Back in my childhood years, I used to play different video games for entertainment. They were the coolest things back then; but now, I’m lost in the video game generation: PS3, PSP, Wii – I couldn’t even distinguish one from the other. My brother is an addict when it comes to these. He has different platform emulators installed in our desktop PC. He would play different games, including classic ones, in the PC using the emulator and simply the keyboard as controls. I never really cared about those games, for I believe that they’re simply waste of time and energy.
A look back from my previous post, that song really disturbed my flow. It made me search for something more. Something like the game itself (poor segue).
Yes, with the help of Jon-jon, I was able to install an emulator of the classic game. The feeling was totally outrageous once I started playing again (using keyboard as control). It’s just unexplainable. I returned to childhood. :-) All right!
I was having a hard time with the controls, so I wasn’t playing the game perfectly (but better than Rubie did.) Being the control freak (nice term!) that I am, the next day after the installation (Monday) I headed to the nearest CD-R King to UP, in TriNoma, for a cheap controller. Unfortunately, there were no more stocks left. Same is true for the branches in Farmer’s Plaza, Ayala Makati MRT and Gateway. (I went to those branches out of desperation.) — which means I spent the week playing on keyboard.
I went home earlier than usual, Thursday, because it was my Mom’s birthday. Instead of going to our house right away, I dashed to SM Muntinlupa and thankfully, it has a CDR-King branch. AND THANKFULLY, they still have stocks for the controller I’m dying to have.
Gracious. Now I can play better. That’s why I haven’t updated this blog often recently. :-) Click the thumbnails for some of the screenshots for the game
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It’s another (thankfully) boring Saturday.
Last night, after arriving here at home from school, my mom welcomed me by informing me that we will have a general cleaning the next day, and that I need to clear my schedule for that. Great. Well, a lot better than spending some time at home and worrying about an upcoming exam. By the way, I have at least two weeks to relax because the next attack of the math professors (i.e. exams) will be on the first week of February.
I don’t know why my mom is very keen on rearranging the furnitures in our house. We have a new arrangement of the sofa, cabinets and tables almost every two months. And counting permutations, we already had around three to four cycles of changes from one settlement to another in my lifetime (including when we had bought new items). I think it’s maybe because it gives our home a newer feel. Or maybe my mom gets tired easily with the same landscaping everyday.
Or it just makes cleaning more exciting. And thinking about it — yes it does!
But enough of that. FAST FORWARD.
After cleaning, we had lots of piled plastics (like PET bottles, broken Tupperware, etc.), tons of old textbooks, old frying pans and lots of brown carton boxes. Guess what, we don’t have to throw them away. Remembering our previous expedition, again accompanied by my brother, we headed to the friendly neighborhood junk shop . Carrying a full trunk once again, we proceeded to selling the plastics, metals and the boxes. There were some glitches though, because they buy text book paper (as I call it, as opposed to white paper or newsprint) for only P1 per kilo. Yeah, and inside my heart, there was this little voice shouting, “Huwag! Huwag mong ibenta ‘yung mga textbooks dito!”
All right. We didn’t. P1 per kilo surely wouldn’t compensate the fact it took half the space of everything we brought! And the other half already sold for P107. Not bad. Not as bad as the previous trip, either.
We headed to another junk shop, this one being on the other side of the city. (We didn’t dare go the junk shop literally next to the one we previously made business with.) To no one’s surprise, they’ll buy it for P1.50 per kilo. So much for ‘Optimizing Profit’ because transportation costs blah blah. That’s P24 for the 16 kilos of textbooks.
P136 total. This time, P60 for me and Jonjon, and P16 for Camille, my sister, who helped in organizing the junk before selling. Spectacular. (No sarcasm here.) :-D
While I was surfing for some inspiration for Janis’ AVP, I ran over a very funny but nostalgic video. (Izzay actually informed me about this last week.) It was a video of this Asian guy (I don’t know whether Chinese or Korean), with the piano, playing a very familiar tune to our generation. Super Mario Brothers game! I didn’t recognize them all, but every tune made me a little happier than I was, and it was truly crazy. Watch it. You’ll recognize the familiar music from Super Mario 1 — it includes the default music, the one where Mario gets a star, when he’s in water, etc. There are also some from Super Mario 3. It makes me want to look for a Family Computer. :-)
See the video after the jump. (more…)
From Phia’s Multiply, I saw a post where you get to answer some questions about some persons. The crafted instructions are below, and mind, I did not look at the questions before answering them, promise. Read it after the jump. (more…)
Filed under: Britney Spears
UPDATED! Due to recent troubles, and after the house drama, Britney Spears was hospitalized last night. You can google her name and search for news, but that doesn’t matter.
So, maybe she didn’t want to give up her kids to Kevin. It wasn’t a smart thing to do in her current legal situation, but you have to look at her side. Can you imagine how completely miserable she is being so lonely? She has absolutely no one except her two boys.
I know that people are tired of hearing fans defend the pop star– (more…)
Filed under: Chronicles
Later this afternoon, we hurried to tear down the Christmas tree we brought up for the holidays. Interestingly, traditions say that the end of the celebration would have been on January 6. However, we need not follow that, I think. Circumstances. Almost everyone in our home wouldn’t have the time after tomorrow – - it’s the start of another long year.
After a quick tearing down, we were supposed to store the packed up tree in a cabinet in one the rooms. To our least surprise, the old Christmas tree was there. [This year's tree was a new on. We bought it last month because the old tree is starting to die. LOL.] And as the other houses everywhere, there were no more space left so we decided to rearrange things in order to accommodate more.
But my brother and I had a better idea: Since most of the things taking up space are just clutter, we decided to bring things to the neighborhood junk shop. So, it started with the old Christmas tree, then everything we thought were useless were brought together, including a broken printer and a damaged electric cooker among others. My mom also requested that we bring, too, the old newspapers, PET and glass bottles. We had a full trunk with us.
Eighty-five pesos. YES. We got P85 for everything. I mean, not that I’m expecting too much or anything, but I never thought all those would amount only to that. (Though I really was expecting it to be touching on three digits.) But, it’s okay. We got rid of trash and still managed to earn. P45 for me, and P40 for Jonjon. Not bad.
One thing though: “Hindi namin ‘yan binibili.” was what the junk shop guy has to say when he saw the Christmas tree.
Happy new year! That’s right, it’s January 1, 2008. Everyone who has a cellphone probably at least received a greeting or two for the new year, some with additional emotional impact, like ‘Thanks for being part of my 2007!’ I didn’t entertain such drama, but I surely appreciated those things especially the sincere ones, and those from my friends. Oh. Thanks for being a piece of me in the last year, friends.
Last night supposedly would be a celebration for us, since it was the eve. However, it simply turned out to be a normal celebration night for us. Nothing new. Some firecrackers, fireworks and food, and then we slept. It turned out for me to be very boring. No cousins, no aunts and uncles. The only thing that really is getting my full appreciation were the text messages I’m receiving. It really was so sad that my cousins weren’t here last night, but I’m sure they’d be here on new year’s day itself.
And I was right. What we were expecting for the night were all happening the next day: all the laughs, stories, lots of eating, playing (and fighting!) children, and even the traditional paagaw ng barya, which my grandmother annually initiates. Everything’s unfolding. What I thought was the worst new year’s celebration turned out right after all. Thank God.
This made me realize that emotional connections (in this case, family ties) usually were the secret ingredients to a good celebration. No matter how authentic your ingredients are to your food, or how elegant the venue is prepared, nothing beats the joy inflicted upon by the natural mingling with your loved ones. Yes, they’re truly the ones you’ll need.
