Quick & Easy guide to Retirement and CPF

So, many people, EDUCATED people, are still bloody clueless about what they can do with their CPF and keep making a fuss about it. Here’s how easy it is.

Before you reach 55 years old, your CPF is basically 3 accounts – OA (Ordinary), SA (Special) and MA (Medisave). You use OA for housing loans or shares. You cannot touch SA at all except for some selected shares you want to invest in. You only touch MA when you need to pay for medical attention at govt clinics and hospitals. Throughout your working life, money keeps going into these 3 accounts.

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Reactor Trident Watch – 10 Years Later

Back in 2009, I got myself a Reactor Trident watch. This watch had been my daily-wear watch, and while I do switch it out to wear other watches in my collection, I still return to this watch often.

One of the features of this watch is that it has a 10-year battery lifespan. Well, I just replaced the battery in April 2019. So yeah, you can say it does indeed have a 10-year battery lifespan. I did that myself actually, didn’t bring it in to any watch store to get the battery replaced. Couldn’t find a CR2012 (man, they’re rare!), and after doing a little bit of research, it seemed that other people have used a CR2016 instead of a CR2012 battery.

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I’m A Logitech Man (part 4) – Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum Keyboard

I was at Sim Lim Square the other day, innocently getting other more mundane stuff (thermal paste, USB extension cables etc), where I chanced upon this keyboard – the Logitech G810 Orion Spectrum.

Now, I actually had no real reason to get a new keyboard, except that my old gaming PC just had the Intel CPU replaced by Intel. My old keyboards that I had lying around had stiff keys… couldn’t type very fast on them anymore.

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