• 30Jun 09

  Monthly Blog - June :3

  WORK

  Well I've quit my part-time job at the Pizza shop because I just wasn't very good at it and the manager handled it in totally the wrong way, instead of helping me out he stuck me working only 1 half shift a week when the other girls were getting up to 2 full ones. For the sake of 15 quid a week I'd rather be unemployed for a while so I can find a job with more hours

  I've been on the job websites everyday, handing out CVs locally etc. Littlewoods near KFC looks promising as all the students go back to uni in 4-6 weeks!

  My exams are over now - all of them went quite well and although I hardly think about results day, I've had a lot of dreams where I either get As or Ds which is frustrating when I wake up and believe it for a second Even though I cut things quite short, when I eventually get revising I really focus. Here's me and Hero revising for our Psychology papers

  

  I thought the synoptic was gonna be rock solid and panicked for a few days before but it went really well I went to Hero's house after (as it's closer to college and I'd have to wait 5 hours for my bus to arrive to take me home) and we relaxed all afternoon:

  

  (Oh yeh he had his hair cut a while ago - I showed the best pic I had of the last time he had it done to the hairdresser but the bloke cut his hair REALLY short! He looked about 10 when he came out which I found funny And suddenly he gets asked for ID to buy cigarettes now lol)

  HOME

  I found my old mp3 player the other day - it switches on but is kind of bricked so it doesn't really work. After plugging it into my computer and it saying it won't let me do anything (like format it) because I don't have permission I decided to rip the casing off. Plugged it in again and it works as a 512mb flash drive now I wanna make a case for it, any ideas?

  

  I want a hole cut out for the screen cause it looks pretty when it's plugged in:

  

  I think a NES controller case would look cool but the 'flash drive' is only 9cm from tip of the USB connecter to end. So I'd need a mini NES controller and something that could cut plastic for the screen

  Oh my conclusion with this thing is that buttons are evil and one of them must've been poking in the wrong place and taking the casing off removed the buttons and allowed the flash drive to breath

  I've also got into sewing! I started off by hand stitching this out of an old t-shirt that doesn't fit me anymore:

  

  I painted the teeth on with acrylic. I thought it was quite good for a first attempt at sewing ever! I made this next:

  

  This one was stitched inside out and is filled with proper plushie filler Finally I've started making these:

  

  I'm gonna be going to a Steampunk party soon but I don't wanna wear Victorian stuff and I joked about saying I should go as a Steampunk Misty and everyone thought that was a good idea. This is my outfit:

  

  I've already got the socks, shorts, trainers, vest and goggles:

  

  The colour scheme is black and grey and the only wristband glove thing I've got is purple and black so I made my own out of the rest of that old t-shirt. It took me all day because I don't measure much, I just pin and cut and pin again to make sure it's the right fit. I'm surprised I didn't stab myself putting my hand in a glove with pins sticking out of it

  

  I'm gonna cut cog shapes out of an old white t-shirt I've got and sew them on

  Speaking of things hand made, I found a 40p notebook from Tesco and I had a cool idea to ink 'Death Note' on the front with my silver marker - here's the result

  

  It's only a mini one measuring 10.5cm x 15.5cm and I went back to the Tesco and they don't stock them anymore which is a shame cause I was gonna make one for all my mates with little messages in them like "Good luck at uni" etc

  I'm going on holiday with Hero and my family from the 24th of July for a week - to Bulgaria (hot part!), can't wait! I've never been on holiday with a boyfriend before so it should be great

  I'm also 18 in 5 weeks!

  Pros:

  Will be finally old enough to buy alcohol and old enough again to buy cigarettes (they changed the law a month after I turned 16!). I have loads of different stuff planned - I wanna go snowboarding at X-Scape, have sleepover with James, Josh and Tommy, have a party at Tommys, have a party at Heros, go out round town with Danny & my skateboarding mates and go to the pub with my main mates It's gonna take up a good week!

  Cons:

  I'll never be able to listen to Dancing Queen by Abba, I Saw Her Standing There by The Beatles or Seventeen by Winger and pretend they're about me ever again

  I've given tofu-hero.com a complete revamp - there's new content, new appearance and new (more likeable) forums! If people could check out the site that would be great, podcasts are also gonna resume again soon. If you have any news or reviews then send them to tofu-hero@live.co.uk as we find it difficult to produce tons of content between two people!

  

  As for gaming I'm really into L4D atm - my Steam is tofulion91 if you want to add me I also picked up a copy of the Sims 3 which is good but I'm already bored of it! A good way of testing out the strengths and limitations in Sims games is to try and build an exact replica of your house - I've finished mine and screenshots will be up of tofu-hero.com soon

  

  Oh and I was gutted to hear that MJ died, they'll never be another like him

  

  Thoughts go out to his family x

  LOVE/SOCIAL

  
  I went to Hero's a couple of weeks ago and for the first time brough my computer - it took about 3 trips to the car to get everything in so it was a pain but it was fab having it with me - we played L4D over LAN...LAN party! Lol Well we were gonna have a mini one actually but Shaun couldn't bring his PC round so we left it.

  

  We also made smartie cookies which were delicious

  

  MONTHLY BLOG STUFF

  

  Has to be the painting I did last week - I haven't painted in over a year so I thought I'd do some since I love it

  

  It's based off this photo I took on holiday last year:

  

  

  I'm addicted to the Beatles at the moment and although I've got a lot of favourites, Hey Jude is the one I listen to most. It's perfect I'm also accompanying my Beatles addiction with a spot of Abba (my old favourites alongside Queen). My favourite song atm is Chiquitita.

  I'm going to see this band called Birthday Massacre with Amy and Pippa next month so I thought I'd look up some of their stuff - they're ok actually, I expected to hate them. My favourite song is Blue.

  

  How is everyone?

  

  I'm totally smitten with Simon Baker from the Mentalist! I love that show, haven't missed a single episode since it started I want to watch the Guardian but I don't know when it's on and the internet just shows the American times.

  

  

  And finally, the word of the month is aubergine. Bye guys!

  • Posted Jun 30, 2009 7:25 am PT
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• 2Jun 09

  I really should get into blogging again! E3 special! :D

  I should really make a concious effort to blog and comment again...

  Well I have my computer back...my motherboard failed and I wanted L4D so long story short, I have a new:

  - Motherboard

  - Graphics card

  - Power supply

  - Ram (2gb)

  - Case

  Got it back today to watch the next bit of E3 and shoot some zombies later...

  Right!

  

  MICROSOFT

  Well E3 kicks off with Microsoft. They introduced a new system - Natal, which looks pretty cool Dunno how the price will be but hey...

  When I first heard of Microsoft introducing motion control I thought I'd look something like this:

  

  Jokes aside, Natal looks sweet.

  On the downside, they're putting Twitter, Facebook and Sky movies onto the x-box. Unnecessary add-ons really...if you want to watch movies, flick over the channel, because I'll assume you need a Sky box to watch them.

  GAMES

  I right squealed when they showed L4D 2. The trailer looks awesome and the chainsaws bring a Dead Rising feel into things In any case, I'll so be getting this for PC when it comes out!

  
  Tony Hawks ride looks awesome as well with the new skateboard peripheral

  

  As a skater I've looked into some skate games that use the board peripheral but they were clunky and didn't seem to work very well. This new peripheral looks streamlined and fun to use. Shame I don't have an x-box

  Rock Band The Beatles looked ok, I like The Beatles but a whole game for them? Hmm... the trailer looked nice though! Nice chilling game and I like the addition of more than one singer - although they only join in every so often.
  

  
  

  I'm not into the MGS series but Microsoft are bringing out Rising, a game where you apparently play as the guy no-one likes

  NINTENDO

  Nintendo had Cammy again this year... she bragged about the sales of the Wii Fit. It only sold because it comes with a board that you can beat her to death with I've been told the board can also be used as a dinner tray (dad's use for it at least).

  They're bringing out a new Wii Fit which hasn't changed much on the original - there is maths involved though which is lame.

  Also is the introduction of Wii Motion Plus...wait did I say introduce? I mean cover something they introduced last year. Something which the Wiimote should have been able to do from the start...

  

  Then there's the scary Vitality sensor. This thing clips onto your finger and measures vital signs. It apparently helps you relax but I see nothing relaxing about that oddity

  

  They're selling us something from hospitals...yeh I'll cry if that thing actually sells!

  You can now also upload DSi photos onto Facebook...OR you can not waste your money on that thing and take a picture with your phone or camera instead o_O

  It's all unnecessary awkwardness. Like the DSi itself - ooh it can take low res pictures and add funny filters on them! You can easily run a photo through Photoshop, Picasa or some other program to add stupid filters that no-one cares about.

  GAMES

  The games leave much to be desired as well... they've brought out a new Mario that looks exactly the same as the DS one, except you can awkwardly run about with your friends. Meh

  Golden Sun looks ok and the new Mario Galaxy looks fab.

  
  

  I'm not a Metroid fan but there's a new one coming out which I've heard mixed reactions about.
  

  SONY

  Sony wins E3 hands down. The opening was funky, stylish and had an awesome soundtrack!

  After the boring numbers bit the conference really hit off...
  

  They introduced the "worst kept secret" PSP Go which looks incredibly uncomfortable...

  

  It's too small and when slid out it looks pretty ugly if you ask me. Still we can forgive Sony for that, with their line-up of new features and games.

  They are also jumping on the motion control bandwagon which made me facepalm when they mentioned it...leave the crappy motion control to Nintendo. Still they wowed me with the footage of it - I was skeptical at first because when Ninty first revealed their motion control it looked like it worked then didn't...but this actually looks like it will work.

  The controller was a bit odd and it's something I wouldn't be interested in getting. The demo shown looked ok, quite fun, a bit quirky. The bit that wowed me was the bow and arrow - it looked amazing! But seriously getting it for gameplay? We'll see...

  GAMES
  

  The games list that Sony went through has finalised my decision to buy a PSP (Go can **** right off though!).

  Little Big Planet for PSP will be fantastic - the game is great but it'd be nice to take it on the go. Also Fat Princess is a game I really wanna play but now Hero's PS3 has broke I won't get the chance...but no, it's coming to PSP!

  

  I'm so hyped for these two portable titles

  Also Ratchet & Clank Future: A Crack in Time looks brilliant - I love R&C! The new game looks fab - nothing more to say

  
  

  We'll also see the release of Gran Turismo 5 which looks good, apart from the 1st person inside the car view which blocks off a lot of the view of the track...

  They're also bringing GT to PSP which would be nice. I love GT even though I haven't played it since the PS1!

  Uncharted: Drake's Fortune 2 is coming out. The trailer looked beaut - I've never played Uncharted but I heard a lot about wet t-shirts and want to play it!

  Sony has also unveiled a Metal Gear Solid game - Peace Walker. It seems they've champed over Microsoft as their game seems to stick to the whole idea of MGS - Solid Snake.

  Also Hero wanted me to mention FF7 for PSP and PS3. I guess you can already get PS1 titles onto PSP/PS3 but the official release of FF7 has got fans *cough* Hero! squealing.

  Overall the Sony conference was by far the best, followed by Microsoft with Nintendo trailing behind...
  

  
  

  
  

  • Posted Jun 2, 2009 3:04 pm PT
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• 6Feb 09

  Hai guys I'm back :D

  Well that was quite a long break! A lot has happened - me and my Dad are back on speaking terms and he'll transfer all the money when I'm 18 So that's sorted out now.

  Me and Braindead_hero have been going out a year in 11 days We made a cake to celebrate our 11 month anniversary:

  

  It's a sponge cake with fizzy Haribos in the mixture which caramalized in the oven, melted chocolate and M&M's over the top of that Enough to give anyone diabetes overnight!

  My photography deadline was today and I think I've done ok by filling 2 sketchbooks and going into a 3rd when I know a lot of people still struggling on their first Here's my final pieces inspired by Paul.M.Smith:

  

  

  I really like doing clone pictures atm Here's some more I've done at home:

  

  

  

  I've noticed they've finally made the forums all new and shiny and too big for my screen! Hopefully I'll be getting a normal sized monitor from my uncle sometime

  Oh and my email got hacked the day before yesterday The guy reverted me - he found out my name by running my MSN through the social networking sites, found out how old I was, sent me a picture on MSN and stole my IP. He then ran that through a locator to get my postcode. Then he entered all this info into a Windows Live form and got a password reset link sent to his address.

  He was only interested in stealing my Habbo account but to be safe I've got a new email with fake details and assigned this new one to all the sites I use. I've been going on Habbo since I was about 14 and over the years I reckon I've spent £40/50 in little £3 doses from my top-up. I'm a bit gutted everything's been nicked but it's made me finally quit the site and start afresh in MSN.

  This computer bodge up also allowed me to get closer to my dad as I rang him up in tears asking what I should do. Tbh I was really scared that someone knew my name and where I lived! I'm also very happy with the responses from Windows Live and Habbo when I explained what had happened. Even if nothing comes of this I'll be fine

  Anyways I'm back on Gamespot people! I've missed you lot I'll probably not blog on here or check blogs and just go on the forums as it got to the point where I spent 20 minutes each night just commenting on blogs. You guys sure do blog a lot

  To check out what's happening in the world of Tofu Lion head across to my site www.tofu-hero.com as I keep that vaguely up to date with blogs and of course the podcast. We also have forums up and running if you wanna chat

  • Posted Feb 6, 2009 11:07 am PT
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