Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
I’m An Alien, I’m A Legal AlienFinally got my Employment Pass, the innocuous little green card that says “Don’t arrest this character, no matter how unsavoury or anti-authoriatarian he may appear, he actually has legal right to work here.” And the best part is–at lest if you’re a snob–it’s an Employment Pass and not [...]
Almost LegalWith medical report in hand (I don’t have AIDS, whoo!) I paid a visit to MOM (Once again, the Ministry of Manpower) and MOM told me that I was a good and healthy boy, and so I could continue to work, just as soon as I handed over my passport. It’s a weird feeling [...]
The Temp & Married Geek’s Night OutA productive, if uneventful day, though that doesn’t mean it wasn’t fun.Spent the vast majority of the day laboriously working through my final interview, with a very smart game developer named Jay Wilson who works with Relic, a Canadian games company and one of the better developers in action [...]
Holy Crap. Old School RPG-ing!Wow. That’s all I have to say about my initial experience of Dragon Quest VIII. The Wife looked down kindly upon me yesterday and allowed me to get it.
For the first time in years, I got my ass handed to me in an RPG, and it was for reasons that I [...]
If There’s A Heaven…
I imagine that there’s a whole league of angels right now standing over cars with rags on the hood while Pat Morita intones, “Wax on… Wax off…” other angels stand on large logs stuck in the sand, learning a kick that involves raising your arms up in the air like a bat, [...]
Truth Is HardI think that as I get older I become more and more firmly entrenched in the idea that if our world is overly complex, it’s because people–not the universe–have made it that way. But there is a reason for that that goes beyond a simple love of bureaucracy or needless complexity. [...]
Medical Check Ups And Old FriendsThe medical check up happened yesterday, and it went by surprisingly fast. No need for an appointment, I just showed up, the doctor ran a physical and the next thing I know he’s got a needle stuck in my arm and is filling up a vial. Today I got a [...]
Xbox 360=I Am OutdatedSo now that the first opening salvo of the next generation consoles has thundered through the marketplace I now find myself once again feeling pretty behind the times. This is always the way it goes, although this time I’m in no huge hurry to actually get a new console. At [...]
The Quick PostTomorrow I go in for my medical check up. Finally. It shouldn’t be a big deal, but I’m not a huge fan of needles. However, since I’ve had to get blood tests on what seems like a bi-yearly basis anyway, I’m used to it enough that I just get mildly [...]