Ho hum.<\/p>\n
*Cough* So, here I am, trying to make a decent, long post.<\/p>\n
What should I start with? Hmm…<\/p>\n
iPhone – My best purchase in Year 2009<\/strong><\/p>\n Okay, let’s start with my iPhone. It’s not a new purchase anymore, as I have it for almost two months. I’m still loving it, despite bad photos under poor lightings, as well as the disturbingly short battery life. The display is bright and colourful; the features are user-friendly; the App Store is filled with free (and paid) goodies; and I get free iPhone to iPhone messaging, thanks for the various apps out there. I’m also slowly getting used to the touch-keyboard. I still could not walk and SMS at the same time without looking at the phone, though.<\/p>\n Checking on Facebook and Twitter, as well as my emails have never been easier. Just a tap on the screen, and everything is loaded. Now I just need that IM+ application (which will cost me EUR7.99 T_T), and I’ll be connected to all networks (including emails) via Apple’s Push Notifications.<\/p>\n At the same time, my phone functions as a great MP3 player that plays songs with album cover as well as lyrics. I’ve yet to get my hands on that Sennheiser earphones with mic, but Apple’s bundled earphones are doing great on its own. So I guess I’ll save my money on that till the next PC fair… XD<\/p>\n Birthday Cruise – 11\/11\/2009~13\/11\/2009<\/strong><\/p>\n Yeah, and so that was my birthday present this year – a 3D\/2N StarCruise trip to Malacca\/Port Klang.\u00a0 He was initially mulling to take the junior suite, but honestly the price was totally not worth it.\u00a0 In the end, we settled on a cabin with balcony.\u00a0 (No pictures, because I’m really too lazy to upload =x)\u00a0 We didn’t go for any shore excursions, and we stayed on the cruise for the whole trip.\u00a0 Food was okay, service was pretty good, bed was comfy, TV programmes were bad (despite it being cable TV)…\u00a0 and really, there’s nothing to do on the ship.\u00a0 We finished walking the entertainment decks even before the ship left the harbour.\u00a0 -_-;\u00a0 It was essentially just a rest-and-relax trip.<\/p>\n That’s a good thing because I was already half-sick before the trip, and hence I was still sick while on the ship.\u00a0 I just slept early, woke up, had breakfast, then went back to cabin to sleep\/rest, woke up for lunch, went back to cabin to sleep, then woke up for dinner, walked around the open deck and went back to cabin to rest.\u00a0 XD\u00a0 The balcony that we had to ourselves was a nice feature.\u00a0 Just standing by the balcony, feeling the wind, mist and rain hitting your face (yes, it was raining in the middle of the sea) was such an exhilarating experience.\u00a0 And of course, having your boyfriend standing behind you and wrapping his arms around you was a bonus.\u00a0 :P<\/p>\n Oh, and I did received a birthday cake and a birthday card from the crew on my birthday itself.\u00a0 :D\u00a0 It was a chocolate cake, albeit not very fresh, but still, it was a nice gesture from them.\u00a0 :)<\/p>\n After this cruise, I’d say… no more cruise to neighbouring countries.\u00a0 The next time I’ll go on a cruise would be an Alaskan cruise or cruise to see the ice fjords or something.<\/p>\n Upcoming Christmas Trip<\/strong><\/p>\n Ohhhhhh, this is making me excited.\u00a0 XD\u00a0 And damn it, I haven’t pack anything yet!! >_<!<\/p>\n I’ll be flying to Finland (yes, again!) on 19th this month to spend my first real white Christmas!\u00a0 The moment we touch down, most likely we’ll start to do some shopping for food that Reko and his mom will be preparing for the Christmas eve feast.\u00a0 I love shopping in their supermarkets, because the stuff they have there is so different from our supermarkets here!\u00a0 Although I can’t help them in preparing the food, I’ll try and see if I’m able to take any photos during their cooking process… mwahahhaa.\u00a0 Oh yeah, don’t expect to see Turkey on the table… As far as I know, they get ham for Christmas, not turkey… @_@<\/p>\n And and, we’ll be shopping for a real Christmas tree too!\u00a0 For the first time, I’ll get to put Christmas decorations on a real Christmas tree!\u00a0 :D\u00a0 And full of presents at the bottom of it too!\u00a0 Can’t wait to pass the presents and opening them in front of their fireplace… :D :D :D<\/p>\n After Christmas, we’ll then be heading towards Rovaniemi, Lapland to visit Santa! I’m still deciding whether to queue and take a picture with him or not… because I think a polaroid with him costs EUR25.00 and you can’t take photos with your own camera.\u00a0 >_>\u00a0 Oh well… we’ll see how bad the crowd and the queue would be then… No Christmas cards sent from Santa Claus’ post office for you guys, sorry!\u00a0 Because it’ll probably be Chinese New Year by the time you receive them… XD<\/p>\n I’ll be spending the New Year there too, and will only be on the plane back to Singapore on New Year Day itself.\u00a0 After this trip, I don’t think I’ll be going Finland anytime soon again though… I’ve been there during early Spring, Summer, and Winter (this time)… the only season I’m missing is Autumn.\u00a0 But since the right time to go during Autumn is hard to predict…. hmm… we’ll see how it goes.\u00a0 >_<<\/p>\n Ah, the updates on my normal life ends here.\u00a0 Below would be stuff regarding World of Warcraft.\u00a0 So if you are not interested, you can stop here and continue with what you are doing before you came here… XD<\/p>\n My World of Warcraft Updates — Don’t Read If You Ain’t Interested<\/strong><\/p>\n I have no life.\u00a0 LOL.\u00a0 I admit it!\u00a0 Every morning I wake up, I’ll go work.\u00a0 After work, I’ll go gym on alternate days, and then I’ll be home to play WoW.\u00a0 Honestly… I have no idea why I’m grinding money in the game.\u00a0 I will log in my two level 80 characters, do the easy daily quests, and get some gold.\u00a0 Then I’ll log on to my low-level shaman to play in some battlegrounds, leeching some XP from Alterac Valley.\u00a0 Last weekend, Reko and I actually started new characters again.\u00a0 \/facepalm<\/p>\n I had this sudden urge to play a mage again.\u00a0 I had one before… and I deleted her after she got to around level 30-ish, because I think she was too weak.\u00a0 But after so many patches and all the classes had went through so many changes, I’m starting to like mages again, since they are not as weak nowadays in PvP.\u00a0 And so, I started a mage (Blood Elf mage, naturally), and Reko started a priest to level with me.\u00a0 WoW nowadays is like a noob game, if you know what you are doing.\u00a0 It’s so easy to level at the beginning now.\u00a0 Mana regeneration is fast for spell castors, and if you are equipped with a wand, you can kill mobs before they even reach you.\u00a0 Easy-mode, I say.<\/p>\n Of course, the end game content is still not easy, especially for me and Reko who couldn’t join normal raiding guilds to gear up our main characters.\u00a0 It was so disheartening to see people calling out for groups in Dalaran, saying “LFM ToTC, link achv.\u00a0 Gear check @ Dalaran Fountain!”\u00a0 (It means Looking For Members, link achievement to show that you have went through the dungeon before, and there is a gear check on you to make sure that you have the right gear for the raid.)\u00a0 I mean, players without a raiding gear would need to start from somewhere, but where can they start if everyone who’s organising raids demands experienced and geared players?\u00a0 Zzzzzz…<\/p>\n And thus, Blizzard just came up with this patch that they hope would solve this problem.\u00a0 It’s a dungeon finder, and basically you just need to “queue” up to join a random raid group.\u00a0 Of course, if they are not happy with one player, they can vote-kick him\/her, but it’d require the whole group to agree to kick.\u00a0 In order to make people use this new feature, Blizzard threw in lots of incentives – giving emblems and achievements for frequent usage of this new dungeon finder feature.\u00a0 I nearly tried to queue for my hunter just now using this feature, but at the end I still gave up and didn’t try it, because I was afraid I’m too inexperienced and would drag the group down or something…<\/p>\n If one day I’m living in Europe for one reason or another, I’ll make sure Reko and I would go join a raiding guild, just to see what I’ve been missing out on… >_>\u00a0 I miss the sense of cohesiveness within guild mates… but I don’t miss the emo-drama that always seem to plague all online communities.. -_-;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ho hum. *Cough* So, here I am, trying to make a decent, long post. What should I start with? Hmm… iPhone – My best purchase in Year 2009 Okay, let’s start with my iPhone. It’s not a new purchase anymore, as I have it for almost two months. I’m still loving it, despite bad photos…<\/span><\/p>\n