Your Irresponsibility Kills Me!

Just when you thought this is SL and you don’t have to take it seriously in managing something, you’re dead wrong! 

I am pissed at this organization with a lousy management skill, just because the founder has left the building, the successor is screwing things up. Some of the members are so neglected when they have their projects coming up.

I am not gonna reveal so much because I wanna monitor the progress, the day you see my blog with an entry blasting this organization, is the day I’m yelling at their faces, “I’M THROUGH WITH YOU!”

I do hope it doesn’t occur but right now I just don’t understand them, and to those of you who wanna set up a company/modelling agency, please make sure you don’t make false claims, you can have a famous person with you but your reputation’s gonna go down the drain if you keep screwing things up! You can’t be that lucky all the time.

Why Is Networking So Important

Let’s give yourself a task, go to any popular club, read all the club goers’ profiles and see how many mention – “Do NOT IM me” or something along that line.

I always feel funny looking at some people who always portray themself as an intimidating creature. Before anyone can approach them they build a strong defence wall already and worse they put a big sign on their wall – “GO AWAY!”

I understand very well that one does not have to add everyone in their list but I know for sure that saying “Hello!” will not do much harm will it? I work as a host and my job is to greet everyone who walk in, and at my previous workplace, there are people who will not respond to me even though the question I threw in local chat was as simple as “How is everybody this morning?”

Throughout my hosting days I avoid using HUD to greet the guests, I wanna customize my greeting styles and I wanna make it sound genuine and the reason why I’m always approachable is because I understand the importance of networking.

I am glad to have DJs, designers, great builders, club owners, photographers, models… etc in my friend list! And because of my friendly attitude, I have friends who actually recommended some job opportunity for me. Because being a model in SL, you gotta constantly hunt for opportunity, you cannot get all diva attitude and say, “I’m just gonna sit here and let it come to me.”, one of the methods is through networking!

I am trully blessed to have great friends who supported me (You know who you are!) And I absolutely cherish all of you! 

Imagine myself being intimidating and arrogant.

Scenario 1:

I go to a club, stand at a corner, basically tell every people who try to start a conversation to go away, then being labelled as “the arrogant one”, and this label is then passed to friends of the potential friend. The next time when I’m in trouble, where do I seek help from?

Scenario 2:

After graduating from my modelling class, I decided that all my classmates are just stupid, so no point keeping in touch with them. Whenever my classmate says, “hey let’s go to party.”, you’d hit her with a “no.” without even checking your schedule. Eventually my friend will stop asking me out and in future if she knows of any great deal that will benefit the models, do you think she bothers to even entertain me?

So you see how the above 2 scenarios are damaging if you are someone who:

• Runs a club and probably need guests to show support
• Runs a shop and sell stuff and need buyers
• Is a freelance worker who needs job
• Is in other kind of business

I always welcome IMs, it can be as simple as “hello Xero.”, and I know my network expands a little.

But of course, if your IM is meant to cuss on me then I’mma have to mute you. 🙂

Looking For Some Awesome Jewelleries?

I was wondering what to buy as a gift for my boyfriend until this girl popped up in the club I workED for and started talking about her store and jewelleries. And immediately I thought to myself, why not just get her to customize a necklace for me? It’ll be a special gift!

So I hooked up with Dryad Fall, the owner of Dryad Designs and she really cracked me up a couple of times in the conversation, the first thing I got to know from her is that she is AGAINST Blings! Well I don’t appreciate blings so great! She told me her ideal necklace, I didn’t have to give her instructions, I just told her that I want my boyfriend and my names to be on it and look at how she came out with the necklace?

Amazing right?! My boyfriend is a perfectionist and a great builder and even him liked the necklace so much

I promised her that I will write a review about it because a talented jewellery maker like her should be made known to those people who had to spend thousands on beautiful jewelleries, and why did I say that?

Because her pricing is very reasonable! And she is slowly establishing her business and will make jewellery for men soon. Which is what I am anticipating.

Click HERE to visit her store and you will teleport to her store and the petit and adorable person by the name of Dryad Fall is the storekeeper and the creator of the jewelleries.

And inside you will see beautiful jewelleries being displayed with good prices! 

In time to come she’ll be putting up more and more awesome jewelleries, and for now she is taking orders from customers who wanna custom made jewelleries. 

So if you wanna contact her to make awesome jewelleries as a gift to your lover/family/friends, the name is Dryad Fall, and she is extremely funny and professional at the same time, a very nice person to deal with.

And this is the slURL in case you missed the one above – http://slurl.com/secondlife/Eros%20Island%20I/137/38/28/

Cheers! 😀

My Take On Gridwide Hunt

I took part in a hunt and boy that was really ardeous! Some store owners were very good in hiding what we are supposed to find! 

Honestly it is a very good opportunity for small shops to gain exposure! Imagine there are 1000 of hunters, they will have to stop by your shop and if you make awesome stuffs, there will be people who will buy something and pass the LM around!

What I like about hunting

• Freebies freebies freebies – Some people may think that freebies sucks! But if you are told to hunt for 250+ kites and each of them contains a gift, I am sure you can find really awesome gifts! 
• The opportunity to make new friends – There are groups created to discuss about the hunt and there are helpful people there who will ask you to tp them over to hunt together and that’s where your friendship begins!
• New discovery – I believe there are MANY stores with great stuff which are left undiscovered! Through this hunt you will actually realized that just because it is a popular store, doesn’t mean a small one can’t make better stuff. 
• Kill time – Sometimes when you log in and there are not many people online and you have nothing to do, why not try the hunt? And once you start, you won’t stop until you realize you have skipped 2 meals. 

What I dislike about hunting

• Ugly freebies – Can you believe how they put us through by making us hunt like some desperado and the gifts are extremely HIDEOUS? Oh well, I guess I shouldn’t whine as they are freebies but… Grr!
• The opportunity to make new enemies – There are people who will NEVER help you despite you being so polite, well they are not obliged to help us but to call us “stupid” and “we should stfu and learn to be independent” is just outrageous!
• Objects to be hunted are hidden – What happens when you searched for that object for 30 minutes in a store and nobody bothers to help you out and after 30 minutes you saw a message “Oh this store owner has removed the object and he will put it back soon.” Great! Now you cannot proceed!
• New discovery of… empty shops – It makes no sense but it has happened.
• Starvation – The effect of being addicted to the hunt. Nice way to slim down but definitely an unhealthy one!

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Well I shouldn’t make it sound like it’s a bad thing, it’s fun if you really take your time to hunt without stressing yourself out! I know there’s gonna be a new hunt from 1st May.

Expect to see me in action again!!! Love y’all!

p/s: Don’t take my entry seriously, it was meant to be for entertainment purpose. Thanks for stopping by! 🙂

Finally…

I applied to be promoted in Phat Cat’s but I didn’t get it because I was told I don’t have more experience compared to those who are promoted. Oh well, congratulations to the new manager, assistant manager and lead host.

Of course I’d feel disappointed with the outcome but I am nobody to fix the situation, the only thing I know is that I was being so dedicated to the club. I guess when it’s not my turn it’s just not mine. 

There are so many things going on in my mind right now, I need to find a place where I can demonstrate my capability and not to just restrict myself from doing the same thing for so long and then informed that I am not experienced enough.

And someone just gave me the opportunity, it is none other than the super friend of mine – McKenna Lyle, her name appeared throughout my blog because she is really an amazing friend of mine who’s there to console me whenever I’m having rough time. 

Today, as I am blogging this, she decided to make me the club 2Embrace’s manager. Tell me if I am lucky or what?! I get to plan events like I always do, I get to still retain my position as a host and so much more! And I am thankful simply because finally, someone out there sees my potential, ability and appreciates me. 

Thank you so much Mac! Thank you so much for being there and thank you so much for being a great employer! 

XoXo

But… It’s Just A Game!

It amazes me how some people take Second Life as merely a game. Well not that I have the capability of changing people’s perception but one thing for sure, throughout my journey, Second Life becomes a part of my 1st life and I kind of poured my heart and soul in it.

Have you ever wonder why do they include the 1st Life tab in the profile? My opinion is that it is to remind all of you that behind this “game”, there is a real person controlling the avatar. And that means technically speaking you are dealing with real people too, if someone comes up to you inworld and swears at you, I think you would be mad.

It operates the same way when someone inworld promises you something and then breaches it, you will feel still feel hurtful and angry.

Why ask someone who takes Second Life seriously to get a life when you’re at the weakest position and with full knowledge that you are a loser by evicting your tenant who rents a parcel and then promised to find him an alternative, play hide and seek because you can’t do what you promised and told your tenant to get a life just because he told you that he is not fairly treated in Second Life?

If you are a landlord and you rent your land to someone, that person tells you that this is just a game and you shouldn’t take it seriously and you should get a real life and refuses to pay you. How would you feel? Concurring? Or feel like grabbing his head through your monitor and give him a tight slap?

If you choose the latter, congratulations! At least you still have some senses! Otherwise you can just write a big note in your profile with something like, “I DON’T TAKE SL SERIOUSLY!” Then we will avoid making business with you and won’t have to worry about saying the wrong things. 

I don’t know about y’all but I am totally against playing with someone’s feeling, if eventually you will realize that SL is just a game to you, please do not promise someone that you will love that person, just don’t do it! You have no idea what’s the consequence for you to make someone feels that he/she will never be alone inworld and then fool his/her heart by saying the same thing to other persons or just disappear mysteriously. Bear in mind that we are closer to each other because we connect emotionally. (Quote from my best friend McKenna Lyle’s profile.)

The character Xero Ashton means a lot to me, well it represents me a lot! If you are my friend inworld, then this is how I behave in RL too. And believe me; because I don’t see Second Life as just a game, I have met really nice friends and a loving boyfriend! And I learned about taking responsibility, ways to deal with different people and mutual respect.

Therefore for those of you who always use the lamest sentence “SL is just a game, don’t take it seriously.” you’re the one who should get a life. Not us. 🙂

Ruth Attack!

Isn’t it frustrating to shop at popular stores sometimes? When everything is taking oh so long to rezz. And those who always try out demos to avoid buying the wrong stuff might have to endure the Ruth experience as some stores have so many things in it and God knows how long will it take to rezz completely.

My buddy Ortisha Jinn was shopping for new skin and she was trying out the demos until we decided to leave because we couldn’t stand the duration (6 minutes) for a skin to rezz! 

I looked around and I saw many items in the store still haven’t rezzed properly too, I figured it could be my connection problem but she is experiencing it too! And it’s really hilarious as she looks really ridiculous in the Ruth form (she’s on the right).

It took about 6 minutes when Ortisha is struggling to have the skin rezzes on her. And the lady next to her has begun to look human despite still being desaturated so after being stuck as a Ruth for some time, we both left and we moved on to the other store.

The thing about skins and shapes is this, you can’t click and buy immediately because there are times your skin just doesn’t go with the shape of your face. So it is advicable that you test the demo before deciding to buy a skin. Also, sometimes pictures can be deceiving, the models usually look so good on the picture and when you put the skin on you just wonder what went wrong here?!

As for shapes… I am using my own shape and I don’t suggest shapes from some stores because they usually mark up the price to earn lindens from people who are too lazy to adjust their features. Don’t tell me about the amount of time needed to create shapes that will make you look like a supermodel when SL provides you everything when it comes to editing shapes.

Skins however, should be pricey because designers usually take time to make sure the skin tone is even and looks real. I’m not saying you can’t make money through selling shapes but sometimes it’s too much if you sell it too expensively.

Of Discrimination Against Child Avatars

A friend of mine was banned from a club after the conversation regarding child avatars transformed into a heated argument. Apparently, he couldn’t talk sense into the manager that he is NOT in a child avatar!

Well this friend of mine loves to appear in a child avatar so when he was told that he has to change; he complied and changed to a bigger shape. By that I mean a huge difference, from a child to a 5’8 tall avatar in SL.

What went wrong is the skin. My friend rocked a fair, Japanese boy’s skin. Though he changed the height, they still insisted that he’s a child. Therefore the issue here is:

Should the club owners ban child avatars?

I know when you run a club, and whoever appears at your territory, you automatically feel that you have the supreme authority to eject whoever you want and you can even make all sorts of ridiculous rules. But mind you, many clubs have to wind up because of low traffic and lack of support.

You just need one influential person to spread the word about your discriminatory behavior and sooner or later you will lose your ‘fan base’ when there are better club owners who know how to respect everybody.

Of course it is normal to ban and eject people who do not understand basic rules for example the griefers. But to get all worked up towards somebody coming in as a child avatar? I don’t think that is reasonable at all.

Are you really that naive to believe that people coming in as a child avatar is truly a child in real life? If you say “no.”, then why did you choose to discriminate them? What kind of threat will they pose if they genuinely come to your club just to chill?

And also, what is the criterion to avoid being classified as a child avatar? When my friend changed his shape to his RL height – 5’8, they still refused to accept him. I didn’t say this because he is my friend, but he looks adult to me after the change? Except he appears to be fair and skinny, but that doesn’t make him a child at all!

The managers couldn’t even provide a valid reason as to why he is not allowed to come in as a child avatar because truth is; they know there’s no valid reason at all!

I think those child avatars are absolutely adorable! Most of them, despite being adults in RL, know how to project themselves as friendly and harmless beings. Personally they wouldn’t be in my ban list unless they intend to cause some trouble in the club, which is when they do that; otherwise I wouldn’t be so discriminatory towards them! How hurtful it is to see 2 children dancing on the dance floor?

And do not forget, there are many residents who love appearing as child avatars, and they also have many friends in different forms too. And I have begun to think that the club managers are acting unprofessionally, so no way will I visit that club.

You can have supreme authority to make rules, but please don’t abuse it.

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For those of you who are wondering which club am I talking about, I’m so sorry I’m not gonna mention the name to help them in their traffic, but you guys can certainly interview my friend, who is a victim of the child av discrimination – Matthew Chieng , perhaps he can provide y’all a juicier information?

Second Life’s Glitch Is A Hilarity

It all started with the inability to teleport elsewhere. 

I have been gifted with the ability which is equivalent to a ghost – to fly through walls. Katrin Bracken, the diva a.k.a my power manager was too busy to notice me so I decided to greet the hostess on duty.

Hostess on duty Christensia Parkin was hysterical when she saw me.

Despite reassuring her so many times, I guess she couldn’t take it that I could float through the floor. 

Oh well, she’s been sucha sweet lady so perhaps I could cheer her up in my Jigglypuff AV. 

Well I guess I failed again… She is still hysterical over my gifted ability. 😦

I didn’t know I am that scary… Sigh…

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Anyway folks, the glitch was real but Christensia wasn’t that hysterical, but her expression in SL was priceless! Thank you Christensia and Katrin for agreeing to be mentioned. 😛

Today is definitely not a good day to be in SL, I don’t know if that is a problem on my part or what but I have been crashing at least 3 times. And I will have trouble teleporting to other places, the worst is about the damn chat lag. It’s bad because conversation is mixed up and you just can’t reply in sequence anymore.

For example,

Me: Hello there, how are you?
Friend: Hey Xero, it’s good to see you! What have you been doing?
Me: Oh, been busy sorting out inventories
Friend: Interesting!
Friend: I am fine thank you!
Me: Yeah it is interesting isn’t it?
Me: Good to see you too!

I swear I have been trying my best to reply accordingly but things get jumbled up all thanks to the Lag monster! And because of the glitch, I frightened my fellow hostess. Darn!

Oh in case you wonder, my gifted ability didn’t last after I re-teleported back to the club. Double darn! I was having so much fun! Sheesh!

Of Dropping Out From The Contest

First of all I am really sorry to have made you guys voted for me by paying quite a big sum of lindens. And just like the title, indeed, I am dropping out from the model search contest I mentioned in my previous entry.

I know there will be a big question as to why I’m dropping out from the contest. And allow me to explain.

I joined the contest 2 days after it’s announced, and some leading ones have got many votes and hence causing me to pester my friends to vote for me. I felt that by troubling my friends to vote is a little unreasonable as the contest would last for 15 days. What will you feel if you receive IMs from me everyday asking you to vote? I think that is really annoying. Furthermore, you have to PAY to vote. 

I barely know the contestants but I smelled drama already, everybody wants to win the contest but I don’t think it is that difficult to understand there should be a healthy competition. I’ve got some contestants telling me stories about each other. I took a liberal stand because I don’t want unnecessary dramas! So by dropping out, I am minimizing the drama is yet to happen to me. 

The contest is actually held at the rival club of the current club I am working at. I felt so bad to take part without investigating properly about the location and I am grateful because my employer wasn’t mad about it. But I promise I will be cautious when it comes to contest like this. 

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Thank you so much everyone for being such awesome friends to show support to me. It was really a great experience! Although I may seem like a quitter, at least I have other projects to focus on rather than keep sending out the notice begging y’all to vote for me. I could have shared better stuff right?

I am working with a designer friend who is eager to launch his new line, will write about it once I’m done with the photoshooting. Apart from that, Evane’s Models Agency will hold an *official* graduation party for us and I am terribly excited to change my tag from “trainee” to “model”. 😀

See? Without the contest, I am still able to work on many stuff. And I sincerely wish all the contestants good luck!

Cheers!