Can’t stop loving rain

It’s been raining a lot in many places of Singapore for the past 4-5(?) days. For some unknown reason, I like the sound of rain outside my window.

The other day when I walked home from the bus stop, it was drizzling lightly that time. The raindrops falling on me felt comfortable and I just forgot all the stress I had that day at work.

Till now, I haven’t had my mobile phone changed. Mum’s friend is too busy to meet up and I need her to transfer the account to me now that I have Singapore PR. I want to change my phone to one with a built-in camera to take photos for this blog~ 

First relic armor!

I honestly didn’t expect it would drop. My Abyss Sollerets in Dynamis-Bastok. So I never bothered when they didn’t ask who wanted the DRK relic feet during the preparations.

But it dropped! I lotted after asking if it was ok and I got it~

Not exactly a useful piece but I still want to collect the whole Abyss set and wear them with my Chef’s Hat. Dark Chef ver.2!

1 reason for not outsourcing

My boss decided to outsource one of our projects to India because of the lack of programmers in the company. This same project is given to us from a big client.

Well, the Indian guy who was working on it did a piss poor job and ran off with the money. Refusing to fix and complete the project until we pay him more.

So now, I’m cleaning up the mess he left behind. I reduced his Dreamweavered HTML page from 400 lines down to 40 by removing useless <table>s and making good use of the PHP include() function. The whole site is supposed to be PHPed anyway.

Everything is so much neater and easier to control now.

Still, our project deadline is screwed and instead of having our workload reduced, I have to work at home sometimes. :\

And it’s 2006!

I don’t feel that "new year" excitement I used to have back in my student days anymore.

While my friends are out there partying and enjoying the crowd and fireworks, I stayed at home logged in to FFXI.

On Dec 31st, I’ve finished the last 2 AF pieces for my BLM, both with incredible luck. Key dropped within 30 minutes and I found my coffer at the first coffer spawn location I went. So I went back seeking for EXP PT. Didn’t get any.

So I logged out at around 11pm and watched Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind until it was after 12am.

Then I realized it’s 2006 and I suddenly feel like I have forgotten to do a lot of things. Feels like I missed my last chance at accomplishing things.

Checking back at my blog entries, it goes way back to 2004. Time flies. ( ´Д`)

Anyways, the new bed I bought arrived earlier in the afternoon. Before, I’ve been sleeping on the floor on some thin mattresses and a friend advised that I should stop doing so for health reasons. I’m going to lie on my new bed and play FF2 on my little Nintendo DS till I feel sleepy.

Happy 2006 to all my friends.

全力全開の麒麟戦, ZenryokuZenkai’s Kirin battle

23rd December was the last event of my sky LS, ZenryokuZenkai. With suggestions from a member, I decided that we have another Kirin battle for that night.

About 19 people turned up. I started to get a little worried. But with Coolio’s assurance that we’ll be ok, we went ahead.

Everyone gathered at Kirin’s room. An LS was fighting them so we had to wait. About an hour later, our turn came but unfortunately, during that one-hour wait, one BLM logged off because he wasn’t feeling well and the other fell asleep. We proceeded with 3 BLMs and a total of only 17 people.

Even with the low number of BLMs, we killed the 4 lesser gods surprisingly smoothly with no deaths. Our plan for the melees create dark and light skillchains (depending on which lesser god was summoned) for our BLMs to magic burst was executed swiftly.

After this initial battle, everyone’s morale went up. One of the JPs said "いい感じ" which means "nice feeling".

We very few deaths and mostly from Kirin’s Astral Flow. Nevertheless, we emerged victorious after a one hour battle.

My shoulders ached but damn it felt good winning in small numbers.

Because of the lack of a THF for his Treasure Hunter 2 job trait, the most expensive item Kirin dropped was just an Orihalcum Ingot. ( T-T)

I can’t help it, just want to brag a little, please forgive me! ( >_<)