Might & Magic: Elemental Guardians

Started this game a few days ago and it's been a blast. It feels a lot like Summoners War with the added bonus of much better graphics. There is a large pool of monsters and characters to collect and varied skills and mechanics which means different combos and team building. I like how it is similar to SW yet slightly different in its own way in terms of mechanics, buff and debuff etc.

Also I am someone that don't really take to anime style gachas which is why I gave Epic 7, 7 Deadly Sins Grand Cross and the likes a miss. I have no interest in collecting waifus and the events, rate up banners and whatnot mechanics of anime Korean/JP turns me off.

The global lunch was about one and half years ago so it's not too far off like Summoners War. It has unfortunately been unable to hold the interest of its youtuber base it seems and there is practically no videos on this for the past 9-12 months. I guess that explains the low number of users, there is only a single server.

That said, I find this a fun and engaging game. It has the usual grinds like any gacha but there are so many units that you can work your way through the content with a magnitude of variety of units. Naturally there are the cookie cutter builds and teams but the game doesn't seem to need you to have a certain unit for progression.

Well, I'm gonna spend less time on Calibria and move towards this game. Calibria was fun for a short while but when the only thing you do is build a lair team and farm that all day it gets stale very quickly.

Vehicle Jigsaw

阳阳's totally into vehicles. So its no surprise he gave full-on concentration when Meimei presented him with a vehicle jigsaw puzzle. Its a simple one for young kids and I like how they have a model for children to refer to.

Best part of this is that he can quietly play with it by himself. He doesn't need company, just leave him alone and he'll be so focused on it till he completes it.

Frozen Food For Circuit Breaker

Since we cannot sit down and eat, we have to pack and eat at our desk. So over the weekend I bought 2 microwave meals for lunch.

The first is a chicken bolognese from NTUC Foodfare. Pure garbage ... I thought you can never go wrong with pasta. I cannot be more disappointed and shocked that it can go so bad. It's like someone puked out mee and they freeze dried the vomit and slap on minced meat bits in orange goo. Yuck!

Tuesday's lunch fared much better. The strong curry probably helped to mask any uncanny taste. I purposely took a pic of the brand so I don't forget and can get it again. Well, it would be even better if  we get out of this lockdown soon and can dine again publicly. 

Arts & Craft: Little Chickens

Meimei does it again and prepared the arts and craft paper and tools ready for 萱萱 to work on this week's home based learning activity. You can tell 萱萱 is very excited about it and was fully focused on getting it done. Look at that glee and looks of accomplishment when she shows off the little chickens.

Water Play ... In The Living Room!

Since we cannot go out of the house with the kids, we brought the fun into the living room! Meimei had thought through it the night before and prepared towels to soak the water.

萱萱 plays well and keeps everything above the water table. 阳阳 on the other hand still does not understand and constantly have his cup everywhere and splashes water all over the towel and mat.

Messiness aside, you can see the excitement and glee in their eyes as they scoop and pour the water about.

We up the ante by fixing the water spiral tower after an hour. The smiles seems to lessen but I suspect that's because they are cold.

I think this can become a regular Saturday morning fun activity if the lockdown continues. Naturally it doesn't compare to the water play at the zoo or gardens by the bay but it's already a lot more than what other kids can get in their homes.

First Youtube Video

Plain screen recording using Quicktime on Mac. No gear setup for any mic recording to talk through the video but I'm simply recoding gameplay to share with my guild. Maybe someday I might go pro and be a full time game content creator ... hahah pipe dream that never comes.

Camping In The Master

Credits again to Meimei to find fun for the kids. I'm a one trick pony ... I only know to bring kids to the playground. But Meimei is constantly thinking of how to brighten up the children's day.

I'm sure every kid has played camping before. It's like the perfect escape to a wonder world right in your room.

Look at that glee and excitement. Pure high right there. Totally worth the effort I think.

Calibria: First LD Nat 5

Nat 5 are easy to get in this game. But even so I'm super hyped that I pulled a L/D Nat 5. Never got one in SW and probably will never. 

Excited to see how she will turn out to be. I read that her revive skill does not work per the description so I'm going with the damage skill. I don't see many using her though versus her L/D brothers and sisters.

Stuck In A Train Station

A picture says a thousand words. I didn't see it but 萱萱 told me about it later. 阳阳 had stuck his thumb in the hole and couldn't take it out. According to 萱萱, he was screaming for help and Siti had to use oil to release his thumb. Silly boy, he better learn his lesson and not get into his limbs stuck again. .... But hey who am I kidding? Boy will be boys!

Calibria: Evil Chimera Runs

I was inspired to build a Chimera team after watching a youtuber post a consistent 11-15 sec run for the Evil Chimera lair. It involves a gimmick of using a AOE invincibility buffer, a Counter buffer and a buff extender to elongate the buffs. Then complete the team with a group of attackers, namely Holy Swordsman, that ignore's defense on their first skill to essentially nuke down the boss as fast as possible.

I don't have the Elven Queen so I had to substitute it with a Rock Golem. Works fine, just slower on the runs. I doubt I'll ever get to the sub 20 sec mark but this will do. I'm never good at games and too lazy to try hard haha.

Biting 姐姐 Again

This time its a bad bad one. When I saw it, I knew I had to do something .... more so for myself than it is to actually help in teaching 阳阳 not to bite 萱萱 like that. At some level I feel guilty I couldn't protect 萱萱 from the pain of the bite. I pulled 阳阳 over and gave him a slap on the cheeks together with a stern loud warning never to do it again. I don't think he understood why.

Playdoh In The Ear

We are just came back from KK to extract a piece of Playdoh that had fell into the drums of OO's right ear. How it got there is anyone's guess but it was lucky we discovered it early.

The kids played with Playdoh on Friday and it just so happened that I helped to dig both kid's ear that evening. I was shocked when I saw a bright pink piece of something sitting on 萱萱's eardrums. I immediately screamed for Meimei to come take a look to confirm my suspicion. It was Friday night and we couldn't do anything. It didn't look life-threatening and given the current Covid-19 situation we decided to avoid the Friday crowd at the hospital.

The next morning we went down to KK's A&E to see if the doctors can help to remove the Playdoh.

Unfortunately, they did not have the right apparatus at the A&E and we were told to come back on Monday when the ENT department opens.

So we are back at KK today and after waiting for several hours the doctor finally remove this tiny little Playdoh. We were a couple hundred of dollars lighter due to this micro piece of doh. Arrrgghhh! The kids are not getting Playdoh anytime soon!

Red Rover At Basketball Court

阳阳's getting big for the giraffe push tricycle, his legs looks uncomfortable on it. I brought him down to the basketball court last week and he was dashing and chasing 萱萱 around on it. There was once when he tried to corner at full dash and nearly toppled over to the side. So rather than risk a real accident from happening before doing the right thing, I let him roll around on the red Rover instead. Definitely more stable since it's on 4 wheels instead of 3. Also it's more his height at the legs and visibly more comfortable when he kicks around to move the car.

CCG: Alternate 3* Only Account

I recently started another account on the Asia1 server playing solely with 3* and below units. There's less power creep and angst not having the rare units. I'll be able to fully skill them with ease since 3* summons are the base units on mystic summons. 

Let's see how long I'll stick to this before I get frustrated with the 3* restriction. I fully expect that there may be content I would not be able to beat simply because 3* units tend to be weaker on their base stats and would be hard to compete with 4-5* units, eg. in Arena.

Train Parade

Every night before 阳阳 sleeps, he has to bring in an entire suite of vehicles. He is such a boy, naturally fond and fascinated with everything that has a set of wheels.

Its so crowded that there is no space for the milk and hot water. But I guess if these helps him to sleep, why not. I think it gives him a sense of satisfaction and calms him for the night.