Chelsea 2 - 1 Arsenal

BWHAAHAHAHAHA.

WAHAHAHAHA.

AHAHAHAHA.

Sure sure, there's this, supposedly "curse" thingy, which the winners of the community shield will not win the league.

But hey, if Man U can do it, so can Chelsea.

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I was at X-square (Near PS) on Sunday once again. It was rather early, and there isn't quite a lot of people around. However, what surprised were the number of girls having a stab at the Xbox. Many were there to simply follow their boyfriends, but there were quite a few who came in pairs to play the Xbox.

Surprised?

Nah. Just last year, I would have said that Gamer Girls are "rare breed", but now, I changed my stand.

The main reason is that more and more games are taking a "less violent" approach. For example, there are plenty of racing games on the Xbox, which everyone can play. Sure, girls can play Halo 2 pretty much beter then I do, but the few which I saw were mostly playing driving games, such as NFS:U 2 and Burnout (IIRC). The guys were just burning to Winning Eleven 8 and Fifa Street and the like.

A difference? Not much, but it does show that girls don't really like to play sporting games, as such games continue to be targetted at the guys. Who can blame the game designers? Few women I know can sit on the sofa and watch the full 90 minutes of football. Heck, those Tiger Beer commericals says it all. LoL

However, does that mean that girls are not sporty?

Nah. They just don't enjoy watching 22 men kicking a white thing called a ball around. It's just like how we guys (most of us, of course), don't appriciate the beauty of shopping for cosmestics.

The difference between genders...Just a simply X and Y chromosome, but the mentality is sometimes so great. Even in the arcades, it's there. I have yet to see a girl play Ghost Squad or Time Crisis 3 (Properly, and not dying on the first stage), but there are those who plays Maximum Tune 2 and, Beatmania.

Interesting, yeah? Perhaps games, especially driving ones and those which involve music, should include more...girl appeal next time? Quite a few has it (That drum game...), but many more lack it. If, the game designers, are able to tap into te girl industry, it might do just as well as selling cosmestics.
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Friendster, what the heck is it now?

Previously, it's a tool for people to link up together, using the idea that the world is small, so that people can meet new friends.

Or, something of that sort.

Seriously, other then finding the addresses of people who could be your primary school friends online, Friendster, sad to say, isn't doing much now.

I mean, just look at the state it is at today. People are begging others to accept their invite, and begging even some more to write testimonials for them. Just look at the testimonials of some of those accounts, other then something silly and absolutely rubbish and horrible ASCII art, few has over 10 decent tesitmonals.

The friend-friend link thing is also somewhat used as a bragging too for quite a few people. For some reason, by comparing the number of "accepted friends" you have on your account, you can tell who's cooler and such. Never mind that probably half are rubbish, and imginary "friends", but more of a social circle. Groups like "Coke", "Nike", and so on. Sure, you got a bunch of friends who like to drink coke, but, do you even care about the people inside the "group"?

Doubt that.

Heck, people actually randomly accept people who request to be their friends. There are those who have no idea who are requesting to be their friends, but just accept anyway. Never mind that the service asks you to "Add him/her only if you know him/her". Also, there are those who have multiple accounts just because they maxed out the number of friends allowed (500, IIRC) in the list, and wears them like badges of honour. On top of that, people upload pictures of themselves, usually revealing quite a bit of skin. As a guy, I definately don't mind, but it does show how "useful" friendster is.

With friendster, you can also declare your hate towards someone. Just create either joke accounts (Edward Chew has one), or a "Hate account" (Anti-insert-name-here). Edit a few photos using Microsoft paint (gasp), and you are good to go.

So, once again, a rather useless service on the net, abused by those who have no idea how to use it. Heck, I never did see a purpose in Friendster in the first place.

I probably never will now, with all that crap going on. Heck, I forgot when was the last time I logged into my account (Yes, I do have an account. Surprised? I was the one surprised by those who found me, especially when I used my main e-mail, which is not widely known.)