lets see where do i start, oh i got my exam results back

2A maths 90%
2A english 59%
2A science 69%
2A biology 52%
1A philosophy and ethics 72%
2A modern History 69%

all of them i did second best by a small margin :( except 1A philosophy and ethics. Kinda disapointed but oh weel it was our first one and all i can do is push forward and push hard :)

Game Wise:

finished bioshock on survivor which got me my second platinum (yay), got lazy towards the end and didnt kill like 6 big daddies :P. now to work through fallout 3, im thinking of aiming to completeing 2 quests a day at least so i should have nearly got the plat in 2 weeks which is the beginning of holidays in time to start next game. i might go for an easy game like burnout or uncharted as ive decided from next term o limit game time to friday nights, saturday and sunday and put more time into homework and its probably best for me to hit the cyclist machine thingy each day instead of games so i can really bring out the claws for next exam and next year :twisted:

ummm.... what else, finally hit lv 23 and chronicles of riddick AD should be here tomorrow or early next week (hopefully)

thats enough of my rave and rant, so how have we all been this week?

today i had the most unfortunate news of a family member passing away today just before going to school (not that easy to restrain any evidence of anything wrong) so over the weekend or so ill probably wont be on much but may lurk a bit i'm up to it and probably will be on and off during the week as i would have to catch up missed work i will miss on friday as we will be at the funeral. That day also happens to be my sisters birthday and she is also having a party on sunday so ill be busy with cleaning and such and just secluding myself from the pack of girls. Also this would be a good time to get back into trying to set what my goals are as i am all over the place at the moment and im not sure what to do.

so until i come back i hope you all behave yourselves, so until then Cya.

Alright where to begin

Yesterday after a week of absolutely enduring hour after hour, rocket spammer after rockect spammer, i finally got my Valor Grand Cross trophy along with the other 2 trophies and i get to show off my top 1% ribbon thingy at game night tomorrow :D hopefully modern warfare 2 hasnt got online trophies that require you to get into the leaderboards again ast it was absolutely crazy.

Sunday night i completed my rubix cube puzzle after 2 or 3 years i finally gave up and used a solver to help, shhh dont tell anyone though. still trying to figure out how to get beyond the bottom layer without messing it up :|

and lastly today is the last day of the school holidays so back to school tomorrow and i have a letter and essay to write up tonight to hand in. exams are in 6 weeks and im not looking forward to them and more time will have to be dedicated to study so ill probably only post now and then and also spend less time on the ps3 :cry:

so until next time, stay safe and keep the fork out of the toaster 8)

well according to the date i registered my ps2 on the sony site, it marks 5 years ago today i got it (same day i got a GBA i won in a competition :P ) and at xmas it will be my ps1's 10th bday :lol: ahh the memories of how my gaming has slowly evolved.

anyway im planning up a list on must buys i have to get, so im open up for any suggestions on what to get or what ive missed, so far ive got on the list ( in no specific order)

Already out:

ratchet & clank:tools of destruction
uncharted:drakes fortune
SOCOM confrontation + headset (cheaper to get the bundle then separately i think)
second DS3 controller
MGS4
LBP
SFIV
CoD4

Coming out soon:
Uncharted 2
Ratchet & clank a crack in time
MW2
assassins creed 2
batman arkham asylum (depending how it goes)
wolverine:origins (also depends how it goes)




i know theres alot more, but i cant remember what :lol: so im open for suggestions to add to the list, oh and platnium titles will probably come first, then the ones on special etc., because they are cheaper and can almost get them with fortnightly allowance :lol:

finally got dr robotnik's mean bean machine trophy today after about 30 minutes of constant saving and select button mashing :lol: let me tell you if any of you have sega mega drive collection trophies or achievements to get that one is probably the hardest (no wonder its gold). so far 3 gold, 1 silver and 15 bronze. might go back and forth on killzone2 and sega trophies to get an even balance, and i wont even try the PAIN trophies as most of them you need to buy the content in it which im not doing :P

i also finished half of my medic class, just need to heal 5 people per game 7 times to complete it and i also unlocked engineer class (yay for turrets) and headsets on there are hilarioius, ive heard a guy singing and heard 2 absolutely brake down into swearing and screaming after killing both of them as they were disfusing the bombs, ahhh good times. also im not sure what to get next, whether to buy CoD4 GOTY edition, or buy headset/contoller or another game first since i have a a good FPS to finish first

well this week was absolutely massive for me. lets start from sunday

sunday:

went to the movies with a friend to see the unborn, it was boring, confusing but still scared me (i cant stand looking at mirrors now) after the movie i came so close to winning an ipod nano or ds on those machines in the lobby twice :cry:

Wednesday:

caught the train to gateways to go buy a ps3 at big w by myself. instead of getting it at big w i got it at jbhifi as it was technically better. went home and i swear this guy was looking at me as if he was going to beat me up for it. luckily he was a bit tipsy (smelt the beer on him) and he got off the stop before mine. The PS3 continues my playstation life with a a new ps every 5 years (ps2 5th birthday in a week). i must say its the most expensive item i personally own now and its absolutely fantastic, cant wait for my library to grow :)

friday:

the night of nights, our ball. the night was filled with fun, laughter, photos, dancing and winding down. sadly i didnt have a date but oh well, i still had fun. but the most interesting part of the night was probably the end of the ball as it was quite funny and really revealing. firstly we found the limo to have its window smashed, the door bent from someone trying to open it with a crowbar and the stereo missing and apparantly blood on one of the glasses in the back. so the theif tried to force his way in, but smashed the window stole the stereo and took a drink while he was at it :lol: and then after well, me and this girl of whom i am good friends with, had a disscussion about feelings etc. and lets say tiredness brings alot of things out of people and people say things they would have had kept secret any other time.

i wonder if there will be a week that can top this weeks, hmmm

well its tuesday and sony's "big" announcment, and turns out to be exactally what i didn't want..... a ps2 pricecut to make it less than $100 USD. no mention of any price cuts from eb games in the near future as well so thats a bummer. oh well thats done and dusted, so now i have enough money to get a ps3 (YAY) after like 6 months of saving up from fornightly allowance (wasn't easy) so tomorrow after school im heading off to big w to get the killzone 2 bundle and buying CoD4 GOTY edition at JBHIFI. so fingers crossed they actually have a bundle left (i should be able to pricematch at EB with catalogue right?) and hopefully you'll have another psn id to add :P oh and maybe i'll post a board about anything i need to get, what to do etc. and also the timing couldnt be better, just finished all my assignements up yesterday and hoping we dont get anything due next week :D

Happy Gaming

Matt

for those who read kotaku today, you would have found the blog post that sony has told kotaku that they are announcing something on the 31st. now this is the first official announcement announcement that sony have said. So far we've had analysts talking about price cut this month, $398 40GB ps3s at big w sold out, a hoax for a cut on the 22nd, info of a new bundle in NA coming out the 29th and now a mysterious announcement on the 31st. in the midst of the upcoming announcement, i was planning on getting a ps3 the same day and CoD4, so now i shall wait to see what happens. im hoping for a nice price cut, but if its just a bundle announcment or a psp and ps2 cut, i will cry :lol: well i will keep an eye on catalogues to see if they drop in the information early, and hoping there is still at least one killzone 2 bundle at big w and a copy of CoD4 at jbhifi on wednesday, if there isnt any left, then i shall send my dogs with bees in their mouth after sony :P

in unrelated news i scored 54 kills- 8 deaths in Dome today, and im downloading FEAR multiplayer game thingy for free off their site. hopefully this is better than halo, then i can play it at school :D

well its getting close to the time where apple releases its new cycle of ipods for this year and recently they have announced their new ipod shuffle.

smaller than a AA battery, and 4GB's memory allows 1000 songs to be stored on a a weird clip sorta thing, but what got me thinking is how they have made it to work.

by making it that small they removed the buttons and they have also threw in their new earphones with button controls on the earpiece to change song etc.

BUT since you can only change song with the controls on the earphones, doesn't that mean you are locked into buying apple only earphones with the control scheme on them? hopefully this is only kept to the shuffle and isnt put into future ipods as this is what may cost them. thankfully my ipod touch is still going good and im in no hurry to go get a new one.

So this is my second crossing with apple in the past month, where consumer money is highly wanted, but customer satisfaction and service seems to be out the door,

oh btw after viewing the guided tour video it also seems they are trying to promote mac's as well with the ipod, by giving two different tones to the voice over thingy. the pc voice sounds more muffled then the mac voice (well thats what it sounded like to me) i think apple are really trying to push their brand further now by making ipods only work with apple products or better at least.

anyway if you get time to read it and/or watch the video and see if i was correct in the different tones that were trying to promote mac then post your opinions.

(p.s in no way i am trying to endorse apple or promote its products in anyway)

some of you may have realised i was missing the past 2 days and wondered where i went, well i was at a UN camp. The UN camp was supposed to teach us how the UN works etc. and how we debate. it had its highs and lows but majority of it were low;

• bus smelt bad, had stains, was falling apart, aircon filled with dust, we found a tube of toothpaste that looks like it has been there for a while
• camp was in the middle of no where
• nothing to do during free time
• dorms sucked, we were with people we didnt know, they were outdated, the beds looked bad, the sheets were annoying, no aircon or powerpoints, speakers were blow and produced bad bas s.
• hot during day and night, freezing cold and windy in the morning
• showers looked really dodgy
• kangaroo poo everywhere
• oval was patchy and lumpy
• no cooked food for meals and they were tiny portions
• river was dried up
• no camp fire songs
• waking up at 7am to some really lame song
• bunk beds had no ladders to get to top bunk
• doors were dodgy
• sitting in a UN general assembly for 3 hours straight for 2 days
• listening to speakers talk for nearly 2 hours ( i nearly fell asleep)
• some of the guys with us were,well how would i put it "swung for the other team" or so it seemed
• we werent prepared except the private schools
• trip to the meeting place, then to camp= 2 hours travel
• being away from all sources of technology for 3 days
• no sleep in on my weekend

highs

• day off school
• friday night games
• got away from my normal life and all the stresses
• saw the perth skyline at night
• general assembly (colombia ftw)
• coming home
• dancing and losing my voice at the dance
• pretending to play real life call of duty with nothing but the moonlight and its dead quiet

Overall camp was alright but kinda weird, and now i have to catch up on sleep, a real shower, a good toilet and real food ive been away from for 2 days. oh dam im back to school tomorrow as well :shock: