GXS is good as it pays daily for the base balance ($25,000) or every 4 months for the 2 boost pods if you are mindful to do it every 3 months. Which I feel is an hassle. The moment you missed, your effective interest will be lower. Also it only allows you to leverage up to $75,000 though the additional from interest does earn you the based 2.38% interest unlike Mari or UOB.
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Monday, October 28, 2024
Saving Account Comparison (UOB One & GXS)
GXS is good as it pays daily for the base balance ($25,000) or every 4 months for the 2 boost pods if you are mindful to do it every 3 months. Which I feel is an hassle. The moment you missed, your effective interest will be lower. Also it only allows you to leverage up to $75,000 though the additional from interest does earn you the based 2.38% interest unlike Mari or UOB.
Monday, October 21, 2024
Black Myth Wukong Review, Guide and Tips
- Chapter 2 Yellow Wind Ridge - The Yellow Sage help you by determining how good you are.\
- Chapter 5 Yin Yang Boss Logic - This boss, can be easy or tough depending if you know the logic. Interesting game play for this.
- How to unlock the 4th focus point. A reason why I played NG+2
- IGN Walkthrough - When I was playing they only have to Chapter 3. Now they have up to Chapter 5. So it is still a great guide to help you though.
- Best place to farm for ingredients and level.
- Secret areas in every chapter. Before going to final bosses
- Bosses in each chapter and location include map of each chapter
- Drinks and Soak locations
- Gourd locations
- Curios locations. Note not every Curios can be obtain more than once
- Fire date seed which I was missing to complete the trophy after completing the game and repeat farming to finally got it
- Tiger Tendon Belt which I repeat a few times to get it to complete the trophy
- Venomous Armguard - In chapter 4, from Venom Daoist, hit 4 of hands off before defeating him. I missed this and have to do it in NG
- Summon 2 sets of Duplicate
- Bosses easy strategy
Thursday, October 10, 2024
Best Saving and Deposit Singapore
As a past financial adviser, I am a pretty thrifty person and always looking out for best deal. A so call "lobang" king labelled by friends and colleagues.
At the time of writing, I like to share two best deals that capture my eyes.
DBS/POSB Fixed Deposit (reference)
With a sum of $1,000 to $19,999, over a cause of 12 months, you will fetch 3.2% with their fixed deposit (FD). Do note you must not have any existing FD with them else you will not be eligible. And yes, the number is up to $19.999, the moment you enter $20,000, the interest will drop to 0.5%.
If you do have some money lying around that can be placed aside for 12 months, don't missed it.
Mari Saving Account (by Shopee)
This e-bank by Shopee gives you a 2.7% daily interest up to $100,000 in saving. You cannot top up more once your account have $100,000. You will need to cash out of it to top up. It support Fast transfer and PayNow, whether to transfer out or in. This is really convenient. Just in case you are worried, it's regulated by MAS up to $100,000.
As a past financial adviser before, you should always keep some liquidity money when you need it. Not lock away. So I find that Mari bank offers me this great flexibility. While been liquid, there is no salary or minimum sum and yet they pays you daily interest. No frills and even have added benefit when shopping in Shopee. What else can you ask for! Putting in a normal saving account will not make your money work hard for you.
So look no further if you just want a interest paying account and no requirements for it. Also gives you the flexibility. Use my referral code below:
Get $10.00 by signing up with MariBank Personal Banking!Simply download MariBank app and use my referral code: 4NVN97FE. T&Cs apply. Remember to make a price in Shopee within 14 days to get the $10.
Thursday, July 13, 2023
Synology with Plex Media Server Unable to Browse Folder
So you have a Synology NAS. Great!
If you are like me who thinks that the Video Station from Synology isn't good enough and uses Plex. Fantastic!
However, if you like to have more function for the Plex Server such as RBAC (Role base access), live streaming of shows from Plex, etc. you might have to get a Plex Pass (their membership program).
They come in a monthly, yearly and lifetime. You can check it out here. If you are not in an hurry, wait for Black Friday which falls on the 4th Friday after Thanks Giving every November. This year it falls on the 24th Nov 2023. That is when you might likely get a 50% discount off the lifetime Plex Pass which I got previously many years back. Trust me its worth it.
For Synology, you can just download the Plex Server binary here, and use Package Center to manually install it. Do choose the right package depending you are on the old DSM 6.x or new DSM 7.x.
So once you have Plex setup, you will want to map your existing Movies, Photos or even TV Shows folders. However, you might end up not able to let Plex Server browse it. Here is why.
Plex create a system, internal user, "PlexMediaServer". You will need to grant this user to permission to your media folders.
Hope this helps in case you encounter the same issue like me. I do forgot about this critical step all the time. So am recording this down for my future reference. :)
Tuesday, June 27, 2023
Ubiquiti Camera with Synology Surveillance Station
With the new software update in Ubiquiti, all support for RTSP is just secured using RTSPS. Synology Surveillance Station has always support on Ubiquiti Cameras via RTSP, with this new update, you might have a challenge to add any Ubiquiti cameras into Synology.
With much research, I finally manage to locate a post that goes into that detail in on discussion in Ubiquiti community.
With the new RTSPS in Ubiquiti Protect, you will get an URL similar to the below:
rtsps://x.x.x.x:7441/aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuVwXyZ?enableSrtpWhat you should do is convert the above by removing the "s" from rtsp and change the port number from 7441 to 7447 and lastly removing "?enableSrtp" in your URL which will looks like below:
rtsp://x.x.x.x:7447/aBcDeFgHiJkLmNoPqRsTuVwXyZ
Using the above amended URL, you can then add it as a User Defined camera into Surveillance Station in Synology.
Thursday, October 28, 2021
Sell your own car in Singapore
I own my first car and was loving it. Nothing really major happen. But my family has expanded over the last 4 years and my current car isn't sufficient to meet the demand.
When I was exploring to trade in when I do a purchase a new car. However, the trade in prices was not fantastic and you do not have an overlap time to at least give you sometime to settle down the new car while able to drive your old car.
So I went to explore some of the dealer brokers such as Carro, motorist (not onemotoring), SwiftQuote by Carousell (previously OneShift), Quotz by SGCarmart and lastly Platinum Motoring. I also put up in Carousell to try sell my car on my own at the same time. From there I got one dealer who did consignment for my car and posted as premium post on SGCarmart. Carousell do provide you all the documents and steps to sell your own vehicle if you manage to find a direct buyer. Check out the article.
In Carousell, I received a lot of consignment and I did allow one to post on my behalf. However, there was no response from any buyer from them. At the same time, I also receive offers from some dealers.
Platinum motoring didn't response to my request when I sign up. Possibly they only take in certain model of cars.
Carro response fast however they have the worse quote and doubted me when I did have an offer higher by a dealer in Carousell.
Motorist as usual response with 2 days. I have been getting a quote from them over the year and they often just follow up and I can see the price has either go down or up depending on the COE.
SwiftQuote came back with a "OK" price however, I was waiting for all to response.
Quotz after I send my car for assessment after paying a fee of SGD38 (promotion price offered SGD10 using referral), they will post all the pictures and report into their ebidding system. You will then received the link to view the live bidding. It runs for 2 days and on the last day cut off time at 12pm, they will offer you the price that was highest bid and you get to decide if you want to accept the offer within 2 days. I was given the highest price by them. Also happen to saw a friend who have wrote a review for them, I though why not give it a try.
From my car distributor where I got my new car, the highest they could give me was slightly less after pushing them hard for highest. However, that has not include assessment.
After all the quotes I have received, eventually I accepted the offer from Quotz. Here are the few reasons:
- Price is final as assessment is already done no more low ball unlike the rest.
- If buyer pull out after the acceptance, Quotz will still honour the deal.
- You will be given up to end of month to submit your car, given enough time for me to transit such as detailing of the car or installing dashcam etc. I have to provide at least 1/4 tank of petrol and not drove more than 80km per day.
- If a higher price is offered by others, you can redeem from Quotz SGD100 for price competitive.
Thursday, April 30, 2020
Sony WF-1000XM3 Wireless Noise Cancelling Headphones Review
- Build quality
- Sound Quality
- Comfort
- Noise Cancelling
- Bluetooth connection stability
- Microphone
- Hear through mode (able to hear outside sound together)
- Multi-device connections
- Ease of use of the earphones
- Ease of use of the app
Sound Quality 10/10
Even their WH-1000XM3 headphone suffer the same fate if you google it around. Seems like Sony doesn't learn and just create one wireless headphones from their over-ear headphones and inherit all the same issues.
Multi-device connections 5/10
One thing to note, you are able to use one earbud and that is the only right side allowed.
If you add the wire and remove the mic, the headphone is perfect but not at this price.