Cantopop Let’s start with the language Cantonese shall we? Hong Kong being situated in the Guangdong area of China, naturally gave birth to the use of Cantonese and all things cultural created along with western influences. Cantonese people are almost everywhere, just like the Chinese people you see these days. …

Done during Quarantine in HK Having previously used DigitalOcean to host my shadowsockets server for my VPN access to China and it being reliable; I decided to give the managed Kubernetes service a try. First of all, I wanted to keep this challenge short as I just wanted to casually…

Slowly, but surely — I got married in the year 2019, sounds like it was just 2 years ago but it has since felt like a long time. After reading Factfulness and some chapters of Atomic Habits, change is indeed gradual, slow and by the time you realize it, you are, different. After I…

I think this is a fair statement for all Singaporeans, most of us grew up in a rojak mix of cultural influences. From music in dialect influenced by our parents to daily Mandarin radio stations, English pop music references in daily schooling and some punk rock with metal due to…

Burnout. and burnout Ever since covid-19 began, I began to toy with the flexibility of my work. Squeeze in some exercise here, do some cooking there, keep a healthy balance of everything. Then I realize, I have lost it. The ability to have laser focus on things. Messages coming in…

It all started with a notification. I have two brothers, each of them living with a different parent. To make it easier to refer to, the fat brother lets call him A, and skinny brother B. A sent a message to B who was living with me as well, informed…

In the July of 2021, I left my first job at Govtech Singapore after 3 years. These 3 years were bittersweet moments for me, I was very glad that the large organization took me in despite only havine basic general software engineering skills. Govtech During my first year there, I was…

When there is no social life, reading books become the daily thing to do Just one day before the circuit breaker started in Singapore, I went to the National Library since I had to collect my newly renewed passport at ICA, I borrowed 3 books: 1 Lost Hong Kong …

Key Terms Squid Proxy A free and open source forward proxy used mainly for forwarding HTTP and Web traffic OpenVPN A open sourced Virtual Private Network software used for connecting to private networks over public internet Context We want to allow users connected to one private network (VPC A) to connect to instances in…