10 facts meme
This entry was posted on April 24, 2008
I was tagged by the lovely Daniela to write about 10 facts, habits, goals, or other stuff about myself. I think I’ve done something like this before, so I hope I’m not about to repeat myself!
I’m fascinated by torture. I especially love reading about medieval torture methods. They had some twisted people back in those days! I love it. Yes, torture is a horrible thing that I wouldn’t wish on anybody, but there’s just something about a rack and some thumbscrews that has me intrigued.
I suck at reading. I try to read books, but I usually always fail. Hell, I haven’t even finished HP7 yet! I buy books with the intention of reading them, but I never seem to be able to manage it. I find myself reading the same paragraph over and over again, and not taking in any part of it.
I feel like everyone’s sister. My closest friends are all either only children, or have a single brother. Looking at the statistics, that’s eight people I can think of off the top of my head. I get on great with every single one of them, and I think that’s partly because I adopt the “sister” role that they don’t have otherwise.
I’m a very calm person. I’m nearly 21 years old, and not once have I lost my temper with anyone. I don’t even yell at people. It’s so strange to me when I hear about people having screaming matches with siblings / parents, because that never ever happens with me. I’m far too calm for that sort of anger.
I’m a massive High School Musical fan. I have two Zac Efron calendars, DVDs of both movies, a High School Musical (HSM) book, and HSM sticker album, HSM hairbands, and HSM bracelet, and HSM bag, and HSM pencil case, and some HSM postcards. I’ve also had HSM chocolate lollipops, and I have both movie soundtracks on my iPod.
I live in the countryside. Like… deep in the countryside. I can walk for ten minutes from my house and I’ll end up in the middle of nowhere. Our town is famous for being “near” things, and I kind of like that. We’re close enough to things to be able to access them, but far enough away to have plenty of empty space.
I have an oyster card. An oyster card is a way to get cheaper transport around London, which is weird because I don’t even live in London. I’m not even a regular visitor. And yet, I still have an Oyster card!
I can’t click my fingers. I hate the fact that I can’t click my fingers. I’ve tried so many times, and I’ve had various different people try and teach me, but nothing works. I’ve even tried different techniques, but nothing works! I fear that my fingers will eternally be silent.
I can say the alphabet backwards. In primary school we had an “elite” club, where in order to join, you had to be able to say the alphabet in reverse order. I was the first member when I was 8 years old, and I haven’t lost the talent since.
I write HTML like I write English. It’s a language which comes naturally to me now, and on more than one occasion I have found myself “closing” my written paragraphs. I even tried to italicise my handwriting once, but needless to say - it didn’t work. I guess my notebooks don’t interpret HTML in the same way my browser does!
As is the law with memes, I now have to tag people. And in true Calm Banana tradition, I am tagging you.
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Bully: Scholarship Edition
This entry was posted on March 16, 2008
Ever since I got my Wii at Christmas, I’ve been determined to have fun with it. One of the reasons the novelty of my PS2 wore off was that it just wasn’t enough fun. Eventually, I got bored. With my Wii, however, I have not once been bored with it.
One of the first things I did on my Wii was make my Mii, and you can see MiiRachael over on the right. It’s almost like looking in the mirror, except I have better proportions in real life.
Over the past few months I’ve bought some new games for my Wii, the newest being Bully: Scholarship Edition. The trailer for the game makes it look quite violent and at first I was a bit unsure about the game, but after having played it for a little while I have completely changed my mind.
The game centres around the character of Jimmy who is the new kid in a boarding school. He has a past reputation of being a bully and thus some of the students at the new school have it in for him. It’s all rather fascinating.
One of the things that shocked me with this game was just how easy it was to be violent. It’s quite a ‘free’ game in that you’re free to roam around the school grounds and interact with other students. The nunchuck and the wiimote are both used in this game, and as such, you can literally walk up to anyone and punch them in the face. I’m not a violent person, and I don’t like violent games, so that was a bit shocking for me to experience. However, if you punch people it’ll get you in trouble. Punch enough people and the school prefects will come and lynch you.
I’m now on a mission to make Jimmy be a reformed bully. From now on he’s going to be nice and not get in trouble. He’ll defend himself, yes, but he won’t go looking for fights. Well, unless I’m bored and need to release some stress, but that’s just horrible. Violence is wrong. Don’t hit people.
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Well, there goes that lampshade…
This entry was posted on December 27, 2007
Yes, I got a Wii for Christmas. Thank you very much, Santa! I have Wii Sports, Mario Olympics, and The Golden Compass games, although I’m after recommendations for games to buy. What would you suggest?
I was playing Tennis on Wii sports this morning, and I was really getting into it. It was like I was actually at Wimbledon. Well, it was until it started raining bits of lampshade. For little did I know, but I’d destroyed half the lampshade in the overhead light while I lifted my hand to smash the ball back at the opponent. To add insult to injury, I didn’t even win the game.
Whoops!
