Josh da Jelly

Fantastic Fabulous Fooooooood

2007-04-15T08:14:00.000+01:00

People say that you cannot live without food. This can be true, but is quite ambiguous. This could imply that if you don't have food, you die. If that was the case, you would have to be holding or eating it all the time. What they should say is that you cannot live without sufficient supplies of food.

Anyway, I love food. Well, some foods. I'm one of those fussy eaters who doesn't like loads of stuff. Well, I'm not as bad as lots of people, but the things I don't like are normally fairly big part of the meal, like salads.

My Favourite Foods:
Fruit...
1 Mango
2 Tinned Mandarin
3 Strawberry
4 Raspberry
5 Blueberry
6 Passionfruit
7 Banana
8 Grape
Carnivores beware...

Savouries...
1 Cheese and Ham Pizza
2 Cheese and Ham Wigwams
3 Fried Egg Muffins
4 Croque Monsieur
5 Garlic Pizza
6 Steak Pie
7 Cheese and Ham Pasta
8 Bubble and Squeak
Weightwatchers beware...

Desserts...
1 Chocolate Bombe
2 Chocolate Ice Cream
3 Chocolate Fondant
4 Chocolate Gâteau
5 Chocolate Sundae
6 Chocolate Chips
7 Chocolate Orange
8 Chocolate Mousse
Vegans beware...

Which Means...
1 Mango
Cheese and Ham Pizza
Chocolate Bombe
2 Tinned Mandarin
Cheese and Ham Wigwams
Chocolate Ice Cream
3 Strawberry
Fried Egg Muffins
Chocolate Fondant
4 Raspberry
Croque Monsieur
Chocolate Gâteau
5 Blueberry
Garlic Pizza
Chocolate Sundae
6 Passionfruit
Steak Pie
Chocolate Chips
7 Banana
Cheese and Ham Pasta
Chocolate Orange
8 Grape
Bubble and Squeak
Chocolate Mousse

So there are allegedly my favourite meals, though I'm not sure banana goes with pasta...

Games as Great as Gammon with Gravy

2007-04-14T08:37:00.000+01:00

Hooray for Nintendo!!!!
If you are a Sony fan, don't bother reading this, as this post is about good games.
Yes, I am a devout, hardcore, whatever, Nintendo fan. I don't actually have an awful lot of games, but I'd like to say that I'm pretty decent at the ones I like: Super Smash Bros. Melee and Kirby Air Ride (only City Trial though) on GameCube, Pokémon Sapphire, Pokémon Pinball and Mario Party Advance on GBA and Mario Kart DS on DS. I will go through my 'favourites' on each of the above games. If you need tips on any of them, just comment on this blog.

GameCube

Super Smash Bros. Melee

Favourite Character: Fox

Least Favourite Character: Mario

Favourite Moves: Reflector (Falco), Rest (Jigglypuff), Rollout (Jigglypuff)

Favourite Throw: ^ (Mewtwo)

Favourite Item: Home-Run Bat

Faviurite Stage: Final Destination

Kirby Air Ride: City Trial

Favourite Colour Kirby: Green

Favourite Standard Vehicles: Shadow Star, Swerve Star

Favourite Legendary Vehicle: Hydra

Favourite Power-Up: Glide

Favourite Offensive Item: Panic Spin

Favourite Ability: Sword

Game Boy Advance

Pokémon Sapphire

Best Pokémon: Kyogre (lv 100)

Best's best Move: Water Spout

Cutest Pokémon: Wooper

Favourite Pokémon: Absol

Rarest Pokémon: Suicune (downloaded)

Favourite Types: Fighting, Ice, Dark

Pokémon Pinball

Scariest Pokémon Pic: Tentacruel

Cutest Pokémon Pic: Wurmple

Favourite Pokémon Pic: Latios

Favourite Stage: Ancient Ruins

Favourite Table: Sapphire

Highest Ruby Table Score: 2,823,639,398

Highest Sapphire Table Score: 5,491,413,708

Mario Party Advance

Favourite Character: Yoshi

Favourite Quest: Probably a Robbery?

Favourite Mini-Game: Melon Folly

Favourite Gaddget: Dessert Menu

Favourite Shroom City Resident: Dorrie

Mario Kart

Favourite Characters: Yoshi, Drybones

Favourite Vehicles: Cucumber, ROB-LGS

Favourite Track: Rainbow Road

Favourite Track Music: Choco Mountain

Favourite Item: Boo

Although it isn't an official Nintendo website, I do have an account on Pokemon Crater (www.pokemoncrater.com). If you like Pokémon, you should check it out! My username is Joshyoshi.

Beautiful Books

2007-04-12T09:44:00.000+01:00

My current favourite form of entertainment is reading:

I recently bought all 7 CHERUB novels, and just finished my sixth one.
They are about a secret branch of Military Intelligence where orphans are recruited from foster homes and trained to go on undercover missions. They are an advantage because criminals and terrorists are often conscious about people spying on them, but rarely suspect children because they seem a lot more innocent than adults, and are 'less intelligent'. What they don't know is that CHERUB agents are black belts in karate, speak several languages fluently, and are very intelligent. If you loved the Alex Rider series, or the Young Bond books, these are definitely for you!
I know I loved those series', but, being one of those people that can just sit down and read a book cover to cover in one sitting, I am often disappointed by not having any more books to read. This series is more of the same thrilling spy adventures, and an essential top-up to book-thirsty kids who just like lazing around all day with a glass of lemonade and a comfy sofa.

Also in my favourite books collection is Chris Ryan's Alpha Force and Code Red Adventure series'.
Alpha Force is similar to the CHERUB/Alex Rider/Young Bond books, about 5 teenagers that group together to tackle criminals. Having 5 heroes means that you can increase the action, and have two or three different stories going at once. Although these books are essentially about facing bad guys, this includes survival to increase the tension. Including obstacles that aren't created by the enemy adds variety and makes the story a lot less predictable, which is nice.
The Code Red Adventure books are quite different to the spy books altogether, though still retaining tension. These are about disasters that occur in cities, and are really cool because you just don't know what's going to happen next. They contain very good imagery, and use such description and emotion that I often find myself almost willing the characters on. These books also feature two or three main stories, and each time the text changes to one of the others, there's left an unbearable cliffhanger. To crank up the feeling of disaster even more, they occasionally incorporate small stories about other people in short chapters. It an amount of emotive language such that these mini-plots don't require an awful lot of the book to be told, but enough that you grow quite attached to the characters. These 'spin-offs' often make you think the people involved are just going to make it out alive, but the way they are killed (often in a not very nice way) in a couple of short sentences manages to maximise the feeling of urgency while using emotion as well. Really good reads.

So yeah, I'm liking my books