Healing Breath PT

Grabbed a few friends to go on a merit PT.

The 4 people I asked, said ok. And I forgot to consider the jobs they had and in the end, all 5 of us had only melee/tank jobs.

My friend suggested getting another DRG and he will come as DRG himself and let the wyverns do the healing. So it’s a DRG/WHMx2 heal breath PT!

A few exciting moments as we don’t have any mage to sleep the links. Although my enfeebling skill was capped(225+5 from Abyss sollerets), all my sleep spells were resisted. orz

We could chain #5 and were doing pretty ok for a merit PT. Camp was Mount Zhayolm at Cerberus’ spawn area and we fought troll RNG, DRK, WAR, PLD, MNK.

Of them all, RNG was the most undesired mob because of it’s AOE WS. MNK too, as they attack fast and have low delay. Takes shadows off the NIN fast.

All trolls have Overthrow WS which goes through shadows and does 200~400 damage?

I don’t know how healing breath works but from my observations, the DRGs cast poisona while moving so the spell gets interuppted, and at the same time when the spell starts casting, the wyverns use Healing Breath III which heals about 250HP?

It’s common to see everyone having yellow health.

It turned out to be quite fun!

Maxed out my 10mbps bandwidth


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It was 2am I think. Off peak hours in Singapore. There’s rumours that Singnet (local ISP) throttles down our bandwidth during peak hours so all it’s customers can have a smooth internet experience.

Anyway, I was very suprised to hit my maximum downloading bandwidth. I’m on 10mbps ADSL2 plan. The max theoretical download in MB I have is:

10Mbits = 10,000,000bits

1Byte = 8bits

1KByte = 1024Bytes

(((10,000,000bits / 8) / 1024) / 1024) = 1.19MBytes

To hit 1.3MByte (point 1 in screenshot) is very suprising.

Take a look at point 2 in the screenshot above. That’s a truncated list of people I was connected to for that torrent. The top 3 uploaders to me were uploading at 400~500KByte/s to me.

Point 3: They were from Japan.

Recently a JP friend of mine in FFXI told me upgraded to a fibre optic connection. Seems like it’s very common in Japan?

Genting Highlands

I celebrated Chinese New Year with my relatives in Malaysia.

Took a 9 hour coach ride north to Kedah, had a 1 hour break and then another 4-5 hour car ride south to Kuala Lumpur, to Genting Highlands.

It was my first time there.

Went up by cable car. The following photos were taken during the 10~15 minute ride up.

Genting Highlands is basically like a holiday resort? High up in the mountains above the clouds. Oh yea, the chinese word for Genting is 云顶. It means "top of the clouds".


Amusement Park with some nice thrill rides.

See that high pillar in the middle? I played that one. Wasn’t scared at all! But I loved that feeling you get when falling down.


View from my hotel window on the first day, around 6pm.


View from my hotel window on the second day, around 8am.


Beautiful morning…

On the second night, I went to the casino with my cousin, we were there from about 11pm to 4.30am. Spent all of our time at the "Big Small" table.

The game goes like this, 3 dice are rolled and people place their bets on whether the sum of the 3 dice are big(11-17) or small (3-10). Triple 6 is not considered as big. There are also various other combinations you can place your bets on.

The minimum bet you can make that night was RM20. I changed RM100 for some color chips and played slowly in small bets.

People around are playing in sums as huge as 500~2000 at 1 time. I’ve also seen an old lady, the average kind you see on the streets, throw about 30 RM50 bills on the table to change for chips.

I won RM210 in the end. The most I’ve had on hand was RM400.

I changed all my color chips for cash chips and kept one five dollar cash chip as a souvenir. :D

If you want a high res version of any of the above photos, post the filename in the comments and I’ll put it up. Kinda lazy right now, haha.

WikiTravel: Genting Highlands 

I haven’t quit too!

… just going to Malaysia for the Chinese New Year. :)

I should be back next week, Thursday/Friday.

I’ll try to take photos!

I’ll be travelling by coach. The bus ride will take 8 hours, from Johor Bahru to Sungai Petani in Kedah. That’s where my mum’s relatives are.

I’ve been starving myself these days by skipping breakfast and lunch to lose some weight as there’ll be lots of delicious food to eat while I’m there.

Not sure if my relatives still have internet access. The last time I went (about 2 years ago), they’re on 56k!

Anyway, see you next week!