Samantha G. on SL

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2008-11-15T17:30:00.004+01:00

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Wow!

2008-10-27T09:27:00.003+01:00

It's almost a year since my last blog post. For sure I'm not a prolific writer!

While this may not seem the case, I have not left SL or reduced my presence inworld; I just neglected this blog :)

I'm still active in the metaverse, as "real life" permits. Still hold some land in Nigorigawa for my personal home, still DJ for the same club and so on. Where I left you, there I am.

Most of my time in SL is taken by VSTEX Virtual Stock Exchange and football. See the SecondFootball website for more info.

Speaking about football... In SL one can do a lot of things and maybe one would never think about playing football with fields, nets, referees and so on. Let alone leagues and cups. Well, you can find that and much more on SecondFootball, up to now the "de facto standard" for football in Second Life.

Oh, and I'm about to have my second RezDay! Just a few days away from now.

Virtual banks or stock exchanges?

2007-11-12T13:56:00.000+01:00

Siccome l'argomento "finanza virtuale" è tra quelli di maggior interese, per vari motivi, ho pensato di postare alcune considerazioni ed informazioni, sperando che possano essere utili a qualcuno.

Tra i modi per incrementare i L$ a propria disposizione, ve ne sono diversi. Tra questi, due legati al mondo finanziario sono:

depositare i propri risparmi in una banca virtuale
investire i propri risparmi in una borsa virtuale

Si tratta di due forme di utilizzo dei propri L$ parecchio diverse. Ammettendo che tutto vada per il verso giusto, cioè che nessuno fallisca o scappi con i L$ raccolti, possiamo sintetizzare il tutto così:

Banca virtuale

nessun investimento minimo richiesto
il guadagno è rappresentato degli interessi
il tasso di interesse in genere aumenta all'aumentare del capitale depositato
possibiltià di bloccare i propri capitali per un tempo prefissato, ottenendo un tasso di interesse migliore
i conti correnti ed i depositi sono normalmente a "zero spese"; non si possono perdere il capitale iniziale o gli interessi accumulati
è possibile calcolare l'ammontare del capitale ad una data futura
investimento a basso rischio

Borsa virtuale

nessun investimento minimo richiesto
il guadagno è rappresentato dalla distribuzione periodica di utili (dividendi) o dalle plusvalenze sulle operazioni di acquisto/vendita
non sono riconosciuti interessi sui depositi (fanno eccezione alcune borse virtuali)
viene applicata una commissione su ogni operazione di vendita
è possibile non solo rimetterci gli eventuali guadagni, ma anche intaccare il capitale iniziale
investimento ad alto rischio

Il deposito presso una banca virtuale è sicuramente la soluzione più semplice. Si fanno i depositi, si ritira quando si ha bisogno di liquidi. Finito.

Nel secondo caso bisogna avere cura dei propri investimenti. I guadagni più sostanziosi si possono fare attraverso frequenti operazioni di compravendita (si cerca di comprare a poco, si vende ad un prezzo maggiore) che possono avvenire nell'arco della stessa giornata, ma anche di poche ore e a volte minuti.

Tanto più si sta dietro ai propri investimenti in azioni virtuali, tanto maggiori saranno le possibilità di guadagno. La borsa virtuale è anche un ottimo strumento per imparare a conoscere certi meccanismi, che sono mutuati, in tutto o in parte, dalla RL.

In Second Life esistono diverse borse virtuali. Tra queste vi è il VSTEX, unica borsa europea ed unica borsa bilingue (italiano ed inglese) mentre tutte le altre usano solo l'inglese. Non solo noi usiamo l'italiano, ma al momento tutto il nostro staff è italiano, questo assicura ai nostri compatrioti la possibilità di avere informazioni chiare e di poter parlare con qualcuno che ne condivide non solo la lingua, ma anche la cultura.

Attualmente al VSTEX sono presenti tre realtà italiane per le quali è già possibile il trading: IBI Fair "Leonardo da Vinci", Mediterraneo OC e Quattrocolori SL.

Abbiamo un'altra realtà italiana in attesa di entrare nella nostra "arena" e si tratta di ITLAND - Italian Beach Jazz Club, a dimostrazione del fatto che l'interesse per la finanza virtuale così come è espressa dal VSTEX nel nostro paese c'è.

Sono diversi i meccanismi impiegati da VSTEX per proteggere i propri investitori, tra questi:

- un fondo rischi che interviene in caso di fallimento/bancarotta delle società a listino
- una regolamentazione che prevede tra l'altro l'adozione ed il rispetto di un codice etico per le compagnie a listino, un liquidatore fallimentare nominato dagli azionisti ed altro ancora.

Il VSTEX inoltre pone grande cura nella comunicazione al pubblico e nell'educazione degli investitori. A tutti raccomandiamo di leggere questi consigli per l'investimento e la nostra nuova rubrica sulla pubblicazione ufficiale di Mediterraneo OC edita da Quattrocolori SL, "Medi Magazine".

Spero di avere fatto cosa gradita con questo post.

Finally, an update!

2007-11-12T13:44:00.000+01:00

And maybe it will disappoint you, since it will be pretty short!

My SL is more or less like it was when I last posted. Something has changed, though. Now I am the Communication and Public Relations Director for the VSTEX, a community based virtual stock exchange.

I really enjoy working there, the VSTEX gave me a chance to see the SL financial mechanisms from the inside and I must say that the guys there are great.

It's like a family. I work for them and I was already playing for their football team, the VSTEX FC. Talk about full immersion!

I must admit that the VSTEX keeps me really busy, but actually I'm having lots of fun and I know I am a workaholic :)

We'll see how things will evolve for me!

Football (2)!

2007-08-30T10:32:00.000+01:00

Or, for you Americans, soccer :)

The manager of the Italian National SL football team, Emanuele Hax, yesterday graced the humble (lol) me by picking my name amongst the many others.

So now I am a member of the team that will represent our country around SL. I don't have a picture of the event, I'll post another picture of mine...

First life, second life and burnout

2007-08-29T12:57:00.000+01:00

I posted the following text on an Italian forum. It's too long to translate it, but I thought I had to post it here as well...

Ho una "prima vita" soddisfacente, né meglio né peggio di tante altre. Lavoro ok, salute ok, amore ok. Non ho di che lamentarmi.

A novembre 2006 decido di provare SL, dopo che nel tempo ne avevo letto diverse volte. Parto un po' come tanti, gli occhi (virtuali, ma non solo) sgranati davanti a questo misterioso, affascinante e nuovo mondo.

Allora non c'era il tutorial, una volta nel mondo ho scelto uno dei posti più popolari, il club Arsheba. Un posto che era (o mi sembrava) enorme, tanta gente ed in alcune zone delle persone (preferisco questa definizione, al termine "avatar") che ballavano in linea, su dei dischi circolari (che poi scoprii essere dancepad per il cosiddetto "camping" :)).

La mia prima reazione, vedendo e il loro abbigliamento e le loro movenze, fu "wow".

Da lì in avanti ci ho messo poco a farmi un avatar come si deve ed ho imparato in fretta quanto necessario.

Il mio circolo di amicizie allora era costituito da gente che come me era agli inizi ed era di dimensioni alquanto limitate, una decina di persone. Gestire questo cerchio di amicizie era facile, i miei contatti non erano mai tutti online allo stesso momento ed avendo bene o male interessi comuni capitava spesso che ci ritrovassimo in un gruppetto per fare un po' di cose assieme o semplicemente parlare, in genere di tutto quello di strano e bello che trovavamo su SL.

L'orologio del tempo è andato avanti, chi era a quel tempo con me ha via via lasciato ed è tornato alla propria prima vita. Un po' per riempire questi vuoti, un po' per sostenere lo shopping sfrenato, un po' perché volevo vedere che effetto faceva impegnarsi in qualche occupazione su SL, di quelle fighe, ho iniziato a lavorare.

Con il lavoro la lista degli amici ha iniziato a crescere vertiginosamente. I mei datori di lavoro, i colleghi, poi lavorando per un club vuoi non avere tra gli amici quantomeno i frequentatori abituali? Da loro tutto sommato dipende il successo del club, quindi il tuo stipendio e soprattutto le tue mance. E poi quando rifiuti la friendship a qualcuno puoi avere tutte le giustificazioni del mondo, ma questa è una cosa che viene spesso presa male: se si tratta di un incontro casuale, pazienza. Diventa difficile farlo con chi ti viene spesso nel locale.

Poi gli amici più o meno stretti iniziano a presentarti i loro amici, ogni tanto ci si vede, ci s'incontra e via altri contatti in lista. Il tuo avatar, dopo mesi di limature ed aggiustamenti, è decisamente attraente e grazie allo shopping intensivo nei posti più rinomati hai un guardaroba da fare invidia ad una principessa saudita ed hai anche tutti gli ammennicoli vari, dalle cuffie da DJ con le lucette rotanti agli occhiali da sole superscriptati che cambiano colore e con lenti opache o semi trasparenti, per non parlare del computerino che appare quando si digita, ovviamente non il freebie, ma il lussuosissimo Fnkbook.

Tutto questo armamentario, che non serve ad altro se non a gratificare in qualche modo l'ego personale, se da un lato lascia abbstanza indifferenti i veterani, dall'altro attira un sacco di persone che sono inworld da tempo breve o relativamente breve. A parte quelli del "facciamo sesso?" può capitare di quando in quando di incontrare qualche persona che sembra interessante ed allora via, nuovi contatti in lista.

E così una alla fine si ritrova che quando si connette piovono gli IM "Dove sei? Cosa fai? Ci vediamo?", IM che continueranno ad arrivare man mano che i contatti si collegano. Fortunatamente la stragrande maggioranza di essi corrisponde a gente che semplicemente è lì e non sento quasi mai, altrimenti...

Ma resta sempre troppa gente ed è tutta gente diversa tra loro, con caratteri diversi ed interessi diversi, gente che non posso semplicemente prendere in un gruppetto ed andare a fare qualcosa di divertente assieme. Poi ci sono le persone che pensano, sperano od ambiscono di essere speciali per me e che si aspettano di passare buona parte del mio tempo online solo con me.

Devo dire che di tutta la mia lista, un centinaio di nominativi, si contano sulle dita di una mano le persone che capiscono le mie esigenze (ed anche loro hanno le proprie) e che non si aspettano di vedermi per almeno due ore tutti i santi giorni.

Per non parlare poi del fatto che sin dall'inizio io ho voluto tenere prima e seconda vita separate e di sicuro non volevo avere qui i problemi della prima. Ed ecco che vengono fuori gli amici che hanno problemi con altri amici, RL, SL, RL/SL... Questo ha detto quello, ma secondo te lui mi ama, lei oggi non mi ha parlato, Tizio ha detto a Caio, Sempronio mi ha riferito che...

Insomma, alla fine del giro passo la maggior parte del mio tempo inworld (almeno l'80%) non a fare quello che vorrei, ma a cercare di soddsifare le esigenze degli altri. Cerco di passare un po' di tempo con tutte le persone a cui tengo, ma mi rendo conto che alla fine ce n'è poco per tutti e quasi niente per me. Quindi gli amici sono insoddisfatti, io sono insoddisfatta.

In questo ultimo periodo ho cercato di raddrizzare un po' le cose estendendo il mio tempo inworld, ma l'unico risultato ottenuto è che dormo troppo poco e dopo qualche giorno sono nervosa, irritabile e tendo allo sconforto. E' come cercare di svuotare il mare con un secchio bucato.

So che mi sono cacciata io in questa situazione, fondamentalmente quello che mi ha fregato è stato l'iniziare a lavorare ed il frequentare ambienti per così dire "popolari".

Ora come scrivevo in un'altra discussione vorrei dedicare parte del mio tempo al gioco di ruolo, questo giocoforza mi imporrà di dedicare meno tempo agli amici più o meno stretti ed a tutti i loro problemi. Ci riuscirò?

Potrei semplicemente creare un account alternativo ed usare quello per il gioco di ruolo, non avrei tutti i contatti, gli IM eccetera... Ma io sono così affezionata a me stessa :) E poi mi sembrerebbe una sorta di fuga, o inganno.

Certo è che non posso andare avanti così per molto... E' burnout, questo?

And here we go again...

2007-08-22T11:48:00.000+01:00

While I did already post this month (you know I'm lazy - or better, I don't have anything cool to write) someone "complained" about the lack of updates here.

I'll tell you what... The Internet is so full of lame and boring things that a new post of mine won't add much to the junk :)

First off, let me tell you that my DJing schedule (currently to the right of this post) is way outdated. Currently I play at the Swingers FunClub every Monday, Thursday and Sunday, unless I have RL issues or something along that line.

Monday had already been assigned to me as my DJing day. Then apparently our DJ Gerben did not have much time to play at the club, so Thursday was assigned to me as well. Then, after my July holidays, I discovered that our DJ Mercedes left us.

Mercedes, I really did not expect that from you. I could have told you this face to face, but since you didn't care to talk to me in the first place, I'll add some drama to this blog post, and to the hell with it.

I can understand if you want to give a different course to your life, I can understand if you want to work for a different club. But (and I say but) after all the things you said to me, sailing away without saying anything to me, that was just low. I don't know what's in your head girl and I know I'm not the best when it comes to keeping touch with friends, but being in your very same situation, I would have told you about my intentions.

End of drama. I still think you're a nice person. I want to.

Football!

2007-08-02T14:34:00.001+01:00

I thought I had done most of the things I could have done on SL. Well, there's always something behind the corner, waiting for me!

I recently discovered that we can actually play football (soccer, for you Americans) on SL! An Italian Football League is starting and I joined the Vstex FC team as both a team leader and a coach.

Vstex is a Virtual Stock Exchange for Second Life (it will be launched soon) and it's the team sponsor. Since the team was formed up under the sponsor patronage, our squad it's named after the company.

I don't have a picture of the team players right now, but here's one taken at a recent meeting. From the left to the right, Mrs. Fiorella Whitfield (our president soulmate), Mr. antonax Rossini (our president) and... me :)

Update: here there are 2 pictures taken at a team meeting, in the Vstex main hall.

Of course, I am still alive!

2007-06-27T18:04:00.001+01:00

Just to show you that I'm still alive and kicking. 2 pictures I took yesterday, me and my friend Elly (I'm the one with blonde hairs and sunglasses). In the first one, we are shopping together. Then, after a SL crash, we found ourselves at an orientation island (no, I didn't kill a newbie, it's a discounted outfit from Canimal, blood included).

More business!

2007-05-23T14:42:00.000+01:00

As you know by now, it's been a while (maybe not much, but still a while!) since I started operating on the WSE.

I teamed up with my friend Seo Torres and we founded the Goldflake & Torres Investments. Right now we're investing our own capitals, but soon we may offer something to accustomed or wannabe investors. Stay tuned!

Wouldn't you like to give your name to a pair of shoes?

2007-05-16T23:42:00.000+01:00

I would, and I did! Thanks to my friend Duke, my dream (well, one of them!) came true and his first design to hit the mass market is called "Samantha".

You can buy them from me, over at SLBoutique.com, just click here!

Business as usual

2007-04-24T12:39:00.000+01:00

A few days ago I happened to find out that there was a SL working stock trading system, the WSE (World Stock Exchange).

To try it out, I invested a few L$ and I must say I'm becoming addicted and in 4 days my investments escalated to 5.500 L$, which still represents a small capital for the "big guys" but hey, everybody has to start somewhere!

Afterall I'm not feeling fully comfortable with the WSE, because the nature of SL is pretty volatile... Time will tell...

I am also on a PR/Marketing task for the Swingers FunClub, plus I'm talking about an upcoming business venture with a good, longtime friend of mine and I got another offer from another friend.

A while ago I was complaining about my lack of social relationships, looks like I'm gonna be pretty busy!

2 music events!

2007-04-09T20:32:00.000+01:00

Hey, it's me again :)

This week I'm gonna perform as a DJ at the Swingers FunClub (you can see date and times to the right of this blog.

"SamyStyle" this week features:

The World Is Your Oyster, 2 hours of music from all around the world: Brazil (maracatu, bossa nova, others), India (bhangra) and many other styles from Maroc, Algeria, Senegal, Romania, Turkey, Cuba and many others.

The second event is The Night Train; this is gonna be a regular event, performed every week. Why the name? Because it's an imaginary train that will ferry you into the night, taking you to sleep in the arms of deep house / chillout / lounge music.

Edit: I forgot to add... I changed my eye colour! As you can see on the pics, I abandoned (for now) my light brown eyes. Do you like the new ones? :)

Midian City (part 1)

2007-03-24T00:33:00.000+01:00

I decided to join Midian City, for the first time. I saw the place in some pics and I thought I would have visited it, sometimes.

I am sleepy, but I'm bored and don't want to hit the bed now. I go and I join as a "Midian City Dweller".

I wonder if my dress, "The Reluctant Seductress" all made of white chantilly lace, will attract any unwanted attention...

I exit from some sort of welcome area and here I am, down in the dark streets.

I walk for a while, then I decide to go down into the "real" city.

I stare at the buildings and at all the neon lights. A woman passes by and disappears to my left. I am about to follow her, when I notice the gothic cathedral to my right. I go inside and the door slams behind me while I move forward.

Somehow, the cathedral does not fit well with me and I run for the door.

Back in the street, I decide to stay in the open. Ahead of me I see a small group of people, can't identify them for sure. I have the option to take the street to my right, but I'm not sure about it, everything here seems so dangerous.

I try to not show any evidence of fear or uneasyness and I walk past the small group, 2 women and a man. They are busy in some sort of small talk and apparently they don't notice me.

Phew! There's a place on the street where I can sit down and have some food. I'll go there and I'll try to assess the situation.

Let's board the train

2007-03-21T23:29:00.000+01:00

I was randomly checking some landmarks a friend gave me. I trieed a new one and when I teleported I suddenly found myself on a running train!

I was quick enough to sit and successfully board it. Looking around, I realized I was in the Caledon group of sims.

Here are some pics of my little travel:

Now a couple "bonus" pics: a photoshoot taken on a ship I found wandering around on Caledon, there's the lightower too!

Touching base

2007-03-21T17:34:00.000+01:00

Hi there! While I try to keep my second life well apart from the first one, because of some illness (nothing serious, blame the cold weather) I haven't been around much.

Blog updates suffered too, but by now you know I'm slow :)

That's all folks! (anyway I hope to post some stuff soon)

Home sweet home

2007-03-05T10:58:00.000+01:00

A long time ago I rented an apartment over at a condo tower. At the 8th floor life was nice. Quiet neighbours, a lovely and clean place all around.

Also, we tenants got to use the parking lot, the swimming pool, a camping area with fireplaces and small wooden houses and a skybox for... recreational activities, so to speak.

Then one day, the condo owner sells the business to another person. We got a new condo (identical to the previous one) a few meters away.

Plus side:

- Rent lowered from 300 L$ to 150/week

Minus side:

- The skybox is gone
- The parking lot is gone
- The camping area is gone
- The swimming pool has been replaced with a smaller, not so nice one

I said to myself: "Ok, less services but I pay less per week, I can do it" but I didn't know the horror story had yet to end.

I then discovered that I had new (and lousy) neighbours and a few floors below there is an apartment where I never saw the tenant, but which is visited frequently by people having sex and doing everything in open chat.

Not enough. In front of the condo the manager appointed by the new owner placed a flag (Washington state?) and an HUGE billboard asking people to click there for info about renting there.

Yesterday I teleport back to the condo and I find it has been moved again (so it seems. or there is something messing with the teleport) and more and more national flags have been planted in front of it.

Pfftttt... What a messy and ugly place is now. You may say "buy" your own land but that's another story to be told...

DJing!

2007-02-27T18:17:00.000+01:00

In an attempt to find new sources of fun, after some thinking I got myself involved into DJing. I asked to Karen and Kian (the owners of the Swingers FunClub) to let me try and they've been very kind by allowing me to use the club facilities to stream live.

A great help came from my friend Mercedes, who's already DJing both at the club and in the "real world"; I got more help from another DJ, Willy. It's so nice to have all those helpful friends!

So far I made some tests, playing a selection of dance music (international/Italian) for my first test session and a selection of Italian dance music for the second one.

I'll try to have more test sessions before my official debut, which is scheduled for Friday, March 2 @ 17.00 CET. I'll be at the Swingers FunClub playing Deep house/chillout music.

I don't plan to become a regular SL DJ, but I guess that once everywhile I'll get at it. It's fun!

Hmmm... Who knows? Maybe I'll grow up to the point to have my own fans :)

Bored... May be fed up

2007-02-21T18:23:00.000+01:00

Pfffttt... My SL is no longer fun as it used to be. Seems ages since I started, but it's been "only" about 3 months ago.

I'm not saying nothing new here, basically I'm recalling stuff I wrote into a recent post. Where have all of my old friends gone? How come they're no longer available to spend a good chunk of their time with me?

I could make new friends... I'm an easy going person and I like to socialize, but it looks like the only people I can find belongs to the "utterly lame" group.

The scenario is now typical. Newbie guy, he sends me an IM with some standard line or a simple "Hi".

I usually reply, first because I'm a nice person, second because I would like to meet someone who can sparkle my interest.

Not much luck so far. The newbie guy wants to know everything or almost everything my real life. As soon as I tell him that I'm not up for that he either goes away or he doesn't know what to talk about.

Looks like those guys are only looking for SL/RL sex/romance. When it's not like that they try to use me as a mentor, or "live help". I don't mind to help out a newbie, I often do it, but...

Oh well... enough ranting.

Someone said that I should go and become a "content creator" or do some kind of business. Well, I may or may not do it, but as of now SL ain't much fun for me.

Memories

2007-02-09T13:59:00.000+01:00

There was a time when I used to go to Parioli, daily. The music was nice and the place was really cool.

Now the "old fashioned" music has gone and it's been replaced by dance/club music, the one you can hear at the Slurp club, up in the sky. There are a lot of shops and sometimes too much people for my taste.

Anyway, this is a chance to post a picture of me :)

About 3 months

2007-02-06T15:48:00.000+01:00

Just a few days and I'll have been for 3 months in SL. Maybe it's time to look back and see what I've done and if that could be somewhat related to what I'll do.

Let's start with the easy stuff.

I had quite a few jobs. I've been a part time dancer, a freelance escort, an escort working for a club and finally a club host.

I had a very nice employer (Hummer Harmison, he's The Boss and I'll always miss working for him) and my current ones (Karen Juno and Kian Stardust) are wonderful. I like my current job, though I don't earn very much.

I also had a SL girlfriend; lost her, but it wasn't anybody's fault. Sometimes things aren't just going to work, for a lot of reasons. I never looked for someone else, maybe because I still miss the one who first shared an house and a "second life" with me.

I got to meet a few wonderful friends and I hope nobody will be upset if I mention only Isabella. She's one of the first friends I met and (unlike someone else) she's still with me, though recently there have been a few changes which I didn't like much, but they didn't affect our friendship.

I built my first house and my first furnitures and some stuff I'm even selling.

This was the easy part. What next?

Well, there are quite a lot of people in my friends list, people that as of now I hardly meet or talk to. When we all were new, we had the same problems I guess; that was enough to keep us close, common problems and the very same awe in front of the many places and different people.

Now it's different. We got new friends, new jobs, our different personalities took over. Maybe this is the reason why we don't spend much time together, as we used to do. Sometimes I speak to one of those "old friends" and it's like talking to a stranger.

I know that there have been the times when one of them wanted to talk with me, or hang out with me, and I was working, or busy with something or someone. So someone may have had a bad feeling about me, but honestly I tried hard to make everyone happy.

Sometimes I feel like I should just purge my friends list, except for just a few ones. Making new friends? It's hard. When I was "new" everything looked so easy. Now it's hard to set aside the "good people" from the gazillion of newbies popping up all the time and "old residents" seems to have so little in common with me...

I don't spend as much time in SL as I used to do, and often I'm alone. Usually I don't mind it, but sometimes it's too much.

Maybe I should really clean my friends list and start all over...

Business!

2007-02-01T14:36:00.000+01:00

Ok, not that I'm expecting much from it, anyway a while ago I made a few items more for fun/personal use than anything else.

Afterwards I decided to put them on sale at SLBoutique for decent (I think) prices. You can see what I made so far on my SLBoutique page.

When I'll have some time on my hands I'll try to make more (and better) items. Just for fun, then if I can make a few L$ with them, it's ok!

Pffftttt

2007-01-22T17:46:00.001+01:00

Ok, someone I met inworld pointed out that my blog is quite outdated. As always, I replied that I'm too much into SL to even get the chance to tell on my blog about everything going on there :)

So here I am with my post (or rant, if you like more).

I'm not saying anything new here, but to be a woman in SL can be annoying sometimes. As most women do, I try to look pretty/cute/gorgeous and so far so good.

The drawback is that I can't go anywhere (almost) without being approached by some guy (most of the times a newbies, since they're so chatty, cheery and excited - even without featuring an erect penis) asking what I do in that place, where I do come from, how old I am and so on.

First off, this is "Second Life" - first one does not matter and anyway one should (at least I think so) get acquainted with someone, before asking all sorts of (innocent) questions.

Second, I know that in RL a good looking woman can be approached by someone in an attempt to get to know her (so to speak) but when I'm on a place (a mall, a beach, a public walk) and I've to spend most of my time evading from "Hi", "How do you do" and so on, then there is a problem.

A couple days ago I was at a place called "Laguna beach". A guy (SL newbie) started a conversation and I was answering with not much emphasis. He finally commented on how relaxing that place was, and I backfired stating that it wasn't true. He got the message and, quite upset, he left mumbling.

What he didn't know was that yes, I was there to relax, but he was something like the 10th guy in a row coming up with the usual pickup lines.

Third, I try to be kind and polite everytime and if I get that someone is saying "Hi" to me, I always answer back. Too bad that often that ends in some random guy offering me friendship. if I spent some minutes with you talking about how's life or the weather, that doesn't mean that I want to be your best buddy forever!

Fourth, some people will use IMs straight away to get in touch with me for the first time. There are the "IM snipers", people well out of my visual range that will send me an IM and will try to start a conversation while I'm desperately trying to see where they are!

Phew...

Hey Isabella!

2007-01-08T13:45:00.000+01:00

I don't know if you'll ever read this, but I know we did agree to let our issue past us and to not talk about it again.

Sorry but I can't just do that.

I have to apologize, because you shared something with me and you got a strong, bitter and fierce comeback. That was uncalled for, since first you've been honest to me and second you could not know about my strong feeling about that... lifestyle, so to speak.

I also had to remember that there are many degrees of involvement (at least I think) and I really had to wait and see how things were turning to for you.

I know I said I did not want to know about that stuff you're being involved now and I know I said I didn't want to see you actively practicing it, but I know that when you'll need my support, whatever the reason, I'll be there for you.

Hugs

Been wondering?

2007-01-08T12:47:00.000+01:00

I'm not vanished :)

As I said to a friend of mine, I spend too much time inworld to get a chance to update this blog. Right now I came back here since I wanted to add a link to my friend Rossana's blog feed.

Her blog is written in Italian and if you don't understand it, too bad! You're really missing something. She's a very good writer and her blog will surely be interesting and not like this one of mine :)

Hugs to you all!

New job

2006-12-05T13:27:00.000+01:00

2 days ago I started working at the KitKat II dancers & escorts club. I'm the first escort in staff and I like that. Who doesn't like to be #1? :)

This morning when I got up I saw a notice from the club owner, Hummer Harmison. He was talking about restructuring the club, but I was too sleepy to understand the message!

Will check with him, anyway the club will be back, so why don't you spend some of your time with me?

Message me inworld to know about the KitKat II club.

Life goes on

2006-12-04T12:53:00.000+01:00

You can't really stop things to happen, can't you?

Thanks to GuRL6 and their Thanksgiving giveaway I have new stuff on my inventory (and on me). Then the sale at ETD, and this is for the shopping part.

Now, on to more important things. I moved into an house in the Delphinus region (if I remember right, since I suck at SL geography) . Not an house of mine, I'm renting it but I don't mind. The good thing is that I moved there with my SL girlfriend, Renee (you can see me and her in some pics I did post a while ago).

If you ever checked my inworld profile, you may have guessed that I was into girls. Like it or not, that's the way it is. It's because of Renee that I wanted to have a place where to place furnitures and stuff. She's so... I don't have enough good words to tell you about her, but I'm so happy she's sharing the house with me...

Our landlord, Hummer Harmison, happens to be the owner of the KitKat Club. He did open a new place (KitKat II) and he hired me to work there, as an escort. He's a nice and understanding employer.

So, after being on SL for less than a month, I can say I'm happy. Good friends, an house that feels like mine, a wonderful girlfriend and a job with a nice employer.

Before I begin...

2006-12-04T12:46:00.000+01:00

This is for my friend Duke.

Hon, I can believe I did hurt your feelings. Sometimes things go so fast in SL and I want all of my friends to be happy, but I can't make everyone happy at once.

Maybe you're not reading my blog anymore, maybe you'll never read it again. Anyway, what happened between you and me was written somewhere in the Great Book of Life, so our friendship was set on a path since the beginning.

If I did something wrong, I'm sorry. You've been a good friend and I hope to hear from you again.

Kiss...

Blog update

2006-12-04T12:42:00.000+01:00

Ok, I know I haven't updated my blog in a while and a dead blog is no good at all. If you have seen me inworld, you'll understand that I've been pretty busy!

I'll tell you what has been going on. I have several pictures on my HD, as soon as I have enough time on my hands, I'll update my posts.

More pictures

2006-11-22T18:24:00.000+01:00

Here we go!

First, me and my friend Duke at the Red Velvet club.

Then, you can see me and my friend Renee at the Lost Gardens of Apollo. We could be good models for a calendar, don't you think so?

Finally, some pics of me, over at Parioli.

Remember that I'm available, if you want to hire me as a model (or something else)!

You won't be disappointed, hon :)

Finding home

2006-11-21T11:03:00.000+01:00

I've never been sure about owning land. Don't think I need to, but I saw some nice houses during my adventures.

I think I could rent a nice house. I could eventually move there with a friend, so we can share the load of paying for the house.

I'll look around to find a "sweet spot" but I believe that a job would help me, since I need money (well, who doesn't?). If you want to hire me, look at the right column of my blog and contact me inworld.

Speaking about friends

2006-11-20T10:21:00.000+01:00

I mentioned a few friends here on my blog, but they're not the only ones and the list is growing. Too bad I don't have a picture for all of them, but I'll try to catch up with that, promised!

I would like to show you a picture of me and my friend Renee Holden (the blonde gal, that is), taken while dancing at the "A Woman's Touch". Aren't we cute? And oh, Renee... I could not get in touch with you over the last couple days. I hope you're ok, hon.

Then there is another friend who's been very helpful, allowing me to use her house when I need.

She also sold me 2 pairs of lovely shoes, for a (very) cheap price! So kind of you, Kendra. You're so nice hon, and I'll do whatever I can to help you back!

Visiting places

2006-11-20T09:59:00.000+01:00

Hi, i know it's been a while since I last updated my blog. Hope you did not miss me :)

There are several cool places around and I like to explore on my own or along with a friend. In this picture to the right for example, I am at Parioli with my good friend Isabella Ichigo. I am the gal with long legs :) My skin is darker than the usual, too much suntan!

It wasn't my first visit at Parioli, though. I go there often, it's an appealing place. Your mileage may vary.

Another picture from my collection: me at Parioli, teasing an Italian guy. Yeah, I know I can be somewhat naughty, sometimes!

That place is very funny, sometimes...

I have something more to show you: to the right you can see me visiting an art exhibition with my friend Duke Elliott.

There was a beautiful garden too and I enjoyed spending some time sitting there and chatting. When a girl spends too much time dancing and shopping, she needs to chill out in a nice and lovely place!

Thanks again for taking me there, Duke!

Last but not least, my recent "Trip to Mars". I've been there with another friend of mine, Jimmy Kleene.

We got to the "Mars Station" with a rocket and we got to land on the surface. The good thing is that we didn't need any space suit.

To the left a picture taken there. Do not ask me where my feets are, sometimes SL is so funny!

Dedicated to a friend

2006-11-16T17:47:00.000+01:00

I have some really good friends in SL and I hope none of them will be upset if I reserve some special attention to one of them. There is a guy who happens to spend more time with me than other friends of mine. His name is Duke Elliott and you can see him standing by profile in the picture below. This one is for you, hon! Kisses

New hair style

2006-11-16T12:46:00.000+01:00

The more I dig into SL, the more things I discover! I did already post a picture of mine, where you can see a dark/goth style I like quite a lot.

As it happens often with us girls though, I don't go for a single hairstyle, but I change once in a while (or often, it depends).

For example, to the right you can see me dancing at the Arsheba Club. You could call this my "regular" style, what I would use almost daily. Not as fancy as many you can see around, but hey! It's cheap!

To the left another style I used a few times. Another cheap one, that is. Some of you may not like it, but once again... When you're short on money it's not like you can have whatever you want!

Also, to be honest I like it. When I feel "casual" I don't mind to go around like that.

Then you've already seen one of my hairstyles, the one I've used most so far. To the right there's another view of it.

If you ever met me around, most likely I looked like that. On a sidenote, along with that hairstyle I wear a goth collar and a goth bracelet, either on the right or the left arm.

That's not about it, though. The title of this post is "New hair style" because yesterday I was so lucky to read about GuRL 6. You should know that newbies can get away with a free professional hairstyle! I could not wait and I paid a visit to their (impressive) store and here's a sample of the "freebie" I got. To the left, you can see me dancing. Look at the pictures carefully, you will notice how hairs do actually move. Cool stuff, hon.

The hairstyle you see is called "Samantha" (it really fits me, literally) and I picked the "Seduction" pack which comes in many flavors and colors. In the pictures there's only an example. GuRL 6 is now my official shop for hairstyles, but I need a job, first!

People

2006-11-16T11:03:00.000+01:00

I must say, even if there are a lot of places that are almost empty (or completely empty), you won't have any problems (unless you're a sociopath) with finding people to be friends with or people to have a short chat with and then never met them again!

Most people I met are nice and so far I have (right now I don't remember exactly) about 10 friends on my list and I must say that it's not easy to remember who's who, expecially when a name on the list belongs to a person you met one or two times.

I don't know about you, but when I find a nice person I like to expand my friends list. So it happens I find someone nice to talk to and after a few days I can't exactly tell who he or she was! I guess that's normal, though.

Another problem, when you start to have some friends it's hard to meet them all on a regular basis. I have mixed interests and I like to do and try many things, so it may happen that some of my friends won't be exactly... compatible.

Sometimes I can hang out with a small group of them, but it isn't always that easy. Not to mention that sometimes I like to go out alone. Overall, I wanted to say that it's hard to give to each and every friend all the deserved attention.

Life goes on...

2006-11-16T09:35:00.000+01:00

I've been for 5 days in SL!

I guess that many things have yet to be discovered and learned, not to bention that despite being a quick learner sometimes I goof up with controls or something.

Anyway, I did realize that there are several cool places besides dance clubs! For example, one can go to some sort of beach place and hang out there, but the list could be expanded further. I will admit that there are several places where you can have sex with the first person(s) you meet.

Even if you're interested in that stuff, you should pay a visit to one or more "free sex" places. It can be funny, at least. If need be, you can always say "No, thanks" to everybody approaching you.

I like to go from place to place, mostly randomly. I like to watch people and how they behave in public and I'm not talking about sex, you silly! I like to watch and hear everything and see how one interacts with the other.

That helps me understanding what SL is about, what people do and how to deal with them!

Would you like to see me?

2006-11-15T17:51:00.000+01:00

I know I've yet to complete the story about my first days on SL, but I was running through some snapshots I saved to disk and I felt like I had to show you a little picture of me.

Here I am working as a part time dancer at the Odds & Ends club.

A girl, no matter what she wants to do, is always in need for money.

If you need a dancer, please let me know but be aware that I'm based in Europe and that as of now I can't work on fixed schedules.

I can compensate for those shortcomings with my loyalty, my kindness and my attitude, open minded and easy going. I'm willing to be hired for different jobs as well, please contact me on SL.

SL first day

2006-11-15T15:10:00.000+01:00

When joining SL I didn't feel like I wanted to give out my credit card details to a (to me) unknown company, so I just created an account, loosing a whopping 250 L$ but I knew that was going to happen, so I didn't sweat over it.

I'll save you from all the details about me trying to understand how to edit my avatar and get some clothes on, but I think I should mention that right from the start there was someone pretending to have virtual sex with me.

I wasn't shocked, but that was unexpected. I said something kind to the bugger (I like to be kind, always and no matter what) and I kept working on my avatar. I wanted to make something that would have looked like me, but better!

Mine hasn't been a good work, since my first avatar could have been rated "fine", but still it was worse than the real me. I tried to go down into SL anyways and I presented myself to the virtual world as a skinny, tall woman, with maybe excessive boobs and butt, wearing black pants and a black and red zebra top. Oh, and I had light brown hairs.

Despite being pretty confused I managed to enter into a club (The Edge) where music was playing and people were dancing all around. While hanging out, a man came to me.

He had black hairs, big torso, muscles, a "real macho" if you know what I mean. We chatted a little and he taught me some basics, he took me to some romantic place where we danced together (it has been quite funny), then he asked me to follow him at "his place".

Well, on RL I would have said no, but since I got to live a SL, I said "Yes, why not?".

To make a long story short, his place was filled with all sortes of "balls" with meaningful names; he asked me to "sit" on one of them and since that special ball had an innocent name (at least I though so), I complied.

To my surprise, I found myself (well, my avatar) pinned onto a wall with the macho guy passionately kissing me.

He didn't go further and I did appreciate it. I knew it was an "avatar thing" but in the name of true spirit of roleplaying, right there I was being my avatar, so I was the person involved (well, let's say so).

Overall, he has been very kind and also my first friend in SL. He gave me some animations (dance moves), so overall my experience with him has been very positive. His name (SL one, of course) is Bonz Asturias.

Why I'm playing on SL?

2006-11-15T15:04:00.000+01:00

Well, since SL started I had a chance to read a few times about it. A few days ago, after reading again about this game (but is it really a game) on a newspaper, I decided to try it out.

I guess I needed some sort of antistress occupation, since I do have a very busy RL. Over the years I did often resort to online games to ease out the pressure of daily stuff. Usually everything is ok and not only I have fun playing, but the antistress thing really works :)

There have been the times when the game proved to be yes entertaining, but more stressing than RL. When that happens, I move elsewhere.

Right now, nothing to regret about my RL, but since I needed a new antistress thingy I said to myself: "What about a second life"?

And here I am, hon.

Who I am

2006-11-15T14:52:00.000+01:00

Why this post when there's an easily accessible "About me"? For a simple reason, hon.

I'll fill the "About me" with all the details pertaining to my Second Life (SL) character, so don't expect to actually find a woman like that (well, you may find her but she won't be me!).

I'm writing here the only personal and real details you'll ever know about me. If you meet me somewhere on SL and you're lucky enough, you may get to know more, but don't ask. I'll tell you what I want you to know.

Sex: female
Age: between 30 and 40
Marital status: engaged
Location: Europe
Languages spoken: native language (which I won't tell), English and others I won't tell too
Zodiac sign: Pisces (ascendant: Taurus)