Taiwan earthquake = Goodbye Astara!

On Boxing day Taiwan had a massive undersea earthquake that severed 98% of the cables between the Asia-Pacific route. The past 3 days Ive been completely blocked from connecting to POL but have managed to make it to the select character screen before the connection stalled and since then the program has yet to make it past the first stage of logging in.

I contacted POL and they informed me that the ISP provider that connects Australia to the FF servers has been lost and it will take upto 4-6 weeks before any substantial connection is re-established. It looks like myself and according to this post >>> http://ffxi.allakhazam.com/forum.html?forum=10;mid=116738308210605002;num=22;page=1 many other Aussie players will be having a forced summer vacation from FFXI!

This article sums it up!
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/29/asia/AS_GEN_Asia_Disconnected.php


/orz....see you all again soon. HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Fenrir Mine!!!!!!!!

What a damn fantastically lucky morning! I logged in and immeditaely i saw a shout for a Fenrir party which was already at 4/6. So I sent a tell to Lilwoody letting them know I was free and keen. After about 30 mins of finding a White mage we headed off to the fountain only to learn that in all of the pick-up party none of us had ever attempted Fenrir and the leader had no battle plan at all... with 3 of the members only able to speak JP we were highly dubious of our chances for success. So I suggested we just attempt a dry run and likely wipe to get an idea of his fighting style.

So we buffed, entered, and proceeded to wipe the floor with his mange-ridden ass! :D :D :D

I was so happy that I managed to land the final blow and bolted to windy to finalise the win! Fenrir = mine forever! Thanks to Lilwoody, Belld, Meally, Garc, Bandith. Our setup was Samurai, Paladin, Bard, White Mage, Red Mage and Summoner.
Now I can finally continue with Summoner to 75!!! I would love to kill him again for the Ancient's Key as well as his lovely stone :P Any takers?

Fenrir Mine!!!!!!!!

Happy 25th Birthday Chrissy!!!

Hello hello! Yes I'm not dead after all!

What a week! Started my posiiton at the Australian Museum in Hyde Park, in Sydney's city centre and it turne dout to be very boring indeed =p They had me compiling random data on random species to classify and catalogue them individually. Hoping next week will prove more exciting and may actually get dirty or my hands wet!

Here's a linky to the faculty I am in for those interested >>>

http://www.austmus.gov.au/fishes/index.cfm

Anyway, enough about me, Chris my partner in crime turned 25 this week and we celebrated by visiting the Moonlight Cinema in Centennial Park in Bondi and I also bought him a voucher for a tandem Hang-gliding session but unfortunately the wind hadn't come to the party so we were forced to postpone and leave Chris to stew in his panic!!! :D

So I 'might' make it back in game sometime this weekend but it looks dubious as now we're hitting peak shopping time I'm being asked to work a lot more (working 50+ hours next week o.o) but drop me a line if you wanna say hi! Peace!!

CoP 4-2 Ouryu fight Success!

A stupendously, outrageously, and immeasurably fantastic effort was witnessed today as Shiva’s number 1 CoP static linkshell took down the lord of the sky Ouryu in only two attempts (though first doesn’t ever count **go-go-dryruns**). After initial hiccups, the team entered ready to whoop ass! It was hairy on many occasions and at times was within a hair of dooooom.
At the very end it came down to a stunning stroke of faith and a pinch of luck as Garuda blasted the portly Wyrm right out of the arena! With just Odjaru standing with a slither of health it was truly a victory from above and beyond!!

Sea...youre getting oh so closer....!!! *searches out that oh-so-hot lil Bikini*