The truth hurts...?

First I wasn’t sure whether I should post this or not, since it’s Malaysia’s National day today, and all you (women) should be, is happy etc. But the thing is, that I have been wanting to post this for quite some time now, when I just finished the book, but I’ve constantly been forgetting to do it. So even though it’s Merdeka, perhaps this post will make a dull Monday (because Mondays are always dull, boring and never ending - we all know that) a fresh start for some girls/women/ladies out there. (Guys can also read of course, but I am sure they already know what I am speaking of and therefore, won’t need any tissues to wipe away the tears). So which book am I referring to? He’s Just Not That Into You! by Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo.

So, for a long time I’ve really been speculating about guys in the past, because I’ve (among many other girls) constantly built up this illusion about the guys that we like/are in love with. That they are perfect, and nothing they do will change how we feel about them. Because deep inside, they are good and you don’t get why nobody but you can see that…In short, if he treats you like shit - I give the saddest excuses for him being Mr. Right and all of that crap - but not anymore. Reading this book made me recognize so much and several times I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry over what now seems so obvious. So, read, take in and pick your Cutie-Pie right, girl:

1. Men aren’t complicated, they just want you to believe that they are.
2. Men would rather have their arm ripped off that to say “You’re not the one for me”, because they’re convinced we’ll kill them.
3. If a guy wants you, he’ll find you. WHATEVER it will take.
4. His excuses are a way for you to realize that he’s just not that into you! - If he was, he would NOT have excuses for not catching up with you.
5. Never call a guy. If he wants you, he WILL call.
6. NEVER ask a guy out. If he wants you, he’ll do the dirty work.
7. When it comes to men, threat them as for whom they are, and NOT for whom you wish them to be.
8. Always assume you’re the rule, not the exception. Meaning that he won’t change for you!
9. Men are never too busy to get what they want. If they want you, they will put you as their number one.
And last but not least…
10. If a man want’s you, he won’t leave you confused. He’ll show you how important you are for him.

The Swedish version.

Banheiro de casal

Para mim, o banheiro do casal merece atenção especial. E não é só para escolher um belo acabamento não. O banheiro acaba sendo uma extensão do quarto. Se no quarto temos cama para dois, duas mesas de cabeceira, divisões idênticas em armários (a gente faz de conta que é...) , porque é que no banheiro tudo tem que ser 1?
No banheiro tamém tem que ser em dobro!

Visualize a cena:Você e marido acordam para mais um dia de trabalho, levantam e correm para lavar o rosto. Correm, porque quem chegar por último vai ter que ficar esperando... Trocam de roupa, tomam café e... correm pra escovar os dentes! Dessa vez, se o mesmo chegar primeiro, o outro já corre o risco de estressar, ainda mais se for em fase de tpm...Após esse longo dia, você chega em casa louca para tomar um banho e... marido chegou primeiro! E aquela história de que quem demora debaixo do chuveiro é mulher é a maior mentira! Homem também demora sim. Às vezes até mais. Eñtão, o jeito é esperar pacientemente a sua vez...E quando você corre pro banheiro, apertada, e marido já está lá? Você vai apertada, se contorcendo, procurar outro banheiro da casa...Agora, visualize essa outra cena:Você e marido acordam para mais um dia de trabalho, levantam e vão, cada um para sua pia, lavar o rosto. Você pode se maquiar calmamente, arrumar o cabelo, enquanto marido faz a barba. Trocam de roupa, tomam café e... voltam cada um pra sua pia, pra escovar os dentes. E você nunca vai encontrar o tubo de pasta de dentes apertado no meio! Após esse longo dia, você chega em casa louca para tomar um banho e toma! Marido está tomando em um chuveiro e você em outro (pode até ser dentro do mesmo mega-box)E quando você corre pro banheiro, apertada, e marido já está lá? Você vai usar o seu vaso, que está sempre te esperando com a tampa abaixada e sequinho.

Viram como um banheiro duplo pode melhorar a qualidade de vida?
E que tal um local confortável para deitar e esperar aquela máscara fazer efeito? Ou para ficar conversando com marido enquanto espera ele terminar o banho?

Agora, a banheira sim, é pra ser uma só, porque lá é bem melhor dividir o espaço...

Banheiro de casal

Para mim, o banheiro do casal merece atenção especial. E não é só para escolher um belo acabamento não. O banheiro acaba sendo uma extensão do quarto. Se no quarto temos cama para dois, duas mesas de cabeceira, divisões idênticas em armários (a gente faz de conta que é...) , porque é que no banheiro tudo tem que ser 1?
No banheiro tamém tem que ser em dobro!

Visualize a cena:Você e marido acordam para mais um dia de trabalho, levantam e correm para lavar o rosto. Correm, porque quem chegar por último vai ter que ficar esperando... Trocam de roupa, tomam café e... correm pra escovar os dentes! Dessa vez, se o mesmo chegar primeiro, o outro já corre o risco de estressar, ainda mais se for em fase de tpm...Após esse longo dia, você chega em casa louca para tomar um banho e... marido chegou primeiro! E aquela história de que quem demora debaixo do chuveiro é mulher é a maior mentira! Homem também demora sim. Às vezes até mais. Eñtão, o jeito é esperar pacientemente a sua vez...E quando você corre pro banheiro, apertada, e marido já está lá? Você vai apertada, se contorcendo, procurar outro banheiro da casa...Agora, visualize essa outra cena:Você e marido acordam para mais um dia de trabalho, levantam e vão, cada um para sua pia, lavar o rosto. Você pode se maquiar calmamente, arrumar o cabelo, enquanto marido faz a barba. Trocam de roupa, tomam café e... voltam cada um pra sua pia, pra escovar os dentes. E você nunca vai encontrar o tubo de pasta de dentes apertado no meio! Após esse longo dia, você chega em casa louca para tomar um banho e toma! Marido está tomando em um chuveiro e você em outro (pode até ser dentro do mesmo mega-box)E quando você corre pro banheiro, apertada, e marido já está lá? Você vai usar o seu vaso, que está sempre te esperando com a tampa abaixada e sequinho.

Viram como um banheiro duplo pode melhorar a qualidade de vida?
E que tal um local confortável para deitar e esperar aquela máscara fazer efeito? Ou para ficar conversando com marido enquanto espera ele terminar o banho?

Agora, a banheira sim, é pra ser uma só, porque lá é bem melhor dividir o espaço...

Why so complicated???

Monday morning's decision of clothes. Yesterday when I was in bed I was already thinking about today's outfit, but now I don't remember! Shoot. Why is it so hard to know what to wear sometimes, especially on Mondays. I mean, there's nothing special I am going to do today...But it is Merdeka! Malaysia's National day! 53 years of independence...- Yes, that well I know my Malaysian history at least, haha.

Okay, I think I have a top but what about the pants then?...It's all about the pants now...Why can't I just go to school in my big Benetton T-shirt I sleep in?! Haha. Gosh, everything is so blur. I didn't get a lot of sleep last night. Thinking about what to wear, my dream future, my real future, mami's upcoming birthday, my sister's future go-away and Malaysia...In short everything was on my mind, and don't ask me why.

Jeans. Jeans are my solution. Thank God.

Kayaking For Dummies

Well, yesterday was an adventure to say the least. My friend Bunny and I decided to go Kayaking. I have to admit I have never done this before but it sounded like a lot of fun. We live near the site of the 1996 Olympic rowing venue. They offer a 2 to 3 hour Kayak rental for $15. I think that's pretty cheap. However, when you get there they give you a Kayak, paddle and life vest and send you on your way...lessons are extra! Who needs lessons, right? WRONG! We needed them but we discovered that AFTER we had pushed away from the dock. That shizz is harder than you think!

We started paddling and somehow made it away from the dock into open water. That's when the water circles started. What are water circles you ask?! Well,these circles are formed by two people who know absolutely nothing about paddling a Kayak. We are trying our best to move forward but somehow only moved in circles. When we did manage to break from the water circles we found ourselves under a bridge. That was followed by us crashing into one of the bridge supports. We were spent and frustrated so we decided to give this up and head back. We start trying to make our way back when we realized we are heading for the boat ramp. Two trucks are parked there trying to load their boats into the water. We cannot seem to turn and are headed right for them...unable to stop ourselves. PADDLE RIGHT...HARDER....RIGHT....whew, we missed them by inches. I am sure they were wondering WTF we were doing!

That was that and we were done. Luckily I had brought my phone. It is waterproof and I had wanted to get some pics so Bunny thought it was better than risking damage to my camera. Plus I thought it might be handy to have one in case we needed to call 911. I called my sister and ask her to look up instructions on how to paddle a Kayak. After she stopped laughing she decided to meet us at the park and give us some instructions. We parked on a beach area and waited. When she arrived she got in the boat with Bunny and they had a little lesson. Then Bunny got out and I got in with my sis and had my lesson. It turns out we were just overcompensating for turns...we were trying to turn by rowing hard to one side...It turns out you just need to simply put your oar to the opposite side and stick it there for a sec and the boat glides back into position. Oh well, who knew!

After our lesson I forced Bunny back in the boat. She was very hesitant at first. I think her exact words were something like "oh hell no, I'm not getting back into that f'ing boat." I told her that if we didn't conquer this now we would never get back in one. You know...the whole if you fall off a horse get back on thing. She got back in and WE LOVED IT. It turns out its so much easier when you do it right...now we can't wait to do it again.

Well, that's enough for now. Hope y'all are having a great weekend!

Bob Out

Give me now, please! =)

It's pink, there are Swarovski diamonds, and it's a Hello Kitty on it. How much cooler can a camera get?

Warcraft II: Tides Of Darkness

Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness

Genre: Fantasy, RTS

We all know Blizzard from World of Warcraft, but Blizzard produced more games than WoW, like the classic Diablo and Warcraft series. There is one game in particular from the Warcraft series that I’m going to review, and that’s Warcraft 2: Tides of Darkness.

Warcraft II: ToD is released in 1995 on the Pc and Mac. Two years later the game was also released on the Playstation and Sega Saturn under the name Warcraft 2: The Dark Saga. In 1999 the game was released together with the expansion pack, Beyond the dark portal, in Warcraft II: Battle.net edition. This release featured online play on Blizzard’s online gaming service, Battle.net.

In Warcraft II: ToD the story continues where Warcraft: Orcs and Humans ended. 6 years after the Orcish Horde conquered Azeroth, they want to conquer Lordaeron too, so they send a large fleet to Lordaeron. The survivors of Azeroth have fled to Lordaeron and the remaining Human nations band together into the Alliance to withstand the Horde. They are joined by the High Elves of Quel'thalas and the Dwarves of Khaz Modan.

Just like in Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, you can choose whether you play as the Alliance, or the Horde. Both campaigns have 14 levels so you'll play for many hours before completing the game.

There are many buildings you can build in this game, like the Barracks (for training units, duh) Farm (1 farm is good for 4 units) and Blacksmith (meant for upgrading your troops). There are 15 buildings for each faction, which are different in looks but similar in function, except for 1 building which is Altar of Storms/Church.

The graphics of this game are very good, considering that this game is from 1995. They can still compete with today's Nintendo DS games. The audio is great as well, the soundtrack really provides an atmosphere.

And when you have completed the campaign you can also try to beat every custom scenario. And believe me, some of those custom scenarios are damn hard to beat. If you want to make it yourself even more difficult, you could add some more enemies. You cannot add allies, only enemies. It's fun to trying to beat 7 enemies, but you always know you will die when you play fair. You could also cheat in this game, but your rank says you’re a cheater when you do.

Furthermore, you can make your own scenarios with the Map Editor. Here, you can add allies as well. You can use those maps online too, but I don’t think there are many Warcraft II players around any more. I’m still a die-hard fan of this game and I already played it for more than a 1000 hours. The only complaint about the map-editor is that you can't make any teams, because your allies attack each other anyhow.

If you own Warcraft III, you should also try out this game. Personally, I think Warcraft II is better than its sequel. One funny detail is that they still used that goofy voice in Warcraft III for the peasants. I don’t think you can still buy WC 2 in stores, so if you want to try this game out, you have to download it. If you are an oldskool gamer you have to check this game out!

Debt free

Suddenly I wondered why on earth I decided to tell mami that I was old enough to stand for my own expenses this summer? Now SEK 5000+ poorer I feel rather…poor, haha. But as I said earlier, I will look at all of my purchases as investments. Because you can never get enough of gorgeous dresses right? RIGHT? Nevertheless, I still have to add that the feeling of being debt free is a good feeling, haha.

However, I will go back to saving now. Because, if luck is with me this Christmas I might as well make some more investments, hehe…

Popping my blog virginity

Yay, it has finally happened. I'm no longer a blogging virgin. I'm popping my own cherry. OH GREAT...has it come to that?!?!?!

So...How Y'all doin?

A little about me... I grew up in the deep south and 40 years later I'm still here. I'm a single gay male. I have one child...a cute Dachshund named Scooby. I've had him since he was born. My ex roommate had his mother and father. While we were living together they had puppies and she offered me one. I had no intentions of getting a dog at the time but couldn't resist that face(I'm posting a pic of him...tell me you could resist that...I think not!) He just turned 12 this past May.

I grew up in the "Bible Belt" and was reared in church hearing constant sermons about sins and immorality so I have struggled with my sexuality and my openness about it. Last year I decided I have lived long enough in the closet and would no longer deny my sexuality. Since then I have been open with new people that come into my life. However, I haven't come out to all of my friends and family yet.

I have told two of my sisters and my dad. They were VERY accepting. I haven't quite gotten up the nerve yet to tell my mom. That will come...soon(stay tuned)! I don't think my mom will disown me...but I know this will hurt her. She will be consumed with the fact her son is going to hell for this sin. Is it a sin? That's a big question, isn't it! I've had to deal with that question my whole life and if I'm honest...I still ask myself that a lot. I used to think this was my sin to overcome...like someone dealing with alcoholism or whatever. I no longer think that.

I truly believe I was born this way. Looking back I was always gay. I just didn't know what gay was. When I found out what gay was it was usually followed by the words "hellfire" and "damnation". That would scare any kid and would eventually lead me to live a so-called str8 lifestyle for a LONG time. That was until I was almost 30 and finally decided I had to give in to the temptation and actually experiment with guys. It didn't take long before I knew that I liked it...lol.

I decided then that I would live a secret life. I would have sex with guys and just have "fuck buddies" but wouldn't let anyone in on my secret. That fulfilled the need temporarily. I realized last year that I still wasn't happy. I wasn't me...I want love! I want that great relationship where I'm open and honest with a partner...someone who will love me for me.

I know it's out there and I will find it. How's that for optimism?!?!?!
OK, so I guess that's enough for now...more later!

Bob Out(notice the pun...haha)

Uma manhã deprimente

Depois de duas semanas recolocando a vida no lugar (parece muito tempo, mas é que estou atoladíssima de trabalho), pensei que meu martírio houvesse chegado ao fim. Assim que formatei os computadores me preocupei em colocar o programa da loja para funcionar, que era o mais urgente. Depois, fui cuidar de refazer minhas planilhas (isso sim, foi de tirar o sono!), recuperar algumas músicas (essencial para minha cabeça funcionar – só trabalho ouvindo música) e baixar alguns documentos que eu tinha armazenado no e-mail. Ontem, finalmente tudo estava funcionando bem. Então, vi que tinha ficado todos esses dias afastada aqui do blog e pensei "amanhã vou fazer uma postagem nota 10!", mas...eis que acordo de madrugada e começo a pensar sobre o que seria essa postagem. Tudo o que me ocorria dependia das fotos que eu havia selecionado, armazenado, separado por assunto e que agora não tenho mais. Então me bateu uma tristeza, uma falta de inspiração, é frustrante!

Até o que eu tinha pensado em encarar no faça-você-mesma aqui no escritório perdeu a graça. Lembram do marceneiro? Pois é, até hoje! E, como não sou só eu a ser enrolada, acho que ainda vai demorar... Aí eu estava procurando algo que eu mesma pudesse fazer e até me ocorreram algumas idéias. Pois não é que esqueci tudo? É sério! Não consigo lembrar o que eu tinha pensado de madrugada (e eu estava muito bem acordada). A única coisa que eu lembro é de ter pensado em fazer umas listras na parede, ou pintar uma frase legal. Sei que pensei em uma solução pra estante, que pensei numa cor pras paredes, em mudar as coisas de lugar e em outros detalhes.

Alguma de vocês já passou por isso?

Beijos!

 

 

Uma manhã deprimente

Depois de duas semanas recolocando a vida no lugar (parece muito tempo, mas é que estou atoladíssima de trabalho), pensei que meu martírio houvesse chegado ao fim. Assim que formatei os computadores me preocupei em colocar o programa da loja para funcionar, que era o mais urgente. Depois, fui cuidar de refazer minhas planilhas (isso sim, foi de tirar o sono!), recuperar algumas músicas (essencial para minha cabeça funcionar – só trabalho ouvindo música) e baixar alguns documentos que eu tinha armazenado no e-mail. Ontem, finalmente tudo estava funcionando bem. Então, vi que tinha ficado todos esses dias afastada aqui do blog e pensei "amanhã vou fazer uma postagem nota 10!", mas...eis que acordo de madrugada e começo a pensar sobre o que seria essa postagem. Tudo o que me ocorria dependia das fotos que eu havia selecionado, armazenado, separado por assunto e que agora não tenho mais. Então me bateu uma tristeza, uma falta de inspiração, é frustrante!

Até o que eu tinha pensado em encarar no faça-você-mesma aqui no escritório perdeu a graça. Lembram do marceneiro? Pois é, até hoje! E, como não sou só eu a ser enrolada, acho que ainda vai demorar... Aí eu estava procurando algo que eu mesma pudesse fazer e até me ocorreram algumas idéias. Pois não é que esqueci tudo? É sério! Não consigo lembrar o que eu tinha pensado de madrugada (e eu estava muito bem acordada). A única coisa que eu lembro é de ter pensado em fazer umas listras na parede, ou pintar uma frase legal. Sei que pensei em uma solução pra estante, que pensei numa cor pras paredes, em mudar as coisas de lugar e em outros detalhes.

Alguma de vocês já passou por isso?

Beijos!

 

 

Frappista and "quality time"

Finally Thursday! I started to get the feeling that Thursday would never come. Monday-Wednesday have became long horrible afternoons spent in school, but Thursday is the day when there’s more time to actually breathe again. (Fridays aren’t that bad either though, at least to some extent…) So, today I met up my dear sister in town where we had some “quality time” or whatever you guys call it, haha. We made our way through town in an express motion and later ended up at Barista, which is an Eco-coffee shop where they only serve Fairtrade coffee and use Eco-friendly products. I’ve always just passed by this coffee shop, but not today. Vicki told me that I definitely had to try their Frappista, which is told to be a less sweet smoothie, so I did. And let me just tell you directly - IT’S ADDICTIVE.

So we sat there, sipped at our coffees (or Vicki at hers, and I at my chocolate Frappista), talking about the future and the opportunities we have right now. Or mostly Vicki’s opportunities, I am rather stuck with my life situation for another two years…-.- However, it was really nice to have this “jie jie & mei mei” time (big sis & little sis in Chinese) and I hope we will have it more often. Even though life is hectic and stressful at some times (or for some people it’s an everyday rush), we sometimes have to stop what we’re doing and just find time to live in the moment. Because, that’s what I did today. I lived in the moment and I felt great. I needed it, and so does everybody. Remember that.

Beautiful sis at Barista with her expresso Frappista.

And me with my addictive chocolate one.

Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX

Mat Hoffman’s Pro BMX, a game made by the company Runecraft, known for games like Spec Ops, Scrabble, Barbie and Ceasar’s Palace. Activision was the publisher.

One of the things that immediately catches your attention in this game is the similarity to Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater series, this is because the game uses the same engine as Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater, albeit an edited version. Unfortunately the game feels like a cheap port from the consoles, way worse than Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3, which felt a bit like a port but still played smoothly.

In singleplayer the player has to collect covers of magazines by completing certain tasks which differ little each stage, they’re pretty much the same as in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3. You have to collect the characters T-R-I-C-K, similar to the S-K-A-T-E in THPS. Other objectives always involve beating a certain highscores, doing a trick at a specific location and destroy a certain amount of things within the time-limit (like 5 lamps). This is of course talking about the Career mode, in which you can unlock new parts for your bike, characters and courses. There’s also a single session mode, a free mode and a map editor for the player that likes to play singleplayer.

Multiplayer features Horse, which can be done co-op on the same computer, in this mode the players have to set a trick and try to get the highest amount of points, if they fail at this they’re given a letter, if all letters create a word the player loses. There´s also a network game mode which I couldn’t test, since either there were no players or the servers are down, since Runecraft has gone bankrupt.

The gameplay in this game is pretty bad, when you’re playing you’ll easily fall. The game also misses a lot of things that made THPS fun to play, like a balance meter when grinding and such, it now only appears when doing a manual. The game also has the tendency to have serious framedrops at random moments. The controls also feel a bit unresponsive at times, making the game hard in an unfair way, especially when compared to THPS where switching between tricks goes amazingly quick. Another thing I missed is the ability to set your own special moves, in this game you have to guess how to pull one off.

The graphics are very bad in this game, they’re nothing compared to THPS3 which was released in the same year and has the same engine. The levels feel empty and dead, there are no people walking around, nothing is moving, you’re the only one that moves in a static environment. The models are all boring and stale, even the bikes aren’t that well done which have textures sticking out of them and weird tires.

The sound in this game is pretty boring and dull, nearly all songs on the playlist are done by unknown artists and all those songs are pretty generic. In THPS3, you did have an amazing soundtrack which was carefully picked to fit the game, it’s a letdown that Runecraft didn’t put as much effort in this game like the creators of THPS3 did with theirs. As far as sound effects go, they aren’t that bad.

I don’t think this game is worth a purchase, due to it’s crappy gameplay, poor graphics and mediocre sounds. If you do want an extreme sports game or something similar to this, I can really suggest THPS3 instead of this one. I think that if you do buy this game, you’ll end up only playing a couple of hours and then throw in the back of your cabinet only to collect dust.

Will I become a millionare?

Delayed birthday gift from someone...Will I become a millionare is the question though???

Unfortunately, I did not. However, I managed to scratch myself SEK 50! =)

17th birthday =)

I almost thought I would end up cake less, but instead I ended up with two cakes! Talk about being silly that day when Lewar asked me what kind of dessert I like. She said that she had signed up for some contest where she had to ask 100 people what their favourite dessert was and then she would get a dessert herself. Of course, I was a bit sceptical in the beginning and was like "Why not just make up some answers, honey!?", but then I thought "Whatever, she can be rather...unique...sometimes and if she wants to get 100 answers from 100 people just to get a dessert, why not help her?" So yes, maybe I was a bit silly believing something like that but at least I was trying to help her and that's not silly, right? Haha...

I was so surprised when Lewar turned her locker into a bakery, haha.

Group picture! But wait wait, where's Shill?

Me cutting the delicious blueberry cake.

Ooooh, here Shill is =). Hahaha, my goodness we look like Siamese twins...until Lewar's head totally ruined the idea -.- Haha...

Strösseltårta (cake filled with vanilla custard) was waiting for me at home.

Yesterday I felt so poor after calculating my debt to mami but now I got some cash and I feel quite rich again, hahaha. Thanks mami. =)

Vicki was so sweet too! The whole afternoon she spent cutting and gluing to achieve this...one gift voucher for coffee and cake, another one for lunch, the Paul Frank flip flops I bought in Pavilion recently...and she paid the reparation for my flat tyre! - And she's suppose to be a poor student! I feel so bad now...If you read this sis, THANK YOU very much and don't forget that I love you very much too.

Okies, this was my 17th birthday. Small but personal, just as it should be sometimes. Nights!

Quando um vírus toma conta de tudo...

Olá meninas,
Tinha planejado fazer uma postagem sobre quantas coisas nós, mulheres com pelo menos um pouco de vaidade, temos para cuidado pessoal e outra sobre o que andei fazendo no meu aniversário de casamento. Mas... fotos transferidas para o notebook, eu só precisando de um tempinho para fazer uma postagem legal, e eis que se manifesta em meu computador um vírus! Logo em seguida, o ordinário também trava todo o sistema da loja. Aproveitei que meu filho mais velho estava em casa (ele faz curso técnico de informática) e tentamos salvar os arquivos. Quase nos matamos sobre os computadores e nenhum anti-vírus localizava o bendito. Resultado: formatação geral. E, para evitar que o problema voltasse, só salvei os arquivos extremente necessários para o bom funcionamento da loja. Acabei perdendo absolutamente tudo o que eu tinha no meu notebook! Todas as minhas músicas, as imagens retiradas da net, arquivos de texto, até meu diário... Só não perdi minhas fotos pessoais, porque no mês passado me deu a louca e eu gravei todas em DVD e mandei revelar (pois é, eu ainda prefiro fotos no papel).
Depois de uma semana de loucura total, um fim de semana de festa... Aniversário de 15 anos da minha prima Chris, reunião de família, tudo de bom!
Agora estou "refazendo minha vida". Incrível como a gente fica dependente de uma máquina...
Beijos!

Quando um vírus toma conta de tudo...

Olá meninas,
Tinha planejado fazer uma postagem sobre quantas coisas nós, mulheres com pelo menos um pouco de vaidade, temos para cuidado pessoal e outra sobre o que andei fazendo no meu aniversário de casamento. Mas... fotos transferidas para o notebook, eu só precisando de um tempinho para fazer uma postagem legal, e eis que se manifesta em meu computador um vírus! Logo em seguida, o ordinário também trava todo o sistema da loja. Aproveitei que meu filho mais velho estava em casa (ele faz curso técnico de informática) e tentamos salvar os arquivos. Quase nos matamos sobre os computadores e nenhum anti-vírus localizava o bendito. Resultado: formatação geral. E, para evitar que o problema voltasse, só salvei os arquivos extremente necessários para o bom funcionamento da loja. Acabei perdendo absolutamente tudo o que eu tinha no meu notebook! Todas as minhas músicas, as imagens retiradas da net, arquivos de texto, até meu diário... Só não perdi minhas fotos pessoais, porque no mês passado me deu a louca e eu gravei todas em DVD e mandei revelar (pois é, eu ainda prefiro fotos no papel).
Depois de uma semana de loucura total, um fim de semana de festa... Aniversário de 15 anos da minha prima Chris, reunião de família, tudo de bom!
Agora estou "refazendo minha vida". Incrível como a gente fica dependente de uma máquina...
Beijos!

Is it reeeaaally my birthday tomorrow?

Today it's Sunday. Tomorrow it's my birthday. Tomorrow is my birthday. Sounds so weird, I haven't even decided what I should wish for yet, not like that's going to matter now since it's my birthday tomorrow, but still. I have always had long lists of things I wanted for my birthdays, but strangely not this one. I wonder if it has something to do with that I almost forgot that it was my birthday since I've been so caught up in other things since I got back? Yes, I think that's the reason.

We'll see how it will be settled with the birthday cake tomorrow though. See, since I've forgot that it is my birthday tomorrow I haven't decided which cake I would like to have, so we haven't ordered anything from the bakery yet. Hopefully, I will get surprised by my supermom when I get home though, hehe...Anyway, today my family gave me a pre-celebration with pizza at Forno Romano and moon cake, yummo.

Gift from PG before we left.

So of course I thought of her sweetness when I ate it ;) (Even though I hate duck egg it was a mmmmm, haha).

This was also mmmmm...

Welcome home...

Wow, a week has passed. I feel so happy to be back! - NOT.

Halo: Combat Evolved

Halo: Combat Evolved, a game created by Bungie studios, which is well known for the Halo series. This company is known for it’s great quality products and Halo: Combat Evolved is no exception. Being the first in the series this game still remains to be a classic, with an active community, even after all these years. This game is available for pc, mac and xbox.

The human race has been cornered by aliens and are under threat. In an attempt to turn things around and to make sure that they don’t find out the coordinates of planet Earth, they active an super-marine known as the Masterchief, which the player plays as. This is used as a last resort, since they haven’t tested him properly, due to lack of time. Your task is to try and destroy the attack or at least put a serious dent in their attack force.

Both singleplayer and multiplayer are very good, I’ll start with singleplayer. In singleplayer, you’ll be dropped/enter various areas from spaceships to various landscapes, there is no urbanised area however, since you’re fighting in enemy bases most of the time. During singleplayer you’ll find the weapon of the planet Halo, The Flood, which are enemies in various shapes, but the weapon can’t be controlled so you’re fighting both the Covenant and the Flood at the same time, which fight against each other as well. During single player you’re alone most of the time, because the normal marines are quite weak. There are multiple difficulty levels, Easy, Normal, Heroic and Legendary, Legendary being the hardest, making the game accessible to pretty much anyone, with or without experience with the genre or gaming as a whole.

The gameplay is smooth, it’s basic First Person Shooter gameplay but the controls feel great and everything works like a charm. Unlike other FPS’es you’re only capable of carrying 2 guns, which adds another challenge to the game, since you’ll have to scrounge for enemy weapons that you can use, when your ammo runs out. It also helps in multiplayer, because your enemies aren’t able to carry a lot of weapons, meaning that you won’t fight people wearing overpowered weapons which have less ammo with which they switch. In Halo you’re better of wearing one great weapon and a standard one, which comes with more ammo. Halo incorporates the use of vehicles fluently in the game, switching from a first person view to a third person view giving the player a better sight of his surroundings.

The graphics are great, albeit a little bit outdated, nowadays we’re used to HD-quality and bloom effects. This game offers good graphics which don’t require a great pc to run. The effects in the game are very nice, objects reflect sunshine in this game, which was an exception around the time it was released.

The sound is great in this game, the theme song is just fantastic and gets you immediately in the mood to play the game, which is sung by a Georgian choir(from Georgia, the country, not the state). The sound effects coming out of your guns and even the aliens ones, sound pretty realistic. The voices in this game also sound good, Cortana for example (a digital woman), sounds very realistic so do the marines you meet in this game and the screaming enemies. The Covenant even has their own language and you can hear them talking sometimes and you hear the occasional “wort, wort, wort” when they’re walking and haven’t seen you yet.

Multiplayer is the best part about the whole game in my opinion, it’s most of the time fair(you have the occasional cheats and modificated servers). The only complaint I’ve been hearing from various sources is that online gameplay is laggy, I haven’t actually experienced it myself, I have been in servers with severe lag issues, but those were exceptions, usually the games run smooth. There are various gameplay modes, most of which are quite standard, but the player has the ability to create his own game modes. Slayer is your average deathmatch mode(DM), Team Slayer is team deathmatch (TDM), Capture the flag(CTF), King of the hill, in which players have to stay within a switching or unmoving area for a certain time in order to win. Can be done both with teams and solo. Further more you have: Racing, in which you have to drive through certain checkpoints and oddball in which the player has to keep a skull for a certain time limit, whilst doing so he has no means of defending himself except for doing a melee attack with it. Halo: Custom Edition expands the multiplayer aspect of the game even more, granting players the ability to play on custom maps and with various other custom things on it, such as character models, weapons and vehicles.

So when you see this in a shop, don’t hesitate to buy, it’s probably cheap since it’s been released quite some years ago, but not to worry the online community is still alive and kicking, proving that this game is truly a classic.

Some changes

So, the first day of school is over. No major damage yet, but it still felt horrible to be back at that place. I can't believe it has been two months since I stepped my foot there and now it's the place I'll be showing up in everyday for the current future...Sigh, I'm just trying to look at the bright side and tell myself that each day that passes is a day closer to freedom. Then I will hopefully manage through year 2...

I've never been fully against change, but changes really keep me wondering whether it will be better or worse. This year, school will change for me and I am both excited and quite terrified about the outcome. From now on I won't need to read all the subjects that I've read during these previous ten years, instead I have only six, (seven if you add in Chinese) but what that involves, I am not so sure of yet. It sure will get harder, and I am sure that I will have to work darn hard, but hopefully I will pass. Anyway, another change that has taken place is that me and my girls are divided into different classes now based on our subject choices, but as long as we get to have lunch together from time to time - I'm fine about it, haha...

Okay, now I'm going to drool over Oh Ji-ho that definitely will make me happier, hehe. Nights!

Please say men like this really exist!!! I mean LOOK. AT. HIM. Oh gosh, I'm dying....=)

Lewar's Sweet 16

Maybe it is the last day before school starts again, but the sun was finally shining and my dear friend Lewar turned sixteen. I can't believe it has almost been a year since I celebrated my sweet 16...soon I'll be thirty - but I'll still look fabulous though! Haha...Anyhow, all the girls met in town around noon (Yes, that early! And I was the only one who actually arrived in time besides the birthday girl...GRRR.) to just enjoy each others company while we are still free. I really needed this day and I hope Lewar enjoyed her birthday too...

Today's Dress-for-success: capri pants from Lindex, white top and pink cardigan from H&M, slippers from Wedins, sunglasses from Twilfit, green sling bag stolen from mum's closet, haha...

The birtday girl, Lewar and Shill

I can't even remember the last time I had a caffè latte so today I finally had one =)

Me with tall, tall, supermodel tall Sabina

The birthday girl got some cake to indulge in...HAPPY BIRTHDAY PUMPKIN! xD

Thank God there are Korean series!

Today I've spent the whole day inside marathon watching Oh Su Jung vs Karl (gosh, that Karl is handsome!) in pink sweatpants and T-shirt. Sometimes that's all you need when you're feeling a bit down...(Especially when you've just got back to a dull Sweden and realized that school starts in two days; not to mention how horrible the schedule is...) Later, if I am not too lazy that means, I will put on a face mask and just try not to think so much. My mind is on turbo right now and I know that isn't good for me...Thank God, I at least have tomorrow before trouble starts arriving...

chris martin

Nombre
Christopher Anthony John Martin
Nacimiento
2 de marzo de 1977 (32 años)Devon, Reino Unido
Ocupación(es)
Vocalista, músico.
Información artística
Género
Rock Alternativo, Rock, Brit pop
Instrumento(s)
Voz, Piano, Guitarra
Período de actividad
1998 - actualidad
Artistas relacionados
Coldplay

Countdown: Top 10 Filthy Song Titles

There's been too much seriousness recently. For your pleasure, CB has compiled her choice of the most outrageously filthy and disgusting song titles of all time. I'd like to note for the record that I excluded everything by Cannibal Corpse - there were too many to make any meaningful shortlist, and whilst filthy, they were low on the originality factor.

Enjoy!

10- The Love You Take Equals The Love You Make So Baby Let Me Bang Your Box by TISM
The cultural cringe - writ large. Three cheers for TISM.

9- See Her Pee by NOFX
This is actually almost cute. He falls in love with a girl, adores her, thinks about her all the time... and just really, really wants to see her pee.

8-Please Stop Fucking My Mom by NOFX
This is comparatively self-explanatory.

7- The Art of Sucking Dick by N.W.A (Niggaz With Attitude)
These guys apparently do consider this in all seriousness to be an instruction manual.

6- Dick Sandwich by Frenzal Rhomb
This is actually the title of an EP, not a song, but I couldn't resist.

5- Shoved Up Your Pisshole by Blood Duster
Shoved what exactly...?

4- Bishop = Handjob by TISM
There are a few good reasons that all members of TISM choose to remain anonymous...

3- Fisting the Dead by Blood Duster
The funny thing is, I found one or two song titles by these guys that were actually worse than this. This is just the worst one I was willing to reproduce.

2 - Defecate on my face by TISM
This song, as far as I'm aware, broke two records. It's the only rock song in history to feature coprophilia as principal subject matter - and it's the only rock song in history that's written in the first person point of view of Adolf Hitler.

1 - The Pope's Cock Makes Baby Jesus Cry by C*ntbutcher.
My asterisk. No comment.

Got any others?
CB would like to thank Clever Friend for his help with the Top 10.

Bomb five - KL

Then it's time for the last bomb! KL...

First time I had a look into China Town.

KLCC.

Buhu, they were the perfect jeans shorts from Billabong. Why? Why didn't they have a size smaller left!? I was so sad...

So sad, I went to drain my sorrows...Maybe it didn't have any sugar, but it still wasn't woth the calories...

However these were...Everything from Secret Recipe.

Want a Pavilion here in Uppsala...Haha.

The Paul Frank store where I found a new pair of flip flops =)