FC Barcelona: UEFA Champions League Winner

0-2 (0:1)

Without any doubt, the most exciting match I have seen this year, and words cannot describe how glad I am that Barcelona won against The Red Devils.

I am not going to be biased on this or anything, we all agree that Man utd. didn't play as expected, though we did see some wonder jobs from unexcpected players...these can either be outstanding or unsatisfactory, for example look at Victor Valdes, since when did he "once in a blue moon" last the 90 minutes without any blunders? or goals shall I say?...on the other hand we have the magnificent Ryan Giggs...Senile...didn't appear and his performance lately shows that he must retire ASAP...and the list goes on for the unexcpected Man utd. performance....such as the aggresive style of playing and excessive fouls received (typical English football) .

So that said it... 2-0 is like a dagger to the heart for whomever reads this blog who supports The Red Devils...and my congrats to all Barca fans...I raise my hat to you!

P.S. Ignore the "Click me" icon in the picture...don't get excited about it :-p

"Thank You" note

After 6 months of trying hard enough for my website to work, it actually didn't sell well enough, not mentioning the fact that I achieved a net revenue...but didn't have the required experience for keeping ahold of my spending and money...and this is a small fraction of my failure.

I thought I would have to write this to thank you all for supporting me either by words, resources or advices, and remember that I would stand by your side one day the same way you stood by my side while I was still in prosperity at the beginning of last December.Many factors affected my plan, and one was poor management, spending alot and not keeping a record for that, and nothing special that would appeal to a customer or in other words...no website content that would repute it.

However, This was a fundamental experience that I will always remember...and most importantly, remember from my mistakes to be able to pass over them in the next phase of my life, I shall also apologize for the way I was force-promoting this website among you and making it a big deal from its start...as this isn't the appropriate way to market a website.

In the end, I say failing does give more awareness for the self to know what went wrong with him, and that it sure taught me alot, being very happy that at least I tried to do something by myself at a young age...Thank you, Thank you...and Thank you for your warm words of complements and advices that you gave me at the start.

P.S.  The site will stay available until January 2010.

Good Night...

Book Review of The Month: "Slumdog Millionaire" by Vikas Swarup

You obviously heard the title of this novel somewhere...oh,yes...in a movie of the same name, a movie that won Oscar awards and received thousands of positive reviews.

Originally published as "Q&A", it was later changed to "Slumdog Millionaire" after the movie has been released, which means that it was published earlier than the movie (like all novels) back in 2005. Written by Vikas Swarup, an Indian diplomat who is presently serving in South Africa.

I am not cocking about any of this review, this book was an actual blockbuster that was translated into 34 different languages, It consists of 318 breathtaking pages that will never be enough for you, making you wishing it was longer.

For those of you who watched the movie; you know the story already although there are little changes in the novel such as Jamal's name and other scenarios...

So here is a brief summary of the novel:
Ram Mohammad Thomas, an orphan born in Mumbai, India applies to the "Who will Win a Billion?" quiz show in which later he gets questioned 13 questions...getting each one right and winning 1,000,000,000 Indian Rupees. After doing so, police authorities suspect that Ram has been cheating and conclude that there is no way that an orphan who has never read a book or held a newspaper or even gone to school could have answered his way to a billion Rupees. As the story unfolds, Ram explains to his lawyer how he knew the answer to each question by telling him a chapter of his amazing life, from the day he was salvaged from a dustbin to his meeting with an Australian security-crazed army colonel while performing as an overly creative tour guide at the Taj Mahal. Stunning a television audience of millions, Ram draws on a store of street wisdom and accidental encounters that provides him the key to answering the quiz show questions.

I am curious to prove that the novel is way much better than the movie itself IF and only IF you read it and understood the storyline correctly, and as I said it features many differences to character names, the actual age of Ram, and the plots and events that take place throughout the novel. So how does this sum up? well, story is not only perfect, but gives you the courage to learn more in your real life to gain more life experience like Ram...so, its inspiring. Not very long, or very short...318 pages makes it readable for some. Unlike "The Kite Runner" which I reviewed last month, this has a fast paced storyline that sucks you into the book and drags you through sleepless night, I finished this book in 2 weeks without not hastle. Characters are lively and act as real humans in real life making it somehow realistic and very dramatic.

So what about the cons?...I actually didn't notice any major con...seriously, I didn't...but it might be from the countless number of events taking place that you can't recall what happened in a particular chapter and the open-ending which I dislike in any book I read since I was a child...so you never know whether he reclaims the billion Rupees or not at the end.

I am going to give this book 9/10 which makes it close to the fun I had for "The Kite Runner" having 2 minor cons I mentioned above other than that, its pure class.

In the end, I tell you go grab this book from your nearest bookstore or library, take it as a word of mouth and you won't regret it...I didn't like it...I LOVED IT!

A School of Fish

As the days go by, my addiction about canned sardines grows and grows countless number of times, now you may already know that, and you may also go YUCK!...who cares? nothing more nutritious than fish I think.

It started back in March of last year, hungry, nothing ready to eat noting that I favor canned food from my childhood. I went up to the storage room, picked up a can of Moroccan style sardines, clunked it open with a possibility of my index finger getting scratched and bleeding, poured it in on a plate and there you go, yummy yummy!

Although smelly when opened, it doesn't have that odor that sticks to you and your clothes, unlike the fish you buy from the market and cook yourself, some might be very spicy containing a small piece of chili pepper inside of it...that changes the color of the soy oil into red sometimes.

I tried many brands from many countries, the most common being Morocco ofcourse, Philippines, The UK, and French... I must say the best from my experience in sardines was the Filipino way...these guys are fantastic in cooking seafood, not only them but far Asia as a whole. French comes in 2nd place, very clean, no smell at all, comes in a variety of flavors (tomatoe sauce, spiced, soy sauce, sunflower oil, etc.), Moroccan and British sardines are the same...no major difference, both cooked in vegetable oil.

I currently have 7 cans of sardines in the kitchen stacked above one another, my average serving size is a can per day...this has actually been going on since January, god bless my mom for buying me this ridiculous number of cans a week, though one reason I love sardines is because it is ready to be eaten straight out of the can...and I am the type of guy who gets lazy preparing a sandwich or cooking something even if I am starving to death.

It doesn't actually matter, I sometimes have it as a breakfast, Lunch, or dinner, but most usually dinner...but you should remember the fact that whatever happens...don't induce 2 cans of sardines at once...it will leave you bolted for at least 2 months not eating seafood.

God bless you all!

Axing an Accountant

After 2 months of struggling with a South African accountant, We (his students) decided to ax him by writing (in the form of an article to be delivered to the dean) all the crude treatments and piss-offs we received from him.

First of all, I don't know how you are supposed to get scared of expressing your true raw idea about your mentor, like if you did really say the truth that he is bad, he is gonna know and disqualify you (the mentality of chickens) as if their is no system in the college and the professor has the free will to do whatever he wants (go get a life newbie chickens). So out of about 35 students, I compiled of what seems to be like 14 until now and interviewed them for the sake of getting some notes on this professor and why he needs to get axed, and the results were astonishing, even I myself had a good weapon to point at him and that was something he didn't become aware of.

So we had a midterm today, and I am not ranting about, it was stupid long, but anyway, this isn't what I will talk about here, it's the unforgivable mistake that he did with me and my colleague. After handing out the question papers, which then followed by handing out 2 answer sheets, I realized something fishy just then...when I looked at the student next to me, I noticed that he had 4 papers and I had 2 only, that also has happened with a friend of mine when given 3 papers instead of 4. However, there were 2 ways to notice, either by spending most of your time solving the 2 answer sheets I was given that would take 1/3 of the exam's time... or by trying to cheat from your classmate to notice that he had 4 and my friend had 3, which ended in him not realizing until coming up to the last question that needed the 4th sheet (that was 15 minutes before the end of the exam, the exam was 1.5 hours), that means the time was insufficient which literally made his day for walking out mental to strongly recommend the petition to be written and signed.

We were advised by the dean to write the petition and hand it out to him on one condition for him to not show our names to the doctor in case he didn't get dismissed, and so the list goes on for his awful deeds of 7 more points other than the one listed on top. (unfairly disqualifying people, coming late to class then blaming other people on coming 5 minutes late after him as if he wasn't late himself, inability to summarize or write explanations on the board briefly, etc.)

You should already know that I am one of the top students in the accounting class and I am also on my professor's good side, but that doesn't make him any good for me or for the others... and I finally hope I can get this successful without any trouble or risk.

"Top 10 List of The Month" : The Hardest Video Games I've Ever Played

Well, I decided to add a little twist to my blog by redesigning the upper picture a bit and putting in a more formal title and description, and this will top it up a bit...it's the first top ten list from my own opinion about things that I experienced.

First of all, the following is about the hardest video games I've ever played, these however, are from my own opinion, I will not tolerate any this and that about misreporting or the unfairness of the rank (Read the footer of this blog), and you should already know that I don't own a PS3, or any Xbox or Nintendo, I am a PS/PS2 type of guy. Through the years I have played many video games and most are sure to be ultimately hard, so here we go...This shall be one heck of a ride!



10) Galerians (PS)

I first got this game as a present from my elder brother Ribal, this however was without doubt one of the hardest games I played, it is slow-paced and merciless in the way enemies are deployed throughout the game, the gameplay resembles the one in Resident Evil.

It tells the story of a boy with psychic powers who gets imprisoned in an asylum to take advantage of his powers, you start with playing with him trying to break your way out of the asylum, your weapons are telekinesis and pyrokineses, which eventually deplete by time and are recovered by taking pills. The game is so complicated and full of events that it leaves you giving up for the game, it contains 3 CDs which means that the game is brutally long, this will forever stay up to my memory as one of the hardest games I have ever played in my entire life.

9) Parasite Eve II (PS)

One of my favorite games on the PS platform, unlike Galerians, this was beatable...but not any gamer can actually beat this game, it is hard in the way of its intelligence, you need to be observant and also smart enough to dodge the enemies attacks for example, and wasn't hard in a complicated way like Galerians, and the worst thing is that this game is only available in Japanese, so you can't read any files you get...bottom line, you and your sensations alone.

You start off with a cute looking girl trying to solve cases and fight her way through NEC (Neo Mitochondrial Creatures) infested areas, through out the game you will be introduced to merciless bosses such as genetically treated humans which are referred to as"Supersoldiers" trying to mock you for your abilities, you have 2 weapons, your fire and wind powers, and a rifle or a gun or whatever your holding. You encounter dark areas and mostly have a low stamina gauge. However, this was one good challenging game.

8) Resident Evil (Sega Saturn)

So, Resident Evil arrives on #8. I played this game on the deceased Sega Saturn, It was kind of hard at certain occasions during the game, I had no problems beating the game with Jill Valentine, but when you try to beat it with Chris Redfield...we are talking about a challenging nightmare.

First thing, you start off by yourself in the mansion, you are holding a combat knife and carry no pistol, you can carry 6 items in your inventory which is annoying all the time. Chris cannot unlock doors (which require a small key that takes up one space in his inventory), and cannot play musical notes, he also is less likely to be helped by other teammates, and the likeliness to easily getting decapitated from a Hunter. So, from Chris' part of the game...This will be an ultimatum.

No matter how long I live, I will always remember this game for the countless number of times I beat it with Jill and the ONLY time I ever managed to beat it with Chris which costed guts.

7) Doom 3 (PC)

There is no doubt about it, I would say about 60% of the world suffered from this game if you play on "Hurt Me Plenty" difficulty, the things that make this game hard is the lack of resources you have, you will learn to be conservative of ammo as much as possible.

The flashlight you have in handy can only be switched on to for use as a melee weapon, so you cannot hold a flashlight and another weapon at the same time, its either this or that...MY GOD!!...and 30% of this game are dark places...so good luck buddy.

This leaves it off for #7 for the fact of having low resources and useless companions as well as the choice between a flashlight and a weapon, and the stupid long playing time.

6) Resident Evil: Outbreak (PS2)

One of the Hardest RE releases I ever played, this has a different type of gameplay than any other Resident Evil. The game is divided into 5 levels, in each level you initially start with a T-virus infection, which starts at 0.0% and when it reaches 100% in case you haven't finished the level...you are dead meat.

The bugging thing in this game is the pause menu...well, there is no pause in this game, I don't mean no pause but I mean when you are going to select from your inventory, it doesn't pause, so you don't have time looking through the inventory...but that doesn't matter anyway, because you only have 4 slots in your inventory, which is annoying all the time, except if you choose this girl that carries eight but is weaker than the others, apart from this is the mocking fact that melee weapons tend to break by extensive use so sometimes you have to run around dodging zombies if your weapon breaks, provided that it has the hardest bosses among other REs.

This game leaves you strangled in anger from its difficulty though it isn't the best RE ever made.

5) Silent Hill 4: The Room (PS2)

I am speechless...seriously, This game will raise your blood pressure, I am not saying that it sucks, you should already know by now that I am in love with the Silent Hill Series.

Ok, I am going to give it to you straight, this game is ultimate in it's preset difficulty, I haven't seen anyone I know that actually beat this game except myself, you will be walking with a girl that you have to protect and she cannot attack at the beginning, you will also be introduced to monsters (I am not talking bosses but normal monsters) that never die...so you will end up trying to run away from them which leaves no option for resources that can be collected, you have a low life gauge, so you get easily hurt and die. Most weapons in this game are hard to use, and aiming at the monster or the opponent is sometimes inaccurate, most of the ones you killed you think they are dead but some have the ability to revive.

This game however is the hardest among all 5 SHs I played so far, It is IMPOSSIBLE to beat it in a good-ending, I always end up getting a Bad or a Normal Ending.


4) The Suffering (PS2)

I feel that this game was designed in an intention to keep the player from giving up on beating it.

I beat it under the difficulty of "Easy" and yet it was supernatural, so how does the hard difficulty feel like?...anyway, the thing that makes it hard however is 3 things, first is the number of monsters that are about the number of cells in your body, So damn many, you will go like "give me a break man!" when you play it, monsters also don't die easily, not a single one that dies easily... also the complicated scenario adds to it.

This game features tricky stuff, such as companions who come to aid you then end up double-crossing you...so its about trusting them or not, and some really take out a chunk of the life gauge. You also have to be extremely observant from monsters on the ceiling that suck you in.

3) Call of Duty: Finest Hour (PS2)

From what I remember, this game has a preset difficulty, which seems to be like experiencing the real WWII yourself in the battlefield.

I include this as 3rd place because of the fact that enemies are superbly accurate with their shots, 75% of the shots they shoot go into you, controls are complicated which leaves you pressing a button instead of another, it's fast-paced which if you don't act quickly you will be announced officially killed in action.

Apart from the sharp shooters in this game, they are also good with grenades, and the lack of checkpoints make it impossible to beat. The weapon (no matter what it is) is hard to lock on an enemy with except if you choose the auto-aim option but still, no weapon in this game is THAT accurate.

This game will be ranked as the hardest First Person Shooter I have ever played and the hardest CoD ever.

2) The X-Files: Resist or Serve (PS2)

Let me bulge in straight, this game is unbearable, seriously, you just keep on getting sick from trying, you should already know that it has few save points throughout, when you go to a new level and respawn again, you lose all of your weapons and end up having to recollect them again, Weapons empty easily, creatures you fight are extremely fast and hard to kill, too many bosses in the game, too many monsters as well, complicated settings making it difficult to find special objects and you will end up missing stuff like shotguns and rifles.

Take my word for this, it is so hard from my side that I left it licking it's own wounds, you know what I am talking about, it was such a tempering game that will make you commit suicide from trying to break through it more and more...leaving it for second place.

AND THE NUMBER ONE IS...

1)The Suffering: Ties That Bind (PS2)

If you are currently playing this game or want to play it in the near future, take it as a word of mouth and give up, this game has psychological effects on you and is the second release of the original one which I mentioned earlier.

No matter how many times I recall the memories of this game...what memories they were, you start off with a melee weapon and you will need to kill countless monsters with it until you get a handgun, actually I have a long wide list of hard features in this terrifying game:

1) You are lucky enough if you survived a chapter of this game.
2) You run out of bullets easily, no matter how conservative you are.
3) at a part of the game, your weapons are confiscated from you and you end up having to recollect them again.
4) Barely any checkpoints.
5) 20% of the monsters in this game are invincible, so you end up having to run away from them.
6) battle gun fatsos are effective that means it will be a bad day if you encountered one.
7) Enemies sometimes attack you surprisingly from the back.
8) The final boss in this game is invincible and the technique you have to kill him with requires good timing, I am talking about split-second timing, making it the hardest boss of any game.
9) barely any recovery items.
10) your health depletes quickly.

So this is it for this game, I am not messing about, you won't beat this game what so ever... making it The Hardest Game of All Time.

So, after a breath taking 2 hours on this post, I am glad I finished it at last...again I say, they are just opinions of my own...I am glad if you share yours with me just for fun, and I hope you had fun :-).