facebook games

Recently I've been playing facebook games and I find them quite fun, although it might be a little boring :P Just starting playing cafe world, and it's quite similar to restaurant city. At first I thought it was just some lesser rip-off of restaurant city, so I stopped playing within a few minutes cos I generally dislike games that require you to manually add neighbours unlike playfish games which automatically acquire neighbours for you.

However, just a few days ago, I decided to give cafe world another try and found that I like it :D The one thing I like about cafe world more than restaurant city (r.c) is that when you don't open r.c in your browser, the maximum number of coins you can earn is only $2000, but in cafe world, as long as you have prepared enough food before you close the game, you can earn as much money as though you've been running the game in your browser. Another good thing is that you don't have to feed your employees! (lol, sounds like ill-treating :s)

In cafe world though, you have to decide and "time" the dishes that you're going to prepare, cos if you know you're not going to be at home the whole day (meaning you can't check on your cafe), then you'll have to prepare a dish that takes maybe 12hours or 1day to be done, if not by the time you log in to cafe world the next time, your dish will most likely be spoilt and wasted :(

Anyway I've a major problem with these facebook games like r.c, pet society, cafe world, country story etc. Each time I spend more than a few minutes with any of those games running in the browser, the cpu usage will inevitably shoot up to like 50% and above, causing the cpu fan to make some noise and it's super irritating. However, if I just leave the game running in the background and open another tab, then it'll be okay. I don't think it's the computer problem cos it's not that old, but I wonder if other people have this problem as well.

Just chose my timetable on Sat. As usual and as expected, the school server lags (and sux) bigtime and kept having errors -_- Couldn't manage to get a 2day-week, but nonetheless, a 3day-week is still okay. Unfortunately, my lessons all start either at 12pm or 3.30pm; I would've preferred morning lessons so that my father can send me to school and also, I'll have more time to do other things after lessons end. So right now, I've lessons on Tue (3.30 - 6.30pm), Wed (12 - 3pm) and Fri (12 - 6.30pm).

Anyway recently I've got a very strong urge to learn guitar! Maybe it's because of playing guitar hero on ds :s I think electric guitars are cooler though, but then I think it might be too noisy, and it's super heavy man. Went to Yamaha the other day to take a look with my cousin, and could barely lift it up with only one hand O_O

But I think I'll most probably start off with an acoustic guitar ba.. though I'm thinking maybe I should try out on a friend's guitar first to see if I really want to learn it. Also not sure if my fingers might be too short to reach the notes comfortably, or fast enough to change notes smoothly :( And I also dunno what to look out for when buying a guitar, sigh.

Have been too lazy to post anything here recently :P Hmm, anyway when I tried to log into blogger.com just now, I got redirected to a page and they kept saying my pw is incorrect even though I'm pretty sure it's correct. So anyway I decided to request for pw to be sent to my email, and here comes the irritating part; you have to type in your email address and then they'll ask you to type out the letters shown in a picture (probably for security reasons?) but the thing is the letters in the picture are so jumbled up and almost indecipherable that I had to try like 5 times before I got it right -_- Quite many websites have this feature which is so annoying! And I don't think it has to do with my bad eyesight :s I believe other people would've experienced this before too.

Anyway when I checked my email there wasn't any email sent yet, so I decided to try logging in using IE this time instead of google chrome. Surprisingly though, this time I managed to log in O_O so I tried using chrome and it was successful too, which is so weird because I'm sure I didn't type my pw wrongly on the first and subsequent tries.

Anyway, I was reading 8days just now and they have this "The Annoying List" and I found 2 of them to be really funny (in my opinion) so I shall be nice and share it :D

No. 20:

Nosey relatives who bug you about when you're getting attached / married / pregnant / a better job.

Do we ask you when you're hitting menopause?

No. 31:

Conversations with an air stewardess which go like this:

"Good evening, Miss, would you like the fish or chicken?"

"Fish, please."

"I'm sorry, we only have chicken left"

Actually I think I know why only got chicken left :s Hope the chickens will reflect on why nobody wants to eat them.

Oh and the twits actually got me a guitar hero grip for the ds as part of my bday present, lol. So unexpected but it's a nice surprise cos previously I did wanted to try it out cos it looks fun. However, the buttons are a little hard to press; it would be better if they made the buttons softer. So far I've only tried some songs on the first ds guitar hero game, and the song list don't really excite me :( It's all those English songs which I'm not really a fan of. Would've very much preferred it to consist of Chinese or Japanese songs :P

maple rant

One thing I hate about buying stuff from people in maple is that most sellers will always ask you to offer a price. I mean, if you're selling something, by right you should be the one stating a price and not the buyer, because only you yourself will know what price you're looking for.

I totally hate being asked to make an offer when I'm the buyer. It's like going into 7-eleven and wanting to buy a slurpee, only to have the cashier asking you to offer a price, then proceeding to kick you out of the shop if the offer is too low. As the seller, you should be the one putting a price tag on the item you want to sell instead of the customer, regardless of who initiates the trade.

Having to offer a price will most likely put the buyer at a disadvantage because you can't offer too high or else you'll end up paying more for something that's worth less, but you can't offer too low either otherwise the seller will just cancel trade on you. This brings about the second grouse I have; most people don't seem to know that the word "negotiation" exists. If the offer you made is not up to their expectation, they don't even give a counter-offer and just straightaway cancel trade -_-

In that case why can't sellers just simple STATE A PRICE? Only ask people to offer a price if you really have no idea how much the item is worth. I believe that most people would've done some research before they sell an item and so will roughly know the selling price of it, yet they want to be greedy and ask people to offer and are willing to let go of the item only to the highest offer they get.

If it's some godly-scrolled item, then it's understandable that you will want to hold an auction for it and sell to the highest bidder, but don't tell me you want to hold an auction even for common stuff like scrolls? That's so pointless.

Sigh. And it's quite tiring trying to sell scrolls in the fm by shouting. I've already done research and base the scroll prices on a price range list from the forum, and always state a selling price that's towards the lower end, yet most people just cancel trade when they see the price. If you feel that the price is too high just jolly well negotiate by stating a counter-offer lah. It's like, only 1/10 people even bothers to counter-offer.

back to maple :P

Recently just started playing maple story again, lol. There are so many new places to explore and tons of quests to do. Anyway when I finally installed the client and logged in (surprisingly I still rmbed the username and pw, haha), I knew my account got hacked again when I saw that my fighter wasn't wearing any equipment :( True enough, all my meso were gone (the "kind" hacker left me 700+ meso on each character!) as well as equipment and scrolls. But I still find it quite strange, cos the equipment on my cleric was left intact. Plus I had some level 50 and 60 equipment and certain scrolls untouched, so I was wondering why the hacker didn't just take those equipment as well or just simply sell it to shop and get the meso. Actually I'm not so sure if I'd given my account to a friend or something after I've quit maple previously, cos I really can't recall, but then I know if I did give my account to someone, I would've told the person not to touch the equipment on my fighter, hence I'm quite sure my account was hacked instead. Sigh, the worst thing is not to have any equipment left cos it's quite hard to recoup your losses without proper equipment and weapon to train.

Anyway I wasn't so affected by it since I've not been playing for so long. Plus, knight of cygnus just recently came out so I might as well move to bootes server and create another character since my cousin plays on that server. Tried out the pirate class, but find that it sux, lol. Not sure if it gets better at the higher level, but then I feel that it's not suitable for me cos the attack is very weak plus you can't attack monsters from close range. So I decided to make my knight of cygnus character a warrior as well just like my previous character in aquila.

It's quite a good thing that there're so many new quests now cos it definitely makes leveling easier, and the experience required to level has also decreased :) And the best thing is that you can have a whole map to yourself now; no more worrying about pesky ks-ers.

Btw I wanted to change my pw since my account was hacked, but unfortunately the website says my account is suspended :( So I've emailed them about it but until now they still haven't replied. They didn't even send any automated email reply to acknowledge that they've receive my email and will investigate or something lah -_-

Oh and on another note, the other day I just went to return my one-week overdue library book and they charge a 20cent fine per day of overdue!! So expensive lah, I thought it was cheaper last time? Plus a 5cent fine per day would be more appropriate. I mean since they now let people re-new loans for free (I think) why must the fine be so heavy -_-

Accompanied Loh all the way to Woodlands yesterday evening to buy a wii, and on the way back, saw this shop selling those handicraft stuff and so I bought this pig thingy which you have to D.I.Y but of course the materials and instructions are provided. What's more, it cost only $1!! Thus, spent last night and a few hours today making the little pig keychain for my mum's birthday which is tomorrow. Hmm, quite proud of it, cos spent a lot of effort making it mah, so must show it off, lol :P

The other presents I got for her are also pigs and very cute too.

Pen holder

Small bolster

Lol. Couldn't resist doing this.

I just went jogging just now! (finally) Hmm, actually I planned to jog up and down the path outside my house 6 times, but in the end I was quite out of stamina already so only did so 4 times, plus lots of walking in between, lol :( No idea what's the total distance I jogged, but still, I guess it's a good start. Luckily my mum told me to jog earlier cos just when I was about to return home, the weather suddenly became very sunny.

Went tamp1 with my cousin yesterday, and bought quite a number of things, including a pair of sneakers for jogging which I wore today, although I think sneakers are actually not really suitable for jogging... but then proper sports shoes are too ex haha. Went Yamakawa Super again to stock up on jap snacks, but unfortunately 2 of the snacks I bought the previous time seem to be out of stock, so bought more of other snacks instead. Spent about $17 there ;_; really ex lah.. but it's delicious so it's worth it. I'm so glad there's finally a place that sells these kind of snacks, cos usually quite hard to find. NTUC does sell some but the variety is very little.