Dementia - Back to memory loss state

On Friday, my father dementia back to the memory loss state. The alertness only last for 3 days. During the alert state, beside unable to sleep, he was very active and like to exercise to keep body fit. His blood pressure went up between145 to 150. His behaviour will be stubborn and talk a lot.

Dementia - Mental back to Alert

My father had the dementia for few years. The doctor diagnose and indicated that there were 3 minor stroke in the brain and caused my father the loss of the memory. Even though my father is the pioneer generation, there is no subsidiary for the medicine that he need to consume. As these medicine are not classify as general standard subsidy medicine and need to be pay in full.

However for years of observation, in every 3 to 4 months my father will suddenly become very alert and start to talk in sense. In the most recent, Tuesday, he will read the newspaper and talk on the election. He will want to do exercise which in the dementia state that he will only want to lie in the bed and sleep. However the side effect of this alertness is he couldn't sleep. In the past 2 days, he hardly sleep for 2 hours.

Will continue write this blog to record the observation of the mental alertness.

Sentences to use in audit reply

Some quality quote that can be used for audit reply :

1. "Although there was no evidence of dishonesty, the xxx 'position' concerned has taken personal responsibility for these lapses and resigned from his position."

2. "'organisation/department' acknowledges our shortcomings in this area and has taken immediate steps to enhance compliance,"

3."As a xxxx managing yyyyy funds, zzzz takes our financial governance seriously."

4."We have taken swift and decisive action to put things right immediately. "

5.“We can fault for their non-compliance of financial procedures, but please do not doubt them in their passion and commitment in always doing their best for the community/organisation,”

6. "Good intentions, not dishonesty"

7 "By having multiple layers of checks and transparency, we ensure a high level of vigilance over the integrity of our financial management," 

8. "We must continue to maintain a sensible balance of rules, subject ourselves to regular and thorough audit, and take thorough enforcement actions whenever necessary."

9. “I can say with confidence there is no irregularity at the system level.”

Scam email on Apple iTune

Received another scam email invoice on the payment to Apple iTune. However I did not place any order through Apple iTune and the email send out to me is not from apple.com but from dssmove.co.uk. So I just ignore it and did not bother to click on the link that they provide.

POSB ATM Card Upgrade Lucky Draw Winner

• In early of this year, I have upgrade my existing magnetic-stripe only POSB ATM Card to a POSB Chip ATM Card which comes with an EMV Chip and won $1000. Hopefully I can also be one of the winner  to win the Grand Prize Lucky Draw in Jan 2015.

Scam email to get Apple ID details

Today receive an scam/phishing email from apple without the correct apple email address indicate

Your Apple ID has been suspended [#834732]‏. 

Please do not believe and click on the link that verify the account and keyin your details. However the FAQ link is to the apple website

Details as follow

From:

Apple (secure@apple.ssl.co.uk) Microsoft SmartScreen classified this message as junk.

Sent:

02 December 2014 22: 43PM Dear Customer, We recently failed to validate your account information we hold on record for you, therefore we need to ask you to complete a brief validation process in order to verify your account. Click here to verify your account Failure to complete our validation process will result in a suspension of your Apple ID. We take every step needed to automatically validate our users, unfortunately in this case we were unable to verify your details. The process will only take a couple of minutes and will allow us to maintain our high standard of account security. Wondering why you got this email? This email was sent automatically during routine security checks. We are not completely satisfied with your account information and require you to update your account to continue using our services uninterrupted. For more information, see our FAQ. Thanks, Apple Customer Service

Failed to Received OCBC and DBS SMS OTP on 10 Nov 2014

Yesterday 10 Nov 2014, I was doing internet banking at 945pm. To my amaze that I am not able to receive both bank, OCBC and DBS SMS OTP. The SMS OTP was delayed till 11 Nov 0848hr then send to my handphone.

This had made me wonder
1) are both bank using the same OTP SMS provider ?or
2) are both bank using same telco provider?
3) why only 848hr then I receive the SMS? Is it at 8am (working hour) then they discover the system fault?

I have tried to use my own handphone to send SMS to my phone and able to receive the message.

Another worry is that the technical fault in the system was not discovered early to resolve.
Is the alert system in the system not robust enough that it is not able to inform the system administrator? Or the alert system and the SMS system are using the same gateway and hence the technical support unable to receive the faulty message? The contingency plan in the internet banking will need to be enhanced and the downtime of the system for almost 12 hours is not acceptable.

Creative Math Problem

Have come across a picture illustrate a simple math problem



There are different method to solve it.

Method 1

Method 2

Method 3

Rabbit + Cat = 10
Rabbit + Dog = 20
Dog + Cat = 24

Rabbit + Cat + Rabbit + Dog = 30
2 Rabbit + Cat + Dog = 30
2 Rabbit + 24 = 30
2 Rabbit = 6
Rabbit = 3
Rabbit + Dog + Cat = 3 + 24 =27.

Worm in Raw Fish

Saturday morning, my wife and I went to wet market to buy fresh fish. Before noon, my wife will wash the fish and do the preparation for the lunch. As usual after the washing I will pour wine into the fish to remove the fish smell and went back to my room. My wife will later steam the fish. the moment I stepped into my room, my wife started screaming and I went back kitchen to find out what happening. She pointed at the fish and said worm. This is also the first time I saw worm crawling out of the fish. I capture the scene into my phone and started to search on the net to find out. According to the internet, this shown the fish is fresh. If the fish is frosen, the worm or parasite or Anisakis will not be able to survive.

How a Quarrel Started in the Bus

There are 2 bus card reader, one in left and one in the right, in the front entrance of the Singapore Bus.



The entrance of the bus able to accommodate 2 passengers to board onto the bus at the same time. Naturally passenger near to the left door will used the left card reader to tap on their card and the right one for the right boarding passenger.

Last week I encountered one incident that I nearly quarrel with one lady. I board onto the bus using the right side and one Indian lady board onto the bus using the left side. When I wanted to tap my card on the left side card reader, the Indian lady just cut into my side and also tap on the same card reader. This causes the card reader reading error as it detected 2 cards. The Indian lady started to say that why am i so "Kam Jiong" meaning fear and wanted to do thing fast. I argue back to her saying that she should used the left side card reader and not the right side. You know what she replied. She say " Is I wish, none of your business". After hearing such replied, I was very angry but lucky I am not a person liked to quarrel if not base on the word that she used, a big quarrel will be started.

When back home, I started to do a self reflection and start to remind myself not to use word that will agitated people.

How Much does the Doctor Charge to Fill in Patient Form

There is a form that need the doctor to fill in and certify. The doctor need to do is to delete the Yes/No option and chop a stamp plus signature. It costs me S$25 for the form filling and doctor signature.

Citibank Bill Pay

Have received the credit card statement account and discovered the important Update on Citibank Bill pay.

It written - With effect from 1 July 2014, you will no longer earn/be rewarded any reward points, cashback or Citi Miles when you pay your bills at AXS using your Citibank Credit Cards

So sad , unable to earn point anymore through AXS.

20 Food Cannot Mixed

Came across an article stated types of food that not allowed to mixed

Google Winning Notification - Scam

Today I have received an email from "Google Award" with subject "Google Winning Notification". The whole email message as follow :

Subject: Google Winning Notification

From: "Google Award"
Please respond to
To:

Date: 05/05/2014 01:36 AM


Dear Google Award Winner
Kindly refer to the attached Google Award Notification Letter in PDF. Read it and get back to us to enable us process your winning.
Congratulations once again!
Kind regards.
Mr. Brian Hookson.

The attachment

It was clearly a scam due to need to respond to yahoo mail instead of gmail.

Singapore Dementia Medical Cost Part 1

What is dementia?

According to http://www.singhealth.com.sg/PatientCare/ConditionsAndTreatments/Pages/Dementia.aspx

Dementia is the medical term used to describe a group of symptoms consisting of memory loss, impaired judgement, disorientation and behavioural changes, which are of sufficient severity to cause loss of function. 

In May 2012, my father had a sudden behaviour changes and sudden low blood pressure due to over dosage of medicine as he had forgotten that he had taken the medicine and retake again. His Systolic measurement is 80mmHg. Immediately we send him to hospital A&E for emergency treatment.

The hospital bill is $99 after government grant.

Apart from the normal laboratory check, the doctor had also conducted the CT scan on brain and discover there were 3 minor old stroke in the brain. The doctor unable to reveal when is the minor stroke occur. The CT scanning is not part of the A&E package and needed to pay separately.

The CT scan cost $224.05




After the confirmation of the causes, my father was refer to see 2 different specialist doctor, 1 is neural for the brain and one is for stroke. The duty doctor had prescribe the blood thinning medicine to my father for prevention of stroke again.

So the total cost is $323.05.

Get a free $100 Mcdonalds Voucher Now - Not True

Recently saw a friend in my facebook share a link

Get a free $100 Mcdonalds Voucher Now (426 Left)

Once click a link it will display the following page

However Mcdonald Official facebook - https://www.facebook.com/mcdsg has officially announce that they do not have such promotion.

Please do not believe any news or promotion from unofficial website.

Echocardiogram Report

What type of data was capture in the Echocardiogram report. Basically it check your heart size and function, heart pressure, wall motion, valve structure and other medical term that only medical professional understand. Below is my Echocardiogram Report.

New POSB ATM Card unable to Deposit Cash in ATM Machine

The edge of my old POST ATM card was chipped off and decided to change a new one. This ATM card has been followed me for more than 10 years and it is still functioning well



The changing process in the POSB branch was smooth and fast. The document needed is the NRIC.

I am able to use the card immediately eg withdrawal of cash, top-up ezlink card etc.
However today I intended to deposit cash with the card, after keying my pin number and selected the account number, the ATM machine just hanged there for 2 to 3 mins and later a message appear in the screen, transaction cancelled. Have tried 3 times and result is the same. Then there is a lady using the passbook to deposit cash and the machine able to function well.

Suspect the card problem and proceed to the counter staff to feedback my problem. The counter staff call their IT department and confirm that there is no error in the ATM side and she has also physically see the machine hanged there after I selected the account. She change another new ATM card for me and I try, again it hanged there.

Later she used her own ATM card and the system also hanged there.

It is quite confirmed that there is a technical fault in the ATM machine card reader that link to the backend system. Will try to use other ATM deposit machine to confirm that is no the new card  that causes the problem.

Infected with H1N1 and insurance claim

Last month I started with high fever, body temperature above 38.3 deg, sore throat and cough. The doctor suspect is H1N1 disease and do a throat swab. The sample was send to the laboratory to test and on the next day, it was confirmed infected with H1N1. Doctor advise to rest well and need to see her immediately if the condition get worse.

After 1 week of rest, I had recovered from H1N1 and luckily I had bough a personal accident insurance (PASTAR)  from tenet that allow me to claim for my medical bill.

New Social Media Marketing

Recently came across a new way of earning money by sharing articles, news or information through facebook, twitter or google+. Detail in this link - > http://bit.ly/1dAewrK
Is this a scam ? I dont know. Maybe I should tried it and posted the result after the cash out.