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This morning, when I was rudely awakened by my very LOUD cellphone playing "kirei na sora", my father called to ask me if I wanted to play with my cousin today? Sometimes other people find it weird that I'm 20 and yet I play (hang out) with my 12 yr old cousin. Hey! I'm mature but I'm childish in my heart by nature! I enjoy being childish thank you! (and people wonder why the restaurant made me sales manager/accountant) After stumbling out of bed (like a drunk I might add) to grab the Naruto piggy bank I bought for my cousin's x-mas present, I got ready with my morning routine and cousin Ex (yes his name is Ex) is in my living room to greet me. The first thing we all did (my sister included) was play the board game my sister acquired yesterday, "apples to apples".
The purpose of the game is to win these word games with playing cards. So, theres two decks, red cards and green cards, green cards are the main words we must play against. Red cards are in the player's possession. Each player starts with 7 cards, after you use your card you can draw more. All of the cards contain one preset word (darn, no improv), green cards are adjectives and red cards are nouns/verbs. We played with 3 people, so one of three of use must be judge to determine who's red word card best matches the green card. But of course the judge changes after each turn, it just circulates.
Here's an example of gameplay: the judge draws a green card, places the card down and the card says "cuddly", so out of my entire hand (my cards: Napoleon, bigfoot, milk, mount rushmore, in a coma, UFO, Martha Stewart) which card is the closest to "cuddly"? I put down "bigfoot" (I think he's cuddly?) and my opponent puts down "cactus"... sometimes one does not hold a card that even comes close to the green card, so in that event you "must" put down a card, even if the def. is completely different. Obviously the judge for that turn would declare me as winner of that round and I would obtain a green card as a reward. Then we all take turns being judge, I always lose because my opponents are biased with some words, grrr.....
After the "apples" Ex wanted to beyblade(customizable battle tops, anyone remember them?). I used to collect beyblades, I have a lot, but I stopped when they discontinued the toy line (bakugan killed beyblades and is the new obsession for children)and because I had no one to play against. I used all my good customs and beat Ex every round, but then he cheated and whipped out his full metal beyblade "wolborg". That was so cheap! My dainty plastic beyblades against a metal monster! But most of the time he played fair.
After that, Ex showed me a Thai boy-band he liked, "K-OTIC", well... he really likes these two members "Tomo" and "Poppy" who form their own duo called "2HIGH".
Unfortunately, I don't see the appeal. I mean, I learned that these two were kinda involved(I may be wrong) with the domination over "Golf & Mike's" fanbase... "Golf & Mike" were the original duo (and they are brothers) at their time of fame, now they're being trampled by these two?! Then again, after "G & M" got into the acting biz, their music releases were getting slower and their popularity was steadily declining. Plus! "G & M" was the only Thai group at the time that was signed by JE, yes.... Johnny OWNS THEM! As for "K-OTIC" and "2HIGH" I don't know much about them, I mean I've heard them sing a few japanese songs and it sounds "strange" as strange can be. Enough of my ranting!!!!
Ex "loves" Tomo and Poppy very much and respect that, but he has some existing interest in AAA, he thinks they're cool dancers. He really likes Nissy in a sweater-vest (BEYOND outfit). (keep in mind that even though Ex is young, his maturity and intelligence is equivalent to mine, not implying that I'm super dumb, he's abnormally mature for his age)
The first time I mentioned AAA to him:
Me: you know, AAA sings the theme song for Kamen Rider.
Ex: I LOVE KAMEN RIDER!!!
Me: yeah, he's awesome.
Ex: which one did they sing the theme song for?
Me: DEN-O, "Climax Jump"
Ex: .....Aww! I HATE DEN-O!!!!!
Me:...........eh? what?
Ex: it's so lame!!! *mocking tone* 'ii jan! ii jan! sugee jan?!'
Me: here, allow me to educate you.
*Plays 4th Attack perf. of Climax Jump*
Ex: ohhhhh... they've un-lamed the song for me, they're so cool, especially the girly-looking one with the huge lips.
Me: rofl, see! Aren't they cool?
Ex: give me the big lipped girly-guy's name, I wanna look him up...oh and the thin guy who messed up at jump rope in the 2008 tour too......
My day was awesome...
The purpose of the game is to win these word games with playing cards. So, theres two decks, red cards and green cards, green cards are the main words we must play against. Red cards are in the player's possession. Each player starts with 7 cards, after you use your card you can draw more. All of the cards contain one preset word (darn, no improv), green cards are adjectives and red cards are nouns/verbs. We played with 3 people, so one of three of use must be judge to determine who's red word card best matches the green card. But of course the judge changes after each turn, it just circulates.
Here's an example of gameplay: the judge draws a green card, places the card down and the card says "cuddly", so out of my entire hand (my cards: Napoleon, bigfoot, milk, mount rushmore, in a coma, UFO, Martha Stewart) which card is the closest to "cuddly"? I put down "bigfoot" (I think he's cuddly?) and my opponent puts down "cactus"... sometimes one does not hold a card that even comes close to the green card, so in that event you "must" put down a card, even if the def. is completely different. Obviously the judge for that turn would declare me as winner of that round and I would obtain a green card as a reward. Then we all take turns being judge, I always lose because my opponents are biased with some words, grrr.....
After the "apples" Ex wanted to beyblade(customizable battle tops, anyone remember them?). I used to collect beyblades, I have a lot, but I stopped when they discontinued the toy line (bakugan killed beyblades and is the new obsession for children)and because I had no one to play against. I used all my good customs and beat Ex every round, but then he cheated and whipped out his full metal beyblade "wolborg". That was so cheap! My dainty plastic beyblades against a metal monster! But most of the time he played fair.
After that, Ex showed me a Thai boy-band he liked, "K-OTIC", well... he really likes these two members "Tomo" and "Poppy" who form their own duo called "2HIGH".
Unfortunately, I don't see the appeal. I mean, I learned that these two were kinda involved(I may be wrong) with the domination over "Golf & Mike's" fanbase... "Golf & Mike" were the original duo (and they are brothers) at their time of fame, now they're being trampled by these two?! Then again, after "G & M" got into the acting biz, their music releases were getting slower and their popularity was steadily declining. Plus! "G & M" was the only Thai group at the time that was signed by JE, yes.... Johnny OWNS THEM! As for "K-OTIC" and "2HIGH" I don't know much about them, I mean I've heard them sing a few japanese songs and it sounds "strange" as strange can be. Enough of my ranting!!!!
Ex "loves" Tomo and Poppy very much and respect that, but he has some existing interest in AAA, he thinks they're cool dancers. He really likes Nissy in a sweater-vest (BEYOND outfit). (keep in mind that even though Ex is young, his maturity and intelligence is equivalent to mine, not implying that I'm super dumb, he's abnormally mature for his age)
The first time I mentioned AAA to him:
Me: you know, AAA sings the theme song for Kamen Rider.
Ex: I LOVE KAMEN RIDER!!!
Me: yeah, he's awesome.
Ex: which one did they sing the theme song for?
Me: DEN-O, "Climax Jump"
Ex: .....Aww! I HATE DEN-O!!!!!
Me:...........eh? what?
Ex: it's so lame!!! *mocking tone* 'ii jan! ii jan! sugee jan?!'
Me: here, allow me to educate you.
*Plays 4th Attack perf. of Climax Jump*
Ex: ohhhhh... they've un-lamed the song for me, they're so cool, especially the girly-looking one with the huge lips.
Me: rofl, see! Aren't they cool?
Ex: give me the big lipped girly-guy's name, I wanna look him up...oh and the thin guy who messed up at jump rope in the 2008 tour too......
My day was awesome...
