Hey everyone

It's been quite some time since my last blog, several months to be exact. This blog is only a small update. I promise I'll write a bigger one later with more gaming updates.

Today, before lunch, I went to my regular game store and picked up this :

The 360 Elite 250 GB - Forza 3 bundle. Yay !!

Finally I'll be able to download DLC for games. That was almost impossible with my old 360 : it only had a 20gb HD.

That's not all what gaming concerns. After waititng for more than a week, my copy of Uncharted 2 finally arrived today in the mail. The waiting almost drove me crazy. Every day I read blogs, saying how amazing and superb Uncharted 2 is and all I could do is waiting. They say patience is a good virtue, they're right...if you're not the one who has to do the waiting.

I hope you're all ok. Cya soon in my next blog, till then :

Take good care and have fun while gaming

Heya everyone

I hope you are all having a great summer. Here in Belgium it has been very warm for a couple of weeks, it was a real heat wave. It was too warm to even attempt to do something outside in the garden so I gamed instead.

There are 3 games on my "now playing " list : Fallout 3 , Lost Odyssey and FF X.

I was already busy with FF X months ago but somehow I never got to the end, I always started another game. Which is a shame cause, first, it's a great game and second, I'm very close to the end so I made finishing FF X one of my goals for the rest of this year.

About 2 weeks ago I started with Lost Odyssey (LO). I played for a couple of hours when the game was released but I went back to WoW (yep, that eternal Evil ) but now I'm completely into the game. I really love the story and it's a turn based RPG so it can't do much wrong in my eyes what the battle system concerns. I really suck at getting "perfect rings" though, I can forget getting the " 500 perfect rings " achievement, I would have to play through the game a second time, maybe who knows, even a third time."blushes" I'm now 35 hours in the game and I was in Gohtza Station (third disc), the last time I gamed ( a few hours ago). Some people in the RPG Temple (union) like Ron and Max warned me for this third disc, that it was kind of boring and difficult for people who get lost very easily (yep, look at me, I'm one of those !!!) but I enjoy this game so much that I don't think the third disc will lessen my enthusiasm.

The third game on my list is Fallout 3. I just finished the part in the Vault and now I'm standing outside ready to start my adventure in the Wasteland. My idea was to play LO for a couple of days, then go back to Fallout 3 for a few days, back to LO and so on. I wanted to do this to have some kind of variation in my game play cause Fallout is a more action oriented RPG where LO is a full turn based RPG. But I can't get into Fallout 3. First of all cause an open world game always reminds me of WoW and say what you want to say, but the controls and animations in WoW are so much better than in Fallout 3 (and also better than in Oblivion for that matter), I can't stop comparing those games. And second, cause I'm too much into LO and its story, I want to know what the next thing is that will happen and how this story will end. Which means that I think I'll focus entirely on LO the next few days/weeks and when I'll see the credits roll I'll start Fallout 3 again.

Something different now, but still game related.

Today , 11th of August, there's a big update for Xbox Live. When I fired up my 360 earlier, I immediately got the message "update is ready......". One of the new features is that you can personalize your avatar even more than before. But (there's always one!) you have to pay for the new clothes, 1 euro a piece, sometimes 2. But hell, I won't buy something new every day so when the update was installed, I had a look in the avatar store and saw some cool stuff, especially in the collection, called Recessionista. I bought several things and now I'm wondering what you all think of the changes I made to my avatar.

The first picture is how my avatar looked before the update. The second and third are after the update. There's only one difference between the second and third picture, the hat. My question is : which one do you like the most?

Ok, that's it for now. Have fun but don't forget to go outside once in a while, the weather is too nice to spend it all inside. Cya next time, take good care till then !

......that is called Xbox Live. I have my Xbox 360 already 3 years, I thought it was time to join Xbl.

Yesterday, while I was at the game store, I bought 2 new games (finally I'm going to play Tales of Vesperia !)but also a wireless network adaptor for my 360.

As you can see, I have a very low gamerscore......blame WoW !!! During the years I played WoW, I kept buying games, even started to play them but after a while I went back to the world of Azeroth.

It's only since a short time that I really game on my consoles and WoW is only secondary : my WoW account expires at the end of August, it's possible that I will completely leave Azeroth behind me and focus on my consoles entirely. That's why I decided to go online with both of my consoles.

As on PSN, you can find me under the name ananda07 with "0" being a zero. Leave your gamertag in your comment and I'll add you or feel free to add me, just send me also a little message with your real first name or GSname if your gamertag differs from your GS name or your first name.

A completely different topic now. Some of you may know that I studied Garden Design and that I'm a passionate gardener. Well, here are some pictures of my own back garden. The gardens I designed for others are more modern, my garden is a bit .....wilder, maybe like the owner.

The first picture shows you what you see when you enter the garden (there's no back door at the house, very annoying !!) and you look towards the house. You see the back of the house, a part of the terrace and if you look very closely, you can see some of my bonsai tables (in wood).

The second picture is taken from the lawn towards the entrance of the garden. And finally the third picture shows a small part of the back garden.

Ok, that's it for now. Cya in another blog or maybe on PSN or Xbl, who knows. In the mean time, take good care and don't forget to have fun while gaming.