COVID-19 in Singapore

Day 4 (jumping ahead from Day 2 and 3) So the big news from Day 1 was the COVID-19 (Temporary Measures) Bill, which gives, to quote, 'the Government has included provisions to provide the legal basis in order to enforce the enhanced safe distancing measures'. What this means is all social gatherings of any size, whether in a public or private environment is prohibited, and the government can enforce it through various agencies and offenders can be charged in court with fines of up to $10,000 and or jail of up to 6 months for first-time offenders. This is a good move; when I was out for groceries or collecting my mask I could see people milling around and congregating. Thankfully that has lessened as of today. The number of infected cases in Singapore continues to go up and to the shame of us all, one of the biggest clusters are from dormitories of foreign workers. This is due to in no small part to the cramped and unhygienic conditions of those quarters. We can an...

Day 1 This update comes a little late as I spent an inordinate amount of time getting the flutter SDK to work. Day 1 of CCB doesn't feel very different from the previous day. Apart from groceries shopping early in the morning, I made a trip to collect the government issued re-useable mask at the community centre. It is a cloth mask that should not be taken to be proof against Covid-19. Its use may be more useful as a reminder that you should social distance. I downloaded the Flutter SDK and I talked a little about it in today's video, link further down. It took far too long to install. To wit what works for me (Mac OS X Sierra) is: Download and unzip the SDK as per instructions. Modify the path using: sudo vim /etc/paths Add the path to the /bin location of the flutter directory Restart Terminal and do Echo $PATH just to make sure the path is there and do flutter --version I was also missing the Xcode Command line tools but I remedied that quite easily...

From 7 April to 4 May, Singapore is going to be in a semi-lockdown which we have taken to calling a 'circuit breaker'. This is my attempt to share and jot down some of the stuff I do or plan to during the circuit breaker, for brevity, I will be referring to this period as CCB. Day 0 Today is Monday, 6 April, the day before CCB begins. I am using today to plan what I want to do over the next 28 days, just a rough idea, nothing set in stone, but I hope to show something new or different every day, as I spend most of my time indoors, except when grocery shopping or going for my exercise. Here are some of the things I plan to do: 1. Learn a new programming framework - Flutter 2. Assemble some miniature figurines 3. Paint some miniature figurines 4. Read some classics. 5. Read a new-ish genre story, at least once a week. 6. Exercise every day and I will be sharing what my exercise routine is. 7. Play some games with friends (online hopefully) 8. Sing some songs 9...