So, What Have I Actually Been Doing For the Past Half Year? - Part 3

December 28, 2007

This is the conclusion to the 3 part series where I fill in all the gaps over the past ½ a year. Just thinking back, I’ve had a number of memorable moments over the past few months. Quite special indeed.

Anyways, although I don’t know yet I presume that I have made it over to the second year of University. I feel very fortunate as most of my subjects haven’t required an exam and the ones that have were all done on campus. What this means is that instead I had major assignments for my subjects. When it comes to study, during the working year I like to concentrate on finishing my work load as soon as possible, as well as possible so that I can have larger spaces of free time which in some cases I use for early revision. I sound like a real square bear here eh? But I don’t think its the case because my goal is to work quickly and productively so that I can enjoy myself earlier than everyone else. If I have some time a few weeks before an exam, I’ll go back and revise early so that during the exam week I can just sit back and watch everyone else freak out. Or in the case of last semester; I finished all of my major assignments as early as possible. Which gave me two weeks free to revise Chinese. Now because Chinese I’m learning Chinese all the time now, I didn’t see the exam as a big deal. Also because of my friends, I had already been revising well in advanced. So putting this into perspective, my holidays basically started a month before most other students. Which I think is huge.

So in this time I’ve been breezing through a pile of games and when possible catching up with my mates. This month of free time has also been dedicated towards making a fresh start over the holiday period. My goal has been to clear any distractions so that I can just push through and do what I need to do. So as you already know I have fixed up my blogging situation. This is just one of those steps.

Over this time I have started something that is slowly overtaking my life; eBay. I never use to think much of the service but now that I have realized how excellent it is I just can’t stop. My brother and I wrote a list of games that we need to fully complete our video game collection and thanks to eBay we are filling that list at a brisk pace. We’ve gone back and rebought the NES, the only videogame console that we have sold. It was pretty unfortunate actualy, we had a slew of 13 games and an extra dogbone styled controller (the best controllers). So the last few weeks have also been a trip down memory lane and a real nostalgic hit to the senses. So far we have managed to grab a nice slew of games, we have bought back most of the original 13 incluing our two first carts; a rare 3 in 1 with Super Mario Bros, Tetris and Nintendo World Cup and the other being a game called Totally Rad. I’ll be posting up more about these in the gaming blog. I think that our list so far is probably around about 15 games, we still have another 6 being shipped and then about 10 more to pick up. So about 30 NES games in all.

Overall our game collecting goal is to own the best/the games that interested us for that particular console. The consoles? NES-Wii, GameBoy-DS, PSone-PS3. And about 20-30 games per console. Really what we are doing now is filling in the gaps and ATM the NES has the largest gap.

So that pretty much concludes this 3 part series. To wrap it up, the last ½ a year has been fantastic. I know that I said it this time last year but I’ll say it again, I feel as though I am at a high point in my life. I don’t think that I have ever been happier than I have before.

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