LIKES : DISLIKES

Likes:

Rainbows, oxytocin, hugs, kisses, laughter (but not evil laughter), beauty, the smell of rain on warm concrete in the summer, Gok Wan, positivity, compliments, looking up at the sky and seeing a vast expanse of stars or clouds that terrifies and exhilarates me


Dislikes:
Interviews, pain, injustice, ignorance, arrogance, evil, job searching, when I'm peeling a banana and it splits on the other side of the stick at the top

Car drivers: I hate people

20/07/10: Soft-top purple Escort, driven by a lady, her sallow skin wizened before her years, overtaking me on the ring road.

05/08/10: Bright yellow VW Transporter with blacked-out windows riding my arse on the motorway. Back off, titface.

Beauty occurs in the most unlikely places

19/07/2010: I was driving down the split-level section of the M5 between Portishead and Clevedon. It was lashing down with rain but the clouds parted and in my rear-view mirror I saw a really strong rainbow arching over the motorway; it seemed to be following the contour of the land on which the road is constructed. It was stunning. I wish I could have captured it on camera, but going 70MPH kinda precludes that option...still, I've got that vivid memory in my mind, and that counts for more doesn't it? A memory is something that nothing can take away from you, except old age, disease and blunt force trauma.

02/08/2010:  Running through the woods near my home; the early evening air was heavy with the scent of buddleia. Every ragged breath I drew smelled awesome; it almost seemed worth the trouble. Of course it was worth it; today was my first day back at work, and I've been sat in an anodyne call centre stuffing envelopes. I craved nature.

I'm hugely disappointed with Final Fantasy 13; it sucks. The gameplay is practically on rails, all it seems to consist of is plodding down one unbranching corridor after another, then fighting some things, then more bloody corridors. The fighting system is unnecessarily complex and confusing and the progression system way too linear. There are few choices to be made, which is what makes an RPG interesting and exciting - you make the game your own through the decisions you make and the path you take. The rule of diminishing returns is looming large...it's going back to Games Exchange tomorrow.