Say What I Think

Kadosh is a Israeli movie made in 2000, so it is all in Hebrew. I will begin by saying the one thing I did not like. is putting the English text on white background with what text, this does not make reading what going on very easy. There was a couple of places my limited knowledge from Hebrew class helped me be able to explain it to my husband. They didn’t speak to fast, so what I have learned in class I was able to translate in my own mind. I would have preferred to see the text print down on the bottom of the screen where they had a little bit of black space, this would have made reading the words a lot easier or at least in a darker color so that people like my husband and I could read the words easier.

Kadosh in Hebrew means Holy to be honest, I am not sure what was so holy about the movie. It was about a husband and wife, and the wife’s family. The husband was in Rabbi school, and what appeared to be the head Rabbi wanted him to leave his wife and remarry another woman because they had been married for 10 years with no children. They blamed the woman on the problem, which is pretty typical of men sometimes. He eventually got a divorce from her and then married one of her cousins or something.

All the marriages were prearranged and some of the husbands where nice to their wives in the movie. Rivka, the wife who was left because they had no children eventually died in her husband arms. How sad, it didn’t really explain why she died or if she took her life. Death is not Holy,it would actually make him unclean, but then again it could be seen as her death was a punishment from G-d because she was trying to get with her husband who was now married to another woman.

Rivka sister was forced to marry someone she didn’t want to marry and I am guessing with the way he treated her, he could careless about this woman. He was so violent with her their first night together, I felt angry with him for being so violent with her. He probably ended up causing her problem which made unclean in their mind set. Isn’t it amazing, I think the man should be consider unclean, if he gotta be cruel and violent to get his jollies off. She ended up going to the man she had fall in love with, that was differently against the Torah. I could understand why she went to him, he was gentle and seemed to care for her. My husband even commented about his gentleness. My husband was mortified by the roughness of her husband.

When she got home it appeared he beat her with a belt for being unfaithful to him. Okay by the Torah he has a right to leave her. I honestly do not think he has the right to beat her, or treat her how he did. He should have brought it to his Rabbi’s and let them decide the punishment. Adultery is wrong in the Torah, and it also wrong in the New Testament, but I don’t believe G-d wants his children to be man handled. Hmmm now this is starting to sound like it would fit better on my other page that more religious.

In the end of the movie, she is looking at Jerusalem, and looking at the temple. She was on a hill of some sort. I thought this movie was very sad but I would love to see it again once my Hebrew gets better, and see if I grasp more of what I am watching. I am not sure I would normally pick a show that in a totally different language with out being directed to it. I would recommend this movie for watching but I wouldn’t take 100 percent everything in it and decide what things are like over in Israel. In every culture TV does not always portray the real people of a culture or sometimes they focus in on just one sect of a culture. I would recommend watching this film but would be careful of letting children under 13 watch it.

Crisis Core Final Fantasy 7, my first thought was I think I might like it. My second thought is, I like it but it’s leveling up for the character, magic and other abilities are random.  I am thinking next time I play it when I have chooses I will probably try to do something different and see how it will affect the game. In games like these I like testing the limits, the limits aren’t arrow but if your not supposed to do something or go somewhere they don’t want you to they won’t let you.

Your main character is a kid named jack who idolizes one of his trainers, who later get suspected of being a traitor. He has to fight some guy named Genesis, okay I don’t like him! He summon monsters to fight for him and calls him self a hero, how charming. In these battles be ready for a fight because it will not be easy to beat.  After you fight a boss battle one of your missions will be to fight it in the research lab as a mission, normally those monsters are usually a little easier to defeat.

Later in the game he will go with Angeal who he idolizes, to help him on a mission to stop Genesis and to save some crazy scientist. He ends up battling Angeal and falls into a pretty girls world who will end up being on his DVM. I am still not sure what a DVM is or how the leveling up actually works. What I do understand is that leveling is random when I think I have it figure out i find out I haven’t  figured out. One nice thing about the leveling system is sometimes even though you do not level up, you get to use a special attacks or your get more HP, VIT, and MP sometimes Zach gets a lot of points over it. Now some battles that a saving feature. The graphic are cool the people actually look real although like most games they walk funny.

The battle system is action base which I like, action is easier then turn base for me. The using different attacks is not what I am used to so you have to be careful not to waste a bunch of items which you need. To choose what types of attacks, magics, and items you have to use either the top right or top left bottom and it will move to what you want. This can be frustrating when you are used to using the square, triangle, x, and circle bottom to determine which attacks you want. I prefer that type of set up but I have gotten used to the top left or right button so it is not to bad.

I am not very happy with neither one of these companies. I am not sure who I am most annoyed with, and this is probably not a post they want to be featured in. Normally I have been very happy with Multiband, I believe their a North Dakota company, they have cable here in the building and are a dealer of Direct TV.  A couple of weeks ago they had a open house in our community room at my apartment complex.  My husband and I decided to go, we didn’t think we would find anything to lower our bill, so we didn’t go in with a plan to change or service.

We found out they were offering a better deal with Direct TV the 150 channels, and a DVR, it was quoted at 44.99 and our Internet should have went down about 5 dollars.  My husband and I decided this was a good deal, so we changed. Sounds like no problem, right! Well this week I got my bill from Direct tv, and it was close to 70 bucks. What why so expensive,  so I looked well they were charging me 57.99 or something, well gee that like a lot more then quoted.

Yesterday I came home to call Direct TV, to find out why my bill was so expensive and why I was not being charged the quoted price. I was informed that I needed to fill out a rebate form but hey you might not get the full rebate, it might only be 8 bucks a month off the bill. Well gee that still close to 50 bucks. So I explained to the operator that I was quoted this prices and I wanted to know why this was not happening and told her I felt my bill should be corrected to what I was quoted she was not interested in doing this and told me she could fill out the web form for the rebate back so I told her to do so since I had no TV or internet right now, because I came home and it was all down.

Well talking to Direct TV did little good for me. So today I decided to call multiband, about this and let them know I was not happy with them not informing me it was after a rebate. Had I knew that I wouldn’t have changed my services, because it would not help. Well The lady basically gave me the well that Direct TV billing problems and we can’t do anything about it. Well first off your sales rep did not give us all the information he should have. Secondly if your a direct dealer well you should be able to go to that company on your customer behalf and make things right for the customer.

I am very disappointed in this, I feel that this problem could have been handle better. I feel frustrated because now my husband and I have to pay two different bills for TV this month which are equal almost in price and that not fair to us as their customer.

I really think they fall short on their customer service, which usually is good.

I will say this was a pretty good movie, there wasn’t any bad language or a whole lot of violence there was a little. It is about a young man who in Junior high who wants to save a white bear which they have named the spirit bear. It is based on a true story but I simply do not believe it 100 percent truth.

A logging company in the NW United states was going to log in the area where the bear lived. I agree with the boy not wanting the bears home being taken from him, and I think it good he fought for what he believes in.

What I do not think is impossible is his parents having no problems with him stealing the car to go to a meeting which he ends up in a crash. Grant it the crash wasn’t his fault and the kid claims the bear saved him.  I don’t think the person wanted to kill him but he wanted to scare him. The young man towards the end of the movie was starting to get hate emails and prank calls. I am not sure he told his parents what was going on because it didn’t seem like he did.

I know no parent wants there child to fall into harms way, and well not many parents would actually let their child handle a very adult sistuation all on his own. His teachers would not have let him have a cellphone in class on, and wouldn’t have let him answer it. So I am just not sure that is true. I don’t know if it was, maybe the school supported him it seemed like they did. But most school officials don’t make exceptions to the rules.

I have to say I am tired of that phrase on the Food Network. I can’t think of her name but those of you who watch this Channel problem know who I am talking about. She a sweet grandmotherly type lady, probably not old enough to be my grandma. Well it just seems like almost every time she eats something on TV she had to comment how it so much better then everyone else and has the hmmm yum thing going.

I enjoy the Food Network Tv, sometimes it gives inspiration sometimes it just makes you think yick! My husband and I like watching the Iron Chief now that a fun little show. I would love to see them do a Kosher show, that could be fun because so often they use so much pork and shell fish it doesn’t seem appealing to me.  It would seem more interesting if the Chiefs had to follow some type of dietary type thing.

I also like some of the 30 minutes cooking shows, not often do I find something I can make for my husband and I but sometimes it’s a fun to see idea. For the most most of those meals really aren’t 30 minutes it takes a little longer but they are simple meals to make. The Semi Homemade show, well I don’t see really any homemade there, home made isn’t using pre-made things, it making it more from scratch then not, although I have to say a few times she made homemade.

This week we decided to upgrade our package with our cable/internet company. We have been with Multiband since I have moved into this apartment. I am happy with my services and I am happy with Customer Service. I am also happy with the people who come and take care of me at home. They are respectful and helpful, they actually wipe their feet before coming in which helps keep my house nice and clean.

On Wednesday they had a open house, eventually they will be getting raid of their annolog cable here, they are dealers of Direct TV which we are now using. There cable also came through the satellite but wasn’t digital what I was getting but it was still good. Yes we had the typical problem of bad weather usually meant no signal, but that to be expected. Sometimes we had bad weather but yet still got the signal. At their open house they served us Pizza and pop this was nice of them, they actually had pizza there my hubby and I could eat. Normally when we go to our Apartment building open house I can’t eat anything because they only have things with pork or beef. Well this time they had pizza and a couple different types, they had a cheese so it worked out well. We talked to the gentleman and found out that we could save a little money by upgrading and hey a dollar saved is a dollar earned. They had Friday afternoon from 12 to 4 pm. Typical of companies.

Here’s what I would like to know, for the most we can’t say oh I will be there between 12-4 or 8-12 at our jobs. If we did that we would be in trouble or wouldn’t have the job for long. I ended up being called on a interview. One of my Temp company found something they thought I would be good at, and talked to me, I told them go ahead submit my resume. I should be fairly free, I didn’t realize this company would have jump on my resume like a hot potato, and want to interview me today at 1pm. So yesterday I called Customer Service right away and explained to them. Hey I am unemployeed which is why my hubby been paying the bill lately, and I just got called for a interview at 1pm. I asked can you please reschedule, the soonest reschedule was a good week out, so I asked is it possible to have the tech call me before he comes. This way if I am home, he can come if not I can reschedule. The customer service person was very accommodating and said that she would just place on my notes to have me be toward the end. That great. Well on Friday if I am going to meet my husband I have to leave the house at 440 to catch a bus why, have both of our cars at church if I can get away with driving the buss. Right now I don’t have the gas to go.

Well it got to be 345, and I started wondering where are they did they come before I got home, and never called or lift a message. I called customer service, and asked them if someone had already been here. She called dispatch, thank goodness no one wasted there time coming out here. The problem was the guy assigned to me ended up having some issues at another site and was running behind so he sent someone else who was clear north of me and a bit north of me. A good 45 minute drive with almost no traffic, I didn’t know where he came from until he told me. Customer service told me that the other guy had troubles and was sending out someone else. She told me he was in en route and would be here shortly. Okay shortly to me is 20 minutes.

About 45 minutes went by and still no installer okay not worrying but it’s now after 4pm so I am figuring out very quickly I will not get to go to church because they still not here. He got here 10 minutes before my bus was to leave. I have to say Otis  (cat) really like him, he was very interested in the guys jacket, it was funny the cat tried claiming into his coat. He seemed to like cats, and was very personable which is good in a installer, never want one that grumpy or not easy to deal with.

He got me pretty much all set up and found out, I wasn’t given a customer id number for Direct TV, and had to call them to set me up with an account that took a little while. He was here close to a hour, we talked for a little while and I shared with him my story of Comcast. Trust me you don’t want me to go there!  My husband is lucky that my building has Multiband because if they left only Comcast here we wouldn’t have TV or internet. I guess I wasn’t the first person to tell him a horror story about another company, because he had said that I was the worst he heard so far which I can understand that.

After everything was done he showed me how to use the remote, and how to get programs to record. How to get to the guide. Well I have well over 150 channels counting local tv stations and I still can’t find anything on tv isn’t that sad. Now I will have to relearn all the channels which I already have them memorized on the cable. because all my channels are different other then the local channels.

Multiband has always done a good job. When I call on from anything to there are some channels not coming in that aught to be, Or Hubby and I just been laid off and we will be late on our bill. They have always worked with us and been very respectful. I guess this is a good thing working with a smaller company. Yeah I don’t like the fact that no one called me to let me know they was running late, but that okay. Yeah it drives me nuts how companies like the cable company can tell you we’ll be there between a four hour stretch it gets bothersome, because then your stuck waiting at home until they finally get there. I am glad that even though it was past 4pm which is there last appointment that they didn’t decide to reschedule and make me have to wait another week or so.  I am happy with Multiband and I will recommend anyone to use them if they are in the area.

I have to start by saying I love Kaim voice, it is very different then most warrior voices. It gentle sounding almost, and not what you would expect in a game like Lost Odyssey. Kaim is one of the Immortal people in the game, he ends up with his grandchildren, toward the end of disk one. I have to admit I almost cried at that one, Kaim and so fair Seth has had dreams of their past they had their memories, so they recall after you get your first dream Kaim remember a lot of memories.

Personally I think they made the stores very hard to read! At times I have had to just skip the story because my eyes can not see the white on light gray or light brown or some of the other colors. I do not think they where to worried about their readers actually reading their stories. If they want their reader reading the story maybe they would have made it easier to read. This is my biggest dislike with the game! It is a struggle to read the words, because of the background and text color.  The stories that I been able to read are good, I kind of wish they would have had the character reading the story more like they where living through it again.

This is a action and turn base style game, normally I don’t much like the turn base games, they are few and far between when I like them. I like action mostly so I wouldn’t have mind if they made the freedom to walk around more in the forest or mountain area, but there was enough around to let you search enough. The battle system is a different to get used to. When you have on your rings, you have to release or hit the right bottom button, in order to get a good, prefect or bad in your attack power, for my mortal character prefect isn’t much different then bad,  on some enemies. Now there are a few enemies that is it best to kill them with magic before they block all your magic abilities, these enemies normally start showing up after you get Mack and Cooke in your group. They are good magic user, but have very low HP and very low attacks for the most. The stronger attacks physical attacks come from the immortal and the stronger Magic attacks come from the Mortal. My formation has 2 immortal in front and one in back and then 1 of each in the back but it depends if I have mack or cooke in my party where I put who. It best to normally keep your weak characters in back because then they are protected.  Ming is good with magic attacks too.

There was one battle I felt the need to tell my husband it best to be at a level 18, or higher and take out the little bugs and magic attack the big ugly worm thing with Jansen, while making sure you stay healed up and then round 2 the same thing. There are a few fun little puzzles in this game, and a few things where town people will ask you to do something for them, these are some fun little side quest.

Lost odyssey has good graphics, the people actually look like people. Monsters all look different, some look similar to other monsters in similar games but it is different.  This is a game full of a story, and can suck you into the time wrap of gaming.

Boy, I didn’t think I would conquer it this fast. I played 9 hours and 15 minutes, I really wish the makers of G-d of War would have made it longer and had more story and play to it. Don’t get me wrong it a good hand held game, but it would have been nice to see the story about his family expanded, maybe after his redemption or saving the world and G-d he would be able to fight for his Daughter respect back.

It would have been nice to have the temple of Zeus longer to, to make it more of a maze and have to figure your way out more. It was fairly simple, as far as figuring out where you were to go. The battling level seems to be very well placed, I did first easy, and now I am on hard, and it’s hard. It not so hard that you can’t beat it but some of your boss battles take a little longer and are harder to kill right away. It seems the codes go a little faster and that is hard for me not sure why, my hubby does well at that stuff. This is the 3rd game I have played on my PSP not counting Sudoku, which I don’t think I will ever complete there are just so many games to play on that one between easy, medium and difficult. I think there might be another one on there to which the board is clear, but back to G-d of War.

The beginning battle would have been nice to not fight that lizard thing right out of the gate almost, it would have been nice to play for a while before being in main battles, and making those battles maybe a little harder to beat or longer in the fight…. I think it would have been fun to make him search for more then he did, to make the story line move. Maybe it would have been nice to give a choice to kill them ghost who were at peace or find another way to get back his power. Make him a true hero or a villain which he was more of with just one choice.

The graphics where great, the Ghost of Sparta yes he looked human, but when he was the Ghost he had red markings on his body, otherwise he looked real. His daughter look just about life like and walked like she was real. I think they did a great job of graphics and getting their soldiers looked real. I would have loved to see this on my tv, because it would maybe look like watching a movie when someone playing a game grant it a very silent movie.

Sometimes I enjoy watching my husband play expecially on games that think it cute to put white on white or light gray. We are playing a game like that where I almost need him to read the story out loud for me so I can actually read it. Close colors I struggle with seeing. I found the words fairly easy to read on G-d of war, but it was nice hearing them tell the story while the words were appearing. I think hearing it read sometimes is better then just reading it, because sometimes it just sticks better that way.