Almost didn't post anything today but since it's going to be the first post for the year (and month), I thought I should drop in a for a little bit.

End of 2024 was... Eh... pretty much a meh mix of almost everything. I find myself busy with family matters and it has made me tired since Dec 30th. Yeah, this year started with me in tired, muscles-are-sore mode. SIGH. It is necessary "trouble", I suppose, so I'll just close one eye and let everything happen. 

My younger sister got engaged yesterday... so those were among the things I say necessary "trouble" (and I meant that trouble from the troublesome way). The ceremony was done at our church. Met some new people and long-time-no-see relatives... hugs & handshakes (THE HORROR!) here and there. Like seriously, who the f*ck was I yesterday??? I refuse to acknowledge that "social butterfly"(?) personality. Of course I kind off exaggerated but I was certainly more social than usual (unfortunately).

Returned home. Got into a sneezing fit (and the almost-sneeze pain). Pretty sure that's an allergic reaction... so tragically, my 2024 ended with me suffering from being in the state of sneezing and almost-sneezing. My nose & cheeks hurt from the sneezing.

And since I procrastinate so much, I couldn't finish some things I planned(?) because I had to be elsewhere. I say this without being grudgeful - just stating them as is. Firstly, had to cut down the amount of books I wanted to read last year to 30 books. It's an easy decision because reading has been slumping for months lol. I even plan to do less reading this year... so no more daily reading goals this year for me!

Secondly, I couldn't finish some of the events in Wuthering Waves (for my alternate accounts) because I was just too damn tired (and sneezy). I was dozing off in the middle of an Illusive Realm fight haha

Oh well.

2.0 coming tomorrow!

My WuWa updates are just these:

Main account is now UL80!
I just wanna put that here because it happened before 2.0 XD


Couldn't get Yinlin's signature weapon for my main account *sad sigh*... she'll have to make do with Jinzhou Keeper R5 for now (until I can get the 5-star rectifier from the standard weapon banner). Gosh, she's so mean to me these few weeks... it's enough to scare me from pulling on sub-DPS/hybrid resonators (because I lost 50/50 on all of their banners) in the future. Maybe my main account only has luck with DPS and support ones :(

Good news is, I can get Carlotta's signature weapon instead (because I was seriously near to getting one *sigh*). It should be good for my Aalto (and Chixia can borrow it when I start building her). Perfect timing because I was thinking of getting another Static Mist for them to share...

Oh yeah, as of today, I'm done with farming the monkey's rock fist... just in time for 2.0! It should be easier to level up to 90 now that I already got them readied for everyone that needs it (well I still need shell credits and resonator xp but that's a problem for future-me XD).

Lol this got longer than I intended it to be...

I'm quite surprised that we're getting this much interaction(?) with Xiangli Yao and... I love every minute of it!

Another reason I like him is this: robots! 

It's funny how I'm speeding going through the main story [again] now (and some other quests) for my Fenn account because I couldn't do some of the mini quest in this festival lol... I was planning to take it slow but I guess I can't (for Xiangli Yao's sake! All my accounts must meet the requirements to get him for free!)

Anyway I said I've ascended seven resonators but actually I miscounted (unless you count Rover as two - Havoc & Spectro - though I don't regularly use Spectro Rover haha)... for now it's six, but my Danjin is not that far from being ascended (so I guess it's like... 7.5 lol).

Today I realised...

• I had to connect the printer to the "new" Wi-Fi again. Totally forgot about that.
• There's possibility that Google Play won't recognise your account's country if you keep sim cards from other countries inside your phone, making it hard to redeem GPlay gift cards. Tried it for my father's account and couldn't make it work even though the foreign sim card had already been removed. It's like Google thinks he's still in that country for some reason... (In the end, he ended up using the carrier billing method lol)

Nothing really... I just feel like making a post every time that happens.

I was reminded again how important internet is to me during that time. Couldn't get any internet connection from my Maxis phone via hotspot so I was pretty much feeling bored, hot & sweaty. 

Could've read the physical books (well, Kindle would work too) I'm currently reading but I don't really want to do that when I'm sweaty, for some reason~


So, what's new?

Someone died last week. A younger cousin, around the same age with my younger brother. The news came out as a surprise (since it felt surreal that you can still see his messages just above the notice given by his sister in the family Whatsapp group). 

I... don't think I'll ever get used to this *sigh* 

Yeah... I am also reminded of again how I can appear unfeeling at times (sometimes it's just the rational/logic side of me taking over) recently. No one said it to me this time, it's just the result of self-observation of my own emotional response. You can call me unfeeling if you want (but no need to tell me). It's just that my way of showing feelings are a bit different. Haaah... honestly, I don't really wanna think about it.

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Rest in peace, my cousin.

Don't worry, this post is not a review or anything like that. I do want to show some stuff that I find interesting.

First, this. 

This is like the perfect reading corner, don't you think?

 

The light above is just perfect. I did my reading for the longest "short story" (which is actually a novelette/short novel) in "The Unreal & The Real" here. Part of it anyway. Finished the story while lying down XD. Unfortunately, I have two more stories (second longest, both have the same amount of pages) to read. I thought I should get the longest one done first after I was left with the longest and second longest...

...Gosh, I don't want to see the word f*ckery anymore lol. The story in general is interesting, but the one (there are several stories in this short novel) that stayed with me without me wanting it to is "Love Out of Place"... the nerve that Azak has, wow. I guess it shouldn't be surprising that she thinks that way, because of their culture(?), but I was having second-hand embarrassment the whole time at the end of her story. Her confidence was cringe.

Anyway, I slept with the window curtains open wide so I was greeted by sunshine in the morning...

  

I got curious of that ring thing. No idea on how they're formed. 

Upon our return to home, the water is back (with low pressure, as usual). I never expect to say this here but...: As much as I hate the idea of doing it, I might have to pull an all-nighter today. Have to catch the... water.

HAAAAAAH~~~

Went to Karamunsing in the afternoon. Not that many people there (looked like the usual weekend crowd). Surprisingly a great day to do shopping for electronics. Great salesperson with amiable personality. 

Also, I couldn't count properly today. Zombie mode even though I woke up normal today??? WTH. Should I just make 3-4 am my time to wake every morning? Now I just have to get used to a new routine... or something. I should go to sleep.

...and it happened again. Haha. I don't know why I sound robotic when I compose this post on mobile. Maybe my inner voice is robotic lol

Read a couple of horror manga (so much fun!) today. Haven't started/continued watching any movies yet... oh, yeah! Saw a Youtube ad which turned out to be a movie trailer for M3GAN and it looked soooo interesting! I'm tired of horror dolls movies but this one is a robot (android?) with AI (I assume?)... sounds like a fun horror movie to me. 

Anyway... water problem at home has started becoming a mystery, for some reason. If you ask me, I still think it's water rationing (due to having certain "fixed" times where we experience low pressure and when it "returns" to normal around midnight). If they say no problems at all in our area, okay, I can see why they can say that... technically we still get water even if it's low pressure water so... of course it's "no problems at all" (-.- ). Putting my opinion aside, my mother thought it might be our plumbing system or the meter thing... but that doesn't explain the magical times the water goes and returns, right? (She also arrived at that conclusion)

*sigh*

Went out for breakfast early (partly because of that) with my family. Didn't return until almost afternoon. Saw a tweet on SESB's account saying the electricity is back so... it worked out nicely XD. I'm glad that I don't have to suffer by sweating during the day. 

Other than that... just another normal day~

Not much to see at Popular though... Oh but I did see some Higashino books there (but not the newer ones). Did get another horror manga lol...

My brother wanted to buy a new pair of slippers/sandals (he wanted something very specific. It's something like sandals that can easily be converted into slippers) so he went to Skechers. Asked for another size of slippers he was interested in and when she got back - according to my brother, since I didn't witness it myself - the salesperson just threw the slippers at him (I guess she did it very rudely). In the beginning, she was already acting indifferent to him - he can overlook that. But throwing the slippers was the last straw so... he didn't buy anything from there. In the end, he found a pair he liked at Metrojaya.

Oh yeah, also went to eat at Teochew Chendul. Tried their Penang White Curry Mee(hoon) and I think I like it...? 


So... updates for some stuff. 

I've been organising things in my room. Just not the shelf I'm supposed to organise.

LOL

I mean... it happens. You plan to do A but you do Z in the end. 

...I still have time though so maybe it can still be done :P

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Reading progress is... slow. I'm very invested in "Silent Parade" at this moment so I'm like not reading anything else until this gets finished. The problem is... I procrastinate reading so I'm still not done XD... 

Been watching "Romantic Killer" on Netflix recently. Not finished yet but I'm enjoying it so far (it's hilarious!). The otome gaming/dating sim stuff is so relatable because I always see similar stuff in my games. 

Haven't caught up with newer episodes of "SPY x FAMILY". I started re-watching from the beginning again on Netflix and... you guessed it... I barely make any progress with it. 

Tried accessing the [main] drive C from the old computer and couldn't find some files (aka my collection of digital piano sheets *saaad*)... man, that hard disk is so bad. I mean, I tried using Recuva with it and saw many Microsoft stuff (I assume the important ones) got overwritten by other data... So my pdf files probably ended up the same way :(   I'm so sad.... But at least I got most of my phone screenshots (and my IrfanView batch setting files!!! OMG these are so important because I've found the best crop settings and I forgot to backup the numbers in my Keep~)

Let me just list out some things I forgot to include in my posts this week:

...That's all, for now. 

Maybe because we were out for hours, I was so dead tired and somewhat dehydrated when we reached home. 

...also went to City Mall, because it was raining in the afternoon (my mother's reason XD). Of course I had to go to Popular lol.. Found more Japanese light novels that were translated to Malay. Also purchased another horror manga, three TSGS books and two books from the bargain corner (again, I forgot what the term they used for this).

I don't know when I'll read them (as usual), but I'll read them... eventually. Some of these sound perfect for my flower-picking trips.

Nothing really... just another day dealing with annoying neighbours~

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Received this today. 

"Drowned Ammet". Another book from DWJ's The Dalemark Quartet series. I just need one more ("The Crown of Dalemark") to complete the series (the owning part, not the reading part lol).

I can start reading this actually since the book I don't have is the last one in the series. Surprisingly, I now have an almost complete series of this. Years before this, I was worried because I always thought I need to get all at once (so it would be more expensive to buy)... Getting them one by one is a great idea! Anyway, if I can't find it on Shopee I can just use Book Depository later (since it's only one book).

Still having a slow reading day (weekend?). I might need some help....

Maybe I'll get some reading done today...

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Bonus pic for today. New book. Not mine though. My mother bought this recently during a work trip. She even got it signed by the person this book is based on. Very cool!

Might read it later. Not really a frequent reader of non-fiction books but when the subject is something I'm interested in, I will read them. The only problem is I become a moodier reader when it comes to non-fiction - the mood swings are pretty bad - and can take longer time to finish them. Which is, on second thought, fine either way (even if it takes years)... but the probability of me to DNF books might be higher for non-fiction. I think this is where the reading schedule generator will be very useful.

Made this post at 9-10am and forgot to post lol

Water was fine when I took a shower but apparently it's gone again (night?). Did manage to do laundry though and the sun was so strong today (I even experienced a bit headache after going out to get the dried laundry).

Didn't really do any reading at all *sigh*

Also... Just finished an Indonesian horror movie with my sister. "Jaga Pocong". Kind of loved the vibe. When it became clear what it's about, I actually got reminded of a similar movie "The Skeleton Key". Got excited about it and almost spoiled the story to my sister when I asked if she watched it before (she haven't). Will re-watch the movie with her if it's available again.

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This morning, a close family member just informed in our family Whatsapp group that he's positive for COVID-19. He's working from home so he thought he probably caught it when he went out to buy food. 

HAAAAAH

This is the first time this happened to an immediate family member. He's vaccinated and boosted so I think he'll be okay. But... honestly, this makes me don't want to get out of the house more. I don't trust... people. I don't want to get back to that normal situation where you shake hands with people like crazy. I've expressed this in a post before the pandemic was even official. Now if I really have to get out, I will be rude and refuse your handshakes.

Anyway, watch out for yourself and maybe... don't be too positive (no pun intended), stay a bit conservative about the idea of getting out and travelling... I know people is hard to control especially it's like they just "got out of cage" and in "back to [old] normal, baby~~!!!" mentality. Well, you don't need to listen to me really - who am I to you anyway, right? - I just wish that you'll think twice and be prepared for the worst if you're going to take the risk. 

Take care.

...and don't shake hands with me.

Started binge-watching "3 A.M. Bangkok Ghost Stories" series with my sister. I saw the movie anthology version ones before... this series version seems like a breakdown (into episodes) of that and some stories I don't remember watching. It's still good as I remembered! I've always loved the plot twists in the movies.

So... I mentioned watching less horror stuff but that didn't really happen :P

I made a jar for those movies (just the alphabets and numbers) so it has been quite fun discovering nice horror movies with my sister. Also got my "obsession" for deadly/survival games movies from getting "X" from the jar. Still crazy about this sub-genre. Last I watched that I enjoyed were the Escape Room movies.. reminded me a bit of those Cube movies (ahhh I also want to re-watch those/watch the newer ones).

I think I got used to watching horror movies/TV series from watching people play horror games on Youtube. So... I guess it doesn't only apply to those who play them? Even those who regularly watch those gameplays can become "immune" to horror movies...?

Anyway.. I also like mystery/thriller movies so I've been trying to watch those in between horror movies to make it balanced.

Met two of my aunts (their respective spouses included). And one cousin during lunch. It went surprisingly normal okay. I didn't lose my cool(?) or anything even though I forgot to bring hand sanitizer (we shook hands and hugged... PROGRESS! *I'm never going out again!*)... Experienced headache on the way home because I didn't consume any caffeine today (...not a fan of taking toilet breaks during a long car ride). 

I wish to finish "Inkdeath" today (or tomorrow?).

It finally rained at night. Last week we had some really hot days. I know it was really, really hot 'cos I got these rashes under my chin (on my chin?) and upper neck (quite itchy). Just because I went outside to get the laundry. My sister has been under the weather since last week (she's quite sensitive with hot weather). So.... we will live like vampires for the next few days XD.

Received something nice via mail today. 

It was actually pretty funny so I won't be mad if you laughed/are laughing XD... This is actually very common for me. The door knob to my room will break once every few years. Usually I'm outside of my room when it happens. This time, I'm trapped inside. 

Because of that, I went to sleep very late - the whole morning - while leaving the curtain a bit open (since it's already morning). Woke up around 1pm. Hours and hours later I realised how itchy my ears were. Looked into the mirror and saw they were red... including the central area of my face (cheeks and nose). My sister thought I had an allergic reaction. Remembering how I left the curtain open before, I'm also thinking that I might have just got a sunburn. Which is crazy if it's really that. But not farfetched because the sunlight did feel kind of strong when I was outside getting the laundry after I woke up.

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I've been cleaning... okay, maybe not that.. more like I've been sweeping and changing the bedsheet etc in my sister's room today because she'll be returning home. She picked up beading last year and I found so many of those tiny beads on the floor. I don't really have a point to make here lol.. only that it reminded me of my books being basically everywhere in my room. 

Now I'm sleepy. Not sure if I'm going to read books tonight. I feel more like playing games (yes, even though I'm sleepy haha) or watching something on Youtube.