Happy Stormy Halloween

Well Typhoon Storm Santi, aka 'Ramil' is here in Philippines is thankfully passing through swiftly. Still hoping that the intesity of the storm won't be bad for those ihn the storm's path. This morning here in Las Piñas Ramil passed by with only strong winds and light rainshowers. We had electricty cut off from 3am up 'till 10am. But all's well.

Tomorrow's Halloween aka All Souls Day. During November 1st it is part of the Filipino culture to pay respects to their dead by visiting their graves. But sadly, people these days bring playing cards, booze, sound systems, etc. into the cemeteries and entertain themsleves after paying respects. It's truly sad that the younger generation see this behaviour and would probably do the same when they grow up. We must remember that we are paying respects to our dead kin, we are to pray for their souls while lighting candles for them, not using their nitsos as card tables. Why are we to drink in front of their graves?! People drink to be merry or to drown their problems or sadness in them. Are we being merry for the death of a loved one? Are we trying to drown our sorrow of losign the ones we love, when what we're supposed to be doing is remebering all the memories they gave us be it good or bad. Those blasted sound sytems! Please do tell me what's the use of playing music on this halow day!?!?!

Please let us all rember the treu purpose of Halloween in our culture. that is to pay respects to our beloved dead. For we want to be respected and rembered as well once we depart this world. Let us not forget our prayers and candles.

This is Ronn signing off

P.S.

I didn't continue the tourney report from the last blog, since it was too long. I aslo want to forget that I lost alot when my deck got stolen. Also wrote this P.S. post just so I have two posts fro October. Bwahahaha =D

Signing out at 4:40AM

Back in business

Ah at last, time to write a little and live a little.

Let's have a re-cap. During the past month Philippines was struck by two of the most violent storms in her history, Ondoy and Pepeng. Not only did our people suffer sever trauma, but our economy also suffered. Oil and food costs went haywire, flooded settelments, and a slow Government to back it up. But in these troubled times we Filipinos haven't failed in helping our fellow countrymen. Be it through volunteer work or through online appeals, we showed the world how united we can be and how strong we Filipino truly are.


During the Ondoy storm. I was very thankful for being stuck in a bus for 16 hours from morning 'till the next morning, only eating one pack of fish crakers. I or rather we have so many things to be thankful for, we have no right to complain about the life we have right now.

School year 2009-2010, Term1 ended several weeks ago. With a 1 week 'Storm-Vacation' and the Semestral break, our school calendar is now haywire! The term ended well for me with no failing grade, but I know I could've done way better if I didn't slack off much. 2nd term began last October 19, last Monday. I got five majoring subjects enrolled,and hopefully I get exempted on lecture subjects by the end of the term, so I can have a proper Holiday. I'm really looking forward to spending Christmas with my family in Brunei. I really miss them, my mom, dad and sister. Second week just beagn so I guess, it's gonna be back to workin' hard. Aim for Uno!

Now, for the Magic the Gathering segment. As all Magic players know Lorwyn Block has rolled out, and the new Zendikar Block has been released. Zendikar with it new Landfall mechanic has made mana-ramp and aggro decks more efficient. But with all these new decks being formed, let's pause and take a breather and remember one of the most powerful decks in Magic History, the Faeries. Since I started out with the Alara Block, I wasn't able to use these fierce-flying faeries in the game. So I decided to make a casual faerie deck, minus the Bitterblossom and expensive land cards. Here's the decklist, which is still kind of a W.I.P., this Fae deck is a mid to late game deck.











CREATURES - 21
4 NIGHTSHADE STINGER

4 OONA'S BLACKGUARD
4 SPELLSTUTTER SPRITE

2 THIEVING SPRITE
2 PESTERMITE
2 LATCHKEY FAERIE

3 MISTBIND CLIQUE

SPELLS - 17
2 FAERIE TRICKERY
2 BROKEN AMBITIONS
4 ESSENCE SCATTER
4 PEPPERSMOKE
3 NOTORIUS THRONG
2 DOOMBLADE


ARTIFACT - 2
2 CLOAK AND DAGGER


LANDS - 24

2 VIVID CREEK
2 FAERIE CONCLAVE
9 ISLAND
11 SWAMP


That's it for this week. Have a good week ahead.

W.I.P.

I haven't written anything so far for so long. I'll be back online after a week more. Sorry for the inconvenience.

-Ronn

Update

Been awhile since my last post. Thing happened since then. Busy with catching up with school work. So not much postsing recently.


Last July I attended the Magic the gathering Philippine Open 2009, at Glorietta 5 Atrium, in Makati. I signed up for the Alara block Constructed tournament (a side event to the MTG Philippine Nationals 2009). I used my one and only Infiltrator Deck (a Bant-based deck). I met up with most of Team Iloilo. They were cool, friendly too. I also met my 'Magic Master' Mark Ian, funny thin was were wearing matched outifts. Hahaha.





1st part of the touney,1st Round I was up against a Jund-Aggro deck. 1st game I won in 4 turns thanks to Noble Heirarch, Rafiq of the Many, and my favourite Jhessian Infiltrator. Dealing an unstoppable 10 damage on turn 3 and another 10 at turn 4.

2nd round Started with a good hand, then started to draw only lands, able ot lay only 2 Jhessian Infiltrators. I lost badly having 1 of 2 of my Infiltrators blasted with a Bituminous Blast, followed by a cascaded Blightning. Leaving me with 1 Infiltrator, and no hand. With a Sprouting Thrinax on board and a Jund Hackblade, at turn 6 opponent played a Bloodbraid Elf (which was a nightmare). He cascaded a Blightning(leaving me down to 11). He went with an all out attack leaving me down to 2, and finsihed me off with another Blightning.


3rd round I took my Sideboard cards (C.Purge, Valeron Outlander, Hindering Light). but wasnt able to draw any of them. My game went from bad to worse. With only an Infiltrator and Rafiq by Turn 4, i dealt him enough damage at turns 4,5 and 6 leaving him down to 2, me with 8 life points left. With one fell swoop at turn 7, my opponent strikes back with a force. Rafiq was MalestormPulsed, followed by a Bituminous Blast, forcing out a Bloodbraid Elf, followed by a cascaded Blightning. Leaving me defensless, and with no hand and went drom 8 to 2 in one turn. With an empty board I took the final blow from the infamous Bloodbraid Elf.

2nd part of the tourney,round 1 was again matched up with another Jund Aggro-Deck. Went all out in this match-p, dropping a Heirarch at turn 1, Jhessian Iniltrator at turn 2. by turn 3 I dropped a valeron Outlander to stop the Sprouting Thrinax on the march. By turn 4 dropped a Finest Hour, allowing my Infiltrator o dish ou a total of 11 damage. by turn 5, dropped a Rafiq to finish the game without a scratch on me.

Well this'll be 'to be continued' 'cause I have stuff to do heheh..'Till next time, iI leave you with a quote, and a random link.

"I eat the food you serve, not to fill my stomach, but my ehart". -A.A.R.C.

Urban Dictionary

signing off

-Ronn

Bumpity-bump in the night

Having a great vacation with grandma so far. Playing video-games and Pokemon cards with cousins, visiting relatives, and drop by my Grandfather and Uncle's graves. It drizzles a lot here in Batangas. So I get a runny nose once in awhile.


Something creepy happened at the house thought. My cousin was using the PC upstairs, opposite the door of the room I stay in. While working he said he saw a Shadowy figure pass by, which got him s*** scared that he actually got a fever the next day. That same night while I was watching a show in one of the local networks, I heard footstep just outside the master bedroom. They were these heavy steps walking across the floor upstairs, but I didn't mind it was having a good laugh with the show.


So today, I decided to visit my Uncle and Gramps graves, 'cause my Aunt thought that naybe there just 'sending a message' that they need a visit. Coincidentally, July 16th is My Grandfather's, Nicolas Delrosario's death anniversary. When I got to the memorial park. I was irritated and annoyed that they dumped trash and dried leaves on top of their graves. I thought that's why they made their presence felt, someone dumped stuff on their graves. I first cleaned their grave stones, pulled out some grass, and put up two candles, one for my Uncle and another for my Grandfather.



When I got back home, my Aunt said that maybe spirits like to ahng around me. 'Cause the only time things go bum in the bight here, it's when I'm around. I don't know what to think now. I think I'll be off the graveyard shift on my online life. Haha, lay low, don't wanna see things.


Signing off..

I’m signing in early ‘cause I wanna get some good sleep tonight.

I’m at staying over at my grandmother’s house. Had a short 3-hour road trip, which I slept through. I was just gonna see roads, trees, cars and more cars, nothing special. Got down at a road diversion, took a ‘Jeepney’ (the famous public utility vehicle of the Philippines). Then got down at the local market, visited my aunt’s loading station then bought some bread, after which I took a tricycle (aka trike) to my grandmother’s house, which took less than 10 minutes to do all in all.

Had lunch of course, just got done playing a game in PS2 then went through my card box. And lo and behold. Beyond my Magic cards, lay my first cards, Pokemon cards. So I decided to make a deck out of all the cards in the pile. I came up with a Fire-Fighting Deck with Machamp, Raticate, and Arcanine as key monsters. Gust of Wind, Bill, Energy Retrival being the key Trainer cards.

My Budget Bant/Budget Blue-White or Blue-Green deck I still under creation. So hard to make an effective budget deck that revolves around the colors of Bant (Blue, Green, White). So, to make the deck a little faster, I decided to chip in cards that allow you to Cascade, and my favourite card so far Finest Hour. To top Finset Hour off, I added cards that provide Exalted ability. Now all that’s missing are the creatures. Tsk!

So anyway, before today (yesterday of course) I fried Bangus (Milk Fish) for lunch. When I put the fish in the hot oil, oil splatterd and scalded my right arm a little. So today my featured topic is about Burns and Scalds.

Step 1:

You will need

• 1 non-stick sterile dressing
• 1 roller bandage
• 1 adhesive tape

Step 2:

Soothe with cold water

Now help the person hold their injured limb under running cold water for at least 10 minutes. This will ease the pain by helping to cool the injury and keep the skin well hydrated. If there is no water to hand, try cold canned drinks, milk or any other harmless non-flammable liquid.

Step 3:

Make the person comfortable

Make the injured person comfortable. If possible, help them to sit down at a table where you can put your first aid supplies.

Step 4:

Wash hands thoroughly

Now, using soap, wash and dry your hands thoroughly and put on a pair of disposable gloves if available

Step 5:

Remove jewellery or restrictive garments

Remove any jewellery, watches, belts or restrictive clothing from the injured area in case of swelling
If blisters develop be careful not to burst them

Step 6:

Apply burn cream

Read the instructions carefully before applying the burn cream. If there are any blisters be careful not to burst them, as this might cause an infection.

Step 7:

Apply dressing

Cover the injured part with a non-stick sterile dressing to help stop infection. If there is blistering, make sure the dressing extends well beyond the edges of it.

Step 8:

Apply bandage

Next bandage the dressing loosely in place. Watch VideoJug film ‘how to apply a roller bandage' for the full technique.

Step 9:

Check circulation

Once you have finished, check the circulation of the injured limb by pressing on one of the nails or skin of the hand until it becomes pale. Then release, and if the colour does not come back within 2 to 3 seconds, then circulation is likely to be impaired and the bandage too tight.
Take the bandage off, if this doesn't improve circulation, remove all restrictive bandaging, hold dressings in place and immediately seek medical advice.

Step 10:

Seek medical advice

You should seek medical advice if you are worried about the severity of the burn. Be aware that when any skin is burned away there is an increased risk of infection which may develop at any point before the wound is fully healed