Today was kind of an unfruitful day for me, woke up about late noon. Didn’t do much studying either, was feeling pretty slacked, probably cause it was a Friday, and I wasn’t really in the mood to face my books. Pretty much bummed myself infront of my PC, thinking of ideas for my portfolio designs, and then some chatting here and there with friends on MSN via Trillian. Pretty boring day.

Anyway, I finally got myself to finish GITS Stand-alone Complex 2nd GIG yesterday night. Like fucking finally. After 3 long months of watching the series in btw here and there, it’s finally concluded and came to an end, so much for the mind-twisting plots and friggin’ politics going on inside it. And what really surprised me at the end, is that as suspected, there really was some kind of emotional ties going on between Kuze and Motoko. That said, I feel that LMF really did a good job at subbing the series, but I just couldn’t wait that long for them to finish the rest of the episodes after 23, so I downloaded the rest of the episodes from HuH, which pales in comparison in terms of the encoding and subbing quality of course. Very tempted to buy the 1st and 2nd GIG DVDs for collection, a very good anime series to sit down and watch, though it ain’t everyone’s cup of tea definitely, since in my opinion it has one of the most mind-swirling plots, political issues and complicated sci-fi theories to be tackled with, in the anime. Still, the visual treats are something to be rewarded with, kudos to Production I.G studio for doing such a great job behind it, as well as the great soundtracks coupled with the great vocal talents of Yoko Kanno and Scott Matthew.

And on a dismaying side-note, it seems like one of my anticipated games for the US release on the PSP, is getting really mediocre reviews. Death Jr. developed by Backbone Entertainment, will be published by Konami and is slated for release next week. So far, several game sites have previewed it and it ain’t looking too good. Oh well, things are looking bad enough for the current state of PSP game releases already in my opinion. These 2 to 3 months has been a pretty dry period for the portable platform, with almost no releases worth mentioning. Honestly I doubt the situation would turn for the better until end of this year at least, for now I think the Nintendo DS has a upper-hand on the situation, with very strong and steady stream of games releases situated, and it’s also one of the reasons why I prefer my DS all these while for gaming. Talking about the DS, I’m heading down to Gamescore tomorrow to collect my Jump Super Stars which I preordered sometime back. And they are gonna have a JSS wireless multi-player session tomorrow outside the shop too, would be interesting to say the least. Can’t wait to try out the game tomorrow, I’m meeting up with Ronald too who has already bought and played the game, so probably can ask him to guide me along the game. (^ ^);

So it’s the weekends again. Will be meeting up with Jerm and Kaiwei for dinner later in the evening in downtown, haven’t seen them since X’mas last year, quite happy to be able to catch up with them again. Kaiwei just recently ORDed, omedetto man my friend! NSmen liao, mai play play liao ah, hurhurhur. Jerm ain’t too far off also, just a few more months to endure and your chance will be here, take it easy brother, your time will come soon hehe. Can’t wait to see them, probably have lotsa stuffs to catch up on. Ok time for bed. Good nite everyone, and enjoy your weekend ahead. (whoever you are heh)