Left for the City

So, I sold my farm and left for the city.

No, I just decided to leave my Farmville behind. My One Last Look at it to be posted in the near future. I've just been too busy so even if I have stopped playing it for quite some time, I have not shared yet what my farm last looked like when I left it. In fact, one of the reasons I stopped visiting my farm and eventually stopped altogether is that I am too busy already and the game tends to eat up a lot of time. And then there is the factor of the game feeling like a "chore" already. When the loading time makes me look at my bed longingly. When a huge portion of the plots have turned brown and it seems to take forever before I can save for an Unwither Solution. When finding your animals ready for brushing/milking/whatever else makes me feel fatigued than overjoyed. When scrolling through a "catalog" of items which can only be purchased with farm coins has become somewhat irritating XD

And so, even if this pig is giving me a disappointed (disappigted) look as I walked away to head for the city, I have really decided to move on XD

Tentacle Isle

I mean, Treasure Isle. XD

This game shows very interesting images while the game is loading. The one that stood out the most to us though is the one above. This image can actually go with a million other titles other than the one below it, but some of them can terribly go wrong XD

In any case, I just had to capture it and share it here. And so, going on with my game... (this is one of the very few games I chose to still play until now).

Sweet Fantasy Pastry

The pastry shop within my queendom XD

Sweet Fantasy Pastry (yes that is the name of the shop XD)

I placed caramel apples around the shop to make the pastry ladies happy (^^,)

Goodbye, Yachiru

At the start of the year, I decided to let go of some things and they included my Pet Society pet, a lovely yellow cat with white blank eyes named Yachiru.

Yachiru the Lovely Yellow Cat

So that I will not feel bad about leaving her behind, all alone in her big house, we agreed to let her go and travel anywhere she pleases (though mostly she will stay inconspicuous, watching over A Certain Sensei). So that the house will stay occupied and taken care of, we got a really cool and brave Watch Cat.

Cool and Brave Watch Cat

And now, some last photos taken before Yachiru left with her floral travel bag. The rooms were kind of long so we had to take two shots for each and just put them together as one. Yachiru does not have panoramic settings in her digicam like mine (^.^) (Do not be puzzled if the Cool and Brave Watch Cat seems to have multiplied, or if part of her face is cut off. It is just the photo, and she is not being creepy at all. I think everyone can see she has the kindest face.)

The Study Room

The Stock Room

The Japanese-themed Reading Room

Part of the Backyard Where She Can Take a Nap

Part of the Backyard where her Columns of Fame are

Part of the Backyard where homage is given to Feline Friends

The Front Yard where she also sells Okonomoyaki (Japanese themed like the Reading Room)

The Food Room (or Cravings Room)

The Eating Kitchen

The Coffee Room where most of the trophies are also displayed

The Cake and Pastry Room

So long, Yachiru! The Cool and Brave Watch Cat is having the time of her life and is adding more food into the food and stock rooms whenever she eats some of them. She also likes spending time in the Napping Area at the backyard, and on rainy days she likes hanging out in the Cake and Pastry Room.

PS. Yachiru, watch over Our Sensei really well, will you (^^,) You're like his Angel Kitty now (^^,)

Farewell to a City of Wonder

As much as I love the waving palm leaves in the air and the merchants and workers on the road, I cannot keep finding my crops withered and my animals dead, with my population refusing to increase because they are not happy enough XD I love exploring other civilizations, but everything for my own civilization just costs too much and land expansions may take forever. So I sold everything and let my culture, military, and trades advisers go with bags of gold that they won't ever have to work again. Then, I created a beautiful and peaceful sanctuary surrounded by beautiful flowers in an obsessive-compulsive arrangement. Then, I left XD

First, the twin palms.

Then, a layer of blue wildflowers.

Orange wildflowers.

Light blue wildflowers.

Pink wildflowers.

White wildflowers.

The sanctuary!

Guards walking around the sanctuary on a cloudy day (^.^)

The "Final" Frontier XD

I have stopped attending to the growing town in the middle of nowhere of Frontierville - apart from the hateful groundhogs, it just requires too much bothering your neighbors to ask for parts and documents and materials. And then there is just way so much to do and maintain and kill and you only have so much energy. So, I sold everything and just chose to live the simple life - with my husband and son, we just decided to camp, and then head to where our boots take us for the rest of our days.

New Year, New Cafe Design (^___^)

The New Year Countdown Area
See it has that big fairy tale clock and there's food and drinks and shiny tables XD

The Fast Food Area
Everything is ready made so food is served quickly. Most people come in for takeouts so they have a few seats available for those waiting. You can also get your takeout coffee from this section!

The Dress-Up Dinner Area
Hence the textured walls and the white fountain, plus of course the Column Chairs and white table linen (^.^) The violinist never stops playing it is almost creepy. But no one notices because everyone is actually more focused on and absorbed by how pretty they must look in their evening dresses XD

The Breakfast Table Area
The most relaxed portion of the cafe. There's the morning paper for everyone, and plenty of freshly baked bread. The TV shows early morning shows, and there is bottomless (creepy) tea that can lift anyone's spirits for an even better morning (^^,)