Monday, May 13, 2013

Day Uno

Today marks the beginning of a new phase of life for me. It was the first day of my internship. I put on my black pants, my shirt, my shiny shoes and I combed my hair differently. Leaving the house, I was profoundly aware of how professional I looked. Strangely enough, I didn't feel a shred of fear or hesitation. I felt confident in myself and in my abilities; self-assured, unafraid. All this while, I've been honing myself, educating myself, and now, the real world awaits.

The first day already had a bunch of work waiting for me to get to. I dived in with enthusiasm, and honestly speaking, I can't wait for more things to come. It's plenty exciting. I also like the fact that I can put undivided attention into something during those precious hours of work, and I hope that it will help me reprioritize the rest of my life too. When you have too much time on your hands, you don't maximize it, and it slips through your fingers like liquid gold. Now, I only have a sliver of that, and I'm going to treasure it fully.

Work has been quite interesting. I'm in a local advertising agency. It's small, but it's cozy. I'm the only intern there for now, but I heard that they might be getting one more soon. I hope they get a pretty girl. In the future, I really do want to get into this line of work, and there's nothing quite like an internship to get yourself acquainted with the ins and outs of the industry. I'll do a post about the industry soon, but not now, not yet.

Being at work for most of the day, I'll definitely have less time to blog. I'll still blog everyday; it's just that the content will probably be a lot shorter. Nevertheless, do keep coming back, because I will be here at the same time, and you can listen to me talk about something, even for a little while.

Tomorrow awaits. I"m going for a run and then tomorrow morning, if I wake up early enough, I'll go to the gym. I'm retaining the things which I think are important, like regular exercise, reading and writing, and I'm making do without the more frivolous stuff. I'm saying goodbye to watching repeats of Happy Endings, Community or Parks and Rec at night. I'm probably giving up following The Voice as well; as much as I love it, it simply eats away my time like nothing else on earth.

One thing that I did was delete this game called Tower of Savior from my phone. I get really addicted to things. Like, really really. Anyway, this game is like Candy Crush combined with Pokemon. If you read my last post, you'll know that I love Pokemon, and if you check my activities on Facebook, you'll know that I have a secret passion for Candy Crush. When I found out that there was a game which melded both, I was flabbergasted. I gave it a try, and surely enough, I fell for it like a desperate fool (which I totally am).

I spent every waking hour on the game. On the bus, I'd be playing it instead of reading. I'll go to sleep with my phone beside my head, having run out of "stamina" in the game. When I wake up, I'd spent an extra hour rolling around in my bed, playing the damn game. And it was something that could very much become worse. So yeah, it had to go. If you have more self-control than me, then I fully recommend you playing it. It's quite fun.

Here, have some obligatory screenshot of the game which will illustrate what I'm taking about way better than I can with mere words.

The Title Screen. The art is quite cool.
This is the World Screen. You go to the different lands to clear stages.
You get to build your own team, with your own monsters! Like Pokemon, the monsters can be caught, level up and evolve.
This is the 'fight' screen. Matching three elements in a row will cause the monsters of that element to attack. Fire beats water, water beats plant, plant beats water. Light and dark are mutually exclusive and the hearts replenishes your life.
Unlike Candy Crush or Bejewelled, you can move the block anywhere within an allocated time.This allows for really long combos which gives bonus damage.

Okay, that'll be it for me. I got carried away talking about Tower of Savior. To think that I was speaking so passionately about my internship only a few paragraphs back hahahahaa. At least now, I know for sure that it's out of my system. See you tomorrow!



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