its been a while since i’ve watched some anime… well i’m in the process of making up for that by watching school rumble. quite a light-hearted series so far… will be very interesting to see how it progresses! the comedy is just so awesome

ぐるぐるまわる～

i actually decided to watch this after seeing the clip based on it AMV hell 3.. but alan had recommended it a couple of times as well. glad i found it lying on psrv ;d tenma-chan is so cool ;d;d

after playing through vol1 expansion at the last huge lan, i was looking forward to the day i got unshaped – i had the vol2 torrent waiting over halfway to completion. my anticipation was met with 3 new awesome levels containing a lot of humour – mostly aimed at the infiltration of bots.

pharoah will always have a special place in my heart *flashbacks of cards and suff4*. he does this awesome little dance with a group of dancers in the background cheering him on. you really have to play it and hear the music to appreciate it though :p

mmm osi :d

in other news – vaios are ordered, tickets will be paid in <12 hours, accomodation is organised! everything is falling into place. i have officially decided the first thing i’ll do when i get to japan is buy a DSLite with ouendan… because seriously, how could you resist?

most of you will know i’m looking at buying a new notebook pc. i currently have my eyes on sony’s new core duo SZ series lineup. even though i’m not that concerned with the cost of the machine, using their simulator results in a price tag of..

which works out to roughly AU$4800.

OK, so thats a bit excessive. I realise sony will pile on the costs for higher specs, and for the interchangable parts it is probably cheaper to buy them separately.. so i looked around for about 10 minutes for some prices on ram and hdd drives.

so we’re paying 70,000yen for 2 x 1gb sticks of sony chosen ddr ram.

SODIMM DDR2 1GB PC4200 CL4 ￥10,400

that seems a lot more reasonable. 20,800yen for 2gb. 49,200yen saved. gg sony.

this time the 60gb to 120gb change adds on around 30,000yen.
Seagate ST9120821AS (120G 9.5mm) ￥29,900

i guess this is a lot closer than the ram. if i buy the hdd separately i will end up with a 60gb drive for free though ^^;

287,800+20,800+29,900=338500yen

just under AU$4000. a bit more reasonable

jdrama is good. except when you have no time to watch it because you’re working all day… i managed to exceed my internode 20gb quota for the first time ever, but am yet to be shaped.  maybe i’ll finish getting sekachuu (世界中心で愛を叫ぶ) before i get shaped?  such a cool series, if only because the three main male characters are ALL FROM H2. lolllllllllllllllllllll

but knowing that one of the two main chars died from ep1 makes it a really depressing series to watch :/… still, the direction of the story is really quite unique and told from two perspectives – one in first person 17 years ago, with cuts to present time,  reminiscing the sadder events that occured..

moo!