x. Chance to Desire

[ Original Art done by huashiJW ]

Hallo Ocarina, happy weekend!! My entire apartment is currently cooking, how is everybody else? My office is sitting at 30C and there is NO breeze. I went out today for lunch hoping I could abuse some air con, but THE CAFE DID NOT HAVE AIR CON ON.................. IT WAS SO SAD. 

Anyway, let's jump into the blog post! I was shopping on Aliexpress and somehow they were recommending me Pokemon plushies (they're mostly counterfeit ones). Of course, it was the Ditto trend and I have a huge soft spot for that... I really love the Ditto series, it's just so friggen cute ♡( ◡‿◡ ) I saw one of the plushies can switch between Snorlax and Ditto, so I decided to check it out.

I mean that's the concept except one of the photos they took ................... LMFAO????????? HASHDASKDMASD LIKE WHAT THE????????????????????????????

Then I went to go check the reviews and one of the reviewers said their Ditto Snorlax's face is FUCKING UPSIDE DOWN AHAHAHAHAHA. HOW DID THEY GET IT WROOOOONGGGGGGGG?????????????????? I'm dead. 

Few weeks ago, Kiriya, Chips, and I went back to Stardew Valley. We finally unlocked a new character and isn't he a CUTIE!? You can also build friendship points with him. I feel like a lot of the villagers are unlikeable or vanilla for me, but the monsters in the villagers are all way too adorable o((*^▽^*))o !!!!

I was actually really surprised that one of the villagers could use an emoji when they're writing letters. I've never seen this before. Luckily, I don't need to write to villagers like Animal Crossing style. Sometimes, it feels like it's a lot of work LOL

We had a Christmas event and it's so festive!! And yes, I'm wearing a Chicken mask.

During the last heat wave, my PC couldn't handle FFXIV... so even when I organized a Cucco map evening... I'm just watching.......... and it was raining money that evening. Everyone had decent luck with their maps and I missed out（┬┬＿┬┬）

On one random evening, I saw Rare, Geir, Neru, and Aikia playing Monster Hunter! Neru kindly streamed for me so I can watch them. I'm still sort of debating if I want MH: Rise or not, but I'm not a fan of the spider monster (so I need people to carry me 100%). That night, Aikia was possibly getting carried, but too bad I wasn't recording and clipping Aikia's deaths. Next time for sure!!! JUST KIDDING.

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

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x. Heat of the Night

[ Original Artwork done by YYish ]

Greetings Ocarina! Everyone, please stay hydrated or at least make sure you're drinking enough water in this heat. If you do go outside, make sure to wear SUNSCREEN!!!! Today will be a short blog post with random food photos that I want to share with you all.

Few months ago, I was craving decent Japanese cuisine and luckily, there is a fancy-ish Japanese restaurant close by my apartment. Normally, you need to make a reservation to this place, but we decided to test our luck by doing walk-in. They actually got seats at the bar and we didn't need to wait long o((*^▽^*))o 

I ordered this for myself and it was lovely. I love that they added a bunch of grapefruits in there and the salad actually tasted FRESH and CLEAN!! I often don't order salad from restaurants because I get stomach aches afterwards; however, if the salads are prepped at a high quality restaurant, then I will gamble and see how it goes. I also really appreciate that the chef set the salad dressing on the side, I don't like my salad all drenched and soggy.

Sas ordered this but he let me nibbled on one of his cutlet. It was SO good!! He didn't like the sauce though, and being a huge black sesame lover, I used the sauce for him. ( ´ ▽ ` )b Hey, the black sesame tonkatsu sauce worked nicely with my sashimi.

They also had a special menu that evening and there were two things that caught my eyes. They were serving wagyu beef nigiri and hokkaido uni!!! Of course, the price tag on those two were NOT cheap!!! I was debating whether I should order them or not, but Sas told me to get it (because he's paying for it anyway) ... ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ HUEHUEHUEEEEE yum yum in my belly.

As I have complained before about Google Maps showing overrated cafes, I used my CSI zooming skills on the map, and I found a hidden gem nearby my area. It's tucked into an industrial area, but if you do look them up on Google, it has over 100+ reviews. Why it never showed up on Google Maps when I type in "cafes near me" remains a mystery.

Anyway, this cafe is adorable and it have some Mexican style cuisine. They also incorporate that into their brunch menus (while also serving your basic ones). I can tell you that British Columbia will never have authentic Mexican cuisine, and if we want that, we have to cross the border. I'm not entirely sure how authentic the Mexican food is in this cafe, but I've seen the chef and he was singing along to Spanish music... LMAO but that's just my observation.

I also love how this cafe supports small local businesses and they have a wall dedicated in selling their products (°◡°♡)

Lately, I've been noticing that the brown sugar latte had been popping up here and there. I'm not sure if it's because the brown sugar milk teas had been doing well in every single bubble tea shop, but I have to say, I might prefer it in a latte. 

Sas ordered a quesadilla, I want to say he ordered a specific pork or beef one. It's supposed to be like pulled pork but Mexican style. Here's me being basic that day, I ordered an avocado toast... but it's more like delicious guacamole toast??? The guacamole was very creamy and filling ( ´ ∀ `)ノ～ ♡

And of course, I had to come back again to try other things on their menu. Well, aside from ordering their brown sugar latte again, I ordered one of their benedicts. I wanted to try their Mexican infused dishes, so I went with the birria beef. This was really good, and next time I go down South, I would like to try birria in a Mexican restaurant.

The last dish was my dinner from a very cute Korean restaurant nearby my area. I didn't bother with Sas' dish because it was Korean fried chicken LOL I enjoyed this dish but there was a LOT of noodles. It was also perfect for the warm weather because this is a cold noodle dish. But I have to say ... I think you want to eat in one sitting. I packed the leftovers because I didn't want to waste it, but it just wasn't that good anymore the next day.

That's it for now, Cucco! Until next blog post,

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x. Slowly Melting, Air-Conless, Flopping Dead

Hallo Ocarina, how is everyone doing?? I'm currently dying in the heat, my office is at 29C (which is 84F) and it's friggen lovely. That also means I can't really be on FFXIV because my PC would just go into a coma. Well, I had my PC moved to a more ventilated area in my office...so maybe we'll see. 

Anyway, here comes the backlogs!! I've been slacking on blogging because I've been busy reading something or playing this horrible game that I bought on Steam. I wanted to refund it but I ALREADY PLAYED 5 FRIGGEN HOURS ON IT SOMEHOW (because I can only return it if I played for 4 hours max?). That is a blog post on it's own because it's awful.

I would continue with Ocean Fishing but my last 5 boats really wore me out. For whatever reason, my last 5 boats that I caught were all really bad RNG, so I had to stop ಥ╭╮ಥ I'm still 1 mil away from getting my achievement and I would like to get it before 6.2 hits. I'm overdue for a new title. 

(๑꧆◡꧆๑) Here's me and my fishie pal, Hiro aren't we cute??

Before my burned out phase, there was one boat that I got on that had really good RNG, and most people on that boat scored pretty high. I do think each boat ride should proc at least one spectral just so people don't feel like they're truly wasting their time. I get ocean fishing is somewhat casual, but the boat comes every odd hours and to get less than 10k points kind of stings.

As for FATE grinding, I am currently working on Garlemald, but I officially got Shadowbringer zones done! I realized that I need a shit ton of bicolor gems... because there's so many things that I want from the Crystarium Gem trade. The amaro minion is 400 bicolor gemstones!!! Why couldn't they make these rewards cheaper, considering you have to do about ~ 400 FATES to unlock the last bicolor gemstone trader...???????

I LOVE FATE GRINDING ಥ╭╮ಥ

Speaking of more grinding, I finally got Caduceus from the level 87 dungeon. Let me remind you, EW had a bunch of UNTRADABLE minions from the dungeons and I really don't understand that decision. I'm bitching because I leveled MNK/SAM/BLM/MCH from level 87 to 90 to get this little guy (at least 10 runs per job, give or take). WHAT IS THIS DROP RATE ಥ╭╮ಥ ??????? Also yes, I did the dungeon with trusts because I am not fighting against randoms, I don't want to cry myself to sleep for losing this cutie. 

Kiriya and Chips recently dragged me back to mahjong. I swear to god, I'm awful at it. I still need some guiding hands from the game because I don't really remember my mahjong rules heh

But somehow, I managed to win a match, I robbed Kiriya!! I'm RICH!! Well, I wish.

That's it for now gang!! So until next blog post (if I don't slack again),

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