Perspective: Being a Teenager

Perspective

Being a teenager when I was little meant to me I'd be skinny, smart, popular, and go to a lot of school activities. I'll be honest with you, I viewed my future differently than I do now. It's quiet funny to go down memory lane and rethink these strange thoughts.

Perspective #1- Age 7

When I was 7 I thought being a teenager was like staying out late, going to parties, living life easy, no hardwork. I thought being a teenager was like getting to kick back, relax and do whatever I wanted. I thought if I wanted to be popular I'd have to be skinny and smart for people to like me.  I honestly wanted to be accepted. I know now its a very different reality.

Perspective #2- Age 11

My perception of teenagers had changed a lot. I wanted to have the kind of teenage lives that I read about in books. Like I wanted the opposite of what I wanted when I was younger. I wanted to not be part of the crowd. I has it set in my mind that I would find the group of life-long friends I had wanted ( which i did) and oppose those who were the "popular people". Everyone has those people at their school that aren't nice and accepting, the people who don't just fit the mold for what you have to be, they are the mold for that. I had been reading way to many teenage romance novels.

Now 

I think I was pretty stupid as a kid. Pre-judging what I thought I was going to be. I've learned that I don't wanna be popular. I'm very different than them. I thought I wanted to have a marvelous social life, but to be honest sometimes I'd rather be on the internet in my room, lights off, radio on than spending time outside with nature. Actually right now I hate nature. And bright light. If I wanted bright light I'd turn up my screen brightness. I do have an awesome group of friends and we have countless adventures. Oh, and drama, I thought I'd steer clear of that. How stupid I was. Being a teen is hard but it teaches us who our true friends are and that we should stand out not fit in.

Sherlock

Sherlock

So I've just started this new series called tv series Sherlock, based off of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's book series. Its the modern adventures of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson as they go around London solving murder mysteries. Sherlock and Watson are a brilliant team.

Character Profile

Sherlock Holmes 

Sherlock Holmes, played by Benedict Cumberbatch, is the London's finest consulting detective. He's a complete psychopath in the public's eye but is very important to the police. Sherlock has a mysterious gift to notice the little everyday things that common eye passes over. For example, we see graffiti, Sherlock sees a Chinese number that is related to black markets and murders. Another interesting quality of Sherlock is his uncanny ability to talk at one-hundred m.p.h. without losing his train of thought.

John Watson

John Watson, played by Martin Freeman, is a doctor who moved in with the great Sherlock Holmes to be his crime solving partner. John puts up with Sherlock's attitude and ramblings. John's blog starts to make a name for Sherlock. In fact, that is where most of their clients come from. Sherlock isn't exactly fond of all the publicity but John keeps up with the his blog, posting all the cracked cases on the blog. 

HPFF- Intro

Harry
Potter
Fan
Fiction

This is a spin off of the Harry Potter series. Its set in the seventh year. Its basically a story about what would've happened of Harry, Ron, and Hermione stayed in Hogwarts that year and if the Second War didn't happened. Voldemort has disappeared.

(I haven't figured out exactly what the title of this will turn out to be)

The last sunset of the summer has set, Hermione Granger sat atop her luggage chest.She sat contemplating over how she's going miss the summer. The staying up late studying, working on three extra credit papers, playing with Crookshanks the cat, she'd miss it all. But most, she'd miss the house and her parents and the easy muggle life. All that will be put on hold while she would spend time at her favorite place in the world, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

How she loved Hogwarts. Hermione never thought she would make any friends, being a muggle-born and all. But that all changed the day she met her two best friends, Harry Potter and Ron Weasley. Together, they'd made the best memories at Hogwarts. She didn't want that to end.

"No! I don't want to have to leave them and then leave Hogwarts!" She said a loud as a tear slid down her pale cheek. "I'll be nothing. I'll be nothing. I'll know nobody in the real world."

Just moments later Hedwig, Harry's owl flew in through the window with a letter for her.

Hermione,

As you know I'm staying with him until the summer break ends. I wish you lived closer to him. Anyways we got invited to Dean's End of Summer Party tonight in three hours. I hope you have all your belongings packed so you can come. If you can, send Hedwig back with a letter and we'll pick you up in Mr.Weasleys's new flying car at half past six. Also, if you could give Hedwig a snack I'd greatly appreciate it.

                                                               Harry and Ron

Hermione sat the letter down and thought out loud, "Should I go? I still have to study.Well skipping one study won't hurt."  She sat down at her desk and started to write Harry back as Hedwig impatiently peaked her as if to say, "Hurry up!"

Hedwig took the letter and perched herself on the window sill as Hermione stroked her and said, "You're so beautiful Hedwig. Now go give that to Harry."

Hermoine rushed over to two big, heavy white doors and pulled them open. Inside there were clothes, coats, jumpers, shoes, skirts, and many other items. "Now, what should I wear?" She said with a grin as she started to go down the sides of her  closet.

The New Doctor

Doctor Who

For those of you who don't know what Doctor Who is its basically about a time-travelling madman with a box that flys through time and space to save worlds and other alien races.

The New Doctor

BBC has just released the name of the actor that will be taking Matt Smith's place on Doctor Who. They just released the name about twenty minutes ago in the live studio audience premier. Being a loyal Whovian, I've been waiting for awhile for the announcement of the new doctor for awhile and the arrival of the new season, even though I'm two seasons behind. But I've been counting down the days till the new season also. Only 112 more days!

Peter Capaldi 

Peter Capaldi has been announced as the 12th Doctor. From stalking his Wikipedia, he looks like he will be a great Doctor. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland on April 14, 1958. So the actor is 55 so I wonder if the 12th Doctor is going to appear younger or older than Matt Smith. He'll look great for being over 1000 years old no matter what he looks like.

Attention

I am no longer running this blog alone. My other admin is ShadowWolf. He will mainly be in charge of editing the posts and the settings such as the layout. Hopefully he'll also be posting every now and then. He's such an amazing admin, I couldn't as for a better co-admin.

Minecraft Explained Part 2

Minecraft Dictionary and References

It occurred to me a little later after I published Minecraft Explained Part 1 (Link)  yesterday that after I gave some information about Minecraft that some readers might not know what some of the things I mentioned were. So I've dedicated part two to being sort of a Minecraft Dictionary and Reference post.

Biomes

The main biomes of Minecraft are:

•  Forest
•  Tundra
•  Desert
•  Plains
•  Swampland
•  Jungle
•  Ice plain
•  Taiga
•  Extreme hills
•  Ocean
•  Mushroom Island

There's also two additional biomes, but its not possible to spawn in them but they're called the Nether, which is basically Minecraft Hell, and The End, another dimension.

Mobs

Mobs creatures of the game, they come in seven different types, but the most dangerous types are Neutral, Hostile, and Bosses. But not all Mobs are found, it depends which version you play.

Neutral Mobs- creatures that won't hurt you unless you hurt it first

• Wolf
• Zombie Pigman

Hostile Mobs- Mobs that will attack you.

• Blaze
• Cave Spider
• Creeper
• Enderman
• Ghast
• Magma Cube
• Silverfish
• Skeleton
• Slime
• Spider
• Spider Jockey
• Witch
• Wither Skeleton
• Zombie 
• Zombie Villager

Boss Mobs- The hardest Mobs to beat and drop items that cannot be found anywhere else.

• Ender Dragon
• Wither
  
  
  

Minecraft Explained Part 1

Minecraft 

The virtual world of Minecraft is by far one of my favorite games for PC and Xbox 360. I've had the game for a little more than a year and a half, it's been a very fun and interesting experience.  This fun and challenging game has two game modes, Creative and Survival. Players are challenged to construct a house and other basic tools to beat the game.

Gameplay

Survival Mode

The story starts out with Steve (the player) spawning in a one of many biomes of the virtual world.Steve spawns with absolutely nothing. to craft items he must cut down trees to get wood. Once he has wood he can create different types of tools to mine and weapons to fight off Mobs. After Steve has his tools he mines downwards to find diamonds to make a diamond pickaxe. Once the diamond pickaxe is crafted, Steve mines Obsidian to make a portal to the Nether, Minecraft Hell. The Nether contains another portal which you must place special items called an Ender Pearl. Once this portal is created, Steve is transferred to The End, another dimension. In this dimension, you battle a boss to get special item not found anywhere else in the game. After that Steve wins the game an you can continue to mine, build houses and fight mobs.

Mobs can be turned off or on depending on the difficulty.

Creative Mode

Creative Mode is the game mode where you have an infinite amount of every block in your inventory and you create any architectural structure you can imagine. There can still be Mobs. There are infinite possibilities.
Check out more cool creations here.

PC vs Xbox 360

Minecraft for Xbox 360 is the version I'm best at. This version of the game seems easier to play to me because I play it more often than PC.  Even though the controls might be easier, they might become more complicated as the new updates come out. Xbox 360 Minecraft is far behind the PC version because it was created first and released to the public in May of 2009 while the Xbox 360 version was released in May of 2012.