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World Of Warcraft.

Its really a love and hate relationship with this game.

It all started in Sep 05 when R4 created SmellyCat the Orc warlock.

I pretty much hated this game for the whole of 06 coz not only R4 was pretty much obessesed with it, it didn't helped that i was preggie with BB Raine and he thought his guild (not to mention his wow gf "-___- ) was more important then us.

Kinda absurd? But its true, i was a WOW widow then.

It was pretty bad that we don't have much topics to talked about. Coz i dun understand his WOW lingo and he dun understand my Blythe obessesion so we pretty much led our own lives.

Till Bb Raine is in the pic. I resented him for not wanting to look after her. His arguement being there are many people to look after her anyway blahblahblah.

Maybe he dunno how to deal with new found fatherhood so he rather escape into the game to be Smellycat.

Gradually i dun even call him R4 anymore, i started calling him smellycat ( smelly for short).

The final straw come in Dec 06. Many things happened. It caused me so much pain and misery that i'd never ever experienced in my relationship with R4.

I almost wanted out.

But i guess with BB Raine in the pic, i couldn't just pack and leave.
Somehow we calmed things down and decided to work it through.

That was 06 and i am glad it is over.

The D day was 3rd Jan 07.

I decided i wanna WoW. I dunno why. I just wanted. So i bought the installation disc. But then i realised my laptop's specs couldn't support.

Grrrrrr........... "-___-

Crazy me went down to Courts @ Tampines and march up to the salesperson and told him i wanna buy a laptop that is meant for gaming.
The fella's eyeball nearly dropped. Afterall who come in to buy laptop to game. :P

After i got my laptop and installed the disc, i created my 1st WoW character.


Name: Airle ( coz she walked passed me when i was wondering wat to name)
Race: Undead ( better than Fat Orcs / taurens)
Class: Priest ( Medical mah! hahahahah)

Smellycat was skeptical. He don't think i can last long playing this game. He never offer me any help, asking me to figure it out myself and stopped his guild friends who wanted to help me.

When his guild friends asked him to let me join their guild, his standard reply will be : Wait till she is lvl 40 then we see how.

Was pissed with him initally. But after a while, there is nothing to be pissed about and i might as well enjoy the game. With or with out his help.

It was much later i realised that smellycat felt threaten and like i am invading into his "special" territory which is his game, his guild friends etc.

I kinda bugged StantheMan to help me out, afterall he played alliance in another server so horde couldn't be much diff. StantheMan was so nice to patiently explain to me how things work etcetc and it was him that led me to them.

My current guild - Slackers of the Horde. ( Cool name right? - suits me perfectly! wahahaahahha)

StantheMan was telling me that he met a guy along Tarren Mill ( undead town) that is going to join a guild and asked me if i wanted to join with him. Having no clue what is going on, i met the then Bleedelf (undead rouge) and together with him, we joined Slackers of the Horde.

Was a pretty small and niche group of people. The Guild Master (GM) is Grimsight (orc shaman) and he told me the reason why he formed the guild so that he and his good friend Lalamucha ( troll hunter) could chat easier.
* faint*

That was all in Jan 07.

Fast forward to now. Many things had since changed.

1. SmellyCat's Guild disbanded to form other guilds. Reason? Too many people, too many conflicts maybe? Kinda devastated SmellyCat for a while. He had since joined other guilds but he is never the same Smellycat before.

2. Bleedelf and Airle made way for Bloodwizard (Bloodelf Mage) and Violetraine (Bloodelf Priest) after the burning crusade launch, was kinda leveling with him till i had to go NZ for training and by then when i was back the gap was way tooo much to catch up already.

3. Met Grimsight, Lalamucha and Bloodwizard at the launch of the Burning Crusade. Finally we know how each other looked like. Waahahahhahah

4. Grimsight's friend Azilogg joined us as the only warrior in our guild. Now he is happily the Main Tank in our Guild.

5. Many people come and go in our guild, but there are always a few of us (Grim, lala, blood,azi etc) that was there all the way from beginning to now and i like what Grim said about our guild - casual gaming and based on friendship. Nothing beats playing with a group of friends. Even though our background, day jobs etc are very different but when we log in ,we are members of slackers of the horde.

6. I am still the slowest fella to level up in the guild. Its been like 10 mths and i am not even level 70. ( coz i got to work, take care of Bb Raine etcetc )Wahahahhahahahahah. I think if i am in some other guild, other GMs will probably kick me out of the guild by now.

7. I learnt how to play WoW with this group of friends and the experience is great, doing quests, going instance, helping you to level when you need that bit more to go to the next level etcetc.

8. My Guildies call me Vio coz my character's name is Violetraine (the love of my life), which makes me wonder will Bb Raine's friends call her that when she grows up. :P

9. Smellycat and Vio's relationship did actually get better, maybe we finally have common topics to talk about and as it goes along, it is actually nice to do something together again. He offered to bring me for instance ( though he was pretty harsh/mean to me in the instance but that is another story- hahaha) and sometimes gave me Gold ( WoW money) when i wanted to up my talioring or enchanting.

Enough of words. Here are some pictures.


Vio and Smellycat at the burning cursade launch.




Grim, Lala and Vio. Somehow i think our characters resembles us..... :P

The Stylo Mylo Bloodwizard. Already Level 70 (since long long time ago). Make me sooo jealous :P

Lala and Grim at my place "Kara-ing" Can't wait till level 70 to join them!




The time when i finally leveled to 58 and i could go OUTLANDS! They are so nice to help me level and bring me to outlands! Here we are at the Dark portal posing for a pic. Wahhahaha :)

Smellycat's ex guild 25 man raid. Looks kinda cool huh.

Thats Violetraine the BloodElf priest
(who still couldn't decide if she wanna turn holy or shadow).

The reason for this post?

Coz i wanna remember.

Thats sometimes something bad could turn out to be good in the end.

This is a good example.

And that i am level 60 already! 10 more levels to go! Gambateh! :p