Yes, well it's been a while since my last post, and I actually havethe time to do one.

I recently turned 18 and received well over $100 in the one day, and a lot of cards and kind words. It feels good, I feel extremely close to adult-hood.

Life's been pretty busy and full on lately, mostly because of school. I'm getting assignment after assignment and it really does add on to the things you'd dislike about school. It is my final year before I continue on with my life off to university to become something of a Tourism career. My objective is to gain what I need in regards to qualifications this year so I have the requirements for university.

On to TV, I'm not really into anything with the exception of the exclusive Lost finale scheduled to arrive later this week along with the Survivor: Tocantins finale. Both shows have only been at around above average so I do have high expectations. The Two and a half Men series finale is scheduled to arrivenext week while I am currently viewing the twenty-third episode, and unlike Lost and Survivor, Two and a half Men has actually been a great season this year.However, having decided to quit watching The Amazing Race after Christie & Jodi's elimination during season 14, something lured me into believing that the deranged series would actually contain a decent finale - But I was wrong, again! I don't know why I even bothered, but after 14 seasons, The Amazing Racehas officiallydied. If you ask me, I reckon All-Stars was the last true season of TAR.

As for my gaming life, I've only found myself interested in the old Need For Speed series mostly, but I spend more of the time re-thinking about my past life and why things turned out the way they did - I don't know, I guess there comes a time in your book of events where you turn back and honour decisions you made in the past.

Anyways, as I continue to work veryhard in my studies, I'm thinking of what I might do in regards to my career - Tourism is the very thing I've always wanted to do since I was ten years of age. I know where I want to go, and where I would to spend my life, but I have a few ideas in mind regarding my future job. For what I think of this year so far, it's been "meh", but I just can't stop thinking 2010. I reckon it'll be awesome, and a huge step up from 2007, 2008 and this year.

Like my mates always said, look ahead, not backwards.

Well, got to go. I will blog again soon

Hello readers.

The title of this blog indicates that I have to post something, yes. But what about? A lot of things, and a lot of events that have occured since the start of this year.

Firstly, it's great to see you old friends from 2007 and 2008 still here. I'm surprised, but glad. This gives me a reason to blog. I've been extremely busy with all my set work from school. It has been a frustrating time because of the load, but not only that, this is the last year of the routine because school is offically over at the end of the year. There are still great times, great TV shows that have returned such as the two I can usually count on to produce good quality - Lost and The Amazing Race.

School is ok, but I am feeling over it in ways. Still, I always hang in there. I just spend my weekends chilling out or out doing things. However, these days we've had pretty wild weather full of wind, rain and strangely enough, the prevailing winds have been heading in two different directions making it seem tough to go out in.

Wel, summer is officially over now as we head into an autumn full of un predictable weather, and apparently no further word has been heard about the bush fires in Melbourne, Austalia or the flooding in Queensland. Honestly, we're quite safe here in New Zealand, but the cold always get's to us in winter.

As for gaming and electronics, I've been heavily focussing on the Need For Speed series which I have been addicted to since 2002. I love the free roaming driving on the earlier games, but please don't comment and start going on about any of the following: Underground, Underground 2, Most Wanted, Carbon, Pro Street or Undercover. I dislike those games as they're all urban, too different, too rappy and hip hop-py but before you readers, it's as though EA games turned to drugs after finishing Hot Pursuit 2 as Underground arrived in 2003. So, granted, I don't mind anyone discussing any of the first six NFS games as they're fine (with the exception of Porsche Unleashed). But before I proceed, Need For Speed IV: High Stakes on the Playstation is the best in the series, always has been, always will be. Hot Pursuit and Hot Pursuit 2 are next in line. If you even think EA just might present us with another pleasant NFS game, think again. We've been through six crappy games since the fantastic Hot Pursuit 2 which was in my opinion, the last in the series. So, if there are any of you here who are into racing and are not familiar with NFS3: Hot Pursuit, High Stakes or Hot Pursuit 2, you must give them a shot, and all three of these were way better on Playstation than on PC, but this is just my own opinion.

Now I move onto Lost, the highly impressive new season is now up to it's ninth episode of it's fifth season but now it is on a two week break. Honest to god, this season is way superior to Season 4 as it has re-discovered the power of the first couple of seasons. But although I wasn't particularly keen on the second episode and "This Place Is Home", all this was just a startup to whats expected to happen once those survivors are all up and back together on the island. It's always exciting, just like it should be.

The Amazing Race is doing alright, so far the season is a massive improvement over the last as most of the teams are lovable, rather than idoits who needed to go back into secondary school and learn some common sense.

In this present day, life is quite good. I'm now only two months from turning 18 where things do start to change. I'll promise to comment on you guys blogs when I have time, as well as make more of my own. For now, I'll continue to post short blogs so I don't bore you with those long blogs from others that may turn into a deadly bore. Thanks for reading...

Hello Gamespotters and TV fans.

Excuse the fact that I haven't posted a blog for at least three months and know that that is only due to the fact that I hardly use TV.com anymore. I don't like the new design and the site was turning rather dull, and besides, I only use it to check and see if anyone has submitted any TAR Asia information since I recently became the new editor (Please submit if you like), and to post on show forums of course.

As for Gamespot, well, that's a different story. The website itself is still aceeptable, even with the changes to the rating system and the design. From now on, I will continue to do the usual, play games I enjoy (which are Racing, Platformer or Adventure only) and then review the game here. My most recent review which was for The Need For Speed which was a tough one to plan out. The game is so old and old-school that there are just some things you can and can't criticise an old game for.

As for my life, well, the school holidays are still on at present and I have officially returned home after having been away three times all in one 9 week vacation period. Christmas was alright, and so was new years. Life is doing fairly well at this time and I have just one week remaining of school holidays before I enter my thirteenth and final year of high school. I'm going on eighteen this May, and have carefully planned out what I'm thinking of doing as a career. I know it'll be Computing, but for what course I'm still not sure on that one.

Living in New Zealand my whole life (with the exception of one year) has been great, and I'm just looking forward to getting school finished so I can apply for university down in Auckland (the city where I spent the first 15 years of my life).

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As for TV, I've seen the first two episodes of Lost season 5 and thoroughly enjoyed the first episode, but the second, it was rather disappointing. Before watching, I was not expecting much from this season, seeing as how the last series was a let down. But now after having seen a glimpse, I have high hopes about this new series.

Now I move on to The Amazing Race. I watched the last season and could have not have been any more disappointed. It was most definitely the worst season due to it's weakness. I don't want to go into it really, because so many things were wrong with it. I was not happy with who won and liked hardly any of the teams. How could the producers screw up so badly? This is now a show that fits the line of: "Going downhill fast". Lastly, Two and a half Men is on to it's sixth season and it seems to be a great season so far, perhaps even greater than the third, fourth and fifth seasons. The real comedy is back, and those real memorable storylines that were remembered throughout the first two seasons are there again. It's just a matter of time before Men turns into the #1 comedy again. Quite simply, these aren't just the only shows I watch, but are just well known to me.

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Finally, onto my gaming. I've recently returned to the Gran Turismo series which I am a die hard fan for. I'm also a champion and have hardly lost a race against anyone in my entire reign, but as much as a champion as I am on the first three games, I'm not so flash good on Gran Turismo 4. I only allow myself to keep concept cars, race cars or cars by Polyphony Digital so my home garage doesn't get infested with sloppy road cars mixed with ultra-fast vehicles.

I've also been concentrating on Need For Speed once again, but let me get this clear: I HATE all Need For Speed games from Underground onwards , I do not like them, they suck and I will not talk about them. I have only ever followed the series during the first six games, which are actual NFS games. So that means the series was alive between 1994-2002. Hot Pursuit 2 is the last game in my opinion, and then we are given the true crap from EA. I have always found the PC versions slightly greater than the PS editions, due to the extra's. High Stakes, is the best in the series, just an awesome game. The two Hot Pursuit editions are second and third place as they were also fantastic. But I often play NFSII SE and NFSIII on my laptop as often as I can, for fun and practice.

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This is all I really need to review on for now, but it is great to be blogging once again, and I shall do it more often if I see reasons to do so. Thanks to you readers, please comment if you wish, and I will get back to you.

Bye for now...

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