{"id":9238,"date":"2021-04-13T20:21:23","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T12:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/?p=9238"},"modified":"2021-04-13T20:21:23","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T12:21:23","slug":"ramadan-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/13\/ramadan-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramadan Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first day of Ramadan or rather the fasting month.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/meesoto-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9239\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/13\/ramadan-day-1\/meesoto\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/meesoto-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.7&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;OPPO R17&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1618341135&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;3.97&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;802&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.02&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"meesoto\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/meesoto-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9239\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/meesoto-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"Mee soto\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/meesoto-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/meesoto-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/meesoto-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/meesoto-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/meesoto-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first buka puasa at home was mee soto. And today is a slightly rainy day though it got sunnier near evening.<\/p>\n<p>The same day last year, it was day 7 of our circuit breaker and I was doing fitness boxing over the nintendo switch.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>We have trace together tokens and apps to use and SafeEntry QR codes before entering a mall or any place really.<\/p>\n<p>But then, in 2020. The stats was:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>13 April 2020 stats<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>New cases: 233<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Imported: 0<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Local cases linked: 66<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Pending contact tracing: 167 (16 SG citizens\/PR, 10 work pass, 141 work permit)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Total cases: 2532<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Hospitalized: 976 (31 in the ICU)<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>In community facilities: 988<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Fatalities: 8<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Total discharged: 560 (discharged on 13 April 2020: 32)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>13 April 2021 stats:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>0 cases in the community<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>14 imported cases, who had already been placed on Stay-Home Notice upon arrival in Singapore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve done okayish, don&#8217;t you think? Vaccines are being rolled out in stages and I&#8217;ll be able to book for mine when I can do so.<\/p>\n<p>What do I miss out most is that I still can&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p>Now I have to &#8216;manually&#8217; go out to the first level of the overhead bridge to take it.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;t spending theirs.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230; People would spend them if they actually had time to book&#8230; But this post is about the current state of the now for future people to read on about so we&#8217;ll leave it as that.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/det30.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"9242\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/13\/ramadan-day-1\/det30\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/det30.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2048,1536\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Det30 mask\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/det30-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-9242\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/det30-480x360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/det30-480x360.jpg 480w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/det30-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/det30-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/det30-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/det30.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been at least 3 or 4 &#8216;free&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>It may be Ramadan but it isn&#8217;t as &#8216;quiet&#8217; as last year though we still won&#8217;t have those big pasar malams. Shops are being online and you can tune in to sales on facebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/13\/ramadan-day-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ramadan Day 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[226],"tags":[78,36],"class_list":["post-9238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-state-of-sarah","tag-food","tag-singapore"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pf5tJ-2p0","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9238"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9243,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9238\/revisions\/9243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.seriouslysarah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}