Weeee! Another gem from the great free country of US of A: Nintendo DS Hurting Children!
Honestly, if you have a bit of time. Read that. I'm not too sure if I should laugh of cry really. The main point of the story is basically about ABC doing this story on NDS because it can talk to other peopel who own a NDS, and some games have WiFi capability.
I kid you not. doesn't matter that the "chat" program doesn't really connect you to the internet, or that you need a "friend-code" to play games with a friend.
I'm not too sure if they even do research for stories like these anymore.
People like to sensationalise stories, so here, are games to avoid to get you child. For they are truely harmful.
Pac-man: "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music." Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989.
Enough said.
Katamari Damacy: My brother called this the most violent game in the history of gaming industry. You capture items, animals, and humans using your capture device called a katamari (those darn Japanese with their weapons), sending them to vacuum of space.
Super Mario World: Eating special mushroom to give you "special ability"? Riiiiight.
Dance Dance Revolution: Psychodelic colours in a disco setting, that can never be good. Are you sure your underage child isn't in a club somewhere?
Seriously though, Katamari is addictive. Recently I FINALLY got my hand on the game. My brother and I have been sizing up things when we're driving down road. It's not really a good thing. :P
I think I've gone off topic again. I guess my point is that people are really going too overboard with the whole "there's danger everywhere" thing. Honestly nonadays everything's a potential threat. What happen to living?
And more importantly: What happened to common sense?
Tuesday, February 14, 2006
Thursday, February 02, 2006
Bachelor of Engineering: a four year weight loss program
Those who read my regular "diary blog" will know that yes, I finally bought "French Women Don't Get Fat" (It's pretty good so far). The book basically said that French women don't get fat because it's their way of life, and I was thinking about when or how I put on weight, adn then it dawned on me. I finished my degree.
It's then I realise that my bachelor degree is only a by-product of a four year weight-loss program that cost about $20,000.
It's true. I'll list all the activities we were forced to put through.
20m dash
Those who doesn't know my university (The University of Auckland. Unless you're from NZ I don't expect you to have even heard of it), the engineering building is seperated from the rest of the campus by one of the busiest road in the city. It's not just busy in the sense that there's constant traffic jam: that'd make it easy to cross you see, cars aren't moving. No, Symond St is busy in the sense that there's almost constantly car going at a speed that makes me wonder if it's even legal at all. (Oh, and students with flash cars. Best drivers ever...) So in order to get to just about anything else besides engineering, we have to cross that damned street.
Yes there's an underpass, which requires you to go downstairs and come back up about 200m from wherever it is that you want to get to (it's a magical underpass). There's traffic lights about 100 m up the road. But we're engineering students. We know the shortest distance between two points is always going to be a straight line.
I'm sure we had some pretty good sprinters by the fourth year.
More stairs then you can shake a stick at
There are two reason why you need to take stairs: to get away from university and venture into the "real world" to get food that doesn't taste like deep fried cardboard, or just to get to another floor in the engineering building.
I'll tackle the first rason first. It's no secret that the main cafe serve food that can be classified into these three catagory: deep fried cardboards, steal sandwiches, and left over form the sushi shop in the city (no, seriously. How could it be THIS dry?) In order to get food that would be satisfied by us young'uns (Yes, some of us have taste too), we have to get out of the university. The university is cunningly hidden by a park, situated on a slope. In order to get out of here, we need to walk down the stairs. You might not think it's much. Bu try racing that up just so you won't be late for tutorials.
The second point is probably why I'm more convinced the degree is designed as a weight loss program. The engineering building is designed to be a narrow, but tall building (except for the few bottom floors, there the labs are). We do like to see lectures every so often, if not just to make sure that they really don't want to give away exam questions. Now we DO have an elevator... built in the 60s. It's one of the slowest elevator in the university, going all the way up to 12th floor, and have a tendency to break down every so often.
The electrical and electronic department is on the 8th floor. Have fun.
Skipping meals
Did I mention a lot of us don't have linux at home and have to work at uni? Did I mention there are more students than computers? Did I mention you relaly NEED to work 7 days a week during the break to finish the projects? And did I mention if you got a computer and leave for lunch, you won't have a computer for the rest of the day?
Just saying.
Conclusions
The reason why I gained weight is becasue I stopped being an undergrad. The addition of new food outlets (not perfect... but it's slightly better then deep fried cardboard) makes me lazy as well. I need to live like an undergrad again to loss weight.
It's then I realise that my bachelor degree is only a by-product of a four year weight-loss program that cost about $20,000.
It's true. I'll list all the activities we were forced to put through.
20m dash
Those who doesn't know my university (The University of Auckland. Unless you're from NZ I don't expect you to have even heard of it), the engineering building is seperated from the rest of the campus by one of the busiest road in the city. It's not just busy in the sense that there's constant traffic jam: that'd make it easy to cross you see, cars aren't moving. No, Symond St is busy in the sense that there's almost constantly car going at a speed that makes me wonder if it's even legal at all. (Oh, and students with flash cars. Best drivers ever...) So in order to get to just about anything else besides engineering, we have to cross that damned street.
Yes there's an underpass, which requires you to go downstairs and come back up about 200m from wherever it is that you want to get to (it's a magical underpass). There's traffic lights about 100 m up the road. But we're engineering students. We know the shortest distance between two points is always going to be a straight line.
I'm sure we had some pretty good sprinters by the fourth year.
More stairs then you can shake a stick at
There are two reason why you need to take stairs: to get away from university and venture into the "real world" to get food that doesn't taste like deep fried cardboard, or just to get to another floor in the engineering building.
I'll tackle the first rason first. It's no secret that the main cafe serve food that can be classified into these three catagory: deep fried cardboards, steal sandwiches, and left over form the sushi shop in the city (no, seriously. How could it be THIS dry?) In order to get food that would be satisfied by us young'uns (Yes, some of us have taste too), we have to get out of the university. The university is cunningly hidden by a park, situated on a slope. In order to get out of here, we need to walk down the stairs. You might not think it's much. Bu try racing that up just so you won't be late for tutorials.
The second point is probably why I'm more convinced the degree is designed as a weight loss program. The engineering building is designed to be a narrow, but tall building (except for the few bottom floors, there the labs are). We do like to see lectures every so often, if not just to make sure that they really don't want to give away exam questions. Now we DO have an elevator... built in the 60s. It's one of the slowest elevator in the university, going all the way up to 12th floor, and have a tendency to break down every so often.
The electrical and electronic department is on the 8th floor. Have fun.
Skipping meals
Did I mention a lot of us don't have linux at home and have to work at uni? Did I mention there are more students than computers? Did I mention you relaly NEED to work 7 days a week during the break to finish the projects? And did I mention if you got a computer and leave for lunch, you won't have a computer for the rest of the day?
Just saying.
Conclusions
The reason why I gained weight is becasue I stopped being an undergrad. The addition of new food outlets (not perfect... but it's slightly better then deep fried cardboard) makes me lazy as well. I need to live like an undergrad again to loss weight.
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