Atia's open house was amazing!! The food was incredible and I couldn't help but whack 2 big helpings plus desert. I guess my weight-gaining regime is back on track!
Speaking of which, I checked my weight last week and found out I gained 2kg (out of the targeted 6), which made me superbly elated. I only learned a few days back that the reading was off-scale and it read 2 kg extra... So much for hard work...
Okay, back to the main event. I got the chance to show off my new Transition lenses, which taught me another new con to the glasses. Even with a little extra sunlight, the lenses are extremely sensitive and will adjust accordingly to the light exposure. Now, how can this be bad? Well, it means that any outdoor pics will look like I'm wearing shades. I'm not complaining (that much) but then my eyes can't be seen clearly anymore when taking pictures. In defence, guys can have their little, microscopic, minuscule fair share of vain, okay?
An hour into the open house and the last guest, Rakesh hasn't arrived yet. Aiman got fed up and decided to give him a ring. And guess his excuse? "Oh, I'm stuck in a jam outside the house"
He actually meant that he was caught in a jam at the highway, on the way to the house.
Then later we all had a shot at her PS3. I was especially excited since I've never touched one before. We all took turns playing God of War: The Collection but the main highlight was when we played GTA IV. Aiman, a seasoned noob in console gaming played first. I think he died about 6 times in the span of 20 minutes, all deaths being pretty hilarious as Joyce, Rakesh, Sarah, Atia, Aiman and I filled the entire house with ever-bursting laughter.
His "deaths" are as follows:
Round One
Atia showed him the basics of the gameplay and its mechanics on how to run, shoot, hijack a car, bla bla bla. Then she quickly obliterated a car with a RPG and immediately passed the control to him. Panicking, he tried to run away from the cops until he was stuck on a bridge. Seeing that there was no vehicle in sight and capture being imminent, he did what any fugitive on the run would've done in the runaway movies: he jumped off the bridge. Unfortunately his character wasn't some parkour expert or Spiderman so he just plummeted to his death from 20+ metres.
Score: Cops 0 - Aiman -1
Round Two
Atia gave him access to all weapons, unfortunately he didn't know how to cycle through the weapons. She used the given RPG and opened fire at a random car at the curb, which immediately alerted the police. Then she gave him the controls and started ordering him to run. Hastily, Aiman used the D-Pad to move (which was used to cycle through the weapons, leading him to use his fist as a weapon). The cops eventually arrived and he starting running as instructed (yelled, actually) by the panel of spectators while "shooting". So what we next saw was some fugitive running, being pursued by the authorities, while doing weird basketball chest passes, which was eventually apprehended.
Score: Cops 1 - Aiman -1
Round Three
Aiman managed to alert the police once again in a bid to settle the score. Again, the cops managed to apprehend him. But this time, he defied their orders and started assaulting them, with his deadly chest passes. So in the end he was gunned down to no surprise.
Score: Cops 2 - Aiman -1
Round Four
Learning from his mistake, this time Aiman brandished the RPG beforehand, finger on R2, at the ready. After he dispatched his first taxi, his excited-ness just skyrocketed and before you can say "supercalifragelisticexpealidocious", he was running down the street like some madman only existent in "Rambo". After his third victim, he quickly targeted the car right next to him and fired a point blank shot into the driver's door. Next thing we know it, his character was shown being flung somewhat 10 metres back from the force of the explosion. Funny stuff.
Score: Cops 1 - Aiman -2
Round Five
Atia decided that every bad-ass in the game needs a bad-ass ride, thus granting him a Huey assault helicopter courtesy of the game's built in cheats. Surprisingly, Aiman got hold of the controls quite well this time. He was happily flying around the city until he suddenly lost focus, causing the chopper to fly in a vertical motion. If that's not bad enough, Hani (Atia's sister) tricked Aiman to ejecting, hinting that there was an emergency parachute. There wasn't. So we saw THE coolest dive from easily 100 metres above ground earthbound. In the end, he landed on a railway track.
Score: Cops 1 - Aiman -3
Round Six
Aiman got better after the previous 4 deaths and actually managed to hijack a getaway vehicle to scamper away from the cops. He managed to last a solid 5 minutes with his health bar close to nil simply by driving in a large circular motion around the highway. Then, in another one of his errors, he collided into a tree, causing his van to catch fire, which in GTA lingo means "get your butt out of the car before it goes ka-boom". Aiman quickly ejected from the vehicle right before it burst into a giant fireball of death. Unfortunately, none of us saw the car at his left when he jumped out of the van due to a sudden camera angle change. So, the car rammed the rolling character which, you guessed it, killed him instantly in another modern movie cliche kill.
Score: Cops 1 - Aiman -4
So, GTA IV taught us a lot about being bad-asses. But it was tons of fun be it.
Speaking of which, I checked my weight last week and found out I gained 2kg (out of the targeted 6), which made me superbly elated. I only learned a few days back that the reading was off-scale and it read 2 kg extra... So much for hard work...
Okay, back to the main event. I got the chance to show off my new Transition lenses, which taught me another new con to the glasses. Even with a little extra sunlight, the lenses are extremely sensitive and will adjust accordingly to the light exposure. Now, how can this be bad? Well, it means that any outdoor pics will look like I'm wearing shades. I'm not complaining (that much) but then my eyes can't be seen clearly anymore when taking pictures. In defence, guys can have their little, microscopic, minuscule fair share of vain, okay?
An hour into the open house and the last guest, Rakesh hasn't arrived yet. Aiman got fed up and decided to give him a ring. And guess his excuse? "Oh, I'm stuck in a jam outside the house"
He actually meant that he was caught in a jam at the highway, on the way to the house.
Then later we all had a shot at her PS3. I was especially excited since I've never touched one before. We all took turns playing God of War: The Collection but the main highlight was when we played GTA IV. Aiman, a seasoned noob in console gaming played first. I think he died about 6 times in the span of 20 minutes, all deaths being pretty hilarious as Joyce, Rakesh, Sarah, Atia, Aiman and I filled the entire house with ever-bursting laughter.
His "deaths" are as follows:
Round One
Atia showed him the basics of the gameplay and its mechanics on how to run, shoot, hijack a car, bla bla bla. Then she quickly obliterated a car with a RPG and immediately passed the control to him. Panicking, he tried to run away from the cops until he was stuck on a bridge. Seeing that there was no vehicle in sight and capture being imminent, he did what any fugitive on the run would've done in the runaway movies: he jumped off the bridge. Unfortunately his character wasn't some parkour expert or Spiderman so he just plummeted to his death from 20+ metres.
Score: Cops 0 - Aiman -1
Round Two
Atia gave him access to all weapons, unfortunately he didn't know how to cycle through the weapons. She used the given RPG and opened fire at a random car at the curb, which immediately alerted the police. Then she gave him the controls and started ordering him to run. Hastily, Aiman used the D-Pad to move (which was used to cycle through the weapons, leading him to use his fist as a weapon). The cops eventually arrived and he starting running as instructed (yelled, actually) by the panel of spectators while "shooting". So what we next saw was some fugitive running, being pursued by the authorities, while doing weird basketball chest passes, which was eventually apprehended.
Score: Cops 1 - Aiman -1
Round Three
Aiman managed to alert the police once again in a bid to settle the score. Again, the cops managed to apprehend him. But this time, he defied their orders and started assaulting them, with his deadly chest passes. So in the end he was gunned down to no surprise.
Score: Cops 2 - Aiman -1
Round Four
Learning from his mistake, this time Aiman brandished the RPG beforehand, finger on R2, at the ready. After he dispatched his first taxi, his excited-ness just skyrocketed and before you can say "supercalifragelisticexpealidocious", he was running down the street like some madman only existent in "Rambo". After his third victim, he quickly targeted the car right next to him and fired a point blank shot into the driver's door. Next thing we know it, his character was shown being flung somewhat 10 metres back from the force of the explosion. Funny stuff.
Score: Cops 1 - Aiman -2
Round Five
Atia decided that every bad-ass in the game needs a bad-ass ride, thus granting him a Huey assault helicopter courtesy of the game's built in cheats. Surprisingly, Aiman got hold of the controls quite well this time. He was happily flying around the city until he suddenly lost focus, causing the chopper to fly in a vertical motion. If that's not bad enough, Hani (Atia's sister) tricked Aiman to ejecting, hinting that there was an emergency parachute. There wasn't. So we saw THE coolest dive from easily 100 metres above ground earthbound. In the end, he landed on a railway track.
Score: Cops 1 - Aiman -3
Round Six
Aiman got better after the previous 4 deaths and actually managed to hijack a getaway vehicle to scamper away from the cops. He managed to last a solid 5 minutes with his health bar close to nil simply by driving in a large circular motion around the highway. Then, in another one of his errors, he collided into a tree, causing his van to catch fire, which in GTA lingo means "get your butt out of the car before it goes ka-boom". Aiman quickly ejected from the vehicle right before it burst into a giant fireball of death. Unfortunately, none of us saw the car at his left when he jumped out of the van due to a sudden camera angle change. So, the car rammed the rolling character which, you guessed it, killed him instantly in another modern movie cliche kill.
Score: Cops 1 - Aiman -4
So, GTA IV taught us a lot about being bad-asses. But it was tons of fun be it.
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