Remember pac-man? The yellow round thing that looks like a cake with a piece cut out of it? It goes around in a maze eating all these pallets, being chased by ghosts, eating power pallets and then eating the ghost back? I remember I used to have one of these and played with it until it completely conked out on me. It makes the same monotous noise throughout the game but the procedure is always the same. The design of the maze changes, I think as you progress.
At this moment, the kids are simply bananas over Pacman like it's the newest thing on the planet! When I told them, "Mommy used to play Pacman too when I was a little girl". Kids go, "But mom, you're old. You mean Pacman is so old too! But Pacman looks so young". Wait till I tell them about how crazy I was about Transformers. Even bought a really expensive book from overseas on all the Transformers.
Anyway, so's Power Ranger and Ninja Turtles.
Now, the kids are playing Pacman on their computer, not the flat 1 dimension Pacman, mind you. Their Pacman got multilevels, 3D and can perform Butt-Bounce wan, you know. They can eat special power pallets and fly through the air, soar through the sky, go through obstacles.....of course, also the conventional eating of ghosts too. And today's Pacman got other Pac people to save and Pac baddies as well.
Hhhhmmmm.....
Now, kids are harping on about getting Pacman game for their gameboy.
I was kind of a little sad when I read the news about this - there will be no live-in Indonesian maids in Malaysia anymore . There are pros and cons to having a live-in maid, as with everything else, but for us, we enjoyed more pros than cons. Back then, when my kids were little, we brought in a family of maids to help with...well, just about everything, and we were like two families merged into one. They ate what we ate, we sleep, they sleep, we shop, they shop, they joke, we laugh, we joke, they laugh...for me, the maid I hired was more like a sister and side-kick to me. For that few years, I was dependent on her to mind-read my schedule and when I need or don't need help. She picked things up quickly and we ended up having lots of moments whereby we were in sync. Today, two of them are on my Facebook and we were gleefully chatting over Facebook Messenger since they've just discovered the wonders of the Internet and Social Media. Since we were more like partners in crim...
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my Gamebot got conquered by my 2 monkeys 2 days after I bought it and my PSP a week later. Have to wait for their konking time before I can get a game in...sheeeesh!
Get lah for your kids. Then take a photo of Jared while he is playing pacman! :)