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 Due to the rising costs of coffee pods, and the need to save the environment and reduce wastage, I purchased the reusable coffee pod from Lazada so I can use my Nespresso Essenza machine to brew any coffee that I like. No longer restricted to Nespresso, Starbucks, L'or coffee Pods! I prefer metal coffee pod as compared to plastic pods as plastic might release harmful chemicals at high temperature. Better to err on the safe side. I purchased my reusable pod here from lazada. I chose the one with the aluminum food sticker because I saw the coffee pods are also using the stickers on their pods. The downside is that you have to keep purchasing the stickers once it is used up. Here are the pods  that uses a cover instead of stickers, which I have yet to try. Be sure to make sure it's compatible with your machine before you purchase it. How do you use the reusable coffee pod? 1. Put some grounded coffee into the coffee pod. 2. Compress the coffee grounds with a tamper or the b...

 Here are some Pros of being a Grab Food Delivery Walker/Biker/Rider and why I tried  1. Flexible income You can choose to work any time you want, any place you want, and for how long. You decide it for yourself. 2. Good Exercise You get to work out especially if you are a walker. paid to work out and exercise. Being a biker and rider, you also got to walk more during collection of food and when passing the food to the customer. 3. Get to learn more about your neighbourhood/place When you deliver, you get to know your neighbourhood better. As a delivery walker, I got to know where some blocks are located and some roads I didn't know existed. I get to know some short cuts to some roads too.  4. Learn more about new food outlets and popular food outlets I got to learn that there is a new wanton mee stall in the neighbourhood, because of an order assigned to me for delivery. Also I found out that the mala stall in the neighbourhood is really popular, I didn't know that ...

 Whether you are a walker or a rider, here are 5 tips I have learnt which might help you if you are just starting out or planning to start out 1. Best time is between 11am - 2pm, 5pm-8pm. Best days are Fri, Sat and Sun. Sometimes they have incentives during these times and make sure you take advantage of it. :)  2. Hang out near shopping malls and food court Higher chance of having orders assigned to you if you are around shopping malls and food courts. It's best if there's a food court near shopping mall.  3. Downtown does not necessary give you more tips.  I went to Orchard, Chinatown and City Hall. Delivery are usually to Hotel Lobby, Condos and staff who are working and do not have time to go out to dabao. Nevertheless Grab give you extra incentives if you go down to deliver during peak hours and meeting their minimum requirements. I receive more tips delivering in neighbourhood areas and never receive any from Town areas.  4. For HDBs, look at the unit numb...

I tried Grab Food walker for one month and here are 5 things I have learnt:   1. Time = Money Each hour can translate to money to be earned. Why waste your time watching Netflix when you can earn more $ during your free time.  Being a Grab Food Walker or Rider is flexible, you can earn anytime you like. 2. Set a Goal and work towards it Sometimes I have no motivation to work. Why work under the hot sun and humid weather?  But I remember I have a goal to achieve so I continued to press on. It's important to have a goal in life so you can work towards it. 3. The ability to earn big = the number or how large the impact of problems you have solved So for eg. when I deliver a food for a customer, I helped to solve the problem for that customer, who might find it inconvenient to leave his house to buy food, thus I earn around $4. If I deliver food for 10 customers, I solve the problems for 10 customers, and so I earn around $4 x 10 = $40. Grab on the other hand earn as a middle...

 I went to Eat 3 Bowls on a Saturday afternoon with a friend who was willing to try Taiwanese cuisine with me near Lavendar. It was an interesting restaurant which became crowded after 6pm and there was a queue forming when we were there. Here's the menu with a school book cover  \ Overall, it's delicious, and with the Milk Tea Bubble Tea, it was quite filling. Not sure if I can really eat 3 bowls. Haha. I ordered the Fresh Milk Tea with bubble tea, as well as the Braised Pork Rice. My Friend ordered the Braised Pork Rice Set, which comes with the egg and Braised Chinese Cabbage. All of it taste great and the ambience has the Taiwanese feel. Price is reasonable too.  Rating: Ambience: 8/10 (Nice old school style) Taste: 8/10 

 1. Which TWO of the following statements about VPCs is TRUE? VPC firewall rules in Google Cloud are global in scope. Every VPC network functions as a distributed firewall where firewall rules are defined at the network level. 2. Which ONE of the following statements is TRUE when discussing the SSL capabilities of Google Cloud Load Balancer? The Google-managed profile, COMPATIBLE, allows clients which support out-of-date SSL features. 3. Which THREE of the following are firewall rule parameters? Direction Action Source

 1. Which TWO of the following statements about Cloud IAM Policies is TRUE? A policy is a collection of access statements attached to a resource. A Policy binding binds a list of members to a role. Track and manage quota usage. 2. Projects in Google Cloud provide many management-related features, including the ability to (choose TWO below...) Selectively enable specific services and APIs. 3. Which FOUR of the following are Cloud IAM Objects that can be used to organize resources in Google Cloud? Organization Member Role Folder

 1. The main purpose of Google Cloud Directory Sync is to: (choose ONE option below) Answer: Help simplify provisioning and de-provisioning user accounts. 2. Which TWO of the following are considered authentication "best practices?" Avoid managing permissions on an individual user basis where possible. You should have no more than three Organization admins. 3. Which of the following statements is TRUE for the use of Cloud Identity? Answer: Cloud Identity can work with any domain name that is able to receive email.

1. Which TWO of the following statements are TRUE regarding Google's ability to protect its customers from DoS attacks?  A single Google data center has many times the bandwidth of even a large DoS attack, enabling it to simply absorb the extra load. Google Front End can detect when an attack is taking place and can drop or throttle traffic associated with that attack. 2. Which TWO of the following statements are TRUE regarding regulatory compliance on Google Cloud? Answer:  Google's Cloud products regularly undergo independent verification of security, privacy, and compliance controls. Proper configuration of encryption and firewalls is not the only requirement for achieving regulatory compliance. 3. Which ONE of the following statements is TRUE concerning Google's built-in security measures? Answer: To guard against phishing attacks, all Google employee accounts require the use of U2F compatible security keys.

 1.  A survey is delivered over the internet through links within ads that appear on the homepage of popular newspapers' websites. The survey asks sensitive questions about readers' health and medical history. What type of bias is caused by not stating that surveyees might only include people who read the front page and not those who might consume primarily sports-related news? Answer:  Reporting bias 2. Google has developed a set of AI principles that govern its research and product development and impact its business decisions. One of the AI principles is to avoid creating or reinforcing unfair biases. However, what should AI applications not do according to Google’s AI principles? Answer:  Breach human rights 3.  A survey is delivered over the internet through links within ads that appear on the homepage of popular newspapers' websites. The survey asks sensitive questions about readers' health and medical history. It can be argued that selection bias exists i...

 1.  You manage a website that provides users with personalized fashion and style advice. You do this through a machine learning model that is given a user’s style preferences, and the algorithm recommends clothing available from various websites. You receive a percentage of the sale if a customer decides to purchase the items. What are the benefits of personalization in machine learning in this use case Answer:  It allows the system to provide more valuable services and scalability. 2.  You run a furniture store that accepts and sells used furniture. Until now, you have asked traders and employees to inspect the items and judge the condition of various parts. This information would be used to create a cost evaluation for the item. However, this business process is time consuming and laborious and is prone to oversights. How can you best use machine learning to automate the business processes in this scenario? Answer:  Train a machine learning model that can pre...

 1.  You work in a company that is using legacy systems for data storage. Your current business processes occur slowly and rely on sharing data. You want to implement data lake modernization and make better use of data warehouses, but first you need to convince your teams and machine learning engineers to support this change. What current problems might teams and machine learning engineers experience while using traditional data storage solutions Answer:  Inseparable combination of compute and storage 2.  You manage a large e-commerce store with various departments that use sensitive customer data to improve business efficiency and processes. A customer can store their payment card details for faster online checkout. Also, the last 4 digits of a payment card are used to confirm a customer’s identity if they need to contact the customer service team. What technique can be used to protect payment card details when the customer service team needs to confirm a customer’s...

 1. You work at a car manufacturing company that is ready to deploy a machine learning model. However, you want to evaluate the model first and decide to evaluate your model with a small set of data. You cannot measure how accurate the model is on all the original training data because it could memorize all answers and perform badly after deployment. What is a reasonable percentage of the data to reserve when you are evaluating the accuracy of a machine learning model? Answer: 10–25% 2. You work at a medical research facility that analyzes patient data for local hospitals. You want to use machine learning for specialized image recognition in order to identify bacterial infections in patients’ x-ray images. What is the preferred method of obtaining a labeled dataset for this custom image recognition use case? Answer: Use AutoML Vision to classify the x-ray images. 3. You work in the customer retention team at a bank and have noticed an increase in customers leaving your servic...

 Quiz: Identifying business value for using ML 1. You work for a graphic design software company that offers a 7-day trial of your products to potential paying customers. You analyze why users convert their free trial into a software purchase. You are curious whether machine learning can predict which customers will convert their trial into a purchase and which users might need additional persuasion. Assess the following use case against a two-factor grid:“How could we use machine learning to predict whether a trial user will convert to a paid purchase after using the software’s unique color editing tools? Answer: This use case is clear and challenging. 2. Which phase of a machine learning project occurs before collecting and preparing data? Answer: Assess whether a problem is right for machine learning. 3.  You own a new local private transport service and want to use machine learning to adjust the pricing of your service throughout the day instead of using a fixed-p...

 Module 3: The Value of APIs Quiz Answers 1. Why do legacy systems struggle to meet modern consumer expectations? Select the correct answer. Answer: They scale slowly 2. Michelle wants to manage her team's APIs and provide security policies for identity verification, authentication, and access control. What Google Cloud solution should she choose? Select the correct answer. Answer:  Apigee 3. What is a critical outcome of API management? Select the correct answer. Answer: Measuring and tracking business performance. 4. What is the function of APIs? Select the correct answer. Answer: They enable integration between systems. 5. How can businesses use APIs to unlock value from their legacy systems? Select the correct answer. Answer: Bygaining access to data stored in legacy systems. Module 1: Modernizing IT Infrastructure with Google Cloud Answers Module 2: Modernizing Applications with Google Cloud Quiz Answers This is part of Google Cloud Skills Boost.

 Module 2: Modernizing Applications with Google Cloud 1. The technology team of a pharmaceutical business decides to adopt an automated continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) approach. What is the primary value of using a CI/CD approach for the overall business? Select the correct answer. Answer: It increases application release velocity and reliability 2. A financial services firm wants to migrate an existing application to the cloud but doesn’t want to risk service downtime. For this reason, they have chosen to opt for redundancy and build a new application in the cloud while continuing to run their old application on-premises. Which standard pattern of cloud migration describes this scenario? Select the correct answer. Answer: Invent in brownfield 3. What is App Engine? Select the correct answer. Answer: A platform for building scalable web applications and mobile backends. 4. What is Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)? Select the correct answer. Answer: A Google Clou...

 Module 1: Modernizing IT Infrastructure with Google Cloud Answers 1. Which specific cloud computing feature helps businesses serve their customers without service interruption and in a cost-effective way? Select the correct answer.  Answer:  Elasticity 2. A national hotel chain is using a combination of on-premises data centers and public cloud services for their IT infrastructure. What type of IT infrastructure model is this? Select the correct answer.  Answer: Hybrid cloud 3. App Engine, Cloud Functions and Cloud Run are all what type of Google Cloud compute option? Select the correct answer. Answer: Serverless computing 4. Aarav is a Chief Technical Officer and is considering using public cloud services, specifically to modernize their company’s IT infrastructure. Which of the following can Aarav use to build a business case for using an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution? Select the correct answer. Answer: Maintenance work is outsourced to the c...

 03. Monitoring Cloud IT Services and Operations 1.    _____________ refers to breaking down silos and closing gaps between developer and operations teams? Select the correct answer. Answer: DevOps 2.  The tools included in Google Cloud’s operations suite fall into what two major categories? Select two correct answers. Answers: Application performance management tools Operations-focused tools 3.  Which of the following are Google Cloud operations-focused tools? Select the two correct answers. Answers: Cloud Monitoring Cloud Logging 4. What is a service level objective (SLO)? Select the correct answer. Answer: The goal for your cloud service performance level 5. Why is the expectation for 100% service availability misleading? Select the correct answer. Answer: Because service maintenance is inevitable and requires downtime Module1: Financial Governance in the Cloud Quiz Answers Module 2: Security in the cloud Quiz Answers This is part of Google Cloud Skills Boost...

 Module 02: Security in the cloud 1. An Identity Access Management policy, or IAM policy, is made of three parts. What are they? Select the correct answer. Answer: “Who”, “can do what”, and “on which resource”. 2. What is Google Cloud’s principle for granting access to users? Select the correct answer. Answer: "Least privilege" 3. What are the three components of Google Cloud’s defense-in-depth data security design? Select the correct answer. Answer: Sharding, encryption key, key encryption key 4. You have received an email that says the following: “We have identified that your account is vulnerable. Click this link to change your security settings.” What cybersecurity risks do you need to consider before clicking on the link? Select two correct answers Answers: Phishing for sensitive data Malware attacks on files 5. What Google Cloud security layer does “strong authentication for data access” relate to? Select the correct answer. Answer: Identity Module1: Fin...

  Module 01. Financial Governance in the Cloud Quiz Answers 1.  Fraser has noticed that, in the past few months, several departments have been consistently exceeding their IT budgets. He needs to recommend solutions to control spending for each department. How would sharing cost views with these departments help him achieve his goal? Select the correct answer. Answer: It would promote a culture of accountability. 2. Julia is worried that some of her team members will accidentally overspend on Google Cloud. How would creating a custom dashboard help address her concern? Select the correct answer. Answer: It would give her (and her teammates) greater visibility into costs.  3.  Google Cloud's tools offer four key benefits for managing cloud costs. What are they? Select the correct answer. Answer: Visibility, accountability, control, intelligent recommendations. 4. How do cost management operations change when a company starts using a service-based cloud architecture? S...

This is a surprisingly good Thai Food place that I chanced upon when shopping with a friend at 313 Somerset. All other restaurants had quite a long queue, and this seems to be shortest. To my amaze, this place offers really good Thai Food. Chicken Tom Yum Soup is nicely spicy and flavourful. It has really authentic Tom Yum soup taste.  Minced Pork Fried Rice is really flavourful and some tinge of wok hei. Loved it.  Will try other food available when I am back in 313 Somerset 😋 Kin Kao Young  313 Orchard Rd, B2-01/02/03 313, Singapore 238895 1130am - 930pm

Located in Jalan Besar and near competitor Swee Choon, this is an interesting Dim Sum restaurant in Jalan besar.  The popular dish is the signature Pandan Crispy Pork Bun which is a must-try. I find it nice with pandan crust and sweet pork inside, just like other polo bun. Here are other dishes: Nice Char Siew bao but it just lacks the fragrance that I tasted in other restaurants like Paradise dynasty. Crispy crust and delicious mini egg tarts. They are small and bite-size.  This is the Tiffany Blue XL Har Gau. Not sure what makes it blue and it tastes like normal Har Gau to me. The blue isn't very blue, as you can see in the pic above. This is Sichuan Spicy Wonton in Red Oil (红油抄手) which is spicy with vinegar added. This is not my favourite as I have tasted nicer ones in other restaurants like Si chuan Dou hua restaurant.  Other nice mentions are the Yangzhou Fried Rice and the HK style porridge which are too delicious and my friends and I ate it all up before I had...