I was dressed and ready to go out (to get my iPhone 4) but the Goonfather wasn’t ready. He was still busy playing EQ2. So I decided to log in to Rappelz and do some levelling up.

And then, before I even started the game, I couldn’t stop admiring my new armor, so I decided to take screenshots and share it.

My Holy Warrior! So chio right the armor?

And then I decided to take a photo my myself because I said I would try wear red to commemorate National Day so I wanted to show that!

I don’t have many red clothes. Only three, actually. This t-shirt, a sweater and a dress. Don’t think red is really my colour. I always feel funny in red.

Okay, back to Rappelz! :D

Okay, I don’t know why anyone would want to read about where I like to go shopping or which malls I hate.

But I’ve written it and it’s there for the reading. It’s this week’s Star Blog topic!

Read: Name five of your best and five of the worst malls and shopping places in Singapore

I’ve been truly busy the past week. Tons of advertorial and proposal deadlines, meetings, events, blogs, etc. I hardly slept all weekend and I woke up at 9 am today to rush some more work.

Finally finshed all my deadlines, though. I should be able to breathe easier this week and write some decent posts. No major deadlines and only two events!

One of the events is the Rappelz game launch. I am still accepting entries to be a VIP guest at the launch. I have a private gaming room for five people, with a terminal each for free gaming. And free food and drinks!

Want to join me there? Read the bottom of this post for details. Don’t forget you can also attend the party as a regular guest. It’s open to everyone. Just register at the Rappelz website!

Oh, yes, I’ll be collecting my iPhone 4 later.

YES IT’S MINE TONIGHT! YES YES!

Okay, I’ll try and wear something red today to celebrate National Day. =D

Most bo liao post of the year coming up.

I’ve got 10 minutes to kill while waiting for the Goonfather to finish doing his stuff so we can go out to have dinner. So I decided to camwhore because I’m all dressed up to take photos tonight. (Need to take some photos for Star Blog entry.)

There are taken with my Blackberry because I’m too lazy to take my camera out of my bag, lol.

You’ll notice that I’m not looking directly at the camera because the Blackberry flash is horrible. Not only is it super blinding, it flahes at you for like three seconds. After one photo, you are literally half blind.

Here’s a spoilt photo to show you how terrible the flash is. Not sure why the photo turned out like this, though. I took it the same way I took all the others.

See.

Okay. That was before I was blinded and so was still looking at the camera.

My Yakult bottle looks empty because, well, it is empty. I finished drinking it while taking photos.

It doesn’t take very long to finish a bottle of Yakult.

Okay, I think that’s quite enough. My 10 minutes are up. Need to run!

I’ll have less bo liao posts next week. Just very busy this week cos I had so much work. In the meantime, enjoy your long weekend!

Happy National Day! :)

(Oh yeah, I should have worn red and white, huh?)

Is it considered cognitive dissonance if, for example, I don’t like this person because he’s very irritating and I’m always thinking unkind thoughts about him although I don’t show it outwardly and just try to avoid him, but then he goes and does a nice thing like send me flowers when I’m sick, causing me to feel majorly guilty and wondering if I should try to stop disliking him?

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Once upon a time, not so long ago, restless Sheylara ran off to a distant land in search of new adventures. It wasn’t her first time. She can’t seem to keep still, that flighty lass.

After some time running about aimlessly, she stumbled upon a strange place called Trainee Island, where they told her that she had lost her memory but, to help her along, here’s a cute outfit to wear!

Whee!

On Trainee Island, she met many strange folks who made her run errands and kill monsters.

Uh… okay.

There were also those who raved nonsensically.

Woah.

It took a while to get used to all the strangeness, but Sheylara decided after a while that she liked the place and would stay put for a while. Although people were strange, they were friendly.

Fighting was fun. There were big chicken-like things to kill for dinner, so Sheylara didn’t mind so much being told to kill this and that.

And, like, cool effects danced across her eyes every so often. It was all quite impressive to the fun-loving girl.

Before too long, Sheylara met a pretty blue-eyed girl who told her something strange.

Her memory stolen? How awful!

In order to investigate this mystery, Blue Eyes made Sheylara kill zombies and other icky things. Well, apparently, that was how the world worked, so Sheylara set to work.

It was really tough work. She even got killed in the process. But the neat thing about this world was that when people died, they didn’t really die. They only lost some experience and popped back into town.

Anyway, since things were starting to get challenging, Sheylara decided to recruit an ally. She was taught how to summon a pet and make it fight alongside her!

The town people also told her that when she got stronger, she’d be able to have up to three pets at once fighting together with her, and the pets would grow up and get stronger as they fought battles.

A personal pet army! How nice! For now, though, it was just Mr Cat.

But it was getting late. Time to retire for the night! The zombies would probably wait. They had nowhere to go, anyway.

As Sheylara slept, she started dreaming of the many exquisite adventures that awaited her. There was a huge world outside of Trainee Island to explore! How would her life unfold? Would she get her memory back? What pets would she get next?

And where could she buy this sexy number that the town summoner was wearing?

You want to know what happens next, right? Well, you can wait for Sheylara to find out. But then, she may or may not tell you.

So, how about you find out for yourself?

Yes! You can visit the same world and go on the very same adventure!

Introducing… Rappelz by EagleGame!

Okay, I’m coming out of third-person narration to talk about this game from a reviewer’s point of view. It’s easier and a bit less retarded that way.

Rappelz is a free-to-play fantasy MMORPG. For a free game, it’s actually very good. The story seems quite simplistic in the beginning but it gets deeper as you play along. There are one-off simple quests as well as quest series that follow a story arc.

New players will find it quite easy to get into the swing of the game by doing the tutorial quests on Trainee Island. Once you’re around level 12 or 13 (I can’t remember), you can leave Trainee Island and venture out into the main world (which is very big), although you’d still have outstanding quests on Trainee island, so you can choose to stay there till level 20.

I like the look of the avatars. You can see many cute girls and handsome boys in the game! Avatars are customisable. You can choose your face and hairstyle and even facial markings. I also like the music in the game. The different soundtracks go with the environment very well!

But what’s more important to know are the two unique features of Rappelz.

I) Unique Pet System

You get a pet early in the game to help with battles. Depending on your class, you can have a maximum of three pets. As your pets level up, you can customise their skills and give them equipment to make them stronger.

II) Dungeon Siege

Guilds will get to participate in player-vs-player dungeon sieges after competing and winning in the qualifying raid levels of killing two big bosses in the shortest amount of time.

These events happen on a weekly basis. Fame and fortune await the best guilds on the servers!

Since Rappelz is a free-to-play game, don’t act shocked or anything if you find it not as polished as some of the more popular subscription MMORPGs. For example, while the environment and character art are pretty, the textures won’t be as detailed.

There are also a few minor things such as quest descriptions not being as comprehensive as I would like them to be. But these things don’t stop the game from being fun, and I have no trouble at all figuring things out.

Rappelz has me hooked for now. The gameplay is complex enough to provide enough suspense and challenge but not so complex as to require uber gaming PCs, which will suit casual gamers.

Compared to other free MMORPGs, Rappelz has good character customisation features. There are only three main classes to choose from — Deva, Ashura and Gaia — but each class branches out to more specialisation classes with their own unique skill trees.

Here’s an Ashura, a master of the dark arts with distinct offensive skills and high evasion:

So handsome! Awww.

Doing quests and killing monsters don’t only give you experience points and money. You also get job points, which you spend on class-specific skills. Common sense is required to spend your points wisely.

I didn’t get a chance to reach the higher levels yet, but it supposedly gets more fun and challenging, with more storyline quests, cooler monsters and even cooler pets!

Open beta for Rappelz starts tomorrow!! That’s August 6! Yay! Everyone can register for an account and try the game out for free, so there is no reason not to do it!

REGISTER and DOWNLOAD Rappelz here.

If you don’t want to download, you can request for a free DVD installer via the website, or SMS [RZ] space [name] space [NRIC] space [address] to 9002 8065 (normal SMS charges).

Oh, one more thing. Very exciting thing! There will be a Rappelz launch event next Saturday, August 14, 2010.

Three lucky gamers will win an invitation to attend the event as Sheylara.com VIPs!

Will it be you? :D

As a VIP, you will be admitted to a private gaming area to play the game together with me! Food and drinks will be served!

Me:

SO COOL RIGHT!

To be one of the lucky three, e-mail the following:

1) Your name
2) Your NRIC number
3) Your phone number
4) Game(s) you’re currently playing

To:

Closing date: Wed, Aug 11, 2010, 2359 hrs.

Winners will be picked by good ol’ Mr Randomiser! Whee! Don’t y’all miss him? =D And you’ll be notified by e-mail after the draw if you win.

Now, even if you don’t win, you can still attend the launch party! I took a screenshot of the announcement. :D If it’s too small to read, you can see it at the Rappelz site.

Key info:

Rappelz launch party
14 August 2010 (Saturday)
3pm to 6 pm
@ E2MAX Orchard Cineleisure, Level 9

All guests will enjoy free goodie bags, free gaming and a chance at the lucky draw! Register before Aug 11 to receive limited edition goodies.

Okay, good luck, then! Remember to send me your entries for VIPship! If I don’t see you at the event, I’ll see you in Rappelz!