OK, so after two weeks of doing absolutely nothing, I decided to start looking for grad schools to apply to. I wasn’t going to start for at least another month or two, but I figured I’d get it done now in case I want to go somewhere in a month or two. I bought the online subscription to the US News top grad schools of 2009 for $15 and I was going through schools that had good MBA programs that I can get into.

From the top 50 list I narrowed it down to 19 schools. Actually, make that 17 schools since two of those were University of Chicago and Northwestern University, at which both I have no chance of getting into. I printed out all the school profiles and analyzed them from cover to cover. The whole stack had to be at least 3-4 inches thick. So how the hell do I narrow it down? Well, I discovered that of those 19 schools, 6 offered an accelerated MBA program, where you can get your MBA in a year as long as you’re OK becoming a slave to your studies with no breaks or vacations for a year.

Sounds good to me. So I’ll be applying to 6…make that 5 cause one of those schools is Northwestern…grad schools for the accelerated MBA program. One of them has to take me in, right? I mean, I can’t do two more years of school, let alone four. I’ve had enough of school and I’m sure school has had enough of me. I gotta start searching for recommendations and I gotta start studying for the GMAT. At least this is all in the short term. I technically am still on vacation till June!

So Real Soccer 2009 is by far the best game ever released for the iPhone….ever. Who could have ever thought that the power of FIFA ‘08 could be harnessed into a measly little application for a touch screen, non-gaming handheld device? About 200 teams, real players, real stadiums, real everything. And the controls are ridiculously simple. The first thing I do when I wake up in the morning is grab my iPhone, crawl back into bed, and play two matches of RS09. My team of choice? Atheniakos, which is the unlicensed version of the Greek A-League team Panathinaikos. And of course, my morning is not a good one unless one of those two matches is Atheniakos vs Piraeus (the unlicenesed version of Greek A-League team and Panathinaikos rival, Olympiakos) and I demolish them 4-0 and get at least one red card taking out that bastard midfielder of theirs Djordjevic.

What’s really neat about this game is that you have a variety of Cups to compete in, including the European Cup, the UEFA Cup, the World Cup, the American Cup, the Asian Cup, and the African Cup. And if you don’t want to do those cups, they have league championships such as the English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian leagues. The sound quality is pretty good, considering it’s on an iPhone. You can even hear those screaming loud soccer chants coming from fans in the stadium. Gameplay is very easy however the controls could be a bit more responsive. I found it hard to control when quick reflexes and near-instantaneous changes in player direction were needed. If Gameloft could increase the sensetivity of the D-Pad to allow for more fluid and quicker control of the player, it would be greatly appreciated. Real Soccer 2009 is by far the best $9.99 deal out there right now. If you don’t have an iPhone, it’s available for Xbox 360, Nintendo DS, PC, Wii, and N-Gage. Everyone knows that FIFA ‘08 and Pro Evolution Soccer 2008 sucked major donkey balls. RS09 definitely is better than them. It will definitely keep me good company until FIFA ‘09 comes out, which supposedly has less suck than FIFA 08.

After spending a few weeks trolling the Star Trek Online forums, I’ve come to realize that some people there are really fucking weird… The following quote is an actual post from the forums:

ummm… let me think…. YEA!!! if i get a touch screen computer… i will definitely have an LCARS mod for it!

Don’t forget to ask to be beamed up to Masturbation Station while you’re at it. If this was Star Trek, you’d be the red shirt guy. But aside from the hardcore geekiness, there’s the hardcore virgin horniness:

Who’s the Hottest Trek Babe?

Man Argument part 1: Ezeri Dax or Jadza Dax …. Discuss

Hottest TOS babe

There isn’t a day that goes by where a debate breaks out on whose tits were firmer, Jeri Ryan’s or Jolene Blalock’s. But females are not to be intimidated by this. There’s a few threads for your personal pleasure too:

For the girls, Who´s the hottest star trek captian

There’s even one for the homosexuals:

Am I the only Gay in the Multiverse?

And one for the confused:

Who’s the hottest non-male/non-female Star Trek character?

In essence, it’s been about a month since STO was “relaunched” by Cryptic and already the fans are running out of things to talk about. They’re combing every portion of the Star Trek Universe for things to talk about, including:

How Do You Want Your Tricorder to Work?

Cryptic’s screenshots didn’t spark much discussion, except for a huge debate regarding the graphics. This game needs a jolt of content…FAST! I’m officially afraid to visit the STO forums now, thanks to al this. I advise everyone else to avoid them at all costs.

1. You can never truly have a unique college experience unless the last course you take before getting your degree is Accounting 101, one of the building blocks to all your other business courses.
2. Why so serious? Because $20 just barely got me by with a movie ticket, popcorn, and a drink.
3. A gallon of gas in the U.S. costs as much as a 500ml bottle of water in Paris.
4. No child should ever have to say that they visited Disneyland and heard Mickey Mouse and Buzz Lightyear speaking in French.
5. Greek citizens are in an uproar…because the government is going to implement property taxes?
6. It just isn’t summer unless a bit of your friend’s puke stains your car’s carpeting.
7. British women are the top seekers for the morning-after pill at clinics when on summer vacation.
8. Tricking out your hatchback to do 0 to 60 in 9 seconds is considered baller in Europe.
9. So is owning a John Deere tractor.
10. How can people say Polish jokes are mean when a Polish wireless carrier hires actors to stand in line for the iPhone cause regular citizens/potential customers wouldn’t?

After the enormous success of this site’s first “season” of existance I’ve decided to bring it back for a second season. This time, it will have nothing to do with what it used to be about. Plain and simple, this is where I will chronicle my gaming career. So pretty much a blog about whatever I see fit regarding gaming. Hell, I might see it fit to include a visit from our good friend Satoru Iwata, you never know. Right now I just resubscribed to Lord of the Rings online after a one-year hiatus. But that won’t be the only game I’ll write about, even though it’s full of interesting stories: