Pig Loves Cow

I got my World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King Collector’s Edition yesterday. Actually it’s still with my friend Richard (who lives in Canada) but he sent me the key already, and I’ll just wait for him to go here to the Phils so I can claim it haha. I spent weeks hunting for it! Thanks for all your kindness richard! Unfortunately, the only in-game benefit of having it is a mini-pet, a baby frost wyrm named Frosty! It’s so blue and cute

Uncontrollable lag? Sucky ISP? Blocked by firewalls? A solution to these annoyances…TUNNEL!

Okay, so my boyfriend Mark has been having ridiculous pings on his WoW client. We decided to try tunneling it through my PC (which would serve as the socks server) and check if he gets less latency/lag.

All we needed was the following:

1. My server: A PC that runs ubuntu
   • Socks Server 5 (will discuss later how to install this)
   • A Tunnel Manager (gSTM)
2. The Client: Mark’s PC
   • WoW client installed (of course!)
   • SockscapV2
   • PuTTY

I used this guide to install Socks Server 5 (SS5) on my Ubuntu machine. gSTM can be installed using Synaptic or Add/Remove Applications. I then had to make sure that my socks port can be accessed from the internet, so I set up the Port Forwarding on my router to direct all 1080 and 1890 ports (1080 is the default port for socks server, but the guide uses 1890 to prevent malicious people for taking advantage of your open port) to my internal IP.

On Mark’s side (client side), he installed SockscapV2to act as a wrapper for Wow’s proxy/socks server, and PuTTY to tunnel the socks requests to my computer via SSH.

PuTTY SSH

Putty Tunnel

PolyPig, PolyPig! I got my Polymorph: Pig this morning POLYPIG POLY PIG!!! I can now morph things into Piggies Bossy Piggy I LOVE my piggy!

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

My sister took the car with her, and, since the car was on coding, I had to wait for 8 o’clock so she can pick me up. I decided to go to Shangri-La. I stopped by the dermatologist to buy medicine for my scalp and went to PowerBooks to look for stuff to read. I found their last copy of Twilight, to my delight, and bought it in a rush. Seriously, there was a guy holding it before I got my hands of it; I stared at him for a good minute before he let go and I grabbed it and brought to the counter. It was just 5 in the afternoon and I wasn’t feeling well, so I decided to order coffee and sit at Starbucks to kill time.

It was amazing – I read through 200 pages and didn’t realize it was already 7:30 if my sister hadn’t replied to my text message. And then it dawned on me: am I getting the best, or the worst, of both worlds? And by worlds I mean ‘gender’.

Human Mage

Twilight is, an Anne Rice novel for chicks – teen chicks. Seriously. It feels girlier than Christopher Pike’s books! But nevertheless, I can’t get my hands off it. I love stuff that normal girls love –butterflies, the color blue, books, romance, hugs and kisses, roses, surprises…but I’m not that girly enough to love pink, baduy love stories, well actually 90% of love stories haha…and a lot more girl stuff…

I also love stuff that normal boys love — the color blue, chucks/vans, games (ie GW, WoW), PC stuff, programming, driving, drinking…but I’m not very much hard core into everything.

I’m really stuck. What the hell am I? A cross breed? I stuck between both worlds, and I don’t know if it’s a good thing or a bad thing

I can’t relate to most girls when they talk about I don’t even know what. I can’t relate to most boys when they talk about hard core gaming and PC stuff (altho hard core programming…YEY!). Where do I even belong? :/

We’re a happy family

Saturday…one of the best days of my life. Waking up, and knowing that you’re safe Mornings are always romantic to me. I’m looking forward to more of those saturdays

I’ve been thinking about World of Warcraft the whole day…being a frost mage, and tinkering with an account named “Mary” at one of our client’s website, I was humming the tune of “Mary had a little lamb” but found myself singing: “Mary had a polymorph, polymorph, polymorph! Mary had a polymorph, its fleece was white as snow!”