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.
