December 6, 2007

• Shinobi VS Dragon Ninja!

  I always try to be a good Xanga-er. Update regularly and stuff. Used to be I’d update like clockwork, every 2 weeks or so. Recently it’s dropped to once a month. Weird, in the sense that being back in Japan and having everything (mostly) working for me should mean less to talk about but I guess conflict really does breed interest. I’m not complaining (well, not much…) but it does make subjects for Xanga updates kinda thin on the ground.

  OK, so I have a few things to occupy myself with which I may as well narrate to you, dear subscribers! My free time recently has been spent unhealthily addicted to 2 things: 1) the “Jedi VS Sith” application on Facebook and 2) limited edition Final Fantasy 7 potions that come with little miniatures of different characters, 8 in all to collect! And how could I not? The former of these see’s me duelling and chatting nightly with my Sithly online buddies and becoming so used to being addressed as “Darth Emo/Lord Emo/Emo” that anytime I see or here the word “emo” mentioned again I will probably answer “what?” The latter, well, I have drunk an inordinate amount of soda to try and complete the set, only to have all the local conbinis sell out of them before my mission was complete, godammit!

  

  I really wanted Vincent! At least I got the uber-cool Sephiroth though…! Advent Children Cloud rocks too… except the sword in his left hand’s blade was snapped when I got it. Freakin’ dammit again! These 2 endeavors that have consumed much of my free time lately should prove how much of a big a geek I am…. that or I am very lonely and bored out of work hours. Maybe both. Probably both.

  I have at least got the Star Wars prequel trilogy with me, which has entertained me as it always does. There is a small handful of movies I can literally watch and watch over and over. Any and all Star Wars films are 6 of that handful (well… maybe not Phantom Menace. I need time to recover from all the Jar Jar, annoying child Anakin and unnecessary long pod-racing scenes!) I’m also indebted to Kate who just last night helped hook me up with a SNES emulator and e-mailed me several of the awesomest games ever! Final Fantasy 6, Secret of Mana and Chrono Trigger… God, I love those games! Plus the never-released-in-the-West sequel to Secret of Mana which I’ve longed to play for over a decade now! Thank you Keito!

  So tomorrow I’m heading to Toki station to pick up some power converters. Visiting Matt and Dani in Toki, safely returned from America. It’s not so far from Christmas now and whilst I’m not sure whether my schedule will have me working Christmas Day yet or not, the 2 week holiday I have in store will allow for Calex to visit and for us to go hang with Matt, Dani and Richard for longer than just my usual weekend jaunts. Hopefully we’ll get some kinda larger NUFS Kids-based reunion going on over that period too. We had been planning a big ski/snow-boarding trip to Niigata for New Year’s…. but as awesome as it would no doubt have been it just ended up looking too pricey for the time being. All the same I’m much looking forward to this holiday… Christmas it won’t quite be, but the company of friends I’ve gotten to see not nearly enough of since leaving NUFS is the best present I can think of……….

  Yes. That was incredibly corny.

  2 points to close on; 1st, I made a mistake with last entries translated Star Wars dialogue. Amidala actually says “I was not elected to…” not “I did not come here to…” Oh well. I haven’t prepared one for this entry. Point the 2nd; I am aware that the title of this post has nothing to do with anything, I just wanted to use it cos when I am ever gonna have cause to use such a title….? But….. imagine if I did…? I’ll leave you to contemplate that possibility…!
  
  Next update: Christmas Time. Till then, Peace Out! “I love the way you’d roll excuses on the tip of your tongue… as I slowly fall apart”

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