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At a conference killing time. Positive update? Gonna go to california next week for the flash gaming summit.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
World of Goo Soundtrack kicks ass and working on more games
Hello, gonna start blogging again more often... even if its just small posts.. who reads them anyways. The Soundtrack of World of Goo is fucking amazing, its really fun to listen too and its well produced. This soundtrack feels more like a movie than a game, it also reminds me Tim Burton's stuff, not sure.. but I can picture it on a movie of him. Download it here:
Also for this month I did a new game for the game website I did back in august, PH GAMING, look for it here: , the site is under the name of Primera Hora, but pretty much it stands alone with its own audience, the site on its first 3 monthas already had over +54,000 visits, and actually right now it might be doubled becuase of the christmas game that was released last month.
The new game available is called GREED, is pretty simple, but has some strategy and some psychological meaning to it, go to the website and play it.
Right now I am doing a Guitar Hero kind of game for an American Idol type of contest but in spanish, its coming out really good, ill keep posting about it.
See ya.
Also for this month I did a new game for the game website I did back in august, PH GAMING, look for it here: , the site is under the name of Primera Hora, but pretty much it stands alone with its own audience, the site on its first 3 monthas already had over +54,000 visits, and actually right now it might be doubled becuase of the christmas game that was released last month.
The new game available is called GREED, is pretty simple, but has some strategy and some psychological meaning to it, go to the website and play it.
Right now I am doing a Guitar Hero kind of game for an American Idol type of contest but in spanish, its coming out really good, ill keep posting about it.
See ya.
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
FUCK SUNRAYS VECTOR BACKGROUND
I know I haven't posted in a while but I really need to say this: FUCK SUNRAYS VECTOR BACKGROUNDS. You know what I am talking about I am 200% sure you already seen it, if you haven't you are blind or died couple years ago because the Sunrays Vector Background is used a lot by moronic so called graphic designers and actually (maybe) is not even their fault but their clients or account executives that think its cool, but guess what, is not ( at least 3 years ago).
Sunrays vector backgrounds its so overused is not even funny, a year ago I said damn I should write about this overused technique.. but since I am a nice person I gave it a break, but still its been overused maybe more than ever... CAN'T PEOPLE LEAVE IT TO REST? This site even talks about it as the #1 most over used graphic design technique, enter site .
In case you still not sure what I am talking about look here:
Familiar? of course.. its EVERYWHERE... cheap agencies use it on their clients products.. because its "COOL" the worst thing is that they might think is a new technique, but ITS STUPID if you go around the street and you look at billboards 2 or 3 out of five have it (at least here in Puerto Rico). I should take pictures next time but it is that bad. Sometimes I htink what the hell they were thinking when they did a sunray vector background based ad.
Dramatization (may be 100% accurate):
Client: I want my product to look hip and trendy eventhou it is not at all.
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them): Oh yeah lets see we can try something new, never used before and it will shit brick on peoples faces of how awesome it will be. Lets put the product on the middle and put.. put.. something like lighting on the background like a glow or sunrays (considering the incompetent fucker already seen the sunray vector backgorund).
Client: Yeah, that's it like sun rays, that will be so radical and new. Here is a pic of the product.
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them): Great ill get my graphic designer and do it in no time.
Couple wasted days later...
Mediocre Graphic Designer with half-assed degree: This art took me a lot of hours, but I came up with a nice background related to the sun ray concept (considering he aleready seen the sunray vector crap and just downloaded already done brushes and vector patterns of sun rays by somebody else like these).
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them are): Oh great, great let's see it.
Client annoyingly impressed: Thats what I wanted, its so new and trendy, this will catch the eye of the consumer (fact: since 80% of the ads around use the same concept all looks the same and generic and to be honest 95% of the time I don't recall what the hell the AD was about, honestly).
Couple fruitless days later.
Angry Client: People are complaining that our product art is copied or way too similar from our rivals and other products ads. We want something different.
Account Executive from an more than ever incompetent agency (most of them are): REally? That is so bad I dont thinks it looks the same, but yeah, I think they copied our style (completely naive), don't worry our graphic designer will fix it.
Couple more days wasted.
Completely Mediocre Graphic Designer with half-assed degree: Yeah I tried something even more new, that no one has ever done before (considering he or she donwloaded new brushes or vector patterns), here it is.
And of course everyone thought it was a genius piece of art and probably got an award.
I know I did a dramatization but guess what I might not be far from the truth because if you go out now on the streets and look around or in websites or magazines you will see the infamous sunray vector backgrounds. I think a real graphic desginer will never used that piuece of shit unless its product is unfortunately tied to it from its past or you have an account executive pointing a needle with aids to your neck. I bet I can take a piece of shit, put a sunray vector backgorund to it and agencies will love it. THe thing is, somehow in agencies and its abused not skill enough designers are realizing that the sunray vector backgrounds are being overused (too late in the game) so they are doing variations of it, by twirling the rays or making it more circular, hell, I already seen 3 pieces of ads this week around using circular rays. The twirled ones already been around too little more time.
Besides the sunrays htere are plenty more techniques overdone, like the victorian type of sign, couple months ago it was funny because a fast food restaurand and a car company used the same donwloaded victorian sing on their ads the same week... it was THE SAME, its was a real sad day for those agencies, the truth came out account executives know shit and their grap[hic designers download brushes and patterns instead of creating. Fuck them.
Well that's it for now... Avoid using sunrays as backgrounds, post-its for text back ground (I am excused cause I worked an actual POst-it website so fuck you), dirty textures, victorian signs, silouhettes of people dancing, funky circles, stupid droplets (like the ones in asshole), ink splatters, notebook Sketched child like letterss, and many more stuff, be creative and oh yeah people started using Little Big Planet type of design around... what the fucking hell.
If you read this and you feel insulted... sorry to hurt your so-called graphic design feelings, FUCK OFF.
Sunrays vector backgrounds its so overused is not even funny, a year ago I said damn I should write about this overused technique.. but since I am a nice person I gave it a break, but still its been overused maybe more than ever... CAN'T PEOPLE LEAVE IT TO REST? This site even talks about it as the #1 most over used graphic design technique, enter site .
In case you still not sure what I am talking about look here:
Familiar? of course.. its EVERYWHERE... cheap agencies use it on their clients products.. because its "COOL" the worst thing is that they might think is a new technique, but ITS STUPID if you go around the street and you look at billboards 2 or 3 out of five have it (at least here in Puerto Rico). I should take pictures next time but it is that bad. Sometimes I htink what the hell they were thinking when they did a sunray vector background based ad.
Dramatization (may be 100% accurate):
Client: I want my product to look hip and trendy eventhou it is not at all.
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them): Oh yeah lets see we can try something new, never used before and it will shit brick on peoples faces of how awesome it will be. Lets put the product on the middle and put.. put.. something like lighting on the background like a glow or sunrays (considering the incompetent fucker already seen the sunray vector backgorund).
Client: Yeah, that's it like sun rays, that will be so radical and new. Here is a pic of the product.
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them): Great ill get my graphic designer and do it in no time.
Couple wasted days later...
Mediocre Graphic Designer with half-assed degree: This art took me a lot of hours, but I came up with a nice background related to the sun ray concept (considering he aleready seen the sunray vector crap and just downloaded already done brushes and vector patterns of sun rays by somebody else like these).
Account Executive from an incompetent agency (most of them are): Oh great, great let's see it.
Client annoyingly impressed: Thats what I wanted, its so new and trendy, this will catch the eye of the consumer (fact: since 80% of the ads around use the same concept all looks the same and generic and to be honest 95% of the time I don't recall what the hell the AD was about, honestly).
Couple fruitless days later.
Angry Client: People are complaining that our product art is copied or way too similar from our rivals and other products ads. We want something different.
Account Executive from an more than ever incompetent agency (most of them are): REally? That is so bad I dont thinks it looks the same, but yeah, I think they copied our style (completely naive), don't worry our graphic designer will fix it.
Couple more days wasted.
Completely Mediocre Graphic Designer with half-assed degree: Yeah I tried something even more new, that no one has ever done before (considering he or she donwloaded new brushes or vector patterns), here it is.
And of course everyone thought it was a genius piece of art and probably got an award.
I know I did a dramatization but guess what I might not be far from the truth because if you go out now on the streets and look around or in websites or magazines you will see the infamous sunray vector backgrounds. I think a real graphic desginer will never used that piuece of shit unless its product is unfortunately tied to it from its past or you have an account executive pointing a needle with aids to your neck. I bet I can take a piece of shit, put a sunray vector backgorund to it and agencies will love it. THe thing is, somehow in agencies and its abused not skill enough designers are realizing that the sunray vector backgrounds are being overused (too late in the game) so they are doing variations of it, by twirling the rays or making it more circular, hell, I already seen 3 pieces of ads this week around using circular rays. The twirled ones already been around too little more time.
Besides the sunrays htere are plenty more techniques overdone, like the victorian type of sign, couple months ago it was funny because a fast food restaurand and a car company used the same donwloaded victorian sing on their ads the same week... it was THE SAME, its was a real sad day for those agencies, the truth came out account executives know shit and their grap[hic designers download brushes and patterns instead of creating. Fuck them.
Well that's it for now... Avoid using sunrays as backgrounds, post-its for text back ground (I am excused cause I worked an actual POst-it website so fuck you), dirty textures, victorian signs, silouhettes of people dancing, funky circles, stupid droplets (like the ones in asshole), ink splatters, notebook Sketched child like letterss, and many more stuff, be creative and oh yeah people started using Little Big Planet type of design around... what the fucking hell.
If you read this and you feel insulted... sorry to hurt your so-called graphic design feelings, FUCK OFF.
Monday, August 4, 2008
SUMMER MOVIE BLAST FEST 2008! part 2
Hell, its been over a month since my last post... July... its like the peak month of the summer and its over, classes start this week, (at least here in puerto rico) so that mean pretty much summer is death. But it was a good one, the highlight was the cruise, and some road trips. I did not played that much with my band actually but we gonna start this week. BBQs were kind of cool, yeah I bought a BBQ and did like 2 BBQ nights at the terrace upstairs, one of them was spent playing different video games and drinking lots of chinacoladas.
Now, the thing what I loved about this summmer were the cool movies around, so here is some movies I saw and gonna give you my point of view of them. I am 100% I might be forgetting a movie or two on this list but I will talk about the ones I remember. So here it goes.
This moviw was all right, didn't felt like a summer movie at all, but it was a good laugh while it lasted. It had its moments, but it all just falls flats onto its face later on. Its like, they ran out of jokes and the movie lost all the sense of it so they arranged a really random ending. You will laugh with this movie... or at the movie but you will. I just the ending and just that out of nowhere script that ticks me off.
This was a good super hero movie, better than Iron Man in my opinion, since the character was already developed they focused more on the movie. Still strongly based about the character's life and how he deals with it but has some interesting parts. It felt more like a movie than an Hulk only movie. In shot words I might say it was straight to the point, and the main character did a great job. I like how Marvel is mixing now their movies for an upcoming surprise its really cool how can you see stuff from captain amaerica in iron man and stuff from iron man in Hulk. It was a good summer movie, there wasn't that much of a hype or promotion as other hero movies but it was good. Had fun with this one.
The only reason I wanted to see this movie was because of Steve Carrell, and all I can say is this movie at least is better than his 2 latest movies but not better than 40 year old virgin. The movie is what you might expect when you have a wrestler on it, and this girl from Princess Diaries, I dont really like her but she developed to be a nice looking female ready to be a mom any time soon. The movie was ok, it was funny but not as funny, its ok for a movie filler for a boring night. I think this is a Tie with Zohan, both were ok funny and had action sequences and all. No reason to be a summer movie. Again they ran out of ideas and they decided to end the movie on a random way.
Not a summer movie, felt like a september or november movie.. or even april or march.. maybe february. But not summer. This movie was an idea of my girlfriend to see it. It wasnt bad, its not bad, its jsut fucked up. The story of a hermaphrodite. I did a song called HERMAFRODITA back when I was like in 9th grade or something. The movie its a little strong sometimes, its ok as a rental not as a theater showcase.... its a little um fucked up. But it is good I recommended if you are into FINE ARTS pieces of goat shit. Lets move on.
Loved this movie, it had nice characters but contrary to other Pizar movies some characters didnt had that much time to develop but later on they pushed you their personalities. They are not as memorable. I think the only character that is really memorable and was only for couple minutes on screen and neve actually raelly talked was Bobba Fett from Star Wars, he is one of the most memorable characters from the saga and he dies kind of fast. Anyways in this movie it felt like those characters were grasping for recognition near the end of the movie, and you will be like.. ok who the fuck are you and why you are so special now. BUt Wall-E is a great movie the character of Wall-E it really felt alive, I give 2 thumbs way up for that. NIce job pixar. The movie wont be that great for kids... I mean is not htat is bad for kids.. but it wont have that impact as other pixar movies had. I recommend this movie, its good and yes felt like a good old summer movie.
Its a really good movie, but I would've enjoyed even more if it wasn't because of assholes crowd in the theaters to see "blah blah balh Batman blah blah blah The JOker blah blah blah I like the Joker blah blah blah my daddy rapes me at night blah blah balh". Fucks. Its stupid, the movie was full couple times I even thought about going, and when I finally went I missed the first 10 minutes or so... so the experience wasn't the best. But about the movie itself, yeah it was a really good movie, not perfect, but really good. The Joker in all honesty could have been better, is not waht I expected maybe because of the hype stupid people gave him, but the actor indeed did a great work it was a really disturbed character and I liked it jsut didnt felt 100% the joker there. But in a point of view I know the "new" Batman revisions are more Movies than a batman movie so it makes sense to make him a psysho who paints his disfigured face as a clown. Overall its a great summer movie, it was like the grand finale of hte summer movies for me... its the last one I went to see. And probably gonna see it again this week hopefully without a packed room. Before I forget want thing I like about the movie is that Bruce continues to be a dick and dissing people up, and as a Batman he is showcased more like an anti-hero instead of a hero. Can't imagine what they will do on a third movie, is a RObin going to come out? Hope not, but seriously waht they could come up with... The Penguin? Riddler? Its funny because most of them are psychos. I recommend this movie. As a last fun fact, Batman comics been around for decades, and now they are starting to sell again, kids are sending their parents asking for "I want a comic of Batman", they dont even care just give me wahtever piece of paper tha has Batman printed on it. IN a way its good, but if you go to Borders you see comics falling on the floor being ignored... a movie has to come out for posers start reading comics.. and pretend to like them. Oh well.
Overall this summer was a great one, I missed couple movies I wanted to see like Narnia just because I saw the first one, The Love Guru just because Mike Myers stupidity, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.. looked good if I was like 17 years younger, and still need to see HELLBOY 2, THE MUMMY 3 and um I htink thats it on the current list. But other movies are Death Race and I dont know what else. But that aint summer time movies. We will see what happens next year. See ya.
Now, the thing what I loved about this summmer were the cool movies around, so here is some movies I saw and gonna give you my point of view of them. I am 100% I might be forgetting a movie or two on this list but I will talk about the ones I remember. So here it goes.
Don't Mess With The Zohan!
This moviw was all right, didn't felt like a summer movie at all, but it was a good laugh while it lasted. It had its moments, but it all just falls flats onto its face later on. Its like, they ran out of jokes and the movie lost all the sense of it so they arranged a really random ending. You will laugh with this movie... or at the movie but you will. I just the ending and just that out of nowhere script that ticks me off.
The Incredible Hulk
This was a good super hero movie, better than Iron Man in my opinion, since the character was already developed they focused more on the movie. Still strongly based about the character's life and how he deals with it but has some interesting parts. It felt more like a movie than an Hulk only movie. In shot words I might say it was straight to the point, and the main character did a great job. I like how Marvel is mixing now their movies for an upcoming surprise its really cool how can you see stuff from captain amaerica in iron man and stuff from iron man in Hulk. It was a good summer movie, there wasn't that much of a hype or promotion as other hero movies but it was good. Had fun with this one.
Get Smart
The only reason I wanted to see this movie was because of Steve Carrell, and all I can say is this movie at least is better than his 2 latest movies but not better than 40 year old virgin. The movie is what you might expect when you have a wrestler on it, and this girl from Princess Diaries, I dont really like her but she developed to be a nice looking female ready to be a mom any time soon. The movie was ok, it was funny but not as funny, its ok for a movie filler for a boring night. I think this is a Tie with Zohan, both were ok funny and had action sequences and all. No reason to be a summer movie. Again they ran out of ideas and they decided to end the movie on a random way.
XXY
Not a summer movie, felt like a september or november movie.. or even april or march.. maybe february. But not summer. This movie was an idea of my girlfriend to see it. It wasnt bad, its not bad, its jsut fucked up. The story of a hermaphrodite. I did a song called HERMAFRODITA back when I was like in 9th grade or something. The movie its a little strong sometimes, its ok as a rental not as a theater showcase.... its a little um fucked up. But it is good I recommended if you are into FINE ARTS pieces of goat shit. Lets move on.
WALL-E
Loved this movie, it had nice characters but contrary to other Pizar movies some characters didnt had that much time to develop but later on they pushed you their personalities. They are not as memorable. I think the only character that is really memorable and was only for couple minutes on screen and neve actually raelly talked was Bobba Fett from Star Wars, he is one of the most memorable characters from the saga and he dies kind of fast. Anyways in this movie it felt like those characters were grasping for recognition near the end of the movie, and you will be like.. ok who the fuck are you and why you are so special now. BUt Wall-E is a great movie the character of Wall-E it really felt alive, I give 2 thumbs way up for that. NIce job pixar. The movie wont be that great for kids... I mean is not htat is bad for kids.. but it wont have that impact as other pixar movies had. I recommend this movie, its good and yes felt like a good old summer movie.
The Dark Knight
Its a really good movie, but I would've enjoyed even more if it wasn't because of assholes crowd in the theaters to see "blah blah balh Batman blah blah blah The JOker blah blah blah I like the Joker blah blah blah my daddy rapes me at night blah blah balh". Fucks. Its stupid, the movie was full couple times I even thought about going, and when I finally went I missed the first 10 minutes or so... so the experience wasn't the best. But about the movie itself, yeah it was a really good movie, not perfect, but really good. The Joker in all honesty could have been better, is not waht I expected maybe because of the hype stupid people gave him, but the actor indeed did a great work it was a really disturbed character and I liked it jsut didnt felt 100% the joker there. But in a point of view I know the "new" Batman revisions are more Movies than a batman movie so it makes sense to make him a psysho who paints his disfigured face as a clown. Overall its a great summer movie, it was like the grand finale of hte summer movies for me... its the last one I went to see. And probably gonna see it again this week hopefully without a packed room. Before I forget want thing I like about the movie is that Bruce continues to be a dick and dissing people up, and as a Batman he is showcased more like an anti-hero instead of a hero. Can't imagine what they will do on a third movie, is a RObin going to come out? Hope not, but seriously waht they could come up with... The Penguin? Riddler? Its funny because most of them are psychos. I recommend this movie. As a last fun fact, Batman comics been around for decades, and now they are starting to sell again, kids are sending their parents asking for "I want a comic of Batman", they dont even care just give me wahtever piece of paper tha has Batman printed on it. IN a way its good, but if you go to Borders you see comics falling on the floor being ignored... a movie has to come out for posers start reading comics.. and pretend to like them. Oh well.
Overall this summer was a great one, I missed couple movies I wanted to see like Narnia just because I saw the first one, The Love Guru just because Mike Myers stupidity, and Journey to the Center of the Earth.. looked good if I was like 17 years younger, and still need to see HELLBOY 2, THE MUMMY 3 and um I htink thats it on the current list. But other movies are Death Race and I dont know what else. But that aint summer time movies. We will see what happens next year. See ya.
Thursday, July 3, 2008
CRUISE SUMMER VACATION 2008
Intro:
As I said on the earlier post I was going to a cruise… and maybe stay on an island. Well, I did went to the awesome cruise but sadly came back to reality and never got to go to Norman Island which is south of St. John, and St. John wasn’t a stop from the cruise route. The route consisted of Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Marteen and St. Thomas, the islands were all right I think they got better through the week, but the cruise was like one of the best things I’ve seen, couple diner rooms, a shopping street, an ice skating rink, rock climbing, inline skate track, mini-golf, basketball court, theater, pools, Jacuzzis, bars, casinos, arcades.. DAMN it had everything. I must admit I wasn’t that hyped about the cruise but, eventually, found it was one of the best vacations I ever had.
Did so many things so what I’ll do in this post is describe the highlights of each day of the week (it was a 7 day cruise) and put some relevant pictures with it, so here it goes:
SUNDAY
LOCATION: Puerto Rico
Before getting aboard the cruise Ingrid and her cousin wanted to buy alcohol (yey I am so crazy and cool) to get on the cruise –since the alcohol is expensive there- and drink freely on the rooms. When they were at the duty-free store I remember I told her clearly… ASK THE CASHIER PERSON TO SEE IF PEOPLE CAN BRING ALONG ALCOHOL, of course she didn’t ask, and of course she thought I was wrong or didn’t know a thing. BUT, what happened when she bought the alcohol? She was told she could not take it aboard the ship. HA HA HA HA! Noob. And of course the cashier wouldn’t give the money back. I think it’s a scam in all, since they don’t tell anyone about it until the purchase is made. That is why I told her to ask… but of course… I don’t know anything. Anyways they got the opportunity to handle the alcohol to the ship thanks to me, and my dragon jacket. Ingrid’s cousin –the sex starving- Jason put it inside his jeans and covered it with my jacket. That’s about it, later that night Ingrid, her brother, and her cousins Jason and Karla were drinking it, in a way I felt back in highschool, were drinking illegally was cool and awesome. Not. Anyways that is what I remember from Sunday. Oh yeah during the day we walked around the ship to get to know it and bought like 2 piña coladas that day.. one from the pool bar and the other at night at Jesters Night club.
MONDAY
LOCATION: SEA
We were told that on Monday the cruise will be at sea the whole day, because the cruise route consisted of spending a whole day sailing to the last island (first from the route) and then from that island slowly sailing back one by one till we get to Puerto Rico (where we departed).
So what I did on Monday?
It sucks because I can’t quite remember but I think I did went to the gym.. or Tuesday? Damn it, I knew I should’ve written on a notebook the things I did because I knew I would’ve confuse things. Anyways on Monday I think it was the day I broke the record on the Raiden Fighters Jet and landed first place and finished the game at the same time. It all happen because when I died the first time, I looked at the score and compared it to mine and it wasn’t that behind… so I decided to start again and break it. Thanks to my practice on many shoot’em up games like Gradius, Ikaruga, R-type I got to finish the game on one credit. Here is the evidence:
Besides that I think on Monday is when we had the first Formal night so we all had to dress stupid. After a fancy dinner and bullshit I went back to the room changed clothesto something almost me and took Andrea my niece to the arcades for some real fun. After that I think we went to Jesters again… I don’t remember…fuck. Oh yeah, we walked around the ship taking pictures and being dumb.
TUESDAY
LOCATION: BARBADOS
Barbados looked like Sabana Grande, after some nice breakfast we wnet down to the island and walked around downtown, many rasta people, who harassed me saying “hello, rasta man” constantly. After walking around looking at nothing we decided to go to the beach. I realized they charge for everything. At the beach we paid I think for an entrance fee or something to use the bathrooms… then we had to pay for the chairs. When we got to the beach I felt I was in Resident Evil with all these zombies (people) trying to sell you stuff. They were all calling me RASTA MAN, fuck that, I am no rasta I have dreadlocks but that doesn’t mean I am rasta. Dreadlocks are not rasta exclusive… it just tangled hair… actually many anarcho and crust bands have dreadlocks… actually I have an issue of the Profane Existence fanzine which is about anarcho punk and crust were all the pictures in it, there is someone with Dreadlocks. Anyways, one of the guys were selling necklaces and I wasn’t interested until I got to see one from his hand and liked it here is a pic of me trying that:
After that Ingrid saw a skirt that she liked and thantks to that I met the FREAK LADY, Ingrid was trying it out and she liked it, since she didn’t have enough cash I decided to buy it for her, but we weren;t sure yet… the skirt was $25… then since Ingrid tried it out… the lady said $20, so I said ok lets see… but hten Ingrid wasn’t sure… but when we decided to get it.. the lady was like… no $25… she said she had a hardtime making it…. I wich I could say a big FUCK YOU OLD WHORE to that lady… but hey its her job… we are tourist… so it was ok… Ingrid didn’t agree with me buying it fro $25 but… man… these people are poor.. and we have enough money for our things… I thinks its low to try to “regatear” or make deals with people that area clearly poor…. You do that with stores… but no to a seller on the beach… its fucking low… so I paid the full $25 so my girl could have a skirt she wanted. Whatever.
The beach was nice, and it had more people around selling stuff, offering services of Jet Ski rides and of course Ganja. Since I had dreadlocks I was constantly harassed if I wanted the buy some Mary jane, but of course I declined every time. I know other people wanted but one of them exceptionally wanted it more but didn’t want the responsibility to carry it to bring it aboard… how easy life is. From this day on my nickname on the islands became RASTA MAN. I don’t remember well what we did later on, but I know I went to the gym and I don’t know what else I did.. probably Jesters again… or maybe that day was the ice skating show…. Fuck I don’t remember. Oh, before I forget, in the duty-free stores at the terminal they had THE BEST BROWNIES OF THE PLANET…. Don’t believe me? Here:
At night we went to an ice skating show which wasn’t that bad, the highlights were when 3 of the skaters fell stupidly through out the show. One woman there was really talented that is all about to say.
WEDNSDAY
LOCATION: ST. LUCIA
I think in this place we just took a taxi van for a trip around the island…. It was pretty boring… it sucked actually… it was looking at a poorer Puerto Rico… nothing interesting that I can remember. Afterwards I think I went to the gym. Then later on..maybe I went to Jesters again. Honestly I am trying to think everything in order but it falls out of place. Oh yeah today I think it was the day I dressed as a woman on a quest contest… yeah. We were 6 groups and we had to find elements within the crows as requested… so for the final challenge they said… look for a bad ass guy you can see on a bar… like a harley guy, and of course I had my bandanna on so I was a target… great. So after getting in show area they said.. NOW YOU HAVE TO MINUTES TO DRESS AS A WOMAN! So all girls from our group threw bras… shoes everything… so after breaking a heel, and ripping a bra here is how I looked:
No comments, lets move on.
THURSDAY
LOCATION: ANTIGUA
Antigua was all right, like an improved St. Lucia…. We just walked around town took some pictures and went to a really cool graveyard here is a pic:
Then on the way back decided to take another taxi for a 2 hour tour. I did learned that a pineapple takes one year an a half to be mature, among other things. The driver was cool he even bought some type of banana for us from a total stranger from the street.
It sucks we gave the driver shit tip… we were out of cash… I send him an email. Yeah he gave his email. I want to mention that I went to a store here and they had plenty of music magazines, porn, and all that fashion shit… except video games… no magazine about video games, actually thinking about it… not even technology stuff… I might be wrong. But anyways, I went to a music store near the port and they had all this Wii stuff around and Wii systems, Wii games, Wii gadgets all… its funny, here in Puerto Rico.. stupid people go shit all about the Wii and it is always out of stock (don’t know why… the games suck, these stupid consumers like to swallow marketing and probably other stuff) but in Antigua its like plenty of them lying around… I bet they are really expensive.. since some PSP games were around $65… which considering the game it was… it was 3 times expensive.
Later that night we had our last formal night, this is me looking suave:
It was a good night.
FRIDAY
LOCATION: ST. MARTEEN
Nude beach. We went straight to a nude beach. And of course kept my pants, and is not about not being insecure because trust me I would’ve felt really proud walking around of what I have, in other words I bet those men’s wife use dildos or something to reach fulfillment. I felt ok I am above average, proved. Is just something private you know, not about being insecure, how about this, I am so secure of me that I don’t need to show off. How about that dipshit? Oh well, it was fun, I saw the most able to walk fat person alive naked. Truly, he was naked but at the same time he wasn’t, the fat of his deformed second belly (yeah a second belly) covered his parts… until he passed by, I admire that person. Maybe he is an asshole and he is ruining people’s vacation and traumatizing children just walking by.
After that we went back and not sure what we did. Hum, I think we went to sleep early since on Saturday we had to do something with our passports really early like at 7.
SATURDAY
LOCATION: ST. THOMAS
This was like the shopping day. We went to an aquarium first which I thought it would suck but ended up really cool. They had a submarine section, and a pretty nice view. After that we went to the beach next to the aquarium which wasn’t that amazing, but the water was rather clear and cool. What I liked the most is that the guy taking care of us, gave us dog cookies for the fishes, so if you were snorkeling could gather the fish with the food. Instead I used the food to attract the sea gulls, and then threw pieces and Ingrid’s and her cousing while they were snorkeling so the sea gulls would peak at them. Since it worked I did the same thing to her mother and aunt, it was fucking hilarious sihce they were looking for cover but since they were in the water they couldn’t hahahah, I think it was the moment I laughed the most on my trip… I liked that shit so much I went out and bought more.. and gave it out to another kid to do the same… hehhe oh well.
Then we went to the town, which looked like old san juan to buy over priced souvenirs.
They had a Mango Colada… fuck it was good, but still can’t top a China Colada.
There was a store called S.O.S. something.. that had pirate stuff and many of it were actually antiques. But very expensive, for an example, they had a bead… yes a single bead from the pirate ages for $8, I means it’s a bead smaller than a Skittle, for $8. I mean if it was for $3 (Still expensive) I might’ve bought it… but it was really small… and fragile. But they had other cool stuff.
After that we went to the cruise, and did some ROCK CLIMBING:
And some mini Golf. You know taking advantage of the last day of the cruise.
We went to dinner and said goodbye to Lui and Cecilia who did a great service, and celebrated the 34th anniversary of Ingrid’s parents, they have a great relationship.. which CAN’T be copied ;). Then we just walked around bored… went to a casine.. and went to a slot machine.. Ingrid tried one and lost the fist one, then her cousin, then it was my turn and I thought of using my own quarter because I thought “If I win Ingrid will say IT WAS MY QUARTER”, guess what? I won on my first try, $12 but I won. And of course she wanted part of the money… I knew it. Women. Jorge knows all about it, I better start listening to him.
After going to other places we went upstairs to play UNO, I didn’t knew how to play but Ingrid and her cousin told me how… and eventually I won. Women. Hhehhe joke.
Later thath night every one went to sleep, but I went upstairs to the Arcade, to reclaim my top position that was pushed to the 7th (mysteriously) after playing and finishing the game, I did went to the top again using a type of ship roster… but then I realized that people that got the highest were people that played a different mode (special not normal) that let them lose, insert another quarter, lose insert another quarter while their score kept adding up…. Instead of playing the normal mode, were your score is based on one credit. SO in other words I did finished the game and got the most points only on one credit. But oh well, fucking noobs. Fuck you. Again, I still have the top score on the original ship. Go, I might be there, if some one is on top of me maybe they wasted 7 credits instead of one. Yeah, sometimes I am an asshole, but like Jorge said, its more fun that way, instead of being.. “nice”.
SUNDAY
LOCATION: Back to PUERTO RICO
Yeah it was quick it felt like they were kicking us out, pressuring us to leave… and people at the crew they didn’t even smile anymore… they were like “Ok BYE”, at breakfast they didn’t even gave us a menu… oh well. Have a nice week at the cruise.. you still have 6 months of tourist. HAH! I am talking about the morning crew.
BACK TO REALITY
I had a free week after the cruise to do stuff, stuff I normally can’t do because I am either at work or just tired because of work. Prepared some demos of my band and sent them to other bands and fanzines. Started programming a video game and played others I haven’t played in a while. And yesterday I bought a BBQ and a small pool and did a last minute BBQ on the terrace, which was cool. So that’s about it for now…. Oh yeah sang an early happy birthday to me since mine is tomorrow… fucking 27 years… lets see if I do something at the last minute. Oh well.
HIGHLIGHTS:
1-ARCADE
2-ATTACKING SEAGULLS
3-BEING CALLED RASTA-MAN ON ALL ISLANDS..NOT!
4-ICE SKATERS FALLING ON THE ICE
5-GYM
6-ALL FOOD FROM THE CRUISE
7-PIRATE STORE IN ST. THOMAS
8-WINNING ON THE CASIONE O MY FIRST TRY
9-BEING CLASSIFIED AS BAD-ASS THEN DRESSED AS A WOMAN
10-JUST BEING AWAY FROM WORK.
As I said on the earlier post I was going to a cruise… and maybe stay on an island. Well, I did went to the awesome cruise but sadly came back to reality and never got to go to Norman Island which is south of St. John, and St. John wasn’t a stop from the cruise route. The route consisted of Barbados, St. Lucia, Antigua, St. Marteen and St. Thomas, the islands were all right I think they got better through the week, but the cruise was like one of the best things I’ve seen, couple diner rooms, a shopping street, an ice skating rink, rock climbing, inline skate track, mini-golf, basketball court, theater, pools, Jacuzzis, bars, casinos, arcades.. DAMN it had everything. I must admit I wasn’t that hyped about the cruise but, eventually, found it was one of the best vacations I ever had.
Did so many things so what I’ll do in this post is describe the highlights of each day of the week (it was a 7 day cruise) and put some relevant pictures with it, so here it goes:
SUNDAY
LOCATION: Puerto Rico
Before getting aboard the cruise Ingrid and her cousin wanted to buy alcohol (yey I am so crazy and cool) to get on the cruise –since the alcohol is expensive there- and drink freely on the rooms. When they were at the duty-free store I remember I told her clearly… ASK THE CASHIER PERSON TO SEE IF PEOPLE CAN BRING ALONG ALCOHOL, of course she didn’t ask, and of course she thought I was wrong or didn’t know a thing. BUT, what happened when she bought the alcohol? She was told she could not take it aboard the ship. HA HA HA HA! Noob. And of course the cashier wouldn’t give the money back. I think it’s a scam in all, since they don’t tell anyone about it until the purchase is made. That is why I told her to ask… but of course… I don’t know anything. Anyways they got the opportunity to handle the alcohol to the ship thanks to me, and my dragon jacket. Ingrid’s cousin –the sex starving- Jason put it inside his jeans and covered it with my jacket. That’s about it, later that night Ingrid, her brother, and her cousins Jason and Karla were drinking it, in a way I felt back in highschool, were drinking illegally was cool and awesome. Not. Anyways that is what I remember from Sunday. Oh yeah during the day we walked around the ship to get to know it and bought like 2 piña coladas that day.. one from the pool bar and the other at night at Jesters Night club.
MONDAY
LOCATION: SEA
We were told that on Monday the cruise will be at sea the whole day, because the cruise route consisted of spending a whole day sailing to the last island (first from the route) and then from that island slowly sailing back one by one till we get to Puerto Rico (where we departed).
So what I did on Monday?
It sucks because I can’t quite remember but I think I did went to the gym.. or Tuesday? Damn it, I knew I should’ve written on a notebook the things I did because I knew I would’ve confuse things. Anyways on Monday I think it was the day I broke the record on the Raiden Fighters Jet and landed first place and finished the game at the same time. It all happen because when I died the first time, I looked at the score and compared it to mine and it wasn’t that behind… so I decided to start again and break it. Thanks to my practice on many shoot’em up games like Gradius, Ikaruga, R-type I got to finish the game on one credit. Here is the evidence:
Besides that I think on Monday is when we had the first Formal night so we all had to dress stupid. After a fancy dinner and bullshit I went back to the room changed clothesto something almost me and took Andrea my niece to the arcades for some real fun. After that I think we went to Jesters again… I don’t remember…fuck. Oh yeah, we walked around the ship taking pictures and being dumb.
TUESDAY
LOCATION: BARBADOS
Barbados looked like Sabana Grande, after some nice breakfast we wnet down to the island and walked around downtown, many rasta people, who harassed me saying “hello, rasta man” constantly. After walking around looking at nothing we decided to go to the beach. I realized they charge for everything. At the beach we paid I think for an entrance fee or something to use the bathrooms… then we had to pay for the chairs. When we got to the beach I felt I was in Resident Evil with all these zombies (people) trying to sell you stuff. They were all calling me RASTA MAN, fuck that, I am no rasta I have dreadlocks but that doesn’t mean I am rasta. Dreadlocks are not rasta exclusive… it just tangled hair… actually many anarcho and crust bands have dreadlocks… actually I have an issue of the Profane Existence fanzine which is about anarcho punk and crust were all the pictures in it, there is someone with Dreadlocks. Anyways, one of the guys were selling necklaces and I wasn’t interested until I got to see one from his hand and liked it here is a pic of me trying that:
After that Ingrid saw a skirt that she liked and thantks to that I met the FREAK LADY, Ingrid was trying it out and she liked it, since she didn’t have enough cash I decided to buy it for her, but we weren;t sure yet… the skirt was $25… then since Ingrid tried it out… the lady said $20, so I said ok lets see… but hten Ingrid wasn’t sure… but when we decided to get it.. the lady was like… no $25… she said she had a hardtime making it…. I wich I could say a big FUCK YOU OLD WHORE to that lady… but hey its her job… we are tourist… so it was ok… Ingrid didn’t agree with me buying it fro $25 but… man… these people are poor.. and we have enough money for our things… I thinks its low to try to “regatear” or make deals with people that area clearly poor…. You do that with stores… but no to a seller on the beach… its fucking low… so I paid the full $25 so my girl could have a skirt she wanted. Whatever.
The beach was nice, and it had more people around selling stuff, offering services of Jet Ski rides and of course Ganja. Since I had dreadlocks I was constantly harassed if I wanted the buy some Mary jane, but of course I declined every time. I know other people wanted but one of them exceptionally wanted it more but didn’t want the responsibility to carry it to bring it aboard… how easy life is. From this day on my nickname on the islands became RASTA MAN. I don’t remember well what we did later on, but I know I went to the gym and I don’t know what else I did.. probably Jesters again… or maybe that day was the ice skating show…. Fuck I don’t remember. Oh, before I forget, in the duty-free stores at the terminal they had THE BEST BROWNIES OF THE PLANET…. Don’t believe me? Here:
At night we went to an ice skating show which wasn’t that bad, the highlights were when 3 of the skaters fell stupidly through out the show. One woman there was really talented that is all about to say.
WEDNSDAY
LOCATION: ST. LUCIA
I think in this place we just took a taxi van for a trip around the island…. It was pretty boring… it sucked actually… it was looking at a poorer Puerto Rico… nothing interesting that I can remember. Afterwards I think I went to the gym. Then later on..maybe I went to Jesters again. Honestly I am trying to think everything in order but it falls out of place. Oh yeah today I think it was the day I dressed as a woman on a quest contest… yeah. We were 6 groups and we had to find elements within the crows as requested… so for the final challenge they said… look for a bad ass guy you can see on a bar… like a harley guy, and of course I had my bandanna on so I was a target… great. So after getting in show area they said.. NOW YOU HAVE TO MINUTES TO DRESS AS A WOMAN! So all girls from our group threw bras… shoes everything… so after breaking a heel, and ripping a bra here is how I looked:
No comments, lets move on.
THURSDAY
LOCATION: ANTIGUA
Antigua was all right, like an improved St. Lucia…. We just walked around town took some pictures and went to a really cool graveyard here is a pic:
Then on the way back decided to take another taxi for a 2 hour tour. I did learned that a pineapple takes one year an a half to be mature, among other things. The driver was cool he even bought some type of banana for us from a total stranger from the street.
It sucks we gave the driver shit tip… we were out of cash… I send him an email. Yeah he gave his email. I want to mention that I went to a store here and they had plenty of music magazines, porn, and all that fashion shit… except video games… no magazine about video games, actually thinking about it… not even technology stuff… I might be wrong. But anyways, I went to a music store near the port and they had all this Wii stuff around and Wii systems, Wii games, Wii gadgets all… its funny, here in Puerto Rico.. stupid people go shit all about the Wii and it is always out of stock (don’t know why… the games suck, these stupid consumers like to swallow marketing and probably other stuff) but in Antigua its like plenty of them lying around… I bet they are really expensive.. since some PSP games were around $65… which considering the game it was… it was 3 times expensive.
Later that night we had our last formal night, this is me looking suave:
It was a good night.
FRIDAY
LOCATION: ST. MARTEEN
Nude beach. We went straight to a nude beach. And of course kept my pants, and is not about not being insecure because trust me I would’ve felt really proud walking around of what I have, in other words I bet those men’s wife use dildos or something to reach fulfillment. I felt ok I am above average, proved. Is just something private you know, not about being insecure, how about this, I am so secure of me that I don’t need to show off. How about that dipshit? Oh well, it was fun, I saw the most able to walk fat person alive naked. Truly, he was naked but at the same time he wasn’t, the fat of his deformed second belly (yeah a second belly) covered his parts… until he passed by, I admire that person. Maybe he is an asshole and he is ruining people’s vacation and traumatizing children just walking by.
After that we went back and not sure what we did. Hum, I think we went to sleep early since on Saturday we had to do something with our passports really early like at 7.
SATURDAY
LOCATION: ST. THOMAS
This was like the shopping day. We went to an aquarium first which I thought it would suck but ended up really cool. They had a submarine section, and a pretty nice view. After that we went to the beach next to the aquarium which wasn’t that amazing, but the water was rather clear and cool. What I liked the most is that the guy taking care of us, gave us dog cookies for the fishes, so if you were snorkeling could gather the fish with the food. Instead I used the food to attract the sea gulls, and then threw pieces and Ingrid’s and her cousing while they were snorkeling so the sea gulls would peak at them. Since it worked I did the same thing to her mother and aunt, it was fucking hilarious sihce they were looking for cover but since they were in the water they couldn’t hahahah, I think it was the moment I laughed the most on my trip… I liked that shit so much I went out and bought more.. and gave it out to another kid to do the same… hehhe oh well.
Then we went to the town, which looked like old san juan to buy over priced souvenirs.
They had a Mango Colada… fuck it was good, but still can’t top a China Colada.
There was a store called S.O.S. something.. that had pirate stuff and many of it were actually antiques. But very expensive, for an example, they had a bead… yes a single bead from the pirate ages for $8, I means it’s a bead smaller than a Skittle, for $8. I mean if it was for $3 (Still expensive) I might’ve bought it… but it was really small… and fragile. But they had other cool stuff.
After that we went to the cruise, and did some ROCK CLIMBING:
And some mini Golf. You know taking advantage of the last day of the cruise.
We went to dinner and said goodbye to Lui and Cecilia who did a great service, and celebrated the 34th anniversary of Ingrid’s parents, they have a great relationship.. which CAN’T be copied ;). Then we just walked around bored… went to a casine.. and went to a slot machine.. Ingrid tried one and lost the fist one, then her cousin, then it was my turn and I thought of using my own quarter because I thought “If I win Ingrid will say IT WAS MY QUARTER”, guess what? I won on my first try, $12 but I won. And of course she wanted part of the money… I knew it. Women. Jorge knows all about it, I better start listening to him.
After going to other places we went upstairs to play UNO, I didn’t knew how to play but Ingrid and her cousin told me how… and eventually I won. Women. Hhehhe joke.
Later thath night every one went to sleep, but I went upstairs to the Arcade, to reclaim my top position that was pushed to the 7th (mysteriously) after playing and finishing the game, I did went to the top again using a type of ship roster… but then I realized that people that got the highest were people that played a different mode (special not normal) that let them lose, insert another quarter, lose insert another quarter while their score kept adding up…. Instead of playing the normal mode, were your score is based on one credit. SO in other words I did finished the game and got the most points only on one credit. But oh well, fucking noobs. Fuck you. Again, I still have the top score on the original ship. Go, I might be there, if some one is on top of me maybe they wasted 7 credits instead of one. Yeah, sometimes I am an asshole, but like Jorge said, its more fun that way, instead of being.. “nice”.
SUNDAY
LOCATION: Back to PUERTO RICO
Yeah it was quick it felt like they were kicking us out, pressuring us to leave… and people at the crew they didn’t even smile anymore… they were like “Ok BYE”, at breakfast they didn’t even gave us a menu… oh well. Have a nice week at the cruise.. you still have 6 months of tourist. HAH! I am talking about the morning crew.
BACK TO REALITY
I had a free week after the cruise to do stuff, stuff I normally can’t do because I am either at work or just tired because of work. Prepared some demos of my band and sent them to other bands and fanzines. Started programming a video game and played others I haven’t played in a while. And yesterday I bought a BBQ and a small pool and did a last minute BBQ on the terrace, which was cool. So that’s about it for now…. Oh yeah sang an early happy birthday to me since mine is tomorrow… fucking 27 years… lets see if I do something at the last minute. Oh well.
HIGHLIGHTS:
1-ARCADE
2-ATTACKING SEAGULLS
3-BEING CALLED RASTA-MAN ON ALL ISLANDS..NOT!
4-ICE SKATERS FALLING ON THE ICE
5-GYM
6-ALL FOOD FROM THE CRUISE
7-PIRATE STORE IN ST. THOMAS
8-WINNING ON THE CASIONE O MY FIRST TRY
9-BEING CLASSIFIED AS BAD-ASS THEN DRESSED AS A WOMAN
10-JUST BEING AWAY FROM WORK.
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