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This session was 3 weeks after the last . About a week before it, I started to be aware of which actions trigger pain or twinge: Slight pain when hand on a mat, slightly behind me, pointing backward and body leaned slightly towards it. Slight pain when dicing chicken. Noticeably lesser t han previously . Twinge at base of thumb when doing the shoulder stretch using the wall. Twinge when wiping face with towel but I now think it occurs only in the morning. Overall, it's better: triggered less often and pain intensity is much less. As usual, Lee examined the hand and arm, prodded/massaged them while getting feedback from me until finally the pain was reduced to mere twinge. He concluded that it might be posture issue. Something to do with my neck and being slightly hunched when I sat up. All exercises remained the same except replace the chest/back stretch (point (3) here ) with the following: Both arms straight out in front with hands making the thumbs' up sign. Raise arms up a...

After sorting out the retiming mess more than a month ago, I was checking my phone's photo album to make sure I screenshot all the relevant flights and hotels for our trip to Australia. This is just in case there's problem opening the relevant apps later to show the booking reference numbers (I don't print out anything). Apparently I had yet to screenshot the reserved seats. So I wanted to do that but then noticed that seats were not selected for the KUL-SIN leg on the MAS flight. I checked and confirmed that seats were reserved on the original SIA flight and so by right I should be given seats upon transfer to the MAS flight. So, once again, I used the live chat feature in the SIA app to get help. The first CSO checked and then told me that I should use the same booking reference number in the MAS app, which I did, and then asked, "Anything else by the way?" I was dumbfounded. I succintly asked why my reserved seats disappear upon the transfer and then they lost...

We celebrate our "went steady" (is there a neat term for this?) anniversary instead of our marriage anniversary. In fact, Ban still doesn't remember the date of the latter :D I wonder which date is more common. This year, it coincides with a session of Pathfinder 2e Remastered ttrpg which we signed up for. It's part of a campaign, based on the adventure path Season of Ghosts, rather than a one-shot. It ran from 1pm to just after 5pm. We hang out there, chatting with fellow players, before heading to Kinpachi for dinner at 6pm. Kinpachi is one of our favourite haunts but we dined there only 2 to 4 times a year because it's expensive. Most of the time, we ordered these: seafood teppanyaki for Ban and eight pieces of salmon sushi for me. Once a while we tried something different and that was what I did this time too:   This is daimyou maki.  It was huge! I had to take two bites to finish one. Its filling was salmon, tuna, yellow tail, egg and cucumber. Delicious and ...

The real way you win a competition is by running faster, not by holding our competitor down. - Anne Neuberger 

There was a pair of black short pants which was a bit tight for me. At first I thought it was due to the position of its button: I sewed it further than its original position. Yes, I could have rectified it but I was feeling lazy and so I merely waited for it to come loose again :D One day, however, I noticed that it was also difficult to zip. I guess putting on 4.5 kg over the last 10 years or so does that :D I would like to think that my thigh muscles have grown. The last point could be the reason because I could still wear all other short pants. I decided to stop wearing the pants when I noticed that I felt uncomfortable after having lunch. So, the next thing to do was to get a new pair of pants. There is one place that I can reliably find short pants that fit me: F.O.S. Their size 28 Navy & Navy pants fit me just right, unlike many other places where some don't even have such size. I saw a design that I didn't have and so I tried a pair of black pants and one other pair...

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