x. Heaven on High - Round #1

Hey Ocarina, I hope your week is going well. I recently got my booster shot (that's like my 4th one) and my arm is sore. It bothers me when I want to sleep so I'm praying the soreness goes away soon. Tonight is going to be a quick post, so here goes!!

A while ago, Hiro, Rare, Butter, and I tackled Heaven on High! Not gonna lie, some floors were really stressful. When we finally reached floor 90, our asses were fully ready...or maybe.

I really do like the floors from Floor 80 though, it's really pretty. I wish I could take more screenshots in here but due to the time limit and sneaking through some rooms, it's really tough to take some scenic shots. As well, those mimics are no joke too.

The final boss room is so pretty!! While the guys were talking about strats, I was busy taking screenshots LOL The last boss was actually not too bad, he was pretty easy!

WE MADE IT TO THE TOOOOP!!!!! YEHYEH! Now we just need to run 4 more times to trade in HoH accessories for the mount ＼＼\(۶ ᐛ )۶//／／

Here's our HoH shenanigans (you can tell we were pretty traumatized at the end of the tower run)

That's all for now gang, so until next blog post,

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x. Each Drop

Hallo Ocarina, I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying their weekend. Weather up here had been super nice these days and that's pretty rare. It's usually raining this month but it's been nice and warm!! I'm sort of curious what winter will be like... but I don't want to imagine having snow during March or April... we'll see....

Anyway, tonight's blog post will be a short one. Kiriya, our friend Hikari, and I had been trying to get on the same team for Crystalline Conflict. We literally haven't been very lucky, but occasionally, one of us get paired up. One night, we'll become the dream team and win a match together sob sob (´；ω；`)

Thank you Kiriya for also letting me spend his Skybuilder's Scrips and getting me nice goods!! I've been slacking super hard while Kiriya was working on his gathering and crafting goals. You're the BESTTTT!!

I went back to doing side quests, and my fucking god, I hate Azim Steppe so much. But I cleaned up the map for good, so I can move onto the next hell-ish map......... and to be quite honest, Stormblood maps are so garbage. I think I only like The Fringes and I'm somewhat neutral with The Lochs.

While cleaning up the side quests, I found cute Alpha and Omega hanging out with the sheepies.

When you walk by, Alpha wakes up and he actually greets you. My heart melted....( ͡°⁄ ⁄ ͜⁄ ⁄ʖ⁄ ⁄ ͡°)

Chips, Kiriya, Shadow, and I played a few rounds of mahjong! 

I wasn't trying to rob Kiriya that hard........... but the mahjong gods decided to bless me that evening....

aaaaaaaaaand Kiriya went bankrupted, so that immediately ended the game LOL

That's all for now friends, enjoy your weekend and remember to rest well and eat well! 

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x. Resonance

[ Art done by Smirk ]

Greetings Ocarina, I hope everyone's weekend went well!! In tonight's post, I will have a movie spoiler at the bottom of the post. I'll be mentioning about the movie "Prey", so if you don't want any spoilers, you can either skip this post or leave when you see the spoiler tags!!

So I'm in need of new shoes, especially loafers at the moment. Since winter is approaching, well, it looks like a lot of shoe companies are throwing out their winter boots out too... and I happened to see UGGs came out with new boots...........

Can someone PLEASE explain how this looks good??????????? I know platforming shoes are back in style, but REALLY UGGS!?!?!?!? These look like astronaut booties, unless that's intentional?? I really hope this doesn't become big and starts trending ಥ‿ಥ

As well, what are people watching these days? If you have nothing to watch at the moment and you don't mind watching anime, hey guess what? Do you know what you should really watch!? 

MADE IN ABYSS.

Seriously!!! Please check it out because it is SO good. Now here comes the sad news. Season 2 is basically caught up with the manga and the manga gets updated every 3 or 4 months.... WHICH IS GREAT SADNESS BECAUSE SEASON 3 WON'T COME OUT UNTIL WHO KNOWS WHEEEEEEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm as empty as season 2 (haha, if you get this joke, then you watched Season 2??? pls slide into my DM and TALK TO ME ABOUT IT). Speaking of shows, I'm going to move onto the movie now.

Okay you've been warned!!!

Recently, Neru, Kiriya, Sas, Ubi. and I watched Prey. I was really excited for this movie because I haven't seen a Predator movie in SO long. Prey is the prequel of all Predator movies and I have heard that this movie was decent. 

The pros:

The movie was really nicely filmed - the cinematics and the scenery was really beautifully executed

I did think it was interesting that they used Aboriginals or Native Americans for this film

The female protagonist's brother's fighting scene against the Predator was legit badass

The cons:

The female protagonist is probably terribly written - everything in this movie was screaming "girls power". I just could not find anything likeable with her because she is so stupid, I think she's supposed to be a teenager? But honestly, I cannot tell. Also, how did she SUDDENLY know how to fight so well at the end of the movie?? WHEN DID SHE EVER GET THAT MUCH TRAINING??? I had my eyes open for the entire movie, was I missing something??

As for the Predator, I didn't think it really needed to be invisible...? Like it was literally murdering things with ease so.... why bother hiding? Hello???

The CG animal fights made no sense. The Predator was literally kicking a wolf's ass and realistically speaking, that wolf would have fucked off, but no??? They made the CG wolf challenge the Predator like what the shit? 

Speaking of Predators, Fall Guys has the Alien outfit out and it's free for grab!! I think this is super cute ... but I don't know if I want to grind for this outfit... (๑•̀д•́๑)

That's it for now and hope your Monday treats your nicely,

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x. Experimenting, Experiencing, Evaluating

[ Art done by 熬夜的球 ]

Hallo Ocarina, it's the weekend!! I'm starting to see some trees changing colors just for AUTUMN! The weather is still quite nice and beautiful, so I don't need to pull out my sweaters quite yet. How about everyone else? Also, I just realized it's October now. I can't wait to bring out my Halloween decorations out this weekend and start vamping up my apartment. 

Sas and I tried out a cafe that is somewhat nearby our place. It was in a very quiet neighborhood and I'm so jelly of people living around there because I like their black sesame coffee so much!! Yes you heard me - BLACK SESAME COFFEE!! Their lemon chicken was decent and same with their waffles. I ordered a matcha waffle and I can taste the matcha faintly. 

On another weekend, Sas and I tried another cafe that I've been eyeing on for a long time. Instead of driving there, we took the transit because:

a) it was a lovely sunny day (wasn't too hot actually)

b) parking looked painful whenever I drive by there

c) it's not a long walk from a transit station

Sas ordered his soft drink(s) because his dish came with a free drink and I ordered a cappuccino.

Okay yes yes, I know. Wow, another waffle dish. BUT LISTEN. LISTEN TO ME. THIS ONE IS REALLY DIFFERENT. 

Their waffle was SPECIAL because they use purple yam (☉_☉) !!!! I thought the waffle was quite fluffy actually and I taste the purple yam faintly. However, this is the cafe that I would come just for the experience and not quite the food. I thought the food was really overpriced and I wasn't exactly quite WOW-ed by their special waffle. 

I was craving some breakfast meals for lunch, so Sas and I went back to one of our favourite cafes that we tried over the summer. I was curious with this beef brisket eggs, so I decided to be adventurous and try it. The beef itself was alright, but I personally prefer my briskets in soup. I would say it was a very filling lunch, so I didn't have dinner until much much later.

So there's a new Japanese restaurant that opened nearby my area. I saw on Google that their other locations had decent reviews, so I wanted to see what the hype is all about. Sas ordered their spicy salmon don while I ordered an assorted sashimi don. The aesthetic looks nice, doesn't it?

Don't let the bowls deceive you though. I decided to tear mine apart and see how much rice I actually got. 

Now first off, I took away all the greens (or as much as possible) and I had a shit ton of salad, like excuse me????

Now I dug at my rice and I didn't need to dig that much because the bowl is pretty shallow. There was nothing wrong with the sashimi, it was decent, but these rice bowls are incredibly overpriced. It was actually a huge turn off to even enjoy the food ( ｡-_-｡)

So my friend wanted to grab ramen for dinner and she was kind of eyeing at this one particular place. Google didn't give it a high review and I was a little skeptical, but I also thought it would be an interesting experience to go try it. 

We started off with this...handcones. Unagi is unagi. If you fucked up unagi, then you are doing something wrong. I ordered the blue crab handcone and I don't know ... I was underwhelmed. This is also the laziest handcone I have ever seen. Like literally, they just put a blob of rice and some ingredients and called it a day (╯•ᗣ•╰)

They provided us with these hand towels for our handcones. You put the white towel tablet in the solution and then it grows big. It was kind of neat.

I was very interested in their summer ramen since it has yuzu, but this bowl was disappointing. I mean, it was still edible, but it felt so boring? I'm really not a ramen enthusiast and I do not have any qualification to critique food, but this ramen didn't have the KAPOW WACHOW flavor punch, ESPECIALLY with the yuzu. 

Finally, we wrapped up the meal with this stupidly overpriced dessert. Honestly, I wouldn't have ordered this myself. But since my friend was really interested in it and she asked if I wanted to split this with her, I decided to go with the order. 

I would not recommend any of my friends to try this place out (╯°□°)╯┻━┻ I can see why everyone gave it a poor rating because the food basically sucked. It was edible at the very least.

Anyway, that's all I have for tonight's blog post, so until next one!

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x. Endless Sweets and Bottomless Hot Pot

[ Art done by rinne_paint ]

Greetings Ocarina, I hope everyone's weekend went well. It's already the end of September, but the weather had been really kind here. Don't need to pull out sweaters quite yet, it's still warm enough to wear some summer outfits!! Tonight's blog post is random stuff that I did, but try not to read this when you're hungry, unless you don't have a big sweet tooth. 

During summer, Kiriya brought me to this Italian bakery and he was hyping this place so much. It was a small shop, and at the front entrance, you can see all the sweets. They do sell some sandwiches and paninis, but they mainly focus on sweets. I already had my eyes on the macarons though. 

Kiri grabbed some cakes and he let me tried them. They were so good!!! I sort of regret not buying as much as I can, but then I wouldn't have enough space in my fridge... (´；ω；`)

I tried their specialty donuts and a box of macarons. The pistachio donut was really bomb and I liked the macarons as well. They weren't too sweet, which is perfect for meeee.

Sas and I went back to one of my favourite afternoon tea places because I received an email about their new afternoon tea menu.... and I was very interested in their new scones. Normally, they serve cheese/regular scones, but this time they made lemon scone and apple scone. They also had new sweets too, so we might as well go! 

I really like the lemon tarts and all of their savory sandwiches. The scones were alright, the lemon one ended up too sweet for me because they had a lot of hardened sugar at the top. The apple scone was alright, but the sweetness was a bit too strong. 

Aside from sweets, one of my friends hosted a summer hot pot. There was a lot of food, specifically meat, because my friends were prepared that I'll eat all the meat ... which I did anyway because everyone else was TOO FULL to eat the rest. More free meat for me HUEHUEHUE

But this wasn't an ordinary hot pot party, there were some cuties hanging out with us o((*^▽^*))o This cutie is Snowy and she is a Samoyed. Don't let her cuteness deceive you, she is surprisingly STRONG and overly friendly. Her owner had a tough time chasing after her though whenever Snowy found the opportunity to book it ripperoni

This little one is Paddy and I believe he is a Sheltie and he's becoming a show dog. 

After hot pot, we got bubble tea as our dessert （*＾ワ＾*）

Now I'll end the post with sleepy puppers. They played all day and now out of energy. I didn't bring Beemo because Paddy and Snowy were high energy dogs, and Beemo hates that LOL ah welllll!

Take care everyone and until next blog post,

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