a few announcements
i should have updated you guys earlier, but yer i have been busy.
First off, on the job side, i had housemate gone in to talk to them right? and Boss was supposed to call. however, he didn’t call. I could call back, but i am no longer interested in the job. and to put it real bluntly, if i had mattered to him as much as he seems to make it, then he would have called right when he said he would, not a day later, not 10 days later. not ever later.
Secondly, i went to ask for a job at the franchise 15 minutes down the bus line. That’s where ex boss and ex manager is working now, and i need a job to give me the money at least, while i hunt for a job i prefer. i do have bills to pay after all.
however, it seemed that new boss had made things ugly before when Aly and Ems quit, and joined the other franchise. He accused them of poaching staffs and threatened all kinds of bullshit. Whilst this may not be true, and can be easily deflected, old boss prefers to maintain a good relationship with new boss, because they are essentially in the “family” of this franchise.
in essence, before they hire me, they want me to ask permission from new boss. I am not about to do that, it has gotten ugly before, it will get ugly again. besides, i only intend to work in 2nd franchise for a couple of months max - why get myself in the gutters over 2 months worth of work?
i took it as a sign from God that it’s time for me to move on from this franchise.
Thirdly, i haven’t received a call from any of the places i have applied to yet. i will start doing call backs in a couple of days, but i am not very hopeful. not because i am pessimistic, i just believe that a lot of the places i have applied to at the moment have been rather too busy to look at my resume. it is, after all, mothers’ day week.
Finally, this is more for shadow-chan and gang. because of all these, and other financial needs, i am unable to pay for my lineage 2 subscription at least for a while. all this time, jake’s been helping, but i really can’t expect him to pay for my stuff forever. he’s got his own commitments.
yer, so after june 2nd or something, i will be gone off l2, but i will be around!
and that’s it for now. wish me luck with jobs!
Food Related entry
I have been wanting to say this for a long while now, but stuff kept cropping up that are vastly more important.
First: i got these babies from the $2 shop (Daiso) in singapore for my dining habits here:
The rectangular pan you see in the middle would be the egg roll pan. its fascinating, and while i know the theory behind it, i have yet to make one yet. stay tune :p
Dad had been accumulating all these cookbooks for me (and more which i couldn’t bring since i was already 5 over the weight limit) ever since he realised i might not be back for a long time. These cookbooks were one for each time i called home and said i missed stingray/various other local delights.
for the more sharp eyed ones though, there are 2 bento books behind, which are not bought by my dad. It’s bought by my new housemate as a gift for me ^^ except i think i really can’t cook that well. the smoke detector went off today and i was almost in tears >.>
i bought a ds lite when i returned as well, a pink one might i add, and a couple of games to liven it up (since it doesn’t come with really any games). I had nintendogs, mario kart, and much later on, cooking mama. Nintendogs and mario kart is pretty much shared between me and waifie, but cooking mama is all mine.
of course i bought it coz it seems cute, i mean, which other game made it big because it inspired mums to cook and start forums and crazy stuff like that?
but cooking mama had the last laugh. i guess even in the digital world, i am doomed to suck at cooking. so far, i have only been successful in ONE dish.
INSTANT RAMEN! >.<
Dear Sheetle
Dear Sheetle…..
you’re a bad influence on me. i swear.
i mean, wow, i haven’t ate so much for lunch before. or even proper 3 meals (aiya… tubs of ice cream, tubs of mee goreng, can also la…)
but the worst thing is, YOU NEVER FINISH YOUR FOOD?!?!! WHY?!?! do you know… cows die for our steaks… lambs die for our lamb shanks… AND COWS GET MOLESTED FOR OUR CHEESECAKE!?!?!
i mean, seriously, how would you like it if every morning, you wake up to people squeezing your breasts?!?! damn pain one, ok!!! and now, it’s no longer human hands, which are at least warm and possibly gentler. how would you like if you are being molested by non-living things??? there’s no such things as an animal court. they can’t even sue.
remember what siva said - that’s why we have mad cow disease - because cows get molested by metal pieces rather than some living things. at least if it’s human, cows can at least PRETEND that those humans have some beastiality inclinations. but metal? wtf!!
and one thing i noticed, only with you i find odd things like this:
my poor innocent mind… got raped. and, by the way, why have you NOT NOTICED important things like KANGAROO TESTICLES?!?! they are such an important part of the Australian Aboriginal culture!
ok, so these are the fur-less ones. don’t diss the furred ones that you touched though - they are goddamn real. if the kangaroo was alive, you would have seens a 20 foot wang by now. ^^ it would be amusing though - to see kangaroo wang. makes me wonder if they are like cats’ wang. retractable sword style O.o
but anyways….
yes i love you sheetle. you just got to be more… dutiful to those poor animals who produced all those food for you. make their life worth it and stop wasting food!
panda~
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FOR MY L2 HOMIES~
meet the new additions to my family ^^
More gaming and then some
Well! This is running along nicely, i am able to update lj from here, and then lj updates my multiply ^_^ 3 blogs at a go, now if i can line the rest up proper… *twitches*
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Work
Was called in to work tonight as we were “short staffed”. The truth of the story was, they were just trying to get me to train someone tonight. I was so relieved when Niccie got the job of training newbies that i just totally ignored the fact i was more senior than her (and thereby ignoring my responsibility of needing to train anyone). so, it was unexpected and i was TRICKED INTO training tonight - someone i should just nickname Harbour.
to just make the long story short: she’s very clueless, always daydreaming and hard to draw her back into focus. The most spectacular part of the training tonight, was actually teaching her how she should look after her section: the basics. aka: you should clean your tables and set them before considering other people would do that for you. The funniest part of this training was that, when i hinted to her she needs to be more specific and detailed about cleaning with her section, she just shrugged it off, and kept going up to chat in the bar. I am quite sure when i was told to ensure she knows how to do her job, she heard the bit from Chewbacca that he would FIRE her in about a week if she doesn’t pick up.
obviously though, it seems she has again, heard nothing. her deafness astounds me, even when we call her by name, she has absolutely 0 response.
anyways, that particular table i was concerned about, was not set for about an hour. finally i pointed it out to her, what i meant by LOOKING AFTER YOUR SECTION. and the first thing she said was: “oh, those customers from the other section stole my cutlery. i thought they would put it back…”
*face palm*
you realise, if people took it, it meant they need it. why would they 1) put it back or 2) clean it and put it back? *shrugs* we get really strange recruits sometimes. really.
The light of tonight though, has to be this cute blondie little baby girl. she kept running around the restaurant with a parent guiding her. every time she reaches the top of a flight of stairs, she had raise an arm in victory and shout “AH!”, as if she just conquered everest. she was just so adorable, that i ate her, while she was laughing and gurgling. it was an unconcious action, i swear. when her mum tapped me on the shoulder though, i turned around only to realise that i almost slapped her face with her kid’s legs hanging out of my mouth.
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Lineage 2
in the past 2 years, i have went from a strange friends only clan (due to some unforeseen circumstances), to big, strong, pvp oriented clans. most of them still PVE heavily, but pvp was the final goal. In all my clans though, i have always been either the only healer, or the rare healer in the clans. or, at one point, the only live healer. i love being a healer, and it’s not because it’s an easy job. it’s because i get to live the “life” that i couldn’t be offline - someone who can give you another chance to live again, to fight again. to be alive again.
in each clan’s scenarios, i have always been there, supportive as i can in the role i know how. over time, i garnered enough fame to be one of the best healers, or perhaps the more famous ones, ranging from Freja, Celus, and what gives you. obviously, there were the other more “famous” healers - those to avoid - that i have also grown to hate. Magicmuraki and Ocinara are my personal hate lists - more because they ruin the good name of EEs in general. They are those, who had wear light armour, who had get their entire party killed because they are too busy TANKING for their parties, and then wondered why everyone died. Magicmuraki though, had a weird personal vendetta: to kill whichever party that opened up a space for him as a healer. because he thinks that being such a shit class, he shouldn’t be given a party at all, so all people who parties him are stupid, and therefore should be allowed mass deaths. -.-
in short, useless bitches.
there was even a time, when people in my party died, i actually cried, because reality and virtuality blurred for me. there was so much of Jason in there that i was trying to save in my own little warped mind.
moving along though…
in my very first few parties with my present clan, i don’t know if i should laugh or cry. There’s the clan leaderess thing Gothy, who’s literally a tanking EE in Tallum Light, holding Duals, level 60 something something. she had go up and tank group mobs while i am trying to get my brains straight together. the funniest thing is, she had outdamage even dorfs sometimes, enough to draw aggro. sometimes i wana stab myself, because that’s not the EE lifestyle i am used to.
Then, there’s Seth. Welcome to a whole new meaning of EE. Full Nightmare Heavy set (more of a paladin tank set if you ask me), and Great sword or the A grade version looking of it (forgot name now). The casting speed was so uber, i thought that battle heal was actually the level 35 heal. and i stood there wondering WHY would anyone use a level 35 heal when Gothy was about to die (from tanking). and, he was casting our level 1 curse weakness, on every single mob. An EE wearing a Tank set. it still breaks my brains when i think about it. i remember biting jake’s arms off when i saw Ocinara in Tallum light, and yet there’s someone wearing an armour that we don’t even have skills for!
When i asked why the heavy armour, Seth’s argument was, “i don’t want to pay 900million for everything, the helmet is insane! and it protects me more than robes!”
at that point, i kinda just stared at the monitor. i tank in robes when i had to… u know, when drawing aggros via healing. i haven’t so much as died yet except when i lagged to the next planet, and my mp was still ok. so, the heavy armour thing just.. yer.
This morning, as i tried to explain to Seraph about my clan, and where i even found them (no they aren’t from some cave u bastard), i realised i was laughing so hard. i think we both were. i like this idea of insanity. Gothy kills daggers, i don’t know what Seth kills, and i kill Archers *HINT*HINT*. i am still struggling over what i am used to, and trying not to sound like a prick when i ask them questions as to WHY they are doing weird things. i don’t really care at the end of the day, they are nice people. i am just… very… very… VERY amused lol!!!!! (noodle, u really should play with them, u would cry too…)
of course, sometimes i feel awkward. everyone’s EE doing something not their class… and i am desperately trying to sit around and making sure i have enough mp to heal them and
SOE them out of there in case they get in a corner - an EE job. then again… O.o maybe… i need to do my job lol
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Procrastinations
I haven’t been productive for the last few days. between lounging around, and planning my essays, i have just been reading and reading, and then playing some games. some old ones, and a revival of the random ones that i played with jake but wasn’t so taken up with.
Flyff now looked more enticing than before. then again, previously half of l2 haven’t quit. i seriously considered moving to hindemith for a couple of weeks. but the failed meetings with linxy, and then realising that starting from the bottom again wasn’t exactly all that awesome, i decided to just lay off lineage 2 altogether for a few days. days became weeks, weeks became.. not yet months but close. i had assignments, and those were paid more attention to first.
Flyff has somewhat all right controls, but confusing set ups of “shortcut” keys altogether, mostly at the bottom. i am still trying to figure it out somwhat, but the basics of it isn’t that hard to grasp. it is going beyond that that is a slight problem. i don’t really like their “use skill so as to level them” way of levelling your skills. it’s not about it being tedious, but rather that means a level 15 (when you can change class) can just stand there and heal themselves to death, and be a level 15 healer with the final mastery of heal! 
the only catch behind it is, after using up the skills “xp” you have to kill a mob to refill it, otherwise your skill won’t be able to level.
Chronicle 5 started, and i wasn’t all that enthusiastic about it. The Lineage 2 PTS was a flop, and therefore i didn’t had much time nor bothered to actually look further into it. this resulted in a huge “huh?” to every single question people posed to be, particularly about the quests. To be honest, Lineage 2 is slightly wearing on me. prior to this week, i no longer feel the urge to log in. i logged in after patching Chronicle 5 was live, only to see 3 afk-ed people on my friendlist, and a whole bunch of new skills to learn, with the inability to get the books this time around.
let just say that pretty much lighted up my day enough that i turned off lineage 2 and went out into the sun.
I had been talking to liltamorwen though, this BD person ingame, and then some of her clannies. So, one day, her clanleadress thing came and just told me to log in and get the spellbooks.
and then…
i got clanned. just like that. i won’t go into the details, but i had a few reasons for not clanning earlier, that they do not give a shit about.
1) i have no time to play
2) my net is about as stable as my mentality (nil)
3) my pvp skills has gone to the winds
4) i am not rich
5) i can contribute about NOTHING to the clan.
maybe i shouldn’t get these issues get to me, but i prefer being active in a clan than be a leech. it is after all, a community ingame. few attempts to join a particular clan proved “futile”, even though they said they wanted me and what gives you. i guess we both missed the chance for each other now. but i am happy anyways ^_^ it’s no longer lonely should i ever solo, and besides, clans are communities~
no, i ain’t about to leave a clan i just joined, i am not one to leave clans just like that. so muahaha… they are stuck with me. God Bless them haha…
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the coming and the going
Work today contained nothing very spectacular. the 40 hour famine was over, and people who were involved just need to return the booklets to Mel by the end of this month. aside from all that stuff, it was just a typical monday. i was just feeling so lethargic, and the urge to just try and stop procrastinating my presentation for this week, that i didn’t want to go work anyways.
The only light in the entire boring night, was the return of Aly. She went on a holiday to Norway, to visit the extended side of her family or something, for the last month and a half. so she came back, excited, and wanting to know the gossips (which included the 2 bitches). with her return though, she also brought some bad news.
Mel handed in her resignation today.
admittedly, when we talked last week about her explosive behaviour, i also told her in her face to move on or get over it if she couldn’t take the boredom. it’s good to get paid to do something you like. but sometimes, we don’t have a choice. she doesn’t have much of a qualification to do something more challenging. she is likely to get bored no matter where she goes. the only difference is, she gets to feel excited the first few weeks BECAUSE she’s NEW. and everything FEELS new.
and yes, i said everything in frustration, after being bossed around for a week, insisting that i find something to do when there was absolutely NOTHING to do, or ethically speaking i will never do stuff what she suggested when customers are around. e.g it’s INAPPROPRIATE to methylate the place when people are eating around you. the smell is beyond tolerance and puke inducing.
but with the new boss, despite a new contract and some new rules in place, the basics are essentially the same. we know what we have to do. infact, the boss has to be guided by us. he said so himself, especially since the branch he was training at was also entirely new, so no one knew what they were supposed to do, and when he came here, he just suddenly felt… relaxed. it’s like being on a permanent holiday.
again, with things going this way, sometimes i can’t help but wonder: should i attempt to move on? with an Australian work experience under my belt now, it would be slightly easier for me to get a job. but… there’s still ally, niccie and Ems. not to mention the various other characters, sans the bitches.
oh wells.
well, i guess i squished this image too tight. i joined this “political game” by a recommendation of my colleague, called nation states. Obviously, i am starting to get really retarded i naming my things, and there this “nation” is named after “me”. no big deal, except for the lame names we are limited to choosing from. but yes, you can view my “state” here - CLICK
the things i highlighted though were fairly new to me. firstly, i must state, my colleague is the utter opposite of me. in a sense, i feel she’s easily corruptible and a selfish person. her entire state also reflected that fact in relation to my opinion (0 political freedom, 100% economical success or something). she’s not entirely bad, but it’s her ideas… they aren’t very inclusive and contains 0 care factor.
mine on the other hand sounds like the hippy land dream or something.
“Compassionate” as a word kind of ran through the entire description a zillion times. not exactly the richest in the world, but we have happily bonded people. sounds communistic in my opinion, but oh wells 
this “game” is starting to amuse me about how it seems to be describing ME instead. no, i am not bragging that i am compassionate, but more like… a CLINGY person lol. 
ok, i am being utterly incoherent now. i guess that means bed. tada…
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Calculations
i have so many things on my mind now, i am not sure where to begin.
Firstly, i have just filed tax returns. well i did that on saturday actually but i was working alot of plans out in my head. it got pretty bad though, because while i did do my tax returns online, they have a disclaimer stating that “it will only be an estimate of your actual returns because it depends on blah blah blah blah blah.” and this morning i woke up in the middle of a nightmare whereby i got back 100 bux instead of the 2700 i was expecting.
needless to say, i didn’t pop back to bed straight after.
What it did showed me though, was that every year, i can possibly save up to 3000 bux (after tax returns as well) from my pay. i have since set my tax rates right, but if i save properly on my own, that would be my end of financial year savings. i can do a few things with that.
1) give dad some money
2) buy myself a volunteer work trip (a la STA travels)
3) study some courses via distance learning that has nothng to do with my degree at all.
obviously there are reasons and arguments behind all those pointers as well, which is why my mind’s all warped up.
1) dad’s fine with his “investments” and stuff. however, mum always have the potential to ruin something, e.g right now she suddenly came up with this 10k bill from i don’t know where that she owed some government body. dad’s not very impressed. i just want to send something back though, because i know dad’s scrimping and saving for fear of a thousand calamities and “what if”s., which isn’t a bad thing to be doing, but that means he’s not enjoying his retirement like normal retirees are supposed to do.
2) STA travels’ ideas aren’t very bad. but for the same amount of money, i did alot more in myanmar and spent more time watching those developments than i would with STA. however, their programs are exactly what i want to do: provide education to needy kids. i just need to justify those costs to myself… but if i can really save those money up and shet, i can afford about one volunteer trip a year. and i think that’s awesome. i have been wanting to do something similar to that myanmar trip since i left myanmar, and this might be one of my last few remaining chances (before i grad that is).
3) this is obviously… too much work! but would be interesting on my cv, particularly if it includes languages AND computing stuff. this came into my head recently because… well jake said he wants to come here to study. partly to be with me, partly to help out coz i have crazy housemates and it’s driving him nuts. so i went to uni to ask if he could get advance standing for all the crap he studied (trust me he studied so much crap it’s not funny… i am just amused it didn’t include stuff like “how to make a stuff teddy”).
part of the reason why i went personally rather than email that convenor involved was cause that nutjob didn’t reply jake’s email. it’s the busy time of the year anyways, so fairly understandable. however, when the moment he laid his eyes on me, he went CRAZY! he was like “oh, why didn’t i see you before” and “you sure you don’t want to try computing?” and “we have things not related to maths!” the entire 2 hour conversation. yes TWO HOURS! he went crazy trying to convince me to join, change my degree, my life.
i am not saying IT is a bad degree, it just ISN’T my area of interest, because it contains maths. i told him that. and the furthest i am really interested in is how to make games and everything along that line - PROGRAMMING. but programming requires me to know algorithms. so no. no way.
but i don’t mind learning some c++. or c#.
right after all that crap, i was browsing through some sections in the bookshop as per normal (stalking books is a good habit), and something leaped out. it was probably there before, but… it said “GAMES PROGRAMMING’ and “MOBILE GAMES PROGRAMMING” with pictures of things that look like 2D Mario brothers in it. i wanted to eat that book. i took it as a sign from God i should eat that book one day. but otherwise, nar… maths isn’t my interest, especially when it is something that looks like some broken protons and electrons or something.
but languages… i would love to learn some languages. like swahili. *sigh*
maybe, if i pawn off my entire novel collection, i can do all of these things 
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Wii vs PS3
i was shopping around this afternoon while deciding which drinks i should get, since i kinda just realised i have nothing at home for guests.
then i walked into toysr’us to check out some barbies and shet. yes i know, i am kinda OLD for barbies. i used to collect them though, when they were worth collecting. then…
Despite hearing from some place (kotaku.com i think) that ps3 might be delayed, and from some other sources (some website that you can pre-order) that states that it will only be expected somewhere in 2008, i found these 2 promotion boards at toysr’us. obviously i got excited, and had the security looking at me strangely while i took pictures of these 2 promotional boards.
seems like they are both coming out approximately on the same month or something (states november 2006 there), and both have a pre-order campaign that gives you a free game with the new consoles for a down payment of 50 bucks. doesn’t sound so bad. it’s going to be hard to choose though, between nintendo and playstation 3. i have been a huge fan of playstation and their games though, and games are coming out prepared for all 3 consoles (nintendo, xbox and playstation) that i really want anyways.
no obviously, i am not going to buy any consoles since i am such a broke shet. but fantasizing about buying them is good. looks like there might be a huge launch party up in sydney when these 2 comes out though in summer. ah, would be nice to see some scantily clad women ^_^
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crazy week
with school holidays coming to an end, i was excited and a little sad… so much for free time to myself hehe…
i did put some gaming in amidst all that mad cap trying to work and move at the same time. with c4 starting right on the day that i was moving, alot of firsts was going to be impossible, but i had fun the last few days more so than i had in a few months within the game… especially since i couldn’t play it much due to work and school.
that’s right, i spent a goddamn lot of mats on this, and it’s worth every bit of those mats in my opinion. funny how her haircut is similar to my real life hair cut though ^_^
over the weekend, i wanted to try out some of the new pvp and the new siege places, i.e goddard, so i tagged up with dot, who was with my old alliance before my clan broke apart. i missed my old clan though, and hope for some odd reason they will be resurrected. but i ain’t clinging on too hard to that hope, since i don’t have much time to spend with them either.
goddard is a damn fucking big castle, i have no idea how they are going to defend it. we took it easy because there were few interferences and the npcs were pretty lowbies. then again, attacking is often easier than defending i reckon, simply because if you intend to defend, you need the resources, no?
but it was fun while it lasted, i finally grew tired of logging in just to chat with people, or soloing. i still love to chat with people, but soloing is boring after some time, especially since my mp dump is limited. hehe…
also, i am getting addicted to fishing. it truly wasn’t my thing on pts, and i actually resisted the urge to give it another go on the real servers because it costs so damn much to learn those skills. then i gave up and just learnt those skills anyways :p because freja/mike chucked some rods my way and asked me to fish with them while we waited on larsson to join the game.
and then i realised, i wasn’t all that bad at it after all…. i blame it on pts.
did those damn pet quests a grand total of 11 times, got 2 pets free from someone… 13 new pets at last count, but i believed i got a new one yesterday so now its 14 :p have a grand total of 21 pets now. if this is any indication of how real life is going to be, i am going to have a damn zoo at home when i finally get my place and won’t have any pets restrictions.
animals are sssooo cute.. and loving.
ah school… and work… if i don’t have either and is plenty rich, you know how much time i be spending on trying to rear animals? O.o well real animals, not ingame ones.
oh wells! here’s to school!!!! *embraces studies*
belated review
sorry for the lack of updates. school work + work + some minimal gaming makes it really hard to find time to talk about anything here. furthermore, all’s not well at home with my mum being a retard, so i had to pull some strings to get her to actually listen. to those who were uber concerned due to the last post, don’t worry, i am ok. i know how to take care of myself, i just have a tendency to slip sometimes ^^
this post is a little belated, and it’s also very long drawn. for those who are hoping to hear more about my personal life, this post is not it. this is about lineage 2, and the upcoming c4 patch. before i continue on though, let me just reiterate, lineage 2 is a very fantasy based mmorpg that i have grown to love heaps, despite the massive grinding we have to go through. i mean, it’s the place i get to be an elf, and i don’t have to role play to be one.
as they have mentioned, it is going to be the biggest patch. when you open up the map ingame, it could be easily seen why:
there’s like an extra map-worth of new content that they have put into this patch. perhaps whatever they have missed in c3, which was said to be released in a hurry amidst losing players, they have decided to chuck it in.
as with all games, they all have bugs, and lineage 2 is without exception. to minimise the bugs and to fix it before major release, the public test server is up for us paying customers to go view it, test it out, report it, get the fixes done, see what we like/don’t like about it and be gone.
first of all, they have put in 2 side activities for everyone. because most people get a chance to play another class once they hit the previous cap (i believe the new level cap is 78…), by now half the players or more would be facing the same content as they did 2 chronicles or so ago. and i believe ncsoft korea know it’s not really nice to grind through the same shit for the second time.
the first side stuff, is fishing.
while the previous activities is a break away from the normal grind, and does nothing more productive than perhaps winning some of the bets others have chucked in, the new acitivies, fishing and taming alike, contributes somewhat to your levelling. the new tamed mobs, as well as new pets that we can get, actually does more than tank and damage the mobs for us. they heal and buff as well.
fishing wise, they also do give us some items that we might need too, as well as some random items.
within the pts, due to time constraints and the amount of new content, they were going to boost us twice. first time is to experience the sub class and the new contents that we can visit with low lvl subclasses as well as the new 76 class change quests. so far, the known buggy one would be the warlock quest where the last tablet was not known to be able to hand in.
however, that’s the least of my concern as yet, since i just want to try out some of the new quests as well as visit the new places.
the new pets seems easy to get, just a whole lot more expensive to finish the quest to get one. it costs 495k adena (or thereabouts) since the pet manager is a bum…. each new pet starts with a new npc. for the cougar, it’s the pet manager in giran and the buffalo is the pet manager in dion. not sure about the kookaburra. it’s an ugly thing though, so you aren’t missing out.
there are a bunch of new quests now, suitable for higher lvls as well as lower lvls…. i am not quite sure about the rewards yet, although i sure hope they are good since i died many times for some of the quests, and some of them are interconnected. which results in the rewards only visable after the 4th quest or something.
one thing to watch out for though, is that the new higher level mobs are mostly mages or mage related mobs. this means that mobs can drain your hit points away even though they are not technically magical mobs. some of the new mobs even uses spirit shots.
jake and i visited new places, as per tradition, as soon as we could. this meant being equipped enough not to die too much and to have enough adena to port rather than run and risk the chances of dying.
forge of gods
of course, when you are us… it’s hard to avoid being cheeky and then dying…
mobs that jake HAD to pull…
the lavasaurus that we found
what we both have concluded somewhat from the new places were that they were awesome. they have a good variety of mobs in my opinion. some places are great for soloing, the vampire places are great for healers who have no other spells than the holy stuff. furthermore, the hot springs are great places for mages because they have “debuffs” that actually are part buffs too. which isn’t a bad thing, other than hearing sounds like your character is choking to death or humping itself.
yes, i have been planning to be a summoner since the last pts. so when i had to choose what sub class i would want to play with this time around, it made sense to try out the new summoner skills and to mess around with it being a dorf too. one thing that made this all the more awesome was the new pet:
she’s pink, she’s a cat, she’s female, and omg that fan…. what more can i ask for? 
SHE FANS PEOPLE TO DEATH!!!! yesssss!!!
and of course, before i end this (i know it’s not much of a review now… i am kinda too tired to finish the whole review today… ), here’s a gift:
Silliness
I started downloading since jake told me, which is about long before school yesterday. as far as i know, everybody was trying to download since they knew, which was also around that time.
slightly more than a day now, and there’s a majority of us who still have no game running, and no ability to run it fully, or does not have all the files…. which resulted from a lot of reasons, but mainly because of ncsoft’s ineptitude in adapting to a large crowd, nor considering us - the consumers - much.
the game client downloads patches like most small games does, directly from themselves through the game client’s set up. however, with they themselves even stating that it is the biggest patch ever, and yet still relying on the same old servers they had for the last couple of years, which also resulted in a blockage every patch, this resulted in several disconnections, crashes, etc from the game servers.
few of us have even gone past the first few files yet.
those who have been able to, are now way beyond noob levels.
if by tomorrow, they still don’t have any torrents/ftp up for us to download the patch with, i would say many people might drop out of pts. we want to test it as much as we want to enjoy the boosts and freebies and so on, which were sorely missed in the last public test server.
if we are to work for everything, WHILE TESTING, then we would be wasting our time trying to get the NORMAL things done rather than testing out the bugs — the main point for having a test server in the first place.
this is also a slight indication though, as to how things would be when the real servers get up and running with chronicle 4. i am not sure how trustworthy those servers are handling that many downloaders. they have never failed in disappointing me.
on the other hand though, this entire incident once again brings out the best in the people (and of course, the worst) that plays.
people started creating torrents, zips, emails etc to send to each other, even people who have never played on their server, so that the entire community is able to play the game and have fun TOGETHER. and i thought that was impressive… that was the lineage 2 that i fell in love with. and still am in love with.
and yes, i am still downloading/patching/etc. i have done parts of the torrents but there are still more stuff to go. 3.5gigs worth of things to download…. that will take me a while.
Chronicle 4 Public Test Server
just a few mins break while doing my maths, just to say that C4’s public test server’s patch is up. the download is about 1 gig, so do give it time to download. if you aren’t playing (for the few guys i know that are playing lineage 2), well then, just come back later when i start playing. i will be posting up screen caps and my personal review of it…
just so that you guys have an idea how it works for me tho, i will be going summoner straight out this time, since that’s what i have played in c3 pts and wanted to subclass. yes, the warlock.
i haven’t quite read what would be on c4 pts, as far as i do know though, they will be giving us level boosts, ALL OF US, on wednesday, along with lotsa items (jake said so). adena drops will be 10x the usual, not sure about the xp, so even if they dont give us adena on wednesday, i believe we should be all right for abit.
will update once i actually have seen it (and when the update actually stops crashing.)
SilkRoad Online
Well! Jake and i discovered a new mmorpg due to some retard on the l2 fan forums… who never played any of the mmorpgs he mentioned, not even l2, and decided that silkroad online was a better game.
out of sheer boredom and curiousity, i think, jake downloaded it and started playing on it, and i got hooked too, just coz the girls have got bigger tits and nicer hair. you can have a look of it here.
the game functions similarly to most other mmo’s that we have played so far, in terms of the basics anyways. the interface is slightly different though, and parts of it reminds me of console games, such as building up enough power for some short term huge pattk of some sorts…
let me just chuck some screenshots here and talk along the way.
click on it for a larger image.
this is obviously a game set in china, however, from what i can see from the original website, it’s a korean mmo. probably explains some of the misspelling of chinese names then.
the map is fairly huge, in an attempt i guess to cover the actual silkroad in history books. this is just a starter view of it.
upon creating a character and so on, which you can only choose between male and female, vampires (well they call it zombie ingame) or different classes of humans (well, they did call one of it a ghost…) and some other clothes. essentially though, like roseonline, everyone starts as the same character, changing only upon changing stats and gaining more masteries/skills.
you are then chucked into a town, which allowed me to see some “shops”. these shops differ from most games i have seen so far, because they REALLY look like some form of medieval chinese shops LOL…. the “shopkeepers” which are really characters, would wave at you and do that “come see come see!!” motion!!! makes me think of the auntie at our markets… “lai ah lai ah!!”
lmao
and then… wow… you will love these, well, some of you.
horsie.
infront of the horsie shop!!!
oh… and a screenshot of the vampire i told you guys about that you can choose as your own character, the “jiang shi”
after wandering around the town, taking some picts here and there,
jake told me of this quest where i can get some freebies and some xp… the entire quest gave me about 3-4 levels, after killing some related mobs too.
some fighting images…
in berzerker mode (which you get after “charging” up some power or something)
this mode gives you lotsa pattk, mattk and what not… like ultimate whatever shit and then looking all crazy…
and then i finally got my first heals… self heal anyways…
the talisman that you see in some of the pictures, is some kinda anti-magic thingy that we get in game. i love how it looks so much like a “fu” - lucky charm - and then makes me look all leet… even though i am so nubby.
oh. yes. the chinese name?
that’s my real chinese name, DUH. hrm, maybe i should name the vampire character after my sister… my dad says she looks like one anyways.
what i did noticed though, and alot of noticing really, is it is a BIGGER grind than l2 is. maybe not so much when i get up there i guess, but also… i just happened to be a healer o.o or maybe, I CHOSE TO BE A HEALER!!!
so thus… oh wells. ^_^ just waiting for more people to talk to me, that isn’t viet and trying to make me speak viet…
word of the day:Jag forstar inte (when i figure out how to make my keyboard type euro words, this will look prettier…)
that meant… i don’t understand ^_^
Hating School
So… it’s been like a month since i have been here at school. it’s not a bad place nor i guess was it meant to be.
it does take a little getting used to though, especially since the physical lay out of the school itself is far from similar to ANU. The time period that the school runs too is fairly different. so while everyone is having holidays now, i have barely started with the term, that is part of the trimester.
i wish i can go home at times. i am tired of these classes, i am tired of doing things that seems senseless to me, that doesn’t seem like part of my course. particularly maths.
and then now i have this dumb professional communications course, where the lecturer keeps on picking on me. and i am seriously too mentally drained to bother with him or come up with any answers or similar stuff for him anymore.
i just… don’t want to attend his class or maths class anymore.
but i have to.
sucks eh.
i don’t mean to dislike classes, and i know no matter how much i may hate any class i have to attend them. but i am hitting a limit, and i fear i might just decide not to go to school entirely. one thing great about university of canberra though, is that my classes are small, and so people in your class tend to notice when u r not in and they start enquiring.
so i am more or less coerced to come to class anyways
the last few days were a mad rush of preparing for jake’s arrival, working and rushing to level 71 in lineage 2 and playing counter strike.
i have pretty much cleaned up enough of my room to make a difference, but it does leave much to be desired o.o the business prior to these 2 weeks practically left my room looking like a tornado. there’s like, clothes on the floor, notes on the floor, hair on the floor (yes i SHED HAIR OMG!), books on the floor and even chocolate wrappers. i have not suddenly turned into a chewbacca, but time basically did not allow me time to clean things up.
and i am usually rushing from one place to another anyways. so things have to be taken out of the bag in a hurry and thus… everything goes to the floor =/
work went stupid on saturday night though, for various reasons.
1) there were so many sittings that night, nobody gave me time to breathe. it’s not wrong, infact it’s good. what’s shocking was, my “important” sales were not going, which for such a busy night was a surprising thing,
2) furthermore, on that night, there were too much plates and stuff for me to clean up properly. my entire section went to the shits after the first 1 and a half sittings, and when i was trying to make coffee for 3 tables worth of people, chewbacca decided to make me clear and set for a 6 sitter.
luckily for me, one of my colleagues is a coffee making enthusiast. and she actually asked me if i needed any coffee made while i was mid way through clearing and setting the 6 sitter. and all was well, if only for a while.
3) the screaming babies - surely i do not need to elaborate more on this!
the only good things that made my night on saturday though -
1) friends. and more friends. everyone came in for dinner and said their byes before the holidays. T_T i was so touched.
2) the MALE STRIPPER -
it was one of the customer’s hen’s night on saturday. they had a pink party and a scavenger hunt. and the final thing that happened for the night, would be the penis cake and the male stripper.
the penis cake, to start off with, was GREEN. like yoda’s penis immortalised.
:O
:O
:O
Then the male stripper arrived, heavily dressed in a fire fighter suit. we were told that we were NOT welcome to watch it though, them customers were shy about their hen night.
so doors were closed to the special guest room, and then the male stripper did his strip tease to the music of baby boy by beyonce knowles.
and then, commenced the peaking sessions by staff and other customers alike.
the front door had the door knob missing you see, so there was a huge hole that peaks right into where the male stripper was dancing. on the other hand, the pass which was beside the room had mini peak holes that looks into the room, both by chance and by deliberate preparation. the room is made from planks, so there were obvious gaps. some gaps were blocked up, others were not so we could see how the customers was going in their meals.
of course when the strip teaser was going on, there was no meal to check on, so i feasted my eyes.
initially, it was damn boring. his fire fighter suit was permanently on for a good 20 mins or so.
oh and then… he started stripping.
he isn’t a looker, and he doesn’t have that great a physique enough to be a model or a body builder or anything along that line. but he was tan, and he had a nice ass. and the black g string cloing tightly to his huge arse balls.
man. my virgin strip tease show, and it had to be between the cracks of planks.
then i went home.
my trainer saw that all i had any attention for, was the male stripper. so fine, they sent me home for the night before things go dumb
that was still fun though.
gaming got funner too. people finally realised, OMG!!! ANI DIDN’T QUIT AND SOLD HER ACCOUNT!!
and i started getting invitations to various vents. some people are still cautious though, but i must say, i enjoy talking to the various people all over again. i kinda miss old kain, and the more peaceful kain that i know. but this isn’t too bad either.
some people opened up neutral vents so everyone could have a chat or i could have a chat with them…
in the mean time i hit 71.
and yay… 4 more levels to go more picts soon….
Mmmm weekend
i didnt post for the last couple of days or so coz 1) i was too tired and basically passed out the moment i reached home and 2) i decided to take my well deserve break from homework and shit and just jumped right back into gaming.
i mean, i have never really quit l2. if it’s not l2x, it’s ial2 or i had be running around kain on alts. not a hard deal it’s just being a full time player like the way most clans need you is really hard for me right now. 5 days of the week, i am working and schooling, no time to level much except on weekends, where EVERYTHING important happens lol.
but this weekend, i threw myself into it. i handed in 2 assignments, with a third one completed and just waiting to throw into the mailbox tomorrow. i thought it was good as a reward.
and uh, it was siege weekend too, so i asked chunk if i could just play with them over the weekend, just for the sieges if they don’t mind. and it started from the event mobs right till siege tonight, which i was happy about.
i miss everyone.
be it enemies or friends alike, i missed the atmosphere, the e penis, the madness, the shouting… everything. even vent conversations was funny. calling chunk vagina face, listening to orders… the people, the atmosphere and just being there.. it was great.
i waited with them for event mobs to appear on saturday, after sleeping right into afternoon. it was not exactly a complete waste of time, but truly wasn’t what i expected. they mentioned “giran town would be a danger zone” but most of the danger really came from the gm who appeared in the form of one of the event mobs.
the rest of the mobs, similarly, all spawned outside anyways. so no one inside the town was harmed in any way.
>.< such a let down.
but the turn up, was AWESOME. i found people whom i thought had quit eons ago. some people had also just "returned" from quitting. for the first time in a long while, my pc was lagging big time because of the PEOPLE in my screen more than because of the mobs or loading zone.
that was only a portion of the people who turned up in my screen
then we went for castle siege well TWO castle sieges LOL!!!
yes, i was retagged just for the sieges, just for fun, to watch and just rumble around with the boys as per old times.
we were not signed up for the siege, just there to have fun. i believe a couple of clans within the alliance did sign up for the sieges. however, we were heavily outnumbered, both by wartags and by the actual participants of the castle siege.
we did have fun though, running from gludio to innadril castle and back. clans/alliances trailed us to both places, and i swear i think we annoyed some of them. in all honesty, i don't know if we can actually take them out, with so many groups vs so few (no i didn't bother to count). the fact is, i had fun. that's ALL that mattered.
not to mention, uhm, LOL, chunk decided that we should do sieges the cute way -
MYSTERY POTIONS!!! LMAOOOO!!!!! (it causes the character’s head to swell. i ain’t good at taking nice screenshots, so make do with what you can for now)
wahahaahahaa
no.. ignore the tells.. i am not about to tell you who was watching porn during siege ;P
oh wells… back to school tomorrow 
Rest
ah. today was a welcome rest. i slept in till one, and then woke up to cook curry chicken with rice. yes i know, i am obsessed with spicy food.
then began the day of pure gaming.
Jake and i have restarted on roseonline, north american beta. there have been some changes to the game itself, some of them immediately obvious, others not so. for starters, the game now has emote. i am pretty sure there wasn’t even a single emote back when we were playing on the international version of the game.
it seems too, that drops are a lot harder. i still remember getting rained on by weapons and armours. of course it wasn’t as crazy as rfonline’s drop rates, but at least we have something for our own class by the time we hit that particular level.
so far, i have only gotten a lvl 10 helmet drop, about 4 lowbie weapon drops and that’s it. the rest are materials and potions.
that’s a pict of my muse fighting. don’t ask me why she seems like she’s dancing.
initially i got put off by having to do the quest again. at least in lineage, we have gatekeepers to teleport you. in roseonline, there are parts you just have to walk there because there’s not porting to those cities or small side towns. that was part of the reason why i left international roseonline. it was just a side game, but having to work it all over again when they wiped the servers, was just too much of an effort.
aside from that, idiotic me forgot that i have a full length quest to do, so at lvl 10 i wiped my stats, the first and last time i am allowed to do so. so after lvl 10, i again contemplated ignoring roseonline.
blah. it’s too cute to ignore
most of all, i just did as many quests as i could, since i am kinda waiting for adam and jake to join the game. but the quests are kinda intriguing..
ended up going to different towns, re-looking at the places all 3 of us have been in. had fun tho
lineage 2 wise, i am 69 now ^_^ 69.69% to leetness and 100% more to skill set
bumming around on off days are good. oh wells, back to work tomorrow night….
P.S the secret to curries, as i discovered (for me anyways), are tomatoes…..
anger and spite
i should perhaps start putting categories up, shouldn’t i?
no work today, still awaiting some response before i start selling my ibook proper on ebay tomorrow evening. i am feeling a little sad about it, but there’s nothing i can do to prevent it heh. funny eh, attachment to non-living things.
that would probably explain the presence of the tonnes of junk in my room that i refused to throw out every single chance i had.
the saddest part of course, was scrolling through various websites, even widget application downloads, then suddenly realising, hey wait a minute, what am i doing here… i won’t be having this in another 2 days, unless a miracle happens. T_T i am sorry, dearest charbie, i don’t wanna let you go too, but i do really need the cash, and even if i do let you go, i would still be short on cash.
so it was with such a heavy heart, i join l2 today. i have slowly eased myself back into the grind from which i have escaped from due to too much things to handle irl. i thought i could play on l2x for abit, but it soon got boring. you get to level fast yes. but beyond pvp and more lvlling (of alts and such) there really is nothing much else to do.
so while in there, one dude i know and i were chatting. this guy’s old clan was part of my old alliance. however, they had some disagreements, and the clan left the alliance to form another alliance. more arguments ensued tho, and the clan more or less died, and the guy i knew, with a few others joined the alliance’s available clans.
now, despite the confusing relationship, we were essentially friends, mostly these 2 guys and me, and we often mess around alot. for the more… casual players, politics in the game is something we just paid lip service to. like me, if we have to kill, we kill, but we won’t put our clans in jeopardy and the relationship stays fine. nothing to do with being friends after all, this is a game at the end of the day. i shall name these 2 guys Mike and Marc (just for fun ).
now i have been in this game to know quite a number of people. it’s not a popularity contest, nor trying to show off, it’s just a matter of fact, especially when u have played for abit in a game such as this. a couple whom i knew from long ago joined that clan. i don’t know them well though, and infact rarely saw them ingame. so, i doubt they remembered me much from way back then. as is proven from what i am about to say next.
a few days ago, my old clan was gearing up to pvp them some where. i decided to watch, and perhaps help out. and all i did was buff them. they were my clan after all, nothing wrong. marc was there, and i decided to play with him. followed him around town just for fun, nothing wrong, just chatting with him, but in private msgs.
on the side, felyne, one of the old couple (they are like 40+) was busy trash talking my old clan. when suddenly she turned on me. “i wonder what would happen to you if he suddenly ports.”
in the game, if i am auto-followed on a person, and the person ports somewhere far, i “zoomed” into walls, or mobs. so my reply was a normal “i will zoomed! :D”
bitch was like “oh, ok. i just don’t want you to do a bad job of checking out our locations.” perhaps reasonable in circumstances where i was tagged. even in those circumstances, it would have been normal. but i got miffed instantly because marc and i knew each other, and anyone could tell i was playing, as it was me, not like some other jerk.
of course, she didn’t know me. so i stood my ground and told her off. “felyne. my politics is very simple. if i want to know where u are, i will ask you. i don’t jeopardise pvp with my familiarity with people.” silently, i was also wishing her to fuck off into her corner.
she stumbled for a while, talking still in a condescending manner, as if she owned the server, telling me “oh, good. not everyone’s politics is simple…”
in those few sentences though, she started insinuating that i was probably using walker. a bot program that also shows you who’s where in a certain vicinity bigger than what the game offers u. i am not sure how it works, altho i was told that it could do several other amazing stuff.
Seeing that she was doing her bad attempt at trash talking though, i ignored her for the rest of the evening.
3 days ago, she and husband detagged from that alliance they were in, claiming that they were the rudest people they have ever met, and a bunch of other nonsense. frankly, with her condescending manner, i am not surprised at the number of clans they both have clan hopped. so mike and i were chatting about them as per norm. then suddenly, “you know, felyne said that you were using walker to find out our locations through auto-following marc.”
“WHAT!?!?”
“yer. she said that in ally chat.”
at that point i blew. while it would have been fine if she had presumed i was on bot mode due to me following smoke around, she had never even seen me level ever since like, last august or some shit. botting, in my honest opinion, is retarded. it’s like paying 15 bux a month to have a computer play the game for you. i still don’t know what joy people get out of it, but that’s not my problem. as long as i don’t do it, i am perfectly happy.
same goes for ebaying.
and because i work hard for my levels, i would not have people slander me behind my back like that. i know it’s just a game, there’s a point when that line is crossed though, and i had enough of felyne as it is. i have only heard her once a long time ago on sanctuary. she knows NOTHING about me to point false accusations my way. so i messaged her.
“you know NOTHING about me, you have never tried to either. don’t assume you know ANYTHING about me or the things that i do before slandering shit behind my back. don’t you tell people that i am BOTTING before you even bother finding out more.”
she was like, “WHO are YOU?! i don’t even KNOW you, nor have SEEN you!”
i was like, “sure you haven’t. i am anivyl that’s WHO i am. you saw me just last week or so” (and perhaps old age has killed ur memory cells.)
in the ensuing conversation, she went on to deny it, while i heaped it at her to butt off.
felyne, “you are too insignificant for me to know you, hun, or even care about you.”
me, “sure i am, perhaps that’s why you have to resort to slandering behind my back don’t you?”
her husband started pm-ing me on the side a totally different tale. (no i didn’t bother to keep screen shots. they really aren’t worth my time to keep.)
anjoux, “she’s in tears. are you sure it’s not felyn from pda (another clan)? are you really sure? why would we do that to you? you especially of all people. we do know you…”
tell me. which of her part of the conversation sounds like a weeping woman, and which of it sound like she even wanted to clear up the scenario. neither.
apparently they later on jumped on the vent of the alliance they were in, to whine about me telling her off. to which they claimed to me, that their old alliance said to them that the alliance was spreading tales about them just coz they quit the clan.
she insisted on knowing who told me, and wanted them for her screenshots. i was like “wow damn up yourself aren’t you?”
she started whining again.
at any rate, between mike whom i know, and her, who would i choose to believe? mike. her very actions on that day that i played with marc showed me she already thought i was using l2walker. her denial can only be caused by 2 things.
1) she is too old to keep any fucking memory of anyone more than herself and her husband.
2) she just doesn’t dare to get anymore deaths coming her way.
after i have said my piece, i was done pretty much. but she kept on whining with her husband, saying that it was all just a lie cooked up by the alliance coz they left. to shut them up, i just ignore her and just to the husband. he said she has a reputation to keep.
what reputation? slandering reputation?
it’s just a game. and yet she’s a bitch in game. imagine irl *shudders* glad i don’t know her irl.
gopets
ah… it’s been a while since i have played such games. gopets remind me of neopets, albeit all updated and meant for this generation of players. blogs, pet blogs, ipod for you pets, and making u interact more for the shells (their currency).
when my pet first got her panda suit and i found the nameplate for cheaps at 1 gold (click on images for bigger image)
random people’s pets appearing on my desktop ^_^ this encourages community spirit (or so they think. honestly, these people leaves testimonials and adds me as friends but i think i talk about… none to them )
a fortune cookie’s saying… how ODD IS THAT SHIT! ahaha
like neopets, you can adopt pets, unlike neopets, there’s only 2 different pets so far, a dog and a cat. the thing is, the first one is free, the 2nd one tho costs you 50 gold shells. you only earn gold shells through referring people and/or buying them, subscribe to them. yer, it’s like approved ebaying.
i guess it can’t be help though, it’s not like making a server is free.
anyways, the game seems pretty neat. i checked them out months ago, but i couldn’t play much because the client was essentially in chinese, and traditional chinese too, which i can’t read. i couldn’t find the option to change it to english so i gave up.
coming back to it, i found that we could adopt dogs and there’s panda suit.. yay.. plus a real background now instead of just our desktop, which can be annoying. the bad part is, whenever events occur in the game, it windows me out of l2 (i left it running in the background) or whatever i do. this happened so much i had to quit l2 client.
blah… pink mask next year then
i am starting to collect lotsa stuff in the game. well i intend to. it’s nice to be able to dress up your pets anyways, or your character. that’s one thing sad about l2 i can’t make bw robes PINK robes anyways.
that’s my doggie… YES IT’S CALLED RANG RANG!!!! and the other dog is called wang wang… lol… yer i made another account coz i was too poor to have another dog. at one stage i was sharing stuff between the 2 accounts, but i decided to consolidate into one account instead. need to raise money now to dress up wangwang too lol
i should make a cat or a dog with all those cute double names like ruru… or roro or baibai lol…
shop’s doing pretty well too, and until i ran out of fortune cookies they were giving me great stuff as well. pretty cute game… maybe i had be as addicted to it as i was with neopets too ;o
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