Plants Vs. Zombies

It’s been a week ago since my cousin asked me to play an addictive game. At first, I thought that the game’s objective is corny but when I start playing it I became so addicted that I didn’t do anything n 3 hours but to depend my house from zombies by planting plants. It’s a strategy game hat will test your creativity, analytic thinking and patience. As off this point in time , when I’m writing this post I already finished the arcade mode and about to finish the game before Christmas because I need to review for my remaining exams and do our project in statistics and data structure.

The game is totally different from Farmville (my favorite face book game). In Farmville the player harvests the fruits, vegetable and animal products to earn money and xp so that they can but more stuff and be in a higher level. The crops will grow at a specific time depending on its type and will disintegrate once it exceeded the time twice the specific time. While in plants vs. zombies, the player will choose the cards that he will use. Most cards fight the zombies while other cards help. While playing, these cards charge and require a specific amount of sunlight before the player can plant it. The sun lights came from sunflowers and the sun. Zombies also eat the plants.

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Written somewhere last December 2009

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Today

I already finished the two other modes of plants vs. zombie. I’m still playing the game because I haven’t solved the two mysteries of the game. First is the last message of the “Tree of Wisdom”, which is now 123 feet tall and still asking for “tree food” (2500 each) and lastly, the mysterious “not yet encountered” zombie in the zombie almanac.

I know that I can find the answer to these mysteries in the in Google but I prefer to discover it myself.

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January 15, 2010 3:32PM

In our desktop PC, after watching Tv and playing Plants Vs. Zombies.

Today is the start of a week long celebration of our school’s foundation day. (I went home early)

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Rereading “Grandpa and the Statue” by Arthur Miller

Our professor in “Rizal’s life, works and writings” assigned me and my seatmate Marieflor to report “Charter 13” of Zaides’ book which is about Rizal’s visit to the USA.


After reading the said chapter, I told our teacher that the chapter is too small for us to divide. She said that we should expand the topic beyond the book.


After rereading the chapter for a couple more times, an idea came out of my mind. Since Rizal saw the “Statue of Liberty” and made some commentary about the racial discrimination in the USA. It would be appropriate to read “Grandpa and the Statue”, a story that we discussed during our English 4 in high school.


Honestly, when I was in high school, I didn’t have any chance to read the story in full because I don’t have a book, but even though I didn’t read it, a quotation from the story stuck on my mind, which was repeatedly read by our teacher (Mrs. Silva) on our class. The quotation is: “Whoever you are, whenever you come from, welcome all, welcome home.”


Luckily, I found the exact book on our family book collection. The story is on page 313. It’s my first time to read it in full and I find it excellent. Here is a synopsis.


The story is about Monaghan, the grandpa who told his grand son “Child Mongahan” that the Statue of Liberty (which was newly constructed in the story) will be smashed down and laying’ on the bottom of the bay when a strong wind blow. Monaghan didn’t contribute a dime for the construction of the statue’s pedestal, because he believes that it’s a waste of money.


One day child monaghan wonders why the statue became popular to people and he asked his grandpa to accompany him to the statue. But since hi grandpa is full of pride he was not convinced on his first try but soon his grandpa admits that he is also curious; he agreed to visit but secretly.


On their way, his grandpa continue to say bad things about the statue like “If you got liberty you don’t need a statue to tell you you got it; if you haven’t got liberty no statue’s going to do you any good tellin’ you you got it.’


His grandpa’s philosophy eventually changed after hearing a testimony from a “Filipino Veteran” who have been up their forty times.


They read a tablet saying
“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breath free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift…my lap beside…the golden door!”


After reading, grandpa regretted that he didn’t give a quarter. He asked his grandson to buy a bag of peanut. He wants to be alone for a while and put his sentiments on the tablet, when his grandson came back he saw his grandpa forcing a half buck into a crack.


Unfortunately during Rizal’s Visit to the USA, he leaved some negative comments with the great country. He was on a rush and was unable to read the tablet grandpa read. In fact Rizal didn’t had any close contact with the Statue, he just saw it when he was inside the ship going to London.
I wonder if like the Grandpa in the story, Rizal will change his negative comment about the USA.

The Story of the Gorgeous Feet and the Very Tight Shoes

Once upon a time, almost a month ago, my mother and I bought a new pair of black leather shoes in the nearest department store in our house. It only cost P 2,100.00. The sales lady asked me to try the one with a 7.5 (in) size. I gently walk and said that it’s OK but I requested for an 8.0 (in) one. A few minutes passed and she gave me the 8.0 (in) one fresh from their stock room. I wore it and walked with it gently, I didn’t feel any discomfort that’s why I didn’t asked for a bigger one. She smiled because I think I’m her first costumer and guide us to the cash register.
One morning, when I’m about to go to school and the 1st day that I would try my new shoes, I observed that upon wearing the shoes my feet felt slight discomfort especially when I’m walking naturally.

When I reached the town and found out that its traffic, instead of waiting for those huge vehicles to move I decided to walk (which I normally do when it’s traffic) up to the “Palico drive” about a kilometer.

My feet due to the different forces of nature and the very tight shoes that I’m wearing extremely suffer. When I’m home I noticed the deformation my feet. Just like lotus’ feet. Very nice?!!!

I’m still wearing the shoes and my feet are still suffering. I know that these shoes will destroy the natural and God given beauty of my feet. My former classmates in high school frequently admire my feet before and even my classmates in engineering used to admire my feet.

I know that one of my friends in high school, whom I once made fun with her unsightly feet, will now laugh at my Karma (Jamaica Isabel Buguis). Sorry Jam I hope that you already forgot that incident (when we were at the mango office). Your feet are really nice and I’m not wearing glasses when I said that your feet were unsightly.


Lessons:
1. When fitting shoes in the department store always walk naturally.

2. Don’t make fun with anyone’s unattractiveness.

3. Don’t walk about a kilometer when you’re wearing very tight shoes.

4. My shoe size is 10 in.

5. You can still return defective products on the department store within 7 days upon purchasing it as provided by law and rules and regulations of DTI.


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