In the news this week...
http://youtu.be/NDS81Ibazdk
But seriously, where were his female bodyguards????
Just got a free copy of Renegade Ops from a friend who bought a 4-pack on Steam.
I didn't even know that game existed until he gave it to me because I don't really go out of my way to keep myself updated on the latest games.
My knowledge of new games these days are really limited to the Steam Store page, my personal experience and random chatter on the Internet. No game review shows or magazines or whatever.
Looks interesting.
It seems to be an action game kinda like Alien Swarm except the players here control vehicles instead of people and the enemies are not aliens.
The Necropolis in HoMM VI is not really my style. This race truly excels in attrition warfare but I prefer something faster.
Necropolis cities can build a structure that stores the dead Undeads the player lost in battles within the last 3 days (or more when more than one of that structure is built). The player can then buy them back at a higher cost than usual before they expire.
Expensive, but in the long term, nothing can beat an evergrowing army that has had zero casualty in the entire game.
The problem with Necropolis is that the top tier unit, the Fate Weaver is rather unimpressive. Sure it's powerful and it's got 2 forms that it can switch to and fro, but the abilities of both forms have melee range.
Maybe it's because I've been using it the wrong way. Perhaps I should see it as a melee unit with a secondary ranged attack instead of a ranged unit with melee defense.
So I've made a rough estimate on my family total expenditure based on the box of cash we take from plus the bank statements I've been looking at.
I've been noticing these numbers only because I've been handling almost everything at home, excluding only laundry and part of the grocery shopping.
Laundry sucks because I don't really have a choice as to when I can do it. When my bro needs clean clothes, we have to start the washing machine. Once the machine's done, we must hang them or else they get very wrinkly after a few hours.
So my bro does it. He's the one who needs clean clothes most often. I go around topless all the time at home.
As for grocery shopping, he and his girlfriend goes to a nearby mall a lot for dinner whenever I'm eating leftover dinner from previous nights (I'm the sort of guy who prefers to cook too much and not risk having too little for dinner) because there usually isn't enough leftovers for more than one.
Since they visit the mall, they can buy things that I can't get in my neighbourhood, mainly because most stalls in the wet market are closed in the afternoon, the only time I go there.
This means I can't get meat and coffee. Coffee is not a problem because I grew up on instant, and fresh coffee is more of a luxury IMO. Meat, on the other hand, is a problem.
I could get from the 24/7 Shop N Save but only rarely. There are plenty of people around here who are lazy like me but not to my degree, so they get out too late to buy from the wet market but early enough to buy up all the meat from the Shop N Save.
There is a catch though - my bro is new to this, just like I was a few months ago. He's made several mistakes like buying a bottle of oyster sauce that's sweet instead of salty and it's scallop-flavoured, and another time he bought 6 packets of chicken breasts when I asked for 6 pieces of them.
The latter wasn't really his fault. I didn't know the NTUC there only sold entire breasts and I had expected them to sell those narrow strips instead.
Just like the mistakes I made before, we can afford to make these mistakes. The oyster sauce problem can be dealt with by remembering to add more salt and less of it when I cook, and the chicken breasts... were completely gone within 4 days.
I think I'll just get him to keep buying chicken breasts in those amounts. His gf apparently loves chicken breasts, so they use it whenever they cook.
They used 2 packets out of the 6. I cooked the other 4. 3 packets for 2 dinners for all of us and 1 for my own consumption. Baked a breast in basil and garlic the other day. Since I wrapped it in foil as usual, it was more like steaming.
I'd like to think that cooking dinner (plus a second meal) almost everyday is keeping my expenditure down. On the other hand, I splurge a lot on transport for my job since my office is pretty inconveniently located. Not the Tuas sort of bad, but still requires one bus transfer. Moreover I've to travel to the buyers and I cannot be late for those appointments.
Employees being late for work is not as bad as me being late for a buyer's appointment. The employees may get some form of punishment at most, but that's nowhere as bad as giving a client a bad impression of me. My livelihood pretty much depends on their impressions of me after all.
I think I'm getting the hang of this family feeding business. If that isn't true, at least I'm now confident I can survive a long time without buying cooked food from outside.
Probably because I just learnt that browning the imitation crab sticks beforehand really improves the flavour. I believe I can survive a long time on that fried crab sticks stir fried with random vegetables.
I feel that it's time we spend a bit more and call for some deliveries sometimes. Not fast food.
Just found this flyer at my gate from this Hot & Spicy Nasi Lemak Family Restaurant. It probably just opened an outlet nearby.
The prices listed are actually quite decent. It looks like we'll get much more from this than even KFC, which is the cheapest fast food with delivery service in my area.
They aren't cheap but they're still cheaper than many other delivery options.
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