Monthly Archive for February, 2007

world without warcraft

Saturday
Cuzzies!
WoW
Marche`

cuzzies and relatives visited from Singapore, and we had fun with the limited time we had. loitered around in the morning having breakfast, reading, and chatting before they had to leave for a wedding. spent some time then doing SFK. at night we younglings spread our wings and flew to The Curve for good overordered food and shopping. got myself a book for my upcoming roadshow. the rosti at Marche is good as usual, but the beef pepperoni sausages were a bit too much. sauteed mushrooms also ftw.

Sunday
Cuzzies!
Briyani
Star Movies

traveling day. could only spend the morning with my relatives and cute cuddly niece. by 12.30 Sue picked me up to go to the office, and then to Haz’s housewarming in Puchong. she had hired our usual office caterers, Asyura; they make a mean briyani. there were also sweet butterfly-decorated cupcakes, and moist choc cake. and those prawn crisps junk food we used to eat when we were young. :)
after eating we headed on to Muar for the first day of the roadshow on Monday. the group was feeling too lazy to go out and look for Mee Bandung, so we just had Kak Ita’s leftover mee goreng that her mom had made. i was planning to read the books i brought but there were good shows on tube, e.g. the original Poseidon, and National Treasure. oh, and we stayed at the Classic Hotel. rooms were great since they were recently refurbished.

Monday
The Giver
Academy Awards

started reading The Giver, which i found resting on a bookshelf at home. i’d always wanted to buy this, but i guess i don’t have to now. :) by this time, we were already in Melaka, staying at this old hotel called Emperor. it’s so old, the elevator buttons reminded me of the ones you might see in black and white movies. creepy place.

there wasn’t much on TV too, except for the Academy Awards. NTV7 did a great injustice to viewers by mutilating the show. what’s the point of watching if you can’t catch the presenters’ jokes and the performances lined up in between? argh. luckily we got a somewhat-stable tranmission of Singapore’s channel 5. but they only started at 10pm, and we were really sleepy by the time they got to best actress in a leading role.

at least i finished the book. hate these kind of endings.

Tuesday
Discovery Channel
Belgariad: Pawn of Prophecy
Newsweek

we’re in PD now, staying at our company condo. nice place, well maintained. has a nice pool, and it’s right next to the beach. but no, none of us got ourselves wet, except for Sue on Sunday morning. i might be imagining it, but the PD beaches seem a little cleaner than before.

wasn’t much on TV except a special on volcanoes on Discovery. HBO was showing crappy old movies. so it was back to reading. finished the 1st book of the Belgariad, which i bought on saturday. it didn’t have an ending, so i guess i’ll have to get the other 4 books. :P

Wednesday

i’m hoping to WoW a lot today. :P

Shadowfang Keep

well, i’m still stuck at Hillsbrad. the next item on the guide tells me i need to take out a level 37 yeti. definitely need some company for this. so instead i did a quick SFK run while the relatives are out. got myself a [Feline Mantle] and a [Belt of Arugal], but at my level they may be replaced soon.

chump change compared to what all my guildies are getting. :P after this will see me taking a break from WoW for a few days. have to go outstation for a roadshow till wednesday. should’ve bought that notebook earlier. :P
btw, i found out i can just feed my Auctioneer links from WoW right into ItemStats. beats having to do searches on Allakhazam or Thottbot.

back to haunt me

remember how lucky i thought i was last year?

well, turns out it wasn’t to be. received the summons for that particular offense last night via Poslaju. either the policeman i talked to didn’t update their list after letting me go or they decided to saman the whole lot anyways.

or perhaps i don’t really look that innocent anymore. :P
sigh, now i have to figure out how to get this paid up by today. don’t even know if there are any more appeals allowed, or if there’s any easy way to do this.

anyways, happy birthday to Shaz and Em. and happy birthday to Dawn tomorrow. may this year offer more goodies than the last. :)

today’s traceroute

from 219.95.171.222:

> traceroute us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com
traceroute: Warning: us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com has multiple addresses; using 12.129.232.114
traceroute to us.logon.worldofwarcraft.com (12.129.232.114), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 10.11.12.1 (10.11.12.1) 2.428 ms 1.737 ms 1.850 ms
2 219.93.218.177 (219.93.218.177) 15.559 ms 12.133 ms 13.793 ms
3 219.93.216.101 (219.93.216.101) 26.100 ms 9.953 ms 12.849 ms
4 210.187.132.83 (210.187.132.83) 15.644 ms
210.187.133.83 (210.187.133.83) 8.953 ms
210.187.132.83 (210.187.132.83) 8.201 ms
5 58.27.124.62 (58.27.124.62) 11.142 ms 9.170 ms
58.27.124.58 (58.27.124.58) 8.830 ms
6 219.94.9.21 (219.94.9.21) 8.971 ms
219.93.174.67 (219.93.174.67) 8.935 ms 8.936 ms
7 12.118.124.97 (12.118.124.97) 234.767 ms * 234.700 ms
8 tbr1-p012101.la2ca.ip.att.net (12.122.2.250) 236.309 ms 242.712 ms 233.744 ms
9 12.127.3.185 (12.127.3.185) 249.406 ms 245.472 ms 241.452 ms
10 12.122.255.74 (12.122.255.74) 239.642 ms 232.888 ms *
11 mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net (12.129.193.242) 236.085 ms 235.859 ms 237.083 ms
12 *^C

— mdf001c7613r0003-gig-10-1.lax1.attens.net ping statistics —
59 packets transmitted, 53 packets received, 10% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 259.478/275.212/440.641/32.227 ms
>

sylinfel wants…

Avatar Regalia
[Shroud of the Avatar]
[Handguards of the Avatar]
[Hood of the Avatar]
[Leggings of the Avatar]
[Wings of the Avatar]

posted this as a test message on fazhira’s blog. but here it is, as my loot target. :P

i haven’t wowed for days. think my rested xp bar is at full capacity. wish i could but… i just suck with lag. FPS’es included. :P hopefully my IP script will find me a 218 and i won’t have to spend extra money on either a netmyne server or a notebook and starbucks.