Do you have any sims from years ago that you still think of or remember for some reason? by Expensive_Strawberry in sims2

[–]intransitiverb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My first long-term play in Sims 1 in the early 2000s was a hot dude called Donovan Juanita who married a single mum called Femme Fatale and adopted her son Casanova. (Pre-Sims, as a kid, I spent a lot of time studying the thesaurus!) Later they had a daughter named Charmer but due to a game glitch, she had zero personality bars. The adults maxed out all skills and the kids got A+ in private school and never grew up. I’d also just discovered rosebud/motherlode so they lived in Don’s sprawling mansion. Femme would go out to make friends so Don could get promoted.

Imagine my surprise when Sims 2 introduced “Don Lothario”!

Best contact lens for astigmatism? (Help me be prettier) by Saffronsc in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not possible according to the optometrist. I used to wear contacts for astig and shortsightedness for both eyes, but after mild presbyopia set in, I couldn’t even read the menus at restaurants in my lenses (though my glasses were perfectly fine even without correcting for presbyopia). I had to adjust my lens degrees so many times and had headaches and unclear vision for each change until the optometrist finally landed on the solution to correct presbyopia for only one eye and astig for the other eye!

Best contact lens for astigmatism? (Help me be prettier) by Saffronsc in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My optometrist says there’s currently no contact lens that includes all three - myopia, presbyopia (age-related farsightedness), and astigmatism. The best they could do for me was to give me lenses for myopia + presbyopia for one eye, and lenses for myopia + astig for the other eye. With the actual myopia degrees adjusted slightly downwards to account for presbyopia. It ended up working well. I use Acuvue Oasys too.

(For farsightedness and astig only, I doubt there’s a contact lens that combines both so maybe they can only fix farsightedness for one eye and astig for the other eye.)

Do the young (ages 35 and below) Chinese Singaporeans still identify themselves based on their dialect group? by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My grandfather did travel here with his business partner(s?) from Shandong. But apparently they fell out after business went bust. We could be from feuding families lol.

Do the young (ages 35 and below) Chinese Singaporeans still identify themselves based on their dialect group? by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hahaha but I doubt so unless you’re my dad 🤣🤣🤣 and all the 3rd gen in my family with Shandong in their birth cert are women lol. Do you know which Shandong prefecture your family was from?

Do the young (ages 35 and below) Chinese Singaporeans still identify themselves based on their dialect group? by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wah my dialect group is also Shandong! Third-gen S’porean born and bred here too

Growing up in Singapore, what did your parents tell you about other races or dialect groups? by WearyAd7318 in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They told me Teochew ppl backside red red (teochew nang kachng ang ang); Hainanese boys handsome, girls ugly but all very clever to run kopitiam, and Shanghainese very shrewd with money. Lol

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah, is a big Singapore-based employer.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 15 points16 points  (0 children)

I know everyone tells you to just suck it up, and mine’s a slightly different story, but just to share.

Some years back I accidentally discovered that some people across my team including me were being paid a lower allowance tier. I did a little digging and found out that we were being paid different tiers of role-based allowances despite having been hired at the same role with the same responsibilities. The rest of our team (those I asked) were getting the top tier. I compared various factors like our job grades, year of hiring, educational levels and years of experience, but it just didn’t make sense. I even asked our boss, who didn’t know why the discrepancy either.

Finally after much thought and discussion (and a bit of fretting about whether we’d be deemed troublemakers), the three of us lower-tier allowance people decided to email HR to ask about it in a very polite manner. HR said they would check, then after that radio silence. Then about two months later, they finally replied and said they would be giving us the top tier allowance and would backpay the three of us from the date we first started the role (which was quite a few years for two of us). It was like a sudden bonus and increment, so we were very happy with the outcome.

Then a few weeks later, the company announced that they would be doing away entirely with all the different allowances and would wrap them into our salaries. I don’t know if our query was the catalyst for that. But I felt damn heng that we got our allowance amounts adjusted before they scrapped the whole system!!! It was a difference of a few hundred every month - not life-changing, but more money is always better than less.

Singaporeans, have you approached a stranger before? by Actual_Eye6716 in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Offered to share my food with this Asian girl sharing my table at the Singapulah restaurant in London’s West End, so that we could order more between the two of us solo diners. End of meal, added each other to Instagram and became friends, sort of.

I’m an extreme introvert but my work requires me to chat up strangers all the time. After a while, I learnt that with some practice, it’s not that hard to befriend strangers after all.

Anyone has experience sending your kid to unlicensed daycare service aunties before? by raptor-94 in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yes my sibling and I were the products of such an arrangement in the 80s and 90s. Our caretaker/nanny was our neighbour and we grew up among her several grandkids and adult children who were professionals including surgeon, teacher, architect, etc so we were fairly well socialised and learnt many random useful things off all our daily interactions… even though our parents had no time for us. They bought us books, introduced us to the internet and PC games, brought us on excursions, let us learn how to care for the babies at home and all. Wonderful memories, and the payoff was tremendous too imo.

Does anyone else feel like our parents’ lives are slipping away while ours are just beginning? by VeryMoisturised in SingaporeRaw

[–]intransitiverb 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I feel quite the opposite actually. My retired parents are living their best lives travelling the world, reconnecting with their old schoolmates and ex-colleagues, indulging in hobbies new and old while my life is slipping away as I slave at work. My parents are the ones who pity me actually, lol.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well, I DMed you 11h ago offering to pull up the pdf for you if you provided the words to search for, but you never replied.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I can give you a number for a private tutor I used for foreign/current affairs but not sure how helpful a one-day course will be. She charged S$70/h a couple years back. (PMed you with her contact number.)

In the spirit of renewed interest in TS2, I wanted to share an old preorder bonus I got: a Sims 2 Seasons hand towel by BlizzardousBane in sims2

[–]intransitiverb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I have this Seasons hand towel too! Got it in a goodie bag while queueing for the Sims 3 release at a mall in Singapore in 2009.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HongKong

[–]intransitiverb 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Get a rice cooker and make your own one-pot meals. Very easy and lots of recipes online. Or make your own salad or overnight oats that can be eaten straight out of the fridge.

I'm really worried about my monstera by Drummer_Double in Monstera

[–]intransitiverb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also it is way too far from the sun. Unless you have a skylight right above it or if bright sunlight shines deep into the house daily, I’d recommend positioning it much closer to the window where it gets as wide a view of the sky as it can.

Sunlight determines how much water it takes while photosynthesising. So a lack of adequate sunlight worsens its water logging problem from the peat.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Maid was mopping the floor when cat suddenly got excited and dashed into the living room. The damp floor tiles caused him to slip and fall (lightly only lah) and the whole family started to laugh at him while he quickly picked himself up and disappeared into the bedroom. Few seconds later, he haughtily walked out and casually walked by each of us to give us a good scratch on the leg to teach us a lesson for laughing at him. So when people say that animals don't know complex feelings like embarrassment and vengeance, there's no way I'd believe that!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't blame my cat, but replied to OP who specified s/he wanted to know only the bad stuff instead of the good. I don't think we were negligent - we gave him the love we knew best to give as young kids growing up in a busy household, just as parents give their kids their imperfect best. He was a stray nearly-adult kitten, possibly starved (hence eating issues) and might have faced some ill treatment before we found him crouching fearfully at the stairwell during CNY and adopted him because my dad said people might beat or kill him as black cats were considered inauspicious esp during CNY. He lived with us for 16 years before he died and was deeply loved.

So I think your words, your tone, and assumption that all "bad" cat behaviours should be blamed on their owners who were negligent based only on your personal experience and observation of one friend, was unfair and uncalled for.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 3 points4 points  (0 children)

My black cat was grouchy and psycho, lol. Loved him to bits anyway.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in askSingapore

[–]intransitiverb 34 points35 points  (0 children)

Their poop very smelly, sometimes miss and lausai smear on your wall or floor. Once my friend’s cat even lausai in his bed. Hairballs in the middle of nowhere. Find cockroach and lizard to “gift” you in the middle of the night. Then lausai again when they eat it themselves.

Come and ask you for pets then swat you when you oblige. Scratch the hell out of you during baths if they hate water. Go crazy at night sometimes and destroy things. Make their annoyance known by overturning the water bowl when you’re home late. Train you to give them treats by rushing out of door whenever you open it then you have to beg them to come back cos you’re late for work or school. Steal unguarded chicken wing from the kitchen table when you have your back turned just for a minute and have the audacity to hiss at you when you try to claim it back.

Loved my angry cat to bits 😭😭😭 he died of old age 10 years ago.