Chia Yi

Me:
I want to start playing LaDS but I might not have enough time to login everyday. Will the guys die if I don’t login consistently?

Husband:
…they are not tamagotchi…

Me:
Oh great phew (has killed way too many virtual pets for forgetting about them).

Laughters aside (at my quite unnecessary side quest), so glad that patients can order whatever they feel like eating and it will be modified to the consistency safest for them after dysphagia assessments.

No sacrificing taste and quality of life for oral safety.

a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a vest Alt: a bald man wearing a plaid shirt and a vest looking perplexed

Me:
Painstakingly modifying the hospital’s western menu like spaghetti, baked potatoes, grilled chicken etc to IDDSI dysphagia-friendly meals

Patients:
Orders mostly from the asian menu of chicken with goji berries and steamed fish with cordyceps etc

Me:

Hospital-based SLT’s morning be like:
- look at list of cases in the system
- calls food service to order food for meal observations and swallowing assessments, realising that we have “steamed fish slices with ginger and goji berries” today on the menu WOW 😯

To many safer oral meals today ✨

Working with a child with misophonia recently and I can’t wait to learn how we can include games too😍

PS: from low vision, hearing, to ADHD and many more, I’ve always told the husband that in another life (if I’m not an SLT), I’d like to be a game developer working to make games more accessible ✨

From item highlights (thick outline) to keyboard-only input, had a nice chat with the gamedevs about accessibility features and how this could be a nice ice breaking game to practice communication skills too.

Thank you for making it possible for everyone to game 🎮✨

Screenshot from the game Duo Quest. It says “bond broken” and a red restart button.

Screenshot from the game Duo Quest. It says: Thank you for playing Duo Quest! We hope you enjoyed the experience. If you liked our game, please Wishlist us on Steam and join our Discord! The game isn't over yet. you can now do more runs with the new cards you've discovered.

Screenshot from the game Duo Quest! It shows two characters’ cards. Mine are all bonks and explosive.

Boardgame version of Duo Quest.

Played Duo Quest by @1plus1studios.bsky.social with the husband today (and we didn’t murder each other) 😌✨

Love the simple mechanics, cute art, whimsical music, and the option to build a deck of “no block, only bonk”.

We shouldn’t be asking Children of Deaf Adults (CODA) or children of immigrants/refugees to interpret and translate for their parents, especially in healthcare settings 😮‍💨🥲

Yesssss 😂 main quest long forgotten lol

Was in the husband’s hometown last weekend and we were driving by a place when the husband introduced:

Him: I used to come here for the methadone clinic.

Me: 👀

Him: … I was attached to the clinic; not for the services.

And farming/fishing/gathering 💯

Screenshot of two games on steam. The top is clair obscur: expedition 33 at RM125.10 The bottom is Upon & Ipin Universe at RM177.39

In case you need to buy a game with:
- stunning art
- banging soundtrack
- great narrative about living and navigating grief with loved ones whilst holding safe space and be graceful to yourself in difficult times

…it’s the cheaper of this two 😌

Screenshot from Stardew Valley where a grandpa lays in bed peacefully with a smile. The text reads: There will come a day when you feel crushed by the burden of modern life…

I have once again decided to run away from Modern World Responsibilities and go inherit my fictional grandpa’s farm:

Me playing Isekai ya with a mouse. The screen shows a cooking simulation with cute graphics.

Oh yes, also met @ivanhlb.bsky.social who’s also in healthcare and making Isekai-ya 😋 so happy to talk about high contrast colours, designs, and texts presentation that help supports visual disabilities ✨

Thank you for sharing your game with the world. Can’t wait to play more!

As someone NOT from the gaming industry, I sat there listening to speakers talking about the struggles in developing/publishing games. The uncertainty, anxiety, stress etc

So I sit in my healthcare industry, thinking:
Creative jobs are so difficult I wouldn’t be able to do it 😮‍💨

Display of Sedap game on a screen.

Also finally got to try @kopiforge.bsky.social ‘s Sedap 🍴

Adorable art, delicious (and familiar) dishes, and chaotic chopping 😆 can’t wait to play more of the game. Thank youuuu for the cute stickers too!

Yiing Y’ng standing at the rostrum speaking. Her slide reads: Indie Jam Perceptions of local culture in games Ng yiing y’ng Lecturer University of Wollongong Malaysia

Me and Yiing Y’ng standing next to each other smiling.

Here at Indie Jam to support @yyng7.bsky.social and her impactful PhD findings ✨

Learned so much from her work on cultural representation in games and how developers can move forward in balancing mechanics and platforming our local cultures and stories.

Two panel drawing of a rabbit and a hedgehog in a hospital corridor. The top panel shows a bunny lost in the way. The texts read: covering other hospital as MCO extends so I now spend time along the corridors getting lost. The speech bubble reads: where is this ward? The bottom panel shows a hedgehog showing the bunny the way. The texts reads: here’s to knowing where all the wards are sooner The speech bubbles read: Go through here Thank you, bye ❤️

So many people using genAI art and I’m just here reposting my old scribbles of the husband showing me where the wards were in his hospital when I was covering it during the peak of covid lockdown.

Pen, notebook paper, and badly drawn bunny + hedgehog ❤️

Will it ever be too much BG3? 😆

PS: I collected the names of all these kind people and wrote them a gratitude note in the government system. This will not increase their pay (it should) or anything but at least, their kindness should be seen and acknowledged.

Link:
moh.spab.gov.my/eApps/system...

So ever grateful for all our amazing staff on the ground. From the kind security officer, the registration counter staff, to the audiologist who patiently addressed my dad’s concerns:

Thank you for the kindest, warmest Malaysian public healthcare experience ❤️

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Dad chose the one he felt most comfortable acoustically and we signed the JPA application form to apply his hearing aids through his pensioner status.

No next appointment given yet. We’ll be notified when the application is processed. All done within 2 hours.

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His audiologist asked him to walk around the clinic to have a feel of the different sound quality. We went to the noisiest place in the hospital & I tried some Ling 6 sounds with him.

We tried listening to music, phone calls, watching his grandkids’ (my nephews’ videos) etc

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Forgot to update here too but:
2 months later, we went for the hearing aids trial appointment at the hospital 🦻✨

Dad got to try out 3 different brands of hearing aids (I forgot to take photo of the other one 😅).

1/4

My mum when I was 7:
It’s your birthday - the time to be grateful to all your blessings. Let’s pick a cause (eg homelessness, HIV etc) you want to learn more and we go visit them to find out how to best support them.

My mum when my nephew turns 7:
Let’s go genting theme park 🎢

I love watching the husband play #Hades2 and learning about Greek myth through all the small little nuggets of clues peppered in dialogues and incredible art/design whilst I snicker knowingly next to him having read the books 🤭

Yes, we’re the stereotypical gamer/reader couple 📚

I’ve bought every single soundtrack and have loved every one of them! Thank you for making amazing music ❤️

“I’d die for you.”

“Ya, but would you stay active, stop smoking, eat well, see a therapist/counsellor, change your worldviews and learn more about being kind to others and yourself… for me? For love?”

Dying for love is easy.

Living for love:
making conscious effort to exercise, eat well, get mental health support, loving yourself, honouring others etc

That’s the hardest bit.
Happy Valentine’s to mine ❤️

Totally agree 💯
The husband knows I don’t like surprises so i’ve always chose my own birthday gift and I’d ask him what he wants + link to purchase/specific model so he gets exactly what he wants.

It’s a type of “love” that works for us.