Not this time! Something big is gonna happen tonight so I just had to write about it.I'm sure a lot of you don't know it, but I was devastated last Saturday and here's why:The Football World Cup 2010 in South Africa is nearing, and the list of the teams that are going to South Africa isn't complete...yet. The qualifiers aren't over yet, in Africa and Europe at least.Last Saturday, my country, Algeria, played against Egypt in Cairo. Before I start to say what happened, Algeria and Egypt are FIERCE rivals in soccer and I cannot emphasize enough in the "FIERCE" part. It's always been the case that Algerians and Egyptians don't like each other when it comes to soccer and last Saturday was not different. We went to the game as leaders of the group and had the advantage of scoring more goals in the previous matches. If we win, tie or even lost by a one goal difference, we would go through to the World cup. If we lost by a 2 goal difference we would play another game against them. If we lose by 3 or more goals we would be out. Suffice to say, the pressure on the players was incredible and the tension was mind-blowing. The Egyptian fans didn't make it better when they threw bricks at our players when they reached Cairo...so the tension was even greater.Lets go to the match itself...I was watching the game in a Cafe with my Algerian and Egyptian friends. Egypt scored a goal from the 2nd minute..all the Egyptians in the cafe screamed out of joy and I was terrified....but I said to myself "Its OK, it's only 1-0, if we keep this score we're still through"...so I continued watching the game....it remained 1-0 throughout the game.....not until 1 minute before the end of the game when Egypt scored a second goal.................I was destroyed....1 minute was all that was between us the world cup we miss so much (Last time we qualified was in 1986)...
There was drama and excitement I've never seen before in my life...
So Egypt won by a 2-goal margin, so we had to play yet ANOTHER game...which is today....actually its only 4 hours from now.....This time the team that wins will go through to the world cup, no advantage no nothing! But our team are strong mentally, they didn't let the defeat into their mind and they're confident of their abilities.The Egyptians on the other hand are very confident, as they proved to themselves that they are capbale to do the impossible.You can't imagine how freightened I am from this game...what if we win? what if we lost? what if we lose dramatically again? I can't take these thoughts of my mind!! Is it us Algerians, or is them Egyptians!! Is it the men in Green and white (Algerians) or is the men in Red and white (Egyptians)? We'll wait..and ...see...
PS- I'm sorry for this soccer-related blog. I know very few of you are interested in soccer...but I had to write about it!
Here's the 8th one:
8. First Call of duty Experience
Game: Call of Duty 2 (PC) (Yea...its not the first call of duty game)
2 and half years ago, I had an important exam in the afternoon. I woke up 5 hours before the exam to be ready for the exam, so I went to my PC to turn it on and then I see a new game that's installed on the PC....Call of duty 2. I tried the game out of curiousity and I chose one the existing save files....the love for the game came instantly! I've rarely had such good first impressions of a game, especially one that I never knew and expected ! The amazing explosion effects, the constant shouts of my teammates, the amazing sound effects..EVERYTHING was mind-blowing! I knew I was going to love this game...and I sure did.
From that day till now, I'm a fan of COD games and my favorite is, with no doubt, COD 4. But I'd have to thank COD 2 for being mysteriously installed on my PC for that....
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(PS- that exam went very well :lol
Here's no. 9:
9) Beating the trio
Game- Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean
Baten Kaitos is known to have one of the most difficult (and challenging) boss battles in RPG games. Even in ordinary encounters you had to think steadily and not rush into the fight. In boss battles, you had to think 3 turns ahead and organize you deck according to your opponent's weak and stong points. This gave the game a whole new level of in-depthstrategy, and is one of the things that made the game so awesome.
One particular battle came into my mind, the battle against Giacomo and his two followers (I forgot their names...) on the the airship. I had to fight against 3 very powerful enemies simultaneously. I lost the first 2 times, but that was enough for me to analyse their weaknesses, so I arranged my deck accordingly and fought them again. I had one of the most exciting boss battles ever, it really felt like I deserved the win because I actually came up with a tactic. One of the the three enemies was able to play 2 consecutive turns (it was really annoying) so I decided to get rid of him first then take care of the other two...and the tactic worked perfectly.
The feeling I got by winning this battle was awesome...especially that this battle wasn't any ordinary battle. I know a friend who actually restarted the game from the beginning because he couldn't beat them....ya, its that hard. Baten Katios does have one of the best boss battles where thinking and strategy aren't choices, they're mandatory.
Just decided to share my list of most anticipated games (in order of most aniticpated):
- StarCraft 2 (PC) (you can't imagine how badly I want to play this game...)
- Zelda Wii (Wii)
- Metroid: Other M (Wii)
- Bioshock 2 (PC)
- Mass Effect 2 (PC)
- Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Wii)
- Call of Duty 6: Modern Warfare 2 (PC)
- New Super Mario Bros 4 (Wii)
- Crysis 2 (PC)
- Assassins Creed 2 (PC)
- Fifa 10 (PC)
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