It's been awhile since I last posted :c September has been really busy for me in real life, although I have adjusted my work schedules. I haven't had the energy or time to blog once a week, so I'm hoping at the end of this month, I'll have some time to blog a little bit. I do miss blogging on the FC site, so I haven't forgotten about this.
I hope everyone else has been doing well and for those of you who are taking a short break from the game, I hope to see you soon in Patch 3.4!
Speaking of the patch, I'm really looking forward because she loooooks sooooo coool! If you haven't see the preliminary notes, here it is!!
Yeup, I failed again at posting once a week, but hey! We did do some group stuff spontaneously, and I tried (don't kill me)! I have to say I'm slowly getting bored at work aka more free time. So I'm taking Neru's advice and actually blog my hours away at work :D
But before I start on any blog posts, I want to throw out an appreciation post I've been longing to do. I met this wonderful lady through Instagram and we started talking when she was trying to look for a new FC/server. The more I talked to her, I could feel she is a genuinely nice person. She's caring, helpful, loving, and adorable (sooo cute in real life ^__^). Her friendliness and thoughtfulness always captures my heart, and I feel very lucky to meet another female player I can bond with. This appreciation post is for amazing... Ariru chan!
One of the biggest things I really love about Ariru is her kindness. There are times where I wonder if anyone had abused her kindness for anything because I felt Ariru would do things selflessly for her friends. When I bought a Thavnarian silk on the market board, she mog mailed me back my money because that silk was actually hers.
When I talked about how I needed to buy pipiras for raid food, she would fish a lot of pipiras and mail them to me. When I was leveling my WHM, she would come along while dragging Nox to help me do some dungeon grind, even if she was not gaining any exp.
Another thing about Ariru is that she showers her friends with affection. One significant memory I can think of immediately was when I received the dried white oldrose from her. I was honestly happy and touched when Ariru gifted me the dried white oldrose as I was going through some rough rides at work (not that people at my work place were giving me shit). Her mog mail was incredibly cute and thoughtful, and it really made my week better. I felt very appreciated and loved when I received it and it was a very sweet gift, so thank you again Ariru. It's something I can never forget.
As well, I really like Ariru's positive attitude in the FC. She's always happy to see her friends when they log on and she would join in group activities when she could make it. I really enjoy running things with Ariru, and even if we don't do anything, I also like spending my time chatting with her.
She is a great FC member and I'm happy to have her in the family. Although her cheerfulness spreads throughout the FC, making everyone happy and comfortable, she can be shy in Discord! I think that's cute and I can relate to that because I used to be super shy about speaking in Mumble :D
Thank you Ariru for joining Ocarina as I'm very happy that I get to speak with someone like you. Your caring and loving personality makes you a charming person, and I'm very thankful to have a friend like you. I'll be waiting for your return in 3.4 with Nox!
This song reminds me of you Ariru:
And...I cannot forget:
Congratulations on your official marriage with Nox in real life! Hopefully you have fun planning your wedding for next year!
Hello Ocarina members, it has been awhile since I updated the blog. Recently work has been really busy and it was almost hard to juggle a lot of things for the last few weeks. Some companies just won't get off their high horse and so I had to send them over to my manager. Don't have time for bullshit man :x there are some incompetent people out there and they're just making everyone's lives harder.
As well, I was having some trouble handling some uncertainties with people in real life. Most of the problems had been solved/sorted and I'm very happy about it. Only a few of my problems remains unsure or perhaps the friendship is gone for good.
These are the ones where I'm hesitating whether I should continue putting in any effort in mending/saving the relation. If you had some similar experiences, feel free to share as well or even pointers ~ I'll read them.
Anyway, I'll stop with the rant because that's not the MAIN POINT of this blog!!
I want to start off the post by saying...
Thank you to all of you for being patient and understanding that I haven't been updating the blog much. I know a handful of you guys were asking me when the next post is coming up and I kept saying I'll post "soon". Despite me making some half ass promise on updating the site, you guys didn't actually bug me or rush me on a blog post.
Thank youfor showing any random act of kindness. You guys helped tended the garden while I was busy. You guys helped maintain and fed the chocobos (mostly Hiro and Nox, I'll give you credits). You guys surprised me with some random gifts here and there with heart warming mog mails. You guys collected some treasure maps and got me to come along.
Thank you for sticking by the FC even though I haven't been putting in much effort recently. I'm really hoping none of you guys are growing tired of the FC and I would like to put in some time and energy back to maintain the FC.
With that being said, I do have a few goals I would like to progress, starting this month. Please bear with me, and again, I need your patience. Starting July...
Blog will be updated weekly, once or twice per week.
One FC event per month again - sign up will still be on our subreddit
Hosting weekly treasure map nights - once a week at least
Hosting raffle tickets once every 2 weeks.
Slowly updating quotes page.
I'll start with those goals at the moment. I'm just throwing this out there so that I'm not neglecting you guys just because of work. The FC chest has quite a bit of money and I would love to throw that gil at you guys with some interactive/fun activities! Summer is here too so I would like another memorable summer with you all.
I'll also leave you guys a song that's been stuck in my head forever (but I also like it):
Finally! We got A6S down and we're ready to go to A7S :D congratulations guys, we made it through together and I'm very proud of us.
After nights of terrible internet and lag, we took down that bitch ass Vortexer! Thank you team for being so patient and dedicated in putting in 3.5+ hours of raid on our kill night, I was very excited to see everyone striving for the kill that night ^___^
That 11%....so close so CLOSE.
and when the moment we saw the 1%..........!!!!!
WE ACTUALLY DID IT. HUZZAH!
EAT IT VORTEXER, YOU'RE OUR BITCH NOW.
Annnnnd hello A7S, be ready for us!!
Here's our video kill (except Sas has no animations because booooo he doesn't like):
I want to give a super HUGE thank you to Lunaria Knight for creating this lovely piece for me (and of course I commissioned her)! This art piece was designed awhile back so oopsies for those who are missing :P
I also want to give a great big thank you for veterans that had been with Ocarina since it started (or have been playing with me way before Ocarina). You guys are the best and we've been raiding through tough fights :D
And lastly, I want to thank the other Ocarina members for sticking by us and that's members in Navi and Faerie rank. Thank you for choosing us out of all the other FCs and thank you for not being a drama llama <3
Hello everyone, I hope you are patiently waiting for Patch 3.3! I'm excited for it too and I'm also looking forward to my long weekend! Just did some spring cleaning with my screenshot folders and yeup...folders and folders of screenshooooots!
Anyway, let's start with the raid :D we're making progress in A6S and we're on the last mini boss. I'm pretty excited but hopefully Geir makes a good recovery this week <3
I totally solo healed A5S ;3 screenshot for proof, HEHE.
Ikea and Geir started sleeping with each other on the job :x
and when Ria was still wearing her bobo suit LOL her mouth opens like a dumb bobo ~
While we're waiting for our cooldowns....<_< Aikia...
Taking a break together and waiting for people :D BFFs!
Recently I won a Bennu from a competition :3 and I'm pretty happy that I got it! It is an ugly phoenix but I can live with this since it gives me nostalgic feels of T12.
But to be fair, I think it looks pretty damn cool during night time!
Here are some battle pictures with some FC mates <3 Hiro joined Sas and I for an EXDR and our poor lala forgot some mechanics, so he's just napping on the floor.
CT as always is amusing because....
wipes still do exist!!
Then some of us ran some leveling dungeons anddd I got my NIN to 57. I'm tooo lazy to get it to 60 >_<
Then some stalker photos of the FC mates :D of course, there must be a picture of Ubi!
THE TRADITIONAL BENCH PHOTO!
Group picture :D with Hiro Biro and Odetta Chan ~~
AFK Neru = slap him to death time
The moogle club <3
Hiro Biro and his minions, crafter lalas are definitely the cutest.
A few of us did some firework shows ^___^
Annnnd finally, some individual shots! Starting off with happy Lunariaaa <3
