1 December 2008 @ Johnston's House
Arg, not enough sleep, almost could not wake myself up to prepare myself to go Johnston's, my Best friend's, house.
Could only blame of all the delays that the furnisher have brought for my loss of sleep for the past few days. LOL...just kidding. i think all of us are partly to blame, our family didn't really packed everything in boxes anyway.
Well, that's not today's topic, huh? :D
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Now that I moved house, this will be my first time going to Johnston's house from here.
But hey, I did my homework, I know I have to head towards Compass Point where the Bus Interchange is located first and take the usual bus "80" to reach near his house.
I previously told Emelia, Johnston's Sister, that I'm coming at around 7:30AM[GMT +8]. But I had not accounted for walking towards the Bus Interchange(yeah, I'm dumb)
And so, I'm already late and the Bus that came was a Bus "80A". Notice that "A"? That means it terminates its bus service earlier than its number's route. Well it say it's terminating at Ajunied Station, that's near Johnston's house so I boarded that bus.
Boy, little did I know that the bus actually terminates at exactly one stop before my preferred stop. Such misfortune! LOL...need to walk one bus-stop distance to reach Johnston's house. Well, the good thing is that I can take shortcuts to reach there. LOL!
Well i reach there around 8:00AM[GMT +8]. Hmm not that late after all, sigh...
When I reach the house, Johnston's sister was still sleeping as usual.
John's awake, and he suggest I try out the new game he got. "Rayman 2"
I got "rayman 1", never tried before the sequel. In fact, I never knew there were a sequel until that very day. Haha.
That game is fun, though I think it's a bit lacking in co-op play. Despite that, the 2 players mode in tour mode were fun. Yep, I had alot of fun playing that game :D
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Then his sister woke up, we played "Rayman 2" for a while before his sister suggest that we play some boardgames. I think she likes boardgames, maybe second interest beside soft toys. :p
Johnston chose Monopoly.
Right, let me describe my feeling when we first started playing the Boardgame - Right, very long had not played this game.
And after the game? OMG, the horror...the horror....
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Before you jump to conclusion, however right you may be, at least give me a chance to clarify. :D
Unlike many Singaporeans, we play a different rule, not the "League Rules" nor the "House Rule".
I would say a mix since we had a missing property deed and the free parking have a progressive lottery prize.
Not to mention, we forgo the first round touring around the board. We simply start, and we buy the property we land on.
Trade is allowed and only when you acquired all property deed of the same colour, can you upgrade to houses and hotels.
And so we played, I got almost all types of colour, and I got one set of yellow. Then I traded with Johnston some property deeds to gain for ground.
Apparently, the trading proved fatal of me. You can say it have been a serious and critical miscalculation of mine.
I think Emelia must have a urge to kill me for trading with her brother.Hahs
I actually wanted to trade with Emelia but she had a bad history with trading in monopoly(small wonder?)
Emelia had no sets, partly because of me holding almost one deed of each house colour. I suggested trade to stop the stalemate but she refused. This end up Johnston getting richer since he was the first to reach hotel for all his property deeds for that only set he had.(partly because, we kept reaching his hotel..OMG..the horror...)
And so we lost, down to not a single cent, a complete victory for Johnston. Woots! LOL...
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Then we had lunch near his house and we went to Plaza Singapura to watch movie.
F.Y.I, the movie we're going to watch is "Madagascar 2: Escape Africa"
I'm not going to write a review about it because, one I do not know what to write without spoiling the movie and two, I'm lazy to type so much.
All I can say is, if laughter is what you seek, come down and watch the movie!
Oh, they added Romance into the bag.
The ending is sort of...indescribable.
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And we went home. I meant their home. (DUH?)
Played some computer and went for dinner and back to computer. LOL.
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Johnston's Desktop Computer just got spoiled recently, I'm not sure whether it got short-circuited or simply died out on him. As such, I can't fix it. *Sigh*
Not that I mind much since the biggest consequences was not playing of Warcraft together but since we can play even when we're at our own respective homes, it does not account much huh?
The problem is when we're doing the project that Johnston wants to make a game, a simple one.
Now that only one computer, his laptop, can access the Internet and so happens that only that computer have the software, progress really went slowly.
Oh, did I mention that Johnston have another desktop? No, I did not. right, he has another desktop, Windows 98, can't connect to Internet but can still play games nonetheless.
We played Heroes IV(and didn't managed to complete it after a week!). And other games like submarine Titans and Casino Tycoon.
The main desktop that was spoiled is a Windows XP. See the weird thing? The newer computer died before the old computer. The IT Techies were not kidding when they said old computers are hardy.
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First Day in his house, and we did so much. Didn't realize it until I typed it all out. Haha!
2 December 2008 @ Johnston's House
Woke up at around 8AM[GMT +8] today.
I consider this as me waking up very early because for the past few days, apart from Monday, I have been waking up around 10AM[GMT +8] in the morning.
As Usual, we set aside morning for console gaming!
His Xbox is spoilt like one year ago, though we miss it, there's Wii and it's healthy to play Wii!
Wii! lol....
If my memory serves, we started playing Pokemon Revolution which is like a trading card game except that you cannot collect pokemons but rather default pokemon choices in form of passes.
If you have DS, good for you because you can import pokemons from Pearl to play in this Wii Game.
A bit waste of money because it cost so much with so little features.
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We unlocked a Rental Pass this morning and then we went to play scrabbles!
It's really rare to use up all the word pieces and so nicely, used by each players turn by turn. It's amazing we can form words with so little and weird array of letters left.
Here's the picture of our final art ;)
At night, when we were having dinner, their mother was talking with us.
Here's something we heard, probably old news to you:
A boy committed suicide over CCAs.
That was a shock for me and Johnston, we had not been following the news lately. Apparently, this boy wanted to change his CCA from some uniform group to Drama but his parents refused.
That end up him committing suicide. A bit, rash isn't it, throwing your life over something a bit more on the trivial side. Oh well, I would have preferred if he asked for some advice from some people like his relatives, friends or even teachers. *Shrug*
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On Tuesday, John and I started drawing the character for the game. The animation was really hard. Just make it look like running is a killer.
We make it until it can fly. The leg detach from it body and 'running' up. LOL? It's really funny.
John said he had a way. Wonder how he's going to do it.....
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3 December 2008 @ best Friend's House
Woke up at around 9AM, hmm..a bit later than yesterday.
Today, Johnston and Emelia will be going to a concert with their parents. I'm not going since I did not know about it until when I reach their house :p and they didn't prepared a ticket because they didn't knew I was staying until Friday. I think the first plan was to stay until Wednesday, so by right everything would be just nice. :D
I don't really mind, but I can't feel fear, I mean I'm going to be alone in this house, a big load of trust have been placed on me and something happens to this house when I'm alone. No...I don't want to go there.
But, I feel comforted by their trust. :D
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But before I tell you what I did when they were away, let me briefly inform you of what we did during the morning and afternoon.
We played Wii! LOL, we went to play Sonic Rider and yeah, I got trashed. Never was a pro and I really forgot how to use the stunts. The shortcuts, ahh!
Johnston had unlocked quite a number of characters the last time we played. Yep! I tried alot of new characters.
Funnily, the last few characters have no voice. As if they were mute. LOL!
Then we played Pokemon again.
Then Emelia woke up and announced that she got CCA today, CO. That meant that we have to buy lunch earlier simply because Emelia need leave early.
I think we ate potato chips that day(wait I think it was Thursay). Unlike my usual trips, I did not buy potato chips and bring to their house.
Several reasons: John said Emelia was sick, and she was during the first few days and John said their family bought alot of potato chips from Malaysia.
And, Emelia recovered on Wednesday night. I think that day we ate Ice-cream.
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okay, my memory is bad, it's in a mess I simply can't remember what we did on the exact day, I just know what we did. Hahas.
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Alright, Emelia wants us to walk her to the bus-stop. Well, we complied. No reason to say no, right? :D
Yeah, we're her bodyguards(LOL?)
Ironically, that bus stop is the stop where my Bus '80' stopped halfway on Monday. Fate, man....
And we didn't wait for her bus to arrive before leaving, her friends are at the bus stop to accompany her, would be awkward if we stayed.
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John and their family have to change some plans because Emelia have CCAs that day. Their original plan was to meet at Raffles Place at 6pm[GMT +8], which Emelia will not be able to make it.
So they changed plans to their parents coming back home to bring them to the concert hall.
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And thus, I'm alone in this house. But I have plans already. I'm going to watch anime, buy dinner, eat dinner, watch anime, bathe, blog.
Which I did, quite efficiently I must say. LOL.
But I have some bad encounter, the streets of Geylang. Do not walk alone, it has a Aura of uneasiness. Singaporeans should know why. :p
Now I know why cars are that important as a transport. LOL!
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Halfway, after I bathed and halfway blogging. I heard something downstairs.
Man! I thought there was a burglar but when I went down, slowly and quietly, it was just their aunt. Phew! But opps?, I scared her. LOL!
I thought their aunt went for the concert too but she was working so I guess she cannot go for the concert or something.
Let's clarify some stuffs before you start asking questions, their aunt is like me, staying over at their house at the moment. She sleeps in the guest room which John had spent many hours fixing the bed there.
John and I at that moment sleep in the Computer Room, as usual. ;)
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Then John's and Emelia's family came back.
Thus, John and I went to play computer. We played Fable. I tried a game too, called "Submarine Titans".
Those who wish to play this game. be prepared, allow no distraction from the real world while playing. This game is intense!
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Played Fable very late. Extreme Late....
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4 December 2008 @ John's House
Time passes so fast, it's the second-last day already. *Sigh*
We played Wii! Pokemon game.
We played GAME OF LIFE! I won...LOL....Miracle.
I got a weird job: trade 4 LIFE cards to trade salary, but I got the second-highest salary already. LOL
Emelia got Doctor, highest Salary, as usual.
John got the IT job, gay job, his job as usual.
Then things got interesting. I lost my stocks because market crash and John was complaining why no one 'spoil' the dice because it's his job to 'fix it' and he will get money from it.
Then he trade salary with Emelia because he reach a tile that simply says this in short. Trade Salary. LOL!
Then at that exact next turn, I use 4 LIFE cards and trade with him that salary. Now, I got the highest salary!. Yay!
Then John lost his job, he became an artist. Then Emelia traded salary with me, now I got the lowest salary. Darn!
Then I lost my job and became...the IT job. LOL!
We were saying, John's previous boss fired him to hire me. LOL!
Then they started 'spoiling' the dice. I got quite a amount of money from it and John was wondering why no one 'spoil' it when his job was that. LOL!
Luck, maybe.
In the end, I won. :p
In fact, the only board game I won when I was there. Haiz...LOL!
John won two Boardgames.
Emelia won none. but She got middle for most so she's Runner-up!
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Emelia needs to go to school. She doesn't want to go, and we started comparing our school Band's practices with each other even though CO have no link to Band. LOL!
But in the end, we managed to convince her to go.
As usual, we walk her to the bus stop. And her friends are there, as usual.
At night, when Emelia came back, she told us one of her friends said John and I suai(in English means handsome). She got a doubtful look. Hahs.
LOL?
Then when their parents came back, she was asking her mother if John is handsome. (wanted to laugh out loud but had to control.)
Wonder what''s the big hype for just someone saying your brother is handsome? LOL!
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5 December 2008 @ John's House
Last day, so fast!
Haiz....can't bear to leave.LOL...
Well anyway, we played swords-fight, once at their home, Emelia is civilian and we can't kill her, who can kill civilian, will minus score, yer know. LOL!
John and I were swords-fighting when....the civilian got armed and assaulted us!
OMG!
Then we were like running away from the ,YOU CAN'T KILL Person. LOL!
After that we went for lunch and John and I played swordsfight downstairs.
This is with a twist. The defender can use only 1 sword while the attacker can wield 2 swords.
The defender have to protect a item from the attacker, preventing him from getting the item.
The attacker counts to 100 while the defender hides the item.
Each have three lives. If he got slashed three times, a penalty will incur. 10 secs of doing nothing.
I never could find the item. John managed to find it. Haha...
Then the slashing and finding of item is a tiring work. Have to handle the defender while finding the item which could be anywhere.
A few times we had draw, we both ran out of lives at the same time. LOL! Staring at each other for 10 seconds.
FUN! If in the future, more people play would be extreme fun.
Record: we broke around 5 swords that day. LOL!
One time our swords break when we clashed. The force was too great since we slammed at each other from charging at each other.
HAH!
Then we went up to play computer. I tried a new game, 'Casino Tycoon'
Hard to manage but it's fun. :D
Go buy and try!
Then at night, we, including their family, watched a movie, 'My wife is a Gangster 2'.
Funny movie. Hahas.
Then we played for a while then I went home. Sigh.
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From all 5 days @ John's House
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We played Heroes almost everyday at night and we can't complete!!!
It's a map made by John and edited by me. The map is simply too big. Couldn't Complete.
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We played PSP too. John completed a game I couldn't complete. Wow!
He got talent :D
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Well, that should be all, see ya!
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NOTE:
I cannot vouch for when the activities occurred, whether it was on a Wednesday or Thursday or something like that. My memory is a bit bad but what I can confirm is the stuffs we did there. Because the stuffs we did are unique, stuffs I had not done for very long and therefore have memorable effect on me. This is why I miss the good 'ld days when we can do such stuffs almost everyday. Of course, with my goods friends ;)
Frens 4ever! Hail KHS '05~ers!
