01/16 Ukraine: Week Four

Aaand it's week four. Its the part of the story when the protagonist looks back at the past three weeks and wonders why the time flies by as quickly as it does, and why we only have to be here and now in the present, and not live in multiple times all at once. Its the part where our hero is starting to think of the times past, and thinks of how much he is going to miss the place, but as he looks up, he find himself there, and as he smiles to himself, he gets up, and lives out his life to the max, because the last few days are as the last few grains of sand dropping down in the four week hourglass.

Why do new born animals seem cute to us? Is it a mechanism of evolution, that protects the young from imminent death? Who knows...

Yes! I am finally at the end of the game! I finally get to hear the answers to these tens of questions this confusing story put in front of me and see what Shiki looks like!!! Or... Not? I have to play the game again to get some more answers? Well theeeeennnn....

Overall though, another fantastic game! A fresh fighting system, an awesome art style, including the music, pretty well developed characters, and  after all, even Chrono Trigger has a New Game+ feature, where you play once more with a bit of extra content. And even though I didn't expect the story to be any clearer (I mean, how would it make sense, if Tetsuya Nomura had something to do with it?), there are still SO many questions... Who is the Cafe owner, if the whole game is just a game (gameception! 3 levels, yo!), Shiki's looks, the greater hierarchy of everything happening in that world, and many more! This game deserves a sequel to explain it all. It can definitely do it! But I really do hope it doesn't go down the same road Kingdom Hearts went down.

OMGWTFFFFFUUUUU*BOOOOM* Electricity is out! HOW DO I WATCH MY TV AND CHARGE MY ELECTRONICS NOW??? HOW WILL I GET MY REAPER REPORTS AND DEFEND PEOPLE IN COURT NOW??? HOOOOOWWWW WILL I WRITE MY BLAAAAAAAGGG AND TAAAAKE PIIICTUREEEESS RAAAAWRRRJTODJSKWFKMELDN

Well, there might not be electricity, but no matter! I got greater deeds to attend!  Like, I don't know...

ACQUIRE HOLY WATER! VAMPIRES, HERE I COME!

There is a special church holiday here where the tradition calls to go and get sprayed with, and get some holy water! During the winter! CAN'T WAIT TO GET WET!

And after taking all the needed supplies, and a head full of prayer, some priests and a while bunch of people go down to the river!

A tank I took a picture of on my way theeeree

And this is the way down to da rivahh!

And yet another memorial on our way! (The back view)

Aaand us right pass the memorial, and down some steps. Lets turn around!

Whoosh! The memorial from the front! Buuuut what does the ceremony look like and what's the point? Well, the general idea is to do the holy water ceremony on the entire river!!! What must their power level be to accomplish such a thing! Uuunimaginable. But, the way the do it?

Iiionoo. There were so many people, I couldn't see a thing.

So I just looked around at the riiiivah

All the peeeeople walking arooound, aaand of course...

OFMG WTFFF ARE YOU FFFFF DOING??? FFFFF!!! (note to the reader, the water is around 3 degrees Celsius) I totally forgot per tradition, it's totally normal to go swimming in this, now holy, water! So, people quickly turned this event into a beach party of sorts!

And they are all like "MEH, IS WARM! LALALA!" Haaaa fun times.

What's this peculiar, antique device?

Woah! You can see ma mom! She is all young, man!

There is only an instant between the past and the future, and that instant is what we call life.

Omfg. My last day as a teenager. Can't quite decide if it's a good or a bad thing, but what can one do, anyway? Its fate to only live in the present, and no matter what, that will never change. In a blink of an eye we will grow old, and disappear. But hey, I still have quite a way to go, so who cares if I already feel like I'm turning 40 and not 20. But still, the last day. Haha I speak of it as the end of the world, while it's nothing more than a man made date on a man made scale of dates, and in the universe, that means absolutely nothing!

Aaand snoooo again!

Wheeee

And my snowy yard!

What's this? My family and peoples are getting together for my birthday!

Dos mesas!

A World War II bottle opener! Still functioning perfectly.

A crazy huge antique radio, at my friend's house!

I get out of my house, full of delicious food, and my friends are already cooking up the next meal!

And my evil twin brother Fajar is obviously there too!

And OMG! WEEK OLD PIGGIES =3

"Yeee I'm all cool with pig babies and stuff, yo. Word."

Photonomb, COMPLETUUU! EXP, GET!

chiiilling

aaand CLUB TIME!!!

Haha just got there and already picking up girls! (AMUSING FACT: terribly non-sober pic is terribly non-sober)

As I was walking home at 7:00am, the snow was beautiful...