Sadist? What are they?

Sadist is a person that likes to do cruel things towards other people. It is said that sadists have pleasure when dealing pain to others. They are also a group of people who likes to taste other people suffering, and take it as a good feeling.

How to identify yourself whether you’re a sadist?

By doing things that other people hate, you start to feel  glad. After that, as more and more pain is inflicted towards someone else, you will then start to feel great and more great. You will have no feelings of sympathy. Instead, pleasure runs in your course. If any of this should happen to you, you should consult as psychiatrist and consult him.

Sadist is a bad thing rather than a good thing. By being sadist, a person can impact other people’s mind and this will cause a severe human disorder. Once this happen, rationale inside human community will not work and socio relationship between humans will not stand up.

Well, I think this is all I had to say for now, as I will update more on this.

Romantic? Libertine?

From the article Are you a Romantic or a Libertine…? By M.Scott Peck, I found myself to be inside the romantic category. From the article, love is defined as a feeling of affection and fondness towards opposite sex. This does not defines love in a full manner, however, but it does defines the basic of human’s desire and feelings.  Romantic is defined as someone who had a sense of a prevailing mystery and mystery towards the mutual attraction in love affair. Basically, it is someone who is charming enough  towards the beloved.  There are two kinds  of romance ritual. First is the obligatory romance. It is defined as a lover who gave present to the beloved during certain special occasions or celebrating the beloved’s birthday or success. The second one is optional romance. For this type of romance, the lover will try to come out with many different kinds of ideas in order to impress the beloved.

True love... only came true if you're as loyal as you should be.

As for libertine, this type of love is not my characteristics. Libertine is the opposite side of romance, where the terms and aspects of romance does not apply inside. Libertines, or should I say their known name; Playboys and Players, have no intention to fall in love at all. Instead,  they only want to play around and have fun. Those who fall into this category usually had troubles managing their beloveds as they cannot entertain all of them at the same time. They will be in more deep trouble if they are exposed, as they might be dumped and in worst case scenario, court martial.

I, myself think that I’m in a courtly love, where my love relationship is build on the basis of unexplained feelings towards the person. I have it so many times. This term is also be called as an “unrequited love”.

Libertine.. such a pity.

I, myself had been into the sea of love as I delved into the romantic world. I had a girl that I had crushed on, and I done everything that I have to take her attention to me. Then again, she had someone else she likes as I don’t have much charm.

Then, I had a love-like relationship with someone I knew since little, and she was very nice to me. Though, due to my excessive romantic feelings towards her, it became a disaster and I have lost her forever. It was very sad, but what can I do, life goes on.

As conclusion, this article made me realize of my past love mistakes and helped to identify our type; which is whether romance or libertine. In my case, I’m a romance person. Yet no luck in love…..yet. well, Life goes on…so… Anything Goes!

Video game review : Alan Wake

This time, I’m reviewing a video game based on a horror novel, Alan Wake. Alan wake is a survival horror video game that made to Xbox-Live 360 and Windows PC. This game is about a novel writer, Alan Wake who went for vacation with his wife, Alice. During his vacation, Alice was kidnapped by a force that he cannot fight alone: the darkness.  Alan wants to save Alice, but he cannot find a single method in order to save her.  Then, the “light” guides him through the darkness. As Alan venture through the darkness deeper, he found notes from the novel  Departure, which was written  by Alan Wake. However, Wake did not remember writing it, and every sequence of story that was written in the notes  seems to become real as Wake ventures further in. Through his journey, he met with Thomas Zane, the person who was actually the “light” that guided him. After meeting him, Thomas explained that the darkness that kidnapped Alice was actually his deceased wife, Barbara Jagger. The relationship between Barbara Jagger and his wife is unknown, though Alan suspects that Thomas Zane is someone he met before, as he felt familiar towards him.  Afterwards it was revealed that the writer of the Departure novel was the “other” Alan Wake,  whom creates his own
 character in order for him to save his wife. Knowing this, Alan learnt that he can write everything he wants that can turn the world to his bidding. At the end, Alan managed to find his wife, but she was hold deep inside the darkness, which Barbara Jagger was using her body as the medium for her to walk on the living realm. Alan manage to use the “switch” a tool which dispels all of darkness by engulfing light over the Sky. His reunion with his wife is short however, as he manage to rescue her body. However, he was left inside the darkness and he had to write again in order to make his way of escape.

What interesting about this game is the story. The game’s story creates premises that leaves a question mark at the end. It’s like it wants the players to decide the ending.  It made me conjures up conclusion that made me do some critical thinking. My first theory of conclusion of the game is that whether Alan did not survive the darkness or he became the darkness. My second theory of point is that Alan did write up the story, but it reverted back to all before everything started and he had prevent his wife from getting kidnapped. Lastly, my third theory is that Alan were just having delusional and he had been in an asylum for years, and his wife had already died.

Nevertheless, this video game has its own interesting side of the story and every sentences from the game seems like a mind play on the players. From my opinion, I think this game is good for critical thinking as it boggles up our own imagination for every next sequence that was about to happen.

Movie Review : Sherlock Holmes Game Of Shadows

I’ve watched the movie Sherlock Holmes : Game of Shadows, and I find it’s worth to watch. The movie is about Sherlock Holmes, acted by Robert Downey Jr. and his aide, Doctor Watson, acted by Jude Law. The story is all about Sherlock Holmes and his aide, Dr.Watson takes on his arch-nemesis, Professor Moriarty (Jared Harris) with the aid of Holmes older brother, Mycroft Holmes. Together they unveil the mystery of Professor Moriarty and everything that happened behind them.

What makes me intrigued with this movie is that it had many eureka moment, which Holmes came up with after he observed his surroundings. For example, during the first scene where he read his opponents move and came up with tricks to dodge them. He can calculate the impact he might get from the hit and thus came the eureka moment where he find black spots that he can use as advantage.

Holmes and Wattson

Holmes brother, Mycroft Holmes

The other example include the scene where he had to fight a lot of men inside a train. He used his critical thinking skills, and from it he came to his eureka moment. He calculates the distance the bullet  of the canon would travel and the impact it would give off. And so, he modified the canon’s bullet with phosphorus  which makes the gun fire to produce a spark of fire in which if one’s would pull the wire it shall cause heavy explosions. He then tricks his opponents in using these canons, and they fell for his trick which later cause their death.

The movie also applies creative skills. The most
interesting example is during the scene Watson paid him a visit at his house.  He was looking for Holmes but Holmes is nowhere to be found. As it turns out, he was camouflaging to his wallpaper background which was quite funny, yet brilliant. This same act is used again during the end of the movie where he camouflaging with his chair after Watson presumed of his death.

In conclusion, this movie is creative, yet funny. I think the producers and directors have made a good job in making this movie, and  I must say, this movie really does boggles our mind with imagination and expands our way of thinking. Like people use to say, think out of the box.

 Watch the movie! i highly reccomend it. :D Here's the trailer.

The great detective’s adventure, Tintin

 

One day in class, my lecturer put on a movie of The Adventures of Tintin. At first, I thought the movie was going to be boring as I saw the movie’s cover kind of… dull. However, as the movie starts, it was quite surprising, as the 3D animation that was nicely done, which every character looked real. The way they interact, talk in  the movie seems like they were actually real people, rather than 3Ds. The movie is about TinTIn, a reporter who bought a model ship for a pound off from the market stall. After he brought the ship home, Snowy was fighting with the neighbour’s cat. The result of the fight causes the ship to broke in two which the mast of the ship came off and a scroll came out. Tintin hold on to the scroll as he tries to solve the puzzle. The next day, a man named  came to told TInTin to be careful with the ship. The man was shot and TinTin came run away. The next day, Mr.Sakharine came and made a deal with Tintin to hand over the ship, which TInTin refuses. That night, The ship was stolen and TinTin suspects it was Mr.Sakharine  and he went to go on research about the Haddock’s family. He then sneaks away to the Haddock’s Manor and came to steal back the ship. As he enters, he was captured by Sakharine, and he told TinTin that there were two ship model that are the same. And now he wants to look for the third. Mr.Sakharine kidnaps and sent him to Morocco via the old cargo ship. Inside the ship, he had hired all men to kept watch for TinTin and the captain Haddock. TinTin discovers Haddock and rescued him from his  capture. TinTin explains the situation to Haddock and the two agrees to join force to look for the third ship. Haddock later reveal at TinTin that his ancestor,  Sir Francis Haddock had a fight on board of his ship with Milanese Nightgale. Sir Francis lost the fight, but with his brilliance, he managed to escape and hid part of his treasure somewhere. He wrote the location of his treasure map inside a scroll and each scroll seperates to complete the full map. He put each inside a ship model’s mast and inherited it to his three sons.  Then the two discovers the third ship location and learnt that Sakharine is there. They approached the scene where he met the third ship which was now in possession of a Sultan. TinTin discovers that Sakharine was about to use the Soprano’s voice to break the glass that was holding the ship model. Sakaharine managed to break the glass and steal the ship model. He break the ship’s mast and discovers the third scroll. TinTin and Haddock pursues him and the two had a trouble time catching him. As the game cat and mouse between them is at the climax, Haddock managed to capture Sakharine and they get all three scrolls. TinTIn and Haddock combines the scroll which turns to a full set of Sir Francis’s location of the treasure. Surprisingly, the location of the  treasure was  at Haddock’s manor, beneath the manor. The two overjoyed, having solved the treasure location and the mystery behind the scrolls. At the end, TinTin invites him to go on for another adventure.                               

What I like about this movie is that it applies many of critical literacy skills. The scene where the two police officers, Thompsons where they tried to catch the wallet thief intrigues me. This is because they used thread at their wallets and they managed to discovers  the thief by the thread that was pulled off by the thief. The way they managed to discovers the thief is somehow brilliant, as they are not just identified the culprit, but they get to know the home of the culprit.

The other scene that amazed is where TinTin used rifle to shoot over the plane so that it would go down in the sea, but it does not fall into sea.  He then take over the plane and fly it, but the plane fuel was about to empty and he looked for other resources, and he found out that the plane was filled with alcohol. He wanted to use the alcohol as fuel, which turned to be a smart move. However, Haddock drank it all and TinTin forced him to vomit the alcohol he drank; and it proved successful as the alcohol came out as well which then fuels up the plane.  It was funny, though at the same time creative.

The last scene that really catches my eye is that when Sakharine used the Soprano to break the glass that holds the ship model. This scene is really interesting as even if it was obvious that loud voice can break glass, no one there seemed to be realized of this. This shows that people’s own consciousness can be perceived and it made me realize that even in a slightest, humans cannot notice what exactly happened if they are not alert.

 For my food for the thought, I think this movie is really interesting, and it really had some fun and creative elements to it, which makes it enjoyable to watch and suitable to watch for all ages. If you had not watch it yet, i reccomend you to watch it!

Video Games Review : Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney

The blog title says it all. My entry this time is about a video game i played, Phoenix Wright. Why did i write about this game? Well, this game has a lot of relation in terms of applying the critical thinking elements. This game is made for the Nintendo DS system and has about four main series, with the third bring the last of the original protagonist, Phoenix Wright starred in. The Fourth game has his protege, Apollo Justice as the main character. Well, enough about that, let me gave my short summary of the game. This game genre is investigative adventure. The game is more of a courtroom drama rather than just any other video game that you would normally knew of. The main character in the game, Phoenix Wright, a new rookie District Attorney who had just began his career with little knowledge of the law world. He, along with his mentor, Mia Fey, take on murder cases and they defend defendant of each cases. In Episode 1, Phoenix Wright is just introduced to the law world, as he took on his very first case. The victim of the murder was a female postman named Lee that came to deliver parcel to the witness house, Frank Sahwit. The accused was Larry, Wright's best friend. Wright, with his mentor, Mia Fey by his side, solve the case by applying the rule of every Attorney must have: think out of the box. The murder happened at 12.00 P.M and at that time, Larry found the body. As he was there, Mr Sahwit was just came back from his trip and was shocked to see what happened and called the police which came to Larry's eventual arrest. Sahwit testifies that he had just came back home at 12.10 P.M. from his trip.Wright tries to piece things together as he came up to the conclusion. Larry found the body exactly at 12.00 P.M. which contradicts with Sahwit's statement.  Wright asked him why he was there. Larry replied that he was supposed to meet by 12.10 P.M. in the given location which he arrived early so that he wouldn't have that person to wait. Wright sorts out all the information that he gets from Larry and he came up to a conclusion. The murderer of the victim was actually Mr.Sahwit.Larry did not know Mr. Sahwit but he does know Larry. The whole thing was because of Larry who stole Mr.Sahwit's ex-girlfriend which made him feel jelaous towards him. So, he sets up a murder case for him to be alleged with. However, he made a mistake, as Mr.Sahwit's clock was set up to the international clock that oppose with Larry's clock which is the local time. And the fact that Mr.Sahwit knows Larry name is another proof as Larry did not know him. The two was supposed to be strangers, but with Sahwit's own mistake of saying Larry's name it makes up the fact that he had already knew Larry from the beginning which contradicts with Larry's own dubious knowledge of Sahwit's existence in his life. Larry is then deemed to be not guilty. As for Episode 2, A year have passed, and Wright has came to the top as an Ace Attorney. However, darkness looms as Wright's mentor, Mia Fey was murdered. Her sister, Maya fey was alleged to murder her sister. At the end, Wright managed to save her from her execution, and the murderer was the District Attorney from another firm who had revenge towards Mia. Starting from this point, Wright take over his mentor firm, and Maya become his apprentice. As the story progresses, Maya became his partner, rather than his apprentice, and the two take on cases together which makes up the premises throughout the Phoenix Wright Series.

From Left: Phoenix Wright, Mia and Maya. Wright and Maya continues Mia's Legacy.

The basic of this game is that each court cases separate into five episodes. All of the cases are murder cases, and some case relates to other cases; for example the murder of Mask De Masque who is the culprit of the mass theft case. Players have to complete each episode in order to reach the other. The mechanics of the game is that in every court session, players will be pit against the prosecutor and they have to solve each of the murder cases by identifying the statements given by witnesses and contradiction that they gave in their cross examination. For each evidence that is presented, players will have to relate each of the evidence and profiles with the witness statements. The evidence sometimes are insufficient to present. This is where investigation mode came to, where the judge gave time for the player to investigate the crime scene and other places that have to do with the cases and come up with every evidence that they can find. After all necessary evidences are found, the court session will be held later on.

  Players will find through Evidences throughout the game. Testimonial From WItness will later followed by the Cross examination, where players can press the witness for information and present their evidence towards the statement that contradicts with the information given.

If the player found a statement that is quite vague, they can press more for information or present evidence for any inconsistencies with the statement. The player may scream Objection! at the Nintendo DS microphone, or simply just press the Present button to present their evidence.

My final thoughts about this game is that it really teaches me how to think critically, and it also gave me a look on how a court procodure is done. The game is splendid, and i even rate it 9 over 10 marks for its great puzzle which makes up the large part of the game. The story are also incredible, as each character have their unique background story, and the developer of this game, Capcom had made a really great job in making a mind thinking, interactive video game. I think students should play this game as it really boggles your mind to think up more critically.

Oh yeah, a movie that was based on this game is also in production. Check out the trailers :)

Men and Women are merely Players

Humans. What is the purpose of us as humans? It is a question that many wise men and philosophers over the course of years left unanswered. Many believe, that as a human, we can live in any way we wanted. It is not true though. What actually came off from that little piece of thought of a human mind was only an illusion. In truth, we humans; which consisted of men and women are merely players.

It is an illusion towards our own perception; the way we want to live

 You guys won’t probably believe this, but it’s true. What Robert  Greene says is true. We humans had our own roles to play. When we were born to this world, we had already assigned to our roles. Each of us had roles that actually affects the other. For example, person A was destined to be someone who had been accused of a murder, but actually innocent. Person B was destined to be a defense attorney. Through this context, it can be viewed that Person B will help Person A in getting through of their problems and fulfilling their roles. They will also affects each other roles, which is more closer to a symbiotic relationship. 

Alliance is born through roles.

The role that we have taken also based on our own performance. Like a presentation of drama; the most appealed actor would be taking the grand role. In this case, those who have their way in this world  can rule over those who are not. However, when striving to fulfilling each of our own roles, we tend to forget the most important thing to success: giving some more thoughts to what we are trying to achieve. Without any thinking, we cannot make decisions which eventually decide our fate in the future.

  In conclusion, every men and women are clearly and obviously chosen for their roles in life. What they need to do is simply follow them; in order to fulfill their roles and thus having their way in this world.