Chongqing trip!!! - day 1 n 2

Happiness! My friends hse got wifi n together with this blogpress app I can blog n post pics I took on my iToy! Didn't take much pics thus far tho, n all he scenery pics I only took with my camera. So only have pics of the stuff I bought today!

Arrived here ard noon yesterday. My friend n her dad n her uncle who was driving were at the airport to fetch me. We went for lunch on the way back to her hse. Ate 老鸭汤 with radish. The radish is diff from the ones in sg. These ones are slightly sour n gave the soup a lovely sour tinge that made it super nice! They eat it with green chili as a sauce, but since I don't take spicy food well I didn't take much of the sauce. It isn't too terribly spicy tho. We ordered some veggies to add to the soup, sort of like hotpot style. There was thinly sliced cucumber too! Nvr knew it can go into the hot pot, I'll definitely want to try it at home - need some good cutting skills tho.

After that we rested in her home till after dinner. Dinner was cooked by her mum. Porridge or wat they call 稀饭 (we normally just say 粥 in sg) was serve with tomatoes, bitter gourd, some veggie dish, meat slices with 咸菜长豆, and a 麻辣 dish with slices of tripe, pork telon, beef... Quite a lot of stuff in there, can't rem wat else, but it was super good, and not really that spicy.

Went to walk ard the neighborhood after dinner. Not that hot aft the sun sets. It's really super hot here. Like way hotter than sg. Even stuff like the soup n shampoo are lukewarm. Feels like ur constantly in an oven. Thk god for air cons! Dunnoe how I'm gonna survive when I visit the expo - long queues and all outdoors in the burning weather! I will die!!!! Anyway I got a china sim card, and after that we went to the supermart n bought like breakfast for today.


Woke up at 9 this morn n had breakfast. Ate the stuff we got yest, some local 糕点, n had yogurt drink too. Think they eat a lot of yogurts n yogurts drink here, alot of it in their supermart. Their supermart also sells cooked food like duck feet, pork slices, fried preserved veggies with meat... All sorts of stuff!

Went to the city area today. Took mrt there n visited several shopping malls n a bookshop, the largest in CQ. The bookshop is like 6 stories high. Got the following items there...



Japanese textbook! My friend has it too n she says it's good. Our sch course teaches sososo slow. No wonder my teacher last seem had such a great time laughing at us. This ones the most beginner lvl textbook, and has book 1 n 2. Both for only rmb64. N comes with cd too!






Yup! A DVD abt expo! 8 hours long on 4 DVDs, this one is more ex, rmb100.


My friend kept asking me to buy clothes, shoes, assesories etc. Trying really really hard to change my tomboy look... Took the abv pic in a changing room - she made me try a shirt but me being the fat pig that I am... The shirt was uber fitting n show off my tummy real well, smthing I have no intention to do...


She made me try a dress too... Seriously!!! A dress that shows off ur shoulder too at that! No way I'm gonna buy that thing! The last time I wore a dress is in jc 1... That is if u count rg pinafore as a dress. Besides that... Maybe in kindergarden or lower primary??? Getting me to buy a dress failed... Than she spotted the bear as shown in the pic abv in the same shop. I tot it was a pencil case, but turns out o be a recycling bag. Asked me if I wanted to buy it cos it's so cute, I find it ok I guess... But just that I took the blue bear instead of the pink one she showed me... If there wasn't a blue version I might not have gotten it... N if cos it's on offer too.. Usual price 99bucks, a whooping 20sgd can u believe that???!!?!?!? Thankfully 有打三折 which means 70% off in case u r wondering. 6 bucks... Still kinda ex but oh wells...



Went to an accessories street. Quite a huge area n loads of shops, didn't really buy anything... N well the necklace abv, my friend ask me if I liked it, I didn't want to keep saying no so I just smiled, than bravo... She haggled with the shopkeeper, succeeded n got it at 15rmb for me... Yes she paid, not me... Gotta treat her to a nice meal when we go shanghai n aft she come back sg. She's been paying for all sort of small stuff n makes me feel so bad n pathetic.




A keychain I got for me dad. 15bucks too n I paid this time.

A fan... Didn't bring one from sg so we decided to get a battery operated one so we can use at the expo. She got a strawberry pink one. 10bucks


Printed leaf vein bookmarks! 10bucks each.




Mint leaves n a mint drink. Just need to soak the mint leaves in cold water will do, can just add them to ur water bottle before u go out. Tastes quite good, tries it today. Haven tried the drink yet,
bringing it out tmr.





A snack that I got today, it's sesame, peanuts n macadamia nuts fried with dried chili. The stuff fillings into the dried chili. The on I tried is the less spicy one, n it really ain't very spicy. It's very crispy, and tastes quite good really.

That's abt all the stuff I bought today. Some other pics... 1st up is the expo passport. My friend ordered on9 n it got delivered today.


That's the cover.


The first page... N below ish the last


The passport cost 30rmb, but add in another 10 for the shipping.
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Yup that's the expo ticket! 100 bucks each times 3 since we decided to spend 3 days there. Can't change pic orientation on my iToy so just tilt ur head n bare with it yeah?

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Goals, Holiday, and a Landmark Announcement

Well... with that latest patch with a ton of stuff to do and only one month... its really tough for me... the one who is going on a holiday to visit my friend in China (as well as the world expo!) from the 11th to 29th of aug. plus sch starts on the 30th of aug... i barely have any time to get my ringer chars, get the ravana helm which i soo soo sooooo adore for the darling spd and jump... with that helm i'll hit max spd and jump on my hero! no need to item make a pants and shirt with amethyst or aquamarine. aint that great? of cos... when the potential scrolls come things will all change... but i'll leave that talk for another day.

yes. holiday in china, the 2nd of this holidays for me... extremely nice and long holidays alright... thks to the YOG with my sch used as the athletics village. but the next two sem we are gonna suffer tho... exams till like 23 dec next sem.... right before xmas. really ewwwwwwwww! (medicine students are always an exception... so dont compare it with them) and of cos our hols for the next two sems will be sssssssshhhhhhort! anyway... trip to china... it'll be my 1st overseas trip w/o my family... and the longest yet... 18 days! i'll be going to chongqing where my friend is from, than we'll be taking a boat to yichang, visiting the three gorges dam (hope i dont get seasick! really!), than we'll take a bus from yichang to wuhan, stay there 1 night, than take a plane to shanghai and tour the world (expo), than fly back to chongqing for a few more days, before i have to come home. really excited honestly.... but sadly stupid AS has to come out with the golden temple and explorer rebalance + crit rings during the same time, and give us only a freaking short 1 month to get em all. no good for me really.

worst still since i'm working on HS, there's a lot of stuff from the new patch to add in. skill changes, quests, etc items, mobs... the whole lot... even worst still, we managed to get hold on monster book extraction data... and that's quite a ton of work to be done there... esp considering there are just two of us, the original two admins aka site creators aside. (and yeah i'll be away, that leave one poor lonely guy who still have O lvls to study for) and why do i say original two admins... i'll tell you in a while... 1st wanna talk abt my goals (and how far i've come)

wanted to get a ring for 3 of my chars - hero, evan and aran. decided on getting the crit ring for all three... heard more changes to the rings have been made... might not be the 'best' choice anymore, idk, in anycase, i've already gotten rings for all 3 chars (hurrah! in such a short period of time eh?), and my 4th ringer char is lvl 32 now... planning to keep that ring in storage for my dual blade to come... after which i'm hoping to delete the f/p, and make a sin - a proper char... not another ring mule. my 2nd char is a sin, and i do love playing it... but thks to me adding way too much dex (sounds like my hero eh, but this ones way worst), i eventually abandoned it. so yeah, tot i'd take this opportunity to remake one... considered remaking one for quite a while already... but hp concerns, very ex eqs... hard to get TT etc... all those put me off... but with SOK... potential scrolls to come, new formulas for like everything, and drastically reduced exp to next lvl... probably a good time to give it another goal - and pure luk is supposed to be cheap... in any case i've already got a decent wa scanda ready from my NW. anyway the most impt thing of getting 3 crit rings is done... so all's good... my other goal tho...

ravana helm for my chars... went in three times with hero (twice) and nw the other day. NOT A SINGLE BLOODY HELM DROPPED. really sadded i tell ya. i used 2x buff with hero too. NOT A SINGLE BLOODY HELM!
1st round - 1h axe att 60%
2nd round - 2h bw att 60
3rd round - 1 POT

and of cos the usual pots for all the rounds... so 15 sunbursts wasted... and worst still cos i was so blur and kan chiong... i forgot to on buff before i go in boss fight. than during boss fight i too nervous and end up use the 2x exp buff 1st instead of 2x drop... luckily my friend spotted it but... waste of rep and worst still no helm dropped...

highest damage of boss is ard 1.7k, but have 1/1. think my NW got hit right after 1/1 (didnt pot fast enough) and tomb.
the boss cast 1/1 and a darkness skill that makes u see as good as nothing. not even the boss hp bar.
the boss cant be rushed - its stuck on the ground, but his attacks pretty much hits the entire map...

and now for the SSes... tons of them coming up





you have been warned, loads of SSes coming up, yes.







































yup, so that's all abt the part on my goals... since i'm at SS posting, might as well post the SSes i took on my f/p - the pq/boss fight with astaroth!



























ok... so that's all the SSes i have to show for now... onto the last thing i want to talk about today... the landmark announcement...

here it is...

New HS.MapleSEA Database Admins

Posted by Saigo on 8th August 2010

As both JonLoh and I have been incredibly busy with our personal lives, we've decided to hand over the management of the HS.MapleSEA database to both darkiller and Icemager, two loyal Database Moderators who have been with us since the inception of our dynamic database from a static one.

While the both of us will still manage the back-end of the database, for the most part, the reigns of the HS.MapleSEA database are hereby passed on to both darkiller and Icemager, who will now lead the team of HS.MapleSEA Database Moderators and other major updates of the database.

HS.MapleGlobal's administrative structure remains unchanged.

yes, that's me... one of the new admins of HS-SEA. which is why i say in terms of maple stuff, my trip is ill timed (well once i'm on my way to changi airport i'll say all these maple stuff are ill timed). actually i just asked for a proper title, like co-head of hs-sea mods with icemager so that its easier for us to do things (ppl dont respect you when u are nothin')... he went to chat with saigo/jon... and than he come ard on msn telling me to go read the announcement... i was really really surprised, shocked... that things moved so fast (like i just went for dinner or smthing?) and most of all i was really touched... like how i felt when i saw the entire of my nett's pyramid guide put up on the site - they didnt even change a single word (only dropped out the bottom bar with all the char info, and blocked out my ign). i guess its cos... its so much power and responsibility.. trust that they've given to both of us that made me felt that way. we've got a lot of work to do to shape up hs-sea... bring it back to its former glory... but for a start, a HS page has been started on facebook... nothing much there for now still, dunnoe wat ice will do to it, but i dont have admin rights over that page (at least not yet) and i dont have time to bother abt it till after my trip so yeah...

alright, so its time to sleep... till next time...!

Are you ready for mech?

Mech is coming out in like 2 days! Are you ready for mech? Excited? or cant be bothered?

i'm all ready for mech... nope, didnt prepare a single pirate/mech eq, but i've finally trained my bam to 3rd job and gotten the ring and box... so that i can concentrate on my mech later on. i dont think my mech or any of my resistance will make it to 4th job any soon. still have to train my hero to 200 and that's taking a really really long time. wanna play a pala too, esp when UA comes ard... been wanting to play pala for a really long time, in fact i have two lvl 30 knight created long long time ago. wanted to play palas way before the dual charges or big bang changes were known, but nvr found the time to do so. my hero will always still be my main, and i wont train other chars much till my hero reaches the end in terms of lvling up...

all the new classes/jobs are more over powered than the previous one... mech is a super over powered bad ass who takes barely any damage cos of its super high def, but deals TONS or damage. played a mech merely to 4x in jms before i could not long stand the lag + my exams started. its... ok, fun but nothing too special in the early stages... definitely over powered tho. with 0 bof, all clean eqs, i could 1hko all the mobs i was hitting, something my bam cant do -.-'''. guess my mech will be kicking ass with lvl 19 bof and wa12 gloves... that's ALL the eq i have for my mech tho. its ok... i wont be training it to 4th job anysoon i guess, and even then i'm not really rich enough to go buy superb weapons for my mech. slowly it does...

well that's all for now. going grind ludi pq with my bl for the glasses to potential. tata!

lvl uppppp!

ok 1st... the other cs items i got from the cs surprise

that's me winking, with the glasses...


and that's w/o the glasses :D


and heres the other overall that i got...








and the blackboard... i keep kena dc when i left my char to afk with the blackboard in cc1... so i gave up shortly after that...


nth new here, just to show that the evan set effect appears when u sit still while riding a mount too. but doesnt work when u are sitting down :(

yup, lvl ups...!

hero finally reach 182 after eons of struggle. lvl 22 achilles... 8 more sp to max!


yupyup, wearing a 90 int gear - thks to the fishing medal... which will expire soon... (than back to 80int gear :( )



yup and that was my hero lvling up... my evan has grown alot too, now lvl 72... not gonna show ALL the lvl up SSes that i took (missed some lvls, but still its a lot and will get kinda boring...) but i'm pretty pleased with this staff that i scrolled... boomed idk how many in the process to get this (oh did i mention that this was the very very last widam i had left to scroll too?)



yup, all the wands, leaves were all self collected... and scrolls were maple scrolls exchanged with leaves... dunnoe how many leaves i used in the process... got the lvl 70 maple cape (spd + jump eq yay!) for my evan and aran too...

aran reach lvl 64 aft collecting all that paint from scorpions and doing the compass map event... collect hundreds of golden eggs which is taking up tons of use inv space in my 3 chars now... hehe... all the summoning bags that i get from those shd net me a a neat sum of mesos :D event ended yest and i ran out of letters before that... was inda tiring switching btw 3 chars to enter the map... the 1st and 2nd password typing i mean. esp when ur mouse tends to double click... clicking the 2nd password is a terrible chore... i'll get like 2,3 wrongs in a go cos the mouse double clicked w/o me noticing... bravo. i need a new mouse again... the wireless one is like dead. changed batteries etc and it just refused to work. dam it. i think its cos the last battery i used was too old and leaked inside the mouse? idk... so fed up with the wireless mouse.... and i just spent 17bucks to buy new rechargable batteries of the damned thing! freaking waste of my money....!

oh yes... dam sadded too. verga scroll out... i use it to scroll my shield, 90% pass rate... and it had to FAIL. hammer and verga... and teh 60% wa shield scroll that i hunted from eruwater. all wasted. and the hammer and verga is like 17 bucks of smthing already... arghs... another freaking waste of money.

so evan reached 7X, and completed the last of the long line of story quests. well there's still the medal making at lvl 80, but that aint really much...

gms has got dual blade already, and there are so many million changes in kms and kmst. i wonder when those will reach msea... and when it does... gosh i cant imagine how much work there is to do on HS. there are only a freaking two guys working on hs sea now for gods sake... and to make matters worst, there is no one extracting patches and info for msea anymore... really no joke when its just two persons, and so much work to do. and the other guys is having O lvls this year, so obviously he'll need to study for exams... that means... there left 1! whee...

alright... that's all from me for now... starting to work on page two of my training grounds guide now... and cos of all the formula changes in kmst... i dont feel like working on my damage calculator for now...
tata