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Selinhos e promoção

Olá meninas,
Precisava passar por aqui pra tirar poeira do bloguinho, coitadinho, tão abandonado esses dias...
Estou em falta com duas amigas queridas, que me presentearam com selinhos já faz um tempinho. Então, deixa eu voltar colocando a vida em dia:

Ganhei estes selinhos da Sônia Facion, do Nana's Patch:





E como regra, tenho que repassar a 10 amigas.

Ganhei este selinho da Carolina R., do Walking to the Rainbow:




E as regras:
1) Dizer 2 coisas que te fazem sorrir:
- Passeando pela blogosfera me deparar com um post bem humorado ou com uma imagem de algo lindo que eu possa fazer.
- Ver um post cheio de comentários.
2) Dizer 1 coisa que te faz sorrir no blog do qual recebeu o selo:
A forma despreocupada como ela escreve, simplesmente publica o que lhe vem à mente.
3) Indicar o selo para 20 blogs.

Eu sei que estou fugindo um pouquinho à regra, mas dedico estes 3 selinhos a todas as amigas que me visitam, seguidoras ou não.


E tem promoção rolando no blog da Rê, o Rerossini:



Obrigada Sônia e Carol, e sucesso pra Rê com a promoção!
Beijos

Selinhos e promoção

Olá meninas,
Precisava passar por aqui pra tirar poeira do bloguinho, coitadinho, tão abandonado esses dias...
Estou em falta com duas amigas queridas, que me presentearam com selinhos já faz um tempinho. Então, deixa eu voltar colocando a vida em dia:

Ganhei estes selinhos da Sônia Facion, do Nana's Patch:





E como regra, tenho que repassar a 10 amigas.

Ganhei este selinho da Carolina R., do Walking to the Rainbow:




E as regras:
1) Dizer 2 coisas que te fazem sorrir:
- Passeando pela blogosfera me deparar com um post bem humorado ou com uma imagem de algo lindo que eu possa fazer.
- Ver um post cheio de comentários.
2) Dizer 1 coisa que te faz sorrir no blog do qual recebeu o selo:
A forma despreocupada como ela escreve, simplesmente publica o que lhe vem à mente.
3) Indicar o selo para 20 blogs.

Eu sei que estou fugindo um pouquinho à regra, mas dedico estes 3 selinhos a todas as amigas que me visitam, seguidoras ou não.


E tem promoção rolando no blog da Rê, o Rerossini:



Obrigada Sônia e Carol, e sucesso pra Rê com a promoção!
Beijos

Prototype

Prototype is an action adventure game that was developed by Radical Entertainment and published by Activision in 2009. I have played the pc version.

The game takes place in present time New York City, on the island of Manhattan to be specific, where a horrific virus is spreading through the streets. The entire island has been put under quarantine by the US Marine Corps to prevent the spread of the virus.

You play as Alex mercer, person with no memory of his past and with the ability to change his body parts into various weapons and defenses, and the ability to consume other persons and take their identity, memories and their entire body.

When starting a new game you are taught how to move, attack and change your body. In this stage the virus is at its peak. After completing this level you flashback to the beginning of the outbreak. By completing the primary missions you progress in the game. After completing a certain amount of those missions, you get a flash-forward and a part of the story is revealed. This Is however not entirely right. To uncover the history and facts around the game, you can consume targets for your Web of Intrigue. When you consume a target you get a small video which gives a few hints about what happened during and what happened before the events that take place in the game. Back to the primary missions. After the fast-forward, you get another flashback. when that happens the days change and a percentage is given to show you how many people are infected in the city. You work your way from day one up to day eighteen.

Next to the primary missions you also have side missions. These can vary from consuming targets, killing a certain amount of infected or marines or running and jumping through a course.

With completing missions, consuming and killing enemies or innocent people you get Evolution Points. These points can be spent on increasing your survivability or making you more deadly in combat by unlocking special moves and new powers.

Alex has an arsenal of deadly weapons that he can use. Some have to be unlocked first with EP. An example of one of those weapons are the claws. This is my favorite weapon. Every weapon has a basic attack and a special attack. The reason why I love this weapon is because with this attack you can rise up spikes of biomass from underneath the ground and impale anyone unfortunate enough to be caught in the radial area of damage. So yeah, I love it. But the most devastating powers in the game are the Devastator attacks. These attacks are the superweapons in his arsenal. But I will not be a spoiler and will let you discover what these things can do.

But the fun doesn’t end there. After a while, Alex is able to pilot certain military vehicles. At first there are only Black Hawk and Bradleys, but as the situation in the city escalates, more and more heavy equipment is brought in, so you’ll end up driving Abrams and Apaches.

You can speak of two factions in Prototype. The first group is the US Marine Corp, who are commanded by the black operation, Blackwatch. The marines orders are to contain the virus, but are really used as shock troopers, soldiers who do the heavy damage and take the full blow i.e. casualties. Now Blackwatch is a nasty organization, they do the clean up after the work is done and are the real badguys that want to take you down by any means necessary.

The other faction are the infected. You have the population that has gone berserk, trying to kill every non-infected, and you have the abominations. The result of the virus transforming their host into something else. You have some minor abominations, as I would call them, that are not that powerful. But the other ones, called Hunters, are the ones that can really ruin your day. These creatures from hell are twice the size of a normal human and with a lot more muscles.

The game looks pretty good. In combat you will see bodyparts and blood flying freely through the air. The city itself might feel a bit empty, and I mean that most of it looks the same with a few subtle differences. But on the streets its chaos when the virus finally goes crazy. You will see soldiers firing at infected, civilians running for their lives, infected people and Hunters.

Though I have some complaints about the game. You will find yourself doing the same things over and over, but you will be too busy to really care about that. Moving around the city, especially in combat, can be quite chaotic. This really comes to light when driving ground vehicles, they drive towards where you are pointing at. And that’s where the controls get weird, but you really have to experience that yourself. And my final complaint is that combat can be incredibly annoying. Sometimes you are chased from one end of the map to the other end, but also that some special moves of the Hunters can’t be countered or stopped.

So my conclusion of Prototype, I really good game. It has it flaws but that’s common in every game. A nice storyline and awesome moves make this game awesome.

One down, five to go :D

I just came to realize that it’s exactly one week since we moved into this barrack. That means that it’s only five more weeks before we can move back into our apartment again! (We are renovating our apartment; therefore we can’t live there for six weeks.) Awesome! :D

However, I must say that I have started to become very accustomed to the new routines here. By that I mean that it’s not THAT bad to live here, although the couch is hard as a rock, the extreme darkness (due to the lack of big windows), bad isolation, and the most horrible fact - that the hot water can run out! No wait, the most, most awful thing is that there is only one mirror - and it’s not even a full length one! Oh my, I just realized how spoiled I sounded - “because those problems are obviously the biggest problems there are out there right now, right?” ^^

Now I’m going to tuck myself into bed and watch an episode of Gossip Girl. One of my favorite series. So…

Xoxo Sandra Girl :P

Tonight's bedtime outfit: mum's old I love NY tee, that I've stolen from her, and my sexy Dior specs. Tihi ^^

Dinner at Thai Village

As sis and I had plans to take mami out for some Thai food, we ended up at the really cozy Thai Village. The food was very good, but as always when I eat Asian food here in Sweden, I was dying of thirst afterwards. I don’t understand why they have to put so much salt in the food. :O

Anyway, mami seemed to enjoy the dinner and that was the most significant part of even going out tonight. Here are a pair of pictures from the evening.

Mami and me

Sis and me

Mother's day

The sun is shining and Mother’s day started with a hot cup of Milo and freshly baked baguettes (which Vicki was sweet enough to go and buy just this morning) with smögenröra on top of them. A very fatty breakfast indeed. But after all, Mother’s day is once a year and the most important part is of course to have mum enjoy her day - so a delicious breakfast is a must have. ^^

Later Vicki and I are taking mami out for dinner. But until then, it’s about time for me to stop ignoring my studies and actually get to work so that I can complete some of the tasks I have left before summer break. Unfortunately, all the other assignments and homework didn’t end when test week did, but it’s only 9 more days of school, so I will survive. ;P

Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose MOTIVATE... thinkers...

Does more money motivate higher performance? - Daniel Pink

There are so many reasons that you all should watch this movie over and over again..and then put it into practice.

• Motivation and leadership are not simple and may not be teachable, but there are principles we should follow.
• Money isn't everything as long as you have enough of it... Regardless it just doesn't motivate people the way most people think...

Dune 2000

Dune 2000 is a RTS developed by Westwood Studios and Intelligent Games and was released in 1998 on Windows and later ported on the Playstation. The game is based on Frank Herbert's Dune universe.

Emperor Corrino has issued a challenge that the House which can produce the most spice will control its source, the desert planet Dune, with no rules as to how the Houses can achieve the goal. However, when you're playing with the Harkonnen (the evil House), the Emperor will eventually team up with the Atreides and tries to destroy you, how ironic. Meanwhile, Lady Elara of the Bene Gesserit and bound concubine to the Emperor, secretly takes the commander (you) into one of the Heighliners, a person whose bloodline and future the Sisterhood had checked. According to Elara, they saw many visions of the commander dying many times and only in one vision does the commander live and even rise to control massive armies and bring peace to Arrakis.

I will explain the three Houses below, as taken from the intro.

House Atreides- Hailing from the water-planet of Caladan, the Atreides have a strict loyalty to their Duke and follow him with zeal. The Duke's famous Mentat, Noree Moneo, advises and resides over the Duke's forces on Arrakis. The House's fleets of ornithopters ensure their superior air power. The Duke also wishes to develop an alliance with the Fremen, the native warriors of Dune.

House Harkonnen- The Harkonnen are ruled by the wicked Baron and come from the volcanic waste-planet of Giedi Prime. According to Lady Elara, the only thing human about the Harkonnen is their genetic makeup, as all humanity was abandoned long ago in favor of brutality and maliciousness. The Baron's Mentat, Hayt De Vries, was born from the flesh of a dead man in the Tleilaxu Flesh Vats.

House Ordos- The Ordos originate from a frigid, ice covered planet unnamed in Dune 2000 but later called Sigma Draconis IV in Emperor: Battle for Dune. As they import their goods from nearby star systems, House Ordos relies on their skills as merchants to make their profits; however, their wealth has made them increasingly paranoid. According to the manual, House Ordos buys all of its units instead of constructing them themselves. Unlike the other two houses, House Ordos is not mentioned in any of Frank Herbert's Dune novels.

There are also four non-playable subfactions: House Corrino, the Fremen, the Mercenaries and the Smugglers.

Spice is the main resource in the game, which you have to collect with harvesters. It is advised to regularly check where your harvesters are, because there are always giant worms around, and those worms sometimes consume your harvester. You'll know that a worm is there when you see sparks coming out of the ground. With spice you can purchase everything ranging from infantry to building upgrades. Before placing a building you'll have to place concrete, because otherwise it's health is not at 100% but will decrease to a certain point over time. You'll also need to build energy sources, Wind Traps. If you don't have enough energy the training and building process is slowed down and your missile turrets and your radar won't operate. Your most valuable building is the Construction Site. If you lose this building you won't be able to construct other buildings, unless you're able to build or order a Mobile Construction Verhicle from a Starport. When playing the singleplayer campaign I recommend you to seek and destroy your enemy's Construction Site before destroying the other buildings, because otherwise they'll just rebuild the buildings they've lost.

Although each house has many common units, such as infantry, Wind Traps, and Mobile Construction Vehicles, each House also has its own set of units, such as the Atreides Sonic Tank, the Ordos Deviator and the Harkonnen Devastator. Houses Harkonnen and Atreides share the Trike, while House Ordos has an upgraded version, the Raider. Like many games of the Westwood franchise, a player can gain access to other Houses' special units by capturing an enemy building and manufacturing the desired units.

The graphics of this game aren't that special, but I think they're good enough for a game from 1998. There isn't really much to say about the level design, because you play on a desert planet and everything looks the same. This game received a lot of criticism from the hoax called GameSpot, because they thought the game's production value was 'drab' for 1998 standards. Whatever they thought, I, on the contrary, had a lot of fun with this game. I spend many hours playing this game, it can be very challenging at times.

Rain, rain, rain

Ever since this morning it has been raining back and forth, and I’m so sick and tired of it. Hopefully, the grey sky will turn baby blue tomorrow, so that mami will enjoy her day to the fullest. It’s not my mum’s birthday if you’re wondering, but as all Swedes reading this should know by now (even though I didn’t realize it until last week myself) is that it is Mother’s day tomorrow, and therefore you all should treat your mothers like queens (if you ain’t already - which I hope ^^).

I’m pre-preparing for being extra nice already, so if you excuse me, I’m going to go help my precious mum with the laundry now.

Mami and me - Malaysia 2008

Gary Coleman has died

Former child star, Gary Coleman died today after suffering a intracranial hemorrhage. He was only 42.
A coworker asked what he died from and someone replied  "I think it was a stroke"...To which the co-worker replied....was it a "Diff'rent Stroke"? lol

Sorry, but I had to tell that story...RIP, Gary!
Bob Out

The Friday Flashback

One word...

CHER

"If I Could Turn Back Time"

I just thought a little Cher was in order to kick off our long weekend.

Check out this pic...She can still rock that outfit..

Hope you guys have a great Memorial day weekend
Bob Out

WEARING RAINCOATS...STANDING SOLO...IN THE SUN

Memorial Day

Please watch this friends.. it is 12 minutes worth spending to think and remember. I watched the entire video, I prayed, I cried, and I felt literally as though my heart might come out of my chest as the procession continued through towns and streets which seem so very familiar though I've never traveled them. 


These were honorable Americans paying tribute as they could... The time was unique to me...reminding me of my place in this world, in this country and the debt that I owe to our soldiers, both living and fallen! 


I am indeed so proud to be an American!

Golden China and shopping

At last I have no exams left on test week, and even though it didn’t go very well today, I am still happy about it all being over. This happiness resulted in a family lunch at the new restaurant Golden China, which is also known as one of Uppsala’s most “Chinese” Chinese restaurant by the food reviewers. Quite funny, huh? ^^ -But the thing is that here in Sweden, the restaurants tend to “Swedicize” all of their food, while Golden China hasn’t. So in other words, they have yummilicious food, with lots of flavor and chili, and besides this, they even have one of my favorite things to eat - bao!

After we had eaten till our stomachs were about to burst, we went shopping. And I must say, the three of us haven’t been shopping together in town like this since I can’t even remember, so it was so cozy. I love my family. ♥

And the things I bought. ^^

Golden China at Kungsängsgatan 23 in Uppsala is to be recommended by me.

Two shorts from H&M and a pair of killer heels from Tiamo, Scorett. LOVE is the correct word.

It's time for a little sex

It's here...FINALLY! Sex and the City 2 opens today. I have already ordered my tickets online. SO EXCITED!!!!!! I am meeting my sister and another friend at my house. I am making us some Cosmo's before heading out to the see the film. It's getting bad critic reviews but favorable fan response. Screw the critics! I'm ready...let's go get CARRIEd away. Just a few more hours of work...

Did you guys see pics from opening night in NYC? Check out Sarah Jessica Parker...

Gosh, she looked amazing in this dress. All the girls looked fabulous...

Are you girls into it? If so, when are you going? and do you have special plans for seeing it?

Bob Out

Year 3 - Song for our CD

Here is the song we are learning for the school CD.



The song is Forever Young, originally sung by Alphaville.

Lee DeWyze wins American Idol season 9

Congrats, Lee DeWyze on winning season nine of American Idol. You could just tell he has a good heart and was totally overwhelmed with emotion. Here's the winning moment...

Bob Out

One more day

I have my ESS (Environmental Systems and Societies) examinations left for tomorrow morning, but after that, test week is finally over for my part. However, that “finally over” still seems a bit too far away for me at this point as I have 101 definitions (yes, I have counted!) in the subject to go through tonight…Lovely way to spend the night, huh?

After a rough week there is nothing better than rewarding yourself, so tonight I made a yummi fruit cocktail with vanilla custard. :)

Cadernos de Receitas

Voltando a coisas bonitas, porque esse blog é para coisas boas e a última coisa que eu quero é me lamoriar (onde é que eu fui buscar essa palavra?).
Desde que me entendo por gente amo cadernos de receitas. Acho que minha relação com eles tem um pouco a ver com a minha relação com minha avó. Ela amava o caderno de receitas dela e morria de ciúmes dele. Só ela podia mexer nele. Até que eu aprendi a escrever, porque a partir daí as letras se misturaram. E revendo aquele grosso caderno posso ver também a evolução da minha caligrafia e um pouco de mim mesma, da minha história. Lá estão a letra dela e a minha, porque só a neta assumidamente preferida teve esse privilégio.
Durante a minha vida tive vários cadernos, alguns ainda tenho, outros passei a limpo e joguei fora os antigos (coisa que me arrependo amargamente).
Os últimos são esses, que separei para as receitas tiradas de blogs amigos.
Para os salgados:

E para os doces:




Ainda quero fazer um caderno de scrap, top da minha atual lista de desejos!
Beijos

Cadernos de Receitas

Voltando a coisas bonitas, porque esse blog é para coisas boas e a última coisa que eu quero é me lamoriar (onde é que eu fui buscar essa palavra?).
Desde que me entendo por gente amo cadernos de receitas. Acho que minha relação com eles tem um pouco a ver com a minha relação com minha avó. Ela amava o caderno de receitas dela e morria de ciúmes dele. Só ela podia mexer nele. Até que eu aprendi a escrever, porque a partir daí as letras se misturaram. E revendo aquele grosso caderno posso ver também a evolução da minha caligrafia e um pouco de mim mesma, da minha história. Lá estão a letra dela e a minha, porque só a neta assumidamente preferida teve esse privilégio.
Durante a minha vida tive vários cadernos, alguns ainda tenho, outros passei a limpo e joguei fora os antigos (coisa que me arrependo amargamente).
Os últimos são esses, que separei para as receitas tiradas de blogs amigos.
Para os salgados:

E para os doces:




Ainda quero fazer um caderno de scrap, top da minha atual lista de desejos!
Beijos

Hump Day Hunk(Jake Gyllenhaal)

His new film, "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" opens this weekend. I swear he gets hotter every time I see him.  Those eyes...Those lips...That body...That smile...DELICIOUS!

Jake Gyllenhaal

You're welcome :)'

Bob Out