Exiled

Soon I'm exiling myself from the civilized world to go back home for a week to celebrate the high-point of summer with the midsummer celebration, that is celebrating that it actually gets darker from now on. Probably no updates during the time. I will try to spend it on finishing the essay correction, apply for a job (that's unfortunately is in Nyköping which is close to home, but I would prefer to stay in Karlstad) and play some Spirit Tracks and Golden Sun. Hmm? Spirit Tracks sounds familiar, when did I play it last? Yeah, I didn't finished it for some reason. It's about time now don't you think?

Virtual Console Weekend

So Walpurgis night and May Day are now over for this year and everything can go back to normal. And no, it didn't get out of hand. Walpurgis was very fun actually. Somewhat bizarre even. First of all I was the first to arrive to the champagne breakfast (no surprise here actually) but I was also the first opening a beer and I was always one bottle before the others. Not surprising when my friends had been out the night before. Awesome day all in all. Ended around 20:30. So that's an 8 hour day without any accidents.

The day after, the working mans day and the demonstrations for justice and whatnot lead by the most hypocritical persons in Sweden, I spent the day at home. Doing what you might ask and the answer is video games. First some FFXIII and finally I moved onward till the next stage and it is an open world... and I lost interest as I don't know where to go. Ironic is it not? So I changed game, even game console to my steadfast Wii and all nostalgic memories. Mostly due to finding Castlevania: Rondo of Blood and getting hooked directly. Nice cinematics, good graphics, music worth dying for and fun gameplay. Unfortunately I can't get past the second level. Yeah, I'm lousy at those games. Played some Super Castlevania IV instead and fared very decent until the third stage which I have beaten before but not now for some reasons. After a dose of Castlevania I played The Legend of the Mystical Ninja from the SNES, missing Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon for the Nintendo 64 that doesn't exist on the Virtual Console... yet, hopefully.

After that my eyes landed on the game that inspired the Castlevania games gameplay after Symphony of the Night... Super Metroid. Hunting space pirates at their own turf with only my fast button mashing fingers to keep me alive. Unfortunately I get stuck as I don't know where the hell I'm going even with a map over the damned planet. But it is so addicting, it's even so addicting that I stopped thinking on chocolate... Mmm, Chocolate... ahem, I need to play some more games, see you later.

Walpurgis Night 2010

Awaiting the live debate between the candidates in the British election on the BBC. Labour, Liberal Democrats and the Conservatives. Really, there is no wonder that I favor the Liberals. They are, well, liberals. Of course I didn't know about them until the European Parliament and I could check out other parties that were similar to my own view. No surprise, the Liberal Democrats. I guess it's because my very centric views on politics that responds in these liberal parties. Not that I mind, they have very good politics. Mostly Pro-EU and EMU, social liberal beliefs but not too keen on high taxes. Then it differs country to country. The reason I support the liberals in Sweden, besides those other political areas, is there belief that we need nuclear power to be able to maintain our welfare and keep the last industrial jobs we have. The british liberals don't approve of nuclear power. Why I don't know, it's their decision.

Anyway, tomorrow is Walpurgis Night. A traditional student and others party day with bonfires lighting up the dark night and scaring away all evils and celebrate the coming of Spring. Then the day after it's International Workers' Day. The day when the labour unions screams their cry for justice they have done for the last 100 years and had their political allies in government for 70 of those. You think they learned at this moment, but no, they still support the same party whatever they say and do. Well, at the moment at the least as the people at these demonstrations usually have a higher age then most people so lets see how they look in a 40 year time. Younger people tend to be home recovering from a self-imposed illness as it is a red day aka a holiday. The labour unions should have thought on that before placing there demonstrations on red days. I will probably not wright anything on these days, just a heads up. Celebrate modesty and avoid falling in the fires.