Bus Ride

 

Photograph taken while riding the bus

It's not easy to earn money.  That day I worked 4hrs, I only earn $16.37.  In another instance, I worked 4 hrs, earn $21.34, but discovered that I had not collected cash from the customer.  The meal cost $11.79, end up, I earned only $9.55 for 4hrs!  So this time I took bus 187 to my mum house and coming back home, I took bus 187 again.  It cost $1.64 (total $3.28) to and fro trip.  It is much easier taking bus than taking a cab.

In the 90s and early 2000s, when I push the pram, I had to keep the pram then can board the bus.  Even though the pram can be carried aboard, the bus driver insisted that we should fold the pram and kept it.  If you did not keep the pram, you cannot board the bus.  Nowadays, having a trolley or a pram is much more convenient.  If you are pushing a pram, you just carried the whole pram and board the bus, just like that, no need to fold the pram.  It is so convenient now.  

As I was walking to the bus stop, bus 187 went away.  I had to wait for the next bus.  The weather was very hot.  I was perspiring.  I waited for 10-15minutes and the next bus came.  Now I was so grateful that the bus was air-conditioned.  In the 90s, most bus was not air-conditioned.  I had my bus pass, but I have to pay extra 20 cents if the bus happened to be air-conditioned.  Nowadays, all the buses are air-conditioned.  How lucky we are now.  

Earlier on, I took the feeder bus 911.  The bus driver was so polite too.  He greeted passengers "Good morning", and he waited for customers to board the bus patiently.  I had also encountered some more bus drivers who were so patient, waiting for passengers to board the bus when the passengers were some distance from the bus stop.  They just waited patiently.  More bus drivers are like that now.  In the past, bus drivers were not so patient.  They won't even care whether you were trying to catch up with the bus.  They just won't wait for you.  Nowadays, there are just more friendly and patient bus drivers. Thumbs up! 

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Grabfood or Foodpanda

 

Photograph of Foodpanda short-sleeve T-shirt

Photograph of Foodpanda long-sleeve T-shirt in the package

Which company should I join?  That was my question initially.  Searching on the web, I find that there seems to be more people joining Grabfood.  There were more Grabfood riders on the road too.  I can see more Grabfood riders at Causeway Point than Foodpanda too.  

At home, I often ordered from Grabfood more than Foodpanda too.  One day I come across Grabfood's advertisement asking to sign up as Grabfood rider.  I did not know whether I should try it.  However after sometime, I decided to give it a try.  So I signed up for Grabfood rider.  I filled up all my particulars.  But then I was stucked with the next step -- the upload of photograph.  They required me to take a photograph of myself with the background to be white.  That was too tedious.  

So the time passed.  One day, I came across Foodpanda's advertisement asking people to sign up as riders.  I filled up the form and submit it.  A few days later, someone called me from Foodpanda.  They wanted to verify my details and they checked my paylah accounts.  So everything was just so simple for Foodpanda.  Then I need to buy their equipments then I can start work.  So I went on to purchase the bicycle set/ cyclist backpack, which I had to fork out $90 before I can earn money. 

To date, I have not break even yet.  On Sunday (21 March 2021) I just earn $60.81 sacrificing 7 hrs 14min of my time working as Foodpanda rider.   But I will still continue to work for Foodpanda because I am getting paid to exercise!

On the day of my work, I wore the short-sleeve shirt.  The whether was so hot and it would be too hot to wear the long-sleeve shirt.  I purchased the biggest size which is 4XL.  I think I am not going to wear the long-sleeve shirt and the jacket.  I should have purchased just 2 pieces of short-sleeve T-shirts instead.  

Till now, I am still happy working with Foodpanda.  If you want to sign up for Foodpanda Rider, follow this URL -- https://to.foodpanda.com/a/zuz5ds8  This will lead u to the sign up page, you click just need to click the 'apply' button.  

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Get Paid To Exercise

 So how was it like on the first day of working for Foodpanda?  This time I went to Causeway Point to start my shift, since there were many riders over there, so I just followed.  So it worked!  There, I was so fast to get my first customer on the app and I just parked my bicycle and walked to the shop to collect the food.  After I had collected the food, I click on 'pick up' on the app and then the next job is to 'drop off'.  

Upon picking up the food, I walked to the bicycle and started cycling to the block number that was shown in the app.  Yesterday I worked for 7 hours.  Sometimes the distance to deliver is shorter and sometimes it was extremely long.  However, the earnings were kept constant at around $4 plus.  After 'dropping off' the food at customer's place, I had to cycle back to the 'centre zone'.  I had no idea where the 'centre zone' was, but just went back to Causeway Point.  

Generally I had constant deliveries coming in.  However at 11am to 1130am, I was idle.  There was no deliveries at all.  I saw that there were so many Grabfood riders around, but few Foodpanda riders.  At this timing when I was idle, I saw some Grabfood riders being idle as well.  So it was an unproductive time for me.  

Being cycling, I need to know my limits.  I was given a very far place of deliveries, a place which I was not familiar at 1130am.  It was admiralty road.  So I had to reject it.  It was no good to reject an order but I had no choice.  This will affect my acceptance rate.  

Yesterday, I tried to accept all the orders except for one mentioned above.  At the end of the day, finishing my shift I was dead tired, because there were steep slope at Marsiling 'hill point'.  I am not going to accept this area next time.  It was not worthwhile considering the same amount of money earn, which was $4 plus only.  

On average, within one hour, I just earn an average of $8.70, having two deliveries.  So for the seven hours that I worked yesterday, my earning was $60.81.  I had thirteen deliveries, some collected cash and some on cards.  

Photograph of my earnings from yesterday working as Foodpanda rider

So it was a strenuous exercise for me yesterday.  I was getting paid to exercise!

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Foodpanda Rider

Photograph showing my bicycle with the warmer box attached on it.

 My Foodpanda equipment arrived on 12 March 2021, about 3 days after I ordered it.  So it was quite fast.  I spent about $90 for the whole set of equipments --the above is the cyclist backpack, then I have regular thermal bag and Halal thermal bag, short-sleeve shirt and long-sleeve shirt, and a rain set jacket.  

Photograph showing the Halal thermal bag.

Photograph showing the normal thermal bag with Dora being so curious to see what was it.

Dora was so curious as always of new things.  She would come sniff what was the items.  She was also very curious about the terrapins -- always taking out the cover and use her 'hands' to touch the terrapins.

Mounting the backpack on my bicycle was a problem.  There was no hook or metal loop at the basement of the backpack.  I see that the grabfood backpack comes with metal loop so that the backpack can be secured to the back of bicycle.  So I used my own ways to finally secured on the bicycle, but it was not so stable.  

With that I was all ready to earn money!

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Peace Belle

 You can see videos of Peace Belle on the right margin of this blog.  They were my favourite songs.  My videos were created in the year 2006 when my money in the bank was just 1-2 hundreds of dollars.  I learned my ways to earn money online then.  And so I created Peace Bella and Peace Belle on YouTube.  

Life has never been easy.  It's full of ups and downs.  I created this blog, my aim is to be happy in life.  And that is why my son is named Isaac, meaning 'laughter'.  

I want to mention about Peace Belle.  Recently I had been trying to retrieve back all my 'cold' accounts.  I had successfully retrieve Peace Bella.  I had created Theresalimpc, the latest ones, after I had forgotten how to login for Peace Bella.  I would very much wanted to retrieve back my Peace Belle account, by no matter what I cannot do so.  It was created 15years back.  I had changed phone numbers several times and emails too.  I had forgotten everything.  What a waste to lost this account.  

I love songs and most of the videos of Peace Belle record the catholic hymns I had recorded in the church.  Now I had stopped recording in the church so as to show respect and to be concentrating celebrating the mass.  

 

 Just a video which I had created recently. My latest video account. I hope you can help to subscribe to my channel. Will mention about angels in another post. Thanks for reading. God Bless you.

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