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It's been a long while since I've last completed reading a book in its entirety but "The good, the bad and the PSLE: trails of an almost kiasu mother" by Monica Lim had me hooked from page one and I completed it in a single day. I did not know that we have such talented writers in our little island and in this book, Monica Lim takes a light hearted look at the stresses of surviving the Singapore education system through the eyes of Ling, a typical Singaporean mum, with her two children who are as different as night and day. The copy I picked up from the local library is the paper back edition by Epigram Books and the font used was nice and large with good spacing, making for easy reading. I also loved the style of writing used, with simple and short sentences in keeping with the light hearted tone throughout. The section on Ling's family trip to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea was especially lovely as it describes my own experiences much better I could have ev...

With the release of FFXV, I dug up my old copy of Final Fantasy VIII for the PC to reminisce on the good old days and boy was Triple Triad (TT) rules a pain to manage. Why bother with TT? The real rewards for it are on disc 4 when you want to power up your characters, assuming you have completed the CC group side quest. From Vilurum on GameFAQs : Your most time-efficient sources of each stat-up are as follows, so without being able to multitask as you'd hoped, you should really only focus on the Minotaur, Eden, and Irvine cards: HP Up: Buy 100 Giant's Rings, GFAbl Med-RF to 10 Gaea's Rings, Forbid Med-RF to 10 HP Ups. (This is faster than refining Ward's card 3⅓ for 10 HP Ups.) Str Up: Mod Eden's card for 3 Monk's Codes, Forbid Med-RF to 3 Str Ups, reclaim from left Diamond. (Better card to Str Up exchange rate than you get with Zell's card.) Vit Up: Mod Minotaur's card for 10 Adamantines, Forbid Med-RF to 2 Vit Ups, reclaim from left Diamond...