7 posts tagged “philly”

yes, i think the time has come dear section 8'rs, i will sell my beloved philly.

i'm never there, nor do i have the time to maintain the rentals. and i know most of you guys, are just so sweet and keeping the lofts as a favour and friendship thingy torwards me. i've seen you guys bought half of topgol, and i think it is really time - that i pay my dues and sell it as well.

i am going to let you all know in my blog before hand, because i don't want to send out a silly group notice and slap you all in the face with the news.

i talked to myg and romana about 2 month ago, regarding the state of philly and told you ladies, that i will make a decission by the end of april. well its end of may, and i have to sell it. i simply can't afford it anymore.

but i would truly like, for someone to buy that land, who is already in philly and would keep the theme of philly going.

this project was a very sentimental project which created philly, with romana's ideas and her teaching me on how to build and how to place a city layout.

friendships were made, and i will never ever forget the beginning footsteps of our philly. how we created the NOW most beautiful community project co-op, like the topgol mainland sim. the sim, aside the casino bastard monkeys is just plain breathtaking. the garden, matthew has created, dianne's backpart is freakin amazing. the barber, pwn shop, wawa shop, watertower.......beautiful and then some.

but time has come, all things will come to an end and this is my time. i am not doing this lightheartly...i really don't. i love this place. the fun we had there.

but life goes on... i've read myg's blog and see the wonderful storylines and friendships that have been build. which is amazing and will always be a topgol thing!

no one can beat that.

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i will sell everything as is, with the lofts, aside a few signs that i would like to take with me, to where?

i don't know. i am just thrifting throughout SL right now. my boathhouse ocean land is still not finished but it is my lil safe heaven away from the sl and perhaps rl madness. sanctuary, place of my own...day dreaming and just reflecting on who knows what.

man this all is not easy.. i always wanted something of my own and i had it, and now i am pulling the plug.

well.......it will be up for about 2 more weeks, i paid my tierfees today, or maybe 3 weeks, since these trolls gonna charge me again for a whole month.

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btw, anyone seen romana? i miss her so much!

 

gala~

 

so strange, a month or so ago, my heart was all the way in philly, meeting the new people that came there, new tenants, the nightly chats with myg, sable, romana and alex. the gossip on the streets of philadelphia.

but now, i can't even explain it, how and why...but all has changed. myg has become a sl celebrity blogtress writer, sable has her own shop making the best jewelry ever, alex is working on his barbershop and romana is still romana but she is running for the presidental election of 2008.

we all yapped last night for a little bit on myg's new watertower overlooking philly, but for some reason...i felt there is something different. myg didn't talk to much, alex looked like the sl version of mr rogers, and romana was being romana, just sweet as always. alex placed a bench on top of the water tower and we all sat there like pigeons with nothing much to say.

times, things, people change.

i felt like i am not really a part of this philly anymore. everyone has found a purpose a place in sl. the former wild vixen myg is hardcore business and she is good at it. romana was featured on that smear magazine of sl herald. i can't stand these herald people. bunch of kids writing about nothing or gossiping about top notch designers in sl. more like a myspace popularity smear- zin, then anything else.

and me? i am working on my beach house, my sanctuary, which is more and more becoming a carbon copy of my sl/ rl me. from color blinding moroccan ambiente to the dark piano with classical music, yea all a part of me. my hoodness does show in my furnishing tho.

as beautiful the place is... i see a pattern again, which i am going back too, meaning i walk back to my sl solitude, the same way...when i first started coming to this world.

 my friendslist is shrinking, because i don't have nothing in common nor do i ever talk to these people from month's ago. so i delete away.

and last but not least, i have to sell lots of my land. because the tierfee is killing me, and as it stands right now, i am not doing much with " philly section 8 " anyhow.

the tenants are still there, myg, sable, alex and kotone, but i sense this all will come to an end as well. because everyone has now some land and is using their sl talents in some other way then just yapping the night away. the occasional nooblets have stopped coming by, or maybe i am just not there, when they arrive.

i am not complaining, no... just a reality check about this virtual world.

i miss the old philly, before everyone explored their talents and hung around philly. the nights where i endlessly worked on the city to make it better, more hood'ish, more north philadelphia, more badlands.... has come to an halt.

i am not giving up the main part of philly - yet, but perhaps one day i will.

everything is everything and in the end it is nothing.

gala~

 

philly is getting depressing. the big philly people are selling their mainpart of philly, but keeping the sex hotel and the club. we don't like for this to go, specially they are selling without " objects ". how the hell is that going to look, a philly hotel and club but nothing around? its gonna be whack! myg and i talked briefly tonight, and we are trying to come up with a plan b. but one thing is for sure, no one will pay $700, yes that is rl dollars not Lindens for an empty spot. not going to happen. same is for my neighbor who decided he want to sell $700+ land worth as well. i mean what are they thinking? we can buy a dam sim for that kind of money. i am not buying anymore, simply because its not worth it to invest on a already overcrowded sim. and again we could have our own sim for that kind of money.

myg and i, and hopefully romana, willl put out heads and minds together tomorrow and think about what else we can do, to " save philly ", before they sharks come in and take it, or what we will do, sell, sim buying? which is always somewhat hard, because if many people share a sim, there are many egos, aka we may all clash at one point and hate one another. i don't know... really i don't. i am not sure what will happen. i suppose we have to wait and see.

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so yea, i am staying a lil out of philly for right now, because everything is set up, rentals are up, but things are slow right now. and by building into something that may has not much future seems like a waste of time at the moment.

plus i am having some fun with carducci and the crew, babbelin on skype and acting stupid in world, then also build some things, get stupid again, have some dam fun.

amanda is a really cool chica, she reminds me a lot of myg's friend " lisa", hell the girl is a image consultant, and you sure can tell. the woman can dress and make textures. lots and lots potentials there. (btw, these are all her paintings in the background. made and created by amanda tae.)

 

crackavelli is some funny dude, reminds me of a line backer, huge guy with a murder sign under his eye. but cracks you up on skype.

tama is tama, nice guy who builds and got a good eye for perfect allignment.

and of course the carducci man himself.

i don't know if it is one of his phases, but he is really nice right now. i mean yea, he still cusses, wants to kick my ass every 5 minutes, calls me a noob, plays the pushing each other around the mandsion game. but yea, gotta say for these past view days he's been almost human like, which makes him a fun carducci.

 

but he already announced that his " vacation on sl " will be over by tomorrow, meaning he may return to the hardcore, icecold biz man he is and i suppose has to be, otherwise he would be a regular in my homeless shelter and soup kitchen i have in philly.

yea, we went silly last night in the " thug mansion", and i love the pounce emote... carducci was my victim after he told me 1 mill times how he's gonna kick my ass. i just love a man on his " back "... lol. and he wasn't complaining to much neither. it was all in good fun.

he told some noob chic who had like 4 some wigs on not to listen to me, because " she is retarded ". all i wanted from her to give me some of her whack wigs. lodi dodi.

so this is a pretty much back to biz week, for everyone. i have to take care some new tenant in philly, make sure they stay in their gawd dam prim limit. i swear, this is one thing that about drives me nuts, people who rent and don't know jack shit about prims. that pisses me off like none else.

anyhow thass it kidz.

gala~ out

 

no really i am. i am now walking around in sl, like i am a goddess and you all have to kneel in front of me. why?

because i have purchased a new skin tonight! not that there is anything wrong with my 4000L (waaah) skin, no nothing at all. my 'old skin' is way more detailed when it comes to all my body - pixel- parts. looks more realistic as well.

yet the new one, has some enhancement my old one doesn't have, such one kickassery "hairline" which looks so dam natural. my cheekbones are way higher ( close to my rl looks ). and yea really afterall, since i always wear my hair back in rl, i can so relate to that new skin. facial proportions are just way more the real me. of course my pixel skin is naturally prettier then i am in my first life, no fuckin doubt - otherwise naomi campbell would be so totally bancrupt.

anyhow, i love my new ME, yet it takes some time getting used to it. everytime i buy something in sl that changes my looks drastically - i am a little unsure if that was a right decission or not. well, shit it was a better one then my gambling addiction ( yes i gambled again tonight! ).

but lets start with the evening pics in a somewhat order:

 thats ole me on the back of Arcadia's truck, where i pretend i am actually doing some some in sl.

there is my friend/ mentor/ muse and more more more, the amazing romana!

so of course i had to take a pic of us 2, wearing these incredible " philly necklaces" made by no one other but our lovely "sable slade", which now has a vendor up and running with more and more amazing jewlery. everyone has to come by and buy some from her, girly gotta make a living, right? right. her shop is located right across from romana's " wawa " ( i post pic and slurl later ). but check her out regardless. do it!

 

and since romana & myself have the bestest asses in lil/ big/ section 8/ anywhere in philly - here is the living proof:

 

 

drummmroll pleasseee! here is the newly improved ( i hope ) gala - me:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ok ok ok... i stop!

enough of gala me's grill and posing in front of these nasty pissed up section 8 walls.

have i mentioned, that i love the amazing hairline i have there, and the lips, cheekbones and then some?

anyhow i will love myself for the rest of the night.

 

gala, out!

last night - while taking away on a rl phonecall for 2 hrs - romana that sweetheart build that shrine around me - with a neon billboard saying  " i love gala "!

can you fuckin believe this! this is about one of the nicest things ever - anyone has done for me. the thought of her, to do such thing, she pulled up 2 walls, somewhat protecting me from bad karma, outside spirits, placed plants and lamp and everything else around me. mygoodness i was in dam tears here, when i got of the phone and saw what she did!

 

 

romana is such a wonderful and kindhearted person... i can't even say thank you thank you thank you - enough to her.

 

i should have made that pic lighter i guess.. but so dam what - we are chocolata chicas.

gala <3 romana

 

ouria moved out again. but as myg said... she will be back again, with some new guy who will pay her rent, ouria is really cool and she said she loves "Phi" as she calls philly. when i said my good byes to her, i was all sad and stuff, she did her crazy nurse meoko dance again. that girl is so nuts but in a dam cool and funny way. i miss her ass!

ila liqa, ma salama
my tuareg nomad sister ouria

plus she gave me a copy of that toilet i asked her about. i will have to take a pic because i re-made it with blood as pee. ya gonna like it... it has some nice ' functions'.

some more pics, when i was cruising around sl, and one of my stomping grounds is this place, forgot the name, well its a popular place tho.

 

there was this guy, camping in this thing and i could pick up balls and toiletpaper to throw at him, to humiliate his ass. so i did, but i think he was afk... no response came from him.

go there, mouselock and throw some shit at people.

hah!

gala~

 

 

 

i have the most fucked up sleeping pattern ever,can't sleep when i'm suppose too and be a living dead grrll throughout the day.

but there are a few things and i want to write these down before they slip my mind and then finally hit the sack.

romana came up to me in philly tonight, well rather im'd me and was sooo sweet, she said i am going to make her cry, i said to her "what no ...don't cry", she almost insisted because she was so happy that and i wrote about her on here. and i told her, " romana, i write what i feel, feel what i write " and said " it's true you are one amazing woman", but she insisted that she wanted to "cry". nooo!

next thing here. drama tonight in big philly. "ourialove" was standing right below alex's loft, so i walked up to her and yelled her name to say whats up. ohboy, wrong fuckin move, because she talked me to death for the next 2 hours. she went on in her incoherent rambling about the bad " paigi and mux " from the big philly, how they ejected and bannished her from "phi".

took me a little while to understand and read between her lines, what she was really talking about. she must have offended some new vendor in philly by first asking him if he wanted to have sex for $ and when he declined she called him a " hommo" ( i am using her words). seems like she barked up the wrong tree, because the guy did contacted paige and max, the owners from philly. and from what i was told by paige, romana and well ouria, paige and ouria must have had a major catfight and paige scolded her on how to behave in philly and not to solicitate men in the streets of philadelphia.

ouria has rented a spot in max's and paige city. i guess she thought she could get more' tricks' like that because there is quite some traffic in philly.

well didn't worked out to well for miss ouria.

i im'd paige to get her side of the story too, and paige was pissed. she told me that ouria went right ahead in a shouting match with her and was downright rude and called her and max " small brains" and how they act like " catholic priests" in "phi".

boy..if any bitch for whatever reason would yell at me at MY land like that - oh hell yea she would be so dam outta there, regardless if she would be right or wrong. and that's exactly what paige did - kicked her ass out, no refund on the rent and banned for life in philly.

paige told me this convo went on for 45 minutes and that ouria totally flipped out in the city.

then ouria continued to tell me her side of the story and went so overboard, told me how she " bannished paigi and mux" from her " red light sex land", muahahahaha. errrhm like paige and max would ever go there?! doooh. (btw its a hideous neon color blinding and easter egg aka pose ball spot that ouria has there)

well i talked to paige and romana in im about the incident. paige was trying to send me the convo they had in a notecard, to no avail. because sl screwed up on reading notecards again. ouria was hollaring and screaming for her refund of rent, so i talked to paige and i could tell paige was pissed and said no refunds, that the chic wasted 45 min of her time by yelling at her from her own land.

uffff....

i stood there trying to mediate between ouria and paige, romana also suggested to let things cool down for a day or so, and then talk again. but ouria ust went on in her little tirades how she was mistreated blah blah blah.

paige then im'd me and said to me "give ouria what i am about going to give you"- and she send me 350L to give to ouria. now, wow.. that was really really nice of paige to go out of her way like that! i mean freakin really nice. and she said i am only doing this because she is your friend.... nooooo paige, i said, she is not my friend, she is an ex tenant that we laughed upon on because of her antics and her weird behaviour.

but paige gave the money anyhow. so i said to ouria; " paige just gave me something for you, and you should send her a message and say ' thank you' and i wired her the 350L. ouria went on to a "hiihhooohooo" and said that was " half apoligi".

dude, that was so messed up! paige must have been furious but still was fair enough to refund her half of the rent. but ouria just went on about nothing... i was in ims with romana and paige and really didnt feel listening to her shit anymore, because well we all work work together in big philly, little philly and my street philly and ouria just acted sheisty.

well she better start bringing some dam meat for johnny's upcoming deli or she will wind up in the dam meatgrinder over there and can look at philly from six feet under. word!

the end,

gala~

all was good in the hood later on last night. i was again peeved but i'm gonna get into that in a diffr post. what puzzled me, really puzzled me, was an email i've gotten today....

from my evicted tenant:

[8:08] AaliyahAzia Torres: make sure u send me a message when u get
back on cause i dont know wth u talk'n about i aint been on hea n a while
and i liked it where i was livn so y would i do somethin????? shit i
dunno so hit me back when u get on
[8:08] AaliyahAzia Torres: LOL gurl i didnt do shit 2 nobody wth

 

when i evicted her, i was driven purely by my emotions. which i need definetly need to work on. because emotions will cost me money while i am trying to maintain a place for others to stay ( in sl ), meaning also, i'll lose money.

starr seemed pretty sincere when she told me the story about how 'aaliyah' insulted her - so of course i believed her. now i get this message and i am confused. what i will do is, have both of them face to face and get the story straight. ( mannn do i feel like i am running a daycare sometimes)

the same thing with Ivey, which is really really miss, because she was one helluva woman. great personality and a nut. i just couldn't understand what took her so long to pay the rent, let the lease expire, one or 2 day of a lease lapse, which i guess, just hit me that pertaining day. after leaving her numerous offliners, and talked in game... i mean, patience is not one of my strongest virtues. and even leaving her a nice Im explaining why i had to do what i had to. she never replied. but i do miss her. i miss the whole original philly crew, such as jasmine, who went off world, because she said she wont have time for an apartment nor the extensive time for sl. however..i miss her as well.

starr wrote me an email too, which i find very very confusing, because i don't get her point :

[6:06] Starr Pinion: hehehe..i just read ya blog about the eviction and
then me walkin in on you and johnny playin
[6:06] Starr Pinion: girllll johnny n i don't have nothin goin on! have
at him! hahaha
[6:06] Starr Pinion: <3
[6:06] Starr Pinion: *muahh*

 

erhm ... i don't want johnny as my inworld boytoy?, nor would i ever CLAIM him or anyone else for that matter. johnny is my friend and partna in crime and makes me laugh like an idiot. this guy has added so much content to philly, which is just beautiful. and philly would be dead ass empty without him. i hope he never leaves, because we all luv the johnny.

i have a very well rounded knowledge of MMORG's/ RP/ PVE/PVP/ CHAT PROGZ - gaming. but yet i have never seen so much dam SEX and the " mine mine mine " attitude in my 8 years of gaming! i swear this is hitting a bottom low here! if some of you are not familar with 'roleplaying' - just STFU, go with the flow and learn from the people who do know - and NOT add or be the cause of the drama! don't beg, don't leech, and definetly don't stirr up any bullshit! i know and observe people's behaviour behind their av's, it's my nature as a gamer chic. i also know, when someone is all nicety nice in my dam face, to get on my " good side ".yet its all a pretending  game to get somewhere on my account better yet to get to the people i know or to get something out of people. i sometimes feel like a dam celebrity in sl, some just want a piece out of my " celeb shaddow " and it sickens me to my stomach to see this sneaky arsed behaviour.

also, since i am on a roll here and sl is down ( perfect time for bitching! ), don't and i mean DON'T put anyone's personal business into SL! i don't wanna hear it! if someone wants to talk about their personal RL, they will tell me on their OWN! i don't want to hear shit from a 3rd partie, claiming how they KNOW someone or what their RL deal is. stalking on the net is so common and so ugly and so fuckin triflin. i've seen it numerous times, but i also seen people going down in their RL, due to their stalking/ monitoring someone's else's life! when you get to that point - it's time to turn off the pc and do some self analyzing and perhaps get a real life for a chance!

 

there is obvious drama in philly. tensions are rising, people are gossiping, incl me, which is not cool. it's an unhealthy karma for all of us. we are keeping secrets from one another, yet everyone seems to know, but gets quiet - to not disturb the overall "peace".

well there is no harmony right now. of course i understand we are all human beings behind our pretty and not so pretty av's. we share or don't share common interests, which makes this place diverse and supposly cool and different from other places. but at this present time, i feel like there is to much beef going on and i am to the point to just dash it out on a plate confront the pertaining parties - straight up in your face attitude.

i know i said above, i should not invest personal feelings or be agitated (sp?) because of some bullshit. but in order to maintain a somewhat cool place and keep people letting be people, something has to be said.

it almost feels like ulcer developing inside of me. and that' unhealthy and gotta get out of my system.

 

the end,

gala~