WOW.
I can't believe I haven't updated in like a month? The EYAs have ended so long ago and we even got back our papers, but I guess I let the holiday mood sink in quite early this year. Haizz I'm too lazy to blog but I know that if I don't, I'll probably end up giving up.
Let's just start by saying EYAs was horrible. I only got like 2 4.0s? And one was Philosophy. =.= Wait, I got 3, if you count Japanese. UGHH This period is also known as the 'RA Selection' period. RA stands for Raffles' Academy, which equals to advanced subjects, like you can go for English RA and the things you'll be doing there is higher-level English, I guess? More like they are harder and you learn more things. Talk about mentally draining.
I didn't even get into 1 RA, okay? Okay, it was partly my fault as I was too ignorant to know the method to apply for RA. I WANTED TO APPLY FOR LIT! Cause I actually like Lit? Then I hear and see people like Penny (my friend, not her real name) and her friend Ally (not her real name) who are absolutely literary geniuses, and I am sitting in the loser lane. Life sucks. I want a Japanese RA. Last time I checked, my Japanese oral score was purrrfect~~ Maybe that is the only subject I actually have a chance to do well in? That was the sad part. I completely flushed down whatever chances I have of getting into a RA into the toilet bowl. But you know what's even sadder? I had absolutely no teacher's recommendation whatsoever to sit for any RA selection test! This is humiliating! I think half of my class got into a RA? And here I was sitting here today, going, "Hey! Who's not going for RA selection test? Nobody? Okay that's cool." NOT!
Ugh I should go die in a hole to cut the world some slack and not having to watch my pitiful sight. <It's after the exams and I don't know whether I phrased that sentence right? I feel so inferior in my English writing skills. Why is it that I can do well in class work but when it comes to tests, I flunk everything? It's horrible actually. My mind has this way to tell me you'll do horrible or fine in whatever test. That is, it decides to be a scumbag and assure me I'll do decently when I'm freaking out and telling me I'm screwed when I just don't feel nervous or anything. Maybe it's just because I don't give a shit about that test, hence the bad results, or I just know I'm screwed so I'm saving energy for more useful purposes.
Anyway, that's enough of the EYAs and RAs. Talking about it more is just gonna make me more and more upset. Anyway, today was kinda fun, really. Since it's after the EYAs, we are having Post EYA activities. This one is actually quite fun, okay? As compared to some other activities *cough* Netball Carnival *cough cough*. Hey don't be mistaken. Netball is a sport therefore I shall assume it is beneficial to health or whatever it is supposed to be beneficial to. However, I'm dyslexic when it comes to sports. Maybe not so much as in I can still run and jump and catch a ball and other basic motor skills, but other than that I am hopeless. If you ever find a person worse than me in sports, please throw a party for me. And just for your information, in my whole life, I have only been to 1 birthday party. Yes. 1. FML If you count weddings as parties, then 2.
Anyway, the activity was DramaNite. Like you know, Drama Night? All the Year 1 and 2 classes are expected to come up with a short skit (is that what it is called?). The Year 1s are supposed to base theirs on their English Literature book, Gathering Blue, which according to my classmate, has nothing to do with someone going on a quest to collect the colour blue, if that's what you're thinking. ._. It's about a blind girl whom the society thinks is useless after her parents died. Little did they know that she was very talented at sewing and embroidery. So they sent her to places to learn proper techniques and other fancy stuff and if I'm not wrong, the book just ends there. Like WTS? Either my classmate found the book too boring and decided to end it there (official or not) or Lois Lowry was doing a sucky job. I'm hoping it's just my friend. Lois Lowry's The Giver is an awesome book. Anyway, the Year 2s are supposed to perform an original ballad. Needless to say, our class did a wonderful job. But we weren't shortlisted, haha. I really thought it was a good effort. There was even a dance. :)
Today was basically sneaking around watching other classes auditioning after us. By right, I wasn't supposed to be there watching other classes, but who cares. I was ninja-ing around, counting the number of fucks I give. <-- which I didn't get very far. I was really shocked and excited when I heard the ballad class 207 was performing. Excited because I knew the song they used and the lyrics they sang. Shocked because it was supposed to be original. I can safely say that they were really performing a ballad, because the song had that heartbreaking sadness and was the work of a genius, MOTHY. Unfortunately, 207 kind of ruined the work. I'm not going to say that they were terrible in the singing, which isn't very far from the truth but, hey, at least they barely made it. BARELY. The piano arrangement was nice, but the singing faltered and never outshone the piano. Which is very bad. With exactly the same plot and the same music and the literally perfect lyrics, it's not wonder they got in. <-- That is what I though and i guess it will be the only thing I'll be thinking of when I see 207's performance during DramaNite. They completely ripped off from "Servant of Evil" from Kagamine Len, a Vocaloid. (which reminds me, I still haven't devoted a post for them. D:) The plot... the cast... Everything was a rip-off! Except for an added mirror, which was far from MOTHY'S ingenious ideas and standards. It made me angry that they actually qualified to perform for DramaNite. How original. Maybe I would be less angry if they had credited MOTHY and his works, but no.
Haizz. Everything went downhill for the day after that. Our CCA had a briefing with the school management. It sounded so serious and Holly and I were actually nervous about what they had to talk about. Turns out that Singapore was decreasing in brith rate and therefore there will be decreased admission into school nation-wide. Fine. Because there are less students, there will be lesser teachers to go around and therefore with 49 CCAs in our school, the declining staff cannot handle us. Thus, the school has to cut down on the number of CCAs in the school. And according to them, they took a lot of time and consideration to finally decide to merge us with NCC Land. Note: WE are the ones who have to follow THEM. Can you see why I am angry right now? No? Let me enlighten you.
I have been in this CCA for 2 years and counting. I came into RGS not knowing which CCA I want to get into, and frankly speaking, seeing as I have absolutely no talent in the musical aspect though I have a musical background, I decided, why not try something different? That is when I started exploring all the Uniform Groups in my school. I remember being in school with my father for the CCA open house where we can roam around finding more about different CCAs in school. Once again, nothing appealed more to me than the Uniformed Groups in my school. NCC Air was interesting, yes. There were many other Uniformed Groups I could have chosen from and frankly speaking, NCC Air was not my personal first choice. I was impressed and motivated by how Uniformed Group seniors had this charismatic feel to all of them and how passionate they were about the CCA. I still hold on to this belief that one Uniformed Group senior told me, "Uniformed Groups and meant to train people physically and mentally. It is ideal for basically anyone. It doesn't matter who you are or how you look like." So I thought, why not join this wonderful family? I remember going for NCC Air interviews and for the first time in my life, I was actually enthusiastic and I was eager to answer their questions. I was offered a spot in NCC Air. Remember I said that NCC Air was not my first choice? Well, I still chose it in the end, because my mom was more supportive of it than my personal first choice. When I entered as a Part A, I remember taking a long time to change into my PE uniform as I was too scared to come out quickly and face my Part A PSes. Needless to say, I was intimidated by them. From there, through their strict trainings, I grew with my platoonmates as a platoon and we learnt the importance of bonding and staying strong together. We learnt the importance of each other in our NCC Journey. Wanting the best, I made the effort to do my best in everything and I even tried to strengthen our bonds. While Part A was an enjoyable year, it was saddening to see people start to leave this year. We had a lot of people. A good number left and we were left with 5. As a small platoon, we had it the roughest, I must say. Tears, joy, sweat. We shared all those. We even saw each other in the buff. And now, this small platoon of 5 has met its biggest obstacle it has ever faced. Even though we are still together, merging together meant a lost identity. We all came into this CCA as rookies who knew very well we belonged in this wonderful family and home we call NCC Air. Although there were times we wished to never be associated with NCC, we grew to love it and its people. We are NCC Air. Not just any NCC! Telling us to go into another CCA like it is nothing is very much impossible for me as it is impossible for my platoonmates, I believe. From next year onwards, I will be known as a NCC Land cadet, not an Air cadet anymore. It took so much time to acknowledge being in a new big family. I don't care if NCC Land is older and more experienced than us. The fact that the school has placed us under their wing shows that WE are to become like THEM. We Air have to change and become the Land. While the Land? All they have to do is adapt to having us around. The least they can so for us Air, is to welcome us and treat us as equals. Look at us! We are being called Land next year! When we go to HQ, we will be Land, no longer AIR! We will never be able to cheer Airborne again, we will never hear the NCC Air sirs teasing us girls and telling us that the password for a certain computer is "airissexy". We will never hear from our Air commandant again. I will never see my Air friends again. Even worse, as Land (as much as it tastes and sounds bitter on my tongue, I shall say this horrible word), we are expected to be like them i.e. cheer and command like them, behave like them. I have had my own set of ideals and values from being in this CCA for 2 years. I have learnt to care for fellow cadets. I have learnt to bond and share whatever with each other. And now they are telling me to be like Land and dispose of my values. I can no longer talk to seniors as I please. I have to greet them even if I am not in uniform. This is utter misery. Land has nothing to lose here. Everything about Air is at stake here. I understand that as the school's management team, they have to do something. As difficult as they make it sound, I can't help but believe that there is a better way to resolve things. I probably sound like a whiny kid right now, but I have had too much to bear in these few years. I have the least luck in the world. I have missed so many opportunities in life and this thing I hold dear called the NCC Air family... is it going to vanish? Although we will still see each other, I can't help feeling reluctant to let go of our NCC Air identity and journey. Land ain't got shit on us. They had better not look down on us and instead think that it is their pleasure to have us with them, cause bitches, we own the world. We are such awesome people whom you don't know exist! We are a committed bunch who teach their cadets what it really means to bond!!
*gasp* I have finished my rant. I shall go off now.
Bye.
Mirai (no heart today)
Thursday, 24 October 2013
Tuesday, 1 October 2013
I am going to hell for this...
Heyy,
I realised I am doomed. For my upcoming exams, for my life. I have tons of revision to do but scumbag brain decided I should draw after not touching the holy pencil for months... Why doomed for life then, you ask? Because I have utterly disgraced Suzumiya Haruhi-sama with my incompetence in drawing.
Ugh... The hair. The HAIR!!! I can't-never should draw again. Holy pencil MY ASS you stupid brain! Anyway, here's bye for now. :3
#hopingtopostsoon
<3,
Mirai
P.S. Go check out Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon's video on the absurdity of the overuse of hashtags.
#funny #wecaaaan'tstop~~ #cookiemonster #nomnomnomnomnom
I realised I am doomed. For my upcoming exams, for my life. I have tons of revision to do but scumbag brain decided I should draw after not touching the holy pencil for months... Why doomed for life then, you ask? Because I have utterly disgraced Suzumiya Haruhi-sama with my incompetence in drawing.
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| The beloved Haruhi-sama. |
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| Andd... My crapped up version. I don't even know what compelled me to post this. |
Ugh... The hair. The HAIR!!! I can't-never should draw again. Holy pencil MY ASS you stupid brain! Anyway, here's bye for now. :3
#hopingtopostsoon
<3,
Mirai
P.S. Go check out Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon's video on the absurdity of the overuse of hashtags.
#funny #wecaaaan'tstop~~ #cookiemonster #nomnomnomnomnom
Smile, peeps!
Saturday, 28 September 2013
How life decided I should not enjoy my weekends...
Heyy,
#notevenbotheringtomakeagreatentrance
I don't even know why this is happening to me. Here I am, sitting in Coasta Sands Resort in Pasir Ris, trying not to drink water so as to minimise the number of times I have to go to the toilet. It is currently very noisy outside since there are repairing works being done. Is it me, or does this not sound like a chalet?
So this is what happened:
1) Yesterday, we checked into the chalet in Pasir Ris because my dad's company had free admission passes. We had to wait like 30 minutes before we could enter the chalet room, all because of something like "Sorry, sir, we haven't clean the room yet. We will call you when your room is ready." Okay, up till now, I still wasn't as angry and annoyed. I guess this is something we should expect from free passes. So finally, we were assigned a room in Block C. They told us the water pipe in Block C has burst and thus water supply is cut off. Like WTS? So okay, nevermind, we shall wait until they repair it. I mean, this is a chalet resort. You'd expect the repair works to start and end quickly, right? Wrong. We left the chalet at around 5pm (the water pipe was still not fixed) and we went for dinner at a restaurant to celebrate my brother's upcoming birthday. When we were back, it was around like 9pm? As we were walking back into our room, we saw traces of water on the ground and we thought, okay maybe we have water now! But you know what? No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Fudging NO!
Never in my life have I felt so annoyed. Thank goodness I washed my hair in the morning, so that night, I didn't wash my hair. My parents had to go out and collect water in pails and I had to shower in cold water, you know, like take the scoop, scoop up water and pour it over yourself? That's what I did. My dad and brother went to the common toilet to shower while my mum and I showered in the room. That night, we decided to forget about the lack of water supply and sleep.
Here's number 2.
2) You know in a chalet, most people come here to barbecue for whatever occasion (e.g. birthday)? We happened to have this shitty room located in the most shittiest place ever. Beside our room was a bunch of people barbecuing and they were making a lot of noise. And they sang "Happy Birthday!" like what? 3 times? Bitch please, who do you think you are? You know what happened too? The people barbecuing almost got into a fight too. Like how is that possible? We heard bins being thrown, cooking tools etc. My parents opened the door for a while to peep outside and haha, the other people around the area did so too. :P Anyway, after that, it was okay when we watched TV and slept until...
Number 3:
3) I got awoken in the middle of the night by some people talking loudly. I pulled out my phone beside me and saw that the time was 3:42am. It was freaking 3am and they were talking loudly like they owned the place. From their voices, they were probably teens. Fu*king assholes. Sorry, I just needed to vent a little here. Anyway, it was a fleeting moment and I just went back to sleep. Then,
4) My dad started snoring. =.= Shit. I plugged in my earphones and listened to my favourite music until I fell asleep. After that everything was okay. I finally woke up in the morning at 9am. I searched for my phone and when I found it,
5) It was soaked. Like SOAKED! >:( Our chalet room has to single beds joined together (so it looks like a double bed) and there's this mattress that you can pull out from under the two beds. So my parents took the bed and my brother and I took the mattress. I happened to take the mattress near the aircon and the aircon was dripping water. =.= Since my phone was beside me and on the floor, the water dripped onto my phone. Luckily it was still alive. I really have nothing to say about this chalet. It used to be good. Or maybe our passes used to be good. We used to have our own barbecue pit, you know? We used to have water. We didn't need to go out and collect them like it was water rationing or something. Oh yes,
6) I was having my monthly thing. What did the lack of water supply do for me? Ans: make my life miserable.
7) I have exams tomorrow (Monday).
This is how wonderful my weekends were. However, my parents might be buying me a minion plushie from despicable me, like the cutest ones ever? Ahhh minions!! Anyway, I want to use the internet in the chalet (thank god the chalet had wifi) and browse the internet after blogging this. I saw on facebook about someone saying that The Giver (an award-winning young adult novel by Lois Lowry) is being adapted into a movie and they are getting quite the good-looking cast to act in it.
Like this guy, Brenton Thwaites:
#notevenbotheringtomakeagreatentrance
I don't even know why this is happening to me. Here I am, sitting in Coasta Sands Resort in Pasir Ris, trying not to drink water so as to minimise the number of times I have to go to the toilet. It is currently very noisy outside since there are repairing works being done. Is it me, or does this not sound like a chalet?
So this is what happened:
1) Yesterday, we checked into the chalet in Pasir Ris because my dad's company had free admission passes. We had to wait like 30 minutes before we could enter the chalet room, all because of something like "Sorry, sir, we haven't clean the room yet. We will call you when your room is ready." Okay, up till now, I still wasn't as angry and annoyed. I guess this is something we should expect from free passes. So finally, we were assigned a room in Block C. They told us the water pipe in Block C has burst and thus water supply is cut off. Like WTS? So okay, nevermind, we shall wait until they repair it. I mean, this is a chalet resort. You'd expect the repair works to start and end quickly, right? Wrong. We left the chalet at around 5pm (the water pipe was still not fixed) and we went for dinner at a restaurant to celebrate my brother's upcoming birthday. When we were back, it was around like 9pm? As we were walking back into our room, we saw traces of water on the ground and we thought, okay maybe we have water now! But you know what? No.
No.
No.
No.
No.
Fudging NO!
Never in my life have I felt so annoyed. Thank goodness I washed my hair in the morning, so that night, I didn't wash my hair. My parents had to go out and collect water in pails and I had to shower in cold water, you know, like take the scoop, scoop up water and pour it over yourself? That's what I did. My dad and brother went to the common toilet to shower while my mum and I showered in the room. That night, we decided to forget about the lack of water supply and sleep.
Here's number 2.
2) You know in a chalet, most people come here to barbecue for whatever occasion (e.g. birthday)? We happened to have this shitty room located in the most shittiest place ever. Beside our room was a bunch of people barbecuing and they were making a lot of noise. And they sang "Happy Birthday!" like what? 3 times? Bitch please, who do you think you are? You know what happened too? The people barbecuing almost got into a fight too. Like how is that possible? We heard bins being thrown, cooking tools etc. My parents opened the door for a while to peep outside and haha, the other people around the area did so too. :P Anyway, after that, it was okay when we watched TV and slept until...
Number 3:
3) I got awoken in the middle of the night by some people talking loudly. I pulled out my phone beside me and saw that the time was 3:42am. It was freaking 3am and they were talking loudly like they owned the place. From their voices, they were probably teens. Fu*king assholes. Sorry, I just needed to vent a little here. Anyway, it was a fleeting moment and I just went back to sleep. Then,
4) My dad started snoring. =.= Shit. I plugged in my earphones and listened to my favourite music until I fell asleep. After that everything was okay. I finally woke up in the morning at 9am. I searched for my phone and when I found it,
5) It was soaked. Like SOAKED! >:( Our chalet room has to single beds joined together (so it looks like a double bed) and there's this mattress that you can pull out from under the two beds. So my parents took the bed and my brother and I took the mattress. I happened to take the mattress near the aircon and the aircon was dripping water. =.= Since my phone was beside me and on the floor, the water dripped onto my phone. Luckily it was still alive. I really have nothing to say about this chalet. It used to be good. Or maybe our passes used to be good. We used to have our own barbecue pit, you know? We used to have water. We didn't need to go out and collect them like it was water rationing or something. Oh yes,
6) I was having my monthly thing. What did the lack of water supply do for me? Ans: make my life miserable.
7) I have exams tomorrow (Monday).
This is how wonderful my weekends were. However, my parents might be buying me a minion plushie from despicable me, like the cutest ones ever? Ahhh minions!! Anyway, I want to use the internet in the chalet (thank god the chalet had wifi) and browse the internet after blogging this. I saw on facebook about someone saying that The Giver (an award-winning young adult novel by Lois Lowry) is being adapted into a movie and they are getting quite the good-looking cast to act in it.
Like this guy, Brenton Thwaites:
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| As Jonas. Does he have pale eyes? o.0 |
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| Emma Tremblay as Lily (Jonas' sister) |
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| Odeya Rush as Fiona (Jonas' Love interest) |
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| Cameron Monaghan as Asher (Jonas' best friend) |
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| Jeff Bridges as The Giver |
and
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| Surprise! Taylor Swift as Rosemary (The Giver's daughter). |
I searched for her older pictures as I like her old look more
Okay, so the cast is pretty good looking, but they are supposed to be 12/13 years old? I really don't know how they are going to pull this off. Anyways, I'm off to enjoy the remaining of my time in this wonderful chalet.
TTFN,
Mirai <3
Thursday, 12 September 2013
In the Cards
Tarot cards, anybody? Have you heard or seen these cards before? Not that I have. but I have heard that they can tell you your future, warn you about things with utmost accuracy. I don't know how many cards there are in a pack, but it's hard to believe that a minimal number of cards can tell your future so accurately, its almost impossible. Oh well, what am I thinking? This ain't anyway to start a post!!
Anyway, I've been so busy with schoolwork and exam preparation that I have almost no time to update this blog, is what I want to say, but it's not true, haha. Busy? My ass! Sigh, I guess I have to call myself a lazy ass however much I hate it. I'll probably never succeed in writing fanfiction. I mean, who wants an author who writes because she suddenly feels like it and then abandon the whole project just cause she didn't feel like continuing it any more? I really don't know what to do with my life. Well shit, I actually do, but since I'm so bloody lazy, I've put it off for like, what, almost a week? I'm sad to say my one week holidays are coming to an end, and sadly I really should have been studying. I mean, that's what I told myself, but look, it's not my fault, okay? Procrastination's being a bitch.
Sometimes I feel like the reason why I'm not studying is because I have so many other things I want to do, like watch anime, play games etc. But then again, why do I find myself constantly lying down on my bed, too lazy to even turn on my computer? It's like I'm stuck in between wanting to do something and not wanting to do it if I have to make an effort. Somebody, please just bestow upon me the holy powers of telekinesis. It'll make everything so damn effortless. Well, maybe not effortless cause you have to train your brain to be stronger so that you can lift things heavier than a feather. But hey, we can work on that later, right? Oh yeah... of course they can't do that! We certainly don't want increasing obesity is children, cause telekinesis is obviously encourage hardworking people to be lazy, and lazy asses like me to become even lazier.
Okay, here's what I will do with the remaining time I have on my hands:
1) Revise Math using Ace-learning (no matter how annoying the tutorial voice is)
2) Revise Science, probably? (IDEK how...)
3) Hmmm.... I dunno, slack? It's not like you can revise on Languages, right? I don't know what to do next... Geography? Maybe.
I realised that my not knowing what to do has put me constantly in search of random things to do. For example, I was reading a book for longer than I usually do. It was a rather entertaining book, and something that teenagers would read. It's called "In the Cards - Love". It's the first book in the "In the Cards" series. I got the book in a secondhand bookstore and it only costed S$2. It's about 3 girls - Anna, Eve and Sydney obtaining a pack of old tarot cards from a nice old lady after she died. Yeah. WARNING: EFFIN' LONG PARAGRAPHS AHEAD
So basically, Anna (the main character in this book) had a neighbour, Mrs Rosemont, who is an old lady with 3 cats - Mouli, Beesley and Tatania. Pfft, HAHA! Cat lady... The old lady is a very nice person who used to offer Anna butterscotch candy although Anna would hesitate to take it. And for that, she felt really guilty after Mrs Rosemont's death, as the nice old lady would feel really upset when she found out Anna didn't eat it. I mean, Anna had her reasons - the candy seemed a little old and sticky, but hey, Anna really felt bad. Cut the girl some slack! Anyway, Anna would also sit with the old lady sometimes and listen to her talk about her past, LOL. Until one day, Anna was faced with the news that Mrs Rosemont had died. Anna wasn't feeling miserable, but she just felt a little off, you know? Like when you know that someone you used to know was just gone like that, although she was still nearby yesterday. So, a few days later, someone knocked on her door and told her that old Mrs Rosemont had no family so she left her important things to close friends, and it turns out Anna is one of them.
Mrs Rosemont had left Anna one of her cats, Mouli, who is unfortunately the most psycho and bad-tempered cat of the three. Also, she left Anna a leather case with a pack of tarot cards in them, along with a guide as to how to read tarot cards. Anna was nervous so she called Eve and Sydney to her house so they can be nervous together. :3
Anna had a crush on a boy in school, and he was the hottest boy there, apparently. Their school is like the typical American middle-school with all the social hierarchy and stuff. So there are the uber-cools, the average people who just get by school life by trying not to get people to notice them, and the freaks. The freaks are probably the most miserable people on earth. I mean, they aren't even trying to get attention, people just notice them (not in a good way), and immediately, they are dubbed as the freaks by the uber-cools. I'd say Anna was one of the freaks or so it seemed in the book, or maybe she was just unpopular like the average people. I'm betting on the average people.
So she has a mega crush on this hot dude named Declan and apparently, Declan used to be a geek, one of the freaks, rather. How he managed to be one of the uber-cools and known as GreekGod in the school's gossip blog, is still a mystery. But Anna's really something. She thought the dude was pretty cute when he was still a geek, so imagine her delight when he came back after the summer holidays, transformed into the hottest guy on campus. Talk about liking things, or in this case, people before it was mainstream. Good going there, Anna! You'd probably expect the uber-cools to be the snotty rich and perfect-body types. Well, you're not wrong, but Declan's not like that. :) Well, he is pretty and has a perfect body... You get what I mean! So back to the cards, Anna decided to ask the cards about her love life with Declan. Well, the cards weren't really clear, but they said they would end up together. So... they did, though the journey was littered with struggles. But the fact still remains that they weren't meant to be...
Here's the thing: Anna's this kind-hearted girl with a strong sense of justice, and that's why she was so caught up when the school's biggest freak, Nelson, is being suspended from school all because he expressed anger towards the taunting uber-cools. Why? Well, they passed around a piece of paper, asking people to sign a petition on "The extermination of retards". Note: Nelson = Perfect example of Retard (according to the uber-cools and therefore according to the whole school.) Talk about bullying... The uber-cools called Nelson brain damaged all because he talks with pauses when nervous. :( And this point is where I realised that Declan is an asshole and not much of an uber-cool. Scratch that! He's an uber-coward. He refused to go with Anna to the principal's office to plead for the calling off of Nelson's suspension. And you know what the reason was? It's because the uber-cools who were teasing Nelson, were the exact same people who teased him when he was a geek. So, moral of the story: He was afraid to stand up to them. He could not when he was a geek, and he never will. Hell, if my boyfriend was like that, I'd break up with him!
Anyway, the cards were not wrong, as in, Anna and mega-hot GreekGod DID end up together, but it wasn't for the long run. That's why they weren't meant to be. The reason why they became boyfriend and girlfriend, was because Declan accidentally threw a crumpled note, during singing class, to Anna when he meant to throw it to another girl. If you're curious, the note was asking if the reader (which turned out to be Anna) would be turning up at this party that everyone's going to. Basically, if you're not following, he had a crush on the shy girl beside Anna, but Anna caught the note and looked up. Heh, the girl he had a crush on constantly shies away from attention and wears super baggy clothing, because she has the biggest boobs in school and she didn't relish in that. But Declan decided to go along, deciding not to crush Anna's heart by saying the note wasn't meant for her. But then again, he wouldn't know he would crush Anna's heart. He just decided to be like, Oh hey, I missed... and this other girl caught the note. But she's cool... I'll stay with her. Maybe I'll kiss her to see if she likes me. Duh, she does. Oh turns out she does. Heh, I kinda like her. She was one of the few people who were nice to me in the past... I guess we can become boyfriend and girlfriend. Ta-Dah!! Sigh... I think the eventual pairing was: Anna x Nelson, and, Declan x Bridget (the shy girl in singing class) Hey, that's pretty cool! Nelson isn't the best looking boy in the world, but he genuinely has a crush on Anna, HAHA. But I think Anna doesn't know, though Nelson pasted a rose on her locker and she kinda got a hint it was from him since she found a matching petal in his book. :3 Maybe Anna'll come to like him. ;D
Anyway, that's as far as I'll go in telling you about the book. I've told you quite enough already, haha. Another thing I'll fail in life, is writing a trailer for a blockbuster movie. I'll probably show everything there is to know about the movie and nobody will want to watch it after that, haha. Anyway, now for the fun part: quotes from the book! Another reason why I like the book so much is because it is the epitome of all comedy books I've read. This is what I'd truly call "humour in literature". Hmm, seeing as I'm in a good mood now, maybe I'll add in the prologue of this book.
Prologue:
Sometimes I think it's all Eve's fault.
Then I think that's stupid. Just because Eve's crazy doesn't mean everything is her fault. But she was the one who said we should do it. The one who said it was lame to be scared and that we had to try it or we'd never know.
But I listened to her. So, really, it's my fault.
Other times I think Sydney's to blame. If she'd just been stronger, said, Guys, this is wrong, maybe I wouldn't have listened to Eve.
Only Sydney did say it was wrong, and I listened to Eve anyway. So we're back to me. It's my fault.
I hate it when things are my fault.
I try really, really, hard not to let that happen. And when it does happen, I try to figure out what I did wrong, what I could have done differently. Where did I make my mistake?
Except it's not that simple. A mistake doesn't always feel like a mistake when you're making it.
For example, you can say that none of this would have happened if I hadn't taken care of Mrs. Rosemont's cats. But I couldn't say no to her. She was an old lady, she didn't have anyone else.
Eve would say I never should have even talked to Mrs. Rosemont, that she was boring and a pain. Even Syd, who's an animal freak, didn't like visiting the cats because she thought Mrs. Rosemont was strange. But you can't say to someone, Get away, you're boring! You're strange!
Well, not if you're a wimp like me.
But it is true that if I had never talked to Mrs. Rosemont in the elevator, she wouldn't have asked me to feed her cats.
And if she had never asked me to feed her cats, we wouldn't have had that talk about the future.
And if we hadn't had that talk about the future, she might not have left me these cards when she died.
Because that's where the whole thing started. The cards.
I still have them. They're in the box they came in, the leather one with the strange carvings on the top. When all the craziness was over, I put them way in the back of my closet, along with the book that explains what each of the cards means, how to read them, understand them...
All I can say is, I wish we'd understood them a whole lot better.
Yeap, that's it! The prologue. it's actually more like Anna thinking back on the whole craziness with the cards. Now for my favourite lines from the book.
Interesting lines:
I spit, then wonder, So, if I had died tomorrow, would anybody care?
My mom and dad would definitely freak. Russell would demand he get my room. Eve would be psyched, because it'd be all macabre and she could wear black and flip out. But then she'd get tired of it and move on to something else. Syd would be sad, though. Genuinely sad. And they'd probably do something at school, have an assembly, tell people that it was okay to cry, if they wanted to.
But I'm not sure how many people would cry. More likely, they'd be like, Anna? Anna who? Oh, her. Yeah, she was... okay.
- Anna, thinking about herself dying, while brushing her teeth in the morning. Heh, what better time to think about weird things than when you're brushing your teeth?
Russell is seven years old, but he's been strange since the day he was born. This doesn't seem to bother most people, for example, my parents, who you'd think would be a little worried that their only son lives on a diet of tuna fish and boogers. Just the fact that he's usually pretending to be some kind of animal should raise a red flag, right? I once looked up the traits of a psychotic personality. Russell had almost every single one. I told my mother, but she said, "He's just trying to be funny, Anna. Let him have his thing." Which made me wonder, Do I have a thing? And if so, what is it?
- Anna on her younger brother, Russell.
... I look at the girls sitting in Subzero. Elissa's there, of course, and Alexa with dim Marnie. P&P is right. They're like a cult of pretty people, with a mandate from the heavens: Thou shalt congregate only with those of perfect hair and perfect bodies and inane giggles. And thou shalt mate with only those of thine own kind. The hot, the cool, the seriously amazing. I wonder if Declan would need divine dispensation to date me.
- Anna's views on the P&Ps (Pretty & Perfect) sitting in Subzero (the area reserved for the uber-cools in school.)
Naturally, with Declan coming, all the girls are going crazy figuring out their costumes. The rumour is that Alexa is going as her Dalmatian, Pippa, in a white bodysuit with spots. Elissa is renting her costume from someplace, and Lara is going as a whacked-out action babe. Meanwhile, I haven't got the first clue what I'm going to wear. This afternoon Syd, Eve and I are getting together at Syd's house to figure it out. Eve told me to bring the cards; I don't know why. What are they going to say? You must dress as a penguin- oh, and forget about Declan. We got that wrong, sorry.
- Anna's preparation to go for a Halloween party in Marnie a.k.a. dumbest bi*** in school's house.
Anyway, I've been so busy with schoolwork and exam preparation that I have almost no time to update this blog, is what I want to say, but it's not true, haha. Busy? My ass! Sigh, I guess I have to call myself a lazy ass however much I hate it. I'll probably never succeed in writing fanfiction. I mean, who wants an author who writes because she suddenly feels like it and then abandon the whole project just cause she didn't feel like continuing it any more? I really don't know what to do with my life. Well shit, I actually do, but since I'm so bloody lazy, I've put it off for like, what, almost a week? I'm sad to say my one week holidays are coming to an end, and sadly I really should have been studying. I mean, that's what I told myself, but look, it's not my fault, okay? Procrastination's being a bitch.
Sometimes I feel like the reason why I'm not studying is because I have so many other things I want to do, like watch anime, play games etc. But then again, why do I find myself constantly lying down on my bed, too lazy to even turn on my computer? It's like I'm stuck in between wanting to do something and not wanting to do it if I have to make an effort. Somebody, please just bestow upon me the holy powers of telekinesis. It'll make everything so damn effortless. Well, maybe not effortless cause you have to train your brain to be stronger so that you can lift things heavier than a feather. But hey, we can work on that later, right? Oh yeah... of course they can't do that! We certainly don't want increasing obesity is children, cause telekinesis is obviously encourage hardworking people to be lazy, and lazy asses like me to become even lazier.
Okay, here's what I will do with the remaining time I have on my hands:
1) Revise Math using Ace-learning (no matter how annoying the tutorial voice is)
2) Revise Science, probably? (IDEK how...)
3) Hmmm.... I dunno, slack? It's not like you can revise on Languages, right? I don't know what to do next... Geography? Maybe.
I realised that my not knowing what to do has put me constantly in search of random things to do. For example, I was reading a book for longer than I usually do. It was a rather entertaining book, and something that teenagers would read. It's called "In the Cards - Love". It's the first book in the "In the Cards" series. I got the book in a secondhand bookstore and it only costed S$2. It's about 3 girls - Anna, Eve and Sydney obtaining a pack of old tarot cards from a nice old lady after she died. Yeah. WARNING: EFFIN' LONG PARAGRAPHS AHEAD
So basically, Anna (the main character in this book) had a neighbour, Mrs Rosemont, who is an old lady with 3 cats - Mouli, Beesley and Tatania. Pfft, HAHA! Cat lady... The old lady is a very nice person who used to offer Anna butterscotch candy although Anna would hesitate to take it. And for that, she felt really guilty after Mrs Rosemont's death, as the nice old lady would feel really upset when she found out Anna didn't eat it. I mean, Anna had her reasons - the candy seemed a little old and sticky, but hey, Anna really felt bad. Cut the girl some slack! Anyway, Anna would also sit with the old lady sometimes and listen to her talk about her past, LOL. Until one day, Anna was faced with the news that Mrs Rosemont had died. Anna wasn't feeling miserable, but she just felt a little off, you know? Like when you know that someone you used to know was just gone like that, although she was still nearby yesterday. So, a few days later, someone knocked on her door and told her that old Mrs Rosemont had no family so she left her important things to close friends, and it turns out Anna is one of them.
Mrs Rosemont had left Anna one of her cats, Mouli, who is unfortunately the most psycho and bad-tempered cat of the three. Also, she left Anna a leather case with a pack of tarot cards in them, along with a guide as to how to read tarot cards. Anna was nervous so she called Eve and Sydney to her house so they can be nervous together. :3
Anna had a crush on a boy in school, and he was the hottest boy there, apparently. Their school is like the typical American middle-school with all the social hierarchy and stuff. So there are the uber-cools, the average people who just get by school life by trying not to get people to notice them, and the freaks. The freaks are probably the most miserable people on earth. I mean, they aren't even trying to get attention, people just notice them (not in a good way), and immediately, they are dubbed as the freaks by the uber-cools. I'd say Anna was one of the freaks or so it seemed in the book, or maybe she was just unpopular like the average people. I'm betting on the average people.
So she has a mega crush on this hot dude named Declan and apparently, Declan used to be a geek, one of the freaks, rather. How he managed to be one of the uber-cools and known as GreekGod in the school's gossip blog, is still a mystery. But Anna's really something. She thought the dude was pretty cute when he was still a geek, so imagine her delight when he came back after the summer holidays, transformed into the hottest guy on campus. Talk about liking things, or in this case, people before it was mainstream. Good going there, Anna! You'd probably expect the uber-cools to be the snotty rich and perfect-body types. Well, you're not wrong, but Declan's not like that. :) Well, he is pretty and has a perfect body... You get what I mean! So back to the cards, Anna decided to ask the cards about her love life with Declan. Well, the cards weren't really clear, but they said they would end up together. So... they did, though the journey was littered with struggles. But the fact still remains that they weren't meant to be...
Here's the thing: Anna's this kind-hearted girl with a strong sense of justice, and that's why she was so caught up when the school's biggest freak, Nelson, is being suspended from school all because he expressed anger towards the taunting uber-cools. Why? Well, they passed around a piece of paper, asking people to sign a petition on "The extermination of retards". Note: Nelson = Perfect example of Retard (according to the uber-cools and therefore according to the whole school.) Talk about bullying... The uber-cools called Nelson brain damaged all because he talks with pauses when nervous. :( And this point is where I realised that Declan is an asshole and not much of an uber-cool. Scratch that! He's an uber-coward. He refused to go with Anna to the principal's office to plead for the calling off of Nelson's suspension. And you know what the reason was? It's because the uber-cools who were teasing Nelson, were the exact same people who teased him when he was a geek. So, moral of the story: He was afraid to stand up to them. He could not when he was a geek, and he never will. Hell, if my boyfriend was like that, I'd break up with him!
Anyway, the cards were not wrong, as in, Anna and mega-hot GreekGod DID end up together, but it wasn't for the long run. That's why they weren't meant to be. The reason why they became boyfriend and girlfriend, was because Declan accidentally threw a crumpled note, during singing class, to Anna when he meant to throw it to another girl. If you're curious, the note was asking if the reader (which turned out to be Anna) would be turning up at this party that everyone's going to. Basically, if you're not following, he had a crush on the shy girl beside Anna, but Anna caught the note and looked up. Heh, the girl he had a crush on constantly shies away from attention and wears super baggy clothing, because she has the biggest boobs in school and she didn't relish in that. But Declan decided to go along, deciding not to crush Anna's heart by saying the note wasn't meant for her. But then again, he wouldn't know he would crush Anna's heart. He just decided to be like, Oh hey, I missed... and this other girl caught the note. But she's cool... I'll stay with her. Maybe I'll kiss her to see if she likes me. Duh, she does. Oh turns out she does. Heh, I kinda like her. She was one of the few people who were nice to me in the past... I guess we can become boyfriend and girlfriend. Ta-Dah!! Sigh... I think the eventual pairing was: Anna x Nelson, and, Declan x Bridget (the shy girl in singing class) Hey, that's pretty cool! Nelson isn't the best looking boy in the world, but he genuinely has a crush on Anna, HAHA. But I think Anna doesn't know, though Nelson pasted a rose on her locker and she kinda got a hint it was from him since she found a matching petal in his book. :3 Maybe Anna'll come to like him. ;D
Anyway, that's as far as I'll go in telling you about the book. I've told you quite enough already, haha. Another thing I'll fail in life, is writing a trailer for a blockbuster movie. I'll probably show everything there is to know about the movie and nobody will want to watch it after that, haha. Anyway, now for the fun part: quotes from the book! Another reason why I like the book so much is because it is the epitome of all comedy books I've read. This is what I'd truly call "humour in literature". Hmm, seeing as I'm in a good mood now, maybe I'll add in the prologue of this book.
Prologue:
Sometimes I think it's all Eve's fault.
Then I think that's stupid. Just because Eve's crazy doesn't mean everything is her fault. But she was the one who said we should do it. The one who said it was lame to be scared and that we had to try it or we'd never know.
But I listened to her. So, really, it's my fault.
Other times I think Sydney's to blame. If she'd just been stronger, said, Guys, this is wrong, maybe I wouldn't have listened to Eve.
Only Sydney did say it was wrong, and I listened to Eve anyway. So we're back to me. It's my fault.
I hate it when things are my fault.
I try really, really, hard not to let that happen. And when it does happen, I try to figure out what I did wrong, what I could have done differently. Where did I make my mistake?
Except it's not that simple. A mistake doesn't always feel like a mistake when you're making it.
For example, you can say that none of this would have happened if I hadn't taken care of Mrs. Rosemont's cats. But I couldn't say no to her. She was an old lady, she didn't have anyone else.
Eve would say I never should have even talked to Mrs. Rosemont, that she was boring and a pain. Even Syd, who's an animal freak, didn't like visiting the cats because she thought Mrs. Rosemont was strange. But you can't say to someone, Get away, you're boring! You're strange!
Well, not if you're a wimp like me.
But it is true that if I had never talked to Mrs. Rosemont in the elevator, she wouldn't have asked me to feed her cats.
And if she had never asked me to feed her cats, we wouldn't have had that talk about the future.
And if we hadn't had that talk about the future, she might not have left me these cards when she died.
Because that's where the whole thing started. The cards.
I still have them. They're in the box they came in, the leather one with the strange carvings on the top. When all the craziness was over, I put them way in the back of my closet, along with the book that explains what each of the cards means, how to read them, understand them...
All I can say is, I wish we'd understood them a whole lot better.
Yeap, that's it! The prologue. it's actually more like Anna thinking back on the whole craziness with the cards. Now for my favourite lines from the book.
Interesting lines:
I spit, then wonder, So, if I had died tomorrow, would anybody care?
My mom and dad would definitely freak. Russell would demand he get my room. Eve would be psyched, because it'd be all macabre and she could wear black and flip out. But then she'd get tired of it and move on to something else. Syd would be sad, though. Genuinely sad. And they'd probably do something at school, have an assembly, tell people that it was okay to cry, if they wanted to.
But I'm not sure how many people would cry. More likely, they'd be like, Anna? Anna who? Oh, her. Yeah, she was... okay.
- Anna, thinking about herself dying, while brushing her teeth in the morning. Heh, what better time to think about weird things than when you're brushing your teeth?
Russell is seven years old, but he's been strange since the day he was born. This doesn't seem to bother most people, for example, my parents, who you'd think would be a little worried that their only son lives on a diet of tuna fish and boogers. Just the fact that he's usually pretending to be some kind of animal should raise a red flag, right? I once looked up the traits of a psychotic personality. Russell had almost every single one. I told my mother, but she said, "He's just trying to be funny, Anna. Let him have his thing." Which made me wonder, Do I have a thing? And if so, what is it?
- Anna on her younger brother, Russell.
... I look at the girls sitting in Subzero. Elissa's there, of course, and Alexa with dim Marnie. P&P is right. They're like a cult of pretty people, with a mandate from the heavens: Thou shalt congregate only with those of perfect hair and perfect bodies and inane giggles. And thou shalt mate with only those of thine own kind. The hot, the cool, the seriously amazing. I wonder if Declan would need divine dispensation to date me.
- Anna's views on the P&Ps (Pretty & Perfect) sitting in Subzero (the area reserved for the uber-cools in school.)
Naturally, with Declan coming, all the girls are going crazy figuring out their costumes. The rumour is that Alexa is going as her Dalmatian, Pippa, in a white bodysuit with spots. Elissa is renting her costume from someplace, and Lara is going as a whacked-out action babe. Meanwhile, I haven't got the first clue what I'm going to wear. This afternoon Syd, Eve and I are getting together at Syd's house to figure it out. Eve told me to bring the cards; I don't know why. What are they going to say? You must dress as a penguin- oh, and forget about Declan. We got that wrong, sorry.
- Anna's preparation to go for a Halloween party in Marnie a.k.a. dumbest bi*** in school's house.
For Her
You do not even look at me
With your blue eyes
You hide from everyone
Hope they never see you
But I can look at you
And hope you see me.
Okay shit. This poem. Sucked. Big time. Like, it doesn't even sound good when you read it out loud. Oh dear. This is Declan's poem to his mystery lover girl, but it's not a mystery after I told you it was Bridget. This was how Anna found out Declan liked another girl. Anna certainly didn't have blue eyes. But, being the good sport Anna is, she was the one who helped the hopeless lover GreekGod be united with the one he truly likes. And yes, it's titled freaking "For Her". Misleading much?
This one's gonna be a long one:
That afternoon I stay in the practice room after class to apologise to Mr. Courtney for missing chorus. He's sitting at the piano like always. As I approach him, he says without looking up, "Miss Anna Morris, Where were you yesterday?"
Uh, well, Mr. Courtney, I was hiding in the bathroom because I couldn't deal with seeing my boyfriend, who probably isn't my boyfriend anymore. Before I can come up with some lame excuse, he waves his hand. "Yeah, yeah, I know. You didn't feel great or you had to work on your English paper or whatever. Well, don't skip out on me again. We're three days away from the greatest caroling this school's ever seen, and my chorus needs you."
I say, "Right. Because the altos would just die without me."
"Well, they wouldn't die, I wouldn't let them die."
Mr. Courtney says "die" like it has two syllables: "die-eh." "But the chorus wouldn't be as excellent and sublime as I can make it, and that I will not tolerate."
Somehow the words "excellent" and "sublime" don't go with the vision of myself as a singer. If the chorus didn't have Lara or Bridget, you'd know it. Me- there's just one less squeak. And I guess I'm in the mood for honesty, because I say, "That's nice, but let's face it, it's not like I'm some great singer."
Courtney's head snaps up. "Who says?"
"I do."
"Wrong." Mr. Courtney pounds on the piano keys. "Wrong, wrong, wrong. I say who's a great singer and who is not a great singer."
Intrigued, I ask, "So... which am I?"
"You are not that great of a singer," he says flatly.
Bwahaha. Okay, Mr. Courtney is a freaking awesome teacher! Though a bit eccentric...
I glance at Declan. He is staring straight out in front of him. But his face is red.
I look at Bridget. She is staring straight down at her music, even though we're supposed to be off book. Her face is pink.
Mr. Courtney calls, "Ms. Halsey, eyes up, please."
Blinking, Bridget looks up. Not completely.
But just enough for me to see her beautiful blue eyes.
Somehow, I really liked this. Not because it was funny whatsoever, but because it was sweet and a great way to scream at the reader that "Bridget is the one the GreekGod likes!" If they don't figure that out, they're probably not paying attention or just plain retarded. Well, hopefully not plain retarded after I've just told them.
I remember something. "That note you sent me, about Marnie's party. Was that for me or her?"
He goes red. "I meant it for her, but when you got it, that was okay too."
"But you meant it for Bridget! Why didn't you tell me to give it to her? Point or something?"
"I don't know! All of a sudden, you said yes, and I was like, 'God, I can't say, "Oh sorry, that was for someone else,"' That would have been totally jerky." He looks down at his shoes. "I didn't think someone like you would ever go out with me. So when you said yes, I thought, 'Why not?'"
"Like Alexa."
"No, totally not. That was a party thing. She started kissing me, and all of a sudden, we were supposed to be in love or something. I never liked her. I did..." He pushes at my hand with his finger. "I did really like you. I thought you were cool. I mean, you were one of the only people who was ever nice to me before all... this."
This was towards the end when Declan confesses that he liked Bridget and he thought Anna was cool and all. Oh and by the way, Alexa is one of the P&Ps (Pretty & Perfect) who declared that she was in a relationship with Declan when all they did, rather she did, was force kiss/catch the GreekGod off guard. Heh. That tramp.
I really liked this one. This is in Eve's point of view:
I keep dancing down the hall- until I run smack into my brother, Mark, coming out of the bathroom.
Hello, major embarrassment.
Some people might be cool about it, might even dance along with you, you know? Not Mark. He's only three years older than me, but he acts like he's fifty. You should see his room. Not one single thing out of place. Bed made, clothing put away, book alphabetised, for God's sake. He's one of those people who has major school smarts, but is borderline retarded when it comes to life. I call him M.A.N. "Hey, man." "How you doing, man?" What Mark doesn't know is M.A.N. is my private code for Major Anal Nerd.
Now he's staring at me like I'm an intruder and he's wondering if he should call the cops. Which gets me past the embarrassment and right into annoyance.
I say, "Hey, man. What are you doing out of your room? You could catch cooties or something." I hold out my arm. "Ooh, look there's one jumping off of me..."
He sighs. "No self-respecting cootie would be caught dead on you."
First Anna and Syd- now Mark. Obviously, the universe has declared this "Pee on Eve Day." Actually, in this house every day is Pee on Eve Day. One of the reasons I cannot wait to get out of here.
Poor Eve, getting dissed by her brother. That must burn. Haha, I can imagine a cleanliness freak saying that with a straight face. Then I think about my brother. He disses me but not enough to make it hurt.
Oh gosh, this post is way too long for its own good. Now I'll have to proof read this whole long string of words. =.= Genius, just genius. Now I'm wondering how to sign off glamourously.
Yours, or someone else's,
Mirai <3 ;)
Friday, 9 August 2013
New blog post after such a long time...
Hey...
Haha what is this?! I haven't uploaded in such a long time. LOL the period for PTs are over, and I'm free as a bird! Anyways, since my life is so damn boring every single time, I shall blog about something that is different from the usual. 2 days ago, our school had the National Day celebrations. Happy Birthday Singapore. LOL today's National Day but whateves.
So, on the day of celebrations, all the uniformed groups in our school had to get 16 people from their CCA to march in the supporting contingent while a few others for the flag party and Guard Of Honour. So well, since I'm only a Part B, I was involved in my first time in the supporting contingent... Well, actually it's the second time since the first time was in HQ NCC during the Change of Command parade. Sheesh, it was raining and if I'm not wrong I was happy. =.=
Anyway, so there I was, waking up at freaking 4:45am in the morning because I had to reach school at freaking 6:30am in school so they can check our uniform and watch us eat breakfast, like WTH? I can understand that they didn't want anybody to faint during the parade, but they freaking asked us to go there early to EAT BREAKFAST!! Can't they believe that we will do whatever we can i.e. eat breakfast ourselves in the comfort of our home, to prevent ourselves from fainting? Even if we don't take precautions like that, don't they think that our parents will urge us to eat? But anyways, the bread was nice... so... I guess I wasn't that angry HAHA. Hey, you know what? I stayed up late to polish my No.3 shoes so that they were bling bling okays? They looked so freaking good! I was so glad that I finally polished my shoes till they looked shiny. Now I know how to polish my shoes properly lol. I still remember all the previous times where I tried to polish my shoes and I didn't put much water and they looked like some dull shit lol.
Anyways, so i guess I didn't sleep too early cause I was busy 1) polishing my shoes (Took freaking 2 hours and it was only the tip of both shoes?!) and 2) I was busy catching up on the videos I couldn't watch those few days. HAHA Anyway, we had the parade and it wasn't as bad as I thought it was, simply because the speeches weren't that long. I mean, I swore the National Day speech wasn't more than 5 minutes? And the Guest of Honour's speech had nothing to do with National Day? She simply spoke about her school life and the wonderful memories and the nostalgic feeling of walking back into the school campus where she spent her 4 valuable and memorable years with her beloved classmates, and how the feeling of a big and bonded family welcoming her. LOL
Anyway, the end of parade... We went back to class and changed into our own clothes. Well, I didn't bother bringing any home clothes since I don't wear them to school. You never know, you might get judged really badly. So I wore my house shirt (since it was red) and culottes. HAHA how original, just like last year. After that, we went to the mini-amphitheatre and spent about 30minutes watching the performances of the Year 4 classes until it started raining lol. Everybody was scrambling off their feet and running for shelter while the poor class performing on the stage while it started raining persevered on and continued despite the rain until their performance ended. Everybody was clapping and cheering on for them. :)
So we had to go to some sheltered area to watch the live broadcast from the hall. We went to the CLC. And guess what, they were playing that horrible 2013 NDP song, going Oh~~~~~~ like STFU IDK why the Sec 1s and other classes were so enthu about singing the song. Sigh... I know! They must be mocking it! I know I sound very mean, but seriously, when I heard the NDP 2013 song for the first time, I was like Please, I pray anything that's holy and beautiful in this world, tell me that this isn't the 2013 NDP song!! NOOOO!!! The rest of the time in the CLC was left for the singing of the previous NDP songs. I really like "Reach out for the stars", "My Island Home", "Where I belong", "Home" and etc. After that, nearly the whole school left while me, Holly, Jomma and DeeDee stayed in class after borrowing some Sec 1's class MacBook charger (of course, with their permission). Haha guess what, we were playing IB! Well, I practically forced Holly to play since she was so full of herself (no offense, Holly, I know you're reading this... Well, maybe I intended offense :P) and said that, "Ib is not scary! I know where the jumpscares are already! I watched you play it before already! -3-" Well, Holly, did your words bite your ass? >:) I still have all your recorded reactions in my MacBook!
Haha I swear, Jomma and I were laughing at both DeeDee's and Holly's reactions. We should get together and play more games like this, except that we should find some game that neither Jomma nor I have played before. FYI, the games that I have done reviews on, were played by Jomma too. :) RPG Horror Games FTW!
Anyway, just being random, hot guys picture time!!! Ahhh all the bishies, I can't stand it anymore. This may look like they're out of an anime or something, but they're not. :P They're from the otome games by Voltage. Geniusess!!!
Haha what is this?! I haven't uploaded in such a long time. LOL the period for PTs are over, and I'm free as a bird! Anyways, since my life is so damn boring every single time, I shall blog about something that is different from the usual. 2 days ago, our school had the National Day celebrations. Happy Birthday Singapore. LOL today's National Day but whateves.
So, on the day of celebrations, all the uniformed groups in our school had to get 16 people from their CCA to march in the supporting contingent while a few others for the flag party and Guard Of Honour. So well, since I'm only a Part B, I was involved in my first time in the supporting contingent... Well, actually it's the second time since the first time was in HQ NCC during the Change of Command parade. Sheesh, it was raining and if I'm not wrong I was happy. =.=
Anyway, so there I was, waking up at freaking 4:45am in the morning because I had to reach school at freaking 6:30am in school so they can check our uniform and watch us eat breakfast, like WTH? I can understand that they didn't want anybody to faint during the parade, but they freaking asked us to go there early to EAT BREAKFAST!! Can't they believe that we will do whatever we can i.e. eat breakfast ourselves in the comfort of our home, to prevent ourselves from fainting? Even if we don't take precautions like that, don't they think that our parents will urge us to eat? But anyways, the bread was nice... so... I guess I wasn't that angry HAHA. Hey, you know what? I stayed up late to polish my No.3 shoes so that they were bling bling okays? They looked so freaking good! I was so glad that I finally polished my shoes till they looked shiny. Now I know how to polish my shoes properly lol. I still remember all the previous times where I tried to polish my shoes and I didn't put much water and they looked like some dull shit lol.
Anyways, so i guess I didn't sleep too early cause I was busy 1) polishing my shoes (Took freaking 2 hours and it was only the tip of both shoes?!) and 2) I was busy catching up on the videos I couldn't watch those few days. HAHA Anyway, we had the parade and it wasn't as bad as I thought it was, simply because the speeches weren't that long. I mean, I swore the National Day speech wasn't more than 5 minutes? And the Guest of Honour's speech had nothing to do with National Day? She simply spoke about her school life and the wonderful memories and the nostalgic feeling of walking back into the school campus where she spent her 4 valuable and memorable years with her beloved classmates, and how the feeling of a big and bonded family welcoming her. LOL
Anyway, the end of parade... We went back to class and changed into our own clothes. Well, I didn't bother bringing any home clothes since I don't wear them to school. You never know, you might get judged really badly. So I wore my house shirt (since it was red) and culottes. HAHA how original, just like last year. After that, we went to the mini-amphitheatre and spent about 30minutes watching the performances of the Year 4 classes until it started raining lol. Everybody was scrambling off their feet and running for shelter while the poor class performing on the stage while it started raining persevered on and continued despite the rain until their performance ended. Everybody was clapping and cheering on for them. :)
So we had to go to some sheltered area to watch the live broadcast from the hall. We went to the CLC. And guess what, they were playing that horrible 2013 NDP song, going Oh~~~~~~ like STFU IDK why the Sec 1s and other classes were so enthu about singing the song. Sigh... I know! They must be mocking it! I know I sound very mean, but seriously, when I heard the NDP 2013 song for the first time, I was like Please, I pray anything that's holy and beautiful in this world, tell me that this isn't the 2013 NDP song!! NOOOO!!! The rest of the time in the CLC was left for the singing of the previous NDP songs. I really like "Reach out for the stars", "My Island Home", "Where I belong", "Home" and etc. After that, nearly the whole school left while me, Holly, Jomma and DeeDee stayed in class after borrowing some Sec 1's class MacBook charger (of course, with their permission). Haha guess what, we were playing IB! Well, I practically forced Holly to play since she was so full of herself (no offense, Holly, I know you're reading this... Well, maybe I intended offense :P) and said that, "Ib is not scary! I know where the jumpscares are already! I watched you play it before already! -3-" Well, Holly, did your words bite your ass? >:) I still have all your recorded reactions in my MacBook!
Haha I swear, Jomma and I were laughing at both DeeDee's and Holly's reactions. We should get together and play more games like this, except that we should find some game that neither Jomma nor I have played before. FYI, the games that I have done reviews on, were played by Jomma too. :) RPG Horror Games FTW!
Anyway, just being random, hot guys picture time!!! Ahhh all the bishies, I can't stand it anymore. This may look like they're out of an anime or something, but they're not. :P They're from the otome games by Voltage. Geniusess!!!
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| Here we have Takasama Saeki. I think I'm gonna start spewing rainbows. |
Heehee
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| And now we have Shibasaki Ren!! Holly, this is just like Hakuouki. If you watch Hakuouki, you'll get guys like this too~~ Ahh, Ren in a Shinsengumi uniform. <3 |
Ahem... Sorry...
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| Dun dun dun... Kougami Yamato! *faints* I think Holly is embarrassed to be aquainted with me. Ah well... |
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| Yuta~~~!! Yuta Yuta Yuta Yuta Yuta YUTA!!! ANKFGSC |
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| Yay, Takao! Yep, he's supposed to be holding your hand. |
Okays *clears throat* I really should stop. Stop, Mirai!!! Anyway, these CGs are from this Voltage game called My Forged Wedding. So basically, the main character, i.e. you, came to Tokyo and is in search for a job. She askes her "uncle" for help and he says that he would give her a job only if she chooses one of those guys and helps them. He didn't tell her what to help him with, though. It seemed that each guy has some problem and only you have the power to help them, lol (sounds cheesy). I like their routes, it's all really sweet, especially Ren's. He's so quiet and reserved and so cute when he opens up to you. <3 His route is really unique too, kinda reminds he of Be my Princess (Another game by Voltage).
Ahaha, Holly, who will you chose???
Addio!
Mirai
Wednesday, 17 July 2013
Horror RPG Marathon (2) - Mad Father
Hiii~~~
OMG I didn't upload for the longest time ever... Haha! Holly uploaded 1 day earlier than me -3-.
Anyways, I haven't been really busy, like always :P but I guess I have been putting off updating this blog for the longest time everrr~~... Anyways, it's not like I have anything interesting to share, but anyways, since I have time to upload today, I shall take the chance to do so. Yup!
So anyways, back to the topic, I'm supposed to be updating about my Horror RPG game marathon. LOL I still remember everything okays?
Just in case the future me forgets about the game itself, I shall remind her. For all those people who don't want spoilers.... erm... Too bad! This post is about the game itself, so don't you even think about the possibility of having censored spoilers.
Anyway, Mad Father is probably one of the most twisted games I have played in my life. I mean, I haven't even played that much games, but it is damn creepy, like, WTF kind of creepy. You get it? Like close to mindfuck, but in a different way.
Since you've read this far, I guess you're not bothered about the spoilers. :P That's good. You're just like me! Congratz!
So, when you start playing the game, you are in a huge (and boy, do I mean huge) house. The intro starts off by showing a young pretty and sweet-looking girl standing outside her father's laboratory. And yes, her father's a scientist. Apparently, the girl (you) is feeling very uneasy and she couldn't go to sleep. Her father comes out of the laboratory and reassures the girl that whatever uneasiness she is feeling should be tossed away and he told her not to worry. The girl hesitates. The father added in, "Aya, we'll go visit your mother's grave tomorrow." Okay, so it seems that the girl's mother passed away. Not too long ago too. The girl smiles, finally reassured, and then hurries off to her room to go to sleep. When she leaves, she hears the sound of a chainsaw activated, and something being destroyed, highly likely by the chainsaw. Talk about creepy.... Goshhh
That wasn't even the scary part, ya know? You know what happened next? HUH?! The scene changes to a scene inside the laboratory. The father was in the laboratory with a young lady, by the name of Maria. Erm... Maria isn't exactly the most appealing character and I must say she looked really creepy, especially her eyes. The father said, "Come here, Maria..."
Maria walks over...
And I think she jumped into the arms of the father. *tsk tsk
Father: "You must take care of Aya for me."
Maria: "But I don't think she likes me, doctor..."
Father: "No matter. She must remain safe. After all, she is my most precious..."
Hehe. After reading that conversation, if you're thinking something's already wrong like I did, good job! Anyway, back to Aya (the little girl, aka you). She's in her room like any good girl. The midnight bell sounds and suddenly she hears sounds from outside. Cliche, huh?
Anyway, this part is very long, so I don't want to talk much about it. Basically, it's about hearing noises and going out to check out what's wrong. Heh. Smart move~ Not! That it, until, Aya hears her father's scream. So, that's the end of the intro! Yay~ Finally got rid of the super long intro. So, here comes the gameplay. Like any RPG game, there are tons of jumpscares that scare the shit out of you, just like Ib. However, this is more extreme as you have zombies chasing after you. And these zombies all have something in common. They somehow have something taken away from them, be it a limb or eyes, etc. So, they're chasing you around and basically, you have a life bar and you die, when well, it depletes to zero. Haha. But the good thing is, it replenishes itself. Okay, the first few parts are creepy, but not so scary. You wander around the house, the main hall, archives, basically any room that you can access. Here's the freaking jumpscare that made my heart stop, almost. At one point, you have nothing left to obtain, so you just I just walked into all the rooms all over again and try to figure out the next move. Heh. I went back to Aya's room and there was this lady staring out the window. Hmm... harmless, right? Yeah, until you get closer, that is. She turned around and her face was stained with blood. Her face wasn't the creepiest thing per se, but it was the sound effects that followed through. As she turned around, there was this high pitches scream that seemed to sound as if there was an explosion. Heh. Lesson learnt: Do not play horror games alone, at night, in a dead silent room, even if you're in an air-conditioned room.
Oh yes, and allow me to introduce this sweet guy. I can't exactly remember what his name is, since they never did mention it in the game; it was a fanmade name. Anyway, he's really sweet and he's saved Aya so many times. Even from the beginning of the game, he appeared, though not in the most presentable form possible. Well, as I've said before, all the zombies have something taken away from them and this sweet boy had his right eye taken away, so it was this hollow space that initially freaked out our heroine. Since then, she didn't see him until he appeared to save Aya.
Anyway, the rest of the game is up to you to play. I mean, you've got to experience all the jumpscares and the sense of satisfaction when you manage to lock and trap this mega fast zombie. OMG that was the most heart-stopping moment in the game. You have to choose your steps wisely to a door because if you take 1 step more, you risk getting killed by the zombie. So, you have to come out somehow and shut the same door behind you to trap the zombie. Hah! I don't even how many times I replayed that scene! Thank goodness for Crow-kun! Anyways, Crow-kun, as Pewdiepie calls him, is a crow that appears habitually throughout the game and serves as a save point. Lesson learnt 2: Always save, wherever you go, whatever you do. Whenever you see crow-kun, just walk to him. Hah!
Moving on, here's the ending. I bet this is what you're looking forward to the most, whoever you are. LOL, Holly, I've told you this before, but I haven't been that in depth. :)
Basically what happens towards the end is that you, playing as Aya, have finished wandering around the house and you end up at this place that seems to house a portal to another dimension. A guy named Ogre which Aya has met in the beginning of the game, asked her if she wished to proceed to the other dimension to save her parents. (Dont' ask, I'll explain later) He gave her a vial of liquid, called "Magic Water" and he said that the liquid could save her father. Aya said that she would proceed to save her father. So whoosh, she went through the portal.
In the other dimension, she saw her mother and father. Well, except that her mother wasn't what she used to be. She was already dead, but she managed to come back into the world and she was the one responsible for all the weird happenings in the house, and the one who dragged Aya's father into the other dimension. From there on, you have the choice of saving your mother or your father.
If you save your mother, there will only be one ending, and that is the bad ending. Basically, you used the water to save your mother and she fulfilled her own wish of taking her father together to wherever she is going to. Presumably, that's either heaven or hell. When you go back to your normal world, you are alone. Your mother is dead and your father is dragged along with her. As you make your way to the main building of your house, you meet with Maria and Maria is pain-stricken with the fact that the "doctor" is never coming back. Maria mourns for Aya's father and while Aya was leaving since she no longer has business with that house, Maria lunges at Aya and knocks her unconscious. Aya is last seen on the experimental bed [?] and Maria says, "Doctor, I shall your fulfil your last wish." And then, the game ends. Dun Dun...
Of you choose to save your father, there will either be the bad ending or the good ending. So, you and your father go back to your world. As you awake, you find yourself in one of your father's labs. You were happy to be able to save your father, but your mother's soul comes into sight. She uses the last bit of her power to show you the truth.
The Truth
This is the truth. Let's talk about Aya's father. As said before, Aya's father is a scientist, but he is not a normal scientist. He doesn't do research for the benefit of others. He collects human live specimens to obtain their body parts (which explains why the zombies had a part of them missing, because they were once his test subjects). They are all for his research which is a quest to preserve a human's beauty. Since humans are mortal, he wants to find a way to preserve their beauty forever. And what better thing is there that doesn't fade away than a doll? Therefore, his research all along has been to create dolls. No one knows whether the soul still remains when the person is turned into a doll. This twisted mindset followed him through his life, beginning when he was only a child. As read from his diary in the game, Aya's father used to capture birds and kill them and he would hide the corpses in his drawers when his mother was out. This twisted mindset drove him to such insanity that caused him to kill his own mother.
Moving on, let's talk about Maria. Maria used to be a poor, starving begger girl on the streets. She was cold and hungry and one day, Aya's father found her on the streets. He thought to himself that it was such a pity for such a fine specimen to die off in the cold and fall victim to hunger. Therefore, he took her in and fed her and gave her clothes. He locked her in a cell where he houses all the live specimens. Maria happened to be locked with a very sick boy who had a serious open wound. She was frantic and wanted to save the boy. She took care of the boy, helped him heal his wounds and when the doctor came to check on the sick boy, he was surprised at how much he recovered. He inferred that Maria was very good in medical aid and would be very useful as his assistant. Since the doctor treated Maria like she was important, Maria fell in love with the doctor, even though he already had a wife and daughter.
Finally, let's talk about Aya's mother. Aya's mother was very sick and weak some time before her death. She loved Aya's father very deeply. However, she became very suspicious and angry that he was spending too much time with Maria. She thought of Maria as someone he "picked up from the streets". One day, in front of the laboratory door, Aya's mother overheard Aya's father talking to Maria about turning Aya into a doll. Yes, a doll. He wanted to preserve Aya's beauty for ever. Now can you guess?
Father: "No matter. She must remain safe. After all, she is my most precious...
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doll."
Naturally, Aya's mother was very angry that he could do such a thing to their daughter. She stormed into the laboratory and confronted Aya's father. Aya's father did not want to listen and said something along the lines of not letting her getting into his way and eventually killing her by strangling her. He told Maria to keep the murder a secret and to tell Aya that her mother died because of her illness.
And that was the truth that Aya's mother showed her with the last of her power. Aya was brought to her senses and backed away from her father. She bumped into a huge glass container draped over with a large piece of cloth. The piece of cloth fell off and inside the glass container was a body that was scientifically created by Aya's father that resembled Aya's mother. Aya was scared and her father realised that she knew the truth. He did not bother trying to hide the fact that he wished to turn her into a doll. He even asked her what dress she would like to wear when she became a doll.
Thus, Aya ran away, while her father chased after her with his trademark chainsaw, saying, "アーヤー.... どこにいるのかな..." Aya~~ doko ni iru no ka na? (Aya, where are you~?) Basically you run away from him. To get the good ending, you go to Maria's room and read her diary. Then she will save you just in time when mad scientist caught up with you and was about to kill you. If you did not do that, Maria will not save you and you will die, rather to be more specific, turned into a doll.
If you manage to get the good ending, the sweet boy from before makes an appearance again. This time, he tells you that he has to burn the house down so as to ensure that things like that do not happen again. Aya understands and he kisses Aya's forehead (Kyaaa~) and says, "May you be smiled upon." Apparently, that is a small "magic trick" that Aya's mother used to use when Aya was sad. Then, Aya and Maria run away from the burning house. The sweet boy asks for a favour, and that is to remember him, and all he people who have suffered in the hands of her father. All of those people have existed once in life before, only to be ruined by her father. Most of them do not have relatives and if even Aya forgets them, they will be forgotten forever.
While running away from the burning house, Aya finds a book on the ground. She picks it up, and according to sources, it was the book that Aya did not dare read when she was a child because it had disgusting images. It turns out to be the book that Aya's father read that taught him how to turn people into dolls...
A few years later, Maria and Aya go to a rural area and set up a clinic that offers patients free check-ups. At their door was a young girl with beautiful eyes who was apparently sick enough to have her doctors lose faith in her recovery. Since Aya does not charge her patients any money in check-ups, she welcomes the girl into her clinic. The girl lies on the examination bed and closes her eyes. Aya comments that she has very beautiful eyes and gives the girl an injection. Then, the camera focuses on Maria which was at a corner room in the clinic.
She said, "It seems, doctor, that Aya has turned out like you. I presume it runs in the family..."
About what happened, I will leave it to you decide and infer for yourself, though it is quite obvious. And as a side note, the man named Ogre was seen talking to the fallen father. He asked him if he wanted to come along with him, and that he (Ogre) would provide him all the resources to continue his research. Heh. So much for being a good guy that allowed Aya to save one of her parents...
Finally, at a bonus scene, it is revealed that Aya's father has indeed continued his research under Ogre. He scientifically created a body similar to Aya's... and that she will be brought into the world soon...
Hmm... If you ask me for my thoughts... I would say that this is a relatively good game, except that the good ending... is not that good after all. Unlike Ib which I have played before, this game offers no true happy ending, while in Ib, you get endings like a promised reunion with Garry. In this game, however, it is enchantingly dark. It has all the elements to make you feel the loss and the de ja vu and the sinking feeling that hope is all lost when you see the grown up Aya turn out to be like her father. There, I said it. She turned out like her father and ended up as a killer who turned people into dolls. Hng!! Besides, it kinda gets you yearning for more, especially when you are not happy with the ending. You want to know what happens, and this aptly guides the players to the sequel, Misao. Equally haunting, the sequel is not to be missed. I shall add in that this is also rather psychological. To think that Aya is a young girl, yet she gets over her fear quickly... Quickly enough to ignore all the zombies, and mature enough to forgive Maria and understand her love for the doctor. On the way, she meets up with many people: a girl without eyes, a discriminated zombie boy, a man who could not find his head etc. But was it pure love for her father that spurred her on to continue on her quest to save her father? Or was it that from the start, Aya was destined to become like her father, not daunted by things we would consider scary, and eventually taking a liking to them. Hmm... Another game created by another genius in his own way... This game leaves you hanging, like you know... the kind of void you feel in your heart after you've been in a really good story and suddenly you realise you finished it? Yes, Mad Father is the kind of game. Don't just see the surface, see what's beyond it. That way, you will feel even more like I do. Sure, the game's obvious aspects at the surface are daunting, but what's more mysterious and nerve-wrecking is the game's psychological aspect.
Anyways, here are some pictures.
OMG I didn't upload for the longest time ever... Haha! Holly uploaded 1 day earlier than me -3-.
Anyways, I haven't been really busy, like always :P but I guess I have been putting off updating this blog for the longest time everrr~~... Anyways, it's not like I have anything interesting to share, but anyways, since I have time to upload today, I shall take the chance to do so. Yup!
So anyways, back to the topic, I'm supposed to be updating about my Horror RPG game marathon. LOL I still remember everything okays?
Just in case the future me forgets about the game itself, I shall remind her. For all those people who don't want spoilers.... erm... Too bad! This post is about the game itself, so don't you even think about the possibility of having censored spoilers.
Anyway, Mad Father is probably one of the most twisted games I have played in my life. I mean, I haven't even played that much games, but it is damn creepy, like, WTF kind of creepy. You get it? Like close to mindfuck, but in a different way.
Since you've read this far, I guess you're not bothered about the spoilers. :P That's good. You're just like me! Congratz!
So, when you start playing the game, you are in a huge (and boy, do I mean huge) house. The intro starts off by showing a young pretty and sweet-looking girl standing outside her father's laboratory. And yes, her father's a scientist. Apparently, the girl (you) is feeling very uneasy and she couldn't go to sleep. Her father comes out of the laboratory and reassures the girl that whatever uneasiness she is feeling should be tossed away and he told her not to worry. The girl hesitates. The father added in, "Aya, we'll go visit your mother's grave tomorrow." Okay, so it seems that the girl's mother passed away. Not too long ago too. The girl smiles, finally reassured, and then hurries off to her room to go to sleep. When she leaves, she hears the sound of a chainsaw activated, and something being destroyed, highly likely by the chainsaw. Talk about creepy.... Goshhh
That wasn't even the scary part, ya know? You know what happened next? HUH?! The scene changes to a scene inside the laboratory. The father was in the laboratory with a young lady, by the name of Maria. Erm... Maria isn't exactly the most appealing character and I must say she looked really creepy, especially her eyes. The father said, "Come here, Maria..."
Maria walks over...
And I think she jumped into the arms of the father. *tsk tsk
Father: "You must take care of Aya for me."
Maria: "But I don't think she likes me, doctor..."
Father: "No matter. She must remain safe. After all, she is my most precious..."
Hehe. After reading that conversation, if you're thinking something's already wrong like I did, good job! Anyway, back to Aya (the little girl, aka you). She's in her room like any good girl. The midnight bell sounds and suddenly she hears sounds from outside. Cliche, huh?
Anyway, this part is very long, so I don't want to talk much about it. Basically, it's about hearing noises and going out to check out what's wrong. Heh. Smart move~ Not! That it, until, Aya hears her father's scream. So, that's the end of the intro! Yay~ Finally got rid of the super long intro. So, here comes the gameplay. Like any RPG game, there are tons of jumpscares that scare the shit out of you, just like Ib. However, this is more extreme as you have zombies chasing after you. And these zombies all have something in common. They somehow have something taken away from them, be it a limb or eyes, etc. So, they're chasing you around and basically, you have a life bar and you die, when well, it depletes to zero. Haha. But the good thing is, it replenishes itself. Okay, the first few parts are creepy, but not so scary. You wander around the house, the main hall, archives, basically any room that you can access. Here's the freaking jumpscare that made my heart stop, almost. At one point, you have nothing left to obtain, so you just I just walked into all the rooms all over again and try to figure out the next move. Heh. I went back to Aya's room and there was this lady staring out the window. Hmm... harmless, right? Yeah, until you get closer, that is. She turned around and her face was stained with blood. Her face wasn't the creepiest thing per se, but it was the sound effects that followed through. As she turned around, there was this high pitches scream that seemed to sound as if there was an explosion. Heh. Lesson learnt: Do not play horror games alone, at night, in a dead silent room, even if you're in an air-conditioned room.
Oh yes, and allow me to introduce this sweet guy. I can't exactly remember what his name is, since they never did mention it in the game; it was a fanmade name. Anyway, he's really sweet and he's saved Aya so many times. Even from the beginning of the game, he appeared, though not in the most presentable form possible. Well, as I've said before, all the zombies have something taken away from them and this sweet boy had his right eye taken away, so it was this hollow space that initially freaked out our heroine. Since then, she didn't see him until he appeared to save Aya.
Anyway, the rest of the game is up to you to play. I mean, you've got to experience all the jumpscares and the sense of satisfaction when you manage to lock and trap this mega fast zombie. OMG that was the most heart-stopping moment in the game. You have to choose your steps wisely to a door because if you take 1 step more, you risk getting killed by the zombie. So, you have to come out somehow and shut the same door behind you to trap the zombie. Hah! I don't even how many times I replayed that scene! Thank goodness for Crow-kun! Anyways, Crow-kun, as Pewdiepie calls him, is a crow that appears habitually throughout the game and serves as a save point. Lesson learnt 2: Always save, wherever you go, whatever you do. Whenever you see crow-kun, just walk to him. Hah!
Moving on, here's the ending. I bet this is what you're looking forward to the most, whoever you are. LOL, Holly, I've told you this before, but I haven't been that in depth. :)
Basically what happens towards the end is that you, playing as Aya, have finished wandering around the house and you end up at this place that seems to house a portal to another dimension. A guy named Ogre which Aya has met in the beginning of the game, asked her if she wished to proceed to the other dimension to save her parents. (Dont' ask, I'll explain later) He gave her a vial of liquid, called "Magic Water" and he said that the liquid could save her father. Aya said that she would proceed to save her father. So whoosh, she went through the portal.
In the other dimension, she saw her mother and father. Well, except that her mother wasn't what she used to be. She was already dead, but she managed to come back into the world and she was the one responsible for all the weird happenings in the house, and the one who dragged Aya's father into the other dimension. From there on, you have the choice of saving your mother or your father.
If you save your mother, there will only be one ending, and that is the bad ending. Basically, you used the water to save your mother and she fulfilled her own wish of taking her father together to wherever she is going to. Presumably, that's either heaven or hell. When you go back to your normal world, you are alone. Your mother is dead and your father is dragged along with her. As you make your way to the main building of your house, you meet with Maria and Maria is pain-stricken with the fact that the "doctor" is never coming back. Maria mourns for Aya's father and while Aya was leaving since she no longer has business with that house, Maria lunges at Aya and knocks her unconscious. Aya is last seen on the experimental bed [?] and Maria says, "Doctor, I shall your fulfil your last wish." And then, the game ends. Dun Dun...
Of you choose to save your father, there will either be the bad ending or the good ending. So, you and your father go back to your world. As you awake, you find yourself in one of your father's labs. You were happy to be able to save your father, but your mother's soul comes into sight. She uses the last bit of her power to show you the truth.
The Truth
This is the truth. Let's talk about Aya's father. As said before, Aya's father is a scientist, but he is not a normal scientist. He doesn't do research for the benefit of others. He collects human live specimens to obtain their body parts (which explains why the zombies had a part of them missing, because they were once his test subjects). They are all for his research which is a quest to preserve a human's beauty. Since humans are mortal, he wants to find a way to preserve their beauty forever. And what better thing is there that doesn't fade away than a doll? Therefore, his research all along has been to create dolls. No one knows whether the soul still remains when the person is turned into a doll. This twisted mindset followed him through his life, beginning when he was only a child. As read from his diary in the game, Aya's father used to capture birds and kill them and he would hide the corpses in his drawers when his mother was out. This twisted mindset drove him to such insanity that caused him to kill his own mother.
Moving on, let's talk about Maria. Maria used to be a poor, starving begger girl on the streets. She was cold and hungry and one day, Aya's father found her on the streets. He thought to himself that it was such a pity for such a fine specimen to die off in the cold and fall victim to hunger. Therefore, he took her in and fed her and gave her clothes. He locked her in a cell where he houses all the live specimens. Maria happened to be locked with a very sick boy who had a serious open wound. She was frantic and wanted to save the boy. She took care of the boy, helped him heal his wounds and when the doctor came to check on the sick boy, he was surprised at how much he recovered. He inferred that Maria was very good in medical aid and would be very useful as his assistant. Since the doctor treated Maria like she was important, Maria fell in love with the doctor, even though he already had a wife and daughter.
Finally, let's talk about Aya's mother. Aya's mother was very sick and weak some time before her death. She loved Aya's father very deeply. However, she became very suspicious and angry that he was spending too much time with Maria. She thought of Maria as someone he "picked up from the streets". One day, in front of the laboratory door, Aya's mother overheard Aya's father talking to Maria about turning Aya into a doll. Yes, a doll. He wanted to preserve Aya's beauty for ever. Now can you guess?
Father: "No matter. She must remain safe. After all, she is my most precious...
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doll."
Naturally, Aya's mother was very angry that he could do such a thing to their daughter. She stormed into the laboratory and confronted Aya's father. Aya's father did not want to listen and said something along the lines of not letting her getting into his way and eventually killing her by strangling her. He told Maria to keep the murder a secret and to tell Aya that her mother died because of her illness.
And that was the truth that Aya's mother showed her with the last of her power. Aya was brought to her senses and backed away from her father. She bumped into a huge glass container draped over with a large piece of cloth. The piece of cloth fell off and inside the glass container was a body that was scientifically created by Aya's father that resembled Aya's mother. Aya was scared and her father realised that she knew the truth. He did not bother trying to hide the fact that he wished to turn her into a doll. He even asked her what dress she would like to wear when she became a doll.
Thus, Aya ran away, while her father chased after her with his trademark chainsaw, saying, "アーヤー.... どこにいるのかな..." Aya~~ doko ni iru no ka na? (Aya, where are you~?) Basically you run away from him. To get the good ending, you go to Maria's room and read her diary. Then she will save you just in time when mad scientist caught up with you and was about to kill you. If you did not do that, Maria will not save you and you will die, rather to be more specific, turned into a doll.
If you manage to get the good ending, the sweet boy from before makes an appearance again. This time, he tells you that he has to burn the house down so as to ensure that things like that do not happen again. Aya understands and he kisses Aya's forehead (Kyaaa~) and says, "May you be smiled upon." Apparently, that is a small "magic trick" that Aya's mother used to use when Aya was sad. Then, Aya and Maria run away from the burning house. The sweet boy asks for a favour, and that is to remember him, and all he people who have suffered in the hands of her father. All of those people have existed once in life before, only to be ruined by her father. Most of them do not have relatives and if even Aya forgets them, they will be forgotten forever.
While running away from the burning house, Aya finds a book on the ground. She picks it up, and according to sources, it was the book that Aya did not dare read when she was a child because it had disgusting images. It turns out to be the book that Aya's father read that taught him how to turn people into dolls...
A few years later, Maria and Aya go to a rural area and set up a clinic that offers patients free check-ups. At their door was a young girl with beautiful eyes who was apparently sick enough to have her doctors lose faith in her recovery. Since Aya does not charge her patients any money in check-ups, she welcomes the girl into her clinic. The girl lies on the examination bed and closes her eyes. Aya comments that she has very beautiful eyes and gives the girl an injection. Then, the camera focuses on Maria which was at a corner room in the clinic.
She said, "It seems, doctor, that Aya has turned out like you. I presume it runs in the family..."
About what happened, I will leave it to you decide and infer for yourself, though it is quite obvious. And as a side note, the man named Ogre was seen talking to the fallen father. He asked him if he wanted to come along with him, and that he (Ogre) would provide him all the resources to continue his research. Heh. So much for being a good guy that allowed Aya to save one of her parents...
Finally, at a bonus scene, it is revealed that Aya's father has indeed continued his research under Ogre. He scientifically created a body similar to Aya's... and that she will be brought into the world soon...
Hmm... If you ask me for my thoughts... I would say that this is a relatively good game, except that the good ending... is not that good after all. Unlike Ib which I have played before, this game offers no true happy ending, while in Ib, you get endings like a promised reunion with Garry. In this game, however, it is enchantingly dark. It has all the elements to make you feel the loss and the de ja vu and the sinking feeling that hope is all lost when you see the grown up Aya turn out to be like her father. There, I said it. She turned out like her father and ended up as a killer who turned people into dolls. Hng!! Besides, it kinda gets you yearning for more, especially when you are not happy with the ending. You want to know what happens, and this aptly guides the players to the sequel, Misao. Equally haunting, the sequel is not to be missed. I shall add in that this is also rather psychological. To think that Aya is a young girl, yet she gets over her fear quickly... Quickly enough to ignore all the zombies, and mature enough to forgive Maria and understand her love for the doctor. On the way, she meets up with many people: a girl without eyes, a discriminated zombie boy, a man who could not find his head etc. But was it pure love for her father that spurred her on to continue on her quest to save her father? Or was it that from the start, Aya was destined to become like her father, not daunted by things we would consider scary, and eventually taking a liking to them. Hmm... Another game created by another genius in his own way... This game leaves you hanging, like you know... the kind of void you feel in your heart after you've been in a really good story and suddenly you realise you finished it? Yes, Mad Father is the kind of game. Don't just see the surface, see what's beyond it. That way, you will feel even more like I do. Sure, the game's obvious aspects at the surface are daunting, but what's more mysterious and nerve-wrecking is the game's psychological aspect.
Anyways, here are some pictures.
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| Here's the sweet boy. He was helping her from the start. |
| Our dear heroine, Aya. |
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| Not sure if this is the original image, but here's a picture of Aya as a doll. |
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| One of the scenes from Mad Father. |
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| Aya's father, aka Doctor or Mad Father. |
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| This was when he turned bonkers and chased Aya around with the trademark chainsaw. アーヤー.... どこにいるのかな.... Aya... doko ni iru no ka na... Aya... Where are you...? |
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| This b**ch of a doll had to stop Aya for the doctor to kill her. COME BE WITH US... |
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| Hardy har har... This is Maria. Am I the only one who thinks she looks scary? |
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| This is when Maria was found on the streets. |
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| This is Aya's mother. |
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| This was when she came back as a spirit or something along that line. |
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| Poor Aya reaches out for her mother... |
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| "May you be smiled upon..." |
Confession time...
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| This. Is. What. I'm. Talking. About. |
I hope you're interested in playing this game! This is one of he few games which the Mac version was released for. So, for Mac users, you have hope! Of course, Windows players can play too...
Download Link:
Hey guys, I guess this is the end of the super long post. I hope you didn't get bored haha. My ramblings... they don't stop easily.
I'll love chocolate and vanilla with a passion,
<3 Mirai
Friday, 21 June 2013
Horror RPG Marathon (1) - Ib
Hey Hey
The holidays are ending soon with only 1 week left to go. :( Anyways, I've set out to play some Horror RPG (Role Playing Games) games and they are really a good way to pass time and have fun as well as scare the shit out of you. Anyway, Holly recently posted something super duper emotional and sappy in a post talking about relationships. Haha! What a love doctor. Hmm... Was 'Imma Love Doctor' the title of the post? I think so...
Anyway, this can get quite long and boring and emotional and whatever I'm feeling right now. I'm sure at one point in your life, you've watched PewDiePie's videos... No? Well, shame on you. Pewds is awesome! Thinking about it, I might as well become a fellow bro. :D Anyways, Pewds plays many games and posts them on YouTube and I watch some of them, well RPGs mostly because I don't like games like Amnesia which are too life-like and too gory and whatever. So, I basically downloaded quite a number of games that can be downloaded (LOL) and tried to play them. And yes, as much as I'd like to say otherwise, Apple is a stubborn and spoilt bitch. It takes so much work to download external softwares to play Windows games and some don't even work. Geezers, I downloaded like, Crossover, Winebottler etc. and so far only Crossover works. Therefore, I decided, enough is enough! Mirai disapproves of games with no Mac versions! Oh pish posh, who am I kidding? The best games are only available on Windows.... including my otome games. :(
Anyways, shit I'm getting out of topic. Haizz... Excuse me... *Mentally pictures Holly staring back with a "You are excused" face. HAHA* I downloaded the games: Ib, Mad Father, Misao and The Witch's House.
I've played Ib before, last year to be exact. I went over to a friend's house and we spent hours creeping ourselves out trying to play Ib and get all the endings, lol. Ib has a marvellous plot, characters and although RGP maker is probably not the best software out there to make RPGs since they come up like totally pixelised crap, it still works. :D I'll tell you why I love it so much. Brace yourself, spoilers up ahead and totally long paragraph(s) coming up...
Ib starts off with an innocent and harmless plot. It's about a girl, Ib, of about age 10 (I'm not too sure about the age... and unfortunately was too lazy to find out. :P) and her parents going to an art museum for an outing. Heh. Who thinks museums are scary? Well, you'd be doomed if you're Ib. Anyway, Ib wanders around the museum, and accidentally finds a large mural of a dark world. Well, she tries (ermm... the player) tries to go back to the area of the museum where it was more crowded, only to find that all the people have vanished and there isn't even any music playing in the background. =.= Only your footsteps... So, you have no choice but to jump down this realistic street art (you know? The awesome ones you find in 9gag? :D) of water and you enter this world. You walk around to discover that while you walk away from the entrance, it vanishes when you try to find it... You have no way out. You have to go on.
Anyway, that's the starting. It hasn't ended, peeps. Ib finds a red rose that shall accompany her for the rest of her journey in the dark world. The rose becomes her life force. When all the petals fall out (her rose has 5 petals) she dies and it's game over. There are vases along the way that she can put the rose in to make the rose "recover". The game is mostly scary due to its graphics (things like dolls and moving paintings) and the heart-stopping jump scares, e.g. the vase falling off when you walk past it etc. Anyway, now to the emo part.
As we all know, Ib is just a young girl. Imagine yourself as Ib, young and defenseless and going through all this shit and paintings chasing you and whatever. Seriously, who wants that kind of adventure? It doesn't help that you can get trapped in the dark world forever? Hell to the no! But if there's a protective knight in shining armour accompanying me and there's a chance the both of us can escape, then maybe. Keyword: maybe. So that's what happens. You get Garry, a guy who is 18 and honestly too old for a young girl like Ib, so I'd say he cares for her like a brother instead of a potential lover. So you go through all this stuff and whatever you do affects your ending with Garry. You want to save him, don't you? But what happens if your beloved brother dies in the process, leaving you all alone? Garry has a rose too, a blue rose, and he'll die if his rose reaches zero. And then there's a girl called Mary. A sweet, childish blonde girl who also has a rose, this time yellow, and she meets you. She's just like a sister. So here's what happens. You find out that Mary isn't actually a human. Unlike Garry who is a human being sucked into the dark world, Mary is a girl come alive from a painting. In the dark world, paintings and even mannequins come alive, so it's no doubt that Mary was able to get out. In truth, she is a lonely girl who likes visitors, but wishes much to become a real girl and be loved. Garry was the one who tells you that Mary is a painting and from that point, you are at a crossroad. Will you choose Mary or Garry?
There are several endings. One is that you've chosen Mary, though indirectly. Mary manages to get hold of Ib's rose and Garry, being the knight in shining armour and big brother figure, decides to trade his rose for Ib's rose. Thus, Mary runs of with Garry's rose. Knowing that only 2 people can get out of the dark world, Mary decides to kill of Garry by plucking out the petals of his rose. Garry becomes weak in the process and almost collapses before assuring Ib that he will catch up with her after telling her to move on first. You manage to find the large mural again, and this time, the mural depicts the museum from the real world. You jump into the mural and is transported back to the real world. Mary tags along and when you wake up, you find out that Mary has become your sister. You had no memory of what happened in the dark world and it is questionable whether Mary remembers. After all, it was her plot to go to the real world... What happens to Garry? Well, he's trapped there in the dark world... forever.
Another one is that you have chosen neither. Garry dies, just like the previous ending, but Mary also dies. Just like I have said, Mary is a painting and she dies because you decided to burn down her painting. She disappears and you found the mural and was transported back to the real world. You had no memory of what happened. As you exit the museum after reuniting with your parents, you noticed a painting. It depicted a sleeping Garry (presumably dead) and the name of the painting is "Forgotten protrait". Hmm.. well yeah...
Well, if you choose Garry, then you can have the normal ending or the Happy ending. The normal ending is when Garry doesn't die because of Mary and you both burn down Mary's paining. Both of you jump into the mural and get back to the real world. One difference is that after burning the painting, if you're close enough to Garry, Ib will have the option to offer Garry a handkerchief since he was injured by the shattered glass. If Ib gave the handkerchief, then in the real world, Ib will find Garry looking at an exhibition and they will converse. He seems unable to remember anything that has happened in the dark world, but he finds Ib's handkerchief and has a flashback of their time together. They remember each other and there will be a "Promise of Reunion". If they are not close enough, Ib will not be able to offer the handkerchief and although they get back into the real world, it seems neither remembers each other and neither meets each other again.
There will be an ending that you get stuck in the dark world forever too, this time, definitely alone. You might have burned Mary's painting and Garry's alive, but Garry jumps into the painting first and Ib sees illusions of her mother and Garry (not inside mural). If Ib doesn't jump into the mural and choose to go with the mother or "Garry", she will be trapped in the dark world.
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This game has left me utterly speechless, really. I can't believe such a game has such an effect on me. It feels like a psychological thing, to have to make a decision whether to choose Mary or Garry. Initially, I didn't really like Mary because I thought of her as a selfish bitch. But really, she was just lonely. Imagine having a soul and being trapped there for so long... Besides, you can't have both of them too. It's either Garry or Mary. I personally think that the relationship between Garry and Ib is the cutest thing ever. It's almost like having someone to share your fear during the game. Although Garry is not real, he kinda provides you this comfort that you are not alone. I don't know how to put things in words, but it's just that this game makes you feel so bad. Of course, you'll curse yourself if you get the ending where Ib's all alone in the dark world, but saving one means abandoning the other. You save Mary and Garry dies. You save Garry and Mary has to go. You save nobody but yourself and you end up feeling devastated upon seeing the "Forgotten Portrait". Life's not fair, but at least this RPG had a good plot and characterisation. They also offered a Happy ending between Ib and Garry. Logically, that's how it should be, because Garry belongs in this world, not Mary. I really loved the game. It's dark, but beautiful, and the soundtracks are beautiful too. Playing the game and reaching the credits really feels like eating bittersweet chocolate. It's so beautiful but you can't help hope for a better ending though the sadness and melancholy is the source of its unique beauty. You wish to relieve all your good times while playing the game, although there are times when the jump scares scares the shit out of you. It's also like finishing a good romance book. If you don't know how that feels like, get your ass to the library and do some soul-searching, the book style. :)
That's all for part 1 of this Marathon post. Will post some pictures below: (click to enlarge)
The holidays are ending soon with only 1 week left to go. :( Anyways, I've set out to play some Horror RPG (Role Playing Games) games and they are really a good way to pass time and have fun as well as scare the shit out of you. Anyway, Holly recently posted something super duper emotional and sappy in a post talking about relationships. Haha! What a love doctor. Hmm... Was 'Imma Love Doctor' the title of the post? I think so...
Anyway, this can get quite long and boring and emotional and whatever I'm feeling right now. I'm sure at one point in your life, you've watched PewDiePie's videos... No? Well, shame on you. Pewds is awesome! Thinking about it, I might as well become a fellow bro. :D Anyways, Pewds plays many games and posts them on YouTube and I watch some of them, well RPGs mostly because I don't like games like Amnesia which are too life-like and too gory and whatever. So, I basically downloaded quite a number of games that can be downloaded (LOL) and tried to play them. And yes, as much as I'd like to say otherwise, Apple is a stubborn and spoilt bitch. It takes so much work to download external softwares to play Windows games and some don't even work. Geezers, I downloaded like, Crossover, Winebottler etc. and so far only Crossover works. Therefore, I decided, enough is enough! Mirai disapproves of games with no Mac versions! Oh pish posh, who am I kidding? The best games are only available on Windows.... including my otome games. :(
Anyways, shit I'm getting out of topic. Haizz... Excuse me... *Mentally pictures Holly staring back with a "You are excused" face. HAHA* I downloaded the games: Ib, Mad Father, Misao and The Witch's House.
I've played Ib before, last year to be exact. I went over to a friend's house and we spent hours creeping ourselves out trying to play Ib and get all the endings, lol. Ib has a marvellous plot, characters and although RGP maker is probably not the best software out there to make RPGs since they come up like totally pixelised crap, it still works. :D I'll tell you why I love it so much. Brace yourself, spoilers up ahead and totally long paragraph(s) coming up...
Ib starts off with an innocent and harmless plot. It's about a girl, Ib, of about age 10 (I'm not too sure about the age... and unfortunately was too lazy to find out. :P) and her parents going to an art museum for an outing. Heh. Who thinks museums are scary? Well, you'd be doomed if you're Ib. Anyway, Ib wanders around the museum, and accidentally finds a large mural of a dark world. Well, she tries (ermm... the player) tries to go back to the area of the museum where it was more crowded, only to find that all the people have vanished and there isn't even any music playing in the background. =.= Only your footsteps... So, you have no choice but to jump down this realistic street art (you know? The awesome ones you find in 9gag? :D) of water and you enter this world. You walk around to discover that while you walk away from the entrance, it vanishes when you try to find it... You have no way out. You have to go on.
Anyway, that's the starting. It hasn't ended, peeps. Ib finds a red rose that shall accompany her for the rest of her journey in the dark world. The rose becomes her life force. When all the petals fall out (her rose has 5 petals) she dies and it's game over. There are vases along the way that she can put the rose in to make the rose "recover". The game is mostly scary due to its graphics (things like dolls and moving paintings) and the heart-stopping jump scares, e.g. the vase falling off when you walk past it etc. Anyway, now to the emo part.
As we all know, Ib is just a young girl. Imagine yourself as Ib, young and defenseless and going through all this shit and paintings chasing you and whatever. Seriously, who wants that kind of adventure? It doesn't help that you can get trapped in the dark world forever? Hell to the no! But if there's a protective knight in shining armour accompanying me and there's a chance the both of us can escape, then maybe. Keyword: maybe. So that's what happens. You get Garry, a guy who is 18 and honestly too old for a young girl like Ib, so I'd say he cares for her like a brother instead of a potential lover. So you go through all this stuff and whatever you do affects your ending with Garry. You want to save him, don't you? But what happens if your beloved brother dies in the process, leaving you all alone? Garry has a rose too, a blue rose, and he'll die if his rose reaches zero. And then there's a girl called Mary. A sweet, childish blonde girl who also has a rose, this time yellow, and she meets you. She's just like a sister. So here's what happens. You find out that Mary isn't actually a human. Unlike Garry who is a human being sucked into the dark world, Mary is a girl come alive from a painting. In the dark world, paintings and even mannequins come alive, so it's no doubt that Mary was able to get out. In truth, she is a lonely girl who likes visitors, but wishes much to become a real girl and be loved. Garry was the one who tells you that Mary is a painting and from that point, you are at a crossroad. Will you choose Mary or Garry?
There are several endings. One is that you've chosen Mary, though indirectly. Mary manages to get hold of Ib's rose and Garry, being the knight in shining armour and big brother figure, decides to trade his rose for Ib's rose. Thus, Mary runs of with Garry's rose. Knowing that only 2 people can get out of the dark world, Mary decides to kill of Garry by plucking out the petals of his rose. Garry becomes weak in the process and almost collapses before assuring Ib that he will catch up with her after telling her to move on first. You manage to find the large mural again, and this time, the mural depicts the museum from the real world. You jump into the mural and is transported back to the real world. Mary tags along and when you wake up, you find out that Mary has become your sister. You had no memory of what happened in the dark world and it is questionable whether Mary remembers. After all, it was her plot to go to the real world... What happens to Garry? Well, he's trapped there in the dark world... forever.
Another one is that you have chosen neither. Garry dies, just like the previous ending, but Mary also dies. Just like I have said, Mary is a painting and she dies because you decided to burn down her painting. She disappears and you found the mural and was transported back to the real world. You had no memory of what happened. As you exit the museum after reuniting with your parents, you noticed a painting. It depicted a sleeping Garry (presumably dead) and the name of the painting is "Forgotten protrait". Hmm.. well yeah...
Well, if you choose Garry, then you can have the normal ending or the Happy ending. The normal ending is when Garry doesn't die because of Mary and you both burn down Mary's paining. Both of you jump into the mural and get back to the real world. One difference is that after burning the painting, if you're close enough to Garry, Ib will have the option to offer Garry a handkerchief since he was injured by the shattered glass. If Ib gave the handkerchief, then in the real world, Ib will find Garry looking at an exhibition and they will converse. He seems unable to remember anything that has happened in the dark world, but he finds Ib's handkerchief and has a flashback of their time together. They remember each other and there will be a "Promise of Reunion". If they are not close enough, Ib will not be able to offer the handkerchief and although they get back into the real world, it seems neither remembers each other and neither meets each other again.
There will be an ending that you get stuck in the dark world forever too, this time, definitely alone. You might have burned Mary's painting and Garry's alive, but Garry jumps into the painting first and Ib sees illusions of her mother and Garry (not inside mural). If Ib doesn't jump into the mural and choose to go with the mother or "Garry", she will be trapped in the dark world.
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This game has left me utterly speechless, really. I can't believe such a game has such an effect on me. It feels like a psychological thing, to have to make a decision whether to choose Mary or Garry. Initially, I didn't really like Mary because I thought of her as a selfish bitch. But really, she was just lonely. Imagine having a soul and being trapped there for so long... Besides, you can't have both of them too. It's either Garry or Mary. I personally think that the relationship between Garry and Ib is the cutest thing ever. It's almost like having someone to share your fear during the game. Although Garry is not real, he kinda provides you this comfort that you are not alone. I don't know how to put things in words, but it's just that this game makes you feel so bad. Of course, you'll curse yourself if you get the ending where Ib's all alone in the dark world, but saving one means abandoning the other. You save Mary and Garry dies. You save Garry and Mary has to go. You save nobody but yourself and you end up feeling devastated upon seeing the "Forgotten Portrait". Life's not fair, but at least this RPG had a good plot and characterisation. They also offered a Happy ending between Ib and Garry. Logically, that's how it should be, because Garry belongs in this world, not Mary. I really loved the game. It's dark, but beautiful, and the soundtracks are beautiful too. Playing the game and reaching the credits really feels like eating bittersweet chocolate. It's so beautiful but you can't help hope for a better ending though the sadness and melancholy is the source of its unique beauty. You wish to relieve all your good times while playing the game, although there are times when the jump scares scares the shit out of you. It's also like finishing a good romance book. If you don't know how that feels like, get your ass to the library and do some soul-searching, the book style. :)
That's all for part 1 of this Marathon post. Will post some pictures below: (click to enlarge)
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| This is a rather carefree picture of our trio. The blondie's Mary, the dude's Garry and Ib's the brown-haired heroine. Do you see the mannequin heads, bodies and paintings? They were the things that came alive and started chasing you around during the game. Amazing fanart, BTW |
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| This echoes what I'm feeling right now... j.j |
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| My thoughts exactly. |
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| Totally hit the nail on the head. |
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| Ahaha epic picture XD |
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| "Promise of Reunion" |
Anyways, I shall retire for the day now. I wanna do the other RPGs soon too.
おやすみなさい、
<3 ミライ
Goodnight,
<3 Mirai
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