Sunday, July 20, 2014 - [4th. ]
That's not the message I wanted to receive.
But .. shit happens and you were unwell. So don't be too hard on yourself.
This weekend was a disappointing one for Zac.
I know he's wanted to get out of Brisbane for a while. I mean a holiday. I know he was upset when he had his wisdom teeth taken out a couple months ago and he had to cancel his flights.
Then this weekend came along and he set off full of excitement, only to suffer from food poisoning the day he landed. And so began an exhausting night of throwing up and tummy aches which obviously cause sleep deprivation because he didn't sleep the night before flying either.
The poor boy.
I feel so sorry for him because I know he invested in this trip to emerge champion and he deserves it because he's played the game for years and he's good at it and people know it. It's such an awful feeling to be great at something and then something stupid like a stomach cramp or a headache throws you off and you can't perform.
Well... I can't exactly relate to that because I don't have a super good talent that I can show off ): ..
Life's strange isn't it.
People always say "you've disappointed me" "I'm not angry, I'm disappointed in you" but you know how painful that statement is. Do people realize that the one who failed feels the sting of disappointment more than anyone else and it already eats them from the inside and they don't need the extra burden of pleasing others.
I shall learn to withhold my opinion the next time I'm disappointed at someone for whatever reason and encourage them instead ~
But .. shit happens and you were unwell. So don't be too hard on yourself.
This weekend was a disappointing one for Zac.
I know he's wanted to get out of Brisbane for a while. I mean a holiday. I know he was upset when he had his wisdom teeth taken out a couple months ago and he had to cancel his flights.
Then this weekend came along and he set off full of excitement, only to suffer from food poisoning the day he landed. And so began an exhausting night of throwing up and tummy aches which obviously cause sleep deprivation because he didn't sleep the night before flying either.
The poor boy.
I feel so sorry for him because I know he invested in this trip to emerge champion and he deserves it because he's played the game for years and he's good at it and people know it. It's such an awful feeling to be great at something and then something stupid like a stomach cramp or a headache throws you off and you can't perform.
Well... I can't exactly relate to that because I don't have a super good talent that I can show off ): ..
Life's strange isn't it.
People always say "you've disappointed me" "I'm not angry, I'm disappointed in you" but you know how painful that statement is. Do people realize that the one who failed feels the sting of disappointment more than anyone else and it already eats them from the inside and they don't need the extra burden of pleasing others.
I shall learn to withhold my opinion the next time I'm disappointed at someone for whatever reason and encourage them instead ~
Labels: 2014, acl, melee, singles, super smash brothers, sydney, tournament
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6:00 PM.
Sunday, March 16, 2014 - [popup sale!]
Since the last time I wrote 5 days ago, I've had no bad dreams! Hurray, in fact most of them have been happy dreams, one of them was of me flying and teaching my brother to fly ! (been watching too much DBZ x_x) It felt very special because I've never dreamt of flying ! :DDD After learning to fly, bro and I went to hide from our parents hahaha because they wanted to go somewhere we didn't want to XD
Also dreamt just last night that I met someone I admired and we became awfully good friends. It's funny 'cause she was there around my family and she was living with us back in the house in the west - Villa Verde. She sorta replaced my brother and I was growing up with her and somehow my helper was living with us but my parents were never around. And we were living in Brisbane, but the house we lived in was from my childhood. :o So exciting! She taught me everything I wanted to learn and I grew up to be exactly like her U_U ! *dream come true*
So that's the good thing, perhaps writing really helped clear my mind.. I didn't go to uni on Wednesday (but I've already studied the slides and caught up! yay me!) and was halfway through listening to another lecture when my laptop died ... on Friday. Oh gaaaaadddd. I was so upset because it had froze and died a few times on Wednesday and Thursday like this...
I restarted it about 6 times before it finally booted up.. then .. freezed midway in Firefox about 3 times... It kept freezing on facebook because everytime I restart firefox prompts me to "Restore previous session" and I could not even click the lecture recording tab or the QUT tab and it would freeze again.
Friday was unlucky because in my sadness I went for a jog and that was fine, managed to jog for a longer time because Jet had been on that route before and recognized the path, I was tired and cooked dinner and burnt my wrist ): and after that, while carrying the hot bowls into the room I kicked my pinky toe on the door T_______T. Such pain ..
On a happier note, sometime within the week I managed to cook an extremely tasty plate of Fried Rice which tasted completely different from any version of fried rice I've tried to make in the past 2 years. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it again because I lack the ingredients to make which I had brought from Singapore that my helper gave me ):
Saturday ! A day that Unicorn and I had been luuuuuuucing forward to for a few days "Beginning Boutique's Pop Up Sale + Model Search" :DDD Because of personal reasons, I was very poor so I actually just wanted to go to check it out and go apply to be a model :3 I made Steph do it too, short asian models. totes gonna get selected ! There were so many other pretty and intimidating girls who applied. ): I want to be a model ): ): ): *pouts pouts pouts pouts pouts*
Got our pix taken at the photobooth (: The power ran out a few times at the venue ahaha, reminded me of the module I'm studying in uni about production management, and I just observed how the staff kept everyone calm and speedily worked on the problem and their train of communication between the staff at various booths. I'm just so hardworking, learning outside uni :x
Am a sucker for sunflowers so Unicorn helped me buy this romper :3 it's soooo loose on me though XD I need to get it altered or wear something inside it :3 the dip in the middle is actually just slightly above where the double sunflower in the middle is, if I didn't pull it up in the photo D: dat creeeavage.
Don't my thighs look awfully thin in this photo ! It's a trick ! which oddly enough Zac pointed out to me from all his 1000gb of Yuri pictures. Standing with her legs together makes her thighs look really big.
So in almost every photo she poses in, for her advertorials and stuff her legs are always crossed one over the other to make her thighs look slimmer ~
Clever trickxy for ladies out there, or maybe I'm just slow at noticing such things and the whole female population knows this already D:
Had lunch at Grill'd after the sale. Can't comment I don't know how the burgers taste like because I wasn't hungry then, but all the signs around the shop say it's really healthy :o
Legs look so thin despite eating sooooo much recently XD XD XD *take advantage of the big dressing room mirror for OOTD selfie! :x
Also dreamt just last night that I met someone I admired and we became awfully good friends. It's funny 'cause she was there around my family and she was living with us back in the house in the west - Villa Verde. She sorta replaced my brother and I was growing up with her and somehow my helper was living with us but my parents were never around. And we were living in Brisbane, but the house we lived in was from my childhood. :o So exciting! She taught me everything I wanted to learn and I grew up to be exactly like her U_U ! *dream come true*
So that's the good thing, perhaps writing really helped clear my mind.. I didn't go to uni on Wednesday (but I've already studied the slides and caught up! yay me!) and was halfway through listening to another lecture when my laptop died ... on Friday. Oh gaaaaadddd. I was so upset because it had froze and died a few times on Wednesday and Thursday like this...
I restarted it about 6 times before it finally booted up.. then .. freezed midway in Firefox about 3 times... It kept freezing on facebook because everytime I restart firefox prompts me to "Restore previous session" and I could not even click the lecture recording tab or the QUT tab and it would freeze again.
So okay, maybe it's a problem with firefox, lemme force quit and just study from the slides.
NOPE.
Okay woman you test my limits, now I shall freeze before it reaches the user log on screen muahahahahahahahaha!
.... and it completely shit itself on Friday and I could not log on at all. T_T.. and I was in the mood to study! well played macbook ): Friday was a pretty unlucky day. First of all my lecturer had cancelled the lesson to attend a funeral. I felt very sad for her because her father is also dying and she's the only relative in Brisbane. She has several classes to teach and another job outside of QUT. And now her friend has passed away too? She's under so much stress I can't imagine. She's an excellent tutor and lecturer and sends so much extra information and notes to study and is always up to date unlike any other film unit which never updates the Blackboard site. She responded to my queries so quickly as well. Stay strong lecturer!
Friday was unlucky because in my sadness I went for a jog and that was fine, managed to jog for a longer time because Jet had been on that route before and recognized the path, I was tired and cooked dinner and burnt my wrist ): and after that, while carrying the hot bowls into the room I kicked my pinky toe on the door T_______T. Such pain ..
On a happier note, sometime within the week I managed to cook an extremely tasty plate of Fried Rice which tasted completely different from any version of fried rice I've tried to make in the past 2 years. Unfortunately I won't be able to make it again because I lack the ingredients to make which I had brought from Singapore that my helper gave me ):
Saturday ! A day that Unicorn and I had been luuuuuuucing forward to for a few days "Beginning Boutique's Pop Up Sale + Model Search" :DDD Because of personal reasons, I was very poor so I actually just wanted to go to check it out and go apply to be a model :3 I made Steph do it too, short asian models. totes gonna get selected ! There were so many other pretty and intimidating girls who applied. ): I want to be a model ): ): ): *pouts pouts pouts pouts pouts*
Got our pix taken at the photobooth (: The power ran out a few times at the venue ahaha, reminded me of the module I'm studying in uni about production management, and I just observed how the staff kept everyone calm and speedily worked on the problem and their train of communication between the staff at various booths. I'm just so hardworking, learning outside uni :x
Am a sucker for sunflowers so Unicorn helped me buy this romper :3 it's soooo loose on me though XD I need to get it altered or wear something inside it :3 the dip in the middle is actually just slightly above where the double sunflower in the middle is, if I didn't pull it up in the photo D: dat creeeavage.
Don't my thighs look awfully thin in this photo ! It's a trick ! which oddly enough Zac pointed out to me from all his 1000gb of Yuri pictures. Standing with her legs together makes her thighs look really big.
So in almost every photo she poses in, for her advertorials and stuff her legs are always crossed one over the other to make her thighs look slimmer ~
Clever trickxy for ladies out there, or maybe I'm just slow at noticing such things and the whole female population knows this already D:
Had lunch at Grill'd after the sale. Can't comment I don't know how the burgers taste like because I wasn't hungry then, but all the signs around the shop say it's really healthy :o
Went to Chermside after to get my laptop looked at. For the first time ever the Apple Genius who served me was very friendly and actually did something to the laptop. He managed to get my stuff backed up and the laptop did not freeze once in his hands. D: well done laptop just don't show the man what's wrong with you. Anyway he diagnosed a few problems like I don't charge my laptop enough and I let it run out of battery too much. Every time it shuts down due to insufficient battery it's unable to save the files and each time it reboots it modifies my system files which may be causing it to boot up slowly and freeze.
He also identified a fault in my AirPort card which is probably why my laptop is soooo laggy and drops out of the Wi-Fi frequently. That's awesome $130 to replace the airport card seems reasonable, hopefully I don't lag anymore after I get it back :o This Genius bar dude was the first one to ever diagnose the problems so quickly and help me save my data. I've been to Apple about 4 times in the past 2 years with various problems and all they've ever done is "Err.. we'll have to take it in you know and check it, run some tests. I can't tell what's wrong with it Ill let you know. Err.. that's gonna cost you a couple hundred dollars for us to check it. Do you have back up, you're gonna lose all your data and you can't hold us responsible for it. Err.. you understand? "Incompetent shits. Thank god for this man.
We spend a couple hours later just window-shopping, trying on some clothes and I got to look at a nice set of bedsheets too. Cost about $180 for a set of King sheets and pillowcases at Target and $200 for the same sheets and pillowcases at Bed Bath and Table but an extra 150 threadcount :3 Actually was $400 but 50% off! I need to go get them next week when I go retrieve my laptop ! :DDD Please still be on sale.
"What's with you and hair accessories?!"
I dunno D: I just like them. I also really like bows. Did you know? :3
Legs look so thin despite eating sooooo much recently XD XD XD *take advantage of the big dressing room mirror for OOTD selfie! :x
Got little treats from Dragonberry before we left. Just a table of marshmellows, lollipops, sherbets and hard candy to grab :x
Meanwhile Zac was raping at a smash tourney, sad that I couldn't go, glad I didn't go because he said the venue wasn't good :o It was hot and sweaty and squeezy. He won both Singles and Doubles. Tsk no challenge eh? The next tourney is on the 29th of March, which is coincidentally our anniversary and also there's also a big event happening that evening :3 EXCITED!
Zac said he's going to play doubles with me hurraayyyyyyyy :DDD I never thought I'd get to play in a tournament! Mebbe he won't be able to win this time because of my suuuuperior skillz :x I can't wait XD
Labels: apple, beginning boutique, bows, genius bar, macbook, melee, popup sale, super smash brothers, thighs, tournament
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1:19 PM.
Sunday, December 08, 2013 - [lansmash ! ]
Herrow there! (I took like 10years to type this post today x_x, I hope you enjoy it!)
Yesterday I went to attend a LanSmash tourney with Zac for the first time! I've missed a few of them over the year because of uni and being away and etc. Yay I finally made it to one!(After I completed Atelier Rorona in the afternoon and I felt so lost and empty I had Zac come home to bring me there hehehe)
I've never been to a tournament like this before so I was tres excited.
Entered the stadium at Mount Gravatt and was greeted by this :o ! waaaaaa first, I went to meet Zeeek's friends ^^ but I only knew two of them D: ..
There's Toki in a Pikachu hoodie and Nick-broccoli-san in red
I got to know some others like Gerard and Rob but it felt very awkward to go take photos randomly of people I'm not that familiar with XD. But I kno, I kno these two photos are horribly taken.
OKAY!
So Zac took part in the tourney for a game called Super Smash Brothers Melee! There were people playing other games like StreetFighter, King of Fighters, Marvel vs Capcom, Injustice, Dota 2, Starcraft and Halo :3
Zac isn't caring to tell me the difference between Melee and Brawl right now, but I've heard Brawl is easier and has more characters and I've only played Melee with him and steph, carlisle, lachlan, kasper and I suck shit at the game.
So as the name suggests, you pick a character and smash away at the enemy. I don't understand why this picture doesn't have the characters Roy, Marth or Mewtwo in it. But the idea of the game is to smash enemies off a platform. Each character has its own attack moves and recovery moves to fly back onto the stage or teleport a short distance. It's quite a tough fighting game D:
Okie so that's Marth up there, the only character I know how to use at the moment, besides screaming away when I get hit, I know how to jump, double jump, smash, recover, shield and grab, very poorly tho. I suppose this game can appeal to girls as well because it has cute characters like Peach, Jigglypuff, Pikachu, Yoshi and such. Marth seems to be one of the easier characters to learn tho. ^^
Okay I have a good reason for picking up this game so slowly, I understand the commands and I can now see some sort of combos and the distance the combo travels but I can't execute them becauseeeee, all my childhood life I only ever used a Playstation controller like this
So this is the only picture I can find of the commands in Smash, the picture quality is awful I'm sorry ):
My biggest obstacle is using the Jumps, the two grey buttons above the green one, because usually on a sony controller I press O to jump and [] to throw items (in Bomberman) and X to attack. But in the gamecube controller there's three attack buttons A and B and there's the yellow C-stick to SMASH and two jump buttons.
Too many buttons...
AHHHHH ... It's just .. just... too hard ! D:
Yes it's rather difficult for me get used to this controller layout.
Kay moving on to the actual gameplay.
So each player at the lan has their own controller and plug it to the Gamecube here :3 and BEGIN!
So this is Zac's (Syke) first Singles match, and he is raping his opponent, despite playing a horribly weak character called Roy on the right vs Mewtwo on the left, also very weak. At the bottom on the screen there's the number of lives and Roy has 4 (max) and Mewtwo has 1 left.
The more you attack each player the higher their percentage goes, so when you're at 100% and above (max 999%) there's a higher chance of you getting knocked or smashed off the stage and unable to recover. So the Fox at 60% will fly off the stage further than Kirby at 17% if they both got hit by an enemy at the same time.
Ideally in this game you have to avoid attacks and shield and still damage your enemy to get them at a high percentage then blast them with a smash attack off the stage where they can't recover (dash across the screen) back to the stage. There's also platforms and multiple kinds of stages in the game that make it challenging.
watching some Streetfighter
and looking at people's HOOOGE computers
Yesterday I went to attend a LanSmash tourney with Zac for the first time! I've missed a few of them over the year because of uni and being away and etc. Yay I finally made it to one!(After I completed Atelier Rorona in the afternoon and I felt so lost and empty I had Zac come home to bring me there hehehe)
I've never been to a tournament like this before so I was tres excited.
Entered the stadium at Mount Gravatt and was greeted by this :o ! waaaaaa first, I went to meet Zeeek's friends ^^ but I only knew two of them D: ..
There's Toki in a Pikachu hoodie and Nick-broccoli-san in red
I got to know some others like Gerard and Rob but it felt very awkward to go take photos randomly of people I'm not that familiar with XD. But I kno, I kno these two photos are horribly taken.
OKAY!
So Zac took part in the tourney for a game called Super Smash Brothers Melee! There were people playing other games like StreetFighter, King of Fighters, Marvel vs Capcom, Injustice, Dota 2, Starcraft and Halo :3
Zac isn't caring to tell me the difference between Melee and Brawl right now, but I've heard Brawl is easier and has more characters and I've only played Melee with him and steph, carlisle, lachlan, kasper and I suck shit at the game.
So as the name suggests, you pick a character and smash away at the enemy. I don't understand why this picture doesn't have the characters Roy, Marth or Mewtwo in it. But the idea of the game is to smash enemies off a platform. Each character has its own attack moves and recovery moves to fly back onto the stage or teleport a short distance. It's quite a tough fighting game D:
Okie so that's Marth up there, the only character I know how to use at the moment, besides screaming away when I get hit, I know how to jump, double jump, smash, recover, shield and grab, very poorly tho. I suppose this game can appeal to girls as well because it has cute characters like Peach, Jigglypuff, Pikachu, Yoshi and such. Marth seems to be one of the easier characters to learn tho. ^^
Okay I have a good reason for picking up this game so slowly, I understand the commands and I can now see some sort of combos and the distance the combo travels but I can't execute them becauseeeee, all my childhood life I only ever used a Playstation controller like this
Enter the Gamecube controller used to play Smash
WHUT! the buttons and layout are all completely different and to me the controller feels slightly bigger but to Zac they're all the same and I have infinite excuses.
My biggest obstacle is using the Jumps, the two grey buttons above the green one, because usually on a sony controller I press O to jump and [] to throw items (in Bomberman) and X to attack. But in the gamecube controller there's three attack buttons A and B and there's the yellow C-stick to SMASH and two jump buttons.
Too many buttons...
AHHHHH ... It's just .. just... too hard ! D:
Yes it's rather difficult for me get used to this controller layout.
Kay moving on to the actual gameplay.
So each player at the lan has their own controller and plug it to the Gamecube here :3 and BEGIN!
So this is Zac's (Syke) first Singles match, and he is raping his opponent, despite playing a horribly weak character called Roy on the right vs Mewtwo on the left, also very weak. At the bottom on the screen there's the number of lives and Roy has 4 (max) and Mewtwo has 1 left.
The more you attack each player the higher their percentage goes, so when you're at 100% and above (max 999%) there's a higher chance of you getting knocked or smashed off the stage and unable to recover. So the Fox at 60% will fly off the stage further than Kirby at 17% if they both got hit by an enemy at the same time.
Ideally in this game you have to avoid attacks and shield and still damage your enemy to get them at a high percentage then blast them with a smash attack off the stage where they can't recover (dash across the screen) back to the stage. There's also platforms and multiple kinds of stages in the game that make it challenging.
So the top left stage is one Zac was playing on and several stages are banned in tourneys but here are some various kinds of stages. So a good player would utilize the stage properties like some aerial attacks cannot work if there's platforms involved so players pick the stage wisely. For me I get very confused with the things on the stage because it looks too messy like Fountain of Dreams stage at the bottom left, it's just far too messy for me to see where my character is especially on 2v2 mode and I panic 'cause I can't see myself T_T and Zac will be like "YOU'RE RIGHT THERE!" or "woman.. why did you just walk off the stage?"
Well that's as in-depth as I can explain in layman terms, watch some videos to understand the game more (:
So while Zac was busy battling ..
(From left) Anthony, Gerard, Zac and Attila (Zac's 2v2 partner)
I was ..
amusing myself with a giant jenga almost as tall as me and very wobbly D:
watching some Streetfighter
and looking at people's HOOOGE computers
The End.
Oh yes, Zakido was the champion of both Singles and Doubles that day! YAYYYYYY !
Labels: attack, gamecube, gameplay, giant jenga, lansmash, melee, recovery, stages, super smash brothers, syke, tournament
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9:09 AM.
