2024 in numbers

2024 was to me, a year of survival and hanging on. 2024 started with the tail end of my second Covid-19 infection, my lung capacity is never the same after that. A quiet Chinese New Year as a show of respect to mommi. Adjusting to life without mommi, and remembering her in piecemeal moments.

2024 was full of tiredness, primarily the weariness of the mind, the heart, the emotion. Less than ideal sanctuary, often lacking in warmth, peace and harmony. Ever-present dust, dirt, grime, cobwebs. Frequent unfulfillment, discontentment, disappointment. Often felt like struggling alone. Exist to provide, give, sacrifice. Drained.

Anyway, here are the 2024 numbers:

125 blog entries. 11 entries per month except November, this is the 17th consecutive year I have done so. Truth is, the notion of breaking this number has popped up in my mind more than once this year, but somehow I still wrote those 11 entries every month...

43 days of commute to work recorded, which covered 1933.4 kilometres, giving an average of 45 kilometres per day.

8 petrol filling recorded. My six years old Civic is doing an average of 10.8 kilometre per litre of petrol. A significant drop of 2km/l from last year's average. Sign of deteriorated engine performance? =(

23 days of leave taken, of which there were 8 half-day leave and 19 full day leave. 3 days less compared to last year. =(

126 days of worked till overtime-worthy late. 1 day more than last year because I missed a day with the record in my mobile phone, of which I use as live tracking. So despite consciously stopping myself from working any more overtime once I reached 125 as shown in my phone's record, I had in reality already worked one day more when compared to the detail record in Excel. Clocked a total of 324 hours and 26 minutes, and the average overtime duration is 2 hours 34 minutes and 30 seconds. So even though I worked overtime 1 day more compared to last year, on average the overtime duration per day is 6 minutes less than last year's, that is good. Still, I need to get the overtime count to be a lot less.

Putting the overtime count into perspective: 52 weeks of 5 working days = 260 working days. Take away 17 public and replacement holidays, and take away 23 days of leave I had 220 working days. Out of the 220 days I worked overtime 126 days, that's 57.3%. Urgh... =(

0 days on business trip. =)

5 online tabletop gaming sessions held. Lackluster interest, guess it's just very low on others' priority list. We played 3 board games this year, one of which is a new game.

21 novels read, 18 new books and 3 reread. Managed to read one more book compared to last year, hehe. Average of 17.4 days for a book, slow. =/

0 patent filing. Failed. =(

47, 20, 17, 15, 4+1, 0 for my own reference.

Happy New Year dear blog viewer, wish you a wonderful 2025.

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By association

I am a meeting thermal engineer, currently my main role is to attend endless meetings design cooling solution for laptops.

The team charter is to compete in the premium and creator laptop segments, so that's what my designs are primarily targeted at.

It's very satisfying when customer has the gut and the money to adopt wholesale the best design I came up with in terms of performance, but that rarely happens, only once so far if I remember correctly.

Majority of the time we have to compromise for various reasons, cost is one, and often also because customer simply does not dare to be the first or the early adopter, and prefers to stay with conservative design. The tried and tested route, I understand, but I also know that my designs are all simulated and backed with data, and the one who dares to try new things will be the one who sets the trend, the first to reap the benefit before the mass follow and copy.

Anyway, got sidetracked, not meant to post about that. =P

So, I design cooling solution for laptops, I don't buy or sell laptops. I am sure there are people who compare laptops spec, performance, value for money, that sort of things, but that's not what I do.

In fact, ever since I started having personal computer, it has always been desktop, I have not owned any personal laptop. So if you come to me asking about which laptop to buy, then I would direct you to do your research through Google, at least that's what I would do.

And no, I don't get free laptops. I wish so too, but unfortunately no.

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Long weekend

Taking annual leave tomorrow, Friday, so will have a three days long weekend.

Do not plan to work overtime, still trying my darndest to hold the line. Gotta stay strong.

Had a boring Christmas yesterday, no Lord of the Rings marathon or any movie watching with wifey, as wifey was busy with other things the whole day, no time for me. =( So I guess the highlight for me was the nap I took in the afternoon.

Don't foresee it will be any different this long weekend, besides the scheduled annual flu vaccination tomorrow and a family dinner with brother on Saturday.

Wifey and the kids are out still at the time of writing this, been out since noon. Good to be the things that made her priority list. I should be jealous.

Anyway, three days long weekend, yay...?

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随想

年尾了，学校这星期是假期，两天后圣诞节，然后下周三是新年。

就是想说，这样的时候还真希望自己是和把圣诞节和新年看得很重的洋人工作，因为那样的话这两周就会很清静。

偏偏就不是，而是和那些还拼命在赶工的同事工作，没有年尾要休假，轻松充电的同事。他们只是给我额外两份模拟要求，和问我几时能给报告，就是暗示我赶快做好的意思。

我说我今晚（星期一）马上跑一个案件，然后明天（星期二）再过夜跑另一个，那么一切顺利的话星期四可以给报告。我也直接说星期三是圣诞节公假，我不打算工作。

我要死守今年不再加时工作，不然我就会超过去年的加时工作总数了。

真的嘞，年尾了，让人喘口气行不行？

随兴随想 |系列|

Arrived

Wifey's new car has arrived!

Happy wife = happy life. ^_^

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Hold!

After working overtime yesterday night until after midnight this morning, my overtime count has reached the same count as last year's.

Meaning I will definitely not have improved, as in, won't have successfully reduced the overtime count this year. That is one annual goal missed. =(

I still have a chance of being the same as last year, no improvement, but no degradation as well, provided I do not work any more overtime in the remaining of the year.

Slightly less than two weeks to go, but trust me when I say this is going to be tough.

Failed to reduce the overtime count, can at least maintain it and not make it an even bigger failure by exceeding the count.

So for the love of all things good and balanced, hold the line! Hold the horses! Hold and do not work any more overtime!

Stay strong, myself, do not give in to unrealistic demands, the pesky sense of responsibility, and the perfectionist within.

Just hold and don't work overtime for two weeks.

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我想要

我想要，会妥善计划，不是每几天换一次方向的项目经理。

我想要，会做好分内工作，不是为了交货而交问题满满的货的同事。

我想要，和一点就通，不用重复又重复的精明同事一起工作。

我想要，不用加时工作到凌晨三点的工作。

我想要，不用我操心的、懂事的孩子。

我想要，脱离每天除了累，还是累的生活。

我想要，足够，不需要烦恼的经济能力和财产。

我想要，简单快乐的生活。

随兴随想 |系列|

Jump?

As my annual overtime working count creeps towards last year's count, I get more and more frustrated with every overtime I need to do.

My goal is to reduce that working overtime count every year, which I have managed to accomplish for previous two consecutive years.

However, given the trend and the amount of work I have currently, and the relentless requests for results and updates, it is very likely that I will surpass last year's count by the end of December. Meaning I will fail my goal and break my streak.

Absolutely not happy about it, because I honestly think that my overtime amount is just ridiculous and it really needs to be cut down by a lot. Ideally it should be somewhere around 20% of my total annual working days, that's working overtime one day per five working days week. I think I could live with 30%, but I am still struggling to get below 50%...

Company is at a low period now, many things that impact morale and drain confidence. With massive headcount reduction, those who are still with the company inevitably have to pick up the jobs that no longer have the headcount to support them. Even though the management said the job count would be trimmed, the proportion is just not in par with the headcount reduction.

Do more with less, of course they would say that. Reality is there are employees who are already working at maximum bandwidth and working overtime just to deliver, there is no more to give.

So I do not appreciate the unrealistic requests, they do not increase my output or turnaround because I am already at max, they only add to my backlog, frustration and stress level, which also builds up the discontent and dissatisfaction.

Imagine this is the state I am in when I was approached by offer from another company. It's like devil advocate, a temptation with perfect timing.

I won't deny that I do not like change, and what feels to me like starting over in another company is daunting for me. Some would call it afraid of stepping out of my comfort zone but I have always argued that there is nothing comfortable about my current job, it's stressful, it's challenging, it's relentless.

I do like the idea of working my whole career in the same company. Call me old school, I like being loyal. Of course loyalty gets us nothing, to the company we are all expendable, easily replaceable. Loyalty is not rewarded, but still, I like being loyal. Yes, I am a fool.

I guess I would take the plunge, like I did a few years back, when I have totally lost faith in the management, when I have given up with the management, when there is just no future staying with the department, group, or company.

But for now, I still want to believe the company can pull through, the management can understand there is no way for me to do two projects in parallel that have like nine projects worth of workload disguised within them.

And I am still too chicken shit to take the plunge and make the jump.

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淡化

二零二四年最后一个月。其实还有三个星期左右的工作时间，但最迟两天后我已经需要交上年终报告。

三个星期是可以完成很多东西的，不过算了吧，我的心已淡。

每天重复的做足完整的正式工作时间，然后那非常不健康比率、过分频密的加时工作量。

累了。腻了。厌了。

挂一个项目的名下，推几个项目的工作量，用人不必本钱。

项目领导的计划能力就是那么差吗？没有一个项目是跟着计划走的，计划每几天改一次。要求我做热流模拟，模型还没有完成已经改了计划。从一个项目变成两个版本，那还算好，因为至少还是局部差异、大体相同的两个版本。但过后直接就把原本项目完全变质，变成不同的两个机型，其实就是两个新的项目…

要求我提供热流模拟报告，但需要建模型的数据却没有，就是随便丢些问题和错误满满的资讯给我做参考和依据。等我一一发现那些问题和错误他们才来修改，就是等我替他们做他们应该做的事啦。就是让我跑在最前面，开了头他们才用我的数据来做参考和依据，然后他们做好了就要我重做我的模型和模拟。

我没有那个等别人做妥了我才做的命，而是那个命贱需要不停重做来减少别人工作量的廉价劳工，唉…

真的，没劲了、没动力了、心淡了。这工，唉～

心语细述 |系列|

Pain (2)

The back pain is getting a lot better, almost can't feel the pain anymore, but of course I am still being careful with my posture and movement.

But then not sure what higher force decided that my life has to be painful, so the disabling headache hit me today, shortly after lunch.

It was a struggled to keep working, and immediately after work hours I hit the bed and stayed zombie-like until about two hours later.

After a late dinner it was slightly better, but now it's coming back. So soon I will back to be zombie-like.

Interestingly it has always been behind the left eye, where I feel the pain propagates from, but today for the first time that I can recall, the pain started from behind the right eye.

Anyway, it's one pain after another. Such sad and woeful life.

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Pain

I have history of back pain, I don't know which one came first, or was the cause, but the two triggers that I am aware of are: (1) standing long hours, (2) badminton.

My days of standing long hours in the production floor are a distant memory now. Actually, my days of playing badminton regularly also feel like a distant memory now, but I think they are just slightly more recent compared to long hours in the production floor.

Anyhow, since both of those are distant memories now, I have been free from back pain for a blessedly long time. Until three nights ago, that is.

Honestly do not know what caused it this time, it happened on Saturday night, when I was reading in my bed just before sleep.

I read in my bed before I go to sleep every night, propped up against the headboard with pillows supporting the back. So it came as a nasty surprise when I felt the sharp pain of the familiar back pain when I wanted to change my position.

Back pain, just like that. Followed thus far by three low quality sleep nights no thanks to painful turning, and three irritable days of painful posture change especially turning upper body to the left and the dreadful standing up from sitting position.

Getting a back pain just like that is veli de meh, this is absolute bollocks!

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Something profound

Tomorrow is the last day of November, while today, Friday, is the last working day in November.

My official working hours are 08:00 to 17:30 hours, Monday to Friday. No weekend, and no overtime pay.

Out of these 29 days in November, I have worked overtime on 18 days. Initially my thought was, okay, not saying that's good, but it's not too bad.

That is, until I looked at the calendar and counted out the actual working days in November. 21 working days in November, and I took 3 days annual leave so it's a 18 working days month for me.

18 working days and I worked overtime on 18 days... Granted, the reality is I worked overtime in some weekends and even when I took leave, but to have worked overtime 18 days in a 18 working days month is just horrible. Profoundly sad.

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Not sure why high school graduation seems like a big thing now, for I honestly cannot remember my own high school graduation.

Not even sure if there was a ceremony, or was it just so unimportant to me that I cannot remember it at all.

Ironically, high school was the time that I considered my peak, in both academia and co-curriculum. My only straight A examination, and representing the school and state in co-curriculum, all happened in my high school time.

Anyway, today's my elder son's high school graduation. Don't really know what to make of it, the education system and school year being so screwed up nowadays. He hasn't taken his governmental high school examination yet, and the school year still has a few months to go, but the graduation is today.

That certification is probably the first useful qualification in terms of getting a job, but honestly it's the bare minimum, and for limited choice of job. Nowadays a university degree is just too common for a high school certification to be worth much, if anything.

What's profound is that my elder son may not even get it. Failing the governmental high school examination is certainly a possibility based on my elder son's academic record.

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Many milestone events in November for me and wifey, that's profound.

And that one thing that is finally happening. *Fingers crossed*

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生活点滴：二十年

昨天拿了假，因为是结婚二十周年。

没有做我原本想要做的任何一样事：没有两百朵玫瑰、没有住宿酒店一日游、没有新的一对戒指、没有烛光晚餐或午餐…

就是一早和情人老婆仔去看车，陪她试车，因为她要换车了。早餐是路旁的小贩，然后就继续看车和试车到中午。

因为要载孩子放学，和看完车的时间的关系，所以午餐也就只是在学校外的咖啡店吃杂菜饭。

载了孩子回到家后，犯贱加时工作到傍晚五点半左右，然后去附近的商场买了戏票，匆匆吃个拉面晚餐，多亏那十三分钟的戏前广告我们正好赶上电影，没有错过开头。

看完戏就回家了，然后我又继续犯贱加时工作到半夜。

通常会在当日写篇文章上载部落格，但终于停工时已经太累了，所以今天才写这文章。

结婚二十周年了，我觉得是比平时更有意义的里程碑。

没有在这特别的日子做些特别的事，因为情人老婆仔不以为然，所以就跟着她的方式过了一天。

是平淡无奇，但几乎一整天是两人一起度过的，还是难得的。

生活点滴 |系列|

Slacker month not

Two weeks into November, fourteen days over in a blink.

Slacker month is not living up to its name, there ain't no slacking happening, meh!

Worked overtime nine days out of the fourteen. Horrible, just horrible.

Besides working like a maniac, there are also many things that happened in these two weeks. Serious and big stuff.

No slacking whatsoever. This is just sad.

Maybe there is still hope, as there are still two more weeks in November, perhaps I will get my fair share of slacking in the remaining of November.

Yea, right. I don't believe it either.

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Scribble Pad is seventeen years old!

Happy 17th birthday, Scribble Pad!

As per custom, here are the accumulated number of views based on the counter. The one for 2024 is as of 22:55 hours.

2008: 4746
2009: 13300
2010: 23226
2011: 31677
2012: 37412
2013: 42469
2014: 46926
2015: 50532
2016: 53716
2017: 56798
2018: 59939
2019: 62732
2020: 65840
2021: 68205
2022: 70269
2023: 72064
2024: 74382

I triple-checked the numbers to make sure they are right, because surprisingly, this year the numbers do not follow the trend. No idea why, just pleasantly surprised.

Truth is the thought of reducing the number of blog entry per month has popped up in my mind a few times, but somehow I am still doing eleven entries every month. Habit dies hard, I suppose.

Anyway, it's November this month, my self-proclaimed slacker month, and there will only be four entries. If you have been following this blog, then you know it has always been like this. Well, except the very first November when the blog started 17 years ago. Why? Because slacker extraordinaire (me!) said so. =P

Thank you for reading this blog. I sincerely hope you get something out of the stuff I shared.

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Long weekend

Tomorrow is Thursday, Deepavali, a public holiday. I am taking annual leave on Friday and next Monday to make it a five days long weekend.

Won't be going into potato mode, hence this entry is no titled so, as I already know I will be working at least one day within this period, if not more.

My current plan is to work on Friday, with luck just for a few hours, and then only resume work next Tuesday. Yes, one can dream.

Intend to brisk walk outdoor during this long weekend, hopefully more than once. Gotta suffer to be healthy.

Other than that don't really have any other plan, just rest and relax if I can get it. Don't always have that luxury now, even in my own home.

Oh, need to fix that broken cloth hanger stand rack thingy. Been a few weeks now, always slipped my mind in the past few weekends (two? Three?), and nobody bothered to remind me.

Feeling low and demotivated, don't think it's depression. Not yet, at least. Hope a break will do me good, but don't really believe it will. Cynical, I know.

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Discontent

Dull period of life.

Nothing much to write about besides the same old rants, and I am tired of my same old rants that are due to stuff outside of my control.

They just boil down to 'life sucks', really.

Work wise the foremost thought is a lot of wasted effort because those who decide the direction steered us wrong, so one quarter worth of work down the drain. Resentful, and very dissatisfying.

Life wise the word that came up immediately is discontent. Things that matter to me, things that I cared a lot about, things that are important to me, are getting deprioritised or ignored. More and more priorities are becoming unaligned. They became like flickering after thought, callously handled. Only myself holding them near and dear all these years.

Changes in priority happened without consent, whether I like it or not is moot really, because I have no say. A reminder of the insignificance of what I cared about is to the other. It's sad. It's bitter. It's reality.

Health wise the word is poor. This at least is something I can control, to a certain extent at least. So I am cranking up the frequency and intensity of my exercise. I am living in pain on a daily basis these few days, I hope I can keep it up. Suffer daily so I can be healthy, oxymoronic but true. It's a weird world.

Full of negativity, I know. No less true though, that's my life and the state I am in. Nope, not a happy bunny.

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心的频道：虐·善待自己

老了，身体状况和健康越来越不行。

虽然从来也没有什么吸睛的体型可言，也离开那想要吸引人的人生阶段好多好多年了，但那越来越大的肚皮是自己也觉得很不健康的体型。

二零二零年新冠肺炎行动管制令开始，我的晚餐不再吃饭，只吃菜肴。四年后今天，肚皮依旧是大了很多圈…

应该认真养生的我，反而把绝大多数的时间和精力给了工作，健康每况愈下。真是的，唉…

真的，我需要开始虐待自己，每天要做多量不同的运动，让自己每天都活在肌肉酸痛的情况。

活得痛苦来善待自己，就是这么矛盾奇怪的世界。

说是很容易啦，我真的希望我可以坚持的做到。

虐待自己来善待自己。

心的频道 |系列|

Too frequent

As a hybrid headcount without a permanent cubicle in the office, going to work in the office is an efficiency drop for me.

Besides the commute to and fro being a time waste, the shared cubicle set up is not conducive to my working need, even having meal at home is faster and more efficient compared to at office.

It's Wednesday today and this week thus far I have had to go to the office everyday since Monday, and need to go again tomorrow, so that's a total of four days working in the office, assuming there is no last minute urgent stuff that needs me in the office on Friday.

Four inefficient days, and past two days were to entertain the management from overseas, meaning many meetings, forums and such, all non-conducive to getting work done. Quite the opposite, in fact, two days where I had little time to actually do work.

I don't go to office unless necessary, and that usually means only when there is staff meeting, which is bi-weekly.

So in this single week I have used up two months worth of quota, meh!

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士气低糜

公司现状不佳，士气低糜。

至少我是这么觉得。

同事来来走走，来的是怎么样我还不知道，老实说又要开始去认识我是觉得累的。我不想要交际。

走的是一起工作过的、打拼过的，就算我不常交际，也难免有点交情。所以有点遗憾、有点不舍。

说的是同组的同事，不是那些一加入公司就认识的老同事朋友。那些老同事朋友荣誉退休，我是为他们开心的，真的。

老同事朋友虽然不在公司里了，但事实就是已经好多年工作上也没有接触了的关系，纯粹是私底下的联络和群聊。所以没有在公司里见到这些老同事朋友，反而是很正常的感觉。

同组同事也许还没有到朋友的关系，但是常常会见面，一起工作的人。那少了个熟悉的脸孔的感觉很重。

我是士气低落的，没有干劲、没有动力。

心语细述 |系列|

破功

连续十四天没有加时工作，也算是个新记录吧？

今天破功，因为项目又换方向，以为已经完事的部分，现在又有了额外的工作量。

主要是因为项目领导之前要我们做的，不是客户要的，所以忙了那几个月，就只是忙了个寂寞。

唉～

怎么都好，连续十四天没有加时工作，对命贱廉价劳工的我来说，算很长了。

感恩我也能够有正常工作时间、不必加时工作的十四天。

希望还是会有啦…

随兴随想 |系列|

Suckers are back

Them blood-suckers are back, boo!

Bloody good for nothing pests. It's kill on sight for me.

Well, I tried anyway, but not always successful.

While I do not deny that my eyesight is poor and my reflex is slow, I am convinced them suckers have the power of invisibility, or some sort of stealth technology, that they use when they know I am on them. Cheating cowards.

Managed to kill three of them in my room and one in the kitchen today. Good riddance, may you rest in pieces.

No blood-sucking mosquito is welcome in the house, I will greet you with my electric swatter, and an after-shock squish when I manage to hit you.

No mercy. You have been warned.

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Diablo IV: Vessel of Hatred

Diablo IV first expansion: Vessel of Hatred, has gone live on 8th of October 2024, and with it the sixth season: Season of the Hatred Rising, has begun.

It's called the first expansion, so I guess Blizzard has plan for more expansion for the game. Well, as long as they keep making good games, they can keep earning my money.

Vessel of Hatred continues the storyline of the core Diablo IV game, there is a new class, a new region, and many changes. Haven't played enough to comment on whether they are good or bad changes.

Like many others, I am trying out the new Spiritborn class, but unlike those who sped through everything in order to reach the maximum character level in whatever small number of hours, I am playing the game in my usual casual and slow pace, enjoying the storyline and exploration.

I am in no rush, each to his or her own, but rushing to maximum character level is not my cup of tea. I am enjoying the lore, and appreciating all those Diablo II stuff they linked and referred to in this Diablo IV expansion. They brought back fond memories.

There seemed to be more Diablo II reference or continuation compared to Diablo III, hmm...

Anyway, enjoying the game thus far, still a long way to go in terms of storyline and season journey progression, but I am having fun, and that's all that matters.

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消失的150（二）

三年五个月后，又消失的150。

还给个低智商、无逻辑的理由。

第一次是失误，再犯是明确自知的选择。

选择堕落沦陷、一错再错，还有什么道德人品可言？

竟然可以有这样腐败的三观、糟糕的人格。

原来失望是有极限的，我现在是无感麻木的。

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Made it, barely

After a few days of absolutely unhealthy amount of gaming, I finally completed the season journal for Diablo IV fifth season: Season of the Infernal Hordes.

Had to go through this unfun time no thanks to the short season. If it's the usual three months I am sure I can make it in the usual fun way, as gaming should be.

Managed to complete most of the season journal quests as part of levelling to, or shortly after reaching, character level 100. That is good game design, so credit to Blizzard on that.

Each chapter of the season journal requires a certain minimum number of quests completion in order to proceed to the next chapter, giving players some semblance of choice. However, I hit a wall when I got to the final chapter of the season journal. It needs a minimum of 9 quests out of 11 to complete the chapter, and I managed to complete 8 without much trouble. The three quests left though, are basically gear level check, and are gated behind tedious and unfun grind-fest.

Now that is horrible game design, shame on you, Blizzard, shame on you!

To be honest, even if I had one more month to play leisurely in enjoyable fashion (as playing game should be!), I still would have hated the grind. Grind to get suitable end game gears, which is RNG-based. Grind in The Pit to get end game Masterworking material to upgrade the gear, which also has RNG-based portion. And grind to get the shards to open portal to go into The Pit... Argh!!!

Honestly I am so sick of the game now after days of tedious unfun grind.

Anyway, I managed to solo three of the five level 160 Fell Council of Zakarum, the high priests corrupted by Mephisto we first encountered in Diablo II, now brought back into Diablo IV season 5. Took me many minutes as I am poorly geared, I simply could not stomach the grind anymore so I did the quest under-geared. Their obscenely high resistance to damage (or perhaps because I was under-geared) resulted in way too long a fight.

Nail-biting too as I was down to my final chance after dying twice before even getting to them, but I prevailed. That's the quest I needed to complete the final chapter of the season journal. The other two quests are to face level 200 bosses. Forget it, because I don't find the grind for gear check fun.

That's season 5 done for me. I need to break from Diablo IV for now until the expansion comes out, which is just in a few days time, not long enough a break from this unfun episode.

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托梦

情人老婆仔的妹妹说梦到了妈咪，把梦境告诉了老婆仔，叫她转告。

在妹妹的梦里，爸比妈咪出席了妹妹的生日会。

妈咪很开心，给妹妹紧紧的拥抱。

妹妹问妈咪几时恢复可以走动，妈咪说是年头的事。

不知道怎么解梦，但我听了心里是暖暖的。

感谢转告，由衷感恩。

妈咪，谢谢你托梦给我们，愿你在天堂一切好好的。

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Win, but

Did not work overtime this weekend, win!

Did not turn on the laptop at all, so no self-deceiving 'less than 30 minutes so does not count as working overtime' scam.

Would have been a solid win if not for the disabling headache today.

Shortly after lunch, the headache just happened, and became more and more severe gradually, until it forced me to be zombie-like in bed.

Took a shower and some painkillers before dinner, as need to be chauffeur after dinner to pick up brother from the airport. Need to be functional.

The painkillers helped, rendered it akin to background pain instead of crippling pain. Still pain, but functional.

Shame really, would have been a real win if not for the headache. Instead of two days worth of rest and relax, I am ending the weekend nursing a headache.

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Out of time

The fifth season for Diablo IV, named Season of the Infernal Hordes, started in early August.

The thing is, it's a short season, only two months instead of the usual three. It's ending in early October and I am far from completing the season journal.

No thanks to the unhealthy amount of working overtime, and the constant fatigue state that I am in nowadays. Either I am too busy working, or I am too tired to play. Sad.

Anyway, I am playing the Sorcerer for this season, a Chain Lightning build. I am not even at the max character level of 100 yet, and I only have one week left.

One week till season ends and the launch of Diablo IV expansion, the Vessel of Hatred.

I am out of time!

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