Come on, make our lives easier.

Out of every single nation in our world, only three haven't adopted the Metric System as the primary or sole system of measurement. Two of them - Myamnar and Liberia - are practically irrelevant to the rest of the world, while the third hard headed nation is... yes, you guessed it, the United States of America.

Why must they insist on keeping something no one else in the world uses? Why not just get rid of their method of measurement - inches, feet, miles and whatnot - and save a lot of time on converting from that crap to metric system values?

Then there's that region shit with video games and DVDs and so on. NTSC and PAL. Bloody hell, that's so annoying. Why? Why do that to us? I loved my Playstation when I was a kid. Then we moved here and all the games were PAL, I couldn't buy a damn thing until I illegally chipped the console. I tried watching a DVD yesterday on my laptop and I couldn't because it was region locked. Give us a break, you sell us consoles and DVD players and laptops here, then you sell us games and DVDs which we can't even watch on them?

They're doing one thing right. They're going to make accounting standards the same worldwide. Same methods of accounting everywhere. Of course you are, how annoying is it to do business internationally, only having to realise that you have to do all your accounts ALL OVER AGAIN in THEIR bloody method? Very.

Abolish the United States Customary System for units of measurement!

It's getting worse.

Gears of War 2 is still prevailing in our flat. The amount of cursing has increased significantly, as well as the physical abuse. Jo rammed me into the wall last time, smashed my shoulder pretty hard. And they've become so absorbed in the game. Observe:

That's pretty close to the telly...

Right after Jo threatened me to stop taking pictures. I think he was more interested in someone blowing up though.

Just look at that concentration!

Jo, the chainsaw will be ringing in your ears throughout the night...

Rock a Bye Baby.

The introduction of Xbox's Gears of War 2 in our flat is starting to induce a certain degree of, well, violence. Tonight, after hearing numerous chainsaw killings, mortar explosions and Maltese gamers curse everything that's holy, Jo couldn't take it anymore and practically told Luke to shut the fuck up so that he can go sleep.

How did he do this? Well he threatened Luke that if he hears him talk through the headset or he hears a chainsaw killing one more time, he'd destroy the Xbox. Feisty indeed. I remember my dad used to say that a lot with the computer, the PlayStation, and anything else capable of keeping a kid from boredom.

After a couple of minutes of ranting, Luke bluntly asked Jo if he would like to play. Funnily enough, Jo said that since he was awake, he'd love to play. Err okay. But then he changed his mind, and eventually went back to bed.

But it couldn't just end like that. Luke felt truly apologetic and decided that he should make it up to good old Jo le Ho. So he grabbed my guitar, went by Jo's room, and together we started singing Rock a Bye Baby. To our dismay, however, the only reply we received was "Shut the fuck up and go to sleep!".

I think Luke still managed to get Jo to admit that he still loved him though. And that's the important thing, really. The love here is undeniable.

Writer's block. Well, not really.

I can't even come up with a fucking title today. Must be 'cause I just woke up from a nap. Call of Duty 4 kept me up pretty late last night and I didn't really get much sleep. I better not get too obsessed over video games. Damn you Luke.

I finally decided to get my school leaving certificate today. The graduation was 3 months ago but I didn't go. And the only reason I went to get it today was because I needed it to apply for the Gozitan university student stipend. That's really the only reason you need your certificate if you're Gozitan.

Proper lectures begin this Monday. I start with a double lesson of Maltese law. Now isn't that a nice warm welcome. The time table is still one giant blur to me, it's pretty damn confusing. We haven't even been grouped yet so I think I'm going to have a few more free lessons than I already have.

Driving exams are only done on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. It's like, they deliberately did that to piss students off. How the hell am I supposed to find a free day to do the test. I need my license damnit.

As for the flat's electricity main, apparently nothing was wrong with it since the switchboard didn't get wet. The whole problem's been sorted out and fixed, supposedly.

I started reading a new book that Deborah lended me today. I have a handful of books to read from Jo. I'm not going to say what book I'm reading right now though, in case some asshole wants to spoil it for me. I'll talk about it when I finish. I hope to read it all in less than 24 hours. Started at 3pm today.

This means war.

First day at university wasn't so bad. Opening ceremony with a boring mass, yeah, but then we checked out the stands on campus after. Even got myself shown on the news, so I've heard, but I didn't see it. And I made it on TV a second time when they aired Imagery's and Overdrive's performance from last friday. I'm gonna be a star.

After many hours of troubleshooting I finally managed to start playing Call of Duty 4 with Jo and Luke. As predicted, I got my ass kicked to a pulp. On the plus side, I didn't do as bad as I thought I would. So yeah, we battled it out against each other for a couple of hours. I got knifed, sniped, blown up, everything. But I made a fair share of kills as well.

War online continued in real life. First we filled Luke's whiteboard (yes he has an old whiteboard in his room) with a bunch of stupid doodles. Then Jo was peering out the glass door in my room looking at the thunderstorm and, yes you guessed it, I creeped up from behind and shouted BOOM! I got punched a few times after that. Sore loser. Then he tried to scare me by sending Luke to hide in my wardrobe so that he could spring up on me when I went into my room again. Figured them out though so that didn't work. Then Luke locked Jo in the bathroom by placing my skateboard on a chair against the door handle. Jo decided to return the favour by barricading the bathroom when Luke was in it, with Luke's own furniture. I'm hiding in my room, listening to Luke's stern voice calling out for Joseph right fucking now.

Well it's time to retire for the night. Another meeting tomorrow at the University, at 9am. Followed by one at 10.30. Bedtime!

Boo.

Back at the flat. Got scared shitless by that fucker Jo who hid in my room and screamed as soon as I entered it. Made me shriek like a little girl, bastard. I paid him back though. He went to try the microwave and as he was standing there looking at it I crept up behind him, poked his sides and screamed BOOM! He almost shat himself. And I did it a second time in less than 5 minutes. Red, 2; Jo, 1.

Installed Call of Duty 4 today. Great game, but I still have to get used to it. Wasn't able to connect with Jo and Luke though. That's bad because I want to play with them, but it's good because I don't want to die all the time. So I'll just play the single player mode, crybaby-easy level.

The University lecturers are supposed to boycott tomorrow's opening day for us freshers. Thanks for the warm welcome you greedy assholes. Well I have a week of running around the campus going from one stand to another, listening to meeting after boring meeting. If the lecturers continue to strike for a couple of more weeks I'd be able to take my driving license exam. Whoop-dee-do.

Home away from home.

Mmm finally, internet in Malta.

First night at the flat has passed. Watched Saw with the others and then I watched Click because I couldn't sleep. Saw has a pretty awesome ending, I was so not expecting that "dead" guy to be Jigsaw. I also liked Click's moral of the story, you know, putting family before work. Touching.

Today I watched V for Vendetta which is also a great movie. However, I learned that you should never tell your friends what movie you're watching. Why? Well, there I was, minding my own business watching the movie when I received an SMS from Joseph who was in his room saying "V dies :D". The fucker then came into my room grinning cheesily so I flipped him off.

The university campus is still one giant maze to me. I can't get used to the damn thing. We Bcom students start lectures on the 7th of October. Booya.

Spore is quite an interesting computer game. The other guys love it but I'm not so keen on it. Guess it's because it would be easier if I had a mouse for this laptop. Oh yeah, note to self: get a frikkin' mouse. But no I don't really like the game anyway, not my kind of thing.

Nostalgia Pt 2.

I'm down to Episode 50 of Series 1 of the Digimon Series. Yes, 49 episodes in 4 days. I want to finish the series tonight. Ah the memories.

I've been playing some old Playstation games lately. The Crash Bandicoot series, to be exact. The first three, the ones by Naughty Dog. I never beat the first 2 though. The first one is extremely hard as hell, and it's annoying to save the game. I almost beat the second one. I beat the third one in a day last week, it's my favourite one of them all. The first game I ever bought, actually. Definitely a classic. Thanks to my friend Andrew and his blog (check the blogs I follow) for rekindling my interest in the game.