Here's My Story

About 3 weeks after the last appointment  i.e. a month after the laser procedure, Ban's eye was checked and it was ok. So now he could go back to doing his usual exercises i.e. lifting weights and jogging but avoid doing anything that involves sudden jolt. However, we were caught by surprise when he given another follow-up appointment in 6 months time. Later, with his agreement, I checked with Asia Eye Centre, which is much nearer to where we stay, whether Dr Poh would be ok to do this follow-up. According to the staff there, she could check the eye but she isn't specialised in retina and so the implication that if there is something wrong with the retina, Ban would still need to see another specialist. Well, in that case, we agreed that Ban should just stick to the Subang Eye Specialist Centre. 

Hmmmm I think it's very possible to exhaust all possibilities, isn't it? 

During the 3-week period in between sessions, pain was triggered by pouring water from the kettle where I just moved by wrist, scooping out soup by using a ladle, with a twisting motion, closing a container by turning its lid clockwise, and slicing off the skin of a salmon fillet. All of them except the first occurred only once despite doing it multiple times. Quite strange. As usual, when the pain occurred, my initial feeling was that it was located between the base of the thumb and wrist, probably just above the wrist but when I pressed that part, it didn't trigger. Instead, I found spot about an index-finger below the wrist, next to the tendon, that elicited some pain. After investigating, the therapist said that my initial assessment was correct: just that the trigger for the pain was deep within in, which he did discover during the investigation. As usual, his treatment made the pain went away despite me performing all the motions that typically triggered the pain, as request...

 Just outside Betty's Kitchen:  

My current favourite at District 13: salmon with egg benedict. Filling and delicious.   Wasabi caesar salad at De Sundays Cafe. Filling, not bad but not to my liking. Maybe gotta do with cooked salmon :D Understandably, it cost more than RM 30.    De Sundays ramyun noodle. Ramyun fans would probably like this better than I did. I liked it I vaguely remember that it was a little light for me. Didn't order it again since there are other food I prefer at the cafe.   Jasmine green tea with lemone scent. Pretty good.   When the fjord trout fillet isn't enough, I usually will top up dinner with tamago, which is Ban's favourite :) 

Ban and I are optimisers, whether in single or multiplayer games. In this post, I would like to focus on table-top role-playing games (TTRPG). Ideally, everyone should try their best to optimise their TTRPG characters. It would make their characters useful to the party and thus make everyone happy. I regularly encounter players who eschew optimisation in favour of flavour/roleplay-wise. For example, a DnD's Warlock can safely dump Intelligence and Strength to maximise their most important stats i.e. Charisma, Dexterity and Constitution to be useful but someone might say, "But my Warlock has to be intelligent because of his background." Their character is either (1) suboptimal but not bad because their most important stats are still reasonable: just not as a high as they could be because some points are allocated to their roleplaying stats, or (2) terrible because their most important stats are weak. In my heart, I would frown on (2) because they are just burdening the par...