At the end of June we heard a tragic and shocking news about the death of the "King of Pop" Michael Jackson at the age of 50. I personally was a big fan, I grew up listening to his music and if I'm not mistaking, I remember that Michael Jackson was the first foreign artist I listened to. I said foreign because I'm Arabic.
I think the world did lose one of the biggest icons in music history, thanks to him music evolved to a new level in a way or another. In memory of him I'd love to share this picture of him, from =Cataclysm-X in the deviantArt community.

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My monthly blog card.

iWatch:

DVDs:

- Gran Torino
Score: 9

Cinema:

- UP
Score: 8.5
- Terminator Salvation
Score: 7
- The Taking of Pelham 123
Score: 7.5
- The Proposal
Score: 8

TV:

- Madagascar 2
Score: 6.5
- Rob B Hood
Score: 6.5

Anime:
Baccano (Still Watching)

AND THE AWARDS GO TO

Gran Torino

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TV Movie of the month

Rob B Hood

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Cinema Movie of the month

UP

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Honorable Mention

The Proposal

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iPlay:

Trophies:
Here is my PS3 trophy card and the biggest collection of trophies in a single month.

Total of 76 NEW trophies:
- 27 of them from Little Big Planet
- 49 of them from Rock Band 2, just one trophy away from Platinum

UPGRADED to level 6

Played:

- Zen Pinball (PSN, 1 hour).
- Little BIG Planet (PS3, 14.5 hours)
- Rock Band 2 (PS3, 63 hours)

Finished:

- Rock Band 2 (PS3)
My Score: 9

AND THE AWARDs GO TO

Rock Band 2

Paintball Gun: from Little BIG Planet

Sackboy: from Little BIG Planet

Terminator

Platinum Artist (Gold Trophy)
Finished the Endless Setlist 2 in World Tour on Expert: This trophy does not just test your skills but your endurance as well to survive a 7 hours playtime through all the game's songs in one go

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iBuy:

Acquisitions:

- Final Fantasy VII (PSN download, 10$ dollars is like getting it for free).
- DiRT (PS3, secondhand, great price).
- BioShock (PS3, secondhand, great price).
- Rock Band 2 (with the set) (PS3, new, a bit expensive but worth the price)

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iRead:

It is been a while since the last time I wrote this section

- Angels and Demons
My Score: 4.5/5

I enjoyed reading it a lot which is my second time by the way. I was curious to read it again after watching the movie and that is why I read for the second time. I have to agree like many others that there are many missing and changed scenes from the movie and reading the story is surely a better experience than watching the movie.

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iListen:

I reviewed 3 albums this month

-Spice of Life - Vince Madison (Score: A)
-Baccano! Original Soundtrack - Spiral Melodies (Score: B)
-Gun's & Roses by Paradise Lunch (Score: A-)
"not the well known rock band Gun's and Roses band, it is rather an album called gun's and roses"

NOMINEES are

Margarita Dance, Spice of Life
Nagai Nagai Yume no Naka no Utage ~ BACCANO! no Theme, Baccano
Gun's & Roses, Paradise Lunch

The Winner is

Margarita Dance

Runner up

Gun's & Roses

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iAward:

In memory of Michael Jackson
Author:~Semini

Have you ever tried a WAVERUNNER?

Lua Klein: from anime series Baccano!

Sackboy
A sackboy kissed by a sexy lady, must be DAMN HOT

Rock Band 2: I wasn't expeting to buy it because it is a bit expensive in my country but I really couldn't resist

Final Fantasy XIV
It is not the game itself but the word ONLINE that was added at the end of the trailer

The Death of the pop star Michael Jackson

Invigilate: oversee an examination taken by candidates
I really didn't know that there is a word specific for this purpose only

The most poisonous creatures on the Earth is actually a FROG
This poisonous frog lives in the rain forests of Colombia. In zoology, it is known as phyllobates terribilis. It is very tiny and only 2 cm. It's poison can kill 150 people or 30000 mice at the same time.It's whole body is covered with a poison layer.

A ride on the WaveRunner
Half an hour ride on the WaveRunner was enough for me to be overall best of the month

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iDid:

June's summary:

- This last month has witnessed a dramatic change towards videogames as you can see from the chart. The Internet usage was shrunk cause of that.
- I'm back to excersising almost everyday.
- Reading has improved too because I've been reading Angels and Demons and finished it.

June's blog posts:

gamespot blog:
- Poll No.27 + Picture of the Day...

oln1 blog (My personal blog):
- Is it going to work?
- Trophy Madness.

Cheers

- Ali -

I'm very sorry I forgot to paste the poll's link, I just fixed it and here is the link too.

Hello everyone,

I haven't posted for a while now because I've been gaming like crazy lately and I didn't have time for gamespot . Just to remind you of last time poll's question "Do you know what BSOD is?" and here is the result.

Strangely I didn't know that the majority wouldn't recognize it but if I put it in another phrase you might, it stands for "Blue Screen of Death", it is a blue screen that appears on your computer monitor if you have a fatal error or a hardware failure . Doesn't it remind you of something, "Red Ring of Death" , actually RROD is drerived from the BSOD phrase which Microsoft Windows is very famous for and later Microsoft added the RROD with the crazy Xbox360 failure

Anyway, enough of that. Let me just post the latest poll No.27 "Have you ever used cheat sheets during exams?", I know that is a strange question but I thought of it while waiting for my invigilation later this day and in our school the cheating rate is very high that you could find cheat sheets with half of the students, so while waiting I thought of this question as the new poll. Just be honest and choose the right answer

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Here is picture of the day as always but this time it is funny rather than stunning. I presume it is from a person wishing for a popeye karts game which I think by the way could be a nice idea and has the potential to be a good game with the various unique personalities and the very powerful spinach can

It was drawn by *JPRart

Have a nice day and wish me luck during my annoying invigilation later

Cheers

- Ali -