Good morn-noon, my lil' green apple worms of JOY!!!!! It's been a lil' while since i last wrote, but I have been busy running amok... in NEW YORK!!!!!!! :P Yesh, I was able to go, but only for a few days (left Saturday, came back Tuesday). The train ride there and back was long; we were stuck in Customs for about an hour or 2 and there were times where the train would stop on the track for no reason. I tried reading my textbook for school and study, but I kept falling asleep :P It was that boring. I wish I still had my GBA; I would've played Fire Emblem. Blah. So, yeah, train boring. But, I stayed over at Walter's place... :twisted: :P I met his mom, some of his peeps, and visited some of his usual haunts (I love China Town... so much anime for el cheapo). He took me to 42nd Street and... :o it was crazy! Lights and people and oversized Farris Wheels in Toys 'R Us... I wanted to ride the Farris Wheel, but there was a large line of screaming children :P Boo! :lol: His graduation was on Monday, and it was a nice ceremony! Seeing my teddy bear go up on stage and get his diploma... the JOY! :cry: I took pics and I have to go pick them up on my way home today, so next time I'll put up pics... none of me, of course, 'cause chances are good that I'll look like a complete and total git in all of them :P [color=lightblue]Missed my chance... dang it[/color] I got an e-mail from Sony asking me if I wanted to Beta Test Grand Turismo 4 online... I missed the deadline, though. Poop. I wanted to drive online! Vroom, vroom! :P [color=lightgreen]Welcome back![/color] I'm taking this moment to welcome back Kazona, who has returned from the Twilight Zone in the far reaches of the Pluton Galaxy. You'd had better bring me chocolate, or else...*shakes fist* Oh yeah, if you're reading this, change your journal settings so that I can actually read what the heck you wrote in your journal (I'd send a PM but, meh, I'm too lazy) :P [color=aqua]This is the end! (Dum, dum, duuuuuuum)[/color] Next Tuesday is my last class, as well as the Final. Im gonna be spending lots of time studying... T_T My paper's due on that day too... I really should get started on that :P And my contract with Reader's Digest is up at the end of the month. I haven't heard any news about renewing it, and I don't know whether or not to bring it up. Either way, come next month I'll be uber hyper and start to put my plans into action.... bwa, ha, ha, ha *cough, cough* :P That's it. That's all. The chocolate's about to fall. *eats chocolate* Oh... yummy ^_^ I'll get into more detail about New York next time, but I must eat lunch and go back to work. So... This is DP signing off. And remember: Everything's bigger in New York... especially the steak (mmmmm... steak). Toodles! :D

Good afternoon, my lil' ickly book of notes :P Well, it be Tuesday (some say Doomsday given the significance of the date an' all, but I think they all loco roco :P ). Anyhoo, lunch is almost over, but since it's been awhile since I last wrote in here, I thought I might give some updates here and there... any everywhere :P [color=lightblue]Good news and... panicky news[/color] The good news is that my brand spankin' new Birth Certificate came yesterday! YAYS! So now I can buy the train ticket for the Big Apple :D The bad news is... I have no money :P I forgot about the payment deadline for my class, so I had to use the money for the train ticket to pay for it :( I'm supposed to get my check from work this week (heck, it's probably at home right now... wanting me to go and get it now :P), so I'm gonna use that to buy the ticket instead. I'm cutting it reeeeeeeeal close here, folks @_@ [color=lightgreen]Me know religion :P[/color] We got our mid-terms back last Thursday for my "Christian Mysteries" class. Scored 27/30. Me smart :P Yays :P I'm doing a bit of research for my paper... I just hope I can get it done! O_o' It's due on the 20th; still got plenty of time, but still... it usually takes me a while to get my paper-writing mojo goin'. Blah :P Maybe I should conveniently skip class to get started on the paper... bwa, ha, ha :twisted: [color=aqua]Gaming news[/color] I'm on Disc 2 on Tales of Destiny 2 for the PSX. I really, really love that game! Especially the fighting system! It's sooooo much uber-fun! Right now, though, the enemies are kicking my bum left and right, so I think it's time for me to level up some :D And that's all she wrote. I have to get back to work, or else no doughnut on Snack Day for me on Thursday :P Teh HORROR! :lol: This is DP signing off. And remember: If your pork chop is moving, call it Snoopy and leave it in the backyard. Toodles! :D

Good afternoon, my lil' drops of rainy joy! Happy first of June! Can you believe that we're halfway through the year already!? O_o' Where did May go!?!?!?!!?!? Blarg! @_@ Anyhoo, I have fully recovered from that nasty cold I had last week! More Yays! YAYS! :D [color=lightblue]Gaming update[/color] * I finished Kingdom Hearts II once again last Saturday... with 100%! Yays! The Hades Cup was one massive pain in the bum, but I managed to get over 16,000 points when it was all said and done! :D Go ME! :D And that secret-uber-ending... it made me wet my pants (seriously... I had to pee when the regular ending started... I didn't feel like getting up :P) * I finally finished Grandia 1. The last Boss was a joke: took me all of 5 minutes to get rid of him. I never did have my "Eve Weekend" as planned, so maybe I'll start that as soon as I get home tonight. [color=lightgreen]School stuff[/color] I had my mid-term on Tuesday. I think I did OK; it was a lot of fill-in-the-blank questions; a couple of mulitple choice and a tiny essay question at the end. I stink at exam essay questions, mainly because I never know how to put my thoughts together in a cohesive 3 paragraphs in such a short period of time... which makes me wonder how I'm able to write in this here blog so easily :P Nanh! :P All I have to worry about now is the Final and the Essay Paper (both due on the 20th... moo). [color=aqua]Other... er... stuff[/color] If all goes well, I should be in New York next Friday. But so far, my new birth certificate hasn't arrived yet (can't use my old one... what a pain@_@), and my pay check hasn't arrived yet either. Gotta have some spending money while in the Big Apple, yes? (although not too much spending money... I forgot I have to start paying one of my mom's big-uber-bills this month, so I won't be spending money on goodies for a while :( ). Well, that's it for now. I'm supposed to go see X-Men 3 with P-chan tomorrow, but I have no clue what time O_o' Meh. Anyhoo... This is DP signing off. And remember: Why do today what you can put off 'til tomorrow :P Toodles! :D

Good morn-noon, my lil' astronauts of pudding! Well, here I am at my desk... sick as a dog. Not sick in the head (although that is debatable...) but sick sick. Really sick. Coughing up a lung sick. I can't miss work because... well, I simply can't afford to! And not coming to work means not going to class, and I can't afford to do that either (especially since I skipped last Tuesday... couldn't keep my eyes open at work :P). So, here I am, sniffles an' all, throat on fire, etc., etc. I'm gonna take it easy today, 'cause I'm running on half empty today. No fun! :( [color=lightblue]Gaming update[/color] * I'm finally... FINALLY... almost finish Grandia. Maybe I'll try to go for broke this weekend. * I almost have 100% in Jiminy's Journal in Kingdom Hearts II. All that's left is to do the Hades Cup and get 15000 points, which really isn't that hard... it's surviving 'til the end that's the challenge @_@ got to Round 41 with 9200 points or so; I know I can get more points by the time I get to the 40's... just I need to figure out how to survive. And since I heard that you'll be fighting Cloud, Leon, Yuffie AND Tifa at some point... um... *heads for the hills * Blah. Ack... can't stand it anymore. Sorry guys, I just can't think right enough today, so I'm gonna stop here and stare blankly into my Mac for a few minutes before asking for something to do :P This is DP signing off. And remember: if you cough up a lung, you can always swallow it up again. Just be careful with those arteries... and stomach acid :P Toodles :D

Good morning, my lil' pizza eating powder puffs! It's hella early for me to be writing in this thing :P But I'm here at work, and I'm done all the tasks that have been asked of me so far, so I'm about to ask for something to do. 'Til then... tada! :D [color=lightblue]It's gonna be a long, long day...[/color] I started my Summer Class last Tuesday. It's not so bad, and the teacher is pretty cool. It's Tuesdays and Thursdays, so I don't have to worry about going downtown anymore than I should :P Only have two exams and one essay to worry 'bout, so that's a load off right there (Then again, class ends June 20th, so I don't expect much work to begin with :P) Still, today will be a long day... and I still have to read the chapter for today... *gets coffee*) [color=lightgreen]Too... many... games...[/color] I decided to start playing Tales of Destiny II for the heck of it. Really cute. So now I'm rotating that, Grandia and Parasite Eve. I heard PE was really short and I wanted to play a Day per... eh, day, in the hopes of finishing it quicker. Now, I think I'm gonna blow through it this weekend and be done with it. Then there's Y's: The Ark of Napishtim and Devil May Cry 3 that I need to play through... arg... I want to get as much done as possible before going to New York (I'm only planning to go for 5 days, but still...). Oh well :P That's it. That's all. Short and sweet. Then again, I am at work, so... This is DP signing off. And remember: I want a moat. It's good to ward off evil people. And the Avon Lady :P Toodles! :D

Good afternoon, my lil' hush puppies of nerdiness!

E3 has come and gone, but the hype that it left behind continues to grow faster than a Planter's Wart :P After watching the press  conferences here on GS and the E3 coverage on G4, I've become hyper... again. And I decided to think about the Top 10 uber-things for me this year. And here they are... in no particular order:

10 - Is that Medusa's Head in your pocket, or are you happy to see me? God of War II looked mighty impressive, did it not? So much blood, eye poking... oh and Kratos looks teh sexy :P Makes me want to go out and buy the 1st one (yes, I'm one of the few who haven't played it. Go me. :P ).

9 - King Lemming makes an Entrance... w00t Microsoft's Press Conference didn't excite me as much as the others did, and for that, it reaches number 9 on my countdown. Sure, Bill Gates makes an appearance an' all, but not even that (or Master Chief) will get them higher up. I need more games that spark my interest before investing in an Xbox...

8 -  And this might be it... Ok... so Ninety Nine Nights looks like a Dynasty Warriors clone, but it's so pretty! And it's full of smashing stuff! And having never played a DW game before... well... this might appeal to me :P

7 - Another Ninja-like person... sweet Assassin's Creed looks so very, very pretty. I hope the game plays as good as that trailer looks... and hopefully, that's what the in-game graphics will look like too! :D

6 - I didn't know plumbers could fly It wouldn't be a Nintendo console if there was no word from my boy, Mario. Super Mario Galaxy looks like so much fun! If this is gonna be available at launch, then Nintendo just another volunteer in their Wii-volution :P

5 - Not once... not twice... but thrice Square Enix fanboys collectively wet their pants upon hearing the news that 3 versions of Final Fantasy XIII will be coming out, all different stories but happening in the same universe. I'm interested in Final Fantasy Versus XIII personally, since the team behind Kingdom Hearts is working on that one. Sweet... more Reaction Attacks @_@

4 - Slither forth and muliply! Seems like everywhere you went at E3, you couldn't get away from the grasp of Solid Snake. Not only was Metal Gear Solid 4 out in full force, but news of a MGS movie was running rampant! And finally, le creme de la creme, Snake as a playable character in the new Smash Brothers game. If you haven't seen the trailer for the new Smash Brothers, watch it. Now. And prepare to blow milk out of your nose (I know I did :P ).

3 - ZELDA!!!!!! There's nothing more to be said. Perhaps the second reason why I'm most likely to buy the Wii at launch. I'm sorry, but that looked really sweet. And since there'll be a GC version available at the same time, it'll be a win-win for everybody! Yays! :D

2 - Phil Harrison's Ducky of Doom... and how much!?Sony's Press Conference was the one I was looking forward to the most, and it didn't really blow me away like it did last year. We got to find out more about the PS3 ($659 for the 60GB and all the bells and whistles... *starts counting pennies*), saw some more pretty things (oddly enough no Killzone... what up wit dat!? O_o ). Of course, the most memorable moment was when Phil Harrison, president of SCE worldwide studios, unleashed the Ducky of Doom during the demo for Eye of Judgment, a new Eyetoy game for PS3. Mmm... ducky.

1 - I now have renewed faith... I've been waiting a long time for Nintendo to show them thar young 'uns how to make the fanboys cry with glee. And they did so at their press conference. This was BAR NONE the most entertaining conference out of the bunch. Miyamoto-san as a conductor with a big smile on his face... how can you NOT smile at that? I swear, I want to hug him until he turns a big, pleasant-smelling pile of goo :P And the Wii... it looks really easy to pick up and play. I love it! Nintendo has made me a believer again. I will buy a Wii... there is no question about it. *Applauds*

Well, there you have it. My list of uber-ness. 'Course there were lots of other great things, but these were the ones that stuck the most. If you have any suggestions for the next Top 10, please leave a comment or PM me... or however else you get a hold of me :P

This is DP signing off. And remember: Ask not what you can do for your country, ask what the plumber can do for your Wii... wait, what? o_O'

Toodles! :D

Good afternoon, my lil' GNERDS!!!!!

Well, it's here! It's here! The biggest gaming event of the year is finally upon us! E3 2006! w00tness, w00tness!!!! I watched GameSpot's E3 '05 movie, Electric Showdown, the other night. Man, did that get me pumped! Seeing all the craziness and hard work that they put in just to give us the live gaming goodness we demand made me hyper! I wanna go! Maybe I can find a way next year... <_<...>_>... Anyhoo, G4's coverage starts tomorrow, and I won't be able to watch it for two reasons:

1. My summer class starts at 6:30, meaning I'll have to stay downtown after work. Blah.
2. The satellite got cut off in my room (again), so I can't watch TV in my room. Period.

So, there you have it. The biggest gaming event this year, and I can't watch it on TV. I could keep stay at my PC, however since this is the "family" PC, I can't hog it... makes me wish I had built the Megatron by now. Bullocks! :x I could pull a few strings to see if I can get it back on, but who knows, eh?

Anyhoo, getting back to E3. I'm looking forward to hearing more about:

* The Big 3's press conferences
* PS2:

• Final Fantasy XII
• Xenosaga Ep. III
• Okami
• Dawn of Mana
• King of Fighters 2006

* PS3:

• Sonic (*crosses fingers*)
• Devil May Cry 4
• Metal Gear Solid 4
• Virtua Fighter 5

* PSP

• Capcom Classics Collection Reloaded (Knights of the Round!!!! FINALLY!!!!!)
• Ultimate Ghosts 'n Goblins
• Gradius Collection ( ^_____^ )
• Valkyrie Profile: Lenneth
• Power Stone Collection

* 'Cube

• Zelda: Twilight Princess

* DS

• Final Fantasy III ('bout bloody time, eh?)
• Children of Mana
• Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (two-player Castlevania game? I'm there, baby!)
• Zelda: Phantom Hourglass

* 360

• Ninety-Nine Nights
• Phantasy Star Universe

That's my list so far. It shall be tweeked and such as need be. Maybe if I'm lucky, I'll be able to stream Nintendo's and Microsoft's Press Conference at work tomorrow... <_<' yes, I'm doing my work... >_>' no, that's not a video I'm streaming... honest! :P

[color=lightblue]Beware the mutating mice[/color]
In terms of gaming, I finally started Disc 2 of Grandia. I'm not going to bother leveling up as much' I just want to finish the game and get it over with. My PS2 is proned to the dreaded "Disc Read Error", and sometimes when I do manage to get a PSone game working, it freezes on me. I'm too scared to open my baby up to do one of those DIY cleaning jobs, so I'm looking into heading for the rental store or somewhere to get it cleaned. In the meanwhile, I'm borrowing my bro's PS2 (he hardly uses it anyway except as a DVD player O_o').

I also started Parasite Eve. Didn't get to far; just finished the First Day. Flipping through the walkthrough in one of my old Tips & Tricks mags, it looks like the game's really short! Heck, if I play through a Day a... er, day, I'd probably be done by Saturday... but since stuff never goes according to plan, the chances of that happening are slim to none :P Anyhoo, the opening movie was well done (as to be expected from Square), and the graphics are pretty. Music's ok, and the battle system isn't that hard to get used to (just gotta remember to press X to get my battle menu to appear... *mumble, mumble*). Still too soon to pass a final judgement, so must continue to wait and see.

Anyhoo, that's all for me. I'm outty. This is DP signing off. And remember: if it's yellow, then it's mellow; if it's brown, flush it down.

Toodles! :D

Good evening, my lil' sausages of green piece!

Today was... a really wet day :P Fortunately for me, I'm all nice and dry in my cozy home. Feel sorry for the suckers who had to go out today! Bah! XD

[color=lightblue]Hail to the King[/color]
Today I gave in to temptation and finished Kingdom Hearts II. The ending was ok. Not the dramatic tear jerker that KHI's ending was, but still left that warm, fuzzy feelin' on the inside. I like the fact that they listed my stats at the end. Of course, my blood boiled when I saw Jiminy's Journal Completion was at 99% :evil: I know what I have to do, it's just really hard for me to do 'em!

    * Finish Paradox Cerebus Cup with 1300 points
    * Finish Paradox Hades Cup with 15,000 points

As far as Cerebus goes, I can only get aroudn 1100 points. And Hades... I always die in Round 20 (stupid 500 point restriction-thingy! BLARG! :evil: ) I'm trying to think of strategies to use, but can't think of any :cry: I wanna see that secret ending! WAAAAAAAA!!!! @_@

I've been occupying myself in the meanwhile by doing the Gummi Routes. Doing the Mission 3 routes hurt my eyes: I find myself unable to blink while I'm shooting away and changing camera angles and such :P My eyes don't like it either. Pass me the eye drops, will ya?

[color=lightgreen]School's out for... next week? O_o[/color]
Yea, I'm taking a summer course :P It starts on Tuesday and I have it twice a week (Tuesdays and Thursdays, right after work). The course finishes on June 21st, so it won't be a long suffering :P Bah.

[color=aqua]That Hill sure is Silent[/color]
I went to see Silent Hill with one of my friends last weekend. Now, having never played any of the games in the franchise, I was going in cold. And... well... I didn't hate it :P I didn't like it so much either. I'm in the middle. Maybe if I'd play the games I would have more appreciation for it, but as it stands, it was all meh for me. The atmosphere was nicely set up, though. I give 'em that much :P The next movie I want to see would be The Da Vinci Code. I hope I get to read the book beforehand (yes, I'm the lone humanoid who has yet to read the book. Boo to me :P ).

Well, that be all for now. This is DP signing off. And remember: if a zombie nurse approches you with an enema in her hand, run away. As fast as you can. Your bum will thank you.

Toodles! :D

Good morn-noon my lil' avacados of JOY!!!!! Yes, mama's been away for quite a while... almost an entire month! O_o' Well, I've been the uber-busy. Okay, not really. I was kidnapped by Ninja Mickey and was swept away to a magical land, where moons are the shape of hearts and ducks throw giant hissy-fits. Yes, I've been playing Kingdom Hearts II. Yes, I love it. And yes... Setzer looks like Seymour Guado. :P I love this game. Very much. I'm not finished, as I've been taking my sweet time trying to find everything the first time around (I curse thee, silly synthesis items! BLARG! *eats Moogle*) I won't even get into Sephiroth... *shutters* I'm near the end, so maybe if I get too frustrated, I'll just finish the game and be done with it. Speakin' of Sexy Sephy... [color=lightblue]All My Advent Children[/color] Move over Susan Lucci... Final Fantasy: Advent Children is finally out... after about a century of fanboy whining :P Having already seen it, I'm still debating whether or not to go buy it... I probably will, just to hear how the English voice acting is. Since many of the voice actors from KH will be reprising their roles, chances are good that I won't be disappointed. [color=lightgreen]I want my E3[/color] I've been so out of the loop, I almost forgot that it's Gnerd season once more (what's a Gnerd? A hybrid of Geek and Nerd... perhaps the only funny thing from G4's E3 coverage last year :P) Anyhoo, I really need to catch up on the news and find out what's gonna be shown this year... and what to drool over :lol: *readies the drool bucket* I'll rant about what I'm looking forward to soon... if I remember, anyway :D [color=cyan]Lions and Tigers and Gargoyles. Oh MY![/color] P-chan has done it to me again... he lent me Gargoyles: Season Two, Part I. :| Does he not know that he will NEVER see the likes of them again!? ;p Anyhoo, I didn't know that the second season was so short (around 52 episodes or so). I thought it was longer. Then again, they showed the re-runs of past episodes so many times, I guess I didn't notice XD Oh well. I'm gonna watch Season I again, so I can do what I had planned to this month: The Best Lines From Gargoyles: Season I! Yays! Anyhoo, it's my lunch time, so I'm gonna go eat. Until next time (which will hopefully be much sooner than a month. Gomen nasai! :oops: ) This is DP signing off. And remember: Gnerds are attracted to the scent of free shwag. You have been warned. Toodles! :D

 Good even-noon, my lil' couch potatoes!

This was an interesting week that was. Not that anythinf particularly exciting happened besides the uber 8.7 of Kingdom Hearts II (fangirls, rejoice over Riku hotiness! XD ). But, it be a good week nonetheless.

[color=lightpink]Free days are good[/color]
This week was another 3-day week for me at work. But, instead of coming in on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday I came in on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. O_o' Meaning I don't come in to work again 'til Tuesday! XD It felt weird to sleep in on Thursday, but I kept myself busy. I got my pay on Wednesday, and the mail-in rebate I sent for that MP3 player that I bought for my bro for Christmas finally came. <_< And Kingdom Hearts II was in the stores >_> So guess what I did? I marched over to EB Games... with a flaming Debit card in hand with its' newly loaded $395... and bought a new Dance Pad and King of Fighters 2002/2003 :P My old Pad has finally driven me up the wall, so I bought me a new one (MadCatz Pro Beat Pad... I trust teh Catz). As for KOF... every time I went into EB I would always see it sitting on the shelf alone and vulnerable. So I did what any self-respecting fighter grrl would do: I took it home with me ^_^ What can I say? I love my Kyo... and Iori (oh Lordy, LORDY! I love Iori! *drools*)... and Benimaru. K' is pretty hot too. I only played Training mode, just so I could play with the New Hero team. Ash Crimson... oh Ash. Look at him. He's evil and a freckled-face pansy. But I can't help but look at his Cheshire Kitty grin and swoon. Ash, Ash, Ash. Thou art a hotty. Thou art teh sex. Yes you are.

*Ahem* I plan on grabbing KHII tomorrow. Meaning Ye Ol' Drool Bucket will be getting a lot of work :P

[color=lightgreen]Back to work... kinda[/color]
My dad recently went back to work. Although it's a lil' different than usual: the ship, it seems, is still docked, so he goes there during the day and comes home to sleep, only to leave again at around 5 in the morning. I have no clue if and when the ship will leave port. Still, I'm happy to see that he's not moping around the house complaining that he has no money... and isn't mooching off the rest of us :P

[color=aqua]My... angel of the night... RAWR!!!!![/color]
My friend P-chan has commited the most evil of crimes: he bought Gargoyles: The complete First Season on DVD and has lent it to me. I shall teach him a lesson and refuse to return it to him :P In fact, I think I will make my first "Best of" feature about this. Stay tuned!

Well, that's it. That's all. Ash's grin is about to make me fall. This is DP signing off. And remember: Pretty boys are really crying on the inside... except for Ash, because he's got well-groomed nails.

Toodles! :D