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This is one of the new restaurants that we dined at this year. In fact, for a change of scenery, Ban had his birthday dinner with some friends here. It's spacious and clean, with helpful staff and boss. Most importantly, their food is good. One of our favourites is their Tornado Curry Chicken Rice: It's not spicy at all so that children can have it too and so, upon my feedback, they start providing me chilli flakes upon request, as pictured above. Another dish that I like is Salmon Sashimi Salad: All ingredients were fresh and combined well together. The best deal is their weekday set lunch where ordering from a list of 8 meals will get you a cup of refillable (roasted) barley tea and a choice of potato salad, edamame or vanilla ice-cream. We always order edamame. We loved the barley tea and would order it even in the absense of this set lunch. 

1. Listened for 11,381 minutes. That's only 7 days @@ 2. Listened to 109 genres. Top 5 genres: Soundtrack, Soft Pop, Classic soul, Musicals, K-Pop 3. Listened to 331 songs. Top 5 songs: Ask Me by Amy Grant, Yesterday Once More by Carpenters, I'll Never Love This Way Again by Dionne Warwik, Butterfly by Maria Carey, Shadows, Curse and Death by Borislav Slavov. 4. Streamed 7,535 minutes of podcasts. Top 5 podcasts are the only podcasts I listened to :D i.e. The Rest is History, The Foreign Affiars Interview, The British History Podcast, Romance of the Three Kingdoms Podcast, The Explanation. 5. Top 5 artists: Borislav Slavov, Mariah Carey, Kaoru Wada, Olivia Newton-John, Celine Dion.

When I purchased the MAS flight tickets , I also requested wheelchair assistance for my mum, like what I did with SIA (now only the return flight) and Qantas (for the domestic flights). It was my first experience requesting such assistance and so I was a little nervous. The first flight of our trip was the MAS flight from KL to Melbourne. We first had problem locating the business class check-in counters. So, I asked a staff at the priority counter and was told that business class counters are at a different row and that passengers can check in anyway, unlike what I was told over the phone i.e. 3 to 4 hours before departure. That was a bit a good news: we could then check in our luggages and proceeded directly to the MAS Golden Lounge. Because of the stop at the lounge, I thought the easiest was for us to wheel mum but MAS said mum had to be wheeled by a staff. Fortunately, they were ok to do 2 trips: one was from counter to the lounge and then, at an agreed time, from the lounge to th...

I somehow like this Morellia's voiceline. Badass? Corny? 😁 " I take only what I must but I must take everything. "

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Due to the earlier departure from KL, I estimated that we had to wake up latest by 5am to prepare to leave the hotel to reach airport by 5.50am. I was worried about this because Ban and I do not usually wake up this early. I tried practising sleeping earlier to eventually waking up at 5am but it was so difficult. Think the earliest I woke up was 7.30am but on a more consistent basic, it was around 8.30am. My sister then suggested that I aimed for a more achievable time i.e. 7am. Sleeping 2 hours less (7am -> 5am) is manageable. I tried right up to a week before flight but still failed :( I told my sisters that if I kept dreading to wake up that early, didn't that mean I regret picking that choice? I then had an idea and fortunately both Ban and my mum agreed to it: change flight. Unfortunately, there is simply no other day flight i.e. left only night flights. Hence I wanted business class so that I could sleep for at least a few hours since its seat can be reclined fully flat. ...

Yummy statistics :D (1) Hours watched: 202 (2) Distinct days visited: 202. The same as (1)? @@ (3) Top 5 categories: Marvel Rivals, Overwatch 2, Deadlock, Tekken 8, Minion Masters I don't really watch Deadlock and Tekken 8. Just lurked in supertf's and voll's streams to support them. (4) Hours watched for top 5 streamers: supertf (78), DanielFenner (17), Somnus (12), Necros (12), ShartCandy (12) (5) 294 chats sent. Seldom.   

Wow, it's been more than 15 month s since I last blogged about my mum's eye. I guess I didn't blog about subsequent follow-up appointments because nothing much changed: left eye had slight swelling but not affecting nerves or swelling, continue to use eyedrop but changed to Systane Complete preservative-free, and still attend follow-up appointments. I was supposed to bring her to Oasis in November but I was unwell. Fortunately, Ban was able to bring her. There was some good news: the swelling slightly reduced. Yay! Next appointment is 6 months later. 

During the one-month period  in between sessions, pain was triggered by Palm pressed down on exercise mat to open the chest. Slicing chicken/pork vertically. Horizontal movement when scooping fish meat off its bone. The pain was only slight. I believed that it was still an improvement. Lee, the therapist, tested the thumb/wrist and then the arm. He postulated that the issue might be elsewhere e.g. the elbow. He then proceeded to massage the hand and a bit of the shoulder, while regularly asking feedback from me (whether it was painful or not). Finally, he asked me to treat a 1kg dumbbell as a knife and to do the slicing motion. It still elicited pain but very slight. Then he adjusted my top right back and voila! The test didn't elicit any pain @@ As for the exercise regime, still do everything but adjsut as follows: (1) Do the thumbs-up exercise (nicknamed Y shape thumbs-up) on exercise mat by lying face-down and lifting up the body slightly. x30 (2) Do (1) but with T shape i.e. h...

A nearby clinic underwent renovation. After reopening, I noted that its name remains the same with the same two doctors listed on their window panel. Recently, I consulted the doctor there but she was neither the doctor listed. I also noticed that the organisatio chart inside the clinic listed this doctor as the sole doctor. Curious, I asked the staff at the dispensary, "So Dr L is no longer here, huh?" They responded, "We also don't know." Huh??