What's white, (sort of) rectangular and rhymes with "pee"? finally, after a year of bargaining and pleading with my parents, they bought a Wii! haha, happiness in nintendo-packaged form. seriously, its dam addictive. SSBB is dam fun, but im still a complete noob at it, though i foresee some seriously epic gaming in the near future once i master the basics and start playing the game for real. there is a LOT of hidden depth in that deceptively simple control scheme, i tell you. MKWii is also very fun, and it has a more plug-and-play style, very easy to pick up the game and start playing from scratch. in any case, the holidays just got a lot better :). now all i need to do is summon the mental discipline to not get hooked until after OP (which i think is a lost cause anyway...).
in case you were wondering what the title of the post means, "Revolution" was the codename used for the wii while it was still in development. that's why all the serial numbers for wii games all start with REV.
just a random thought that's somewhat related to buying a wii: for some reason, im not very comfortable with bargaining and haggling. i know that it's supposed to be a shopper's secret weapon and a singaporean trademark, but it's nvr really appealed to me that much. i always feel uncomfortable having to keep asking the shopkeeper to lower his price again and again and again. it's always seemed to me that one needs extremely thick skin to go around slashing prices.
still, i predict that the holidays will pass by quite brainlessly. already, i see myself doing the same routine over and over again every day. it's pathetic, really, to see someone doing this. it reminds me of caged animals in the zoo which have nothing to do, so everyday they just end up pacing up and down in their laughably tiny enclosures, just waiting for something to happen. well, i guess all that will come to an end soon, with the wii and hockey training and ogl-ing all coming up soon. here's to a holiday that's actually spent meaningfully.
OP. you blink and suddenly it's about to hit you in the face. still feel so unprepared, so horribly unproficient, but what can you do? 3 more days and nobody can change it, so might as well embrace it. have to give it my all this last few days. and the I&R... i know most of you guys have done it by now, which is exactly why im so worried. zzz too late to think straight now, guess i'll work on it tmr.
and also, the NE challenge shield. i guess NJC hockey is officially in the race to bid for an event for 2010. and the proposal is gonna be done by... me, yup. and the progress of said proposal is... 0%. quite expected, huh? but its not completely my fault; since nigel's decided to collaborate with floorball, we have to wait for their response first, right? haha, im so good at consoling myself.
As a friend, i should have recovered by now. by virtue of how much time has passed, i should have recovered by now. and yet, every once in a while i feel the symptoms resurface again, and it takes a while before i manage to put them at the back of my head. and every time it happens, i feel guilty because i havent done my duty as a friend. time may heal all wounds, but it takes a lot of it to work. until then, i just hope that it doesnt spill over to anyone else.
partly because bryan posted part 1 on his blog, and partly because it's an awesome song to begin with, here's I Won't See You Tonight (Part 2) by Avenged Sevenfold:
