Pretty like this

Late lunch out with workaholic colleagues, I guess I should be grateful that I still got to eat, better late than never, right?

A colleague friend who had an accident a couple of days ago said her jaw hurts. I asked her if the airbag had hit her in the face?

"If the airbag hit me in the face, do you think I will still be pretty like this?"

She gestured to her face while saying that.

I had to ask her again if she had said what I heard she said. She confirmed it, without a hint of modesty.

Wah lau eh! Banyak beh pai seh lo!

Really, don't know whether it's shamelessness or confidence...

As an aside, we were making light of her accident by claiming it's due to her playing Pokemon Go while driving*, as everything can be blamed on Pokemon Go until the next hot thing comes out.

Making fun of whatever is the current hot that the masses are mindlessly crazily pursuing is what people like me, who are proud of being different to the masses, like to do. I would make fun of myself too if I happened to be one of the silly people. =P

* Don't! Seriously don't. Don't be an irresponsible fool who jeopardises other** road users

** I have no qualm with fools trying to kill themselves, it helps to raise the average level of the human being's intelligence... =P 

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Random behaviour for August 2016

Not sure if I have succeeded or failed in my July's impromptu resolution, as I mentioned in a previous entry, the first two weekends everything went as planned but the remaining two weekends my parents were back and the kids just glued to their grandpa.

Oh well.

This month's resolution was inspired by an amusing experience a few days ago, it's also putting in action the general resolution I set myself since the beginning of the year.

I sure have friends who can stir up a storm from just about anything, and it's pretty amusing how people (mis)interpret what I wrote and then went off on their own tangent which led to something entirely different from what I meant. I have no idea how they can totally missed the key operative words in a very short statement...

Interesting thought process that I think may have something to do with guilty conscience.

Anyway, for August 2016, my impromptu resolution, something that I have started two days ago, is: to not respond to or clarify any rumour and slander targeted at me, and any misinterpretation or twisting of my word and intent.

Because I can.

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Softies

Everybody has their preference, and when it comes to teambuilding event, my preference is to do something that, well, actually builds the team. You know, something that involves people working together to achieve a common goal, something that promotes team spirit, that sort of thing.

To me, sitting down together to have a meal is not teambuilding, it's just tummy-building. Neither is movie watching.

Think about it, it's like a lunch meeting really, where we sit down together and eat some food. Granted we probably won't be talking about work but you never know. Then instead of listening to whoever is presenting his or her agenda in a meeting, we sit in a darkened room watching movie producer presents his film on a big screen.

That's teambuilding? Really?

If it is teambuilding in someone's definition, it sure is a super boring one in my opinion. But then again, I don't consider that teambuilding.

When deciding the teambuilding event for this quarter, things started off well with many fun activities involving teamwork on the voting list: both outdoor and indoor physical and mental challenges and activities, a musuem tour (huh?), and the awful lunch & movie tummy-building option.

First round of voting ended with a tie between an outdoor physical challenge course and the lame tummy-building, with some minor votes on other options. So a second vote was held to decide whether we are going teambuilding or tummy-building.

Then the well-known food lover made his move. All it took was for him to send a discouraging e-mail dissing the physical challenge course and tada! My fellow teammates simply gave up and opted for the tummy-building. My goodness, so easily swayed!

Why oh why do they not even want to at least try and experience for themselves? So what if we can't complete some of the challenges? At least we have tried, right? You don't usually go to this kind of place on your own, you know? It's a place for group of people.

Wasted opportunity, such a shame.

*Sigh*

Bunch of softies.

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An aeroplane a day, part eleven: LEGO RPG

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In this series: |part 1| |part 2| |part 3| |part 4| |part 5| |part 6| |part 7| |part 8| |part 9| |the making of part 9| |part 10|

Workshop: |1| |2| |3| |4| |5| |6|

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This month's impromptu resolution is to have a LEGO session with the kids every weekend. I decided to have something with a continuous theme instead of unrelated creation from week to week.

So I created LEGO RPG, something that we can make the pieces together then play with what we have created. ^_^

the pieces for the jungle module

Based on my gaming experience, I provided the general framework and game system to use, then I got the kids involved deciding stuff like health, damage, speed, et cetera. Basically we have a group of heroes killing monsters, getting loot, gearing up, and eventually facing the big bad boss.

For heroes, we have the typical warrior, rogue, cleric and mage. We decided on class specific item and spell upgrades, which will come from loot. Monsters will depend on the module, the idea is to have a different module every week.

we used the big table as our play field

Hsiang suggested that the first module to be in the jungle, with a giant gorilla as the boss monster, and we came up with a big cat, spider and snake as the minions. And so we went about making the necessary pieces: the items, the monsters, and trees as location marker.

Took us the first weekend to came up with the system and to get the pieces for the first module done. We played the first module on the second weekend, making minor modification on the fly when the die roll didn't produce any monster encounter. Everything depends on die roll, you see.

image for illustration purpose only, encounter at each location (tree) is based on die roll

 

Well, I guess some balancing is required, the heroes basically steamrolled the minions and not seriously challenged by the boss. The kids had fun anyway, winning is always fun I guess.

As the game master and the person who controls the monsters I think the monsters need buffing. Their health definitely needs to be increased so they don't get one-shot killed, maybe should think about multiple monsters encounter instead of just one. But I am glad the system works, just need some balancing.

that 'snake' is about 3 human height in length according to scale

The second module is supposed to be in the mountain region with a volcano, lava related monsters, and a dragon as the big bad boss. But it hasn't happened because, well, their grandpa is back and they are glued to him during the weekends...

  

Silky tofu skin

Got home in time to have dinner with the whole family today. =)

Half way through dinner, wifey told me Young has a pimple.

"What?!! But he is not even seven yet." It felt a bit ridiculous to me.

"There, it's there on his face." Wifey pointed out the spot on Young's face.

It's on his chin, just underneath the lower lip, bang in the middle.

Hsiang, eager to tell, said, "it's because didi always have food stuck on his chin when eating."

Then wifey caressed Young's cheek and said to him, "oh no Young Young, your face is not smooth anymore."

To which Hsiang said, "mommy, now only you and I have silky tofu skin."

And we all laughed.

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午餐记（二）

孩子们的周末课外活动时间改变后，还真的好一段时间没有去那间茶餐室吃午餐了。

今天老婆仔和孩子们有午餐生日会，父母又一早就出门说会吃了午餐才回，所以又要一个人吃午餐啦。

回到那久违的茶餐室，坐在我惯例的角落桌：一号桌。

前方桌的女人反复瞟瞄了我几次，让我有点不自在。

是不是因为我蛮深的眼袋，熊猫眼？

一点都不面善啊，不是认识的嘞…

鸡饭老板提着一桶饭经过，顺口问我是不是叫鸡饭？

真的是吃到他都认得我的样子了，呵呵！

我答是啊，叫了在等。

他回到档口帮我催了催端饭的伙计，谢啦老板！

鸡饭档请了一位新的员工哦，茶水也是。

那从 laksa 到大虾面的档口又换了，现在是卖糕点的。

其他的档口依旧。

仍然是鸡饭的生意最好，整个茶餐室生意都好好，还是人来人往。

鸡饭端来时伙计也拿了碗辣菜汤。

我没有叫咧，不过算了吧，就多一块钱。

反正我也没有试过，味道还不错。

也没有太在意四周的人和事，因为精神有点恍惚，脑子当机似的。

还没睡够就被两个瓜的玩闹声吵醒，太阳都还没有晒屁股嘞！

一点都不尊重周末，真是的。

吃饱了我就离开那茶餐室，不知道下次再去会是何时呢？

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Time consumer

YouTube is an incredible time consumer.

I was listening to a song on YouTube and noticed a link to another song that I like, so I checked it out after the current song was done.

Then there are many more links to some other songs that I also like so I clicked on those as well.

And at some point, links to entertainment news and snippets appeared so I checked those out...

By the time I realised I have spent way too much time on YouTube surfing, the afternoon is gone.

0_o

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