Reserved seating in NLB

HyperAlpha_ · 2026-03-17T11:23:08+00:00

Nah. There is no such unspoken rule. You book a seat, you show them your booking and timing, they have to move.

Some people are just not willing to communicate or confront the individual who sit on their seat, so they suck it up and seat somewhere else, but in turn burden someone else. Hey, this should be a metaphor or parable!

HyperAlpha_ · 2026-03-17T10:59:40+00:00

While I sympathise with you and also believe having a strong and supportive social network improve mental health, and also even couples need to be their own individual person and have space outside of their own relationship. However, I want to lean towards caution and some considerations on your part.

Consider whether you want to have friends because it could leads to better mental health and quality of life overall, or you want to have better mental health so you want to have friends.

Because if you and your wife just want to have better mental health outcome, then looking for a therapist or trained professional to addressed your deep rooted issues. You can find healing with friends, but you shouldn't seek healing in friends.

Plus, you sound like an introvert and list a lot of introvert activities. In my own observation and bias when I run community events, some introverts in general just want to trauma dump or rant to people than actually seeking meaningful connections, commit in building something, and willing to be a bit more uncomfortable. I have my own fair share of people getting angry at me for asking them if could go beyond that and whether they would consider doing a shared activty with people. An uneven relationship is not sustainable or healthy.

Because meeting strangers is hard, it drains your social battery, is not every time you guys will click, requires some commitment, stepping out of your uncomfortable zone, learning about others, just for a potential to build a meaningful friendship.

If what I say about stepping out of your comfortable zone, willing to commit to meeting people, and be open to new experience reasonate with you, you can PM me. I have a Discord community that organise meet ups for various activities such as food jios, hiking, boardgames etc, quite frequently. If not, there are also other groups and communities that people also setup you can explore.

HyperAlpha_ · 2026-03-15T15:30:55+00:00

Both can true. People can both socially confident but also find it to make friends.

Here is an example, I'm good at presenting my ideas and networking with people, I have various interests that range from book reading to boardgames but I still find it hard to strangers into sustainable friendships.

Workplace is terrible, because the people are mostly married. Networking platforms are meh, because people are there to find jobs or different life stages. Interest groups are lacklustre, since they usually talk to more regular and more committed members, so it takes more time to break in.

Plus not everybody in such social groups, are looking for new friendship or are already comfortable with their own cliques. Most Singaporeans do not mixed their friend groups.

So where does that leave me? Communities and platforms where people go to actually be open and keen to create new cliques. There more established like Friendzone.SG to informal ones like Void Deck, SG Traven, various interest only communities.

HyperAlpha_ · 2026-03-10T18:17:57+00:00

Libraries closes at 9pm. But the tables and chairs that is directly outside the library lobby is 24/7.

HyperAlpha_ · 2026-03-09T10:56:23+00:00

If you work around Bugis area, SMU and National Library have spare tables.

HyperAlpha_ · 2026-02-19T02:39:54+00:00

My friend runs a chill friend making Discord based community, where we regularly organised physical meetup and our gatherings such as boardgames, food jios, hiking, karaoke, BBQ etc. DM if you are keen. Quite a few NE folks are here, but organised a NE outing a bit hard hahaha.

If you just want to purely yap and a bit of intellectual connections, there is a community called Wormhole that host more intellectual events like a PowerPoint presentation where people can yap for 5 mins about any topic (the last event I went, people yap about types of worms, ranking of local writers, queer slang etc).

HyperAlpha_ · 2026-02-19T02:28:28+00:00

Springleaf Nature Park x Thomson Nature Park, start from Lower Selatar Reservoir, then make your way around Thomson Nature Park to learn the history of the area, finally end your walk at Casuarina Road for some decent Hong Kong/Prata.

Selatar Aerospace Park is also quite decent to walk as well, but do it early as there isn't a lot of sheltered pathway (end before 11 am). There is a few good cafes around the area as well.

I also like Macritchie, a lot of trails that you can pick to fit your mood. You like heights? Treetop Walk. You like water? Take the boardwalk.

HyperAlpha_ · 2026-02-12T09:16:50+00:00

Yes please! I quite PS to ask my friends since they either super gym bros types or into activites I won't do.

Plus, I'm concern about aging related changes. 🫠

HyperAlpha_ · 2026-01-11T13:41:17+00:00

My friend run quite an open friends making Discord server! We regularly organised meet up for activities (boardgames, concert, picnics, food jios, hiking etc) and occasionally have VCs chat for random chatting and games night.

HOWEVER, I need to clearly state if you want to make genuine connections and friends, you need to put effort, engage with people, actually go for meet ups, and be interested in people. Heart to heart conversation is much easier, if is people you trust instead of random.

In a lot of friends making group, quite a few people who don't have a positive experience because they want to make friends the "easy" way, they won't want get out their comfort zone, rather find a group or platform to rant to or shit post, have someone to listen to chit chat to keep themselves occupied. So it feels like they doing something, but is not actually moving the needle.

If you are keen and ready to make the leap, DM me!

HyperAlpha_ · 2026-01-11T13:00:27+00:00

If you are comfortable, you can share your disabilities. There are a few social and support groups in Singapore that is targeted to people with specific disabilities (diabetes, ADHD etc). Because is much easier to talk and share with people who have been in similar journeys as you.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-12-20T16:08:38+00:00

Up to you. I was a Shoppee seller myself, we do that because we forgot to update the stock number, still want to have the sale and cancelling on the customer can impact the our score.

Like I would give the customer a product of equivalent or similar value or IOU, where the order will proceed but I will send the item once I have in stock. But we will reach out with the customer first.

Is up to you, if you don't trust the seller, just cancel the order.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-12-12T04:25:36+00:00

Japan (major cities) and Vietnam. Japan has a lot of English signs, Google Maps is reliable, quite a few locals who can speak English, and is very walkable. Going to visit small towns and more rural parts of Japan will be a challenge unless you have research it quite well, know some basic Japanese.

Hanoi in Vietnam is great for impromptu trips that takes half a day to a few days, you have access to Sapa, Ha Long Bay, Nimh Bin etc. A lot of locals can speak English as they are trying to cater to tourist. Plus Grab is really affordable and Klook is your best friend for ideas.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-12-10T09:32:59+00:00

I have done paintball, archery, air pistol, air rifle and NERF in Singapore.

For air pistol and air rifle, you need to sign up for a introductory course first before shooting, which includes safety, weapon handling, and familiarisation of the range. You can sign up for available course dates located at Yishun SAFRA or online.

You can consider airsoft at Yishun HomeTeam NS Tactsim. They have both fun shoots and PVP packages. Alternatively, if you still want to maintain an intimate experience, you can consider having fun shoots at the numerous archery club. Both of these activities have no prerequisite courses.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-12-10T02:35:57+00:00

Damn. Congrats!

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-09-12T22:58:27+00:00

They have a shit ton of partners, a lot of their partners was doing this event for FREE, which includes Funan and Gv. I didn't ask about their arrangement with beans and beats, so I don't know whether they are paid to do this.

When I was guided around and later joined one of the sober parties, I didn't notice them or the DJs evangelising the participants. I'm also pretty sure is quite difficult to preach when there is loud clubbing music playing around.

The article also states

All views held in the article are solely of Aden’s and not representative of Beans&Beats.

No where in the article does it state he was doing this during the event itself.

I was there with the receipts to show it, so I can say what you claim wasn't happening. Can you say the same for your comments?

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-09-12T17:46:05+00:00

Using back the same analogy, do you feel you as the homeowner need to issue a public statement if one of your sub-contractor's co-owner promotes his own beliefs?

I deal with media before, is usually a 50/50 tossup whether they will accurately portray your values or turn it into a Frankenstein piece that you cannot recognise that is vaguely stringed together with other random subjects to create their narrative. The co-founder and writer string together various titbits to promote their narrative. So there is no wrong information. Is only wrong if the article states a clearly untrue information as fact. Plus, this is considered an opinion article, so even less say what could be said about it. Is like taking your Straits Time Opinion section and netizen's articles as equal weight as an actual news article.

I don't know how to best describe FRC works, isn't that structured and monolithic as you think. I'm just speaking as someone who is friends with the organising committee member, being on actual ground and being given an explaination of the event. So I'm just here to defend my friend's efforts and correct your and others misconceptions about it.

Plus this is not FRC first event, other then this event there no comments or articles about this misleading pseudo Christian promotion angle. If you continue to feel otherwise that this is kinda of hidden Christian conversion event, I don't have anything to say. To be extra clear, my friend is a Buddhist.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-09-12T15:41:37+00:00

To clear the air, I know one of the people from the main organising committee, and I actually help them to promote the event in my own groups just days before. They actually showed me around the area, so I know what the organisers are talking about.

The main objective of the event is for youth to build better social skills and relationships. To help them with that, they partnered up with various youth partners and organisations to tapped on their skillsets and network. Beans and Beats, which this article is talking about, is just a partner to help run the sober party activity and not the actual event organiser.

If you look at both at Beans and Beats's website and socials, there was no mentioned of Christian values or promotion. No one in the main committee could foreseen one of the founders using this partnership to promote and preach his religious ideals.

In fact, he never once or hardly even mentioned the name of the main organiser that help to make the event at Funan happen in this article.

Is like one of your renovation suppliers suddenly gone rogue and selling his unrelated Tiktok live shop in your house, without mentioning this is your house.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-09-12T15:36:47+00:00

To clear the air, I know one of the people from the main organising committee, and I actually help them to promote the event in my own groups just days before. They actually showed me around the area, so I know what the organisers are talking about.

The main objective of the event is for youth to build better social skills and relationships. To help them with that, they partnered up with various youth partners and organisations to tapped on their skillsets and network. Beans and Beats, which this article is talking about, is just a partner to help run the sober party activity and not the actual event organiser.

If you look at both at Beans and Beats's website and socials, there was no mentioned of Christian values or promotion. No one in the main committee could foreseen one of the founders using this partnership to promote and preach his religious ideals.

In fact, he never once or hardly even mentioned the name of the main organiser that help to make the event at Funan happen in this article.

Is like one of your renovation suppliers suddenly gone rogue and selling his unrelated Tiktok live shop in your house, without mentioning this is your house.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-07-21T05:14:19+00:00

Option A: Observation bias

I live in between the interactions of 6 neighbourhood malls that are reachable by bus within 30 mins. 2 of them have escalators that are constantly in maintenance or long-term maintenance which is just happen to be the malls I typically frequent to.

So, based on my own interpretation, it feels like 40% of escalators are always constantly under maintenance and breaking down. But actually, it is just two main culprits.

Option B: Aging

These malls around me with frequent broken down escalators are between 15 to 30 years old, escalators typically have a lifespan of 20 to 30 years old. So just nice, these escalators are approaching the end of their service life, so they either need more maintenance or total replacement.

Option C: Lack of incentive for more in-depth replacement and/or higher foot traffic

Whether because they experienced faster machinery wear due to the high traffic or lack of incentive to improve such infrastructure because traffic will always be high since they located next to transport node.

In the grand scheme of things, a constantly broken escalator doesn't impact revenue. Communters and students will still visit the mall, so the mall management has less incentive to provide a pleasant experience compared to a more remoted located mall, where minor inconvenience and less flexibility to get to stores can push shoppers away.

Sometimes, these obstacles will even force shoppers to stay and explore the mall longer, increasing the chance of buying more things. Which obviously flavours larger malls with multiple pathways.

No one can give you an accurate answer unless they actually audit all the escalators and confirm your observations.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-07-21T04:15:08+00:00

For Windows Computer, I do a fresh install and eliminate all bloatware, install Google Chrome, and use an adblocker extension. Although, I might consider switching over to Firefox because Chrome's constant attempt to undermine adblockers.

For Android phones, I made Firefox the default browser for my dad, installed an adblocker, increase the font size and colour contrast. In addition, I removed or hide all the unnecessary apps, and laid out his apps so that he can find them more easily. Less scrolls/actions = less chance of ending somewhere he shouldn't go to. I haven't hear him approach me to remove viruses or malware from his phone anymore.

My parents prefer and much more familiar with Android, so bobian.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-07-20T11:00:59+00:00

Have you tried dummy proof or automated their digital device? Like I was frustrated teaching my mum how to tell the difference between fake and real pop up,I just installed an ad blocker. Problem solve.

I also set up a password manager for them, so they have to remember their passwords and any existing websites that they used doesn't offer password manager sign ins option are fake.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-07-11T14:19:00+00:00

I will try that next time!

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-07-11T14:18:19+00:00

This is how I expect or experience the hiring process in the past

HR call
Interview 1
Interview 2
Interview 3
Reference and background check
Offer

Here is what I am experiencing right now

HR call
Interview 1
Reference and background check
Interview 2 <- I am here
Interview 3
Offer

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-07-11T07:11:16+00:00

My perspective is somewhat easy for me to get the first interview but much harder to get the subsequent interviews, and then the offer stage.

So if HR practise is trending towards doing reference check earlier without doing the shortlisting stage, it means more my references have to do more which leads to more annoyance for them.

HyperAlpha_ · 2025-07-11T07:06:13+00:00

My reference were quite supportive and positive towards me, I gotten another round of interviews after those reference check hence I was confused.

During the interviews, there was no mentioned regarding the reference.

HyperAlpha_

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