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So Mela was quietly desynthing leather belts in Sandy when someone walks up and say:

"hi Melatonin can u lend me 2k so I can get a LS"
"i promise i'll return it"

I inspect the person: mithra lvl 75 blm wearing blm JSE, assault armor, have seal of Genbu for sell in bazaar for 90k.

"you can go farm rabbit hides and earn that in under 30 min"

"but that takes time"

"then go farm clusters, they sell under 5 minutes - -"

"common it's almost christmas don't be such a scruge"

Sorry that I am a scrooge...and if you're only level 5 I'd understand, but I'm not lending 2k to a complete stranger with a level that can earn 2k in a flash. = =

Ouryu #2

Taroh already gone when I took the picture...why do I always have one missing person.

Screenshots.

Last few weeks has been pretty productive for the LS and for myself:

Ouryu mission:
JT already left by the time we took pictures though. ><



ENM:
Group picture before entry.


Melees getting ready for the go.


You find a Garoparo in the Armoury Crate.



ToAU Mission:
Khimera.


Tornado II.


Quake II.


Freeze II.


Flare II.


Burst II.


Flood II.

Ding. XD

Pickled mustard greens 酸菜

1. Wash mustards clean. (duh)
2. Knead with salt & sugar until color changes.
3. Put in transparent plastic jar.
4. Add in lukewarm water until it just covers the vegetable.
5. Add in a little alcohol (rice wine or vodka both work).
6. Put under sun for 1 day (with lid on so you don't get pickled dirt and insects).
7. Seal well then store away from sunlight, you will see the vegetable change color, and it should be ready to cook after 3-4 months (mom puts it away for a year though).

When you take them out:
1. Wash the salt & sugar out.
2. Chop into small minces.
2. Stir fry with sesame oil, can add chilli pepper if you like them spicy.

Beef stew 羅宋湯

Beef - shoulder roast or stew meat (牛腩)
Tomatos - as much beef as you have
Onion - 1 large one, more is ok if you're cooking a lot of meat
Carrots - buy the peeled baby ones so you don't have to peel and cut them :P
Potatos - however much you like, but not more than the meat

Soy sauce
Pepper
Chinese rice cooking wine

1. Dice tomatos & onions. Peel and dice the potatos.
2. Cut beef into bite size.
2. Stir fry tomatos & onions with a little soy sauce until tomatos are soft, then put away in pot. (Or you can put those in pot directly if you're lazy, but I don't think it tastes as well.)
3. Stir fry meat w/ wine (as much as you want but cook until you can't smell it anymore), soy sauce (just a little bit), black pepper (just a little bit) until surface is cooked.
4. Put meat in pot w/ tomatos, onions, potatos & carrots, put enough water to cover up the ingredients.
5. Bring to boil then cook with small fire (just so you see bubbling on surface of soup) until meat is tender enough to eat (usually about 2 hours).
6. Add salt when served.

Obesity 肥胖

Is obesity a disease?
肥胖是病嗎?

This is like asking if being alcoholic is a disease. (Welll, alcoholism has been classified as a disease in recent years.)
Someone will say yes, because the wiring in your brain is actually changed when you become an alcoholic, so it's out of the person's control.
Someone will say no, because you can choose not to drink and thus you will not become an alcoholic in the first place.
這像是問酗酒是不是病一樣。 （其實酗酒在這幾年已經被歸類成病症了）
有些人會同意，因為酗酒會改變腦內的神經分布，所以酗酒者無法控制自己的行為。
有些人會反對，因為你可以克制自己別去喝酒，這樣從一開始你就不會酗酒。

My personal opinion is that obesity starts out as a choice and ends up as a disease...pretty much like how people starts smoking for whatever reasons, gets hooked, and develops lung cancer at the end.
個人認為肥胖是從行為變成疾病...就好像一個人開始吸煙（不論是為什麼開始），上癮，而後引發肺癌一樣。

While I think it's good to provide medical help for those who are determined to get out of the condition, I wonder if it'll encourage the thinking that "it's a disease (ergo it's completely out of my control)" and takes out the aspect of personal responsibility associated with the condition?
我雖然覺得提供醫療幫助想努力擺脫肥胖的人是件好事，但是這樣一來會不會助長「這是一種病（所以完全不是我能控制的）」這種想法，而讓人疏忽造成肥胖的個人責任？

Dangerous thinking indeed.
這種想法是很危險的。

Bonecraft 骨細工

Things I've learned while leveling crafts in FFXI:

1. Plan ahead -
Don't buy crystals when it's new moon or full moon, as crystal price usually goes up to twice or even 3 times during those moons. If you're planning to do a skill run on an upcoming new/full moon, buy it when it's cheap.

2. Farming sucks -
If you're cheap & poor like I am, you'll farm instead of buy the ingredients needed for your craft whenever you can. Check out the subcrafts you need, and with a little planning you can farm for both at the same time:

Giant femurs: dhalmel leather.
Ram horns: ram leather.
Tiger fangs: tiger leather.
Saint/hermit's rings: copper/brass ingot, glass fiber.

So on so forth.

3. Moon helps -
I personally find full moon lightsday really good for the 7+ skill gaps (you'll need advanced support). However when the skill gap is very small (<3), quatermoon with dark/weak moons are the best in my personal experience.

4. Whining works -
Complaining about the lack of skill ups to my LS while synthing helped a lot (people in my LS can testify how many times I report a 0.1 right after I whined, complained, or raged about not getting skill ups), but annoy your LS members at your own risk.

Boo

I wanted to use the new labeling feature and can't figure out how the hell to switch from blogger to blogger beta...so I'll just copy the old posts into a new blog. XD