Kazham

We finally got to Kazham. Seems like it’s the homeland of the Mithras. Click on the thumbs for a much bigger picture.



Some pretty ladies.
As I head back to my Mog House to get stuff before leaving for my flight,
I came across a pretty Red Mage wearing spectacles.


Impressive view.
Impressive view.
An impressive view of the lands we flew over.


Around the deck.
Around the deck.
Some pictures of the airship.


She laughs.
Laughing Mithra


Another view during the day.
A clearer view during the day. This was our second flight back to Kazham.
We went back to Jeuno to buy a map.


First Death.
My first death in the Yuhtunga Jungles.
The bard in the background is playing us something from the top20 countdown! lol


Taking advantage.
Taking advantage of a helpless Mithran NPC.


I spent most of Sunday fishing. Sold the Bastore Sardines at 800gil a dozen, Quus at 500gil a dozen. They were sold off rather quickly. And I earned around 5000gil that day from just fishing. I needed the gil to buy a second-hand piece of body armour. Fishing skill LV 3!! [XD]

Another Day!

Apart from 20+ log entries belonging to a PacificNet user who refreshed my main page 20+ times every 5 seconds, my blog has been aggressively visited by MSN’s spider. About a total of 150+ requests over the weekend! [8|]


There was a Philips Carnival Sale going on at Philips HQ at Toa Payoh. I went down on Saturday and just as I reached the place, it started to rain [>(]. I quickly ran around drenched, to get my flicker-free desklamp($50) for my room and a vacuum cleaner($95) for my home. Recently our 10+ year old and huge vacuum cleaner broke down. I disassembled it to find the plastic inside had cracked and the power connectors could not come into contact anymore.


The desklamp was great. “I have the sun in my room! Fear me!” kind of great. It didn’t cause my second monitor to flicker when I placed the lamp near it, which the older one did. It had a safety switch at the bottom to cut off the power if it topples over. Flicker-free is also friendly to the eyes.


We ended up selling the vacuum cleaner to my mum’s friend because another friend of hers is giving us a free one. At least I managed to buy what I intended to from this sale in the first place. Rest of the day was spent on FFXI. I’ve got some pretty cool screenshots which I’ll post after lunch.

The Dark Dragon

Evasama and I accepted the 3 Kingdoms mission which requires me to
travel to the Windurst Consuls in San’doria and Bastok. I made the decision
to visit San’doria first. Our quest there was to defeat Warchief Vatgit at
Ghelsba Outpost. We found him and easily defeated him.


Then we travelled to Bastok on chocobos. We raced each other and the loser
has to pay the winner 100gil. I lost my direction easily at West Ronfaure, and
he took the lead. But at La Theine Plateau, Evasama made the mistake of taking a
longer route around the mountains and I took a shortcut through a valley. This
allowed a big gap between us with me in the lead. [XD]


At Bastok, we were told to investigate Palborough Mines. We made our way
safely to the Burning Circle, where we fought a Seeker and a Dark Dragon he
summoned. Our first attempt was a total failure. We died before we could take
down Seeker. Prepared, we went on a second attempt to defeat them. This time,
Seeker died but we got petrified by Dark Dragon’s skill “Petro Eyes”. We could
only stand there immobile, allowing the dragon to slowly claw us to
death.


3rd attempt proved to be better. This time we almost killed him. It
was a close battle between me and the dragon. I am very sure I could kill
him if only I could hit him once more. But Evasama ran out of MP and could not
heal me. 3rd attempt failed and I levelled down.


We decided to head back to Qufim and train ourselves to get stronger. It took
an hour to find some great party members. There was no casualty and we were
doing fine. It was this party where I met Tarutaru Goreth and Elvaan Dustyn,
both whom at the end of the levelling session, offered to help us fight the Dark
Dragon and his master. Needless to say, we defeated them with ease. [:D]

A photo of us, preparing to fight the dragon
A group photo of the party, prepared to fight.


First, the seeker.
First the seeker. Evasama casted Sleep on the Dark Dragon


Then the dragon
Dark Dragon
Dark Dragon
Then the Dark Dragon

Why oh why…

Why do I even bother quarelling with immature people? And have to face
their childish antics? Seriously, if this trend continues, Singapore is going
down for sure. I’m not saying this because I’m a Malaysian (Hell, I was
born and spent all my life in Singapore). I’m saying this because in a
desperate attempt to appear as a funny person to others, these little shits can
come up with the lamest crap and laugh at their own jokes.


Again, I blame this on local chinese TV programmes led by Jack Neo and
company. I also blame the army for fucking up the minds of many people and
some friends.


I seriously need to practice the power of self-control and will myself to
ignore these brats.


Check out how some people define the word Singapore
at UrbanDictionary.


My favourites:


A country where bubblegum is banned, oral sex is banned, owning
guns is banned, and sodomy is allowed.


Don’t go to singapore, I should know, I live there.


A country where chewing gum is banned. It’s in SE Asia and it’s
government is far too narrow-minded for it’s own good. The education level is
high, but only because of the immense pressure applied to students there,
forcing them to do well. The citizens all speak a common language, regardless of
race – Singlish. It is English, but with Singaporean flavour. Singaporeans are
described as ‘kiasu’, which means that they have to be numero
uno
in everything, second to no one. This is a mentality which Singapore is
famous for. Constantly arguing with Malaysia. Boasts a very good security and
army, but that’s only because it’s small, and therefore easily protected.
Ridiculously proud of it’s island, Sentosa, which is supposed to be a tourist
attraction but in reality, is actually an overpriced, overhyped and overbaked
island. You’d be better off in Bali. The temperature in Singapore rarely drops
below 30 degree celsius.

Don’t send your kids to schools in Singapore.
There was a boy who commited suicide because of all the pressure he
got.

The old times were the worst yet best times

Spent a lot of time over the weekend re-arranging stuff on my main computer. Moving files around, reducing the stripe size of my stripe-raided raptors to what others say, an optimal value of 16K. I removed my 80GB harddisk to be installed at my office machine. I filled it up with so much anime and MP3s it slowed performance down noticeably.


Besides spending hours at night fiddling with hardware, I had a healthy dose of social activity at a friend’s 21st birthday party. Only a handful of each of her primary, secondary, junior college friends and her relatives were invited. I happen to be in the same primary and secondary school with her, so I had the chance to chat with a lot of old friends. Somehow I feel rather refreshed after that night.


I ordered a few CDs off cdjapan the other day. They are in the process of shipping now. Should arrive in the office by next week. Rather cheap than buying from HMV. That shop charged up to $70 just for an imported album. I ordered Kotoko’s Hane album, The Pillows’ Fool on the Planet, Onegai Teacher – Love a Riddle Image Song Album and a Onegai Teacher OP & ED Theme song Singles. Both Onegai Teacher albums have songs sung by Kotoko! [XD] Everything totalled to S$123. Nice number eh [X(]. Shipping will be done via vPostJapan to reduce shipping costs. And those CDs, especially The Pillows’ albums, are near extinct in Singapore. Waste of money? No. I believe good things must be enjoyed at their best. [:)]