This week Strawberry Singh came with yet another great challenge on Monday, one I just had to do: portray yourself as a movie character. Not easy, I thought at first, as I like many movies but found it impossible to think of a character I wanted to portray. Then, without him even knowing it himself…
Tag: sword
Memory Lanes…
…yes I have a few Memory Lanes, like we all have. Some are now dark, muddy paths I wish to avoid, other are happy streets that make smile when I happen to wander into them. Today I had one of the happy wanderings about…I met Ratt, he has returned in SL after an absence of…
The Koto Project
I had my breakfast in Japan this morning! I visited The Koto Project, a well designed Japanese Roleplay sim, situated in the Edo Period. Although for roleplay, and they do have rules (read them, a notecard is provided upon arrival), visitors are welcome and as far as I could find in the rules there is…
Nagare and memories of past joys
A couple of days ago I visited Nagare – Home of the Blue Lotus Clan. A clan of Samurai, using the C:si Combat System, the system I have used for years and I still have all the Katana’s in my inventory! I was amazed on how pretty this combat-sims looks..I guess times have changed regarding…
A bit of nostalgia
Today, when going through my (too many!) bookmarks I ran into two youtube-clips I made in 2010. Not machinima’s, as I don’t have the skills nor patience to actually shoot a movie in SL, but I created some slideshows with music about The ImperiuM. Good times! And now ImperiuM Island is gone, it is actually…
Heavy Heart
The last days of the year were…odd. We, ImperiuM, had to make a very tough decision, one that left me with a heavy heart for some days. And still. After having ‘lived’ on our own sim since November 2009, we had to decide to let it go. The monthly costs of tier, the decrease in…
Ordinary Life
Although most of the pics on my blog may give the impression I am always completely dressed up, fashionable and wandering around in exotic places..that is not quite the truth. Yeah, I do explore a lot, I try to find a cool place every other day – but most of my travels I do in…
My Heart of Darkness
Ever since I got into Katana fighting, about 3 years ago, my favourite sword has been the Heart of Darkness by Archatek. I have a lot of swords, I think I almost have every C:si sword there is, but for some reason the HoD suits me best. Did you know I ALWAYS wear it? Even…
Meiji
While I will be travelling the rest of this week – and probably will not blog, although I will try to find a topic and time! – one of the most well-known C:si combat sims will close. This was announced months ago and lots of fighters have taken the last opportunities to spar there and…
Ellie’s Time out
Last night I rezzed the Padded Room from aDorkable (yeah, another Platinum Hunt item!) in the dojo, to check it out. Within a couple of minutes Ellie took a time-out in it! No worries, Ellie is just fine, it just shows even brave Samurai need some peace and quiet every now and again….
Sweet!
My vacation ended and today was my first day back in the office. Meetings…catching up and deleting hundreds of emails…pretty tiresome! To add joy to all, the rain has stopped and summer has begun! WTF! Anyway, tonight we sparred like crazy in the dojo and during one of the (needed!) breaks Ratt took the opportunity…
Combat and pictures
Last night we were delighted to see some members of ImperiuM returned to our dojo, as this is still a slow time and lots of people are on vacation. Being all a bit rusty, we did some groupfights (or FFA) just for the heck of it. Kill and be killed. Die and stand up. Good…
Goodbye to Meiji
The Meiji sim has always been in SL ever since I started katana-fighting in 2008. It was a public combatsim, open to all and run and owned by Domokun, who has spent a lot of his money and time in this to create a gathering place for clans and ronin. I remember having my very…
Meanwhile in The ImperiuM..
Whilst I spend most of my in world time on the SL8B sims this week, I also try to keep up with fighting in ImperiuM ! Last night I watched a nice groupfight in our Mainhall and we welcomed a new member: Kirjaval! She did her best in the fight (with the Bokuto) but it’s…
