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Emirates. Finally. Been trying so long to fly with them. And in business class. :)

1x A380 and 3x B777.

I’ll be around for a few drinks in Belgium !

So, I have an EdgeRouter Lite in Singapore (Starhub) and a FritzBox in Belgium (EDPnet).

This is mostly stuff that I have found from several articles, mostly from here.

ERL: eth0 is WAN, eth1 (10.60.111.0/24) and eth2 (unused, not VPN’ed) are LAN FritzBoz: 192.168.1.0/24

This is the FritzBox config (go to VPN and them Import a config) fritzvpn.cfg:

vpncfg {
        connections {
                enabled = yes;
                conn_type = conntype_lan;
                name = "VPN Yeri";
                always_renew = yes;
                reject_not_encrypted = no;
                dont_filter_netbios = yes;
                localip = 0.0.0.0;
                local_virtualip = 0.0.0.0;
                remoteip = 0.0.0.0;
                remote_virtualip = 0.0.0.0;
                remotehostname = "erl.yeri.be";
                localid {
                        fqdn = "fritz.yeri.be";
                }
                remoteid {
                        fqdn = "erl.yeri.be";
                }
                mode = phase1_mode_idp;
                phase1ss = "all/all/all";
                keytype = connkeytype_pre_shared;
                key = "SOMEPASSWORD";
                cert_do_server_auth = no;
                use_nat_t = yes;
                use_xauth = no;
                use_cfgmode = no;
                phase2localid {
                        ipnet {
                                ipaddr = 192.168.1.0;
                                mask = 255.255.255.0;
                        }
                }
                phase2remoteid {
                        ipnet {
                                ipaddr = 10.60.111.0;
                                mask = 255.255.255.0;
                        }
                }
                phase2ss = "esp-all-all/ah-none/comp-all/pfs";
                accesslist = "permit ip any 10.60.111.0 255.255.255.0";
        }
        ike_forward_rules = "udp 0.0.0.0:500 0.0.0.0:500", 
                            "udp 0.0.0.0:4500 0.0.0.0:4500";
}

Be sure to modify the password, local (Fritz) and remote (ERL) LAN and edit the local and remote fqdn.

Probably the best and easiest to understand Blockchain explanation I’ve seen.

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Just like Hong Kong (Octopus), Seoul (T-Money) and London (Oyster), Singapore has a public transport card (Ez-Link). Like HK and Seoul, you can use this card for small payments in 7/11 alike shops.

This payment card works on all transport modes. Bus. MRT (metro). No matter who operates it.

Sadly it doesn’t work on taxis though.

Nonetheless. With a bunch of different players (SMRT, SBS, any other? But the same is true for London – and they have more players on the market) they have one simple unified payment system (and prices are the same no matter who is operating).

So I am flying EVA from SIN - TPE - JFK and back. For the first time I also went to the dark side (16hrs was too long to be locked up with just my mind) and got onboard WiFi.

This seems to come with unlimited data for ~20USD for 24hrs. I manage to stream Google Music just fine.

I totally went Matrix mode during the flight. While the flight is half empty I am wondering if they think I am haxoring it now.

Flight over the North Pole. Kinda.

EVA air SIN - TPE - JFK and back.

“Singapore is China, right? They eat dog there. So backward.”

I haven’t posted much since arriving here… That’s because life here is pretty straightforward and nothing is complicated.

The post office.

In Belgium buying stamps is usually ??????*** and, like in Singapore, I end up going to the post office and asking them to weigh it and stamp it.

However, unlike Belgium* (and most of Europe?) they have these handy machines.