i found this book in the book store the other day. it made me laugh ^^. not only do the botters have blogs entailing their experiences, they have actually found a publisher willing to make a book about it?!

as i’m finally reaching the end of my comparatively long trip to japan, i guess there are a few uncertainties :p. i definitely have a bus booked from himeji -> shinjuku, but what happens in the 47 hours from when i arrive until my plane is ready for boarding is very fumei. i guess that could be fun?!

anyway if anyone’s after my reason for catching a bus rather than a shinkansenn… its because i felt like i’ve already been on the shinkansenn x+5 times and i want to experience one of the overnight coach buses in japan! question is: will i find NSMB at a buyable price before my bus trip .

its nice to be able to take pictures in low light situations. this was taken using my dv camera, along with a lot of nice video of fireworks . i sent my firewire transfer cable home in a box a few weeks ago, so the video won’t surface anywhere around here for at least a month. but look forward to it i guess?

@3tests (though i really cbf anymore..) @3days of uni @6days in japan D:

i feel like i have waay too many screenshots piling up that i need to do something with. just from games i’ve been playing lately. the ro hax i’ve always used to take screenshots works in any program, and is just so handy that i end up with thousands of shots from whatever i’m doing..

playing lylat wars/starfox64 brings back a lot of very good memories. i’ve never actually played past the 2nd lvl on an emulator before, due to how hard it is to control an arwing with the keyboard. but now i have my xbox360 controller, so that is no excuse!. i got up to venom in one shot, only losing 2 lives (damn starwolf on the second encounter…) but haven’t had the time to pass it yet.

the actual gameplay is just as good as i remember it being… there are so many different paths you can take throughout the game – both inside and outside the levels. i wasn’t able to stay on the uber path for the world map thing.. but i definitely want to try again! the underwater mission with the landmaster is really quite fun if you can get to it.

as for ro, i made a trip to the biolabs last week after tencho gave me a 1day pass (thanks ). the 2nd floor is quite soloable with HL, but i’m really not sure how much exp it is worth. my dex felt soooo much higher than i remember it being!

doddler did warn me to put on me dokebi armour… lv30 JT hurts quite badly :s

ijou~. i have some other games but i’ll add them on later!

oh in case anyone noticed, psrv was down for a couple of hours (more if you include the period i couldn’t ssh in), but is back in full working condition now.  much thanks to p00ya for haxing it from its physical location :p. r0×0r

「伊東さんのパーティーより千倍良かった。お酒をたくさん飲んだり、いやな人と付き合わなくて済んだりしました。too good. フォーティー・フィフティーンです。 i love pugs.
look at this wow pffffffchuuuu. oh fuck she’s going to lose, i can tell. just get the vibe…」と、ダニエルさんは言った。

today was our farewell party – actually held for us! after getting taken around town in the morning with my host father, i was looking forward to a hopefully relaxing night. and it turned out to be just that :).

so as you can see.. the meat for this party came to 36k yen, or roughly $450 for 14 people. this works out quite expensive per head, but its apparently non-imported, japanese meat. which is pretty rare i guess? the cost was split between a few of the families involved, so overall it wasn’t too expensive.

my mum admitted tonight that its true the more you pay for meat in japan, the more oil and fat it has. the japanese seem to LIKE this as it adds to the taste. i personally think it tastes pretty horrible :/.

what can i say? after drenching the meat in some nice sauce, it has a nice taste to it. my appetite towards niku is pretty limited, but oh well :p

one thing i realised after tonight – something which i guess i have noticed before but never thought about consciously – nintendo have the strategy to take over at very least the japanese market. in fact, this may have been the case since they labelled their first console using half of the word family. they are out there to make sure as many people enjoy their game systems *together* as possible.

during my time in japan, i have seen a lot of people with both psps and DS(orig mostly) systems. i have never actually seen someone playing a psp with anyone else watching, nor playing any multiplayer aware games. in fact i’m not even sure if the system has wireless or not anymore lol…

on the other hand, i can’t count the number of times i’ve seen groups of 4-5 people watching a single DS playing semi-cooperatively, or the same number of people with >1 ds using adhoc wifi. the wii will succeed in japan – i can guarantee that right now.

so i guess if you saw the picture above (or were there lol) you’ve realised two of the kids had DSes. one had the new mario, one had a random tamagotchi ds game, and smb original gba cart in. at first they were off playing on their own, but by the end of the night they were basically forcing us to play. i kind of wish i took my dslite with me to challenge them in some ouendan…

but yeah. i think nintendo sure has the right idea unlike some other companies. i also still think mario looks really squashed/fat in the new smb… :s. it was actually the first time i got to play the game. i definitely want to get it second hand and have a play through – if only for the music!

the night ended with some japanese style sparklers. these are apparently the most boring kind of fireworks to japanese teenagers, but we found them quite exciting! watch the fireworks on youtube or just get this avi if you care about quality :p.

we actually have some more high-grade ones planned for tomorrow night, so i’m looking forward to that .

ignore any grammatical errors kthx. too tired to check what i wrote. oyasumi~

updated galleries: 060709 farewell pt

if you classify fun as daily tests, 義理 social events and small amounts of free time. i can hardly even remember what i’ve done in the last week, but looking at photos helps with that.

with the symposium over and one less thing to worry about, only 2 weeks left of uni and my trip in japan, there had to be a few parties before we leave. in fact i don’t think i can count the number of parties which we have organised/ have been organised for us on one hand anymore^^;.

there was also the uni’s tanabata festival thing, where they were planning on doing some fireworks. unfortunately it was quite boring and we ended up leaving about 2 hours before the 10 minutes of fireworks started. i don’t think too much was missed though! we are doing fireworks tonight so that will make up for it at least.

hmm, today’s date is quite interesting really! 060708. meaning it was my birthday yesterday, but we really didn’t celebrate it at all, which was quite good i guess . looking forward to holding a large birthday lan when i get back to australia. all are invited!

if i felt like writing more, i could go into my hatred of many people in the neighbourhood, but that would probably end up being offensive and a bit too negative to post on my relatively positive blog wouldn’t it :p.

i guess what my host mum said was quite true – as i spend more time in japan i won’t be taking as many pictures. though having said that, i have forgotten my camera (or just forgotten to charge it ^^;) a few times lately when i wish i had it.

lalala

@5 days of uni. @5 tests. @10 days in japan. moo~

updated galleries: 060708 (random stuffs)