x. First BLU Raid Clear!

Just a quick celebration update, but recently, Cucco raid snagged Ubi and Kiriya for BLU raid and we beat T5 on our first night. Our next fight will be T9 and I'm really looking forward to that fight. I love that one so much ＊*♡( ⁎ᵕᴗᵕ⁎ ）

This fight definitely brought back some memories, but healing/tanking as BLU, ohs boy..... it feels very...weird? It's definitely harder and damage is super spicy. Twintania is also a jerk because she loves to plummet right after Death Sentence, so timing her attacks was tricky.

Nonetheless, we cleared it hehe ( ´ ▽ ` )b 

Here are some clips and clear video of our raid!

Until next blog post,

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x. Blue Flower

Hello Ocarina, I hope everyone is doing well! The weather is getting chillier, so remember to keep yourself warm and hydrated. Lately, I've been in the mood to check out some bands that I religiously follow/listen to. Do you have a band that you've been following for years, if not, a decade? 

Tonight's blog post is a random blurb of me and my random FFXIV adventures, so let's get into it（˶′◡‵˶） Few weeks ago, I joined a very late treasure map party with Mar and Faerie friends. Although, we were doing Stormblood maps. If anyone wants to make some decent gil, you should do Stormblood maps because all the items here had skyrocketed.  

Man, I already have a hard time with two doors. There's three doors in this map. Luckily these aren't my maps... because I would've failed on the very first door.

Cola brought out his giant whale and I get to ride on it!! Weee, thank you for being the designated driver for that night.

We later did some mount farming, poor Grimmie was being forced to tank, but her outfit is just so good LOL I was living for it ☆⋆:.o(≧▽≦)o.:⋆☆

Now with Cactuar friends, I went to go visit Kiriya's FC house to find Kiriya. Our friend, Hikari-chan, was also hiding inside his FC house and I wanted to find where she was hiding. Unfortunately, no luck so I just waited for her to come out of the FC house. 

Later Butter joined in the group with his Chocorpokkur mount, so Kiriya and I summoned ours...well not Kiriya. Poor Hikari wants the regular one and now she's working hard to save up her MGP!

A couple weeks ago, Hiro and I helped Das with his birb mount farming. He needed Sophia and Sephirot left, and surprisingly, he got super lucky! 

Here's Das grabbing his Firebirb!! Congratulations yay (b˙◁˙ )b !!!!

Then we later helped Hiro grabbed his last few spells so that he could hit 100 spells.

I do like Saint Moc, so I didn't mind running this dungeon again!

That's it for now Ocarina, until next blog post,

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x. Bury the Night

Happy weekend Ocarina! I hope everyone is doing well, and if you feel burnt out, then please give yourself some "me" time on the weekend (if possible)!! Tonight is a short blog post, so let's get into it!

This was awhile ago but Rix, Devi, and I had our map hang out. Of course, Rix had endless maps and I'm pretty sure she still has a lot LOL and I still have like three of her maps... anyway, Rix was our main chauffer for that lovely hang out. Thank you Rix!!

Look how cute we are! Full cat party weeee ♫ヽ(゜∇゜ヽ)♪♬ Too bad Luna couldn't join us that evening because she was very busy and she didn't have her PC. Rix ended up having some good loots, but we were very unlucky with the last floor... SIGH. Next time for sure gang, we'll get to the final floor!!

Occasionally, when I see Hikari-chan on, I'll some roulettes with her. Her kitty is so cute, omg * squeezes her * 

As for Cucco raid group, we were going through some old raid contents again. Some people just wanted to check off some fights and have it completed, so we decided to blitz through Eden 1 to 3 savage!! Thank you Marvin and Neru for subbing in that evening ᐠ( ᐛ )ᐟ

I really liked this shot of me, Butter, Rix, and Neru's book (HAHAHA). 

Leviathan was interesting actually o((*^▽^*))o !! I had a lot of fun learning this fight, even though we blitzed through this one quickly too.

After Eden savages, a few of us did old Alexander fights. We helped Das, Hiro, and Butter farm some old raid mounts and minions. Not gonna lie, I THOUGHT THIS SCREENSHOT WAS ACTUALLY COOL!!!! 

We also did A8S, I'm glad we never did this pre-echo because I'm sure this fight is fucky. I have to say Midas had really nice tops though and I'm so happy I could grab some nice pieces ＊*♡( ⁎ᵕᴗᵕ⁎ ）

Then we finished off farming Alexander with A4S. Also this fight was fucky pre-echo, and old Cucco group was massively cockblocked by A3S (we got to 10% pre-echo and went "lmao fuck this").

I wasn't a big fan of the tops here, aside from the tank top, that one was alright. I'll end the farm party with this shot of Hiro! I feel like I could put Hiro into the treasure chest o(≧∇≦o) and carry him out of Alex.

That's is for now gang and until next blog post,

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x. Sophisticated Love

Greetings Ocarina! Tonight is just a random blog post about me doing random stuff in life, because why not?? I'm also waiting for my alliance roulette while I'm typing this away. I'm currently leveling my GNB and DRG, so I'll see if I can get it to 80 before Endwalker. Anyway, enough of FFXIV, shall we??

During September, my friend and I were craving for some Chinese cuisine, but specifically Szechuan dishes. Fall was coming, so that means it's the perfect time to grab some spicy food (≡^∇^≡) Since my friend is born from Szechuan, I told her we should try this restaurant out and see if it meets her standards. We had the entire restaurant to ourselves since people are still doing take outs quite a bit, but that means we get decent services and we don't need to feel uncomfortable with other people being around us (cause you know...COVID/Delta +).

This is our first appetizer and it's pigs' ears. I know it sounds odd, but, I love it and I live for this dish ＊*♡( ⁎ᵕᴗᵕ⁎ ）My friend enjoyed this dish and said this is definitely authentic Szechuan, so I was pretty happy that this restaurant reminded her of her hometown.

Next, we ordered some shrimps. The meat was super tender and delicious!!

However... the best dish goes to our main entree ＼＼\(۶ ᐛ )۶//／／!! We got halibut fillets, black fungus, and bean curds HAHAHA once again, this might sound gross to some people, but this was truly delicious and spicy!! It was incredibly flavorful and the halibuts were cooked perfectly. Looking at this photo makes me drool...

Once we're done with dinner, we decided to grab dessert. This parking lot totally doesn't look sketch... and that pig cop graffiti, so classy.

When I mean grabbing dessert, it was spending some quality time together while drinking bubble tea (and some of you guys would call it boba tea).

Few weeks ago, Sas and I went to go visit a Waffle dessert place. It was very cute and the waffles were very good, except... I thought my ice cream was maybe way too sweet (it's coffee flavor too). I wish they serve some savory waffles and not just dessert ones (　；∀；)

Then Sas brought me over to a park and we did a nice stroll. The weather was very nice and it wasn't too cold yet. Look at the blue skyyy!

There were people kayaking or paddle boarding, and of course, there were a lot of cute doggos around enjoying the park. As well, I did see a lot of couples taking photos here... and it's 99% the boyfriend/husband/SO taking photos of their female partner LOL

As of recently, I went to EXIT with a few friends and we had a blast. It's basically themed escape rooms and we only have 50 minutes to solve the puzzles. I think that day went perfectly too ♪♪♪ ヽ(･ˇ∀ˇ･ゞ) I made a reservation with EXIT to claim a specific time slot and room; however, on the day of the reservation, EXIT staffs called me and said the room that I wanted is having technical difficulties. So they gave me another room and we also got 30% off from our entrance fee. As well, we did use all our 50 minutes and we were still on the very last puzzle. The staffs saw us and told us we could have more time!! How sweet of them!?

Of course, after using our brain power, we went for dessert. Being "professional" foodie photographers, my friends and I got our ice creams to model for us and one of them started melting (luckily it wasn't ours LOL).

Before I went home, my dearest friend gifted me some baked goods. It was just regular brownies, not the special ones, and they were absolutely bomb. Thank you so much for the lovely brownies ( ˘▽˘)

And to wrap up the blog post and that EXIT night, have a photo of my milk tea and custard wheel cake. The wheel cake is amazing and I love this place so so so much. I promise I don't often eat that much sweets....

Until next blog post,

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x. Streams, Good Company, & Casual Times

[ Art belongs to ぽち]

Hallo Ocarina, I hope this week had been treating you well. Autumn is hard because I feel like I could hibernate for hours and not get out of bed. Does anyone feel that way too? Anyway, tonight will be a short blog post and it won't really be about FFXIV related stuff. It's more like me watching people play games or watching shows with people.

I'll start off with my girl gang o(〃＾▽＾〃)o Recently, Rix started streaming Fire Emblem Genealogy for me and Devi (like I mentioned in the last post). I'm curious with the story line, if there is any, and discovering new characters/units. I've heard this game can be a pain in the ass, especially grabbing holy weapons for the children. I am looking forward to the disaster in the later maps, unless Rix looks up a guide or something!

When Arden showed up, Rix and I died HAHAHAHA His portrait is just so horrible, like come on!! At least color in his eyes or something, don't leave it skin color.... poor Arden.

AND LOOK AT THESE MAPPPS. THEY BRING BACK SO MANY MEMORIIIES. Rix and I started nerding out on the skills that each character came with and we also checked out the skill list. Σ(ﾟДﾟ；) Also, these maps are HUGE... it seems like everyone needs to be a calvary because they could never catch up to others...in both distance and leveling.

Sigurd and Quan were like Jesus on wheels/horses, Finn was leaving things at 2HP, and other units were getting stats screwed. It always makes me laugh when the unit gets +1 in RES/DEF/LUCK and that's it. It's so sad.

I miss old Fire Emblem, they were so much fun back then, but I also cheated. I never let my lords get promoted super late in the game because it's stupid. So I had to download the version where the game lets me promote my lords when they're ready to... cause I am not babying a lvl 1 Lord on the final map.

As well, I was watching Squid Game with Mar and Faerie friends and we finished it! There are only 9 episodes, but episode 8 was very short. Personally, if I watched this myself... I would've stopped after episode 1. I wasn't very invested in the characters, the plot was very bland (also some stuff just made no sense), and I thought the story telling was kind of mediocre. Some of the scenes were extremely cringey, especially with English speaking actors. It's like they hired some amateurs or just grabbed random foreigners on the street and ask them to act (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻

I'm sure you have heard from other people to watch Squid Game, but I would not recommend this to anyone. If you are still interested in it, let me put it this way -- this is a good show to watch with a group of friends so you can shit on it together, or if you want to watch it yourself, don't take this very seriously. This show is way too overhyped... but I will let you be the judge and don't let my judgmental ass affect your decision in watching Squid Game.

That's it for now and until next blog post,

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