Retro Witnesses a Horrible Accident:

On Sunday the 28th of March at 9:00AM, there was a really bad accident on the Jumeirah Beach Road. It actually happened right in front of the Madinat Jumeirah and the traffic was backed up till Wild Wadi, well maybe by the Jumeirah Beach Hotel.
So what happened was, I was running late for class and since I don't live that far from the university. It always takes me about 10 to 15 minutes to get to class but since I got up on the wrong side of bed my week has been getting worse by the second. So i got on the road and headed towards the university and before I knew it, I was sitting in traffic for about 2 hours. There seemed to have been an accident on the road, No, not just your typical accident and NO I didn't hit the car, I wasn't even driving at that time (a friend took me to my university).

The Picture represents an illustration of the water pipe bursting on the Beach Road

A water tanker was busy doing it's routes when it suddenly flipped in front of Madinat Jumeirah. It happened right in front of the traffic signal. Also what had happened was that there was a lot of water (from the water tanker) and glass all over the road and to make things worse, a Water Pipe blew up leaving the entire road flooded with glass and water. The police had ceased ALL traffic going towards the Dubai Marina and the Palm Jumeirah and UOWD.


By the time I reached to the university, it was around 11AM, I was TWO hours late for class. Since the accident had happened, I'm not sure if the Driver survived because I think I saw an ambulance pass by but I'm not a 100% sure on that part. Also I called 2 radio stations (104.8 Channel 4FM and 104.1 & 100.5 Radio 1) and I told them the story. Radio 1 called me back and put me on Live AIR, so I told everyone about what had happened. In the end once I reached to the university, I had to take a make up class for the first tutorial that I missed (it seemed that many people missed it due to the lovely traffic flow in Dubai -__- )

Latest News:

Lately I have been having quite a lot of midterms and you know that meant not many updates. So Now since I have finished ALL my midterms there are going to be a few changes but first let me give you some news:

• The Sims 3 has officially taken back the Box Cover that was found on Infinite Sims and they replaced it with a new one (check out the picture on the bottom)
• The Sims 3 Ambitions will be released on June 1, 2010.
• There will be a temporary closure of my blog starting from April 1 till April 5. Details will be given shortly
• There's also a celebration coming up sometime on April, I will mention this on Tuesday the 23rd of March 2010

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Retro's Interesting Music Video Finds: Part 1 of 4

For the next 3 weeks, I will be posting some of the amazing music videos which I find are interesting and creative. For example the video down below represents ALL of Dido's Music Videos but that's not it, they have all been merged together in some sort of creative twist, which is really nice. I will be posting one video every week. So be on a lookout for one of the most amazing songs ever :)

The Sims 3: Ambitions Trailer

This is going to be the last time I will be updating my blog and as you all know that I have just posted an announcement. So as for my final update, I will be providing you with the First Trailer of the latest expansion pack called "Ambitions". You can see part of the new interactions with the new expansion pack and of course, who could forget the Servo? Well it's back, your robotic servant is now back in the game.
Here is the trailer:




For more information please check out The Sims 3 for further details and along with their fansites :)

Announcement:

As of the 14th of March 2010, I will not be updating my blog since, I will be having my midterms and I will also be having some presentations due during that week. So my blog won't be updated till the 23rd of March 2010.
Also in other news I will be posting my Summer Recipes online and how to cook them in detail.
Also I will be closing my blog for a couple of days at some point on April and then I will reopen it and add a new template as well as a new banner for my blog :)

Please Be Patient!!!!!

The Sims 3 Ambitions Expansion Pack Details: Part 2

The following things have been taken from Sim Operations:

General Career Options:

• Sims can pursue a variety of new careers which are added in the pack
• These jobs directly affect mood, the neighbourhood and other factors
• Players have direct control of their sims’ jobs
• Some jobs allow sims to go on house calls around the neighborhood
• Many new locations are added to the neighbourhood such as a salon and a junkyard

Medical Career

• Sims in this career can make house calls
• Medical sims can test experimental machines on patients

Firefighter Career

• Fighterfighters can tackle real fires in the neighbourhood
• Firefighting sims get an axe which can destory items in a house
• Sims in this career track must build up good relationships within the community
• Equipment of firefighters must be maintained to a good standard
• Firefighters will come into several obstacles such as rubble piles. There will also be a range of problems including both small and large fires and even earthquakes
• In the course of their day, firefighters may have to carry out children, stop gas leaks and put out flames

Investigative Career

• Investigative sims can take a shot at solving cases
• These sims can “rough up” other sims to get answers
• Bribes can be paid by investigative sims to get information
• Sims can break into other’s houses to try and retrieve evidence & clues for thier stories

Ghost Hunter Career

• Ghost hunters can hunt down ghosts and capture them a la Ghostbusters

Inventor Career

• Inventors can create new experiments to test out
• Innovative sims can go to the junkyard and retrieve scrap to build with
• With their detonation packs in hand, inventive sims can blow up objects
• Items built by inventors can be used in opportunities or sold via the consignment store

Sculptor Career

• Sculptors can carve into ice blocks
• Ice sculptures can be made to resemble a posing sim
• Sculptors can sculpt into a variety of materials including clay, wood, ice, and metal

Stylist Career & Tattoo System

• The new tattoo system lets sims makeover their neighbours
• Stylists can offer fashion advice to other sims
• Other sims can request partial or full makeovers
• A new tattoo parlor is added to the neighbourhood alongside a salon chair which can even be bought for home
• Up to five tattoos can be applied to a single sim
• Tattoos can be manipulated by changing colours, size and opacity
• Tattoos can be uploaded to the online exchange

Architect Career

• Architects can edit the whole town via build/buy mode to be able to sculpt their own look on the town

New Objects

• Floor hygienator – provides hygiene to sims who walk over it and is built by inventors
• Personal robot – built by inventors
• Time machine – sims can go back in time with this new item built by inventors
• Drilling device – built by inventors but purpose unknown

Other Additions

• Players can add neighbourhood items such as rocks and signs to the neighbourhood via the architect career rather than using Create-a-World
• More information can be found on http://simoperations.com/the-sims-3/ambitions/  & The Sims 3 & Snooty Sims & Infinite Sims

THIS JUST IN. THE SIMS 3 AMBITIONS POSTER WAS JUST REVEALED BY INFINITESIMS SO ENJOY!!!!


Temporary Link For Cover Art But in Polish is located here :)

The Sims 3 Ambitions Expansion Pack Details: Part 1

According to Game Spot, they have found that in this expansion pack there are several new things that are going to be happening in the game. Along with the new jobs, there are also going to be new challenges as well as new options for the Build Mode and new interactions for your Sims.
Some of the challenges include many things:

• When your Sims are firefighters they have to do many things such as maintain their relationships as well as their equipment at the firehouse and then they have to deal with the ringing of the alarms and then you know that means that they have to go to where the fire is and put out the fire and stop certain gas leaks, clear all the rubble piles and if you don't maintain this "Your town may fall victim to small fires, huge infernos and even earthquakes". Translation: This is going to be kind of like Simcity, except you're not the mayor or anything like that, you just have to make sure that your town doesn't burn to the ground because of these "small" fires. So you better beware of these dangerous things. The good thing about this is that this will be teaching us on what to do in case of a fire and what the firemen do in reality. So basically this is like real life except in a virtual world. Very interesting :)
• Stylist or Fashion Designers are going to be hired by two things, either by your friends and neighbors or by certain companies (don't ask which one). Now you have the option of making your customer either look beautiful or you can make them look really Butt-Ugly. As what Game Spot mentioned "...It's a lot of power to put in the hands of our more-deviant players, but the ability to give the entire town a face-lift is fantastic and profitable....". Translation: So, you're going to be more like a plastic surgeon, let's just either make your Sims look like Fashionable people or make them look ugly. It's your choice. So I guess that means if you make your Sim look beautiful, you get paid but if you make your Sim look ugly, you still get paid except no Lawsuit :P I guess this job is alright but it doesn't sound tempting to me.
• Investigators (or as what XTR said on his list of types of annoying people, "Verbal Interrogators" ) basically tend to search for clues. You can bribe your Sims, convince them for the information or beat them up and you can also break into other Sims homes to search for clues and steal things for Evidence. I guess this is alright. There's no translation needed here because it's pretty straight forward!

Now Sim Operations has mentioned a lot of things about the game, I will post them in a couple of hours.

Keep a look out for the next part of this amazing Hot news about The Sims 3: Ambitions

The Sims 3: Ambitions Expansion Pack

It has officially been confirmed by The Sims 3 that a new expansion pack has been revealed, it's called "The Sims 3: Ambitions". The expansion pack is based on jobs in general. Mainly this expansion will provide your Sim some new jobs where you can actually follow your Sim to work and go inside of the work place with them.
These jobs include the following:

• Ghost Hunter -Your Sim is like one of the Ghost busters except with a different outfit and you literally go searching for ghosts around the neighborhood and you suck them into your vacuum - like object, it's pretty neat.
• Tattoo Artist - Your Sims can now have tattoos around their body part, it's as if you want to make your Sim look like a complete low life. I'm not really looking forward to this job option
• Sculptist - Your Sims can now make sculptures of anything they want, whether it's a person or object of some sort. So far in the trailer, I saw an Ice Sculpture of one Sim and some clay sculptures of some random objects. This is really a nice Job
• Firefighter - Your Sims can now be Firemen and they can now go saving other Sim's lives when their houses are on fire and they can break down the doors with axes to save the people, it's kind of like a real job in our world except the fact that it's completely realistic. I'll quote what Beverly said from the Big Bang Theory "It's a social Convention". So it's like a social thing, when it comes to saving someone's life. I think that this is an Amazing Job 
• Fashion Expert - Your Sims can now be Fashion Experts and they could do all sorts of things with stuff relating to fashion. This Job is great for Female Fashion Designers and NOT Great for male fashion designers since they tend to be gender confused!
• Architect - Are you interested in Architecture? Well why not manage to architect an entire neighborhood to yourself and you control it yourself? This job is Amazing as well as the Firefighter
• Inventor - Create Time Machines and Servos as well as other mechanical things to enjoy life and you can either decide to create things that go "Boom", if you're evil or to stay normal and happy like a good person. This depends on your traits. I think that this is a Great Job 
• Private Detective - Your Sim can so Snooping around town for certain treasures and certain mysteries that lurk around town. So beware of what your Sim's are hiding around town. I think that this is an amazing job

And there are so many more jobs to come. For more information please read this article NOW.

More info coming soon!

The Game will be released on June 2010!

All this Pictures are taken from Snooty Sims

A Funny Email That I Received From A Friend:

This is one of the funniest emails that I have ever received from a friend of mine, I don't mean any offence to any Mexicans out there, This is just a joke that I had received from my friend :)

Mexican Words Of The Day 

1. *Cheese* 
The teacher told Pepito to use the word cheese in a sentence.
Pepito replies: Maria likes me, but cheese (she's) ugly. 

2. *Mushroom* 
When all my family get in the car 
There's not mushroom (much room). 

3. *Shoulder* 
My fren wants 2 become a citizen, 
But che didn't know how to read, 
So I, shoulder. 

4. * Texas * 
When I'm not home, 
My fren always Texas (texts) me, 
Che wonders where I am! 

5. *Herpes* 
Me and my fren (friend) ordered pizza.
I got mine piece 
Then che (she) got herpes (Her Piece). 

6. *July* 
Ju told me ju (you) were going to tha store 
But ju went to see sum guy, 
July (You Lie) to me! Julyer (You Liar)! 

7. *Rectum* 
I had 2 cars 
But my wife rectum!  (Wrecked them)

8. *Chicken* 
I was going to go to the store with my wife 
But che said chicken go herself. 

9. *Wheelchair*
We only have one enchilada left 
But don't worry wheelchair (We'll Share)

10. *Chicken* *wing* 
My wife plays the lottery so chicken wing. 

11. *Harassment* 
My wife caught me in bed with another women. 
I told her, "Honey, harassment (Her Ass Meant)  nothen to me. 

12. *Bishop* 
My wife fell down the stair 
So I had to pick the bishop. (get it, B!tch Up :P) 

13. *Body wash* 
I want to go to the club 
But no body wash my kids. 

14. *Budweiser* 
That women has a nice body, 
Budweiser (But Why Is Her) face so ugly?


I added a few brackets that have the meaning of the jokes :P so enjoy!!!