Here's My Story

Sometime last year, Ban fnished designing a ttrpg (tabletop role-playing game) system, including play tested it three times.  We then managed to gather 5 players to play at a friend's house every fortnight. It wasn't easy because we wanted players that we are familiar with, We started with 4 and then few sessions later added the last one. So, on the day of the session, I would drive us to have dinner, pick up a player and then to the venue. One day, upon reaching the dinner venue, I was dismayed to discover that I forgot to bring my wallet. I borrowed money from Ban but I was concerned about not having my driving license with me. We could go home after dinner to retrieve it but traffic on the way home would be heavy by then and we would be late for subsequent rendevous. It was during dinner that I suddenly remembered that it is no longer mandatory to carry the physical driving license card. There is digital copy of it in MyJPJ app. Digital copy of road tax is also there. I took...

Nearly 4 weeks after the surprise consult with the therapist, I decided to make an appointment to formally consult him. I told him that: there didn't seem any more discernible improvement. sometimes the pain was absent and other times it flared up, throughout the day. there didn't seem to be any more pain right at the wrist but solely around the base of the thumb. I no longer wake up with pain. He surmised that the remaining pain was due to (a) me using the phone more. I told him that because he advised me to take regular breaks from using the keyboard and mouse, I shifted to the phone to read news and webnovels. Seems that he was more concerned about typing on keyboard and so I now can resume reading those on the laptop, and/or (b) the increased in the second exercise .  Once again, he massaged the hand, arm and especially the base of the thumb and regularly asked me to test the pain. He stopped once I felt more no pain. I am amazed each time that happened :) I'm to incre...

Generally you'll want to invest in a portfolio that generates a rate of return greater than inflation rate. Let's called this the desired rate. Investing wholly in bonds generally would not be sufficient to do that. Those who can invest a lot in riskier assets are those who are wealthy and yet ironically it's sufficient for them to jus invest solely in safer assets. For example, someone with RM 10 million placed in, say, fixed deposite with interest rate of 3% p.a. would earn interest of RM 300k a year, which translates into RM 25k each month and that is more than enough to live very comfortably. Those who are not rich would understandably be worried about losing their capital and shy away from riskier assets but putting their savings into fixed deposit is not ideal either it doesn't give the desired rate. Here's another irony: I came accross bond issued by the Victorian government (an Australian state) with coupon rate exceeding 5% p.a., which easily beat Malaysia ...

I redid both the lipid profile test and liver function test, as advised by the GP, due to the findings of the previous tests 3 months ago . The SGPT (ALT) level is back to normal at 47 (within range of 10-49), instead of significantly elevated. As for the cholesterol level,                                   Jan 25                 Apr 25                  Ref Total cholesterol           6.6                      6.3                   <...

Saw this at Megah Rise Mall some time ago:  

Just over 3 weeks after the last session , I was surprised to receive a WhatsApp message from the physiotherapist (Lee) at the Relive Physiotherapy & Rehabilitation centre.  He enquired about my wrist. I told him that it seems to be improving but very slowly. Also, on some mornings, I woke up with pain but it always went away after a few minutes later. He attributed that to stiffness and so recommended an increase of the second exercise from 15 to 30 rep. He wanted to increase the weight used for the first exercise but he held off when I told him I had increase the reps from 10 x 3 to 15, 13 and 12 and that was already challenging. Such a pleasant surprise: checking up on me and gave me free advice. It's now been more than 4 weeks. Sometimes I feel that it's fully cured but other times not. I'll formally consult the therapist again if there's no further improvement.