#028 Final Fantasy VII - wallpapers IV

Continued from Final Fantasy VII - wallpapers III.

It has been quite sometime since i update these FF7 wallpapers posts. So i try to put some links so it will be easier to find the previous posts. After this 3 characters there is still left with one final character.




Cait Sith, which is actually the name for the "cat" and not the huge white "moogle". Standing in front of the Chocobo Racing stadium in Gold Saucer. In fact, both of them are robots, and Cait Sith is controlled by a person name Reeve Tuesti, from Shinra Co., and the Cait Sith then controls the huge moogle robot to fight. Moogles are small cute creatures which also appear in several Final Fantasy games, just like Chocobo and Cactuars.

Anyway, initially Cait Sith was sent by Shinra Co. to join Cloud and his team to spy on them. However, as the journey goes on, Cait Sith (or i should say Reeve Tuesti) was moved by Cloud and others for their mission to stop Sephiroth and save Gaia. And near the ending of disc2, Cait Sith helped Cloud and others to infiltrate into Shinra Co. and stopped Hojo, the leading scientist of Shinra Co. , and his evil deeds. (it will be too long and wordy to explain the whole story, so if you are interested, go play FF7!)

Despite Cait Sith is just a robot and everyone knows Reeve was behind and controlling it, Reeve seldom shows himself, i wonder where exactly is his "control centre" for controlling Cait Sith. In the movie Final Fantasy VII Advent Children, Cait Sith rode on Red XIII instead of his own moogle robot and Cait Sith doesn't really fights. I think maybe when he sits on something he will boost the moral and fighting abilities of his mount. (Just my guessing)


Vincent Valentine, formerly a member of turks (about thirty years ago), was first introduced when Cloud finds him sleeping in a coffin in the secret basement of Shinra Mansion located at Nibelheim. He is a optional character in the original FF7 game. According to the timeline, Vincent is supposed to be over-fifty years old, but he still seems to be at his prime. Reason being that thirty years ago, he was implanted with a "protomateria", a special and unique materia. I'm not sure what exactly are the effects of the protomateria on Vincent, but it seems that it stopped Vincent from ageing.

The details about the story of Vincent wasn't really told in the original Final Fantasy 7, the rough idea was that Vincent loves a female scientist Lucrecia Crescent, who ended up as Hojo's wife. Vincent tried but couldn't stop Hojo from using Lucrecia as a human experiment on Jenova's cells. Feeling guilty for unable to stop the tragic, he slept in the coffin for decades until Cloud finds him. After learning Cloud's mission, he decided to follow Cloud to stop Sephiroth and hopefully able to redeem his "sins".

As for what and who is Jenova, in short "she" is an alien which crushed on Gaia thousand of years ago and wanted to take over Gaia but failed. Though physically she seems dead but her cells and conscious are still active, and is the main source of evil in Final Fantasy 7.

More about Vincent was told in the Dirge of Cerberus : Final Fantasy VII on ps2 and Dirge of Cerberus Lost Epiosde : Final Fantasy VII on mobile handhone. Sadly i didn't play both of them as i don't have ps2 and the handphone game is only available in jap.

And one last thing, this is the only background that i don't know where and when does that happen, my best guess is at Kalm or Nibelheim when the meteor is about to crush onto Gaia. However, Vincent suppose to be on the aircraft highwind together with Cloud and others. Maybe if you didn't find Vincent to join your team, and at the end of the game he woke up from his coffin and climb to the roof to see the end of the world. Or maybe i just think too much.


Cid Highwind sitting on his Tiny Bronco looking at the Rocket town, where he was from, and the rocket which he built. Which leads me to a question: If it is him who build the rocket and i believe that the name of the town come after the rocket, then how could it be his hometown? If Rocket town is truly his hometown, then what is the name of the town before he build the rocket? Who knows...

It is Cid's dream that one day he could go out to the outer space, and he managed to receive funds and support from Shinra Co. to build his dream rocket. However, due to some reasons, the flight just when it started flying off, causing the rocket to land back to ground and slanted side way. Ever since then, Shinra Co. moved their focus back to mako energy and leave the rocket to rust. While Cid spent most of his time sending request and hoping that Shinra Co. will once again support this rocket project.

After a long time, Rufus, the new president of Shinra Co. came to Rocket town, not to support his rocket project but wanted to expropriate his last flying craft, Tiny Bronco. He lost hope in Shinra Co. , without any purpose in life, he followed Cloud and others on their journey. Cid plays a rather important role in the original FF7 as he was the one who helps to pilot the aircraft, highwind, that Cloud and his team acquired later in the game.


Thats all for the 9 main playable characters in FF7, now i'm left with one last character, Sephiroth. But dont think i will write too much about him. Or maybe i just add a few more other FF7 wallpapers to the post.

By the way, remember that i mentioned that there is something interesting about the wallpapers? Yup, none of the wallpapers shows the face of the characters.

(uh-huh... , so... what's the big deal?) Nothing, just cant see their faces lo...

Continue in Final Fantasy VII - wallpapers V.

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#027 热闹的寂寞

一个人醒来,房间另一角的床空空的。窗外的鸟儿不停的叫,仿佛在和其他同伴们说早安,而房间里却静悄悄的,只躺着一个人。

懒洋洋的起了身,换了件便衣,独自去吃早餐。太阳虽然早已升起,但天气还是凉的,一阵冷风吹过,打了个冷战,可是心情还比空气来的凄凉。

来到了食堂,有六七人正在吃早餐。但都不认识,而他们也分散的坐着,各自吃各自得,有没有人又有什么区别?

要买个套餐只需说:“set 1,茶。”,再付一块半就行了。然后便安安静静的吃,再也没多说一个字。已经好久好久没和认识的人一同开开心心的边聊边吃早餐了。

早餐后,又回到安静的房间里,也不知时间怎么过的,马上又得出门去上课了。一个人慢慢独自的走着,这条漫长的路就像是要去取西经,但不同的是没有伙伴,而是自己一个人走。

进了教室,时不时便看看四周,想找个认识的脸孔。可是若真的见到认识的,会主动去打招呼吗?不会。为什么?不知道。

学生越来越多,但还是没见到认识的。右边坐了个女的,左边站着个认识她的人,两人谈起话来。是不是妨碍到她们了?该不该换个位?站着的女子说:“这儿没位,我到你后边坐吧。”那女子便走到上一排的座位,坐在右边女子的后面,继续的聊着,自己也继续的发呆。

开课了,讲师在教时,周边还是听到有人在嘀咕,有说有笑,自己却一个人傻乎乎的盯着讲师,像个哑巴。已经过正午了,这一整天还没说到第四个字。

休息十分钟,教室突然变成了巴刹,讲话声越来越大,大家有说有笑的。而独自一人坐在那,嘴巴除了喝水和打鼾以外,都没开过。在这热闹的教室里,坐着这么一个寂寞的人。

朋友,真的这么难找吗?如果为了个人利益而暂时结识你的人,不算是朋友。那自己为了不再寂寞而故意去交朋友,结识到的,能算是朋友吗?自己有资格称得上是朋友吗?

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#026 XXVI twenty-six 二十六

This blog will be a special blog, because its number 26! Then what's so great about the number 26? Well, from what i can find...

In mathematics term, 26 is the only single number that is between a square number and a cube number, which are 5^2=25 and 3^3=27.
In science, 26 is the atomic number of iron.

Erm... by looking at this, 26 dont really seem special at all. To others, 26 may just be a whole number between 25 and 27, but it is special to me.

To those that dont understand what the hell i'm talking about, just ignore this blog.

To those that seems to understand but not meant for you, also ignore this blog.

To the one who understand why is 26 important to us,
in iew ow. =P

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#025 More Maths!

Have not write any blog for quite sometime, spending most of the time going out, then when I'm at home, feel abit lazy to blog...

Recently i watched 2 consecutive Saturday midnight movie - season of the witch, 新少林寺. Both not bad, still watchable.

Tml is the start of sem2, 12.5% of uni life complete, still got a long way to go.
I still find that uni stuff are still quite confusing, missed my core registration period, got the elective i wanted but not the timing the i put on waitlist. Now have to plan how and what to add and drop during the add/drop period. So ma fan.... but that's life.

Still feels that i have not played enough.... and still don't have the mood to study. But it's okay, because most of my modules are maths. It really makes a different between
1)what you have to study - vs -
2)what you want to study, and
3)what you can study - vs -
4)what you avoiding to study.

Best situation is of course the combination of 2 and 3.

Worst case is having the combination of 1 and 4, this will really get you to nowhere and you must really do something about it fast.

Its really ironic that some people are the combination of 2 and 4, you got what you want to study, but yet avoiding or putting aside until the very last min to study. Good grades do not come so easily.

Having case 3 may be inborn, but if "talent" really isn't on your side, hardwork would make the different. I admin that when people say "1% talent and 99% hardwork", i will rebut that "it's the 1% that matters". But truthfully speaking, who can always get 100%? So if you are god damn sure and confident telling yourself that you tried your best, you did 99%, that's enough.
So what I'm trying to say is if you really tried your best, you wont have regrets no matter what is the outcome.

Currently i still can do the maths, maybe someday i will reach the level whereby my so-called talent unable to catch up anymore. I know that so long i try my best in doing what i like and what i want to study, i will make it, even if i don't, i have no regrets choosing this path.

All live Mathematics!

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#024 office jungle

I saw these posters somewhere from a commercial advertisement, cant really recall what was the advertisement was about, but i find these posters rather interesting. I'm not very sure how to adjust the pictures and this is the largest i could get. You can always click on the picture to see it clearer.




Nowadays, finding a job isn't easy, keeping it is even harder. Beware...

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#023 四圣兽

我从很多不同网站找来的图片,想和大家分享。虽然不知道这样做是否触犯了版权问题,但独乐乐不如众乐乐,希望大家看了会喜欢。我所将放的图片并没有什么主题,而是随机找到和看到,我觉得不错的图片。这次放的是中国传说中的青龙、白虎、朱雀、玄武。

东方圣兽,青龙


西方圣兽,白虎


南方圣兽,朱雀


北方圣兽,玄武

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#022 End of driving test-phobia

Finally today, 10 Jan 2011, i will be writing a blog about my driving test experience. Take note, its not driving experience but driving TEST experience. Why do i say that? You will know soon. First i would like to say that, before today, i don't dare to write this blog, because i cant put an ending to this blog, and I'm not confident to say when will this come to an end.

My first time getting to know driving is 16 Jul 2009, i was still serving National Service and my vocation requires me to be equipped with driving skill. So that day was the first day i started my army driving course. Everything seems fine, until

1) 7 Aug 2009, i fail my first driving test. I was too nervous, and before me there were incidents of others not aware of what is "about turn", which after that we were told that, its just U-turn. So when the tester told me to make a right turn to a dead end, i know he is going to ask me to make a "about turn".

I was so engrossed in thinking the detail of what to do later when he stopped the vehicle for me. A vehicle from the main road on my left is turning right while I continued turing right also. "Required testing officer's help to abort an accident" major fault, immediate failure.



2) 13 Aug 2009, the test was in the morning, around 9.15am. Normal bus lane time is 7.30 to 9.30am, other drivers should not drive on this bus lane during that time. The tester took me to a route with normal bus lane, and my slightly faster watch shows 9.30am. Really a bad time on the wrong road. So to play save, i drove on the second left most lane.

Until some part along the road he wants me to make a left turn, i look at the road situation, i panicked. I'm in a traffic jam and i have to change 2 lanes to the left in order to enter the left side road. But the vehicles on the left lane don't give me the chance, and soon i going to miss the turn. Not knowing what to do, i tried my luck to squeeze in where there is a gap. The tester pushed my steering wheel right, after that he slowly guide me changing to the left lane and successfully made the left turn. "Failed to give way traffic from left", major fault, immediate failure. But i have to admit that i was too rush on changing lane.



3) 18 Aug 2009, the graduation day, and my birthday, if i pass, i will be able to leave there 1 or 2 days later after the orientation driving. In the morning, at the roundabout, some of them encountered tyres on the left lane. Some bypassed from the right lane but were scolded by the testers, saying "why not just drive over it?". In the afternoon, my turn, and i did saw the tyres they mentioned. There are 3 tyres and only 2 small gaps in between them, so i started have doubt to really able to drive over them. But still, not much time to think, i try to drive through at a slow speed. Bang! Tyre hit tyre, engine stalled. "Hit fixed object", major fault, immediate failure.


The tester was scolding me upside-down, and i tried to explain that i heard it from the morning session driving test. After some "investigation", morning do have tyre, 1 tyre. That's why tester would say they could drive over it. When i tried to explain more, tester said "So morning your friend drive through a road and say its clear, afternoon you driving through and saw a man on the road, you go over him ah? Cause your friend say its clear. ACCESS THE ROAD YOURSELF, not through what your friend said."


My close friend, Ken passed his test on that day, I was all alone now, almost going to break down...


4) 20 Aug 2009, I total lost my confident, especially when the tester was the one known to be the very strict and barley passes anyone. Just in the circuit i forgot to down gear back to 1 when i stopped my vehicle at gear 2. "Failed to move off from stationary position in 1st gear", major fault, immediate failure.




5) 25 Aug 2009, it was the same tester that access me on my second test. He was supposed to be the more lenient tester, i was praying hard that i can pass my driving by him. On the road, stupid me followed the front vehicle through a yellow box, but it stops not far after it passes the yellow box. I ended up stopped with my back wheels in the yellow box.

That itself is enough to fail me for "Failed to obey mandatory traffic sign/ signal rule", but i think he did try to close one eye. However, when I'm approaching the last left turn back to camp, i was so excited that i should pass this time and i failed to notice that there is bicycle riding cross the green man light. The test quickly bended down and wanted to pull the hand brake for me, which alerted me of the bicycle and hence i slammed the brake to avoid collision.

When we got back, i know i had failed, i tried beg him to let me pass. But he explained that without his bending down action, i may just crash onto the bicycle, this shows that i have not enough sense of alertness to the surrounding, causing danger to other road users. But to make the remark "nicer", he only wrote that i stopped in yellow box, major fault, immediate failure.



By now the next batch of trainees had already arrived for quite sometime and are already practicing driving. There is only left me and another guy. I told myself that if i fail the next test again, i would ask my PC to put me out of this driving course. Its really driving me crazy.

Because ever since they started driving, my instructor is unable to train me during the day. So i have to arrive at the driving centre by 6 plus 7am, as usual. And just sit down at the training shed doing nothing the whole day until 4-5pm, then my instructor is free to bring my for practice. Sometime there will be some other instructor who is happen to be free in the day, he will also bring me out for practices.

I feel like I'm going to turn mad anytime soon, I'm sometime even wonder will i ORD from here instead of going back to my unit? The batch before me also has 1 person who unable to graduate, but he was left all alone by himself. Rumor said that he got a doctor proof that he has depression and was out of course. Should i do the same?

My sweet told me try not to think about driving while waiting in the training shed, but i cant. what i see are cars driving past, what i hear are sound of the engine of the cars, what i smell are the gases emitted by the cars. I cant escape from it, not even a second.

Reach home by 9pm plus, have to wake by 5.30am. Every night i slept with fear, not wanting to wake up to face the horror.


6)30 Aug 2009, i was like a zombie. Just a pile of soulless flesh walking around and driving around. I donno what am i doing anymore, long forgotten when was the last time i truly smile and laugh with joy.

On the road, a cross junction with 2 lane turning right, I'm making a U-turn. Sometime after green like, there seems to be no on coming traffic, the vehicles on my left started making right turn. Then i started thinking, should i make the U-turn now or wait for green arrow? If i wait, the vehicle behind me horns me, i will fail for causing obstruction to traffic.

So i decided to make the turn along with the vehicles on my left, but since I'm making a U-turn, I'm slower then them, and by the time they drove off, on the oncoming lane there are vehicles approaching, the tester stopped the vehicle for me just like the 1st test, "Required testing officer's help to abort an accident" major fault, immediate failure.

I tried to request out of course from the instructors but what i received were scoldings. I tried to contact my PC, but he was too busy with the Army Open House 09 and i couldn't even reach him. So my hope of getting out of this misery shattered.

7) 2 Sep 2009, the instructors quickly pushed me to get prepared for the 7th test. I heard that the highest record was taking and passed on the 7th test, i was wondering will i be the one to broke the 7 tests record.

Luckily, i pass. I FINALLY PASSED! After more than 1 and a half months of nightmare i finally passed my driving test. I really need to thank everyone who refuse to let me give up (out of course), and those who didn't give up hope on me, and those who encouraged me to hang on till the very end. I finally made it!

But happiness doesn't last forever, the next question soon came out "am i taking civilian license too?" I try not to think about it, leave it till i ORD then see how...

Finally ORD on 9 Feb 2010, on this very same day i went to BBDC to enrol as a private candidates. I did really took my own sweet time taking the theory tests. After a year i got my army driving license, now is time for my diving practical test again...

8) 13 Sep 2010, I just started my uni for nearly 2weeks. I really hope that i can clear this so i can focus on my studies. Everything went smoothly, without any major fault. So i thought I'm going to pass this test easily.

However, the tester soon pointed out a lot of mistake that i made, failed to check blind spot, veer off course, failed to regulate speed according to the traffic etc. And i failed due to 20+ demerit points. My heart sinks, memories of the army driving test experience started flowing back to my mind.


9) 27 Oct 2010, i cant fail this test, after this i have start preparing for my final exams, i have to more time to go for another test. I keep telling myself that i cant fail this time, i can't fail this time, i cant fail this time.

I even asked my driving instructor how to reduce the stress, he gave me a sweet and said "eat sweet lo". While waiting for the test, i ate the sweet, hoping that it would be a blessing for me and pass the test.

However, in the circuit, the clutch pedal starts to jeer when I'm trying to hold half clutch. I even strike kerb when reversing for directional change, did a couple of time for both vertical and parallel parking, stall engine, all kind of mistake. I tried to explain to the tester that there is some problem with the clutch that i just cant hold it at half clutch position. The tester calmly said to me, "it is your leg that is trembling."

I requested from him for a minute to calm myself down, then i started to redo the parallel parking, amazingly i parked in perfectly without any jerking of clutch or anything, just like the morning practice. After that on the road everything also went smoothly. But the mistake i made in the circuit was too sever. 30+ demerit points.


And so the driving was put aside while i focus on my exam, don't want talk about and think about driving. It brings back nothing but fear to me.

After exam, i login to the BBDC website once more and take up the challenge again.

10) 10 Jan 2011, my 10th driving test, and 3rd civilian driving practical test. If i fail this, i probably have to put it on hold until may, after my sem 2 final exams. During the test, similar thing from the previous test occurred. I sensed that I'm losing control of my left foot again, i quickly press my heel on the floor of the car and carry on the test.

Still, i hit the kerb when reversing into the parallel parking. The tester was rather friendly and try to calm me down, telling me to relax and saying that i can drive, all i need is to prove it to him.

On the road, i really tried my very best to check for safety before changing lane, making turns, i even encounter an obstacle on my lane and have to bypass it safety. When we came back, i went to the waiting room while the tester go to print the result.

That few minutes are really torturous to me, i really pray that i could pass. But hitting kerb is 10 demerits and 20 points is enough to fail the test.

When the tester review my performance on the road, he said "why you so nervous? Hit the kerb is 10 points you know, if you didn't hit the kerb...". He suddenly stopped for a few second, and so is my heart.

"you would have passed with flying colours, but you still pass la." 18 demerit points, i finally pass my last and final driving test. I finally passed my driving, 10 driving test in total, its not a record that anyone would want to break.

Finally i can sleep peacefully without thinking of how am i going to pass my driving test. I really must thanks everyone for encouraging me to press on, not to give up. There is too many people that i want to thank so i will not name one by one. My family, my love, my friends and my driving instructors, without you all, i will not make it this far.

Thank you.


If you ever feel like giving up on something, or think that you cant do it, think again.
My 10 driving tests taught me that nothing is impossible, unless you give up.
If you don't give up, failure will.

~milkteaisthebest~

#021 Final Fantasy VII - wallpapers III

Continued from Final Fantasy VII - wallpapers II.

I think i should cut short on the introduction of the characters, starting to get a bit lazy. Anyway, remember i mentioned there is something interesting about the character wallpapers? Have you notice something in common? If no just continue looking at the rest of the picture, I'm sure you will find out eventually.


Aeris Gainsborough, known to be the last Ancient/Cetra on Gaia. Ancient (or also known as Cetra) is a race that similar to human beings on Gaia, they travel from planets to planets like immigration. Thousands of years ago, some settled down on Gaia while others moved on, and Aeris is last of the decadents of Cetra.

Aeris is looking at Highwind, an aircraft built by Shinra, but later become Cloud and his teams transport tool. However, by the time Cloud owns this aircraft, Aeris is already gone. She was killed by Sephiroth when she was praying at her White Materia, left by her mother, to summon the Holy magic to prevent Sephiroth from destroying the world. Though she died, her prayers were heard and thanks to that the world us saved.

Aeris is rather unfortunate, losing her mother at a very young age (killed by Shinra's pursuers). During her upbringing by her step mother, she has to constantly run away from Turks (a special agent group form by Shinra to do "dirty" works like kidnapping etc.). Yet, she remains cheerful and optimistic towards life. She once had a boyfriend, Zack, but this story wasn't really told or explained in the original FF7, more details are mention in the Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII.

In the Advent Children movie ending, the "spirits" of Aeris and Zack seems to reunion and together, they wish all the best for Cloud and believe that Cloud will live on strongly.


Red XIII, real name Nanaki, the code name red13 was given by Hojo when he captured Nanaki and using him as experiment specimen. For convenience sake, I will address him as Red XIII. During disc1 when Cloud first met Red XIII, he didn't introduce himself, as a result we the gamers will naturally name him Red XIII.

Even if you try to name him Nanaki, presuming you know his name before-handed; when you reaches Cosmo Canyon, Nanaki's hometown, Cloud will be surprised that his team mate Nanaki's real name is Nanaki. So my advice is not to know him his real name, Red XIII is just as fine.

Beside Red XIII is Seto, Red XIII's father, who Red XIII thought that he abandoned Cosmo Canyon and escaped when their hometown was attacked years ago. As the story goes on, Red XIII learnt that it was in fact, his father sacrificed himself to block off the enemy and asked Red XIII grandfather, Bugenhagen to seal the entrance behind him.

It is still a mystery why Red XIII's grandfather look so different from Seto and Red XIII, and Red XIII don't seems to be the last of his kind, as in the ending credit, we see that 500 years later, Red XIII had a couple of children (or maybe grandchildren) running with him. Red XIII is indeed a unique species in Gaia.



Yuffie Kisaragi, a materia hunter (or thief) who hope to bring back the former glory of her hometown Wutai. She is an optional character in the original FF7 game. Years ago, when Yuffie was just a girl, Wutai was having war with Shinra Co., fighting for their own freedom. In the end, Yuffie's father, Godo Kisaragi, who is also the representative of Wutai surrender to Shinra, and soon Wutai became a tourist attraction and materia were confiscated by Shinra.

As materia have magical powers and are crucial for fighting, Yuffie decided to travel around the world try to collect as much materia as she can to rebuild the fighting strength of Wutai. One day she encounter Cloud and his team and was defeated by them, so she decided to tag along with them, finding an opportunity to steal their materia.

After the Wutai event in original FF7, she continue to follow Cloud and others, not to steal their materia, but to hope that after the final showdown with Sephiroth, Cloud and others would have no further use of their materia, and all shall be hers.

Despite saying that she is a thief and always up to no good and stuff, Yuffie is still a kind hearted, hyper and playful girl who is essential to brighten up the days for Cloud and his team.

Continue in Final Fantasy VII - wallpapers IV.

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#020 Final Fantasy VII - wallpapers II

Continued from Final Fantasy VII - wallpapers I.

I will arrange the character posters similar to the order of them joining Cloud in his journey.



Barret Wallace, believing that defeating Sephiroth will save the world, Barret joins Cloud on his journey. Barret is first introduced to be leader of AVALANCHE, a rebellion group in Midgar, sabotaging and destroying the reactors to slow down the mako draining process.

In the wallpaper Barret is carrying Marlene on his shoulder, standing in a Church in Midgar. Marlene is the daughter of Dyne, Barret's best childhood close friend. Think i shall not talk about too much of the history of Barret or his storyline, else i will keep going on and on and the whole blog will become very lengthy and dry.

In short, back at Barret and Dyne's hometown, North Corel, Barret strongly encourage the elders and Dyne to accept the offer from Shinra Co., which is to build a reactor in North Corel. At that time, Barret truly believes Shinra Co. and the reactor will bring prosperity to their hometown.

However one day, for some unknown reason the reactor exploded, burning the whole town into ash. While Barret and Dyne were on their way rushing back to save whatever that is left, they encounter Shinra's troop, which is trying to silence everyone to cover up the incident. Dyne fell off the cliff, Barret lost his right hand but managed to escape. When he got back to his hometown, he found Marlene, who is still a baby.

Barret adopted Marlene, taking care of her like she is his own daughter. Feeling guilty that he was the one who persuade everyone, including Dyne to accept Shinra's offer, end up causing this incident, he began to hold grudge on Shinra. He replaced his lost hand with a gun and try to stop every single reactor from draining "life" from the world, Gaia. (Gaia is the name of their planet, like ours is Earth)





Tifa Lockhart, childhood friend of Cloud, wasn't really close during childhood time though. She is sitting on the well (not exactly that kind of well that people throw a bucket into and draw water from it), in Nibelheim. The very place where Tifa wanted Cloud to make a promise that when one day she is in danger, he will come to rescue her.



When young, Tifa often has couple of boys gathering around her, which do not include Cloud. She practically didn't know Cloud at all, except that they live in the same hometown. Until one day, Cloud asked her out to meet at the well, which was in the centre of the town. Telling her that he plans to become a SOLDIER of Shinra and become famous, like Sephiroth.



After Cloud left, Tifa began to grow curiosity about Cloud, starts to read up on news from Shinra hoping to find something regarding Cloud. Tifa continue to live in Nibelheim until one incident, where Sephiroth come to Nibelheim and found out the truth about his own past. Sephiroth started slaughtering everyone on sight and burns down the entire town.



Tifa, who was also severely injured was then brought to Midgar by her martial arts teacher, Zangan. Zangan didn't appear in the main storyline, only in the Cloud's flashback. In Midgar, Tifa met Barret and for some reasons they became more than just friends*(1). Tifa runs a bar named "7th Heaven", which is also the hideout for Barret's AVALANCHE group. And when Barret is out for "mission", Tifa will take care of Marlene for him.



Until one day, when she found Cloud semi-consciously laying at the train station, she brought Cloud back to her bar and take care of him. After Cloud recovered, despited that Tifa notice something different about Cloud, especially part of his memory, Tifa remained silent and decided to stick with Cloud try to find out what happened to Cloud during the seven years that he left Nibelheim.



Well, now only 3 characters so far, i still have Aeris, Red XIII, Yuffie, Cait Sith, Vincent, Cid and lastly, Sephiroth.



*(1) this 'more than just friends' does not refer to any love content. I'm merely saying that they are more than just acquaintances. As Tifa helps to take care of Marlene while Barret is not around.



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#019 Final Fantasy VII - wallpapers I

Long live holiday! Sad to say this kind of things doesn't last long. At least we still have school holiday when we are studying, when we start working, we will sure miss these days...

Anyway, just suddenly feel like posting some of the wallpapers from the original FF7. Surely the graphics aren't as fascinating as nowadays posters, but its a 1997 product, what do you expect? i uploading the pictures directly from my computer, instead of putting to photobucket and get the url link etc...



First wallpaper: Midgar. For those who played FF7 on their computer, this is probably the first picture you see during the installation setup.

A giant city run by Shinra Electric Power Company, which drains mako energy (lifestream) from the ground to use as electricity, similar to we pumping crude oil as power energy source. As the result of extracting the mako energy from the ground, the entire plot of land seems dark, lifeless and without any grasses or trees.

Its some sort of a regular octagon shape, with 8 reactors (the power plants that pump mako energy up from the ground) on each vertex, and from each reactor there is wall link to the center of Midgar, slicing Midgar into eight sectors. There used to be names for each sector, but soon they forgotten the names and are replaced with numbers, i.e. sector 1, sector 2, etc... And their lives there are like slum.

In the middle of Midgar, there is a plate build above the 8 sectors, something like a "upper-world" where people that are more useful to Shinra Co., mostly employees, lives on this upper plate. And in the centre of the plate, is the Shinra Building, the heart of Midgar and Head Quarters of Shinra Co. .

The game will spend about 30% of the storyline in disc1 in Midgar, though we are unable to explore all 8 sectors. Only roughly 3 (i cant really remember) sectors and 2 reactors are involved in the storyline. After which, the main character will leave Midgar and will only come back again near the ending of disc2.

Personally, I think that it is trying to hint us the possible future of our world, if we continue to blindly extract natural resources from our mother land for personal benefits, the world will soon be dark and lifeless, just the the picture.



Cloud Strife, the main character of FF7, facing the Shinra Building, carrying Buster Sword on his back. I notice something interesting about all the character's wallpaper, after a few more wallpaper see if you will notice it.

Anyway, the Buster Sword soon became a trademark for FF7, a huge, long, broad, thick, single edge sword with 2 holes on the body of the blade. When FF7 origin first came out, Buster Sword is just a rather plain sword, not much details is put on the sword. (In fact, it is just the inital sword, less than 2 hours of game play it will be replaced by a better sword.) Personally i even thought that the two holes are meant for equipping materia, since there is no precise explaination of where was materia equipped during that time.

After about 8 years later, in Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (2005), it is the first time that they show how and where was materia actually equipped. Kadaj actually "insert" the materia directly in to his own arm, and the materia just dissolve into his arm and glows from inside.

But this leads me to a question, then in FF7 origin, why was the amount of materia that one able to equip depends on the weapon and armor? Shouldn't it be the lenght of the character's arm? Haha, but it doesn't really matter. It is still a great game and it is still a great movie.

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