One of the things I didn't like about school was the daily routines that I got myself into of waking up, go to school, do homework, sleep, repeat. When summer break began, everyday was an exciting day of seeing friends, playing videogames and trying new Online games, starting new projects, learning new songs on my instruments, and slowly work myself into shape by exercising. Unfortunately, I've gotten myself into another routine after a while due to circumstances that could not be avoided. My friends were a lot more busier than I thought this summer and so I didn't get to see them as much as I would have liked. One has work, the other went on several family trips, a few went out of the country, and some were tied down with chores and preparations for school. I've been going to the gym every other day this summer in order to become more physically active and stronger. Along with needing to get my license before I leave to College, I've been driving everyday for about 1.5 hours. Other than that, each day I would be checking my e-mail for school updates, checking for additional forms that may need to be complete for shcool, running errands or going out with my family. So I wake up and eat breakfast and soon after lunch, go driving, go to the gym, take a shower, eat dinner, and then I get a bit of time to do something. One instance is what I'm doing now, writing on my blog o.0. But yeah, I don't like how I don't have that much free time to myself to even work on my projects anymore. There's so many things uncompleted and unfulfilled at the moment and summer break is coming close to an end. It's so sad that it's a bit......depressing.
[New Stuff]
During last week, my family did some shopping and I was able to get a few things myself. Besides finally buying my Lenovo Thinkpad Laptop (which hasn't come in yet), the most notable item I recieved was an 8GB iPod Touch from my sister. She bought a Mac Book Pro with the college offer of a free iPod Touch and decided to give it to me since she receieve a 8GB Nano on her birthday as well as presenting it to me as a replacement ipod since my old one runs out of battery in only a few hours of play time (I'm still keeping it though, unless someone wants to buy it from me? =D). I went to Guitar Center looking for a electric guitar tuner and found one for a really good price but didn't get a discount, and so I did not buy it; however, I managed to find a really nice pair of Headphones for my new laptop I can use for my music (and gaming I suppose with the fact that it doesn't have a microphone on it) and a sustain pedal for my electric keyboard to use when I go to to college. So I'm happy with my new stuff, though the iPod has been sucking a lot of my time away.
[Download Crazy]
Ever since I got my new iPod, I've been downloading games like crazy. I did manage to find a few good games but still feel a bit unsatisfied. It's probably due to some previews of certain games that I'd love to have but can't find a way to get them. One such game would be Vay, a port of a Sega CD game from 1993. It's an classic RPG game with animé type animations and pixelated sprites. With the iPod having no buttons, it's hard to play any other type of genre besides puzzle games, but RPGs are possible. You tap to move to an area, and you select commands to execute them.
The other game has yet to come out. Pantafobia is also a RPG game with the claim of having gameplay length of 100+ hours. That actually turns me off since I've been playing short games now since I don't have as much time to play long ones. But the twist in the game that makes me so curious is that after you beat single player mode, you get to go online and play with your character there with other gamers. I don't know how that works, but for an online game on a handheld like iPod touch? It sounds pretty interesting.
I know I'm not leaving for school yet, but I already miss you guys. I feel very tired from all the things I've been doing and still need to take care of before the move down to Irvine. Hopefully Irvine will be fun. ^_^
The players that played for those 18 hours started getting sick and passing out. I decided to do a bit of research on it and there really were articles about the infamous boss "Pandemonium Warden". I apologize to those players that suffer, but I found it amusing that Square-Enix would even do such a thing as to place a boss monster like that in the game. The quote I see appear all over the internet came from the guild leader of "Beyond the Limitation" and it was quoted: