Once upon a time, Irfan enrolled into a course at a Polytechnic here in Perlis. Today, nearly four years later, he graduated. I am and will always be proud of him and his achievements. It’s not evident, but the three of us have always been saddled with one handicap or […]
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MASAGA Mini Six Session: The Egypt Interception
During my MASAGA 2024 talk I ran a demo session of Mini Six RPG for the attendees. This was the first time I ran a game for a huge group that were not my colleagues, people I previously knew or my students. Being a mix of educators, trainers and researchers, […]
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MASAGA 2024
And so it came to pass that I attended the 4th Malaysian Simulation And Gaming Conference (MASAGA) 2024 at The Everly Putrajaya Hotel as a representative of UniMAP. Accordia Training and Development organised the conference. A couple of months ago, Mr. Jegatheeswana Manoharan of Accordia invited me to speak as […]
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Impending MASAGA 2024 Talk
As you can read in the poster above I am due to talk at Malaysian Simulation And Gaming (MASAGA) 2024. This is the first time I’ll be speaking at a conference. The talk will be held at The Everly Hotel, Putrajaya. The title of my talk on the poster […]
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A 22nd Birthday
Has it been 22 years since I took a photo of the little baby with the 5th edition Call of Cthulhu RPG rulebook? Next month, it would be time for his convocation at the polytechnic. Next year, he’s leaving for a bachelor’s degree programme away. Time flies really fast.
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TTRPGs at Kota Kayang Museum Soon?
Muzium Kota Kayang, located not far away from Kuala Perlis, is a museum that is part of the Department of Museums Malaysia. I have posted about weapons at the museum before. Today, I had a meeting with its director to propose tabletop role-playing game on behalf of UniMAP as a […]
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A Mini Six Adventure At A SMSTSP
After some weeks of planning (and last minute frenzied preparation) the TTRPG Programme at SMSTSP went forward yesterday, between 9am to just after 12pm. I had Irfan with me as photographer and videographer, and my facilitators were Mdm Syafawati and Mdm Yuziana. After some time considering it, I had decided […]
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Welcome to the Family, Mysti
It has been two months and I have not posted about our new family member. Young Mysti, as she is named by Irfan, is a stray kitten who appeared in Atok and Opah’s house and refused to leave the yard. She took shelter under the heavy foliage around the house, […]
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Year Zero Mini with the Faculty
After submitting the proposal for the Bengkel Permainan Lipur Lara untuk Pengajaran & Pembelajaran (TTRPGs in Teaching and Learning Workshop) programme, I organised the event and ran it for six participants today. I have organised a number of programmes for my colleagues before, but this was somewhat new as the […]
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TTRPGs At A Secondary School Next Month
The last time I contacted the secondary school SMS Tuanku Syed Putra was when we had the SCALLOP event a couple of years ago. Since then, I had been very busy with being course coordinator and my free time went out the window. That was among the reasons why the […]
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Delta Green: Sentinels of Twilight
SPOILERS for the scenario SENTINELS OF TWILIGHT now collected in the book Operation FULMINATE These notes were recovered on August 13, 2024, in a 5 year old thumb drive. Cooper – Dan Palmer – Doug Luna – Hisham Note: Originally, the scenario Sentinels of Twilight is part of the Operation […]
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Delta Green: Viscid
SPOILERS for the scenario VISCID now collected in the book A NIGHT AT THE OPERA. These notes were recovered on August 12, 2024. The medium on which the notes were transcribed has been classified TOP SECRET. Cooper – Dan Palmer – Doug Sale – Hisham From Caleb Sale’s journal: After […]
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Wangsa Maju Nuptials
Last year, they came to visit us here. This weekend, we visited them in KL for a wedding celebration. We stayed overnight at Taman Melawati, not too far from the Tenth Floor — remember the Tenth Floor? We inspected all the new features of the area, a pronounced difference from […]
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Coordinating Courses and Such
Five semesters ago I was appointed as course coordinator for my English for General Communication course. I don’t think I ever announced it on the blog. I had to coordinate the every semester course which entails ensuring course slides are copacetic, the instructors in my team have optimal scheduling, manual […]
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It’s Still Humans That Will Get You
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” – Reverend Mother Gaius Helen Mohiam Dune (1965), Frank Herbert
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TTRPG News Malaysia, May 2024
More TTRPG news! Besides the Star Wars Day Learn-to-Play and GM Star Wars RPG Workshop at Here Be Dragons My on May the Fourth, there are a couple of notable events that are happening in the world of Tabletop games in Kuala Lumpur in coming weeks. International Tabletop Day First […]
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