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Jul 15

Yesterday's Post

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This is a post I was supposed to publish yesterday XD
We had a water shortage since Sunday & when the water is finally back, it's the usual low pressure problem again...so that's another night of slow-flowing water. It only came back to normal today *long sigh*


Anyway~ Received these books yesterday:


  • Wuthering Waves Manga Anthology - Good thing I checked Kino first! It's being sold almost twice Kino's price on Shopee... 
  • The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - It's the book I mentioned two posts ago~
  • Strange Houses - Yep matching(?) UK covers with "Strange Pictures" :D.. Unfortunately, sometimes I get "stubborn" about getting book covers like this *sigh*
I mean... I guess the US covers are fine too but I just prefer the UK ones...


Time: 2025-07-15T23:57:00+08:00
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Labels: # Wuthering Waves , 2025 posts , blog images , Books , Online Shopping Bag , Our Water Woes


Jul 12

I Touched Grass

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...or rather, the wall? (or the tables?) at Suria Sabah today~

Not much to say really... Went to the Muji store which honestly I didn't know existed until this week (there's also a branch at Imago). I'm just four months late XD. Although it's more like me checking out their little stationery corner and the organizer boxes section. 

Went to my usual go-to places including Popular Bookstore. Was pleasantly surprised to find Uketsu's "Strange Pictures" in stock (there were three copies on the shelf). I wanted to get the one with the UK version cover but unfortunately it's out-of-stock at Kino... and on Shopee it's basically selling like hot cakes. It's so funny to see the books went out of stock the next day on Shopee (two shops had a few the day before). I guess checking physical stores is an option too next time (duh! XD).




Time: 2025-07-12T22:43:00+08:00
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Labels: 2025 posts , blog images , Books , Life , Shopping Bag


Jul 11

June Leftovers

Posted in: # 7th Time Loop | 2025 posts | blog images | Books | Online Shopping | Online Shopping Bag | Youtube

First things first~

These are books I received in the mail in May & June. May's books were preloved books I found on Shopee while June's were via Kinokuniya.
 
Received on May 31st
  • The Marriage Proposal - random pick (lol)
  • The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Huh.. I probably mistook this for "The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle" but I guess this is fine too. It's a chance to try reading her books...? 
Received on June 24th
  • 7th Time Loop #7 (Manga) - as usual :P
  • The Labyrinth House Murders - I've read the first two books in the House Murders series so I wouldn't want to miss the third one XD
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I guess this will be one of the posts I mentioned in April. 

Reading Slump is a Go
Yup, very much still kind of in a reading slump... which I've embraced fully(?) as mood reading. Like, it's not I stopped reading completely... I still read just not much as before. It's almost like a dormant period of some sort lol - everything is happening in slow motion XD

First Book
Unfortunately (and humorously, I must add), the reading situation makes my journey of reading books at the place I pick flowers more noticeable. It probably didn't help that the first book I finished this year is "The Giant Bathroom Reader" lol (mentioned in a post from October 2023). Honestly, that's a book that really lives up to its title. It's full of short and brief paragraphs... and most of the time with gory and gross details, definitely not something you want to read while eating a meal. 

Reading ≠ Buying Books
It's kind of hard to describe but nowadays I'm very sceptic and pessimistic of books with nice covers and synopses. But at the same time, if it's something I do have interest in, I just want to get it so that I have it ready when I want to read it. Definitely not a healthy way to do it but I do more side-eyeing these days so it balances out in the end...?

Youtube
Honestly, I've been skipping more and more reading videos recently due to my reading slump/mood. If I don't skip, then they'll be videos I put on the background (and it remains uncertain if I'm able to listen to it properly or not). Most of the time I became sceptic and think "Was it really good though?". Sometimes books hauls are just another yapfest - I wish some of them just skip the synopses (or do a more brief synopsis)... Also, I still have problems with voices (just like back in February) so I usually DNF those videos as soon as I feel irritated. 

Reading in the Future...?
It should be obvious at this point that the future is dim XD. I probably will focus more on series that I do love and a few of the ones I'm interested in (yeah, reading is slumping but curiosity stays on, totally unrelated). Reading will be slow and sporadic.

Time: 2025-07-11T21:19:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: # 7th Time Loop , 2025 posts , blog images , Books , Online Shopping , Online Shopping Bag , Youtube


Jun 19

WuWa Talk: Cartethyia

Posted in: # Wuthering Waves | 2025 posts | blog images | Interest: Games | My Fangirl Side

Another Wuthering Waves post, let's go~!

Accounts Updates

Main
Honestly, my convenes for the second half of 2.3 hasn't been nice but.. oh well. 
  • Used my guaranteed 5-star on Ciaccona. 
  • So glad that I won the 50/50 for Cartethyia! That was so close! I realised I usually [can] lose when it's over 60 pulls so when I hit that I got worried.


    I even got the last copy for Youhu so now she's maxed out XD

    Changli at 3rd pull is looking more and more like a miracle now because it has constantly been near 70 pulls recently (T_T)

    Currently I'm still in the process of building her because wow her damages are mainly scaled on HP even though she's a main DPS. It's a weird feeling (but fun) to be happy to see HP% and flat HP stats on her echoes XD... and the best part is she can use 44111 echo set because her signature weapon is not crit-based.

    Not done building Ciaccona yet because I spent too much time doing the 'will I or will I not' with her :P (but she's at level 90 now so I say I'm halfway there). I was so not in the mood to get her ascension materials after losing the 50/50. I even missed out on getting the limited-time rewards for her event story lol (fortunately it's only like 100 astrites and some other stuff... but still) because I was procrastinating too much... which is why I'm making it a rule now to play the stories/events to the end before doing some major convenes (say, let's normalise using the term convene/convenes! I will edit [old] posts to use this term more... "pulls" might still be here and there, just like how I use resonators and characters interchangeably)

    I also need to get new echoes for my Aero Rover because the new Sonata set (Windward Pilgrimage) seems to be more suitable for her. Good news is Ciaccona might be able to use her leftover echoes XD
  • At least I'm lucky with the weapon banner because I've been getting them early.. like, I actually got Cartethyia's signature weapon in 20 pulls (I made sure to exchange that 7 pulls this time) before I got Cartethyia lol.

    Got Cartethyia's weapon early!

  • Will try to get Changli & Ciaccona's signature weapons next time...! 
  • I loved playing as Roccia in my Fenn account so I would want to pull for her next time for my main account~
Fenn
I barely managed to get Roccia's signature weapon last patch *big, long sigh*. Now she doesn't have to borrow Xiangli Yao's weapon anymore. I lost 50/50 for Zhezhi's during the Anniversary banner so I will use the guaranteed pull for Lupa since this account has both Brant and Changli (with their signature weapons). Hopefully I could get Lupa's weapon too.


RuRu
Wasn't able to get Brant's signature weapon again lol but this account manage to get Jiyan haha... I've started building Mortefi since there are so many resonators that use mainly heavy attacks in the account.

Tried getting Cartethyia (because why not) but lost the 50/50 to Verina, off all people lol. Though it's kind of a win for this account because it was Verina-less before. The account has Shorekeeper though so it's fine.. just a bit hard to do Tower of Adversity.


Tactical Hologram Progress
Well, I guess that's a bit of progress since the last time I posted about it. Had a couple of near wins (like 1mm HP bar left, seriously!) for Lorelei but no dice. I'll be back for Hecate after I get used to using the Carlotta-Zhezhi-Shorekeeper team. Hopefully at that time I could use them for the dragon too. Kelpie can wait for like much later lol
2025-06-19 edit: Lol forgot to include the images

Was able to progress to Difficulty 5 for the dragon & Lorelei. I also did the first three baby difficulties for Kelpie recently.

Completed Difficulty 6 for Fallacy (finally!) & Fleurdelys!
Again, can't go wrong with triple healers LOL


Septimont so far
The place is based on Sparta (I think? ...seeing that the leader is called Ephor) but I saw some mention of Rome too (Septimont is called Seven Hills in the JP version, plus the gladiator thing) so I guess it's inspired by both Greek & Roman civilizations? Septimont has a different culture compared to Ragunna. I've been doing some exploring around and there are some disturbing and sad lore... It's not fun getting to know about those :( 

BUT I must say: like usual, I enjoy doing the exploration quests! Especially the Scourgewing one... the lore is delicious~! It's sad to think that some people probably just skip the exploration quest's story because it's not voiced. Well, at least now I know if someone said there's no lore in WuWa, they most probably is a skipper. [There's nothing wrong with skipping but I usually only do that after I read the whole thing because I'm kind of a perfectionist(?), I need to know everything... I still read/fast-read the whole thing in my third playthrough/account] 

Oh yeah one more thing, the TDs here are more horrifying-looking. There's the Kerasaur that looks like Komodo dragon... then there are couple more human-shaped ones (which obviously aren't friends XD) that look like they came from horror movies. I do like that Septimont has more variants for drakes here though.

Main Story
2.4 main story was... interesting. It's very much still imbued with mystery so I can't wait for the second half. Although... I kind of ended up not liking Lupa...? I mean, maybe it would be better after the second half main story...? Not strongly though. If neutral is 0, the dislike is like -0.5, as of now. 

I'm not really sure why... she felt like kind of fanservicy to me - and it's weird to say this because there are plenty of those in other characters, maybe I just don't click with the character development or something... - and I honestly cringed every time such scenes happen. I will attempt to pull for her though, for Brant. And her gameplay looks interesting and fun, which I think is the most important thing for me.

Anyway, since I already got all my resonators to Level 90, it was easy to do the same for Ciaccona and Cartethyia because I had plenty of resonator XP materials. I just need to get the boss materials (which doesn't take long because I get 4-5 materials every fight).

Peak of Prestige
The in-game game Peak of Prestige is surprisingly fun lol.. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I do now. I'm not very good at it though (I keep going back to my Feilian deck set lol) but I won enough rewards to get by. 

Also it's funny that I got called out by the NPC you meet to start this event XD


My echoes LOL
And it's harder to batch-merge them now because we have modifiers (It's the "I might need this" issue). I did kind of up my game - if I'm allowed to use that to describe my echo tuning methods - so hopefully I'm more efficient now than before. I'm very slowly upgrading the ones I have now - of course, mostly are at the "Eh, good enough!" level XD. Well, I only hope my combat skills make up for what are lacking lol 

Outfits & Echo Aspects
Yeah... so... I'm fortunate(?) enough to not want them XD. I will consider it though if it's for male resonators or my Rover. Yep, and just to make it clear, you have a husbando-lover/wanter here that also happens to be a Rover main. Which might sound like a weird combination but Rover (my lovely, adorable Rover) is one of the main reasons I'm still playing the game :D. It's kind of an awkward point of view and I'm grateful that they care enough for the main character (I think Rover is one of the reasons echo presets exist this early), but honestly? Rover mains are probably the ones having constant fun in every patch XD

And with that said, I am obsessed with getting stuff that my Rover can "wear" so echo aspects is the way for me~



Time: 2025-06-19T00:26:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: # Wuthering Waves , 2025 posts , blog images , Interest: Games , My Fangirl Side


May 25

Let me complain about the weather

Posted in: # Wuthering Waves | 2025 posts | blog images | Books | Interest: Games | Jane Austen | Online Shopping Bag | The Weather Looks...

Another post of short updates~

The weather has been good recently - too good - and I'm hating it *siiigh*. The humidity is not too high (around 50%) so the hot weather is slightly bearable BUT the sun is still scorching hot... it's so bad. I feel sticky from sweating during the day. And then I sweat again after taking my shower like.. what's the point of showering anymore HAAAAH

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Received this book few days ago.. It's a preloved copy but damn... it's very much in good condition. I mean it's expected (didn't know until I've seen it myself) since the paper is the magazine paper type.

Jane Austen: The World of Her Novels


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Mini WuWa Talk 
I lost my 50/50 *sad lol*... I did think of wanting another copy of Calcharo (which I just realised is now S2) recently but I didn't expect I would get it this early!? *sigh*


I could wait for a guaranteed Cartethyia, I guess...? I dunno... I worry about getting into a similar situation with Yinlin's - which resulted in another loss in the next patch (Carlotta) - I most probably be better off with skipping Ciaccona this time around... 

Edit almost an hour later...

Not Calcharo with the 10:10 eyebrow LOL

The blush XD

Oooh I hope with his appearance in 2.3, we'll get to see him more in the future... Though I also kinda want one with Xiangli Yao too hmmm...




Time: 2025-05-25T19:35:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: # Wuthering Waves , 2025 posts , blog images , Books , Interest: Games , Jane Austen , Online Shopping Bag , The Weather Looks...


May 08

71st

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I'll just do this in one post XD

Mini WuWa Talk
71st might be my magic number lol
I don't know if I should laugh or cry (T_T';)

The first time I pulled for Shorekeeper I got her at 71st pull.


Then in the recent rerun, I also got her at 71st pull.
And Zhezhi is also at 71st pull.



I think one of my alternate accounts also experienced this. I think it was for Phoebe...

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Oh yeah... received these books yesterday. 

  • Jurassic Park - Finally found a paperback version! I might want to read this again soon...
  • The Kraken Wakes - Just another John Wyndham book to dive into in the future.

Time: 2025-05-08T23:30:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: # Wuthering Waves , 2025 posts , blog images , Books , Online Shopping Bag


May 05

S&S and ZZ

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Just a short update post~

1st: Book
Received this in the mail today.


Yeah. It's the version with the paper I like. I have a few of books in this series but I don't think I have one of Austen's work (for this version) before. 

For reference, the others are:
  • The Great Gatsby (mentioned) 
  • Dubliners & Madame Bovary
  • The Age of Innocence
  • Jane Eyre
2nd: WuWa
Did one pull today and managed to get Zhezhi's signature weapon! 
[I probably should stop now...]



Early!
*sighhh* I guess this means it will be hard to get Changli's signature weapon in the next phase

I know I don't really need to get it but I just love them having their signature weapons and... mainly, I'm just generally lazy (lol). I rather have it easy than go farm more echoes XD

Time: 2025-05-05T23:58:00+08:00
Posted by RuYanda
Labels: # Wuthering Waves , 2025 posts , blog images , Books , Jane Austen , Online Shopping Bag


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