Author Archives: Johan Ho

Went on a cottage trip with my family, and with Helen and Lisa Vu last weekend. Picked berries, ate bunches of food, randomly fished without getting any fish, walked around on the mountain, watched lots of movies, played some card and board games with Vilhelm and Lisa. Oh, also I saunaed myself a bit. It was pretty relaxing! I want a sauna in my apartment! Although not really, since I guess nobody would find out if I passed out by myself when sitting in the sauna. And my power bill would probably double. I guess I’ll stick to video gaming.

Here’s a panorama from some random place in Norefjell.

Yesterday we (the youth group) were invited to Christine’s house for a barbeque party with Iselin, who was visiting from Stockholm. First time I’ve been to Christine’s house, actually, even though she’s a (slightly remote) relative. The adult’s did the barbequing, while we ate, watched a movie, played some EyeToy games and then sang some Singstar. It was pretty fun!

But that’s about the most interesting thing I’ve been doing the last week. Oh, last week I did go to Kristoffer’s place for board games again. I won in Three-Dragon Ante, a card game that I’ve never played before. It was kind of cool, although I got most of my score from getting three of the same colors, so I guess I was kind of lucky. Also played The Pillars of the Earth, where I got in third place, just two points behind first place! (Second place was just one point over me too…) Close!

So, just because I don’t have anything to write about, I’ll post some photos of food.

Chicken burgers I think. I took the photo before putting the bread on top.

Cheese toasts! My oven has a grill function, it rules!

My first plate of food during my job’s summer lunch.

Leon and me and Vilhelm made sushi for dinner!

  My dinner today. Four cheese hotdogs with bacon wrapped around them. 😀

Haven’t done anything particularly special after vacation, just working and cleaning my house mostly. Had quite a few family dinners with my parents friends and relatives, so I haven’t had much time at home, and I also had to fix up the recordings from the summer camp. But I finally finished uploading them, you can listen to the youth and young adults sermons online! I haven’t fixed the worship parts yet though… But some of Jim’s sermons has some worship songs, and the Sunday service includes all the worship.

> Vilhelm playing with my uncle’s birds. That must be how he got sick, hurr hurr. Except probably not.
v My aunt made an interesting Dragonfruit dish!

After finishing the recordings, I took some days off to play video games, feel like I haven’t had time to properly play games in the last few days! I finally beat Super Paper Mario. It’s not a difficult game at all, I just needed to have enough time to run around enough. I didn’t even get all the Pixls (powerups so to say), but I doubt I’m going to play it much more, since I’ve still got a bunch of games that I intend to play through. I started on Prince of Persia: Sands of Time before my vacation, and I also started playing Dark Sector now on my XBox 360, since I felt like some HD gaming after finishing Super Paper Mario on the Wii. Sands of Time is really quite sweet, with the wall-running and jumping puzzle parts, and how the acrobatic multiple enemies fighting system works! Dark Sector has some cool stuff, like picking up weapons from afar with the glaive, and remote controlling your glaive in slow motion to take out multiple enemies with one throw. But that asides, it’s pretty much a generic action game with a mediocre story. Still quite fun though! And it looks great on my TV. 😀

Oh, I haven’t played much Sam&Max, only finished the first episode, and played briefly on the second episode. I just don’t really feel like playing slow adventure games nowadays… Ah well, it can wait.