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Hello~! How's everyone doin'? Hope good. As for me, I'm bit under the weather (mentally and not physically). Why? Cuz I took week of vacation, but weather isn't looking good. Yesterday was raining like mad and today it was sunny... but outside is freezing cold!!

So anyone bought FFXIII? How you like it? If you haven't bought it yet, it worth buying! I have the JP ver, so I haven't heard the how dubbing is, but game play is pretty awesome! Some of you read my review of this game, so I'm not go into detail.

Recently, I've been downloading old Gundam series. Like ZZ Gundam, Turn A Gundam, Victory Gundam. Man, each series is 10gb plus! Why am I DL it? Well, my friend requested me to DL it (cuz I know few places that has it) and I also don't have it in my Animes I own, so I thought to do it. Currently I have bout 41gb of Gundam series I have DL this week. Prob end of this week, it'll double the number. lol

As for the project, working on it lil by lil between dl the gundam series. One is/hopefully it'll be done tomorrow and UL it here by tomorrow night. Other one... IDK lol

Last night, I went to the Subie meet, which I haven't been this year. It was pretty fun. It was amazed with how many ppl showed up. We ate and chat around bout hr plus and left, but there gonna be another one in April (iirc it's on 24th?).

Well, that's it for today and hopefully I'll UL the project tomorrow and hopefully update my theme too. I think, I had this theme for long time. Well hope everyone has nice rest of the week.

If you don't know this... you fail as Otaku. lol

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Hello~ How's everyone doin'? Hope school isn't too nightmare for everyone. As for me, it's getting better for use. What did I have? Nothing, no flu or sickness. Just last week been nightmare for me. I'll break it down in topics.

Sushi Party Thing
Last blog, I wrote bout how I had Sushi Party Thing at my house. Party went well, I think 9~10 friends came and enjoy the time. After eating we had chit chat and playing Bomberman on PS3... yes, Bomberman! You can have it up to 8 ppl playing, so we thought it's perfect game for it! After that, we went to Midnight bowling. Me and my friend had heated game and in the end I lost against her. lol After while I was teaching my friends how to curve the bowling ball. Some learned really quickly, some took forever to learn, but it sure was fun til next day... I've played too much game (5 games total in 2 hrs) that my right arm was totally dead.

My lovely car...
So recently, my car was under the weather and didn't start. After spending close to $400 with dead right arm, today finally received the final part I need to fix it and it's finally fired up again! Ah~ I missed hearing my car's noise. Some parts were really old, but didn't needed to be replaced, but I did it anyways. Now it's ready to go again~!!!

Project
I've been working on Ten-chan's challenge for few day... but not actually working on it. Due to bowling and working on my car, my right arm have been down for several days... so technically, I haven't touch the e-card for 5~6 days now. Prob I'll start working on it tomorrow or this week.

Fav OP
Now back the title. I gotta say this OP is my fav OP of all time.

If you can't name this anime, you fail as otaku/anime fan! lol put the joke on the side. Yesterday, I was work and some teenagers were checking out several animes and one girl was listen this song on her iphone and less than sec I said "Ranma 1/2!" girl was surprised that I knew it, but I was more surprised that girl next to her didn't know what Ranma 1/2 was. She was checking out Trigun, Nadesico, Inuyasha, Chobits, and several other anime series and SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT RANMA 1/2 WAS!!!!! After teasing her with her friends, I told her that, she must check out the Ranma 1/2! Ha... I don't say, Ranma 1/2 is the best anime series ever, but it's kinda sad to see that some new anime fans don't even know what Ranma 1/2 is.

Guns
Recently, my friend is trying to buy another handgun. He have 9mm Glock, but 9mm bullets aren't cheap (3 boxes for $50 give or take), so he want to get 22LR handgun. I, myself want 22LR handgun (cuz like he said, 9mm is cheaper than .357 or 45 bullets, but isn't cheaper than 22LR), so we can shoot some at the shooting range for cheaper price. Prob tomorrow or next week we gonna be hitting up the store to see what they have.

Anyways, hope everyone has nice rest of the week

JAI HO~

IDK why, but that song stuck my head. lol Anyways, how's everyone been? Some friend how live in East Coast, hope they're not frozen to ice.

As for me, A LOT of things happened, so this gonna be REALLY LONG blog. Hope you have enough time to read it. If not, no worry, mostly crappy stuff that happened to me. lol So let's start.

Warrior Challenge
For the Warrior Challenge, I have entered... sadly I lost. At the same time, I was happy for imouto-chan, who won the challenge. Good job!

Age Doesn't Matter
I always thought that I'll never loose to any sports to older person... til Friday, 60 plus yrs old men beaten me. Which sport? Pool/ Biliard. My friend's dad came to teach us few lesson on how to be good Biliard player. Later that night my friend told me that, he's dad is semi-pro biliard player... well that explains a lot. lol

Love Letter
I didn't even know there was such thing exist in US. I thought it was Asian thing. lol One of my co-worker gave me a love letter out of nowhere on Thursday and surprised me. I've hanged out w her several time, but nothing special or anything. Anyways, I wrote her back saying sorry and gave it to her yesterday.

Ppl Hello?
Some of you know that, I work @ the City Library. Well, yesterday surely was interesting. So this is how it went with one of the Patron/customer.
Me: "I can help next person~"
Patron drop bag full of DVDs
Me: "and these are...?"
Patron: "DVDs"
Me: "Well yes, I can see that. Are you checking out? Checking in? Renewing?"
Patron: "Yes"
Me: "Which one?"
Patron: "Yes"
I opened the bag and see that all the DVDs were locked, so I summed is Checking out.
Me: "I'm guess, you're checking these DVDs?"
Patron: "No!... Wait I mean yes, checking in!"
Me: "I'm sorry what?"
Patron: "Checking in"
Me: "Checking in" with using body language.
After 10 mins of explaining what's Checking in & Checking out... it was actually Checking OUT!
Ha... gotta love language barrier. lol

Car Problem
Battery, Alternator (& maybe Starter) need to be replaced. Hm... I knew it was going to happen soon. Both Battery & Alternator is fair over 5 yrs old, so needed to be replaced. but I didn't expected to happen this early. I was hoping to last til May so I can replace it, but I guess Plan B.

Penny Arcade Bayonetta Contest
Good friend of mine enter the Penny Arcade's Bayonetta contest. It was pretty simple. First 100 ppl that beat the Bayonetta in Hard mode and take a pic and sent it to Penny Arcade wins a Bayonetta t-shirt. After few months later he received a e-mail saying that he was one of the winner! Well, so he order size M... but when he got the package, he received L. He's extremely skinny that size M is bit big on him. When he wear size L, it's a joke! lol so he text me to see if I want it, cuz some times I wear size L t-shirt. Of course I said YES. I tried it on, and it was bit big, but it's still good! On the right arm area there's a pic of mini Bayonetta. It's so cute. lol

Tax Return Sushi Party
Next week... wait, I mean this week Friday, me and my friends gonna have Sushi Party @ my house. We gonna have prob 10~12 ppl coming, so I need to prep for all the stuff. Of course, I told several friends to pitch in with fishes I'm buying and few other friends to bring some drinks and other stuff, so I don't have to pay the whole thing (cuz I'm not rich. lol). It'll be a lot of fun! We usually have these kinds of stuff every year around tax return time. I think, last year was BBQ at my friend's house. I'll report back on this Saturday or so.

I think, I wrote enough. I hope you have nice rest of the weekend.

lil review of FFXIII

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Final Fantasy XIII is coming out in US in less than a month & few friends of mine are askin' how's the game (cuz I bought it recently)... I have played it bout 25~30 hrs now, so thought to give some lil Love & Hate reviews. K, before start my review, just let you know my ranking of my fav FF series
1. Final Fantasy Tactics
2. Final Fantasy VIII
3. Final Fantasy X
4. Final Fantasy IV
5. Final Fantasy XIII
5. Final Fantasy III
Yes sorry, VII isn't in my top 5, due to a lot of reason, but don't worry, VII isn't the dead last.

so now you know what kind of taste I have for FF series.

Oh and BIG WARNING! There are few spoilers of FFXIII. I'll try to hide it best as I can, but some parts cannot be helped.

Loves

Graphics: Really, do I gotta explain much bout that? It's BluRay disc with Square Enix, so of course it's amazing. Yes, that's true, but I'm talkin' just game playing graphics. Some part of the clips are just using regular game graphic. They're just amazing

Jobs: It's like X, each chara has their own kinda skills. Yuna = White Mage, Lulu = Black Mage and so on. This time, they break it down to: Attacker, Blaster, Defender, Healer, Enhancer, & Jammer. They have their own skills that help w the battle and while in the battle you can change their jobs. This will determined the battle.

Loading Time: Sony is well known for taking forever to load the game. Specially FF series. Amazing enough, loading time is faster than recent games that came out on PS3. I was really surprised with it. Good Job SE!

Characters: This one, it's kinda love and hate thing, but I can say that I love Lighting! She kinda reminds me of VIII's Squall. Don't talk much and just pinch of cockiness to bring out the coolness! lol Of course there are several chara that I'm not too fan of, but after a while I got over it (but that doesn't mean I like em).

Sphere System: Yup, Sphere system is back! If you don't like it, too bad. IMO I like it more than leveling up and learn new skill kinda thing. You can choose what you wanna learn first and later. Sphere also grows bigger and learn different skills more further you go into the game and makes me want to farm, but...

Map: IDK why ppl are bitchin' bout this, seriously? What? It's Linear? Man, there's no time to worrying bout side areas cuz, you're busy worrying bout how the battle system and other system works. Took me, give or take bout 10 hrs later, I've finally figured out how battle system properly works. After you thought, it's all figured out, now you gotta worry bout other system. So seriously thank SE that they made the map linear in the first part of the game.

Guardians: They really thought bout this one. Can't spoil much, but when it summons the guardian (like VIII, you gotta fight em through to get em... maybe Pokemon might be easier to explain?), it's not bout how to beat the guardian. It's really interesting and I really like it a lot (even though I died so many times), so be patient and use your brain.

Hates

No MP Gauge: Wait, wait, wait, wait! No MP?!?! Yup, you read it correct. There's no MP gauges. there's only 3 gauges you need to worry bout. HP, ATB & TP. ATB & TP gauge, you'll learn in the game and it's not hard to figure out. How to do all the magic attacks? With ATB gauge. Pretty much you can do infinite magics. Only thing that stopping you is your enemies HP gauge.

Monsters: Yeah... do you remember this monster?

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...or other FF monsters? Yeah, you can throw all those pics in your mind in the garbage. They're not even close to what they look like. Yes, that includes Guardians... but Guardians have been always different, so wasn't really big deal... BUT THE MONSTER IS DIFFERENT STORY! Also upset that Ifrit isn't playable! C'on SE! What were you thinking!

Leveling Up: Leveling up? What's that? Yup, there's no more lvls anymore... so what's to lvl up? Your weapons & accessories. Kinda get the idea, why weapons & accessories... but still isn't FF series was all bout having lvl99 before hitting the final boss and beat the crap out of em?

Nowhere to farm: Bout close to 30 hrs of playing there was been only one spot that I can farm to lvl my weapons & accessories and BGM was ridiculously annoying that made me stop farming after 30mins. So far, there's no farming for sure.

No more random battles: Yup, they took off the random battles. You can actually see the enemies before hand. To certain level, it's nice, so you can set up your weapon, skills, & other etc to match best for the battle... but at the same time, it's kinda boring.

Actual Playing Time: So First 10 hrs of the game, I actually played less than 2 hrs. What's the rest? Movie clip, movie clips and more movie clips. I guess, it has the feeling of FFX to it. Cuz that series had so much movie clip parts than other ones for sure.

Out of 100, I would give FFXIII a 85. As a whole game, I love it! There are several classic FF series flavors that are missing, but as a game itself, without a doubt it's worth spending the money.

That's all I can think top of my head right now. If you have any Q, let me know I'll try to answer em best as I can without spoiling it.

jab, right, hook, kick, & final blow w round kick~

Hello~, how's everyone been? Hope good. As for me, went back workin' out! Yay~! I'm loosing my muscles, so gotta do something bout it before Spring & Summer!

Anyways, few days ago, I got two message in here saying that I won the contest! Yay~! I won, I won! I'm happy at the same time, I'm kinda sad. Why? I'm sad cuz, I was hoping the see more ppl enter the contest... Total of 10 pics were entered. O'well, I shouldn't be saying anything. Thank you, Creme of Rolo!

Alright! Now, next drawing challenge is due this week and I haven't finished it yet! I'm only 50% done... I gotta work on it again, but I'm still having the artist block that just can't get good idea. If I can't figure something out by Friday, I'll just enter the finished half. Well, we'll found out soon.

Well, that's it for me, hope everyone have good week and good weather (I heard that East side is having bad weather).