"Tapas" (tapas)
02/04/2016 at 20:04 • Filed to: None
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"Tapas" (tapas)
02/04/2016 at 20:04 • Filed to: None | 2
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Welp, I’m finally done moving for a bit.
I’ve hopped to 2 or 3 temporary places (home, hotel, serviced apartment) ever since I left Houston. I’m finally settling down in my new apartment and coming close to 1 week since I moved.
Internet? Oh that will take about 2 weeks, even when you shop around for internet providers based on how soon they can come to install.
TV? Samsung makes different TVs for different markets, so no. You can’t get a Samsung power adapter to use your expensive American TV here. No, you have to shop around in shady electronic shops and buy a transformer. And who the fuck knows local transformer brands? So your butt hole reaches clench level 9000 as you turn everything on, hoping that your apartment won’t go ablaze from an electrical fire. But it works!
X Box? Microsoft sells power adapters for Asia! But you gotta register your product through your XBox account and then order. But Microsoft thinks your account is hacked because you’re signing in from a different country and they send you codes to other emails that also think you’re being hacked because you moved so now I gotta explain the asian Microsoft lady what moving is and why I was in 3 countries in 3 months. Why you gotta know my background history and XBox deets to buy a damn adapter, Microsoft? Jeez!
Cars for your trouble.
Next to the Samsng service center, there’s an exotic car dealership and detail shop. Couldn’t get a pretty turquoise 355 convertible that was sexy.
And look at whats parked around the back...
Score!
And among them is the batshit Panamera I saw earlier lol
Saw these cousins (Posrche and Beetle lol) my serviced apartment’s parking lot. And of course I messed up the picture
What the hell is that thing?
Tiny Diahatsu and Subaru that look like toys
Real safety car or douche mobile? Me thinks douchemobile
pjhusa
> Tapas
02/04/2016 at 20:09 |
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Car ownership in Singapore can be described in one word: loathable.
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Tapas
> pjhusa
02/04/2016 at 20:10 |
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Yup. Thanks Singapore! Made a perfect artifical society for everyone who doesn’t like cars.
deprecated account
> Tapas
02/04/2016 at 20:19 |
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Mitsuoka!
dailydoseofmindlessness
> Tapas
02/04/2016 at 20:26 |
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As a Singaporean, I apologise for your distress.
Seriously, 2 weeks for internet service? Which area and what type of connection did you request for? The last time I provisioned my fibre connection it took 3 working days. MioTV and StarHub shouldn’t be more than 5 working days. ¯\_()_/¯
*also I noticed you’ve discovered the shady car parallel import dealers. :D
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pjhusa
> Tapas
02/04/2016 at 20:29 |
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Maybe we should banish Alissa Walker there. She'd love it.
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Tapas
> dailydoseofmindlessness
02/04/2016 at 20:33 |
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Thanks man :)
I’m going for MyRepublic and my apartment doesn’t have fibre. Even without the fibre installation, I was told it will take 10 days. I live in the western part of town.
StarHub is charging the same amount but said that it will take 4 to 6 weeks for the fibre and subsequent modem installation. Singtel is charging more for the same shit and still telling me the earliest they can install is 4 weeks.
Maybe this is because of CNY? I dont know...I guess I have a 4 days weekend coming up with no internet :/
And I didn’t know the import dealers were shady....How are they shady?
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Tapas
> pjhusa
02/04/2016 at 20:36 |
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Lol I’m all for more Oppos near where I live :)
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pjhusa
> Tapas
02/04/2016 at 20:47 |
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I'm fine with New York. This year, I'm going to Taiwan. So much excitement!
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Tapas
> pjhusa
02/04/2016 at 21:15 |
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That’s cool. I like visiting New York.
I’m not sure if I’ll enjoy living there.
Maybe if I spoke chinese, I’d like Singapore (and Taiwan) better :)
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pjhusa
> Tapas
02/04/2016 at 21:24 |
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But I live on Long Island. So it’s an hour drive out to the hustle and bustle of the city, or an hour out to some really beautiful, rural views. Location is perfect!
Haha, I am fluent in Chinese. But... my English grammar sometimes seeps in. So you get very Americanized sentences.
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Tapas
> pjhusa
02/04/2016 at 21:39 |
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Oh, Long Island is fine. Manhattan is fun but its too much of just stuff going on and the cost of living is insane.
Hey, at least you know what you’ll have for lunch everyday in Taiwan. I just point and smile at things on the menu that look appealing lol
(People manning the canteen at work don’t give two shits about you or what you want. Some of them speak enough English to greet you so that’s nice?)
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pjhusa
> Tapas
02/04/2016 at 21:54 |
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Yep. At least I can get around. Well. But people will know that I'm obviously not from the area.
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Tapas
> pjhusa
02/04/2016 at 22:59 |
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Lol when I go back to where I’m from in India, people think I’m no longer from the area. I’ve been gone from too many places for too long to be “from the area”.
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dailydoseofmindlessness
> Tapas
02/05/2016 at 01:01 |
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That explains the 2 weeks of waiting if your apartment has yet been physically provisioned for fibre. I reckon its an older private apartment and not a HDB unit?
CNY does contribute to it at least 5 days worth of delays, it’s one of the major public holidays.
4G LTE should tide you over till the fibre gets hooked up. :) CNY is massively dull in Singapore, I’m usually away to avoid meeting the extended family.
Under declaration of vehicle value, illegal retrofit post-VITAS examination, the list goes on, rather typical in most countries.
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Tapas
> dailydoseofmindlessness
02/05/2016 at 01:07 |
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The apartment hasn’t been physically provisioned for fibre, but that only contributes to half the waiting time. The remaining half is because of CNY. I guess I found the worst time to move lol.
I’m depending on 4G too. Cant watch too many videos or TV (online) though. I went through a GB of data with and hour of casual youtube/internet surfing lol.
I’ll be fine :)
pip bip - choose Corrour
> Tapas
02/05/2016 at 06:57 |
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i’ll be happy with that green Morgan thx!
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pjhusa
> Tapas
02/05/2016 at 09:52 |
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Haha.
I'm Chinese American, which makes me Asian to Americans, and American to Asians. It's paradoxical.
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Tapas
> pjhusa
02/05/2016 at 10:36 |
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Yeah I know exactly how you feel lol