today is children’s day in japan. while they say “children” this is actually the day for boys only – there’s one for girls in march. the traditional thing to do is fly these fish-shaped kites outside your house if you have any young males in the house.

we decided to make a trip to the local zoo. imagine perth zoo, but with about 1/8th the real estate. this means a lot of animal in a small amount of space. it was quite interesting, but you’d find it very hard to spend over 2 hours wandering around.

a lot of the animals didn’t look happy, but i guess thats what happens when you put them in a tiny cage in a zoo. pictures were hard to take with cages so strong they looked like something more fierce than racoons and deer should be inside.. ill put the rest up in the gallery tomorrow.

i need more practice at item battles. they are quite interesting though! if anyone else has tetris leave me your friend id.

i think we went a bit overboard with donuts yesterday. but i won a bag of some kind in the scratchy competition thing . mister donut is goooood

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?

havent really gotten around to playing ro that much, other than my only holiday from work (christmas day). i did manage to hit 92 on my chaser, and gradually making my way to 93…

i somehow made my way into hospital a couple of days ago after having an allergic reaction to something i ate? was only there for about 5 hours, and got a bit bored so was playing vrally on my mobile, when some guy told me that it was going to own their equipment, and to turn it off. so i took a picture just in spite of him.

the medicine they gave me has some kind of sedative in it.. so ive been asleep more than awake lately. its all good though?

would be the best way to describe my state of consciousness over the last few days. probably a mixture of crazy weater, sleep patterns and so many deaths in ro due to server lag, i’ve lost count. but its not all negative! ho hoho

did alfy get sick or something?? she missed quite a few pharoahs lately… the next day she made sure her friend was there though. i guess she’s still alive

crystals this year are a touch disappointing. drop rates are a lot lower than previous years… but there are also a lot more of them around. they spawn in dungeons and on fields, at an instant(?) or very high rate. a lot of people have been following the trend of releasing DBs straight from crystals. this makes for some interesting situations in dungeons ^^

made me laugh.

!! we somehow managed to defend a luina fort this week. was good fun and good to see sho back in the RO scene.

and then we went to visit alde AD. brings back good memories. lately dungeons have been getting a bit boring, and being able to visit this place was nice and refreshing . lets abuse it good this week~!

thats about the only interesting stuff i can think of…
we should lan soon. like a proper lan :/ its been a while