High School Life Diary - Part 1/May 2012

Being a high school student is a big change for the course of my life. Of course, I'm still studying in the same school that I've been studying in since the first grade. I'm studying in one of the class where it mostly focuses on Science and Mathematics, with the other two being Arts and Maths classes and Art and Languages classes. I felt a little bit weird when I woke up on the first day of the school after a short period summer break and realizing that I'm now a 10th grade high school student. The first thing that I thought was "Oh God, I need to have more responsibilities on that thing and the other things too. What is happening? I don't understand". Well, that thought stayed with me for a total of twenty two seconds before I decided to take a shower and get ready for the school. 

There's also a lot of adjustments that I'm going through and it's pretty tough, if you ask me. Everything's changed. The way I study, the way I interact with my friends or even the way I feel about being in a classroom with my friends. My old friends, to be precised. Sometimes, I feel quite isolated. Not because they isolate me, I isolate myself - fearing that if I do something wrong, how are they going to feel or see me. Are they going to see me as their friend? Or will they reject me and let me dry out with the feeling of alienation? There's so many unanswered questions that need to be answered. Some may say that because I'm a teenager, so, I'm easily confused by the circumstances that occur everyday around me. I do agree with the fact that I'm a teenager and sometimes I'm confused by the things that happen and affect me, both in direct and indirect ways. 

After all these ramblings about my high school life, I still need to change and to be changed. Not to only be smarter and gaining more understanding in my life. But also to be able to transform into something else. I think that it does take time to be able to transform into something even greater or maybe even something that I might not be able to understand clearly. 

But I do think that I still have long roads to go. Long, hard and painful roads. But I'm willing to take the journey on them. No matter how they scare me or hurt me, I'll try to get up and continue my journey. 

Once Upon a Time in Raccoon City

Well, it's been a long long time since I was on this site. I do admit that I had a lot of homework, school projects and examinations that made my head spin around for awhile. Even so, I'm still alive and doing well!

Back in the late January or early February, I was surfing the internet as usual - blogging and reblogging on Tumblr, had a few chats on Facebook, watching  a whole lot of videos on YouTube (which most of them concerning video games and their soundtracks) and wrote some Transformers fan fiction. Then, I noticed that there was an official release of the first reveal trailer for Resident Evil 6. I've got to say, it looked pretty epic with all the action sequences and handheld-film esque scenes. But the best thing was that Chris and Leon is in the same game (my inner Resident Evil fan boy was crying the tears of joy) and new creatures as well.

But who could have known that there was also a trailer for "Resident Evil: Retribution" too. The trailer made me thought that there was some kind of Sony commercials before the actual trailer for a moment - but not until it switched from just a commercial showing various people from many countries saying "My name is (their names) and this is my world" to an apocalyptic Washington, D.C. landscape where the trailer zoomed in and slapped me in the face with Alice saying "My name is Alice and this is my world".

As usual, the trailer showed its fast-editing styles, slow-motion scenes while showing some characters, zombies, creatures and Rain OCampo? I was like "Did she die in the first film already? How the heck is she still alive? Oh wait, maybe she's a clone like Alice". So far, I think I may look forward to this fifth installment of the much-loved and much-hated film series.

Personally, I think both the games and the films have gone from being in a survival horror genre to a full-blown science fiction/action genre and I have nothing against them.

But I always feel like there's something missing. Maybe it's the horror element or the feeling that you're vulnerable to the enemies (both in the games and films). I miss the very moment where Leon met Claire in the second game and trying to survive hordes of the undead and mutated creatures and trying to get out of Raccoon City, alive or when Jill wandered throughout the mansion in the first game (not to mention that the first game was super-creepy, especially with the earphones on).

Someday, I hope the developers might switch back the game to its survival horror roots from the earlier releases (which may not happen). I just hope they would, nothing more than that.

That's it for today, I think so. I'll leave you guys with the trailers of Resident Evil 6 and Resident Evil: Retribution, just in case some of you haven't seen them yet.

Ta-ta for now,
Crescent Voulantier