Today I just posted my latest achievement for my Candy Crush addiction and wondered when they would update the game on the iPad and they just did it!
So I guess crushing candies in the office will resume…
Archive | Activity RSS feed for this section
It Finally Happened
20 SepJust when I least expected it, I crossed Level 410 on the laptop last Saturday! Yippee kah yay!!! And not only I received 3 stars for my gallant effort, I am the champion of the Polkapalooza episode. (Silly grin.)
I guess the love for the game continues as I will play on, on the laptop to march forth as I await the update on the iPad.
But as I do not play Candy Crush in the office—a statement that somewhat contradicts because I am a full time Candy Crusher and occasional graphic designer—the march will be slow. Currently, I am at Level 412 and the annoying tornadoes zipping here and there will make the march even slower.
Related articles
- I Feel Cheated! (angieneering.wordpress.com)
So Predictable
17 SepI do not like to promise my girls things whenever we have conversations in order to avoid disappointments or having promises broken. Instead I keep the situation open by saying,“We shall see…” so that I am not held ransom on my word and they have their expectations hopeful; and if circumstances are not favorable, the disappointment is not so painful. Now this is different from the ‘Carrot Program‘.
Conversations revolving the “We shall see…” are usually pertaining to buying ice cream, books and snacks – daily needs and not significant rewards or trips like those under the ‘Carrot Program‘.
M1 and M2 has been drilled enough with this that whenever when they ask for something, before I could open my mouth to state the obvious, they’d go, “We know… We know… We shall see…”
Is it good to be predictable?
How You Spell Your Name Again? Part 2
12 SepThe hubby just shared a fall-off-your-chair scenario he encountered with regards to names. Brings to mind what I wrote a while back on the same topic, how does one spell your name.
Yesterday morning he went by the car service center to inquire about a part to replace for car number three. The order was put in since June and until now, we have yet to receive confirmation for its arrival. Patiently waiting for his turn while the receptionist was on the phone, he overheard the conversation.
The other side: (Complains… Complains… he imagines).
Receptionist: “No, you must bring your car in for service regularly.”
The other side: (More complains…. he imagines).
Receptionist: “I understand but you must bring it in for service.”
The other side: (Disguntled now… he sense frustration).
Receptionist: “Seven.”
The other side: Stumped silence.
Hubby was stupefied.
Receptionist repeated: “Seven.”
The other side and him: Further silence and then muffled chortles.
Huh? Is that a name?
The other side: (How you spell your name again?) and this must be going through his mind too!
Receptionist: “S-E-V-E-N. Seven.”
It was the tone and direction of the conversation that had the other side asking the receptionist what her name is and she obliged.
Dang! Is that a name? Harper Seven Beckham she ain’t, that’s for sure!
I Feel Cheated!
6 SepLast night, I was going through my usual routine playing Candy Crush and then Zookeeper Battle, I decided to use the laptop to continue crushing candies for I had ran out of lives on the iPad.
Ever since arriving at Level 410, I have yet use the laptop to play the game. To my horror, I discovered that this level has a different and much easier layout in the app on Facebook compared to the app on the iPad! How could this be? I feel cheated!! Of my time, effort and energy, what more, lives wasted in my attempt to overcome this level.
The grid of the iPad app has four less squares on it, thus making it harder to conquer compared to the app on Facebook on the laptop.
iPad Mini: see the two left and right gaping spaces above the bombs?
MacBook Air: now see the same spots, not gaping but with candies over jellies!
With just that two extra squares on each side at the bottom, the playing field becomes totally different in strategies and moves to diffuse the bombs and eliminate the jellies. I have played the game long enough to know the level of difficulty and challenges thrown at us. So my level of authority on this is credible.
And for as long as I have been addicted to the game, this is the first time I am encountering a discrepancy in the grid on two different devices when it shouldn’t be. Hello… King.com Limited, you hear me? Fix it on the iPad so that my feeling cheated will not mar the love affair that I have with Candy Crush.
Related articles
- The Addiction Continues (angieneering.wordpress.com)
- A New Addiction (angieneering.wordpress.com)
The Addiction Continues
29 AugLast Saturday morning, I woke up early for my golf game, planned ages ago. And in my morning ritual, the iPad Mini is always whipped out to check mail, update FB status and play a few of my usual games. To my dismay, I discovered Candy Crush has an update (to Level 410)! Oh dear. I am still stuck at 394 and the much awaited update finally came.
But I can only update after I return from the golf course. Sigh. I guess I am still suckered in to continue and just cannot pull away from this candy addiction.
After the golf game where Candy Crush was also among the topics yakked by the other lady golfers during lunch, I was given some sound advice on how to tackle that frustrating level. Armed with a new determination, I went home and got down to business. I should thank my advisor and my lucky stars for I finally crossed that dastardly level! It’s always the same pattern: just when you want to give up, they allow you to cross and get suckered in to continue the game.
For the record, I have reached the end of this new update and there’s only two possibilities: I will most likely overcome the last level and wait for the update or be frustrated by it and bid my time to overcome it. Either scenario will have me contemplating (again) whether to move forth on the computer or just wait until another new update comes around for the iPad.
Sucker indeed.
What Time Are You Coming Home?
22 AugLast week, it was not a typical Friday. We were so busy going in and out of the office, running errands and all. I hardly had time for my Candy Crush, let alone my Zookeeper Battle. Thank goodness work in the office was manageable. M1 had a birthday party so she was out with her friends the whole day. M2 was left home alone to do more revision on this last day of the holiday before the weekend kicked in and then back to school.
I called home several times to check on her progress and both times, she told me she was resting as her tummy did not feel well. Hmm. Excuses?
It was 8.30pm when we were on our way to fetch M1 from her friend’s place when I spoke to M2 again. “What time are you coming home?” she lamented.
“Soon. We’re on our way to fetch M1 and should be back by nine. Are you ok?” I pitied her loneliness.
“No. Mosquitoes are attacking me!” M2 complained.
“Why don’t you go upstairs to your room then?” I suggested.
“Nah. I’ll wait for you downstairs but hurry home please! I need people here so that the mosquitoes has somebody else to attack!”
Pppfffftttt…. So much for loneliness and missing us!
Chat
Too Much, Too Little
21 AugIt was a clear case of too much, too little of everything that had M3 zonked out by 10pm last night.
From her arrival to our country, to the school for activities, to our home and doing more stuff, there was hardly time to rest. Coupled with an unfortunate sleepless night, no thanks to our mosquitoes, M3 was so exhausted to the point of being nauseous.
Earlier yesterday I commented to hubby on how I wish I had her energy when I travel. “We were only young once,” sighed hubby dearest. Indeed. But even then with M3’s youthfulness and exuberance, exhaustion got the better of her.
This morning, after the triple assault on the army of mosquitoes, I am glad to say she was well rested and back to her bubbly self and ready for another adventurous day ahead!
Chat
Being a Good Host
20 AugAnd so being a good host means bringing your guest to see the sights, after work.
The hubby and I assigned duties for each other for the evening: I was to fetch M2 from her tuition class and thereafter swing by to see my mom; he will bring M3 and M1 to see KL tonight. They’d go for a drive and enjoy the bright lights and cityscape.
A New Addiction
16 AugCandy Crush has me addicted to it early this year when I downloaded the app out of curiosity. I don’t normally follow trending apps and fill up my iPad with top games that half the world is playing but I guess this one caught me. It could be worst in my addiction but thankfully I am not like some of my fellow Candy Crushers who would message me on the phone or Facebook to send them lives.
Since then, I have completed the Saga twice and ‘retired’ twice (read: stopped playing temporarily) from the game. The ‘retirement’ was simply due to the fact I could not progress beyond because the app on the iPad stopped at Level 350, hence the first retirement, then an update to Level 365 and the second retirement before the latest update to Level 395. Unlike the same game on Facebook where it goes on and on, the iPad app ends here for now.
Currently, I am stuck at Level 394 and contemplating yet another retirement but sensing a déjà vu, I am at a cross road here. Should I go on or not once I reach 395? M2 tried to play the game to understand my addiction but gave up; M1 just doesn’t even look at it.
In the middle of all this soul searching, I stumbled upon a new game and the girls call it my new addiction, Zookeeper Battle. I just completed my 500th battle yesterday. It’s pretty fun, mindless and quite destressing in its own way. So my full time candy crushing status may change… we shall see.
Angieneering 
Remarks