Oh you, Gram-Schmidt

So today i was in university again. Only one other friend was there with me to study again after such a long break. We decided to study for linear algebra, which is the subject i studied last longest ago out of the two. I took the exam i passed and worked thru each task, it took me quite a while to remember a lot of things again, but then it came back, all the stuff came slowly back into my mind, but then there was Gram-Schmidt, something easy to use, but not too easy to remember and i really had to concentrate to remember how it works again. My head is now full of linear algebra, but it feels good to be back in that university stress again. After these boring vacation it feels great to be back in a daily routine again.

New Server

So after i was playing with Yvonne for a few days i actually got invited by other friends to join their new server and we are quite a few people on there. Yet i have built some different farm (sugarcane, melon, wheat, chicken) an underground stripmine and an xp farm. The xp farm was the most i used today, just watching some videos and from time to time killing all the zombies that spawned is the way to go. I am still hoping for a fortune pickaxe. The first time i hit lvl 50 i got a pickaxe with efficiency IV which is about the worst thing you could get with that high level.

Yvonne is a brave girl

Today Yvonne gets her eyes fixed with a laser and she will be blind for a day. She had the surgery earlier than expected and she is home already. She is still feeling pain, but has 4 friends that are with her and helping her with stuff she cannot do while being blind. Important is that she rest a lot now and i hope that she has no complications so that she may be blind for longer than normal. I think tomorrow she should slowly recover and be able to see already again.

Minecraft Saturday

So yesterday Yvonne played with me minecraft during my day and her evening to night and it was amazing. I got my alarm clock set at 9am so that we can start playing soon after. We started in our server you had already before. I continued building the house mostly and Yvonne was adventuring in caves and using the strip mine to get more resources. I finished the second floor of the house, added a balcony, changed the entrance a bit, but really wanted to have some glowstone for lighting purposes, so we both took a trip to the nether. i made a bridge across the lava lake, she was standing on the ground waiting for me to destroy the glowstone and she was gathering what was falling down. Back at our house i finished the entrance and lighting and started with the roof top. Before Yvonne said she wanted a swimming pool inside the house so i decided to build it on the roof and there it started. It took long to fill everything with a source block, just to realize that the pool is dripping through the house. So instead i changed the floor to half steps so it won't leak through, but still looks the same, the whole house was under water for a while and when i changed the half steps to double half steps i realized that nothing changed, water can also drip thru these, so everything was just work for nothing and i just shortened the pool which quite sucked. Then we made a break, she ate dinner and i ate breakfast.


Half an hour later we were about to continue and decided to start a survival map instead. Yvonne proudly announced to me that she prepared and watched YouTube tutorials about survival and learned some recipes. We decided to make a bet: If i die one time, she has to write a blog entry on my blog and if she dies 5 times the other way around; We do not really help each other, only trading and we both have to survive for ourselves. So i changed the world and some options to set up a new server. We both spawned in the middle of an ocean with big lack and no sign of land. Okay, that was quite a fail, i thought and deleted the world file to make another random world. We both spawned in a snow forest and i decided to travel for a few hundred meters, so we won't be directly next to each other. I gathered some would and some stone and even found a bit of surface iron. Badly i didn't find any coal though and with the traveling before i had no time to set up a base for the night. I had some pork chops gathered and also already an iron breastplate, so i decided to just walk around at night. Badly it started with 9 creepers in my sight and didn't really get better until daytime. Lots of monsters and they even hurt me pretty bad, but i survived the night. Yvonne was doing a lot better than i have anticipated, she said she never was in real danger, she already set up a little base and started mining during the night. The next day i continued a wheat farm i started before and also gathered iron in a cave i set my first base in. It didn't take long to have my first complete set of iron stuff and i went out to gather clay. I gathered lots of clay some jungle saplings and started a mine into a giant cave i also found diamonds in, in the few hours later. I was about to make my first tree-house, when Yvonne died for her first time. She was shot by a skeleton. Nothing to bad, but then she wanted to get inside her home and two spiders blocked her path and killed her. She asked for help and i killed the two spiders because she was sounding extremely mad and then she realized that all her stuff was gone already. To make her play further and not be angry all the time i gave her food, an iron pickaxe and sword. Later i even gave her a map as a present and some seeds i had, because my farm was becoming too large. While i was making my tree-house Yvonne really wanted to stop playing, the spiders really ruined her gaming mood, which was sad, because it was an amazing gaming day after all.

9AM Good Morning Minecraft

So today is a special day, i set my alarm clock to rush to the shower, but not to go to university, because Thursday i finally had my last exam. Today i set my alarm clock to play with Yvonne. We have 9 hours at least in which we can play minecraft, i think it may be a bit much for her, but if not i wonder how much we can build in that time, how much we can adventure and how much she will learn :)

Chinese New Year

puhhh, xiaomao you maybe should not read this^^ i sit here in front of my computer and am not sure what to write. Everyone who was there know how it was for me, it was amazing. There were not many germans at all (maybe 5), but it was great to teach my language skills in a dating game o_O. Playing Uno with others and watching others play another card game that apparently only exists in china but looked amazing (a bit like magic). And trying to sing some songs at karaoke. The whole evening was quite fun, although i'm not quite sure how i ended up in that dating game. So i stood there in front of 6 girls and had to introduce myself and then i had to choose the girl i liked most from the first look write it on the hand of the moderator and then wait for the girls to show me if they were interested or not. I quite liked to see what total stranger girls would think about me and surprisingly even more than half of them said they would like me. Made me feel quite proud of myself xD. After that i talked quite a bit with the girl i chose in the beginning of that game and it was quite a nice talk, although there were lots of language problems i suppose.

Ohhh, ohhh AND I ATE JIAOZI!!! xD

Random College Rant

So i started to study for college again beginning this week which is the last week of the short christmas vacation. I went for 2 days to college to make the homework we got over the vacation with others. First off only half the people who agreed on coming to college didn't show up at all. And then the people who did come over wanted to study instead of making the homework, so i ended up doing the homework alone. Now i have finished nearly 90% of the tasks and the people in college just copy the stuff from me so they have it finished by tomorrow. Best thing is that the only task i did not finish wasn't made by anyone else either. I think I'm studying together with a bunch of lazy asses. But then again it was good to make the homework myself, because i know what i can do and what i have to study more for now.

Machinarium

So after some problems i finally could get started playing a new game with Yvonne. It's a nice and adorable adventure game where you play an unnamed robot and have to solve little puzzles. It's a rather easy adventure game, because the puzzles are always on one screen and you never bring items from different screens into a new area, so the combinations you have to try to get the solution are rather limited. Yet probably not as frustrating as in other adventure games. It is nicely drawn and has a very nice concept, i really like it so far although we are right at the very beginning, because he did not have much time to play it today, but will most likely continue to play tomorrow. So far we got stuck on several occasations, but then it was because i'm just a big dummy and didn't do things right that were quite obvious. Mostly the whole game is intuitive, but often you just don't realise how exactly you could do what you want to do. Luckily after a while of searching you always get the thing right though, mostly due to its limitation to one screen. Most adventure games you either sit through for months or you cheat and look solutions up. I hope for this one i can get through without cheating at all with the exception of Yvonne helping, although she seemed a bit lost inside the game today.

The Shy Girl Dilemma

And another relationship turned into ashes. Why is it always that i find shy girls with lots of emotional problems and after i fixed 'em they thank me in getting the self-esteem of finding someone who fits better to them in their eyes. Well i think i got my will when i wanted to be single for university about 9 months ago. It feels strange to have a relationship over that was so long, yet not many people knew about, but it feels great to not have any need to explain what ended if noone knew about it. Surprisingly she found a guy, while i was just taking some time to study, although she told me i meant everything for her and that she never had feelings towards someone else. I however told her everything about a girl i felt more for than i may have wanted to feel. Well, at least it seems that i was the honest one in our relationship, although i had sleeping problems for the reason that i thought i wasn't the one. New Year, New Love i guess. i just have to find one. Funny thing is that december is always a strange month for me in terms of relationships. Last december it all began with Gogo and i met Yvonne. The december before Claire visited me for the first time and we all knew what that was all about. For instance the december before i was about to get my first girlfriend, but it took nearly two more months of flirting to get there. And everything before i can't remember because it is not in my blog :D.
But i think i drifted away from the original context. At least the headline tells me i should talk about the SGD. So i'm attracted to vulnerable and shy girls and after investing much time into a stable relationship it falls suddenly apart like a just finished house of cards. if i wasn't too tired of studying for college it may even hurt, but then all in all are all break-ups the same and at one point you just don't care anymore and well; At least out of this ashes may come a Wally who writes more into his blog again.

The Pandanian Odyssey III

[...] After nearly twenty years of insanity and the wrath of the gods Toutous lost his crew and his ship. he got washed ashore unconsiousless and barely alive and was shortly after seen by germanian troops who still were on guard to look for him. After all this years his father was weak and grey. The germanic kingdom was now smaller than ever due to waves of enemies attacking the towns and communities. When Toutous reached the letter to his father, Wallus smiled and gave Toutous his crown to reign the country for the better.

two days later

Dohmen had the idea for a spontanous LAN, i didnt think they would stay over night, nor did i not think that it would end in me playing alone on the server, because i cannot play a game they were playing most of the time, but that's how it went. Then again at one point Dohmen came into the server, cheated himself TNT and blew his own yet unfinished castle apart. In the meanwhile i finished a farm, finished the gravel pathways, built little pyramids, built a little intersection building and finally sorted out all of our chests. Slowly our world gets nicer and nicer with more manmade structures. Feng sadly had a big problem to connect the night so we have no underground track system yet, which may be the next big plan for the server.

The Pandanian Odyssey I

And Then Felia, goddess of love, raised her voice, so that all of what was left on earth could hear her futile cries. And all men fell silent, looked into the heavens and knew the tragedy without ever knowing the story. Her son Toutous, half human, half god, son of Wallus, ancient king of germania, was heading westwards down the six heavens to bring his father a letter from his mother. But then a strong wind blew him further eastwards. The strong winds took him from the sky and shattered all of his remains on the most eastern land, directly in front of the big blue sea. Toutous, having lost his wings and godmade armor, knew he was lost, but little did he know that he was lost in the big Pandanian Land. He lost his conciousness while roughly landing on a boulder and waking up on the big stoney beach, seeing the letter he was about to bring home flying across the ocean. Toutous knew that he had to follow his letter to furfill his task and so he went to the nearest port city, the metropolis of Oceania, the last bastion before the dark blue roughless sea. Toutous searched for the strongest and cleverest men he was able to find and bought a ship to cross the ocean. At that moment he heard his mothers scream in vain and knew that she had lost him in the eye of the storm. Toutous and his crew were alone against the natures strongest and most evil power in the dark of the ocean and no god was able to help them so near at the edge of the world. And so the Odyssey began, a crew travelling eastwards to the border of imagination and sanity to bring back the letter of a god, meant for the king of germania.

The problem with items and locations

Yesterday i knew how to continue the story and created a bunch of items i used for that part, but the problem is that i can't just lay them in a shelf around for every one to easily pick up, that would be pointless. i need to hide them, but that's the problem. i am not yet sure where to hide them and how to get them, so i need to create new areas to just lock them up somewhere to make it not too easy. Before it was the other extreme. i had a lot of locations but no items to hide. But i'm sure im creative enough to get that stuff fixed. Another funny thing is how i found a typo. a friend whose english isnt the best looked words up he didnt know and stumbled upon ripcage. obviously he didnt find a translation for ripcage, because its called ribcage, he asked me and i was like ok i gotta change that immediatly.

fast tester is fast

After a few days of constructing the game i thought i was quite ahead my tester, especially after some hard things to figure out i thought i could slow down my speed in drawing, but then there was grincat. she actually played the game already to the current end and there is no way i can give her a much updated version in the next days. But well i still have enough ideas what to do next so maybe i make some tricky things inside so this game gets a bit harder the further you get. it gets anyway because there are more and more areas where things could be combined. so when i let her without clues what to do next, i may get the step ahead again that i was. Also i let Meg play the game and it showed me some flaws i didnt realise. So i improved some things and made the whole game a bit smoother i think. Still i need to build up some story next though and of course more cool elements to continue and discover.

Slowly taking shape

My game is slowly taking shape. It's still in the beginning stage, but i have already some hidden things and plans to continue on. It finally has an outline and style i can follow and creating new areas becomes routine. I even managed to make a shock value inside without even planning to do it. At least Yvonne was kinda shocked while testing and that with my bad drawing skills haha. It's kinda cartoonish horror and my mind is full of wicked ideas too make this more gruesome. When then music is added at some point it will be just awesome.

New Projects & Random Thoughts

With my plan to neglecting facebook for other projects, i also come back to my beloved blog. Actually Yvonne created an own blog and told me to write in here again is what made me finally come here. Lately i am often just in SSC, playing games, currently The Lost Crown, before i finished Septerra Core for the first time, maybe i should write another entry about it. My new project is to recreate my old adventure game that some of you may remember. I do not really remember what it was called, but i do remember the things i made and some flaws i made that i try to not do again (you had to "use battery with dark room" to make a flashlight work, instead of "combining battery with flashlight"). For people interested in testing and playing my new adventure game just contact me and i give it to you (now i also have a full version of the program which means its a simple setup for the game). I just worked about 4 hours on it yet and it only consists of about 10 screens and a few items to find and use, but it's a start.

时间的流逝

因为我过去星期不写在我的博客，所以我现在写。

我的汉语
我在学校的时候我学习很多汉语。星期四我买了我的第一中文的书。这张书没有练习，可是一个故事。因为我的汉语不好，所以那书有拼音。也很简单的话。我买了这在亚马逊。
我的宝贝
我不见面我的女朋友本周末，可是我下星期五见面她去庆生会的我们的朋友啊。我星期六去音乐会。因为他不喜欢这个音乐所以她不去音乐会呀。我想跟她去，可是她不想了。
现在我也是老师
今天智君是我的老师了。她教我汉语。因为她想学习德语，所以我教教她。现在我是我的老师的老师哈哈。
音乐
我的宝贝给我一张光盘。这张光盘有蔡依林的音乐。我也下载了SHE的音乐。现在我听都音乐。

我想再写汉语在这里， 可是我不知道什么时候。

^^to write this it took me over an hour and probably it is hardly right, i really do suck at chinese^^

correction (by yvonne):

时间的流逝
因为我上个星期没有写我的博客，所以我现在写。

我的汉语
我在学校的时候学习了很多汉语。星期四我买了我的第一本中文书。这本书没有练习，可是它有一个故事。因为我的汉语不好，所以这本书有拼音，也很简单。我在亚马逊买的它。

我的宝贝
这个周末我没有和我的女朋友见面，可是我们下个星期五会见面，因为我们会一起去一个朋友的庆生会。我星期六要去一个演唱会。因为她不喜欢这个演唱会，所以她不去。我想跟她去，但是她不想。

现在我也是老师
（totally correct）

音乐
我的宝贝给了我一张光盘。这张光盘有蔡依林的音乐，我也下载了SHE的音乐。我现在都在听她们的音乐。

我想在这里再用汉语写博客，可是我不知道什么时候再写。

Most Epic McDonald's Story Ever

Auch noch von allen die noch kommen werden (schamloses Dingens-Ripoff).
Aber erstmal von vorne... Heute waren wir, also Ich und Gogo auf einem DVD Abend eingeladen. Der war zum Einen hammer geil und am Ende war Ich auch gut betrunken, wobei ich der einzige war der getrunken hat, was eine Schande. Danach sind wir nach McDonalds gefahren. Es war ein umweg bis nach Kempen, aber was tut man nicht alles für einen Burger. McDonalds hatte bereits geschlossen, obwohl wir noch eine halbe Stunde Zeit hatten, also sind wir rüber gefahren zum Drive-Thru... Als wir am Ausgang von McDonalds stehen, frage ich, ob Ich ihn im Auto essen darf und Giesen hat sich entschlossen auch einfach einen Burger zu essen obwohl er mitten im Ausgang stand, aber es kam ja kein Auto. Giesen packt seinen Burger aus und als ich hingucke denke ich einen Monat ich habe zu viel getrunken, weil der Burger angebissen war ohne, dass ich Giesen reinbeissen gesehen habe. Ich sehe den Burger einen Moment lang verdutzt an... Giesen sieht den Burger einen Moment lang verdutzt an. Der Moment der Stille wurde dann von einem zu tiefst entsetztem WHAT THE FUCK Moment gestört. Wir parken auf dem Parkplatz und Giesen geht sich beschweren. Gogo, die es noch nicht verstanden hat was passiert ist, fragt mich, doch ich bin am heulen und lachen und kann mich nicht halten. Ich habe fast 5 Minuten an der frischen Luft gebraucht um ihr zu antworten was passiert ist. Giesen geht sich in der Zwischenzeit am Drive-Thru Schalter beschweren. Die Frau sagt nur "Echt wirklich" und Giesen denkt sich ein "Ne, Ich komme wegen einem Bissen nochmal hierhin". Danach denke ich mir nur: Wie verstrahlt kann man sein?! Man kann in einem Burger spucken und die Kunden würden es nie merken, aber reinbeissen ist das offensichtlichste was man tun kann und zeugt ja nur von der Ach-Scheiß-Drauf-Einstellung, die man den ARbeitern in Fast-Food-Ketten eh schon nachsagt. Als wir dann noch zuhause ankamen habe ich auch noch gemerkt, dass mein Burger einen extra Beilag Gurke hatte, obwohl ich ohne Gurke bestellt hatte und dann frage ich mich, wie scheiße muss man sich fühlen wenn man dort arbeitet, oder besser wie viel LSD haben die Mitarbeiter vorher geschluckt?

Spontanes Planen, Spontanes Absagen

Gegen den Karnevalsfrust wäre eine geflegte Hausparty das perfekte Mittel und nach der Zusage meines Vaters, dass er zum Wochenende das Haus verlässt wurden sofort Pläne in Angriff genommen. Nachdem 12 Personen eingaladen wurden, auch wenn es nur auf Facebook oder mit einer SMS war kam dann schon bald darauf die ernüchternde Wahrheit ans Licht. Mein Vater hatte Bereitschaft und muss nun doch arbeiten, dadurch haben sich nicht nur seine Pläne für das Wochenende verschoben. Nachdem ich nun alle Personen wieder ausgeladen habe, muss ich einsehen, dass es wohl wieder ein langes Wochenende ohne Party wird. Etwas ähnliches ist mir am Morgen schon in der Schule widerfahren. Erst heißt es, dass die 7.-9. Stunde ausfällt und dann ist es doch nur die 7. Stunde, doch nach der Vorfreude konnte ich einfach nichtmehr länger in der Schule bleiben. Das selbe nun schon wieder und dabei ist es viel schlimmer etwas zugesichert zu bekommen und es dann nicht machen zu können, als es von vorne hinein zu wissen, dass es nicht klappen wird.

And yet the next anniversary

So already it is 2 months. With all the school stress lately time still seems to rush. Probably because the study for the next exams are nothing compared to the doubts for the education after school. For our anniversary we cannot see each other, because she is in Berlin and i am writing a big math-test tomorrow. For next week it would be perfect to meet up, because i have so much free time after the tests and on the Karneval vacation, which i hate anyway. When i cannot see her i will probably be bored for nearly a week, when there is noone making a real party and noone being free, but only bad music and stuff. I either have to get an own party started then or study by that time. Best would be to meet up with my girlfriend though.