It's both a welcomed travel status and a loathed one at the same time. To get this means having to be away from home for at least 75 nights. Not something I look forward to at any time. But this does give me perks at non-US hotels with lounge access. I hope we travel less next year.
There was a progressive for Wixwell. I've tried several times to get him and wasn't about to give up. Especially not when I'm in mercy on the Sacred Shards. Glad it only took another 3 shard to get him. He is a game changer with Titus on all the clan bosses. It's been getting stale for the past month and half without any real progress. Couldn't pull anything that can advance my game till today.
I have my staple happy food at Mambo Seafood. Most of the time I prefer simple food rather than the expensive and yet bland restaurant flare. Obviously I cannot avoid the fancy places altogether when eating with the rest of the team. We typically have burgers and sandwiches for lunch and then classier food for dinner ... well occasionally. Anyways I still stick to Mambo for dinners and the foodcourt for salad lunches. Perfectly happy with this.
Surely something had bitten and given me these sores. They are itchy and painful. They don't look like bedbug bites but it could be anything really. Thankfully I brought a Tigerbalm ointment that helped soothe the itches.
A torturous journey to McAllen for a fortnight of meetings on test cases and following up on a project I'm leading. First off, we were on the plane for 2 hours at Changi because there was a mechanical issue and they had to replace parts. The doors were locked so we couldn't go anywhere. I had for the first time opt for a window seat and was regretting it while we waited.
The 2 hours delay on take-off turned into a further delay at San Francisco since I missed the last flight of the night. I had to wait another 6 hours for a 5am flight to Houston and then onward to McAllen. I was originally going to arrive at 10am but landed at 4pm instead.
Mateo invited 阳阳 and 萱萱 to Superpark for his Birthday. It was a nice gesture given that everyone has gone their separate ways to different primary schools. You can tell there is a certain feeling of "distance" between old classmates.
I'm glad to discover a new playground for the kids. One that is more suited for their age too. And 萱萱 and 阳阳 finally get to play on a zip line!
Still too thin
“I was 25.5kg few weeks ago. Now i’m 25.8kg, hurray i gain 0.3kg” 萱萱 said with utter glee
Self Censorship
Meimei: 萱萱 self censorship so cute lol 😂
Makings of a Hacker
萱萱: do you know I wanted to record the songs and music video on my ipad so even when time limit is up, I can play it from my PHOTOS app??
Me: *无语…..
萱萱: and do you know I have another way!! GUESS!
Meimei: 深呼吸…. What app?
萱萱: You know ALARMS, I can set my alarm to play my favorite song!
萱萱: AND because it is not sure what songs you like, it will let me play any song and play a long time
#matteroffactly
Yeeyee: Making of a hacker
Meimei: I REALLY did not think of it leh
We are at Yio Chu Kang Swimming Complex for YY's Swimsafer 2.0 test. The place looks like something out of the 80s and is very quiet. There were only a handful of people here swimming. The rest are all here for the various grades of Swimsafer tests.
You can tell 阳阳 is stressed as he keeps peeling his fingernails without even knowing it. 萱萱 is sick so Meimei has to stay home to look after her. But he is a brave boy. He man-ed up and went for the test without any fuss. I'm so proud of him ... he has grown up.
I rewarded him with lunch at the nearby MacDonald's. He seems very relieved that he passed the test. Good Job 阳阳!
Just bought a new M4 MacBook.
No pictures to show because I was silly and forgot to take still photos of the new MacBook. And Blogger is being a total ass application for not allowing me to upload frames from the video. It just keeps saying error without telling me exactly what the nature of the error is.
But I still wanted to document this because I'm writing this blog post now on it. Blah.
萱萱 and 阳阳 have been bugging us about coming to this new playground since it opened recently at the same building as the Berries tuition. We have been resisting it but happenstance just made it that we had to come here haha. We were at Kidztopia Marina Square this morning and Meimei had bought tickets online only for us to find out that there is private event when we reach there. What a scam. So anyways we came down to Tampines instead to see if we can get into this new playground.
What we discovered was that it has a special fixture .... an obstacle course that is 3 storeys up. You have to be strapped to a safety line to get around. The kids were extremely excited to try it, even though it took us a good 45 minutes to reach the front of the queue to get up.
We only purchased a ticket for an hour so this was really the only thing we played. Next time we'll buy a 2-3 hour ticket.
The old Ikea bookshelf was giving way on the shelving planks. For something that cost SGD500 new, it's a totally crappy make of a bookshelf. Thankfully we got it from the as-is section but it still cost a good SGD350. So when it comes to find a replacement, we totally excluded Ikea. We need something more sturdy. Why pay top price and still get crap right?
So a little more than a week ago I went down to ScanTeak showroom at Ubi and they had these 4 bookshelves. I picked the one 2nd from the right as the panels are better made. It cost SGD600 but its made with teak so I expect it to hold better than the flimsy Ikea one.
Meimei had reminded me before to take my bath towel out of the bathroom and dry them on the racks. However it's hard to remember sometimes. I suspect she got the kids in on the request ... and they came up with creative ways to entice me to do their bidding hahaha. These are so precious!
From 萱萱
From 阳阳
It was kinda of an impromptu trip. They had some activity setup for children to participate but it wasn't anything really immersive. Well at least it was cool enough in the building and the kids had something to do with Yeeyee and XY.
I wasn't aware of it till 阳阳 point it out to me on his iPad. He had gone on Google Earth and somehow navigated to our block and gone into street mode. And when he saw our old Caddy he took a screenshot for reference to share with us.
Oh how we miss the old Caddy .... both kids are always talking about it too. I think they like the sturdiness of the ride. It definitely feels more commanding on the road versus our current Serena.
