Perfect World March 21, 2008
Posted by alhana in ~ Musings, ~ Online.Tags: game guide, MMORPG, online game, perfect world, perfect world online, skill calculator, stat calculator
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I said to myself that this is gonna be the blog that i will be updating regularly. Looks like i already made that statement false. Hahaha
Anyway, i am not updating this much because i am too busy with another site. Actually it is about this online game that i am playing. Perfect world online.
Although the Philippines version is different from the international one, due to different names and items, the basic gameplay and quests are the same.
So without further ado, i present Just Perfect - one of the best PW resource guide online (love your own of course).
Visit it if you want to learn about the game quests and such. I didn’t put anything regarding what the game is, i am assuming you know about it already. Although i might put up an informational guide there someday as to what this game is all about.
I am trying to find the formula for the defense. As for now, i still haven’t found it. I am also going to change the map in the interactive map.
I want to put there a stat calculator, an interactive map, skill calculator, monster interactive map.
Someday….
PS: i didn’t win in the contest but i was one of the finalists. Maybe next time i’m going to bag that prize.
Just Perfect February 12, 2008
Posted by alhana in ~ Musings, ~ Online, ~ Relationship.1 comment so far
Perfect World Online – Philippines has an event regarding love stories for the valentines season due 12 midnight (it is 12:15 am right now) and i submitted my entry hopefully on time. This is my story.
The Rules:
WinterTsuki’s Love Notes
“Letter Writing Competition”How to join:
• Participants will write about their love story in Perfect world.
• Compose your entries via letter format.
• There are two categories/theme that you can join:
• Love Lost (PW related heartbreak)
• Love Won (PW related love stories)
• Length should not exceed 500 words.
• Submission deadline: February 11. 2008
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Title of Work: Just Perfect
Size: 500 words
Description: “Letter Writing Competition” – Love Won
Resources:
Just Perfect – http://janelh.wikidot.com
Rafi’s Blog – http://rafi3.wordpress.com
My previous online love story – Lokiboards 2005 Valentines story
My previous blog – http://yggdwasilbewwy.blogspot.com
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Hi Winter,
If you had told me a year ago that having a boyfriend in game and in real life is possible, I wouldn’t have believed you. But that was my belief then, not now. Let me tell you why.
Reality sucks so they say. We wake up, go to work, go home, sleep then repeat the same cycle the next day. For me, my routine includes school and playing online.
Pretty hectic right? That’s why I swore off having a boyfriend. It wont fit my schedule anymore. I told my friends that it’s ok for me to have an online boyfriend coz I would only need to entertain him online. Talk about convictions. I even wrote in my blog that real and virtual lives don’t mix. My online boyfriend lasted a year but we broke it off because he wanted to be my real life boyfriend too. I told him on our first day that once reality sinks, that’s the time to cut the relationship loose. So I did… we did. Online is online. Real is real.
So how did I change my mind then you might ask? I played Ragnarok before. I have an officemate who was also my friend in game. One day he went to my station and he mentioned that he is now playing a new game called Perfect World. He even said he’d let me borrow his installer so I could try it out. I half-heartedly accepted it. I didn’t know my teammate heard. He said his twin is also playing the game and he said that if I am hesitating to play because I know nobody there, he would be willing to play too. He was playing Eve online that time so starting a new game would be something we would share.
His name is Rafi. He’s my teammate but we don’t talk to each other much. Ever since we played the game together, we found out bits and pieces about each other, mutual likes and dislikes. He was teasing me to another teammate of ours and I was doing to same to him to an officemate. They say “tulak ng bibig, kabig ng dibdib”. That was so true. Everytime I tease him, I always think “why can’t it be me?” I had begun to like him and I never thought that it would be vice versa.
One day while doing some quests, our partymate asked if I’m a girl. I said no. Rafi said “Oo babae yan, kaya nga mahal ko sha eh”. To put it mildy… I was shocked. His twin said, “sabi na nga ba!” That’s when I realized he was NOT joking and he meant what he said.
I didn’t say yes right then. But now we’ve just celebrated 4 months together. You know what Winter? Real and virtual lives can mix. I just never realized how simple it is until I’ve experienced it for myself. What can I say? Life in Perfect World is Just Perfect.
Sincerely,
Catherine
Office Relationships September 23, 2007
Posted by alhana in ~ Relationship, ~ Work.Tags: boss-employee, Love, office drama
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There are many kinds of relationships we find inside our workplace. Some could be due to hate for the management or love for it. Filial relationship if it is a family business. Boss-employee respect or lack of it. Office drama unfolds everyday and sometimes it is nice to just sit back and watch it pass in front of your eyes. Rumors, intrigues and just plain chit-chatting. 
From acquaintances to friends and sometimes it can even blossom into love. This kind of drama is often the talk of people around me and is the most common conversation piece especially if the people talking are from two different teams and have different problems with their own bosses.
How do you turn someone down without affecting your office relationship?
How do you move from just being friends to being more than that?
How do you give hints or make subtle moves?
Many “how do you” questions..
I have been a part of this office drama. It looks like I will be a part again of this same drama. Hahaha. I don’t know what to do.
Filial relationship? How important is it? August 22, 2007
Posted by alhana in ~ Family, ~ Musings, ~ Relationship.3 comments
I am basically the blacksheep of my family. That doesn’t mean i don’t love them and they don’t love me. But for some reason I keep encountering family relationships and filial love going the opposite directions.
For the past relationships that i had, the guys that I was linked with have family problems. Most of them come from broken families… and it made me think. Is this one reason why I was attracted to them? Is this really a common denominator?
Both of the parents of the first guy I was with have different families now. He lived with his relatives and his immediate family was nowhere during his childhood. That made him protective of himself and his feelings to the point that the girl he’s with gets suffocated in the process. That girl was me.. before. Although I understood that he didn’t want to be hurt again… I guess i didn’t understand how much he desired stability and commitment. I just wasn’t ready enough. Last I heard of him, he got into a fight with his family and left his home. Now I’m not sure if he still feels some kind of filial love for them.
The next guy I was with have problems with his father. The way I understand his story.. His father left his mom when he was young and recently his father showed up and wanted to be friends with him. He refused. He said that why, when he’s already an adult, would his father make his presence known to them when he never did before? Forgive and forget? I don’t think this guy would be capable of doing that to his father. Not in the near future anyway. I don’t really know. Will the love go away among family members if one member leaves the pack? How long would a person need to wait before being forgiven?
The last person I was serious with also have major problems with his father. Unlike the previous guys, this guy have siblings and all of them are not exactly keen towards keeping a filial relationship with their father. If ever he forgives his father, it will still not be enough for the father to be accepted back by the whole family.
One of my present crushes is ok with his family except for the part when his girlfriend comes into the picture. His kuya doesn’t hide the fact that he reduced the status of the girlfriend as merely the girl. One of his younger sisters echoed the sentiments of the oldest brother, that her kuya’s (my crush) girlfriend is a snob. I’m not really acquainted with the girlfriend to know if she is or is not a snob but then again it’s not my place to judge her. In the defense of his girlfriend, he said that he hates his family for judging his girlfriend. How far can filial relationship go? Is there a boundary as to when the love ends and the hate begins?
Makes me wonder if the next guy i’m gonna be with will also have some kind of problem with his family. If the guy I will end up with is gonna be the same as the rest of the other guys.. i don’t think i’d like that. Next time i will be part of his family (whoever he is) and that will mean i should be included in that circle of love.
~ Online August 17, 2007
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… My life online
… Gaming
… So-called Love
… My alter ego
… Technology
MY POSTS
Online relationships
Editing images online
Text-style messages
The dreaded monthly visitor
Relationships.. August 17, 2007
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Is online relationship counted as the real deal? Are online crushes counted as real ones? Can you totally say that you are not affected in real life by what is happening with your online relationships? I know i can’t. It is hard being cynical about it. I am not a damn robot and i was wrong to think that i can separate my real life and my virtual life.
I never had a boyfriend in real life. “Boo hoo”, “yeah right”, “stop being a bitch”, “act like a girl for crying out loud” and all other comments. Give me a comment and most probably i’ve heard it before. I used to think, what’s wrong with being single nowadays? Or for that matter, why do we need relationships for? To be committed to just one person. My friends who have boyfriends tried to explain to me the difference of having flings, MUs and having the real deal. I like flings. Been there done that little things. What do i need boyfriends for? If i want a date, it is easy to call someone up. If i want to kiss someone, then what the heck! Who’s stopping me? I never go beyond petting so i guess if that is what relationships are for… they are not for me.
After some time i started to think.. who am i fighting? I realized i am only fighting myself. I have never tried a relationship so i decided to join in the “bliss” they call love life. I want to experiment but I dont want to be a user. Being a user will not benefit me too since it will provide me a biased point of view. I decided to try having an online relationship. It can’t be that far from the real life one, can it? Mind you, it wasn’t easy for me. My 1st relationship ended a little more than a month after it started. We were friends to begin with and we are still friends now. I’m happy that i had the time to get to know him better. My 2nd relationship ended last week. I was the one who ended it. Long story but i think i made the right decision. I can’t say i loved them. I guess i still don’t know how to say if I really am in love. I do know i cared for them and i do hope that they reciprocated too.
Now what do i learn after going through hell and back? That was the right word to use.. hell. After my 1st relationship, i thought i am prepared the 2nd time… Wooot! Poor me.. i never learn. I think i will go back to my old me. The girl who used to go in and out of flings. The carefree girl who never had a boyfriend. Singlehood comments here i come again and i welcome you with arms open wide. It’s a good thing reality is very different from virtuality. You could be an introvert in real life and a total extrovert online. Lesson for me: Experiments are good but adventures are better. The next time i’m going to have a boyfriend, it is going to be the real adventure. Both online and offline. But first, i need to cut some slack. Go out again and meet some guys. Pick-up-lines never worked to get me before and i do believe it will still not work now even though my dating skills have become rusty.
I’ll stop this blog for now. Relationship is not really a picnic and soul searching has never been my cup of tea.
1st appeared in my nth blog on August 23, 2004
`Nuff to say that heartbreaks still hurt in real life much as it did online… being single is what i do best. I think.
Away sa Religion August 17, 2007
Posted by alhana in ~ Musings.2 comments
“Bat ba maraming religion? Different paths lead to the same God—at least iyon ang opinion ko. Ang ayoko lang ay ang mga tao na nagsasabi na mas tama ang relihiyon nila sa iba. Kasi sa paniniwala ko, kahit naman ano ang religion mo kahit ba polytheism pa, may isang god na naghahari. Halos lahat naman tayo ipinataw lang ng parents natin ang ating relihiyon kasi yun rin ang religion nila. Kaya nga dinidiscourage ng ibang relihiyon ang kasalan sa dalawang magkaiba ang relihiyon kasi baka daw magkakagulo. Eh ikaw naman talaga ang bahala kung anong relihiyon ang gusto mong paniwalaan. Kumbaga ang mga magulang lang natin ang nagbigay sa atin ng ‘insights’ at tayo pa rin tatanggap.
Sa pagkaintindi ko mabababaw ang ‘batas’ ng relihiyon. Tulad ng pananamit atbp. Lahat naman ata ng relihiyon eh may ‘weird’ na paniniwala eh. Dito kasi nila nasasabi yung ‘uniqueness’ ng isa’t isa. Pero nasa sayo na yon kung susunod ka. Kasi ang iniisip ng iba, kapag hindi ka sumunod, may kasalanan ka na. Hindi yun tutuo para sa kin. Tama nga na sumunod ka dahil sa paniniwala at sa sarili mo nang rason pero yung rason nila na parang nagkasala ka pag hindi ka sumunod? Bakit nakasaad ba sa ‘10 commandments’ na kailangang hindi ka nakaminiskirt kapag magdadasal ka sa kanya? Ako nga minsan kahit nasa CR ako at nakaupo sa inidoro eh nagdadasal ako lalo na pagtakot ako (e tingnan nyo naman ang itsura ko nun). Kaya lang naman ginawa ng mga relihiyon yung ‘batas’ na yon ay para makontrol nila ang lumalaganap ng ‘masamang effect ng modernization’ ika nga eh. Kasi ang mga tao nagpupunta sa church hindi naman para magkumpara ng suot na damit o magtingin kung sino ang magagandang chicks eh, nagpunta tayo para sumamba sa Panginoon.
Dito ko ipapasok yung Biblya. Ano ba ang Bible? Isang libro tulad ng Koran (tama ba?) Basta nandito ang mahahalagang documents na ayon sa relihiyon natin… ipinasa pa ng mga kanunu-nunuan natin mula sa mga ninuno nila. Ilang beses na itong sinubukan ng science… tulad ng wala naman daw tayong tunay na dokumento para masigurado sa carbon dating kung tama ba naman yung mga dokumento na yun. Bakit? Nung nag-aaral tayo ng Kas2, sinabi dun na ang pag-aaral sa history ngayon hindi lang naman daw batay sa ‘real documents’ o relics and artifacts pero pati retold stories eh pinapahalagahan na rin. Kaya hindi talaga natin masasabi na mali yung Bible. Posible ngang ang mga disipulo ni God ang nagsulat nito o posible rin namang sinulat lang ito ng mga taong gustong gumawa ng paniniwala. Kahit ano pa, may naitulong na rin sa Biblya sa atin. Para malaman natin kung ano ang kinikilala nating tama o mali. Nasa atin na yon kung tatanggapin ba natin. Kung tutuusin naman halos lahat nasa atin kung gagawin natin eh. Kaya nga tayo may ‘free will’ na tinawag eh. Isang pinagaawayan pa eh hindi raw nabanggit sa Biblya ang ibang planeta o mundo. Malay ba natin kung sa ibang mundo eh meron rin silang sarili nila na Biblya (hindi naman natin alam eh) at hindi rin tayo binanggit. Pero nabanggit naman ang ibang mundo sa Biblya natin eh, kc kung mapapansin natin, sabi sa Bible, GOD CREATED THE WORLD. Anong mundo? Yung atin ba? Hindi natin alam pero baka naman sa mata ng Diyos, ang mundo nya ay ang universe na maraming mundo hindi ba? Nakita ba nating binaggit ang ‘Pilipinas’ sa Bible? Hindi naman pero bakit tayo naniniwala? Kasi Bible narin natin ito at kasama na tayo dito. Kahit hindi nabanggit ang bansa natin, kasama naman ang mga taong naninirahan dito. Parang ganun rin yung ibang mundo. Hindi man banggitin ang ibang mundo pero ang mga posibleng nainirahan sa kanila eh nabanggit rin sa sinabi na GOD LOVES ALL. O di ba? Tama ba logic ko?
Dito ipapasok natin ang mga ritwal ng mga simbahan. Kapag lumawak ang paniniwala mo sa sarili mong relihiyon magkakaritwal ka rin ata e, gustuhin mo man o hindi. Yung simpleng pagdasal lang masasabi ng ngang ritwal. Marami kasing ritwals at ako mismo hindi naniniwala sa iba. Pero hindi ko naman masasabing masama akong Kristiyano. Hindi naman lahat ng ritwal binabalewala ko. Hindi ako naniniwalang kailangan ko pang mag-sign-of-the-cross tuwing magdadasal ako. Ginagawa ko yun kasi nasanay na ako. Hindi rin ako naniniwalang kailangan ko pang kausapin ang isang pari para marinig ni God na nagkasala ako kasi alam kong pinapakinggan niya ako at sinasagot nya ako kapag napatawad ako nung taong ginawan ko ng mali. Hindi ako naniniwala sa mga imahen. Hindi ako naniniwala kasi ang mga tao sumasamba na sa itsura ng mga imahen hanggang pupunasan pa nila ng kanilang panyo tapos ipupunas sa sarili. Kasi nagdadasal sila sa isa isang idol lang. Nagdadasal ako kahit nakatingin sa mga imahen kasi hindi ko naman tinitingnan kung ano yung imahen kundi kung ano ang sinisimbolo nito. Kahit nakatingin ako sa isang bulaklak nakapagdadasal ako kasi iniisip ko kung para kanino ang dasal ko at hindi ako nagdadasal sa isang bulaklak.
Ang huli ay ang ‘Faith’. Dito naman halos lahat nanggaling hindi ba? Sa faith na ito. Dalawang ibig sabihin pa nga ito eh. (1) faith na paniniwala mo (2) relihiyon mo. Kaso parehas na halos sila. Dito nagsimula yun “If there is no God, man would create one” at yung iba pang sayings like “God works in mysterious ways” etc etc. Ang faith kasi natin ay kung papaano tayo maniniwala sa mga nasa paligid natin at gumagalang ibat-ibang balita sa ating relihiyon. Ako kung napansin nyo na, nakwento ko na ang aking faith. Ang mga paniniwala ko’t at ang pagkakaintindi ko sa mga relihiyon. Nasa inyo na kung paano nyo tatanggapin ako, itong mga pinasasabi ko at ang sarili nyo na ring paniniwala.”
http://www.peyups.com/article.khtml?sid=277
Opinion, Contributed by catherine (edited by karl)
Friday, September 14, 2001@ 02:23:01 PM
Peyups.com
365 1/4 things to do August 17, 2007
Posted by alhana in ~ Musings.add a comment
Remember every year as the clock strikes 12 midnight and signals a brand new day in a new year?
Well, every year i make the same new year’s resolution.. and every year out… i often realize how i broke each and every resolution i make. That’s why, instead of creating a new year’s resolution… i decided to make a list of what i need to achieve. This list can be done in a year or it might take me my whole lifetime. Either case is fine by me as long as i get to achieve all of it.
- Publish a book
- Tour the Philippines by myself
- Win a drawing/singing/dancing contest
- Start a business of my own
- Climb a mountain
- Adopt a baby
- Go bungee jumping
- Enjoy another country
- Skin dive in the ocean
- Ride a balloon
I haven’t finished my list yet. I hope i can find some other things that i would want to do in my lifetime. (Of course meeting the man i will love and hopefully marry him and start a family is so generic and therefore obvious enough not to be included in the list)
1st written on August 25, 2004
Done:
Been to Baguio (by myself) and to Boracay and Batangas with companions.
Catherine
