Training Camp

Training Camp

Bahnhofstrasse! Oo

Absurd road signs...

More crazy road signs.

new baby plants

Hello everyone! 

I got new baby plants.

pot tomato (actual height: 5cm)

flowers (actual height: 1cm)

balm (actual height: 8cm)

oregano (actual height: 5cm)

I managed to repot my mimosa. 

These four grew up in one pot and were totally grown together.
It was quite troublesome to seperate them without damaging the roots too much.

Hope they recover soon.

Alborada del Gracioso written by Maurice Ravel

Delicious Baked Wheat Flour

Found in the Asia store today:

 is this really supposed to be edible?

(smells like fresh printed books, tastes like soap)

colorful eyes

snow macros

Snow Macros

orchid macros

Orchid Macros

At the Limmat 2

 

Elephants everywhere:

 

 

 

faces

 

 I used Adobe Photoshop together with a Bamboo graphic tablet.

Yeast Timelapse

My clockman Shiro

Hi folks!

This is Shiro. She is a clockman (clockwoman) and speaks Japanese.

She is quite chatty and sometimes a little huffy. 

You can hit her twice and she'll tell you the time.

If you want her to be silent, turn her through 90° and she'll sleep.

There are four types of clockmen with different characters
according to the four blood types. 

If you want to read more about blood types in Japanese culture,
click here. 

You can get one for example in the Japan Trend Shop.

How to Pumpkin Soup

It is pumpkin-soup-time again! And here is how it works:

What you need:

1 piece of pumpkin 

1 small onion

1-2 garlic cloves

half an orange

salt and pepper
oil

bouillon

curry if you like

Enjoy your meal!

My top Super Nintendo [SNES] games

Super Mario World

Developer:  Nintendo

Difficulty: Easy

“Super Mario World” is a jump’n’run game with simple but good graphics. Since this game is a classic, you can find tons of general reviews in the web. Therefore I’ll tell you what I personally like about the game: Yoshi shows up for the first time! Yoshi is very helpful and knows lots of tricks. Another thing I like about this game is the fact that there are levels with a hidden second-exit. These second-exits will lead to extra levels, if you can find them.The designers put a lot of effort into the details. The game does not require special skills, is family- and newbie-friendly and therefore top.

Super Mario World 2: Yoshi’s Island

Developer:  Nintendo

Difficulty: Easy

Even though this game is the successor of “Super Mario World”, the plot goes  back into the past. It starts with a stork, bringing baby Mario and baby Luigi to their prospective parents. But mean old Kamek surprises the stork and kidnaps baby Luigi. Meanwhile baby Mario falls onto the green Yoshi on Yoshi’s Island. The game consists of six worlds, each having eight levels. Each level you play a Yoshi with another color. Baby Mario has to be carried through all the levels and will begin to cry when Yoshi takes damage. The crying gets gradually more and more annoying, which is by the way a good motivation to avoid too many fails. Once again cute and good graphics and therefore top. 

Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow

Developer: Disney, Eurocom, Bonsai Entertainment

Difficulty : Hard

“Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow” or “Donald in Maui Mallard” is a platform game featuring Donald Duck and his inner Ninja. I really love the Disney-like graphics and the soundtrack for some levels. You can listen to the soundtrack and watch the whole walkthrough of this game on my youtube channel. The game doesn't have that many levels but some of them are pretty tricky and took me a while to get through. Quite challenging and therefore top.

The Legend of Zelda – A Link to the Past

Developer:  Nintendo

Difficulty: Easy

“The Legend of Zelda” is an action adventure RPG series.  The game is about a young boy called Link, wearing green clothes and living in the forest. His quest is in most of the cases to save the world or princess Zelda. What I especially like in “A Link to the Past” is the mirror which allows you to switch between two different worlds. This is to my opinion an interesting game-concept and it’s not the only one in the “Legend of Zelda” series. Another game in this series is called “Majoras Mask” which comes with the following concept: You have three days left to save the world. But with the help of your ocarina you can rewind time and go back to the dawn of the first of these three days as many times as you wish in order to fulfil all the quests. Another thing that often shows up in Zelda-games is the Triforce. It is a symbol which consists of three equal triangles forming another big triangle (or in mathematics: a sierpinski triangle for n equals two). The three fragments represent strength, courage and wisdom. The whole “Legend of Zelda” series is characterized by fascinating background stories as well as interesting quests and therefore top.  

Parodius

Developer: Konami

Difficulty: Easy

“Parodius” is a horizontal scrolling-shooter. The game contains many non sense elements and the graphics are extremely colorful. It’s the only shooter I’ve ever enjoyed playing and therefore top.  

Prehistorikman

Developer : Titus Interactive, Nintendo

Difficulty : Medium

“Prehistorikman” is another platform game. The protagonist is Sam, a caveman whose quest is to collect food and treasure for his tribe. His weapons are a club and his voice. The levels  are quite simple at the beginning but their difficulty increases rapidly. The two things I like about the game is first that the things Sam is supposed to collect are not that typical for Stone Age. You will find for example ice cream or McDonald food. The second thing is that each time a speech bubble appears, you hear a voice saying  “hap how how hap how hap hap hap how hap how how” . Definitely a creative realization of Stone Age language. Simple plot, simple levels, groovy graphics and a pinch of irony are the reasons for this game being one of my top games.

Terranigma

Developer: Quintet

Difficulty: Medium

“Terranigma” is my favorite action RPG. The story is about a world that has an external surface called the Lightside and an internal surface, the Underworld. You play a young boy who lives in Crysta, a little village in the Underworld.  One day, you open a forbidden door and touch a forbidden box. Suddenly almost everyone in the village is frozen except yourself and the Elder. The Elder gives you the instruction to bring back the souls of the villagers first and then resurrect the Lightside. You will have to encounter five towers in order to resurrect the five continents and bring back the souls of all the villiagers. Then you will leave underworld and travel to the Lightside in order to resurrect plants, birds, mammals and finally humans. But the game is not finished there. You will later have to resurrect the genius, for example by helping Bell to invent the phone or find Columbus in order to get to America. This is one of my favorite games because it’s like a little promenade through world history. You have a lot of references to our world, there is for example a village called Storkholm up in the north. Of course there is a complicated love-story coming up as well. The graphics are quite pixelated but I like that. The whole story is fascinating just as well as its implementation. This game is top in every aspect.

Lufia II : Rise of the Sinistrals

Developer:  Neverland

Difficulty: Medium

“Rise of the Sinistrals” is a typical RPG. It’s the sequel of “Lufia and the Fortress of Doom”. The protagonist is Maxim, a young swordsman with the destiny to fight the Sinistrals (four evil man with the plan to dominate the world). On his journey, Maxim will be supported by other great warriors. Together, they go through dungeons, fight monsters, improve their abilities and buy equipment or spells. There are so called capsule monsters which are kind of pets who help to fight monsters.  I personally love the landscapes in Lufia II. There is for example a quest that takes place in the Nazca Desert and refers to the Nazca lines. There is another quest that takes place in Ur. The combination of mystical locations, beautiful compositions of villages, an emotional story and interesting puzzles is well-balanced and therefore top.