The Road to 40 Day 164/365: Holed-up Monday

It’s a holiday in Singapore, and we had plans to maybe go out to enjoy holiday things. However, planning and doing are two different things.

There were plenty of dishes to be washed and trash to be taken out, and it was today me’s problem already. I got up a bit late at around 9:30am to clean up the evidence of a gathering the night before.

I didn’t prepare breakfast, because I didn’t know what time Che and Vino would choose to get up. It was a bright idea as Vino came up to me at around 11am, while Che pulled herself out of bet closer to noon.

Vino asked to play 99 Nights in the Forest. There’s a new update where you can now tame animals to be your companion and a Trick or Treat thing at night time. He commented that the developers are really quick to make updates on the game, and they’re all good.

He’s played a lot of Roblox games, and he’s seen plenty of updates and a lot of games that have stayed the same. Not all updates make games good though, which is why he was wondering how 99 Nights devs can get it right every single time.

Che prepared brunch, as we had plenty of frozen things in our fridge. It would be our sustenance for the day instead of deliveries, which felt like we were camping at home.

Apart from last-minute packing, we also binge-watched our latest K-Drama, Bon Appetit, Your Majesty.

I don’t like watching period dramas because I feel like it’s weird, same with outdated movies or series. Considering modern solutions, it makes me think that they are only looking for non-issues to solve.

Case in point, in a period drama, they would talk about meeting somewhere at a particular time. Then some incident happens like one of their parents suddenly collapsed, which leads to the meeting not happening. The other party would then take it the wrong way and overthink things.

It could easily be solved by a simple phone call. I know that we did live in times like those where cellphones did not exist. However, now that there are, I just feel like it’s making problems out of nothing.

Another thing is that period dramas all have the same theme – King is usually oblivious to the fact that there are evil ministers, falls for a girl who sees him for him and not as king, Queen Dowager tries to control King, and there’s always plans to overthrow the king. I daresay it’s an easy formula to use when making a K-Drama.

The make-up, while accurate, makes it difficult for me to recognize actors I’ve watchced before. The ministers’ demeanor, again while accurate, is always irritating, especially how they try to pander superiors,

I’m not saying this series doesn’t have it as well, but what makes it enjoyable is the plot that the female protagonist came from 2025 and is a Michelin-starred chef. It’s fun seeing how she can pull off modern dishes with fresh, natural ingredients, and using ancient-era cookery.

Suddenly, it was about 4pm already, with plenty of clothes to fold and a lot of episodes to watch. Needless to say, we weren’t going out of the house this day.

While folding clothes, I looked for something that Vino could watch and ended up with Seelook on Netflix. I saw cute seals and thought he might like it.

It turned out that I liked it a lot. It’s a Korean-made 3D cartoon, made by Pinkfong and another company. It looks similar to Larva, but less gross. When he was younger, Vino loved watching Larva, but like I said, it can be a bit gross sometimes.

Like Larva, Seelook doesn’t have dialogues, but it’s just funny. Vino and I were laughing so hard together while we watched the short episodes. Right now, there’s 10 episodes of 10 minutes each. Each episode had like 2-3minute snippets that are just pure mindless fun. But from what I read, the creators took their time to research seals in the wild, so while funny, there are parts where it’s nature-accurate.

We enjoyed it so much that we started looking at installations around Korea that featured Sealook, but I didn’t find one.

The next few days will be a challenge for the blog, as we will be on vacation and I’m not sure where to squeeze in the blog-writing time. It has to happen somehow.