stupid

I'm the kind of stupid person that will wear gloves on a hot day just so i can take them off afterwards. I'm also the kind of stupid person that will stupidly wait for someone who doesn't want to meet me then hide away when they arrive so that they don't have to see me.

http://youtu.be/9ada9xsMnm4?t=7m18s

Look everyone, i have absolutely nothing interesting to say.

Feeling pretty dumb right now, it would be nice if i could just be one dimensional, and melt into paper...

Zelda?

i was looking up RPG (Role Playing Games) recently, and i realised that there seem to be a lot of people who think that Zelda is not an RPG. That is really weird, i have always thought about Zelda as a RPG and it surprises me that anyone would think otherwise. I read some arguments about it, and it seems like what people do is that they compile a list of Zelda's lack of "RPGness" and conclude that Zelda does lacks too many elements to be an RPG game. This is one example i found, there are many others like it.

"There are only two ways in which Zelda could even REMOTELY almost sorta kinda not really but still yes looked at as an RPG:
You increase your hearts over the course of the game
You play the role of Link. Just like you play the role of any other video game character in any other video game.
Though there are some definite gray areas (which Zelda does NOT fall within), I think we can agree that an RPG video game generally includes at least one, if not all of these attributes:
Numerical stats which represent the non-concrete attributes of a character in a concrete way within the game world, whether or not the character is fully made aware of them (i.e. 15 strength, 10 agility, 7 stamina, 150 HP, etc.)
A system of progression by which your characters stats are increased as you play, either through hard levels and the acruing of experience points or something similar, or gradual increases in the stats as specific actions are performed.
Some kind of character specialization (i.e. character classes) which allow a character to excel at some aspects of gameplay, even at the expense of others, be it through the equipping of specialized weapons, a specific class or role choice made by the player, or sometimes naturally as certain character stats will increase and others will not based on the actions the player performs throughout the game.
A battle system that involves "dice rolls", meaning that damage, as well as other things such as accuracy are determined through some kind of system involving chance, and then possibly modified by character and enemy stats
Some kind of story interaction where the player is able to take part in the game and affect the story through interacting with characters, or at the very least, interact with NPCs through dialogue trees. Obviously this is probably the least common of all the attributes, but still a possibility.

Now, please understand me. It's not that a game needs all of these qualities to be an RPG, it's that Zelda has NONE of these qualities. Just face it, kids. Zelda is an action adventure game with puzzles."

Now the real problem is that who made up these arbitrary rules about what constitutes an RPG? No one, these are just some characteristics that most of the more popular RPGs have. RPG by the very definition are games that have you role playing. You take the role of a character, much like how an actor takes a character on stage. This is as opposed to games like Tetris, where you are just moving blocks. In Zelda, i am clearly taking the role of Link, or whatever you choose to rename him to and that in itself is the very essence of an RPG game.

terminal

This whole death thing is rather interesting. When someone is dying of terminal illness, we tend to take it as bad news but aren't we all dying as we are living, i mean, that's kinda how life works isn't it? It is pretty interesting how we humans view this. When we are just living, we may know that we are going to die someday but we are not kept constantly aware of it. Kinda like that we are climbing a flight of stairs and we can't see the end of it. Just because we can't see the end, we as humans through our positive bias like to think that perhaps there is no end. It is only when this illusion is taken away from us that we start to despair. I guess the moral of the story is, live in denial, hold on to your delusions, that's how we live.

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Virtual villagers 4

I was going to post these pictures as a review on the game but i got lazy and these pictures were taking up space on my desktop so i'm just gonna randomly post them here and be done with it :P

This first pic is a picture of my 60 year old villager that is nursing a child, you can get female villagers over 50 nursing if you set them on parenting but not if you just keep dragging them over another villager

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This second picture is of one of my favorite villager, Arrow, he is one of my favorite because he likes running, that enables him to get things done faster and learn some skills faster, and that is pretty awesome :)




This last villager is Natalie, who is also one of my villager who is also my favourite villagers, she is just so cute in her pretty dress and hair, and to top it all off, she likes running ^^







Lastly, i wanted to say that it seems some guides online believe that you can't get shells to appear during high tide, that is not true, as you can see by this picture here. (The shell is dark green, near the top) Maybe they appear more often during low tide.

To end it all, here are some pictures of Natalie looking really cute at age 52 ^^

Games

I am the kind of person that loves games. All types of games is interesting to me, although maybe not all are quite so fun to play. Recently, i have came across some stats on gamers, like how the mean age of gamers have risen and how the games that makes the most money seem to be the ones like Farmville instead of games like Halo. That got me thinking how different these games are and yet they are both called games. What are games? Games are forms of entertainment that we use to have fun, at least that's what it is to me. I kinda forgot where i was going with this, i think my point was that games are only games if you enjoy the whimsical entertainment that they provide, if you don't then perhaps they aren't games anymore.

Muffins

I was trying out these muffins and turns out, i don't really like them, go figure.

Movies

I decided to make a list of movies that i've watched, according to how much i liked the movies

Awesome!
Jeux d'enfants
超级学校霸王
the myth
Up
Despicable MeFinding NemoPirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
Lilo & Stitch
Spirited Away
如果。爱
Howl's Moving Castle

Good
handsome suit
Epic.Movie
Teen Titans Trouble In Tokyo
Zoolander
Toy Story 3
Toy Story
Wall-E
Kung Fu PandaHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's StonePirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
Shrek the Third (had some awesome moments but also some Meh moments)
The Incredibles
RatatouilleCharlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)Happy Feet
Mulan (There were some awesome moments but not enough)
Chicken Little
You've Got Mail
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
Brother Bear
Space Jam
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
Honey, I Shrunk the Kids
Mr. Bean's Vacation (absolutely hilarious)
The Prince of Egypt

Meh
Paris.Texas
食神
Toy Story 2
Fantastic 4
Final Destination 3
RangoPirates of the Caribbean: At World's EndBruce Almighty Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Borat
The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Nicholas Cage was the only saving grace)

Terrible
9 Dead gay guys
功夫灌籃
Twilight
The Devil Wears Prada
Braveheart (this one was so boring, i barely watched it)

Movies i would never watch
Sherlock Holmes (2009)AvatarThis Is It

I drew a triangle

I might have spelled labeled wrong..

Graw

It's kinda depressing how in any sort of contest/race/competition/whatever the one who probably feels the worst is the one who comes in last and the one who comes in second. It is even worse that society constitutes everything we do into a contest against each other. For the most part, i try to ignore or detach myself from this reality but sometimes the world has a way of pushing itself in my face. So society, you can just eff off.

The End of the World

So, with the world apparently suppose(d) to end a few time is the next and past few years, i got to thinking about what i would do if it really was the end of the world. It would be pretty ok if the world ended, i mean, it's gonna end sooner or later right? So, anything is fine. The ideal way the world would end for me is if there would be a sort of warning first so i can do stuff i wanna, instead of a sudden eruption of the world or something. It would be kinda cool to have a few relaxing hours before everything ends.

What would i do if i knew an apocalypse was happening? My ideal situation would be lying on a nice field of grass and just relax. With cool winds and the warm sun, it would be perfect. Oh, and also a cup of milk tea, with pudding. I guess if i was at home when that happened, i would have to go get a couple of cups of milk tea (i might run out with one). If i had to start from home, i would need to walk or cycle to get some milk tea, make some by myself, since i guess no one would be in the mood to make any for me, and find a nice patch of field. Now where would i find a nice patch of field? I guess it would have to be somewhere high, so that there would be wind, maybe get a large umbrella in case the sun was too hot or if it was raining. Oh, and a jacket too, in case i get cold. Yea, that would be pretty awesome, i could just lie there and let my world end.

So things i would need would be a bicycle, two cups of awesome milk tea with pudding, a large umbrella and a jacket to face the end of the world. Also, i should start looking out for a nice patch of grass, yea.

Hmm...

It strange, i think my nails got thicker...is that what's suppose to happen as you get older?

White Tiger Hat

I really want one of those white tiger hats from the zoo but the zoo is sooo far... They are so cute, and as i love hats, i really want one of them. There are a few types i think, there is the orange tiger, panda, white tiger, giraffe, lion, i really can't remember but my favourite is the white tiger one, it looks so cute and comfy~ I was gonna get one from the website but they keep on won't let me put things in my cart or something, there is probably something wrong with their system? I dunno, i got frustrated and gave up.

Fire Tears

I am so full of fire tears right now. Yup.

Pirates of the Caribbeans: On Stranger Tides

So, Pirates of the Caribbeans is a series of films by DISNEY. They mostly star Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow, charismatic irresponsible protagonist of the show. Having watched the fourth film, i obviously had to blog about it.

The film on the whole was ok, it was enjoyable and had its moments but had parts that were really unnecessary which brought the whole film down.

Pirates of the Caribbean ranking
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (best)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End; Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (tie)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (worst)

*SPOILERS START HERE*

The story of the fourth film was alright, the characters were all searching for the fountain of youth. There were four groups, Captain Jack & Tibbs, Captain Barbossa (for the British empire), Captain Blackbeard and the Spanish. Penelope Cruz was the female protagonist of this film, also acting as the "love interest" of Captain Jack. The main problem is that there were too many freaking unexplained and unnecessary parts that was just dragged out in the film.

Some plot holes include, why did no one recognize the judge as an impostor? Did the judge have like no friends or aquaintances at all? Why does Blackbeard randomly get occult powers (trapping ships in travel-size bottles, making working voodoo dolls, turning people into zombies, having a hat and sword that magically controls his boat)? Why did the Spanish waste troops and resources to find the fountain of youth if they did not want to use it? If they wanted to destroy the fountain, why couldn't they just destroy the chalices so the fountain would forever be lost? Why did the mermaid return the chalice to Captain Jack?

Penelope Cruz. She was not good or bad, just kinda, unassuming? The chemistry between her character and Depp's was not there, you didn't really feel anything for the two of them. Heck, the relationship between Sparrow and Barbossa was more interesting. Also, when she first appeared as an impostor of Jack Sparrow, the two of them had a fighting scene where she mirrored Captain Jack and the movie kept her in the shadows so that you could not see her face. That was stupid, her whole body language gave her away as a woman from the first, it made the entire fight boring and predictable.

I cannot get that mustache scene out of my head.

On a similiar note, the movie also tried to show both Cruz's character and Blackbeard as unpredictable, trying to keep the viewer in suspense as to who will betray who i guess. The whole problem is that when it comes down to it, neither character are neutral characters, Cruz's charater is a good character from start to end and the opposite is true for Blackbeard. By trying to portray them as neutral characters, the two characters just feel shallow and undeveloped.

The entire introduction of mermaids into the story. Yea, they were beautiful but that was about it. They were entirely unnecessary to the plot, you could have replaced them with something that took up less time like morning dew or something and it would have been ok. The whole mermaid relationship with the priest was really awkward, and served no purpose other than to creep us out. Or maybe as fan service? It wouldn't be so bad if the whole mermaid thing didn't take up so much of the movie. The movie already had too much elements cramped together, cutting out the entire mermaid parts could have made the movie a lot more satisfying and conclusive.

Having said all that, the movie is still a film i would watch again. I really wouldn't be so harsh on the movie if i wasn't such a fan of the series. While it certainly has its flaws, there were moments that were pretty good like the Captain Jack-British army chase scene, and the king was also full of win (the movie would be awesome if it had more of him and Sparrow). It's just too bad the movie couldn't center around the more interesting characters, and instead had an uncomfortable balance of too little funny/emotional moments with too many neutral moments.

Also on a side note, the first film was awesome but got seriously pulled down by the second and third film, which is really such a pity. Also also,

Words

I feel like typing words right now. Ahahahahahaha. Going nuts. A bunch of words that fill up this space i am typing on my computer. This is so much fun, wheee. Therrrr. Life ain't easy. I really wish i could find something that is what it is. It's like living ain't the answer but neither is dying. I mean, what else is there? Can there be something beyond the human condition that can be obtained? Perhaps AfterAfterlife? It's so convoluted. Life makes no sense. We just constantly waddle around in circles, spiraling towards an impermanent domain of pleasure within suffering. Our happiness is always built upon suffering, whether it is the suffering of others or the turmoil life puts us through. Everything is too relative. How annoying yet sustainable. You find a niche and then die. If you are lucky. I guess my question is, can we really live in the moment? I want to enjoy my life in every moment that i exist but can i really? Is it to much of an assumption for me to believe that i am worth living? Well, practically speaking, there is really no use for me to think too much, there is no way to test my theories, not right now anyway. More words fill this post to fill this space of this post. There is more words in this post that makes up this post. That's how posts are posts, that's how words are words. That's how i type what i type.

Doodle

I drew some shapes today, it was fun ^^

How Dinosaurs became extinct

Assumption: Dinosaurs used to exist.

Assumption: Dinosaurs are now extinct.

There must have been a reason why dinosaurs would disappear from the face of this earth, this is my take on it. A human (probably a pretty primitive one) accidentally stumbled through time to past where dinosaurs still existed. After stumbling around, the human found a nest of dinosaur eggs. The human was astounded by the huge eggs and was very curious about what was inside such an egg. With a small knife/spearhead like object, the human climbed to the top of the egg and began to pry a hole in the egg. The human peeked into the egg and saw a partially formed dinosaur through the semi-transparent membrane. The human was fascinated but scurried away after a while. When the mother of the egg saw the hole, the mother was a little worried but not too fazed, after all, it was only a small hole. After some time, the eggs hatched and the baby dinosaur turned out to be deformed, with extremely small front arms which was ridiculously in contrast with the dinosaur's large head and body. The mother was delighted because who thought that the child was beautiful. The new dinosaur quickly became the star among dinosaurs and every dinosaur soon were poking holes into their eggs, hoping their child would turn out as beautiful. Quickly, many eggs died off due to the holes being punctured by the clumsy large claws of the dinosaur but the dinosaurs were relentless in their pursuit for beauty and fame. Pretty soon, only deformed dinosaurs remained. These dinosaurs quickly died off as well as their bodies made it extremely difficult for then to survive, coupled with the other brain damages the suffered through the egg-poking. Thus, the dinosaurs became extinct.

Taste

The various flavours of life is getting me down. man.

Sundays

For the longest time, Sunday has been my most disliked day of all. Sunday was the day where i did not plan anything, where all the hope and despair of the coming week would come and pile on me. I have no idea when this started, planning anything on Sunday was weird for me, and i hardly if ever meet up with friends on Sunday. When i think more about it, i think the reason i dislike Sundays is because i have such expectations and forced disappointments for the day and the week that it is so depressing. Two days ago, i decided to turn things around in my life. My world, as of then is perfect. It is perfect in every way and Sundays would do nothing to change that, so there.

Viola

Make me a willow cabin at your gate,
And call upon my soul within the house;
Write loyal cantons of contemned love
And sing them loud even in the dead of night;
Hallow your name to the reverberate hills
And make the babbling gossip of the air
Cry out 'Olivia!' O, you should not rest
Between the elements of air and earth,
But you should pity me.

The greatest love of all? What really is the greatest love of all? How many type of love is true love? Is love anything more than a perception? Easily controlled, easily swayed. and easily wrong? What if Sebastian never turned up at the end? Viola would be misunderstood forever, left alone. Is that the limits of true love? It is so easy to see a pattern in random, especially as humans. I have no idea what i am saying any more, the most miserable thing to do has to be being a cynic at a comedy. There is nothing to be read between the lines but somehow...

google sucks >:(

What happened? Well, i created a new email to act as my new primary email for this blogger account, guess what? No go. Why? I have no idea, just that according to google, you can only have one email, ever. Ok, so then i made my new gmail account as a co-author of my blogs, with admin status, that worked. Then, i wanted to create a new blog but apparently i had to verify my account by giving them my phone number, WTH? I don't even use my full name online, and they want me to give some software my phone number? No freaking way! So then i tried to to go back to my original account to create a new blog then give this new email co-author status, like i did my other blogs but no go, they still wanted my phone number. Suddenly, my old email account was untrustworthy. It may seem like i'm exaggerating but google does indeed collect its users' data and use these data. I am not 100% sure that this data is not sold to companies and such and i see no reason why i should trust them. Seriously, i have no qualms with switching to livejournal or blog.com, or the tons of other blog hosting websites. Ok, enough of all this, bottom line, i'm not giving them any of my personal data, ever.

SC update

So i didn't make it into the council. Can't say that i didn't expect it but i can't say that i wasn't disappointed either. Ah well, you lose some, you lose some. Maybe i'm just not seen as leadership material? So be it then. Maybe i'll run again next year? Maybe not.

SC

So the elections results are gonna be out today, i'm kinda nervous, and apprehensive. The whole process was quite fun, i didn't really campaign or anything but the whole idea of getting involved got me all worked up. I kinda wish the results won't be out so soon but regardless of whether i got in or not, it was still a fun experience. I'll update here once i know the results.

Life? Truth? Justice?

I was thinking, you know, most of us just want to fit in, heck, any normal person would want to find a place in society that needs us, and play that role. That's how humans roll, that's how we function as a society but it's not an easy task. We all strive to find a niche, feel important, feel significant in our social circle. It becomes so scary when we think we are not needed, like we are left to ourselves, to live, to die, alone. Humans become desperate when that happens, grasping at straws of life. To be honest, that seems to be such a narrow frame of mind to work with. It is entirely possible and perhapes easy for some to live and die with the tide of humans, leaning and supporting each other. Yet, what if you don't fit into the circle? What if there is no space for you? Should we squeeze into the circle, living our lives under the excess stress that we choose? Should we leave and try to find another community? Or maybe, we could just let go? Maybe, just maybe, we can look at life as a dream, what is life but the dust on the dreamer's eyelids? Life doesn't have to be as serious as all that, does it? What is important in life? How hard we have worked? How much we have contributed to society? How much people remembers us? How happy we are, were or could be? Maybe life is not as sacred and magical as we try to imagine. Success doesn't mean much, failure doesn't mean much. What matters? Only the dreamer knows. I guess at the end, what i was really getting at is that, i don't want to cry any more, not for anything, especially if they don't matter.

Awfully Towers?

Urgh, the weather right now. It is so cold for a while then so hot after a while, yea, i know, Japan is having the whole weather disaster and coping with it right now but it doesn't make the weather here any less unbearable. Anyway, what was i gonna say? I completely forgot... Darn it. Ah well, i got some pictures to share. Earlier last week, we were playing with the adorable sugar cubes at Awfully Chocolate and we made two sugar towers! (mine is on the right) We managed to get the one on the left to really high before it collapsed, then we tried to rebuild it again! ^^ I took pictures of the towers falling and rebuilding again, it reminded my of L from Deathnote, now i know why he likes to play with his sugary food, they are soo cute and fun to stack! Stack 'em! Stack 'em! Stack 'em! :P

One last thing, i decided to stop fiddling with the templates and just use a template from blogger, it seems too much trouble to keep bothering with the html of the current template, and i'm a lazy person, so bear with this distorted template for a while, i'll set the new one up before my next post, promise!

banane

I fell like crap right now, really really stupid crap. I feel like i can't work my way out of a cardboard box, and i probably actually can't.

banane?

Right now, i feel like i'm pretty helpless... it seems like i am always wrong, i can't seem to get the hang of things at all. Every time i feel like i finally got the hang of something, something comes right back to slap me cold on the face. It is beyond annoying, it feels incredibly depressing, like you are struggling alone on a vast ocean. Is this all i am? Is this all i will be? It is so harsh to live life without illusions, especially about myself.

Movie!

So a few days ago, i was clearing out some stuff and i found this movie ticket, lol, student price i think. Anyway, it's for the live action Death note 2 movie, the last stand, or something like that. Apparently i watched this about 5 years ago, how time flies, i don't think this theatre is still around any more.. not too sure. I can't actually even remember who i watched it with. I personally thought the movie was pretty good, not as good as the movie but there were some good parts. It always gets so awkward after i run out of things to write about, i never know how to end these posts, umm, c'est la vie?

Reformat?

When i started this blog, i did it with the intention of only filling it with happy stuff because i wanted people to come to my blog and leaving maybe slightly happier than they were. I guess it was a good idea in theory but not so practical. Firstly, when i am feeling sad or neutral, this blog would go into an infinite hiatus like the past few months. Secondly, i have to stream what i can or cannot post, which can be a little irritating at times. Lastly, i have locked my other blog. So what's gonna happen now? Well, this blog is gonna become my main blog, where i post anything, not just happy stuff. The name stays i guess but it will no longer dictate my posts. I might change the template when i have the time but that's about it i guess.