Don't know who the hell Confucius is? Increase your limited knowledge here.

Today is Confucius day, a day we dedicate towards the great philosopher with the same name, who was born this day a long long time ago and lived between 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E. He lived in China, and he died a long time ago, but his wisdom will live on forever. Honestly I know not much more about him than his name, so in honor of this great day I'm on my way to :WikiPedia: to read through the long streak of info they have on him. Good day.

Confirmation "a rite administered to baptized persons, in some churches as a sacrament for confirming and strengthening the recipient in the Christian faith, in others as a rite without sacramental character by which the recipient is admitted to full communion with the church."

My buddy Bear, since a year back Catholic from toes to hair, decided to seriously catholizize himself this year. Of course I was there, dressed up in a striped black shirt with backslicked hair. Felt strange being in a church, specially a Catholic one, and even stranger once the public prayers and god-worshiping songs began to take place. I didn't join in on any of them, just didn't feel right (I'm not religious you see), but I stood up with the rest of the crowd and listened to the bishops & priests interesting speeches in respectful silence. It was a pretty pompous event, with lots of hat-changes, big golden-like staffs and head squeezing as well as a general stream of people towards the altar. I laughed a bit inside when time for the 'friendly gesture' came, and everybody shook hands with everybody nearby, seeing as the government has tried to change the way people greet each other in order to halt the rapid increase in swine-flu nationally... not that swineflu bothers me any, all the people who have died in it so far were either sick in something else or really really old. Anyhow, once the whole ceremony was over and the confirmands (rough translation from Swedish) had all exchanged the traditional confirmatory greeting with the Bishop and pledged allegiance to the flag of God we all exited the room and Bears dad gave me a ride to Bears grandparents place where the after party was to be arranged.

We ate great, smoked salmon under a bed of mayonnaise and cucumber, surrounded by lemon slices, potato salad, pasta salad, marinated salmon, regular salad, sour onions and a little bit of everything. For drink there was Pomac and Wine (both red and white). Four of Bears other buddies were there as well and we all sat together and spoke on the terrace for a few hours. For dessert three delicious cakes were brought fourth, and following them personal ice cream slices as well. It's Swedish tradition (not Catholic) to give presents to the Confirmand, so everyone did. I brought the game Taifho (in fear that Bear might read this I will not reveal price or location of buy), which was seemingly an appreciated gift, Bears mom had played it before and gave it great praise to my upcoming content. We played it too, four players, I won. :)

One after another the guests left and after a while only I was left. We took a couple of long walks, first with Doris (dog) and then without, in the forest, in complete darkness. YouTubed half an hour, ate dinner (Quorn fillets with potatoes, salad and olives, some strong sauce, tasted good) and then I left at about ten. My mother waited patiently at the train station after having seen both a cat sorrowfully meowing by its owners bicycle and a mouse run across the road before her, signs. No Pokemon tonight.

One
And two
And some
A few
And three
We be
A group
A number
Dividable
Subtractable
Individuals
In whole
The sum
All together
Is none
But a roll

Well yeah it's over, but I finally got a hold of them nice pictures from some times of the time passed! Yeah! My camera wasn't working, but I managed to take a while with my sisters while she was on vacation, and they've been with my sister ever since, but no more! Here you go, no titles, but they shouldn't be needed. It was a great three months. :)

It's me, atop the mountain, the lake in the background. Our summer-place is somewhere to the left in front of the island cluster.

Great skies. :)

Streaming way past 400 mbps.

Once the paint starts running out I get artistic.

Light and shadow playing beautiful games in my room.

This years cake for my mother, homemade, of course. :)

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The golden game Gold recently addicted me, so I've been playing it oldschool on my GBC for the past few days. I made it through Pokemon League last night, and today I've made it all the way to the diglet tunnel hidden behind Snorlax massive sleeping body. Woke him up with the radio after picking up a piece of the powerplant from a fleeing theief nearby. Catching Snorlax was a breeze, used one of a few cloned Masterballs I have stashed away. I've made it through the game twice before, so everything is floating on like a breeze, I remember most of the events and how I should be getting there, but it's always nice when new things surprise me.

One thing that surprised me was the EXP-All Utsugi gave me for Gyrados red scale. I thought he wanted the whole Gyrados, so I made a clone of him, waste of time. I did an interesting discovery with EXP-All too, cloned it and gave it to all six of my Pokemon, and noticed, unfortunately, that it slits up the EXP double equally between all Pokemon who posses it, it's a shame, would've been so nice if all six Pokemon could gain a 1000something EXP every time I blast through Pokemon league, I'd have the whole collection in no time! :)

Been trying to catch rare Pokemon too. Catching Grimer and Muk was a piece of cake, one attack, then one Greatball each, no trouble. Catching Ditto was hell, I killed him/her (it, I mean, seeing as it lacks gender) while trying to capture it. Next time I managed to bring it down to the point where the red line was barely visible, I then paralyzed it, made it sleep, and wasted more than ten Greatballs, a couple of Ultraballs and even (just for experimentational purposes) a Pokeball, before finally capturing it, with a Greatball. That's like $8,000 - for a level ten Ditto! O_o Yamik was a pain in the ass as well, but most Pokemon go fine.

Pokemon Blue, Red & Chrystal should be popping up in my mailbox sometime next week, as well as a link cable that hopefully works between old and new GameBoy consoles. Otherwise I'll have to buy a new (old, of course) console from someone and that would be a waste. Could borrow one of course, maybe, but it would be much easier if it worked like it should work. I have Yellow already, so I look forward to trading in a few of the older Pokemon that aren't possible or are very hard to get in Gold. If it's possible to trade with Yellow, seeing as it's the very first generation hand-held Pokemon game... Chrystal is what I look forward to most though, but I won't be playing any next weekdays, too much to do, till next time in my supremely interesting Pokemon Life!

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