Here's My Story

I have tried several builds since I last posted on a build I used then. Currently, I settled on 2 builds: (for detailed description of abilities and mods, please refer to this webapge ) (A) "Hold ulti" build (1) Empyreal Ruin - Amplified Eruption (2) Fate Transfer - Energy Leech (3) Quantum Core - Benevolent (4) Astral Fusion - Intervention (5) Cosmic Flare - Energy Accummulation I still believe that in most circumstances, the (3) + (4) combination gives the most healing overall. Sure, Enhanced Reconstruction technically gives most healing (5 more at max shards) but you usually don't always have max shards when you need to heal. This combination gives the best clutch healing, imo. Normally Orion gets energy equal to half of damage he takes but with Energy Leech, he gets effectively 62.5% of damage taken via Fate Transfer and this hasten his accumulation of shards. Energy Accumulation gives the most self-heal and excellent for a "hold ulti" build....

Recently, every now and then, I was disconnected from Atlas Reactor server mid-game and couldn't reconnect due to "network error". Resetting modem and router, as well as restarting laptop, couldn't solve the issue. Finally, I found a temporary workaround (obtained from here ): Running Command prompt as administrator, Type "netsh winsock reset" and press "Enter". Type "netsh int ip reset" and press "Enter". Type "ipconfig /release" and press "Enter". Type "ipconfig /renew" and press "Enter". Type "ipconfig /flushdns" and press "Enter". It fixed it for many hours but the problem came back again. I don't know what else to do but just to hope it'll go away on its own.

Oh, I thought that I had blogged about subsequent Orion builds that I used but apparently not because there is still only one post on Orion build . I have since used 3 different builds and have yet to decide which I prefer. I did come across these gems, though, which must be during the time I used the old build: Noticed that my Orion took 737 damage. In fact, at one point, when the damage taken was almost 600, my Orion was still alive. Enemy team clearly out-damaged us but clearly we out-healed them and won the game. Phew!

Down with sorethroat, cough and phlegm. Not serious but haven't gone away since Friday :( But that's not going to stop us from celebrating our 8th anniversary tonight :) We'll have nice dinner at a Japanese restaurant. I love you very much, Ban. Muacccckkkkkk!

From this list , I narrowed it down to Samsung Galaxy J1 Ace or J2. Although Vivo Y25 is slightly smaller than J1 Ace, it's not availabel on Lazada or Lelong. Also, My sister and Ban had no problem with Samsung after-sales service at their service centres. Along the way, I did get sidetrack by even smaller phones such as Samsung mini series but the specs were too low for my liking. Initially, I was gunning for J2 because it was the lightest and had the largest screen-to-body ratio. What made me hesitate was the price difference: more than 70%. To make matter worse, it is no longer in production and so it was so difficult to find anyone selling it. Its Prime version was significantly bulkier and and about 22% heavier! Later I realised, and confirmed, that Ban's phone is the older version of J1 Ace. He has no problem playing games on it and its battery is ok for his usage. His only problem is memory space but that too it's only a small problem because he rarely takes ph...

So, yes, I called them once again when they didn't call me like they said they would . I once again explained the problem to the officer: it existed since May; gotten new sim card; gotten 4G smartphone. She suggested that I try the alternate way of making calls while roaming i.e. *161*, instead of using + . I pointed out that that didn't work back in May but then quickly added that maybe because my phone wasn't at least 3G enabled. So she encouraged me to try this. Lo behold! It worked! Called one Malaysia mobile phone, one Singapore landline and one Singapore mobile phone. Although it's more troublesome than using + way, I'm contented to just leave it as it is. Finally, I get to use my rarely-used credit once more. Yay!

I believed I was the only one in my family and among my friends still using a normal phone. There was simply no reasons for me to switch because I don't use internet on my phone. Ban would have continued using his normal phone if it wasn't spoiled. His current phone was a gift from a bank obtained by his mum. Over the last year or so, there were some problems with my normal phone. The manual locking didn't work. Hence, I needed to swipe to unlock and select "lock" from the menu to lock it. Then sometimes the swiping didn't work either. I had to get Ban to call me and then it would work again. Then there was that issue with my Singapore sim card , which means I definitely need at least a 3G phone. In the meantime, I discovered how useful Google Maps and Waze are on smartphones. Hence, with all these considerations, I decided to hunt for a suitable smartphone: one that allows me to call and text and occasionally use the navigation software. After some ...

Oh yes, the saga continues. My friend and his partner helped me to get replacement sim card from a Starhub centre in Singapore. According to a Starhub officer there, my line was active and I just needed to change my phone (as suspected). They kindly waived the replacement fee because my friend came all the way from Malaysia. Yay! In the meantime, I researched and got myself a 4G smartphone (more on this in another post) and it can accommodate 2 sim cards (yay!). I called using the new Starhub sim card and ... it was the same issue! "Your outgoing calls have been barred" or "Your outgoing calls have been temporarily deactivated". I can still receive calls though. Spoke with 3 different Starhub customer service officers and tried (1) Switching on and off the phone (2) Taking out the sim card for a few minutes and reinserting it back (3) Cancelling call barring (4) <I forgot what this is hahaha> The last officer jotted down details and said she would l...

While playing as a Life Cleric in a 5e D&D session: Rogue: Ummm I think I need healing. Sorceror: I need healing! Me: Hmmmm how much missing hp from half your max hp? (calculate) Me: Oh, only 8hp. Ok, guys, lose 2 more hp and I'll heal. Rogue: What?! I stab myself! Sorceror: @#$$%%^ I'll remember this! Me: Oh, relax guys. You won't die. I'll bring you back up. Rogue & Sorceror: @!#$#@$% Bard: Hahahaha. Paladin: *facepalm* Lol, I think they don't know that they just fall unconscious (to 0hp), rather than die straightaway. I can sort of "resurrect" them at the same time later. In the end, I did it anyway. Next time I should probably should explain better my strategy hahaha.

One day, my dad requested me to ask GE Life the current sum assured of his life insurance policy and the claim process in the event of his death for my mum to claim (she was the beneficiary). I tried calling but to no avail and so I e-mailed them instead. In it, to incentivise them to reply soonest, I mentioned that my dad had stage 4 cancer and so was anxious to get the answers to these questions. More than a month later, they responded with an apology for the late reply. As expected, they declined to disclose the sum assured via e-mail. They gave me links to claim processes of various claims. To our surprise, the next day, my dad received a call from HQ alerting him that his policy had a rider to claim for critical illness and although it had expired, he could still claim because the diagnosis of cancer was made before the expiry date. We were pleasantly surprised. We totally forgot about the rider (I later confirmed its existence by checking the policy document) and the insu...

Well, the latest SPC episode is still ongoing, although I believe it's coming to an end. I consulted the doctor 4 times @@. Just when I thought I should recover 100% any time soon, another problem cropped up: trouble sleeping. I would have "normal" sleep for a few hours and then just shallow sleep for the rest of the night or none at all. Been going on for few nights already. I thought maybe it was one of the two medicine that was new to me: Carinox (loratadine + pseudoepherine) but apparently it isn't one of its side effects (common or rare), according to several internet sources. Then I thought maybe it was lack of exercise, thereby cortisol level remained elevated. If this was true, I faced a dilemma: start exercising while still not 100% well and risk falling sick again, or continue with this restless sleep? The other medicine presribed was dexamethasone. I didn't suspect this as the culprit at first because I had it before and I didn't have restles...