It’s the first day of Ramadan or rather the fasting month.
The first buka puasa at home was mee soto. And today is a slightly rainy day though it got sunnier near evening.
The same day last year, it was day 7 of our circuit breaker and I was doing fitness boxing over the nintendo switch.
It’s been at least a year since our circuit breaker in 2020 where we had to work from home and not go anywhere. Now, we can go out but masks are compulsory.
We have trace together tokens and apps to use and SafeEntry QR codes before entering a mall or any place really.
But then, in 2020. The stats was:
13 April 2020 stats
New cases: 233
Imported: 0
Local cases linked: 66
Pending contact tracing: 167 (16 SG citizens/PR, 10 work pass, 141 work permit)
Total cases: 2532
Hospitalized: 976 (31 in the ICU)
In community facilities: 988
Fatalities: 8
Total discharged: 560 (discharged on 13 April 2020: 32)
Now our stats are configured not to say the whole total but the current update since it is more useful to us after 1 year.
13 April 2021 stats:
0 cases in the community
14 imported cases, who had already been placed on Stay-Home Notice upon arrival in Singapore.
We’ve done okayish, don’t you think? Vaccines are being rolled out in stages and I’ll be able to book for mine when I can do so.
What do I miss out most is that I still can’t take short cuts. Like how there is that door on the upper levels of Nex shopping mall that leads straight to the overhead bridge.
Now I have to ‘manually’ go out to the first level of the overhead bridge to take it.
Oh, we have Singaporediscover vouchers too. In which we can spend $100 given by the government to stimulate our own local tourism. I plan to do mine with bungee jumping after Hari Raya. It expires in June and there are campaigns and news articles about how people aren’t spending theirs.
Well… People would spend them if they actually had time to book… But this post is about the current state of the now for future people to read on about so we’ll leave it as that.
It’s been at least 3 or 4 ‘free’ masks from the vending machine that we could collect from Temasek Foundation. Those had been really useful. I like the DET30 mask most, the design is pretty good compared to the rest but with each time we get a new mask, the design or features are improved.
It may be Ramadan but it isn’t as ‘quiet’ as last year though we still won’t have those big pasar malams. Shops are being online and you can tune in to sales on facebook.
