3, a devil's number?

And now this to close my (spontaneously called) Trilogy of Numbers. I will talk you about the number 3. So the number 3 of the three posts is called 3. Yeah, I know, a bit lame.

Some say it's a magical number. You know what I mean: Three little pigs, Three will rock you, Snow White and the three... Wait, no!

However... In German there is a proverb which says: "Alle guten Dinge sind drei." Well, this means literally "All the good things are three". But is this really true? I would say NO!

Do you really need more evidence that 3 ISN'T ALWAYS GOOD? Well, in this case, 1 and 2 neither.

A few days ago I went to Barcelona because I had to buy many things (birthday presents, books for school, etc.), one of them: Naruto mangas. Yes, you remember? I'm a huge fan of Naruto. And I just started to collect the mangas. In fact, I bought my first one in Italy! Isn't that a nice souvenir? :D

Well, the point is, I was about to buy the third book of the series because I already have number one and two. So we went to a library in Barcelona. 1, 2, 4... so the third isn't here, OK, no problem, next one.
1, 2, what the... another then. 3rd library, the same, 4th and 5th, yes you guessed it: NOT THERE.

Everywhere I went, there were the 1st, the 2nd and the 4th manga but not the 3rd. What happened there? I mean, are there people who dedicate their life to buy ONLY the 3rd book of all manga series?
Now, my theory: The 3 is a devil's number. I mean, think about it. They always talk about 666, which are three numbers! Yeah! And now, turn the number 90° to the right, what do you see? Exactly: The devil's buttocks! Yes, you heard right, he's laughing at us with the number 3. So, I recommend you:

1. Don't give birth to your child on the 3rd day of the month (and NEVER in march). In case of emergency, try to stop your child from coming out!
2. Never put a mark to an exam which can be divided by 3! Always put the mark one number higher! If it's a 6, put a 7! If it's a 9, put a 10!
4. Never write a third advice!

So, here ends my series Trilogy of Numbers! Wait... Trilogy... Tri... of three? NOOOOOOOOO!

(children under 4 years may not read this text, basically because they haven't passed the third year of life yet. and because, usually, they can't read. 
please don't understand this as a serious post, the author hasn't got any mental disorder... really!)

1984

Talking about numbers. And interesting stories. And the work I have to do.

Now I want to introduce you the book I'm reading right now for the Catalan class: 1984 by George Orwell.

The lecture was optional, well, not at all. We MUST read a book, but we can choose which one. I've decided to take this one because we once read Animal Farm in the Spanish class, another book by George Orwell and I liked it a lot.

1984 was written in 1948 (ironic, don't you think?) and tells us the story of a futuristic world (even in our time we could say it's still futuristic) where three huge states, Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia have got the power and are in permanent war. The protagonist, Winston Smith, lives in London, Oceania, and works for the totalitarian government with their ideology called "Ingsoc". Everywhere there are big telescreens (a word of the "Newspeak", the new simplified English) which show a face of the dictator, the Big Brother, who watches and observes everyone at any time at any place (actually the TV programme "Big Brother" is based on this novel... sad that they make truth what was an not so much absurd futur vision...). In Oceania, every news, every book, every film, anything that says something about the government what disgusts the dictator is changed to fit his wishes. This is Winston's work: He rewrites newspaper articles. But Winston isn't as stupid as many other people. He knows the things are going wrong. He wants to escape from that world but at the same time (after years and years of brainwashing) he makes him think he must obey the government.

I've just read about 100 pages of the book but I can already say it's very interesting. And I just learned about the World War II and about the nazism and the fascism, so it's has a good relation for me to the History classes right now.

999

This post's title will surely have attracted your attention, am I right? Well, in my case, it did. 

I want to talk you about a game I've played recently (even though I REALLY don't have much time) which is called 999: Nine hours Nine persons Nine doors

It's a visual novel game (you could say it's like an interactive book) which explains a very interesting story and makes you think really what you'd do if you would be in the same situation. I play this game in English, so it's a good training for me!

 

 The 9 victims

 A person (we don't know if it's a man or a woman... or anything else, because he's completely covered) who names himself "Zero" has abducted 9 persons, all at midnight by attacking them with a special gas, and brought them into a cruiser. They all wake up in different rooms when the water suddenly starts to raise and they have to find out how to open the door. When the protagonist (who you play), Junpei, comes out he meets up with the other 8 victims in a higher deck of the cruiser. While they talk, the deck where they all woke up ends up completely underwater but the water level stops raising anymore. 

In that moment, from a speaker in the hall, sounds a machine-like voice: Zero speaks to them. He starts to explain them the rules of the "Nonary Game". Every person has received (not really voluntarily) a special bracelet which cannot be removed without the necessary tools. Everyone has his own speficic number from 1 to 9. Junpei has got the number 5. There are 9 doors in the ship which have got a number painted in red on them. They have to seek the door with the number 9 to get out of the ship. But this isn't so easy. Every time they want to go through a door they have to do in groups of 3-5 persons. To open a numbered door, the group needs the digital root which is on the door. This sounds complicated, I know. Here is an example:

Our group is of 4 persons with the numbers 2, 4, 5, and 9. Their digital root would be: 

2 + 4 + 5 + 9 = 20 -> 2 + 0 = 2 

So they could pass the door with the number 2.

Now they have to organise themselves in groups to get through the ship and try to escape. And this always having in mind to not break any rules: they've got a little bomb in their body. 

I think it's a very interesting game and not the same like the "Jumping, shooting, driving, etc." of the other games. For this one you need to think. And it really fascinates you just like a good book.