PLANTS vs ZOMBIES

 

Plants vs Zombies is a unique tower defense game from PopCap Games. It’s a clever, strategy-based game that will challenge your planning and execution skills.

The concept is simple: you are in your house, the zombies are trying to get to you to eat your brains, and your lawn is your last defense. You have an army of plants that will help keep the zombies off your lawn. To familiarize with all the plants in the game, please click the images/links below.

Get ready to soil your plants!

Peashooter	Sunflower	Cherry Bomb	Wall-nut
Potato Mine	Snow Pea	Chomper	Repeater
Puff-shroom	Sun-shroom	Fume-shroom	Grave Buster
Hypno-shroom	Scaredy-shroom	Ice-shroom	Doom-shroom
Lily Pad	Squash	Threepeater	Tangle Kelp
Jalapeno	Spikeweed	Torchwood	Tall-nut
Sea-shroom	Plantern	Cactus	Blover
Split Pea	Starfruit	Pumpkin	Magnet-shroom
Cabbage-pult	Flower Pot	Kernel-pult	Coffee Bean
Garlic	Umbrella Leaf	Marigold	Melon-pult
Gatling Pea	Twin Sunflower	Gloom-shroom	Cattail
Winter Melon	Gold Magnet	Spikerock	Cob Cannon
Imitater

 

Credits to: http://plantsvszombies.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

I wish you enough

Recently I overheard a Father and daughter in their last moments together at the airport. They had announced the departure.

Standing near the security gate, they hugged and the Father said, 'I love you, and I wish you enough.'

The daughter replied, 'Dad, our life together has been more than enough. Your love is all I ever needed. I wish you enough, too, Dad.'

They kissed and the daughter left. The Father walked over to the window where I was seated. Standing there I could see he wanted and needed to cry. I tried not to intrude on his privacy, but he welcomed me in by asking, 'Did you ever say good-bye to someone knowing it would be forever?'

'Yes, I have,' I replied. 'Forgive me for asking, but why is this a forever good-bye?'.

'I am old, and she lives so far away. I have challenges ahead and the reality is - the next trip back will be for my funeral,' he said.

'When you were saying good-bye, I heard you say, 'I wish you enough..' May I ask what that means?'

He began to smile. 'That's a wish that has been handed down from other generations. My parents used to say it to everyone...'

He paused a moment and looked up as if trying to remember it in detail, and he smiled even more. 'When we said, 'I wish you enough,' we were wanting the other person to have a life filled with just enough good things to sustain them.'

Then turning toward me, he shared the following as if he were reciting it from memory.

I wish you enough sun to keep your attitude bright no matter how gray the day may appear.
I wish you enough rain to appreciate the sun even more.
I wish you enough happiness to keep your spirit alive and everlasting.
I wish you enough pain so that even the smallest of joys in life may appear bigger.
I wish you enough gain to satisfy your wanting.
I wish you enough loss to appreciate all that you possess.
I wish you enough hellos to get you through the final good-bye.

He then began to cry and walked away.

They say it takes a minute to find a special person, an hour to appreciate them, a day to love them; but then an entire life to forget them.

 

 

Article: Repost from a forwarded email

Photo: ©mvj (06/29 Yokohama, Japan)

Stripes in a Cage

As a child, a visit to the zoo was like a visit to wonderland.  There are animals of all sorts, each seem different and special. I could imagine cartoon characters being brought alive, like Lion King, or Pooh Bear and Tigger - all are happily playing on my wild imagination. Star-struck, I guess. Being up-close and personal with them gave me a lot of pride, especially when talking to my classmates who have never been to a zoo. That was like… 20 years ago!

On one of my recent visits to a zoo in Tokyo, my perception changed. There was this certain sadness and pity that I felt towards the animals inside the zoo. Although the facilities inside the zoo were advanced and perhaps, world-class (it’s Japan, baby!), it’s just inadequate to provide for the animals needs. Keeping animals in artificial enclosures inside zoos is stressful and harmful. The animals become bored and lonely creatures who spend their days shuffling, swaying and pacing back and forth, their eyes sad and empty.

We cannot glimpse the essential life of a caged animal, only the shadow of its former beauty. - Julia Allen Field

Zoos claim that they confine the animals due to the following reasons: conservation, education and research. But is there a better way for all these without keeping them caged inside a zoo?

I say yes.

Wildlife conservation programs and establishing protected reserves are far better solutions than caging animals in zoos. We also need good legislation to protect the habitat of these animals.

The saddest thing about zoos is the way they drive animals mad. Much of the behaviour we take for granted in zoo animals – repetitive padding up and down, head banging, obsessive paw swinging, or just plain moping – is actually psychotic, the sort of thing humans get driven to when they are kept in solitary confinement. - Bill Travers (Star of “Born Free” and co-founder of Zoo Check)

So the next time you visit a zoo, try to see and feel the actual condition of the animals inside. Do you still find it entertaining?