x. Hai, Naruhodo

Happy weekend everyone!! How is everyone doing? I know lots of people are playing some new games these days and I finally hit the "time to go through my gaming back logs" mood. I recently started playing "Great Ace Attorney" and I'm super hooked ٩(＾◡＾)۶ These are the kind of games where I like to play before bed time because they're more like mystery novels to me, but in video game style! However, if I'm super stuck on something and I'm feeling very stubborn, then goodbye sleeping schedule.

I'm currently on the third case, so I won't spoil too much for those that are interested in playing. I'll just dump some screenshots that is from tutorials (mainly first case). The first time I saw Kazuma's headband, I was already amused because he just happens to have random wind coming to give his headband some dramatic effect LOL

Naruhodo is Phoenix Wright's ancestor, so if you noticed their similarities, that's probably why! He started off like a sore loser, but it's okay, it's actually really entertaining too. Some of the humor they put in there though, thanks Kazuma for "believing" in me.

That disappoint look is so funny, literally the wind died when he's judging your wrong choices. 

And the traditional Phoenix Wright games, the characters are interestingly designed. Keep in mind, this game takes place at the end of 19th Century, which is very fascinating, because that's also around the time that Hong Kong was getting Western influences too. 

Of course, Herlock Sholmes aka Sherlock Holmes. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡° ) I love how they literally swapped some letters around just to bypass the licensing; nonetheless, I'm glad this game finally made it's way to North America anyway! They introduced a new feature to look at evidence and such, which was fun, but they kind of dragged the "tutorial" here a bit too long (unless maybe my attention span is getting shorter).

On a random note, I was doing some shopping on Aliexpress. I was just seeing if there's any cute closet organizers on here (and no, they don't have anything cute)...then I noticed something bizarre on my recommended list..........................??????

So yes, I had to click on it because I want to know how that is related to closet organizers. I AM CURIOUS.

Turns out... it's just a portable pee bottle.... ಠ_ಠ HOW CLASSY. 

I'm also eyeing on two scarves... and I'm not sure which one to buy. Or should I get both these scarves? I'm thinking the pink floral with butterflies...

But every time I look at the second one, I get indecisive again. This is partial of the scarf, but it does have all 12 horoscopes on it and beautifully drawn!! Is this one a bit too plain? or too much?

Anyway, I'll sleep on it. That's all for now, be safe and take care everyone!

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x. Mitzah

Hallo Ocarina! I can't believe it's almost the end of February. Where did the time go? I now have to take out a special instrument and start practicing a song...for Rare's birthday, which is coming up soon. I'll make sure the tune is awful, just like him, JUST KIDDING OMG LOL but no promises.

I'm still feeling pretty lazy with leveling, but going into LLDR with another friend is always nice. On a random weekend, Rare and I went into a LLDR together and we got the lovely Stone Vigil. I also looked at our party list and then I noticed something...

They were a little sproutling, so I checked their search info. Rare and I started laughing really hard because our sproutling got TWO classes unlocked, but they still chose to go as ACN HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Afterwards, I got Rare to try out the Halloween event. WE WERE DEFINITELY NOT MEANT TO BE TEAM MATES, EVEN THOUGH WE RAID TOGETHER. That's all I'm going to say, pft! We were definitely not coordinating when it came to the second duty, which was eating food around the kitchen pub area... SIGH ಠ_ಠ

Later on, Scherza and I did an alliance roulette (*꧆▽꧆*) We got World of Darkness and someone decided to explain every boss. If we had new players, that's fine; however, everyone were not. I think when we saw Cloud of Darkness, somebody pulled early. I didn't want to wait 10 minutes for these explanations, just let me leave.

I also started doing some Endwalker side quests because I wanted to clear up the quest marks that's covering the aetherytes. ᕕ( ᐕ )ᕗ I'm starting with Labyrinthos and I believe I have one side quest left!! 

Finding the carbuncle is my second favourite side quest here (Shaggles always win no matter what). If you read the researcher's text... LOL I can't believe they remember this Carbuncle!!!

That's a wrap for now! Until next blog post,

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x. Evening Gang - Walmart Phoenix Down!

I hope everyone had a decent weekend because I did!! I know this fight had not been kind to a lot of groups, so I do feel very fortunate that both Cucco and Evening Gang are super patient with one another when it comes to learning new fights. 

Now giving back the spotlight to Evening Gang -- Mar (well he doesn't count, he already did Week 1 savage clears), Jordi, and I finally beat Phoinix on Sunday! Good job everyone, now we get to bash our heads against the ugly looking fake Dracula o((*^▽^*))o I have no idea which screenshot to pick so I'm just going to go with my top three favourites LOL.

I thought I was doing poorly in this fight (ﾟωﾟ；) I had to do some ressing towards the end of the fight and just spammed my heals to keep everyone else up (while my MP was....dying). I'll take a blue parse happily!

Here's a WHM PoV clear video, there are some things I'm like "ohs I could've used this..." BUT A CLEAR IS A CLEAR!!

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x. Ellie

Hallo Ocarina, how is everyone doing? Family Day is coming up for us Canadians, that means we got a long weekend wahoo! Except for me, I will still be tutoring on Monday. I can't wait for March to come, mostly because the GazettE is going to release a new song/album coming out. Speaking of music, I finally got my FFXIV vinyls from Kiriya!!

I instantly displayed three of them on my piano, look at the art (´◡`)! I now need to go buy a vinyl player, otherwise, they're just going to be sitting there as display.   

Ria visited me, Sas, Neru, and Ubi back in December, yes very belated to post this. I was going to bring her to this really decent restaurant that mainly specializes Korean Fried Chicken, but they were really full (no, they don't do reservations). So we went to a nearby restaurant that also happened to serve Korean dishes, and they were actually decent! 

Also super belated... Around Christmas, a few of my girlfriends and I decided to go for hotpot for our Christmas gathering. Reservations are allowed, but the time that I wanted was gone, so I decided to call the restaurant to give it a shot. I was genuinely surprised that the hostess spoke perfect English (mind you, this city is Chinese dominant and most people speak broken English in Chinese restaurants). 

She told me if I want a 6PM slot, I can book for a 5:45PM slot. She explained that they don't start the 2 hours timer until we started ordering food, so I'm like "SWEET!"

Tokyo had been using this system for years, which is menu tablets, and to see it HERE!? Boy, was I excited to take over the tablet and spam order aka lots of MEAT °˖✧◝(⁰▿⁰)◜✧˖° !!! 

Yes, we ordered a noodle guy from the menu LMAO!! OKAY, it's more like a guy that does some noodle dancing trick and then he plops the noodle into your hot pot. It was hilarious.

I cannot forget... we got a cart booth and under each cart seat, there is STORAGE SPACE FOR YOUR BAGS AND COAT. Like, they really put a lot of thought into these seatings when they were renovating this restaurant. Our waitress was so kind that she helped each one of us put our bags into the storage space AND SHE KINDLY FOLDED OUR COATS NEATLY TOO. 

I had an extra bag with me (it was basically my Christmas gifts for my friends), so I had my bag behind me. Our waitress also brought us aprons for us to wear, in case we get messy and get the hot pot soup or sauce on our clothes. We got hair ties and a plastic bag for our phones (just to keep it clean). The best part was our waitress brought an extra bag to COVER UP MY CHRISTMAS GIFT BAG... and she told me it helps to keep my stuff not smell like hot pot. HALLO!?!?!? WHAT IS THIS SERVICE!?

We also get unlimited fruits and ice cream. UNLIMITED. ICE. CREAM. I was so full at the end that I could only order 2 ice cream for myself (ಥ﹏ಥ)

Last month, Neru, Ubi, and Kiriya came over to my apartment to celebrate Sas' birthday. Neru brought over an escape room board game. At the beginning, it was interesting! Until we hit this puzzle and I'm like: Neru and Ubi, please carry. My brain just can't with this. 

Basically, this puzzle does require us to follow a trail for 30 steps total, and while we're figuring this out, we need to fill in the blanks. After like three tries, I gave up. But after this puzzle, we were able to solve the case and we won!!

Kipp and I grabbed dinner one evening - bubble tea and Katsu don. Nothing can go wrong with that combo. Did some catching up, and of course, trash talk his skills in raid  ( ≧∀≦ )  JOKING, I DID NOT LOL

Last week, my mom made me lunch and it's my favourite dish from her! It was black bean bittermelon and chicken wings. I LOVE BITTERMELON. IT'S DELICIOUS. If you don't like durian, you may not enjoy bittermelon. Probably think it's the most vile melon on this planet, but that's okay with me, because that means I get more bittermelon to myself ( ˘▽˘)っ

Recently, Sas and I went to a local cafe nearby our area. I wanted to go to a different cafe, but they were swarmed with fan girls because it was some BTS LA concert event. No, I don't follow BTS, but it's hard not to recognize BTS things when you listen to other K-Pop bands.

This cafe is also popular with their black squid ink things and they're somewhat overpriced. Black squid ink sounds unique but it really isn't, considering Hong Kong McDonalds do black squid ink burgers occasionally. There is a faint ink taste... I don't know how to...describe it, it tastes squidy? HAHAHAHA of course, this instantly gets covered if you use sauce or eat it with other things!! 

That's all for tonight, have a lovely weekend and stay healthy!

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x. House of Songs

Greetings Cucco gang!! I hope Monday treated you nicely this week. I almost felt like wanting to hibernate and burrito in bed for the whole day, but that's probably because I was super comfy. 

Did any of you guys do the Halloween Event? This year's event was actually cute and it's different than their previous dungeon runs! The objectives were very straight forward and I personally prefer this one over the previous dungeons.

Look at the details in this dungeon, how is it not cute?

My favourite task was the food one. I do think it was a little spooky when the ghost is coming up from behind while you're eating, so you have to rely on your team mates to kill off the ghosts!!

Random raid things with my other gang -- Jordi was definitely in the Halloween mood since he got the clown head piece immediately when the Halloween event dropped. It actually fits his Au Ra LOL

I took a sneaky screenshot of my favourite SGE, Cien (≧◡≦) ♡, while she was handing me some materials for pots. 

No comment at Kipp.

I love how Cien gives me thicc shields too, I always feel safe that I can glare more HUE HUE HUE.

Once again, doing some late night hunts to cap on tomes. I recently got to see the S rank on the moon and this reminded me of  FFXI a lot. Spring is coming soon, I might actually consider subbing back to FFXI for a month mainly for cherry blossom sight seeing.

I sure did go back to Fetes because there are several mounts that I'm still missing. It's also nice to see that this isn't completely dead and there are still people hanging out in the Firmament ヽ(*・ω・)ﾉ 

That's all for now! I hope this week goes well for you, and until next blog post,

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