2/27/17

  Let's talk about the Thursday all the way to Sunday. On Thursday night, we went out to eat because my parents return home late from their business. We ate at a restaurant called Mon Hue. It was about 9:30 pm when we reached our home.

  On Friday afternoon, after I've finished studying my lessons, I started to play Team Fortress 2. I was very pleased because I got a new weapon for Spy and Demoman, even though I don't usually use the latter. For Spy, I got the Spycicle. This weapon allowed to user to freeze the enemy after we backstabbed him. The downside of this weapon, as I saw it, that it "melts" whenever a Pyro burn me. I have to wait for a few seconds for it to be usable again. For Demoman, I got a sticky bomb launcher that activated sticky bombs that I'm facing at or under me. I don't use this class much so I haven't tried it out. Anyway, that evening, I went to my friends house without the iPad since I already play on the computer at home. I, however, got to try Minecraft on their computer. It was still quite fun.

  On Saturday, I also play Team Fortress 2. This time, I got the Dead Ringer. This weapon allowed the user to make a fake corpse and put on cloak whenever the user been hit. It makes the enemy thinks that we're dead. I actually got two of this weapon in one day. In some game, this watch actually helped me. But in other times, it doesn't. I actually raised the record of backstabs in one match from three to five. This weapon is truly great. That evening, my grandmother arrived at our house so she can went with uss to my grandparents house on my dad's side.

  Today, I just found out that I actually know a lot of names of kinds of swords. Well, not that whole lot. It's just above an average person's knowledge. I know ten kinds of swords. The following is the list of them: longsword, broadsword, one-handed-sword, shortsword, scimitar, saber, rapier, dual-sword, katana, and nodachi.

2/21/17

  Let's continue talking about what happened on Sunday but more specifically this time. So the whole church came to our house. I showed my friend the games I ahd on my computer. I let him see how far I got on Team Fortress 2 since the last time he played the game, which was last year's summer. I realized that I frequently took the playing from him. However, I really hope that he will seriously consider about downloading Team Fortress 2 on his laptop, which I doubt will run as smoothly as mine. He seems doesn't like that idea because he was "afraid" that he had to play over again; not like there's a level system or something. Anyway, it sounded liek I took no parts in preparing the feast; but I actually attributed in some parts. I find the bowls and dishes and cups from upstairs. I washed all the cups. Next, I went out to buy soft drinks and instant noodles. The instant noodles were for the hot pot. Those I bought on Saturday night. On Sunday morning, however, I literally make three trips back and forth from the market. On the first trip, I bought some rat glue. Next, I bought somethings, which I had completely forgotten what it was. And in the last trip, I bought chillis. I also ordered and paid for the pizza. Of course, my parents paid me back all of those money.

  On Sunday's night, I watched G.I. Joe: Retaliation. This is the second movie of the G.I. Joe series after G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra. This movie talked about Cobra Commander's escape from an underground prison in Germany while the fake President gave order to attack the G. I. Joes. However, three of them survived. They sought out to rescue the President and stopped Cobra's plan to conquer the world using a new weapon system called Zeus. Zeus consist of six satellites with special bombs that were dropped from the satellite. It had the destruction several times of an atomic bomb.

  Yesterday, my dad and I setup the server. We downloaded server version of Ubuntu, which is quite similar to the normal version of Ubuntu. I didn't actually see it finished because I was too sleep by then. We actually started by downloading the version of Ubuntu similar to the on I had on my computer. But my dad and redownloaded it because the other version failed, I think. This lead him to download Ubuntu MATE.

2/20/17

  Last Thursday, I doesn't play games on the computer because I want to save it for Sunday. So instead, I played cards with my parents. I think we played four rounds of cards, of which I won two rounds. I got second on the third round and last on the fourth and last round. After that, I went up to my room to read a book. I don't remember what that book was, neither am I sure that I reas book after that. But it was the situation that had the most probability.

  Somedays before, Wednesday, I believe, I watched a trailer of NOVA Legacy on Gameloft's YouTube channel. And I asked my dad to download it for me, but he denied. Turns out, when I checked App Store at my friends house, there's no such game. Maybe that trailer was just about the NOVA games.

  On Saturday, I played games on my computer for two hours, then my family went to our grandparents house. During the morning, I play mostly Team Fortress 2. I got a new melee weaponr the class Pyro. This axe allowed the user to burn the enemy that it hit. I also got a new cloak watch for the class Spy. The good part about that new equipment it that the cloak was drained base on movement. That means that if I doesn't move at all while in cloak, my cloak watch could recharge cloak while I was in cloak. The downside is that the recharge rate is less than the standard cloak watch.

•   On Sunday, I first play Team Fortress 2 then War Thunder, but after lunch, I started playing Team Fortress 2 again. I got a new melee weapon for the class Scout. This weapon is a big candy cane that supposedly dropped small packages of health randomly. But I haven't seen it. I think I'm supposed to right-click while using the weapon. Anyway, I let my friend play that game a little, then we watched the India 3 Idiots, which my friend like it very much. 

2/16/17

  Yesterday, I watched YouTube instead of watching movies on the television because there are no good movie on the television. I watched Jacksepticeye's Subnautica and Killing Room, Muselk's Team Fortress 2 and Overwatch, and Vanossgaming's Guess Who, along with another video from a Youtuber that I don't remember his name that talked about top 10 biggest creatures in Subnautica. In Jacksepticeye's Subnautica video, Jack went down the Lost River, which was actually at the bottom of the ocean, and explore. He found two Precursor's bases bus doesn't have the purple artifact to open either of them. However, he did found a giant skull with Precursor's light shining into it. He also found a giant Levithian underwater-fire-breathing dragon. It actually shoot fire ball underwater. That is just too unrealistic. The next video I watched is Jacksepticeye's Killing Room. In this game, the player took the role of a player in a game show that sends people into it to fight monsters that could actually kill you. That game is actually pretty good. Next, I watched Vanossgaming's Guess Who, or at least that what I think that video is. Guess Who is a game mode in a game called Gmod. There are two teams in this game. One team disguised as one of the NPC, None Player Character, while the other kill the members of the other team. However, if they shot an NPC instead of the enemy player, they lost some health. If the findong team either all die, or if the time ran out, they lose that game.

  Muselk's Team Fortress 2 video was a Tryhard Tuesday. In this video, he joined a normal casual game while trying to achieve the 20 killstreak. I don't actually watched all of this video. But I do watched all of his next video that I watched. It was Muselk playing Overwatch. In this game, he play on a community server with the Saxton Hale mod. Basically, Saxton Hale mode was a team of six players goes against one powered up player. It make Reinhart, one of the slowest character in the game, ran faster than Tracer, the fastest character in the game. His damage is also high. And his health is also high. Saxton Hale was a non-playable character in the game Team Fortress 2. He was very strong.

2/15/17

  Yesterday, I watched a movie called Our Brand is Crisis with my dad. The movie talked about a team of advisors to a Bolivian presidential candidate named Castillo. However, we started watching at the middle part of the movie. It was quite interesting, but I would like to watch the other movie on Star Movies callled Proposal. I have actually watched that movie before, I think. It was about this one Canadian lady whose American visa is about to expire. She was a boss at a newspaper company. She told one of her employees to pretend to marry her so she could stay in America, if I remembered correctly. Most of the stories took part in Alaska, the employee's parents' home. In the end, they married each other. In short, I wish I could watch the movie on Star Movies than on HBO.

  Today, I paused relearning science and started relearning history, as my dad had suggested to me yesterday while we are walking. Fortunately for me, this chapter wasn't boring at all. It talks about the American Civil War. I started from lesson 86 to lesson 92 where the last thing I learned was about the Eastern battles of the Civil War. I also started to reread Last Descendants: An Assasin's Creed Novel. That book took place in New York during the time of the American Civil War. I wasn't quite sure that he was famous during the Civil War. But that wasn't a decisive fact to determine whether I like that book or not. I still wish that there were more Assasin fighting scenes. As I've found out, the second book of the series, Last Descendants: Tomb of the Khan, was actually the same price as the first Last Descendants book. The price $9 that I had mistakenly wrote down on yesterday's entry was actually the paperback version of the book, I believed.

  Tonight, after I've washed all the dishes, I will watch YouTube instead of watching on the television since there, once again, are not good movies. Also, I decided not to play on the computer on Thursday so I could play on Sunday.

2/14/17

  Yesterday, I bought Last Descendants: An Assasin's Creed Novel. It was pretty expensive. It costs somewhere about 136,000 vnd. I actually remember the number of pages wrong. There were actually 322 pages instead of 350 pages.

  Today, I had finally finished relearning lessons of Test 7 of science. Tomorrow, I'll started continue relearning science lessons. Also, I finished reading Last Descendants. The story talked about Owen, a 15 years old boy whose father was in prison for robbing a bank. Owen believes that his father didn't robbed the bank. He heard about a guy called Monroe who had a device called Animus which could let the user relived the memories of his ancestors. Unfortunately, it was only posible to access the memories that happened to his ancestors before he was conceived. So he and his friend, who also went with him, instead went in memories of his ancestors where they had crossed with each others. While in it, they saw an ancient artifact called Piece of Eden. Monroe had to pull them out for both the Templar and the Assasin found out that they had seen the Piece of Eden. On the next day, Owen found a Templar agent went after him. Monroe took him away so both the Assasin and Templar wont get him. Along with other kids, they got into the Animus and relieved their ancestors' memory during the Draft Riot of 1863. It was during the Civil War. Owen's ancestor during that time was Varius. In the end, Owen and Javier went with the Assasin while the other kids with the Templar. The First Piece of Eden was taken by a mysterious third party. So their next target was the Second Piece of Eden. It was buried with Gengis Khan, whose tomb was never found.

 

2/13/17

  Ok, first thing first. I had to relearn all subjects with the exception of Bible and mathmetics from the last test or quiz I took. It was quite hard, but I think I'll make it. My mathmetics test got somewhere about an A. Unfortunately, my science test was somehwere about 75 points.

  Ok, now is the report of gaming of last week. I mostly played Team Fortress 2. I don't remember much about Thursday, except that I got a new promary weapon for Pyro; but on Saturday, a lot of good thigns happened. First of all, I happened to join a community server with only one other player in it. I was about to perform the Pyro's and Sniper's taunt kill. And I got two new weapons for Sniper too. A sniper rifle Machina and a bow Huntsman. It was pretty good. And I also find myself better at playing as Spy. My backstab skill is also better. I no longer backstab when the Spy turned his knife's point down, but backstab when I felt was right. I was able to backstab three times in one life now. I was also disguising at a faster rate. The Ambassador also helps me. But I was kond of wishing that I had a new melee weapon for him.

  On Sunday, things are slightly worse. I wasn't able to find a good game where my Spy skill was good. And when I was saving a replay on Team Fortress 2, then quit it, the game window is gone but it was still running as Steam said. And the computer was as slow as Steam was activated. As the result, my computer frozed. Unfortunately, my parents wasn't home, so I had to shut it down and wait until my parents came home to open it again.

  Today, I intended to buy Assassin's Creed: Last Descendants for my Kindle via my dad's Amazon account with my money. Last Descendants is a graphic novel of 360 pages that costs somewhere about $6.50. I was considering buying it or Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of American History, which had 270 pages and costs $7.90.

2/9/17

  Let's continue talking a little bit about games. Have you ever been so into a game, that you actually felt worry as if you're actually in the game. There had been numerous times where I have experienced that worry. Once, I was behide a wall, trying to get over it. I was so wantting to get over it that I actually stands up as if trying to look over the wall. Another example is that when I was play War Thunder as a tank, I was in constant worry of getting shot by the enemy and so mortally wounded that I can't turn the cannon. And sometimes, I was so worry that the cannon would not rotate fast enough, and that the enemy could knock me down before I kill them.
 
  Now, some updates about War Thunder. It have been sometimes since War Thunder developers, Gaijiin, announced the naval mode for War Thunder. I was hoping for naval mode. Unfortunately, there had only been gunboats and torpedo boats in naval mode. I was actually waiting for a destroyer. There is another real time naval battle game with destroyers. Unfortunately, that game wasn't compatible for Linux and only for Window and OS. I haven't actually checked it, but I think that the naval mode was out for public by now. I will check that tonight.
 
  I haven't added much to the preliminary outline yet. I have only added some facts about the aftermath of the American Civil War. However, there wasn't much of informations added to it. But I think it was quite enough. Maybe you could check it out and give me yur thoughts about it. Also, I was saying out these words in an English accent. Not that it will actually effect anything. I was just practice the accent. Apparently for no reason.

  Recently, our house have been "breached" by mice. For so freaking reason, they don't appear baxk when we stil have a cat. We still have a dog, but he is smal. And I think he's just as useful in catching mice as a boat on dry land.

X-periment article

Coca-cola was one of the most famous soft drinks in the world. With thousands of tons of sugar in a can, it had attracted millions of people to drink it and another thousand to make expiriments like boiling it until only the sugar was left. The sugar was so sticky that I wonder why they don't use it in constructions. Despite the fact that there are numerous expiriments showed that Coke was as efficient in cleaning toilet as toilet cleaning chemicals, we still drink it, this provided proves that our taste buds had melting due to "healthy" foods such as broccoli.

2/8/17

  Let's continued talking about my gameplay of Team Fortress 2 on Saturday. In the game mode Passtime, which is two teams trying to throw the ball into each other's goal. Most of my gameplays I play as Spy, sapping the other team's sentry guns. However, the only thing that I actually destroyed in that whole game is a teleporter exit. However, I was able to kill one or two enemy players. One was while I was Spy and the other while I was Sniper. Another game mode that I played last Saturday is Medieval mode. In this mode, only the Sniper have range weapon, if that range weapon was a bow. The other classes only have melee weapons. Most players used Demoman for his ability to charge. I once used Heavy, which was quite good. Using the Sniper was quite sucks. In the Mann vs Machine mode, I had a lot of kills as Heavy. With my new gun, I was able to kill a Giant Charged Soldier with two Ubercharges in the power up canteen. And I was able to kill two Giant Charged Soldiers with three Ubercharges. However, to activate Ubercharges in the canteen, you had to click H. I one twice or thrice misclicked G instead of H. The worst part is that by clicking G, you would activate taunt. You can't move or shoot while in taunt so I had to activate Ubercharge in order not to be killed. It wasted like four seconds of Ubercharge.

  Yesterday, I once again watched Vanossgaming's old Gmod Hide and Seek videos. I also watched Jacksepticeye's gameplay of Detention. I also watch the first few parts of Jacksepticeye's co-op with one of the Vanossgaming crew, Daithi de Nogla. I also watched War Thunder's Thunder Show, a show where the developers of the game post clips of players playing and awarded them 5000 golded eagles for being to best of the category.

  This evening, I gathered informations about the American Civil War. I added them to my preliminary outline. I would continue for a few days. I only gather the basic informations today. I would actually started reading the article on Wikipedia to add more details to it.

Research Paper Preliminary Outline

AMERICAN CIVIL WAR

Thesis: The American Civil War brought many changes to America. There are more than one reason that caused the war.

I. Pre-war

   A. Election of 1860

   B. States

      1. States: CA; OR; TX; MN; IA; MO; AR; LA; WI; IL; MI; IN; OH; PA; NY; VI; ME; NH; MA; RI; CT; NJ; DE; MD; KY; WV; VA; TN; NC; MS; AL; GA; SC; FL

      2. Divisions: Union and Confederate

II. Beginning of the war.

   A. Causes
      1. Slavery: North wants to free slaves; South doesn't
      2. States' rights: South wants North to stop the tarriffs
      3. Sectionalism: Difference between the North and the South.

   B. Separation of states: South Carolina leaves first. Other states followed

   C. The factions

      1. The North: Capital in Washington, D.C. Advantage is that the North had more man-power, supplies, and railroads.

      2. The South: President Jefferson Davis; capital Montgomery until Virginia joins the Confederacy and changed to Richmond. Advantage is that the South had prepared for war, and it had better military leaders.

   D. President: Abraham Lincoln

   E.. First battles: South claimed Union forts in Confederate's land

      1. Fort Sumter: First shot fired. General of the Union and Confederate once were friends. Lincoln urged Union general to hold. Union lost.

      2. The First Bull Run: Union thought the South won't serious and would break up fast. Union defeated. General Jackson fought bravely and thus earned the nickname "Stonewall Jackson". The battle proved that this war is not going to be short.
      3. Virginia breaks up: Those support the Union became the state of West Virginia 

III. Middile of the war

   A. The Anaconda Plan: Proposed by General-in-Chief Winfield Scott. Ridicule by others favored the plan to directly attack Richmond. 1st step to block the South's sea. 2nd step to capture the Mississippi.
      1. Iron clad ships: Iron clad ships were created by the Confederate in the attemp to break the naval blockade. The Confederate iron clad was the Merrimack; raised from the Union ship with the same name and was renamed to Virginia; had cannons on the sides, front, and back. Union iron clad was the Monitor. Had two cannons on a rotatable stand. Union won because the Merrimack retreated.
      2. Battle of Vicksburg: One of the battles of the Union to control the Mississippi. Union won. It was the battle that make General Ulysses Grant famous.

   B. Famous Generals

      1. South

         a. Lee: Robert E. Lee. He opposed slavery and freed all of them, but joined the Confederate when his state, Virginia, joined the Confederacy.

         b. Jackson: Thomas Jackson. Had great Christian testimony. Taught his men not to drink alcohol. Die because he ride back to his camp late one night, and the guards thought he was an enemy. After his left arm was amputated, General Lee said, "He had lost his left arm, but I has lost my right."

      2. North

         a. Grant: Ulysses S. Grant. Famous at the Battle of Vicksburg. Given command of all Union army by President Lincoln.
         b. Sherman: William Tecumseh Sherman: Notable for his march to the sea. Devastated Georgia.

   C. Battle of Gettysburg: General Lee realized he had to end the war fast if he wants to win. He assaulted Gettysburg of Pennsylvania. Bloodiest battle of the Civil War. Total casualties estimated 51,000. Pickett's Charge. Over 12,000 Confederate troops charged up hill to where the Union are. Only a few hundreds make it up the hill. Lincoln gived the Gettysburg Address after the battle.
   D. Emancipation Proclaimation: Lincoln announced the Emancipation Proclaimation would be in effect since January 1, 1863. It free all slaves in the South.

IV. End of the war

   A. Notable facts. Grant took a campaign called the Wilderness Campaign where he and his troops traveled through an area in norther Virginia called the wilderness. There, he fight many battles against General Lee. General Sherman with 60,000 seiged Atlanta, Georgia. Survivors fled to Savannah. Sherman followed and burned the city then head to the Carolinas. This is called the March to the Sea.

   B. Surender: General Lee finally surrendered to General Grant.

      1. Date: April 9, 1865

      2. Location: Appomattox Court House, Virginia.

      3. Notable facts: General Lee wore a grand suit while General Grant wore a private uniform with shoulder strips were attached. Grant allowed the Confederate soldiers to keep their horses ad firearms

   C. Aftermath: After the war, the North hates the South.

      1. Reconstruction: The effort started by President Lincoln to unify US in a peaceful way.
         a. 10 Percents plan. Once 10 percents of the people registered to vote vowed loyalty toward the Union, they are allowed to set up their government.
         b. Freemen Bureau. Set up to relief both black and white people after the war.

      2. Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
         a. Date: April 14, 1865
         b. Place: Ford's Theater
         c. Killer: John Wilkes Booth
         d. President after. Andrew Johnson

      3. Reconstruction after Lincoln. Congress took upon themselves the responsibility of Reconstruction
         a. Blocked Southerners from Congress
            i. South support Democratic
            ii. Congress majority is Republic
         b. Reconstruction Act of 1867. Divided former Confederacy into military districts and set marshal laws on them.


Internet Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gettysburg#Pickett.27s_Charge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War#Causes_of_secession
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_Plan
http://www.civilwar.org/battlefields/bullrun.html?tab=facts

2/7/17

  Ok, let's talk more about things that happened during last weekend. So, in Team Fortress 2, I tried the Spy Sniper Strategy that Muselk, the most famous Team Fortress 2 YouTuber that I have ever known of used in one of his videos. The reason I want to use this strategy because the only other way to kill enemies with Spy is to backstab enemies, which I sucks at. However, my current revolver that I was using is the Ambassador. And it's special ability is critical hits on headshot, which is going to be hard if I must stand far away from enemies. But it might work if I disguised as enemy's ally and headshot it instead of backstabbing. This way, I could kill in enemy with one shot infront and behind him without getting close to him. Another reason that it will works is because I could now disguise as Heavy, which was really slow if you disguised as him, making it hard to backstab in that disguise. I think most enemy will not suspect Heavy. Another thing about Team Fortress 2 is that I'm finding a way to forge a shield for Demoman, which enable him to charge with his melee weapon, which I dont think that I have any melee weapon suitable for it.

  Yesterday, our family members are finding an English name for us to use when we get to Canada. My dad's name is going to be Moses; my mom's is going to be Sarah; my sister's is going to be Hannah; and mine is going to be Luke, as in Luke Skywalker.

  Tonight, I had to write a preliminary outline for my research paper. My research paper is going to be about the American Civil War. This is going to be long. My goal is to finish it so that I can still watch the television

2/6/17

  Last Thursday, I wrote the backstory for my fictional universe. How do you like it? It obvious that I was better at backstories than current stories since I was better at imaginations than details. Thouh it was still bad, I think I could still improve my backstory skill.

  Ok so, first thing of the week is to sum up all things that had happened throught Friday to Sunday. Friday was kind off lame. Still, I was happy that there's no lesson for the day; and we got a thing called "lucky money", which was the money you gave to young and old people with the belief that they will became lucky, if we choosed and correctly answered a Bible question.

  On Saturday, I spent rather few time for Facebook. Most of my times I played Team Fortress 2. I was so happy since I got three new weapons. One was a melee weapon which looks like a sign which was equip-able for most classes. The other two weapons were Spy's revolvers. Both of them looks big. They are the Diamondback and the Ambassador. The Ambassador was used by one of the best Team Fortress 2 player on YouTube that I ever know of, Muselk. This weapon guarantee critical hit if it was a headshot. Unfortunately, it was hard for me to headshot. Also, I have completed an impressing feat of getting two backstabs in one life. I have down three times in Mann vs Machine. I could have done it four times, if I didn't miss the fourth one.

  On Sunday, I went to the house of the friend whom usually borrowed my books, and whom I usually ask her to buy a book for me. I was quite surprised by the bookstore near her house. It was smaller than the Fahasa bookstore near my house. Yet, that bookstore already have Spice & Wolf 3 while mine haven't.

  Currently, my family is discussing what name should we change to when we get to Canada.

2/2/17

  The following is my backstory for my imaginary Lego Bionicle world.

  The Forerunners are a bio species that lived in the planet of Kruz before the the Cyber. In the Great Forerunners' War, the one Forerunners nation developed a six sentient machines capable of manufacturing other robots for war. At last, the Forerunners destroyed themselves and became extinct. However, the robots survived. They continued their mission, to preserve the nation. For many years they continued to make robots, called Cybers, capable of controlling elements. They then divided into nations of elements, Fire, Water, Earth, Wind, Ice, and Light. Unfortunately, Light was corrupted and became Darkness. Darkness fights with other elements for centuries. Through time, the Cybers became bigger, as the result of need for superior fighters, until the lastest became too big that the core couldn't handle them. The Five Elements then forged the Great Masks, made from Allum, a material that was able to hold elemental powers. They used it to defeat Darkness, which retreat to an unknown island. The Five Fathers was still alive. Deciding that their existence would raise envy for powers, they retreat from the world. However, they gave the five Mask to the champions of the Cybers, which became lost after time. The Order of Zeros Knights, establishing by one of the first Champions, was established to keep the recipe to make the Great Masks.

  But like their ancestors, the Cybers nearly destroyed themselves. Their planets became a desolated and desert-like planet. Energy for vehicle became scarce. It was then, when the Darkness element returns. The became dominant, having accumulated energy for centuries. The Darkness tribes, having awaken Zrencros, the Father of Darkness, are setting out to defeat Tarkus Zeros and Forv Zeros, the last Zeros Knights, to get the recipe to create Great Masks for his army. Luckily, there are still a few members of the Imperial Army supporting the Zeros Knights.