Well it would be an injustice not to write about this game. I really thought social networking sites were very hyped and highly misused and still think sometimes its a waste of time. But this recent application really made me feel good in limits about this newest facebook craze: farmville.
The young generation taking so keen an interest in farming is a wonderful thing to see. Yes, the lingo is definitely surprising when someone says over the phone, "Give me 10 minutes, I need to cut the strawberries and harvest a new crop before I come." Lol...
This is a perfect use of gaming I mean as far as I can see. Its a constructive game as compared to those violent games. Still by far Mario and NFS are the best :) Before this people would get all info from books, but since new generation is techie, Farmville provides really good source for information. Not only does it give a better understanding of farming related things, its really good in the sense that it develops a sense of planning,responsibility and having fun at the same time progressing through it. Also at no cost of harming anyone or losing anything. Yes, people do go overboard with it once a while by buying each others farms and playing it on a full screen projectors etc ;) It also provides information on energy conservation. Its a complete ecosystem in itself. Quite an impressive game and kudos to the person who changed the shape of gaming on FB.
It's like using "Alice" to learn a programming language.
I would be interested in other such games. Recently I made friends with some new grads at UAB, who stumbled across a fish tank when they went to get some furniture from a family in UAB who was moving out. They have been since a semester now setting up the fish tank, buying fishes online, breeding them, and selling the new ones or exchanging with someone elses fishes. They even exchange snail for moss and food for fish and fish frys (young ones of fish) for some aquarium plants :) It works like barter system :) The most interesting I thought was the way we could buy fishes online and they actually are sent by post. It was scary, even I waited liked 3 days eagerly wanting to see how they arrive. But it was all quite well shipped. It has been an interesting semester of knowing how fish keeping works. Its not as simple as it looks and fishes are not quite boring either :P..We actually did track the variations of behaviour, color, response to light, dark etc. You just can't get enough of it.
I wish for such friends of mine, they would have an application too. Maybe I should ask my friends to actually suggest that app on facebook or make one..wats say Gau-Jui?
It would be wonderful to get a feel of such things before you go into it since it might get overwhelming. So good job with the apps!
Thursday, September 3, 2009
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Adios, Ciao, good bye :)
Yet another time in month of August to say goodbye to a friend. This has been an year of changes, with 3 of my roomies leaving BHM in August this year. I don't think we (me and Richa) have any more roomies left in BHM at all. It was quite a week with Meens Ritu and Goldi all leaving around the same time, all talking about how much they would miss BHM and remembering the old student days 4 years back over some evenings of tea was nostalgic. We made quite a sweet family with everyone having their own distinctive traits but similar interests and varied passions.
Girl friends are forever is really a fact. I think women are the most passionate of beings in this world. I cannot imagine a world without them. Darn! so boring it did be not to know the difference between peach and pink, not the know what sparkle meant ;), not to know what louis vuitton meant over sonama, not to know why it is so important to call each of your friends every weekend, not to know how it is to share each others stuff and dreams and support with kind words and take their side even if they might be wrong sometimes, not to know what it is to find a GF with a same shoe size (I and richa do have that same :D), not to know how it feels to get to one size smaller than you already are :), not to know why writing emails are so important than just mere dialogue, not to know why getting the best deal over books/food/dresses and sharing the sale info is important, not to know why it is fun to make silly mistakes purposelly, not to know to diet to get to eat that one piece of chocolate cake craved for, not to know what it is to be bad drivers :D, not to know how it is to laugh and cry at the same time and still be the strength, not to know why it is important to have a Daisy than a daffodil, why paper cutting is so much fun, why taking photos in a studio is important, why scrapbooking to preserve memories is important, why spilling milk over the burner forgetting it while talking and listening to it fall and sharing a laugh always feels the same way...Lol... The list is endless. I think this is becoming just too much and I should stop, before I start to spill out the actual crazy fun incidences .....:P
The sanity, strength and determination is fathomless.
For all my girlfriends for the heart of gold and strenght of a woman ;)
Its been a rocking stay! and since Ritu and Meenakshi stay nearby to each other and Richa and Me are still in BHM we have made plans to meet up each year and for Goldi we will have to plan out sometrip to the west coat :)
Till then follow the blog! Lots to share, rock on! and add to it.
Girl friends are forever is really a fact. I think women are the most passionate of beings in this world. I cannot imagine a world without them. Darn! so boring it did be not to know the difference between peach and pink, not the know what sparkle meant ;), not to know what louis vuitton meant over sonama, not to know why it is so important to call each of your friends every weekend, not to know how it is to share each others stuff and dreams and support with kind words and take their side even if they might be wrong sometimes, not to know what it is to find a GF with a same shoe size (I and richa do have that same :D), not to know how it feels to get to one size smaller than you already are :), not to know why writing emails are so important than just mere dialogue, not to know why getting the best deal over books/food/dresses and sharing the sale info is important, not to know why it is fun to make silly mistakes purposelly, not to know to diet to get to eat that one piece of chocolate cake craved for, not to know what it is to be bad drivers :D, not to know how it is to laugh and cry at the same time and still be the strength, not to know why it is important to have a Daisy than a daffodil, why paper cutting is so much fun, why taking photos in a studio is important, why scrapbooking to preserve memories is important, why spilling milk over the burner forgetting it while talking and listening to it fall and sharing a laugh always feels the same way...Lol... The list is endless. I think this is becoming just too much and I should stop, before I start to spill out the actual crazy fun incidences .....:P
The sanity, strength and determination is fathomless.
For all my girlfriends for the heart of gold and strenght of a woman ;)
Its been a rocking stay! and since Ritu and Meenakshi stay nearby to each other and Richa and Me are still in BHM we have made plans to meet up each year and for Goldi we will have to plan out sometrip to the west coat :)
Till then follow the blog! Lots to share, rock on! and add to it.
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