November 17, 2005

When a Character Dies

Filed under: I Said, He Said

John and I, on the phone yesterday…

She: Hon, what do you do if a character in The Sims dies? I mean I didn’t save the game so can I stop her from dying?
John: It depends hon.
She: The problem is in my last saved game she was already sick. Is there some way to prevent her from dying again?
John:Ummm, I don’t think so hon. In The Sims, once your character dies, she dies that’s it.
She: *Sighs. Coz she got sick after she swam in the pool. I’ve been trying to get her to rest and I thought she was going to be fine but she wasn’t. I put in a medicine cabinet in the bathroom hoping that there was actually medicine in it, but there’s nothing. And you can’t really call the hospital right?
John: No honey, you can’t.
She: She was so sick. She wasn’t getting better. She went to pee in the bathroom and she coughed really hard and collapsed.
John: Really hon? What was her name?
She: Sheila
John: *chuckles You named her after you?
She: Yeah. *sniff And then John came in the bathroom to pee coz his bladder bar was all red and…
John: Wait a minute..did you say John?
She: Yeah I named the guy John.
John: OK….who else do we live with?
She: Mary…she’s the maid. She paints too… Anyway, John found her in the bathroom. I thought he was going to pick her up but she disappeared and there was in an urn instead. Why the hell do they turn up already cremated?! So instead of peeing, he mourned. It was sad. *sniff sniff She was already a Resident. She wanted to be a great doctor. But that won’t happen now, coz she’s dead! Oh, I should never have installed that pool! I feel so bad…You can hook up with Mary now, coz Sheila’s dead!
John: Hahaha! Oh honey you’re so cute!
She: Why are you laughing?! She died!
John: I know but…* chuckles
She: So is there anything you can do?
John: I’ll try honey…
She: Ok. But if she really dies, I’m not playing The Sims anymore. I’m too traumatized.
John: Hehehe Ok ga.

November 14, 2005

Crocodile Watches

Filed under: I Said, He Said

John and I were looking at watches in the mall a few days ago. The choices were mostly expensive brands which we’d pay an arm and a leg for. While I was pondering on the recent economic crisis which would prevent 95% of Negros population from buying said terribly expensive timepieces, The Love Of My Life turned to me and said, “That’s what the symbol of Philippine government should be!” He was pointing at the Lacoste symbol. I cracked up from that!

crocodile

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