I recently discovered the LOTRO Lorebook.  Yeah, it’s not exactly a new thing in the game, but it’s a new-to-me thing!  The Lorebook, which is a wiki (database), with some player-created content and some Official Turbine Stuff, contains all kinds of useful LOTRO information.  It can be accessed two ways:  in-game by selecting the icon on your mini-map, or online at http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Lorebook_home .  I find that it is extremely slow when accessed in-game, and since I always run LOTRO in window mode, I just open the Lorebook website in another window.

When the Lorebook page opens, scroll down to see the Table of Contents.  One of the first things I found in the Lorebook was the list of 133 available emotes (in the Character Attributes section).  I had no idea there were so many!  Emotes like ’scratch’, ‘juggle’, ‘giggle’, and ‘tantrum’ can add a bit of fun to otherwise boring moments when your fellowship is waiting around for something or someone.  Yeah, there’s even an emote for ‘bored’, but one of my favourites is ‘pick’.  Give it a try! 

One of the sections I have found extremely useful is the Deeds section.  Until recently, I never really appreciated the value of completing deeds, but I am now trying to complete as many as I can.  The exploration deeds are especially interesting, because I get to see new places in the game, places that probably would have been missed if I’d only been going through quests.  One of the big attractions of LOTRO for me is its beauty, so I enjoy seeking out new scenery.  What I usually do now, when I go to a new region, is open the Deeds section of the Lorebook, click on the region I’m in, and see which deeds are available.  What do I have to kill?  What places should I explore?  Is there anything interesting I need to find (such as Bilbo’s Buttons in the Misty Mountains)?  If I’m doing some soloing, knowing which deeds to pay attention to can give my usually rambling progress some sense of direction!

I also found this great page about Traits through the Lorebook:  http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Lord_of_the_Rings_Online_Traits_Compendium .   It is exactly what I have been looking for in terms of a comprehensive collection of Trait information.  I was frustrated before, because if I wanted to work on a particular Trait, such as Charity or Justice, I had no way of knowing where to go or what to do to gain more points for that Trait.  This webpage is just perfect and tells me everything I really, REALLY wanted to know (well, about Traits, at least!).

There is a lot to read about in the Lorebook, whether it is finding out information about your favourite (or most hated) mobs, learning where to find that elusive item for a quest, understanding more about Reputation points, gleaning tips for crafting, or finding out the history of your favourite places.  The Lorebook has lots to offer, so have a look through it.

Happy gaming!

Naglalakad ako sa riles na katapat ng aming bahay, kauulan lamang kaya amoy na amoy ang mga basang uray at damo sa mga taniman ng gulay. Maya maya ay tumambad sa akin ang mukha ng pamilyar na mukha ng isang dalaga, maputi, nakangiti, at ako’y tinatawag. Kilala ko sya sahil nakasama ko sya sa opisina, matagal tagal na rin bago ulit kami nagkita at sa sobrang kasabikan a niyakap ko sya at binati. Inimbitahan ko sya sa aming bahay at inalok ng makakain, sya at ang kanyang kasamang dalaga rin. Buong araw kaming nag kwentuhan kasama ng aking pamilya at napakasaya talaga ng aming muling pagkikita.

Nang humupa ang tawanan ay akin syang tinanong, aalis ka pa ba? ang ngiti sa kanyang mukha, hindi man nabura ay nagpahiwatig pa rin ng kalungkutan.

“Kailangan ko pang mag lakbay, marami pa akong dapat gawin at tapusin, nagpaalam lang ako sa iyo.”

Matapos ang mga katagang iyon, siya ay nag ayos, tinawag ang kanyang kasama at nagsimula nang lumakad sa riles kung saan ko siya muling nakita.

itutuloy…

…karugtong

Napansin ko ang kanyang damit na tila iba na sa dati nyang sinusuot. Ang dating madilim na bughaw na belo at palda ay napalitan ng matingkad na bughaw at ang kanyang damit, ngayon ay puti na. Kailangan kong pumunta ng Lucena ngayon pero hindi kami pwede sumakay ng kahit anong sasakyan. Naglalakad lamang kami. Ipag dasal mo kami ha, sige, uuna na kami paalam…

Paalam Sr. Leny

Lumiwanag ang kapaligiran at nakita ko na ang aking sarili sa aking higaan, doo’y nalaman ko na panaginip ang lahat. Pero damang dama ko ang lahat ng pangyayari, ang saya at lungkot na nadama ko ng nakita ko sya. Hindi ko alam kong dapat ko nga ba sya i-text o kung tama ba ang number na itetext ko. Simula ng lumisan sya sa aming paaralan ay hinanap ko na ang alaga at pagmamahal niya sa amin, salamat sa Panginoon at kahit sa panaginip ay nakita ko siya at nayakap.

Actor John Barrymore with his daughter Diana demonstrating "happiness" emotion on Feb. 15, 1942

Last Spring, I did a posting entitled, “You Make Me Emote!” In the posting, I declared that each person is responsible for her/his emotions. In other words, for example, it is incorrect for a person to say someone else made her/him angry. In this posting, I would like to explore the cause of our emotions.

So, what causes our emotions? What causes me to feel angry? Suppose someone hits me with his fist. The first thing I feel is the physical pain of being hit. The next feeling that I might feel is one of being angry. What caused the feeling of anger? Is it because I’m feeling physical pain? No, because the feeling of physical pain doesn’t always produce the emotional feeling of anger. Take, for example, the pain resulting from accidentally bumping your head while getting into a car. Usually, there would be no emotional feeling of anger. The point is, that a certain emotional feeling doesn’t necessarily come from a particular physical feeling. So what causes these things we call emotions?

Should a boxer get angry because of getting hit in the head?

I have a simple three letter answer. YOU! Yes, you are the cause of your own emotions. I know in my previously mentioned posting, that I never specifically stated that each person causes her/his emotions. Instead, I talked about owning our emotions and not blaming anyone else for them. We not only own our emotions, but we also cause them.

So, if I cause my emotions, then how can I control them? I think we cause our emotions through our thoughts. Let’s consider the previous example of being hit by someone’s fist. I mentioned feeling the physical pain that was followed with the feeling of anger. The feeling of anger may have been immediately replaced with a feeling of warmth, if, for example, I was hit by a two year-old child. In other words, after thinking about who and why I was hit, the emotional feeling changed from anger to warmth. It would be natural to assume that the two year-old child meant no harm.

August 1964,`Beatle' fan overcome by emotion as long-haired quartet arrive.

Let’s follow this line of thinking a little further. We not only own our emotions, but we cause them. We cause them through our thinking. If it’s our thinking that causes emotions, then it seems natural to use our thinking to control our emotions. Let’s return again to the example of getting hit by someone’s fist. What kind of thinking causes me to emotionally respond with anger? Perhaps, I think the person who hit me, did so as an expression of anger. My response may have resulted from some  ”eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth” thinking. In other words, that person is angry so I will be angry at her/him. Another way of thinking, in this situation, is to use the Christian philosophy of, “turn the other cheek.”  This could cause the person who did the hitting to feel embarrassed, due to not getting the response s/he expected. Though my examples may not be that good, I hope you can see how the cause of our emotions could be, and most likely is, our own thinking.

Now, let’s address the question in the title. Who or what controls your emotions?

First, who controls them? YOU!

Secondly, what controls your emotions? YOUR THINKING!

Did he choose to be happy?

Sometimes, I find my emotions are controlling me. In a way, that makes perfect sense. You see, my thinking causes my emotions and I control my thinking. It is possible for me to think of harming someone and then become angry. The anger then leads to me looking and acting angry. But, if I change my thinking and instead of thinking in a harmful way, I think of not harming, then my mind will most likely not become angry. The anger comes from how and what is being thought by the person who is angry. Don’t let anger control you, but let you control the anger.

We are not emoting due to what happens; we are emoting due to what we think about what happens.

You have control over your comment(s). I’m looking forward to reading yours.

Finally finished it!! Content with the conclusion. Must say that you can hardly tell that I was freezing my ass off. Even in the fall. After seeing this I feel like I must do an Autumn video for YouTube every year lol.

Crazy to me cuz I filmed this over a month ago, early October actually.

My Channel: YoYo BlaZe Show

Enjoy!!

I’ve figured it out.

I have an electronic personality……….because it zapps from one angle to the next, which is okay because it always comes back in the same direction.

I can’t believe I still have not finished editing this video. Friday makes a month since I filmed it and because I believe in my videos being “broadcast”-ed as YouTube would say, “Broadcast Yourself”, in the chronological order that they are filmed I have not uploaded, nor edited, nor looked at any of the other videos that I have filmed after it; whether they are for YouTube or Facebook. Ugh!! (I make that sound a lot — both here and on twitter)

Anyway, I am determined to upload it by Saturday because this is just ridiculous. This is the last time I will be doing a difficult music video such as this. I was just so inspired at the time by the concept that I had and by the story and especially the song, but I’m not gonna be this committed to difficult videos again. I make videos based on the visions that I get and I’m still passionate towards doing that but not if it sets me this behind in others videos. I just procrastinate on it a lot for instance right now instead of typing this long ass blog I should be editing. WTF!

I’m just now seeing this movie, and it absolutely took my breath away. It was like a compelling and intriguing book. I could not take my eyes away it was a great watch and it was very heavy as well. It was extremely sad, well more so towards the end, the more of it was epic; VERY EPIC.

I now have a fascination of Emile Hirsch which I already had, but this film has resurfaced that fascination.

Seriously, I dont know.

I go from being all colorful and bright to moody and dark yet lovely. My personality forever varies, I know this because at times I’m all “girly” meaning makeup and heels, then the next minute you catch me with the tomboy-ness and the outbursts of cursing.

My wardrobe is constantly on a roller coaster. I listen to EVERYTHING and I MEAN EVERYTHING!!! I’m listening to “Set The Fire To The Third Bar” by Snow Partol right now! I listen to different shit, that is a part of my weird ass personality. I don’t know it’s always changing, for instance: right now I am typing with severe typos that you won’t be able to see because I am going to be fixing them and I don’t even want to finish this post or write about this subject anymore bye bye.

I went to CSI last week and got extremely motivated, confident, and excited. I’m sooooooo glad that I’m going back to school. I’ve missed it and I have actually missed the work, because, believe it or not, I love learning. Learning new things makes me feel like I’m closer and closer to my dreams, closer and closer to being as successful as possible.

I really miss the college life as well. When I was at Pace it was the best. I had a bunch of friends and we would hang out everyday and every night. Roaming the Manhattan streets, going out to eat, shopping, going to events. I remember during the Christmas time we had secret Santa and we all gave each other gifts, it was so wonderful. I love that school!! So why did I leave? I had to leave!!! They were charging toooo much money. I loved it though, I learned so much about life and people and….well…..LIFE!! It was a blessing. As was SFC, because I had a blast there too, only made one friend tho

I just miss the journeys that I was making and that I was on.

I am really excited to start new ones at CSI and beyond. It really feels good to be a part of something.

Yesterday I downloaded World of Warcraft Model Viewer  (v0.5.08). I imported my character from the armory and did a few changes (I regret making my rogue so pale-skinned).

World of Warcraft Model Viewer is a software for creating models with the textures in the game. It’s pretty neat for making your own pictures for layouts, signatures and whatever you’d like to make. Since it includes all emotes and actions your character can do in-game, you could probably put together a nice movie sequence if you have the editing skills, which I don’t, and if I do, I am too lazy to do anything about it.

Video editing is considered my artwork and my artwork is started to feel like real work, a demand. It used to be fun, matter of fact making videos is still fun, but now I feel like I have to record everything. Which I don’t have a problem with but I do have a problem with not having proper equipment. I want a better camera, my digicam is not good enough, it needs to be HD, and WWM isn’t good enough either. I have a SONY notebook, I should be using Sony Vegas Pro. These things would definitely bring a bigger audience………..

Yeah right I don’t mean none of that shit, “I want more editing software to elaborate my vision.” NO!!!!!!!!!! What vision?? NO ONE WATCHES YOUR VIDEOS CRACKHEAD!!!!!!!!!!

lol why did I write this post again…hmm boredom probably

So one year has passed my since my father’s death and I don’t even know how to feel about one hour without him let alone one year.

I miss him soo bad! This aint never gonna change, but every year its just gonna get more and more difficult, giving in more and more time without him, trying to get used to the fact that I aint never gonna see him and it just aint right, it don’t feel right nor does it seem right.

When you have someone with you your entire life, them being gone won’t ever seem plausible; him not being here, him not being in my reach; to call to; talk to; see. All I have is my family, they represent him now, because losing Daddy was like losing TEN people at once. At once, TEN family members was released from my family, from my life, and one year passing is not one year time a.k.a. “365 days” to get used to or over it!!

Fuck this “better in time” bullshit, it does not get better in time, I’m tired of people telling me that. How on Earth is it gonna get better in time? Is Daddy coming back in that time that I’m waiting for it to get better? No! he’s not so how the fuck is it better? IT….IS…..WORST!!

I LOVE YOU SO MUCH!!!

Small spat over at Pink Tape when familoo wrote about a children’s guardian who had said to the lawyers in a case, “Don’t you EVER think about the kids?”  In her post familoo joked that if she really hated children she’s go and be a teacher. This brought down on her head severe criticism from a couple of commenters who, completely missing the humour, were incensed that she should even suggest that teachers are anything except perpetually loving and caring towards their pupils. I must say my own experience as a school child do not bear out the idea of the ever-loving teacher, rather the reverse, but that was a very long time ago.

In the family courts it is common to see two clearly capable and loving parents each accusing the other of being uncaring and irresponsible as they quarrel over which of them should (or rather should not) have custody of their child. It is less common for professionals to fall out among themselves on the same sort of  ‘I care more than you do’  basis. Even the lay combatant, taking their teeth out of their opponent for a  moment, can sometimes appreciate that professional disinterestedness and objectivity can lead to better decisions than blindly passionate engagement.

Unfortunately the virtues of disinterestedness and objectivity seem to be challenged on all sides. Passion, commitment, engagement and expression of strong emotion are increasingly admired, not only in the Family Courts but in politics, in foreign policy and by a myriad of pressure groups. Global warming, endangered species, and perhaps most of all celebrities, from Diana to Jordan demand our complete, unthinking and fanatic devotion. No wonder that even the professionals are starting to become infected with the idea that those who feel most strongly (or at least claim to) are in the right and that the professional task today is to think less, become passionate, display much more feeling and emote all over the place.

Why do people feel that if they help you out a little bit and I mean A LITTLE BIT, why do they act like they earn the right to disrespect you???

Why???

All you’re doing is making me resent you…….

I love Chris Brown again??

Okay I know I know, we all “dislike” Chris now but he is just such a sweet boy and this video just reminded me of that and he’s so funny and I’m in love with his new song hehe.

I have no idea what I’m doing wrong but my videos are not saving nor uploading properly and it’s really upsetting me, upsetting me to the point where I don’t even know if I wanna make high quality videos anymore. I use the term “high quality” in a way that you are not used to; I don’t mean higher looking, I mean popular: stuff that people actually want to watch and stuff that I care about: my thoughts and my interests.

Here is the last video that uploaded wrong which isn’t really high quality because there’s not that many views and there’s no ratings. I guess its true about YouTube when they say the videos you start out with are way better and more popular than the videos you end up doing in the long run; not to mention my subs went down from 70 to 66.

Oh btw it’s not even in HD
My Channel

Encontrei um blog francês sobre dofus chamado Gladitroolls. Numa das postagens novas havia algumas imagens de dentro do Dofus 2.0. Elas se tratam do mapa de Amakna, mapa de Incarnam, todos os smileys disponíveis e os ícones de emotes. Achei super legal e quero compartilhar com quem acessa aqui o blog, olha só:

Fico devendo o mapa do mundo, mas, mais uma vez, dá pra ver no blog deles, http://gladiatroolls.com/.

I seriously hate my nails, they just don’t ever effing grow and when they do they effing break, I’ve been taking this “Sally Hansen Miracle Growth Nail Treatment” for months and it aint doing a damn thing. I got a manicure Monday morning and they started chipping Monday night. I wanna give up but I really like it when my nails look nice and are all polished. But I honestly don’t know what to do, my nails just don’t cooperate.

I hate banks, they’re not open on weekends, they close early on weekdays, they cut off your credit cards, they charge you bullshit late fees and they charge you when you’re not able to go to the bank because it’s closed. What the eff you supposed to do if the mofo-ing bank is closed? BREAK IN?! UGH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I hate it! Banks can suck it.

I just felt like venting, I know I don’t really sound mad but I am.

Oh here’s a picture of my nails looking good: TWITPIC!

Michael on my new laptop, its a SONY VAIO, I got it on the 21st and I’m just in love with it. I was watching the “This Is It” trailer.

It has been a pretty busy week for me. I am so glad that the weekend is here. Though I spent my Saturday morning rushing through a job fair and shopping for better career opportunities, my day ended with a stroll in Centre Island and a hamburger dinner with friends.

I wanted to unwind so much that my body aches for it. My “new” desk job has been uber stressful. My back bothered so much, it wasn’t funny anymore. Not to mention the fact that the red letter days were on its way, making things even worse. I am so thankful for the half hour lunch we have with my office buddies, somehow it eases the pain and stress.

I have never been so determined to find another job yet I am very careful, I don’t want to make any mistakes. Time is of the essence. It’s been very difficult. Deciding what’s the next step. I’ve been praying for it but I guess it’s not fervent enough. Or am I just impatient?

Too much stress turns to too much thinking and worrying, thus the greater tendency not to listen and ignore the signs.

Lord, help me to focus so that I know what path I should take.

Okay so I just saw the best motherfucking concert EVER!!!!! Therefore I had to come over here and blog about it. I have loved Jay-Z since I was 7, he has been my favorite rapper since I was 7 and I have never, ever, ever!!!! said other wise..when everyone else was like “I like Wayne now, I like Luda, Ja Rule, 50 Cent, Camron” and living in all that hype, I never ever ever changed, because Jay is better and bigger that ALL of them niggas combined!!! And this concert just proved that to the world and just made me love him even more……………..if that shit is even possible because I am infatuated with him – and like I said before that shit aint gon change. ITS THE ROC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!