I though I'd just throw a brief summary of my summer holidays here... Well, almost 3 months of free time ,this year they were different than usual, mostly because of my more philosophic approach to life and general boredom with things.
I realised that video games in most cases just stopped to make any sense for me. I played many games when I was younger and now everything just feels the same bring - because there are no innovations. I completed Final Fantasy 4 on DS, Crisis Core on PSP and Assassin's Creed on PC. I think that this was the optimal amount Right now the only game I am interested in is Fallout 3, I've waited so long for it. After Fallout 3 I guess a lot of time will have to pass until anything worth of my attention will emerge.

Here is a brief record of my mood after I got through FF4 that I've wrought like month ago.


I completed the remake of Final Fantasy 4 on my DS... so epic and moving story. It had also a quite didactic plot, emphasising conversion, heroism, sacrifice and other spiritual and moral good.
I was very much charmed by the english translation - very elaborate, almost poetic phrases and vocabulary. Some of the sentences I got even memorized. In comparison, the dialogues in the old version now seem to look so plain and without loftiness.

The only troublesome thing was the game difficulty. If it weren't for the cheats, it'd ruined my sanity trying to break through it ( the game is very challenging even for the person like me , who completed almost all Final Fantasy games , plus very frequent random encounters makes you waste an immense amount of time doing meaningless fights - so I don't care if you call me cheater).

Here's a nice video disclosing a bit of this game: [link]


Apart from teh vidia, I found time to finally read Neon Genesis Evangelion, those 11 tomes that I saved to read all at once (like, one per day). It was great to me, really... maybe because of its apocalyptic character or all these psychological aspects that I find so true and interesting or simpy because it's a story about everyone that carries a didactic message.

I also bought Wacom Intuos3 A5 to rise my digital skills to a higher level. Though , after the purchase I really feel poor hah.

As of the more social aspect, I've been to 2 conventions and got to know some new people, who introduced some freshness into my life. I also went do Wroclaw, Krakow and POznan to take on entrance exams for universisties and got to stay at some friend's homes.
In september I've been mostly with friends and family at the countryside, riding bike and going for long forest walks with teh dog. I really like those thigs.