Deck Profile 01: A Real Maelstrom

                           
                    As I've mentioned on my previous blog, I will be sharing a deck-build occasionally. This time will be featuring the best way to play an Aqua Force Maelstrom deck with Admiral Maelstrom as the main stride unit.

        Alright first off, These are your grade 4 stride units that you will need in your deck.

Oh and the grade 0 starter should be Bubble Edge Dracokid.

                                    

                 Bare in mind, the 2x blizza should be changed to Lambros. But if you want to save up some money (cuz Lambros is freaking expensive). Blizza works too. Your aim is to stride Admiral Maelstrom continuously while paying the cost with useless stride units (the 2x Tidal Bore Dragon). And then end it with Blizza (or Lambros if you're rich enough to afford 2x).

                      These will be your grade 3 line-up.
                                            

                     After a long testing on experimenting this deck, here's the weakness that I've managed to compensate. You see, Maelstrom decks are normally used to increase your hand size after every succeeding 4th battle. In other words, there's a high probability that you WILL draw an extra card if you were to make your Maelstrom attack on the 4th battle (Which is an easy job for Aqua Force to do since that's their clan mechanic). But you're constantly drawing card's every 4th battle and spamming strides almost every turn, you WILL deck out without your opponent having in need to beat you. That's when you'll need Zaharius to Legion and restore triggers back into your deck to end the game faster (don't forget your mate :) 

                       Maelstrom Reverse should be your main Grade 3 Vanguard (NO, you don't need Glory Maelstrom because it's too risky to get 5 damage just for it's ultimate break to become effective). I did say that you will be striding every turn. But what happens if you couldn't stride??? (you're screwed with just a useless Glory Maelstrom sitting in as your vanguard). Maelstrom Reverse is more effective because you gain a "critical" just by making it attack on the 4th battle. And obviously your opponent has to guard (cuz u know, there's a "crit") And you draw a card if the attack doesn't hit while retiring one of your opponent's rear guards. (Now that's O.P.)

Here's when things get interesting with grade 2 and 1 units...

                   Of course you'll need 4x of the mate (Ianis). 4x Tidal assault and 2x Magnum assault (Note: Do NOT play 4x Magnum because your deck will become "counter blast-heavy.) What you're aiming for is "Mega hand-size" while ending it with Legion with huge amount of triggers back into your deck. So Saberflow Sailor is good for increasing your handsize. (When she attacks the opponent vanguard on the 4th or higher battle, after attacking, retire her and draw 2 cards.)

                     Your grade 1 units would be 4x null guard unflippers (every time you nullified an attack, you un-flipped a "counterblasted" damage). 3x Nikki (your deck has the potential to let you stride with 10 cards instead of 7). 4x Stacia (cuz people are going to get annoyed by that back-row 9k whacker) and 2x Penguin soldier (MEGA-HAND SIZE B****HES, remember that). The best way to make a 4th battle for your vanguard is to have a Tidal Assault and a Stacia in the same column. They spam up to 3 battles (Tidal 2x battles and Stacia 1x battle). Allowing your Maelstrom vanguard to be on the 4th battle. 

Finally, this would be your trigger line-up.

                     8x crits, 4x draws and 4x heals. The critical triggers MUST have 4x Despina because she supports Maelstrom a lot and gets returned into the deck after every 4th battle. (Basically, you refreshed your critical triggers to increase your chances when drive-checking.) 4x supersonic sailor might be useful since you are counter blasting with every Maelstrom unit. and there's no guarantee that the null guard unflippers are going to compensate completely. (There's also your Magnum assault...)

 The best formation you should be playing should be like this...

                         With Tidal assault and Stacia in one column pumping up 3x battles. Maelstrom comes in on the 4th battle with the support of Despina which prevent your opponent using grade 0 to guard (waste their null guards and even better if you're a 20k whacker with Maelstrom Reverse). And then increase your hand-size with Saberflow Sailor on the 5th battle and her support can be either Stacia or Penguin Soldier. (The penguin allows your to draw a card juz by soul-blasting 2x cards.) 

                       Well there are other formation you can use but I find this to be the best one it can be. So what do you all think about this deck-build, let me know through the comments and if you are interested in buying it. leave a message through www.facebook.com/cardfightvanguardstuff . I hope this deck profile has been helpful to all Aqua Force players out there. Until next time, see ya.

A Deck of Lives

                     
                    You know, it's strange that we never knew when is our time to go to the afterlife. I suppose god doesn't want us to look at the "life clock" so that we won't worry about ourselves on how long we can live. Imagine if we can see our "life clock" every moment in our life, we might tried to make every second worth of living by doing everything that a human being can do. But since we the "life clock" is not visible to us, I guess that means that sometimes we need to relax and be lazy once in a while. Not to say being lazy is a good thing, but at least set yourself a specific amount of time to be lazy that way you'll know when to wake up from your wonderland.

                     With all that said, that's what I have been doing since the start of July 2015. I'm in my semester break for the whole July until the August. Basically a whole month of summer vacation for me to do whatever I want (NO HOMEWORK!!! Since it's college). Anyhow, I realized that I've wasted almost half a month and what I've done so far are selling Vanguard cards and promoting the Facebook page: www.facebook.com/cardfightvanguardstuff . Not really productive. I did try to join a local League of Legends tournament in Campus League and it was a disappointment because our team captain didn't show up on the big day event. With 4 team members, we just trained in a cyber cafe and went home as if it was normal day.

                       After realizing that I've wasted quite a lot of time and I'm sure another 15 days will go by very fast if I don't do anything awesome. I decided I had like to help out people with whatever things I can do. As you all know that I am a Cardfight Vanguard player, I've build decks before and I would like to share my deck recipe to the public (Yes, you can abuse the play style if you want to. No copyright shit will happen to you or anything of that sort). From now on, I'll be uploading pictures of my deck recipe up online and maybe a video (If I think that deck is awesome) and showing you all how to use it's skills to the maximum. For those who doesn't play the game, I recommend you to try and learn it because it's a really fun game to enjoy with a friend. Every once a month, I'll be uploading at least 1-2 deck profile on my blog. This month I'll be uploading an Aqua Force deck featuring the real way to play a Maelstrom deck with the latest cards and a mix of the old LB era.  So stay tuned if you guys think it might help you in building your decks :)

SEMESTER 1, OVER!!!!

   
                  FINALLY!!! At long last, I've finished my exam for the entire semester 1 in college. Now I've gotta prepared for semester 2-6 -.- But I did at least get a sem-break for the entire July. Going to be able to relax myself for the holidays while at the same time pray that I pass EVERY module or I would have to retake the same thing again, which will lead to my parents having to spend a lot more money from what they were expecting.

                   To be honest, I didn't really study much and I just spend the last whole 2 weeks studying a little and played a lot of LOL. Surprisingly, I was able to take the exam pretty normal. Even during exam week, I was watching movie instead of revising. I suppose it's a way for me to release exam stress from my mind. Now that I think about it, I might have watched a lot more movie than I should have. Jurassic World, Minions and Parasyte 2, it was well worth it to actually watch these movies while taking exams.

                 I would say that it was really risky having to have done this while my college work is literally the deciding factor of my future. But at some point, I just thought of "ah screw it, studying last minute for exam is too mainstream. Lets watch a movie damn it" and I kept on repeating the cycle until I almost finished my exam. It wasn't easy, but at least I wasn't panicking about it. I'm not planning to go back to my "SPM-stress mode" again just because I got exams.

                   Eventually, you'll get used to exams being part of your educational life and it's just a piece of paper trying to scare you. If you never bother to enjoy your life just because you got tough obstacle coming your way, what's the point of you to even read what I'm blogging right here. Come on, get out of here and go have some fun. You never know :)

Back from Work to get started on Work

         
                     This past weekends, my friends and I happened to opened a booth in an anime convention called C2AGE 2015 at Help International School. We sell anime badges, nenderoids, sutekkas and figmas. It was a great experience knowing how does it feels to be a vendor from their perspective. Now we have to work instead of having fun at the event. I had to wake up early in the morning to pick up my friends and drive all the way to a deserted location just to set-up a booth before the event starts. By 10a.m, people started coming in and we started to promote our stuff for sale.

 Welcome to our booth: Day 1

More stuff happened on Day 2

                     For those that visited our booth during the event, thank you for your support. We were really thankful for your contributions just by checking out what we sell. Our company name is under Anime Access which would be awesome if you guys could help us like and share our Facebook page: www.facebook.com/animeaccess1863 to check out more awesome anime stuff online X).

                     Of course, we didn't just sit at our booth for both days. We repeately took shifts of 2 hours for the whole day which stacked up to 7p.m. It was really exhausting but by the end of the day, we were really excited on our sales income because we actually earned pure profit from our revenue. 

                      Aside from us working as vendors, we also joined some event activities during the 2nd day. As you all know, a Taiwan cosplayer, "King" came to Malaysia as our VIP guest for this event and they hold a 'meet and greet' session for everyone to get signatures and selfies with her. 

This represents one of Anime Access greatest accomplishment, getting our postcard signed by "King". Special thanks to Milton Leong, our artist for drawing our mascot and me!!! standing in queue for more than AN HOUR!!! just to get "King" to sign it. WORTH IT!!!

                      By the end of the event, we celebrated our success with a great feast in a Japanese restaurant. 

Gambei in Sushi Flash.

                         Surprisingly, it was Milton's birthday as well 0.0 but we all just replaced the fun by counting the money we've earned on our sales and we still have remaining badges for future sales. Overall, after all we've been through on opening a booth in an anime convention for the FIRST TIME!!! We're are going to aim even higher by opening a booth at Comic Fiesta. Either 2015 or 2016, we are going to do the exact same thing with only more variety of anime stuff to sell than before. By then, stay tune for more updates on how we are going process it. Thanks for reading X)

Out of Freedom.

                   
                     In all my hopes, I've always wanted to write a blog through broken English but I never did. For some reason, I always thought that I was obligated to write blogs in a proper manner. But after gone through some realization for these past few weeks. I feel this should be a place where I can express myself how ever I see fit. So here it goes, my first blog written in broken English. Hopefully you guys don't find it difficult to understand since I believe that most of you had use it in your daily lives.

Here it goes...
                     Hello everybody, today i tell u how much i have been feeling this pass few weeks. its so exhausting to keep up with my college assignments. got stuff to do and more stuff to print and also need to prepare more stuff for my oral group presentation. surprisingly it was at first nervous, but when i stand in front. walao weh, i'm so geng lorh. spoke like a real kingsman without even needing to read my cue cards. damn. but everything screws up when my teammates take over. in the end, we received more than half the mark larh. i guess thats counted as a pass lorh.

                      It was really stressful though. almost everyday i have to keep up to my college schedule and my business schedule with Anime Access and cardfightvanguard stuff. recently, i started to learn japanese language. juz the basics with the "a, i, u, e, o" (not english). i'm sure its going to become harder to learn. but since i am planning to go to japan by the end 2015. i feel that i should at least learn the simple stuff for japanese language. improve communication wan.

                       I also started playing league of legends again. only for the sake of getting free stuff from some online points collection. since i dun have to win to get the points. i might as well play 1 game per day. should be ok larh since 1 game only like around 30-60 minutes....

                        Most of my friend started college right about now. congratulations on ur enrollment my friends. i hope college was fun...... for the first week...... and now let the stuff work stacking began. good luck, btw, cooperation is highly needed by the end of ur semester no matter what course u take. so make as much new friends as possible.... if u're reading this, u know what i mean (group assignment). but i can say that college is definitely better than any other school u have been through in life. doesn't matter what college. cuz right now, u're literally free. juz be free and start being awesome. do awesome stuff and things while u're in college. and also go out... i dunno where u wanna go. juz go out somewhere. dun stay at home everyday. if u stay at home everyday, u might as well become a mushroom larh ok.

                          Also, now is the best time to make a decision whether u wan girlfriend or not. up to u. u choose, not he or she choose. u the man and u know it. so be awesome and choose wisely. dun be like that idiot who follows the girl on whatever grail she picks for him and he drinks it and then he become bones. and that old knight guy said that he have chosen poorly..... X) u know what i mean.

                          1 last thing to mention is that... u're gonna die pretty fast.... amazing how time flies by right... i mean like wow... we're in college.... sooner or later, we're getting a job and a family and then we grow old and then we die. but while we're still here, lets leave our legacy of FLAMING WINGS in here. u know, juz in case when stuff happens. hey u never know. others than that, made the odds be ever in ur favor and then throw it away. remade that favor only to show off that u're able to do it twice while others barely even catch up on completing the first one. XD GG#WIN-LIAO-LORH#BECOS-I-SAID-BURN.COM

                          And it ends here. I'm sure most of you would not enjoy that, but I'll never do it again. In all honesty, I was really stressed out with college assignments and I've been wanting to do something to let out the pressure. If I were to write a blog formally, I'm pretty sure that I would be adding fuel to my fire... so in my ways to be free from this stress, I think this is probably one of the new ways I've found out about releasing my stress. I deeply apologize for those that find it difficult to understand and I do hope that you guys would still continue on to read my future blogs. Thank you :)

             

The amount we have.

               
                    We were often told to do our best in almost anything in order to achieve our goals. But we never know what is the definition of "best" from the person who told us and from the our perspective when we think of the "best". Example: Your parents would say something like "do your best in your final exam" and in their minds, they would probably define "best" as in getting A in your exam. Meanwhile in our brains, we would probably think "if we get C in our exam, that's the "best" we could ever have". SEE THE DIFFERENCE?

                     We can't really read each other's mind, but we are given enough information in guessing what the other person might be thinking. That's how we overcome obstacles in life. But what we don't know is that how many ways are there in reaching the same destination with different solutions. If you believe that you can only make "good" things with "good" materials or that you can only achieve a "good" career with a "good" education certificate, please stop reading this. If you are given a limited amount of money to survive for a period of time, have you ever ask yourself how you would use the money to maximize your survival. Most people would calculate how much money they can spend by dividing the amount of money equally to the amount of time in that period. That way they will know what are their limits, avoiding any insufficient usage. It's logical that if you want to be able to achieve something, you must be able to know what are your limits. What are you capable of doing with that limited amount of money will determined how awesome you are in your survival.

                      However, what happens if you desire more than just survival? What happens if you have the desire to survive in a more luxurious way. Would tell yourself to just give up on that luxurious thought? or would try to find a way to achieve that luxurious life? But you would have to take risks if you plan to make your life luxurious. Example: You choose to find a way to make your survival much better. That would mean that you will need more money. But how can you get more money? Simple, invest half of your money on an item and make a business out of it by selling the item through the market. Make a profit and poof, your survival rate just got better. But what happens when you invested on an item and no one buys it? Well that would mean that you can't spend anything within that half period of time and that would probably mean you're screwed. That is the risk. So most people would pick the safer way out. They'll just keep themselves alive with a limit set on their heads. They will never know how much potential they have if they keep playing safe.

                        This just proved that most of us will only do something if there is a safe route in front of us. Because of risks existing in an alternative path, they ignore to take that route fearing they might fall and never rise again. Even so, do you really believe that the safe route will lead you to your success in the future? I can tell you this, you can have the best coffee beans to make the best coffee in the whole world. But if the way you approach in handling them is bad, you will end up making the worst coffee that anyone has ever drank. Just because you have "good" quality coffee beans doesn't mean that you will be able to make "good" quality coffee. If you brew them without care, they will not turn out well. The opposite is also true, even if you have cheap coffee beans. If you brew them carefully, they will turn out to be favorable and you might just find yourself opening a coffee shop in a blink of an eye.

                           So if the next time you got something "good", start thinking how to bring out the best qualities of that "good". It might just be the opportunity for you to reach your true goal in a split second.
                     
       
                         

Changes Began within us.

                  Ever wondered how people used to communicate with each other back in the old days where social network hasn't existed yet? Let me tell you something, I bet they would say "I had a better life than you right now" These days, most of us (including me) used smartphones and simple devices in order to make friends and join group communities that are difficult to be found. Thank god that technology improved and enhance our mobile tech and we were able to get ourselves involve in almost every activity event that we have ever dreamed about achieving. Strange... technology was suppose to change us for the better in order to make our lives more convenient but it almost felt like we were being taken over by a non-living thing...

                     For these past few days, I went to a camp where we improve our personality. It was organized by the Shine Award Center in Taylor's University called the Shine Discovery Session. It was a free field trip for all the students who join the Shine program so I figured I could have some fun going jungle trekking and I even did the flying fox activity (it was awesome, it felt like I was flying through the air!!!). But here's the catch, if a student were to join this field trip, they will be living in an "Orang Asli" settlement for 3 days, 2 nights WITHOUT any line connection to the outside world. That means, even if you had the best connection if the whole world. You won't be able to contact or receive any transmission from your friends and family... I knew the risk and I'm sure nothing will happen for a 3 days, 2 night stay. But once I got back to KL, I can hear small continuous gun shots from miy Facebook notification and Whatsapp messages vibrating on my phone (let the scrolling began). It basically means that I was able to survive more than 48 hours of no technology from the outside world. And it made think that how much things could have happened when a mobile-addicted person had his gadgets taken away from him for more than 24 hours... He would probably go insane...

                       But to me, I didn't know that technology could changed us this much.... it made me remembered a video that I watched recently in my class: Z7dLU6fk9QY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7dLU6fk9QY After watching that, I think you already know what you should do. GO.