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A series of earthquakes near Taiwan damaged a few undersea telecommunication cables.
With those cables down, connections to a lot of oversea servers are affected. I have difficulties trying to logon to FFXI myself. Gmail sites and lot of other sites are unaccessible.
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Well, most of my friends and I are bored of Christmas celebrations already. We don’t feel excited when Christmas comes.
Orchard road is crowded. Too damn crowded. My friend suspects it’s the Christian theme going on over there that occupies half the pavement that’s worsening the situation.
Anyway, on Christmas eve, I met up with my poly friends. We had dinner at Ang Mo Kio’s Seoul Garden. Indoor table barbeque, buffet style. There’s lots of different kinds of meat with different kinds of flavors for you to choose. Chicken, beef, turkey. All raw. You grab any amount you want and bring it back to your table to cook it.
There was coffee chicken but it was too sweet. I suggest consuming only small amounts of this. Too much will make you feel sick. At least for me.
If you grab too much and can’t finish, you’ll be fined SGD$5 for every 100 grams of wasted meat.
After dinner, we drove down to Bishan’s Junction 8 where we watched Death Note 2 at 11pm. It ended around 1.30am. It’s so convenient to own a car (but maintenance is expensive).
I’ve never watched the first Death Note movie but I just went along and watched it. I’ve read the manga so it’s ok. I think the manga is better than the movie.
So the rain lasted more than 30 hours.
A lot of places were flooded. Along the corridors outside my office, the drainage holes on the floor where rain was supposed to flow into, had water gushing out instead.
A lot of other places were flooded.
But I had a very comfortable night’s sleep. :D
Then the worst part came. Today morning, I waited almost an hour for my bus no. 166. The one I take to work everyday. Then I gave up waiting and crossed over to the other side to take other busses to get to the train station. On this other side, 3 of the 166 busses came.
I guess the flood was so bad last night the drivers could not drive the busses back to the Ang Mo Kio Bus Interchange to stand by for the next morning.
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… even if it makes travelling to work and back home difficult.
It’s been raining for the past 24 hours. With a few short breaks of less than an hour.
It’s flooding everywhere now.
Ahh….
Well, FFXI just got updated with a few new stuff. I’ll just go through it briefly on those that concern me most. DRK75, PLD75.
Mog Locker can now be expanded to 70 slots.
At the cost of 5 Imperial Gold pieces. Good thing I have 70,000 Imperial Standing points to spend freely.
Shortcut to Tu’Lia aka Sky.
3 clear chips are needed and they cost 21k each. Or you can just buy 1 but you’ll only be able to warp to sky from the crag you traded your chip to. You will also have to finish the CoP 8-3 pot battle. Because you’ll need the title you get from that BC.
Excellent. Because I go to sky a lot.
Update: blah, seems like there’s a random chance for the chip to break so you’ll have to spend 21,000 to buy a new one to fix it. Not sure if you have to register again.
5 sets of new equip.
I feel lucky the Ares’s set can be used by PLD and DRK. But then again, to obtain the materials needed to make these new equip would require lots of Salvage battles and about 10~12 pieces of the already expensive orihalcum ingots and other hard to obtain items. Oh, and the Ares’s set looks very cool.
(*´д｀*)ハァハァ
If I can, I’d choose the flanchard first! But it’s going to make my DRK’s TP gear look very very ugly…
Sentinel, Rampart and Shield boosts.
Sentinel is tested to give 50% damage reduction. Someone got 90% reduction but he tested it using cactuar’s 1000 needles. Could it be possible that there’s a higher damage reduction for monster’s WSes? Also, with Valor Leggings (relic feet) equipped, he got a 100% reduction from 1000 needles.
I did my own tests, only noticed damage reduction from normal attacks. I tested it with /rdm. I got 0 damage even when I didn’t shield block but my target was just an EP.
Didn’t get to test Rampart. All I know is it gives stoneskin effect against magic spells.
When you cast spells and you shield block when attacked, your spell won’t be interrupted anymore. Good news for the PLD/NINs?
Absorb spells reduced to 2 seconds.
From the previous 4 seconds. I wonder if DRK can create skillchains on their own now. I’ll wait and see if other DRKs can pull it off.
Now, best of all…
Lord of Onzozo will no longer drop Kraken Clubs!
Instead, SE are thinking of new ways for everyone to get the club. It would be damn awesome if I can get my hands on 1. I would like to experience Soul Eater, Blood Weapon + Kraken Club for myself. I may also have to level NIN to 37 for utsusemi too… Oh well, let’s see what the new methods of acquiring it are first!