Backyard Monsters

I think from all the Facebook apps and games, this is the most interesting yet effortless game that I had ever encountered. It is easy to maintain unlike the other games that require lots of neighbors to do something, or you need a specific time to do this or else you'll face the consequence of checking up your game late. If you know what I mean. CityVille, FishVille, FarmVille, and other games I played are very tiring. So, that's it. I decided to leave all of them hanging and instead I focused in playing Backyard Monsters.

Gamezebo rated Backyard Monsters with 4.5 stars out of 5. I think it is fair enough cause if I were to rate it, I would really give my 5 stars wholeheartedly. LOL.

This info again came from gazebo.com and I just want to share this with you.

Updated May 7, 2010, 8:48am

Facebook games thrive on the simplest gameplay conceits. Most of Zynga’s oeuvre amounts to clicking tiles. Text RPGs are simple stat-raising exercises. Action games usually involve repeating a single, often silly, action. A game like Backyard Monsters seems completely anomalous in this environment, offering a blend of grand strategy and monster breeding. You can be attacked by wild monsters or, once you’ve reached a certain point, other players. You can also attack other players yourself. That’s a pretty far cry from Café World.

Backyard Monsters is a game that really works, though, because it boils an often-complicated genre down to its simplest, most fun basics. You begin by building a little town for your monsters, trying to design it so that essential buildings are protected by defensive turrets. There are four types of essential resource to produce, a town hall, facilities for making your own monster army, and storage buildings you need to hold all of our building materials. If you design your town correctly, your defenses will cut invading monsters to piece before they can do much damage. If you mess up, then your buildings get damaged and you can lose resources.

Moving buildings around is easy enough, thanks in large part to how smoothly the game runs. Most Facebook games with graphics that are complicated at all experience intermittent problems with lag and disconnects, but Backyard Monsters always worked smoothly during the test period. The game does disconnect you after you’ve idled for too long, which may be how the server stays so stable and avoids problems like memory leaks. You’ll be able to do a lot of experimenting with your town’s layout, all of it largely headache-free.

A lot of Facebook games try to be funny or at least quirky, but frequently these attempts at humor fail and render the game more irritating. Backyard Monsters deserves praise for being the rare quirky game that’s actually funny and amusing. The game’s cash-based virtual currency is called Shiny, purely so the game’s interface can encourage players to Get More Shiny. Monsters have silly designs and make curious grunts and squeaks. Resources fly into your silo with cartoon “fwee!” sounds. Even the notice that lets you know you’ve been disconnected from the server is amusing.

Backyard Monsters is a good game. This shouldn’t surprise anyone familiar with Casual Collective’s track record as a publisher, but it’s still surprising given how far above and beyond expectations the game goes relative to the Facebook platform. Backyard Monsters plays better and looks better than Nintendo DS games sold at retail. To release a game of this caliber for free on Facebook is a real achievement.

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Veronika Decides To Die : Book Review

This book is a very good thing to read. I think this is the second or third novel that I have read since I was born. It was written by Paulo Coelho. I just actually found this novel  inside our stock room when I tried to pull out stuff from that room. Then I read it. It turned out to be amazing.

This blog focuses on a book review of this novel. It is not mine so I'll post the link to it's source. I think I'm quite stubborn to write a book review myself. LOL.

Plot Summary of Veronika Decides to Die
"Young woman decides to kill hrself, but fails her suicide. Awakens in a mental hospital and told she has only a few days to live because of the effect of the drugs she took." saliero, Resident Scholar
"Paulo Coelho gathers my thoughts and puts them onto the page in a way that only a genius could do. Veronika decides to die, but her suicide attempt goes wrong and she wakes from a coma to find she will soon die from a damaged heart. Through the story of her remaining days Coelho encourages the reader to believe in hope and follow his or her own dream with out the fear of being seen as mad." Katy McCarthy, Resident Scholar
"24 year old Veronica seems to have everything - youth and beauty, boyfriends and a loving family, a fulfilling job. but something is missing in her life. So, one cold November morning Veronica decides to die. She takes a handful of sleeping pills expecting never to wake up. But she does - at a mental hospital where she is told that she has only days to live." roseller, Resident Scholar
"    Without an obvious reason, Veronika a Beautiful, young, and loved girl decides that life is not worth living. Everyday routine in the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia, was too normal for her so she decides to to take an overdose of sleeping pills in order to stop that endless routine and take her own life.     Days later, after waking up in a phsychiatric hospital she is informed that although she did not die at that time, death was still around the corner.     This book tells her story after she struggles to live her last few remaining days appreciating every second of her life. " Emile Hajjar, Resident Scholar
"                  The main character of the book is Veronika she is a young girl with youth, boyfriends, loving family, a good job but still she finds life empty so she decides to take her own life but her failed attempt leads her to Villette a local mental hospital in Ljubljana the capital of Slovenia. Here she meets different inmates of the hospital who have a great impact on her life, like Zedka who is depressed in spite of having a loving family. She is in search of a past lover but she has no clue where to find him and where to begin her search. Then there is Mari a really successful lawyer who wished to do something different but she starts having panic attacks. Eduard with whom Veronika falls in love. He wishes to live his life on his own terms.           The story begins on 11th November 1997, the day Veronika decides that now the day has arrived for her to kill herself so she cleans the room she rented in the convent, brushed her teeth and lay down on the bed.           She has all the things in life. She lives in the capital city of Slovenia yet she is not happy so one winter morning she takes an overdose of powerful sleeping pills. Unfortunately for her she doesn't die instead a week later she wakes up in Villette the feared and much lunatic mental asylum. There she is told that though she is alive but her heart is badly damaged and she only has a few days to live. In these intense days she begins to question her existence and ideas about life. Soon she begins to realize that every second of life is worth living and against all odds she begins to find herself falling in love with life and wanting to live again. Paulo Coelho is trying to teach the reader several things alongside observing his own promise to reveal his personal experiences of a doctor patient relationship into a mental hospital. The main focus of the story is on Veronika and her relationships with the other inmates of villette." Review Analysis of Veronika Decides to Die Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High) Plot  Tone of book? - depressed  Time/era of story - 1980's-1999  Life of a profession: - mental patient  Internal struggle/realization? Yes  Struggle over - vague finding self/purpose in life (i.e. no plot to book)  Is this an adult or child's book? - Adult or Young Adult Book  Battle with a psychiatrist Yes  Job/Profession/Status story Yes  Brain/Body disability? - mental illness  Main Character  Gender - Female  Age: - 20's-30's  Is this an ordinary person caught up in events? Yes  How sensitive is this character? - middling sensitive to others' feelings  Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor  Intelligence - Average intelligence  Physique - average physique  Main Adversary  Identity: - none  Age: - 20's-30's  Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor  Setting  How much descriptions of surroundings? - 3 ()  Europe Yes  European country: - Spain  City? Yes  Style  Person - mostly 1st - mostly 3rd  Accounts of torture and death? - explicit references to deaths  Sex in book? Yes  Amount of dialog - little dialog source click here

Live Like We're Dying

LOL. I know this may be old but I guess this is the only time that I had an interest on singing this song fast. It feels like I'm doing some sort of tongue-twisting stuff.



Music Video of the Song

Lyrics of Live Like We're Dying by Kris Allen

Sometime we fall down and can’t get back up
We’re hiding behind skin that’s too tough
How come we don’t say I love you enough
Till it’s too late, it’s not too late

Our hearts are hungry for a food that won’t come
We could make a feast from these crumbs
And we’re all staring down the barrel of a gun
So if your life flashed before you, what would you wish you would’ve done

Yeah… gotta start
Looking at the hand of the time we’ve been given here
This is all we got and we gotta start thinkin’ it
Every second counts on a clock that’s tickin
Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
To turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say,
Gotta live like we’re dying

Well if you plane fell out of the skies
Who would you call with your last goodbyes
Should be so careful who we live out of our lives
So when we long for absolution, there’ll be no one on the line

Yeah… we gotta start lookin’ at the hand of the time we’ve been given here
This all we got and we gotta start thinkin it
Every second count on a clock that’s tickin
Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
to turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say,
Gotta live like we’re dying

Like we’re dying oh…
Like we’re dying
Like we’re dying oh…
Like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
to turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say,
Gotta live like we’re dying

You never know a good thing until it’s gone
you never see a crash until its head on
All these people right when we’re dead wrong,
You never know a good thing till it’s gone

Yeah… we gotta start lookin’ at the hand of the time we’ve been given here
this all we got and we gotta start thinkin it
Every second count on a clock that’s tickin
Gotta live like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
to turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say,
Gotta live like we’re dying

Like we’re dying oh…
Like we’re dying
Like we’re dying oh…
Like we’re dying

We only got 86 400 seconds in a day
to turn it all around or throw it all away
We gotta tell ‘em that we love ‘em while we got the chance to say,
Gotta live like we’re dying


I wonder where Kris Allenis right now. I can't seem to hear any news about him.

Start Again---- L.S.S.

Hey guys. I wanna post this song. I dunno, I heard it for the first time and I found the music to be very melodramatic. Yeah that's it.

Lyrics:

Baby it breaks my heart 

that you don't smile anymore

I'm dying to help you heal 

but you won't unlock your door

You say it takes time,

but you don't have to spend it alone

You're stuck in a memory

that you're desperate to rewind

You're too busy looking back

cause' you won't make another try

Now your trust is gone

But you won't find it again on your own

So don't go telling me it's too late to start

You're still holding a broken heart 

But if you let me in

Maybe you can start again

And don't go telling me there's no second chance

You'll understand when you' take my hand

Baby let me in

I promise we will start again

I'm trying to get to you

So I make these promises

I swear they're unbreakable

But you're still just hearing his

He won't let you go

Til you decide that you want to be free

You're haunted by yesterday

And you're still sore from the fall

All you need is to whitewash these old walls

We'll paint something new

If you let yourself listen to me

So don't go telling me it's too late to start

You're still holding a broken heart 

But if you let me in

Maybe you can start again

And don't go telling me there's no second chance

You'll understand when you' take my hand

Baby let me in

I promise we will start again

Don't give up yet

I won't let you close the curtain too soon

We can reset

If you take the leap and let me show you

You just gotta make the choice (Yeah)

We love we lose

And you think the best defense is distance

Tune the world out

Put it all on mute so you can't listen

But there's no way out of here, just follow my voice....

[http://aloneinthedarrk.blogspot.com/2011/04/start-again-lss.html]

So don't go telling me it's too late to start

You're still holding a broken heart 

But if you let me in... Yeah...

So don't go telling me it's too late to start

You're still holding a broken heart (a broken heart)

But if you let me in (let me in)

Maybe you can start again (Baby you can start again)
 

And don't go telling me there's no second chance

You'll understand (You'll understand) when you' take my hand (take my hand)

Baby let me in

I promise we will start again (I promise we will start again)

So don't go telling me it's too late to start

You're still holding a broken heart 

But if you let me in

Maybe you can start again

*END*

Here's the music video:

I tried to find the guitar chords of this song but I can't seem to find them in the internet. If anyone of you knows, I would be very happy to receive a link from you or the document itself.

LOL.