Two great moments. One great day!

Yesterday (September 28th) for most of us was just another ordinary day. Filled with work, work and more work. To be honest, most of my day was the same.. But I had good reason to smile :)

Yesterday marked our 8 year dating anniversary. Now, we don't make a habit of celebrating this, but it is always just an awesome reminder of how far we have come, and also a reminder of how far we have yet to go.

Knowing, living for and loving someone for 8 years really does start to change you (in a good way), especially these last 2 years (since we have been married). You slowly start to realise exactly why God said in Genesis 2:18 : "It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him."

I have definitely been blessed with a suitable helper, a very suitable and loving one at that (and patient). So as I continue striving to be come a Ephesians 5:25-27 man "Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her to make her holy, cleansing her by the washing with water through the word, and to present her to himself as a radiant church, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless." I know that atleast by my side I have someone who can help me get through anything :) [thnx love :P]

O.. I did say two great things right?? Well the second isn't half as great as the first, but it still was awesome none the less.
Last night we headed into Trial of the Champions facing Anub'arak with a full raid night for the first time. Before attempting him though we decided to head off to Onxyia and beat her silly. Personally I was quite dissapointed at the difficulty level of this fight. I was expecting something more in line with TotC rather than Naxx :( One might argue that we were completely over geared(which we were) but I would have hoped blizzard would have aimed her more at those gear in tier 9.5(or atleast tier 9) rather than those in tier 7.5.

Either way, we downed her after 1 failed attempt (which was caused by mass pc lag during the whelp phase). We then headed straight for Anub'arak on abit of a "Big Boss" downed high, and started to work at him..
It soon became apparent that DPS was the order of the day (attempt 1 left us hitting the enrage timer before he even hit phase 2)
This required us to change the tactics abit, which also required some awesome skills by the offtanks.

After a few changes and attempts we nailed the punk and have now cleared TotC! Some nice items dropped, but none for me :(
O well.. Hard mode HERE WE COME!

-Ultra

Twin Valkyrs downed in one night!

After struggling for quite a bit of time on the Faction Champs, it only took us one run to down the Twin's and still get Anub'arak all the way down to 50%!

All in all it was a good raid, though I have to question the IQ levels of some of our raiders.
I think when Jeremy Clarkson said about the American's "I now believe that some people have started mating with vegetables" he should have probably looked a little bit closer to home, because he would have noticed that that all is not right in Britain either.

The inability of some to dodge stupid black/white balls that float across the room at speeds slower than that of a snail on a Sunday stroll has left me with little faith in the English (and Europe) as a whole..

Anyways, that is it from me.
Enjoy the rest of the week.
I might yet have something up my sleeve.. Ever heard of a cat that plays fetch??
Stay tuned.
-Ultra

No karaoke singers allowed!

 (When posing normally just isn't enough)

When you spend your life in a town that thinks karaoke is cool, and dancing to treffers from the late 60's is still the in thing, I can only assume that travelling to Cape Town is just as good as traveling anywhere else (just as long as you are travelling).

The great thing about coming to Cape Town though is that you get to hook up with all your awesome buddies and not have to spend half your day arguing to Piet van der Merwe over which Karaoke song brings the best out in you. (Though we all know it is Barbi Girl by Aqua.. Yes Gandhi, the secret is now out!)

Gandhi(Harshad) decided to brace us with his presence today while escaping what I could only call "hell on earth".. I mean, here is a town with NO ADSL! How the hell are you meant to raid if you don't have ADSL? Pfft, won't catch me in that town anytime soon..... sorry, back to Gandhi..

We decided to organise a braai at our place, and send out the Team Awesome calling sign (who I must say responded in great fashion!)

(Team Awesome doing what they do best.. Being awesome!)

Cindy and Seth obviously brought Kyla along (our god child), and made Rudy so broody I won't be surprised if in 9 months time we have little Amaro's running around all over the place trying to sell fish or claiming Fifa is the only true PC game one can play! I tried sneaking a photo in, but she was too quick for me and gave me the "death stare"! Luckily for me, her powers are still weak and puny, allowing me to survive another day! (phew close call.. I mean look at that stare.. two more years of practice and I would have been a goner!)

(Fear my stare!)

But the attack was far from over.. Little Kyla knew exactly where to strike next! Using her powers of cuteness she quickly overcame Zoe's one weakness. (cute babies) As soon as this move was played it was overs for me, and she knew it.. (see the little smirk.. little bugger knows I'm screwed now!) Gah... O well, I survived to live another day.. But for how long? Suddenly Karaokes and discussions with Piet doesn't sound so bad anymore...

Gandhi wait up!! You got space for one more? O wait, nevermind.. He doesn't have internet :( Guess I'll have to take one for the Horde!

-Ultra

Faction Champions downed!

Finally! After weeks blood, sweat and tears, spending gold on repair bills that one might usually associate with things like buying mech-o-hogs, we have finally downed the bastards!

The interesting thing is that we were doing a lot right most of the time, but it was just the few tweaks and changes that needed to happen for us to go from .. O, WTH! Not again to OMW!! WE did it!!.. blah blah..


Our next challenge will be the Twin Valkyrs. Blizzard seems to be following on from Thaddius with the twins. Though personally I feel that the twins are an easier version of Thaddius purely because in Thaddius one n00b could wipe the whole raid, while with the twins one n00b is just going to keep the healers really busy (unless we let him die! *snickers*).

There are some extra mechanics to the Twin Valkyrs' that make the fight a bit more entertaining than boring old Thaddius, but I don't see us struggling as much as we did on the Faction Champions.

Anub'arack is going to be where the problem lies. (Though thankfully there won't be any Anub'arack + crypt fiend rushes happening anytime soon)

Right, so till next time something interesting happens (which should be this sunday!)..
Peace out!
-Ultra