Archive for the ‘Fun’ Category

If you’re playing Treasure Isles in facebook, then there’s a great chance that you already have one of the strange artifact in the game. Apart from the gold coins, rings, precious stones and other jewelries, there is the mysterious egg that just recently popped out in the game.

The mystery right now is on how to hatch it. There are some clues in it, particularly on the color of the egg. Reasonably, it looks like a phoenix egg that can be hatched in the fire god mountain.

We only have hints as of now. Let’s just wait for updates soon.

I’ve seen films and TV shows describing a vacation with an RV. Here are some to name a few

• In Robin William’s film RV in 2006, his family and other RV portrays joy, fun, troubles and problems of going into an RV camping and travel.
• In one episode in Desperate Housewives, Tom Scavo thought of buying an RV and then spend a year with his family traveling the country – in exchange for his restaurant.
• In the movie Confessions of a Shopaholic, Rebecca’s dad bought an RV using the money that he and his wife saved for years.

This is common in the Europe and America and not that popular in Asian countries. To those who don’t know, RV stands for recreational vehicle. This is usually a bus type ready with bathroom, kitchen, bedroom and living room. Its most common purpose is for short vacation that includes travel and camping, typically with a family or a group of friends. There are also some adventure seeking people who permanently reside in them because they choose to travel and stay in different places. Whatever the reason is, this kind of escape from work sounds like a lot of fun, and I wish I get to experience it someday.

Prior to watching the movie, I read some reviews and comments from different sites and blogs. In IMDB, it’s rated 8.1/10, from 8,696 votes. With such high rating, I had high expectations.

The movie is about Christine (Alison Lohman) as a loans officer who receives a curse from an old woman whom she just denied a loan extension. The curse of Lamia was said to disturb her for three days, afterwards she’ll ‘literally be dragged to hell’.

The next three days was hard for Christine because of her battle with the curse. Within this period, her background was relayed. Christine used to be fat as shown in a picture, but obviously got a way to conquer it, perhaps by using fastin or some other pills. The result was great though because she was able to attract the wealthy Clay Dalton (Justin Long). Her quest included engagement with different spiritual experts and several encounters with the wicked spirit. Towards the end, it seemed that she was able to overcome the curse, but a twist in the story was uncovered.

IMDB tagged this under Horror & Thriller. They must have forgotten another genre for this – comedy. There are some funny scenes in the movie, as proven by the constant laughter that surrounded the movie house. But the cause for most of the laughter is the unexpected loud sounds that surprised us and made us scream hard

I’m not a movie critic because I don’t look deep into details of execution. I base my judgment from the entertainment that the movie provides me. So for this movie, I give it a 7.

Sony just released a new PSP version – the PSP Go. The design is totally different from the conventional PSP because of its sliding feature. The controls are separated from the screen. One thing I don’t like is the location of the joystick. It’s somewhere in the middle and I’m not sure if that design is good because I haven’t tried it. It’s up to the public response. If Sony won’t have substantial buys from the new design, expect another version.

For now, I think I’m going to put my money on one of the latest version of ipods because I own an old Ipod Nano for three years now. I want and iphone but I have some budget constraints, so I might be forced to buy an ipod touch, unless I figure out a way to earn some extra cash.

RC or Restaurant City is addicting game by PlayFish and this can be accessed using Facebook. It is currently the in its hype right now. Here, you manage and design your own restaurant, hire your friends as cook and waiters. Each customer will help you earn money, and GP (Gourmet Points). As you gain more GP, you level up and get rewards such as options to hire another friend or larger restaurant.

You can get ingredients too and choose a dish to serve to your customers. You can earn an ingredient by 1) visiting your friend’s restaurant for the first time 2) answering the daily food trivia 3) getting a daily bonus ingredient (everyone gets this daily)

See a sample restaurant here.

The dishes can also be levelled up so you should save all the necessary ingredients. The higher the level of the dish, the more GP you will get however, the money you earn will still be the same. It’s capped at 2. You earn money even if you’re in offline mode, meaning you are not signed up in Facebook to play RC online but your GP does not increase when you’re offline.

You can only serve 1 dish per category at a time, example, 1 dish for starter, 1 for main dish and 1 for dessert.

The layout of the restaurant and the arrangement of chairs/tables with the stoves will be your call, and you should strategize. The servers must reach the customers in the least amount of time.

I listed here some of the food quiz / trivia questions for Restaurant City.

The choices are in the parenthesis so for some questions, it means I have forgotten the choices. I have italicized the correct answer.

Chicago style pizzas are generally… (thin crust, deep dish, square)
Tuna is a (salt water fish, fresh water fish)
To blanch means to ()
Rattatouille is what type of dish? (vegetable, poultry, fish)
Kimchi is fermented ()
Caviar is made from (fish eggs, liver)
Foir gras is made from (liver)

Hope some of the readers will help add to the list by commenting on this post.