Just a day of my holiday

Time flies. In the blink of an eye, it is only 5 days left before I go back to KL. I always find that holiday has a weird way of provoking thoughts and this is especially true when the day of going back to study is drawing closer! I think about relationships of family and friends, how I mistreated them, how I should have acted in those kind of unpleasant moments; and reminiscing those good ol times like what the old people do. LOL...My mind is so complicated, it is hard for you (even myself) to grasp on what it is actually doing...

So, in this particular evening, as the sun was s creeping its way down the horizon, my hard-to-understand mind kicked into action again. This time, it instructed me to go outside to have a good evening stroll and to appreciate the beauties of mother nature, instead of rotting at home or aimlessly surfing the net!

So, below are some of the pictures taken while I was walking around my neighbourhood. Oh, did I mention I will make sure the sun and its heat is soft/friendly enough to not causing tanning of my skin then only I will go outside?? I really dislike any bright lights (ask my roomate, he knows I have bat kind life!) and I scare heat as my body easily get heated up.

Enough with the long winded words. Here are the pictures...

万里香 which is opposite to my house- a place selling big bonsai trees. I love this new entrance (door) they just installed not long ago and of course the lush greenery behind this door!

 The small path that connects my taman (housing area) to some kampong (village).

 Some I dunno what fruits/vegetables that are planted by the houseowner. You can only find this in village!

 The jogging path! Ignore litters beside the river. As you "venture" (yes, they are monkeys, snakes, cows etc) deeper into this place, you will not see those eye-sore rubbish again. ( i not even sure what should i call this place. there are palm oil, sugarcane plantation along the jogging path)

 Instead of turning left into the jogging path, if you turn right, you will come to the run down playground and recreation area.

 The playground is really in its bad,dilapidated condition. There are not even seats for the swing. I used to come here to play everyday when I was still a little kid. And here is also the place I broke my front lower tooth!! It wasnt pulled out, but the tooth was chipped and I still have it until now!

 The sun. Actually, its intensity was still quite strong for me that time. But, for god sake, to take this picture and be blogged here, I risked my life,staying longer than  usual under the sun just to catch a glimpse of the river with the sunset in background.

 Views you will not find in KL!!

 The recreation area. (needless me to say what people do in RECREATION area right?)

 And this is the view of the backside of my secondary school. The school is just a stone thrown away from my house. (really stone thrown distance loh...it takes me less than 2 minutes to walk from my house to the back entrance of the school)

And of course,some rude teenagers who swear vulgarities while playing basketball!

The Sims 3 Store - Vertical Challenge Rock Wall in Adventurous Life! set

Finally, I have gotten this month new items. And in this new blog post, I would like to talk about the Vertical Challenge Rock Wall, though, the items i truly love in this set is the Safari Living Set.

Here's what the item in game description 

Vertical Challenge Rock Wall

An adventurer's journey awaits any tenacious Sim courageous enough to take on the Vertical Challenge Rock Wall! Your endurance and athleticism soar with each vertical inch ascended, and with every climbing competition won, your confidence (and your wallet) will swell! Whether your goal is fitness, climbing supremecy or conquring K2, with the VC Rock Wall the pinnacle of adventure is finally within your grasp!

Immediately after installing the new item, it is time to head into Outdoor activities category to test out this cool new item! I dragged out the vertical wall and placed them back to back in the big park that comes with The Sims 3 Generations.

 There are three levels of difficulty of this rock wall - easy, medium, hard. The wall becomes steeper with each increasing level of difficulty. Sims can use this wall to skill up their level of athleticism and gain some fun too!

Although this rock wall might seem interesting at first time, there are not much interactions available. Personally, I feel that my sims cant live without it and,instead, choose to hit the gym to gain their athletic skill.

LOl, if only sims could die of falling off the wall.....

The Sims 3 More Magic!

Finally, the More Magic set has landed on The Sims Store. 

Here are some in game pictures I have taken and some facts discovered!

Malleable Mimic Voodoo Doll

This Malleable Mimic voodoo doll, generously stuffed with the early spring coat of an organic Spanish moss fed llama, is the cutest and cuddliest way ever devised to harness powerful mystical forces! Reward your friends and family members with blessings and/or subjugate them to various curses and torments, and all with the simple prick of a pin! With the Malleable Mimic in your home, you do the voodoo!

Lord Vladimir's Magic Cauldron

Conjure, brew and imbibe your way to magical and mystical excitement with every turn of the ladle ‘round Lord Vladimir’s Magic Cauldron! Collect or conjure dozens of potion components, brew up a magical concoction, and then throw caution to the wind and take a big swig of MAGIC! Mmm…it’s delicious!

Soothsayer's Crystal Ball

Clear your mind, focus your attention and rest the gaze of your scrying eyes on THE FUTURE. In the smooth spherical surface of the Soothsayer’s Crystal Ball you will suddenly see; the future is crystal clear, your friends and family members are in awe of your predictive prowess, and your complexion has never looked better.

Please note that as I dont like the chair that comes with the crystal ball, I think the one I got from Dr Pepper Alice Stuff looks much cooler with the table and crystal ball.

Now, see why I told you I dont like this chair?

Besides those cool objects above, the More Magic set also includes some hairs and outfits (one for each gender) for both males and females.

Fortune Teller's Turban + Divine Future Fortune Teller's Outfit + Boots from The Sims 3 Pets

Close up look

Mr. Tailored Topper 

Fortune Teller's Charmed Hairstyle + Divine Future Fortune Teller Dress + Heels from The Sims 3 Late Night

Ms. Tailored Topper

The Dandy Lady

Blown Away Hairstyle

I love those outfits very much! Dont you love them too?

Let's move on to the next three magical stuff, shall we? 

 The Malleable Mimic Voodoo Doll

I love this most compared to the crystal ball and cauldron. 

To start this magic trick, first you must successfully bind the targeted sims to this doll. I failed once before and I think the reason was that my sims and the targeted sims are not close to each other enough. If the binding process is successful, the puppet will glow and there are some cool magical effect glowing under your sims!

Love ALL the magical effects!

Sometimes, the magic will backfire too. Your sims will be shocked by the doll (as in the picture)??? So beware when performing this trick as it can BURN your sims!

Some tricks you can perform with this doll:

(I) Cupid's Arrow

(II) Pins and Needles

(III) Hot Foot

(IV) Wet Pants

(V) Curse

(VI) Bless

(I) Cupid's Arrow --to better improve your targeted sims relationship with your sims.

Red glowing hearts come out from the targeted sims if the trick works!

(II) Pins and Needles - to torture the targeted sims. I know you enjoy seeing this! 

Dark Magiccccckkkk!!

(III) Hot Foot - to torture the targeted sims. It is funny to see your sims trying to burn the doll's feet with the ignitor.

As if cat on the hot bricks!

As if cat on the hot bricks!

(IV) Wet Pants - to torture the targeted sims and cause them to wet their pants!

It is always funny to see sims on the edge of peeing themselves. But, you know you will have mess to cleanup afterwards!

(V) Curse

The cursed sims will be shrouded with dark smokes/clouds

Not all the magic tricks are meant to torture the others. You can also use the doll to (VI) Bless others. The clover leaves and golden sparkles look just so pleasant right?

This is the case where your sims fails to bind the doll to the targeted sims!

She will be mad at your sims and show him the middle finger..*rubbing my eyes* I mean her index finger.

Moving on to the Soothsayer's Crystal Ball

As you can see from the above picture, you can tell your own fortune or tell bogus fortunes to other sims. Before you start to read the mystical crystal ball, you need to place at least one chair besides the table (two chairs ,if you want to help others to fortune telling). And  according to The Sims 3 Forum, there are some players experiencing difficulty in placing those chairs correctly next to the table. So try your luck until you get them work for you!

Just a bunch of pictures of my sims doing fortune telling for others.

Love their facial expression!

Something good is gonna happen?

You can predict your own future using this crystal ball. My sims was foretold that he was going to receive something good through his mail and it did happen that a few thousand simoleons decoration painting was sent to his mail!

Lastly, the Lord Vladimir's Magic Cauldron. 

You can create these potions with this magical pot:

(I) Sleeping potion 

(II)Vanity potion 

(III) Emotion potion

 You need to collect some stuff (I am not sure what are the specific things you need to prepare) before you can brew the potion.

According to the tips, it seems like you need Rainbow Bettle, Rainbow Trout or Rainbow Gem to create the strong powerful potion.

You need three identical ingredients to brew the potions??

If you are lazy to collect the ingredients in the wild (fishing or searching for the gem) or buy them off the grocery store, you can try to conjure the ingredients too. But the ingredients turn up in your pot is random. Also, each time your sims is trying to conjure an ingredients, it will deplete your sims energy. Beware of over exhausting your sims and pass out!

As I love my sims doing magical stunts, I like this set introduced by EA. I know they are others simmers who dont enjoy the magical parts in the game. They just feel the game needs to be more realistic, more magic-free. People have their own preferences right? One man's meat is another man's poison. So, respect choices made by other people and happy simming!

PS: Since, EA introduces this set and the magical spell book few months ago, does this mean that we are not getting an expansion pack for magic like we did in The Sims 2 Apartment Life?

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Happy Chinese New Year to those who celebrate it! 

(have you downloaded the free stuff for dragon year and the coming valentine from the store?)

The Sims 3: Cow Plant Can Die too

Cow Plants can die too if unattended for too long. So, feed them with your sims *oppss...i mean lollipop* before they die away!

The Sims 3 - Cow Plant

 Yes. The man eating  cow plant from The Sims 2 University has come to The Sims 3------------Store as premium content. 

 The cow plant in sims 3 is pretty useless (at least in my game). After waiting for 3 to 4 days of starving the plants, without petting/playing with/ feeding, the plants will start to show its cake bait to attract the unsuspecting sims who are so greedy for the cake.

Until now, I still not sure if being eaten by the plant will bring death or not, because every sims who were eaten in my game would come back again somewhere in the sims world after a while or being regurgitated by the plants. I searched through The Sims 3 Forum and some stated that death by cow plant is 50/50. If death happens, the ghost will come back in purple color - which is the colour for ghosts who died from starvation. Cow plant cant really eat children and old sims though, as these category sims who being swallowed would be vomited out by the plant. Also, cow plant wont eat stinky sims!! So smart ehhh... 

Look Cow Plant in action!

You can Praise/ Scold your cow plant after it has successfully eaten the stupid sims who came close to it. The praises and scolds will either encourage or discourage the plant from continuing to behave that way. The  Elixir of Life (as what The Sims 2 called the extract from milking ) enables the sims who consume it to return to their beginning of their life stage!

The Cow Plant comes together with other useless items like cow plant arcade machine (meh, i have plenty of arcade machines from The Sims 3 Late Night, other store sets), cow plant spring rider (meh again, i have many spring riders from The Sims 3 Generations and store sets too) and the rest are just decorations..

 Buy the set from The Sims 3 Store if you dying to have to plant in your game!

Happy Simming! And Merry Christmas!

Aikido and I

This semester is coming to its end and so is the Aikido lesson that I am taking. (it is officially ended since we already performed today during the Festival Pendidikan Kokurikulum).

Ok...I am going to write this entry in Q&A form.
So, here we go...

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Q1: What are the reasons that you choose to take this course instead of others?
A: I want to learn something new. (CEH...other subjects also new to you and you can also learn new things la). This is not the sole reason I am taking Aikido actually. When I was trying to sign up for co-curricular activities, already many interesting other activities like swimming, photography, etc have already fully signed up by other students. Hence, this left me not much choices to choose from. Even, if there were places for swimming/photography, i would not choose them as I know the basics and there are not new for me. (CEH...you only say this because you fail to eat the good grapes and now you are saying the grapes are sour only).

Besides that, I really want to do something outside the classroom, something which involves more physical activities instead of being confined in classroom again after daily classes and learn something theoretical. I want to sweat, to stay active and keep fit at the same time. This led me to making decision of choosing eventually.

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Q2: What is Aikido actually?
A: Aikido (合気道) is a Japanese martial arts created by Morihei Ueshiba. It is rather softer type of martial arts as compared to those more aggressive ones like Karate and Taekwando. Also, Moriher Ueshiba's goal was to create an art that practitioners could use to defense themselves while at the same time protecting the enemy from inflicting injuries.

Throughout the lessons, Sensei Tee (he taught us Aikido in this semester) always emphasizes on circular, perpendicular movements which can be used to redirect the attacker's force and momentum thus conquering the attacker with very little physical strength. Thus, this means that a small person is able to move a big person if he can perform Aikido techniques effectively.

To read more about Aikido, please visit Wikipedia or Aikido official webpage.

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I just write two questions for now in this post. I will try to write more in coming entry/ries talking about what I have learned in Aikido classes and may be about the performance on Ko-K Day.


Meanwhile, you can look through  these videos to see a few techniques that I have learned and know more about Aikido.

Technique: Katadori Shomenuchi Iriminage

(we performed this in our Ko-K day but not as advance as the one shown in this video.)

Technique: Yokomenuchi Kokyunage

Technique: Katatedori Iriminage

Technique: Buki Waza

Technique : ryotetori kokyu ho



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Stay tune to read more of what I have learned yea.