Skip to contentYiBi's LogBlogging about what I like to doSearchMenuAbout MeSearchWelcome To YiBi’s Log February 11, 2016March 13, 2016 by yibiCaricature by Fiverr artist for USD $5.Hi! I’m Hong Chuan (@yibi). Welcome to my blog. This blog has been running since…a long time ago and the main things I write about is technology (my bread and butter). I do also write about my some other personal interests like gardening etc.I’m a techie and in the last 14 years in my career, I have designed, built and operated some of the biggest network and system operations in Singapore with teams of very brilliant engineers.  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hongchuanOne of the interesting home DIY projects I have done, is my home surveillance setup. This same setup was scaled up to over monitoring over 100 cameras and deployed in production in one of Singapore’s national events.Other than this blog, I share other personal snapshots of my life on Instagram.  The caricature is a gig from Fiverr. You can engage the services from here.Why is the moniker yibi. Some say’s it’s a Japanese name, some say it’s got something do with ex-girlfriends. Well…no, it’s just short and simple. How do you get a 4 character domain name (yibi.org) these days?Categories General StuffTags about yibi CommentsUberPool vs GrabShare January 6, 2017January 6, 2017 by yibiI’m posting this while I’m on my GrabShare ride. I rather tired now. The route is sub-optimal and the jam made things worse. My usual route is from home to workplace and vice versa. I’m a consistent user of UberPool . I’m pretty impressed by the assignment of the fellow pool passenger. The diversion is usually about 5 – 8 mins off the route compared to UberX. It’s to an extend that I don’t find it too much of a difference from UberX. So now GrabShare comes to the picture. I think they have launched for about 4 weeks or so. I tried it a few times to see how the route planning is like. It’s pretty disappointing most of the time. I’m not sure what’s the metrics in their algorithm for assigning a match for ride sharing but the stark difference from UberPool is that, it’s never on the route that GrabCar would have taken. It’s completely off, taking me to some odd ball place for the drop off in between. Maybe my personal experience is not enough to qualify as a metric for GrabShare’s performance. But I hope their performance will be different (to say improve might be subjective) over time. At least we consumers get another choice. For me now, it’s UberPool for my daily commute. I leave GrabShare to the safer shorter commutes.Categories RantsTags grab review, grab singapore, grabshare, uber review, uber singapore, UberPool CommentsManaging Data Roaming On Singtel Mobile December 23, 2016December 26, 2016 by yibiIt’s been almost a month on Singtel mobile and yesterday’s the fi