• Guide on getting the “Gakken New Block 500 set”
  • intro: a toy I used to play when as kid, originally made as 日本学研积木 by Gakken a japanese toy company,
    • currently there are some rare china clone as 小蜂鸟 or 玉河大型吹塑拼插积木
    • of course, based on reputation and price level, one's quality easy to tell
  • weight: 6kg (ref: amazon 290USD+10USD ship)
  • size: 49.5cm x 34.5cm x 3.1cm (ref: rakuten global 134SGD+70~110SGD ship)
  • Get method
    • method 1: 165~212 SGD (120+45~92) rakuten jp-9880yen + whiterabbit service and ship-33-65USD
    • method 2: 210SGD+ (120+90) rakuten jp-9880yen + vpost-90+
    • method 3: 194~237SGD (120+74~117)rakuten jp-9880yen + tenso-74~117sgd
    • method 4: 248SGD rakuten global 158SGD+ems 90sgd (ems)
    • method 5: 300 SGD big tree sg
    • method 6: 245 SGD amazon jp-9000yen+amazon ship10900 yen
    • Update: now amazon jp directly ship to SG for free, so now
      • rate: 9628 yen, lowest is 8754 yen in Jan
      • rate: 9362 yen, pre Xmas, after adding to cart, it is 8669 yen; Note: it seems it is not free shipping to SG, it cost 6800 yen(80SGD to ship 1 set or 150 SGD to ship 2 sets)
        • that is average 180SGD per set.

Tips and Checklist on choosing toys:

• wood toy check:
  1. smooth surface and round corner
  2. surface printing quality
  3. wood durability
  4. handling size and weight
  5. potential danger after wood decay and breaks
  6. smells

• plastic toy check:
  1. thickness of plastic and hardness of quality
  2. surface finishing and round corner
  3. inside fill of plastic internal volume
  4. water proof and wash-ability

• metal toy check:
  1. rigidness of surface
  2. smooth and polish of edge and corner
  3. tiny parts whether easy to break off

• water chalk vs oil pen
  1. chalk is more easy to clean when written on furniture and cloth
  2. oil pen is more like a pen than chalk but it is liquid type drawing, which can cause food safty
  3. chalk is solid powder, safer to wash away from body.

• Product list detail: https://www.gakkensf.co.jp/search.php?i=77

• Vacuuming Disadvantage:
  • Vacuuming can get rid of the dirt and grittiness of a floor, but it can't get rid of the stickiness.
• Wet Cleaning - mop vs wipe
  • wipe can get hair off easily
  • mop often get hair twisted and hard to get off due to its structure
• Broom Disadvantage
  • light dust and light pet hair can get flying during action

• Intro
  • when create a online account, like Facebook account, youtube account and etc, you are in danger of online security issues.
  • Confidential Information can be leaked with this kind of registeration.

• When create a new online account, you may like to check
  1. can you delete the account after registeration
  2. how can you retrieve password if you forget the password
  3. what information associated with this online account
  4. what privacy level you have control with this account

• Problems and Risk
  • Email leaked:
    • this can lead to tons of spam mails into your email box;
    • and if you use this email as you daily email account, you will spend tons of time filtering out these spam emals of frauds and advertisement;
    • you may also miss out your friend's email, just because the spam mails are spreading several pages of your mailbox, rendering your mailbox unfunctional.
  • Phone number leaked:
    • this can lead to tons of spam text messages into your phone, and endless of promotion and survey phone calls into your daily life.
  • Personal information leaked:
    • It can be just your name or DOB, sometimes, even your ID number or credit card number,
    • this can lead to social engineering attack, and resale of your personal information for fake ID card or credit re-produce.
  • Your interest and behavior pattern leaked:
    • these kind of small piece of information can also be traced through your daily online activity, like your feeds, status updates, and related activity history.
  • Your private photo and video leaked:
    • can be a big problem if you dont want others to see these photos and videos, or in certain future, you hope you have not leaked.
  • Your friends and relatives relationship leaked:
    • these can be a problem in case of privacy protection, as nowadays, social networks become big, and the whole online social communicaty is based on privacy sharing profits.
    • your online convinience is at an expense of your privacy, and your information can be used to generate personal orientated commercial products, while it is ok, but misuse of this kind of information will lead to protential internet security issue.
  • Indirect information leaked:
    • You may be safe from all, but your friends or anyone online or offline socially linking to you can lead to a information leak,
    • if your friends or related social person got hacked or got leaked, you are linked and affected in certain degree.

online protection techiniques

• Fake information
  • Fake information is a common way for personal online protection, like common non-serious online registeration, make a personal online fake information is good for protecting yourself. like your birday of “Jan 1st, 2000”
• Robot-proof information encryption
  • “myEmail(at)mailbox(dot)com” or “msn: myEmail” are some examples.
  • “my number is Six-Five.0.Onine11I”, good for phones.
• email for reg only
  • you may like to created some email accounts just for those online registeration, so seperate from my daily emails.
  • never use your company/organisation/school email for any registeraion
• Password Enforcement
  • make strong password like “M_y_P@s.sW0aD~”, and write it into your personal notes or daily books in hardcopy
• Pre-paid phone card number
  • get a pre-paid phone card for your neccessory online activity use

Tips of online security

Social Netowrk Safety

There are more and more online service provided for people to have a 2nd life online, thus the activities of people interacting becomes more often and lead to a lot of unsolved problems and require new technology solution.

As being online is linked with tons of computer technology and other technical support. The evolve of the online networking technology becomes an important role in monitor and regulating the behavior of online people. As identification of who is online is heavily linked to the level of technical skills of each part.

Online Crime and Online Cheats

Unlike real world, people can be identified on spot, and each person is tagged with one id, it is easier to physically spot on them and catch.

Being online, means each person can have multi online id and associated account, the difficulty increased.

Article that studys online unfair activity:

• Online cheats in social game area: http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/arxiv/27441/

• study of cockroach behavior and pattern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADezmJliwHk