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            <title>How much would it cost to fix car wiring (myvi)</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5443923</link>
            <description>My car&amp;#39;s (myvi) alarm and electronic locking system has stopped working. Every else is still ok. Think it could be something with the car&amp;#39;s wiring. How much does it normally cost to fix something like this?</description>
            <author>LLLogan</author>
            <category>The Fast &amp;amp; The Furious</category>
            <pubDate>Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:44:59 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Myvi car remotes won&amp;#39;t unlock car</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5395428</link>
            <description>I drive a MyVi 2015 SE. Since yesterday, my car remote doesn&amp;#39;t unlock the door (I can still unlock it manually). I replaced the remote battery, tried using my backup key, even got a guy to program a new key. Nothing works. Is there a problem with my car&amp;#39;s immobilizer?</description>
            <author>LLLogan</author>
            <category>The Fast &amp;amp; The Furious</category>
            <pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2023 07:22:25 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Bruxism (teeth grinding)</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5299067</link>
            <description>Had it since childhood, but as I get older my teeth berlubang. How to stop? Apart from wearing mouthguard.</description>
            <author>LLLogan</author>
            <category>Health &amp;amp; Fitness</category>
            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Aug 2022 20:04:54 +0800</pubDate>
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            <title>Almost middle age blues</title>
            <link>http://forum.lowyat.net/topic/5293831</link>
            <description>I am in my late 30s and have had a lucky life. Long essay incoming. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--emo&amp;:hyper:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/rclxm9.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='rclxm9.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; In the few years before 2020, I was the happiest in my adult life. I had a job that I mostly liked and paid well. I was in a long distance relationship with my GF (now wife) who was a foreigner in a neighboring country. We both love flying around/travelling. Lived alone/sometimes with cool housemates. Best time of my life - I had everything and very little real worries - I had the freedom of a single life living independently, yet had a GF to meet every month. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--emo&amp;:puke:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/puke.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='puke.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; Then came the pandemic/MCO in March 2020. My wife was visiting me in KL at the time and got stuck here with no flights out (for the next 2 years). 6 months later I was forced to leave my job due to pandemic-related family reasons (can&amp;#39;t be bothered to elaborate here). Then 2 weeks after I left the job, my immediate family member had mental issues and we all had to take care of her for few months until she recovered. As it was 2020 and no one was hiring, I didn&amp;#39;t renew my condo rental and we moved in with my parents.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2021 was better. Luckily, I managed to secure a new job/promotion in the middle of the pandemic, but it was a 1 year contract. 3 things were different for me compared to my pre-pandemic life: &lt;br /&gt;1. The new job was much much more stressful/dysfunctional and unstable than my old one, and fully WFH so I didn&amp;#39;t get to know my colleagues well unlike my last job where I counted some of them as my real friends.&lt;br /&gt;2. I had to live with my wife and family 24/7 (can&amp;#39;t even go to office due to WFH order) for the first time since the past 10 years of living single independently. I am just not used to having family drama, dealing with the nonsense of individual family members and not doing everything around the house by myself as and when I like.&lt;br /&gt;3. is like everybody else in the world - stuck at home, no freedom, cannot travel etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But we were in the middle of global lockdown so I just gritted my teeth and went through with the daily mental pain. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then suddenly at the beginning of this year (2022), my wife fainted suddenly when we were in the mall and had to be rushed to hospital. There we found out she had a serious condition that neither of us previously knew about. So she had a surgery and the doctors managed to save her life. After the early phase of her recovery and the reopening of borders around the world, I decided not to renew my contract with my employer and take a long career break. We figured that was the only thing that made sense - while my job paid well, it was unstable and didn&amp;#39;t have any real long term prospects + we were a DINK (dual income, no kids) couple + I was on the edge of mental breakdown myself due to the craziness of the past 2 years. And now we can travel long long&amp;#33;    &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had one trip already and have some time to go before our next (much longer) trip. My wife has gone back to her home country for a month due to work requirements, so I started spending time here on LYN  &lt;!--emo&amp;:innocent:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/innocent.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='innocent.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;!--emo&amp;:hmm:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/hmm.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='hmm.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; So I should be having the time of my life again, right?? Actually I am getting some blues thinking about how I am not ready to be middle-aged. I mean bodies start breaking down (mine nothing serious yet, but different for my wife, parents and my sibling). I feel like nothing much to look forward to - job just become purely a practicality (prep for emergencies/daily living etc) (at least last time I had some things to look forward to in my work), nothing much new to discover in life, we are both not interested in kids (so thankful we didn&amp;#39;t have kids especially seeing all the young parents around us suffer during covid times). So when I go back to &amp;quot;real life&amp;quot; after my break, I will just be moving along daily just focused on practicalities until our bodies break down piece by piece, then later on taking care of loved ones whose bodies will break down piece by piece until death catches up with us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Don&amp;#39;t know why I&amp;#39;m so depressed haha, my wife seems to have a more optimistic nature. But after 2 stressful years, I don&amp;#39;t really want to keep bringing this up with her....I want her to destress too and enjoy her life. So, I post here  &lt;!--emo&amp;:innocent:--&gt;&lt;img src='http://static.lowyat.net/style_emoticons/default/innocent.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='innocent.gif' /&gt;&lt;!--endemo--&gt; Yep, so basically not sure what to look forward to in life. The external world also depressing me.....after pandemic, now food shortage/inflation and global economic downturn. Feel like I have stepped into a different dimension after 2020....into a dark world compared to the bright world before, with nowhere to run.</description>
            <author>LLLogan</author>
            <category>Cupid&amp;#39;s Corner</category>
            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2022 22:58:58 +0800</pubDate>
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