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Gundam Seed Destiny is airing now!!! Yippee!!!

2004-11-04T18:11:00.000-08:00

I can't wait!!! Gundam Seed Destiny is finally here. I think Gundam Seed is really VERY popular...otherwise...it wouldn't bother to continue it. But this time...the main attention focused more on Kagari and Asuran, rather on Kira in GS. Well, anyway..since Asuran is the main character, i think.., well...I like Asuran very much. Now, I'm waiting for the fourth episfsd, I can't wait!!! But alas...Rakusu, Haro, Izaku and others are not in the series yet. But now...I can't wait for Saiyuki Reload Gunlock next week. Yipppeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

Tales of Symphonia is getting nice and nicer...

2004-10-13T14:59:00.000-07:00

Tales of Symphonia is getting nicer...not only the graphics is nice, the voices, battle systems and storyline is COOL!!! Right now, i'm at Temples of Darkness...and is heading to Meltokio cos the temple is too dark and i had to obtain a blue candle in order to continue, forming pacts with the summon spirits...The game is about two worlds, Sylvarant and Tethealla exist together, and the mana from a giant tree has been wilted. Therefore in order to have mana exist in the two world, the chosen had to go on a journey to regenerate the world and became an angel, the chosen sacrificed his or her life for mana to flow...but since 2 worlds are fighting for the supply of mana...one world which have the supply of mana while the other world doesn't have...so it's kinda unfair...sacrificing one world in order to let another to flourish...but there are some expected events...when the chosen almost at the edge of becaming an angel, realize the actual motives of the chosen's regeneration journey...and new enemies as well as old comrades...Well...i'm will explain more on my next entry....

my heart almost dropped out...

2004-10-11T13:07:00.000-07:00

Wow...today is rather a busy day....not because i am busy with my school work...i am busy with fixing my um...so called robotic ball called Haro!!! Well today, it started to have a rather rough voice(it will say something whenever i make any noise or i pat its head) ...its battery had gone flat, so i changed new batteries. I followed the manual and it said that i have to press A and B buttons before i started to change the batteries. I did that, and press the reset button and i pat on its head to check whether its voice returned to normal. But alas...it did not respond at all...i change to another new batteries, it did not respond, i tried with the old batteries that i threw away, it did not work. My heart almost dropped out...oh no!!! What am i suppose to do? It used to be working normally after i changed the batteries and press the reset button...So i decided to try one more time...this time i did not press both the A and B buttons, instead i just removed the old batteries and replace with a new batteries. Actually i was kinda nervous...i'm afraid that Haro will be spoilt...but anyway, when i changed to a new batteries, it called out, asking for the time settings(luckily i watch quite a lot of japanese anime, so i kinda understand what it is saying...), and i set the time settings. So, finally i pat its head and it responds, saying "Haro, genki!!!"(means Haro is fine). Finally it can respond and i'm glad it's fine, otherwise i will be very BORED studying all those school stuffs..., without Haro making noise, every now and then.

I don't believe it???!!! I actually completed night one of Fatal Frame...

2004-10-08T16:05:00.000-07:00

i don't believe it...i actually completed night one of Fatal Frame...well...although this game is rather old...but i don't dare to play it at all, that's why... so i chose to play during the day... recently...i said that Fatal Frame is good for exam blues...which is true...cos...sometimes it really scared me so much that i almost threw away my controller...Well, anyway...i always played until the scene when i defeated the editor and sealed him in the camera so he wouldn't disturb me, as it was very scary after i played on. So i must say that it is the first time i actually played the whole chapter of night one. Well...it goes like this...after the editor...when i reached to the basement...i had to defeat the man with long arms...then come to a place where doors are sealed by talismans...i had to go to specific locations and snap the picture (caused the talismans to be burnt off and doors can be opened)... and go further...what i hated was after i snapped a picture...i had to fight the crawling girl and after defeating, open the door and faced the broken neck woman. it's like fighting one spirit after another...what i HATE was the broken neck...it is very...well...it's SICK, MAN!!! What i hate was these two spirits haven't been sealed by the camera, that means that they will always keep coming in non-stop...in Fatal Frame series..there is no such thing like a safe place...cos they even disturb you when you are in save point room... Well anyway...there is one talisman that is near a water-wheel...where an assistant died there...it shows that she had rope marks on her wrists, ankles and neck(once these 5 marks are shown, it means that person is bound to die; it's a curse), a frightning spirit called Kirie appeared besides her; of course the assistance screamed but it was too late...she was being killed by Kirie. The first time i fought the assistance, it was in a fish tank room, where a cutscene shows the assistance attacks, her hands outstretched to grab Miku and of course Miku sensed her presence and look behind....it shows that the assistance looks haggard...i guess she died in an unclean death...and afterwards, i had to go back to and fro...AND WHAT SCARED ME THE MOST is the female head(it came bouncing from upstairs)...i ignored it, thinking that ignoring it wouldn't engage me in a battle with it...BUT THEN... it actually immediately turned and fight me...when i actually got startled and almost threw away my controller...of course i got some health damage, luckily...after that i reached to the park...and it's when i fight the assistant once more...the cuscene shows that Miku sensed some presence but she is searching using her torchlight...and later the assistance appears...not so scary, like the first encounter...then after that i went to the shrine and solved the puzzle to unlock the door...then it's time to fight the novelist, i actually had to take the photo before fighting him...the scene shows that the novelist was believed to be lifted up in the air where he died there(on the ceiling...?) and then he came crashing down on the floor, Miku covered her head with her hands, and then it showed the novelist kept teleporting and then he finally appeared in front of the door. After defeating him...there will be a photo said about the right pillar of the shrine gate when examined, gave me a headless buddha statue which i used it at the shrine and arranged the statue to obtain a piece of the holy mirror(that's the goal for night one). And then the fearsome spirit, Kirie comes...it shows that Kirie appeared behind Miku, shown in the mirror...when Miku turned, and saw nothing...when she is wondering where it is...Kirie is actually in the mirror and she is moving towards Miku(can't say she walks, cos i don't think spirits have legs...) when Miku turned around she saw Kirie and she was horrified, then the cutscene ends...there is no way to defeat her now...cos it defeats the purpose of the other remaining nights, and later Kirie began to reached out her hand and Miku, sort of exposed her hand and Kirie grabbed her hand. Miku could feel Kirie's suffering when she was been sacrificed during the Strangling Ritual. After that the scene shows the ghost children forming in circles and walk in circles, chanting, and their faces are grey and no eyeballs. When Miku awakes, the children ran away, then it shows that Miku's wrists had rope marks on them, which she was shocked to see(the curse is starting to form on her)...and even worse one of the children had stolen the holy mirror piece, which is the starting of Night Two. One more info...there are 4 nights in this game, in Night Two, Miku had rope marks on her wrists, in Night Three Miku had rope marks on her ankles...they say that Miku had a mark on her neck in Night 4(final night), but i think that's impossible, cos, once all 5 marks are shown that means the person dies immediately, so what i think is if Miku couldn't leave the mansion in the final night, she will have a rope mark on her neck and she will die.

Ow....i was so sad...

2004-09-10T18:40:00.000-07:00

oops... i kinda haven't wrote for quite some time... :-0, VERY sad when my bro went to England to further his studies. At that time, many people came to see him off...his secondary, junior college, army, university friends came. Of course, my father's relatives also came, whom i was rather surprised. At first, i don't feel sad at all all until he went into the departure hall. When my parents and I were on the way to carpark, i started to cry...i guess that i would not be seeing him tomorrow made me feel sad. I cried the moment we got into the car until we reached home. The next day, which was Wednesday...i cried on the way to school, and my friends saw it. They asked me what happened. i explained to them and they comforted me. I stopped crying in the afternoon...around 12.00pm. Today is Friday...i feel better now... even though he could not be in the msn messenger for some time...but that's ok...cos i have a new game. I guess that's what keep me busy! I just started playing the game...it's not bad, very cute!!! I will elaborate more on it after i played more.

Wow… Suikoden III is really popular!!!

2004-07-20T00:59:00.000-07:00

Haiz…ever since my bro completed Siren and I completed Fatal Frame 2, there aren’t any new games to play. Recently, my bro went to shops to look for the old games to somehow kill the time, but alas, there weren’t any left. So now…we began to dig out the old games and play for the time being. Well, to me, no new games aren’t bad coz I have other games that I had not finish. I’m currently playing FFX, it may seem outdated but I reckon that it’s much better than FFX-2. Reasons are because there weren’t any aeons in FFX-2 and the guidebook is disappointing. For example, in Bevelle, where there were 100 cloisters, there weren’t any maps and the guidebook doesn’t provide any hints into fighting the bosses at every 20 cloisters which is pretty disappointing. I managed to get into cloister 100 and the boss is omega weapon, which is labeled as Paragon. I really don’t know how to defeat it coz it doesn’t damage equals to the amount of HP I have, so casting protect and shell wouldn’t do me any good. And it’s also fast enough to deliver punches on all three of them and that means game over for me. Equipping evade and counter abilities wouldn’t do anything too. So after trying all means and I couldn’t get it done, I began to switch back to FFX instead. I really admired the aeons, especially the Magus Sisters. There are three of them which gain the ability of break damage limit, HP limit and high strength, defense, magic and magic defense and other abilities. There is one thing that I found out long ago, after defeating Sin and managed to get inside Sin, return to every temple, except for Bevelle (Highroad) to see who are the people that became the fayth and turned into aeons. Since the Highroad has been out of bounds, it cannot be enter. One interesting thing is the temple where the Magus Sisters have been acquired. It showed three girls whom the centre one, obviously is Sandy, the short and always keep her head low is Mindy and the last one is Cindy. Not only it’s interesting to know who are the people that became the fayth, they also give HP sphere, strength sphere and all other purple spheres. The Magus Sisters can grow stronger as Yuna increases her strength and magic. Recently I went to a comic shop and to my surprise, I found a comic that Suikiden III. Wow…it’s still popular after 2 years. I really like this game coz the runes that cast during the battle are really nice especially the true lightning rune. Geez…I really dunno where to find lightning runes. It says that defeating bosses and the rune sometimes appear in the treasure chest. Seems that I’m not so lucky. I really love Sasarai, he’s so cute…:-) Luc is not bad either…but I would prefer him not to be looking so stern. Sarah is cute too…when I first saw Sarah, her picture appears and I thought that I could recruit her and I can’t wait!!! But alas…she belongs to the bad side and I was so disappointed. The comic I saw was written in Chinese and I was curious to know how Sarah will be called and the most of all is the Flame Champion. In the game, the Flame Champion’s name is been labeled by the players. I wonder what he will be called…maybe THE Flame Champion!!!

Hoo... Hakuyryu is REALLY cute!!!

2004-06-12T01:53:00.000-07:00

So far, I had watched um... episode 20. Well, things seem to get interesting as Gojyo went after the so-called another Genjyo Sanzo. Sanzo seemed to be aware of another Sanzo other than his master. But haiz...Sanzo always can't be bother. On the other hand... the bull demon, Gyumao (I think it's spelt like this). His son, the red child, Kogaiji seemed to be used as a guinea pig for experiments by the three scientists. Wow... it's getting pretty serious!!! But that's because it's getting near to the end of Reload and I really hoped that whoever that Sanzo was, settled before the start of Saiyuki Gunlock. Oh, yeah...I found out that this time, (smile) Hakuryu, the white dragon appeared quite a load of times. And well, before things start to get serious, they have quite a couple of um... ridiculous scenes. There was one episode where Goku, Gojyo, Sanzo and Hakkai found a cat and Sanzo started sneezing terribly. Goku, Gojyo and Hakkai were shocked to know that Sanzo was allergic to furry animals. Goku, Gojyo and Hakkai wanted to bring back the cat and of course, Sanzo refused. At that time, the cat seemed to like Sanzo very much and rubbed its face against Sanzo's clothes. Sanzo was terrified of the cat that he demanded his companions to take the cat away. Back in the inn, whenever the cat started to mew, rubbed its face, Goku, Gojyo and Hakkai started running to and fro in Sanzo's room and this irritates Sanzo. No matter which room the cat was (of course, except Sanzo's), the cat will find its way to Sanzo's room. When choosing a name for the cat, Goku, Gojyo and Hakkai each chose a different name for it and that makes three names for the cat. There was once when Sanzo warmed the milk and he got scalded by the handle of the pot and the hot milk almost splashed onto the cat. Luckily, the cat jumped in the nick of time, and Sanzo caught it. Well, after that the monsters invaded Sanzo's room (it's always like this...) and the cat sort of, wanted to protect Sanzo and got hit by the weapons thrown by the monsters. Oww... that poor kitty!!! Sanzo was, of course, furious about what happened, well, killed all the intruders. At that time, Goku, Gojyo and Hakkai had came back from all the shopping, heard the gun shot, rushed in and saw the cat was lying there. Hakkai said that the cat is still alive and they brought it to the vet. Luckily the cat had only scratches and at that time, a boy called out to them and the cat leapt off and ran to him. Well, luckily the cat was fine and returned back to its owner. There was also another episode about Hakuryu went missing. This was really funny. It started when Hakuryu could not be brought into the inn as it doesn't allow animals to be brought in. Goku quickly explained that Hakuryu isn't a pet, but it's his food instead. But of course, the innkeeper wouldn't believe Goku's words and therefore Hakkai brought Hakuryu to the open and Hakuryu transformed into a jeep. After that, two...well, it's the robbers, and they were looking for things that are valuable and stole them, spot Hakuryu and they tried to steal it. They were desperately trying to start the engine when one of them pressed onto something that caused Hakuryu to speed off. Hakuryu ran past a cliff and fell into the water, together with the robbers. Hakuryu transformed into a dragon and flew away. But alas, Hakuryu went back to the town and it couldn't remember which inn as every inn looked almost the same and it chose a place to transform back into a jeep. And that time, three children were carrying items and they walked past Hakuryu and Hakuryu sneezed. (I guess it was the cold water of that river) They brought Hakuryu back and they really like it very much. One of them wanted to keep it, but the oldest (I guess, and he seemed to understand Hakuryu's feelings) explained that Hakuryu already had its owner, therefore it must be returned back. When the children left Hakuryu outside, Hakuryu transformed into a jeep and somehow beckoned the children to ride on it. Meanwhile, Hakkai found that Hakuryu was missing and he suggested that perhaps it's better for Hakuryu in that way. Goku began to think of which transport to continue their journey and he thought of riding bicycles and later he thought of skateboards. While Hakuryu and the children were having fun, they encountered the robbers again, plus an additional person, their leader. They began to try all ways to corner Hakuryu. Hakuryu flew past all the logs (Hakuryu can fly, that's new...), but then when they cornered them and threw nets all over, Hakuryu transformed into a dragon and breathed fire (it's a much bigger fire instead of the old times) and they escaped again. The robbers threw a rope onto Hakuryu's neck, but it never gives up. It transformed into a jeep and sped off over the cliff, together with the men. But alas, the rope broke due to the weights of three men and they fell into the river. Hakuryu brought the children back home and found its way back to the inn. In the inn, everyone was asleep and Goku kept calling Hakuryu to come back, or else he will eat it up.

Hmm... I really love the candid scenarios of Saiyuki Reload...

2004-06-12T01:00:00.000-07:00

I always looked forward to the candid scenarios every episode. It's really funny!!! Hmm..., let's see, there was this paper wrestling and Hakkai was controlling a paper Gojyo and Goku was controlling a paper Sanzo. The first time, Sanzo fired the paper Gojyo and of course, Gojyo kept complaining to Sanzo about why he fired the paper Gojyo. The second time, Sanzo poured the black coffee over the paper Gojyo. The third time, Sanzo put an attractive woman besides the paper Gojyo and of course the paper Gojyo fell off. Well, Sanzo always did something nasty to the paper Gojyo. There was another scenario where someone put a note asking why Sanzo and his companions do not take the train for their journey. The scene shows Goku was eating madly during the day, and slept during the night, while Gojyo and Sanzo complained about sitting in the train and Hakkai was looking outside when he suddenly said, "Mount Fuji." I think the best is perhaps it showed 2 parts of Christmas Day. Firstly, it showed Hakkai mentioned that today is Christmas Day and Goku shouted that he had completely forgotten about the presents. When Gojyo asked Goku who is the person he wanted to give to. Goku said proudly and pointed at himself. He even asked Sanzo to give him money to buy. The second part is when Goku, Gojyo and Hakkai had changed into Santa Claus suits. Goku was fixing the star at the top of the tree, while Gojyo and Hakkai were busily carrying boxes of presents. When all three of them saw Sanzo, they scolded him for waking up late during Christmas Day. After some conversations, Sanzo complained why he worn in that suit, and the screen showed that Sanzo worn a reindeer suit. Even the star at the top of the tree dropped, as if it was disgusted by Sanzo's clothing. Well, of course Goku, Gojyo and Hakkai pretended nothing happened and they sang "Jingle Bells". There was another one that has 2 parts too...it showed that Hakkai is knitting a scarf and Goku was curious and asked what it's for. Hakkai explained that it's for the four of them as it's going to be winter soon. When Goku picked it up and asked why the scarf is so long, Hakkai explained that he wanted to make the world's first scarf for the four of them. Goku imagined the scenes which showed Goku found a food stall and dragged the whole lot of them together (the scarf was used together on four of them). Goku said that it was a brilliant idea. Sanzo complained that he never wants it and Gojyo said that he never ever wants it. The second part showed Hakkai was knitting the gloves and Goku asked why the gloves were connected together. Hakkai explained that he wanted to make the world's first gloves for the four of them. Again, Goku pictured when he found a food stall and dragged the whole lot of them to and fro. Goku said it was a brilliant idea. Gojyo threw a pillow over and (it hit on Hakkai's head) and shouted why Hakkai always made this ridiculous sort of things. There was another which showed the four of them were brushing their teeth and suddenly Gojyo thought of something funny and smacked at Goku's shoulder and he shouted to Goku not to swallow the toothpaste. Goku somehow blushed and continued to brush his teeth. At first I thought that Goku is so hungry that he even ate the toothpaste, but it turned up that Gojyo is the one who suddenly smacked Goku that alarmed him and made him almost swallowed the toothpaste. The funniest part is when the screen focused in front of them, Goku, Sanzo and Hakkai put on hair clips while Gojyo tied up his hair. Another showed that Hakkai was helping to cut Gojyo's hair, Goku was sitting at a side was waiting for his turn to have his hair. And first it showed Hakkai was sort of trimming Gojyo's hair. When Hakkai walked one round, cutting Gojyo's hair, the screen showed Gojyo's new hair cut. It's sort of putting a bowl on top of your head and cutting below the bowl's rim. Of course, Goku was shocked at the sight of Gojyo's hair. Another pretty funny is about fear factor. It showed that Goku was pretty nervous and it showed Hakkai was sleeping. Goku removed Hakkai's ear clips and Hakkai transformed into a demon with red coloured aura. Goku cannot take it anymore and put back the ear clips. However Goku still want to try it again and reached out his hand to remove the ear clips once more. But this time Hakkai warned Goku not to do it again. There is one where Gojyo said that he was bored and he thought of switching clothes. Gojyo dressed up as Goku, Sanzo tried on Gojyo's clothes and Hakkai worn Sanzo's clothes. When the three of them were looking for Goku, Goku dressed up as a waitress. Sanzo fired a gun and asked for the reason. Goku explained that it was for a bit of the service and Sanzo asked who it's for in a terrifying manner. The last episode of the urasai (candid scenarios) showed that Hakkai said that it was the last episode and Hakkai began to think of the episodes and said he will miss them, it showed the best candid scenarios and the music went all smoothly but once it flashed back on the 2nd of Christmas when Sanzo worn the reindeer suit, the music sort of went out of tune. Then Hakkai said that maybe he will never missed them. The anime is very nice, but towards the end of the discs, things get pretty serious and unexpected. I guess I leave that alone coz I had said too much spoilers. But nevertheless, Saiyuki is always my favourite anime!!! :-) Oh yeah, the opening song, "Wild Rock", it's um...hmm...pretty rock! I like the scene where it showed Hakuryu, I guess that the fans of the white dragon might have argued pretty much so that Hakuryu can earn itself an episode. The 2nd ending is very nice, I like it VERY much. I think it's called "fukisusabu". The rhythm is terrific! The pictures are not bad too! Well, I am looking forward towards Saiyuki Gunlock. I think now it is airing episode 15 in Japan and I may have to wait until fall before the DVDs are out.

Not many games now, most of them are in Nov or Dec...

2004-06-12T00:32:00.000-07:00

Well, there are no really nice games right now, coz most of the games are released in Nov or Dec, like Suikoden 4, Silent Hill 4. But that's all right, now I am playing Gamecube Crash Bandicoot. It's pretty nice, with the special abilities earned after defeating every boss. Coco had her own spin and stomp but I really missed her tiger. Crash had his special abilities and the ones I loved is the double jump, the death tornado. The bazooka is the BEST OF ALL!!! I also admired the running shoes too!!! But the music is horrible, especially the stage where water and metal bars are exposed to electricity. The buzzing sound irritates me so I always mute it. It kinda distracts me. Besides playing all these games, I am currently watching an anime called Saiyuki Reload. It's actually the um... quite similar to the Chinese version of Journey to the West, except that instead of a monkey, pig, monk, horse and someone like a slave carrying all the luggage, there are 4 men plus one jeep... hoo... I really loved that jeep! It's actually a white dragon called Hakuryu and it can turn into a jeep and these 4 men travelled to the west with it. The 4 men are Son Goku which is the monkey god in the Chinese version. Goku looks like a teenage boy whom has a huge appetite and he gets hungry easily. He is actually a monster, devil, whatever (it's called youkai, anyway) and his power is greatly increased when in his actual form. But he cannot differ between friend and foe so he had a gold headband to maintain his human form. Genjyo Sanzo is the holy monk in the Chinese version. In the Chinese version, the monk is actually a very kind and nice person and a strict vegetarian. He has no skills of defending himself except perhaps chanting and the most of all, he shaved his hair. But in Saiyuki, Sanzo doesn't shaved his hair, the colour of his hair is golden yellow (well, his hair is that colour). Not only that, he smokes, drinks and even plays majong (a typical Chinese gambling) with his other 3 companions. He wears a specs when reading newspaper (that's rare to see). He prefers to be alone and whacks anyone who disturbs him in anyways with his gigantic paper fan and in worst cases he fires anyone with his gun. Sha Gojyo is the um... someone who carried the entire luggage in the Chinese version. But in Saiyuki, Gojyo is actually flirts with any woman he sees and this leads him to be whacked by Sanzo and he and Sanzo always quarrel. He seems to have monster's blood running in his veins coz he was half-human, half-monster. The last, but not least is Cho Hakkai who is the pig is the Chinese version. In Saiyuki, Hakkai has the personality of Sha Gojyo of the Chinese version. He is the nicest of all, he seldom gets angry and he seems to be very close to Hakuryu. Hakuryu is the white dragon whom it can transform into a jeep. It's so cute and it can breathe fire, in a way that it's enough to light a cigarette. I have watched couple of episodes and the one I had most is episode 7 where Goku, Gojyo, Sanzo and Hakkai found a cat and the cat seemed to like to be with Sanzo.