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Sigh, Teenager Nowadays

April 11th, 2005. Published under Daily Journal, Games. 6 Comments.

I went to an online game center last Friday to play Ragnarok Online. It was the War of Emperium schedule. When I entered the place, I didn’t see any available PC. But the keeper told me that I could get a vacant PC upstairs. It’s true, there were some available PCs there. I was going to go the corner when I saw two cute gals playing RO. And lucky me, beside them there was an empty seat. Soon I took the seat and turned the PC on.

While waiting my PC to boot up, I observed them. I am sure they are still in the high school. Maybe junior or senior. They are about 15 or 16 years old. From the way they played the game, I knew they were new players. The first girl played a female magician, but she didn’t know the correct spells to use on the correct monsters. The second girl who played a female swordie couldn’t find the Kafra NPC. I took the chances and told the magician girl some spells trick. Then I told the swordie girl the location of the NPC she’s looking for.

It worked. I managed to get their attentions. When I finally logged in the game and loaded one of my character, they were surprised at how high my character’s level was. Well I didn’t want to get that much attentions early, so I played my lowest-level character, but still they were amazed. Unfortunately they were not on the same server as me so we couldn’t meet in-game. For about half an hour, I gave them some clues and hints to play the game well.

Later, the War of Emperium begins. Well this one is what keep me playing RO so I put most of my attention there. I didn’t help the girls anymore and they seemed to know that I was busy with my own business. Good for us. I planned to go back to them after the War. While I was in war, however, I heard some. Well it’s usual in a place like that. But I noticed that I heard the cursing more and more and the source was near. Oh my God, it turned out that the ones who cursed were the girls beside me. Holy shit, they swore like there’s no tomorrow. Everytime their characters died, they cursed. Everytime they missed the monster, they swore. Everytime some monsters mob them, they screamed. Geez, the words were definitely not what I expect to come out from the mouth of cute teenage girls like them.

Well I know some people do like to curse for no reason. Even I got some friends that swears all the time. But I still can’t get it. I am definitely not comfortable staying near them. And honestly, I don’t think it’s a good habit. Especially on teenagers like them. If they keep doing that when they are young, they will do it for the rest of their life.

Lazy Update

February 20th, 2005. Published under Daily Journal, Games, Techie Stuffs. No Comments.

More than a month since my last post. Many things to write but I’m lazy so I’ll only give a brief summary:

• My two other colleagues, Shirley Wibisono and Lisa Handayani left the office. Shirley went to Jakarta to work at an advertising company. Lisa stayed in Surabaya but she now works at a trading company. Good luck to you girls.
• My office annual meeting this year took place at Trawas. We had a good time there, even though we only stayed a night. Hope next year would be even better.
• I changed job from a Web site developer to an editor. Neither a promotion nor a demotion. But I needed a change.
• Added a monster database to my Ragnarok Online site.
• My StarOne Post-paid subscription was activated at the beginning of this month. Wow, 24/7 Internet like I always wanted to have.
• Promoted as the moderator of the OpenKore forum.

A Few Great Things

January 9th, 2005. Published under Daily Journal, Games, Movies, Techie Stuffs. No Comments.

I don’t know what to say. But it happened again. Indonesia, my country, once again must suffer very very deeply. Like we didn’t have enough suffering yet. Nobody, nothing, can ever explain why this must happen. Only God knows. But who am I, dare to question this to the Greatest Being. This at least proves one thing. Every single life is only a split second away from death. You never know when you will go to the other realm. You just can’t resist when the time comes. Nobody can help you. What you can do is to stay alert and get ready. Live your life better every other day. Don’t only do what you want to do, but also do what you have to do.

Great Income

Okay it ain’t great. But it’s good. At the end of last year I got my salary doubled. Not just me, everyone got doubled. It’s a bonus (we call it THR) from the company I am working at. Aside from that, some of my Ragnarok Online clients also delivered the payment for my botting service. Also, when I was in Jember for Christmas. I bought a new starter pack for my CDMA phone. Starone didn’t work there. I chose Flexi from Telkom. I got a whopping credit which is worth 100 thousands rupiahs while I only paid 40 thousands. Another end-of-year promotion. Even better, I could use it to connect to the net for free during the promotion. Because of that, unfortunately, my sister didn’t let my phone rest afterward :D. She was really in to friendster recently.

Alexander the Great

It’s the movie I saw recently with some of my colleagues: Anton, Lisa Gabus, Shirley Cools, and Yendy. Angelina Jolie, Anthony Hopkins, and Collin Farrel starred in the movie. The movie had a rather long duration, almost three hours. But it had not yet covered all the great adventures of Alexander, one of the greatest Greek kings. A good movie compared to the recent Troy movie. The war scene is one of the best. Too bad there were too much gay things in the movie. I didn’t know whether Alexander was gay or not. But the scenes were simply too much. It made me uncomfortable. Also, the scene of Alexander’s death was pathetic. No match compared to the memorable Archilles’ death in Troy. Well, this movie is okay for everyone who loves middle ages’ things, like me. Recommended.

Great Body

A few days ago, Vebby, my work-buddy, lent me the DVD of Britney Spears‘ Greatest Hits. The interesting thing was the complete Britney’s naked scene from Toxic. You could see, well, the body women longs to have and men desires to beep… (censored). Very highly recommended for all Brit’s fans. Although you’re not a fan of her, you will surely fall for her great body unless you have no interest in girls anymore. Just admit it damn it. I intended to post some of the shots here. But on the second thought, I didn’t think it would be wise. Some kids might come here and read my blog.