09-10-2022, 09:21 AM
The Guohua I knew
I loved Guohua dearly. As Ninurta mentioned, we met back in Hernando's Hideaway - which had been born off a thread posted on ATS that had been shut down because of internal politics. I had always looked up to Guohua on ATS, she made beautiful posts and had fantastic pictures of her natal country that fascinated me. But I didn't really know anything about her then.
When HH's shit hit the fan, she launched RN mostly with Wrabbit and Senona. Her idea was born but the platform they carried for the site sucked. That is when I offered to help out - Wrabbit had had it with it. Fed up of all the problems. So I tried to fix it but it was an impossible chore. (RN2) The platform was just too complcated and costly. So Guohua and I started to look for an alternative.
When we found the MyBB platform (which is the one you're on now with RN3), Guohua was ecstatic. As we started implementing new features such as bigger avatars, banners - which BIAD took to a next level, announcement bars, Guohua felt like she found her home. When we were able to integrate more smileys (the originals were so so), she went ballistic. We spent days and days putting those in. She LOVED her smileys. And enough was never enough lol
Guohua wasn't always easy to please, she'd push my buttons, Senona's buttons to a point of getting extremely frustrated by it and we let her know. She did not like things not working properly. Not. One. Bit. She had zero tolerance for crappy plugins - many have been tested and removed. Yet, she was always thanking us for everything we did, by texts, by emails, by PMs, day in, day out. She was always grateful. Not only because of what we did but because she had RN members at heart and wanted nothing but the very best for all of you. Always. It had to be the best or it was GTFO. Many plugins are in the vault, for not having met Guohua's goal of getting only the best for you.
And she LOVED her GIFS. Often times, it was easier for her to just leave a GIF in a post instead of using her online translator. And her political opinions. OMG did she ever have political opinions! I sometimes felt like she went too far with it and questioned her about it one day. She ripped my ass. Told me that in China, where she was from, censorship was a wall to wall occurrence and that she always had to keep her mouth shut. And that RN3 would NEVER be a place of censorship, to the contrary, here we could talk of any subject and not be shut down or reprimanded. So she told me to suck it up. I then understood her reasoning and it made us closer from that moment on, I think. The feeling of letting others roam freely without ever being censored sank in. Everything goes except for porn.
There are no way to fully describe how she loved every single one of you. It was almost an obsession. She was a Website Owner and yet she welcomed everyone personally, she'd send emails when someone went missing for a while, just to be reassured that everything was ok. When someone had a question, that question surfaced in the background for discussion. Every. Single. Time.
That was the online Guohua but I also want to get you to know the real life Guohua as we were friends.
She loved her weekend trips, her fifthwheel, her going at the shooting range. And she was a Traditional Chinese Doctor. She did heal me at one time where I was really, really sick.
She loved her husband so much and her family so much. Never thought of herself first. Always the others first. Always.
That is why her passing was such a shock to all of us. She would take care of everyone else, cure others, heal others and yet, she never told any of us about her battling breast cancer for years.
One morning, I wake up and had this weird feeling that something was wrong. Was sitting on the deck, having a smoke and felt something. Looked around me, you know when you get sort of a panic type of feeling, and so I thought that someone in my family passed away. I've had that feeling before and it was always a family member passing.
Go back in, turn on the laptop to find an email from Gordi. Telling me that Guohua had passed away. Absolute shock. Sat there, reading over it a few times as my eyes fill up. I never cry, like, never. But there I was, in total disbelief.
I miss her. I still have a certain disbelief about her not being around any more.
The world will never be the same without her in it.
Rogue Nation will never be the same without her in it.
But we're going to go above and beyond to make damn sure that it remains open, that it grows going forward and that it thrives. Because THAT is what she would have wanted.
For her.
.
I loved Guohua dearly. As Ninurta mentioned, we met back in Hernando's Hideaway - which had been born off a thread posted on ATS that had been shut down because of internal politics. I had always looked up to Guohua on ATS, she made beautiful posts and had fantastic pictures of her natal country that fascinated me. But I didn't really know anything about her then.
When HH's shit hit the fan, she launched RN mostly with Wrabbit and Senona. Her idea was born but the platform they carried for the site sucked. That is when I offered to help out - Wrabbit had had it with it. Fed up of all the problems. So I tried to fix it but it was an impossible chore. (RN2) The platform was just too complcated and costly. So Guohua and I started to look for an alternative.
When we found the MyBB platform (which is the one you're on now with RN3), Guohua was ecstatic. As we started implementing new features such as bigger avatars, banners - which BIAD took to a next level, announcement bars, Guohua felt like she found her home. When we were able to integrate more smileys (the originals were so so), she went ballistic. We spent days and days putting those in. She LOVED her smileys. And enough was never enough lol
Guohua wasn't always easy to please, she'd push my buttons, Senona's buttons to a point of getting extremely frustrated by it and we let her know. She did not like things not working properly. Not. One. Bit. She had zero tolerance for crappy plugins - many have been tested and removed. Yet, she was always thanking us for everything we did, by texts, by emails, by PMs, day in, day out. She was always grateful. Not only because of what we did but because she had RN members at heart and wanted nothing but the very best for all of you. Always. It had to be the best or it was GTFO. Many plugins are in the vault, for not having met Guohua's goal of getting only the best for you.
And she LOVED her GIFS. Often times, it was easier for her to just leave a GIF in a post instead of using her online translator. And her political opinions. OMG did she ever have political opinions! I sometimes felt like she went too far with it and questioned her about it one day. She ripped my ass. Told me that in China, where she was from, censorship was a wall to wall occurrence and that she always had to keep her mouth shut. And that RN3 would NEVER be a place of censorship, to the contrary, here we could talk of any subject and not be shut down or reprimanded. So she told me to suck it up. I then understood her reasoning and it made us closer from that moment on, I think. The feeling of letting others roam freely without ever being censored sank in. Everything goes except for porn.
There are no way to fully describe how she loved every single one of you. It was almost an obsession. She was a Website Owner and yet she welcomed everyone personally, she'd send emails when someone went missing for a while, just to be reassured that everything was ok. When someone had a question, that question surfaced in the background for discussion. Every. Single. Time.
That was the online Guohua but I also want to get you to know the real life Guohua as we were friends.
She loved her weekend trips, her fifthwheel, her going at the shooting range. And she was a Traditional Chinese Doctor. She did heal me at one time where I was really, really sick.
She loved her husband so much and her family so much. Never thought of herself first. Always the others first. Always.
That is why her passing was such a shock to all of us. She would take care of everyone else, cure others, heal others and yet, she never told any of us about her battling breast cancer for years.
One morning, I wake up and had this weird feeling that something was wrong. Was sitting on the deck, having a smoke and felt something. Looked around me, you know when you get sort of a panic type of feeling, and so I thought that someone in my family passed away. I've had that feeling before and it was always a family member passing.
Go back in, turn on the laptop to find an email from Gordi. Telling me that Guohua had passed away. Absolute shock. Sat there, reading over it a few times as my eyes fill up. I never cry, like, never. But there I was, in total disbelief.
I miss her. I still have a certain disbelief about her not being around any more.
The world will never be the same without her in it.
Rogue Nation will never be the same without her in it.
But we're going to go above and beyond to make damn sure that it remains open, that it grows going forward and that it thrives. Because THAT is what she would have wanted.
For her.
.
~ Today is the youngest you'll ever be again ~