My weekend adventures have further demonstrated to me that I have zero coordination. I played Rock Band with my friend Elg on the weekend, which we somehow managed to do for 5 straight hours, only stopping when I basically was like, I should go home, it's 1am!
I used to be really good on DDR (that's Dance Dance Revolution to you gaming ignants) so I thought that on a similar rhythm game I'd be decent. I was ok on the guitar, and that was tons of fun (especially Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer and [artist forgotten]'s Smoke On the Water). But in the last hour I thought I'd have a go on the drums and I was DISMAL. particularly, I just could NOT get the hang of alternating between hand and foot. the foot petal might as well have been on another planet. I even tried AFTER the song with zero pressure to alternate Right hand, Foot, Left Hand, Foot, and somehow I kept on trying to do my left hand at the foot petal at the same time. It's almost as if my left hand was like - em, I usually go after the right hand, why isn't it my turn yet? What's going on? Which just goes to show me that I do absolutely nothing that requires coordination of my arms and legs. It makes sense because I play no sport, and even when I drag myself off to do some sort of exercise, it's running. It's also making sense to me now that even when sometimes I try the stair climber machines at the gym, I find it hard to get into the rhythm. My arms and legs simply refuse to talk to each other!!!!
I wonder if that is a dormant part of my brain which, from lack of use, is causing me serious mental harm from the cobwebs that seem to cover it?
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Monday, 2 July 2012
Friday, 1 June 2012
Scramble with Friends (or Foes)
Latest iphone game addiction: Scramble with Friends.
The idea is that you get a 4 x 4 grid with scrabble letters on it, and you have to link up as many words as you can using the letters in the grid - left, right, up, down, backwards, zigzag, etc. Points for the words are calculated using scrabble style points - with double/triple letter/word tiles just as you would in scrabble. You get 2 minutes with the grid, and you play against an opponent who gets the same grid. The most points after 3 rounds (of 3 different grids) wins.
My sister introduced me to this game the other day, and she and I (she in between all her household errands and picking up and dropping off her kids at school/art/cooking/swimming/chinese/math class, I.... vegged out on bed/couch/bed/couch all day) have been playing non-stop ever since. To the point where we run out of tokens - each round costs a token, and you get 14 to start, with them replenishing every 20 minutes. So far we have managed to resist the temptation to just buy more tokens.
I was slow to start, but got to a point where I was challenging to my sister. I then invited more friends to play, and then found an opponent, who should remain unidentified (let's say his name rhymes with Wark Milson) had an unnatural talent for this game. Immediately he was beating me by a good 50% margin, sometimes almost doubling my point totals. I was incensed - I thought I was so good with words and spelling! But my indignation failed to fuel better results, and my ass was resoundedly whooped for a good 10 games at least.
Finally, yesterday, in a fury of flying fingers... :
I could not believe my eyes. This was followed by the following exchange on whatsapp:
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Just so you know, that last message from me that's been cut off is "Sore loser! Have a great day at work knowing that you are inferior to me!"
GLOAT GLOAT GLOAT
The idea is that you get a 4 x 4 grid with scrabble letters on it, and you have to link up as many words as you can using the letters in the grid - left, right, up, down, backwards, zigzag, etc. Points for the words are calculated using scrabble style points - with double/triple letter/word tiles just as you would in scrabble. You get 2 minutes with the grid, and you play against an opponent who gets the same grid. The most points after 3 rounds (of 3 different grids) wins.
My sister introduced me to this game the other day, and she and I (she in between all her household errands and picking up and dropping off her kids at school/art/cooking/swimming/chinese/math class, I.... vegged out on bed/couch/bed/couch all day) have been playing non-stop ever since. To the point where we run out of tokens - each round costs a token, and you get 14 to start, with them replenishing every 20 minutes. So far we have managed to resist the temptation to just buy more tokens.
I was slow to start, but got to a point where I was challenging to my sister. I then invited more friends to play, and then found an opponent, who should remain unidentified (let's say his name rhymes with Wark Milson) had an unnatural talent for this game. Immediately he was beating me by a good 50% margin, sometimes almost doubling my point totals. I was incensed - I thought I was so good with words and spelling! But my indignation failed to fuel better results, and my ass was resoundedly whooped for a good 10 games at least.
Finally, yesterday, in a fury of flying fingers... :
.PNG)
Just so you know, that last message from me that's been cut off is "Sore loser! Have a great day at work knowing that you are inferior to me!"
GLOAT GLOAT GLOAT
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