The Beach Road slashing victim, Han Hongli, who was attacked by her estranged husband Cheng Guoyuan in the now-infamous chopper attack that took place back in April, has been discharged from the hospital.

She went through 4 surgeries for injuries suffered to her head, eyes and hands during the vicious slashing attack on 14 April.

The 42-year-old woman is now recovering in the community with volunteers sending her food every day, and will be needing two more eye surgeries to regain her eyesight.

A fundraising campaign was also launched by crowd-funding website Ray of Hope on 10 May to help the victim with her medical and living expenses during her recovery.

The campaign exceeded the target of $105,343.86, raising $105,395.87 at the time of writing, with about $1,800 already being disbursed to Han earlier this month.

The target amount will also be adjusted accordingly should her medical fees continue to increase, and Han will be receiving the money monthly for 12 months for her loss of income.

Ray of Hope is also working with Han’s employer, Edmund Tan of Chong Qing (Origin) Steamboat, to settle her final medical bills, and are waiting for the insurance paperwork to be finalised.

The founder of Telegram, Pavel Durov, said in a statement that the messaging app will be launching a paid subscription plan in June 2022.

Under the new subscription plan, the messaging app’s users will get higher chat limits, media uploads, along with addition features.

Durov also emphasized that despite the paid subscription plan, the existing features of the app will continue to remain free to use, with more free features to be added as well.

Here is Telegram’s statement

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Since the day Telegram was launched almost 9 years ago, we’ve been giving our users more features and resources than any other messaging app. A free app as powerful as Telegram was revolutionary in 2013 and is still unprecedented in 2022. To this day, our limits on chats, media and file uploads are unrivaled.

And yet, many have been asking us to raise the current limits even further, so we looked into ways to let you go beyond what is already crazy. The problem here is that if we were to remove all limits for everyone, our server and traffic costs would have become unmanageable, so the party would be unfortunately over for everyone.

After giving it some thought, we realized that the only way to let our most demanding fans get more while keeping our existing features free is to make those raised limits a paid option. That’s why this month we will introduce Telegram Premium, a subscription plan that allows anyone to acquire additional features, speed and resources. It will also allow users to support Telegram and join the club that receives new features first.

Not to worry though: all existing features remain free, and there are plenty of new free features coming. Moreover, even users who don’t subscribe to Telegram Premium will be able to enjoy some of its benefits: for example, they will be able to view extra-large documents, media and stickers sent by Premium users, or tap to add Premium reactions already pinned to a message to react in the same way.

While our experiments with privacy-focused ads in public one-to-many channels have been more successful than we expected, I believe that Telegram should be funded primarily by its users, not advertisers. This way our users will always remain our main priority.

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Of late, I’ve seen a lot of posts talking about financial issues, difficulty with housing, relationship/ intimacy problems, etc. faced my people & couples in their late 20s, early 30s.

I’m writing my own experience with no intent to offend anyone, or show off. Just share that these are normal and can be dealt with.

We are a couple in our early 30s, expat & living in Singapore for about 5 years with a toddler. 

Pay & finance: When we first moved, one of us was earning 7k & the other 5k. At the moment, we earn12.5k & 8k.

Both of us put away at least 50% of our salary towards savings & investment. Till date, just have about 100k in cash & 150k in investment. Own no property, vehicles, etc. We plan with the goal of retiring from full time employment maintaining the same lifestyle when we hit 45.

Living: We upgraded from renting a 1 bedder to a 2 bedder to currently a 3 bedder. We live at a fairly mature condo outside the city centre to have access to a larger than average house and all the condo facilities. Our rent is 2.9k.

We toyed with the idea of renting a newer property closer to the city, but couldn’t rationalize the rent.

Lifestyle: We do not spend on luxuries like Starbucks, or regularly eating at fancy cafes & restaurants. Neither do we spent on electronic, home appliances, jewellery & trinkets.

We usually do 1 date night and 1 family outing every 2 weeks that costs about $200 in total.

The only major enjoyment spend on is travel – we generally do 4-5 holidays per year, but plan for it way in advance – make our bookings & reservation months before, try to stay with friends & family whenever possible. Each trip usually cost us 2k to 15k (depending on where we go). Generally do just one high end trip.

Relationship/ intimacy: we are in a overall good & stable relationship. Like all things, there are ups & downs but we do agree that at the end of the day we talk about it with each other, share our views and accept each others differences & the challenges we face.

Our bedroom activities life took a hig hit after the baby. From going at it 2-3 times a week even during our pregnancy, we went to doing it maybe once every few months. It was very frustrating – YES! But we talked about it, understood each other and are in a much better place today.

We are still picking up the pieces of this aspect of life, acknowledge that it’s not going back to how it was, but we will make it work.

For those who may be wondering about our careers growth – we are both uni graduates, and Singapore wasn’t where we started our careers. Neither did we focus on taking up additional full time or part time education. What we did do was to always be open to every opportunity at work that’s presented itself to learn from & do more, not necessarily immediately having any short term financial gain.

Neither of us were star students while at school & uni, and we don’t put that pressure on our child too. We value hard work, working smartly and the can do attitude more important than paper credentials.

Advice to those that are struggling: don’t compare your life with others, everyone has their own story to write and do it at your own pace. Dont succumb to parental & peer pressure, or the general trend of the right thing to do.

Work hard and more importantly work smart at your job.

You do YOU!