Category: technology and virtual life

Remember my friend Princessia Petunia? Prin is a jewellery maker in Secondlife. Some time ago, I spent time with Prin as she showed me how she created her beautiful jewellery.

Crafting these are really painstaking as jewellery are miniature and can be rather tough to handle – the texture, the resizing, the rotating. As much as I love jewellery, it is too much trouble for me to create them myself. I admire her dexterity 🙂

Recently Prin joined the Jewellery Exposition and made her debut as an artisian merchant. I accompanied her decorate her booth, and though she seemed stressed out, she was pleased with how it turned out.

Prin is selling beautiful pieces like these :

Gorgeous aren’t they?

I keep telling prin that she’s selling them for much too cheaply. 6 jewelled bracelets for 115L? Thats too cheap! She even coded them so that it sparkles.

You are undervalueing yourself, prin -_-”

Here I am at her booth wearing her delightfully beautiful emerald earring and necklace. Doesnt SL Rinaz look good? 😀

Do take a peek at Prin’s and other jewellery artists’s masterpieces – some of the display there are truly works of art 🙂

Jewellery Exposition 2007 in Secondlife
OnRez Orientation – 10, 225, 25

I forgotten about this clip I’ve uploaded till the pretty Nadnut told me that Lancerlord has linked it through my youtube account.

Pingsters at the first ping.sg party @ geek terminal

I was at the Geek Terminal about two weeks ago to give my support to Ping.sg for an upcoming netcast project done by thedigitalmovement and activechannel.

While waiting for our turn to be filmed, I ask my blogger friends, Brennan, Daphne, Uzyn and DK on their opinions on “Top Bloggers”

Personally for me, blogging is a platform that allows a person to voice out their opinion. I believe that everyone has the right to express what they want as long as they blog responsibly and do not cause harm other people.

As blog readers too, we have our own personal preference to the blogs that we read. Some of these blogs could possibly have a very high traffic. But these blogs do not represent me.

We already have enough of discrimination in real life. Top bloggers? I think everyone should be given the chance to shine not just the so called elites.

What you probably didnt see at the ping.sg party :

Click here to view on dailymotion

I apologize on the behalf of the committee of ping.sg that the party didnt flow too well. I know that many of the attendees had to wait for a long time and had to sit through a long and tedious speech by us.

I could probably explain the reasons why the event didnt run too smoothly, but looking back, we have done the best that we humanly can – no point berating ourselves anymore as what’s over is over.

I do thank everyone who gave their valuable feedback and comments through their blogs. I have to admit though that I felt VERY stressed out and couldnt sleep when I saw the negative comments.

But I think this is a learning process since this is our first time organizing such an event. I’m pretty sure that we’ll do much better in the next birthday bash – Thank you for coming to our first party! 🙂

P.s Vania! Did you come? I dont even know what you look like!

Links :

• Clappingtrees video guide to the celebration (Skim through the 3 hour recording)
• Yuhui’s review
• Keropok won best photo award
• Paddytan meets 3 people at ping.sg party
• Sylv and chillicraps really loves to hammer things
• Eastcoastlife wins 4 awards
• Chillicraps thoughts
• Izel’s thoughts
• Teeming’s review
• Kevin’s photoset
• Adam’s photoset
• Arzhou’s review
• Jzin’s review
• DK’s self debrief
• Ntt thinks that this is the best part of the party

Early saturday morning, the company where I worked at had a meet so that we can have a hand trying out a game. The company was promoting Granado Espada, a MMORPG for use in creative education. The game was mentioned non violent and promoted teamwork.

I met Liling and Mus, a Multimedia Educator for River Valley Primary and together, we tried to get ourselves used to the game.

When you start, there are a number of characters that you can choose from. Among them, I chose a wizard, a fighter and an elementalist. You could play all three characters simultaneously in the game.

You’ll start in a tutorial area where you learn to get used to the interface. After your basic tutorial, you’d be required to do some tasks from the non-player-characters to gain more experience and items.

One of the initial task that I had to do was to deliver lunch for the Queen’s guard. That quest was pretty easy to do. But like all RPG games, the more you complete a quest, the harder the quests that you will be given in time.

Some of the nice things about the game is that it had really nice looking graphics. I like how detailed the characters looked like. And how absolutely lush the environment was. Plus the background music was really nice to listen to as you explore and fight your enemies.

Interestingly, the game reminded me of Ragnarok, another MMORPG that I used to play. It was similar as the range of characters are comparative. The type of monsters in the environment was similar too. The main difference was that Ragnarok was more 2D and that the characters were more cute.

Here I am in Ragnarok. I was a girl magician with a cute little bow in my head fighting with my assasin friend. It was fun to play but I stopped playing after a while when the game started to be subscription based.

To be honest, I am not much of a gamer. Games like these can get quite stressful when I’m required to do a quest and especially when my characters are fighting and nearly dying.

But at the same time RPG’s can get rather mundane after a while and I can get quite bored of the monotony of killing things after a while.

I’m sure that RPG’s are great. Apart from the gameplay, I’ve seen some spectacular machinimas that are created through these type of games.

The sad thing is that games like these can be quite an addiction as one can really get immersed in it. I find myself saying, “I’ll stop when I get to level 13” or “I’ll stop when I finish this quest” and before you know it, you’ve spent quite an amount of time on the game.

That’s why I’m up at this time. Its 3.10 am right now at this point of writing. I should have been in bed hours ago.

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Just in case you were wondering, the Vespa is an Italian made scooter while the Bajaj is Indian made 😉

I used the software Comic Life to make the motorcycle comic above there. I’ve always wanted this software but at the time, Comic Life is available only for the Mac.

But for now, Comic Life is available for windows. It’s in beta, so you might come across some bugs. For me, I didn’t have much problems with it and it’s really easy to use. However it might take up quite a bit of memory and one small thing that I didn’t like was that the export picture quality doesn’t look very sharp.

But who’s complaining when its free! You can download it and then have fun playing with Comic Life.