Final Exams Week

 
::wistful sigh::
 
Final exams week is always the best week of school. For one and a half glorious weeks, there are not only no classes scheduled, but also there is free food and the ever-so-wonderful quiet hours. There are many times I can remember in my past few years here at college where final exams week [...]

Weathering Stupidity

I’ve been in a Go-playing phase recently. I’ve improved from 30kyu to 23 kyu in a matter of a month. It’s very satisfying, as well as challenging and fun.
Interestingly, a number of my Go opponents are not oriental, as you might expect, but are instead European or Canadian. This is despite my playing Go on [...]

Magic: The Gathering

The following is taken from one of my previous journals, dated 10/10/2002.
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The first time I saw a Magic card was on June 22, 1996 in the early afternoon. I was at a summer school type program at a boarding school. There were two people there playing, and while it did catch my attention [...]

Getting My Feet Wet

Maybe it is just that I had a particularly odd way of growing up, but I was never taught as a child that I should wear “shower shoes” while in the shower. It was never a concern for me.
Throughout the many years, I have taken many, many showers, yet in not a single one of [...]

The Concept Of True Love

Laguna y Julia… Rinoa y Seifer… 
I find myself questioning love itself.
Rinoa found out Seifer was alive, and when Squall said he might have to kill him, what was her response?
Julia loved Laguna, yet fell for Caraway at the drop of a hat. 
::sigh:: 
I miss Trent. Not the Trent I knew… The Trent of legend. The Trent [...]

Final Fantasy Tactics

I finished Final fantasy Tactics last night. 
It was very good… I enjoyed its storyline more than any other Final Fantasy game I’ve ever played. The downsides of the game were many, however — it was far too short, and they screwed up two plot points that could have made the game twenty times better. 
An aside: Is it [...]

The Best Strategy Game

I like strategy games. I see no purpose to games of chance; what is the point of them? But in strategy, one’s wits are tested, and I enjoy that. I think the aspect I enjoy most from strategy games is the fact that they just feel right. I know that sounds vague, but it is [...]

Playing To Win

I play to win.
It may not seem like it sometimes… When I play Axis & Allies, sometimes I make suggestions to the opposing team; but I do this to increase the level of awareness in the game by all the players, so that if we ever go to a tournament together we will be more practiced [...]

Micro-Biology & Quantum Physics

Today I viewed an exhibit put on by artist Bonita Day. It was… quite unique. She used microbiology as the subject of her works, and she intermixed them with human technologies.
One of her creations takes electrical conduit and jumbles it around a grand piano in such a way that she is mimicking strands of ribonucleic [...]

Magic: The Gathering

The first time I saw a Magic card was on June 22, 1996 in the early afternoon. I was at a summer school type program at a boarding school. There were two people there playing, and while it did catch my attention for a second or so, I only spent a short moment watching them, [...]