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Finding a suitable job role is like playing a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG)

When I was a playful kid spending carefree days at school

When I was a kid mainly still in school, I enjoyed playing MMORPG as I loved the fantasy of being able to select different jobs before stepping into the real world of work. It was a carefree time spending endless hours in the game FLYFF becoming any character one wished. In the game, everyone starts off as a vagrant and when we reach level 15 we can choose our job class. There are four classes namely acrobat, assist, magician or mercenary. When we reach level 60 we can choose to branch further into different job classes like the jester and ranger if you are an acrobot.

I find that even though it is just a simulation of choosing a role, it gave a good preparation of what I will have to do in the real world of choosing a job role. In the fantasy MMORPG, we had to slay monsters to protect the fantasy land of Madrigal. When I started my character at level 1 as a vagrant, I had to choose 4 different job classes and I felt that I could not settle for one as I liked all job classes.

As we were given a few slots for our character choice, I ended up creating a second or third character so I could try out the other roles like the magician or assist.

Character’s Job Role

This reflected my path in my career as I had to face decisions to take on different roles like a teacher. It was like being a magician which required making magic happen when you had to cast psychological spells to slay the monsters. It required a slightly different skillset from that of an assist in the game which required one to be a healer and experienced the power to heal characters that died. This kind of parallels my role in healthcare where we had to use healing hands to heal the sick metaphorically.

For the role of the mercenery, the characters used the sword more and somehow I knew I did not like the role as much as the magician and assist. Whenever, I had to create another character, I had to start from vagrant at level 1 again . It felt refreshing as you get to use different skillset and conquer the monsters in the same territory.

Playing the game🎯

Somehow, across all job classes, all characters have to slay the same monsters to advance up the levels. We have to do our best to keep our health points so that we will not die. It is not easy as we have to slay both the monsters and keep consuming health pills so that our characters can keep grinding and successfully conquer the monsters. What was interesting was that we needed to make sure that we do not end up getting killed by the giant monsters in each level.

FLY FOR FUN

According to FLYFF website, what is fun about the game is as follows:

In the world of Flyff, everything you’ve imagined becomes a reality. You can fly the vast sky using various mounts, everything from brooms to cars. It’s a world of dream and fantasy of fighting the monsters that disturb the peace of the continent of Madrigal! Enjoy the wonderful adventures of the world of Flyff.

Three reasons why an agile mindset is important in the VUCA world?

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In my previous blog post, I shared my understanding of the webinar on how to go from a poor to agile mindset. I have summarized the few reasons why the agile mindset is important for leaders.

The problem lies in frame of mind and there needs to be a transformation of thoughts, emotions and action. Hence the need for an agile mindset where they need to change their way of thinking and start on a completely different path.

Three reasons why we need to grow an agile mindset

I would like to elaborate on the three reasons we can grow the agile mindset so we can face the volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world. For some background on what the VUCA is, I wrote a previous blog post on the characteristics of the VUCA world and how it impact work. https://jeroybrighterfuture.school.blog/2021/09/21/four-characteristics-of-the-vuca-world-and-how-it-impacts-work/.

(1) Creative Destruction

Back in the 1970’s, companies on the S&P index, the average company lifespan last from 30 to 35 years before they go out of business. The prediction is that in the 2020s where we exist right now, company’s lifespan is shortening by 15 to 20 years. Company’s lifespan is shrinking and this process is called creative destruction. Causes of creative destruction include technology and innovation making certain processes irrelevant resulting in firm closure. Entire industries can merge and you can see hybrid models in digital healthcare or retail and entertainment, transport and fuel.

According to Innosights, there are three factors that can help companies thrive across different sectors. The factors are that they are digital, sustainable and play to core strengths to allow them to catch the market trends and seize opportunities. There are some interesting mergers and acquisitions like Air Asia has acquired Gojek operations to launch a super app.

(2) Changes in the workforce

Different generations have different needs and wants. In order to thrive as a leader in this multi-generational workforce, you need to understand the different needs and wants. According to Gallup, they have found four things. Gen Z and the millennials want employees to care about their well being and are ethical. The older millennials want their leaders to have open communication style. Younger millennials and Gen Z want diverse and inclusive workplace. Across all the generation, they want employers to care about them.

(3) Skills and attitudes gap

We live in an era of double destruction caused by automation and Covid-19. Destruction by technology is not new as it has been happening for years but with the impact of the pandemic we can see the real extent on the labour market where jobs are disappearing faster than they are created. Although many people are now returning to work the experts are not expecting numbers to return to pre-pandemic levels.

The good thing is that there are new jobs emerging and there are opportunities. To take on these opportunities, the workforce need different skills. There are new jobs with hybrid industries. UOB did a survey where 9 in 10 people think they need upskilling and reskilling in order to stay competitive. Many expect digitalization and retrenchment to take place.

Conclusion

To conclude, we need to embrace the agile mindset for three reasons. First, the shrinking lifespans of companies. Second, the different needs of the multi-generational workforce. Third, skills and attitudes gap. According to Mckinsey, there are 56 DELTAS associated with better outcomes in employment, higher incomes and job satisfaction in the future of work. The 56 DELTAS are grouped under 4 categories which is cognitive, interpersonal, self-leadership and digital. As manual jobs are disappearing, it is the advanced cognitive skills that people need.

2 Things you can remember from the webinar

To sum up, there are two things that one can take from the short course and that is coping with uncertainty and self-confidence. These two traits emerged more than once for employability, income and job satisfaction. If you are thrown in any situation, the agile mindset will help you gain ease and authenticity.

Improve your life by going from poor to agile mindset in the VUCA world

I managed to get a badge for attending an agile mindset webinar by Chuen Chuen. Many times I have wondered what is agile and how does it improve the lives of people around the world? This time, I am glad that I can attend a webinar from a highly experience coach with real world experience in dealing with hundreds of leaders around the world. Learning from such a successful coach in the Linkedin world, I am glad that I managed to complete my course and get my credentials for Agile Thinking and Leadership after answering the few questions for my course. I am going to share my answers here to summarize my key takeaways from the fruitful session.

Name a few reasons why the agile mindset is important for today’s leaders

First, some leaders are stuck with a poor mindset of scarcity where life is a race where you need to get to the top of the ladder faster than anybody else. Next, they are not good team players and these are not good qualities like possessing a competitive and suspicious side. Third, some leaders need a good frame of mind like a full reset as they have self doubts and confidence issues. The problem lies in frame of mind and there needs to be a transformation of thoughts, emotions and action. Hence the agile mindset where they need to change their way of thinking and start on a completely different path.

Name the three steps in ACESENCE’s proven process that help leaders grow the agile mindset/agility.

First, the use of metaphors and question where it becomes a powerful process. This is where you use metaphors in a specific way such as to unveil and surface new perspective. You can consider new perspective where you are able to decide which one serves you best. There is an effect of using metaphors on people’s thinking. Mindsets can easily become agile if you invest in the right processes over time. Thus, you need to regularly invite metaphors into the thinking process and disrupt the automatic thinking process.

Second, you need to combine metaphors with powerful questions so these can reframe, expand your thinking and reflect on your reality and thinking about your thinking or metacognition.

Third, reflect on your paradoxes where you feel uneasy. This is when your head is saying something but your heart is saying something else. Or perhaps you feel stuck as all the options feel correct.

We shared five inner voices at the training. Which one resonated with you the most? Explain

I believe that I resonate with the developer. This inner voice I believe help others to grow and succeed. Life becomes meaningful when we grow as developer and serve others where we need to pass on the flame and lighting other people’s fire. This is where we see ourselves growing human potential. These voice helps us become more aware and help us turn the lens from looking in to looking out. I have mainly resonated with these traits having served the less advantaged and needy in my community involvement service job in the past. In the present I think as a teacher I often have to develop the individual potential of my students by finding the right coaching and so motivating them to excel.

What’s one practical step you’d like to take to begin growing an agile mindset?

Using metaphors and paradoxes for story telling more in my lesson planning as well as my writing on Linkedin and blogs. As a teacher, I believe that I have been interested in the potential of my students as I often develop their interest in metaphors and answering questions too.

Four characteristics of the VUCA world and how it impacts work

Previously, I wrote an article “How Powerful are our thoughts?”. I wrote about the characteristics of the VUCA world. I believe that an individual’s thoughts are powerful in determining our success and lessen our suffering when searching for a job in today’s volatile, uncertain, uncertain and ambiguous (VUCA) world. I focused on the characteristics of volatility and connected it with the imagination. I would like to share more on the the four characteristics, example and approach according to the Harvard Business Review.

Volatility

Characteristics: The challenge is unexpected or unstable and may be of unknown duration, but it’s not necessarily hard to understand; knowledge about it is often available.

Example: Prices fluctuate after a natural disaster takes a supplier off-line.

Approach: Build in slack and devote resources to preparedness – for instance, stockpile inventory or overbuy talent. These steps are typically expensive; your investment should match the risk.

Uncertainty

The characteristics of uncertainty means that despite a lack of other information, the event’s basic cause and effect are known. Change is possible but not a given.

Example: A competitor’s pending product launch muddies the future of the business and the market.

Approach: Invest in information – collect, interpret and share it. The works best in conjunction with structural changes, such as adding informational analysis networks, that can reduce ongoing uncertainty.

Complexity

Characteristics: The situation has many interconnected parts and variables. Some information is available and can be predicted, but the volume or nature of it can be overwhelming to process.

Example: You are doing business in many countries, all with unique regulatory environments, tariffs, and cultural values.

Approach: Restructure, bring on or develop specialists, and build up resources adequate to address the complexity.

Ambiguity

Characteristics: Causal relationships are completely unclear. No precedents exist; you face “unknown unknowns.”

Example: You decide to move into immature or emerging markets or to launch products outside your core competencies.

Approach: Experiment. Understanding cause and effect requires generating hypotheses and testing them. Design your experiments so that lessons learned can be broadly applied.

Three ways to respond correctly to a mental health crisis with confidence

I recently read an article on suicide and mental health awareness. There are 452 cases of suicide in 2020 showing an increasing number from the year 2016 at 429 cases. “Awareness of the warning signs and not dismissing concerns are the first steps in helping someone who might have suicidal thoughts, experts have told CNA. With the research data done over the years, I am not immune to the effects of suicide in the community.When it comes to encountering persons with suicidal thoughts due to the nature of the professional relationship formed, I am placed in a position of having to respond appropriately.

Mental Health of my clients

In my recent memory, working in a healthcare setting encountering clients face to face, I do encounter family members of the medically ill seeking help for their suicidal ideation. They asked for my advice on how to seek help in this matter. Being in a position to lend a listening ear, I often do feel that as a neutral third party to the circumstances of the family I have to respond by listening, empathy and tact in handling such a difficult topic.

Still, suicide among my beneficiaries is not a main focus of my work in the community care sector but raising awareness of the financial healthcare schemes to alleviate the finances of being medically ill. I went for an external course on counselling and psychotherapy to understand the dynamics of human interaction in a face to face setting and how to respond in the right body language so that I can respond with sensitivity and tact whenever I am put in such a position. I wished I had a clearer guidelines to respond more appropriately to such a condition.

“The identification of risk factors of suicidality thus provides an opportunity to intervene early thereby lowering the risk of suicides in the population.” With this article’s stand on intervention, I am glad to have done a part on a daily basis to help families in distress by enabling them to access the financial and caregiving resources available.

As a teacher, I do encounter students who express suicide ideation due to the stress and pressures and exams and I often have to analyze how to reduce their intention to “jump down from my flat” if I fail etc. I think across the human lifespan whether they are children or elderly, they share similar human characteristics when faced with mental health distress.

Samaritans of Singapore

I do think that with the pandemic, mental health awareness is important. I am glad to know that the Samaritans of Singapore has done a study and found that it is important for more in the community to be equipped with the literacy of identifying signs of distress or crisis to be able to intervene early.

I would like to share Channel News Asia’s version of what one can do to help the suicidal and here are ways to respond appropriately.

(1) If someone displays warning signs or shares about their thoughts of suicide, we may get startled or react emotionally.

During that time, it is important to do the following:

Remain non-judgemental and show genuine concern. It can also mean providing support, such as a listening ear. Provide them with a safe space to share their thoughts and feelings.

(2) To know whether they are suicidal, ask directly if they are experiencing any suicidal thoughts and thinking of ending their life.

“Often people worry that asking such sensitive questions may make them feel worse. On the contrary, research shows that asking directly can reassure the person in distress that you are ready to have the difficult conversation with them and may be able to provide the much-needed support.”

(3) This is a belief that talking about suicide increases a person’s risk of suicide, but studies have shown that this is not true.

It is key to work to “dispel the myths that surround suicide” – by acknowledging that it is not a rare occurrence, and that talking about it does not lead to someone becoming suicidal. This is especially important as hopelessness is viewed as an important risk factor for suicide. The key message is that suicidal ideation is common, it is not something to be ashamed about, it is transient, and that help is available.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/suicide-mental-health-singapore-depression-help-sos-imh-2182036

Three reasons why you will like to upskill to improve your life

I enjoy learning a lot and have been awed by great lecturers since my younger days. Having graduated with a Philosophy degree, it did boost my presence in the workplace as I have been blessed with great colleagues who often time asked me why I love what I studied. I remembered catching up with another department colleague with multiple years of corporate communications experience who had to prepare news stories for the organization. Back then, I often have to contribute human interest stories from my volunteer programme for his work. It helped built a good bridge as a fresh graduate with older more experienced colleagues. Whenever we have lunch to break the mundaneness of collaborating, I recounted my fascination with philosophy and we often have endless conversations about topics outside of work hence strengthening inter-departmental relationship.

When I moved to the health/community care sector, it became an ice breaker with colleagues to make sense of the ground with regards to the healthcare policies. And till this day, I’ve often discussed many interesting themes of philosophy ranging from ethics to epistemology to makes sense of medical social work.

Philosophy

Ever wondered what is Philosophy?

Philia + Sophia = Philosophy

Philosophy is actually made up of two ancient Greek words where ‘philia’ means friend or lover of wisdom. A philosopher is thus a lover of wisdom who wants to pursue his or her knowledge and understanding through pursuing wisdom and acquiring ‘wisdom’.

I am glad I had gone through the process of loving knowledge and bringing it to the workplace. Fast forward today, when I started teaching my own students, I often felt that I needed to sharpen my skills as a teacher and believe in the need to upskill.

So far, I have completed close to 30 certificates and diplomas after I started less than a year ago. This is not a difficult feat as I have put in consistent effort by pacing myself. The E-learning courses enables the learners to use a setting where they can remind themselves to study whenever they could. I would like to share the three benefits of upskilling.

1.Upskilling adds value to your clients

In the teaching field, I often have to keep ahead of the latest news as I have to prepare my students sufficiently to acquire enough vocabulary. Being interested in acquiring knowledge and sharing your love for learning is one of the best role model I can be to my students. The end result is that unmotivated students start to acquire the love for learning. Being a subject specialist, it can be evident that students who come from a different cultural background start to like learning the English Language. The intangible reward is that their life becomes more interesting as I found out that my student who was reluctant to know the English Language want to learn more about action movies in his free time.

2. Upskilling boost your confidence

After being in the workplace for some time, I often feel that we can get stuck in a rut. When I started a new role where I have to come into close contact with clients, I signed up for a counselling and psychotherapy class. As the nature of the job requires face to face contact, it is good to know some counselling techniques to approach clients and ask appropriate probing questions and display empathetic responses to their problem situations. Upskilling provided intangible benefits such as the reward of clients trusting you with their personal issues from physical ailments to mental health. Overall, upskilling, boost one’s confidence as I have to adapt to a different work culture and social norms in a healthcare setting.

3. Upskilling bridges the skills gap

There is often a gap between the work we do and the jobs that are growing in demand in the different sectors ranging from digital technology to healthcare. With the changes in technology, there is often a need to bridge the gap for the new world of work. With the proliferation of many learning platform such as NTUC, it is easy to learn new trending skills like agile methodology to digital marketing.

Recently, I signed up for Cultivating an Experimental Mindset as I wanted to learn from a reputable adult institution. This proves to be beneficial as I will be in contact with adult learners from diverse background and put in a new environment away from my typical world with students. I get to learn from the adult perspective on how they perceive failure.

In the Singapore context, failure is kind of a setback where there is a fear of it. Hence, the course sets us up to see failure from a different angle instead where we start seeing taking steps to try a new venture as experimental. I believe there is a widespread fear of failure among Singaporeans as a culture and the course seeks to address that by cultivating an experimental mindset where we see failure as only a learning process. It is inspiring to also have case studies and group work where we work on our own failures. The assessment puts us all on the edge as it brings out the Singaporean’s fear of failing exam. Indeed, I get to see how our culture has been quite negative with experimenting in the area of entrepreneurship. I was inspired by Alibaba’s founder who sets an example of how he persisted and believed in his start-up despite receiving multiple rejections at the start. It is good to emerge with positive thinking regarding how to overcome the volatile, uncertain, ambiguous and complex world.

How comics bring a story to life and build confidence in young learners

Reading a storyline can sometimes be difficult for young learners as there are many characters to follow and often times they are daunted by unfamiliar vocabulary. As a result, having to think about the answers for both literal and inferential questions can be cognitively challenging if one finds it hard to understand the story. In my previous article on educational psychology I shared about scaffolding. A method of scaffold will be the use of comics.

Viewing comics build confidence

Using comics can build up confidence in one’s ability to know the plot when the visuals are centered on the characters journey. This enables the reader to see how the character develops frame by frame and be able to follow the plot from the beginning to the end. Hence this lead to a build up of confidence when they can achieve more clarity in understanding the text. This psychological confidence shows the character coming to life in a vivid manner allowing them to follow the intricate plotline with precision and accuracy which is critical for the task of understanding what the question requires.

Character Development

The Comic creator WE development started with illustrating the first paragraph. We can see how the plot begins with the character Kelly and what are the reasons for her actions coherently and clearly. These frames help to break down large chunks of information to smaller bite size information where we can follow what Kelly thinks, feels or acts.

Question 1 (Literal)

Question: Why did Kelly decide to give yoga class a try?

Answer: Kelly decided to give the yoga class a try because she thought it was engaging and enjoyable.

The answer is taken from paragraph 1. By referring to the comics in the fourth frame we can locate the sentence, “Although she had never tried yoga before, it looked interesting and more importantly, it appeared to be fun.”

This literal question requires one to give the correct reason for Kelly’s decision to try yoga. The question requires one to know how to locate the answer from the text. The sentence gives the contextual clue “she had never tried yoga”. Once we know that Kelly had never tried yoga hence we can arrive at the answer where Kelly decided to give the yoga class a try.

Next, it is important to show understanding of the meaning of “interesting” and “fun”. By using another word that is synonymous with interesting we get the word engaging. Another word synonymous with fun will be enjoyable. We arrive at the reason behind why Kelly decide to give yoga class a try “because she thought it was engaging and enjoyable”.

Sometimes, learners can get confused with locating the right answer as they may read the second frame. This is where the sentence “Kelly did not think of herself as an active person and she usually did not exercise much” can be incorrectly identified as the answer. The question requires one to answer why she decided to “act” rather than what Kelly thought. Thus, it is good to use the comics to refer back to the question requiring us to locate the right contextual clue that answers the question more appropriately.

Question 2 (Inferential)

Why do you think Kelly enquired about membership?

Kelly was interested in the gym’s class and may be thinking about joining the gym as a member.

The answer is taken from the sentence “This looks great!” she thought to herself. Upon entering the gym, she went to the reception desk to enquire about membership before signing in for the free introductory class. In the next three frames we can follow Kelly’s journey to the gym class and view her encounter with another character in the story.

This is an inferential question where information on the yoga class is not made apparent to Kelly and she has to ask the receptionist in order to find out more about the membership. To arrive at the answer, we can infer that Kelly is “interested” in the class from the contextual clue “This looks great!”. We can also infer from “enquire about membership” that she may be thinking about joining the gym as a member.

Question 3 (Inferential)

What did Kelly notice about the room when she first entered?

She noticed the size of the classroom and the aromatherapy diffuser that filled the classroom with the fragrance of lavender/the calming music that was playing from the speakers.

The first part of the answer is taken from the sentence “The class was held in a large, airy room with half-drawn blinds shading the windows. There was an aromatherapy diffuser in a corner and it filled the room with the calming scent of lavender.”

First, we arrive at “noticed the size of the classroom” from the relevant part of the sentence giving the contextual clue “large, airy room”. The size of the classroom is described as large and airy hence it is relevant to the question on what she noticed using her sense of sight about the room.

Second, there was an aromatherapy diffuser in a corner that filled the classroom with the fragrance of lavender. Kelly noticed the scent of lavender using her sense of smell and hence we get “the fragrance of lavender” in the sentence.

Third, we can also get “calming music that was playing from the speakers”. The contextual clue will be “soft ambient music played from speakers at the four corners”. Kelly noticed the speakers playing calming music using her sense of hearing.

Learning English the Fun Way

Want to add new words to your vocabulary and improve the way you write ?

I will be sharing two new vocabulary words and useful grammar knowledge.

Example sentence

You can form the sentence with the words silhouette and dappled.

Mrs Richardson had noticed their silhouettes 👥 in the dappled moonlight that was shining into the room.

Meaning: Mrs Richardson had noticed the dark shape of someone when they tried to enter room.The moonlight is described as having marked with spots or have rounded patch.

How to use comics to appeal to young learners and elicit their interest

I would be sharing the benefits of using comics by We Development to get young learners interested in their learning. First, I would like to share more about instructional scaffolding and how it helps to engage visual learners when it comes to learning comprehension texts.

Scaffolding

The process of scaffolding is an important step to get learners to know the passage well. For comprehension, learners have to read the words of the texts paragraph by paragraph in a linear way. Sometimes, trying to elicit interest in the reading process is difficult as an instructor. Common difficulty faced is that the reader may not necessarily understand the story as a whole as there are many characters and dialogues and events in the storyline as the story progresses.

Benefits of scaffold

The idea of breaking down large chunks of information into smaller parts is a good form of scaffold. This is where the method of scaffold in terms of creating comics come in useful. This methodology of breaking down the story frame by frame is useful in storytelling where learners can visualize the beginning, middle and end well. The comics is also good at depicting dialogues between the characters. Here is an example of how the first paragraph of the story can be captured with the four frames.

Introduction

The first frame captures the introductory paragraph where the readers are introduced to the characters James and Mona. In the first frame the story begins with two characters James and Mona and their action “watched the video” and the speech by Mona.

Introductory comprehension paragraph by WeDevelopment

This is the first comics done by WE Development which I believe takes a lot of dedication and passion in the art to deliver outstanding visuals. Their visual aids is timely in communicating with learners as it simplifies a difficult comprehension task. The team make very good behind the scene support and were able to supply this novelty. When I run out of ideas for instructional scaffolding and often just draw manually to illustrate ideas, I have not thought of creating visuals using comics. Thus, I would like to credit the people behind this novelty.

You can find out more about WE Development from their website https://www.wedevelopment.sg/

You can also find my other articles on educational psychology and on my Medium blog

https://lifestylelina.medium.com/

Three reasons why dining out is marvelous at The Mason’s Table

When Singapore hit a record high of 195 cases in a single day, it will be inevitable that tighter measures regarding the restrictions will come in. As expected, we have to scramble to find last minute deals before our freedom to dine in will be gone for a month or so. I decided not to procrastinate like I used to and relish the final dine in priviledge that we often take for granted.

My experience can be summed up in three beneficial effects I personally felt on the last day of our freedom to find in. First, the marvelous thing was that the restaurant we chose was a hidden gem in its idyllic surroundings, second the food was delicious and third value for money.

Idyllic Surroundings

My friend and I met up at Clarke Quay and using the GPS, we managed to locate Coleman Street in less than 10 minutes. Walking down to Coleman Street, we were surrounded by this quiet idyllic surroundings where although the restaurant is located in the heart of the city , we felt that we could escape the hustle and bustle of noise and crowds. We were awed by the Gothic architecture which was a historical gem with a beautiful porch that lures us into the restaurant.

Value for Money

My friend suggested going down to The Mason Table at Coleman Street as they have 50% off the original price if we get down by 4 pm. My schedule fits just nicely as I only work at 7 pm. When i got down to take a peek at the menu, the price of $9 for vongole was like no other. As I have a soft spot for clams, I managed to dig out the first clam and to my pleasant surprise it went to 30 clams !

Marvelous Taste

With such a marvelous deal, we decided to order chicken and we were in for gastronomical delight. Not only was the food served fast and fresh, the restaurant staff were prompt and good nature offering suggestions like sorbet for dessert. Despite being the cheapest in the menu, the sorbet was flavorful and well made.

All in all, we managed to get $5 off our combined overall bill as The Mason Table was under the Eatigo app. Knowing our wallets are taken care off, I felt that our stomachs and hearts are full with this final day of dine in.