玩得不离手

I've just been escalated for playing too much. As Meimei describes it, my handphone goes everywhere i go aka 玩得不离手. I forget to eat the ice cream and desserts in the fridge. I spend every waking minute staring at the phone and playing summoners war.

Interestingly this has gradually happen as the baby arrived. Hmmm so my job hasn't been anymore hectic before than it is now. It used to be longer about a year or two ago. But leisure time has been the same over the past year ... so what did I used to do in place of all this game playing ... 

There is the housework that filled a lot of the hours. I used do most of the housework and it always took priority over any other non-work to-do's. But now with a maid, a whole chunk of time has been freed up for other activities. 

Also there's the tv ... I would spend countless hours in front of the TV watching mindless shows on the bundled channels from MioTV. That's changed too ... Singtel is charging $20 for the same channels in the new contract, and with a new baby on board, we decided to cancel MioTV all together. So now there is little to watch except the free-to-air channels. And even if there were interesting programs, I couldn't watch any show dedicatedly since I'm expected to help out with the little one whenever I can.

So what now? Fire the maid and subscribe to MioTV again? Real options but I doubt a knee jerk reaction is gonna help me. I think I just need to stone more ... go into do nothing at all mode, especially at home. Just sit there and stare into blankness ... I see the maid do that sometimes as she carries Emily and waits for her to go into deep sleep. I suppose from a certain viewpoint, playing games intermittently throughout the day can be stigmatised as being a loser, a useless bum, a non-contributor.

Oh well, in the interim I'll try out the blankness option. But over the long run I need to find an acceptable hobby I can do during the brief quiet times between feeding Emily or keeping watch while she sleeps. Something which I would not be escalated ...  

Baby Contest Worthy

Gosh she is cute. I melt when she pouts at me. Gonna be a challenge to discipline her.

Recollections

I recall random stuff from the past. It's usually spurred by current events and happenings. Sometimes I surprise myself with what I could remember. If you ask me now what I had for lunch yesterday I couldn't tell you ... but somehow i could remember a lunch I had from 15 years ago. Odd ... but i guess thats how the brain works. And when I say remember its not like I can call out the memory at any moment. It comes and goes.

So I'm gonna start a new tag to blog about random events I recall for future remembrance ... I might just forget them forever if I don't list it down hahah. And for the first one ... this is triggered by a recent news event where a 16 year old teenager made insensitive remarks about Christianity and was brought to task by the Courts.

This triggered a rather odd recollection of a scene from a lunch with colleagues from donkey years ago when I was working at Suntec City. I have this colleague who is a Christian pastor ... maybe not senior one but he does give sermons ... who ummm I would say is in his own world. We were queuing at an Indian stall selling Bryani and Nan curry. When it came to his turn, he looked at the Indians across the counter and ask for beef ... I was shocked at his request and immediately pulled his arm and told him this is an Indian stall! I think I remember this because of his subsequent reaction ... which was a look of blank bewilderment.

How does this link back to the news event? Well ... there are idiots on both sides of the fence. Even the most senior and educated folks can be douchebags living in their own hole. So I remembered this scene to this day ... because it shocked me that a pastor can be so insensitive. And this is no 16 year old but a father of 30 odd age. Oh well ... hhhahahha.

Summoners War - First Natural 5* Monster

Finally after 9 months I have my first natural 5 star monster from a scroll summon. I can't say I'm surprised it took so long. I've never been lucky in games. The good stuff always eludes me. But that's ok it's only a game. Plus I'm  pretty much a Free-To-Play player. I can't bring myself to spend on a mobile game.

So my first natural 5* is a Chimera. It's lacklustre compared to his Wind/Water/Dark/Light brothers. But hey, it's still a natural 5. I've already completed the 3 fusion hexagram to obtain 3 5* but this is different. This is purely luck based summoning. After getting 18 monsters to Level40 I was beginning to contemplate taking a hiatus or quitting all together. This has just brought freshness to the game again. Hopefully I'll get lucky again soon ... I cannot imagine having to wait another 9 months for my next 5*.

I Smell You

Every morning I would change and try to carry her, even if it is for a little while. That few minutes is enough to get her smell onto my clothes. I'm addicted ... the potent mixture of poopy, pee, milk, perspiration and assortment of ointments is my elixir to push through the day. I repeated this scent marking during lunch again. Its contagious, in a good way.

I think my colleagues are smelling it too ... though their reactions to the scent is markedly different. They are kind enough to leave me be and not call it out. I guess they are parents to new first borns too once upon a time.

The thing is I don't find it smelly. I can't even tell that she potty a couple of times when I did the smell test because her poop smells fragrant to me. Meimei jokingly commented to Emily that she should not rely on Papi to help her change diapers ... else she would be lying in poop the whole day!

Summoners War - Beating The Tower

Woot! Finally beat the Tower of Ascension in Summoners War after its XXX iteration. I didn't beat it this time because I had new powerful monsters, but rather I was more patient in working my way up the 100 levels.

Sadly the Lv90 Light & Dark scroll gave me a useless Light Bounty Hunter and the Lv100 Legendary scroll gave me a Fire Succubus ... Both went straight into storage, never to see the light of day again. I might take them out one day, but only for evolution or fusion material.

First Outing

Though Emily's been out of the house a couple of times for her regular checkups, today marks the first real outing as a family. And the first attempt at getting her used to the car seat.

It's just a short trip to the airport for breakfast but we were all geared up. As most parents would know, it takes a lot of work just to bring a baby out ... with all the bags, clothes, bottles, milk to cart along.

Surprisingly she took the car seat well. I think its the ramble of the engine that calms her. She'll scream when we come to a stop at a traffic junction and stop the moment the car starts moving. I think she is more suited for long trips on the highway rather than going to nearby locations.