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after years of waiting, finally got the chance to see gits2.

but alas, it was dubbed. altho i heard very good reviews about the quality of the dub, tried as hard as i could, it just won’t click together..

bah.
bah.

mon join: no clean feed
tue read: grimm’s fairy tales, anathem, first law trilogy
wed eat: massive amount of rice and peas sandwiched between two omelettes
thu hair cut: no.1
fri offline: finished allocating skills ?
s+s gig & dine out: lower amplitude and .jp

couldn’t help but to follow the ross-brand prank call saga ..

and feeling so disappointed with the outcome … brand quit his radio show, ross was suspended for 3 months (they’re replacing his time slot on tv with the ‘94 movie Speed), and the radio controller (the one being responsible for airing the episode, i sppose) quit the bbc. regardless of the fact of wheter they are being forced to do this, or to do this on their own, the fact that the public outcry is enough to make them do these, is pretty much saddening.

here’s an interesting thought.. most of the articles that i pursued on the net regarding this matter, showed two different type of opinions. the elderlies (50+ years old) are the ones who are quick to condemn the show, while the young ones (<20 years old) don’t really mind it (altho some agreed that the hosts might be crossing the line abit, but not enough to sack them like this).
what happened to the middle group (21-49)? are they not important enough to have their opinions known?

whole thing reminded me of my old junior high school headmaster who had to fix quite a bad incident because one student was ‘joking around’ and ended up hurting another student because the other student didn’t know that he was only ‘joking around’. the headmaster suggested that from then on, before you start to ‘joke around’, you’ve to warn the other person(s) you’re joking with, something like “hey, i’m gonna put a joke on you. ok?” , and no joking around should proceed without the other’s consent. pretty much like sex. which was a stupid way of doing things no matter how i look at it.

hopefully bbc would have more sense then my headmaster

wasn’t really into gorillaz before, but currently enjoying the songs tremendously. was expecting some ‘tough’ (as in to understand) music, but they’re quite suprisingly very light.. i guess all those monotonous electronic beats could work somewhat…

now trying to get a hold of monkey-journey to the west ost (if any available)

also enjoying friday on my mind from easybeats and other stuff.

five am
done work and hungry
bangers mash

justifiable because wow was down due to its weekly maintenance so i got nothing to take my minds off on. didn’t realise i got enough mats to make a bangers and mash before i rummage the cupboard/fridge. it also goes well with lapsang souchong. come to think of it, this is only the 4th ever bangers and mash i’ve ever had (proper, as in sausages and mash in a same dish).. first time would be in daylseford with the research teddies, second would be in a pub bar somewhere fitzroy-ish (might be with the kermits. altho prolly with the teddies again), third would be 2am in the city after some sort of a gig (i think the place called pepperoni? might be wrong).

now that work is done, belly is full, and i am happy,
good dawn.

so, because of that wrist thing, got myself a wristband. shopkeeper tried to convince me to buy nike brand because they are ‘popular’ and have the distinctive logo. and cost more.
had to dig inside the stack to find one that isn’t nike or yonex, and isn’t coloured white.

also put down 2 pre-order of wotlk (friend from .id wanted one as well), and they asked if i want to join the midnight release. maybe that’dn’t be a totally bad idea.
security would be tight, or so they say (because the whole shopping centre would be closed down, except for the gameshoppe), so no chance of getting into the cosplay spirit like carrying battleax with chainmail . also definitly no chance of hooking up with duddettes dressing up with various t6 gears..

my rite reest started ackting funny phew weaks bag..
seems like my hand is constantly carrying a heavy load. kinda get used to it now, tho.
tried a few things to make it better, like wrapping it with cloth, using gloves, not using the hand for a day, etc. wrapping it seemed to work. planning to get a wrist band sometimes next week (wtb bracers with enchant, that kind of thing).
was thinking that it was carpal tunnel syndrome, as i’m in the perfect category of candidates who might got one, but after reading few websites, seems like it’s not cts, as the symptoms were all wrong.

anyway. some of the aspects inside wow requires this so-called ‘cooldowns’, which limits a character’s ability to produce some of the high level materials, so he/she can only produce a limited number of that few items within around 2-3 days, for example. not all of these are related to materials, but they share the same idea (limiting an activity on rl time based). having multitude of high-enough level characters where they started having these ‘cooldowns’ can be a nightmare to manage, as you (or at least me) wouldn’t be able to remember exactly when is one of the character’s cooldown will be finished. so, whipped out a quick c-hash app to do just that, which tracks the characters’ cooldowns progressions.
i must admit it’s very satisfying to finish an app in one sitting, rather than doing small bits and pieces and hoping it’ll stick together at the end of months/years of efforts

so, wow hit 3.0.2x today, preparing the way for wotlk next month. the interface changed abit , adding few things that were already exist in other games (achievements, barber services), and putting and integrating them in their lore.

interesting thing about the game balance, as it is changed quite abit somewhat.. got the impression that they are actually ‘power up’-ing everything, and they’ll tune it here and there over the release of wotlk and the next few months. not that they haven’t done that, it’s quite obvious that that’s exactly what they’ve been doing ever since the original release, but this time the ‘power-up’ seems abit larger than usual. cooldowns are shorten, now it’s quite closer with guildwars’ standards, and i can imagine in the pvp forums there’ll be alot of unkind words spoken to/from each other.

anyway. we do what we can with the current settings. and i might get a worm as a pet, since everybody else is getting the chicken and the dog.

will update sooner or later.

so, sf iv is here. bastards always asked for 2coins/1credit for new things like this.

quite curious/somewhat comforting to know that the type of people lining up for the cabinet were pretty much the older crowd, the ones carrying newspapers and looked like sararimans. the young’uns with schoolbags were entrenched in the hoo-hah of pretty graphics and bishonen-ism of tekken 6, right next to it. let them.

right. but my euphoria of having to have a go at it was pretty much short lived. everyone (at least when i was there) were pretty much using ken, and not willing to try new characters.
a twist, after inserting the coins, you were asked to select either a “beginner’s mode” which allows you to play 3 stages unchallanged, or ‘normal’ mode. it seems unethical if you choose the beginner’s mode in a crowded setting, tho. regardless you’ve played the game before or not.
so, my chun-li was defeated in straight sets (against ken, who else), and a friend of mine asked me “why didn’t you use ken?”

what’s the bloody point?

… anyway. ..
the controls, as the dev people said months ago, were heavy, much closer to II, rather than III. the graphics were very well done (they said it’s a sumi-e 3d rendering. not that i know what’s sumi-e ), and the thing that i was dreading might ruin the experience wasn’t there, which was the mini cut-scene when a character performing a devestating attack.
when i first read about it i thought it might break the continuity of the fight, but seems like they integrated it quite seamlessly. not bad at all.

also heard that they’ll be porting this to pc. will be interesting to see if they actually do it.

when hungry, you’ve to eat

or you’ll die