Circuit Breaker Day 04

We need everyone to adhere to the advisory of trying to stay indoor as much as possible. You may still go out to perform the essential tasks. Only 1 person from the family should be going out to buy food or purchase stuffs at the supermarket. 

Everyone need to play their part if they want the circuit breaker to be lifted on 04 May 2020. At this point of time, it is still difficult to tell as the cases are still spiking.

The government had make the unprecedented move to allow foreign workers to stay in army camp. They had put aside the camp security to resolve the immediate health concern for these workers whom are part of the essential service providers in Singapore.

The rest of the Singapore Residents need to play their part. Healthcare staffs are already working beyond their working hours to ensure we keep the COVID 19 within control. It is our national duty to keep SINGAPORE safe no matter what job position we hold in the hospital. We do not think about the credit but to solve the immediate issue that is disrupting the livelihood.

I like to remind everyone to be socially responsible and play your roles in this epidemic embracing SINGAPORE and the rest of the world.

CIRCUIT Breaker Day 03

We have enter the third day and overwhelm by 287 cases. There is a need to relook at our dormitory design and stop packing so many people within a room. The government must play an active role to reduce the levy and costing so that business owner can provide better living conditions for their workers.

It was another busy day at the hospital as we need to manage the operations and ensure everything run as per normal. There is a concern as spare part lead time are taking longer due to the lock down of various countries.

We treat ourselves to McDonald after half day of hard work. The crowd was thin as I arrive before lunch time to purchase the food. I am wondering when I can come back with my lunch kaki to sit down for a meal.

Yishun Safra McDonald

[Sent by Gov.sg – 9 Apr]

COVID-19: Advisory on Exercise during Circuit Breaker period

? Stay healthy and continue exercising to keep up your immunity

?‍♀ But only exercise alone or with household members
Do not exercise with others, not even family in other households

Exercise in open-air stadiums or public parks, but keep at least 1 metre apart from others ?‍♀↔️?

? Or stay active at home thru online exercise classes

? All sports and recreation facilities will be closed (eg. public or private condo gyms, pools, courts)
? 15 open-air ActiveSG stadiums remain open

? All group sports and physical exercise, such as group training and one-on-one coaching, must cease

Check out how crowded a park is: https://safedistparks.nparks.gov.sg/

More: go.gov.sg/circuitbreaker-active

ICU Refresher course for covid 19

Ground-up initiative to rapidly train healthcare workers with minimal ICU experience to assist ICU-trained teams in this COVID19 pandemic situation. This should not replace formal training.

Project Equip is a Critical Care Refresher Course developed by SGH Department of Respiratory and Critical Medicine with support from the Departments of Renal Medicine and Anaesthesiology.

Extract from SGH on LinkedIn

It is great for healthcare Engineers to know what are colleagues are going through in the ICU.

Circuit breaker day 01

Today is the start of the Singapore Circuit Breaker to fight the Covid-19. For the first time in my life, I am seeing all eating outlets accepting takeaway only. This is unprecedented and hope that this epidemic do not come back again.

Secondary school students took their last lesson at schools before it close until 04 May 2020. The students will begin their home based learning tomorrow.

It had also disrupted and affect the livelihood of a lot of Singaporean’s. Non-essential companies need to close and employees need to take their own leave. There are also worst case where they are laid off as their bosses are unable to sustain the business.

The government had to draw on their reserve in order to ensure their livelihood are protected during these rough times. This will allow them to keep their jobs and business can sustain during the Covid 19.

COVID 19 Battle links

The consolidated links for Singapore battle against the COVID 19.

CONSOLIDATED LINKS FOR COVID19 BATTLE

?Gov.sg Whatsapp Subscription
Local: go.gov.sg/whatsapp
Overseas: go.gov.sg/whatsapp-overseas

? To find a PHPC clinic
www.phpc.gov.sg

? To find where to collect mask
www.maskgowhere.gov.sg

? Covid19 online symptom checker
www.sgcovidcheck.com

⚠ If you are feeling chest pain/breathless/gasping for air, or any other emergency concerns, pls call 995 immediately! Don’t bother to check online by symptoms.

? TraceTogether for Mobile
www.tracetogether.gov.sg

? SG United Jobs Portal
www.sgunitedjobs.gov.sg

?To check how crowded malls are before going
www.spaceout.gov.sg

?To check how crowded parks are before going
safedistparks.nparks.gov.sg

⚠Stay home as much as you can, minimise going out to malls or parks unnecessarily

? Businesses to apply exemption for circuit breaker period
covid.gobusiness.gov.sg

Singapore covid 19 circuit breaker

I WILL NEVER forget….. 3rd April, 2020. This had impacted so many Singapore residents life’s as the epidemic went out of control.

At 4pm on 3rd April 2020, the Prime Minister announced closure of most workplaces, home-based learning to begin (all schools closed) and Singaporeans to stay at home as much as possible and avoid socialising with anyone outside of their family. This is call a circuit breaker.

For about a month and a half we have been taking children’s temperatures at school when they arrive and then again before lunch. We also restricted any gatherings at school to less than 40 people meaning staff meetings were split and lunchtimes were split for children. Any children with a temperature, cough or who were unwell at all were sent home immediately.

People are required to stay 1m away from others when out. Shops have tape on the ground to indicate distance when queuing.
Limited number of people allowed inside some stores.

CANCELLED!

  • Concerts
  • tours
  • festivals
  • entertainment events
  • Weddings
  • family celebrations
  • holiday gatherings
  • even funerals

Mosque are closed. We will have begin our Ramadan without a mosque.
No masses, churches are closed.

Panic buying has set in a couple of times. It can be hard to get toilet paper, disinfecting supplies, paper towels, canned food, pasta, hand sanitizer.

No delivery slots available for online groceries.
Daily Whatsapp update on new cases, clusters, recoveries and deaths.
People returning to Singapore put in hotels to self isolate for 14 days.
People wearing masks and gloves outside.

Worldwide…
There are over 1,000,000 cases of Covid-19 and over 54,000 deaths so far! This is in just 3 months.
Borders are closed
People can not travel
Airlines are going bust
‘Social distancing’ had become a new term
Entire sports seasons cancelled.
Olympics postponed to 2021.
Shortage of ventilators for the critically ill in many parts of the world. Refrigerated trucks for the dead outside hospitals in the USA, Italy, Spain, China, and more.
Manufacturers, distilleries and other businesses switch their lines to help make visors, masks, hand sanitizer and PPE.
Fights in supermarkets over toilet paper.

This is the Novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) Pandemic, WHO declared March 11th, 2020.

Be thankful. Be grateful.
Be kind to each other – love one another – support everyone. ♥️

CoroNAvirus self check

The new NCP Coronavirus (COVID-19) has a latency period of 0 to 24 days. As there may be no sign of infection, one will not know if he is infected. By the time they have fever and/or cough and goes to the hospital, the lungs is usually 50 % Fibrosis and it’s too late!

Taiwan experts provide a simple self-check that you can do every morning :
Take a deep breath and hold your breath for more than 10 seconds. If you can complete it successfully without coughing, without feeling discomfort, stuffiness or tightness etc.) congratulations! It proves that there is no fibrosis in the lungs, basically indicating no infection.

In critical times, please self-check every morning in an environment with clean air!

  • Deep inhalation for 10 seconds in the morning, no cough, depression, tightness, discomfort, etc. * It proves that there is no fibrosis in the lungs, which means that pneumonia has not attack, but it must be tested continuously every day.

I am not sure you believe the above but there is no harm in trying it out. We are living in a world of FEAR but life must goes on.

Coronavirus fact

The Coronavirus is spreading and affecting people lives worldwide. People are panicking and snapping up surgical face mask in the retail stores. Let’s look at the Coronavirus fact and how it might infect you.

Coronavirus Fact

We should stay calm and adhere to the local authority advisory in your country of residence.

Mass Fever screening

The Wuhan virus is still not been contained and had the potential to infect more people’s globally. Airports and hospitals are now equipping thermal scanner to screen human body temperature.

The mass fever thermal scanners will be in hot demand again if the Wuhan virus continues to spread. Infrastructure with high human flows such as airport, educational institutions, transport hub and hospitals need to start screening the human traffic,

For interested party, you make take a look at Omnisense System mass fever scanning machine.

https://omnisense-systems.com/products/sentry-mk4/

CNY 2020 notes run out

It is time to change new notes for the Chinese New Year 2020. But unfortunately, DBS and POSB closed the online reservation just 4 days after opening.

The online reservation starts on 09 January, 7am and end on 21 January. But in actual fact, it does not allowed you to reserve online from 12 January onwards.

The demand is too strong and DBS & POSB had closed the online reservation. Everyone know that they will be disappointed if you want to change notes at OCBC. It always displayed no more new notes at their bank branches and does not have online reservation. You can use the DBS & POSB pop up atm and good luck to all of you trying to change the new notes.

Taipei Metro for Tourist

You can travel easily using the Taipei Metro to most of the tourist attractions and destinations. This should not be an issue if you come from a country with mass rapid train services. Connecting on a Metro is more easy than a central or connecting train station.

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Taipei Metro

I have used the Taoyuan Express to travel from the airport to the Taipei Main Station. It is best that you can get your hotel or AirBnb within walking distance of the MRT Station.

EasyCard

This is one of the best travelling card that you must have in Taipei. It allowed you to travel on the Metro, local trains, express train from Taoyuan airport and many others. It save you time queuing to purchase single trip tickets and money for the trips. There is a deposit of NT$100 for the card. You may keep the card and use it when you are back at Taiwan in future.
https://www.easycard.com

Please remember to have a data roam plan or purchase a local data SIM Card. You will need it to access Google Map or Apple Map. They are the best companion on DIY trip. I use Singtel ReadyRoam services and my family will share the local data SIM Card purchase from Klook so that we can stay connected when we get separated in the busy shopping district or night markets. You can also opt to purchase at the Taoyuan Airport or at retailers in Taiwan.

 

 

 

 

Ozonated Water System

This system from the USA can clean, sanitizes, and deodorise without the usage of chemical. In healthcare, chemicals are use together with water to clean the trolleys or any other working devices. This system gives you the opportunity to remove the chemical and still meet the cleanliness and infection control needs.

There is a Capex investment for the system and yearly OPEX costs for maintaining the system and replacement of the filters. This is a sustainable green products as it use water only and eliminate the usage of chemicals.

You may contact the following company if you need more details.

James Lim
Adsec Systems Pte Ltd
Tel: 6839 9665
Email: james.lim@adsecsystems.com.sg
Home Page: https://www.adsecsystems.com.sg
OEM Page: https://www.promedusa.us

Kampung Admiralty Open Plaza Update #08

The open plaza sun screen was damage after heavy rains on Sunday (29 Sep 2019).

They are currently waiting for the vendor to come down to do the rectification works. A redesign is require as the system is not suitable and this problems had occured many times over the past 2 years.

The open plaza will be wet till the repair is done. It will be tedious to the local facility team whenever it rains.

Sweat Your Hours

I am fortunate to work in a normal shift as a FM Engineer and working for the building owner. Tonight, I reflect on how I had progress over the years. There are still so many things that I have gained over the work through experience be it the soft or hard way.

As a FM Engineer, we are ready to sweat the hours out when we are call upon duty. This include emergency breakdown at odds hours or preventive maintenance shutdown after the office hours. You must be prepare to work in these odd hours to get the job done. Do not shun this out of office hours if you want to be a true facility management engineer.

You must be prepare to sacrifice your time outside your office hours. This does not occur frequently and thus you must be prepare to support your superiors. Those who does not take up this call of duty means there are not fully committed to the job yet.

Are you ready to accept message and calls after office hours and on weekends?

Hungry Ghost Festival 2019

The Hungry Ghost Festival 2019 is here. Chinese will pray on what they belief of their custom. This is a survival guide for others whom want to understand the do and don’t during the month long festival in Singapore and Malaysia.

Chinese also pray at their work place to ensure a smooth and cordial work for them and the organisation. There are also others whom do not believe and does not allow it to be carry out at work place.

It is up to the individual and organisation to decide whether they can fit in to the traditional Chinese custom.

An Engineer in the Day and Tech Cruncher at Night.