I thought I should do a blog of some of the things I hate around this time of year. Year in and year out I've always been annoyed by most of these things ever since I was a child growing up.

1. Like some of you all may know, I live in the Caribbean and we have 2 seasons, a dry and wet. I really love the wet season because the heat does calm down a bit when it rains but it is often just too humid and it's sometimes just as bad as the hot climate.

2. With the increase in rain, there's an increase of creepy crawlies and they have a habit of invading my house. These include snakes, centipedes, millipedes, lizards and frogs...lots of frogs...multiple varieties. The most annoying frogs are the tree frogs which come through the windows and into the rooms. They are harmless, but extremely annoying.

3. With the increase in rain, I sometimes have to wash my car multiple times a week.

4. I hate day light savings time! Why? Because we don't use it here and most of our TV programs come from the US. Therefore all programs now start 1 hour later!

5. I hate overspending money for the holidays

6. I hate going shopping or even going out during this time. There's just too much traffic, places are overcrowded and finding a parking place is an utter nightmare.

7. The holidays always bring family and friends together, but sometimes it can get annoying when there are little untrained children running about the place making a mess that I would have to clean up later and I have little to no privacy. It's like "what does this button do?" or "why is that guy shooting the other guy"

8. For whatever reason throughout the years power has a habit of going regularly during this time.

9. All the 'birth of Christ' and Christian preaching really gets under my skin because I consider myself an atheist and I hate it when people try to shove their beliefs down your throat.

10. Delays in shipping. I do a lot of online ordering and most of the times, my stuff arrives in the country on time, but with the extra flow of packages this time of year it sometimes takes additional days to process and inspect them.

Wow! I actually got 10. I was aiming for 5 but whatever.

Well today I managed to cross the 90K gamerscore mark on Xbox Live. Keeping with the tradition

• 90K - NBA 2K10
• 80K - Comix Zone (XBLA)
• 70K - Madden NFL 10
• 60K - Monopoly
• 50K - X-Men Origins: Wolverine
• 40K - Sega Genesis Collection
• 30K - Dead Space
• 20K - Soul Calibur IV
• 10K - Elder Scrolls Oblivion

I broke into the 90K bracket thanks to NBA 2K10. Now the race is on to see if I can get to 100K before my 2 year anniversary of owning an Xbox 360 on the 17th December. It seems do-able but you never know...

Next, I started Borderlands, but for some reason I'm not feeling the game. After just completing an RPG, I thought I would have really been into that game, but I'm not. I need to wait until I'm in the mood for a FPS before I can fully embrace the game, probably after Modern Warfare 2 and Left 4 Dead 2. Right now I'm in the mood for 3rd-person or sport games. I guess I better fire up Madden 10 again and I recently got Fifa 10 so I should start playing that too.

I finished MagnaCarta 2 today and in good timing because Dragon Age: Origins is just over the horizon. Anyway, the game itself was short when compared to other RPGs. I spent slightly over 30 hours in the game and that includes ALL the sidequests and storyline. I spent maybe over a week playing it, unlike Last Remnant where I spent weeks, and put in way over 100 hours. My team was between lv 65 and 70 and I was surprised how easy the boss battles in the final dungeon were. I was kind of disappointed because once I mastered an ultimate move with each of my characters, they could tear apart any boss once I pull it off a few times. Also, not once did I have to grind for stats in the game...yeah.

Despite the short length (RPG wise) the game was pretty enjoyable once you get used to the combat system. It's kind of like a mixture of Final Fantasy XII and Phantasy Star Online. However it doesn't really get repetitive and it doesn't rely on button mashing too much. I highly recommend this game to RPG fans for the storyline. It was one of the best I've encountered in an RPG! It may have started kind of cliche (boy with amnesia, bad guy kills girl, boy wants revenge, boy decides to save world) but trust me, the way it shaped and unfolded was unlike any RPG storyline I encountered!

Now that that game is out of the way, I need to do some mopping up before I start Borderlands. First thing's first I need to complete Tornado Outbreak. I'll try to work on that game this week.

I also gave up on the 100% completion on Brutal Legend. I was missing a jump somewhere and I have no idea where it is (even though I was taking notes). After searching for quite some time, I just gave up...