I just downloaded the original Pac man game onto my home PC.
It’s quite a fun game really, it succeeds in getting the heart pumping and the energies flowing even on those particularly boring Sunday afternoons. But there in lies the rub, I cannot play it to save my life. And I have just realized why. I’m too neat. I have to eat all the little green globules in one area before I even think of moving to the next, which makes me inevitably have a fatal encounter with Blinky, Pinky, Inky or Clyde, that much more often.
Which explains why I have passed the ‘qwerty’ level and just barely made it to the ‘happiness’ level (ironic isn’t it? That this is in a game and not in real life?)
The masters of Pac man play a messy game, random green globs left for no reason lying around at every level, blinking strawberries and twirling cherries – the ones that I foolishly go back for even though Clyde is at my tail.
I realize have a lot of these little stupid things that I just have to do. Another one is eating French fries. I just have to eat two or three at a time. This makes sharing a pack with me very awkward for the sharer. If I am eating a fried egg, I have to break open the yolk and smudge it around the whole egg so every part has the yellow. I feel the need to brush my teeth in front of a mirror. I have to squeal while I stretch in the morning; a stretch without a squeal is no stretch at all. I have to put my alarm for half an hour before I actually need to wake up – this is my snooze time. I have to fold my underwear, not necessarily my clothes. I won’t even begin to get into the quirks I have with my arch-rivals, the ant world.
I’m rambling again. There, that’s one more thing I do. Ramble on when no one really cares to know what I do with my underwear and my fried eggs, in all honesty. I think I should go and master the art of Pac man now. Or maybe I should just give up and shoot some men instead.
In a game, not in real life.
As much fun as the latter sounds right now.
The way my life is going, I think I'm still at the ‘qwerty’ level.
8 comments:
I like this post. It's interesting the manner in which you've stretched pacman to real life.
Good stuff.
Be happy with qwerty. What are the other options? asdfgh? zxcvbn (hint: look at your keyboard)? Point being that things will always seem cryptic - until you're IN them. That's when they clear out. So there's no point looking forward/behind/aside. Be content with what you have.
And I think I've done enough preaching for the day.
By the way, the time's all messed up. Please go to your posting options and make it +5.5 GMT. I wrote this at 2:39 a.m. for the record.
hey! dropping in after a loonnggg time. caught up on a few posts. nice to see you're posting sort of regularly. and yeah, the qwerty level kinda sucks
Hi. I found your site after a long time. I promise to be a regular visitor again. Not only out of loyalty to you, but because its always so fun to read. Si-mo-ne's diary :)
Also its just about a year since you first begun this. Happy bday...blog
what is the qwerty level?
Feeling nostalgic about the months wasted playing pac-man before exams...*sigh* Those were the days!
Don't we all have some embarassing quirk or the other? :-)
Egg... As always your compliments flatter :)
Ajeya... Thanks for stopping by...
Grin... It's all because of you and all, thanks for the birthday wishes
Questioner: if you don't know, you're not there yet!!!
Naut.. yes we do.
ur post sure did make me smile :-)
and yes, a strech with no squeal aint a strech, I second tat. :-)
cheers
me
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