Munira’s comment on my previous blog brought me back from the brink of flinging myself off the edge of hopeless despairing darkness into Sim Land where fuel is forever free. In fact, in Sim Land I don’t even have to fill any petrol in my new hot rod! Well folks, my Utopia is called the Sims 2 Double Deluxe game pack and I am having a ball playing God from my dream house where my slaves live and love freely in bisexual permissiveness. If you think I’ve gone bonkers, you are right because I am nuts about this amazingly real, best selling computer game in the world. I first started playing the earlier version of The Sims when my daughter bought the game in her early teens and since then we kept adding extension packs till we got stumped in our tracks with the need for a 3D card for Sims 2. Until now that is!!!
Hey, the way gamers mimic reality is so spooky that it gets me thinking this IS real life! As my Sims go through their life changes, if they don’t workout they will even get middle-age spread as they age. Shucks, I can’t even escape being Tembam in my unreal world? If in the real world you get warped women sending love letters to monster dungeon dad Josef Fritzl, the failed bid by Hillary Clinton to be the first woman President in the White House because of sex, and now fuel price increases that will snowball into increase of everything else down the line, I have no wish to live in Boleh Land! Who cares that fuel prices are increasing in all parts of the world because of a predicted short supply that we knew was coming but what the hell, let’s just go ahead and buy our hot rods anyway. I bought my really hot ride in Sim Land, after I cheated without fear of being caught and hoarded a bunch of simeloens (Sim currency) that is! I also leave all my electrical gadgets on round the clock without fear of environmental degradation and global warming. I also live in the lap of luxury and wine and dine like a queen. Hey, who wants to work hard for a measely salary just to live, man? Nothing is free in this world and not in Sim Land either! We have to buy food, pay bills and fork our the simeleons for all our luxuries like my snazzily-equipped Disneylandish gadget-filled abode and, of course, to pay the salaries for my maid, gardener, exterminator, and even the pizza delivery boy. The only thing free is petrol!!!
Considering there have been protests and even riots in India, UK, Brussels, Paris, Chile, Dublin, Indonesia and many other parts of the world as reported here, Malaysians will have to brace themselves as we will not be spared from further social unrest fueled by, what else, fuel!!. There already are minor skirmishes and according to highly popular alternative media sources there is a massive rally being planned soon. I have to hand it to our protestors these post-Mahathir times, they sure are getting a lot of practice at protest organizing without fear of being nabbed under the ISA. Maybe we can offer protest organizing services to other developing countries that need massive traffic jams, social turmoil and general chaos. Although I am not hopeful how this will make much difference to the fuel situation, I do hope the authorities will not take a high-handed approach in crowd control as the people are already facing economic hardships. Having just returned from a trip to Alor Star where I feasted on pacifying visions of placidly growing beautifully lush green rice fields as far as the eye could see, I said a prayer of thanksgiving to Allah that this blessed land, Malaysia, will pull through whatever crisis as long as we have food, water, blue skies and national unity.
As for those planned riots and demonstrations? Maybe they should all migrate to Sim Land where petrol is free!!! In the meantime, please watch this fantastic YouTube videoclip that explains the reason why the world is in such chaos and there is no peace in the land today – all because men have such poor Male Restroom Etiquette!!!
Oh no! You too??! I remember how addicted I got to the game when The Sims first broke into the scene. I forgot to eat, sleep and bath as my life was consumed and controlled by the Sims… yes, you read that right! You may think you are in control of your Sims, but the truth is, they control YOU! Lol! Just for fun, I used to kill my Sims off by getting them to electrocute themselves (if they lack the mechanical skills), burn themselves up (if they lack cooking skills) and drown them in the pool (chuck them into the swimming pool and then remove the pool ladders hahaha!). I love adding some drama into their lives, it’s really funny when they slap each other when they catch their significant other cheating on them. How true to life!
My sister has a copy of the Sims 2, and she’s been bugging me to play it. I try not to, knowing how addicted I can get to the game. Oh yes, true, petrol is free in Sim Land, but then again, they all carpool to work, yeah? Hehehehe. It’s so funny when your Sims gets ready too late for work, sometimes they need to run to catch their ride to work or they’ll miss it. One thing I envy in the Sim World is that how easy it is for your Sim to get a job – all they have to do is flip through the papers, select a job and there! All set!
I’m very much hooked to the Nancy Drew computer games. They’re really charming. Other than that, I indulge myself in a few shooting games. I used to play more games, but these days, don’t have the time nor the luxury to play them. My friend recently got me hooked to the Dine N’ Dash series (you run a restaurant and you have to serve your customers and keep them happy), and now they’ve come up with the latest Wedding Dash (you’re a wedding planner).
Sigh. Everyone is feeling the pinch from the recent fuel increase. My dad’s been super grumpy since the increase began. Who could blame him?
LOL, you have a warped mind that I like girl!! I tortured my earlier Sims too but then they were so dumb you just had to try every possible way to get them to save their non-existent souls!!!
Sims 2 is way better and just when I am getting the hang of it there are rumours that Sims 3 will be coming out in 2009 with better graphics and more stuff to “buy” in materialistic heaven where conspicuos consumption is the ultimate way of life!!!
So I far I haven’t tried any other game for the same reason, that I will get addicted. I am limiting my time on Sims 2 to avoid losing myself in it completely but for now my dreams are filled with Sims, kehkehkeh!!! Might organise a riot in peaceful Pleasantville even…….hhhhmmmmmm!!!
As for the pinch in fuel increase, it will become a punch as it snowballs. I hope we all make it through unscathed but I think the politicking will make it worse……sighhhh!!! See you in Sim Land!
hahaha..
kencing duduk la.. orang kafir je kencing berdiri.
kah,kah, kah….cabaran untuk sesiapa buat Sims versi Islamic pulak