Malaysian Lost Passport (+ IC) in Bangkok

What to do if you lost your passport in the land of smiles.

How to Choose a Home Router?

Recently, my girlfriend started experiencing lags and disconnections in her work video calls, heavily disrupting her productivity. We decided that the old Singtel router (configured to be able to route internet traffic from M1!) was due for an upgrade, for a better work-from-home environment. So I went into the local IT shop, Challenger, thinking that […]

Adventures of a farm-escaping bugcat capoo

Featured image credit: Wallpaper Cave I’ve been quite ill-disciplined with my time lately, and I suspect that it’s due to stress (and my unawareness of it) – leading to me playing legacy Pokemon games up to 4am in the mornings. (Side note: the world of Pokemon hacks are amazing. These hacks provide enhanced difficulty mods, […]

Of contactless payments, NFC, Google Pay and secure elements

In my previous blog post I highlighted the steps needed for my Redmi Note 8 Pro (and possibly other Xiaomi phones) to be able to use Google Pay for credit card contactless payments. My technologically curious mind wanted to understand a little more about the options presented on the NFC Secure Element configuration window: As […]

Xiaomi Redmi Note 8 / Mi 9 / MIUI-based Phones – Google Pay NFC Configuration

After my Huawei Mate 20 X went for a swim in the pool and never woke up from it, I was sceptical of my ability to maintain the health of my phones, and decided to find a value-for-money handset to see how much bang I can get for my little buck. For S$300 I purchased […]