My first blog entry - hello world

So. I've been thinking about starting to blog for a while already. People say my news posts are sometimes too dramatic and I don't always represent the opinions or views of the entire guild when I answer questions as a Paragon member. Now I'm happy, because with this new site, I'll be able to write about things under my own name. I can also exaggerate and be dramatic in peace - I guess I'm that kind of person after all.

 

Now then, here I'm thinking, what should I write about? I don't lack opinions and I'm not really afraid to give them out, but what should I start with. I decided I'll take the "boring" route and first tell people something about myself. Something more than that I play a shadow priest in Paragon. So here we go.

 

My name is xenophics, aka Raakel Hämäläinen, I'm 23 years old and I've been playin wow for 4 years now. I live in metropolitan area of Finland together with arx. When I started playing I lived with Kruf and other friends of mine in a commune - awesome times. I got 4 siblings and I hope at least some of them understand my passion towards gaming. 

 

 
 

A picture of me from Assembly Summer 2010

 

I've always been very involved with the things I focus on. When I was a kid I used to collect different kind of things (mostly toys). I guess today I'm collecting everything related to the thing I'm doing. The first thing I had was dancing (street and jazz), did that for almost 10 years and then started Karate. Reached green belt in two years and then came the Machine dance games (DDR, ITG). I played for around 3 years, and when I was almost done with my matriculation exam (A-levels) I got too curious about where Kruf, arx, and my other friends spent so much of their free time. One day when we were hanging out at Kamppi in Helsinki I finally gave in and bought wow from a gaming shop. The guy behind the encounter actually asked me if I'd start playing horde or alliance, and when I told him I'd play alliance he told me off for picking the "lesser" faction. What a nice way to start my wow career!

 

It was a few weeks before the big exams when I travelled back home from Helsinki and started playing. I remember spending nights at the draenei starting zone. I wasn't able to solo the last quest so arx came and boosted me with his level 70 warlock. Seeing the warlock mount for the first time was one of most awesome moments in my wow career. Long story short here I'm now in Paragon playing my priest but also taking care of the website and some of the contacts we have. When I started I never imagined I'd end up using 1,5 months of my time on daily playing. On the other hand, I always could have imagined me actually doing it. It's everything or nothing with most of the stuff I do.

 

What other stuff I do then? That's actually a hard question because I don't really have that much other stuff at the moment. Of course I study, but most of my freetime goes with sitting in front of my computer, reading about in the internet, watching series, and taking care of Paragon stuff. I'm not sure if raiding is freetime for me anymore, but then again when I used to dance I didn't consider my dancing lessons to be free time either!

 

I'm kind of lousy with getting out of the house, but when I do it's usually going to meet friends, going to movies or to a bar. I'm not that much into sitting still and drinking, but I love dancing. Too bad I don't have that many dance freaks living nearby. Also most of the people I know are male, and I'd go on and say that there are many who'd rather die than go to the dancefloor. There are exceptions of course.

 

My greatest ambitions, I'd say, is to organize things. I absolutely love taking responsibility and coming up with something fun for my friends. Last summer I organized a summer cottage trip to Paragon members, we spent good 3 days there relaxing and having fun together.

 

       
        

Just one word: chill

 

Right now I'm getting back to "normal life" schedule little by little. Gotta change my sleeping rythm so I could wake up earlier than 15:00. I already managed 13:45 today!

 

As some of you probably remember, I promised to write about our progress once it was over. I'll chew the whole ugly thing (see, dramatic) in a series of blog entries starting...soonish. When reading through those keep in mind that what kind of person I am, and you'll be able to spot the facts through my style of writing.

 

Over and out, untill next time.

xeno