Monday 9 January 2017

My Last Holiday

There was not much going on during my holiday, I didn’t go anywhere. I planned to do something productive like studying something or making mind map for my lessons. But I just couldn’t muster the will to do all those things. So it became some sort of routine between playing computer game, reading a book, and watching movies. Because of this I will explain about the games I played, the books I read, or the movies I watched.



One of the game I played is called Hearts of Iron 4, it’s a world war II themed strategy game where I can play as any country that exist either in the year of 1936 or 1939. But in this game, the plot doesn’t have to be the same with the historic event, everything that happened is based on my choices, for example I could make a fascist United States or a democratic Germany.

In one of my play through, I played as the German Reich. But instead of declaring war against Poland I became their ally and invited them to the Axis faction. After that I decided to attack France, so I need to take over Belgium first to go around France’s defense which is called the Maginot Line. After the fall of Brussels, I prepared my army to march to the heart of France, Paris. But something I didn’t expect happened after I declared war against France. They allied themselves with the United Kingdom, which also brought their allies Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and British Raj into the war. With this development, I tried to march faster to Paris to get enough victory point to trigger France’s capitulation. But, when France was in the verge of capitulation something happened. The French joined the United Kingdom under the same flag. Essentially merging into one bigger country. Which makes them harder to defeat because it has more national unity, so I have to get more victory points. I gave up after that, what I thought would be a swift victory just turned out to be the beginning of a world war. So I ended the game and closed it.




The book that I read is actually a part of trilogy, it’s called the Mistborn series. But I have only finished the first book, The Final Empire and now I’m currently still reading the second book, The Well of Ascension. The story was set in the Final Empire which is ruled by a self-proclaimed god-king called the Lord Ruler. It revolves around a thieving crew that tries to liberate the final empire from the clutches of the lord ruler. Some of the people in the empire have some special power. This power gave them the ability to harness powers by consuming metals. Some of these powers are strength, enhanced senses, the ability to manipulate other people’s emotion, and some other powers. This thieving crew consists of people with this kind of power. Make no mistakes though the lord ruler also has this power, and is believed to be immortal. But I think it’s safe to say that we all believe that they will succeed in the end.

So yeah, that was my holiday. It wasn’t that interesting, but for me it was quite nice. It wasn’t as productive as I hoped though. But at least I had some sort of fun. Even though I mostly stayed at home.