Something to say?

I got lazy. I want to update, but I keep procrastinating.

I don't think this is actually the best time to be saying something, because I'm sort of worn out after a day of rehearsals and guitar orientation.

And apart from the performance, it was Victor's birthday today. I bought the cake - Belgium Chocolate it was. Had to rush through the rain to get to school before the break was over, because otherwise I'd have missed the chance to get it there when everyone was present. Furthermore, I overslept - in fact I skipped the first two periods, so I take responsibility if I failed to deliver it.

I might be raiding for the first time on LOTRO this Saturday, if my application got through. I don't know, I don't really care if I don't get to join, it's just something to experience.

One last thing, my desktop monitor died out on me. Thankfully I got a laptop, and there's where I'm posting from right now.

Start of a new trial

I completed Trials and Tribulatioins at last.

I ilke the ending, how they rounded everything up quite satisfyingly.

And so I started Apollo Justice. First case was really nice. I'd say it's comparable to 3-1, maybe even better.

4-2 looks to be all right so far. You don't learn much about the defendant on the first day though, and that's the point where I'm up to.

Hmm, what else...

Cabal. I didn't quite enjoy it. It was astonishingly easy to level for the first 35 levels or so. Then it got boring for me. I don't know, never had much interest in it in the first place. I was just trying it out of boredom.

I got lots of catching up to do for guitar. Don't know if they're going to make us perform that piece of music or what, but how the hell do you play a descending passage in thirds that fast. Practice, yes, I know.

And I've been thinking of returning to LOTRO. These recent updates look pretty good, to be honest. I think I'd do that, just to kill time till Warhammer, which has been delayed till fall, comes out. I don't think I've ever talked about LOTRO here, but I played it for a few months last year.

Oh and one last thing. 14 days till NEW 逆転　NOT 裁判. No information regarding the game has been released yet, so it's still pretty much a mystery to everyone. Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

As though nothing ever happened

To some extent, it's true.

Xeo's PC broke down so that explains his disappearance for the past week or so, right after getting his cooking apron from the cooking guild.

I've been playing 9Dragons for most of the break, and for some unknown reason I actually rather enjoy it. It's not often that free online games actually catch my attention for long. I don't know if it's because of the interesting kung fu or what, but yeah, I like it, like I said.

Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning needs to be released already! I hate to say it, but Final Fantasy XI is getting a little boring after so many years; close to 4 now, I think. And that might be an understatement, because I'm biased.

Well with all that said, I'm looking forward (not) to the remaining 3 weeks of my break.

Just a short update

Steini and Tarfur were brewing beer. XD

And uh, exam results will be released tomorrow. I don't give a damn, really.

Perfect Cadence

I'm finally done with the theory grade 8 exam today. 3 damn hours in a cold room, it couldn't have been any better. Luckily for me my nose didn't act up so much.

I met Xue Li at the entrance after my exam. What a coincidence, considering I'm no longer entered through the school. I switched to a private teacher last year. It wasn't such a surprise to me though, I mean, we were both taking grade 8.

It was fairly easy I think. Question 1 was very fun to play around with the sequences, and question 4 was, hands down, the easiest question I've ever come across. I guess it's safe to say that. I'm going to laugh if I fail that question. Question 5 had me trying to recall single and double reed instruments. I didn't figure it out in the end, I just guessed. 2 and 3 were average. Not the hardest I've seen, and at least the damn tune was easy to hum out. They could've thrown us 6 sharps with lots of accidentals or something, heh that'd have been hell.

Okay I got sort of carried away, but well yeah the exam wasn't so bad.

I watched The Spiderwick Chronicles a few days ago, and I thought it as pretty good. At least, in my opinion, better than The Golden Compass. The tickets were free too, cause I won them from Lime or something. That guy's sister reminds me so much of Karin from Shadow Hearts Covenant, with the rapier and all. And I think she was the only one who did any actual fighting. The rest was all throwing and spraying tomato sauce and stepping on floorboards and stuff like that. Pretty interesting though, and the idea that the ogre would become his father didn't occur to me.

On Phoenix Wright, I slowed down a little. I'm still on case 5 of Trials and Tribulations and things are looking quite interesting right now. I wonder who would be the next few witnesses to appear.

I guess I've said all that I wanted to for now.

Minor 2nd, Perfect 4th down

All these strange fucked up dreams or nightmares I've been having lately...

Must be due to all this lack of sleep for the past week. I mean, it's good to have a wild imagination sometimes, but this is clearly getting out of hand.

Well, believe me, you can't trust your dreams.

17 minutes

17 minutes on the train home.

17 minutes of nothingness, only because there's no seats and it's packed to the brim, so to speak.

At times like these the only thing I can do is try to balance myself the whole time.

I think.

Trials and Tribulations

Case 3-2 clearly demonstrated "Double Jeopardy", whereby a defendant cannot be tried in court again after being declared innocent for a particular crime.

3-3 is about a poisoning incident at a French restaurant. Pretty interesting case, dealing with money and loans and all.

3-4 occurs in the past, and is Mia's first case as a defense attorney. I didn't get to play much of it before my batteries started to die, though. I don't like to play while it's charging, cause I get pretty restricted in terms of movement.

I'm aiming for the last case tonight, but now that I think of it, maybe I don't have the time. I'm going to party with Xeo and Wak on Dragoon. Ah yes, I finally unlocked it a few days ago, and I'm really enjoying it so far. My only gripe is with the wyvern dying to AoE attacks ever so often. It's easy to neglect its HP and wanting to keep going, so sometimes it dies before reaching the 20 minute recast.

Well now that I'm on break, I actually followed a couple of friends to look for a job through an agent. I'm kinda nervous about the whole thing, I don't know how it'd turn out. It keeps flashing through my mind like some pestiferous, uh, thought. Can't settle for a better word right now. Heh, I don't know, all I can do now is wait and see.

Perhaps I'd be more comfortable teaching piano instead. All I need is to get my grade 8 theory certificate. Speaking of which, my theory exam is just 2 weeks away, on 15th March. Am I prepared? I hope I am.

And uh, is it just me or was that thing he wrote kinda sketchy? I get this subtle hint that he's insinuating something about that person. Well, I didn't think it was too hard to catch, but I must commend his effort for trying, even if that wasn't his original implication.

Fragrance of Dark Coffee

Godot's theme is pretty awesome, I have to say. And the orchestral version of it makes it so much more amazing.

I'm currently on case 2 of Trials and Tribulations. Case 1 was rather good, comparing to the previous 2 games first cases. Case 2 so far seems like a pretty interesting change from the normal cases. I won't spoil what it is, but well I don't think it's that hard to guess either.

I got hold my copy of Apollo Justice, so right now it's just sitting there waiting for me.

And in Final Fantasy XI, I think it's finally time I try to unlock Dragoon. Everytime I decided to do it, I'd start having second thoughts about it, because I needed to mine for a dragon egg, then fight a dragon way over at Sandy. I guess I probably wasn't very interested in Dragoon after all, huh, if being able to play the job wasn't even enough motivation to unlock it.

Well now back to more Phoenix Wright.

Examを終わりました

It certainly was a coincidence today. I met the guy who liked the Final Fantasy piece that I played on piano 2 years ago. I didn't stop to chat though. I was too tired and was slightly disoriented after sleeping on the train home.

My last paper was today. I'm glad it's over, for now at least.

I think I finally got the rough idea of riding a bicycle, thanks to everyone's help. I still have some trouble balancing, but hey, it's progress.

I apologize if I dampened anyone's moods at first. To tell the truth, I felt pretty lousy all of a sudden. I figured I wouldn't be able to succeed in learning and didn't want anyone to waste their time trying to teach me, that's why I kinda discounted myself to even rent a bicycle. Call it inferiority complex.

On a much brighter note, Apollo Justice will finally reach stores where I am, tomorrow. That's more than enough motivation to finish up Trials and Tribulations, which I just started this morning, before my exam.

And in a few, I will turn in after a long day of...

Objection!

Exemplification of Deterioration

I should've seen it coming.

Honestly, it was far worse than I thought. That's the reality.

When did school end up like this?

On the spur of the moment

I don't really know what I'm doing anymore.

Why does it dawn on me that what I've done is hyprocritical, why do I get this feeling that you're giving out subtle signs that you hate being "betrayed".

I don't know exactly what I'm doing here.

I wasn't trying to do anything I didn't intend. Somehow, something keeps overwhelming me with possibly irrational thoughts. I wasn't ignoring. Well, I was trying not to ignore. It was totally unachievable.

And on the spur of the moment, I feel I should go back to what I was. I feel like not being associated with anyone would put me in a more advantageous position, where I wouldn't be accused of betraying anyone or being some selfish hypocrite. After all, I never had anything to do with you in the first place, right?

I don't understand why it is so difficult to return to my previous self. Back then I never talked enough to hurt anyone, I never did anything to possibly harm anyone. I never had any usual "friends" I could hang out with, I was always alone.

Alone. I liked the solitude.

But I realized something, there'll come a time where you won't get anywhere by yourself. Which is why I so painstakingly forced myself to talk more, because this is what everyone says. Talk more, you're too quiet. It's not something innate. I couldn't just suddenly be able to talk and converse well with people. In so doing, I think somehow, I forced out any words I could think of, to the extent I don't know I actually trespassed their sensitive zone. I believe I possess some charactersistics identified in the diagnosis of Asperger's Syndrome, and well, I'd say that doesn't help much.

That's when I started Final Fantasy XI. I didn't need to converse with people face to face. I could do so online, represented by my alter-ego, my character in the game. It's safe to say the game changed my life a lot, because I met a lot of people I couldn't meet otherwise. Many people actually had an impact on me, many I respected or just had lots of fun with. It also changed my view on things and the world, made me more open-minded and more familiar with things I wouldn't know being cooped up in this country.

I guess my topic kinda strayed a little. What was my topic to begin with anyway?

Ah yes, talking about Final Fantasy XI sparked me up, I don't really feel all that lousy anymore. But my point still remains. This isn't just a one-time thing. It's a recurring event, and it's bound to catch me off guard at some point.

I don't know what'll happen then. Meh, I shouldn't even think about it.

On the bright side, 2 papers down, only Java left. And then a 2 month break.

I'm willing to bet peoples' dispositions will change once our second year begins. It was never set in stone anyway, eh?

Can I even say anything?

Tell me the definition of a friend, because I think, I've gotten the whole concept wrong.

Or should I say, your definition.

I don't want to care about all these little things, because honestly, they are ubiquitous. Precisely so that I want to ignore it. But some people just have to bring up all these petty annoyances every single time.

While I agree different people have different definitions of the word 'friend', I'm sorry to say that yours might be a little far-fetched.

I'll tell ya what I think, I'd say it's jealousy. Jealous that someone just stole your precious gems away from you for a day or so. And no, I never signed my name against the slip of the anti-hero in your story.

Whatever it is, don't end up doing stupid things that only you can think of. And don't say I didn't warn you.

Yeah, I'm gonna ignore whatever foolish acts you're gonna draft up.

I thought what I'd do was, I'd pretend I was one of those deaf-mutes.

Hold it!

Professor Layton and the Curious Village for the DS will be released today.

9 more days to Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney...

...And 8 days to my first paper.

I like how games I want are being released during the exam period. It's almost as if its mocking me. Though exam or not, I'm still going to buy them.

The soundtrack of Folklore is pretty good, in my opinion. Many tracks manage to set an atmosphere that is haunting and somewhat creepy, yet mystically beautiful. I am able to picture how certain events play out just by the stories drafted by the music, and I haven't even played the game. Definitely going to get this game when I get my Playstation 3.

Studying would commence soon. Damn these exams, spoiling my holiday mood.

Hmm...

Y'know sometimes I let what I say to people bother me. "Sometimes" might even be an understatement.

Perhaps being too frank or sarcastic sometimes just doesn't cut it. I mean, it's possibly because of the people's reactions and how they take your words. These kind of responses, verbal or non-verbal, somehow overwhelm me pretty easily. And in your subconsciousness, it keeps telling you, yeah you've just messed up.

Though of late I've been able to overcome this with lesser effort, I can't say that these feelings have totally dissipated. I don't think it's aberrant either.

I wonder if anyone else have this kind of feeling, the feeling of thinking you're lousy just because you think that you've screwed someone over, even though it didn't matter to that someone (but you don't know whether it did).

Well, just something that came to mind.

Reprise

Been a while.

I just decided to change this whole damn thing to a simpler looking page.

So about a year has gone by, with a shitload of events. I'm not going to list them all. In fact, my mind is pretty blank right now. For some reason this always happens when I type.

Final Fantasy XI has remained rather stagnant for me. The number of times I've logged in for the past few months can probably be counted using my own two hands. Most of my in-game friends have either quit and/or gone to WoW. In fact, if it wasn't for Xeo's second return to the game, I don't think I'll still be talking about it. I just leveled Dancer with his Black Mage a few days ago.

School has been what it's supposed to be. It kills people, I tell ya. Projects and tests are armed with a whole array of weapons, and the people don't make it any better half the time. Well, school does have its fair share of enjoyable moments, though, I'll give it that much.

There's this classmate of ours that we've decided to beleaguer with sarcasm all the time. I was probaby off my head, but I enjoyed it so much, it was literally an all-out assault yesterday.

Wrong time to be up, I'd say. I forgot what day it is.

Happy Chinese New Year everyone.

.hack//G.U. Vol.2 Reminsce

11 more days. Plus a few additional days for it to arrive in Singapore.

Well I'm at school right now I don't even know what else to say.

Linkshells...

Now, I know if the members of Deosil find and read this they'd probably kill me, but meh.

To tell the truth, I tossed the linkshell. Intentionally. I couldn't stand how things were in the LS. I tossed it once before, but someone asked for my return. Tossed it for the second time now, and I'm never going back. I go out of my way to raise some people, and nobody gives a fuck when I die. It's not like I actually beg people to raise me, because it really don't matter, but when I do ask the least you could do is give a damn response.

I don't know exactly what happened a couple days ago, but from Xeo told me, I knew that shit was happening in the LS. Stuff about whining about people talking behind their backs and threatening to quit the game because of it. I'm glad I'm not in it anymore.

I tossed one LS, and I joined another, with good reason too. An old friend of mine is the leader of this Gods/HNM linkshell, so I joined it. I was given a chance to be a sack holder too. Hope this LS goes well, and that everyone gets something good out of it and stay happy.

Well, time to take a nap. The first sky farming event is in about 6 hours.

This is not worthy of a title

Might need a Raise III for this now. It's been what, 2 months since I last came on here?

So I got my results for 'O' levels, entered Nanyang Polytechnic blah blah...

Basically, back to school. Honestly, is there even anything to talk about?

Been on FFXI as usual for the past few months. The return of Xeo is probably the only reason I'm even playing the game anymore. I mean, I did make a couple of new friends since really getting back into the game. Slayerofdark and Athenor, just to name 2, but they're both no longer playing FFXI. Athenor quit apparantly of real life issues, and Slayerofdark, well, just disappeared one day.

After giving up on Blue Mage because I didn't have sea access, I waited for Xeo and some others in our "semi-static" to catch up with my 60 Red Mage, then started leveling that. Got it to 70 before saying argh fuck this. Besides, I didn't have good gear for it. No way in hell am I gonna buy a Penitent's Rope or Jet Seraweels for it.

So I put Red Mage aside and re-geared up Bard, probably the only job I really like.

As I type this, it starts raining, and I get a sudden memory loss. Ah, don't you just love forgetting what you had in mind just a SECOND ago...

Raise II?

Well well. Looks like I left this for dead once again.

Took up Japanese for 3 weeks now. I'm on the 4th, and I believe, the last for the basic course. No more long boring bus rides! Seriously, I fell alseep on the bus on the first day, and well, ended up somewhere else. Ahaha...

So days before Christmas last year, a whole bunch of friends came back to FFXI. And once that happened, naturally, I started playing more of it. Xeo came back after quitting for months or something, maybe a year. Made some new friends as well while leveling Blue Mage and Ninja.

It looks like I might have a chance to join an end-game LS for once, after nothing for 2 years. First Jakal asked me to apply in Anduril, but I read the reqirements and stuff and it said that bards needed at least CoP8-2 and above. I'm on 2-5, and completing 6 CoP chapters anytime soon is fucking impossible. Another one was introduced to me by Deathseeker. This one well, he gave me the site, but I couldn't access it... which brings me to right now. Bills didn't get through for the month, so I can't log in at all. I can't ask anyone anything.

Hmm... I just realized that the two people mentioned above are huge enemies in Ballista, so it seems.

The new "Salvage" thing was pretty fun. Kinda like Dynamis and Limbus, people say, but I don't know I've never done any of those. You are thrown into this area for like 100 minutes. They seal off all of everyone's job abilities, sub-jobs and magic, and also strip you of your equipment, lower your stats and HP/MP. So basically all you have at the start is to use H2H to attack... which makes Monks really useful in there. Of course, any other job with H2H skills work, like THF for example. Oh, and healing items like Hi-Potions are absolutely vital.

As you fight through the area, some of the mobs drop items which unseal a given part, like say, one unlocks the usage of magic, and another unlocks body equipment, stuff like that. Some mobs also drop the items needed for the new awesome Salvage gear. I don't know much after that, cause we didn't make it far with only 6 of us. We got booted in the area where the Flans were.

I've been leveling Puppetmaster as well. It's kinda fun, cause it's one job where I didn't need to rest once up till the 10s. Just fight, and automaton cures when on how HP, then activate Dark Maneuver so that MP is refreshed. Well that's how it goes for the most part. I do use Stoneskin and Flash and other maneuvers like that.

Well anyway, I need my content ID reactivated...

Before I die, heh.