ssup?! did anyone notice the downtimes my server has been experiencing over the last few days? seems my tel$tra adsl modem from 5 years ago is finally giving in. i just grabbed a cheap netgear to replace it today – so lets hope things become a bit more stable again. i was hoping not to spend any money on computer related stuff this year, but i guess this one can’t be helped!

went to karaoke last weekend! albert just happened to SMS me out of the blue as i was leaving work – such good timing. we sung lots of jpop and a bit of western stuff to top it off. was a really great night, and saw quite a few faces i haven’t in a while :d.

is anyone going to complain about the grainy-ness of my photos? if not, then i will! they look so horrible ever AFTER resizing to an absurdly small res. i want to get a digital SLR.. that folds down small enough to fit in my pocket. that would be very handy.

i recorded good-bye days on acoustic piano . turned out better than i expected – considering my dv cam was in the next room sitting on the stove (nowhere better to put it). have also been spending a lot of my time on a new coding project (one that can be released publicly *cough*) which i will hopefully reveal in the next week or two. its quite a complex app which will probably need some beta testing, but has the potential to be very useful to most of us!

also – chatmonchy’s new single is pretty awesome! in fact chatmonchy in general are pretty awesome. i’d love to see them perform live.. *addicted*

Well it has been a short while.  Party due to the fact the client i use for blogging mysteriously stopped working, and partly due to being quite busy (ok, mostly just watching dramas and other jp tv but!) there has been a lack of anything posted here.  A few things to talk about now though!

Firstly, ouendan2!  i finally completed the game just today, after many many runs of the last stage, and probably some horribly permanent damage to my DS screen.  What a great sequel it was – cheerleader introduced some *very* interesting and challenging sequences that makes me laugh when going back and playing through ouendan1 on the same mode.  The music in the game is just as catchy, and the scenarios are just as fun as ever .  All that is left now is to go and get S ranks on each level.

Pure Pwnage dvds!!  i spent this weekend watching the commentary audio track versions of episodes 1-12, which was quite fun.  The dvd menus, presented as 8bit nintendo games modified with sprites that resemble Jeremy were such a great addition, along with the special blooper and interview scenes on the extra dvd.

Overall, it is a very finished package and definitely one of the few dvds which i will ever buy in my lifetime .  i think i had the OST on loop for so long i started to feel sick from singing the songs for hours, but it is really really good too.

you can’t say i didn’t give it a chance. i wanted to like it – the interface was quite usable and there were a few cool new features… but it just isn’t going to work if vista decides to randomly crash out of the blue… its been too long since my PCs have done that and i’ve become used to the stability of xp. so i will return for now!

so it wasn’t only stability – i could also mention that power consumption was up 50% on my laptop, gaming performance was down a LOT on my desktop..

in other news, my sister had a party in our backyard on saturday. i was reminded why i dislike large social gatherings as i was deafened from behind two wooden doors over a five hour period. i woke up sunday to a very strange problem with my desktop. i can’t even be bothered explaining what has happened to it but i spent all of today trying to fix it and mostly failed . bye bye productivity.

wow i have nothing positive to say! oh wait — ouendan2 is awesome! go play it!!

「もうすぐあえなくなる・・・」 君の　突然のことば
何も考えられず　ただ俯いた
夜も眠れずに涙をこらえて　
ずっと答えを探してた
だけど本当に君が好きだから
信じ続けたい・・・

もう振り向かず　歩いてゆけるさ
いつかまた会うその日まで
君の夢がきっと叶う様に　
あの星に願っているよ。

i’ve always wondered about that whole pachinko fascination in japan. i really have to give it a go sometime — especially if they all have soundtracks as addictive as osu! bancho’s. i bought it in japan last time i was over there after sampling a few tracks, and still listen to it frequently for a lift :p.

so anyways! pure pwnage 13 came out yesterday. it was pretty good . dvds got delayed. not so good . oh and while we’re in the OSUing mood – ouendan 2 is set for release this month?? or apparently so, but it isn’t listed on any official sites and is yet to have a web site up at all. *mystery*. SPEAKING OF MYSTERY phoenix wright 2 is really fun! although i’ve kind’ve lost motivation on case 3 after how epic case 2 was… so far feels like a bit of a letdown/filler before the final revelations.