Videogames

I received a Nintendo DS copy of Chrono Trigger from my brother for Christmas. Since then, I've spent 20 hours trying to help Crono, Lucca and Marle save the world from the merciless alien parasite Lavos. Which got me thinking about all the time I've wasted playing videogames. Prior to receiving such a wonderful Christmas gift (Chrono Trigger is my favourite game of all-time, and I've now played it on three different consoles), I wasted time playing Heroes of Might and Magic 3 (My favourite PC game of all time). Now some of the many hours that both these games sucked away probably should have been devoted to continuing my Chinese study (on sort of a semi-hold after the Advanced HSK in October) or keeping up with the work for my Massey University extramural maths paper. My study has really hit a lull and I can kid myself all I want about reading Chinese blogs online or skimming through the Baidu news section being study. I mean these things are helpful and it's probably stopping my Chinese from regressing completely, but in order for me to break through the upper-intermediate level, I really should be doing more. 20 hours of Chinese study at this point in my life is probably worth more to me than helping Crono defeat Lavos for the 4th or 5th time.