{"id":7807,"date":"2012-12-11T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-12T03:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=7807"},"modified":"2012-12-19T22:41:22","modified_gmt":"2012-12-20T03:41:22","slug":"mai-otak-chrismas-card-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=7807","title":{"rendered":"Mai &#038; Otak Chrismas Card 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"captionright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/maiev\/img\/tazo_ffxi_teemo_lol_by_lurazeda.jpg\" alt=\"Tazo Taru FFXi and Teemo LoL by lurazeda\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tazo FFXI and Teemo in LoL by <a href=\"http:\/\/lurazeda.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">lurazeda<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Christmas Again<\/h2>\n<p>So!!!! Hello everyone! Thanks for taking the time to drop by :) I love Christmas Cards :) as much as I&#8217;m a techie and like &#8220;digital&#8221; stuff, I still like&#8230; paper for Christmas :) Again, if you don&#8217;t feel like reading my wall of text\/update, feel free to <a href=\"#Bot\">TELEPORT right below<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; a year went by so quickly that it&#8217;s time to make Christmas Cards again :) Many stuff has changed etc&#8230; but in regards to Mai and Otak, yes we are doing great, better than ever :)! Which I&#8217;ll tell you below!!!!<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWe didn&#8217;t do an April Fools.. since we didn&#8217;t had any good idea! Didn&#8217;t make any progress with FFXI of course&#8230; but I will keep this &#8220;ancient&#8221; blog up :) I love this little blog :) too much sweat and blood on this thing lol!<\/p>\n<p>But oh man.. one year for two post&#8230; I&#8217;m seriously failing in blogging :< lol!\n\n\n\n<div class=\"captionright\"><a href=\"\/maiev\/img\/ff9_dagger_hair.jpg\" title=\"Dagger cutting hair, FF9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/maiev\/img\/ff9_dagger_hairs.jpg\" alt=\"Dagger Cutting Hair, FF9\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FF9&#8217;s Touchy Moment!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Gaming<\/h2>\n<p>So this year&#8217;s gaming&#8230; I tried Diablo III, that was a huge disappointment! Good thing I did not buy the collector&#8217;s edition :) I haven&#8217;t really play other things except for PC games. I did play a few other games like.. Portal 2, Team Fortress 2, Elder Scroll V Skyrim, I FINISH Twilight Princess 1 week after Skyward Sword is out (oh yea, I do need to finish that LOL.. not even 1st dungeon). I play FF9 this year on my BlackBerry Playbook emulator :), almost finishing FF7! Other than that, all my time spent on playing League of Legends!!!! I&#8217;m a pure support player :) like RDM&#8230; you know lol! I always think I&#8217;ve got all the support thing thought out&#8230; all the little detail.. like opportunity cost etc :)<\/p>\n<p>Come join Mai in LoL. When you signup an account with this link, I&#8217;ll know :) <a href=\"http:\/\/signup.leagueoflegends.com\/?ref=4e556180c8ecb224550861\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/signup.leagueoflegends.com\/?ref=4e556180c8ecb224550861<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In regards to FF7 and FF9. After playing them back to back, I do think FF9 have a better story :) It&#8217;s so sweet especially the ending. But since FF7 is the first &#8220;3d&#8221; rpg, I think it got a better hype :) I also took the time to take &#8220;screenshot&#8221; throughout the FF7\/FF9 journey :) Feel free to view them in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staronion.com\/ff7\/\" target=\"_blank\">Final Fantasy VII<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.staronion.com\/ff9\/\" target=\"_blank\">Final Fantasy IX<\/a> gallery!<\/p>\n<p>Common, how do you not say FF9 is better! Well, here&#8217;s the spoiler! The FF9 ending. Start form around <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Fqv4MhSGMw4?t=16m45s\" target=\"_blank\">16:45<\/a> in that video :) Best part is&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Fqv4MhSGMw4?t=28m45s\" target=\"_blank\">28:45<\/a>! So touchy :3<\/p>\n<p>FFXIV? Well we&#8217;re really waiting to see how 2.0 rolls out. We&#8217;re both quite disappointed in many ways that.. it doesn&#8217;t seem right to continue\/invest time into that game. Monthly fee is not a lot, but it does adds up :) and we want to make sure we&#8217;re really getting happiness from playing it. 50 bucks buys a LOT of cool skin in LoL, and I compare that &#8220;happiness&#8221; with the ones I get from FFXIV. If I don&#8217;t get something equivalent, then its hard to devote time into a game that doesn&#8217;t bring you any &#8220;utility&#8221;!<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionright\"><a href=\"\/maiev\/img\/lol_xmascard.jpg\" title=\"LoL and Writing Cards\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/maiev\/img\/lol_xmascards.jpg\" alt=\"Maiev's Christmas Cards LoL\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Writing Christmas Cards and Spectate!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Christmas Card 2012<\/h2>\n<p>My 5th year doing Christmas Cards :) Perks for being Mai gaming buddy :) Well, not really perks since I&#8217;m not giving you all free starbucks card!!! But you know&#8230; just something special :) to remind you gaming is awesome :) Gaming friends is just 100% a lot cooler!!!!<\/p>\n<p>If you missed my previous ones or never gotten previous ones, here&#8217;s what they look like :)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=7650\">2011 Christmas Card<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=7341\">2010 Christmas Card<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?p=915\">2008 Christmas Card<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.staronion.com\/maiev\/nfblog\/?page_id=181\">2006 Christmas Card<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d post looks of the card, but maybe once most people got it :) to keep the surprises for everyone :D!<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/maiev\/img\/mai_otak_ffxi_taru_xmas.jpg\" alt=\"Maiev Taru's 2012 Christmas Cards FFXI\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Artwork by <a href=\"http:\/\/aaagh.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Petisu\/Aaagh<\/a>!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>You know :) since I&#8217;ve done it for SO MANY YEARS!!!! One would have to invent better ways to write 60 cards :) :) without consuming my life :) So I&#8217;m sure once you received my cards, you&#8217;d understand why I did what I did LOL :) :)!!!!!! Though.. fuk me :( the damn cards was like <a href=\"\/maiev\/img\/xmas_2012_cost.jpg\">$180 total<\/a> lol&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s card.. have 3 versions. Since there is a minimum of 10 cards to print, I can&#8217;t really personalize each one like I did before :( However, this year&#8217;s design was done by your fellow artist friend :) including!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/aaagh.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">aaagh<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/arisutan.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">arisutan<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/kim-mariet.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">kim-mariet<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/lurazeda.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">lurazeda<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wickedz.deviantart.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">wickedz<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;d break out laughing once you see how I accelerate my Christmas Card process, do feel free to post pictures of it :) I always love seeing those!<\/p>\n<p>I know some of you peeps still play FFXI! By all means make a comment below so fellow Fenrir\/Mai Friends would be able to read and see who&#8217;s all playing what :) :) a simple way to stay connected guys :) :)!!!!!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d pick someone who I bought artwork from \/ got gifted artwork for a 30 dollar prize :) not sure who haha. Random pick from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ffxivfanart.com\/\">Mai FFXI\/XIV artwork gallery<\/a> maybe :D<\/p>\n<div class=\"captionright\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/maiev\/img\/maiotak_rl2012.jpg\" alt=\"Mai Otak RL 2012\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mai&#038;Otak&#8217;s Finland 2012 Vacation!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2>RL<\/h2>\n<p>Mai and Otak been doing awesome :) you might get a card with our faces on it&#8230; depends! :D There you have it :D! We&#8217;re still traveling and having fun :) We went to visit a few places but this time, we went to Sweden, Finland and Estonia and I don&#8217;t know any FFXI buddies that lives there so I didn&#8217;t really get to see any FFXI people this year :( maybe during Christmas when I goto NYC :) We&#8217;ll see :)<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, life is good, work is good! Everything is going great :) :) Though, remember to stay in touch :)<\/p>\n<p>Can always simply twitter me :) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/maiev\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/maiev<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/karla\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/karla<\/a> :) Don&#8217;t worry, I try not to be boring and I don&#8217;t bite!<\/p>\n<p>Merry Christmas :) <strong>Remember to also leave your game that you&#8217;re playing and the character name \/ whatever information needed for me\/other FFXi players to add you :)<\/strong><br \/>\n<a name=\"Bot\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Btw, all my envelope is just taped :) if you feel cheap and wanna return me a card, simply shove in what you want in there, seal it with water this time instead of tape and cross out your own address, as if it was &#8220;wrong\/undeliverable address\/wrong person\/doesn&#8217;t exist&#8221; and dump it back into the mailbox :) though no guarantee it works! It&#8217;d be interesting to try :) :) mail should return to me LOL!!! Plz someone try :D!<\/p>\n<p>Replying also consent that you want another one next year :) my list got too big :< I guess those that can't read and leave messages and leave a comment here didnt care much so no cards!\n\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/maiev\/img\/mai_intouch_2012.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tazo FFXI and Teemo in LoL by lurazeda! Christmas Again So!!!! Hello everyone! 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