Here's My Story

I made a mistake in the past year. For past one and a half year, I have set aside some fund invested in shares that are recommended by my IFA. He mostly recommended growth stocks i.e. stocks of companies that pay little to no dividend and focus on growing the company and a few ETFs. So I thought I should dispose of the shares that I invested based on the Smart Investor's Dividend Portfolio which are classfied as "growth".  However, later on I realised that these are still dividend paying stocks but of companies that are still growing. Typically the current dividend yield is low (lower than the "income" stocks). The premise of the investment is that as the companies grow, they would pay out more dividend and so the dividend yield on cost would grow. iFAST is a prime example. Hence, I started repurchasing these shares as and when Smart Investor recommends. I still avoid those that are classified as "speculative". Alright, moving on: these are the shares ...

What's the connection with Muslim Chinese food? 

Previously I blogged about this campaign  (with 3 more posts subsequently) where I initially built my character to severely hinder enemies from moving away from me but changed because of party composition. I recently changed back to the initial idea. Here's why: The impetus was the GM's announcement that we would be encountering many more undead, including those who are resistant (or immune) to physical and sometimes resistant to everthing except for vitality damage, This means that I'll likely be using more Wood Elemental Blast rather than Earth, thereby rendering the level 5 pick of  Gate's Threshold: Expand the Portal -> Earth Gate Junction: Critical Blast less useful. After tinkering with the build, here are the changes to the build:   Level 4   Class feat: Tumbling Lumber changed to Safe Elements. This is critical to prevent my teammates from the adverse effects of my kinetic aura (shown later). Also, this also gives the one-action ability Pacifying Infusion ...

I had a taste of the soup and minced pork ball from my nephew's dinner and was motivated to drive nearly 30 mins to try it in situ :D The soup was tasty but a little salty. The amount of ingredient was disappointingly tiny: everything (vegetable and meat) fit into that spoon. Goodness. I ordered the dry version of the noodle. My sister cautioned me that it was "nothing to shout about" but it was even worse here: it was tasteless😢  The longan drink with black sugar was the best part of the meal. Lots of longan and flavourful.  Yeah, not going back there again :(

I came to know of allergy test, covering 52 allergens, from Pathlab sometime ago. I did one nearly 6 years ago , covering 35 allergens. The former cost RM 1,200. My usual doctor's clinic quoted a staggering RM 1,500! So when my sister highligted that Klinik Dr Yeoh, clinic that I go to if I am in Butterworth and I'm sick, charged RM 560, I took up that offer. While waiting for the results, Ban and I brought mum to her first follow-up appointment at Bagan Specialist Centre and we saw a poster for allergy test covering 107 allergens for RM 380 (it's now RM 416). Meh. Here's the result:   Nothing! Not even mild, unlike previously. Ban suggested that I go for the 107 allergens test. My sister agreed. So I would be doing that together with my mum .

A week after the first appointment , my sister brought my mum to see Dr Ling, the skin specialist, for a follow-up. During that week, her condition improved significantly: hardly any redness, still itchy but not as bad. In short, 1. Doctor is happy with the progress and think that we are on the right track. 2. She still diagnosed mum with fungal infection and not allergy. Normal recovery time is about 3 months. 3. Itchiness partly due to dry skin and so need to use moisturiser. 4. Follow-up in 3 weeks time. As discussed beforehand, my sister requested for test of 107 allergens. Privately, we still think that mum has developed allergy towards prawns. Coincidentally, later mum had Penang Hokkien Mee (which is prawn based and has prawns) and developed rashes. I would be bringing mum to the next appointment and hopefully I'll remember to ask the doctor for the result of the swab test. We're puzzled as to why the doctor didn't voluntarily tell us about it.