COMMENTS

Welcome to my Comments page. This is probably something a lot different than you thought it'd be. Here, I'll tell you what's new in my life. Or basically, whatever I want. Just stuff about me. All of it'll probably be a lot of stupid stuff. But, especially since it's the holidays now, I'd like you to know what's going on. I'll tell you about any new games I get, my gripes about things (maybe), and crap like that, lol. I just didn't know what to call this page, so I just called it my Comments page. Anyway, I'll probably update this page a lot more than the others. So check back often to see what new stuff I tell you. Okay.

I had stayed up all night, and had been laying down for a little while, not sure if I should go to bed or not, when I heard the terrible news. My brother came in the room and told me what happened, and I immediatly jumped out of bed and went to the living room TV, where my mom, dad, and little sister were all watching the horrible event. I couldn't believe it was happening. All those people dead (An estimated 10,000). I just watched in horror as they actually showed recordings of the planes ramming into the buildings. Debre' flying everywhere. And then to actually see the Federal Trade Building collapse! People were running and screaming everywhere.

And to think that at that moment you were watching as people's lives tragically ended. And there's absolutely nothing you could do about it . . . except watch. It was so horrible. You could actually see people jumping out of the windows on fire . . . To just watch as they scream in pain and fall to their deaths. Meanwhile I'm sitting in my house, thousands of miles away, watching it on the news . . .

Okay, I still haven't gotten around to adding the GameCube page or anything on E3 (Actually, I got started, but haven't finished). But I promise I will get around to it soon. I started to update the other day when the stupid thing messed up on me and I lost all I wrote. But, luckily it wasn't very much.

My mom and dad went to church (Where they were going to have some dessert and stuff), but I decided to just stay home and see if I could see fireworks from our roof. Well, I went up there, but we weren't really able to see anything. Kinda sucked. We could see some fireworks, but they were pretty far away and we couldn't see them very good. We (Me, my brother, my friend and his little brother) stayed up there for about two hours or so too, but never really saw any good fireworks. Every once in a while someone would launch some off from their house (Which is illegal!), but other than that, NOTHING!

Okay, well, I really am sorry for not updating. It wasn't my fault thought because there was something wrong with my site builder Trellix, that I use to make it. For some reason it wouldn't upload. But, as you can see, it finally worked, so, I guess, as long as it keeps working, I'll continue to update. :-)

Okay, I said on my "What's New" page that a lot had happened since I last updated, but, now that I think of it, not that much has really happened. For some reason, I thought I hadn't updated my site in a LONG time, when it really wasn't that long . . . I guess it just felt like it was, lol. So anyway, the only thing that's really worth mentioning that's happened to me (us . . . my family) is that . . . we finally got a vehicle!

So anyway . . . . well, it's a very . . . . I hate to say religous . . . but, it really kinda is . . . it was just . . . like . . . a miracle that happened. Well, not really a miracle, per say, but . . . well, ok, I'm just going to go ahead and tell you what happened (I wasn't going to, but it really is a neat testimony of what God will do for you when you truly are following and believing in him). So anyway, here it goes.

Well, for the last couple of weeks previous to this, we had been walking to our church (Because we didn't have a vehicle to drive there in). Occasionally we would get a ride there from somebody, but, you know, we couldn't always have someone come pick us up to drive us to church. So, one day, when it came time to go to church, none of us kids really wanted to go. I mean, we, or at least I, WANTED to go, it's just we had to walk, and when you live in Phoenix, Arizona, and it's over a hundred degrees outside, and you have to walk about half a mile or so, in the blisteringly hot heat (It was probably about 105 degrees or so out there) . . . You know, I didn't feel like walking all that way! Understandible, right? lol.

So anyway, my dad and mom walked up there by themselves, and we stayed home. And, my dad said, while he was walking to church, he told God, that he was just tired of having to walk to church everytime (Sunday and Wednesdays). And he told him (And yes, he actually did say it out loud) that, you know, he had been doing everything it says in the his Word to do. We had been paying our tithe (Ten percent of your earnings: money) and everything, and God says that if you honor him, and lift his word up to him, that he'll do what he says. My dad told him that, he [God] knew that we needed a vehicle, and then told him that he knew, we were honoring him and doing what he says.

And also, for the past couple of weeks, my dad had been giving OVER his tithe. He would give as much as he could (Which wasn't much) about 50 cents or so more. But you know, when you have no money, fifty cents is a lot. And when he put that extra money in the offering, he specifically named it: "Reliable Transportation". That's what he wanted. That's what he told God this extra money was going for, "reliable transportation". Something, ANYTHING! But, he wanted something that could get us to church and everywhere else, without breaking down on us or anything. Something that he could "rely" on, to get us where we needed to go.

Well, that day, after church, while everyone was just having fellowship with each other and stuff (Talking). He was talking to the pastors father Jim. And he said he was just talking to him and stuff, and he saw the pastors brother walk buy (Jeremy). And he said that he just kinda, passed them by a couple times. Until he finally just came up to my dad and asked him if he could talk to him.

And, at first, my dad was like "what, really?". And he asked, Jeremy again. "Did God really tell you to do that?". And Jeremy told him "yeah', that God really told him that. And my dad asked him once again, he goes "Are you sure, absolutely positive that God told you that?". And Jeremy said "yes". He goes "Steve (My dad), I wouldn't make something up like this. I'm not a very giving person. I mean, I give. But I wouldn't just GIVE something like my truck away to someone". He said that he needed his truck. But, he said he's really planting a seed. He knows that by giving his truck to us, that God will repay him back, with an even better truck. Because he actually needs a bigger truck, than the one he gave to us, for his job and stuff.

I've got a new friend. His name is Martin. I met him by going to his web-site, Rareware 2001 (Note: His new site is Rareware UK. Check it out on my links page). It's a pretty cool site. I wrote him about it and told him it was cool and everything. And we've since been writing to each other. He lives in Scotland. You can check his site out on my link's page, or by clicking right here.

First things first, I just wanted to let you all know that I've dropped out of school. I was a sophomore in High School (I'm sixteen), and was going to a charter school called Westwind Academy. It was a pretty good school too. I really liked the teachers there, they were good and actually cared for the students. I had three people (2 from the office and one teacher) call my house just to see how I was doing! Anyway, I dropped out because I seriously don't think school's helping me. It's just wasting my time. I'm not learning anything. And even when I do learn things, I usually forget what I learned by the next month or so. And to me, why learn something your just going to forget? So I just decided to drop out. I didn't finish my Sophomore year either. It kinda sucks though, because that means everything I did the whole year is wasted now. I did all that for nothing! So, I'm not going to school now. Maybe I'll start updating a lot more since I have the time too.

Also, I wanted to let you know that I've gone to the dark side. lol, just kidding. Well, I have a Playstation 2 now. It's not actually mine though (It's my brothers), but I still do play it. So far we haven't bought any actual Playstation 2 games yet, just Playstation One games. We have Gran Turismo 2, Tekken 3, Final Fantasy IX, and Twisted Metal 4. My cousin also let me "borrow" some of his old Playstation games he doesn't play anymore. Resident Evil (#1) and Command & Conquer Red Alert Retalliation (He never played them though, so I'll probably end up just keeping them :-)

Right now I'm playing Final Fantasy IX and Resident Evil the most. There are actually a lot of Playstation games I want. Especially RPG's. So far though, there isn't one Playstation 2 game that I REALLY want. The only ones I'm looking forward too aren't out yet. They are Metal Gear Solid 2:Sons of Liberty and Final Fantasy X. And kind of Twisted Metal Balck. The only game that's out now that I kinda want is Tekken Tag Tournament. But other than that, I think the Playstation 2 line-up so far pretty much sucks. In my opinion there isn't one must-own PS2 game. And they are even coming out with updated (or improved) versions of Metal Gear Solid 2 for the Xbox (And maybe GameCube) and an improved version of SSX for GameCube (Even though I don't think I care for that game that much, although to be fair I haven't played it yet).

But don't worry, I am still a die-hard Nintendo loyalist. Although I'll still play Sony's system and games, I still like Nintendo the most and think they are the best company and make the best games. And, I am still playing N64 and Game Boy Color games regularly. Right now I'm playing The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (No, I still haven't beaten it) and Pokemon Yellow a lot. I also play Super Smash Bros. w/ my brothers and friends almost regularly (SSB has to be one of the greatest multiplayer/party games ever created!). It's kinda cool now, because it's like I play almost all systems the same. I play Nintendo 64, Playstation One, Playstation 2, and Game Boy Color. I also still play my Super NES sometimes. And I play my Game Boy Color about as often (If not more so) than I play my other console systems. And I'm planning on getting a GameCube and a Game Boy Advance sometime too. Maybe a Dreamcast for cheap, and maybe also a Xbox.

Well, that's about all the news about me that's been going on lately. We got a new TV and Stereo (w/CD Player that holds 3 discs and plays CD R's and RW's and also has 2 tape decks and a radio). And I've also been going to church every Sunday and usually on Wednesday. And I might start taking some Bible classes too. They're on Praise and Worship, the ministrey of Helps, and on the Holy Spirit. My mom's taking them right now, and since I'm not in school anymore, I might start taking those classes. The pastor at the church is real nice and is a cool guy. He's also real young for a pastor (He's only 29!). He's cool too. He even plays games (He has a PS2) and, get this, his favorite movie is, The Matrix. lol. Anyway, his name is Aaron Dunn, and he's probably one of the greatest pastors you'll ever see.

Well, not much is going on in my life right now . . . except school. I have to do a take-home test over this weekend, and I also have to do a little presentation on Monday. I also have to make up a test sometime when I go back to school. And make up another Power Point Presentation that I was supposed to do on a mathmatician (I got Isaac Newton).

I missed four days of school though, from Friday to Thursday. But as I said I am now over it. And I really don't have that much make-up work. Just that presentation and test that I missed. Luckily though, I can do the presentation to the teacher instead of to the class if I want to (I'm gonna), and she said just hurry up and turn it in whenever I'm finished with it. Which is good.

Well, I've stopped playing Pokemon Yellow a lot. I'm stuck in it now though, so I haven't played it in a while. I still haven't beaten Majora's Mask. I'm pretty close to the last dungeon though, and I've got like 22 masks or something like that. I did however beat The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX, although I haven't found the last Color Dungeon yet.

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, it's just with school and everything, I want to do something besides update my site, like play games, sorry. I've also got an upcoming project in Math that is due this Friday. I have to research about a mathmatition, then write a paper on him (I got Isaac Newton) and then also do a PowerPoint Presentation on him. So I probably won't get to do a lot of updating to my site. Again, sorry. I will try though, if I can muster up the energy, to work on it more tonight or tomarrow offline, and maybe update if I can. Hopefully I'll try to update it at least once a week. You'll probably see a lot more little updates and tweaks to the site. Like I plan on re-writing my homepage welcome thing, and working some more on the Upcoming N64 Games page. I also want to get at least a page on the upcoming GameCube and Game Boy Advance Systems. But I still don't know when I'll ever get around to it. Well, gotta go.

1. I got a Tekken Tag Tournament Soundtrack CD. Don't ask me why (I didn't ask for it) but I was looking at it one day at Babbages, while my mom was there. And I said "Cool" or something like that, so she went out and bought it for me, lol. Little did she know that I don't even have any Tekken games, or a Playstation 2 (or even a Playstation). But, it is pretty cool anyways. It's got 33 tracks, and I haven't even listened to all of them yet. But the ones I have listened to so far are pretty cool. I'm glad I got it, because I always like listening to cool music (And I do like the Tekken series. I play Tekken 3 sometimes when I go over my cousin's house).

7. I got The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX. Even though I used to have the original version of Link's Awakening (For the regular Game Boy) I still wanted the color one. Because now it's in full color, and it also has some extra stuff (including a whole extra new dungeon). It's still just as cool as I remember, if not a little easier.

8. I got Pokemon Yellow. Okay, I flat out LOVE this game!! I've only played The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Which I got for my birthday) once since I got this game. That's how cool and addicting it is. I love it! It's totally awesome. Right now I've probably got somewhere around 20 Pokemon. I think anybody that has a Game Boy Color, should definately buy this game. No questions asked. Whether they even remotely like Pokemon or not. It's a awesome game!!

8. I got Pokemon Silver. Now, I'm pretty sure that once I play Silver, I'll like it a lot more than Yellow. That's why I've kept myself from playing it (Actually, I haven't even opened the package yet. It's still wrapped in plastic). The reason I haven't played it yet, is because, well, first, I want to play the first Pokemon game, before I play the sequel. Because that way, once I do play Pokemon Silver, I'll be able to know what all the new features are, and what they've updated and tweaked and stuff from the first game. If I played Silver first, then Yellow, I wouldn't know what they changed or enhanced. And Yellow would also probably be a lot more boring and frustrating. By playing Yellow first, I can get familiar with the controls, and the menu's, and how to battle, and all that stuff. So then when I play Silver, I'll really be able to appreciate all of the improvments that they made. I think that this is a good decision. I'm thinking of beating Yellow first, before I play Silver. Or at least, get really far (near the end), so that I'll be really fimiliar with it, and be able to appreciate all they did to enhance the gameplay, and make it a better game. Right now, in Yellow, I just beat Leutenant Surge and got the Thunder Badge in Vermilion City. I think I'm doing pretty good so far :-). Okay, onto the rest of my Game Boy Color related presents.

9. The first thing I got for my Game Boy Color is a carrying case. It's pretty cool, it holds about eight games (w/out cases), the system, Batteries, and some other stuff (I put my Worm Light and the rest of the games that won't fit in the game pocket, in the other one). It's pretty cool, and is really, really padded and protected.

10. I got a cool little thing called a Shock 'N Rock. It connects to the bottom of the Game Boy Color, and adds two speakers (Stereo, one on each side), and adds rumbling to every game. The only bad thing is that the rumbling feature goes by the sound generated in the game, so the backround music usually creates more rumbling than the actual attacks and getting hit, ec cetra, does. Which sucks, because, like in Pokemon, for example, it would've been cool if it rumbled when your Pokemon got attacked, but, that doesn't generate any rumbling, and the music during the battle does. Oh, well. It's still pretty cool. The Shock 'N Rock also has two other cool things about it. It comes with a adapter so that you can recharge the built-in batteries in the Shock 'N Rock. It lasts about, 20 hours (I think, something like that) on a 16-hour charge. And the adapter also doubles as an actual adapter that you can use to power your Game Boy Color, instead of having to use batteries. All in all, it's a very cool peripheral.

11. The last thing I got for my Game Boy Color was a Game Shark. The one I got was actually the newest version of the Game Shark for the Game Boy Color, called Game Shark Online. Using a CD that it comes with, you can hook your Game Boy Color up to a computer, and access from all kinds of cool features. It can even turn your Game Boy Color into a miniature computer (sort of) with a built in clock, calender, address book, telephone thing, E-mail, and chatting (Note: Oops, sorry. I got this part wrong. I later found out that the Game Shark with all that computer type stuff is a different version that they haven't came out with yet). It's pretty cool. The only thing is, my CD-ROM drive is broken right now, so I can't access any of the special features :-(

It even has this cool new thing called Snapshots. Using it, you can play any game, and the Game Shark takes a picture of where you are in the game (After you're done playing and press the button, of course), it then can go back into the game (once you've turned it off) and find that exact spot where you were in the game. Thus you can save on any game. It's pretty cool. And if you have a computer (And a WORKING CD-ROM drive!) you can save as many "snapshots" as will fit on your hard-drive. Luckily though, the Game Shark can save one snapshot. So I can still use the feature.

(On a side note, a few days after Christmas, my mom & dad (just out of the blue), bought us four new video tapes. They got us Mortal Kombat, Deep Blue Sea, Armagedden, and The Matrix Widescreen Collector's Edition. All of them are very cool (Especially The Matrix Collector's Edition, which includes four behind-the-scenes specials. Just like a DVD!), and I'm glad they got them.)

To celebrate the New Year, we went to our church (Which is called Church on Fire (CoF). It was pretty cool. We had a potluck (Think that's what you call it) where everyone brought in food and then we ate dinner and stuff (After having worship and stuff, of course). We then lit some candles and celebrated the New Year in prayer, worshiping the Lord! It was awesome. Happy New Year everyone!!!!

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. Umm . . . . Well, we finally have our Christamas Tree up, and it has TONS of presents under it. Probably around 50 (About ten for each of us kids (4), and some for my mom, dad, and grandma). I would tell you what I think I got, but I'll save it until Christamas, when I'll actually know what I got. Anyway, I'm a lot farther in Majora's Mask now. I've finally got all three transforming masks. The Deku Scrub Mask, Goron Mask, and Zora Mask. I think all of them are really cool. Especially the Goron and Zora masks. The Goron masks special ability is AWESOME! All I'll say is it'll blow you away when you see it. Ok, well, maybe not. But it's really, really, cool nonetheless. And I just beat the Great Bay Temple (Mainly the Zora Temple). It was pretty hard, but still seemed kind of short or something. Well, guess I'll get going, I'll probably update again after Christmas, not sure when though. As I'm sure I'll be very occupied with all my presents (We have tons of them!!!!) :-) See ya later. And have a very, merry Christmas!!

Yes!! I just beat the first dungeon in The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask. This is a very, very, very awesome game! I like it even better than Ocarina of Time! And anyone who even remotely liked that game should definately check out Majora's Mask. PLAY THIS GAME!!!!!! That's all I can say. It is magnificently designed, with even more items, puzzles, people, innovations (kinda), and everything that made Ocarina of Time such a magnificent game, is displayed here, tenfold! This game rocks!! Probably the best game that will EVER be released for the Ninendo 64. And if you can, try to pick up the Collectors Edition. It really makes your Majora's Mask game pak look special by having a gold cassing (Well, even the regular version has this) and a holographic 3-D label. It looks very cool. Just by looking at it, you can tell that this is no ordinary game. It's a totally awesome adventure. Filled with hours of fun and mystery. BUY IT NOW!

Okay, first up, I got a new pair of headphones. They're pretty good ones (Super Bass) too. Next, I got the new DC Talk CD, called Intermission: A Decade of DC Talk. It's cool. It has lots of songs from all of their old albums, plus two new songs and two remixed tracks! The only sucky thing is that we only have one CD Player! It's a big one in the living room that used to belong to my grandma (Well, still does). It holds five discs. Well, we did have this pretty cool stereo that had a CD player, tape deck, and radio, but for some stupid reason the CD player doesn't work. The tape deck also eats tapes! So the only thing that works on it is the radio (Which I don't listen to). My brother also used to have a Disc Man, but it broke too (Again, not sure how). Also, the CD player in our computer doesn't work!!!! And again, I have no idea how in the heck (or why) it isn't working. But it won't play anything! So all the CD players in my house (besides my grandma's old one) are broken!!! It's amazing! I never knew someone could have so many broken CD players. lol. But anyway, I still got the CD. And since my grandma's works, I've still been able to listen to it (luckily).

It's a totally awesome game, and I love it just as much (If not more) than Ocarina of Time. I haven't gotten very far yet (I haven't even reached the 1st dungeon yet), but I'm getting new things all the time. I wanted Majora's Mask the most. It's a really cool game. And I suggest that all of you reading this go out and buy it. YOU WON'T REGRET IT!! It's awesome, and a lot different (yet eerily similar), than Ocarina of Time. I'll probably put some stuff up on the game soon. Or when I beat it (Which won't be soon), but probably before that.

F-Zero X. It's a very cool game and I'm planning on making a F-Zero X section soon (actually, maybe even today). Then I got the game Body Harvest for $10. I mainly bought this game for my brother Mike though, who couldn't play Majora's Mask (Because there's only two save files, and I gave the second one to my brother Zach) and actually wanted me to get that game instead of F-Zero X. But I was able to get both. I actually haven't played it yet though. But all together, that's three new Nintendo 64 games I got for my birthday. Which should keep me busy for quite a while (And actually Majora's Mask has been keeping me from updating my site).

Well, that's all for my birthday. Man! In like, the space of two months or so, we've (Me and my brothers) gotten five new N64 games, altogether. My friend Alex (Who also gave us X-Men) gave us Starfox 64 (Pretty cool game), and we also bought the game (again, used) Banjo-Kazooie at Blockbuster. Banjo's another pretty cool game! It's very fun, and is a HUGE game!! I MIGHT add sections to both games. Maybe just one, maybe none, not sure. But I have a lot of stuff I still want to do, and don't have a lot of time to do it (school, playing games, etc.).