i can't believe i can still remember my username and password for heyboo!! i know, its been AGES since my last update... a hundred and one excuses always pop up when i felt like updating... but to be honest, i was just lazy :"> l
at first, i thought of updating you guys the events that occured all the way from april right up till now... but it'll probably bore you guys till you wanna hit your face on a durian or something... so i think i'll just stick to updating on the NOW...
on the DS, i'm STRUGGLING on final fantasy 4... yes... STRUGGLING... if not for the will to actually finish ONE final fantasy game... i think maybe i wanna give up already.. the last i played, i was leveling up... leveling leveling leveling up.... going around in circles on the world map hoping to bump into high level monsters that will boost up my EXP... so that maybe the next time i meet a boss, one attack from cecil (the protagonist for FFIV) can kill it instantly... so after spending quite a lot of time leveling up, i thought alright, i can go for the next phase of the game... so i proceed to this foreboding looking crater thingy, watch some low poly cut scene, go to this dwarven castle to meet the king... then, suddenly the plot just flows on whether i want to or not and i'm up against some creepy little puppets... so i thought, here we go, let's see if all my leveling up did me any good...
i beat those puppets quite easily, *phew* let out a huge breath... guess its time for a little bit more low poly cut scene .. but NO... instead, this other big boss suddenly DESCENDED upon us... and we fought the best we could but that big cheater summoned some stupid dragaon and cast some spell that killed off everybody except cecil :~~~~( then somebody came to help me, and there's only two of us against the big baddie with his pet dragon... but i was still in shock over the turn of events thus messing up my strategy.... so.... the big boss finished us up quite easily :~~~(
maybe i'm just a bad gamer XD ... maybe most people will say that rpg is "easy" coz you just take turns to attack... but actually there's a lot of thinking involved not to mention you need to have quick reaction and steady nerves :P ... i mean, you go into battle, and suddenly half your party has been turned to stone, and you just can't remember which item is the cure... or or... suddenly the monster sneak a super powerful attack on your entire party leaving your healer dead and your only other party member that is alive has only 70 HP left and probably wouldn't last another attack.... omg, what else can i do but use my right index finger to press hard on the R button and pray to the crystals i can escape on time :P
then i would be licking my wounds.... splurging on phoenix downs and tents...
the best is can get preemptive attacks :P
ok the other game i was playing before final fantasy IV came along was "The World Ends With You" (TWEWY) such a long name lar.... anyway, TWEWY is also a really cool game with a really cool soundtrack but i also havn't finished it yet :">
i seem to take ages to finish games :~~( the only game that i consistently finish very fast is the "phoenix wright" series... even nich finished cooking mama 1 AND 2 while i still struggle at making pancakes and takoyaki balls.. :D
ANOTHER game.. *oops* that i put in is 'Viva Pinata'... this game is actually on xbox 360 first i think, LBL was playing it back when he first got his 360... its a very colourful game and can be quite addictive but sigh... it just doesnt look THAT good on DS now does it? :P
OK... enough of DS.... the other thing that i QUITE consistently finish is a good book... and how fortunate of me to have a colleague that borrowed 3 neil gaiman books to me.... actually, 2 of the books he lent to me like .. i think a month or two ago but i'm always wary of authors that hog bookshelves you see... so i let those 2 books, which was "stardust" and "smoke and mirrors" collect dust on my desk... then finally a couple of weeks back i started reading stardust...
stardust was actually just so-so for me... i have a feeling that, if not for the movie, i might find the book a bit disjointed but MAYBE because of the movie, i couldn't fully appreciate the book... that's the thing about movie adaptations... you better READ the book first before watching the movie... because usually there's no way the movie makers can fit every single detail into the movie... when i was reading stardust, i kept on thinking back on the movie, trying to recall if this happend, or not, and sometimes i would go... eh? was it like this?? so it kinda ruin the reading experience a bit
but "smoke and mirrors" was a blast... i was hooked on every single short story in it.. wouldn't say the same for the poems :P there was one poemy thing that i skipped entirely.. hahaha... the thing i liked about his stories was that they were very naughty and wicked... sometimes a bit dark... and he usually leaves us to draw up our own conclusions... but being a person that is used to be spooned fed throughout primary and secondary school..... sometimes i can get a bit upset because even though i can draw my own conclusions, i will have this "fear" that what if my conclusions are wrong.. or what if thats NOT what actually happend? so.. what actually DID happen? where are the answers???
:P
and now, i'm halfway through the 3rd book, which is american gods... very fresh and interesting subject matters... well, old mythological gods has ALWAYS been intriguing... they appear in so many movies, comics, games .. etc... but its a refreshing idea to make them walk amongst mere mortals and trying hard to survive also... not so high and mighty anymore eh?
oh dear... seems like i've rambled on quite a bit :"> ok ok... hopefully i can push myself to update more.... wonder if there is a blog god or something :D since i sacrificed time and brain power to update... kee kee keeeeee
