Beautiful rendition of Masaki Kishibe's Scudding cloud（流れ行く雲）

Masaaki Kishibe is famous for the beautiful, melodic guitar pieces he creates. This Youtube clip shows a great rendition of his song, a very soothing bell-like sound.

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Chantal Sebire's plight and the euthanasia debate

I was flipping through the papers today when I saw a very shocking image. It was a picture of a woman whose face was highly disfigured because of cancer. It's a very sad and unfortunate case, and it's one of the more extreme cases that I had read about. I sympathize with her plight and her lack of options to decide how she should live or die. We all aspire to have a good life, but if we are not allowed to have that then at least it should be bearable. Failing that, let us be granted a good death if we so choose.

French Housing Minister Christine Boutin said that if France legalizes "the right to kill, we're heading towards a barbarian society." Perhaps so if the person you want to kill is someone else, but surely not if the person is yourself. While we should not allow anyone to kill themselves over trivial reasons, it's evident that Sebire's was suffering immensely with no end or relief in sight. In such desperate situations surely it would be humane and human to allow her to end her life in a dignified way, surrounded by her loved ones?

Woman with disfiguring cancer dies, euthanasia debate lives

Euthanasia debate woman found dead

Death Sets French Euthanasia Debate

Granado Espada - Andre Janzur's Gladiator Parties!

I was checking out the market when a fellow faction mate told me about this in-game event. I must have missed the news, but the event itself was a pleasant surprise. As we had to purchase Andre Costume Boxes to gain access to the event, I was not sure if I wanna spend real money to lag. And I wasn't sure what kind of stuff I'll get from the event. Here's how it was stated on the website.

Q: What are the available rewards?

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope"

- Alexandre Dumas Père

Well it turned out it was well worth my time. Not only was the event lag-free, the GMs were feeling mighty generous too with an array of valuable items being dropped. How can I ever solve my armour problems without the lovely GMs! I had fun spamming Chained Lightning. Some screenshots from the event, mainly pertaining to the final battle with Hell Breaker.

Hell Breaker - I



Hell Breaker - II



Hell Breaker - III



Check out my new armour, and yeah the bunny ears too :)