Submergence Day

After a long 2 years wait, Gears of War 2 was finally launched today. It is no more emergence day but Submergence day. It's the day where we bring the fight to the locust. To destroy them where they breed. All is at stake and nothing is safe...

This game is the one game that blows me away so much that I've been playing it every week for the past 2 years. It's the sure realism and the numerous 'oh my god' moments that really kept me going. Heck... I even went to WCG with my friends in it although we didn't win.

As I'm holding Gears 2 in my hands now, i wonder if it will be able to live up to my expectation. Fable 2, which launch last week, rather disappointed me with it's short and unexplained storyline. Halo3, to my opinion, didn't really lived up to it's hype. Gears 2, hopefully, would be different.

It's still another 1 1/2 hours till knock off time. I can't remember the last time I was this eager to pop a new game disc into my 360... Today, I am happy. :)

I want to be your friend! Add me!!

Nope it's not for Facebook. I don't have that much friends in Facebook. What happened was that for the last 2 days, I've had like 29 people on xboxlive wanting to add me as a friend. What the fuck? I didn't know i'm so popular or did pictures of me being naked while playing Gears of War just got uploaded on to xboxlive?

Nah... It's all because of Fable 2...

You guys know that some people call me an 'Achievement Whore' because of how I like to grind for that 1000 achievement points for every game. Of course, Fable 2 would be 1 of them which I really tried. Last I checked, I'm at 990 points, just 1 achievement away.

Anyway, there was this really hard achievement called the 'completionist' achievement, where you had collect all the expressions, dog tricks and abilities in order to get it. One of these achievement is only obtainable if you have brought the Fable 2 pub games, which I happened to have.

When I posted in a Fable 2 forum that I've got the achievement for 'completionist', i unwittingly started a 'Anskiere's bestest friend' trend. Those blokes just wanted to be my friend and join my game so that they can get that achievement as well.

Initially, it was okay helping out a few guys but damn... at the rate that people are adding me, i can't find the time nor effort to help every single one of them. Some which I've help was nice people who tried to help me get some other achievements which I haven't got. Some were plain assholes who didn't even said thanks. There was even this bloke who tried to kill my wife in my game...

Enough is enough. I thought I was an 'achievement whore' but these people are worse. They achievement whores with nothing to boost cause the only way they can get achievements is to leech on others.

So to the rest of the 29 fellows who tried to add me, too bad. I'll just hit the delete key.

If dogs could blog, part 2.

Here we go again...

21th October to 5th November

I've settled into my new home by now. It's an interesting place you know. 1/2 the floor is stony and 1/2 the floor is wooden. I just love peeing on the wooden floor. The place is quite big for a small puppy for me. I can just 'pee pee' and 'ng ng' wherever i like.

Daddy and Mummy finally gave up putting me in the cage after 2 days cos i kept whinning. The cage doesn't feel good. i don't like it. I now have my own matress to sleep on. It a good place to 'pee pee' on sometimes as well. If I feel hot, i'll just sleep on the cool stony floor.

I did so many things these 2 weeks. I visited another guy they call doctor Kenneth. He wasn't so bad like the first bunch. At least he didn't stick anything up my 'ng ng' place or needles into my hands. He did force a tablet down my throat though. He told my daddy and mummy that it would de-worm me. Sounds scary...

I just love playing with daddy and mummy. My favorite game is 'I bite you' but daddy and mummy doesn't seems to like it very much. I tried to play 'U let me bite' but they don't seems to like that as well. Sigh... I don't know what they want. Don't tell me they want me to play 'I let you bite'. I don't think they'll like fur in their mouth.

I met a lot of other people as well. There was this old man who my daddy called 'PaPa'. He's very kind and he let me bite his fingers. He keep saying i look very cute and look like 'Ah boy'. I wonder who is that...

I also met another lady which my mummy called 'mum'. She is very weird. My cute tricks didn't work on her and she always distract me by whistling. Somehow, i'm scared of her.

There's this other girl they asked me to call 'Sharon jie jie'. She always play with me a lot when she comes but when i bite her, she always slap my backside. Why she cannot understand i like to play bite???

Anyway, daddy and mummy brought me a lot of toys. There's this red lobster which i really like to chew. There's also this round donut-like thing which makes funny sounds when i bite on it. They also brought me 2 clothing. I don't like to wear them. I rather chew on them.

Life is good. It's all 'pee pee', 'ng ng', 'mumm mumm' and 'bite bite' everyday. To reward them, i 'ng ng' as much as i can cos they seems to like to take away my 'ng ng' and put it into a plastic bag. :)

The only thing I don't like is when daddy spray water on me once a week. I hate getting wet. It makes me shivers but after that, the towel is so nice to chew on.

5th of November is also a special day. I learned that if they say 'Sit' and i sit down, i'll get a nice 'wang wang' treat which is very tasty. When they say 'shake hand' and i lift my paw, i also get a treat. Now I know how to get food, i hope there's more to come.

It's gonna be 5 more days before 10th of November. Daddy and mummy said they'll celebrate my 3 month birthday with me. I could hardly wait for that. I wonder what new toys I will get. Meanwhile, I think I'll 'pee pee', 'ng ng' and take a nice long nap first.

Oh yah. I also found out my name is Lucas. Somehow, I thought daddy just called me Locust. :)

If dogs could blog......

Let's do a what if again. What if my dog Lucas could blog...

19th October 2008
3pm
Today was a special day for me. I was lazily asleep in my pent when a guy and a girl came to look at me... I couldn't understand what they were talking about so excitingly but they kept looking at me. I gave them a wiggle of my tail and they were like jumping all around... Weird... They spoke to this other guy who always fed me and before i know it, the girl was carrying me to this black box that moves on wheels (I heard other puppies calling this thing a car).

5pm
They brought me back to this place with cold stony floor. Somehow they keep petting me and calling me "Good Boy". I wonder what that means... The girl also kept calling me "Oolong Cha". Is that something I can drink? I donnoe but i had a great time bitting fingers of a group of people. There were 2 little people who were playing with me.

9pm
I'm dead tired at the end of the day. I 'ng ng' and 'pee pee' all over and had my dinner. As I was still nursing a cough, it was difficult to breathe. Sigh... why is the weather so hot?

12am
I think my 'cough cough' caused the guy and the girl a lot of excitment. So much that they carried me in that car of theirs and brought me to see this bunch of other people in the middle of the night. I just wanted to sleep but they put me on a icy cold metal table and poked a thing they called themometer up where i 'ng ng'. It didn't feel good.

Then this other guy tried to poke something into my hand. I started screaming for help. The metal thing didn't really go in and they tried to do it on my other hand as well. I was really crying out very loud now. It was very painful. I think they're trying to make me bleed and collect my blood. I think these people are vampires...

1am
They finally let me eat and rest. They fed me this tasty food but had squrted some strange liquid into it. The liquid tasted lousy but it seems to make me cough less and i don't feel so hot now. I heard someone mentioned the word fever... That's new.

The guy and the girl who brought me here finally left and now, the people here left me in a nice little cage with my own blanket, water and a chewy toy. I'm contented and went to sleep.

20th October
The nice girl came back in the morning and brought me back to her place (the one with the rocky floor and lots of things to chew). She fed me and played with me the entire day. At night, the guy came back and played with me again. It was so fun today and i was contented and slept like a drunk puppy. I finally figured out the girl's name is 'Mummy' and the guy's name is 'Daddy'. I'm happy.