was not able to get a babysitter for the day. As the mother laid inside a sleeping bag with her baby cuddled together for warmth, a Mercedes crashed through the crowd, killing 8 - including the mom, the baby and a man trying to protect them from the impact.</div>
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Mr. Bill Hodges was on the case, but not for long. </div>
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After his retirement, Mr. Bill Hodges spends most of his day in front of the TV, contemplating using his gun on himself. On one of those days, he received a letter from someone who claimed to be Mr. Mercedes.</div>
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The letter detailed how he felt when he drove through the crowd and what he did to prevent his DNA from getting all over the car. He stole the car from Olivia Trelawney, a rich woman staying in a prestigious area called Sugar Heights, and made sure that the retired cop knew that he is being watched. The words were not very clear, but the intention was there - the villain wants to push Bill Hodges, the lead detective for his case, to his suicide. </div>
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Bill Hodges did not take the bait.</div>
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He found a renewed interest in the case, and wanted to catch the villain despite Mr. Mercedes claiming that he is not interested to do the same massacre again. </div>
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Bill remembers the interviews he had with the owner of the car of interest - the Mercedes that Olivia Trelawney forgot her keys in. She seemed appalled at the idea that she left her keys in the ignition - leading to the lives killed.<br />
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The more Olivia denied the possibilities, the harder Bill Hodges and his cop buddy Pete Huntley pressed on. Eventually, the two cops started to put less faith in Olivia. Eventually, she committed suicide.<br />
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Olivia's death pushed Bill Hodges to take extra care of the case once more. He started by questioning several individuals, one of whom included Janelle Patterson, known better as "Janey" in the book.<br />
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Janey showed Bill a letter that she believed was from Mr. Mercedes, having taken a liking to this retired cop. Soon, they were caught in a romantic relationship together, although Bill Hodges did not reveal this to anyone.<br />
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Meanwhile, Mr. Mercedes, known as Brady Hartsfield to the readers, have been paying attention to what was going on. He worked two jobs - one as an IT specialist that visits customers' homes to fix their PC issues, and the other as an ice-cream man right in the neighbourhood where Bill Hodges and Jeremy stayed.<br />
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On one of his rounds, Brady noticed Bill's car parked outside Janey's apartment, which was a turning point to make him become more impatient to take action - any form of action to show that he was a real threat.<br />
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Bill Hodges looped Jerome in on Debbie's Blue Umbrella, the website that Brady Hartsfield invited both Olivia and Bill to so that they can talk in private.<br />
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Soon, Bill was sending taunting messages to Brady on the site, cleverly provoking him in a way that he knew Brady would not be able to handle. He denied the possibilities of Brady being Mr. Mercedes, using another convicted serial killer that was recently acquitted.<br />
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Brady was riled up, and had one of his bad headaches that happen whenever he's stressed or thinking about his dead younger brother - the first murder he committed with his mother. Here, it was revealed that Brady was involved in some sort of incest with his mother.<br />
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He prepared a burger with poisoned meat that was meant to be given to Jerome's pet dog. The intention was to show Bill Hodges that he was the real deal, and that Bill should give him the credits and attention that he sought.<br />
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The plan failed when Brady's mother had one of her good days out of her alcohol fever. She found the hamburger packed in the fridge and ate it. Brady ignored her pleas for help when he found her, sad that she had to go that way but unwilling to help due to the fact that he would be caught if he did. </div>
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His mother's death drove Brady almost mad. He told the cop only one thing - that he would kill him.<br />
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Brady used a device that he made to break into other people's cars - a device that steals a car remote's signals and mimics it to unlock the car without a key. He planted a bomb in Hodges' car during Olivia's funeral, which was attended by Olivia's relatives, Janey and Bill Hodges himself.<br />
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Bill would have been killed at that point, but Brady mistook Janey for the cop when she wore the hat that she gave him and drove away in his car.<br />
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Janey was killed in the explosion.<br />
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The explosion brought Holly - Janey's cousin - closer to Bill Hodges and her own sanity. Together with Jerome and Bill, the three started to uncover more and more of Mr. Mercedes' identity.<br />
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They checked past car burglary logs and several other crime records. When they managed to open Olivia's computer, the truth started to unravel. Things moved fast once the trio connected Olivia's computer to the tech store that Brady worked at thanks to a security guard in Sugar Heights.<br />
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Jerome immediately knew who Mr. Mercedes was when he saw Brady's familiar face listed on the tech company's website - the ice-cream man that his sister and himself often visited for their snack. </div>
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They managed to find Brady's address, from which they also found his mother's dead body and her record of the passcodes for Brady's basement area. Upon unlocking Brady's computers and e-mails, they found what they feared - Brady was going to kill even more people in a concert that was going to happen that very evening. There would be more than 4000 people in that stadium, including Jerome's sister and mother.<br />
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Brady had disguised himself well, entering through the handicapped area in a wheelchair, carrying his younger brother's picture in his lap to hide the blinking lights of the bomb he planned to detonate. While Bill had alerted his friend working in the security area of the concert, the retired cop also did not suspect Brady of being the culprit.<br />
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Bill, Jerome and Holly later arrived at the concert hall when the music was just starting. While Bill succumbed to signs of a heart attack, Holly and Jerome went ahead to find and subdue Brady. Holly, who had gained much more confidence throughout the ordeal with Bill and Jerome, spotted Brady and knocked him out with the handmade weapon that Bill always carried around - the Happy Slapper.<br />
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Brady fell unconscious immediately, and Holly pulled the batteries off the electronic detonation device. The concert and its 4000 attendees were saved.<br />
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In the epilogue, Jerome and Holly were awarded as heroes of the city. Holly moved out from her family home, away from her eccentric and overbearing mother. Bill was questioned upon recovery from his heart attack, but he was still a free man.<br />
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Meanwhile, in a hospital, Brady woke up from a coma and asked for his mother, saying that he had a headache.</div>
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A bit of Google searching told me that Devotion is a game made by Red Candle Games, a company based in Taiwan.</div>
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This game was apparently taken down from Steam after some China players noticed insults about their government inside the game.</div>
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Well, I managed to get the game, and I played it twice. First on a blind run just to see if I can get through the game, and a second time 30 minutes later to record the no commentary playthrough. If you're interested, you can view the playthroughs here: <a href="https://youtu.be/iEKWuOU9cRw">Part 1</a> - <a href="https://youtu.be/F_qsU2MfTF4">Part 2 </a></div>
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If You Have a Copy of Devotion by Red Candle Games, Play It</h2>
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My ratings - 5/5</div>
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Gameplay Difficulty: Easy, Beginner level</div>
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Game Genre: Atmospheric Horror, Adventure, Exploration</div>
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If you are categorized as a noob game player like me - I can't survive survival games, FPS games or anything that requires me not to panic and have control over which buttons I'm pressing - then this game is for you. </div>
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Devotion is more like an exploration game that you can get through without even searching for 'Devotion Game Walkthrough' on Google. I managed to get past it in the first run just fine, and it's the first time in a few months that I have actually completed a game - much less in just a couple of hours.</div>
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If you like horror games that gives you the creeps - good atmosphere, good sound effects, barely relying on jumpscares, then once more, Devotion is a game that you NEED to try. I loved the music choices, the atmospheric horror of the entire game scenes and everything else. Even the credits. Everything. </div>
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I won't classify this game as a survival game, simply because there's no way that you can die in this game. Even if you do at ONE single point of the game, you get to try again immediately because the game auto-saves at each door entrance and some cutscenes.</div>
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As a Chinese person playing this game, it's super refreshing to play an atmospheric horror game that has Chinese audio. It feels like home.</div>
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I suppose that is the entire point of this game. It feels just like home if you are from this cultural background. From the moment you open the game, the traditional Chinese music vibe brings you back to the 80's or so. </div>
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Kudos to the game developers who paid so much detail to the surroundings of the game. There isn't that many rooms or scenarios to create - most of the game occurs inside an apartment unit with 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom (ah, the goddamn bathroom), a living room and a kitchen area. </div>
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However, the living room was so... forgive the bare descriptions, but it was so Chinese.</div>
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Devotion Stuck Close to the Chinese Cultural Background</h3>
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So I said it was super 'Chinese' because I look at every single furnishing pieces and I think of my grandparents' place. The glass coffee table, that specific wooden clock, the TV program they aired on the TV, how they furnished Mei Shin's study table... Everything felt like home.</div>
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Hey, I'm Chinese okay, spare me the ridicule.</div>
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Even the apartment entrances are like... I look at it and I go, "Yep that's how some of my more religious relatives decorate their home entrances. You enter the house and the praying altar is right there, its red light glowing luminously even in the dark.</div>
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I remember being scared of that same glowing red light when I had to go downstairs and pee in the middle of the night when I was still a little kid. </div>
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And look, there's a tank with an Arowana in it. Absolutely Chinese. </div>
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Buddhist, Taoist, whatever religion some of these Chinese people might be, you can be sure that there are some people who would rather visit their sifu (in this game, Mentor Hu) than to visit the doctor. </div>
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You can present them with any sorts of problems - baby crying too much in the middle of the night, child being very mischievous, teenager getting too rebellious, someone keeps getting sick in the family or suddenly appear tired all the time etc. The list is endless. These religious people will ask you to go to the temple and pray.</div>
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I even remember going to one of those temples myself. They had amulets, prayers and blessings for everything. I didn't believe in it then, and now I'm still filled with disbelief about how some people can take it too far like how the main character in the game did.</div>
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The mention of afterlife was also realistic. If you have been to the Chin Swee Temple near Genting Highlands, you might have seen the representations of various levels of Chinese hell. You can take a look at <a href="https://erisgoesto.com/2016/08/12/journey-to-enlightenment-chin-swee-cave-temple-genting/">Luna's blog post here</a> to see what the display is all about.</div>
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In one of these levels, the sinners are punished to support heavy rocks and pillars for their sins. That refers to the <a href="https://china-underground.com/2011/04/27/the-eighteen-layers-of-chinese-hell/#Chamber_of_Rock">Chamber of Rocks</a>. The sinners that you are looking at in the game are supposedly those who kill or abandon their babies.</div>
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Traditional Chinese Families' Taboo of Mental Illnesses</h4>
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大海滿是波浪 不見船入港<br />Ocean full of waves, no ships in sight at port<br />她站在碼頭 遙望著北方<br />Standing on the pier, she gazes far north<br />青絲飛上白霜 心還惦著他<br />Hair dyed by time, the heart still missing him<br />信裡沒說的 那句回答<br />The answer owed in my letter to you<br />傻傻的姑娘戴一朵花 等著他回來啊<br />A flower in her hair, waiting for his return<br />小小的嘴兒藏不住話 都唱成情歌啊<br />Her voice overflowing with words, she sings a love song<br />青山依舊 歲月如常 也不見她悲傷<br />Mountains last, years pass, yet her sadness remains hidden<br />有情的人 別問她 你還願意嗎?<br />For the one who's full of love, don't ask if she's still willing<br />(repeat)<br />若有來世 你還願意嗎?<br />If there's an afterlife, are you still willing?</blockquote>
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Now that you have read their response, take my reviews and content with a bit of salt if you will. Just know that this is my personal experience and I am basing my reviews on my experience using this website to work as a freelancer.<br />
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If you have been following my blog for a bit, you might have seen some other blog posts about scams at Freelancer.com and other issues.<br />
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I also have a blog that was made just to single out some of the scammers that are using Freelancer.com. <a href="https://scammed-freelancers.blogspot.com/">You can find the blog here if you are interested</a>.<br />
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Freelancer.com Is Not Worth It :(</h2>
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I have tried several freelancing platforms, including <a href="http://www.fiverr.com/s2/5bd477c7f5">Fiverr</a>, <a href="https://www.peopleperhour.com/site/referralaward?rfrd=1962075.1">PeoplePerHour</a> and <a href="https://www.guru.com/freelancers/wan-yong">Guru.com</a>. Freelancer.com was probably the first one that I tried, simply because the name was easy to find.<br />
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I was happily using the 1-month pro-account free trial and bidding on all sorts of projects, but I can assure you that at least 50% of the bids I placed were gone to waste.<br />
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Reasons to Say No to Freelancer.com No. 1: High Project Cost</h3>
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There was one project that I managed to get around the first few days that I was on the site. It was a transcription project, I remember that much. I bid SGD155 for that project, and the client was happy with that price.</div>
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Of course I was thrilled to have that project. It was barely a week in and I already managed to get a high-price one. </div>
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My cash wallet took a negative dive even before I managed to earn a single cent.</div>
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Freelancer.com Took a 10% Project Fee from Me </h4>
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Well that was really shitty, isn't it? 10%? For real? </div>
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As it turns out, the client who couldn't speak or understand Mandarin or other dialects misinformed me about the audio clip. While I was told that the audio clip is mostly English and Chinese with a bit of Hokkien, the entire audio clip was 90% angry, cursing Hokkien that was too fast to comprehend.</div>
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So I told him that I couldn't do it, and canceled the assignment. </div>
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There was No Refund After Project Cancellation</h4>
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I had to use the earnings that I gained from the next few projects to get my wallet back to positive and earning values.</div>
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There was no refund of project fee even after the project has been canceled. That had me wondering. What if there were clients who were scamming freelancers? If we later on noticed that the project didn't make sense or we wanted to stop the collaborations, we as the freelancers would still be charged the non-refundable project fee.</div>
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Not very fair, is it?</div>
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Reasons to Say No to Freelancer.com No. 2: Plenty of Scam Jobs</h3>
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Here's a tip if you're looking to find money at Freelancer.com. Don't apply for jobs that look sketchy. I'm talking about tasks like 'need to type PDF into word', 'copy typing job' and generally jobs that look like this:</div>
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I just logged in to the platform and checked the most recent uploaded project, and there's one right there. It's so easy to find and spot the scam jobs once you have been there for a few days! </div>
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Note that the employer has 0 verification. They are not a verified member, no payment verification, no email, phone number or any other form of verification at all.</div>
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The project profit looks absolutely delicious. I would love to type images into words and get paid anywhere in between USD250 - USD750.</div>
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But come on. Let's be real.</div>
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There's no way you can earn that much by just copytyping, foreign language or not. Find me one single job with payment receipts where you have earned USD250 from if you want to prove me wrong.</div>
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Scammers are everywhere on this site. Spammy projects that keep getting reposted every 10 minutes by different new profiles, clients who start chatting with you only to start with something that goes like the screenshots below:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Hi writer,</span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><span style="font-size: 12.8px;">Thank you for applying for my job, Please connect me on skype at jmark2222</span></td></tr>
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I learnt my lessons very quickly. Clients looking to work externally from the platform are almost always scammers. I did have a few clients who turned out to be decent humans who don't scam us freelancers of our hard work, but the majority of them are pure piece of shits.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hi.Thanks for applying to my job. So it works like this. I hire you and when we start, I send a topic and you do within 2hrs max and send back and I give you another . So it's like that until we do 5 articles daily, 5-6 days a week. okay? As you work , you track your time with time tracker for secured payment. Can you work like that? If so add me on skype at seowriterneeded so I hire you and we start. Thanks</td><td class="tr-caption"><br /></td></tr>
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The person from the second screenshot is still actively scamming people with the same Skype handle. I wrote almost USD200 worth of work and did not receive any payments. </div>
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Looks like the Secure Payments and Payment Verifications Can Be Removed</h4>
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Here's what happened. When you track your work hourly, the payments are logged on Freelancer platform. You then get paid according to the hourly rates you agreed on.</div>
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The money will get released automatically from the client's side at certain days of the week.</div>
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Sounds secure, doesn't it? </div>
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That's what I thought too. I mean, I had projects afterwards that actually really worked that way and I got my money like clockwork. But for this scam client...</div>
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The client later blocked me on Freelancer.com and removed his credit card verification status so that his payments no longer go through automatically.</div>
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I immediately contacted the client of course, only to find out that he already blocked me in advance. I talked to the Freelancer.com support team about this issue immediately.</div>
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That's what the support team is for, right?</div>
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Less Than Optimal Help & Protection for Freelancers</h4>
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"Please help me get my money. The client actually blocked me and my secure payments were canceled. How did that happen? Does you website actually protect freelancers? If clients can just remove their secure payments and credit card verifications, then our clients can just run away scot-free without paying us isn't it? All they have to do is to remove their credit card details, block us, and that's it!"</div>
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Their responses were something along the lines of , "We're sorry this happened. Please be careful when choosing a client to work with in the future. We have closed the client's account to avoid them from scamming other freelancers."</div>
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Well, great. They just removed the only way I can get my money from the client - by deleting the profile. Niiiiiiice. Awesome.</div>
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Not only did they enable the client to get away with removing what is supposed to be our safeguarded payments, they also remove the client from their platform so that nothing can be done. They didn't try to contact the client for me or anything. Just removed the account. </div>
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Reasons to Say No to Freelancer.com No. 3: Other Project Fees</h3>
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On PeoplePerHour.com, users who invite clients to hire them on that platform will not get any project fees or anything. You can get away with 0 project fee if they hire you first!</div>
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That is not the case for Freelancer.com</div>
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Even for my hourly project tracking assignments, they still take 10%/</div>
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Every assignment milestone, every hourly bid projects will take 10% away from you.</div>
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Essentially, when you are giving your bidding prices to your clients, you will need to charge them a little extra.</div>
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I usually charge USD20 for every 1000 words. But because I want to get this same amount once I get paid, I need to charge at least USD22. Freelancer.com even made it more convenient for you to charge them extra by automatically adding the 10% into each milestone, hourly rates and project bids you put on the project that you are interested in.</div>
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Not exactly the best for the client either, isn't it?</div>
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Even when clients directly go to my profile and offer me a project, I look at the price and go, "Hmm.. Cool, cool. USD20 for 1000 words. That's exactly my current rate! I can deal with this."</div>
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I accepted the project, and I was charged USD5.42.</div>
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Do we actually get charged a little more when we get approached directly? </div>
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Here's the best part. The amount was automatically deducted straight from my PayPal account. I only knew that I actually had my balances (that was just the exact amount I saved for a monthly recurring payment) directly deducted when I received an email about it. There's even a nice little invoice from Freelancer.com! </div>
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So quick to automatically charge my PayPal account for project fees, yet unable to secure a scammer client's credit card payments?</div>
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Interesting. Indeed, interesting.</div>
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There isn't even an incremental system thing that decreases the project fees taken from you once you reached a certain seller level. Even if there is, I can guarantee you that it's going to be a form of paid membership.</div>
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You pay to get paid more. Hah. </div>
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What I Suggest:</h3>
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Create your own blog or one-pager portfolio on any of those free blogging websites. Write about the services you provide over there and promote it on Facebook or something. </div>
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Fiverr, PeoplePerHour etc are a lot better in terms of how they charge freelancers and how they protect them as well. </div>
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Don't make the same mistakes I did! </div>
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Wedding vows are beautiful.</div>
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If I only have enough budget to prioritize ONE thing in a wedding ceremony, it would be a stream of beautiful words from my husband-to-be. If he's too shy to say it out loud, that's fine. I can read it from a note with his handwritings, and I'd still be just as happy!</div>
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The Best Wedding Vow from my Childhood - Until Today</h3>
My personal favourite was actually the one featured in Corpse Bride by Tim Burton. I fell in love with it after seeing it in the movie, but my young mind was not able to grasp it fully yet.<br />
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A few years later, I did grow to appreciate it. Honestly, I still wouldn't mind if this were to be my own wedding vows.<br />
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Corpse Bride Wedding Vows </h3>
It goes like this:<br />
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With this hand,<br />I will lift your sorrows.<br />Your cup will never empty,<br />For I will be your wine.<br />With this candle,<br />I will light your way in darkness.<br />With this ring,<br />I ask you to be mine.</blockquote>
And then, I came to learn about the traditional Celtic Wedding Vows today, which is an epitome of awesome and beauty that I did not know existed.<br />
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Beautiful Traditional Celtic Wedding Vows</h3>
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Ye are Blood of my Blood, and Bone of my Bone.<br />I give ye my Body, that we Two might be One.<br />I give ye my Spirit, 'til our Life shall be Done. </blockquote>
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You cannot possess me for I belong to myself<br />But while we both wish it, I give you that which is mine to give<br />You cannon command me, for I am a free person<br />But I shall serve you in those ways you require<br />and the honeycomb will taste sweeter coming from my hand.</blockquote>
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I vow you the first cut of my meat, the first sip of my wine,<br />from this day it shall only your name I cry out in the night<br />and into your eyes that I smile each morning;<br />I shall be a shield for you back as you are for mine,<br />no shall a grievous word be spoken about us,<br />for our marriage is sacred between us and no stranger shall hear my grievance.<br />Above and beyond this, I will cherish and honor you through this life<br />and into the next.</blockquote>
Supposedly, there are other versions of these wedding vows. It also comes in different parts and phrases, but the ones I shared above are the ones that I love the most.<br />
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My flight to Korea was around 2.30PM Malaysian time, and the flight to Incheon International Airport took 5 hours and 50 minutes. By the time we reach the airport, it was already 10PM+ and we were taking the all-stop-train to our hotel outside Seoul Station.<br />
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Our flight back to Malaysia was early in the morning at 9AM, so we basically didn't do much on that day. Take out the first and last days for flight and below is the final travel itinerary we had for a 7-day trip from 21 to 27 Feb.<br />
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7-Day Seoul Travel Itinerary</h2>
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20 Feb</h3>
Pocket WiFi Rental<br />
Pick-up your Pocket WiFi device at our counter located at KLIA2 Arrival Hall Level L2-13<br />
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Day 1: Reach Airport at Incheon<br />
Go to Seoul Station on all-stop-train.<br />
Get T-Money card (Touch n Go) for subways.<br />
Can reload RM100-ish into it. (30,000 won)<br />
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21 Feb (Thursday) </h3>
Day 2: Visit Anguk<br />
<b>Line 1</b> Seoul Station → City Hall Station → Jonggak Station → Jongno 3-ga Station<br />
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Change to Seoul Metro<br />
<b>Line 3</b> Jongno 3-ga Station → Anguk Station Exit 6<br />
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Visit Insadong</h4>
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Korean streets, shops to explore. Right outside Anguk Station Exit 6.<br />
Best time: Saturday (2PM - 10PM) and Sunday (10AM - 10PM) because no cars.<br />
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Visit Ssamziegil Shopping Complex</h4>
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62, Insadong-gil, Jongno-gu, Seoul<br />
Open 10:30 - 20:30<br />
Is along Insadong streets. Shops are nicely decorated and is at the center of Insadong. Visit top level to see Wall of Love where people leave love messages on plastic tags and leave it on the wall.<br />
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Review: Unique shopping complex that slowly spirals upwards as you walk, so you don't need to walk the stairs. </blockquote>
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Visit Bukchon Hanok Village </h4>
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(Anguk Station Exit 3)<br />
Head right after go out from exit 3.<br />
Walk about 200m will see info about Bukchon Village Walking Tour.<br />
600-year-old village area for full Korean experience. Inside here also can rent hanbok.<br />
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Review: We didn't visit the entire thing. Managed to visit a free museum, there's also lots of local shops and food to browse through :)</blockquote>
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Visit Samcheongdong Street</h4>
Connected from Bukchon Hanok Village. Beautiful tree experience (no flowers no leaves cause winter) but many little shops also open here.<br />
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Note: Didn't end up visiting this area. </blockquote>
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<b>Line 3</b> Anguk station→ Gyeongbokgung (Exit 5)<br />
Get Hanbok Rental Services (optional)<br />
Seohwa Hanbok (few minutes walk away) or other hanbok rental stores nearby. Usually can get free visit to Gyeongbokgung Palace<br />
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Visit Gyeongbokgung Palace </h4>
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Guard-on-Duty Performance in Gwanghwamun gate at 11:00AM and 1:00PM<br />
Sumungun (Gatekeeper) Military Training in Hyeopsaengmun Gate at 09:35AM and 1:35PM.<br />
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Review: We rented hanbok for 2 hours and managed to get free hairdo and accessories services for 15,000 won (Almost RM50). The palace was huge and there's lots of spots for photography, especially with all other travelers wearing traditional hanbok as well! We did not arrive at a time when there were performances, however.</blockquote>
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Visit Namdaemun Market</h4>
<b>Line 3</b> Gyeongbokgung → Jongno-sam-ga<br />
<b>Line 1 </b>Jongno-sam-ga → Seoul Station<br />
<b>Line 4</b> Seoul Station → Hoehyeon<br />
Exit 5. Closed on Sundays. Open past 11PM also.<br />
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Review: It's mostly food, food, food. This market is one that is the most similar to Malaysian night markets that I can find. You can even buy fishes, meat and other actual groceries. Snacks are available everywhere, and there are some stalls for clothes too. It's not bad :) </blockquote>
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22 Feb (Friday)</h4>
Day 3: Visit Myeongdong & Dongdaemun<br />
<b>Line 4 </b>Seoul Station → Hoehyeon → Myeongdong<br />
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Visit Myeongdong Shopping City</h4>
Exit 6 to visit Myeongdong City Center.<br />
Full of shopping areas including Lotte Department Store.<br />
Cosmetics can be bought here. Don’t buy from first store because many will offer free samples.<br />
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Review: They weren't kidding when they called this Myeongdong Shopping District! We were here all the way until evening and we never finished browsing through all the streets. Cosmetics, clothings, cafes - even cats, dogs, racoons & meerkat cafes!!! - and many others. You really need to be here and experience it to know what it's all about.</blockquote>
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Visit Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)</h4>
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<b>Line 4 </b>Myeongdong → Chungmuro → Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station<br />
Exit 1 to visit Dongdaemun Design Plaza (DDP)<br />
Art hall, museum, fancy architecture design.<br />
If you go to Yigansumun Exhibition Hall in DDP, right next to it you’ll find the LED rose garden.<br />
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Review: A must-visit if you love beautiful architecture and art stuff. There's art museums and art displays. A good photo spot whether it's in the morning or later at night. </blockquote>
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Visit Dongdaemun Night Market</h4>
<b>Line 4 </b>Dongdaemun History and Culture Park Station → Dongdaemun Station (it's actually within walking distance, just opposite the street)<br />
Open between 10PM – 5AM<br />
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Review: Didn't quite like this one. Most shops were old and selling the same things over and over - things like seat cushions, socks and undergarments etc. There are lots of places for traditional Korean food here though.</blockquote>
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23 Feb (Saturday)</h3>
Day 4: Activities in Seoul<br />
<b>Line 1 </b>Seoul Station → City Hall Station<br />
Change line<br />
<b>Line 2 </b>City Hall Station → Euljiro 1-ga Station<br />
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Running Man Activities</h4>
Exit 3 from Euljiro 1-ga Station for Running Man Thematic Experience.<br />
RM50/pax, open from 10AM to 8PM. Game experience lasts for 1 hour, visitors advised to wear pants for better mobility.<br />
Complete game within 60 minutes with over 80 points for present.<br />
Tickets booked on Klook.<br />
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Review: THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE! The activities are relatively simple, but it does require some luck and techniques. Some machines also seem to be a little faulty, not registering contacts or something. Yes, it affects your scores! On first glance it totally looks like a place for kids to play - and I do agree to some extent. Most of us only managed to accumulate a little more than 60 points out of 80, and we walked away with a tiny badge. </blockquote>
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Visit Lotte Department Store</h4>
Exit 7 or 8 from Euljiro 1-ga Station. Directly connected to the station.<br />
Open 10:30AM - 8PM<br />
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Review: Okay we definitely wasted time here. Lotte Department Store sells branded stuff - Imagine Pavilion KL or Premium Outlet. It is, however, connected to Young Plaza, a place that was much more affordable and actually shop-able. There's also an underground shopping area that you can visit near the station exit. </blockquote>
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Visit Grevin Museum</h4>
Euljiro 1-ga station Exit #1.<br />
Has 4 floors for viewing and activities. Entry for adults is 18,000 won in-store and 16,000 won online (Between RM57 to 65). Last entry at 6.15PM<br />
Ticket Booked on Klook<br />
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<br />Review: Love this place! I have never visited other wax museums before, but this was quite a good deal. The wax figures were nice, and each section - music, sports etc, were aptly decorated according to their themes. Although there were game stations, some were not functioning. We were mainly there for the wax figures though so I guess that's okay. </blockquote>
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24 Feb (Sunday)</h3>
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Go to Lotte World</h4>
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<b>Line 1 </b>Seoul Station → Sindorim</div>
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<b>Line 2</b> Sindorim → Jamsil (Songpa-gu Office)</div>
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Lotte World directly connected to Jamsil Station<br />
RM115 per person. Include full day pass and admission to Lotte World Folk Museum<br />
OR for RM152, get Lotte World full day pass + Lotte World Aquarium Daily Pass.<br />
Open 0900-2200<br />
Show the voucher at Lotte World South Gate (Group Ticket Office) to redeem paper tickets.<br />
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Review: Never made the mistake we did by going there on a Sunday. If you HAVE to be there on a weekend, purchase Magic Pass instead of normal ticket to skip the 2-hour queues. Ticket redemption counter is also quite a distance away from Jamsil station. We didn't visit the Folk Museum located inside the indoor theme park, but we did visit the Aquarium. That was definitely a worthwhile experience! They have penguins and chubby little seals and even a beluga whale!</blockquote>
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25 Feb (Monday)</h3>
Day 6: Go to Suwon<br />
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<b>Line 4</b> Subway Seoul Station → Geumjeong Station<br />
<b>Line 1</b> Subway Geumjeong Station → Suwon Station Exit 5.<br />
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Visit Korean Folk Village</h4>
Take shuttle bus from Suwon Station to Korean Folk Village at 10:30, 12:30 or 14:30. Buses directly transiting from Suwon to Korean Folk Village also available.<br />
Ticket Booked on Klook<br />
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Performance sessions<br />
Farmer's Music and Dance 11:00, 14:00<br />
Acrobatics on a Tightrope walking 11:30, 14:30<br />
Equestrian Feats 12:00, 15:00<br />
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Return trip: Go back with shuttle bus from KFV → Suwon Station 13:50 or 16:00. Buses also available to Suwon station.<br />
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Review: We missed the first performance at 2PM D: The trip from Seoul Station to Suwon Station took a while, and we didn't quite figure out how the buses there work until the return trip. So we missed the first performance. However, the other two performances we saw were great, and there is also a small theme park inside this place! KFV is great for photography, and there's also this fancy little place inside it where you can see the traditional lifestyles, food, clothings and much more for other countries. It's a huge place that you can visit for an entire day without much issues. </blockquote>
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Visit Yeongdong Market</h4>
Suwon Station Exit 5, 8, or 10<br />
Walk 4 minutes to bus stop bound for Paldalmun<br />
Board green buses No.35, 11 or 13, travel for 5 stops. Walk straight 1 minute to reach marketplace.<br />
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Review: Our hotel was actually in Paldalmun area, so we didn't need to take a bus to this market. There's quite a lot to shop here as well, although perhaps a little more suited for older generations than younger ones.</blockquote>
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26 Feb (Tuesday) </h3>
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Visit Hwaseong Fortress</h4>
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In Paldalmun area, within direct sight upon arrival.<br />
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Review: The entrance fee is barely 1,000 won - about RM3.60. It's quite a small hike up the fortress. Even when we visited, it was 12 degrees when other days were mostly 3-5 degrees celsius. The lady at the info center communicated with us in good English about the backstory and history of the fortress before we went up. She also guided us on the best route around the entire fortress and palace. It's very beautiful!</blockquote>
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DAY 7- 27 Feb (Wed) </h3>
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Visit Ewha Woman's University</h4>
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<b>Line 1</b> Suwon → Sindorim</div>
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<b>Line 2</b> Sindorim → Ewha Woman's University</div>
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Review: This is like a mini version of Myeongdong - outside the university anyways. The university is open for tour and visits, although there's a schedule for a proper tour. You are free to visit around the campus, but do be quiet! It is, after all, a university. A beautiful one. There are plenty of cafes, food spots and clothing stores around this university. </blockquote>
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Visit Hongik Univ. Area </h4>
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<b>Line 2</b> Ewha Woman's University → Hongik Univ. Station</div>
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Lots to shop and browse, also has a spa nearby.</div>
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Review: It finally feels more like KL shopping streets. You'll see Zara, H&M, Forever 21 and whatnot as standalone buildings here as you stroll down the streets. Plenty for us to shop for several hours! </blockquote>
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Visit Happy Day Spa </h4>
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Hongik Univ. Station exit 9</div>
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10,000 won (approx RM36) for night time visit from 8PM to 5AM - can stay entire night here if you wish. </div>
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Review: Had quite a culture shock because everyone was strolling about so freely without clothes at the shower and locker area. We only went for the sauna experience downstairs because it does not require going around in a birthday suit. There a 3 different sauna rooms, two of which we tried. One was too hot for us and we did not go in. It's over all very comfortable, and there's an open space where you can just grab a mattress-like thing and a pillow-ish block and lie around wherever you please. </blockquote>
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We took the all-stop-train directly from Hongik Univ. Station to Incheon International Airport around 4.30AM the next morning for our 9AM morning flight back.<br />
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</script></div>Tatoru Yukihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14561837338573017127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8100608624364782454.post-47505036464267720102019-03-06T15:20:00.001+08:002019-03-06T15:20:13.636+08:00Things to Note When Visiting Seoul, South Korea<h2>
Visiting Seoul, South Korea from A Malaysian's Perspectives</h2>
So, there were some things that I wasn't quite prepared for when I visited South Korea in the end of February 2019. Here are some information and tips that I would like to share with other fellow Malaysians or other travelers who are looking to visit this place in the near future.<br />
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Data Roaming or SIM Card Purchase?</h3>
Data roaming charges could be cheaper and still just as reliable as compared to purchasing a SIM card for internet browsing purposes. My mobile carrier, UMobile (prepaid plan), charges RM10/day for roaming charges, whereas my sister purchased two separate SIM cards - one for 5 days, then again for another 3 days.<br />
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The total I spent for data roaming amounted up to RM90 (Approx 32,000 won) only, whereas she spent over RM140 (Approx. 37,000 won) for those two cards. The second card purchase depleted its data usage after one day's use, rendering the card useless for internet surfing afterwards.<br />
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What is T-Money & How Is It Charged?</h3>
T-Money is the equivalent of Malaysia's Toucn 'n' Go card that we use as a cashless system for transportations. T-Money cards can be purchased at various marts, 7-Eleven stores and train station vending machines in South Korea. The subways in South Korea charges mainly by distance. Every train station and buses start with a basic charge of 1,250 won (Approx. RM4.50) for the first 10KM. Afterwards, every subsequent 5km will charge your card an extra 500 won.<br />
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Most subsequent subway stations are also within walking distance to one another, so it is best to just walk to the next station instead of traveling via subway to said station to save some money.<br />
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Do Subway Station Exits Matter?</h3>
When you start traveling via subways, you'll quickly realize that there are often various exits available for each station. Some exits are right next to each other, but others are further apart. While planning for the trip, VisitKorea helped me a great deal in determining which exit is the closest to the attraction that I am interested in.<br />
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Just key in your destination in the search bar, click into your destination and then click on "Transportation" to see which station to go to, and which exit is the closest!<br />
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Basic Etiquettes to Watch Out for in South Korea</h3>
When staying in hotels, guest houses or even when visiting shop lots and restaurants requiring you to take off your shoes, you should wear the provided slippers into the premise. We are used to going barefoot inside houses or hotels, but in South Korea it’s a little different this way.<br />
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Most places also do not allow you to throw your used toilet paper into the toilet itself - you will see reminders in the restroom, asking you to discard them properly in the waste bin provided so that you don’t clog up the toilet.<br />
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South Koreans also practice having ‘fast lanes’ and ‘slow lanes’ even on escalators - something I really wish that we practice in Malaysia, so if you are not planning to move during the escalator right, stand on the right side. Those rushing individuals will speed past you on the left.<br />
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Places to Visit Near Seoul Station</h2>
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If you also arrived at Incheon International Airport like me, then it's likely that you will be visiting around Seoul after taking the all stop train directly from the airport to Seoul station. Here are a few places that I really recommend you to visit.</div>
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Grevin Wax Museum</h3>
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Address: 23 Eulji-ro, Euljiro 1(il)-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea</div>
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Phone: +82 2-777-4700</div>
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This wax museum has wax figures from different eras and ages. You can pose for photographs with Charlie Chaplin, Steve Jobs, Obama, Michael Jordan and of course, some Korean celebrities as well. Here, you will be prompted to visit the 4th floor first, and you slowly walk around and play games along the way with your entrance ticket before you head down to the lower floors. </div>
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This is probably as close as most of us can get to taking a picture with our favourite celebrity close-up, so why not visit and see how many celebrities you can recognize? </div>
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P.S.: They even have hand print models of selected celebrities! </div>
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Myeongdong Streets</h3>
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I won't specify an exact location for this one - just head to Myeongdong station and you're right there! </div>
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Even though I have read that Myeongdong is the shopping city from a lot of travel blogs, I still did not expect the vast shopping district that greeted me. There's always another shop that would pique my interest as I turn down the corner into another street, and by 6PM, more stalls have opened for my family and I to snack our way through.</div>
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Myeongdong Shopping District serves as a family shopping destination simply for the fact that it supplies all sorts of goods - not just the usual cosmetics that we expected. There were also clothes for guys, digital & tech stores, a 4-storey Daiso store and much more! You can also stop by any cafe available there for a rest before you head back.</div>
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Happy Day Spa</h3>
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Address: 112 Yanghwa-ro, Seogyo-dong, Mapo-gu, Seoul, South Korea</div>
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Phone: +82 2-322-3399</div>
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I never realized how conservative I am until I visited this spa. </div>
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This spa happens to be one of the branches of the Happy Day Spa chain, but it's conveniently located near Hongik Univ. Station Exit 9. You'll have to walk straight out about 300+ metres to get there though.</div>
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We visited at night, around 9PM. We paid 10,000 won (approx. RM36) as an entrance fee, and we can stay there from 8PM until 5AM if we wanted to. Think of it as a super budget place to stay if you have nowhere else to go! The first floor has the locker room, shared shower and some hot water pool thingy that we did not go for because everyone is just strolling around naked.</div>
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Lower floors however, had sauna rooms which we enjoyed very much.</div>
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Read my updated and detailed review here!<br />
<a href="https://tatoruyuki.blogspot.com/2019/08/kodenshi-aulora-honest-review.html" target="_blank">https://tatoruyuki.blogspot.com/2019/08/kodenshi-aulora-honest-review.html </a><br />
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Update 21 Mar 2019:<br />
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KODENSHI Aulora Pants Review</h2>
I worn it on and off for a few weeks. It is actually comfortable to wear, but I am not sure if it actually benefited me in any ways.<br />
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My mom, who I bought it from to support her side gig, told me that I should wear it the entire morning, and then perhaps hang it to dry itself in the room - nowhere too hot at night. I was to hand-wash the pants with gentle detergent every few days.<br />
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There's quite a lot of care that needs to go into one single pair of pants, and I know that I'm supposed to get the good effects if I wear it routinely - a.k.a. everyday, as often as I can wear it. But it's not very good for hygiene when I can only wash it once every 4-7 days. The fact that one pair of pants cost over RM700 also does not help, because I can't afford to buy two pairs to clean and wear in each other's place.<br />
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So... what I can say is it feels comfy.<br />
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It makes my tummy looks skinnier wearing the high waist band thing and that's a nice bonus I can live with. It doesn't give me those uh... chaffs? I think that's the word for it.<br />
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I don't feel any healthier, nor do I see any improvements in other aspects.<br />
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My 30+ y/o colleague who worn that for a bit as well told me that maybe it's not as beneficial to me simply because I'm still young and don't have the 'old people' issues.<br />
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My grandma did have better phisique after wearing it long-term though. At the beginning, she even needed help wearing the AULORA pants. My mom had to help her put it on, because she was so old and her back wasn't good enough for her to stretch those pants over her legs anymore.<br />
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About 2-3 months in my grandma was able to walk just fine, and was able to wear the pants by herself. That's good to see :)<br />
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I guess I'll recommend these pants more to the elderly who has difficulties walking, primarily. I don't know about the other perks that this pair of pants supposedly has.<br />
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15 Oct 2018:<br />
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Aite so my own momma <a href="https://www.facebook.com/stella.chen.9022662?__tn__=%2CdK-R-R-R-R&eid=ARCGaw_lEicJZCLtViGqbMBGScO0Ry2C4zH6HAudHj1F__1DjbZGOvlQQpNAZJNvFhdu2t9FoYoHfCNk&fref=mentions">Stella Chen</a> is tryna bring in some side hustle money by selling:<br />
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️KODENSHI® Fiber Heat-retention AULORA Pants</h2>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just a simple pants packaging - nothing much else to see.</td></tr>
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When she told me how she's selling these pants as a side income thing from her kindergarten teacher role, I facepalmed. I mean, guys. How many of y'alls would see a post like this and not think it's scammy? I was and am still ready to stop her if this turns out to be yet another false hope product and stuff.<br />
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Note: I have not tried these pants, so this is definitely not a product testimony post. I have, however, just purchased a pair from my mum to show her some support. She has managed to sold 7 pairs in the past month so I figured, why not show her some support? To be perfectly honest, I was amazed that she even managed to sell 7. So... I'll update you guys in about 2 months - this product is set to be delivered to me after about 1 month.<br />
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Dubious as I was, I dug into this product and looked for more info. Here's what I found so far.<br />
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These pants are made with advanced️ Japan️ technology enabling ultra-fine ceramic particles to be embedded within the pants' fibers👖<br />
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And what do we know about ceramic?<br />
It retains heat ♨️<br />
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Yep, so Aulora pants uses this ️KODENSHI® technology to help alleviate the cold from our body and instead, circulate heat between the cloth surface and our skin - a simple basis to help our body stay warm and eliminate some fats by heat retention 🔄🔄<br />
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When you wear 👖Aulora pants👖 with just the right size that fits you well, the compression properties of these pants can further help you retain the heat close to your skin surface, regulating blood flow waist down.<br />
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You can read a brief explanation on this technology on<br />
KODENSHI® Official Site at<br />
<a href="http://www.firbest.co.jp/English/about/">http://www.firbest.co.jp/English/about/</a> ⏩⏩🔎<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If you want to delve into the specifics, there's a study with a graph result of how much heat it absorbs etc on the link provided above.</td></tr>
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What I like about these pants at first glance is that it has a unique ergonomic stitching style.<br />
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About 20 different segments are also stitched together to allow better flexibility and customized compression, thickness & pressure from our ankles up to our waist. It has:<br />
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✅ 22.0hPa pressure/compression around ankles, 12.0hPa around upper thighs<br />
⭕ Helps to push bloodflow back from our bottom half to our upper half - better, faster blood circulation<br />
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✅ Wide waistband<br />
⭕ Maintains & shapes your stomach and waist<br />
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✅ Customized cut for men & women<br />
⭕ Better effect, better comfort & fitting for different gender body type.<br />
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Well, it's just a pair of pants - I can't give 10 bullet points about the advanced technology embedded in a pair of pants, but it does make sense how thees little things can help to shape you up a little effortlessly 💆♂️💆♂️<br />
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If you want testimonials I have several relatives who have already bought the pants from her and actually slimmed down quite some 💁♀️💁♀️ If you aren't questioning the legitimacy of other people's online testimony about this product, I have already seen several other posts reviewing how they have slimmed down or lost a few kilograms just from wearing this pants day in and day out for a week or so.<br />
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Dubious, suspicious and downright scammy, I know, but hey, there are some before and after pictures there that you can take into consideration for when you decide whether or not to purchase a pair and try it out yourself.<br />
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It'll also be worth noting that she's selling these pants as part of:<br />
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<a href="https://goo.gl/maps/8FtkCCTd2jB2">BE International Marketing Sdn. Bhd. (Co. No. 1199078-X)</a><br />
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...and they also sell other beauty products that reduces skin pigmentation, gives smoother skin etc - surprisingly people that I personally know also have seen results from these products💆♂️💆♂️ My mum herself has skin pigmentation issues inherited from her parents, and she's thinking of trying out those products herself now that she has seen some results from other people too.<br />
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She's usually as dubious about these products as I am, so to see her promising great results like this... well.<br />
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I have to say 'surprisingly' two paragraphs above because I really doubt the legitimacy of products like this but since it worked... Maybe you guys can consider these products too 💁♀️<br />
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So yes, anyhow, it's actually an actual, legit company. Half of my worries about my mom being scammed were gone when I found out that this place has an actual, physical store. They further introduced other aspects of this pants - including its sizes and what you can expect to get from these pants 💯💯<br />
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Read up for more info from BE Int. itself here:<br />
<a href="https://www.beintl.com/be-kodenshi-women.jsp">https://www.beintl.com/be-kodenshi-women.jsp</a> (for women💁♀️)<br />
<a href="https://www.beintl.com/be-kodenshi-men.jsp">https://www.beintl.com/be-kodenshi-men.jsp</a> (for men💁♂️)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It has different cutting for males' and females' bodyshape needs, which I find to be a great feature that clothing pieces like this should have.</td></tr>
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<br />
Alright just let me rant.<br />
<br />
Freelancing can be good extra money. I work my full-time job, and then I return home to work on my freelance work, and I can earn more than my full-time job's monthly income just from my freelancing job. It's good money, it is. But when you might be having your PMS and you become really easy to piss off, the zen and endless patience that you are known for just dissolves, rots and disappears like Logan Paul's popularity.<br />
<br />
Here's shit that I want to complain about.<br />
<br />
You will meet employers who pay you only after you bug them endlessly for days and lodge a report against them. "Don't worry, we will pay you today." You wait today, tomorrow, and the next entire week and there will be no progress. They will contact you when they need you to work, but when you send a message regarding payments, they will leave your messages unread.<br />
<br />
You will meet employers who say, "Relax. I've been here a long while. Your pay won't go anywhere" and refuse to use the safe payment options which guarantees that you will get paid. "Please accept the pending milestone so that I can continue working," you might say. They will blast you with a series of "Don't worry" and "Don't worry" and did I mention more "Don't worry"?<br />
<br />
You will meet employers who give you vague instructions and expect you to understand, refusing to elaborate more and then ask for endless revisions when you follow the vague instructions. "U dnt understn the work dear." Of course I don't. That's why I asked. Don't 'dear' me. It's disgusting and it makes me want to punch you in the face.<br />
<br />
You will meet cheap-ass bastards who want to pay you $0.50 for a 300-word article or maybe pay you $3 for a 1000-word article. "This is going to be a long-term project so please bid accordingly."<br />
Dear sirs and missuses, how about I employ you to do my job for me but I pay you like $2 each day. It's long-term afterall. You can do it until you retire. How does that sound?<br />
<br />
You will meet bid wasters. A lot of freelancing job sites require you to use a bidding system. You want to get pure profit without purchasing extra bids? There's bid wasters for that. You have extra bids that you worked hard to pay for? There's bid wasters for that too. "Contact me on Skype for more information." How about no and fuck off?<br />
<br />
You will meet creepers. "I'm looking for an open-minded virtual assistant to hold video calls and phone calls with me." Don't even bother with those. You see the word 'open-minded' and 'video calls' linked together, you run. That's what you do.<br />
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You will meet unreasonable buyers. You can tell them "I can only work on flexible hours since I have a full-time job. I should be able to write about 2 - 3K words daily at max." and they will still bug you non-stop as if they did not know about your full time job even if you remind them again and again.<br />
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You will meet assholes and asshats and asses in general. You will also meet cunts and dicks and twats and donkeys; whatever swear word that is trending where you come from.<br />
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You will meet all of these and still struggle to find the inner peace and patience in you that lets you reply or send a message to them nicely so that at least you are being a decent human being, all just so that your chat won't be reported and your account won't be closed. The easier solution?<br />
<br />
"Hi *Name*, I don't think that I can work with you anymore. You are not very reasonable to work with and I prefer not to continue our collaboration. Please release any pending payments and we can discuss further after that if you have any other requests."<br />
<br />
I have finally managed to get $300 in pending payment today after more than a week of trying to get a buyer to release the pending amount. Keep in mind that the works have been approved and revisions have been made. Keep in mind also, that it was agreed upon that the payments should be released within 48 hours after the work is approved.<br />
<br />
I finally got my money, but I'm still pissed.<br />
<br />
Maybe it's the birth control medication that I am trying.<br />
<br />
And now, lunch time.<br />
<br />
Also, I'm grateful for all the good buyers that I managed to work with. Thank you guys for being pleasant and releasing the funds on time and all your clear instructions, etc etc.<br />
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Bless.<br />
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Hey there guys,<br />
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I have been inactive for some time now, and that's because aside from my full-time job, I have some time afterwards to spend with my man (the best part of everyday. I love you darlin'), and when he leaves, I'll be working on my Freelance jobs.<br />
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That makes my daily life look something like this:<br />
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7.30a.m. - Reaches workplace and works on miscellaneous tasks & freelance jobs<br />
8.30a.m. - Actual Full-Time Job<br />
6.00p.m. - Quality time with my man<br />
8.30p.m. - Freelance jobs<br />
11.00p.m. - Getting some sleep<br />
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I have accounts on several freelancing platforms - Freelancer.com, People Per Hour, Guru.com & Fiverr. I joined UpWork a little too late and there is more than enough content writers there at the moment, so I could not get my account approved. Of the 4 platforms I have joined, I have earned through 3 of them - not Fiverr.<br />
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Guru.com and People Per Hour was quite decent with their free accounts, but Freelancer.com provided a one-month free trial as a premium member, which allowed me to have more than 309 bids to waste on scam assignments & cheap Indian prices (Not that I meant to be racist, but seriously, offering a non-negotiable rate of $2 for 1000 words with endless restrictions & conditions?)<br />
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I am still relatively new to the freelance jobs on Freelancer.com, and sad to say, I have been scammed for my work quite a little. Here's what I learnt from the scammers of Freelancer.com.<br />
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1) Check their profiles</h3>
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Let's see. No verified e-mail, no verified phone number, account incomplete, no payment verification and has not made a deposit. 0 reviews. Fishy. Mouse over the star ratings, and you see this:<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk665DPc5Cjq7K9EcsgGbW2fG7Oe38_j6zb77CJVnxoCsO98O5OA6PasWGBOx54xC7jjC4FyTpgJsY9IQHHXpjKR5YizMsnv6uKu7-GmzJEx5cb2tLF-DWHu1wtx030ZPnGNzjpV0vVECo/s1600/Freelancer0002.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Abort Mission & Report The Job!" border="0" data-original-height="330" data-original-width="559" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk665DPc5Cjq7K9EcsgGbW2fG7Oe38_j6zb77CJVnxoCsO98O5OA6PasWGBOx54xC7jjC4FyTpgJsY9IQHHXpjKR5YizMsnv6uKu7-GmzJEx5cb2tLF-DWHu1wtx030ZPnGNzjpV0vVECo/s1600/Freelancer0002.jpg" title="Abort Mission & Report The Job!" /></a></td></tr>
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With only one open project, the one you are looking at? Even if the job is paying you $99999 for a web development thing or $50 per hour for an 'easy typing job', 'I need some data in a spreadsheet' or whatever, don't even bother. The money looks too good to be true? It is. These are what I call bid- and time-waster assignments. Freelancer.com has yet to be able to filter out these users and assignments, who can open several different Google accounts just so that they can make more accounts here as their old ones get banned and reported.</div>
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To add on, these are some of the more common scamming projects. With what that seems like a very easy job, data entry, copying words from JPG or PDF into a word docx. format, most of the time, they will ask you to send an email to a certain e-mail address. Then, you will be presented with packages to choose from as if you are the buyer. The most common scam is something like what is written below:</div>
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You e-mail them, they reply back. You can choose between typing 50 pages in 10 days, 75 pages in 12 days, or 90 pages in 15 days. Package A will earn you about $100, package B $150, and Package C $250. Sounds good, doesn't it? Now, you will need to choose a package, and each of these packages have a 'deposit fee' which will allegedly be released once they have checked through your typed product. You need 95% accuracy and to follow exactly what the JPG's show. If there's a line break, you follow that line break. If you have lower than 95% accuracy, you will not get paid. </div>
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First of all, we are the freelancers. We do not need to pay our buyers to get our jobs. Generally, when you see these jobs, you do not need to bother at all. Just stray away, or click the report button to do all the other freelancers a favor.</div>
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2. The Price</h3>
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Yes, we are all freelancers and we should be happy with what we get. But if we have good standards & and an established excellent quality of work, don't stoop too low for projects when you are desperate. Set our own standards based on the currency and quality of work that you are confident of delivering. If you have been a regular blogger and has some experience in a youth journalism program and even have a short story published in an actual book, don't be afraid to set your prices higher than $5 or 6 per 1000 words (Looking at you, Celine). I personally set $10 for every 1K words as my bare minimum, since I had several previous jobs where I can charge $25 for every 800 - 1000 words easily. I know what I can deliver, and I am charging a price worthy of the work quality. $6 per hour too low for the job you are applying for? Don't apply for it. Even if you do, make sure to bid at the price that you want to get paid for. It's their loss if they don't get a job well done by you.</div>
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3. Off-site Communication</h3>
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I have some mixed feelings about this. Most of the scammers like to communicate on Skype and pay you through Paypal or some other external sources rather than work with you on the freelancing platform. If the user has no ratings and immediately asks you to start communicating with them on Skype, that's not a good sign. Based on my personal experience, these users are repeated offenders for scamming users and can be reported fairly quickly. Even if they have pending milestones (pending payments that supposedly have non way to be cancelled) there are cases where the accounts will be closed immediately on Freelancer.com before the money gets through. It's either that, or you end up writing 20 articles at a rate that is too good to be true, and later get ghosted when it's time to pay up. You can refer to my portfolio or recent scammed works here, published just so that the buyers of my articles can never use them since they will detect a 100% plagiarism based on my site - <a href="https://scammed-freelancers.blogspot.com/">scammed-freelancers.blogspot.com</a>.<br />
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Closing Remarks</h3>
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Of course there's plenty of scams and spam-natured jobs going around on every freelancing site. My best advice will be for you to check the buyers' reviews - have sellers' experience been good? If there are none, it will be good if they at least bothered to verify their accounts. Should you try to bid on their project, make sure to find out all the details that you can before accepting the job. What does the job entail? When will you get the payment (the more immediate, the better). Where possible, try to stick to one or two recurring tasks rather than looking for one-time odd jobs here and there. I have about 4 or 5 recurring clients as of now, and I have been able to earn about USD$300 in the past 2.5 weeks thanks to the recurring writing tasks on the 3 platforms I am working on. It's not impossible to earn more, you just need to look really hard and squint real hard at the suspicious buyers.</div>
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Meanwhile, I wish you all the best on your freelancing journey, and if you have any questions regarding Freelancer.com or other freelance job issues, feel free to leave your question in the comment section and I'll be happy to answer you!<br />
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Also, if you are interested in my writing, proofreading or translating services, feel free to refer to <a href="https://tatoruyuki.blogspot.com/p/blog-page_18.html">this page and see what services I provide</a>. You can contact me through the 'Get in Touch' page, or simply brief me on the work you need done through any links provided on the 'Hire Me' page.</div>
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So, Huawei
Honor 6A Pro was quite a new release, released for just a little over 1 month
when I purchased it in Malaysia after my trusty Lenovo P70-A’s screen cracked quite
suddenly. I bought it for RM699 at time of purchase about 1 week ago.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The box
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you to put in the SIM card(s) & SD Card, a pre-applied screen protector and
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This model
is very thin at about 8.5mm at most and feels lightweight as well. The
navigation buttons were on the screen instead of on the shell itself. Right
where the navigation buttons usually would be on any other phones, Huawei
placed their branding there so we have about 1.5cm of unused space on the phone
itself. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the bright side, you can customize the navigation buttons to reorder them, and can access them through the floating dock as well!</td></tr>
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For this
phone, you can either have 2 SIM cards or 1 SIM card + 1 memory card. I
personally chose to use the phone without extra storage. Although the phone
claims to have 32GB internal storage, the usable ones amounted up to 19GB; The
rest are system files and the necessary apps. It’s good enough that I can have
a phone with a 3GB RAM though. With all apps cleared I’d have up to 1.80GB RAM,
and I rarely ever have to clear the apps to prevent lagging. It works fast and
smooth, I’ll give it that. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The camera’s
primary camera lets you take photos up to 13MP, while the front-facing one is only
5MP. I prefer Lenovo’s camera quality at this point, to be honest. Audio’s
perfectly fine as well, clear & crisp sounds. There weren’t any issues of volumes
being too low. I could watch a movie or video and hear the audio perfectly
without earphones.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This
multi-screen thing is a new feature to me. It allows you to use two apps at the
same time, and you can adjust the heights you allocate each app. This means you
can watch a YouTube video while you use your messenger apps and I personally
think that’s just great. It also has a built-in screen recorder feature and the
eye-comfort feature which tones down the blue light so your eyes feel less
strained should you use your phone under bad lighting. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Oh, of
course. There’s also the fingerprint recognition function, which makes
unlocking the phone so much more convenient. Love it. I haven’t actually tried
all the customizations and features available, but having used it how I usually
do, the battery holds up well. Switching from 4000mAh battery from previous
Lenovo to the current one which has only 3020mAh, I was worried that the
battery capacity wouldn’t be enough for me. Sure enough I do need to charge it
up to 2 times a day – once in the afternoon and once at night, but that’s only
because I keep a game or two running on my device for several hours and my
phone data switched on all the time when I don’t have WiFi access.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Overall this
phone is actually a nice, affordable budget phone with features that seems to
go beyond its prices. My only issue with it so far? I can’t find a tempered
glass for this phone yet because it’s too new! Well, that just means that I need to be real careful with this one for now. I bought an armored phone case meanwhile! 😂😂<o:p></o:p></div>
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Price range:</div>
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Photo quality: </div>
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☆☆☆☆★</div>
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Battery capacity:</div>
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☆☆☆☆★</div>
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Audio quality: </div>
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☆☆☆☆☆</div>
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Features & customization: </div>
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☆☆☆☆★</div>
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Overall: </div>
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☆☆☆☆★</div>
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On the 12<sup>th</sup>
of November, just barely one week ago, I dropped my Lenovo P-70A which has been
with me for over 2 years, down the kitchen counter when my hands slipped. It
was a good phone. I bought it somewhen in July 2015 when my man was with me
(although he wasn’t my man yet at that time) for around RM700.<br />
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The main
reason I bought that phone was for its battery capacity. At around 4000mAh and
me actively playing mobile games and downloading an average of one new app
every two or three days, using it for several hours at any given point, the
battery dealt with the power demands quite well. You can read up on other of
its specs <a href="https://www.gsmarena.com/lenovo_p70-7063.php">here on this
link.</a><o:p></o:p></div>
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Things I
loved About This Phone Model</h2>
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<ul>
<li><o:p> </o:p>Battery
capacity is relatively huge compared to other phone models</li>
<li>That green
security icon thing that gives you a very, very efficient clear-your-apps
function that you can’t get from any other apps </li>
<li>Optional app
clearing that lets you lock down some apps while clearing all the others</li>
<li>Dual SIM
cards & still a space for an external memory card although you don’t really
need that with the 16 GB internal storage.</li>
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2GB RAM wasn’t
too bad either; I just needed to keep the habits of clearing my apps off before
playing a RAM-consuming one. The controls were simple, efficient, and if
anything, there were only a couple of things that I didn’t really like.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Things That Could Be Improved</h2>
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<ul>
<li>The
brightness goes all the way to the highest settings when you enter the gallery,
regardless of your settings. Imagine opening up your photo gallery at night and
getting blinded. Mhmm.</li>
<li>You can’t
adjust the brightness settings in the notification bar area when you are using
your phone in horizontal mode, so if you have entered a video full-screen mode
and it’s too dark, you need to exit the full-screen mode, adjust the
brightness, then go back to full-screen again.</li>
<li>No matter
how high-resolution your photos are, the moment you set it to your desktop/lockscreen
wallpaper, it will get blurry in a pixel-ish way.</li>
<li>It can
overheat quite a bit sometimes.</li>
<li>The camera
is just okay-ish.</li>
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If there’s
one piece of advice I can offer to this phone’s users: Do NOT upgrade your OS
to Lollipop 5.1 if you are using KitKat. I was a fool and I upgraded my phone
to that version for a couple of weeks, and it resulted in such a downgrade of
everything:</div>
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Why I'm So Against The Phone OS Upgrade</h2>
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<ul>
<li>The battery
consumption rate was so high even at low usage that I needed to charge it up to
3 times a day.</li>
<li>The app-clearing
function was pretty much gone, replaced by an incompetent piece-of-shit button.</li>
<li>I can have
only Messenger, Facebook & WhatsApp running (with background apps cleared
up to 5 times just in case), and the phone would still lag so hard that if a
call comes in, I can’t press anything on the screen. The incoming-calls screen
wouldn’t even show up.</li>
<li>I can’t
stress enough about the lag. If there were incoming video calls, I need to wait
for up to 5 seconds after tapping the ‘answer’ button before that click
actually registers.</li>
<li>The photo
quality became a pile of shit too. Good luck taking photos with actual faces
that aren’t smoothened out & blurred so much that you might as well pretend
you actually did a bad Photoshop job with a good photo.</li>
<li>The screen
gestures option was no longer available. My phone’s power button has become a
bit hard to press after some time using it, so it can be slightly difficult to
unlock it at times. Screen gestures enabled me to just tap the screen a few
times to activate it, but this feature was gone too.</li>
<li>If there was
overheat at the previous OS, this version made it worse and more often.</li>
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I referred
to <a href="http://texatech.blogspot.my/2016/01/how-to-downgrade-lenovo-p70-to-android.html">this
link here</a> to downgrade my phone back to KitKat one day at work, and
thankfully it worked. <u>*Disclaimer: If you were to try follow the instructions
on this link and something fucks up, neither I nor the writer of that blog
holds any responsibilities for it.</u></div>
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<ul>
<li>Well, barely
a week later this phone still fell face-first onto the floor and the screen cracked
anyways. I took off the tempered glass screen protector a while back since that
too was already full of cracks and never got a replacement. After many lucky
falls, this one did the job.</li>
<li>The bottom
half of the screen was not responsive at all, which means that I could turn on
the phone screen but not enter my passcode.</li>
<li>I could
long-press the power button to attempt to switch it off since I can no longer
turn off the morning alarms, but I can’t press the ‘confirm’ button when the phone
asks me, “Confirm switch off?”</li>
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That very
night around 8p.m. I went out to get myself a new phone, Huawei Honor 6A Pro
for RM699. I’ll be writing a review on this phone real soon, so do look forward
to it! The next day at lunch time, I sent this Lenovo phone for a screen
replacement. I got it for RM250 at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/onemobileonline/app/106171216118819">One
Specialist Mobile</a> in Sunway Pyramid. The person who served me was this guy
named Steven. Got it back that same evening after work around 6p.m. There’s a
one-month insurance for that LCD screen, so there’s that.<o:p></o:p></div>
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One funny
notable thing was that he asked for my passcode, claiming that he needs it to
know if the phone screen has been implemented correctly. Umm… No sir, you do
not need the passcode to fix an LCD screen. I told him that he could press
around the screen and try keying in any random passcode combinations to know if
it’s working. Later I further told him that I will check the phone myself when
I get it back before I pay him the money. That phone is now back and alive,
working well. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I’m letting
my man use it for as long as he needs to tomorrow. Guess why? He smashed his
phone screen too. Coincidences, coincidence. At least he’ll have no
trouble adapting to that phone I guess, since we used the same phone model.</div>
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Okay. To be
honest I have been wanting to get my hair properly dyed for a while, but never
really had the money nor the chance to. The past 2 years, I have had my mother
who worked in a hair salon in her younger days dye my hair for me. Being a
regular Asian mother, she wouldn’t ever let me dye the so-called ‘crazy hair
colors’. She would dye my hair brown, or at most a lighter shade of brown.
Never completely either, so that when my hair grows out the black-brown line in
my hair wouldn’t be too distinct.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Meanwhile, I
wanted purple, blue, red, a mix of all three in ombre or ashy color…<o:p></o:p></div>
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Basically,
the ‘crazy hair colors’. </div>
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After moving
out from my parents’ house to stay nearer to the university, permission became
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an issue. Instead, money became the factor. Hair dyeing could be so
very expensive when done by those professionals around here, and I didn’t have
a proper income while I was studying, so I never dyed my hair while I was in
college, nor did I dye it when I was in university.<br />
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Then now I’m
at work, starting to earn for myself. I realized that I’m now 22 and if I don’t
go try out new things now I will look ridiculous as an auntie that dyes her
hair in weird colors not suited to her age. I still needed to save money
though, RM300+ for a hair dye session was too much for me. So, I bought Liese’s
Creamy Bubble Color Red Velvet instead, as recommended by a colleague. There weren’t
any reviews of this color online though, so here’s my 2-cents.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My hair was
already slightly brown-ish before I tried this product. Under good lighting, it
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<br />I did the
allergy test, but only for barely an hour and after seeing no signs of
itchiness or rashes, I continued with the process. Instructions were pretty
straightforward. Pour contents of the first, smaller bottle into the bigger
one, tile it upside down gently several times, and put the pink color foamy
applicator thing into the bigger bottle. Squeeze a little onto the gloves to
see if it’s foamy enough, then proceed to apply it like how you would with hair
shampoo or conditioner.<o:p></o:p></div>
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It didn’t
give my hair a foamy appearance at first, but halfway through the bottle my
hair was already covered in purplish foam and when I finished using the whole
bottle’s contents, I was at the peak of foaminess. The ammonia smell wasn’t as
bad as I thought it might be, but it sure stings my eyes a little when I dye
those pesky little hairs near my eyes! No, they didn’t get into my eyes. The
fumes are enough to make you feel that urge to shut your eyes though.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The foam
stuck easily to my hair, and I combed through the mass of it every now and then
while adding more foam. When I was done, I just kind of put my hair in a heap
on the top of my head and waited around 20 minutes. There were recommendations
of keeping it there for 30 minutes of even 45 minutes, but since it’s my first
try I didn’t want to leave the foam in too long. Washing it off took a while,
but that extra rinse-off treatment was so good! My hair was softer than any
conditioner had helped it to be, tangle-free and smelling flowery.</div>
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I dried my
hair off to see how it might look in just the simple room lighting, and it
turned out to be ... mediocre. I couldn't see any colors. Is it black? Did my hair even change?<o:p></o:p></div>
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I couldn’t
see much colors or difference from my previous one and I was a little disappointed
to be honest. But then, today, the color seemed to show more, perhaps because
the lighting was better around here. Under sunlight, you could definitely see
the red. Pardon the super bright photo, I was busy reflecting the sunlight off
my skin and hair fibers. Under normal lighting, my hair color looks more or
less like a darker version of copper-red. I can just hold up some of my hair
and see the red in it though, but that’s really hard to photograph.<br />
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Overall? I’d
rate this product 5/5. I’m actually satisfied with this product, and knowing
that the colors can show even when I only left it in for 20 minutes, I’ll try
leaving it on a while longer next time. My hair’s quite long but thin, and one
bottle was sufficient with quite some to spare. I bought it through Shopee Mall
because they had promotions going on and with my Shopee coins, I bought one box
for RM29, which isn’t too bad. Definitely worth the price and fun to try!<br />
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I wonder if
Liese will come up with blue-ish colors in the future. That would definitely be
worth a try too.<o:p></o:p></div>
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