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Eos Lip Balm

Eos Lips Balm

Eos Lip Balm is all the rage right now! So twist off the cap, pucker up, and treat your lips to the smooth sensation of Eos.

This lip balm is super cute and handy. The little twistable container is really good for making sure the lip balm doesn't escape and ruin everything in your purse.

However, despite the cute packaging and delicious flavors, the balm doesn't really do anything for my lips. It just makes them waxy and sticky. It might reduce dryness temporarily, but otherwise... no.

Also, just because something is organic, doesn't automatically make it awesome.

Feedback
✓ = Pro  ✘ = Con  

 
✘ Does not do much in healing chapped, dry lips.

✓ Comes in a cute spherical twist container in an assortment of different colors and flavors.

Rating? I'd rate this balm a 3 out of 5. Just 'cuz, well, the balm doesn't really help my lips hydrate... just saying.

Would I recommend this product to a friend?

Maybe... if they were opting for a cute little lip balm sphere more than the actual balm itself.

The Deadly Device

Name: The Deadly Device

Publisher: Her Interactive

Released: October 2012

Rating : E10+

Not Scary      Mild      Bit Intense      Scary      

                     ^    

Plot

The monster-hunting and the mummy scavenging ends for Nancy. For now.

After a world-renowned scientist named Nico Jovic is electrocuted while on the verge of a scientific breakthrough, Nancy is hired to investigate what might have been murder.

Despite the fact that she's in a highly technical lab chock full of toxic chemicals and a murderer, Nancy will solve the case in no time! If she doesn't get herself killed, that is.


Characters

Niko Jovic

Niko Jovic was doing research on Nikola Tesla before his suspicious demise. He was on the verge of a major breakthrough: The secret to wireless energy transfer.

Ellie York


Sullen and unhappy, Ellie York works the night shift at the lab just so she can get away from Mason, who works during the day. Ellie was the one who found Niko's body in the lab.

Mason Quinto


Anti-social describes Mason almost perfectly. Not only does he hate being bothered, but he hates Ellie. Mason believes that Niko's work belongs to him, and that he should get credit for it, not Niko.

Gray Cortright


Gray is intimidating and mean, and it is clear that he hates his job as a security guard. He's hard to interrogate or even speak to, so it's possible that he is hiding something. When he's not around, its easy to find keys to help get into locked places.

Ryan Kilpatrick


Ryan is the lab's technology worker. She's smart and very friendly, making it easy to get information out of her. However, with her vast knowledge of science, and, most importantly Tesla coils, it's possible...

Victor Lossett


Being co-owner of the lab, Victor hired Nancy to solve the case. Victor's away for most of the game, distracted by a meeting elsewhere.

Feedback
✓ = Pro  ✘ = Con  

✘ As excited as I was to play this game, I had to admit, the game was a little boring at times.

✓ The puzzles are excruciatingly difficult, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

✘ There is a limited amount of exploration space. I would have liked it if I was able to explore the lab more.

✓ Characters are full of depth, movements are realistic, and quite hilarious. Sometimes I found myself laughing along with the character's lame jokes or hostile behavior.

✓ Animation is beautiful, objects are solid. Voice acting is superb.

Conclusion

This game was... fun. I liked it for various reasons, and disliked it for others, as shown above. I would recommend this game to my friends and family, and will definitely be playing the next game.

Inspiring Global Kids Contest

Guess what? I won the Inspiring Global Kids contest! My Pinterest board was chosen out of many entries.

I have a choice of either a $25 gift card to iTunes or Barnes and Noble. Which do you think I should choose? I think I might go with the Barnes and Noble gift card, books are awesome.

Click here to go to my winning Pinterest Board!

Anniversary

Happy 15th Anniversary to my parents...

Happy 4th of July

Happy 4th of July! Otherwise known as America's Birthday!

How to Massage Your Cat

I probably just wasted 5 minutes of my life... 5 minutes of funny horror.



Title: How to Massage Your Cat
Author: Alice M. Brock
Published: 2003

Plot

How to massage your cat? Nope. How to kill your cat is more like it. This book contains 30+ ways to maim your feline.

                                                                                                                                                 

See, this book is a joke, it's not an actual book on how to massage your cat. It contains ways to injure and mistreat your cat. And, I'll admit it, I was laughing so hard while reading this book I could scarcely say the words. My mom, a cat lover, thought the book was mean but also hilarious.


Conclusion

Let me just say, if you're a defensive cat lover who has a little orange tabby sitting on your lap right now as you're reading this...

Don't read this book.

If you're not, then this book is perfect for a good(or rather uncontrollable) laugh.

Well, if I didn't feel so bad about how badly this book shows how to treat cats, I'd give it 5 stars.

But I feel bad. So...

What a coincidence...

One day I just randomly happened to find my name, PRIYA, in a math problem in IXL Math.

Funny, right?

Sorry for the low resolution picture, my computer is old and feeble.
Anyway, this was just for fun.

Kaibai.

I hate when people do that. The proper way is...

Monsters University - Review

Title: Monsters University

Producers: Pixar Animation Studios

Released: June 21, 2013

Rating: G

Sunday my family went to the cinema to see Monsters University. Being the long awaited sequel, (or prequel) of Pixar's Monsters Inc., my brother and I were genuinely excited to see it. So I grabbed a couple boxes of candy, put a largely unhealthy amount of butter on my popcorn, and sat down in front of the giant movie screen.

Plot

Ever since Mike Wazowski was a small child, he always dreamed of becoming a scarer at Monster's Inc. While a class field trip, Mike is inspired to enroll in Monsters University.

Many years later, Mike Wazowski, now 17, is entering Monsters University. The amazed Mike studies hard, and is majoring in scaring. Yet, just when he thought everything was going well...

Sulley showed up.

James Sullivan, the son of Bill Sullivan, is popular and an amazing scarer. Almost instantly, he is admitted into the popular crowd. And just as instantly, he goes head to head with Mike, competing in almost everything. But when the two monsters are kicked out of the scare program, they must work together, or they'll never graduate!

Response
It was interesting to see what occurred before Boo and all of the doors and such. Mike Wazowski, the poor thing, tried to scary, but could not. James Sullivan, on the other hand, was one of the best scarers at the university. However, while Mike lacked scariness, he had brains, motivation, determination, and cleverness. James was just... scary. So all in all, I guess this movie contained a lesson. Though Mike wasn't naturally gifted at scaring, he worked hard, and thus he did better than Sulley, who was naturally gifted. Suller didn't try to work harder. He just growled the same old way, with the same degree of horror.

So....

If you don't use it, you lose it.

Graphics

These graphics were the best graphics I have ever seen in a Pixar movie. They were even better than Brave, and Brave's graphics were outstanding.

Monsters University's graphics were so realistic and colorful. They were clean, sharp, and just... amazing.

Conclusion

I enjoyed this movie. I loved the setting, and the monsters themselves. The plot was a somewhat redundant at times, but it was a very funny family-friendly comedy.

  

Inspiring Global Kids

Have you heard of an awesome new blog that's floating around the web?

It's called "Inspiring Global Kids," a blog written by Margo Martin. Margo, a french teacher, is paid to go to different countries around the world to teach different children.

Margo has started this blog to share her observations and discoveries about the world. Right now, she is in Jakarta, Indonesia. She also has two characters, Jael and Solomon, that she takes with her everywhere. Jael is dyslexic and Solomon is diabetic.

Oh, and did I mention...

On Inspiring Global Kids, there is a contest for everyone to enter! Click here to go to it!

All you must do is create a Pinterest board showing pictures and captions describing your culture. Go to the link above for full contest info.

Did I also mention that the prize is a $25 Amazon Gift Card or iTunes Gift Card? Deadline is June 24th, 2013. Email her at igk@worldlanguageacademy.org

:)

I entered the contest! Click here to go to my board!

http://pinterest.com/caramelashotte/africa-through-a-childs-eyes/

The Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual

Name: The Chronicles of Mystery: The Scorpio Ritual

Publisher: City Interactive

Released: November 10, 2008

Rating: E10+

Not Scary      Mild      Bit Intense      Scary      
               ^           
Plot

Sylvie Leroux, a bumbling young archaeologist is living by herself in an apartment in Paris. When she gets a call from her uncle concerning an important discovery, Sylvie ventures off to Malta to see what the matter is.
However, when Sylvie arrives, she finds that Uncle is gone without a trace, and all of sudden, Sylvie is wrapped into an adventure full of strange visions, interesting places, hidden secrets...

And some really weird people.

The Main Characters
I won't speak of the other characters directly as there are just way too many and I don't want to give anything away...

Sylvie Leroux - Being an archaeologist, Sylvie is naturally curious regarding the world around her. Her curiosity, unfortunately, gets the best of her most of the time.

James Anderson - James is linguist that lives right next to Sylvie's uncle. He is a major help to Sylvie throughout the mystery, and a handy decipherer.

These characters (and the others too,) were all somewhat interesting. However, some of them were just not developed enough. The other characters that tie some way into the story barely even make sense half of the time.

Animation

This was a key feature I was looking at while purchasing. The animation is truly amazing, and there are beautiful places to explore, but the game would have been much better as an open world game, with more places to explore, more things to do, more excitement. Yes, the animation was good, but often I found myself doing almost nothing in some of the scenes.

While the backgrounds are splendid, the character animation... wasn't so hot. At first glance, the characters seemed fine, but once their movements were robotic, and when speaking, and their words didn't line up with their mouths, which especially applied to the cutscenes. Also, Sylvie, the only playable character in the game moves very slow. Even while running, at average it takes her 7 or more seconds to get from one side of the screen to another.

Violence

This is really one key factor that throws many people off. Let me just say, this game has almost no violence. At one point Sylvie is hit over the head, but we all know she's not in any REAL danger, right?

Puzzles

Puzzles were mostly good, not too easy and not too hard. I actually enjoyed some of them while others were tiring and boring.

Bugs

I found in one part of the game a character(who doesn't play any significant role in the story) to be a glitch. Every time I talked to that character, the game crashed, shut down, and deleted all progress. To avoid this annoyance, I suggest avoiding talking to the female tourist on Gozo island. You will find her standing around in the grass.

Ending

Ah, the ending, one of the best parts of a mystery game.

Not this one.
This ending was half-baked, and I was very disappointed. I won't say more, in case I give any spoilers away, but let me just say this:

I was so unsatisfied by the ending, that as soon as the game ended, I was all like:

"That's it?"

Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a horrible ending. It was... just not not satisfying.


But, I do believe there's sequel, with Sylvie in it.

Conclusion

As much as I wanted to love this game, I couldn't. I guess you could say I liked it. It just didn't live up to my expectation. Gameplay was slow, and hidden-object format became tiring after awhile. Scenes were awesome, and so were puzzles. There were a LOT of characters, something that I'm not used to. While some droned on and on about their lives and jazz and peanuts, others were intriguing and interesting.

Overall, I'd give this game a 3 out of 5. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either.

Exercising with Rocks

Today my whole family went for a walk around our VERY large neighborhood. Not to mention that  biked, and it was all hills. ALL. Anyway, after breathtaking exercise and a playdate with a spastic laberdoodle that ran over my brother, we, or rather I, rode home.

When I got to the main hill that lead down to my house, I heard the little boys that lived at the houses at the top whispering,

"It's Priya."

Then I heard,

"Halt, who goes there?"

"What is your name?"

Then they threw some rocks at me, and I'm all like, what the heck?

"Why're you throwing rocks at me?"

No answer. More rocks are thrown.

I ride on past them. It'd pitch black, so I can hardly make them out, but I can guess it's the two boys who I mentioned before and their curly-haired friend.

They didn't stop my mom or my brother apparently, becuase my brother's their friend, and my mom would probably make sure they'd never see the outside again.

They did, however, stop my ever-so-slow dad. According to him, they threw rocks at him and he asked them if they wanted him to find out who they were. They didn't answer, so he threatened them some more, and they ran away when their mom called them. By their names...


Looks like I got something to blackmail 'em with.

Just kidding. Their children, even if they did throw rocks at me.


Right?