Sunshine Bokujo

Do you know what is the talk of the town in Japan right now?

サンシャイン牧場 (Sansyain Bokujo) or Sunshine Farm.

Maybe not Japan but at least in my college, or more specifically, my research lab haha. It all started yesterday, when one of my senpai, Kuri-chan, who was playing this game halfway and he turned his chair to our direction. My classmate, another senior and I were busy soldering the strain gauges at that time on another table. Kuri-chan then started promoting this game to us and pestered us to join him to play the game haha.

"This game is really interesting-lah. Can steal people's crop some more!"

We hesitated whether or not to play the game because we haven't finished our work yet. But Kuri-chan die die also wanted us to play the game. So, he told us how you can grow your vegetables in your own farm, put fertilizers to fasten their growth, water your plants, and etc. Going to other people's farm and throw insects on them is also possible. Doing all this will slowly make your level increase. He really put a lot of effort in explaining to us about the game haha.

So, in the end, we gave in and both my classmate and I went to the two unused computers in the lab. Well, to be honest, to be invited by a senpai to play game is one of the best excuse to take a break from doing our experiments, and who wouldn't want it, right? Haha!

Cinderella has to have pumpkins in her his own farm, right? (an inside joke)

So, what is this Sunshine Farm all about?

Remember Barn Buddy at Facebook? That's right; it is exactly the same thing as Barn Buddy, except the fact that it is an application at a popular Japanese community site, Mixi. Since I have a Mixi account (although it is almost as inactive as my Friendster account), I had my senpai to invite me to play the game. I have long abandoned the similar game at Facebook and now I am starting to play the same game at Mixi =.=

There weren't much difference as I'm already too familiar with the applications and how we play the game.

You water the plants when they dried up.

Sometimes, insects would attack your crops, so use the pesticide to kill them. But the Japanese version of the worms are just too cute to kill them haha.

Besides just vegetables and fruits, we can also plant flowers in the farm at Sunshine Farm.

Just when I was concentrating watering and putting fertilizers on my crops, I realised that someone was looking at my computer screen. My initial thought was that it was one of my senpai and that should not be a problem at all because everyone was playing that game in the lab at that time. Just for confirmation, I turned behind and guess who I saw?

Professor Kondo hahaha!!

"何だこれ、面白そうだね。植物を植えるのか。良いね。" ("What's this? Looks interesting-lah. You plant the crops. I see. Nice, eh.")

What else, since he saw everything already, I couldn't just close the whole thing anymore. Memang got no where to run already. Wanna die also die only-lah haha. So, I just smiled sheepishly at him and gave him a slight nod haha. Prof. Kondo can be really nice, but when he gets serious, he can be a really serious person. Luckily, he didn't say anything this time when he saw us planting vegetables instead of doing our research at the lab haha.

You catch the worms and throw them into other people's farm. Shei Pien, 不好意思 haha.

And the most interesting part of this game is to steal people's crop. Here I stole Kuri-chan's tomatoes haha.

After Prof. Kondo went off, we continued playing the game. This time, we invited more people from the lab who has Mixi account and we fond out that almost everyone is playing this game lol. Damn high, I tell you.

While soldering the strain gauges, we played Sunshine Farm at the same time. Like after finishing soldering one section, we would rush to check on our farm haha. I wonder what would he say if Prof. Kondo knows about this.

Total harvest after Day 1.

I hope he doesn't read this, otherwise sure kantoi one.