Here's My Story

I love this deck: clearly the core card is the Crossbow Guild but I believed one key factor of making this deck works is its fast cycle. This deck has average mana cost of 3.2. It is possible to sometimes have two guilds in play simultaneously. (1) Scrat Pack: cheapest minions to capture both bridges (2) Wall: defensive card. One of my favourite cards. Brings lots of value (3) Cursebearer: cheap good tank. Great at weakening multiple enemies (best to support him with range minons). Also great at backstabbing big minions (4) Daggerfall: cheap spell with huge range to kill off low hp minions (5) Dragon Whelp (6) Plasma Marines (7) Re-Boomer: great in killing swarms/hordes and also help other minions (or the Wall) in killing greater hp minions (8) Xiao Long (9) Divine Warrior: that 8s shield makes her very tanky (10) Crossbow Guild: core card Let's try to use the checklist provided by Edelweiss to look at this deck: Average mana cost of around 3.5: yes, it's 3.2 8...

When this photo was taken, it was less than a month after this restaurant opened (occupies 2 corner shop lots). Hope this means that their business is good.

There was a 3-week gap between Cycle 5 and 6 because the scheduled week was full (probably because of public holiday) and that my dad didn't want to do it on Thursday as that would mean waiting till Monday to detach the chemo bag (from the chemo port embedded in his body). Despite the longer gap, my dad's condition continued to get better i.e. leg wasn't painful when he was awake in the middle of the night. However, few days before start of Cycle 6, his right thumb swelled. Fortunately, he needed to take paracetamol only once to manage the pain and thereafter the swelling subsided slowly. Another issue he had was waking up with stiffness in his hands. Oncologist advised him to use gloves and socks while he sleeps because it was probably due to the cold air in deep in the night. It worked! We had some good news when his weight was measured: he had gained more than 1.5kg over the last 3 weeks. Yay! Unfortunately, they couldn't locate the results of the tumour mar...

Doctor told my sister  that although he would try his best to get things done (e.g. blood test) in time for mum to start the first ECT session on Monday, realistically it would probably start on Wednesday (it's only done on Mon, Wed and Fri) since it was already Friday afternoon. However, during our visit (my dad and I) on Saturday, I queried and found out that it would start on Monday. Great! This was my first time seeing mum after the dramatic re-admission  to the ward. She was definitely worse than 18 days ago : her hand trembled more while completing a simple art piece that my sister bought for her, much less chatty although she did ask two questions (rather than just responding to our talk), slower to respond and still had tendency to knock her head against the pillar. While concentrating on the art piece, she alerted us that she had the urge to hurt herself but, when asked, she confirmed that the activity was enough of a distraction to hold back that urge. However, onc...

The idea of this deck came from 2 opponents, whom I lost to. It's more expensive than I like: 3.9 average mana cost, higher than the target maximum of 3.5. (1) Crossbow Dudes: cheap range minion (2) Propeller Scrats: cheap flying minon (3) Warrior: good cheap tank (4) Xiao Long: deter opponent from using spells (5) Drone Buzzers: good flying range minion; combo with Dragon Ball (6) Rammer: fast, hard-hitting anti-building; combo with Dragon Ball (7) Stun Lancers: great vs irritating/big minions but countered easily with Fireball; combo with Dragon Ball (8) Dragon Ball: combo with (5), (6) and (7) cards above; combo with Shars'Rakk Twins (9) Infiltration: great for defending and aggression; combo with Shars'Rakk Twins (10) Shars'Rakk Twins: combo with (8) and (9) cards above. As you can see, cards (4) to (9) are core cards of deck. Let's try to use the checklist provided by Edelweiss to look at this deck: Average mana cost of 3.5: no 8 minions + 2 ...

When Mordar became one of the free rotation Masters, I tried it (probably because of the "win online games with 3 different Masters" mission hehe) and, unexpectedly, I like him. So, I built a deck based on the "Mordar Big Minions" deck in this list . The deck is as follows: Grenadier Shock Rock Wall Cursebearer Dragon Whelp Sniper Scrat Xiao Long Drone Walker Cleaver Harbinger This deck is modified partly because of lack of cards and partly because by choice. Notably, I choose Harbinger over Blue Golem because I like the former's long range and it's a flying minion too. I try to keep to the average mana cost of 3.5 but bear in mind that Cleaver is usually summoned to deal with enemy's big minion i.e. it's not summoned for the purpose of cycling through the deck. Let's try to use the checklist provided by Edelweiss to look at this deck: Average mana cost of 3.5: yes. 8 minions + 2 spells: 8 minions, 1 spell, 1 building Counter ...

The day after , I spoke with mum over the phone for a while (my sister visited her). She was much better. She could state that the day before was "horrible", ask me about my back ache and possible cause, and give me "muack muack" at the end of the conversation. My sister spoke with the ward doctor: They'll be adding lithium to mum's medication Blood test 3 months later (specifically to check liver and kidney function) If dosage is determined to be appropriate, then blood test once every 6 months If this new set of medication doesn't work, replace olanzapine with clozapine Unfortunately, not only did it not work, lithium seems to worsen my mum's condition: she hurt herself more often. She also couldn't sleep at night and had to be restrained to prevent her from rolling off the bed :( The doctor had a discussion with my sister: Suggested ECT x6. My sister's concern was that even if mum is alright after ECT, she might revert back to...

From the list of medicine that was prescribed for her short vacation trial  (4 days, 3 nights), I noticed that there was no olanzapine during the day (i.e. only the 10mg for night) sertraline was further increased to 75mg clonazepam was re-introduced at 0.125mg (quarter tablet) twice a day After discussing with my family, I took the opportunity to go back to PJ with Ban for a few days and so the following information was given mainly by my sister: During her stay, there were a couple of times where she had the urge to hurt herself but she informed someone (I requested her to do so and briefed others) and was given an activity to do. It worked :) On the morning of the 4th day, my sister and her husband drove my mum back to the ward. My sister managed to meet both the doctor in-charge of my mum's case at the ward, and the psychogeriatric: They strongly believed that mum could continue to be at home and thus extended her vacation trial by a week. Re mum's 'joyless...

Since our plan to move to Singapore was scuttled , I had been waiting for an official notification from Singapore informing me of the revocation of my PR due to the expiry of my REP . Yet, throughout much of 2017, there was no such notification. However, later on, other entities made a move (goodness how they know):  Income terminated my Dependent Protection Scheme My SingPass was cancelled In both cases, their CSOs said (indirectly by the latter) that I was no longer a PR.  Yet, I still have nothing official. Actually, this matters only when I close my CPF account in the future: I will need to show CPF Board a letter from ICA stating that I'm no longer a PR. However, I felt uneasy that my residency status with insurance companies and banks was still Singapore PR and hence I proceeded to make things 'right'. I also needed to change my address with CPF Board. A good opportunity came up when Ban wanted to attend a short workshop in Singapore and I wasn'...

Mum hurt herself on the night of first day at the ward and the next morning. However, her condition was much better: very aware, chatty and could initiate a few topics of conversation. She hurt herself again at night, of second day but by third day, she didn't do it any more. I tried to catch the doctor at the ward to ask whether there was any change to mum's medication or not but to no avail. So, on fourth day, I asked a nurse there and she told me: an addition of 5mg olanzapine during the day (on top of 10mg at night) of an increase in sertraline from 25mg to 50mg Later on, I found out from my mum that her blood pressure was consistently 130+ and so she was asked to take 1 tablet (2.5mg) of bisoprolol. She informed the doctor that initially she was taking 1 tablet (1.25mg) but because of giddiness, the doctor who prescribed this medicine to her reduced the dosage to half. Unfortunately, on sixth day, she hurt herself twice in the morning, saying that the voice (a...