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Sigh…

Just when I thought things could get more fun, it became {Incredibly tough} for me to find a party invite for levelling. [:(]


It’s Saturday and I spent the whole day waiting for a party invite. While waiting, I watched Kyou Kara Maou on my second computer. At the end of the day, all I got was an invitation into a poorly formed english party. I ended up earning only 3000 exp points over the course of 3 hours.


This party consisted of a NIN/WAR (tank), DRK/WAR (damage dealer aka me), SMN/WHM (healer), BLM/SMN (magic burster), THF/NIN (hate control), RNG/NIN (damage dealer). As experienced FFXI players know, we had no BRD or RDM to speed up MP recovery, we have a slightly gimped healer, and one too many meelees.


But despite that, we managed to kill but have high downtime. Worse, the RNG refused to change camp spot even though the Robber Crabs at Kuftal Tunnels spawn near us. The neighbouring party had left and we were the only ones left. So we ended up with the SMN and NIN dead when a crab spawned while we’re halfway fighting another one. The SMN summoned Fenrir to attack the second crab that aggroed us but instead, accidentally hit a lizard.


There are too many other DRKs in my server. You have to have some reputation or good equipment or being a Japanese to have a high chance of being invited over the others. That, or I just have bad luck looking for a good exp party these few weeks. {/sigh} {/cry}

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RSS2.0 Newsfeed added

Some friends on IRC asked me to provide a newsfeed so they can check for updates via their rss reader. So here it is! The link to the file is on the right section. Wrote the whole thing in about an hour while waiting for a exp party invite in Final Fantasy.

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Sitex 2004 – Razer Event

Sitex, IT and consumer electronics exhibition, has never interested me ever
since my first visit to one. There’s never any worthy promotions and stuff to
buy. But I went down yesterday just to accompany a friend to a Quake 3 match
with this supposedly, world’s number 1 female Quaker. It was a 10 minute match
and whoever beat her to 12 frags first will win S$1000.


Before the first round of challengers begin, we walked around the place and I
got to play Soul Calibur 2 on the XBoX. Used my favourite character, Isabella
Valentine (Ivy) and completed the game! Well, that’s because someone set the
difficulty to 1 I guess. For the first 5 rounds, the AI was practically standing
there not doing anything.


Buzz, the guy I went with, used to be Singapore’s number 3 quaker. I don’t
know how his skills would rank him now. By the way, skinny man just received his
enlistment letter. Good luck!


Back to this competition thing, he was the last person of the first group of
challengers. Unlike the other challengers, he greeted Ms X during the warmup
round. Ignoring the rules, he pulled down the console and made sensitivity
changes. Players weren’t allowed to change the controls in “the fucking interest
of time”. It doesn’t take forever to change the controls to suit the
player.


Anyways, of the first group, he’s the only one who survived longest, 8
minutes, and almost fragged her. Score is Ms X 12 – Buzz 0. Organizers awarded
him with a Razer Diamondback mouse. Worth about S$105. Check link 2 for
the thread at HTGK forums for some photos and info on later groups, where
someone managed to frag her once.


Link 1: The challenge.
Link 2: Thread discussion in HTGK Forums.


Photos, taken from Link 2.


Ms X vs Buzz
Buzz



Ms X

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Theres something about Original Software

2 new original software came in this morning at work. A Visual Basic.net Standard and Photoshop CS. Of course, the VB.net package is the first to be torn open by me. [XD]


Too bad there’s no tall wallspace at my cubical to stick up some of the VB.net posters. They would sure make me feel more like a developer and give a little motivation boost. Heh.


Right now I’m struggling with another bad cold. Nose running, eyes watery. Sheesh. I’m beginning to suspect the dust in the office. Perhaps it’s time for the aircon filters to be serviced again.

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DRK AF2 – Chaos Sollerets

Feeling a little motivated today, I did a little shout in Jeuno for help with my second artifact armor quest. I just did one shout and in 3 minutes, received an invitation to join party. In it was another level 52 Dark Knight, probably the one who needs the quest too and a high level 72 Dark Knight, the one helping us.


Then I helped out with a bit of shouting and we got ourselves another level 40 White Mage, 52 Dark Knight who needs them boots too, and Evasama, lv 44 Black Mage for Warp 2 once the quest is over. It was quick and simple. Teleport-Holla, ride a Chocobo to Ordelle’s Caves, kill 3 Notorious Monsters and then it was over and I got new shoes~



Later that day, I went to level my Thief job. I need the Treasure Hunter Job Ability. It’s time to farm for materials to sell for gil and buy myself some new equipment. Then I got asked down by a Linkshell friend to Crawler’s Nest for Selbina’s Rolanberries quest. Nice, earned 15K gil. But I left midway when I heard news of a Japanese forming an alliance to Xarcabard for the Genkai 2 quest.


When one hits level 55 without completing this quest, he cannot level to 56 and above. And considering this quest takes a lot of people, I seized the opportunity to ask to join them together with another friend in my Linkshell, Tatomi. It was fun and they were kind enough to return and kill the first Notorious Monster again when Tatomi forgot to receive the quest from the NPC, Maat.


Tarutaru Panic!
Tatomi(Left) Seraphx(Right)