Just a re-cap of the events that took place last week. Finally caught Apple Seed at Shaw Tower with Jimmy and gang last Sat morning. Having already watched this anime twice at the comfort of my home and PC (the internet has everything go figure) of course I did not watch it for the story or whatever, since I already knew it all. It was all for the visuals and sound effects, in the immersion of the cinema theatre, at the cost of $9.40. (No biggie issue, ticket prices are rising in May) Unfortunately, all I can say Shaw Prince’s cinema totally sucks, even though Jimmy told me that their cinema sort of got upgraded sometime back. Personally I don’t watch movies there since most of the time my movie venue selections would either be at Orchard Cathay, Shaw Lido or any GVs. The theatre for this particular screening has a super deformed screen with the left and right edges more towards the front and the center slanting towards the back, hope you get the picture. Sound was pretty ok and decent though during the beginning it seems I heard some glitches in the sound. (though I think it has something to do with the film itself and not the sound system) Ok honestly maybe I’m bitching too much, but hey, waking up early on a Sat morning and paying almost 10 bucks for a movie tix, I definitely should deserve a better movie experience right? Heh enough of the rants. Anyway I was quite surprised most of the people who turned up for the screening didn’t watched it before, except for Ben, Jeremy and myself. So after the screening I asked for some opinions from those who haven’t watched it before, and most said it was fantastic. Am glad I didn’t introduce a lackluster piece of anime to them, if not I would surely slap myself for going for something I have watched before, and yet my friends didn’t get to enjoy the show themselves either. (^_^)V

So after the show, JL and some of the guys went to Tanaka Ramen for lunch, while Jimmy and e rest of us decided to go Suntec to chill for the afternoon first, since most of us are not hungry yet. (We had BK for breakfast earlier on, and I had 2 servings hehe) So under a hot and humid Sat afternoon off we went from Shaw Tower to Suntec, a mere short walk away. Decided to chill at Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf instead since I needed some coffee, was feeling quite sleepy due to lack of sleep the previous night. Then we had some DS fun and picto-chatting among ourselves, with a great-looking babe next to our table too. (ahh my eyes, free ice-cream for a hot weather) Soon we headed over to Gamescore at Funan since I was gonna get my copy of Nintendogs, both Jimmy and Ben got their copy earlier on in the week, and judging from the game impressions I saw from the game it was pretty cool and not to mention cute too, can I say Tamagotchi for the 21st Century? Where else can you find a pet doggie game for e current-gen handhelds? This is also another reason why I bought the Nintendo DS in the first place. And my hands-on impression of the game? Kinda interesting, much better than I expected. Initially sometime back before the game was released, I was thinking the whole game concept was rather gimmicky, but now the game is finally here, all I can say is the DS has indeed proven to be a good platform for this kind of games, and Shigeru Miyamoto (of Mario, Zelda and Donkey Kong fame) also has a part in this game. Though I’m not really a hardcore fan nor supporter of Nintendo games franchise, since frankly speaking the DS was my first Nintendo handheld, but having played and experienced something that was developed and created by one of the best game creators from this world, it’s really quite a marvel to be reckon with.

Soon came evening, and Val finally came. Was actually waiting for him to go for dinner, since he was actually flying off to Perth earlier on today. So we all had a simple send-off dinner for him somewhere nearby Boat Quay, then it was finally home sweet home for all of us. Totally crashed after a long sweet bath. I didn’t go to church the next day either and slept in as I was too exhausted from e long and tiring day previously.

Hmm, so it’s Monday again. Feeling kinda sian, guess it’s back to mugging again. And I reckon I need alot of self-discipline and determination for my studying, the internet especially IRC/MSN/ICQ is VERY distracting, as well as my gaming handhelds in my room. Then again I might find a private school (edit: decided to study myself) soon for my O’s since I definitely could use some guidance too, the current syllabus in the textbooks has changed so much ever since the last time I studied back then, heh what irony. May the force be with me. Signing out, more updates soon.