my life, my pace

I admit it. I’m a wannabe surgeon. It’s cool and I’m intrigued, but I just don’t have the stomach or stamina for it. So what’s a wannabe surgeon like me to do? Just live out my days as a non-surgeon wishing that I could be as cool as a surgeon? No way!

And that’s where my handy Nintendo DS Lite comes in. It’s an awesome portable game system that has provided me with endless hours of entertainment at times when I would otherwise have had no choice but to be bored to death and I’m not even into or any good at video games. It’s also good for playing wirelessly with other people who have it. My husband and I have DS Lite date nights where we just lie in bed playing our respective DS Lites with each other.

You see, there’s this game called Trauma Center: Under the Knife for the DS where you get to play a surgeon. You use the little stylus thing to perform operations on the DS. It’s actually quite intense as I get quite pissed off when I’m not able to get the operations right and fail. The nice thing is that it’s not very gory or else I’d be scared off. There’s just enough realism to make it satisfying for me without grossing me out. It’s so addictive. And a sequel called Trauma Center: Second Opinion is going to be released for the Nintendo Wii, which means there just might be one of those in my future. I never thought I would be into video games, but here I am and it’s all thanks to my DS Lite and Trauma Center.

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