warrior in training

So my sister and my niece stayed over at the house on the weekend as Minh was out of town. Angelina and I amused ourselves with video games, computer games and cartoon channels. The funny thing is that we share a genuine interest in all 3 things (especially the cartoons!).

I broke out the PS2 and she set it up. For a 6 year old she's pretty proficeint with electronic devices. I think it has a lot to do with the fact that she's exposed to many electronic things daily. I don't know any other 6 year old that has her own laptop (VTech), pc and tv/dvd room. Isn't it great to be an only child, only grandchild on our side of the family and to have young parents with lots of friends?! Lol - many aunts and uncles with disposable incomes! We figure she'll be a computer programmer or something geeky like that when she grows up. I popped in the game and started it. Angelina was comfortable on her pillow, had one of the controllers in her hands and was ready to play. I couldn't figure out how to start the game. I had one of the "fancier" controllers (wireless) and was trying to figure out if the problem was with the USB adaptor, the controller or me...it was me. :-) Baby (Angelina's family nickname) was already navigating through the menus and I was a bit confused by the screen changes. It gave me a false sense of hope that my controller was actually working - so I continued to press buttons. Took me a few seconds to realize that Baby had the first player controller which meant she was the one doing the screen changes. :-) Ah - how can you tell I don't play PS2 often? I finally gave up with wireless controller and negotiated taking turns with Baby on her character. Dynasty Warrior is one of those "kill-everything-in-sight" kind of games so it doesn't take much skill - just a LOT of button pressing. After awhile Baby and I started really enjoying the game. We were cheering each other on and I was teaching her how to use the "map" in the top right hand corner of the screen - not that I'm qualified to teach her how to navigate through these games. Baby found that she wanted to play more and didn't want to participate in the whole "sharing" bit - so we were struggling over who got to use the controller. Thank goodness Michael came home from work and brought out another controller that plugged in for me. :-) Now Baby and I could play together. Chicky came over the next day and found himself dualing Baby for maximum number of kills. The game is addicting. Chicky and I played on it and nearly missed his family dinner. But in it's defence - playing PS2 is much cheaper than going to the movies!

The other night I found myself bored and procrastinating so I fired up the PS2 and tried to level up my character in the game. Before I knew it, it was midnight and I had to stop - not because I was worried that I needed more than 4 hours of sleep before work but because my hands/fingers were so cramped that they hurt. Lol - guess what I'll be doing this weekend?!